The Cost Bottom Lines of Economic Reform Must be Maintained-A Reflection on the Illegal Brickworks Incident in Shanxi Province

摘要

@@Starting in the late 1970s, China launched a historic reform with an aim of building asocialist market economy system. The reform is pushing forward the peaceful rise of China,as evidenced by the emancipated and developed social productivity, higher standard ofpeople's living, and the economic connection between China and the world. Nevertheless,the reform has unleashed a host of society conflicts as well, such as the ever-widening gapbetween the haves and the have-nots and between different regions, moral and credit crisis,and industrial conflicts. It is under this context that the brickworks incident in Shanxiprovince has been exposed. The shocking exposure forces us to look at the cost bottomlines of China's economic reform.