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