But there is a fundamental difference between standing firm and standing firm, and from an economic point of view, we simply did not look at it at the time, in 1978 China's GDP was only $149.5 billion, while the United States was 235 trillion, which is 16 times that of ours, and Japan 101 trillion, 7 times as much as ours, and the USSR 901.6 billion, 6 times as much as ours.
If you count the per capita, it is even less than I can't bear to calculate, and interested friends can count it in the comment area.
80's city block.
The basic economy is not enough, let alone the military, scientific research, and finance, which especially need the ability to make money. Therefore, at this time, we are still very weak, and if we want to gain a firm foothold completely, we can only desperately engage in industry, production, and economic development.
To develop, there must be a springboard, and the United States was one of the few and best springboards at that time. (Why the United States was mentioned in the previous article).
In 1978, China and the United States formally negotiated the establishment of diplomatic relations, and after chatting about all the details on December 4, the two sides had a good idea of the follow-up cooperation matters, so the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee was immediately launched on December 18: reform and opening up + the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, a two-pronged approach.
The next decade was a decade of good cooperation between China and the United States, which history textbooks refer to as a brief "honeymoon period," and I prefer to call it a period of foreshadowing China's national fortunes. (It is also said that 1972-1989 is the honeymoon period between China and the United States, but it is more historically accurate that 1972-1978 is the ambiguous period of breaking the ice, and 1979-1989 is the official honeymoon period, which will not be studied in depth here).
Since it is cooperation, it is necessary to have interests to operate and maintain the cooperative relationship.
Our first gift to the United States was the 1979 counterattack against Y, which beat Vietnam, the Soviet Union's number one brother at the time. This was not only a bright fist action to make a stand clear, but also an attempt to exhaust the Soviet Union's natural resources and slow down the pace of the Soviet Union's struggle for hegemony with the United States.
The second gift is to open the door to China, allowing industrial and agricultural products from the United States, Japan, and Western Europe to enter China, providing them with a huge dumping market for a billion people.
** port built in the 80s.
Of course, the United States and the Western world led by him have also given us handsome rewards. First, China has signed a most-favored-nation treatment agreement to relax controls and allow China to enjoy preferential treatment in terms of imports and exports. The second is to support and guide their local enterprises to invest in China.
To put it simply, the manpower, material and financial resources of my China side are open to your goods, and as long as they are within the scope of the previous negotiations, they can all be traded within my borders. Of course, you also have to show sincerity, not to mention that the import and export restrictions on me need to be lifted, and you also have to let your own rich and powerful enterprises come to me to invest and set up factories, and we have ready-made land and workers, so that your own production costs can not only be reduced, but also help me to carry out industrial system innovation.
In the 80s, the domestic car factory was old.
Under the leadership of the United States, Japan, Germany, and France have also joined the ranks of investors and aid to China.
During this period, Japan was the most active, during the ten years of a total of 800.9 billion yen in loans to us, aided in the construction of transportation, energy, medical care, education and other projects 22, of course, here is not to beautify Japan, at that time all countries are in a relatively difficult bottleneck period of development, Japan due to the rapid economic growth, the economic volume is close to 60% of the United States, by the United States with a variety of policies crazy suppression. The newly opened Chinese market has solved the urgent need for Japanese industrial products.
Many friends should be deeply impressed that Japanese brand products such as Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Toyota, Honda, etc., all began to enter our lives unconsciously at that time, as well as those Sino-Japanese friendship hospitals, which were built in that historical period.
The previous article mentioned that we gave up more than 50 billion war reparations against Japan, and many people were indignant, but in fact, it was to pave the way for the entry of Japanese capital in the past ten years and the subsequent economic development of China.
The old Panasonic TV.
China-Japan Friendship Hospital.
So why Japan? What about not France and Germany? This is because Japan has natural advantages in terms of geographical location, industrial system, and economic development process. In that situation, even if you have a deep hatred, but in order to live a good life, there is really no way, you are too poor!
In 1989, China's GDP was 347.8 billion, compared to 564 trillion, Japan 305 trillion, the Soviet Union 700 billion, the United States is 16 times ours, Japan is ours 87 times, the USSR was 2 times ours.
Although the gap with the United States and Japan has not changed much, and has even been opened up a little bit, don't worry, after ten years of testing the waters, our economy has begun to flow and circulate. A large amount of foreign exchange reserves continue to flow into pockets; The Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta Economic Circle are beginning to take shape; Our infrastructure, railways, highways, seaports, airports, energy facilities, industrial systems, education systems are all ready to go. A new pattern is being born, and new tribulations and opportunities are taking shape.
In 1989, Bush Sr. and Gorbachev decided to hold talks in Malta, which was a landmark event at the end of the Cold War. Less than a year after the end of this conference, the socialist camp in Eastern Europe collapsed one after another, and the collapse and disintegration of the Soviet Union was a foregone conclusion.
The scene of the meeting in Malta.
After 70 years of fighting with the Soviet Union, the United States is physically and mentally exhausted, and he will absolutely never allow a country that can threaten its position to appear again. And next, the only one with potential in terms of land, economy, military, population, industry, and different systems is China. Although China is still in the period of friendly cooperation, the countries only talk about interests, and it is clear that the Soviet Union is about to finish, and if China is crushed again and both socialist camps fall, it will be a double happiness for the United States.
As a result, under the leadership of the United States, Western countries immediately changed their China policy, instigated ** to smear China and threw out a series of sanctions plans, and the ten-year "honeymoon period" between China and the United States came to an end.
Just as the seven-nation camp led by the United States was preparing to use all its firepower against China, Dam suddenly stood up and annexed Kuwait and provoked the Gulf War. Seeing that the Middle East is about to be pulled into the whirlpool of the oil crisis, this is a major event that seriously affects the money bag of the United States. As a result, the United States and Western Europe and the Middle East jointly sent troops to launch an offensive against Iraq. China escaped for the time being.
One of the scenes of the Gulf War.
With the end of the Gulf War, the Soviet Union also collapsed as expected. This has given the United States a great boost of confidence, and it feels that it has done it again, and has begun to embark on the road of global hegemony and becoming the world's policeman.
However, the battle in the Gulf has also completely woken up China, and Iraq, known as the world's third military power, has a 1:300 battle loss ratio in the face of a modern army supported by the United States' money. Millions of Iraqi troops, only 43 days to ashes!
If this battle happens to us, how do we respond?
It is still necessary to develop the economy first and make money, so that we can expand the military and science and technology faster! So Instructor Deng started the southern tour in 1992 and set a more precise plan for the road to making money after the reform.
Because China's economy, science and technology, and military were too weak at the beginning, the United States did not take China very seriously. But once bitten by a snake, in order to prevent the rise of the next "Soviet Union", he repeatedly launched provocative acts against China, trying by all means to press us to the point of half-death. So the whole 90s was also the darkest and most humiliating decade of our forty years.
The 1993 Milky Way incident, the 1994 mega air incident, the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, and the 1999 U.S. bombing of our embassy in Yugoslavia (you can check these events on your own, I think everyone should focus on it, and have more interest in leaving me a message, if there are many people, write a question next time). Resentment, shame, powerlessness, and a constant sense of crisis haunt every Chinese, but what can be? Forced by the situation and his own strength, he can only choose to endure again and again!
Of course, forbearance is rewarded after all, and our country has gained 10 years of precious development time, during which we have not only pursued the growth of the total economic output, but also accelerated the upgrading of the industrial structure and expanded the opening up to the outside world.
At that time, the greatest impact should be to further encourage the development of private enterprises. Everyone should have the impression that during this period, many people in the system went to the sea to start their own businesses, and the cases of "leave without pay" that we see now all appeared in those years. The purpose is to encourage those who are well-educated, think ahead, and have a broader vision to take the lead in testing the waters, and rest assured to do it.
It is precisely with this guarantee that a large number of young talents can concentrate on stirring China's economy to a boiling boil without worries. The mighty tide of going to the sea and the magnificent tide of hundreds of millions of people working have also prompted the formal formation of economic zones such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the southeast coast. Anyway, in a word: make money to build roads and engage in construction, and seek development at home and abroad!
The 90s part-time job.
In 1999, China's GDP broke through the trillion dollar mark, reaching 109 trillion, the United States is 963 trillion, Japan is 464 trillion, the United States is our 88 times, Japan is 4 times ours2 times, the USSR will not be compared if it is raised. China's economy has more than tripled in a decade, and the gap with the United States is rapidly narrowing, making it the seventh largest in the world.
Of course, such rapid economic growth has also attracted the attention of the United States. In 2001, after Bush Jr. took office, he openly declared that China was a competitor of the United States and stepped up arms sales to Taiwan. Three months after he took office, a plane collision incident broke out between China and the United States in the South China Sea, in which our plane crashed into the sea, and pilot Wang Wei also died heroically in this incident. Sino-US relations have fallen to a freezing point, and the US policy toward China has once again shifted in the direction of "containment."
Hero Wang Wei. After the plane collision incident in the South China Sea, the United States shifted its strategic focus to China. It can be said that if Bush Jr.'s policy line had continued for a few more years, with the US national strength at its peak at that time, China might not even have much significance in resisting. But at the critical moment, the aura of destiny appeared again:Bin Laden jumped out.
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