Fifteenth Party Congress prioritizes state-enterprise restructuring

Tighter credit and investment controls lowered inflation while output continued to expand. Stabilization showed the state’s steering capacity, but financial restraint affected employment and local...

Deng’s death followed the 1992 restart and preceded deeper restructuring. Reform now ran through party leadership, planning bodies and administrative institutions, not one leader or a single market...

The handover restored Chinese sovereignty over a major financial and trading center under “one country, two systems.” Hong Kong deepened its role in mainland investment and export networks, linking...

After Thailand floated the baht, regional financial systems came under pressure. China maintained currency stability rather than devaluing, seeking to avoid a regional spiral and revealing the unequal...

The decision sought a basic pension system combining social pooling and individual accounts as work-unit welfare weakened. Coverage and funding varied locally, leaving gaps between secure workers,...

Authorities reiterated that they would not devalue the currency. Stability helped limit regional competitive devaluation but required domestic adjustment and capital controls.

The congress endorsed Zhu Rongji as premier and a program of administrative, financial and state-enterprise reform. A stronger central state would regulate markets and external integration, while...

The government set a three-year goal to improve large and medium SOEs and reduce losses through restructuring and support. The policy addressed chronic inefficiency but distributed adjustment...

The reform reduced and reorganized central ministries, separating some government functions from industrial management. Marketization relied on a reconfigured state that continued to steer capital and...

The notice shifted housing toward money, purchase and a commercial market. It boosted construction and demand but converted a work-unit benefit into an asset market; workers with higher incomes gained...