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The figure shows how many times GDP rose

[This infographic is provided to chinadaily.com.cn by Zhou Hao]

Zhou said that China's economy has increased multiple times since the country adopted the opening up and reform policy in 1978, while economies in former Soviet Union and some countries in eastern and central Europe, which went through overnight, shock therapy-style reforms, have lost momentum or even stagnated.