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Harvey Dzodin: The 14th Five Year Plan: Compass for China’s continued success
When I was growing up in Detroit in the 1950s when it was the prosperous global automobile capital, parents told us to eat all our food because children in China were poor and hungry. And in 1953, the year of China's first Five Year Plan (1953 - 1957) for economic and social development, poverty was indeed the norm. In 1953, China's population was 583 million with its per capita GDP of $54.
October 30 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: Planning for the future in five-year cycles
The 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) is high on the agenda of the ongoing Fifth Plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, as it will set the economic and development targets extending to 2035.
October 29 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: China rises from SEZs to global economic anchor
Moving quickly to implement the policies announced by President Xi Jinping in his Oct 14 speech celebrating the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, the National Development and Reform Commission announced on Oct 18 a series of reforms opening up artificial intelligence-based businesses and financial markets.
October 26 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: No country is an island in the climate crisis
Statistically, the over-70s don’t do well with Covid-19. Unfortunately, the UN seems to be no exception. The pandemic should have been a chance to revive the organisation and prove its relevance during its 75th anniversary. Instead, failure to co-ordinate an effective global response has laid bare its fractures and fragilities. However, that need not be the case for an even greater threat the world faces: climate change.
October 15 , 2020 -
Harvey Dzodin: China’s human rights of health vs ‘US’ decay
After all the world has been through in 2020, the National Day Golden Week holiday gave the Chinese people an opportunity to breathe a collective sigh of relief and celebrate what, for all practical purposes, could be said to be the return to life as we knew it.
October 15 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Four ways to boost China-Africa cooperation
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Over the past two decades, by working closely together, China and Africa have unleashed growth potential, expanded cooperation, addressed various challenges and implemented significant agreements.
October 13 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: A Mediating Power
Germany's profile has risen immeasurably in the three decades since unification, becoming the EU’s driving force and an economic and technological Germany’s profile has risen immeasurably in the three decades since unification, becoming the EU’s driving force and an economic and technological powerhouse. Over this time, the Sino-German relationship has become ever deeper and more multifaceted, with economics at the core. China is Germany’s largest trading partner and German companies have played a major role in China’s industrial development. The two sides may not always see eye to eye, but fundamentally, China and Germany share the same deep commitments to an open, rules-based economy and effective global institutions to deal with threats such as climate change and the unprecedented health and economic crisis we are living through.
October 07 , 2020
