From The China Daily:
He was born in the waning years of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). In the 1930s, while China was in the grip of civil war, he carried out ground-breaking research into rural poverty. In the 50s he was an economic policy assistant to the country’s highest decision-making body and in 1979 he published works widely regarded as the seminal guide to China’s market-oriented transition.
Yesterday, the 101-year-old pioneering economist Xue Muqiao was named one of four “outstanding economists” for creating the open-door, trade-with-all policy and suggesting farmers own the land they till as well as work unfettered in the cities.
