Talk:Economic reform in the People's Republic of China
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Actually, "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" is a phrase used by Mao. The CCP describes the post-1978 economy as a "socialist market economy."
I removed one paragraph since it assumed an economic model that isn't universially accepted, and is also somewhat questionable. Moving from state ownership to corporate ownership wasn't a major part of Chinese economic reform until the mid-1990's.
Roadrunner 05:36, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
The last sentence implies that immediate benefit helped cause economic success, which is not true. Since the reforms were immediately successful, the beneficiaries used their newfound economic power and political power(with the corruption of China) to freeze the reforms at the stage of highest or easiest benefit. If the government hadn't stepped in, the entire reform process would've be stopped and economic success wouldn't happen.
azn king38 19:59, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] the phrase of "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" appeared at 1982, not 1978
...the program of economic changes called "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" in the mainland of the People's Republic of China (PRC) that were started in 1978 by pragmatists within the Communist Party of China... It's not accurate. In Chinese language, Chinese economic reform actually means "reform and open". It's not associated with "socialism with Chinese characterristics". The phrase appeared in September, 1982 and suggested by Deng Xiaoping at the 12th Conference of CPC. While in Mao's era, there was socialism with Chinese characteristics or even Comunism with Chinese characteristics, the actual phrase was not used by 1982. Mao's "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is mainly the revolution process with Chinese characteristics, which is different from Soviet Union's process and led success in China mainland. And Deng's socialism with Chinese characteristics is that the concept of socialism is different from Karl Marx's theory of socialism.
Back to my main point:
- Reform started in 1978, while the phrase "socialism with Chinese characteristics" appeared first in 1982.
- Mao's theory is also socialim with Chinese characteristics, but not called so.
Xiaojeng 23:56, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] suggestion for consolidation
It seems to me that the contents of this article overlap a great deal with those discussed in Economy of the People's Republic of China. Perhaps this article would be better placed as a division of that article. 70.240.178.41 23:36, 14 March 2006 (UTC)Mysticfeline
- It's such a massive change in policy and outlook and prosperity for the country, it merits its own article, whether or not there is overlap. In fact, in this case, the overlap is good -- someone exploring the economy can decide whether to dig deeper (by clicking this article) or not. To put all of this information on the Economy page would be TMI for that article. Since China is still a rarther inscrutable place for Westerners, the more info the better -- hence this article. Softlavender (talk) 02:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
