Fifth Modernization
| Fifth Modernization | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 第五個現代化 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 第五个现代化 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | di4 wu3 {ge5 ge4} xian4 dai4 hua4 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | dai6 ng5 go3 jin6 doi6 faa3 |
The Fifth Modernization originally began as a signed wall poster placed by Wei Jingsheng on December 5, 1978 on the Democracy Wall in Beijing.
The poster called on the Communist Party of China to add democracy to the list of Four Modernizations which includes industry, agriculture, science and technology and national defense. It openly stated democracy as an additional modernization which needs to be taken if China truly wants to modernize itself. The five Modernizations would include:
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