Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.10.2.B
The Standard
- TOT.C.10.2
- Trace the rise of China to peer competitor with the United States of America including.
rise of Jiang Zemin and the introduction of the concept of a Socialist Market Economy,
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · TOT.C.10.2
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Trace Jiang Zemin's rise to party leader after the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Explain how China's leaders introduced a socialist market economy, with more business competition under continued party control.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student places Jiang's appointment in 1989 and the party's adoption of the new economic policy in 1992. They can name both a market feature, such as competing businesses, and a state feature, such as state-owned banks.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Jiang started China's economic reforms, though Deng Xiaoping began them earlier. They may assume market reforms ended one-party rule or state ownership.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Put these in order: Deng begins economic reforms, Jiang becomes party leader, the party adopts a socialist market economy. Name one thing the state still controlled.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four dated cards, 1978 reforms, 1989 Jiang's appointment, 1992 policy adoption, and 1993 presidency, to arrange on a timeline.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining how competing shops and state-owned banks could exist in the same economy.
Play a sorting game with cards labeled private shops, state-owned banks, price competition, and one-party rule; students explain each placement.
Pair a Xiaomi phone price listing with a card about state-controlled banks; students identify market competition and state ownership.
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Related Standards
- TOT.C.8.1.A
New Economic Policy
- TOT.C.9.3.F
Deng Xiaoping’s political and economic reforms.
- TOT.C.9.3.D
Chinese Revolution (e.g., one-party dictatorship, collectivization, laogai prisons, Hundred Flowers Campaign, and Anti-Rightist Campaign).
- TOT.C.10.2.A
retirement of Deng Xiaoping following the Tiananmen Square massacre
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