Xue Muqiao
| Xue Muqiao | |
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| 薛暮桥 | |
| Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection | |
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In office November 1949 – 31 March 1955 Serving with Wang Congwu, An Ziwen, Qiang Ying, Liu Lan Tao, Xie Juezai, Li Baohua, Liu Jingfan, Liang Hua & Feng Naichao |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 October 1904 Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, Qing China |
| Died | 22 July 2005 (aged 100) Beijing, China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
Xue Muqiao (Chinese: 薛暮桥; pinyin: Xuē Mùqiáo; 25 October 1904 - 22 July 2005) was a Chinese economist. He was instrumental in introducing and implementing economic reforms that transformed China into a market economy by participating in the development of the ideological concept of a primary stage of socialism.
Xue was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province as Xue Yulin (薛雨林). He served as the director of National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China in 1950's. He was a fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2005, Xue received the first Outstanding Achievement Award of Economics in China.
Xue Muqiao introduced the term "underdeveloped socialism" in his book China's Socialist Economy. The book was written in the orthodox Marxist–Leninist framework enunciated by Joseph Stalin in Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. (1952). Xue wrote that within the socialist mode of production there were several phases and for China to reach an advanced form of socialism it had to focus on developing the productive forces. He proposed a theory in which the basic laws of economic growth were those in which "the relations of production must conform to the level of the productive forces". Similar to Stalin, Xue considered the productive forces to be primary and that the relations of production had to conform to the level of the productive forces. Xue believed that this was a fundamental universal law of economics. Unlike Stalin, Xue believed there were principles that guided the socialist transition, the key one being the principle of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his work"; this principle would guide socialist development, even when China had reached advanced socialism, and would be replaced with "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" only when there existed general abundance. Xue based his arguments upon the economic policies pursued during the Cultural Revolution, which he believed had led to "the most severe setbacks and heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People's Republic".
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