Chinese Want Communist, Capitalist Balance--Change

"A happy balance between individualistic capitalism and proletarian communism" is the ultimate aim of all Chinese revolutionary efforts today, Chi-yun Chang of the National University of Chekiang declared last night at the Institute of Geographical Exploration in the last of four Monday lectures on "China in a New World."

"China has strived to get the full benefits of industrial revolution without incurring the accompanying evil by-products," said Chang, a member of the People's Political Council. "As Dr. Sun remarked, our immediate problem is not economic inequality, but economic poverty; not a fight against capitalists, but the prevention of the rise of capitalists in the future.'"

"The salient point about China's coming democracy," continued the Oriental geographer," is that in China for long ages past sound historical and philosophical foundations have already been laid. The doctrines of historical materialism and class struggle are not only alien but also repugnant to the Chinese mind."

Chang emphasized the importance of the rising local governments in the Hsien, which correspond to our countries. "The development of local government has been remarkably rapid during the war," he asserted. "Appreciable progress has been made also in mass education and agricultural and industrial cooperatives, and all this development of local self- government may well be considered the most significant reform carried out by the Chinese Government in recent years.

Chang is visiting the United States at the invitation of the State Department and plans a lecture tour of mid-western colleges in the near future