The people why the Great Leap Forward turned up their noses to the GDP
In the 2011 national gross domestic product (GDP) data released on the eve of the localities have started to publish the expected value of GDP last year, many provinces throughout the year local economic development “report card” is full of confidence, at least six provinces are expected to be new short-listed “trillion club”. 31 provinces, the economic “leader” Guangdong will become the first domestic GDP into the 5 trillion yuan mark for the provinces, while the GDP ranking in the first three quarters exceeded 3 trillion yuan mark for the “second place” Jiangsu and third overall Shandong will exceed 4 trillion yuan mark.
At the same time, many provinces scrambling to put forward their own “12th Five-Year Plan”, was shocked to read in their planning, to achieve the per capita income doubled in the 12th Five-Year Plan “. For example, Hainan, the “12th Five-Year” period will be to achieve the scale of state-owned assets, economic benefits, and income “and three doubled; Shaanxi Province in the 12th Five-Year Plan”, he wrote, “people’s living standards: urban and rural residents income doubled. ”
GDP growth is very bright, planning is also very fascinating and yearning, but the problem is that the GDP as an indicator of the assessment of economic development, it is often conceal the status of other social indicators. In recent years, from the blind partiality to now Great Leap Forward of GDP to GDP, carefully look at the positions and views from all sides, we can easily find the different voices of the people to GDP is more rooted in their various real life questioning of the problem. GDP growth and the improvement of social welfare is often out of sync.
In fact, the Great Leap Forward, a new round of GDP, are being released a lot of views on the issue of dispute, but since the release of it, we will have the ability to withstand. Different views of the debate does not necessarily make the decision to fiddle around with the same as the pancakes. Printing around the GDP growth may have one hundred kinds of opinions, but the decision can not be one hundred kinds. However, one thing is certain, regardless of the central government or local governments, should be subject to a reality: focus on the GDP in the interests of society as a whole is split.
For example, local government officials and local people demand to GDP growth is not the same among regions to GDP also not consistent. Therefore, the local government introduced a number of policies GDP higher level on the existing foundation, but not the red envelopes to the people, we can not expect the people to GDP growth is particularly high satisfaction. Moreover, until the local government is considered to be “stakeholders” of the GDP growth.
People think that “there is no manifestation of” GDP growth in their side, it reveals all the contradictions and gaps between the GDP growth in many places and people welfare, reveals the appearance of high-growth, people’s livelihood difficult. From this, we not only should not be for the wages of workers for more than GNP and GDP growth rejoice, on the contrary, we should maintain adequate vigilance for this result and the possible adverse consequences.
GDP, ranking the first few things off the face of local government, related to the achievements of the government officials. Therefore, the annual regional GDP war, although there is no smoke, but “swords” in the sense of competition or make “not aggressive” restless. The second plan to do the boss, the boss always beware of being “voted out”. The end result is to increase in the total GDP, should not have launched the project launched, the industry should be eliminated reserves – all to GDP.
Objectively speaking, China’s development is basically a high input, high consumption, high emissions, wasting resources, to fight human extensive mode of development, has not completely changed to rely on science and technology to lead the economic and social development track up. Although top-down GDP growth has been more than 8-18%, but the steel, automobile, textile, cement and other industries have overcapacity signs, causing great waste of money and energy. As the reform is not perfect, the lack of the necessary supporting systems and restrictive system, resulting in some local governments to sacrifice the environment and people’s livelihood interests of the blind pursuit of GDP growth.
Many people have awareness of the seriousness of the problem, why engage in GDP the Great Leap Forward? Recent public opinion on the criticism of “GDP trillion club”, represents the real part of the people dissatisfied. Local government GDP of the Great Leap Forward as the primary objective of the policy, as the economic development of the New Deal either the hole in the bar is very tight, you can also Department of live buckle. As for the people agree that it may not be considered out.
Looking back, the people the reason why the GDP scoff, ridiculed as the “chicken’s fart”, and the reason is: a huge amount of economic data may not be associated with people’s livelihood and well-being, not necessarily the majority of people from in order to feel and share how much the economy quickly development of affordable, in this case, GDP, and even then how large the data no matter how beautiful and bright, but that is only a bunch of cold figures, difficult to perceive one of the warmth. The so-called improvement of the people “happiness index”, “doubling the income of urban and rural residents will inevitably degenerate into empty words.
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