Economic and social transformation in China: challenges and opportunities

The Center for China Studies is among China's most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these reports is collected in book form in English, providing a fascinating insight into the challenges and opportunities for Chinese development and the government's thinking on economic and social issues. Including comparative studies with developed and developing nations, analysis of past economic performance and future trends, and effects of demographic shifts such as population ageing and urbanization, this book is an essential collection of research and includes notes made by central party leaders. Compiled by the founder of the Center for China Studies, one of the country's leading economists, this book is key to understanding Chinese development and the likely future path of government policy.

List of figures -- List of tables -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why has China's economy grown so fast? -- Comprehensive national power (1980-2000): a comparative study of the US, Russia, Japan, India and China -- Why has China's TFP dropped in 1995-2001? -- From unevenness to coordination for China's regional development (1978-2004) -- China's economic growth and poverty reduction (1978-2002) -- China's macro-economy and health -- Health insecurity: the biggest challenge to human security in China -- Developing human resources to cope with an aging society -- China's urban unemployment and social security (1993-2000) -- Genuine national savings and natural capital cost in China (1970-2001) -- Corruption: an enormous black hole: public exposure of the economic costs of corruption -- Second transition of the Communist Party of China: from economic development to institution building -- Making policy decision-making more scientific, democratic, systematic and specialized -- Notes -- Index.