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Industrialization is defined here as the process which turns all sectors of an economy away from primitive manual labour towards the use of modern technology. However the word may suggest an older and narrower concept, and it is nowadays replaced by the more appropriate term ‘modernization’ which, although it cannot be said to have a universally accepted definition, does connote a wider range of activities. The application of genetic engineering in agriculture is part of agricultural modernization, but it could hardly be called industrialization.
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Li Xiannian, ‘The Great Achievement of Chinese Finance in the First Decade of the People’s Republic of China’, Commemorative Collection of Articles for the 10th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China (People’s Publishing House, 1959) p. 362.
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Fureng, D. (1992). The Traditional Socialist Industrialization Strategy and Agricultural Modernization, 1949–78. In: Industrialization and China’s Rural Modernization. Studies on the Chinese Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22442-5_3
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