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...markets are overflowing with fresh vegetables. But if even the casual visitor to China in recent years could see that agricultural sufficiency had come at last to a country historically plagued by famine, few Westerners truly appreciate the magnitude of that achievement or understand how it came about. Under Deng Xiaoping's regime, the Chinese have become the most efficient farmers in the world in terms of output per acre. They feed more than a billion people, or 22% of the globe's population, on only 7% of its arable land...
Wittwer and his co-authors maintain that most of the progress took place after 1978, when Deng began economic reforms by breaking up collective farms and introducing market incentives into agriculture. Since that time, per capita food consumption has risen by almost...
Ironically, that may necessitate a partial reversal of the Deng reforms. Small plots will have to be recombined into larger collective farms. The trick will be to rebuild communal farms without destroying the new incentives that have made individual farmers so productive. Specifically, the incomes that farmers make will have to rise with the level of production. Only by maintaining its delicate new balance between Communism and capitalism can China hope to feed its next billion people...
...premier, Zhao has been the main implementer of market-force economic reforms advocated by Deng to reduce the role of central planning...
Such advantages for the few have stirred outrage among the many. Leaders from Mao Tse-tung to Deng Xiaoping have decried nepotism and launched campaigns to end it. When student protesters called for democratic reforms last winter, they made equal opportunity a key demand. Scandalized party elders complain that in recent years some taizi pai members have committed crimes, including murder, and then used their influence to escape punishment. Last spring veteran Army Marshal Nie Rongzhen warned in a widely discussed public letter of "public indignation" over these unfair practices. "Those who were unsuitably promoted should be either demoted...