6. FIRST, THE DRAFTING OF THE BASIC LAW HAD MADE GOOD PROGRESS IN PAST 22 MONTHS. THE REAL SUCCESS OF THE ''ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS'' WOULD DEPEND ON THE BASIC LAW. IT WOULD BE A MODEL FOR MACAU AND TAIWAN AND UNIQUE IN WORLD HISTORY.
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7. SECOND, THE ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS'' POLICY WOULD APPLY TO HONG KONG FOR AT LEAST 50 YEARS AFTER ITS REVERSION TO CHINA. FURTHERMORE, THERE SHOULD BE NO NEED FOR CHANGE FOR A FURTHER 50 YEARS. POLICIES TOWARDS HONG KONG AND MACAU WOULD NOT BE CHANGED. SIMILARLY, TAIWAN WOULD REMAIN UNCHANGED FOR 50 YEARS AFTER ITS UNIFICATION WITH CHINA UNDER THE ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS ''
POLICY.
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9. PER CAPITA GNP IN CHINA WOULD REACH DOLLARS 800 1,000 BY THE END OF THIS CENTURY, WITH A POPULATION OF 1.2 BILLION BY THEN. ITS EQUALITARIAN SYSTEM UNDER SOCIALISM WOULD ENSURE COMMON PROS- PERITY AND CHINA WOULD BE COMPARITIVELY WELL-OFF BY THEN. A FURTHER 50 YEARS WOULD SEE PER CAPITA GNP REACHING US DOLLARS 4,000, AND CHINA WOULD BECOME A FAIRLY DEVELOPED COUNTRY. WITH A GNP OF SIX THOUSAND BILLION DOLLARS AT 1980 PRICES, IT WOULD RANK AMONG THE TOP ECONOMIES OF THE WORLD.
9. IN ORDER TO REACH THIS GOAL, CHINA REQUIRED STABLE POLITICS AND POLICIES. THUS, HONG KONG, MACAU AND TAIWAN SHOULD NOT CHANGE FOR 50 YEARS. NOR SHOULD THEY CHANGE AFTER 50 YEARS. DENG'S SUCCESSORS WOULD UNDERSTAND THIS PRINCIPLE.
10. THIRD, SOME PEOPLE QUESTIONED CHINA'S COMMITMENT TO ITS OPEN- DOOR POLICY AFTER THE HU YAOBANG INCIDENT. THEY TENDED TO IGNORE THE FACT THAT THERE WERE TWO ASPECTS TO THE POLICY OF NO CHANGE'' THE FIRST WAS INSISTENCE ON THE POLICY OF OPENING TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD. THE SECOND WAS INSISTENCE ON SOCIALISM AND CCP LEADERSHIP. THE FOUR BASIC PRINCIPLES HAD BEEN ENSHRINED IN THE CHINESE CONST- ITUTION. CHINESE POLICY TOWARDS HONG KONG AND MACAU HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED ON THE BASIS OF THE FOUR PRINCIPLES. WITHOUT SOCIALISM
UNDER CCP LEADERSHIP SUCH A POLICY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PROMULGATED. IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT THE POLICY TOWARDS HONG KONG WOULD NOT CHANGE FOR 50 YEARS, CHINA'S SOCIALIST POLICY UNDER CCP LEADERSHIP HAD TO BE MAINTAINED. "'ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS WAS SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS. THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST BOURGEOIS LIBERALISM WAS TO SAFEGUARD SOCIALISM IN CHINA AND TO SAFEGUARD THE
POLICY OF OPENING UP WITHIN CHINA AND TOWARDS OTHER COUNTRIES.
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FOURTH, SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT CHINA WAS WITHDRAWING FROM ITS POLICY OF OPENING UP. THEY FAILED TO TAKE AN OVERALL VIEW. PROGRESS HAD TO BE TEMPERED WITH TIMELY REVIEWS AND PRUDENT RESTRAINTS. SOME MIGHT GO FASTER, OTHERS MIGHT REQUIRE RESTRAINT.
12. FIFTH, CHINA HAD TO WORK ON THE ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS** FOR MANY DECADES, FOR A HUNDRED YEARS. BUT THE MAIN BODY OF THE COUNTRY HAD TO PRACTISE SOCIALISM.
POSSESS TWO SYSTEMS.
OTHERWISE CHINA COULD NOT CLAIM TO
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