ABSTRACT
Until 1962, economic emphasis was on heavy industrial and military production and development. This has resulted in an overall growth rate of about eight percent per annum for industry since 1949, as compared with only two percent for agriculture. Despite the "people's war" rhetoric of the 1960s, there was large-scale development and production of improved types and large quantities of military equipment. Since 1973, the Chinese have also sought to make a virtue of necessity by identifying large military industry with imperialism and revisionism. In the long pun, the most serious brake on China's economic and industrial development will probably prove to be a self-inflicted one. Even military industry tends to produce too much too late, rather than really to innovate. In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, virtually all of China's industry was under some degree of military control. Most of China's military industry is under the Second through Eighth Ministries of Machine Industry.
