Mao Zedong
...ders of the movement were order arrested, conflict broke out between troops and the protestors. From this point the military and the people of Szechwan fought directly with one another. They did not want to overthrow the imperial government; they only wanted their financial concerns met. When they found that the imperial government refused to negotiate with them, they turned their support to the revolutionaries. When the revolutionaries seized Wuchang, a series of provinces declared independence. In December, a delegation from central and northern China declared China a republic and elected Sun Yat-sen as the provisional president of the Republic of China. They set January 1, 1912, as the first day of the Republic. On January 3, 1912, Yuan announced that he would force the Ch'ing to abdicate if he were offered the presidency of the republic. Sun, who had been voted the first president of the Republic. Now the third topic is Mao Tse-tung. Mao Tse-tung is said to be the most powerful person who has ever lived. He controlled almost a billion people for more than twenty five years. He overthrew an army of more than 4 million to get it, and killed many more to keep it. He destroyed Nationalist power, unified China and oversaw the greatest social reform in man’s history. He is recognized as a leader in Marxist doctrine, and his theories have been acclaimed in many third-world undeveloped nations. He changed it from the traditional worker orientated system to a joint worker society. Mao Tse-tung rose in stature as a national leader. Under Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese Communist Party membership rose from 40,000 members in 1937 to 1,200,000 members in 1945. After the end of WW2, the united front split and civil war erupted. The Chinese Communist Party came to power and Chiang's government was forced to flee to Taiwan. When the United States rejected Mao Tse-tung, China developed a close alliance with the USSR. During the early 1950s, Mao Tse-tung served as chairman of the Communist party, chief of state, and chairman of the military commission. During the Cultural Revolution Mao's sayings, were printed in a little red book he died in Peking on September 9, 1976. This goes to some of China’s greatest success. China is a populous developing country with relatively limited natural resources, uneven economic development, underdeveloped science and technology, and a lagging education system. Since its adoption of reform and openness policies 20 years ago, China has focused its efforts on economic development. Although remarkable progress has been made, these efforts have followed the traditional extensive-growth model, which depends mostly on labor-intensive and primary-products-processing industries. Bilateral trade between China and the United States has grown rapidly in recent years. China is now our third largest trading partner. Firms located in China are now the second largest supplier of imports to the United States, having gone ahead of Japan in 2002 and Mexico this year. China is the sixth largest market for firms located in the United States. The United States is China's second largest trading partner. The United States has long been the single largest export market for firms located in China, taking over 30 percent of total exports produced in China. It has been a more modest supplier of imports. China has become a leading location for the assembly of a broad range of manufactured goods, most of which previously were assembled elsewhere in Asia. The major parts and components that comprise these goods are purchased mainly from other Asian countries and the final goods are sold predominantly in North America and Europe. The vast majority of these goods are assembled by foreign firms that have relocated their assembly activities to China. For more than a decade has been the single largest source of imported toys and sporting goods in the United States market. And China last year replaced Japan and Mexico as the largest single source of U.S. imports of consumer electronic products and information technology hardware such as computers. In 1994, China's Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS) Engineering Center won the "University Lead Award" given by the U.S Society of Manufacturing Engineers. CIMS technology serves as a model for the reform of China's industrial technology base. To date, CIMS pilot projects have been conducted in almost 70 companies throughout China, including those in the machinery, electronics, aviation, and textile industries. These enterprises have seen increased profits as a result of implementing the CIMS approach. I believe CIMS technology will significantly raise the overall level of Chinese manufacturing capability and, in the process, help in our transition from an economic-growth model to one based on high technology. ` China also has worked to commercialize its high-tech achievements through the Torch Program. With the help of loans or investments, the Torch Program supports scientists and engineers who want to transfer their research results into business opportunities. China is certainly one of the most open; perhaps the most open of all emerging market economies. However with ever success there are always problems. Besides the obvious financial burden on China that is the least of its worries. An unreliable energy supply could seriously jeopardize China's ability to maintain its recent role as the “factory of the world”, based on low-cost manufacturing. A campaign started in 1999 to close down China's numerous small, highly polluti...