Dan Steinbock — “Four Comprehensives” Vital to Progress, and China’s Demographic Future

At the recently concluded Fifth Plenum of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee, the “Four Comprehensives” became the grand blueprint for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20). Each of the four tasks requires broad measures and pragmatic actions.

1. A moderately prosperous society
2. Structural reforms
3. Rule of law
4. Strict party discipline

Economonitor
“Four Comprehensives” Vital to Progress

In the West, one-child policy is often criticized as a “cruel Communist strategy.” In reality, most opponents of that policy were Marxists and the idea itself came from the West.

China’s Demographic Future

Dan Steinbock