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  2. Industrialization of China - Wikipedia

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    China ranks as the second largest consumer of oil in the world, and "China is the world's top coal producer, consumer, and importer, and accounts for almost half of global coal consumption.”, [55] as such their CO 2 emissions reflect the usage and production of fossil fuels. As of 2015, China has been ranked the number one CO 2 contributor ...

  3. Technological and industrial history of China - Wikipedia

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    The principal inland waterway was the Yangtze River and its tributaries, which constituted the major artery linking the industrial and agricultural areas of central China and the southwest to the great port and industrial center of Shanghai. Improvements to the water routes enabled larger and faster modern vessels to use them, extended their ...

  4. Industry of China - Wikipedia

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    A 50 MW molten-salt power tower in Hami, Xinjiang, China. The industrial sector comprised 38.3% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of China in 2023. [1] China is the world's leading manufacturer of chemical fertilizers, cement and steel. Prior to 1978, most output was produced by state-owned enterprises.

  5. History of trade of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia

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    China's share of the global trade surplus increased rapidly after China's joining the World Trade Organization in 2001. [4]: 274 China's domestic production is greater than its domestic consumption. [4]: 273 Its exports therefore exceed its imports, and its current account is in surplus.

  6. First five-year plan (China) - Wikipedia

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    [2]: 67 Between 1952 and 1957, China's urban population grew 30%. [2]: 21 The creation of new state industrial projects created new factory towns and new industrial districts in older cities. [2]: 67 In the early part of the 1950s, city plans also followed the socialist city planning principles from the Soviet 1935 Moscow Master Plan.

  7. Four Modernizations - Wikipedia

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    The thinking was that in order to be a consumer society, China would need to be a producing society. In December 1978 at the 3rd plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party , Deng Xiaoping announced the official launch of the Four Modernizations, formally marking the beginning of the reform.

  8. Fred Seibert’s FredFilms, China’s DeZerlin ... - AOL

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    Animation luminary Fred Seibert’s FredFilms will team up with Chinese content production firm DeZerlin Entertainment for an incubator projected called “Hot Pot! Cartoons,” which hopes to ...

  9. Economic history of China (1949–present) - Wikipedia

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    The economic history of China describes the changes and developments in China's economy from the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 to the present day. The speed of China's transformation in this period from one of the poorest countries to one of the world's largest economies is unmatched in history. [1]: 11