China S Economy In Transition

The most comprehensive English-language overview of the modern Chinese economy, covering China's economic development since 1949 and post-1978 reforms--from industrial change and agricultural organization to science and technology.

This book by the renowned Chinese scholar Dr. Yinxing Hong provides the reader with a perceptive analysis of what has worked in China’s development model. Over the past 30 years, China has experienced a remarkable economic rise, but it now faces the challenge of switching the drivers of this economic growth, which have proven so successful. The path has not been an easy one, and many challenges lie ahead. However, the rise of the Chinese economy has been the most significant global development in recent years. Is there a specific Chinese model? How was the Chinese transition, from a Soviet-style economic structure to one that is more open to market influences and the global market, achieved? In 15 essays, Dr. Hong provides fascinating insights to these and other key questions. The essays cover the challenges involved in transition and how the market-oriented reforms progressed; what the consequences of the transition were for public goods provision and how China opened up its economic system. The essays in Part II address the remaining challenges facing rural areas trying to develop a more consumer-driven economic base, and how to effectively modify the model of economic development. This book provides a sound basis for policymakers and scholars alike, as well as anyone who wants to get an insider’s view of the progress and challenges faced by China’s economic development.

China's current account surplus has declined to around one-quarter the peak reached before the global financial crisis. While this is a major reduction in China's external imbalance, it has not been accompanied by a decisive shift toward consumption-based growth. Instead, the compression in its external surplus has been accomplished through increasing fixed investment so that it is now an even higher share of China's national economy. This increasing reliance on fixed investment as the main driver of China's growth raises questions about the durability of the compression in the external surplus and the sustainability of the current growth model that has had unprecedented success in lifting about 500 million people out of poverty over the last three decades. This volume examines various aspects of the rebalancing process underway in China, highlighting policy lessons for achieving stable, sustainable, and inclusive growth.

This wide-ranging collection addresses many important issues in China's economy under transition, from grain production to trade, to the development of township enterprises, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, the emergence of big business, money demand and consumption behaviour. Together, the studies provide insightful analysis and discussion of economic policies, illuminating the institutional context within which reform strategies are negotiated and implemented in different economic sectors.

Contains updated papers from an international conference held in Brisbane, Australia, centering on China's economic reforms and economic growth, regional issues and property rights in China, environmental issues and land use, and science and technology policies. Specific topics include China's market reforms and its new forms of scientific and business alliances, sustainable land use in the Three-Gorges area, and inter-village income inequality in China. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book provides a comprehensive overview on Chinese economy in the last three decades and an insightful view on the future reform in China. The China's miracle is used to describe its rapid economic growth in the last thirty years. The author aims to demystify the miracle by analyzing the past and present of economic transitions and showcases the blueprint for future economic reforms, from the perspectives of institutional transformation, urbanization and changes in the labor markets. The book contains hottest topics on Chinese economy, such as land market reform, new-type urbanization and financial reform. It investigates both the long-run growth and short-run fluctuations. The factor markets, including labor market, capital market and land market, are analyzed as key determinants to long-run growth and consumption, while investment and net export are investigated as elements to short-run fluctuations. Contents:China's Economic Growth Under Globalization (Zhigang Yuan and Yuxin Yu)Potential Economic Growth of China in Transition (Zhigang Yuan and Yuxin Yu)Is China's Export Really Special? Perspective from Trade in Value Added (Changyuan Luo and Jiajun Xu)The Consumption Issue in the Long-term Growth and Short-term Fluctuations (Zhigang Yuan and Can Rao)The Political Economy of Chinese Reform (Zhe Yang)Whither Federalism, Chinese Style (Yongqin Wang)Financial Reform: Opportunity and Challenge to China's Future Growth (Zhigang Yuan and Jingwen Yu)China's Urbanization: Past, Present, and Future (Hao Zheng)China's Real Estate Market Development (Yuan Wang)Fiscal System and Local Government Behavior (Shengyan Xu and Wancong Li)The Demographic Factors in the Chinese Economy (Qin Chen)The Labor Market in China (Qin Chen)Social Justice and Intergenerational Income Mobility (Lin Chen)Further Development of Urbanization and the Policy Research on the Rural Migrant Workers Granted Urban Citizenship (Jing Tan) Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, researchers, academics who are interested in Chinese economy and the China model. Keywords:Chinese Economy;Economic Transition;China Model;Political Economy;Financial ReformKey Features:Professor Yuan is the dean of school of economics in Fudan university, an eminent economist in China and a Sun Yefang Prize laureate (highest honor of economics in China)The book contains hottest topics on Chinese economy, such as land market reform, new-type urbanization and financial reformThe book provides rigorous and profound theoretic analysis on Chinese economy while interpreting the economic problems in China with easy-to-understand terms

This book empirically investigates the changes in labor market structure accompanying the labor market reform in China by focusing on the labor market segmentation problems from the 1980s to 2013. The book also aims to examine the effect of labor policy reforms on individual, household and enterprise behavior, including the causes and consequences of labor market reform in China, particularly the influences of labor policy reforms on labor market performance. Offering valuable insights into the changing structure of the Chinese economy, this book will be of interest to scholars, activists, and economists.

China's transition from a planned economy to a market economy has succeeded in producing more than a decade of phenomenal growth. Whilst similar reforms in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have seen an initial downturn in production, usually with a significant rise in unemployment, the success of the approach taken by China has been remarkable. However, China embarked upon the process, without a well-designed blueprint at the outset. The resulting piecemeal, partial, incremental, and often experimental approach has proved complicated to implement - requiring a complex melding of politics and economics, internal and foreign affairs, government and market. How the difficult task of balancing the diverse array of often competing concerns has been achieved is the subject of this book, which examines the dismantling of the centrally planned system and the mechanism of institutional change in Chinese transition.