31.   But it also has become a focus for worries about the wrenching change from a planned economy to one based on market forces.

32.   China has been opening its markets and seeking investment as it slowly makes the transition from a planned economy to a market economy.

33.   China has been opening its markets and wooing investment as it slowly makes the transition from a planned economy to a market economy.

34.   Hooray for the socialist planned economy!

35.   Its centrally planned economy has all but collapsed amid chronic food shortages, now in their fifth year.

36.   Reforms in the state-dominated planned economy have been painfully slow.

37.   Some private businesses have made what the government calls excessive profits, pushing up prices, as China shifts from a planned economy to a market economy.

38.   State banks, a remnant of the centrally planned communist economy, are barred from extending credits to private individuals.

39.   State-owned industries began reforms, still under way, intended to replace a centrally planned economy with one that could compete in international markets.

40.   The Czech Republic has been considered a showcase of transition from a centrally planned communist economy to a free market, but troubles have cropped up in recent months.