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GDP per capita in China (1913–1950) After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912, China underwent a period of instability and disrupted economic activity. During the Nanjing decade (1927–1937), China advanced in a number of industrial sectors, in particular those related to the military, in an effort to catch up with the west and prepare for war with Japan.
January 14 – Wang Jingwei took a German passenger boat to Shanghai. January 19 – Hunan University was changed to National Hunan University, and the Ministry of Education appointed Pi Zongshi as the principal.
Another trend from The Great Leap Forward, was the steady decline of those employed in the agricultural sector, as the industrial sector grew. Furthermore, as China began to rely more heavily on industrial output, the value added to the GDP by agriculture also declined, going from 70% in 1952, to 30% in 1977. [44]
The Hump was the only route of imports for China in 1942-1944. Starting in July 1937, the Japanese military advanced through northern and eastern China, forcing the Nationalist government to retreat inland and abandon
The movement was led by the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Association (CICA or Indusco), founded in 1938 by foreign and Chinese activists. Its international arm the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives ( ICCIC , also known by the nickname Gung Ho International Committee ) was founded in 1939 in Hong Kong ...
Chart of Chinese progress from a US wartime pamphlet The Bund in Shanghai in the 1930s. The Nanjing decade (also Nanking decade, Chinese: 南京十年; pinyin: Nánjīng shí nián, or the Golden decade, Chinese: 黃金十年; pinyin: Huángjīn shí nián) is an informal name for the decade from 1927 (or 1928) to 1937 in the Republic of China.
The relative economic status of Europe and China during most of the Qing (1644–1912 AD/CE) remains a matter of debate, [n 1] but a Great Divergence was apparent in the 19th century, [7] pushed by the Industrial and Technological Revolutions.
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