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"In recent years China has overtaken the United States as the world's leading producer and consumer of energy. Since 2009 China's energy requirements have grown exponentially, particularly for coal and electricity, sparking international and national debates on the sustainability of growth and the accompanying environmental implications. This unique study provides a comprehensive investigation into the Chinese energy market at both national and provincial levels covering issues such as energy security, institutional reforms, international relations, and environmental implications now and in the future. A host of international experts provide crucial analysis of the design of China's energy policies, examining how the imbalance between supply and demand, and a primitive transmission grid, influences the overall performance of the energy industry in China. They investigate the role played by institutions, renewable energies, ownership and open-door policy reforms as suitable mechanisms to reduce energy consumption and consequently to prevent climate change. The implications of such policies are also critically assessed in relation to economic growth. Energy Security and Sustainable Economic Growth in China is an invaluable reference source for those working in or researching the Chinese energy is also essential reading for economists and researchers working across China, development economics, environmental economics and the energy sector. "--

Introduction / Shujie Yao. [et al.] -- 1. Development of the Chinese private sector over the past 30 years : retrospect and prospect / Hongliang Zheng and Yang Yang -- 2. Cost-profit efficiency and governance effects of commercial banks in China 1995-2005 / Chunxia Jiang and Shujie Yao -- 3. Regional inequalities in China : a non-monetary view / Stephen L. Morgan and Fang Su -- 4. Low-carbon China : the role of international collaboration / David Tyfield and James Wilsdon -- 5. Effects of policy measures on energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions in China's road transport sector / Xiaoyu Yan and Roy Crookes -- 6. Social networks, innovation and the development of industrial clusters in China / Jinmin Wang -- 7. Globalization and the seafarers supply in China / Bin Wu and Shujie Yao -- 8. China's diaspora and returnees : the impact on China's globalization process / Huiyao Wang and David Zweig -- 9. Corporate social responsibility in China's largest transnational corporations / Dylan Sutherland and Glen Whelan -- 10. Nationalism versus democracy : China's bloggers and the Western media / David K. Herold.

Taking the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing as an iconic turning-point and exploring key themes such as economic reform and sustainability, innovation and sustainability, globalisation and social development, this book analyses the prospects for sustainab.

This book explains how policy changes affect farmers' production incentives and efficiency of resource allocation within and outside agriculture in modern China, paying particular attention to the effects of technical inputs on yield and efficiency of spatial crop production pattern. Drawing experiences of agricultural development in different periods after independence and employing two different quantitative techniques, it concludes that government's long term tendency to undermine the role of agriculture, lack of state investment and the inconsistency of market reforms are three major threats to sustained grain production and agricultural growth in China.

AbstractRecent reforms on state‐owned enterprises have led to millions of workers retrenched. This paper presents two theoretical models, one to explain why firms have to lay‐off workers, and the other to explain how redundancy can affect poverty. Both first‐hand and official survey data are used to examine how redundancy has affected the living standards and poverty of urban households. It is estimated that about one‐fifth of the current urban poverty has been caused by the redundancy programme. The survey results have a number of interesting findings, which have important policy implications. It is concluded that the pressure to lay‐off workers was due to excessively high wages and the cessation of soft budget. The probability of a household falling into poverty depends not only on the probability that household members are retrenched, but also on the probability that retrenched workers can find alternative employment. Most affected households do not think the reform is wrong, but they are pessimistic about their future. The government is thought to be ineffective in helping retrenched workers, and poverty is to become a permanent feature of urban China, an ironic phenomenon that was unthinkable even before the economic reforms started in 1978. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.