Re: Fidel Castro "horrified by China"

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In a message dated 8/11/2004 12:06:10 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:   > Also, your employment numbers are fantastically off. Here's a report (2002) from China's State Council:<   Reply   Thanks for the data.   Actually . . . they are not my figures . . . and perhaps should not have been used. Here is the data and source of "my" figures from an article dated Nov. 1, 2003:   Current Condition of China's Working Class by Liu Shi is a former vice-chairman of the Chairman of the ACFTU (All-China Federation of Trade Unions)   "Workers now are responsible for the creation of 72.1% of China's GDP.   In 1978, there were 120 million workers in China. By 2000, there were 270 million. Adding the 70 million peasants that have moved to the cities and found long-term wage work, China's working class now numbers approximately 350 million, accounting for half of China's working population.   There are currently more than 100 million workers now employed in the non-state sectors. The 13th Party Congress established that workers laboring in private enterprises are wage laborers.   What about the SOEs? SOEs have undergone two types of reforms: the small have been sold-off and the large have been transformed into joint-stock corporations. A portion of small and medium-sized SOEs have been sold to private owners, and transformed into private enterprises, while another portion have transferred ownership of a significant portion of enterprise shares to the management.   http://www.chinastudygroup.org/index.php?type=article&id=62       Melvin P.