What Are The Most Important Groups In Deng Xiaoping's Economic Reform

In the eyes of those who matter the CCP remains a legitimate government. Before Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, the workers and peasants were seen as the two most important groups in the Chinese social apparatus. However, as China’s middle class grows and develops, the former two groups have become less important to the prosperity of China. As such, the middle class’s environmental grievances are heard and acted upon while the workers’ employment issues and the peasants’ land theft and corruption problems are not. Unlike under Mao, the middle class is the primary support base of the CCP. As the primary beneficiaries of the CCP’s market reforms, the middle class’s impression of the Party determines whether the group continues to exist. Though all the grievances presented by the three groups demands all challenge Party rule, each group can be addressed differently due to their economic role in the current economy.

while both the workers and peasants are provided at times slight concessions, but are still aggressively repressed. To maintain popular support especially among the new urban elite the CCP emphasizes that it is responsible for the continued economic gains of the populace and makes selective agreements with other members of the populace. In the end, though all groups do have grievances against the Party, it is likely that China would continue to practice market authoritarianism. For a successful revolution, a large concentration of the classes must reach a consensus that the CCP is a detriment to China. Though the peasants and workers have reached this conclusion to some degree the middle class has