In a speech Dec. 26, the Chinese leader invoked the late dictator Mao Zedong in outlining his plan for replacing Western capitalism with Chinese-style Marxism-Leninism. Mr. Xi said in the speech ...

The original plan moved industries west to counter the threat of invasion, but now the prime motivation appears to be supply chains China is reviving aspects of a Mao Zedong-era plan to relocate ...

EACH time President Xi Jinping grabs more powers, critics compare China’s leader to Chairman Mao Zedong, whose one-man ... Officials unveiled a party-wide plan for “promoting investigation ...

WHENEVER XI JINPING grabs more power for himself, critics compare him to Chairman Mao Zedong. But is it a fair comparison? The Economist’s Beijing bureau chief, David Rennie, and senior China ...

Every 10 years, Chinese leaders hold events to commemorate the birth of the late chairman Mao Zedong, who was born on December 26, 1893. The events are an opportunity for the leadership to call ...

Marquis is Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at Cambridge Judge Business School and author of the new book, Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise Over the past decade ...

China is reviving aspects of a Mao Zedong-era plan to relocate critical facilities away from the country’s most densely populated areas to its western hinterlands. Mao’s 1964 “Third Front ...