China has witnessed the continuous deterioration of its environment since the 1980s, which results from innate system defects and the impact of globalization. China's export-oriented economic development strategy boosts its rapid development by sacrificing its resources and environment: the exported-related embodied energy consumption and embodied environmental load of major pollutants such as CO_2, SO_2 and COD, take up about 30% of the total energy consumption and pollution emission respectively on a yearly basis. Meanwhile, disastrous consequences have occurred to three typical industries. The rare earth industry has caused severe environmental damage. The solar industry so-called green industry, has grown into a dark one. The import of huge quantities of waste is the direct cause of environmental pollution and health losses in some areas. The above results have demonstrated an obvious feature of the "China Development Model", namely, self-abusiveness. This concept emphasizes on the independent choice of China at the national level and doesn't neglect the internal relationship of beneficiary vs. victim. With no attention paid to the environment, enterprises have gained huge profits, local governments their political goals, but rural areas and farmers only polluted air, soil and rivers. while farmers, the victims of pollution, can go nowhere but remain fixed on their uninhabitable land, the rich, who are largely responsible for the degraded environment, can, as shown in the widespread emigration of elites, get over the consequences of self-abusive development by relocating to developed countries. The globalization of the rich means they do not have to accept the responsibility for the high costs of China's development. The China Model is most likely to continue, with the country itself and its peasants at the bottom of the social ladder remaining the treadmill of production.

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