Celebrating China's new open up policy

China is mapping a unique path of historical evolution. It disavowed the Soviet model of socialism and is now exploring its own original road to modernization and socialism.

In 1978 Deng Xiaoping launched China on an original path to socialism with "Chinese characteristics". Deng's new policies included both economic and cultural aspects, but both represented a new "openness". On the economic side free markets were encouraged at the lower levels of the Chinese economy, while in the cultural domain China became a more engaged partner in the international exchange of ideas.

Deng's innovations were a repudiation of the Soviet archetype. While the Soviet Kremlin controlled every mechanism of the Russian economy, Deng's creativity saw the advantages of utilizing free markets to speed the modernization of the Chinese economy.