Part of Joe's Chinese quantitatice finance pages at http://www.gnacademy.org/joe
There are two levers in macroeconomic control
fiscal policy
monetary policy
However, in practice the Chinese government has used a third lever
adminstrative policy
These include production instructions to SOE's and local governments to provide or restrict credit. In most economic thinking this third lever is regarded as a temporary and ineffective abberation which well disappear when China becomes a mature economy. The idea that I'm bringing to the table is to not regard the third lever as an abberation, but to
recognize that the third lever is the primary macroeconomic control that the government has,
to at least consider the possibility that one should necessarily get rid of the third lever, and
to realize that it would be a massive disaster if the third lever is removed without making the first two effective.