The author focuses on Communist Party-management relations in large and medium-scale Chinese industries since the early 1980s. Analysing these relations in the context of current economic and political reforms, he explores the major problems, the policies that have been pursued to resolve them,...

Based on interviews and a questionnaire answered by 25 factory directors in November 1988 in the PRC, this paper investigates director-level and enterprise-level factors that affect the bargaining power of Chinese factories. It shows that directors of larger, higher-ranking factories feel they...