beijingwalker
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40 years ago, Deng Xiao Ping decided that Soviet Union style communism did not fit in well in China. He opened up China amid extreme strong opposition from many high ranking party members. To overcome these oppositions he and fellow supporters selected a sleepy fishing village in Shenzhen as an experiment and an eye opener to those who opposed his desire to change China. The rest is history we are all aware of.
It was decided that it is impossible for everyone to share the wealth equally at the same time, so the plan was to let a small group of people becoming rich, and with their entrepreneurship help China's economy to grow. The first batch of businessmen injecting capital were mainly from overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, South East Asia and the rest of the world. This era was 1980s to 1990s.
After the economy grow to a certain sustainable level, a large group of middle/ lower middle income population called 小康之家 will begin to take a share of the national economy, there was an explosion of people beginning to join small business start-ups, and some of them succeeded become rich. This era belongs to 2000 to 2010. And Jack Ma is one of them. I still remember the old slogan "Getting Rich is Glorious".
Third phase of the Chinese communist party long term planning was to let the lower middle income group to share even more of the national wealth, which is present day China.
The old communist doctrine of everyone being equal in status and income doesn't work, even in Lenin's time. The reformed Chinese Communist doctrine is different from Soviet, and present day China is the proof.
And there is nothing wrong or surprise that Jack Ma is a communist. I will be more surprise if Trump is not a Republican!
Dengxiaoping was a genius, When China was at the bottom of abyss in economy which was one of the worst in the world back then, people couldn't see even a glimmer of hope in total darkness, despairs and pessimism overwhelmed the whole nation, Deng single handedly found a way out and led China out of darkness and on a path to national strength and prosperity, if not for him, China could still be in that predicament even today, moving from pillar to pillar.