China wants to double incomes.
Hu Jintao, China’s soon-to-retire party secretary, delivered the opening address of the weeklong Party Congress on November 8 before some 2,300 delegates in the cavernous Great Hall of the People in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square...
Hu’s 90-minute political report summed up China’s past achievements and highlighted challenges ahead, and hit all the expected notes...
Hu stressed the importance of striking “a balance between the role of the government and that of the market,” an issue of growing importance as the influence of China’s state sector has surged in power in recent years. And he set a new growth target for China. “On the basis of making China’s development much more balanced, coordinated, and sustainable, we should double its 2010 GDP and per capita income for both urban and rural residents [by 2020],” said Hu...
“Combating corruption and promoting political integrity, which is a major political issue of great concern to the people, is a clear-cut and long-term political commitment of the party. If we fail to handle this issue well, it could prove fatal to the party, and even cause the collapse of the party and the fall of the state,” warned Hu...
One way to fight against corruption and improve overall governance is to expand “intra-party democracy,” or efforts to make the Communist Party more accountable to the Chinese people and more transparent in its decision-making, another theme that was stressed in the political report.
Balance? Between government and the market? A focus on economic growth and political integrity, accountability and transparency? [1]
Man! What a racist tea-bagger!
[1] Yes, yes, I know. Words are... words, and despite the nice sounding ones he's spouting, he's still a Communist, and China doesn't just have a few human rights issues - they've got the entire freaking subscription. I get that. The irony was just to much to pass up.
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