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Between Plan and Market: The Role of the Local Sector in Post-Mao Reforms in China

In: Economic Reforms in the Socialist World

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  • Christine P. W. Wong

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The Chinese economy has long been characterised by multilevel planning, with local governments controlling nearly half of total industrial output and allocating substantial resources.2 Because of the continuing important role played by local governments, market reforms in the 1980s have not brought a straightforward transfer of decision-making authority from central government to enterprises. Instead, there has been a good deal of ‘leakage’ in the reform process, with local governments retaining and even expanding control over enterprises through a variety of informal mechanisms, as well as through their control over geographically immobile factor resources. This chapter looks at the local sector and how market reforms have affected it. The term ‘local’ will mean administrative levels below the central government: province, municipality, prefecture, county, township and village.3

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  • Christine P. W. Wong, 1989. "Between Plan and Market: The Role of the Local Sector in Post-Mao Reforms in China," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stanislaw Gomulka & Yong-Chool Ha & Cae-One Kim (ed.), Economic Reforms in the Socialist World, chapter 3, pages 36-55, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10668-4_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10668-4_4
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