ABSTRACT

China’s role in global affairs today continues to rise. This book provides an authoritative, comprehensive and detailed overview of contemporary economic developments in China. Key topics include agriculture; the market gradually replacing central planning; the global financial crisis; the reform of state-owned industrial enterprises; the non-state sectors; the ‘open-door’ policy (including the WTO, exchange rate policy, and inward and outward direct foreign investment); and China’s economic performance in general. 

The book continues - and adds to – the overview of developments up to May 2006 which were covered in the author’s China: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments (2006), and is the companion volume to Political Developments in Contemporary China: A Guide (2010) - both published by Routledge.

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|81 pages

Overview

chapter 2|36 pages

Agriculture

chapter 4|98 pages

The reform of state industrial enterprises

chapter 5|212 pages

The ‘open- door’ policy

chapter 6|55 pages

Economic performance