Setting Economic Reform in Stone, China's Way

Reform Series:

Part II: Shifting Winds

Part III: The Words That Changed History

Part IV: Shaping Decisions, Taking Action

No one doubts that China's reform and opening campaign has been powering the nation's economic miracle for some 35 years. But in the late 1980s, the campaign's direction was seriously challenged. China was on the verge of backtracking. It came close to reviving old norms of the planned economy. And then something happened.