MAINLAND CHINA POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING AND SOCIAL-DEVELOPMENT

Mainland China's many social contradictions indicate that the Stalinis t system has gone wrong. If the political structure, the heart of the system, remains untouched, there will be no danger of immediate collap se, but the crises arising from the system will also remain unsolved. In addition, the lack of thorough reform will also give rise to new pr oblems. The key to political restructuring will be redefining the natu re and status of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). If relations betwe en the Party and the people are not properly handled, an inefficient l egal system, corruption and embezzlement, and other moral problems wil l be difficult to solve. This article reviews the theories and practic es Beijing has adopted in political restructuring. The suggestions of mainland Chinese intellectuals from 1986-89 have been significant, but in the wake of the June Fourth Tiananmen massacre, they have failed t o produce a restructuring formula.