Over 40 years China has been transformed out of all recognition, the scale of its growth and the sheer speed of change has been astonishing. The country has seen the largest lifting of people out of poverty that has ever taken place in human history. So how did an impoverished and backward communist country become an engine of global capitalism? Let's find out.

Over 40 years China has been transformed out of all recognition, the scale of its growth and the sheer speed of change has been astonishing. The country has seen the largest lifting of people out of poverty that has ever taken place in human history. So how did an impoverished and backward communist country become an engine of global capitalism? Let's find out.