The papers collected in this volume, number four in a series examining China’s entry to the world trade system, are from the final stage of a three-year research project between the Economics Division of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the ANU in Canberra and the Chinese...

In his report on government work delivered at the fourth session of the Fifth National People's Congress, Premier Zhao Ziyang touched on the major tasks of the sixth five-year plan, 1981-85. He demanded that the national income grow at the same rate as thevalue of our gross industrial and...

The people's money income, retail commodity prices, and the people's standard of living are intimately related. If retail prices of commodities remain unchanged, the moremoney the inhabitants earn, the higher the living standard becomes. This is a kind of positive relationship. However, if the...