MPRA Munich Personal RePEc Archive What was Behind the Chinese Miracle? Yinghao Luo 7 December 2016 Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/77804/ MPRA Paper No. 77804, posted 22 March 2017 03:44 UTC
What was Behind the Chinese Miracle? Yinghao Luo Independent observer in Beijing, P.R.China E-Mail:luoyh5000@163.com Dec. 7, 2016 Abstract: According to the International Monetary Fund, for the first time in decades, the U.S. is no longer the largest economy in the world, and China has become number one. Some economists think this is the chinese miracle. However, the chinese miracle raises some questions. The most important question is what was behind the chinese extraordinary performance? In this paper we provides social, political and economic insights into this issue. We find that the Han Chinese society in mainland China is a society full of animal spirit. Keywords: the chinese miracle, animal spirit 1. Introduction Currently, the Han Chinese population in mainland China is about 1.2 billion, accounting for nearly one fifth of the world's total population. According to the International Monetary Fund, for the first time in decades, the U.S. is no longer the largest economy in the world, and China has become number one (FoxNews.com, December 06, 2014). Some economists think this is the chinese miracle (Justin Yifu Lin, Fang Cai, and Zhou Li, 1996). However, the chinese miracle raises some questions. The most important question is what was behind the chinese extraordinary performance? In this paper we provides social, political and economic insights into this issue. We find that the Han Chinese society in mainland China is a society full of animal spirit. 2. The ancient Han Chinese society in mainland China : a society without glory and dream "All the lands in the world belong to the King, and all the people in the world are King's servants." These verses coming from one of China's earliest poetry collection "Book of Songs" show that in addition to the emperors of ancient China who have dignity and the highest dominance of social wealth and the highest control over the life or death of the subjects, other people basically have no dignity! Brilliant thought produced in pre-qin period, but even the founder of Confucianism Confucius was too poor to survive and had to rely on teaching students to live.
It is clear that the ancient Han Chinese society in mainland China is not a society with glory and dream. Primitive people rely solely on voice and body language to communicate, then there is no text. Primitive people are emotional and can be a simple thinking. However, further in-depth thinking and logical reasoning will need the symbol vector which promoted the emergence of mathematical symbols, text symbols and music symbols, and led to the emergence of various words and language. Chinese characters derived from the hieroglyphics belong to a form of perception art. However, the primitive radical and stroke of Chinese characters appears not simple and no apparent order. Perhaps because of this, Chinese characters are relatively secular world. In Chinese, Zhongguo( 中國 / 中国 ) is the most common name for China. From the perspective of the pictograph the first character zhōng ( 中 ) is a Libra which means a balance mechanism. However, there is a lack of power balance mechanism in China's imperial rule or totalitarian society. It is clear that China as a country name is deceptive. 3. The current Communist Party of China's sin 3. 1 Power without oversight and extreme corruption Now in China there is the problem of rampant corruption. Some powerful leaders have been accused of bribery, graft and abuse of power. Why can appear this kind of phenomenon? The CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA pointed out that all power in the People's Republic of China belongs to the people. The national people's congress and the local people's congresses at various levels are the organs through which the people exercise state power. However, with the constitution of proletarian dictatorship to defraud the public support, the Communist Party of China today constitute the core of the standing committee of the people's congress and implement a one-party dictatorship. At the same time, leader is not elected by the people. Therefore, there is a lack of effective power supervision mechanisms in the Communist Party of China today, leading to extreme corruption. 3. 2 Violating the law and discipline and fooling the people In a short span of thirty years, with 1.3 billion people and 9.6 million square kilometers of land area, a dramatic change occurred in China. China's growing gap in income distribution is an indisputable fact. The Gini coefficient, a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income distribution of a nation's residents and the most commonly used measure of inequality, crossed the internationally recognized warning line of 0.4 in China 10 years ago. World Bank statistics for 2009 said the gap in China's rich and poor income was nearly 13: 1.
Boston Consulting Group survey pointed out that by the end of 2009 Chinese millionaire households accounted for less than 0.1% of the total households. However, the article one of the CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA pointed out that the People's Republic of China is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants. The socialist system is the basic system of the People's Republic of China. The constitution also pointed out that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, the Chinese people of all nationalities will continue to adhere to the people's democratic dictatorship and the socialist road. The Constitution of the Communist Party of China also pointed out that the Communist Party of China is the vanguard both of the Chinese working class and of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. It is the core of leadership for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and represents the development trend of China s advanced productive forces, the orientation of China s advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. The Four Cardinal Principles - to keep to the socialist road and to uphold the people s democratic dictatorship, leadership by the Communist Party of China, and Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought - are the foundation on which to build the country. It is clear that the Communist Party of China today is violating the law and discipline and fooling the people. In reality, the law is a tool of maintaining social order and regulating human behavior and relationship between people. Complying with the legal system, everyone's basic rights can be guaranteed. The constitution as the fundamental law of the country is the foundation of all laws. The Communist Party of China has formulated the constitution, but does not obey even trample. Such behavior has already lasted for decades. It is not only the shame of the Chinese legal profession but also the Chinese people's shame! 4. Conclusion The chinese miracle raises some questions. The most important question is what was behind the chinese extraordinary performance? In this paper we provides social, political and economic insights into this issue. We find that the Han Chinese society in mainland China is a society full of animal spirit. Firstly, the Han Chinese society in mainland China since ancient times is not a society with glory and dream. Secondly, China as a country name is deceptive. Lastly,the current Communist Party of China, whose power is extreme corrupt because of power without oversight, is violating the law and discipline and fooling the people. In a short span of thirty years, with 1.3 billion people and 9.6 million square kilometers of land area, a dramatic change occurred in China. China's growing gap in income distribution is an indisputable fact.
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