China's remarkable economic performance over the last 30 years resulted from reforms that met the specific conditions of China at any point in time. Starting with a heavily distorted and extremely poor economy, China gradually reformed by improving incentives in agriculture, phasing out the...

Although achieving impressive economic growth during the economic reform period, China has been plagued by rampant corruption and a widening income gap. How can the coexistence these two phenomena be explained? In this paper, we argue that before 1994, the coexistence was induced by a series of...

In recent years there have been enthusiastic discussions among Chinese economists on a number of macroeconomic problems concerning the theories and policies of structural reform. Such discussions are very necessary for the development of economics as a science and for the improvement of economic...

Premier Zhao Ziyang, when talking about the current economic situation and 1986 tasks at the national planning and economic work conference on January 13 this year, pointed out that, in the past year, due to a series of measures taken by the Party Central Committee and State Council to...