'Friends of China can help her best by maintaining broad but not uncritical support and striving for a deeper understanding of this ancient culture and the political and economic structure of the nation. Professor Gao's book is a major contribution to this process.' - Sir Edward Heath What are the reasons behind China's new move to reform? What has been experienced and what lessons can now be drawn? Is China facing new problems in its reform road? What of its future? Professor Gao, one of China's leading reformers, examines and authoritatively assesses China's reform over the last fourteen years. Incorporating a broad range of theoretical, applied and policy materials, this book features many current topics and up-to-date tables, graphs and statistics.

Inhalt
Preface - Foreword; Sir Edward Heath - Introduction; Sir Alec Cairncross - From Planned Economy to Market Economy - The Achievements and Problems of China's Economic Reform - China's Opening to the Outside World - Deepening Reform is a Must for China's Developing Export-Oriented Economy - China's Rural Economic Restructuring - China's Enterprise Reform - The Probe of China's Socialist Market System - The Restructuring of China's Macro-economic Management System - The Reforms of China's Receipt Distribution and the Social Insurance Systems - The Historical Experience of China's Restructuring of Economic System - Setting Up a Socialist Economic System with Distinctive Chinese Features - The Theory and the Practice of China's Socialist Commodity Economy - China is Making Greatest Experiment in the Human Economic History: Answering the Questions asked by the Foreign and Domestic Correspondents - Appendix: The Major Events of the Ten-Year Economic Reforms (December 1978-December 1989) - The Statistical Charts of the Achievements of Our Ten-Year Reforms - Index