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3BHE039770R0102  The “Industrialization Blue Book: China’s Industrialization Process Report (2021)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Blue Book”) released on the 19th pointed out that to solve many problems in the process of industrialization in China, to achieve mature industrialization, it needs to be promoted in parallel with the construction of the “new Four modernizations”.

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3BHE039770R0102  The blue book was jointly released by the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the School of Economics and Management of Beijing Forestry University and the Social Sciences Academic Press. According to the estimates of most scholars on China’s industrialization process, China has entered the late stage of industrialization. While fully recognizing the achievements, we must also recognize the problems exposed in the process of industrialization.

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3BHE039770R0102  At present, the problem of China’s economy from real to virtual has become prominent, and there is a clear trend of “deindustrialization” in a few regions. In addition, China’s economic growth and resource and environmental consumption have not been decoupled, the regional development of the industrialization process is unbalanced, and the characteristics of the middle, late and post-industrialization stages of industrialization appear simultaneously and are complicated and intertwined.

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3BHE039770R0102 The Blue Book believes that the above problems must be properly solved in order to achieve mature industrialization, and the “new four modernizations” point out that the simultaneous development of new industrialization, information technology, urbanization and agricultural modernization provides a path to solve the above problems.

From the perspective of the connotation of the “new Four modernizations”, the “new” of the new industrialization is mainly reflected in that the realization of industrialization should be supported by information, which should rely on scientific and technological progress and institutional innovation, and also rely on harmonious coexistence with resources and environment.

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3BHE039770R0102 The blue Book pointed out that the contribution of industry in the national economy under the new development stage has been transformed from the leading industry of economic growth in the past to the core competitiveness of the country, with the production and application of technological innovation in the industrial sector, and continue to spread and benefit the primary and tertiary industries, to achieve a high degree of integration with information technology, that is, agricultural modernization.

Different from traditional urbanization, new urbanization adds economic urbanization, social urbanization and spatial urbanization on the basis of population urbanization. It not only attaches greater importance to the coordinated development of the ecological environment and industries, but also puts more emphasis on people.

The blue book also pointed out that compared with the underdeveloped provinces in the central and western regions, the development focus of the developed provinces in the east lies more in the new industrialization and information technology, and the demand for new urbanization and agricultural modernization is not so strong, and the “new four modernizations” are implemented in a different, focused and sequential manner, and the role of China’s balanced regional development is self-evident.