{"id":4277,"date":"2018-12-26T18:17:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:18:07","slug":"40-years-of-opening-kerry-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/40-years-of-opening-kerry-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Brown explains that the Opening up and Reform has led to legitimise China\u2019s political leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>Political analyst and academic <strong>Kerry Brown <\/strong>explains that the Opening up and Reform has led to legitimise China\u2019s political leadership<\/h1>\n<p>December 2018 will mark a big moment in China\u2019s calendar of anniversaries of major events. Around 20<sup>th<\/sup> December 1978, increasingly influenced by the veteran leader Deng Xiaoping, but officially under the Chairman\u2019s chosen successor Hua Guofeng, a newly reinvigorated (for the second time) post-Mao era leadership declared that Communist members needed to liberate their minds. They needed to make practice the sole criterion for truth. They needed to embrace the Four Modernisations of industry, agriculture, science and technology, and defence, and accelerate the development of their massive, but still largely rural, agrarian and backward country. The era of reform and opening up had started.<\/p>\n<p>Just as we still live in the Western era of later modernity, so China still lives in the period that started after the 1978 meeting and its declaration. For all the talk of Xi Jinping being a uniquely powerful and ambitious leader, he made his commitment to the Dengist vision of reform clear from his first weeks in power in 2012, when he visited Shenzhen to signal his complete alignment with the Deng consensus. This southern city bordering Hong Kong figures as one of the holy sites of the reform era, a place of almost spiritual significance.<\/p>\n<p>It was here that the most important of the early Special Economic Zones was set up, pioneering the export-orientated, manufacturing model that was to be the initial impetus that led to the immense growth achievements of the following four decades. If one place can symbolise the renaissance of China, then <a href=\"http:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/juan-du\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shenzhen<\/a> is it, transformed from a small fishing town to a major modern city with some of the world\u2019s tallest buildings. This place is Chinese reform made flesh, the realisation of the ambitions for modernity which had been dreamed about by the Chinese for over a century, but which finally seemed to become reality in this birthplace of `capitalism with Chinese characteristics\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was through being able to deliver tangible improvements in people\u2019s daily lives that the Party was able to forge a new social contract\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reform and opening up movement gave the Chinese people the ability to unleash their entrepreneurial energies. We see the spectacular results of that continuing to this day. But it also gave the Communist Party a new source of legitimacy. Disorientated and disorganised after the Maoist onslaught from 1966 during the Cultural Revolution, it was through being able to deliver tangible improvements in people\u2019s daily lives that the Party was able to restore its image in the eyes of the public. In forging this new social contract, it could point to double-digit GDP growth as irrefutable proof that despite the trauma of the early years, it was now giving Chinese people what they wanted. Reform and opening-up was a vast experiment, designed to save China from a perpetually underperforming and frustrated economy. In the end, through the fact that it worked, it was also able to save the Party.<\/p>\n<p>The Party under Xi continues to use the language of reform and issued a whole new list of reform targets at the Party Plenum of 2013. Reform continues and is set perhaps to continue perpetually in China. But the question remains of what a real kind of new reform might look like. The targets Deng set have long been achieved. By 2021, China will, far ahead of the time he predicted, be a middle-income country with per capita GDP of US $13,000. But reform in a middle-income China with a large, urban living middle class, is very different from that which was embarked on in 1978 when 80 percent of Chinese still lived in rural areas. The simple fact is that Xi\u2019s China is now wrestling with the complex legacy of Deng era reforms, as it moves forward to become the kind of great, powerful nation that previous leaders only dreamed of, but China today sees veering into view.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3163\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3163\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3163\" src=\"http:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kerry-Brown-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Kerry Brown\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kerry-Brown-portrait.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kerry-Brown-portrait-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kerry-Brown-portrait-857x1024.jpg 857w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kerry-Brown-portrait-768x918.jpg 768w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kerry-Brown-portrait-585x699.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kerry Brown<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King\u2019s College, London, and an Associate of the Asia Pacific Programme at Chatham House. His latest book is `China\u2019s Dream\u2019s: The Culture of the Communist Party and the Secret Source of its Power.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political analyst and academic Kerry Brown explains that the Opening up and Reform has led to legitimise China\u2019s political leadership December 2018 will mark a big moment in China\u2019s calendar of anniversaries of major events. 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