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China is entering a post-GDP era
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| Chinanews, Mar. 9 - With the introduction of the concept of "harmonious society", it is increasingly clear that China is stepping into a post-GDP era.
According to the official press, China in the past has been inclined to alleviate social conflicts brought on by economic transition by pursuing high economic growth. However, it has been proven that high economic growth does not always lead to the creation of new jobs. Unfair allocation of social wealth created by economic growth would also intensify social conflicts. In the past two decades, the public's complaint letters and cases handled by the courts have risen nearly 500 fold. Conflicts on agriculture, relocation compensation, unemployment, public security and protection of citizen rights have been intensifying. According to sociologists, if the challenge that China's reform and development confronted in the past two decades was economic, then the problems they are facing in the next two decades would be social. These social problems should be the focus for China in its effort to construct a harmonious socialist society.
Premier Wen Jiabao spent five pages of his report on the work of the government to elaborate on the issue of harmonious society. He expounded on the concepts of "scientific development strategy" and the "harmonious society". These new concepts of governance are gradually weakening the emphasis on GDP growth. They also reflect the government's new focus on balanced social development.
This year, before the Conference of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference were convened, the State Environmental Protection Administration Bureau and the National Bureau of Statistics launched the Green GDP pilot program focused on environmental accounting and the research on the economic costs of pollution. This pilot program would be conducted in 4 stages, starting from January this year and would last for one year. Compared with the way it was done in the past, GDP is defined differently in this era.
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