Thiruvananthapuram | Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that China has built a "superb and unmatched" industrial system in the world, but the neighbouring nation was "coercive and undemocratic".

Rahul, fielding queries during a dialogue with the Information Technology (IT) Fraternity at Technopark here, said that China has captured the industrial production side while the US, India and most of the world were "playing in the consumption space".

He said that, according to him, the real jobs were in the industrial production sector and not the consumption side, like the IT sector.

"The disappointing thing is that we have allowed China to just capture it (industrial production)," Rahul, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, said.

"China has built a superb industrial system that is unmatched in the world. But we do not like their coercive system. We do not like the fact that they are not democratic," he added.

He said that if India can build an industrial production system while maintaining the country's democratic values, "it would be a huge service to the people of India and the world".