China in Development (1911-2011)

- Plans for National Reconstruction and China's Great Revival

Foreword

Sun Yat-sen, the spiritual leader of the Revolution of 1911, wrote a treatise titled the International Development of China in February 1919, which, along with the Sun Wen Theory and Preliminary Law, came to be known collectively as Sun Yat-sen's Plans for National Reconstruction. The International Development of China is also called the Material Reconstruction as part of the Plans for National Reconstruction and constitutes a master plan for the industrialization of China. 

While constituting such a plan, Sun Yat-sen always upheld the principle of learning from the best and chose the most advaced modern country as a reference. At the same time, he put emphasis on "observing the national conditions" and came up with a plan that adapted to China's situations.

The International Development of China involves 10 categories:

1. development of a communications system;

2. development of commercial harbors;

3. modern cities with public utilities to be constructed in all railway centers, termini and alongside harbors;

4. water power development;

5. iron and steel works and cement works on the largest scale in order to supply the above needs;

6. mineral development;

7. agricultural development;

8. irrigationall work on the largest scale in Mogolia and Xinjiang;

9. reforestation in central and north China;

10. colonization in Manchuria, Mongolia, XinJiang, Qinghai and Tibet.