Sino-Japanese Engagement in the Making of China’s National Champions

Wendy Leutert

New Political Economy, 2022, vol. 27, issue 6, 929-943

Abstract: Japan’s rapid post-war economic growth prompted Chinese leaders to look to their neighbour as they initiated market reforms from the late 1970s. How did movements of people and ideas between China and Japan occur, and what were their effects on Chinese enterprise policies? From the 1970s through the 1990s, Chinese officials, scholars, and enterprise representatives invited Japanese advisors to China, conducted myriad exchanges through associations like the Sino-Japanese Economic Knowledge Exchange and the Japan-China Economic Association, and actively studied Japan’s economy and companies. Chinese policy-makers gained insights from Japan about market-responsive forms of corporate structure, organisational solutions to state ownership dilemmas, evidence that consolidation could aid economic performance and technological upgrading, and strategic commitment to building large state-owned enterprise groups. However, this episode of intense engagement between China and Japan generated neither unilateral ‘diffusion’ nor unitary influence. Instead, it reveals how China has developed its own path of economic development through what I term ‘policy collaging’: seeking, selecting, and creatively combining policy ideas and practices from international sources.

Date: 2022
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