Chapter 6 National Power: Tiger and Rabbit Boxing Match

The battle is about to start. Let's see if China has enough "qualification" to start fighting! 60 years ago was different from now. China's weakness was not ordinary weakness, but poverty and weakness, which had been accumulated for hundreds of years. The strength of the United States was not ordinary strength. A super giant that even the Soviet Union could not compare to. In 1950, China's GNP was 18 billion U.S. dollars, while that of the United States was 355.3 billion U.S. dollars. The U.S. was about 20 times that of China. This gap is like comparing the current Sichuan Province with the whole of China.

In 1950, China's steel output was 610,000 tons, while that of the United States was 87.85 million tons. China was equivalent to 0.69% of the steel output of the United States. What is the concept of 610,000 tons of steel? According to sources, it is not enough for a few steel nails for a Chinese family.I calculated that the steel nails are still enough, but it is also enough for each family to make a cooking pot. China's power generation capacity is equivalent to 1.1% of that of the United States; crude oil production is only equivalent to 0.07% of that of the United States. In terms of industrial output value, China ranks 26th in the world, even worse than Spain, Portugal and other small western countries.

I'm so poor that I don't have a head. As for military equipment, don't they have a head start?