ABSTRACT
Since 1978 China has been implementing an historic reform programme. The success of this ten-year-old reform programme cannot be denied. As far as China is concerned, the feudal despotism and egalitarianism of the small peasantry that have existed for thousands of years, still hamper contemporary China. Principally, it has shown that the process of China's modernisation should not slip backward. This chapter establishes a real market-oriented economy and democratic political pluralism. The reform process in China has entered a stage where, if it does not transcend further the trammels of the old theory, the old system, and the old ideas, it may be trapped by the past, may suffer delays or may even retrogress. In contemporary democratic political systems, recognition of the importance of pluralism is the important symbol of a modern society. The abolition of the monoploy position of the Communist party in the Soviet Union and East European countries opened up the way to a bright future.
