How China Got Rich

Over the last 40 years, China has been transformed out of all recognition. The scale of it’s growth and the sheer speed of change is astonishing. Nothing like this has ever happened before, the biggest lifting of people out of poverty. But as China rises, others will fall and in the 21st Century the balance of power in the world is changing. So how did an impoverished and backward Communist country become an engine of global capitalism?