The power of entrepreneurs not only affects capitalist economies but also effects emerging economies such as China. Entrepreneurs are the main strength contributed to the spurring private sectors and to the flourishing market forces by creating jobs, supplying consumer goods, mobilizing savings, and breaking up the monopolies of state firms. This article mobilises different social theories and examines the different determinants of China's entrepreneurship with the national sampling survey data set of the 2003 China General Social Survey. The results of the Binary Logistic Regressions support psychological supply-side, sociological and organisational perspectives. However, the results of pooled analysis indicate that psychological traits cannot account for entrepreneurship. Instead, the sociological and organisational perspectives (i.e. unemployment, social learning, and social network), framing their analyses in terms of interaction between individual and his or her social contexts, promise to advance our understanding in the field and offer greater explanatory purchase over China's entrepreneurship.
