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...long-awaited conference of the Chinese Communist Party that begins this week, Deng hopes to secure his vision by promoting some of his younger loyalists to positions of party leadership, thereby safeguarding his legacy of reform. In Peking last week, taxis and hotel rooms were in short supply as the more than 1,000 conference delegates began to arrive in the capital. At the gathering, only the fourth such meeting in the 64-year history of the Chinese party, delegates will discuss a proposed new five-year plan for national development and other topics, but the "central mission...
...named to the 24-member Politburo, while between 30 and 50 newcomers could replace party veterans on the 210-member Central Committee. Says a middle-level official: "The changes will be part of a flowing movement rather than an abrupt one, but they will be substantial and profound." Deng, who knows full well that no program of reforms is irreversible, put it crisply when he told a group of visiting Japanese legislators, "We will guarantee the continuity of the policy currently in force in China...
...venturing beyond the confines of Maoism over the past eight years, Deng's great undertaking has, perhaps predictably, come in for some rough challenges. Disagreement lingers between the reformers, who are experimenting at the very margins of Marxism, and conservatives wedded to Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy and Maoist collectivism. Communes have been abolished, central planning reduced, party and government bureaucrats replaced by technocrats. Deng's innovations, rooted in the premise of "building socialism with Chinese characteristics," have stirred apprehension among China's Old Guard that the Communist Party's dominance could eventually be endangered. How much ideology can a country shed...
...largely autonomous companies that offer bonuses or other incentives to workers if warranted by profits. In Poland, some 75% of farming is in private hands, as are some small restaurants and shops. But never before has a Communist state challenged the tenets of Marxist economics as fundamentally as has Deng's China. Soviet officials may complain that the Chinese have "gone too far," but such criticism leaves the reformers undeterred. Says a Chinese party leader: "We should never regard Marx's theory as some kind of immutable, sacred and inviolable thing...
...this does not mean that China is about to embrace capitalism full tilt. Deng and his collaborators have stretched Marxism as it has not been stretched before, but they have yet to define the political and economic structure they seek in its stead. "The Chinese are not sure where they are going," says a Western economist who has served as a consultant in Peking. "There seems to be no overall plan." Deng's goal, pragmatic to the core, is to pursue whatever makes China strong...