ABSTRACT
At first the policy researchers focused on Eastern European models, but they very quickly began to experiment with the concepts and methods of Western development economics. A special relationship was forged back then between Chen Yun and these men, as their research supported Chen's views during the 1956 review of the Soviet model and the early 1960s post-Great Leap reconstruction. Researchers fine-tuned Hu's request into a directive to explore a new target model for a developed China and a new strategy for development. Liu later recalled that some were arguing for very marginal reform of the Soviet model through decentralization and local diversity. In February, when Hu Yaobang called on China's researchers and planners to draw up a target model and output projections for China in the year 2000, Lin and others saw it as an opportunity for an experiment in long-range forecasting using methods new to China.
