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‘Down to the sea’ (xiahai), or taking on money-oriented commercial activities, has become a fashionable term in China. One of the largest institutions, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), 3-million strong, is following the trend towards frantic commercial activity which is proliferating all over China.
I am grateful to Robert Benewick, Gordon White, Adrian Wood and Robin Luckham in the preparation of this chapter. The interpretations and any errors of fact are, of course, my own responsibility.
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Yeung, G.Ky. (1995). The People’s Liberation Army and the Market Economy. In: Benewick, R., Wingrove, P. (eds) China in the 1990s. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15016-8_14
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