China: The Continuing Search for a Modernization Strategy : a Research PaperThe Center, 1980 - 21 pages |
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10-Year Plan addition agricultural production Agriculture and light allocations announced appear attempt Beijing cadres Central Intelligence Agency central leadership changes China Chinese Communist Party Chinese industrial Chinese leadership Chinese population coal construction programs consumer welfare continue contracts crops cut back December Plenum Deng Xiaoping Dengist leadership developed world economic growth economic modernization economic policies efficient enterprises eventual factors fifth modernization four modernizations funds Gang of Four goals grain heavy industry Hua Guofeng import substitution imports incentives income increased industrial output Industrial production inputs institutions investment large number LDCs leaders light industry long-term major Mao Zedong Maoist materials ment million tons moderniza modernization effort Nevertheless organs overall past decade People's Daily percent period plants policy course population growth PRC economic PRC's present leadership priority production teams productiv projects readjustment regime rural areas schools sectors slow Soviet Union tasks Third Plenum tion urban
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Page 3 - The capital construction plans were extravagant: the state plans to build or complete 120 large-scale projects, including ten iron and steel complexes, nine nonferrous metal complexes, eight coal mines, ten oil and gas fields, 30 power stations, six new trunk railways, and five key harbours.
Page 2 - China into a great and powerful socialist country with modern agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology by the end of the century.
Page 4 - Peking had been involved in negotiations for almost $40 billion in complete industrial plants, modern equipment and related technology and had signed contracts amounting to...
Page vi - Investment in heavy industry, particularly iron and steel, was cut back while the allocations to agriculture, light industry, and the building materials industry were increased. While maintaining its interest in acquiring foreign equipment and technology and continuing to solicit and...
Page v - Modernizations" — of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology - have undergone changes not only since the fall of the so-called "Gang of Four" in 1967, but also within the past year. For reference to the "New China Man" see Norton Ginsburg, "China's Development Strategies," in Economic Development and Cultural Change, 25, Supplement (1977), p.
Page 19 - ... and methods in accordance with their own specific features so as to reach the general goal of the four modernizations. By the four modernizations we mean the four major aspects of modernization and not that modernizing is confined to these four aspects. Along with the reform and improvement of the socialist economic system, we will reform and improve the socialist political system and develop an advanced socialist democracy and a complete socialist legal system. While building an advanced material...
Page 19 - ... modernization," which was raised by such dissenters as Wei Jingsheng, Ye Jianying in his authoritative speech of September 29, 1979, declared that the reform and improvement of the "socialist political system" and the development of "an advanced socialist democracy and a complete socialist legal system" were "important objectives as well as necessary conditions for the realization of the four modernizations."74 The most important reform in the electoral system is the stipulation that the number...