Since Mao's death China has greatly strengthened its contacts with Western industrialized states. This year the People … that China's economic policy is set on a new course. …

How did China emerge from isolation and poverty under Mao Zedong to become the economic powerhouse shaping the 21st … century? Soon after Mao died in 1976, China's leaders invited many of the leading foreign economists to come to China and … country's socialist economy. Working together, interacting in complex dynamics of influence and adaptation, they changed China.-- …