China’s Strategy for Agricultural Development in the 1990s

Abstract

In accordance with the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the State Council, our economic development has been carried out in three main steps. The first step was to double the gross national product of 1980 and to solve the problem of food and clothing for our people. This task has been largely achieved. The second step is to double the GNP again by the end of the century, thus enabling our people to lead fairly comfortable lives. The third step is to reach the per capita GNP level of moderately developed countries by the middle of next century. This means that modernization will basically have been accomplished and that our people will have begun to enjoy a relatively affluent way of life. The most important task at present is to make a success of the second step, in which a correct strategy for agricultural development has a direct bearing on the overall economic structure. To this end, we must pay attention to the following aspects.