...January 1975, Chou En-lai, in a major address to China's Fourth National People's Congress, called for the "comprehensive modernization of agriculture, industry,...science and technology before the end of the century." l In the 1976-85 decade, China was to build a "relatively comprehensive industrial and economic system"...

...backward country into one with the beginnings of prosperity in only twenty years," and by bringing about "the comprehensive modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology so that our national economy will be advancing in the front ranks of the world." The political turmoil...

...En-lai's report to the congress stressed economic modernization rather than revolution.60 He called for the comprehensive modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology — the so-called four modernizations — by the end of the century. He was also uncompromising on...

...relatively comprehensive industrial and economic system" by 1980; and in the second, it was "to accomplish the comprehensive modernization of agriculture, industry,...science and technology before the end of the century so that our national economy will be advancing in the front ranks of the world" (Zhou: 23). Zhou stressed...

...suggested at the Third National People's Congress in 1965. In his report (Document 42), Chou said, "The comprehensive modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology" should be accomplished before the end of the century. More importantly, in the same report, Chou En-lai...

...reconstruction. The nation set up new objectives: The Four Modernization Goals. These focused on achieving the comprehensive modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology. With the establishment of these new priorities, the government came to view education as the foundation...

...linked to the Fourth NPC in PRC and foreign accounts, Zhou's report only referred to the objective of "accomplish)ing) the comprehensive modernization...science and technology before the end of the century"; PR, no. 4 (1975), p. 23. Moreover, there is only limited evidence of the "four modernizations" catch...

...industrial and economic system in 15 years, that is, before 1980; the second stage is to accomplish the comprehensive modernization of agriculture, industry,...science and technology, before the end of the century." The National Conference on Learning from Tachai in Agriculture was convened in September 1975. It extended...