| Summary/Abstract |
At the behest of Hu Jintao, the president of the People’s Republic
of China (PRC), top Chinese scholars carried out a study on factors
that had enabled the major powers to grow very rapidly since the
15th century.1
The study was ordered on November 24, 2003, during
the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political
Bureau’s group session and the final work was completed in 2006
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