Deng Xiaoping and Reunification
•Tried to assure Taiwanese that if they rejoined China they would still have autonomy
•Doesn’t happen but trade increases between the two
•1987 Taiwan lifts its ban on travel to the mainland
•Also pushed for reunification of Hong Kong (Xianggang)
•This happens in 1997 and it becomes a Special Administrative Region (SAR)
•Doesn’t happen but trade increases between the two
•1987 Taiwan lifts its ban on travel to the mainland
•Also pushed for reunification of Hong Kong (Xianggang)
•This happens in 1997 and it becomes a Special Administrative Region (SAR)
Deng Xiaoping and Economic Changes “To Get Rich is Glorious”
•Coming to power in 1979 institutes agricultural reforms
•Encouraged farmers to sell on the open market
•Also allowed for the contracting of plots of land (excess profits could be kept) ‘productive responsibility system’
•China accepted loans and foreign investments
•Joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and The World Bank
•Encouraged farmers to sell on the open market
•Also allowed for the contracting of plots of land (excess profits could be kept) ‘productive responsibility system’
•China accepted loans and foreign investments
•Joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and The World Bank
social changes
•The single child policy introduced in 1979
•Tax benefits to families who accepted this (Some lost their private plots of land)
•Marriage law brought in 1980 (confirmed the rights of women and raised age of marriage M=20 to 22 W= 18 to 20)
•Tax benefits to families who accepted this (Some lost their private plots of land)
•Marriage law brought in 1980 (confirmed the rights of women and raised age of marriage M=20 to 22 W= 18 to 20)
question
What would have happened to China's market if they did not accept foreign advisement?
summary
was a politician andreformist leader of the Communist Party of China who led China towards a market economy.Inheriting a country fraught with social and institutional woes resulting from the Cultural Revolution and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng became the core of the "second generation" of Chinese leadership.