Deng Xiaoping has introduced chinese people to prosperity and bright future by his reforms. The economic growth was outstanding: ”Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, GDP growth has averaged over 9 percent a year, and more than 800 million people have lifted themselves out of poverty.”-“worldbank” Chinese communist party of that period was cappble of implementing free market essences without damaging the socialist values of People’s Republic of China, although, some experts of the ideology were not happy about it at all: “Deng famously said that to open the economy, the party would have to “let some people get rich first.” This was one of the most creative policies ever advocated by a Communist Party leader, as it was in direct contradiction to the party’s founding aim.”-“Bao Tong”. In my opinon, the ideological part is not very important since we can see that this strategy was successful at improving the lives of the proletariat/workers.
Xi Jinping has been a president for more than 9 years and provided to China a lot but since 2020 we can see the dramatical change in its system. Pandemic struck China like nothing else – more than a million chinese people have died due Covid-19 and the government response was instant: lockdowns, obligatory vacination and other restrictions. What could go wrong? The worst thing that can happen in this situation is that the ruling power would start to exploit its ability to limit people’s freedom in the name of defeating the virus. Xi’s ”zero-Covid” policy makes it impossible for small and average bussinesses to be profitible.
What do you think about China in 2022? Let me know in the comments bellow.
links:
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/21/china/china-party-congress-xi-jinping-risks-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview#1
https://www.jri.co.jp/english/periodical/rim/1999/RIMe199904threereforms/