POL_S 475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Local Economic Development, Social Control, Harmonious Society
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Ownership to land was redistributed: korean war (50-53, let 100 flowers bloom (56, anti-rightist campaign (56-57, great leap forward (58-61) Contributed to worst man made famine in history: sino-soviet split, china"s atomic bomb (64) 1966-1976: great proletarian cultural revolution, hot phase (66-69) Fighting between factions, gun fights in streets: female leader: jiang qing, mao"s wife, blamed with colleagues of the gang of four for cultural. Government makes investment decisions invests more than 20% of gdp. Domestic industries and government source of demand. Openness to the world low (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Industrial and service sectors in state-owned enterprises (soe) have life-long employment and benefits, their children inherit their jobs. Almost no mobility (household system, food allocation tied to household), restrictions from travel or moving. Managerial positions controlled through the communist party. Central command in china weaker (allocated only up to 600 varieties of industrial product, compared to 60,000 in the ussr)
