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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Aikman, a former Beijing Bureau Chief for Time Magazine, said that China's leader Deng Xiaoping's most significant accomplishment has been the creation in China of "a vogue for meritocracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Discuss China's Future | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...Deng regime is based on incentives and social advances, but is unaffected by dogma," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Discuss China's Future | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...among the first beneficiaries of the newest and potentially most sweeping economic reform launched so far by China's leader, Deng Xiaoping. Beginning this week, all state-owned enterprises will be allowed to hire some workers under contracts similar to Li's. The change represents a dramatic turning away from the system of lifetime employment that the Chinese have clung to since the Communists took power under Mao Tse-tung in 1949. Says Max Boisot, a Peking-based British economist: "This is probably the biggest step of all Deng's reforms. If it succeeds, a lot of others will fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Free to Quit | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...contracts are just one in a dizzying array of Deng's market-oriented economic reforms. In China's first bankruptcy auction last week, the government sold a factory in northeastern Liaoning province to a worker-owned unit of the Shenyang Gas Supply Co. The plant went out of business in August after Peking decided to stop propping up money-losing ventures. In another move, limited stock trading began in Shanghai in a test that could lead to the creation of China's first stock exchange since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Free to Quit | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...those who did. China's Chou En-lai came in 1920, some 70 years after Karl Marx left Paris for London and eight years after a young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization. One of their contemporaries in Paris was Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: City of Intrigue | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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