However, that was started and helped along mainly by private entrepreneurs with minimal governmental money.
These include private entrepreneurs, a class once regarded as exploitative and banned from party membership.
But for all their worries, private entrepreneurs are gaining wealth faster than any other group, thanks to market-oriented reforms.
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In my book, I have exclusive interviews with some private entrepreneurs who have become active in democratic parties in China.
When the government takes over much of the health or communications sectors, for example, private entrepreneurs are barred from those opportunities.
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The second group covers private entrepreneurs, their employees and archetypal small shopkeepers.
Without enough cash or cachet to get involved with the national banks, China's private entrepreneurs have been turning to smaller city commercial banks.
How exactly the money will help the preservation effort is not yet known, but a growing number of the old buildings are being done up by private entrepreneurs.
This year, he was one of only four private entrepreneurs out of nearly 1, 000 recipients of the May First Labour Medal usually awarded to model workers and managers in state-owned enterprises.
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Beijing, since 2008, has been targeting private entrepreneurs and abusing them even more than usual, so it is natural they are now trying to protect themselves from a rapacious state.
" The report doesn't deny those memberships ever existed, but instead downplays their significance -- for example by insisting that the CCP is now focused on promoting "private entrepreneurs" and "democratization.
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This year 34 private entrepreneurs have been chosen as delegates to the Congress, up from just 17 at the 17th Party Congress in 2007, according to statistics revealed by state-run China Economic Weekly.
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Their current gripe: earlier this year the government decided that it wasn't getting enough tax from private entrepreneurs who had been allowed to operate without the bureaucracy and higher tax rate of registered companies and changed the rules.
As a result of these conditions, we stand at the precipice of a yawning Soviet version of our domestic savings and loan crisis, where the high risk of doing business in the Soviet Union is transferred through a slight of hand called "government guarantees" from private entrepreneurs, shareholders and depositors (where it properly belongs) onto the shoulders of the beleaguered American taxpayer.
We love to valorize private sector entrepreneurs, and it is true that the private sector is where much of this innovation ultimately happens.
Private sector entrepreneurs and corporations, working in their own financial self-interest, discovered the natural gas and developed the technologies to recover it in an economically productive manner.
Why in the world do we need the government to do what private-sector entrepreneurs would gladly do if given the opportunity?
The Energy Datapalooza will demonstrate how private-sector entrepreneurs are creating jobs and helping Americans save money, using open data as their fuel.
Yet while city government is broken, population is shrinking and many services are lacking, downtown Detroit is booming, thanks to private investment from entrepreneurs like Gilbert and Ilitch.
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At CircleUp, the investors on our platform include angel networks, successful consumer entrepreneurs and private equity professionals.
Mentorship of entrepreneurs drives private sector development, and creates local heroes.
It is a direction that places less emphasis on individual entrepreneurs and private creativity and instead places power in the hands of a massive federal bureaucracy.
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In the U.S., such dreams are being pursued by entrepreneurs and private entities working both independently and with NASA ( Elon Musk is the best example of that).
As I am seeing with this investment, when private capital, driven entrepreneurs, innovative technology, and cooperative governments and regulators come together, the collaborative effort can produce positive change.
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This Income Tax Vacation aims the tax cut (i.e. stimulus) at the group that actually makes a difference: the innovators, investors, small business owners, entrepreneurs and private sector taxpayers.
In addition to income measurement, a research team led by Professor Zhou Xiaohong in Nanjing University further defined middle class occupations as professionals in management and technology, entrepreneurs, private business owners, and civil servants (meaning government officials).
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, private-sector Chinese entrepreneurs could set up offshore ownership structures in Hong Kong, the U.S. or the Cayman Islands, that through a new Chinese subsidiary would acquire operating business assets in China.
Third, we worked to highlight and stimulate new uses of these liberated data by private-sector companies, entrepreneurs, and non-profits.
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Doctors, nurses and other care providers, hospitals, health systems, payers, technology entrepreneurs and other private sector organizations, faith-based organizations, local governments, and public-private partnerships are some of the professionals and organizations we expect to apply.
The sector became more popular over the past few years after catching the eye of a growing number of private-equity investors and entrepreneurs who, armed with cheap financing and dwindling options for high-yielding investments, started bidding up properties.
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