Post reform China

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Post reform China is an important economic model to study. Its sheer size, both in terms of man-power and land mass, make it an impossible case to ignore. It has the highest population in the world roughly twice that of India, China's closest competitor for that dubious title. And after the break up of the USSR, China became second to only Canada in total area. Furthermore, recent economic reforms in China have enjoyed a relative success that defies conventional wisdom, making it necessary to seek a rationale for its deviation from expected outcomes. The renewed strength of the once poor China and its current position in the global economy provides a unique model with many features worthy of examination and some of emulation, both in theory and practice.

This paper examines how China transformed it's economy from a plan economy to market economy through reforms introduced by Deng Xiaping. The success of reform efforts is indicated by the rapid, continuous growth of the Chinese GDP since the late 1970s, when the measures were instituted. Using a 'positive analysis' model with the motivating issue being modernization, the role of FDI in China since the introduction of market reforms is examined as a major reason for their success. China was behind the technology curve in part due to its Confucian-based dedication to channel intellectual pursuits toward perfecting human nature and not the physical sciences and for other reasons which will be discussed

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e is also heavily subsidized by the state. However, China would like to reduce its budget deficit so it would like to do away with these enormously popular subsidies, and the country still needs to import grain to feed its coastal populations. In the industrial sector concrete, market incentives were created, but they were ineffective at first because there were no consumer goods available to purchase with such gains. Furthermore, deficiencies in infrastructure began to unmistakably hinder production industry was operating at lower than full capacity because plants could not get necessary power or transportation to step up production. "Factories were built but could only operate at 30 to 40 percent capacity because of inadequate power" (Pye, 1984, 341). However China's leaders gave themselves the freedom to change their own minds, and policies were revised to address these problems with transforming the industrial sector. The switch from heavy to light industry created more consumer goods and higher export earnings. Productivity growth was encouraged with more freedom for managers in choosing output and more reward for those that were profitable (profit-sharing). "The economy responded to these directives with amaz
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