China's Transition Toward a Market Economy, Civil Society, and Democracy
Author | : Xia Li Lollar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1997 |
ISBN-10 | : IND:30000060911272 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book China's Transition Toward a Market Economy, Civil Society, and Democracy written by Xia Li Lollar and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's post-Mao economic reform continues to be carried out under the leadership of those committed to the philosophy of Deng Xiao Ping for building a modernized China. The main feature of the reform is to change a planned economy to a market economy -- the primary difference being the degree to which economic power is concentrated or decentralized. In other words, the success of changing from a planned to a market economy depends on transferring power from the central government to industrial enterprises.Yet China's economic system has three levels: the central government, the intermediate local governments, and the industrial enterprises. Scholars disagree over whether the central government's power is transferring to the intermediate local government level or to the enterprises as the reform intended. The major consideration in this book is to test whether economic decision-making power was transferred to industrial enterprises after 1978 as most Chinese scholars believe, or whether local governments instead gained some or all of the decision-making power as generally claimed by Western scholars.