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Explain The People's Republic Of China Under A Command Economy

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The People’s Republic of China is under a command economy which is an economic system where the government makes decisions on what goods and services should be produced, how should these goods and services be produced, and who consumes these goods and services. Although they are under a command economy, the People’s Republic of China has started to create free enterprise zones with free markets. Free enterprise zones are zones where businesses are offered to receive incentives, like tax relief, from the government in order to help economic growth.
In 1971, The People’s Republic of China established their first free enterprise zone, or as they call it “special economic zones”. China’s purpose was not so much based on the advantage of creating more jobs, but instead was …show more content…

Although in the beginning the S.E.Z. was showing great results, by 1998, China’s enterprise zones decreased rapidly by almost 50 percent. The People’s Republic of China lost billions of dollars’ worth of foreign investment, which lead to massive spending on infrastructure projects (Knes).
Rapid spending and development resulted in higher wages, but also higher land prices. As producers expand their factories in free enterprise zones, wages will most likely go up because factories will be in a more free market economy and the government will have a little bit less control. On the other hand, workers working in state-owned factories will most likely still be under control of the government, as it is a state-owned factory. They will most likely still have to follow what the government policies in put for the work place are. Since free enterprise zones give an opening to the free market economy, obviously the government being a part of the command economy would not be in so much of an agreement with letting businesses take even the slightest lead and much less control the workers’ wage. Being under a command economy, I would personally migrate to free enterprise zones without even thinking. Why?

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