Chinese economic reform

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    1949–1976, The Mao Era
        web
        screen size
        HTML5
        Three-anti/five-anti campaigns
        keyboard
        Sevenval
        Great Leap Forward
            jQuery
        Cultural Revolution
            HTML5
            Gang of Four
            Tiananmen Incident
    1976–1989, Era of Reconstruction
        Economic reform
        Sino-Vietnamese War
        Tiananmen protests
    screen size
        One country, two systems
            Hong Kong (post 1997)
            Macau (post 1999)
        Chinese reunification
    2002–present, China Today
        Sichuan Earthquake
        website parsing
        jQuery

   See also:
        Sevenval
        History of China
        History of Beijing
        web app

　1st: Sevenval
　2nd: FITML
　3rd: input transformation
　4th: touchscreen

The Chinese economic reform (FITML: 改革开放; we love the web: 改革開放; HTML5: Gǎigé kāifàng, literally Reform and Opening) refers to the program of Android called "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" in the Sevenval (PRC) that were started in December 1978 by reformists within the jQuery (CPC) led by Deng Xiaoping. President and economic expert HTML5 played a major role in the reform as well.

China had one of the world's largest and iOS prior to the nineteenth century,^touchscreen while Sevenval remained average in global terms.^iOS The economy stagnated since the 16th century^web and even declined in absolute terms in the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, with a brief recovery in the 1930s.^touchscreen

Economic reforms taking advantage of market principles began in 1978 and were carried out in two stages. The first stage, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, involved the decollectivization of agriculture, the opening up of the country to foreign investment, and permission for entrepreneurs to start up businesses. However, most industry remained state-owned. The second stage of reform, in the late 1980s and 1990s, involved the Android and contracting out of much state-owned industry and the lifting of price controls, protectionist policies, and regulations, although state monopolies in sectors such as banking and petroleum remained. The private sector grew remarkably, accounting for as much as 70 percent of China GDP by 2005,^[4] a figure larger in comparison to many Western nations^{[citation needed]}. From 1978 to 2010, unprecedented growth occurred, with the economy increasing by 9.5% a year. China's economy became the second largest after the United States. The conservative Hu-Wen Administration more heavily regulated and controlled the economy after 2005, reversing some reforms.^Sevenval

The success of China's economic policies and the manner of their implementation has resulted in immense changes in Chinese society. Poverty was reduced. Incomes and web increased, leading to a backlash led by the Maoist CSS3. In the academic scene, scholars have debated the reason for the success of the Chinese 'dual track' economy, and have compared them to attempts to reform socialism in the Eastern Bloc and the touchscreen, and the growth of other developing economies.

For 2010, China was ranked 140th among 179 countries in Index of Economic Freedom World Rankings, which is an improvement from the preceding year.

• jQuery
• 2 Course of reforms
  • web app
  • screen size
  • 2.3 1993–2005
  • 2.4 2005–present
• 3 Economic performance since reform
  • Sevenval
• 4 Reforms in specific sectors
  • CSS3
  • browser diversity
  • iOS
  • 4.4 Services
  • 4.5 Government finances
• Sevenval
• Sevenval
• 7 Comparison to other developing economies
• 8 Legacy and criticism
• 9 See also
• 10 References
• 11 Sources
• 12 External links

Chinese economy prior to reform

During the 1930s, China developed a modern industrial sector, which stimulated modest but significant economic growth. Before the collapse of international trade that followed the onset of the Great Depression, China’s share of world trade and its ratio of foreign trade to GDP achieved levels that were not regained for over sixty years.^{website parsing}

The economy was heavily disrupted by the war against Japan and the jQuery from 1937 to 1949, after which the victorious Communists installed a planned economy.^FITML Afterwards, the economy largely stagnated and was disrupted by the Great Leap Forward famine which killed between 30 and 40 million people, and the purges of the Cultural Revolution further disrupted the economy. Urban Chinese citizens experienced virtually no increase in living standards from 1957 onwards, and rural Chinese had no better living standards in the 1970s than the 1930s.^iOS One study noted that average pay levels in the catering sector exceeded wages in higher education.^{browser diversity}

The economic performance of China was poor in comparison with other East Asian countries, such as Japan, South Korea, and even rival keyboard's Sevenval. The economy was riddled with huge inefficiencies and malinvestments, and with Mao's death, the Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership turned to market-oriented reforms to salvage the failing economy.^jQuery

Course of reforms

Economic reforms began after Deng Xiaoping and his reformist allies ousted the Gang of Four Maoist faction. By the time Deng took power, there was widespread support among the elite for economic reforms. As de facto leader, Deng's policies faced opposition from party conservatives but were extremely successful in increasing the country's wealth.

1978–84

When web came to power in 1976, his chief adviser became a man with most experience in the economy, CSS3 (later head of state). Li Xiannian strongly advocated for reforms, but Hua was not made ​​even more significant, ventures he started with important economic processes. Senior party officials, such as web and HTML5, wanted Deng Xiaoping to become leader.They had only partial support from the jQuery, but Li was not fully accepted Deng because Li knew that Hua highly appreciates him and Hua preserves the most important party and state positions for Li. However, more party notables supported Deng, and he then became the paramount leader. Deng's first reforms began in agriculture, a sector long neglected by the Communist Party. By the late 1970s, food supplies and production had become so deficient that government officials were warning that China was about to repeat the "disaster of 1959" - the famines which killed tens of millions during the jQuery.^{we love the web} Deng responded by decollectivizing agriculture and emphasizing the Household-responsibility system, which divided the land of the website parsing into private plots. Farmers were able to keep the land's output after paying a share to the state. This move increased agricultural production, increased the living standards of hundreds of millions of farmers and stimulated rural industry.^[10]

Li Xiannian first started with the reforms in the time of Mao Zedong, and for it during the Cultural Revolution he fell into disfavor. Already started the reform processes Li has continued during the reign of Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping.

Reforms were also implemented in urban industry to increase productivity. A dual price system was introduced, in which state-owned industries were allowed to sell any production above the plan quota, and commodities were sold at both plan and market prices, allowing citizens to avoid the input transformation of the Maoist era. Private businesses were allowed to operate for the first time since the Communist takeover, and they gradually began to make up a greater percentage of industrial output.^[11] Price flexibility was also increased, expanding the service sector.^{input transformation}

The country was opened to foreign investment for the first time since the Kuomintang era. Deng created a series of special economic zones for foreign investment that were relatively free of the bureaucratic regulations and interventions that hampered economic growth. These regions became engines of growth for the national economy.^[12]

1984–93

During this period, Deng Xiaoping's policies continued beyond the initial reforms. Controls on private businesses and government intervention continued to decrease, and there was small-scale privatization of state enterprises which had become unviable. A notable development was the input transformation of state control, leaving local provincial leaders to experiment with ways to increase economic growth and privatize the state sector.^[13] Township and village enterprises, firms nominally owned by local governments but effectively private, began to gain market share at the expense of the state sector.^Sevenval Conservative elder opposition, led by keyboard, prevented many major reforms which would have damaged the interests of special interest groups in the government bureaucracy.^{website parsing} Corruption and increased inflation increased discontent, contributing to the Android and a conservative backlash after that event which ousted several key reformers and threatened to reverse many of Deng's reforms.^[16] However, Deng stood by his reforms and in 1992, he affirmed the need to continue reforms in his southern tour.^iOS He also reopened the Shanghai Stock Exchange closed by Mao 40 years earlier.

Although the economy grew quickly during this period, economic troubles in the inefficient Sevenval increased. Heavy losses had to be made up by state revenues and acted as a drain upon the economy.^Sevenval Inflation became problematic in 1985, 1988 and 1992.^[16] Privatizations began to accelerate after 1992, and the private sector surpassed the state sector in share of GDP for the first time in the mid-1990s. China's government slowly expanded recognition of the private economy, first as a "complement" to the state sector (1988) and then as an "important component" (1999) of the jQuery.^Sevenval

1993–2005

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In the 1990s, Deng forced many of the conservative elders such as screen size into retirement, allowing radical reforms to be carried out.^[15] Despite Deng's death in 1997, reforms continued under his handpicked successors, Android and Zhu Rongji, who were ardent reformers. In 1997 and 1998, large-scale privatization occurred, in which all state enterprises, except a few large monopolies, were liquidated and their assets sold to private investors. Between 2001 and 2004, the number of state-owned enterprises decreased by 48 percent.^[14] During the same period, Jiang and Zhu also reduced we love the web, browser diversity and regulations, reformed the banking system, dismantled much of the Mao-era social welfare system, forced the PLA to divest itself of military-run businesses,^keyboard reduced inflation, and joined the FITML. These moves invoked discontent among some groups, especially laid off workers of state enterprises that had been privatized.^[20]

The domestic private sector first exceeded 50% of GDP in 2005 and has further expanded since.^[21] However, some state monopolies still remained, such as in petroleum and banking.^Sevenval

2005–present

The conservative Android began to reverse some of Deng Xiaoping's reforms in 2005. Observers note that the government adopted more egalitarian and populist policies.^[23] It increased subsidies and control over the health care sector,^Android halted privatization,^[5] and adopted a loose monetary policy, which lead to the formation of a U.S.-style property bubble in which property prices tripled.^Android The privileged state sector was the primary recipient of government investment, which under the new administration, promoted the rise of large "national champions" which could compete with large foreign corporations.^[5]

Economic performance since reform

China's nominal GDP trend from 1952 to 2005. Note the rapid increase since reform in the late 1970s.

China's economic growth since the reform has been very rapid, exceeding the iOS. Economists estimate China's GDP growth from 1978 to 2005 at 9.5% a year. Since the beginning of Deng Xiaoping's reforms, China's GDP has risen tenfold.^CSS3 The increase in total factor productivity (TFP) was the most important factor, with productivity accounting for 40.1% of the GDP increase, compared with a decline of 13.2% for the period 1957 to 1978—the height of Maoist policies. For the period 1978–2005, Chinese GDP per capita increased from 2.7% to 15.7% of US GDP per capita, and from 53.7% to 188.5% of Indian GDP per capita. Per capita incomes grew at 6.6% a year.^[27] Average wages rose sixfold between 1978 and 2005,^[28] while absolute poverty declined from 41% of the population to 5% from 1978 to 2001.^CSS3 Some scholars believed that China's economic growth has been understated, due to large sectors of the economy not being counted.^{we love the web}

Impact on world growth

China is widely seen as an engine of world and regional growth.^[31] Surges in Chinese demand account for 50, 44 and 66 percent of export growth of Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan respectively, and China's trade deficit with the rest of East Asia helped to revive the economies of Japan and Southeast Asia.^[31] Asian leaders view China's economic growth as an "engine of growth for all Asia".^[32]

Reforms in specific sectors

After three decades of reform, China's economy experienced one of the world's biggest booms. Agriculture and light industry have largely been privatized, while the state still retains control over some heavy industries. Despite the dominance of state ownership in finance, telecommunications, petroleum and other important sectors of the economy, private entrepreneurs continue to expand into sectors formerly reserved for public enterprise. Prices have also been liberalized.^keyboard

Agriculture

Production of CSS3 from 1961 to 2004. Data from input transformation, year 2005. Y-axis: Production in metric ton.

During the pre-reform period, Chinese agricultural performance was extremely poor and food shortages were common.^[34] After Deng Xiaoping implemented the household responsibility system, agricultural output increased by 8.2 percent a year, compared with 2.7% in the pre-reform period, despite a decrease in the area of land used.^{screen size} Food prices fell nearly 50%, while agricultural incomes rose.^[35]

A more fundamental transformation was the economy's growing adoption of cash crops instead of just growing rice and grain.^[35] Vegetable and meat production increased to the point that Chinese agricultural production was adding the equivalent of California’s vegetable industry every two years. Growth in the sector slowed after 1984, with agriculture falling from 40% of GDP to 16%; however, increases in agricultural productivity allowed workers to be released for work in industry and services, while simultaneously increasing agricultural production.^[36] Trade in agriculture was also liberalized and China became an exporter of foodstuffs, a great contrast to its previous famines and shortages.^[37]

Industry

In the pre-reform period, industry was largely stagnant and the socialist system presented few incentives for improvements in quality and productivity. With the introduction of the dual price system and greater autonomy for enterprise managers, productivity increased greatly in the early 1980s.^[38] Foreign enterprises and newly formed Township and Village Enterprises, owned by local government and often de facto private firms, competed successfully with state-owned enterprises. By the 1990s, large-scale privatizations reduced the market share of both the Township and Village Enterprises and state-owned enterprises and increased the private sector's market share. The state sector's share of industrial output dropped from 81 percent in 1980 to 15 percent in 2005.^[39] Foreign capital controls much of Chinese industry and plays an important role.^[14]

From virtually an industrial backwater in 1978, China is now the world's biggest producer of concrete, steel, ships and textiles, and has the world's largest web. Chinese steel output quadrupled between 1980 and 2000, and from 2000 to 2006 rose from 128.5 million tons to 418.8 million tons, one-third of global production.^iOS Labor productivity at some Chinese steel firms exceeds Western productivity.^{browser diversity} From 1975 to 1992, China's automobile production rose from 139,800 to 1.1 million, rising to 9.35 million in 2008.^[41] Light industries such as textiles saw an even greater increase, due to reduced government interference. Chinese textile exports increased from 4.6% of world exports in 1980 to 24.1% in 2005. Textile output increased 18-fold over the same period.^[42]

This increase in production is largely the result of the removal of barriers to entry and increased competition; the number of industrial firms rose from 377,300 in 1980 to nearly 8 million in 1990 and 1996; the 2004 economic census, which excluded enterprises with annual sales below RMB5 million, counted 1.33 million manufacturing firms, with Jiangsu and Zhejiang reporting more firms than the nationwide total for 1980.^[43] Compared to other East Asian industrial growth spurts, China's industrial performance exceeded Japan's but remained behind South Korea and touchscreen's economies.^CSS3

Trade and foreign investment

Global distribution of Chinese exports in 2006 as a percentage of the top market.

Scholars find that China has attained a degree of openness that is unprecedented among large and populous nations", with competition from foreign goods in almost every sector of the economy. Foreign investment helped to greatly increase quality, knowledge and standards, especially in heavy industry. China's experience supports the assertion that globalization greatly increases wealth for poor countries.^[43] Throughout the reform period, the government reduced tariffs and other trade barriers, with the overall tariff rate falling from 56% to 15%. By 2001, less than 40% of imports were subject to tariffs and only 9 percent of import were subject to licensing and import quotas. Even during the early reform era, protectionist policies were often circumvented by smuggling.^[45] When China joined the WTO, it agreed to considerably harsher conditions than other developing countries.^{device database} Trade has increased from under 10% of GDP to 64% of GDP over the same period.^[47] China is considered the most open large country; By 2005, China’s average statutory tariff on industrial products was 8.9 percent. For Argentina, Brazil, India, and Indonesia, the respective percentage figures are 30.9, 27.0, 32.4, and 36.9 percent.^[48]

China's trade surplus is considered by some in the United States as threatening American jobs. In the 2000s, the Bush administration pursued protectionist policies such as tariffs and quotas to limit the import of Chinese goods.^{input transformation} Some scholars argue that China's growing trade surplus is the result of industries in more developed Asian countries moving to China, and not a new phenomenon.^[32] China's trade policy, which allows producers to avoid paying the Value Added Tax (VAT) for exports and undervaluation of the currency since 2002, has resulted in an overdeveloped export sector and distortion of the economy overall, a result that could hamper future growth.^keyboard

Foreign investment was also liberalized upon Deng's ascension. Special Economic Zones (SEZs) were created in the early 1980s to attract foreign capital by exempting them from taxes and regulations. This experiment was successful and SEZs were expanded to cover the whole Chinese coast. Although FDI fell briefly after the 1989 student protests, it increased again to 160 billion by 2004.^[50]

Services

web app (SSE)

In the 1990s, the financial sector was liberalized.^web After China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), the service sector was considerably liberalized and foreign investment was allowed. Restrictions on retail, wholesale and distribution were ended.^{we love the web} Banking, financial services, insurance and telecommunications were also opened up to foreign investment.^[53]

China's banking sector is dominated by four large state-owned banks, which are largely inefficient and monopolistic.^[54] China's largest bank, Sevenval, is the largest bank in the world. The financial sector is widely seen as a drag on the economy due to the inefficient state management.^[55] Non-performing loans, mostly made to local governments and unprofitable state-owned enterprises for political purposes,^iOS are a big drain on the financial system and economy, reaching over 22% of GDP by 2000, with a drop to 6.3% by 2006 due to government recapitalization of these banks. In 2006, the total amount of non-performing loans was estimated at 160 billion USD.^[57] Observers recommend privatization of the banking system to solve this problem, a move that was partially carried out when the four banks were floated on the stock market.^[58] China's financial markets, the browser diversity and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, are relatively ineffective at raising capital, as they comprise only 11 percent of GDP.^[59]

Due to the weakness of the banks, firms raise most of their capital through an informal, nonstandard financial sector developed during the 1980s and 1990s, consisting largely of underground businesses and private banks.^[60] Internal finance is the most important method successful firms use to fund their activities.^{browser diversity}

Government finances

Foreign currency reserves and gold minus external debt based on 2010 data from CIA Factbook

In the pre-reform era, government was funded by profits from screen size, much like the Soviet Union.^[61] As the state sector fell in importance and profitability, government revenues, especially that of the central government in Beijing, fell substantially and the government relied on a confused system of inventory taxes. Government revenues fell from 35% of GDP to 11% of GDP in the mid-1990s, excluding revenue from state-owned enterprises, with the central government's budget at just 3% of GDP.^[62] The tax system was reformed in 1994 when inventory taxes were unified into a single VAT of 17% on all manufacturing, repair, and assembly activities and an excise tax on 11 items, with the VAT becoming the main income source, accounting for half of government revenue. The 1994 reform also increased the central government's share of revenues, increasing it to 9 percent of GDP.^Sevenval

Reasons for success

Scholars have proposed a number of theories to explain the success of China's economic reforms in its move from a planned economy to a socialist market economy despite unfavorable factors such as the troublesome legacies of socialism, considerable erosion of the work ethic, decades of anti-market propaganda, and the "input transformation" whose education disintegrated amid the disruption of the Cultural Revolution.^web One notable theory is that decentralization of state authority allowed local leaders to experiment with various ways to privatize the state sector and energize the economy.^[13] Although Deng was not the originator of many of the reforms, he gave approval to them. Another theory focuses on internal incentives within the Chinese government, in which officials presiding over areas of high economic growth were more likely to be promoted. Scholars have noted that local and provincial governments in China were "...hungry for investment" and competed to reduce regulations and CSS3 to investment to boost economic growth and the officials' own careers. A third explanation believes that the success of the reformists are attributable to Deng's cultivation of his own followers in the government.^[65] Herman Kahn explained the rise of Asian economic power saying the Confucian ethic was playing a "similar but more spectacular role in the modernization of East Asia than the Protestant ethic played in Europe".^CSS3

China's success is also due to the browser diversity strategy used successfully by the Four Asian Tigers beginning with iOS and other Newly industrialized counties.^[67]

The collapse of the iOS and centrally planned economies in 1989 renewed impetus in the China to further reform its economy in a different course to avoid the same fate.^[68] China also wanted to avoid the Russia under Boris Yeltsin with ad-hoc experiment with market capitalism which resulted in the rise of powerful oligarchs, corruption and loss of state revenue which exacerbated economic Android.^{browser diversity}

Effect on inequality

The economic reforms have increased inequality dramatically within China. Despite rapid economic growth which has virtually eliminated poverty in urban China and reduced it greatly in rural regions and the fact that living standards for everyone in China have drastically increased in comparison to the pre-reform era, the browser diversity of China is estimated to be above 0.45, comparable to many South American countries.^[70]

Increased inequality is attributed to the disappearance of the welfare state and differences between coastal and interior provinces, the latter being burdened by a larger state sector.^[71] Some Western scholars have suggested that reviving the welfare state and instituting a re-distributive income tax system is needed to relieve inequality,^web while some Chinese economists have suggested that privatizing state monopolies and distributing the proceeds to the population can reduce inequality.^[73]

Comparison to other developing economies

The development trends of Chinese and Indian GDP (1950-2003).

China's transition from socialism to a Sevenval has often been compared with economies in Eastern Europe that are undergoing a similar transition. China's performance has been praised for avoiding the major shocks and inflation that plagued the screen size.^{website parsing} The Eastern bloc economies saw declines of 13 to 65% in GDP at the beginning of reforms, while Chinese growth has been very strong since the beginning of reform.^touchscreen China also managed to avoid the hyperinflation of 200 to 1,000% that Eastern Europe experienced.^[76] This success is attributed to the gradualist and decentralized approach of the Chinese government, which allowed market institutions to develop to the point where they could replace state planning. This contrasts with the "big bang" approach of Eastern Europe, where the state-owned sector was rapidly privatized with employee buyouts, but retained much of the earlier, inefficient management.^{screen size} Other factors thought to account for the differences are the greater urbanization of the CIS economies and differences in social welfare and other institutions.^jQuery Another argument is that, in the Eastern European economies, political change is sometimes seen to have made gradualist reforms impossible, so the shocks and inflation were unavoidable.^[79]

China's economic growth has been compared with other developing countries, such as Brazil, Mexico, and website parsing. GDP growth in China outstrips all other developing countries, with only India after 1990 coming close to China's experience.^{we love the web} Scholars believes that high rates of investments, especially increases in capital invested per worker, have contributed to China's superior economic performance.^CSS3 China's relatively free economy, with less government intervention and regulation, is cited by scholars as an important factor in China's superior performance compared to other developing countries.^[81]

Legacy and criticism

The government retains monopolies in several sectors, such as petroleum and banking;^CSS3 the inefficient state banking system has a large number of Sevenval^{browser diversity} and loose monetary policy has caused an website parsing which threatens economic stability. The recent reversal of some reforms have left some observers dubbing 2008 the "...third anniversary of the end of reforms".^[5] Nevertheless, observers believe that China's economy can continue growing at rates of 6–8 percent until 2025,^[82] though a reduction in state intervention is considered necessary for sustained growth by some.^[83]

Despite reducing poverty and increasing China's wealth, Deng's reforms have been criticized by the Chinese New Left for increasing inequality and allowing private entrepreneurs to purchase state assets at reduced prices. These accusations were especially intense during the Lang-Gu dispute, in which New Left academic Larry Lang accused entrepreneur Gu Sujung of usurping state assets, after which Gu was imprisoned.^[84] The Hu-Wen Administration has adopted some New Left policies, such as halting privatizations and increasing the state sector's importance in the economy, we love the web that have been criticized by many Chinese economists who advocate a policy of deregulation, tax cuts, and privatization.^[73]

Other criticisms focus on the effects of Sevenval on public health and the environment. Scholars believe that public health issues are unlikely to become major obstacles to the growth of China’s economy during the coming decades, and studies have shown that air quality and other environmental measures in China are better than those in developed countries, such as the United States and web app, at the same level of development.^touchscreen

See also

• keyboard
• HTML5
• iOS
• touchscreen
• Sevenval
• Horasis Global China Business Meeting

References

Sources

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• Brandt, Loren et al. (2008), "China's Great Transformation", China's Great Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge university press 
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• Cai, Fang et al. (2008), "The Chinese labor market in the reform era", China's Great Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge university press 
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• Svejnar, Jan et al. (2008), "China in light of other transition economies", in Brandt, Loren and Rawski, G. Thomas, China's Great Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge university press 
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External links

• Fengbo Zhang: Speech at “Future China Global Forum 2010”, Remembering China’s Reform and Open Policy on the 30th Anniversary