Circular Economy transition in China ed India

China and India are the world's two most populous countries, characterized by various similarities, such as an export-driven economy. Nevertheless, they seem to have approached the topic of circular economy and sustainability more broadly somewhat differently. The investigations conducted by Chinese and Indian researchers show a different approach toward the topic of circular economy. For China, government action appears to be very incisive, maybe in the attempt to maintain world leadership as the leading exporting country. For India, on the other hand, the country's difficulty in countering the rapid population growth that has occurred in the last decades and the corresponding growth in waste, as well as tackling the environmental and social impacts, emerges. Some remarks can be derived from this comparison, which in some way is still conditioned by the presence of a different amount of resources to be invested in this direction.