In Britain, the agriculture and finance industries were fairly stable, experiencing the least change. Agriculture gradually increased from 18% to 21%throughout the years 1970 to 2000, while the finance industry went from 18% in 1970 to 20% in 1990 and then a sudden drop to 10% in the year 2000. In China however, the agriculture industry had the greatest change, gradually decreasing from 61% in 1970 to 30% in the year 2000. China’s financial industry employment, however, was comparatively low starting at 5% and moving to 10% in 1990 where it stayed.

The computer industry in Britain started at 5% in 1970 and underwent a large growth to 40% in 1990. Following this it dropped to 21% in 2000. The manual labor industry gave the most amount of employment in Britain, as it decreased from 61% in 1970 to a low of 20% in 1990, which was the same time as the computer boom. After this it rose to 40% in 2000. In China, the computer industry experienced a steady increase from 5% to 40%, while the manual labor industry went from 38% with a slight increase by 2% in 1980, where after it fell to 20%.

In China the most important change that occurred was the gradual shift between the focus on agriculture in the 70’s to computers in 2000, which also included a fall in manual labor employment in the 1990’s. However, in Britain the relationship between the manual labor and computers industry was the most interesting comparison of development in Britain.

From the statistics I described above, I can see the big improvements of Chinese industry. Even though at the beginning 10 years China had dropped behind Britain, in the next 20 years China caught up and exceeded Britain. Still China is catching up with developed countries and making its industry better and better.