When making changes, there is the uncertainty between choosing slow, gradual reforms, or so-called “shock therapy.” Observers looked at the immediate chaos of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, and have drawn their conclusions from that short period, still today. However, “many Eastern European countries' standards of living are already very close to those in Western Europe,” and “the people of those countries, no matter in public policy or the commoners, all believe reform is a thing of the past, a sentence ending with a period.” By contrast, the Chinese government is still debating “how the next Chinese economic reform should advance,” making the process “. . . a sentence ending in a question mark, still continuing.” (Chen 2009)
Friday, November 26, 2010
Government Structures in China, 26th Nov., 2010.
Professor Shoulong Mao, of Renmin University, wrote, “China is a country with a long-standing tradition of the centralization of state power. In this kind of country, any systemic innovation must gain high level approval.” (Mao 2010)
When making changes, there is the uncertainty between choosing slow, gradual reforms, or so-called “shock therapy.” Observers looked at the immediate chaos of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, and have drawn their conclusions from that short period, still today. However, “many Eastern European countries' standards of living are already very close to those in Western Europe,” and “the people of those countries, no matter in public policy or the commoners, all believe reform is a thing of the past, a sentence ending with a period.” By contrast, the Chinese government is still debating “how the next Chinese economic reform should advance,” making the process “. . . a sentence ending in a question mark, still continuing.” (Chen 2009)
When making changes, there is the uncertainty between choosing slow, gradual reforms, or so-called “shock therapy.” Observers looked at the immediate chaos of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, and have drawn their conclusions from that short period, still today. However, “many Eastern European countries' standards of living are already very close to those in Western Europe,” and “the people of those countries, no matter in public policy or the commoners, all believe reform is a thing of the past, a sentence ending with a period.” By contrast, the Chinese government is still debating “how the next Chinese economic reform should advance,” making the process “. . . a sentence ending in a question mark, still continuing.” (Chen 2009)
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