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Virtually every aspect of China's modernization drive will be debated in the weeks and months ahead, and its opponents may even find some common ground. In a telling image, Politburo Member Chen Yun, a powerful conservative, has likened the Chinese economy to a bird and described government control as the cage. While the cage may be enlarged to let the bird fly more freely, Chen argues, it must never be thrown away. On that point, at least, Deng Xiaoping and his critics seem to agree completely...
After Deng's speech came an even tougher one by his most persistent critic, Chen Yun, 80. Chen remains an advocate of Soviet-style central planning and frequently cites numerous recent incidents of corruption, overproduction and economic dislocation to bolster his case for a restricted reform program. In last week's speech he suggested that Deng's rural reforms, which allow peasants considerable economic freedom, could lead them to stop growing food and turn to more lucrative industrial endeavors, like making tools, furniture, clothing or even traditional handicrafts. Chen also criticized the moderate growth rates envisaged by the new five...
...rhetoric of the conference was ascribed by one Western analyst in Peking to Deng's "practice of not overwinning." While Deng enjoys strong support at the top levels of the party hierarchy, many lower-ranking officials, who have no stake in the reform programs, tend to favor the Chen Yun approach. Thus Chen's speech may have been sanctioned as a sort of minority dissent...
...same reason, he said, "a few have remained." Translation: some of the party's octogenarians, including Deng and Chen Yun, were staying on because they are "experienced revolutionaries with high prestige both inside and outside the party at home and abroad." Retiring Minister of Culture Zhu Muzhi, 69, later told newsmen that Deng and several other older leaders would definitely remain in their present positions...
...Communist Party Politburo and vice chairman of the party's military commission, continue to command a following in the military establishment. While they accept the reforms, they are said to harbor some doubts about their pace and scope. Among the most formidable of the pragmatists' adversaries is Chen Yun, a central planner who masterminded the Soviet-style economic programs of the '50s. He is said to believe that the reforms can work only if they are kept within a tight socialist structure. If the Chinese economy is a bird in a cage, Chen holds, then the cage should be enlarged...