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energy transition; energy policy; China; hydrocarbon strategy; low carbon

In the last 30 years, China's record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development leads to urban sprawl and ghost towns, pollution threatens people's health, and farmland and water resources are becoming scarce. With China's urban population projected to rise to about one billion - or close to 70 percent of the country's population - by 2030, China's leaders are seeking a more

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 China's Rapid Growth and Evolving Economy -- An economy already transforming -- A rapidly changing and more uncertain global environment -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Need for New Drivers of Growth -- Investment's diminishing contribution to growth -- Labor's diminishing contribution to growth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 The Productivity Challenge -- Promoting new drivers of growth through the "3+6+7" reform agenda -- The three D's -- Six strategic choices -- Seven critical reform areas -- The impact of reforms on future growth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Reshaping Industrial Policies and Supporting Market Competition -- Industrial policies to support market competition -- Promoting greater competition in the services sector -- Promoting entrepreneurship and improving the business climate -- Ensuring fair competition and reforming state-owned enterprises -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Promoting Innovation and the Digital Economy -- China's rapidly increasing innovation capacity -- Promoting the diffusion of innovation and technology -- Improving research and development -- Improving intellectual property policies -- Improving the management of innovation policies -- Supporting innovation driven by digital diffusion -- Promoting data trade and data flow -- ICT telecommunications infrastructure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Building Human Capital -- Technology's impact on China's labor market -- Building universal foundational skills -- Creating a world-class higher education system -- Teaching creative thinking and problem solving -- Using technology to teach creativity and problem solving -- Strengthening technical and vocational education and training -- Promoting lifelong learning.