Chinese Economy and Society

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[HYPERLINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics], Deng Xiaoping Theory [HYPERLINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping_Theory], Three Represents [HYPERLINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Represents] and the Scientific Outlook on Development [HYPERLINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Outlook_on_Development]."

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Most, but not all, positions of significant power in the state structure and in the military are occupied by members of the Communist Party of China, which is controlled by the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China [HYPERLINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_Standing_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China], a group of 4 to 9 people, usually all older men, who make all decisions of national significance. As the role of the military is to enforce these decisions, the support of the PLA is important in maintaining Party ...

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industries. Rather, the vast majority of Chinese were (and are) peasants. Until the time of Deng Xiaopeng (from the late 1970s to the early 1990s) the Chinese peasants worked for collectivized farms that were unproductive. The result was that they were poor. The concept of an iron rice bowl had little meaning because the peasants were earning below subsistence in American terms. Deng allowed the peasants to cultivate private land. This dismantling of state interference and privatization of agriculture led to an explosion in agricultural productivity, and by the mid-1980s The Economist declared that the productivity growth of the Chinese peasant exceeded that of the Japanese auto ...

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