Seeks to analyze China's industrial reform in the 1980s by examining the Chinese bicycle industry. It sets the changes since 1978 into historical perspective by giving an account of the development of this industry.

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Pre-reform development and management system of the CBI; enterprise-level financial reforms (1978-86); other enterprise-level reforms since 1979; enterprise response to reforms and market conditions; conclusion: decentralisation and the "double explosion".