Every country has its own peculiar set of conditions and national circumstances, its own peculiar traditions, and its unique path to follow. In particular, when it comes to an enormous developing country such as China, a country with such a huge population and such a vast territory, with its...

>i>1. The background to writing this "Report on State Capacity":>/i> The fact that the relationship between the central government and the local governments is one of the chief contradictions and points of conflict in China's society [today].

Beginning on New Year's Day in 1994, the Chinese government formally inaugurated the implementation of a system of tax sharing between the central government and local governments. This was taken to be one of the most important and wide-ranging institutional innovations in our nation since the...

The Center for China Studies is among China's 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...

Domestic visits (in Chinese 视察、考察、调研) are one of the commonest routine work for political leaders both in the democratic and authoritarian regimes. In this article, we argue that for central authorities, in addition to public presidency in democracy, those domestic visits are one...

1. What is the "Middle Income Trap"? -- 2. How Did China Overcome the "Poverty Trap"? -- 3. Will China Fall into the "Middle Income Trap"? -- 4. How Can China Overcome the "Middle Income Trap" -- 5. Looking Ahead: China Becoming a High-Income Economy.

This paper tests the external spillover effects of the transportation on China’s economic growth from the theoretical and the empirical perspectives. Based on a logarithm production model, this study first proves the existence of the positive externality in the transportation. After that, the...

Summary China's gradual approach to economic transition has resulted in sustained high growth. However, in recent years Chinese economists have increasingly referred to the growth pattern as "extensive," generated mainly through the expansion of inputs. Our investigation of the Chinese economy...