ABSTRACT
The rhetorical aspect of Chinese politics includes a number of elements both to shaping the type of policy that is produced and to deciphering meaning of public pronouncements. Zhao Ziyang, credited as the author of much of the economic liberalization of the past few years in China, used the opportunity of addressing the National People Congress (NPC) to push for upgrading of the strategies in which he believes. And with regard to foreign trade, Zhao supported persistence in the open-door policy. This chapter focuses on study of the several sessions of the Fifth National People's Congress that has shed light on the processes of debate, opposition, and reappraisal that characterize the work of this larger legislative body in China in its effort to direct the economy. It also explains that drafting the details of economic policy has historically been more the province of the government of the State Councilthan of the party in the PRC.
