The article focuses on the two major actors in the Chinese economic system - the local economic supervisory bureaucracies, such as tax and industrial bureaus, and their subordinate enterprises. It then goes on to describe the reasons for and the specific forms of their behavioural patterns. It...

Major developments in the Chinese economy since 1978 in terms of some broad aggregates are sketched out. GDP growing at a respectable rate. Output structure during the period 1957-78 shifted in favour of industry. The pattern of resource allocation characterized by a relatively large...

Investigation of the rural economic policy of 1978 with particular reference to income distribution among the peasants. Taxes, investment, prices, quotas, production and marketing in agriculture. Year-to-year increases of total peasant income 1978-81. A new array of economic problems created by...