Deng's Economic Legacy - China

March 1997
Deng's economic Programmes have left China's new leaders with a major dilemma: promote a competitive market or maintain cradle-to-the-grave welfare?

More are workers are losing their jobs: in the bustling city of Chongqing, unemployed peasants crowd around the wharf carring bundles, cardboard boxes, baskets of vegetables: anything to earn money. In contrast, Xue Daihua works for a state motorcycle factory, gets cheap housing and subsidised medical cover. Sitting at home, she and her family beam as they sing along to their new Karaoke machine. Such factory faithfuls are dying out. A Changjiang Electrical factory is desperate for foreign investment. The workers are a constant drain on the finances and the vice-director admits that "we have a lot of workers here, therefore we have to manufacture many products". State industry and economic reform seem irreconcilable but the government has invented a class of worker who's paid to stay at home. The prospect of thousands of jobless workers signals the end of a socialist dream.

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[mcgainey]

this is just western propaganda , british american usual stuff

[Yonaguni10000]

socialism should be scrapped. confucianism needs to be the national ideal if its not already

[dan020350]

where are the descendants and heirs of those successors from the renowned heroes and teachers ?????????? The university has produced what type of a human being , comparing to a master produce what type of a human being?

[dan020350]

this province seems very interesting

[uch]

i agree, 100%

[uch]

wat a piece of BULLCRAP, they never had a fully functioning cradle to the grave welfare system. Only western euorpe and scandaavia do

[pleasantlysurprising]

10/10 journeymanpictures' videos bash China one way or another.

[lostinseganet]

(^_^) I admit that would..help.

[wangsishuo]

10:10 the guy said come on .. hahaha

[wangsishuo]

try to learn a little bit chinese will help as well