这并非第一次或唯一一次中国利用中央计划贯彻短期方案，上述方案未能带来 — — 在某些情况下甚至阻碍了 — — 长期的进步。
This was hardly the first or only time that China has used central planning to implement short-term solutions that fail to bring about – or, in some cases, even impede – long-term progress.