*** Thoughts after reading the story of the growth of the Republic of China

Take off in the First Five-Year Plan, two firsts, three Tibetan areas and three saddles, Four Eagles Railway, Wuhan Bridge, 600 projects..." This is the "First Five-Year Plan" written by Teacher Hou of Shanxi Wenshui Middle School to make it easier for students to remember "Take off in the First Five-Year Plan" refers to the first batch of jet aircraft produced during the "First Five-Year Plan"; "Two Firsts" refers to Changchun No. 1 Automobile Manufacturing Plant and Shenyang No. 1. Machine tool factory; "Three Tibet" refers to the completion of the Kangzang, Qinghai-Tibet, and Xinjiang-Tibet highways... Since then, our country has established a relatively complete industrial system and national economic system in a relatively short period of time.

There is no doubt that New China is moving forward. The first step was quite good. However, the Great Leap Forward in 1958 gradually changed the economy 1 from poverty to shock. The economic development gradually replaced normal development for 60 years. Subsequently, international containment, domestic isolation, and slow progress in the national economy and people's livelihood.

In 1978, New China ushered in a critical historical turning point. On May 11, "Guangming Daily" published "Practice is the Only Criterion for Testing Truth"; on December 18, the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China marked the re-establishment of the Marxist ideological line, political line, and organizational line. Deng Xiaoping corrected the chaos in the ideological line and cleared the way for reform and opening up. The vast rural areas were the first to feel this "spring warmth". Farmers in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang, Anhui Province, risked their lives to initiate the "big contract system". Urban reform started in Shenzhen's deserted Shekou area...

Around 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Eastern Europe underwent drastic changes. China was faced with a crisis. Severe challenges. In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping came out again. He inspected Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shanghai and other places, and repeatedly emphasized that "more planning or more market is not the essential difference between socialism and capitalism." Planning and markets are both economic instruments. Reform and opening up cannot make progress, and we dare not make breakthroughs. After all, it is a question of whether we are surnamed "capital" or "social". The basic line must be maintained for a hundred years."

From October 12 to 18, 1992, the Fourteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held. The congress established the guiding position of Deng Xiaoping's theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the entire party , clarified the reform goal of building a socialist market economic system... Since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as General Secretary has seized the important period of strategic opportunities, strived to promote scientific development, promote social harmony, and build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. The report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that let us hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics and unite more closely with Comrade Hu Jintao as General Secretary. Around the Party Central Committee, everyone is united, forging ahead, and working hard to win new victories in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and write a new chapter in the people's better life!

In the night of urbanization, China is getting brighter and brighter

Sixty years ago, when Shenzhen was still a small fishing village, old man Zhou Lixiong lived there. The old man said that the locals called small rivers or relatively deep ditches "Zhen", and villagers often fished in the "Shenzhen River". After catching shrimp, the city of Shenzhen got its name.

Today, the Shenzhen River still flows, but a large city with a population of more than 14 million has grown on both sides of it. The growth of Shenzhen is China. The landmark of reform and opening up is also a model for my country's urbanization.

The British "Economist" magazine said in the article "Growing Tall China" that over the past few decades, China has created many economic firsts in the world. , such as the GDP growth rate has been the first in the world for 30 consecutive years, the foreign exchange reserves are the first in the world, and the telephone users are the first in the world... But perhaps few people think that China's urban construction speed is also the first in the world, and 70% of the world's tower cranes are in China Busy.

The European Space Agency said that China has become "brighter". The photos they took of the night view of the earth show that China is becoming more and more beautiful at night - many places have changed from dark wastelands to brightly lit areas. Cities (towns). In 1949, there were only 58 cities and more than 2,000 towns in my country, with the urban population accounting for 10.6%. By 2008, these numbers had grown to 655, 19,249 and 44.9% respectively. The three in 1949 (Beijing-Tianjin, Liaozhong, Yangtze River Delta) have developed to more than 20: Pearl River Delta, Chengdu-Chongqing, Wuhan, Southeast Fujian, Changsha-Zhuzhou-Tan, Xixian...

Nobel Economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz said that computers, the Internet and China's urbanization are the three key factors affecting human progress in the 21st century. In the next 20 years, China's urban population will grow from 590 million now to nearly 100 million. billion, which will exceed the population of Europe. This means that in the next 20 years, the total number of Chinese cities will reach 1,000, and 20,000 to 50,000 skyscrapers will be built for this purpose, which is equivalent to the total size of 10 New York City. Urbanization has inevitably become a bright spot in promoting world economic growth.

Transportation American writer’s exclamation

“In 1959, I set out from Tibet to study in Beijing, first walking, then riding a horse. After changing cars and trains, it finally took more than a month to get to Beijing. At that time, transporting supplies to Lhasa required seven or eight months using animal power. I was studying in Beijing, and my family asked someone to send me a letter. I received it six months later. But now it only takes more than four hours to fly from Beijing to Lhasa, and only three days by train. "After the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Redi often described to people the earth-shaking changes in Tibet's transportation.

Great changes are not only happening in Tibet. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the total length of all railways, highways, and air routes in our country was less than 100,000 kilometers, and the annual passenger volume was only 140 million. And only large cities were open to traffic, and only a few people took the trains. In 2008, my country's land traffic mileage alone was nearly 3.73 million kilometers, and the annual passenger volume reached 26.8 billion. Today, 99.2% of towns and villages in our country have access to roads, and transportation has already entered the era of popular transportation.

In the past 10 years, my country’s transportation construction achievements have attracted worldwide attention. Total investment in transportation construction exceeds the sum of the past 50 years. In 1988, the first 18-kilometer-long Shanghai-Jiaxing Expressway was opened to traffic. By the end of 2008, my country's expressway mileage exceeded 60,000 kilometers, ranking second in the world after the United States. New China has completed the development process of more than 100 years in Western countries with just a few decades of transportation construction. The famous American writer Friedman, who came to Beijing to watch the Olympic Games in 2008, was deeply moved after returning to China. He wrote an article in the New York Times that taking the 400 kilometers per hour maglev train from the fashionable Shanghai Airport to downtown Shanghai, and then via the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway When you go to Nanjing, you can't help but ask a question: Is China a developing country or a developed country?

From the donkey-drawn horses 60 years ago to today’s luxury buses, from the noisy “stuffy tank train” to the “Harmony” with air-conditioned sofas, from the “express” with a top speed of 60 kilometers per hour to The "Magnetic Levitation" with a speed of 400 kilometers per hour, as well as the world-renowned Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Hangzhou Bay Cross-sea Bridge... The modern development of land, waterways, and aviation are not only the best footnotes of China's "leap-forward" development, but also the strength of China's speed. Help.