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China's export-led economy was so successful for so long in large part because China was able to provide such a low-cost labour force. What was it about their governance system, and the "Great Wall" (or dam, more like) between the cities and countryside that enabled them to do this?

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Hukou registration permit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou

Deng Xiaoping with US President Jimmy Carter, 1979: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Sources:

LIN Chun (2015) “The language of class in China”, Socialist Register, Vol. 51, pp. 24-53
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/59694/

Jane Hayward, “Reorganising Chinese Labour: The Establishment of the Household Registration System” in Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour, edited by Ivan Franceschini, Kevin Lin, Nicholas Loubere and Christian Sorace, Verso and ANU Press (2022) https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/1...