Since the founding of New China in 1949,it had become an important issue that how should people treat the capitalism and construct the socialism.The report presents the experience obtained when the Communist Party of China attempted to recognize and reform capitalist industry and commerce,with a view of the socialist transformation of this field in Shanghai.It then analyses the development path of state capacity during the initial stage of New China.Before the founding of New China,Shanghai had become a famous commercial and industrial city,which owned abundant bureaucrat capital,national capital and some other resources.After liberation,it was necessary for the Communist Party of China to monitor the industrialists and businessmen efficiently in Shanghai,as it needed to establish and improve the state capacity.Thus,the policy would cooperate and enhance the Socialist ideology and economic construction from the overall point of view.The report mainly focuses on the confrontation and co-operation between private and state-owned industrialists and businessmen,which reveals the changes of state capacity during the period from the initial stage of New China to the accomplishment of socialist transformation.More specifically,it detects the methodology used when the Communist Party of China intended to monitor the industrialists and businessmen efficiently and prompted them to collaborate in a well-organized structure.This important history may help us to comprehend how a new regime combines the ideology and goal,which leads to an effective construction and expansion of state capacity.Meanwhile,the experience learned from the history may assist us to recognize and help the improvement of the industrialists and businessmen,as well as the enhancement of state capacity in the modernization progress.It thus provides a significant reference of the economy construction and political stability in the new era of China. |