Enrich Series on China's Economic Reform, Volume 3 : Reforming China : Major Events : major events (1978-1991)

This book chronicles the dramatic events that have taken place since China opened up to the world three decades ago and adopted a policy of economic reform. It records how between 1978 and 2004 changes in economic policies were drafted, brought into law and then initiated. It vividly relates the history of reform, from the beginning of the rural household contract responsibility system, to the expansion of enterprise autonomy in cities, and the gradual liberalization of prices of important products. It covers the founding of Deng Xiaoping's reform theory and the establishment of a socialist market economic system.