Private sector Chinese leaders hope to increase the pool of middle class. The purging of most of socialism's last vestiges will throw many into a desperate search for work and shelter. The income gap between those with the skills and those without will widen. In spite of it all, China's economy is thriving and many are determined to seize the opportunity. Introduction beginning in late 1978 the Chinese leadership has been trying to move the economy from a sluggish Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented economy but still within a rigid political framework of Communist Party control.

On the one hand, China's economic growth has made it an increasingly important trading partner for many nations. On the other hand, China's trade barriers, failure to adopt most multilateral rules on international trade, and the relative absence of the rule of law for business activities have often proved to be major barriers for doing business and have been the cause of growing tensions with various trading partners, especially the United States (Yifu, 1998).

The PRC is by far the most important in terms of size and power. The underlying political and ideological principles of party-state organization are clearly laid out in China’s current constitution. The government of the PRC is organizationally and functionally distinct from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The power of the Communist Party—particularly the nearly unchecked power of the top twenty-five or thirty leaders—is at the heart of governance and policy-making in China. The CCP describes the government of the People’s Republic as a socialist democracy, which it claims is superior to democracy in a capitalist country.

On the darker side, the leadership has often experienced in its hybrid system the worst results of socialism (bureaucracy, lassitude, corruption) and of capitalism (windfall gains and stepped-up inflation). Beijing thus has periodically backtracked, retightening central controls at intervals. In 1992-97 annual growth of GDP accelerated, particularly in the coastal areas—averaging about 10% annually according to official figures (CIA, 1998). This purpose will analyze the efforts of China's government to

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