Exceeding the UK, catching the USA
Chinese超英赶美
Coined in1950s[1]

Exceeding the UK, catching the USA[2] (simplified Chinese: 超英赶美; traditional Chinese: 超英趕美; pinyin: chāoyīng gǎnměi[3]) alternatively translated as surpassing Great Britain and catching up with the United States,[4] was a slogan put forward by Mao Zedong around 1958,[5] which included the two goals of surpassing Great Britain in steel production in 15 years and catching up with the United States in 50 years.[6] Steel is the top priority of the slogan.[7]

"Exceeding the UK, catching the USA" was a very representative slogan during the Great Leap Forward.[8] This slogan was mainly addressed to the secondary sector of the economy.[9]

After the Great Chinese Famine, Mao Zedong relaxed the time scale of "exceeding the UK, catching the USA" to more than 100 years in his speech at the Seven Thousand Cadres Conference.[10]

In the end the goal was met on the original time frame. Chinese steel production exceeded that of the UK in the 1970s and that of the USA in 1993, becoming the largest steel producing nation worldwide in 1996.[11]

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References

  1. ↑ "From "Exceeding the UK, catching the USA" to "Industrial Upgrading"". BBC News. 2019-05-27.
  2. ↑ Rui Huaichuan (2 June 2004). Globalisation, Transition and Development in China: The Case of the Coal Industry. Routledge. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-1-134-31804-9.
  3. ↑ Huang Shu-min; Shu-Min Huang (10 September 2019). The Spiral Road: Change In A Chinese Village Through The Eyes Of A Communist Party Leader. Taylor & Francis. pp. 58–. ISBN 978-1-00-023411-4.
  4. ↑ Maris Boyd Gillette (2000). Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims. Stanford University Press. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-0-8047-6434-6.
  5. ↑ "Brazil overtakes Britain, China catches up with the US and how to see China's development". BBC News. April 2, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Exceeding the UK, catching the USA". The News Lens. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
  7. ↑ "1958, An impressive year". VOA. 2008-03-28.
  8. ↑ Book Digest. Jiangsu People's Publishing House. 2007.
  9. ↑ Kuang Chen; Pan Liang (2006). Our Fifties. China Friendship Publishing Company. ISBN 978-7-5057-2113-5.
  10. ↑ "A historical examination of the evolutionary stage of Mao Zedong's thought of "Exceeding the UK, catching the USA". The Universities Service Centre for China Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2002-02-08.
  11. ↑ Visualizing 50 years of global steel production, visualcapitalist.com using data from the World Steel Association
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