The United Nations commended the Chinese effort and success at providing basic needs for all its population. The foundations laid then are so strong that China emerged as a second largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity before the turn of the century. It is now deemed as a power to be co-operated with by the most developed world powers. The people were then poised to move on to the next higher level of needs' satisfaction and development under Deng. Some other economies that caught-up with the world such as Japan's, Taiwan's, and South Korea's had also first ensured integration of their populations within.
Land reforms remain at the core of their development process too.
Land reforms by themselves cannot work miracles. This first step needs to be followed through with a view to overcoming problems that keep cropping up during the course of implementation. For, counter-revolutionary coalitions keep taking shape that try to hinder and impede the change process. Economies such as ours which have tried to grow and develop with the help of World Bank's recipes have faced repeated frustration in our development efforts. The history goes as far back as the 1960s when we started industrializing and urbanizing at the expense of agriculture.