Re: China's Communist Party Grows...
...and evolves:
New Deal For China's Capitalists
Businessmen Join Party But Run Their Own Show
By John Pomfret
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, July 3, 2001
YIXING, China -- From the time Jiang Quanlong was a teenager, he knew he was different. As the son of a landlord in a country that had just undergone a Communist revolution, he was beaten by his classmates and denied access to college. And he did not share the dreams of what had become a dogmatically socialist society.
Instead, as far back as he can remember, Jiang wanted to do business. And now, in an example of the dizzying changes transforming China's economic and social landscape, Jiang has become the capitalist he always wanted to be. At the same time, he has become a Communist Party member, an example of the marriage between entrepreneurship and party membership that President Jiang Zemin blessed on Sunday during celebrations of the party's 80th anniversary.
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