| The effect was made to reopen the schools and | | | | In general all children attend primary school, although |
| colleges in 1960. The admission of new students was | | | | not all finish because many are taken from school to |
| not accompanied by a complete reassertion of the | | | | work on the farm. |
| old practices, which the left wing had condemned as | | | | In 1979, the one child policy was implemented, it has |
| elitist. The examinations were restored, and the | | | | pursued the most comprehensive birth control policy |
| authority of teachers, who had been humiliated and | | | | in the world. On the incentive side, couples who |
| abused since 1965, was protected. | | | | pleaded to have only one child were a reward with |
| On Chairman Moa' admission policy, gave a high | | | | bonuses, larger apartments improved medical care |
| priority to workers, peasants, and soldiers who had | | | | and places at the best schools. Those who refused |
| been recommended by their committees or their | | | | and went ahead with a second birth, faced fined and |
| units, they would return on graduation. Students | | | | discrimination in distinction of their employers. |
| were expected to spend some time in the | | | | In 1980, Oversea Chinese was returned and invested |
| productive labour, such as farming industries, factory | | | | in China. Foreign investors were followed in the later |
| workers or joined the army. | | | | year. Foreign investors seek China is the best place |
| After Chairman Moa died, his successor was arrested | | | | to invest due to China has intensified cheap labour. In |
| and Deng Xiaoping sought power in 1977. The | | | | the two decades China's trade had grown more than |
| beginning of The Revolution in Agriculture, The | | | | tenfold. 80% of China's exports were the |
| political and economic Reform. | | | | manufacture product. |
| Chairman of Deng Xiaoping in 1978 criticized the | | | | In 1990s, China was a major trading nation a member |
| existing system of economic priorities, pointed out | | | | of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Trade and |
| China was spending less on education than India. | | | | investment, together with free market reforms in |
| Investment in capital construction in higher education | | | | the domestic economy, particularly agriculture, |
| spent as little more as 1 per cent of the state | | | | transformed the Chinese economy, was not in doubt. |
| budget. By the 1990 it was running over 4 per cent. | | | | |