The Economic Development Of China

As many other countries around the world China has its long history of a struggle for equality and prosperity against tyrants and dictatorships. The establishment of People’s Republic of China in 1949 seemed to have put an end to that struggle for a better life. “The Chinese people have stood up!” declared Mao Tse-tung, the chairman of China’s Communist Party (CPP) – a leading political force in the country for the time. The people were defined as a coalition of four social classes: the workers, the peasants, the petite bourgeoisie and the national-capitalists. The four classes were to be led buy the CPP, as the leader of the working class.

On the international level, China had unfortunately found itself relatively isolated. The United States considered the Maoist government a threat to stability in the Far East, and conflicts in aims had marred the country’s relations with the Soviet Union. So, rather than

Chinese philosophy places great emphasis on gradual change in order to maintain stability. Many Chinese elite, scholars and technocrats, who are affiliated with the CCP, are the ones who shape the debate and are able to change norms and policies. Whereas Americans, regardless of social standing and political patronage, have been known to challenge social, economic and political norms, resulting in constant innovation. In China, pulling the lever is reserved to a minority elite with limited room to address issues beyond business, finance and economics. The Chinese government is already grappling with the consequences of market reforms which has given Chinese citizen the ability to voice their opinions through their economic rights. Unfortunately, challenging orthodoxy does not go hand in hand with Chinese

Mark explains in Chapter 4 why the Europeans were able to industrialize and why China and India did not. He says the Europeans were heavily focused on trade, variety of specializations, and improved transportation. While the biological old regime and the particularities of China's situation was pushing it toward an increasingly labor-intensive agri-culture, rather than toward an industrial revolution. He explains that Europe’s coal and colonies propelled them. The author talks about India and how important it was around the 1700. India around 1700 was the largest exporter of cotton textiles in the world and supplied textiles not just to meet English demand, but throughout the world as well... and that India accounted for fully one quarter of

Several scientific and economical things contributed to the urban life in Song China. However, before the Song Dynasty could flourish as whole, the first Song emperor Song Taizu defeated warlords and consolidated Song control throughout China (Pg. 219). It can also be compared to the economy in present day china. Song China improved in science with these several inventions: Gunpowder, Paper Money + Credit, Trade, Fast ripening rice, and how urban life in Song China shapes today’s economy in china. These inventions led to the growth in economy and prosperity in urban china.

Throughout history, China and the US have had many different views about Economic systems, such a how much control the government should have, are the people allowed to have free speech, and how things should be sold. There are a few similarities as well, such as wanting to keep the people’s rights protected, making sure that education is the priority, and being able to own private property but there are more differences. One can think that there are more important arguments on the differences side than on the similarities side. Even though the US and China have many differences, they also have a few similarities as well, such as keeping the people’s rights protected. With Communism, in China, one of the reasons they are communist is to make everything that the people get is divided up equally, with the “Constitution of the People’s Republic of China”.

The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 after defeating the nationalist Kuomintang Party, monopolizes power over China. The government uses propaganda to falsely project an image of satisfied, motivated citizens and of a progressive country. Xi Jinping, China’s president, advocates for prosperity, reform, rule of law, and party building; however, China’s government is truly an authoritarian one-party state. Within its borders, expression and basic human rights are suppressed. The government is quick to detain human rights activists and limits access to outside communication. China is misleading when addressing its labor force and economy. So, as modern nations see the shortcomings of communism, China’s people

The current Chinese government fits into the category of Authoritarian Regimes because Chinese government just use the coercion to limit political pluralism in order to maintain their power, but allows some social pluralism and does not use ideology or coercive mobilization to shape citizen’s interests, or support for the regime. However, China had been in a category of totalitarian regimes once after the World War 2 ended. After the world war 2, under the Mao’s control, China’s sovereignty imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people, which is the totalitarian regime. When China was under Mao’s control, citizen’s interest and identities were shaped by the ideology created by the government, and the ideology motivated Chinese citizen to act politically in particular way. The ideology that China promoted under Mao’s control was the communist ideology, which they believe that efforts should be made to redistribute economic wealth as much as possible and that a single political party should direct the government and control the state. After 1978, Mao’s successor Deng and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000, output had quadrupled. Therefore, after 1978, China changed the system of government to allow more freedom for citizens instead of the total control over citizens by the coercive mobilization.For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal

However, it wasn’t until 1949 with the victory of the Chinese Communist Party when a rebellion actually led to a unified country. The CCP’s implementation of communism and Maoism undoubtedly facilitated the “Socialist Modernization” of China, and can possibly explain one of the reasons why the CCP was able to successfully gain control and respect over a majority of the Chinese people. Within the promises of societal and political change, the “Modernization” campaigns of the CCP established goals to rebuild China as an integrated nation by fundamentally changing “every aspect of life.” While the rampant corruption within the KMT undoubtedly played a role in galvanizing support for the CCP, the CCP gained traction from the poor and landless peasants by swearing to improve living

Modern China runs off of the economic philosophy of the Four Modernizations (capitalist ideals) introduced by Deng Xiaoping. He is quoted as saying “I don’t care if a cat is red or white, as long as it catches mice” (Modern China 1). The original communist party was introduced in 1921 during Mao Zedong’s regime. Although this communist economy has been revised to fit into a capitalist mold, there are still many things that China restricts in and of itself. China is a diverse country, in a way many countries fail to recreate. They are the world’s second richest country, in part to its capitalist money drive, yet they lean towards a communist government.

China is one of the biggest, most powerful and influential countries on the planet, both economically and politicly. It is world’s most populous country and ranking second when it comes to GDP, with approximately 9 trillion dollars annually, according to the world bank. Over the last almost 70 years it has been ruled by the communist party in a one party communist system. The democratic values and traditions which people from the western world have become used with and take for granted, such as the right to vote, are not present in China and for many of its people this is an idea, which seems out of this world. The rule and power of the communist party are absolute, since it does not even attempt to simulate “holding

Politics and economic development are integral factors. The Chinese politics has been instrumental in fueling the economic development of this country. The political system has limited the western culture an aspect that has direct influence on the country’s economy. The political system restricts the democratic space for her citizens. Arguably, this restriction has been beneficial to the country because many people tend to strive towards building their lives. Additionally, a number of political changes such as accommodation of the capitalistic view have led to more than

Mao Zedong once stated, “Communism is at once a complete system of proletarian ideology and a new social system. It is different from any other ideological and social system, and is the most complete, progressive, revolutionary and rational system in human history. The ideological and social system of feudalism has a place only in the museum of history. The ideological and social system of capitalism has also become a museum piece in one part of the world (in the Soviet Union), while in other countries it resembles ‘a dying person who is sinking fast, like the sun setting beyond the western hills’, and will soon be relegated to the museum. The communist ideological and social system alone is full of youth and vitality, sweeping the world

China became a capitalist, which resulted in modernization of its government and democracy, through the first two decades of reform after Chairman’s Mao death. These major reforms that redefined and shaped the nation’s government and democracy include…

Though some economists believe that democracy, as the most common type of capitalism, is the most “healthful” and useful economics and government system, China is a socialist country. Socialism – “Compare capitalism an economic theory or system in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange are owned by the