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China's Defence Industrial Base in 1985

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2013

David Bachman
David Bachman*
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University of Washington. Email: dbachman@uw.edu
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Abstract

This essay assesses various dimensions of China's defence industrial enterprises. It argues that the defence industrial system should be divided into two tiers: tier one, composed of weapons and equipment producers for the military, and tier two, composed of “civilian” industrial enterprises that provided critical inputs for tier one enterprises, and which in national emergencies could be mobilized to produce weapons themselves. In 1985, there were 1,158 tier one defence enterprises and 827 tier two enterprises among China's 8,285 large- and medium-scale enterprises. Additional information is provided on defence enterprise shares of the economy at the provincial and the national levels, on enterprise distribution by industrial sector, and on when enterprises were built. The article attempts to estimate the total number of workers, output value and fixed assets of the defence industrial sector, and their weight in the national economy.

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defence industryindustrylarge- and medium-scale enterprisesprovincial economieslabour forceMao periodChina
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The China Quarterly , Volume 214 , June 2013 , pp. 432 - 455
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2013 

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