China: Industrialization in the 21st century

Author: Zheng Xinli
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: In the late 1980s of the last century, while researching and formulating the "Eighth Five-Year Plan," two issues were encountered: one was the transformation of the economic growth model, and the other was industrialization. The entire book strives to use abundant materials and data to illustrate the issues, and on the basis of summarizing experience and standardizing concepts, it explores the theory, policies, approaches, and measures of transforming the economic growth model, making its due contribution to promoting the completion of this strategic task. This research report conducts a historical and comprehensive examination of the economic growth model, defines its scientific connotation, and analyzes the relevant aspects involved in transforming the economic growth model in light of China's actual conditions, including science and technology, education, economies of scale, management and operation, sustainable development, knowledge economy, economic system, opening-up to the outside world, policy environment, and indicator systems. It discusses the current status and the tasks of transforming the growth model in industries such as agriculture, energy, electronic information, petrochemicals, iron and steel, automobiles, shipbuilding, machine tools, transportation, construction, and circulation. By comparing and analyzing the economic growth models of major developed countries, newly industrialized countries and regions, developing countries, and the former Soviet Union—including the leapfrog development experience of a country like Ireland, which shifted from being primarily pastoral to being dominated by high-tech industries—this report identifies aspects worth learning from and drawing lessons from.