Edited sentence: According to China.After opening up trade to the world under Deng Xiaoping, the People's Republic of China runs some of the most economically free regions in the world, including Hong Kong, which is regarded by the Hoover Institute and the Wall Street Journal as the world's freest economy.Contrary to communist theory proposed by Marx and Engles and later adapted by Lenin, Stalin, Mao the People's Republic of China; the largest country whose ruling party refers to itself as communist, runs Special Economic Zones dedicated to capitalist enterprise, free from central government control.SEZ's operate under market economy rather than the state capitalist top down command economy approach.Several other self proclaimed communist countries have also made pro market reforms in the last few decades including Vietnam.Since the opening of the Free Trade Zones China has maintained a growth rate of over 8%, and originally saw growth rates around 12%.These Special Economic Zones are different than the State Capitalism, as practiced in the Soviet Union, because the SEZs allow for capitalists to build and expand their industries and private property, free from the control of the central government.These Special Economic Zones have few restrictions upon businesses, industries, imports and exports, including the elimination of duties, and a free price system.org "After opening Shenzhen and other three coastal cities in South China as special economic regions and then dozens of economic and technological development zones in the 1980s, the country introduced free trade zones in the early 1990s in 15 coast cities, including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Tianjin