China: Industrialization in the 21st Century: China

Author: Zheng Xinli
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: During the late 1980s of the last century, when 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 illustrate the issues with abundant materials and data, exploring the theory, policies, approaches, and measures of transforming the economic growth model on the basis of summarizing experience and standardizing concepts, contributing to the completion of this strategic task. This research report provides a historical and comprehensive examination of the economic growth model, defining its scientific connotation, and analyzing the relevant aspects involved in the transformation of the economic growth model in light of China's actual conditions, including technology, education, economies of scale, management, sustainable development, knowledge economy, economic system, opening-up, 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 transitioned from a primarily pastoral economy to one dominated by high-tech industries, the report identifies aspects worth learning from and referencing.