In recent years not only has the rapid economic development of the People's Republic of China continued to catch people's attention but the emergence of a so-called "Greater China" has similarly become a topic of wide-ranging discussion. Greater China is by no means a precise term, as the...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i continues the translation of important sections of an internal study on enterprise deficitsâiInvestigation and Research on Deficits in Industrial Enterprises/i (iGongye qiye kuisun diaocha yanjiu/i)âthat was published in 1989. Whereas the previous issue of...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i translates a number of articles that were published together in iZhongguo jingji tizhi gaige tansuo/i (Explorations in China's economic structural reform), which was edited by Lin Ling and published by Chong jng Publishing House in 1986. Lin wrote these...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i continues to translate Chinese reactions to China's impending accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). As noted in the previous two issues of iThe Chinese Economy/i (vol. 33, no. 1 [January/February 2000] and no. 2 [March/April 2000]) dealing with the...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i translates three articles, two by Long Yongtu, vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) and China's chief negotiator for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO). Both...

Theoretical discussions on economic structural reform in the Dengist period can probably be dated from Hu Qiaomu's important speech to the State Council, "Act in Accordance with Economic Laws," in July 1978. Following that speech, it became legitimate to explore the "economic laws," and the...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i not only presents important articles on the reform of China's rural economy, but it honors one of China's most outstanding students of the rural sector, Gao Xiaomeng.sup1/sup Gao Xiaomeng died in a tragic accident on February 19, 1993, at the early age of...

There have been many important intellectual debates in recent years. This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i takes up two of these. The first article looks carefully at the macroeconomic data regarding Chinese economic performance and argues that the government has overshot the mark twice, first by...

The essays translated here continue the debate over China's macroeconomic situation that erupted following the launching of "comprehensive urban reform" in 1984. In the fall of that year, following the adoption of the "Decision" on economic structural reform at the Third Plenary Session of the...