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 The People’s Republic of China is a communist country.  The Chinese revolution of 1949 brought the communist to power under the leadership of Mao Zedong.

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1  The People’s Republic of China is a communist country.  The Chinese revolution of 1949 brought the communist to power under the leadership of Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-Tung  It was run as a one-party dictatorship under Mao, today is an oligarchy  Power was in the hands of Mao and a small committee called the Political Bureau of the Communist Party, a small group of men who made all of the decisions on how the Chinese government and life in the country would be organized.  The Chinese communist government has some control over almost every aspect of Chinese life

2  Today, the Chinese government is still run by the Chinese Communist Party (ruling political party).  The National People’s Congress (oligarchic party) is elected every five years by a “vote” of the Chinese people  Chinese citizens over the age of 18 are eligible to vote; however, few candidates run for election if they are not approved by the Chinese Communist party.  The National People’s Congress chooses a president and vice- president. Xi Jinping  The president then chooses a premier who serves the same five year term as the congress

3  A command economy is one in which government planning groups make most of the economic decisions for the workers  This group decides which goods and services should be produces, as well as prices for the goods and wages paid to the workers  No individual could decided to start a new business  The government decided what and where to produce the goods.  The government decides what jobs the workers do and where the goods produced would be sold  China was set up along a command system in the 1950s after the communist revolution, but now the country is beginning to make exceptions to the rule of total government control

4  When the Chinese Communist came to power in 1949 under Mao Zedong, nearly all of China was agricultural  He ruled China until his death in 1976  Mao decided how much of the country would remain in farming and how much would switch to industrial production  Traditional farms were reorganized into collective farms, where people worked together and shared whatever they produced. Propaganda posters to make Collective farming look good (most of the time it failed)

5  In the 1970s China’s new leader, Deng Xiaoping, began to reorganize the Chinese economy with what he called the Four Modernizations  Farmers were given more control over what they decided to produce and they were allowed to sell surplus products and keep the profits  Money was made available for newer and better farming equipment and seed, and new quotas were set for higher production  Industry shifted from heavy industry like iron and steel to the production of more consumer goods  Factory workers and managers were allowed to make more of the decisions in the running of the factories  New methods of production required new training, all of which meant investment in the human capital of China

6  Special Economic Zones were set up along the coastal areas to encourage foreign companies to do business with China  The results of all these efforts were mixed  The US imports about 20 percent of the goods produced in China for foreign sale today  The coastal areas of the country began to grow economically  But some of the farm areas in the countryside fell behind  People began to leave and come to cities looking for work  Rapid growth of cities created new problems for the Chinese government

7  Many Chinese people today have small businesses of their own, even though the Chinese government still has final authority in most matters  There are many more examples of a market economy at work in China than in the years since the revolution  Although China does not have an unlimited supply of farmland, especially in light of the country’s huge population (1.3 billion), the country still mangers to feed itself  At least half of China’s workers remain in agriculture

8  Today China’s economy continues to be growing and strong, and many Chinese enjoy a higher standard of living than ever before  Because China’s government has more control over spending and planning in both agriculture and industry, China has been able to establish programs and make changes more quickly than a country where power is more widely shared among regions, communities and individuals  Cities along the southeastern part of China are experiencing tremendous growth, especially places like Shanghai and Hong Kong  One big change has been that new technology and planning have allowed China to increase the production of smaller consumer goods that have sold well in the world market  China Specializes in Consumer Goods


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