How the Chinese economy works / by Rongxing Guo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guo, Rongxing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Economic conditions.

China.

Economic conditions.

China--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 333 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

What are the driving forces - both endogenous and exogenous - for, and how have they influenced China's economic transformations during the past decades? This revised and updated second edition sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre-- and post-reform periods and through both national and provincial dimensions. A multiregional comparison of the Chinese economy is conducted in terms of natural and human resources, institutional evolution, as well as economic and social performances. The first edition of this book was selected as the 'Best Book on Chinese Economy' by Questia librarians.

Contents:

1 A Brief History of China 1

The origins of the nation 1

Rise and fall of the empire 3

China in the new millennium 6

2 The Spatial Division of the Chinese Economy 10

Provincial administrations 11

Great regions 13

Coastal and inland areas 18

Eastern, central and western belts 18

Southern and Northern parts 19

3 China's Economic Foundations 21

Physical capital 21

Human capital 26

Political and institutional bases 30

Cultural issues 31

Policy implications 43

4 China's Economic Systems in Transition 46

General review 46

Development and planning 49

Labour and employment 55

Production and ownership 56

Public finance and banking 65

External economic relations 73

5 How Well the Chinese-style Reform Performs 77

Chinese-style reform, the (un)successful cases 78

Simulating the reform process: a model 89

Interest groups, stakeholders and reform 95

Can the Chinese-style reforms be sustained? 101

6 A Multiregional Economic Comparison 107

About statistical data 107

Macroeconomic indicators 110

Real living standards 118

Inequality index 124

7 Can the Chinese Economy Be Spatially Optimized? 131

Spatial efficiency of authoritarianism: a theory 131

Spatial separation in China 134

China's search for spatial integration 145

West China development strategy 149

8 Industrialization and Technological Progress 154

China's efforts on industrialization 154

Post-reform industrialization 161

Rural industrialization 169

Technological progress 171

9 Population, Resource and Sustainable Development 174

China's population problems 177

Natural and environmental resources 182

Environmental protection in China 196

10 Economic Internationalization and China 207

Historical review 207

Foreign investment 211

Foreign trade 217

11 Comparative Economics for the Greater China 229

Historical evolution 229

A multiregional economic comparison 232

Cross-Taiwan Strait economic relations 236

Future perspective 243

I Basic conditions of the ethnic minorities in China 245

II A list of major reforms and their outcomes (1978-2005) 248

III Specification to the model on system dynamics 253

IV Games between the Chinese radicals and conservatives 257

V Literature on the determinants of foreign trade 263

VI Indexes of China's cultural linkages with the rest of the world 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and index.

ISBN:

0230542743

9780230542747

OCLC:

77520484

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