CCTV News:Forty years ago, the Chinese nation embarked on the historical journey of reform and opening up, and the Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people to write a magnificent epic. The progress of the country and the nation condensed into shocking numbers, which changed China and the world.
Next, a group of questions and answers presents an extraordinary course of 40 years with digital changes, explaining the great achievements of reform and opening up. See the end and tell you how strong China is now!
Do you know how much value China people can create by working one day?
If measured by GDP, in 1978, the answer was 1 yuan per capita; By 2017, it has increased to 163 yuan. In the past 40 years, China has also successfully moved from a low-income country to an upper-middle-income country.
Reform and opening-up led the rapid economic growth in China. According to the constant price after eliminating the price increase factor, China’s GDP40 has increased by 33.5 times in 40 years, which means that it has at least doubled every eight years on average.
Do you know how much goods are bought and sold between China and other countries in the world every second? If denominated in RMB, in 1978, the answer was more than 1,100 yuan, and by 2017, it had exceeded 880,000 yuan, an increase of 782 times. This has made China’s share in the world’s import and export of goods increase from 0.8% to 11.5%, and its ranking has also jumped from the 29th place 40 years ago to the 1st place in the world. Among them, the export of high-tech products accounted for only about 2% in 1985, and increased to 28.8% in 2017. At the same time, China’s service trade has remained in the second place in the world in the past four years.
The investment between China and other countries is getting closer and closer. By 2017, China has actually utilized more than 130 billion US dollars of foreign capital, 60 times the scale of 1983, making it the second largest foreign capital inflow country in the world.
Do you know how many couriers are sent by people in China every second?
In 2017, the answer was 1,270. China’s express delivery business only started from scratch in the early days of reform and opening up. In less than 40 years, it has grown to more than 40 billion pieces a year. Since 2014, the express delivery volume has remained the first in the world.
127,000 kilometers, which can circle the earth more than three times, is not only the navigable mileage of inland waterways in China by the end of 2017, but also the operating mileage of all railways.
Do you know how many poor people have been reduced every day in China in these 40 years?
The answer is more than 50,000 people. In this way, from the reform and opening up to the end of 2017, the number of poor people in China has decreased by 740 million, which is equivalent to the total population of the whole European country.
China’s achievements in poverty reduction in the past 40 years have also made great contributions to the world. According to the data released by the World Bank, for every 100 poverty-stricken people worldwide, more than 70 of them come from China.
Cultural tourism, education and medical care, online shopping … … Do you know how much value these tertiary industries, which are closely related to people’s lives, can produce in one day?
On average, every day in 2017, this figure reached 117 billion. The same is the tertiary industry. In 1978, the annual scale was only 90.5 billion, that is to say, a year at that time was not as good as a day now. The rapid growth of the tertiary industry is inseparable from the continuous enhancement of consumption power. In the past 40 years, consumption has been running faster and faster in the "troika" of the national economy, and its contribution rate to economic growth has been close to 60% by 2017.
In the high-speed running, the internal structural optimization of the three major industries has never stopped. Especially since the 18th CPC National Congress, high-quality development has become the common goal of the three major industries.
Do you know how long it will take China to produce products worth 100 million yuan?
In 1978, it took more than five hours. Now, it takes less than two minutes. In 2017, China’s industrial added value reached 28 trillion, which was 53 times higher than 40 years ago at comparable prices, with an average annual growth rate of over 10%.
China has become the only country with all industrial categories in the United Nations industrial classification. Among more than 500 major industrial products in the world, China ranks first in the world in terms of output of more than 220. In 1990, China’s manufacturing industry accounted for only 2.7% of the world’s total. In 2010, the proportion increased to 19.8%, and the world ranking rose from ninth to first, and it has been ranked first for many years since then.
Do you know that the per capita disposable income of rural residents in China is much higher than that of 40 years ago?
In absolute terms, the answer is nearly 100 times more.
In the 40 years of reform and opening up, China’s grain output has more than doubled from more than 600 billion Jin, and the per capita is close to 1,000 Jin, ensuring national food security. China uses a quarter of the world’s arable land to produce a quarter of the world’s grain and feed a fifth of the world’s population.
Do you know how many employed people have increased every day in the ever-changing China in the past 40 years?
The answer is more than 26 thousand. This has enabled China’s total population to increase by 40%, but the number of employed people has nearly doubled, reaching 776 million.
The most rare thing is that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the employment situation has remained stable and positive in the context of economic growth shifting from high-speed to medium-high speed. From 2013 to 2017, China created an average of more than 13 million new jobs each year, ensuring that the registered unemployment rate in cities and towns remained stable at around 4.0%. On average, more than 40,000 new market entities are added every day in China, and the recruitment rate of the labor market remains above 1.0, which means that the job demand is greater than the number of job seekers. The per capita disposable income of the national residents increased by 11.5% annually, outperforming the growth rate of GDP in the same period.
Do you know how long it will take for everyone in our country to earn 10 thousand yuan on average?
If calculated by disposable income, it will take more than 58 years in 1978, and it will only take more than 4 months in 2017.
Forty years ago, the per capita disposable income of the national residents was only 171 yuan. After that, it took 31 years to achieve a per capita income of over 10,000 yuan, and it took five years to surpass the 20,000 yuan mark. At present, it is moving towards the 30,000 yuan mark.
Do you know how much the forest area owned by our country has increased in the 40 years of reform and opening up?
If it is spread equally among more than 1.3 billion people, it will be 1 mu per capita.
Green development, China has accelerated the adjustment of industrial structure, and the proportion of clean energy such as natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power and wind power will increase to more than 20% by 2017. Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, China’s forest tourism reached 1.39 billion person-times in 2017, once per capita, creating a comprehensive social output value of more than 1 trillion.
Do you know how many patents are filed every day in China?
The answer is more than ten thousand pieces.
Since 1985, the first patent application has appeared in China, and by 2017, it will reach nearly 3.7 million pieces a year, half of which have been granted patent authorization.
In terms of the number of invention patent applications that best reflect the level of innovation, it has surpassed Europe, South Korea, Japan and the United States in turn. Since 2011, the number of invention patent applications has ranked first in the world for seven consecutive years; The number of international patents applied to other countries also ranks second in the world; In addition, the number of trademark registrations accepted by China every year also ranks first in the world; China’s scientific papers are cited the second time in the world; China has become a big exporter of intellectual property rights in the world.
Reform and opening up, the second revolution in China, not only profoundly changed China, but also profoundly affected the world!
