In the present study, the Hungarian economist Gy?rgy Simon, Jr., setting out from the conception of modernising development, investigates the main political and economic aspects of of China's gradual transformation into a modern Great Power from the mid-17th to the early 21st century. For an econometric analysis, covering the period 1955-2019, a general growth model is used that considers not only physical and human capital but also time as the event...