China’s Future Will Reflect Russia’s
Global Voices
By Nancy Qian, Founding Director of China Econ Lab: China learned from Russia’s post-1991 experience, pursued its economic liberalization with more care. But it ultimately could not avoid the political implications of pro-market policies.
But Beijing and Moscow struggled to maintain production, because workers enjoyed very little reward for their labor. Among other strategies to compel people to work harder, the Soviet and Chinese governments established systems that threatened farmers with starvation if their production did not meet quotas set by the state. This approach led to more than seven million famine deaths in the Soviet Union (with the highest mortality rates in Ukraine) in 1932-33, and to 16.5-45 million famine deaths in China in 1959-61.
China’s Future Will Reflect Russia’s
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