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The People’s Republic of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

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Following Mao’s death in 1976, his successors began to undo the policies he had put in place. They introduced reforms through a gradual process of trial and error. Unproductive collective farms were eliminated and turned over to families, who began to reap the benefits of their labors. The resulting increases in productivity improved agricultural output, releasing a deluge of unneeded farm laborers from the countryside into the cities.

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Hoovestal, L.E. (2013). The People’s Republic of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In: Globalization Contained. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315915_7

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