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The '''Four Modernizations''' (simplified Chinese: 四个现代化; traditional Chinese: 四個現代化) were goals first set forth by [[Deng Xiaoping]] to strengthen the fields of [[agriculture]], [[Industrial sector|industry]], [[Military|defense]], and [[science]] and [[technology]] in China.<ref name="Ebrey">{{cite web | url=http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/graph/9confour.htm | title=Four Modernizations Era | publisher=University of Washington | work=A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization | access-date=October 20, 2012 | author=Ebrey, Patricia Buckley | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007221511/http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/graph/9confour.htm | archive-date=October 7, 2010<!-- 22:15:11 -->| url-status=live}}</ref>  
The '''Four Modernizations (simplified Chinese: 四个现代化; pinyin: Sì gè xiàndàihuà)'''  are industrial modernization, agricultural modernization , national defense modernization , and scientific and technological modernization.<ref>[https://baike.baidu.com/reference/4298043/7222lyh1IZD784EnqYXqQGd_MXaqP25eavjFexbg3EVc5xooSNTy6ucJqLezIGgR_YA1wdJIPmNpokNtZhusXaE3_hYTWe5MCy2MDejd-f6uByfc <nowiki>[Party History Encyclopedia] "Four Modernizations" Jiangxi Normal University Party History Learning and Education Special Network</nowiki></ref>  


The Four Modernizations were adopted as a means of rejuvenating [[economy of China|China's economy]] in 1977, following the death of [[Mao Zedong]], and later were among the defining features of [[Deng Xiaoping]]'s tenure as the paramount leader of China. At the beginning of "[[Deng Xiaoping Theory|Reform and Opening-up"]], Deng further proposed the idea of "xiaokang" or "[[Moderately prosperous society]]" in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|title=从"小康"到"全面小康"——邓小平小康社会理论形成和发展述论--邓小平纪念网--人民网|url=http://cpc.people.com.cn/n/2014/0714/c69113-25279758.html|website=cpc.people.com.cn|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Meet "moderately prosperous" China|url=https://worldin.economist.com/article/17353/edition2020meet-moderately-prosperous-china|website=worldin.economist.com|date=November 21, 2019|language=en|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref>
The first National People's Congress  held in 1954 clearly stated for the first time the task of realizing the four modernizations of industry, agriculture, transportation and national defense . The first meeting of the People's Congress put forward the grand goal of "four modernizations" and announced that the task of adjusting the national economy has basically been completed. The main task of developing the national economy in the future is to build our country into a powerful socialist country with modern agriculture , modern industry , modern national defense and modern science and technology within a not too long historical period.<ref>[https://baike.baidu.com/reference/4298043/babb5ORgmsmW8Uyl1yiLulmyZkpMPO3sxp__CVzPOV4fgAHVpZxnV0AaBm-c1fc8gjW1YwRya_HkIeO-2UMJZk9p6Gm2-peL0GeFnnE7I0Fqu7uZ4n7ovJxw How the "Four Modernizations" were proposed and developed] - Xinhuanet </ref>  
==Summary==
They were introduced as early as January 1963: at the Conference on Scientific and Technological Work held in [[Shanghai]] in January 1963, [[Zhou Enlai]] called for professionals in the sciences to realize "the Four Modernizations."<ref name="ScienceTechnology">{{cite news | url=http://rmrbw.net/read.php?tid=302475&fpage=14 | script-title=zh:在上海举行的科学技术工作会议上周恩来阐述科学技术现代化的重大意义 | publisher=Central Committee of the Communist Party of China | newspaper=People's Daily | date=31 January 1963 | author=人民日报 | pages=1 | language=zh | trans-title=Science and Technology in Shanghai at the conference on Zhou Enlai explained the significance of modern science and technology | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214201234/http://rmrbw.net/read.php?tid=302475 | archive-date=February 14, 2016 | url-status=dead | access-date=October 21, 2011 }}</ref> In February 1963, at the National Conference on Agricultural Science and Technology Work, Nie Rongzhen specifically referred to the Four Modernizations as comprising agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology.<ref name="tasks">{{cite news | url=http://rmrbw.net/read.php?tid=303499&fpage=10 | script-title=zh:阐明农业科学技术工作任务 | publisher=Central Committee of the Communist Party of China | newspaper=People's Daily | date=22 February 1963 | author=人民日报 | pages=1 | language=zh | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215103105/http://rmrbw.net/read.php?tid=303499 | archive-date=February 15, 2016 | url-status=dead | trans-title=Clarify the tasks of agricultural science and technology | access-date=October 21, 2011 }}</ref> The [[Cultural Revolution]] prevented and delayed implementation of the Four Modernizations for years. In 1975, in one of his last public acts, Zhou Enlai made another pitch for the Four Modernizations at the [[4th National People's Congress]].


After Zhou's death and Mao's soon thereafter, [[Hua Guofeng]] assumed control of the party in 1976. Hua had the leadership of the Cultural Revolution arrested. Known as the [[Gang of Four]], their arrest marked the end of the Cultural Revolution. This event enabled the enactment of the Four Modernizations. By 1977 all entities in every sector and at every level of society were focused on implementing the Four Modernizations. One core tenet was the rejection of the previously long-held concept known as the "[[iron rice bowl]]".
== Basic information ==
The four modernizations are the national strategic goals proposed by the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China from the 1950s to the 1960s. At the first meeting of the Third National People's Congress in December 1964 , Zhou Enlai proposed for the first time in the government work report based on Mao Zedong's suggestion that within the 20th century, China should be built into a country with modern agriculture, modern industry, and modern national defense. A socialist powerhouse with modern science and technology, and the "two-step" vision of realizing the four modernization goals.


The new idea was that all workers should not be paid the same, but rather, paid according to their productivity. The thinking was that in order to be a consumer society, China would need to be a producing society. In December 1978 at the [[3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China|3rd Plenum of the 11th Central Committee]], [[Deng Xiaoping]] announced the official launch of the Four Modernizations, formally marking the beginning of the reform.
The first step is to use 15 years to establish an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system, so that China's industry can generally approach the world's advanced level;
 
The second step is to strive to make China's industry take the lead in the world by the end of the 20th century, and fully realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology.
 
On December 6, 1979, during talks with Japanese Prime Minister Masahiro Ohira , Deng Xiaoping quantified the four modernizations as, by the end of the twentieth century, striving for a per capita GDP of US$1,000 and achieving a moderately prosperous level. Deng Xiaoping called this goal "the four modernizations of Chinese style", that is, "a moderately prosperous family".
 
The four modernizations are based on the understanding of the word " modernization ", and modernization mainly refers to a phenomenon of social and cultural changes since modern times, and its meaning is relatively broad. In the economic sense, it is basically equivalent to industrialization and capitalization , emphasizing the separation of time and space, the formation of currency and the establishment of expert systems , as well as the establishment of trust mechanisms behind these mechanisms. And as people reflect on the disadvantages of modernization, the view that equates modernization with development and progress is problematic. There are inherent disadvantages in modernization, such as over-exploitation of environmental resources, excessive dominance of capital over labor, and so on. Based on this, the emergence of post-modern theory, and the scientific development concept that emphasizes sustainable development were put forward.
 
== Historical Development ==
From the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to 1954, Mao Zedong and other leaders of the Communist Party of China gradually put forward the idea of ​​realizing "modernized industry, modernized agriculture, modernized transportation and modernized national defense". Later, the strategic goal of "modernization" was gradually established. On February 27, 1957, Mao Zedong said in his speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People" and "Build China into a socialist country with modern industry, modern agriculture, and modern science and culture."
 
March 1957: On the 12th, Mao Zedong said in his speech at the National Propaganda Work Conference of the Communist Party of China: "We will definitely build a socialist country with modern industry, modern agriculture and modern scientific culture."
 
From December 1959 to February 1960, Mao Zedong When reading the "Textbook of Political Economy" of the Soviet Union, it said: "Building socialism originally required industrial modernization, agricultural modernization, and scientific and cultural modernization, and now it must also include national defense modernization." From this, Mao Zedong put forward the "four modernizations" for the first time.
 
In mid-February 1960, when Zhou Enlai was reading the Soviet Union's "Textbook of Political Economy", he changed the name of "science and culture modernization" to "science and technology modernization".
 
On January 29, 1963, Zhou Enlai said at the Shanghai Science and Technology Work Conference,<blockquote>"Our country's scientific foundation in the past was very poor. We want to realize agricultural modernization, industrial modernization, national defense modernization, and science and technology modernization, and build our motherland into a society. The key to building a strong country with socialism lies in realizing the modernization of science and technology.” </blockquote>The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Work Conference held from September 6 to September 27 of the same year proposed a two-step process: <blockquote>“The first step is to establish an independent and relatively complete industrial system. and the national economic system, so that China's industry is generally close to the world's advanced level; the second step is to make China's industry take the lead in the world and fully realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology." </blockquote>Held from November 17th to December 3rd of the same year The Fourth Session of the Second National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China called on the people of the whole country to "strive hard, rely on self-reliance, and strive to build our country into a powerful socialist country with modern agriculture, modern industry, modern national defense and modern science and technology."
 
On August 6, 1963, Bo Yibo talked at the meeting of heads of various ministries and commissions. The main content was,<blockquote>"It was originally planned to start the third five-year plan in 1963, but now it will not be carried out. It will start in 1966. The three-year plan will start in 1966. Adjustment, focusing on enriching, consolidating, improving, filling and supplementing, and becoming a dragon."</blockquote>Since the third five-year plan could not be introduced in 1963, the goals of the third five-year plan were "four Modernization" was announced.
 
In December 1964, Mao Zedong , Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, stated when revising the "Report on the Work of the Government" made by Premier Zhou Enlai of the State Council of the People's Republic of China on behalf of the State Council at the first meeting of the Third National People's Congress :<blockquote>"We must break the rules, Adopt advanced technology as far as possible, and build our country into a socialist modernized power within a not too long historical period." </blockquote>From December 20, 1964 to January 4, 1965, the third session of the National People's Congress A meeting was held at which Zhou Enlai announced to the people of the whole country the task of realizing the "four modernizations":
 
The main task of developing the national economy in the future is, generally speaking, to build our country into a powerful socialist country with modern agriculture, modern industry, modern national defense and modern science and technology in a not too long historical period, catching up with and surpass the world advanced level. In order to realize this great historical task, starting from the third five-year plan, my country's national economic development can be considered in two steps: the first step is to establish an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system; the second step , realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology in an all-round way, so that our country's economy will be at the forefront of the world.
 
In January 1975, at the first session of the Fourth National People's Congress , Zhou Enlai followed Mao Zedong 's instructions and reiterated in the "Government Work Report" the first session of the Third National People's Congress " Government Work Report". "The two-step strategy to realize the four modernizations in an all-round way."
 
Zhou Enlai announced in the "Government Work Report": <blockquote>"Starting from the third five-year plan, the development of my country's national economy can be envisioned in two steps: the first step is to take fifteen years, that is, in 1980 In the past, an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system should be established; the second step is to fully realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology within this century, so that our national economy can be at the forefront of the world."</blockquote>On May 31, 1989, when Deng Xiaoping wanted to change the leadership and form a promising leadership group to carry out reforms, he mentioned:<blockquote>"Our comrades in the Politburo, the Standing Committee of the Politburo, and the Secretariat are all in charge of major affairs. When considering any issue, we must focus on the long-term and the overall situation. ... The people are basically satisfied with our collective. It is because we carried out reform and opening up, put forward the four modernization routes, and have really achieved real results....It is impossible to close the door. It is impossible for China to return to the closed era of the past. That closed method also caused Disasters, such as the "Cultural Revolution".</blockquote>In that state, it is impossible for the economy to develop, people's lives to improve, and national power to increase. The world is developing rapidly and changing every day, especially science and technology. Difficult to catch up.
 
== Theoretical Propostion ==
 
== See Also: ==
 
* [[Socialist market economy]]
* [[Deng Xiaoping Theory]]
* [[Socialism with Chinese Characteristics]]
 
== References ==


The science and technology modernization although understood by Chinese leaders as being key to the transformation of industry and the economy, proved to be more of a theoretical goal versus an achievable objective. This was primarily due to decades-long isolation of Chinese scientists from the international community, outmoded and outdated universities, and an overall lack of access to advanced scientific equipment, information technology, and management know-how.


Recognizing the need for technical assistance to spur this most important modernization, the Chinese Government elicited the support of the [[United Nations Development Programme]] (UNDP) in the fall of 1978 to scope out and provide financial resources for the implementation of an initial complement of targeted projects. The initial projects from 1979 to 1984 included the establishment of overseas on-the-job training and academic programs, set-up of information processing centers at key government units, and the development of methods to make informed decisions within the Chinese context based on market principles. The key advisor to the Chinese Government on behalf of the UNDP was Jack Fensterstock of the United States. This first technical assistance effort (CPR/79-001) by the UNDP led to the entry of large-scale multilateral funding agencies including the [[World Bank]] and the [[Asian Development Bank]].
==See also==
*[[Deng Xiaoping Theory]]
*[[Shenzhen speed]]
==References==
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==Further reading==
*
{{cite book|last=Hsü|first=Immanuel C. Y.|title=[[The Rise of Modern China]]|year=2000|edition=6th|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=0-19-512503-7}}
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{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Richard|title=Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China|year=1995|edition=2nd|publisher=Penguin Books|location=London|isbn=0-14-013945-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/dengxiaopingmak00evan}}
{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Richard|title=Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China|year=1995|edition=2nd|publisher=Penguin Books|location=London|isbn=0-14-013945-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/dengxiaopingmak00evan}}
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Unite, work hard for the prosperity of the country, to speed up the struggle to realize the Four Modernizations (1978, September)

The Four Modernizations (simplified Chinese: 四个现代化; pinyin: Sì gè xiàndàihuà) are industrial modernization, agricultural modernization , national defense modernization , and scientific and technological modernization.[1]

The first National People's Congress  held in 1954 clearly stated for the first time the task of realizing the four modernizations of industry, agriculture, transportation and national defense . The first meeting of the People's Congress put forward the grand goal of "four modernizations" and announced that the task of adjusting the national economy has basically been completed. The main task of developing the national economy in the future is to build our country into a powerful socialist country with modern agriculture , modern industry , modern national defense and modern science and technology within a not too long historical period.[2]

Basic information

The four modernizations are the national strategic goals proposed by the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China from the 1950s to the 1960s. At the first meeting of the Third National People's Congress in December 1964 , Zhou Enlai proposed for the first time in the government work report based on Mao Zedong's suggestion that within the 20th century, China should be built into a country with modern agriculture, modern industry, and modern national defense. A socialist powerhouse with modern science and technology, and the "two-step" vision of realizing the four modernization goals.

The first step is to use 15 years to establish an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system, so that China's industry can generally approach the world's advanced level;

The second step is to strive to make China's industry take the lead in the world by the end of the 20th century, and fully realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology.

On December 6, 1979, during talks with Japanese Prime Minister Masahiro Ohira , Deng Xiaoping quantified the four modernizations as, by the end of the twentieth century, striving for a per capita GDP of US$1,000 and achieving a moderately prosperous level. Deng Xiaoping called this goal "the four modernizations of Chinese style", that is, "a moderately prosperous family".

The four modernizations are based on the understanding of the word " modernization ", and modernization mainly refers to a phenomenon of social and cultural changes since modern times, and its meaning is relatively broad. In the economic sense, it is basically equivalent to industrialization and capitalization , emphasizing the separation of time and space, the formation of currency and the establishment of expert systems , as well as the establishment of trust mechanisms behind these mechanisms. And as people reflect on the disadvantages of modernization, the view that equates modernization with development and progress is problematic. There are inherent disadvantages in modernization, such as over-exploitation of environmental resources, excessive dominance of capital over labor, and so on. Based on this, the emergence of post-modern theory, and the scientific development concept that emphasizes sustainable development were put forward.

Historical Development

From the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to 1954, Mao Zedong and other leaders of the Communist Party of China gradually put forward the idea of ​​realizing "modernized industry, modernized agriculture, modernized transportation and modernized national defense". Later, the strategic goal of "modernization" was gradually established. On February 27, 1957, Mao Zedong said in his speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People" and "Build China into a socialist country with modern industry, modern agriculture, and modern science and culture."

March 1957: On the 12th, Mao Zedong said in his speech at the National Propaganda Work Conference of the Communist Party of China: "We will definitely build a socialist country with modern industry, modern agriculture and modern scientific culture."

From December 1959 to February 1960, Mao Zedong When reading the "Textbook of Political Economy" of the Soviet Union, it said: "Building socialism originally required industrial modernization, agricultural modernization, and scientific and cultural modernization, and now it must also include national defense modernization." From this, Mao Zedong put forward the "four modernizations" for the first time.

In mid-February 1960, when Zhou Enlai was reading the Soviet Union's "Textbook of Political Economy", he changed the name of "science and culture modernization" to "science and technology modernization".

On January 29, 1963, Zhou Enlai said at the Shanghai Science and Technology Work Conference,

"Our country's scientific foundation in the past was very poor. We want to realize agricultural modernization, industrial modernization, national defense modernization, and science and technology modernization, and build our motherland into a society. The key to building a strong country with socialism lies in realizing the modernization of science and technology.”

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Work Conference held from September 6 to September 27 of the same year proposed a two-step process:

“The first step is to establish an independent and relatively complete industrial system. and the national economic system, so that China's industry is generally close to the world's advanced level; the second step is to make China's industry take the lead in the world and fully realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology."

Held from November 17th to December 3rd of the same year The Fourth Session of the Second National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China called on the people of the whole country to "strive hard, rely on self-reliance, and strive to build our country into a powerful socialist country with modern agriculture, modern industry, modern national defense and modern science and technology." On August 6, 1963, Bo Yibo talked at the meeting of heads of various ministries and commissions. The main content was,

"It was originally planned to start the third five-year plan in 1963, but now it will not be carried out. It will start in 1966. The three-year plan will start in 1966. Adjustment, focusing on enriching, consolidating, improving, filling and supplementing, and becoming a dragon."

Since the third five-year plan could not be introduced in 1963, the goals of the third five-year plan were "four Modernization" was announced. In December 1964, Mao Zedong , Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, stated when revising the "Report on the Work of the Government" made by Premier Zhou Enlai of the State Council of the People's Republic of China on behalf of the State Council at the first meeting of the Third National People's Congress :

"We must break the rules, Adopt advanced technology as far as possible, and build our country into a socialist modernized power within a not too long historical period."

From December 20, 1964 to January 4, 1965, the third session of the National People's Congress A meeting was held at which Zhou Enlai announced to the people of the whole country the task of realizing the "four modernizations":

The main task of developing the national economy in the future is, generally speaking, to build our country into a powerful socialist country with modern agriculture, modern industry, modern national defense and modern science and technology in a not too long historical period, catching up with and surpass the world advanced level. In order to realize this great historical task, starting from the third five-year plan, my country's national economic development can be considered in two steps: the first step is to establish an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system; the second step , realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology in an all-round way, so that our country's economy will be at the forefront of the world.

In January 1975, at the first session of the Fourth National People's Congress , Zhou Enlai followed Mao Zedong 's instructions and reiterated in the "Government Work Report" the first session of the Third National People's Congress " Government Work Report". "The two-step strategy to realize the four modernizations in an all-round way."

Zhou Enlai announced in the "Government Work Report":

"Starting from the third five-year plan, the development of my country's national economy can be envisioned in two steps: the first step is to take fifteen years, that is, in 1980 In the past, an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system should be established; the second step is to fully realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology within this century, so that our national economy can be at the forefront of the world."

On May 31, 1989, when Deng Xiaoping wanted to change the leadership and form a promising leadership group to carry out reforms, he mentioned:

"Our comrades in the Politburo, the Standing Committee of the Politburo, and the Secretariat are all in charge of major affairs. When considering any issue, we must focus on the long-term and the overall situation. ... The people are basically satisfied with our collective. It is because we carried out reform and opening up, put forward the four modernization routes, and have really achieved real results....It is impossible to close the door. It is impossible for China to return to the closed era of the past. That closed method also caused Disasters, such as the "Cultural Revolution".

In that state, it is impossible for the economy to develop, people's lives to improve, and national power to increase. The world is developing rapidly and changing every day, especially science and technology. Difficult to catch up.

Theoretical Propostion

See Also:

References