Apart from foreign debts, many communist ideologues find other reasons to oppose the current liberal policies. Some deplore the presence of "spiritual pollution", seeing a growing materialism among mainland Chinese. Others view foreign investment as pure and simple exploitation of cheap labor, with the special treatment afforded to foreign firms and their workers inimical to the spirit of equality that communism was supposed to bring.
部分知識分子對放鬆管理及門戶開放政策，不以為然，認為前者將帶來精神汙染，加深人們「向錢看」的心理，後者則是鼓勵外人來剝削大陸的勞力。