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Since the 1980s, China’s policy of “reform and opening”, which started out by accepting foreign investment and foreign technology to raise economic output, has broadened to make radical structural changes which have affected all its social institutions. This change has introduced decentralization, local autonomy, competition, free enterprise, and private ownership into the socialist economy as well as into many other social arenas. Accompanying these radical reforms is a gradual shift in the governing philosophy from the dogmatic socialism of the Maoist period to one more accommodating to the global market economy in which China has now become a member. The Chinese government has switched from its active role in developing and redistributing the nation’s resources in the Maoist period to creating an environment that encourages individual and local units to take initiatives, to compete, and to develop their full potentials. For the ruling elites, the country has emerged from an outdated socialist model to the hybrid one of market socialism.
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Kwong, J. (2004). Women's Education in China's New Socialist Market Economy. In: Ka-Ho, M. (eds) Centralization and Decentralization. CERC Studies in Comparative Education, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0956-0_6
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