CGTN: Long-term planning key to China's continuous growth
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BEIJING, June 17, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/
Speaking a few days ahead of the Earth Day summit on climate change in April,
American Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged that the U.S. had
fallen behind China in developing the technology needed to curb climate change.
China's global dominance in renewable energy is no accident. It is the result
of the type of long-range planning that has become a well-known characteristic
of the nation's governance system.
The bedrock of China's economic planning has been its five-year plans that
began in 1953 and were patterned initially after the centralized Soviet system.
In the early years, the economic and production targets did not always go to
plan, and officials made mistakes.
For instance, during the Great Leap Forward, an economic campaign in the late
1950s to transform China from an agrarian to an industrial economy, many
targets were unmet because they were too ambitious. As a result, the campaign
ended in disaster.
The country learned from that experience, devising attainable goals and
consulting widely in subsequent years. It was not until the 1970s – and the
unleashing of the groundbreaking "reform and opening-up" policies – that the
world really sat up and took notice.
Since then, the CPC's quinquennial strategic visionary planning has been widely
credited with facilitating continuous economic expansion in China and
underpinning its transformation into the world's second largest economy.
The heavy centralization of the past has been modified in favor of widespread
buy-in for the national development goals. Hence, they have a greater chance of
succeeding. Input is sought from government ministries, state enterprises,
provincial administrations, scholars and think tanks, grass-root level CPC
delegates, non-CPC political parties and the private sector.
The upshot is that China's economy grew from over $76 billion (493 billion
yuan) in 1981 to almost $16 trillion (100 trillion yuan) in 2020. The country's
per capita GDP was comparable to that of India's in 1978 at about $200 (1,280
yuan). Today, it is five times larger than that of its neighbor at $10,000
(64,000 yuan).
China's leaders often stress that the market should be allowed to play a
decisive role in allocating resources, and the country can never go back to a
dominant centrally planned economy.
Five-year plans combine the visible hand of the government and the invisible
hand of the market to turn China into the world's second largest economy.
Source: CGTN
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