Hu compiles material from the China Studies Reports of Tsinghua U.'s Center for China Studies, an influential Chinese policy think-tank directed by him that has often had policy recommendations adopted by the Chinese political leadership. The volume's 13 chapters collectively provide a grand overview of the perceived current status and future challenges of Chinese economic and social development. Individual chapters discuss the causal factors behind Chinese economic growth; the comparative comprehensive national power of China versus other world and regional powers; coordination in regional development; poverty reduction efforts; health insecurity; aging population concerns; urban unemployment and social security; national savings and natural capital; corruption; institution building as a "second transformation" of the Communist Party; and need to make policy decision-making more scientific, democratic, systematic, and specialized Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The Center for China Studies is among Chinas 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 governments 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 countrys leading economists, this book is key to understanding Chinese development and the likely future path of government policy.
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