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The history of PLA involvement in commercial enterprises began in the 1950s and 1960s.^{[citation needed]} Because of the socialist state-owned system and from a desire for military self-sufficiency, the PLA created a network of enterprises such as farms, guest houses, and factories intended to financially support its own needs. One unintended side effect of the Deng-era economic reforms was that many of these enterprises became very profitable.^{[citation needed]}