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Go
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(GG Revolution)
The 19th century had the Industrial
Revolution, the 20th century had the IT revolution and now the Go
Green
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The
Chinese Economy
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October 1, 1999, the PRC had undergone a glorious yet tortuous course of 50
years, amid great changes in Chinese society.
Before the founding of New
China in 1949, China's highest yearly outputs of major industrial and
agricultural products were 445,000 tons of yarn, 22.79 billion meters of cloth,
61,880,000 tons of coal, 320,000 tons of crude oil, 6 billion kwh of electric
energy production, 150 million tons of grain, and 849,000 tons of cotton.
Since the founding of New China, especially in the 20 years after the start of
reform and opening to the outside world in 1978 China has made great
achievements in economic construction and social development.
In 1998, the
GDP was 7,955.3 billion yuan, an increase of 6.4 times over 1978, at constant
prices; the outputs of some major industrial and agricultural products, such as
grain, cotton, meat, edible oil, coal, steel, cement, cloth and TV sets, leapt
from a backward position to first place in the
world.
In
accordance with Den Xiaopeng's theory of building socialism with Chinese
characteristics, the 13th National Congress of the CPC, held in 1987, adopted
the strategy of three stages for China's economic construction;
First,
doubling the GNP of 1980 to end shortages of food and clothing, which was
basically completed at the end of the 1980s; second, quadrupling the GNP of 1980
by the end of the century, which was achieved in 1995, ahead of schedule.
Thus the Chinese government worked out the Ninth Five-Year Plan for National
Economic and Social Development and Long-Term Objectives for the Year 2010,
which put forward new objectives;
Those for the Ninth Five-year Plan (1996-2000)
were as follows - Complete the second phase of the strategic plan for the
modernization drive in an all-round way and quadruple the per capita GNP of 1980
in 2000, when the population will have increased by about 300 million over that
of 1980; raise the people's living standard to that of a fairly comfortable
life, with poverty practically eradicated; and expedite the formulation of a
modern enterprise system and initially establish the basis of a socialist market
economy.
The
objectives for the year 2010 are to double the GNP of 2000 so that the people
will enjoy even more comfortable lives, and bring a more or less complete
socialist market economy into being.
With the fulfillment of these goals
China's productive forces, overall national strength
and the people's living
standards will have gone a big step further, and the country's social and
economic aspects will have undergone historic changes, laying a solid foundation
for the realization of modernization.
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