... 1949. Politic institutions were created based upon the Soviet model. In February 1950, a treaty of alliance was signed between China and the USSR (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). And a law was created to abolish the domination of landowners: it was the beginning of the collectivization. The State's intervention was very important in farming (agriculture) and the farmers were the State ... established in 1984 along the coast and offered some advantages like fiscal exemption and exemption of the taxes on equipment's importation. The most important zone is the zone of Shenzen (ne...

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... and light manufacturing. The result has been a quadrupling of GDP since 1978 (CIA, 1998). Agricultural output doubled in the 1980s, and industry also posted major gains, especially in coastal areas near Hong Kong and opposite Taiwan, where foreign investment helped spur output of both domestic and export goods. On the darker side, the leadership has often experienced in its hybrid system ... years, China's GDP has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 10%. Some economists have speculated that China could become the world's largest economy at some point in the near future. However, f...

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... and light manufacturing. The result has been a quadrupling of GDP since 1978 (CIA, 1998). Agricultural output doubled in the 1980s, and industry also posted major gains, especially in coastal areas near Hong Kong and opposite Taiwan, where foreign investment helped spur output of both domestic and export goods. On the darker side, the leadership has often experienced in its hybrid system ... years, China's GDP has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 10%. Some economists have speculated that China could become the world's largest economy at some point in the near future. However, f...

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... many things divide them today, Communist and Nationalist Chinese agree in their admiration for Sun Yat-Sen, known as the father of modern China. He was born to a peasant family near Canton (Guangzhou) and educated in Hawaii, where he converted to Christianity. He returned to China and led an unsuccessful rebellion in Canton in 1894. A decade later he forged a union between ... government officials. On May 4 approximately 100,000 students demonstrated in Beijing demanding democratic reforms. The demonstrations continued in spite of several government orders to cease and the declaration o...

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... countries are democratic countries. Certainly, there are both pros and cons regarding those two different types of government structures.Within communist countries people are worried mostly about the independence in law which leads to corruption within the country. There are things called "Guan Xi" in China, or "connections, using the art of relationships – and its close companion ... decide to, without going through the long process of getting approval by Congress or the House. In the 1970s, the Chinese government launched a project to establish the Special Economic Zone near the coa...

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... of Sino-US relations. Some scholars generalize the social transformation in China as "Toward Republic". It means that China will be transformed into a full marketing economy country with observing the law of value, a real modern country with building democratic and legal system, a responsible great power with respecting the international system and its rules. Despite China began the great historical process since ... vital to its international trade. The issue has become more and more urgent, for the China's cargo ships are frequently raid by pirates. In a recent pirate attack on the se...

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