Special Issue: Impacts of China''''s Accession to the WTO on Its Economy

The main themes of the Chineseeconomy since the 1980s have beeninstitutional reform, structura readjustmentof industry, and resulting economic growth.With China's accession to the WTO thegovernment will not change the generaldirection of economic development in thenew century. China will instead go on withinstitutional reform and structuralreadjustment and try to maintain a high rateof economic growth along a clearer directionand in accordance with a tighter schedule.As China develops its economy in a newinstitutional environment, it will be of     

Migration of Rural Labor and Income Growth and Distribution in Rural Areas of China

In this paper the author will make an empirical analysis of theinteraction between the migration of rural labor and income distributionduring the current process of economic growth in China, focusing on theeffect of the rural labor flow on income distribution.I. Size of the Rural Labor MigrationThe effect of rural labor migration on income distribution in ruralareas is related to the size of the rural migrant population. However, it isregrettable that we do not have accurate figures for the …     

前言(英文)

I take it an honor to be invited as the editorial advisor for this special issue on economic transition in China, the first special issue on this topic in SSIC. We can only select five out of an extremely rich reservoir of studies. The selected papers deal with general theories on transition and China's experience, and also include empirical studies on some important aspects in China's economic transition (e.g., the financial sector, the reform of enterprises and regional growth).     

主持人的话（英文）

Industrialization and urbanization are stages that no nation’s economic development can bypass.They should be complementary and coordinated,but since the founding of New China in 1949,including the decades since reform and opening up in 1978,the two have become decoupled.On one hand,as has been widely noted,urbanization has lagged behind industrialization;on the other,people are uneasy about the race to urbanize,and especially about new-type urbanization,fearing that it may lose impetus unless supported     

SPECIAL ISSUE： DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL INCOME IN A TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY Introduction

The share of labor income in China＇s national income shrank dramatically from the mid- 1990s onwards, accompanied by the shrinking of the share of household income and a continuing rise in the shares of corporate and government income. As income distribution is closely related to social stability, public well-being and economic development, changes in this regard and the related policy suggestions have attracted wide attention. The four articles in this special issue are devoted to answering three questions： a） what has caused the decline in labor income share？ b） what factors have contributed to the changes in the distribution of national income among the corporate, govemment and household sectors？ and c） what impact does the changing distribution of national income have on the national saving rate？     

A Tentative Study of Direct Japanese Investment in China during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression:The Case of Japanese Investment in Mines

Direct Japanese investment in China during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression meant frenzied predation. In the initial stage of the war, the Japanese government focused on bringing Northeast China into its wartime economic system and on the creation of "an integrated Japanese     

The Development of Elementary Education in Rural China from a State-Society Perspective:A Political Science Analysis of Education

The relationships between state and society underwent tremendous changes dur- ing state building from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century in China. The gradual establishment of the so- cialist planned economic system from the 1950s to the 1990s and of market economic system after the 1990s had a great impact on state-society relationships. Overall, in the interactions between state and society the government as a proxy of the state is always active and in a dominant positi…     

Modernization from Within and from Without:A Reexamination of the Relationship between Confucian Culture and Economic Development

Max Weber’s analysis of why rationalcapitalism did not arise in China influencedseveral generations of Sinologists,historiansand sociologists in their studies.The surpris-ingly rapid economic development of sev-eral East Asian societies in the1960s and1970s created a full-scale economic miracle.This seemed to pose a serious empirical chal-lenge to Weber’s theory.Against this back-ground there was great interest in academiccircles over the“mystery”of the economicmiracle in East Asia.Sch…     

前言:全面建设小康社会,大力构建和谐社会(英文)

The 27 years since the reform is only asplit second in the thousands of years ofChinese history. And in this split second his-torical changes took place in China. A miracleof development was created in world history.It will not only have a profound impact onChina’s future development in the long run,but exert extensive influence on the futureof the world. Has China found a unique roadto modernization? How can such an enor-mous change take place in China? And whatkind of society is China t…     

Cultural Advancement and the Primary Stage of Socialism

China is and will remain for a long time to come in the primary stageof socialism. This is a scientific conclusion drawn by the CommunistParty of China (CPC) based on China's present economic and socialdevelopment, and after summing up historical experiences and lessons.This conclusion is a true reflection of the basic Chinese conditions andserves as an objective basis and starting point for the determination of theobjectives in the socialist modernization drive, and the formulation ofvario…     

Speed Up Opening By Fetching In And Going Out

The Development and Reform Committee of the People’s Government of Liaoning Province has a mature consideration for building an open and economic strong province. The target is to build up a new industrial base and new economic increasing region in Liaoning Province. In order to quicken the advance of the national- ownership economic arrangement and structural adjustment, the province will absorb foreign investmentand non-governmental capital to take part in the system transformation and r…     

Gender Strategy in the Management of State-owned Enterprises and Women Workers'''' Dependence on the Enterprises─A Study of Women Workers in Two State-ownedEnterprises in Guangzhou beforeand after the Reform

I. Statement of the ProblemThe impact of the Chinese economic reform on women hasoccasioned increasing concern in academic circles. It has been noted thatthe differences between male and female workers in state-ownedenterprises have widened since the introduction of the reform, and thatthe inferiority of women is now more obvious (Feng Tongqing and XuXiaojun, 1993; Meng Xianfan, 1995). All these studies focus on the late1980s and analyze the general impact of the reform on women workers,bu…     

Introduction

<正>In recent years, policy experiments aimed at rural revitalization have shown an accelerating trend, providing us with an excellent window to observe the comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization and to resolve development challenges. The National Demonstration Cases of Rural Governance promoted by the Office of the Central Leading Group for Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs from 2019 to 2022 pointed out that in the new era, China’s policy experiments ...     

State and Society, Public Laws and Private Laws

It has been two decades since the Third Plenary Session of theEleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Twosignificant events occurred during this period: a shift in emphasis from"class struggle" to economic development; and a shift in the economicsystem from a planned to a market economy. These events have had aprofound influence on China's socio-economic development, and led tospeculation on the relationship between the state and society, public lawsand private laws.The…     

The Chinese Path to Rural Common Prosperity:Based on an Analysis of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Rural Demonstration Projects

Common prosperity in rural areas is integral to achieving common prosperity. This paper makes an in-depth analysis of Jiangsu and Zhejiang rural demonstration projects from a state-society interaction perspective. Pathway analysis is based on the framework of “high-level promotion-endogenous development” linked by the advancement of the building of the Communist Party of China and the Party’s leading role: high-level promotion, through multi-level responsibilization, ensures policy implementatio...     

Abstracts

Reflection and Prospect of Ecological Civilized Development Path with Chinese Characteristics
The building of ecological civilization in China should follow the development path of socialist ecological civilization with Chinese characteristics,which requires our reflection and prospect on the ecological civilized development path featuring economic growth, well-off life and good environment. This article analyzes the position and value of existing development path and focuses on its problems and disadvantages. Finally,it proposes that China should follow a new ecological civilization development path featuring good environment, economic growth and happy life ,which provides helpful reference for the theory and practice of ecological civilization development path in China.     

Economic Fluctuations and Policy Regulatory Responses

One of the questions constantly being raised in China is whetherincreasing the rate of economic growth will invariably give rise toinflation, or whether inhibiting inflation will inevitably lead to aneconomic downturn. In fact, this depends on the relationship betweenthe rate of economic growth and economic effectiveness and the correctuse of policy regulatory measures. In this essay the author will discuss therelationship between these three factors in the light of the Chineseeconomy.I. Cycl…     

SPECIAL ISSUE： COMMUNITY STUDIES AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION IN CHINA Introduction

The term ＂community＂ bears totally different meanings at different times in China.
In the era of the planned economy, social welfare, social services, and even political mobilization and social control, were largely the responsibilities of the danwei （work units） that were subordinate to the government in China. Every danwei, whether economic in nature （e.g., factories, shops and people＇s communes） or a public institution （e.g., schools, hospitals and nursing homes） had to provide its members with an economic livelihood, medical care, education, and an old-age pension, in addition to undertaking its designated business. This extended to members＇ dependent children, for whose medical insurance and other benefits the danwei was responsible. A danwei was even responsible for matters in its members＇ private life such as marriage and funerals and mediating family disputes, in addition to ideological control and political education. Such being the case, all members of society were directly and closely bound to their danwei in terms of interests. In other words, every member of society was a typical ＂＇danwei man.＂ It was very hard for neighborhoods to play any social, cultural, political or economic role and form any ＂community＂ in the real sense of the word. Therefore, the economic, political and social institutions of that era are now called ＂danwei-based institutions.＂     

Land Circulation:The Restruc-turing of Rural Stratification

As an important practice in the market-oriented reform of land rights in contempo-rary China’s rural areas, land circulation willnot only bring about large-scale free flowand re-combination of the factors of pro-ductions – land, labor, capital and technology,bringing into play a new and greater effec-tiveness and gains from land resources. More