The new Green China: five-year plans for economic and social development as a tool for redesigning the Chinese economy
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Antonella Laino , Manuela Ciani Scarnicci ,
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Abstract
From 2015 China has started a green revolution; with reforms that change the internal economic-administrative system.The Chinese economic growth of the last thirty years has entailed extensive environmental damage, which must be quickly and urgently remedied. The rapid and intense industrialization and the use of technologies with a strong negative impact on the environment have created one of the most unsustainable atmospheric pollutions in the world, perceived as a serious threat to the health of the Chinese people. With the twelfth Five-year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2011-2015), the Chinese government has shown a completely new focus on the issue of environmental protection and upgrading, launching important policies to support investments in the alternative and renewable energy sector. The thirteenth Five-year Plan for Social Economic Development (2016-2020) was defined as the "green" five-year plan of all time, and is part of a phase of profound transformation of the Chinese economic model, with a turned towards slower but higher quality growth, with a greater focus on domestic services and consumption. The current Plan, in fact, introduces many changes due to more contained growth targets, with renewed interest in the green economy, to structural reforms with a view to greater competitiveness of the internal market. The paper analyzes the new course of the Chinese economy through the statements contained in the twelfth and thirteenth development plan, identifying the route traced by the mandarin government
Keywords
Chinese five-year plan, Chinese economic growth, Chinese pollution, green economy
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