-
Use Cases
-
Resources
-
Pricing
1949 - 1976
% complete
1979 - 1992
% complete
1993 - 2003
% complete
2004 - 2012
% complete
1949
% complete
Roughly 90% lived in the country and most of them in poverty
1950
% complete
Now more like 40% and expected to reach 60% in next two decades
1956
% complete
Most of the population worked in agriculture. Although the government tried to push industrialisation productivity was very low.
1966 - 1976
% complete
1979
% complete
Deng embarked upon an ambitious programme of economic reform under the banner of “To get rich is glorious”
1980
% complete
China only started to prosper after major reforms in 1978 one of which was allowing foreign investment
1993
% complete
expected to match US's demand by 2030, country hungry for energy to power manufacturing
2001
% complete
Economy has grown by 10% per annum for the past 25 years, 'factory of the world'
2005 - 2009
% complete
2007
% complete
EU estimates 80% of pirated goods come from China
2007
% complete
population was 30,000 in 1984
2008
% complete
builds 9.3million cars
2010
% complete
Could become biggest in the next 10 years experts claim