SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
China's Five-Year Plan goals being achieved despite Covid-19
by ROBERT GRIFFITHS
Tourists visiting Tiananmen Square
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CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
THE primary aim of China’s 13th Five Year Plan (2016-20) was to replace “unbalanced, unco-ordinated, and unsustainable growth” with innovative, co-ordinated, green, open and inclusive growth in order to create a “moderately prosperous society in all respects.”
The target was to achieve annual GDP growth of 6.5 per cent — amended upwards in 2016 for flexibility — which would double people’s average disposable income.
Despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, it remains possible that this can still be met thanks to slight overfulfilment during the plan’s first three years.
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