China's Economy In The New Era In The Democratic Process Factors

Economic democracy has always been a key factor that influences U.S.'s Economic and Trade Policies on China. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the annual review on China's most-favored-nation treatment in the U.S., the WTO negotiations between China and the U.S. that lasted for several decades, and U.S.'s denial of China's market position, are all results of U.S.'s judgment that the economic democracy of China is not up to the standard. China's socialist economic democracy which is established on public ownership does not meet its neo-liberal economic model whose core is privatization and liberalization. Through the problem of economic democracy to influence U.S.'s Economic and Trade Policies on China, has become an important part of U.S. strategy. The author intends to analyze in depth the essence of economic democracy and the trend of U.S.'s Economic and Trade Policies on China, make a relevancy analysis on U.S.'s policy and China's progress on economic democracy, and states my thoughts on how to meet the challenges from the U.S. in the new era.This dissertation consists of six chapters as follows:Chapter 1: This chapter reviews western scholars'exploration of economic democracy under the premise of a clear definition. Some basic ideas these scholars propose such as'workers'participation in management, highlighting the principle of democracy's importance in the course of building the social and economic system, have the reference value for improving the socialist economic system. However, as a purely theoretical proposition, western theory of economic democracy clearly is a kind of fantasy because it has not break the stereotype of the capitalist private ownership and is out of social practice. On this prerequisite, I investigate Deng Xiaoping's economic democratic ideas which guide the building of China's economic democracy in the new era, and summarize the new leadership's inheritance, enrichment and development of Deng Xiaoping's thinking.Chapter II: This chapter mainly examines the close relationship between Deng Xiaoping's thought of economic democracy which plays a major role for establishing and improving the socialist market economic system and China's economic democracy process in the new era. On this basis, I generalize the achievements and problems of China's economic democracy building in the new era. The achievements include: democratic reform of the economic management system which is embodied by the democratization of production management, price management, trading system management and the state-owned enterprise management; establishment of equality of various market players and the legal security system for economic democracy through three constitutional amendments and setting up other relevant laws such as"Property Law","Anti-monopoly Law","Labor Contract Law",elevation of public awareness of democracy because the freedom, equality and sense of participation which are included by economic democracy have been widely accepted. Main problems are: gap between government function and the requirement of economic democracy's new development; reform's lagging behind in monopoly spheres; incompletion of social credit system; traditional attitudes and behaviors'inertia under planned economic system. These problems make great resistance to the development of economic democracy. From a development perspective, the overall completion of China's economic democratic process is a comprehensive project. From the perspective of reform, building economic democracy is still a difficult task.Any practical results are given under historical conditions and actual conditions, and can not be divorced from the appropriate background. China's economic democratic process is not constrained by domestic factors, but also by international environment. Among them, the United States, the world's only superpower is the largest external factor and affects directly. The United States, whose global strategic objective is to advance western democracy, has bias on China's democratic status quo all the time. With the increasingly close China-U.S economic and trade relations, U.S. has repeatedly issued a veiled criticism of China's economic democracy so as to advocate its neo-liberal economic model and achieve the maximum benefit. Implied by the wrong idea, the United States at all levels can partly understand the progress of China's economic democracy building, but they pay more attention to the problems and expand them, then form kinds of misperceptions of China's economic democracy. These are the main contents of the third chapter.Chapter IV: This chapter analyzes the deep-seated causes of U.S.'involvement in China's economic democracy process from the perspectives of politics, culture, economics and strategy basing on the summary of U.S.'cognition of China's economic democracy. On this basis, Chapter V summarizes U.S.'positive and negative impacts on China's economic democratic process. On the one hand, due to the different ideology and the struggle of initiative, U.S. has brought great negative impact to China's economic democratic process through the export of western democracy and neo-liberalism. On the other hand, China can learn experiences from U.S. government's economic management system, business management culture, anti-monopoly legislation and other related fields. Meanwhile, Sino- U.S. economic and mutual penetration can help enhance the sense of economic democracy of the market subjects in China. All these are of great significance to accelerate China's economic democracy process, and can be called the positive impact brought by the United States. In addition, this chapter analyzes the U.S. factor in China's accession to the World Trade Organization with the combination of the Sino-U.S.WTO negotiation. Why make it as a case study, mainly because China's accession process to WTO is in fact the process to achieve rapid developments of economic democracy building process. And the bargain between the two sides in the negotiation process is precisely a refraction of U.S.'influence on China's economic democratic process.Chapter VI: China's strategy toward U.S. in the economic democratic process. The U.S. is the most important external factor inevitably due to its positive and negative impacts on China's economic democratic process. How to deal with the intervention and the impact of U.S. is the core issue in this chapter.The dissertation analyzes the impact on the future Sino-U.S. economic and trade relations by the issue of economic democracy on the basis of findings concluded. Meanwhile, the paper prospects for the potential and limits of cooperation on China's economical democracy building between U.S. and China. Last, I provide some policy recommendations for making good use of U.S.'positive impact, defusing the negative impact and promoting China-U.S.'s economic and trade interactions, such as insisting on economic democracy building with Chinese characteristics, with active economic diplomacy toward U.S. and promoting positive interaction, making good use of the positive factors of U.S.'trade policy toward China to push the Sino-U.S. economic and trade relations to mechanism and so on. This is the only way to create a favorable external environment for China's economic democracy building, and then China can seize the opportunity to make the economic democratic process better and faster.