A couple carry bags along the main shopping street in Shanghai last November. More market rather than less is key to sustaining China’s economic growth in the long term. Photo: AFP
A couple carry bags along the main shopping street in Shanghai last November. More market rather than less is key to sustaining China’s economic growth in the long term. Photo: AFP

Between the market and the party, are China’s reforms moving in the right direction?

Michael Clauss says concerns about increasing Communist Party influence over state-owned enterprises, despite hopes of further liberalisation, raise questions about decision-making, bottom lines and stakeholders’ roles

A couple carry bags along the main shopping street in Shanghai last November. More market rather than less is key to sustaining China’s economic growth in the long term. Photo: AFP
A couple carry bags along the main shopping street in Shanghai last November. More market rather than less is key to sustaining China’s economic growth in the long term. Photo: AFP
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