The article deals with economic policy changes after the death of Mao Zedong, the rapid economic growth from 1981 to 1984, the return to more rational methods of management, the peasants' labour activity and efficiency sharply enhanced by direct material incentives etc. The already slow process...

The authors note that although China is still beset by numerous problems and torn by contradictions, its economy is showing unmistakable signs of improvement, including rising commercial quality and monetarisation, a deeper involvement in the market among other things. They compare economic...

The 43rd of the Wilton Park Conferences organized under the auspices of the British Foreign Office was held in London from 27th February to 2nd March 1995. The reports and discussions covered results and objectives of the economic reform in China and the main hurdles on its way, economic...

In China, the financial market has been developed with sufficient purpose and consistency, on the basis of in-depth theoretical studies of the problems of the socialist commodity economy and ways of switching the rigidly centralised administration of the economy to the use of instruments of...

The Chinese leadership has announced and is pursuing an "open foreign economic policy" and as an important component of this policy special economic zones (SEZ) were formed in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou and Xiamen. In recent years "special" powers to develop...