Recently in China there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of "special interest groups ". Teacher Yu stands with the NGO in criticizing the benefiting of corporations, and this is a wonderful point of view. However, the problem lies in the fact that we should question how long and how thoroughly the NGO can control the special interest groups? China News Weekly ran an article analyzing who are those special interest groups - it's a great article, feel free to look:
http://viewpoint.inewsweek.cn/columns/columns-1123.html

I very much agree with the writer's comments - Chinese overseas investors, or investors from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to be precise, at least first need to learn how to communicate with ordinary people at home; only then can they get along with the local people in their host countries. On the other hand, the author actually raises another issue, that at the moment most Chinese FDI is still made up of large-scale SOEs investing in natural resources, the investors basically being SOEs or even directly-controlled SOEs. The majority of foreign investment coming from SEOs is quite rare (excluding Temasek Holdings), but regretably it has already become the defining characteristic of the current stage of overseas investment.

Overviewing China's ten years oversea investment, it's not hard to find that the investment is still argued by the internation community with some good comments and some critics of new colonism, etc. By observing a lot of obstructed cases of Chinese investment, it's easy to notice that the main reason is the bad relationship with local workers and influenced local people. These problems happened in China too as the local government helps the companies to hold back a lot of discontents and didn't give any chance for them to learn how to dialogue and negociate with civil society, so that they don't know what to do abroad. Besides, foreign government mostly is elected by the people, and has to listen to the people.
Therefore, if China's oversea investment wants to go further, they should first learn inside the country how to dialogue and negociate with local NGO and awared people and care about the benefit of the vulnerable groups and practise how to resolve honestly the environemtal and social conflicts. Only doing these, can they have a smoother and longer way to invest oversea.

Respect is due for writing this article in such a timely manner, the author has clearly been focusing on this project for a long period of time!
However, of the majority of people who are living in China, including investors, how many really care about these overseas investment projects?

Response from Burma Rivers Network about the China Power Investment Cooperations and the Myitstone dam comment.

http://www.burmariversnetwork.org/images/stories/publications/chinese/2011-10-5%20Burma%20Rivers%20Network%20response%20to%20CPI%20in%20Chinese%20final.pdf

Why is that when tourism springs up, each household starts up doing business, discord arises within families and villages. Could it be that this didn't happen before?
Why is it that local villagers think that their own village is a paradise on earth? Only insiders have this sort of sorrowful sigh.

The author seems to be saying that people who come from outside should have some sort of responsibility, but like they say upstairs, locals also have a role in the destruction. The author says that destruction is divided into to cultural and ecological destruction. There is no need to doubt the ecological destruction. As for cultural destruction, the author depicts the original culture to be more beautiful (before the coming of tourism), and smears current changes, thus evoking 'destruction.' As to the matter of relations between villages becoming more discordant, I have already raised doubts about this in the first sentence: in front of the sacred mountain slaughtering animals blaspheming the villagers' beliefs; the villagers are not so pious as they once were - often changing sacred mountains.

But perhaps it really isn't like this. Immigrants from outside the area have their own customs, they are unaware of local customs and think nothing of slaughtering animals before the sacred mountain, is this really intended as blasphemy? Why is it that pious people are 'beautiful' and 'good,' and unpious people wicked? I think the idea of 'cultural destruction' is open to question.