From New Economic Elite To New Political Elite

After the reform and opening policy, private entrepreneurs were given the title of new economic elite, they benefited from the adjustment of the party and the state economic policy, which changed from transformation into acquiescence, acquiescence to affirm, affirm to support. After 30 years’ development, the private economy continues to grow, the social status of private entrepreneurs who are also from the "marginal man" up to the remarkable position. With private entrepreneurs who have more and more powerful economic capital, on the one hand they desperately need to improve the political status, to protect their own economic interests. On the other hand, the ruling party from the perspective of maintaining national stability, to commence with their political integration and elite co-optation. In this process, represented by private entrepreneurs, the new economic elites begin the course of transition to the new power elite. In the pilgrimage of the power, the government closely linked with the capital. The new economic elite and the government formed a certain degree of shelter relations. However, whether the title of the new economic elite or the new power elite, the achievements of China’s private entrepreneurs are nothing but "gifts" which bestowed by the ruling party because of the continuous development of the times. They cannot kidnap politics like American bourgeois. Their impact on changes in the political system is still limited. "The new power elite", compared to a strong authoritarian regime, is still weak.