Abstract
This article aims to analyze the process of China's development as a proxy using the Human Development Index (HDI). It is observed that over the past decades China has managed to move in improving the indicators measuring their economic and social development. This process, which saw intensified since the 80s, had the collaboration of high rates of economic growth accumulated by the country in the last 30 years. Although economic growth is a key part in promoting economic development, it should not be reduced to a simple mechanism of redistribution of wealth, but to a set of policies that aim to confront obstacles such as land area, the space heterogeneous geographical, cultural diversity and high population. The results indicate that the country has advanced in aspects of social development, but not without distributional limitations. With this, we conclude that despite advances were expected to overflow the high economic growth of recent years for social development was greater and more effective regarding the confrontation of obstacles described.
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