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prevailed at the Congress.
For example, Zhao stated that "while
we must be firm, we should guard against impetuosity.
We should
not overstep objective conditions and attempt the impossible,
but, where objective conditions permit, we should strive for what
can be achieved through effort". He also stressed that "reforms
in the cities are more complicated than in the countryside".
7. Summing up the Chinese performance in the five years from
1978 to 1982, Zhao announced that the total output value of
industry and agriculture rose in this period by 32.6%, an
annual average increase of 7.3%.
increase of 7.3%. Within this, the annual
average increase for agriculture was 7.5%, light industry 11.8%
and heavy industry 3.4%. As a result of the agricultural
increases most formerly rationed commodities were now
available without restriction. All in all, Zhao claimed,
China's economy had freed itself from the instability caused
by serious disproportions between its major branches and had
gradually moved onto a path of sound growth.
8. He set three goals for the next five years: balanced
development of agriculture and light and heavy industry;
emphasis within this on key energy and transport projects and
on technical transformation of existing industrial enterprises;
and continued efforts to improve living standards and strictly
control population growth (the average per capita income of
peasants in 1982 was yuan 270, double that of 1978, and the
average for workers was yuan 500). He also announced that
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