Abstract
Most politicians in development countries happen to coincide with the promise that people’s lives would be substantially improved, which is what the people expect earnestly. But if the economy has no material growth, the improvement of people’s livelihood is just like water without a source, or a meal without rice, finally the promise won’t be fulfilled out of nothing. In the last 30 years, the Chinese people’s lives have significantly improved; after all, it’s the achievement of effective economic development. Deng Xiaoping’s “development is an unyielding principle” is best illustrated. Furthermore, development is reinvested with new implications by China’s practices, and the Scientific Outlook on Development bears fruitful results.
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Gordon Chang (2001).
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Fang Cai et al. (2009).
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Fang Cai and Wang Dewen (1999).
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Williamson (1997).
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Fang Cai and Zhao Wen (2012).
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Yu Yongding (2011).
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Simon (1984).
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Perroux (1987).
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Todaro (1999).
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Stiglitz (2000).
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Sen (2002).
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Kuznets (1955).
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The Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Vol. 2, People’s Publishing House, 1983, p. 152.
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Yao Yang (2008).
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For example, an American published work on China’s reform quotes Deng Xiaoping’s famous saying “crossing a river by feeling the way over the stones” as “how far across the river?” Hope et al. (2003).
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Cai, F. (2015). Development Is an Unyielding Principle. In: Demystifying China’s Economy Development. China Insights. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46103-7_2
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