he spoken dialects and sub-dialects.
Han ethnic unity was developed by the centralized imperial state of the Han Dynasty circa 200 A.D. This legacy of a strong central government and of Han unity survives and is significant in contemporary China. Environmental and population policies in China, if they are to have any chance of success, must be endorsed by the central government whether or not the central government is controlled by the Communist Party of China.
Since the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution (1966-to-1976) the development of Chinese society has been geared particularly toward the advancement of economic modernization. The Four Modernizations form the core of a development strategy, the goal of which is to transform China into an advanced industrial economy by 2000. Environmental considerations are not given precedence in this developmental framework. The modernizations given precedence are agriculture, industry, science and technolo
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