Deng Xiaoping and Reunification
Tried to assure Taiwanese that if they rejoined China they would still have autonomy
-Doesn't happen but trade increases between the two
-1987 Taiwan lifts its ban on travel to the mainland
-Also pushed for reunification of Hong Kong (Xianggang)
-This happens in 1997 and it becomes a Special Administrative Region (SAR)
-Doesn't happen but trade increases between the two
-1987 Taiwan lifts its ban on travel to the mainland
-Also pushed for reunification of Hong Kong (Xianggang)
-This happens in 1997 and it becomes a Special Administrative Region (SAR)
Deng Xiaoping and Economic Changes "To Get Rich is Glorious"
-Coming to power in 1979 institutes agricultural reforms
-Encouraged farmers to sell on the open market
-Also allowed for the contracting of plots of land (excess profits could be kept) 'productive responsibility system
- China accepted loans and foreign investments
-Joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank
Why did China want to establish Reunification?
Social Changes in the 1980s
-The single child policy introduced in 1979
-Tax benefits to families who accepted this (Some lost their private plots of land)
-Marriage law brought in 1980 (confirmed the rights of women and raised age of marriage M=20 to 22 W=18 to 20)