The Fifth Modernization
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"The Fifth Modernization" is an essay by human rights activist Wei Jingsheng, originally begun as a signed wall poster placed on the Democracy Wall in Beijing on December 5, 1978.<ref>Brook, Daniel. [2005] (2005). Modern revolution: social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China. University Press of America. Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN.</ref>
Summary
[edit]The poster called on the Chinese Communist Party to add democracy to the list of the Four Modernizations, which already included industry, agriculture, science and technology, and national defense.<ref>Schell, Orville. Shambaugh, David L. [1999] (1999). The China reader: the reform era. Random House, Inc. Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN.</ref> It openly stated democracy was an additional modernization that needed to be pursued if China truly wanted to modernize itself.