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Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, Industrial Plan And China's Modernization Construction,

Posted on:2007-07-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360215982036Subject:History of Economic Thought
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Sun Yat-sen appears to be a marvelous representative in the field of Chineseneoteric economic ideology before the foundation of Chinese Communist Party. Hemakes a summary of all the theory about China development, in addition, he clearlypoints out that the economic development of China depends on two sides- theapproaches of development and the political premises; he also tries to demonstratethe relations between the two, which are broader and deeper than anyone before.Since Sun had never taken the helm of the country, the economics theory he statesjust in idealistic field. As a great ideologist, Sun is always striving for themodernization and development of China, his economic ideas, his revolutionarythinking and practice are really rare heritages for all the Chinese.In this article, the first part stresses on Sun's general biography, after that itfocuses on his economic ideas. Also, after the introduction of the historical premises,the article analyses Sun's economical improvement ideas in his early days.The system of his economical progress is gradually formed during the timewhen Sun Yat-sen was taking part in the political revolutionary. As mentioned above,Sun puts forward his ideas in his major economic work. In the book, Sun shows the way of economic development,by which it approves easy to solve the problems of the people's livelihood at thattime, meanwhile, the discussions about the problem exists in the theory of The ThreePeople's Principles. Following the origin of Three People's Principles, there arethree aspects. One is the great influence of Chinese conventional culture, another isthe effects of western culture, and the last is the influence of western democracy.Due to the issues above; the system of Three People's Principles is finally founded.Exactly, the people's livelihood is the most distinctive part in his theory. Thefoundation of Sun's people's livelihood is on the anniversary of Min Newspaper, thesolution of the problem lays on two key points- the average soils and thedevelopment of national capitals with the limitation of private capitals. The people's livelihood theory is always regarded as the original power for social progress inSun's opinion, which supports the crucial status of people's livelihood theory inSun's economic ideas and his remarkable work. was finished at the end of WorldWar I, and the aim was trying to attract international residual capitals for thedevelopment of China industry. After the brief introduction of , the article makes analysis on the international developmentand theories of Chinese modernization. In details, the independence of the nation,the boom of economics and the common wealth among people are the goals ofmodernization; what is more, the keystone of his modern ideas is industrialization.At the same time, he suggests that transportation, energy sources and the industryrelated to the people's livelihood is the core of the industrialization. As the basicpolicy of modernization, the open to the outside world policy, is fully illustrated inthe article as well.Finally, the article analyses Sun Yat-Sen "The International Development ofChina" and the practice of Chinese modern transportation construction. Sun Yat-Sencarries on a exhaustive plan to the state economy development by means of dividingeconomic region and proposes the developmental strategy of region economy. Heholds the idea that traffic and transportation system is the leading department of alldepartments. The article gives some examples of today's modernization constructionin two aspects: one is railroad system (takes Qinghai-Tibet railroad and LanZhou-Chong Qing railroad as examples), another is the water conservationtransportation (takes the Yang Shah deepwater port as an example).The historical value of Sun Yat-Sen economic thought exceeds his predecessors,in terms of both horizontal and longitudinal view. Meanwhile, it gives a very strongreferential experience to the practical economical development and the strategicformulation of China today.
Keywords/Search Tags:Sun Yat-sen, The Three People's Principles, The International Development of China, Chinese modernization construction
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