Should we join the People's Republic of China

Let them have New Ireland first and we will see how that works out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ireland_%28island%29

Daegerty wrote: »

Lets leave the EU and join the Chinese instead

*Jobs will be outsourced to us; economy good, everybody happy
*Almost mandatory atheism (boardsies will love this)
*Less freedom, mandatory ID cards, more social control (less people complaining)
*Less personal wealth (this will stop the begrudgery)
*Death penalty for almost everything = less crime
*We become a strategically located manufacturing centre = even if the rest of China goes down we'll be the best off
*Communist party filled with Engineers and Scientists rather than Jackie Healy Raes

And a "four-point" five-year plan:D:
Economic targets
– GDP to grow by 7 percent annually on average;
– More than 45 million jobs to be created in urban areas;
– Urban registered unemployment to be kept no higher than 5 percent;
– Prices to be kept generally stable.
Economic restructuring
– Rise in domestic consumption;
– Breakthrough in emerging strategic industries;
– Service sector value-added output to account for 47 percent of GDP, up 4 percentage points;
– Urbanization rate to reach 51.5 percent, up 4 percentage points.
Innovation
– Expenditure on research and development to account for 2.2 percent GDP;
– Every 10,000 people to have 3.3 patents.
Environment & clean energy
– Non-fossil fuel to account for 11.4 percent of primary energy consumption;
– Water consumption per unit of value-added industrial output to be cut by 30 percent;
– Energy consumption per unit of GDP to be cut by 16 percent;
– Carbon dioxide emission per unit of GDP to be cut by 17 percent;
– Forest coverage rate to rise to 21.66 percent and forest stock to increase by 600 million cubic meters;
Agriculture
– Annual grain production capacity to be no less than 540 million tones;
– Farmland reserves to be no less than 1.818 billion mu.
Livelihood
– Population to be no larger than 1.39 billion;
– Life span per person to increase by one year;
– Pension schemes to cover all rural residents and 357 million urban residents;
– Construction and Renovation of 36 million apartments for low-income families;
– Minimum wage standard to increase by no less than 13 percent on average each year;
Social management
– Improved public service for both urban and rural residents;
– Improved democracy and legal system;
– Better social management system for greater social harmony;
– More than 10 percent of all residents will be registered as community volunteers.
Reform
– Encourage qualified enterprises to get listed in stock markets;
– In-depth reform in monopoly industries for easier market entry and more competition;
– Improved government efficiency and credibility