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S6 History: China’s Reform and Opening Up after 1978 | 10 Advanced Items
S6 History: China’s Reform and Opening Up after 1978 | 10 Advanced Items
Ten items work on institutional logic: the incentive in household contracting, zone tax and approval powers, and the point-line-surface order, checked with dates and percentages.
From policy to incentive Advanced items ask why a policy worked, not only when it happened. Answers should name the incentive, the cost and who gained, backed by figures that can be checked.
01 Paper details (check answers afterwards)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Questions | 10 |
| Suggested time | 25 |
| Difficulty mix | Intermediate 10 |
| Chapter | Chapter: S6 History: China’s Reform and Opening Up after 1978 |
| Level | Advanced |
02 Questions (10 items)
- IntermediateHow many days lie between the opening of the plenum on 18 December 1978 and the founding of the Shenzhen zone on 26 August 1980?
- IntermediateHow many years passed between the 1978 plenum and China joining the World Trade Organisation in 2001?
- IntermediateWhat incentive problem did the rule of delivering the quota to the state, reserving the collective share and keeping the rest mainly solve?
- IntermediateTogether, how many opening points did the 14 coastal cities of 1984 and the 4 zones of 1980 make?
- IntermediateA village has 1,200 mu of paddy. Output per mu rose from 400 jin to 600 jin after contracting to households. By how many jin did the whole village output rise?
- IntermediateIn the same case, output per mu rose from 400 jin to 600 jin. What was the percentage increase?
- IntermediateIf real output per head grew 9.5 per cent a year from 1978 to 2008, roughly how many times larger was it after thirty years? Give 1.095 to the power 30 to one decimal place.
- IntermediateThe 1982 congress set the goal of a moderately prosperous society. What theory did the 1987 congress set out as the basis for reform?
- IntermediateWhich two policies of the 1980s special zones attracted foreign investment most?
- IntermediateThe opening moved from points to a line and then to surfaces. Which reform strategy does that sequence reflect?
03 Answers and one-line notes
| # | Answer | One-line note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 617 days. | Subtract the dates directly; 1980 was a leap year with 29 February. |
| 2 | 23 years. | Joining the WTO extended zone-style opening rules to the whole country. |
| 3 | It removed the free-rider problem of egalitarian pay and tied the residual output to each household’s effort. | Leaving the marginal return with the producer is an ownership incentive, not a technical improvement. |
| 4 | 18. | The two differ in kind: zones held tax and approval powers, while the coastal cities mainly received preferential policies. |
| 5 | 240,000 jin. | Work out the gain per mu first, then multiply by 1,200 mu. |
| 6 | 50 per cent. | The base is the original 400 jin, so a 200 jin gain is exactly half. |
| 7 | About 15.2 times. | Compounding needs a power, not 9.5 per cent times 30. |
| 8 | The theory of the primary stage of socialism, built on one central task and two basic points. | The primary-stage thesis legitimised market tools and left room for private business. |
| 9 | A corporate income tax rate cut to 15 per cent against the 33 per cent elsewhere, plus devolved land-use and project approval powers. | The tax gap and approval speed decided where foreign firms went more than subsidy amounts did. |
| 10 | A gradual one: pilot first, then extend, using local experiments to cut nationwide institutional risk. | Pilot schemes allowed failure and correction, at the cost of rules differing across regions for years. |
04 What to do after marking
- After marking, redo only the wrong items and write down which step went wrong (formula, unit, or misread number).
- Repeat the same item two days later; move to the next paper only when both attempts are correct.
- Parents only need the answer and note columns; there is no need to explain every item.
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