Contents: Preface: Beyond China, China, China -- PART I INTRODUCTION -- 1. Actions and Reactions -- PART II CHINA -- 2 …. From China's Logistics to China's Geologistics -- PART III THE SILK ROAD ECONOMIC BELT: LANDBRIDGES, ECONOMIC CORRIDORS AND … TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MARITIME SILK ROAD: BLUE ECONOMIC PASSAGES, AN ECONOMIC CIRCLE AND SEAPORTS -- 5. China-Indian Ocean …

In twenty years of reform in China, the key development has been the opening-up of the market to foreign trade and …1. On the measurement of the openness of the Chinese economy -- 2. Social consequences of economic reform in China : an … analysis of regional disparity in the transition period -- 3. Provincial economic growth in China : causes and consequences of …

Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, reform of its science and technology system has deepened. This book … clusters, the R&D activities of multinational corporations operating in China, and the prospect of commercialization of high … that although high-tech exports have become an important contributing factor to China's economic growth, the country still …

The rate of economic growth in China over the last 50 years has been remarkable. However this has only highlighted the … inequalities between regions in China, making for considerable disquiet at the highest levels of Chinese policy-making. Not … proposals that have been applied to this thorny problem. The authors find that the industrial core of China (the South East and …

This book surveys the competing, or sometimes complementary, roles of the state and the market in shaping China …'s pattern of regional development during the Communist era. The uneven pace of industrialisation across China's provinces during … rising inequality across China as being both inevitable and ongoing. The central government's 'Western Development Strategy …