The moral discourse on security, welfare and individual enterprise and socio-economic responsibility in China resembles the post-war ideological discourse of West Germany: the programme of ordoliberalism. This chapter explores the affinities between these two discourses, as their ideas and policies powerfully affect the norms and affordances of political space. The articulation of responsibilities that constrain cadre units, citizens, economic organizations and bureaucratic entities in China's evolving enterprise society, as they interact in political space, are analyzed. The chapter presents an analysis of the politico-economic agenda of marketization since 1978 and de facto neoliberalization of Chinese society after 1989. Market reforms entail substantial risk of further social dislocation, which explains the trend towards guaranteeing securitization if the moral discourses of self-employed 'market cells' and Confucian harmony fail to persuade elites and the grassroots. What made the pitiless new societal and economic competition worse was the perceived danger of bringing criticism to bear on deepening market reform.