Evaluating the gap in infrastructure development between India and China. The presentation discusses the different stages of development and the gaps in infrastructure construction between the two countries, and reviews the drivers of growth and the opportunities that lie ahead in the sector. China and India– the two most populous countries, in the world, and the biggest combined potential for construction growth growth . . While While both countries produced produced similar per capita GDP until the early 1990s, the gap between their infrastructural facilities gradually widened as the economic reforms that China adopted in the 1980s began to take shape. Throughout the past two and a half decades, China has invested much more heavily in modernizing its physical infrastructure, and has taken a substantial lead over India. India’s infrastructure has been struggling to keep up with her growth and the accelerated pace of the last five years has rendered the existing infrastructure completely inadequate.