Guangdong province is the center of private, capitalist, development in China. There has been a struggle within the Chinese Communist Party that began last July 1 with the proposal by Jiang Zemin formally to admit capitalists into the party. In fact, many capitalists had belonged to the party for some time. Last fall, the left, Marxist, opponents of this proposal managed to defeat the proposal at a party plenum.
Since then the struggle has continued, but it is very difficult from here to say how things are going. The Xinhua report is a sign that things are not going well for the left inside the Chinese Communist Party. No surprise.
Today MR put up on its website what we believe to be the first publicly available English translations of the documents circulated inside the CPC last summer and fall by the left, in its temporarily successful attempt to oppose the formal inclusion of capitalists within the CPC. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0502cpc.htm
john mage