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990 After the outbreak of the Gulf War , countries have reassessed the strength of the United States. Many people in China believe that the focus should be on military reform, but Deng Xiaoping insisted on developing the economy.
People didn't understand at that time, and it was not until 30 years later that people understood that Deng Xiaoping had already set up the game. What's going on?
The impact of the Gulf War
On August 2, 1990, Iraqi invaded Kuwait , and occupied the entire territory of Kuwait in less than 48 hours.
Since this is just a crisis in the Gulf region, it is not convenient for other countries to intervene rashly, but the United States is unwilling to give up this "hot commodity". The reason is also simple. There are large amounts of crude oil storage in Kuwait and Iraq, and this is what the United States is salivating for development.
So before August 8 of that year, the US military had mobilized forces to prepare for combat deployment. As of January 1991, more than 500,000 troops had been raised and could "show off" at any time.
However, until this time, many countries that noticed the movements of the United States were not optimistic about the United States.
As soon as possible, the United States is very strong, but Iraq is not weak either. They can rely on the Kuwait region to carry out armored counterattacks on the amphibious landing of the US military.
Secondly, Korean War and Vietnam War , the United States suffered a series of defeats, which made the image of the American paper tiger more and more dynamic.
But no one expected that this war would unfold in another form, without amphibious landings, and no close combat. Some were only a 42-day "desert storm".
Before the two armies officially confronted each other, the US air strike operation had already started first, and the huge amount of artillery fire fell from the sky directly pressed Iraq to the ground to "friction".
When the two sides officially confronted each other, the ground armor cluster that the Iraqis proudly hailed was almost completely destroyed, and naturally they could only be slaughtered.
Although later, due to international political considerations, the US military only carried out nearly 100 hours of ground military operation "Desert Saber", and stopped its action after liberating Kuwait.
But this war has helped them gain enough benefits, such as oil resources, and re-establishing their international hegemony.
At the same time, the war was also passed back to the country.
Chinese people who saw this scene through TV also understood the way of fighting a modern war.
The way of war has changed, and we naturally have to keep pace with the times, but just when everyone thought that military development should be given priority, Deng Xiaoping insisted on developing the economy first. What is the mystery here in
?
First build the economy
Everything can be traced back to the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China . At that time, Deng Xiaoping said that
"The task of modernization construction is multifaceted, but after all, we must develop the economy, and all other tasks must obey this center. Around this center, we must never interfere with it or impact it."
"Make the economy first, everything is easy to handle. This is a big situation, and everything must obey this big situation."
people at that time may still be confused, but today we will find that after the explosive development of our country's economy, there was a leapfrog takeoff in the military.
First of all, China's economic development can be roughly divided into the era of planned economy, the era of dual-track system of planned economy and market economy, and the era of joining WTO to formally establish the socialist market economic system.
With the changes in these three eras, China's economic strength has greatly enhanced. Therefore, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, we received a large amount of equipment and talents, achieving the first wave of military power.
For example, the aircraft carrier , which originally belonged to the Soviet Union, was the Wagliang. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the construction progress of this aircraft carrier had reached an astonishing 68%, and it can be said that it had basically been built.
Later, Ukraine sold the aircraft carrier to my country, and Xu Zengping and and others took great pains to transport it back to China, and eventually became the predecessor of my country's first aircraft carrier.
For example, the circular carrier-based aircraft technology that matches the aircraft carrier.
The Su San San San San carrier-based aircraft T10K3 on the ship at that time gave great inspiration to Chinese engineers. They combined it with J-11 and finally developed the domestic J-15 carrier-based aircraft .
This is just a technical gain. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, due to the recession of Ukraine's economy, a large number of talent experts went out, many of whom settled in our country.
Without Deng Xiaoping’s advance arrangement, letting our country’s economy take off, how could we get this gain after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Secondly, after officially joining the WTO, the national economy has once again achieved a leap in development. With money, we can implement more military projects, and military strength will naturally leap rapidly. The reason why
is that some related equipment in civil engineering can provide guidance experience for military design.
In addition to promoting the rapid development of military industry, in addition to promoting the rapid development of military industry, developing the economy first and developing civilian equipment can also bring some application-oriented dividends. After all, the progress of civilian vehicles, aircraft and ships can also drive economic development.
It is under Deng Xiaoping's far-sighted arrangement that the economic and military strength of New China will take off rapidly and the national strength will grow significantly. Deng Xiaoping has been playing this game of
for at least 30 years, and from the result, it is successful and completely worth it. It is truly admirable to be able to plan so well.
Ideological guidance for the thirty years of layout
The grand layout is inevitably inseparable from ideological guidance, and what supports Deng Xiaoping’s layout in the past thirty years is the “three-step” grand strategy of reform and opening up.
In July 1979, Deng Xiaoping set the standard of per capita national output value to reach US$1,000. He also explained when he met with the Japanese Prime Minister at the end of the year that this was a "well-off society."
Later, in order to adapt to the economic situation at that time, Deng Xiaoping adjusted this standard and changed it to US$800~1,000, and first proposed the concept of "turning two turns".
To put it bluntly, in the next 20 years, to achieve the per capita national output value three times that of today, this is just the beginning of a three-step strategy.
According to Deng Xiaoping's consideration, it is unlikely to completely get rid of poverty in this century. To completely reach the level of relatively developed Western countries, it will take at least thirty or fifty years, and it may be until the end of the 21st century.
If we want to double the GDP and complete the three-step strategy, we need a lot of funds.
However, at that time, my country lacked funds, so there was no other better way out. We could only choose to open up to welcome international funding cooperation.
In order to encourage foreign funds to influx, Deng Xiaoping closely linked foreign policies and the great cause of reform and opening up, and introduced many good policies.
At the same time, he has been investigating the international environment.
At the beginning, due to tensions in the US-Soviet relations, many people believed that a new war would come soon and it would be possible in 5 years and 10 years.
However, as time gradually passed, Deng Xiaoping keenly realized that it would be impossible to fight in 5 years and 10 years. Even with the growth of peace factors, large-scale wars could not break out in the world for a long time.
is a good opportunity to develop the economy at this time. As long as domestic stability is maintained, investment promotion is likely to be successful.
Therefore, Deng Xiaoping proposed the idea of being tough on both sides, insisting on reform and opening up on one hand, and resolutely cracking down on economic criminals on the other hand.
Under Deng Xiaoping's resolute and decisive handling, the overall situation quickly stabilized, and opening up to the outside world gradually advanced from the inland sea to the inland, and the economy of New China steadily improved.
Speaking of this, we have to mention our " Special Economic Zone " Shenzhen. When the special economic zone was just born, many problems arose, so people are talking about whether the special economic zone can be handled.
In order to solve this problem, Deng Xiaoping personally visited Shenzhen and embarked on a journey to the south. This is a milestone in the development of my country's special economic zones and an important node in China's reform and opening up.
is not only supported by Deng Xiaoping, but the SAR itself is also very successful. Under the guidance of policies, they turn pressure into motivation, and actively summarize and learn lessons in response to the problems that arise. In the end, they get better and better, and use their achievements to explain everything.
In a few years, the real economy has begun to take off, industrialization and urban construction have also been rapidly developing, and the local GDP has also grown rapidly at an astonishing rate of 30%.
Until this time, Deng Xiaoping could finally say that the decision to establish the SAR was correct and successful. Some voices against the SAR gradually disappeared and a new SAR was established.
As the chief engineer of reform and opening up and the planner of the 30-year layout, Deng Xiaoping not only focused on big policies, but also attached great importance to small issues.
Whenever problems related to reform and opening up arise, he always actively solves them immediately. His experience and wisdom also allow him to participate in the planning of many specific matters.
For example, he has pointed out many times that the foreign economic and trade department has made foreign trade too dead and cannot play a leverage role, providing important opinions for the development of the foreign trade department. After some efforts, China's economy took off successfully and its 30-year layout was a success.
Deng Xiaoping's preparations for the future
In addition to vigorously developing the economy, Deng Xiaoping himself also has a very clear understanding of the United States.
As early as 1981, he pointed out that
"We must make the worst plan for the United States, and do not be afraid of regression in Sino-US relations, and do not be afraid of stagnation..."
After the Gulf War, we were determined to catch up, which is a good thing.
, on the other hand, some people think too much and think that we started a little late.
Regarding this view, Deng Xiaoping believes that we have the benefit of being "big". Even if we start later, we will definitely develop in the future. We should be confident and self-reliant and not be blindly pessimistic.
Deng Xiaoping's words make sense. The most typical manifestation of the benefit of "big mass" is the "demographic dividend".
When a country has a relatively large working-age population and a low dependency rate, the demographic dividend can often be reflected. The most typical feature of
is that its labor force is relatively cheap, which can provide a steady stream of motivation for the country's economic development. This demographic dividend will be reflected more clearly until 2010.
After 2010, although the demographic dividend gradually disappeared, the development of my country's economic speed has not slowed down.
All of this is due to the popularization of education. With the improvement of population quality, the "talent dividend" has emerged again, which is the result of Deng Xiaoping's layout.
There are gaps in his heart and confidence, so Deng Xiaoping can naturally be relatively tough in his external attitude.
In fact, Deng Xiaoping was not only very tough in the United States, but also in the United Kingdom.
In late 1982, when Mrs. Thatcher came with the aftermath of the victory of Argentina , he was originally confident, thinking that Hong Kong would be independent and become the second Singapore .
But as soon as we met, Mrs. Thatcher knew that she was very wrong, because Deng Xiaoping gave her a blow directly,
"The issue of sovereignty is not a question that can be discussed, Hong Kong must be returned, otherwise we will not be afraid of war."
You should know that the British military strength was still very strong at that time, especially the navy, which had a bit of the style of the empire that never set in the past.
But Deng Xiaoping was fearless and directly spread our principles to the table and said it directly.
The UK knew that it was in the wrong, so it could only find a way to try its best to deal with the agreement in the 22 rounds of negotiations.
For example, let's take the fragrance Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy was changed to complete autonomy, allowing the British to serve as the highest civilian position in the SAR government, etc.
Detective measures against these methods that were not allowed to be on the surface, Deng Xiaoping ignored them and directly refuted them all.
In the end, the British had to surrender and returned Hong Kong to us.
On the Hong Kong issue, Deng Xiaoping once gave instructions to his comrades,
"The British are not soft at all in the face of the British, and they must firmly resist their treacherous practices. "
Comrades resolutely implemented Deng Xiaoping's opinion and finally successfully defeated the British conspiracy.
It can be seen that it is impossible to treat these Western imperialist countries, and the issues of national territory and sovereignty are even more uncontroversial.
treats Britain this way and the United States. For this reason, no matter how strong the United States is in the Harbor War, our people will not There is something to be afraid because we firmly believe that we can catch up and surpass.
This is national confidence and a manifestation of national cohesion. With this spirit and will support, we believe that China will become stronger and further away in the future.
And as the times gradually develop, we must continue to launch "new things" and make new "layouts" in order to continue to make rapid progress.
For example, although we have achieved economic, military and comprehensive national strength. Breakthrough, but there are still some problems that need to be solved, such as population aging is accelerating, etc.
This is an inevitable trend of our social development, and it is the basic national conditions of our country for a long time in the future. It is a challenge, but it is also an opportunity.
may be more confused. How can population aging be considered an opportunity?
The answer is very simple. Population aging can promote the development of the "silver economy" There are also new investment opportunities. For example, the elderly care industry is gradually becoming a necessity for the whole society, which is the embodiment of the opportunity.
And all of this is precisely in the new layout. With such interlocking plans and arrangements, how can our country not move towards prosperity and prosperity? Every Chinese should feel proud of this from the bottom of its heart and do its part.
Let us work together to respond to the government’s call, develop personal abilities, and create a harmonious home together!
