off of TRIVIAL stuff. Japan, USA France Switzerland fed themselves not with just agriculture but also economies based on Hollywood,Gambling, perfume, anime, beer and chocalete sales.basically non-food related consumer goodsthe mistake the soviets made was not that they had no more money to spend outside of missles. but they were unwilling to allocate the investment for consumer goods, which PRC wisely chose to do thanks to Deng.
now if only we can make the Chery,ARJ,Sino-Cinema,Lenovo popular then PRC really take off
