Title: Red China, Inc.: Does Communism Work After All? - DER SPIEGEL
Headings: 
Red China, Inc. Does Communism Work After All?
A Midas touch
A fast-developing tech sector
Red China, Inc.'s central nervous system
Having your cake and eating it too
" A social market economy with Chinese characteristics"
Discovering the rule of law in China
A gold rush mentality
Reclaiming lost ground
Tapping the energy of a billion Chinese
The birth of China's "special economic zones"
Opening the door to foreign capitalists
The agency foreign companies fear
"Swarm out," comrades
Joining the global elite
An army of slave-wage workers
Armani suits replace Mao jackets
Balancing capitalism with communism
A rare public debate
Growing unrest
Trouble slowing growth
Lessons from China

Content: The Government System of the People's Republic China
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The State Council, China's cabinet -- headed by the pedantic and schoolmaster-like 64-year-old Prime Minister Wen Jiabao -- deals with the day-to-day business of government. The cabinet meets at least three times a month, as required by law, in a building located a stone's throw from the offices of the Politburo. Meetings are graced with tall beauties dressed in red outfits and white gloves, who serve cabinet members green tea from the Wuyuan district in Jiangxi Province. Red China, Inc.'s central nervous system
In addition to Wen, this inner circle of the Chinese government includes four deputy premiers, five members of the State Council (including one general) and a secretary general. Comprised of eight men and two women, the group directs and coordinates the work of 28 ministries and commissions, including the country's central bank and its central auditing authority. It also presides over an immense number of government agencies, including China's official news agency, Xinhua, the Academy of Sciences, the customs agency, the weather bureau, an agency in charge of grain production and distribution and -- not to be overlooked -- the Administration of Government Offices, which provides high-ranking officials with living quarters, cars and vacation homes. All the elements in the network that make up Red China, Inc. come together in Wen's State Council. The body controls daily life in China with a plethora of decrees, memorandums, plans, measures and responses. In the month of September alone, it issued a decree on the "Administration of Payment of the Automobile Sales Tax," approved "Basic Regulations for the Electricity Market" and organized "Safety Inspections of Dams that include Power Plants."