This poster reflects China’s growing green movement which the government has recently decided to support. A country like China with a strong centralized government can start or cancel projects such as solar panel installation without consent or approval from its populace. However, i think that propaganda encouraging the use of these panels and emphasizing their role in China’s future would encourage the populace, and may help alleviate concerns that some people have over the pollution in China generated by power plants.propaganda poster

I got the idea for this poster from a CCTV article detailing the project’s origins in large southern Chinese cities. The article states that solar panels are being rapidly adopted in more northern cities such as Beijing and that Chinese authorities hope for solar panels to eventually provide more energy for cities than coal burning plants. The move towards solar panels might be more widely supported than a switch to nuclear power which may be viewed as dangerous particularly in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Curiously, while the article’s headline remains, the story has been replaced with a story about keeping Penguins at the zoo as of this writing. Hopefully this problem will be rectified in the future.

http://english.cntv.cn/2014/07/14/VIDE1405286284594510.shtml