Fortyyears after China started its reform and opening-up, morethan 18 million ruralresidents have shaken off poverty in SouthChina'sGuangxiZhuangAutonomous Region.
More importantly, structural reform is still worth pursuing -- opening up the professions, reforming the public sector, and liberalizing an economy that only benefits insiders are laudable goals.
Instead, he spent the summer and fall slowly rebuilding the consensus behind the reform movement, patiently pushing the argument that China could not overhaul its inefficient state-owned enterprises without opening up further to international competition.