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The way you framed it is a bit disingenuous. The reasoning behind the policy is that the government recognizes that China back then severely lacked any modern i
by hungryhobo 7y ago
The way you framed it is a bit disingenuous. The reasoning behind the policy is that the government recognizes that China back then severely lacked any modern industrious knowledge. In order to quickly catch up, China decided to pour all its resources into a couple provinces that either had existing industrious base left over from foreign occupation or had strategic locations. As well as sending the best people over seas hoping to gain whatever knowledge necessary to kick start the economy.
And it's not like the government simply forgot about the billions of farmers, one of the top priority for officials are poverty alleviation. It's a key kpi for any promotion within the government.
Now you could argue the implementation is not perfect, but given the situation back then I agree with this policy, and I'd be interested to hear how you would approach this differently.
- RavlaAlvar 7y agoI am not saying Deng's approach is bad. I am just trying say that we shouldn't forget that a huge truck of China GDP comes from the exploitation of the workers. Now that the level of inequality has reached the moon, I am curious to see what they will do next. Especially in the age automation and increasing trade war tender, manufacturing WILL leave China. Many in the US blame the rise Trump on the lost blue collar jobs. Imagine the same situation in China, but with majority of population being blue collar worker. Let's also not forget about corruption in China. It is true that elimination of porvery is an important goal set by the central state. But how the local official achieve their target KPI is abhorrent, e.g. forcing low income family out of the city, manipulate the definition of poverty etc.