The Pain of Progress: Witnessing the Pain of China's Transformation Since 2000

Author: Zhang Jingping
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: As the author depicts: China under the Red Star shines brighter in the more than 20 years of reform and opening-up, illuminating the world. In the sunlight, a healthy China is striding forward. The Chinese reform is a rare case in the history of human civilization, the history of modernization, and even the history of economic transformation. In the past 20 years, China has made rapid progress on both the political and economic reform tracks, unprecedented in scale. However, around the year 2000, the reform of the transforming China entered a state of stagnation. Different interest groups began to engage in a game of power within the reform process, leaving painful marks on the path of Chinese reform. The author presents not only the firsthand observations of the case but also the phenomena beyond the case and the reflections beyond the phenomena. Every person and event in the case is a sideview of China's political, economic, and social life since 2000, and a footprint of China's deepening reform. This is a record of China's painful growth and forward progress, and a witness to China's upward and forward growth amid pain.