SOE Reform in China: Lessons for North Korea

Newsletter by Gary H. Jefferson and Gary H. Jefferson

Published December 15, 2010

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Korean Unification - Working Paper Series

China’s industrial sector entered China’s reform movement, beginning in 1979, with a number of distinctive features. These include an emphasis on heavy industry that was a pillar of China’s planned socialist economy, a highly decentralized system in which many provinces developed a wide range of industries, and extensive rural industry which had its origins in the rural commune structure. Total industry employed nearly 60 million workers representing a generally high level of literacy for a low-income developing economy.

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