Traditional Chinese 第五個現代化 | Simplified Chinese 第五个现代化 | |
Hanyu Pinyin 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.
Summary
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:
References
Fifth Modernization Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA