The article consist of two parts. The first looks at China's industrial performance in terms of the pace and pattern of … industrialization, regional industrial distribution and technological change. This analysis is set in the context of the policy … the modifications to the Maoist strategy of industrialization after the late 1970s: in particular, their possible long …

Between 1964 and 1971 China carried out a massive programme of investment in the remote regions of south-western and … western China. This development programme - called the "Third Front" - envisaged the creation of a huge self …-sufficient industrial base area to serve as a strategic reserve in the event of China being drawn into war. The article describes and …

incentives. Fast expansion of China's foreign trade in the 1970s after the slow and fluctuating growth of the 1950s and 1960s …

After reviewing China's economic growth record of the 1980s, the author discusses the primary problem of controlling …

. China moving away from an ineffectual innovation system. (DÜI-Sen) …