Chairman Mao said: Our goal is to catch up with and surpass the United States… 毛主席說:我們的目標是趕上美國,並且要超過美國…
At least 50 years, perhaps 75 years—75 years means 15 five-year plans. Only when we catch up with and surpass the United States will we breathe a sigh of relief.
We are now in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025). A great man is a great man; anyone who disagrees is not a normal person!
“Catch up with and surpass the United States”—this was the slogan resoundingly chanted by the Chinese people in the last century under the leadership of Chairman Mao. To achieve this goal, China steadily advanced, growing from a backward agricultural nation to an advanced industrial nation.
So why did Chairman Mao set this bold goal, and how did he lead the Chinese people to achieve it?
In 1949, the People’s Republic of China was founded under the gaze of the entire world. As the nation reveled in joy, Chairman Mao realized that this new nation would face many thorny challenges. The most significant one was industrialization.
Since ancient times, China has been a largely agricultural nation, pursuing a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy. Even until the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the majority of Chinese people were still farmers, relying on a few acres of land to provide for their families.
But now that China has entered a new era, developing its economy and strengthening its national strength requires more than just agriculture; industrial development must also keep pace.
How could China, having never experienced an industrial revolution like the West, quickly make the leap from an agricultural nation to an industrial one?
So, Chairman Mao proposed the first Five-Year Plan. The First Five-Year Plan implemented socialist transformation across all industries and emphasized a key focus: concentrating efforts on industrial development.
Under Chairman Mao’s call and leadership, the people of China were energized. Despite limited production conditions, they worked together to overcome difficulties and ultimately achieved their goals.
According to statistics, after the First Five-Year Plan, China’s steel and coal production nearly tripled year-on-year, exceeding the target. Not only that, we can now manufacture everything we once considered “foreign gadgets.”
Cars, airplanes, steel mills, bridges—technical challenges that once required foreign reliance have now been overcome one by one.
All of this is inseparable from Chairman Mao’s magnificent slogan, “Catch up with Britain and surpass the United States!”
In the 1950s, when meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Chairman Mao expressed his hope that China’s steel production would catch up with Britain within 15 years and surpass the United States within 50.
Chairman Mao’s words were no joke. Steel production is the foundation of industrialization. If we fail to meet steel production targets, how can we become a global leader in industry?
To this end, the central government formulated the “Five-Year Plan,” followed by the second. Through these precise planning efforts, China’s steel production continued to increase.
By 1973, China had essentially caught up with Britain in steel production, and by 1995, it had surpassed the United States, becoming the world’s leading steel producer.
In just a few decades, China has transformed from a poor and weak agricultural nation into the world’s largest industrial power. This is inseparable from Chairman Mao’s vision and leadership, and even more so from the hard work and perseverance of the Chinese people.
We are now in the period of our country’s 14th Five-Year Plan. During these years, China’s development has been remarkably rapid.
If the power of the Chinese people is the bullet, then the Five-Year Plan is the scope, guiding the people’s struggle and propelling our country forward on the right path.
This is a good one, when I was young in the 60s growing up in HK, China was poor! Mom told us to eat our food because people in China starving. How time has changed, now China has plenty of food and America is starving. 這故事講得真好。我年輕的時候在香港長大,是60年代,中國很窮!媽媽告訴我們,要吃飽飯,不要浪費,因為中國人民還在挨餓。時代變了,現在中國糧食充足,而美國無錢,零元購,搶劫,糧食劵才可以活命.
Who cares to come to US, we lives in US constantly have to deal with gun violence, homeless people, drugs and as Asian got daily attacked by the White House, white senators and congressmen hiding behind MEGA are probably members of KKK. SCMP: Europe is expecting a wave of Chinese tourists. Should it thank Donald Trump? 誰會來美國呢?我們在美國生活,總是要面對槍枝暴力、無家可歸遊民、零元購, 毒品等問題。而且,亞裔更耍每天在遭受白宮的攻擊,躲在MEGA背後的白人參議員和眾議員很多可能就是三K黨成員。 《南華早報》:歐洲正在迎來一波中國遊客。歐洲應該感謝唐納德·川普嗎? 當然應該多謝川普,川建國. https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3321240/europe-expecting-wave-chinese-tourists-should-it-thank-donald-trump?
I commented on Trump- Putin meeting with our SF China Group as follow (John is White Jewish and retired medical doctor graduated from Harvard)
John: it will depends on whether you see the glass is half empty or half full!
Remembered Trump said once he became US President will end the Ukraine war in 24 hours. Anyone follow the war knew it was a lie and it is still a lie.
Trump has no choice but to talk to Putin. Even if nothing happened still looks good on US medias, remember he is going after the Nobel Prize!
Trump insiders especially the Chinese hawk (hater) want to pull Russia back to US side to contain China. Putin is smart called Xi a few days ago assuring Xi and informing Xi Russia’s bottom line. That is exactly what we will do in consulting when we act as a consultant for a new client when there could conflict with our old client to get their approval! We call it integrity and trust factors. US has none, go out to screw anyone at will including friends and allies!
Let’s not forget Ukraine is fighting a proxy war against Russia for US. US is the judge, jury and executioner! It is nothing but a Hollywood show.
Russia will never come back to US as long as Putin is alive. That is why there is a regime change in the work against Putin. But I doubt the US could win. Russia is not the HK in 2019.
Russia and EU have little chance to improve as long as EU remains a vassal of US and US got EU balls. EU is never a united front to do anything except since they are White, they hated China just like US! If anyone don’t believe Chinese yellow skin is an issue in the White men world. For Chinese it is time to wake up. Unfortunately even many Chinese in this group have fantasy, little action only lips service. It is sad indeed. But I respect their decision to stay in US.
The war will continue probably until Russia takes over the Capital of Ukraine.
Almost 300 billions spent on Ukraine is now a debt by Ukraine to US and EU.
Ukraine is the biggest loser, followed by EU. US who started the war the biggest winner will get all the reconstruction projects 100% paid by EU plus getting all of the Ukraine natural resources! Russia also a big winner getting Russia speaking provinces.
China is also turn out to be big winner got energy security from Russia. A friendly Russia meant China does not have to worry about Russia from the north. Russia also open up North Pole sea routes for China’s belt and road, a warm water port 海參威 (it was China’s territory before ceded to Russia) in Russia territory across from Japan for Chinese navy to use. In terms of military defense, even without a military treaty, they will coordinate their nuclear forces aiming at US for deterrence. Don’t forget Russia has some of the best nuclear submarines, one could be sitting right outside the SF Bay aiming nuclear missiles at us as we speak. China nuclear submarines is now as advanced as US and Russia. What takes US to build one destroyer, China could build 3-5 and China has a dozen of shipyards doing the same.
We are not even counting that China now has 3, could have 5-6 aircraft carriers in 5 years.
Therefore the Alaska meeting, we can’t just look at a single event.
When I study history in HK, we look at current event backward through history what lead to the current event before drawing a conclusion.
In America everything is now, short term. For China with 5,000 years of history, China will play Taichi and 孫子兵法 with you to see who is the last one standing. I will not even bet 1 penny on US long term survival going forward. The way we do thing this country is finished! The death of another empire is forthcoming.
Mandarin Video with English subtitles: Beware! When the US starts to break the rules! The US debt “Ponzi scheme” will trigger hyperinflation, and no one can escape it. 國語視頻,英文字幕: 警惕!當美國開始不講規則!美債「龐氏騙局」將引爆超級通膨,誰也逃不掉.