ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some of the specific problems involved in a stupendous task and the way in which they are being tackled today. In dealing with over four hundred million people it is no small thing to attempt to carry out such an ideal. Dr. Sun Yat-sen was essentially a man of the people. He speaks of four necessities for the people's livelihood - clothes, food, housing and locomotion. The economic problem is fundamentally a human problem. It was not to establish an economic theory, but in order that ordinary men and women and children might have a better chance to live decently, that their intolerable burdens might be lifted, that joy might come to the joyless and hope to the hopeless. When therefore one come to consider China's economic problem, its something of the weight of poverty, insecurity, monotony, and fear that weighs upon so large a proportion of her people today.
