↑The Socialist Market Economy: China and the World, by Ding, Xiaoqin. 2009. Vol. 73, No. 2, China: Socialism, Capitalism, Market: Why Not? Where Next? (Apr. 2009), pp. 235–241: "The socialist economic system at its primary stage is explicitly stipulated in Article 6 of the Constitution. 'The basis of the socialist economic system of the People's Republic of China is socialist public ownership of the means of production, namely, ownership of the whole people and collective ownership by the working people… In the primary stage of socialism, the state upholds the basic economic system with public ownership remaining dominant and diverse forms of ownership developing side by side'."
↑"Socialist Market Economic System". Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China. 25 June 2004. Retrieved 7 March 2018. The development of the economic system with public ownership playing a dominant role and diverse forms of ownership developing side by side is a basic characteristic of the socialist economic system at the preliminary stage…The public economy consists not only the state-owned economy and the collective economy, but also the state-owned and collective component in the mixed-ownership economy. The dominant position of the public ownership is represented that: the public assets have a dominant proportion in the overall assets of the society; the state-owned economy controls the lifeline of the national economy and plays a leading role in the economic development, as is from the aspect of the whole country.
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↑"State Capitalism" or "Socialist Market Economy"? – Dialogues among Western and Chinese Scholars, by Cui, Zhiyuan. 2012. Vol. 38, No. 6, Modern China (November 2012), pp. 665–676: "However, most commentators in the West, from the Right as well as from the Left, believe that China is becoming increasingly 'capitalist,' and that the notion of a 'socialist market economy' is internally incoherent and at best serves the ideological role of window dressing. At midnight on a day in 1992, Jiang Zemin called Chen Jinhua, the Minister of Economic System Reform at the time, to ask him to prepare an in-depth study on the relationship between socialism and a market economy to counter Mrs. Thactcher's denial of the feasibility of a 'socialist market economy.' Chen's reply to Jiang was interesting and revealing. Chen discussed with his colleagues and found that Pareto, one of the leading figures of the Western economics which defines the very notion of 'market efficiency' as 'Pareto-efficient,' wrote a two-volume book titled Socialist System in 1902–1903. Chen told Jiang that since Pareto, whose influence in the Western market economics is arguably only second to that of Adam Smith, was himself interested in socialism, that means 'socialist market economy' must have some meaning even in Western economics"