On China's Road: In Search of a New Modernity

273 Pages·2020·2.859 MB·English

by  Honghua Men

On China’s Road
In Search of a New
Modernity
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On China’s Road
Honghua Men
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On China’s Road
In Search of a New Modernity
Editor
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Institute for China & World Studies
Tongji University
Shanghai, China
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C
ontents
Part I I ntroduction 1
1 Deepening Research on China’s Road and Strengthening
China’s Discourse Power 3
Honghua Men
Part II History and Reality of China’s Road 11
2 China’s Road in the Light of Historical Continuity 13
Xu Yong
3 China’s Path to Modernization (1949–2014) 31
Hu Angang
Part III Domestic Foundations of China’s Road 71
4 China’s Five-Year Plan and Transformation of China’s
Governance Modernization 73
Yan Yilong and Jiang Jiaying
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5 Tradition, Cultural Modernization and Soft Power:
China’s Anxiety and Options 91
Sun Yingchun
6 Birth Trends and Economic Growth in China
(1950–2014) 113
Zhou Tianyong
Part IV International Dimensions of China’s Road 153
7 China’s Road to Peaceful Development: Cultural
Foundation, Strategic Orientation, and Double
Significance 155
Xiao Xi
8 China’s Peaceful Development and Transformation of
International Order (1985–2015) 177
Honghua Men
9 China’s Road and Its Illuminations Toward Developing
Countries 215
Li Bin
Part V China’s Road and the World’s Future 235
10 Aligning National Development Strategies and Building
a New Type of International Relationship: A Case Study of
China’s Belt and Road Initiative 237
Wang Cungang
11 China as Methods While the World as Objective 261
Wu Xinbo
L f
ist of igures
Fig. 3.1 “Four-stage theory” of the national development lifecycle. Data
source: Angang Hu, National Lifecycle and China’s Rising, in
Teaching and Studies, Issue 1, 2006, pp. 7–17 42
Fig. 3.2 Ratio of China’s generating capacity to the world (1950–2013, %).
Data for 1950–1992 sourced from New Palgrave World History
Statistics; data for 1992–2013 sourced from BP Statistical Review of
World Energy 2014; data for 2020–2030 calculated by the author 53
Fig. 6.1 Relationship between population increase and economic growth.
Source: World Bank Database, http://data.worldbank.org.cn/
indicator/all 115
Fig. 6.2 Scattering of relationship between fertility rate and GDP per
capita. Source: World Bank Database, http://data.worldbank.
org.cn/indicator/all 116
Fig. 6.3 Relationship between fertility rate and GDP per capita.
Source: World Bank Database, http://data.worldbank.org.
cn/indicator/all 117
Fig. 6.4 Percentage of China’s gross import and export value in
GDP.  Source: Data released annually by the General
Administration of Customs of the PRC 128
Fig. 6.5 Relationship between population and economic growth rate.
Source: Website of the National Bureau of Statistics of the PRC 132
Fig. 6.6 Correlation between the population growth from 1979 to 1987
and the economic growth from 1999 to 2007. Source: Website
of the National Bureau of Statistics of the PRC 134
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Fig. 6.7 Correlation between the declining population and the economic
downturn in 1973–1978 and 1988–1994 in China. Source:
Database on the website of the National Bureau of Statistics of
the PRC 135
Fig. 6.8 Descending trend of population and economic growth. Note:
On the vertical axis, the unit of economic growth rate is % in the
dotted line; the population growth rate unit is ‰ in the solid line;
population growth rate. Source: Database on the website of the
National Bureau of Statistics of the PRC; the economic growth
rate is derived from parallel correlations based on historical
regression experience 136
Fig. 8.1 Ratio of Chinese GDP to the world (Year One: 1988). Data
Source: Angus Maddison, The World Economy: A Millennial
Perspective, OECD: Paris, 2001 189
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ist of abLes
Table 3.1 Comparison of main Chinese and US indexes (1950–2014) 51
Table 3.2 China’s main per capita indexes relative to US levels (1950–
2014) 56
Table 4.1 Comparison of different governance forms 77
Table 4.2 Completion condition of all five-year plans 79
Table 4.3 Proportion of quantitative indexes in different five-year plans
(planning) (%) 81
Table 4.4 Different functions of development planning 82
Table 4.5 The “brainstorming” mechanism at different stages of
establishing the five-year plan 85
Table 4.6 Ratio of consistency indexes of local five-year plans and the
national five-year plan 89
Table 6.1 Comparison with South Korea and Taiwan in data related to
development stages 119
Table 6.2 The decreasing trend in the number of primary schools and
junior and senior high schools in China 124
Table 6.3 Comparison of wage increase trends between migrant workers
and urban employees 127
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PART I
Introduction