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5 - Who Owns the State-Owned Enterprise?

from Part II - Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

Koji Hirata
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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This chapter examines bureaucratic politics surrounding Angang in the early People’s Republic of China (PRC). Major state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as Angang were subject to both vertical control from the PRC government in Beijing and horizontal control from local Chinese Communist Party organizations. The tension between these two lines of control manifested in debates over the “one-chief system” – a Soviet-style top-down management structure. This tension was also evident in Angang’s construction, production, and sales. Despite the ostensibly centralized system, the PRC planned economy operated at the grassroots level as a field of constant negotiation among various government offices and SOEs, each interpreting the state policies in their own way.

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Making Mao's Steelworks
Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism
, pp. 163 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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