Challenges to Reforms and Opening-up Deng's reforms aimed to decrease the state's role in the economy and gradually allow private production in agriculture and industry. By 1981, roughly 73% of rural farms had been de-collectivized, and 80% of state-owned enterprises were permitted to retain their profits.
Challenges to Reforms and Opening-up Deng's reforms aimed to decrease the state's role in the economy and gradually allow private production in agriculture and industry By 1981, roughly 73% of rural farms had been de-collectivized, and 80% of state-owned enterprises were permitted to retain their profits