All tagged Chinese Economy

What will Xi Jinping’s Version of the Great Leap Forward Bring to China and the World?

Recently Xi Jinping vowed that China must beat America in GDP growth for this year. This immediately made many Chinese people remember Mao Zedong’s vow of “catching up with Britain and surpassing the United States” in the 1950s, which led to the Great Leap Forward movement that saw 40 million Chinese people starve to death.

China’s Population in Free Fall vs a 30 Years Old “No New Babies in 100 Days” Campaign

oday let’s talk about it: the free fall of China’s population, and what that means to the Chinese economy and Chinese society. I’d also like to tell you an astonishing “No New Babies in 100 Days” campaign that happened 30 years ago in China. It is very likely that you’ve never heard of this terrible campaign before.