Reform and opening up policy in China

Duke
Mrs. Spotswood
IDS 803
7 May 2014
How does the ‘reform and opening-up policy’ affect the social development in China?
1. Introduction China is a socialism country, before the reform and opening up, China was implemented centrally planned economic and closed Chinese society. However, since 1977 when the ‘reform and opening-up’ policy was first carried out, things have changed dramatically in China, from every perspective. The policy aims at changing China’s economy from an old centrally planned one to a market-oriented and global one. Other changes occurred following the economic change. New technology had to be introduced in order to support the execution of the policy, legal instruments had to follow up with the economical circumstances, and even educational system changed in line with the society. As a result, China get a lot of benefits from its ‘reform and opening-up’ policy since it first carried out, but also suffered some obstacles as well as failures. This research paper would give a analysis on both the positive and negative effects of China’s ‘reform and opening-up’ policy.
2. The ‘reform and opening-up’ policy
2.1 Background “The adoption and implementation of the ‘reform and opening-up’ policy was said to be China’s second revolution, the first one being the Westernization Movement. The ‘reform and opening-up’ policy came out under a complicated and significant circumstance, both domestically and internationally” (Chien & Bing, 317). After the ‘Great Leap Forward’ and other radical movements in the 1950s, China’s society order was severely damaged, so was the economical order (Chien & Bing, 320). At that time, The Chinese people are all worked for the government, they couldn’t found any private enterprise on the marketing. People usually worked together and eat together. The people’s food, clothes, houses are all provided by the government. They usually were wearing the same clothes, eating the same food and living in the same house.

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