In this New York Times article, we find out that China has been officially declared to not be a market economy. This evidently leaves them without some of the economic concessions that come with being declared as such. This has evidently been in response to the Chinese governments monopoly on much of the economy, including their excess of steel and the 2000 year old monopoly on salt. These days the communist party has systematically infiltrated and now controls the market. They are a what the new York times calls, “a party-corporate conglomerate.”