List of Chinese numbered policies

One distinctive element of Chinese political discourse is the use of numbered policies. The use of numbers to refer to policies dates from pre-modern China.

Examples include:

• One child policy
• One China policy
• One country, two systems

• Letter of the two sorries

• Three Communiques
• Three links
• Three noes
• Three Principles of the People
• Three Represents

• Four cardinal principles
• Four Modernizations
• Four Olds (or Four Old Things)
• Four noes and one without

• Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence

• Six assurances

• Stinking ninth category