Communist economy strategy: the rise of mainland China

The study of the Economics of Competitive Coexistence was proposed by the NPA International Committee and set up in 1956 as a separate project to investigate these questions and a host of related problems. As an aid to its forthcoming general analysis, the project has had pre pared a number of country and area studies, of which the present one on Mainland China is the fourth to reach the public. Together with its pre viously published companion volume on East-Central Europe, and one in preparation on the Soviet Union, this report is designed to throw some light on the Sino-Soviet bloc's capabilities to maintain and expand its so-called trade-and-aid offensive, while striving to realize its other economic objectives, including rapid growth.

The Rockefeller Foundation in 1956 and 1957 made two grants to finance the NPA Project on the Economics of Competitive Coexistence. The Foundation is not, however, to be understood as approving by virtue of its grants any of the views expressed in research studies growing out of the project.

NPA is grateful for the Rockefeller Foundation's financial support and is deeply indebted to all who are contributors to this project to the chair man and the members of the Special Project Committee on the Economics of Competitive Coexistence; to the project's research staff; and especially to A. Doak Barnett, the author of the present study on Communist Economic Strategy: The Rise of Mainland China.