Synopsis
After mankind entered the last 20 years of 20th century, several great events which influenced the progress of history have taken place. Among them the economic system reform in China is a very important one. Since the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of Communist Party of China started the economic system reform, the reform has been carried out for 20 years, during which China has changed earth-shockingly and become the focus of world attentions. In the 20 years the national economic power of China has grown significantly, the living standards of Chinese people improved obviously, and the position of China in the world has risen steadily. Especially, after 1997's Asian financial crisis, economies in many Asian countries have been struck seriously. Chinese economy, however, not only remained steady but also offered a lot of support for other countries to counter the crisis and earned respect from the world. All of the important changes, without doubt, owed much to the social and economic reforms pushed firmly by Chinese government and people. The basic framework of this book is consistent with the composition of target model of economic system reform in our country. The basic views of the authors are that the purpose of researching the progress of system reforms is to understand how far we have stepped forward to the target model since the start of reform. Therefore, the logical system of this book is arranged according to the composition of market economic systems to be carried out in the future. The target model comprises three layers or links: government---market---enterprise. In order to emphasize the key points and for the convenience of discussions the analyses in this book follows the sequence of enterprise---government---market. The systems of enterprises are the core of market economic system, so to study them first is advantageous to catch the key. The contents of market systems are quite varied, including consumer goods, production materials as well as the main factors of markets such as labor, capital, funds, real estate, housing, technology, and foreign exchange markets and so on. So it is convenient to discuss them lastly. The research of marketization according to main composition of systems is followed by the studies on agriculture, industry and foreign trade. Finally, the differences of marketization of several large areas such as the east, middle and west or the south, middle and north parts of China are explored.
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Chen Zongsheng, Wu Zhe and Xie Siquan
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