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This week China's Senior Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping was expected to step down from his government post, along with Premier Hua Guofeng, in favor of a new team of trusted, younger technocrats. But first Deng saw to it that the National People's Congress, whose 3,500 delegates have been meeting in Peking for the past ten days, approved a parcel of new measures. Among the miscellany: the debut of the personal income tax* and a raise in the legal marriage age (20 for women, 22 for men). The important changes, however, were a series of economic...
Some of the programs have already been tested successfully in Sichuan, the country's most populous province, under the governorship of Zhao Ziyang, 61, who is Deng's choice to replace Hua as Premier. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, published in the Washington Post last week, Deng conceded that his program may well bring in "some decadent influences of capitalism, but I think that this is not so terrible." In any case, Deng added, "capitalism is superior to feudalism...
Deng, along with Hua and the other retiring Vice Premiers, will keep his powerful position in the Communist Party, which remains the seat of ultimate authority in China. But by bringing in a younger, more vigorous team, Deng is clearly hoping to bring more efficiency and energy to China's government ministries. In the same way, he has also been trying to weed out the inefficient, lazy and corrupt officials who snarl the middle levels of China's huge bureaucracy...
...most delicate part of the changeover was the removal of Hua, who is two years younger than the 62-year-old man who will replace him. Some analysts, in fact, think that some serious quarrels could yet break out between Hua and Deng's proteges. The Deng forces have lately taken to making oblique attacks against Hua in the press. Most of the old Maoist programs that are now being discredited, for example, were ardently supported by Hua, the last major leader who owes his power directly to the patronage of Mao. A recent Central Committee directive against excessive...
Over the past few months, Hua has been noticed meeting with military commanders, who are also suspected of being unhappy with Deng, in part because of the low priority being given to modernization of the military establishment. Thus while the Deng forces seemed supreme as the congress opened, they had yet to prove that they could avoid the sort of factionalism in the party that has bedeviled China's leaders so often in the past...