Abstract
With regard to the problem of how to develop production in China, some people hold the following point of view: in abstract terms, the basic means of increasing production is by raising productivity of labour and, in particular, the level of technical equipment. They consider that in the promotion of socialist construction China should neither allow nor develop a state of affairs in which there is both relatively low labour productivity and a low standard of technical equipment. But, considering this idea in terms of our current population situation, I am of a somewhat different opinion.
Chen Liren, ‘China’s Current Population Situation and the Raising of Labour Productivity’, Xin Jianshe, June 1957.
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Chen, L. (1989). China’s Current Population Situation and the Raising of Labour Productivity. In: The Foundations of the Chinese Planned Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20311-6_32
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