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GreenRevolution (GG
Revolution) The
19th century had the Industrial Revolution, the
20th century had the IT revolution and now the Go
Green
Revolution is for the 21st century....
By
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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