Examined by Mr. Li Yining himself, the forty articles included in this book present a panorama of the forty years since China adopted the reform and opening-up policy. The issues range from the reform of the Chinese economic system to the challenges and chances encountered in this process, from China's agricultural and industrial reform to education and management closely related to economy. A crystallization of Mr. Li's thesis during the past four decades, the book sheds light on future economic reform and development in the country.

The voice of the man who influences China's economic reform so deeply A wide coverage of the forty years in China's economic reform since opening-up A detailed analysis of China's economy of forty years since 1978

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Li Yining (1930-2023) was a prominent Chinese economist. He has been a leading voice for the privatization of state-owned companies, and his advocacy led to the establishment of China's stock markets in 1990. Nicknamed "Mr. Stock Market", he is credited with providing the theoretical basis for the market-oriented reform that has propelled China's economic growth. Li is a long-time professor at Peking University and former dean of the Guanghua School of Management. In 2004 he was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize of Japan.

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Technical education and capitalist industrializationResearch on the formation of technical forces in Western Europe and the United States.- Discussion on the role of capital-intensive and labor-intensive economies for developing countries' modernization.- The role of education in economic growth.- Import substitution or export substitution? -- An exploration of China's import and export strategy at the current stage.- Effective and rational investment under socialism.- Factor analysis in educational economics.- Issues on the unified regulatory mechanism of macro and micro economy.- Discussions on the regulating effects of financial measures on the macro economy at China's current stage.- Reform of ownership and management of shareholding enterprises.- A tentative study of socialist ownership structure.- The overall design of economic reform making economic reform thoughts policy-oriented.- Agricultural products market and macro regulation.- Discussions on social mobility.- Development Environment for Chinese Enterprises and Qualities of Chinese Entrepreneurs.- Market regulates the economy, and government manages the market.- Growth and fluctuations in economic disequilibrium.- Property rights reform of rural enterprises.- Accelerate economic legislation and eradicate corruption.- Rely on the working class to deepen enterprise reform.- Meshing fiscal policy with monetary policy.- The dual foundations of efficiency.- Management, Self-discipline and Moral Motivation.- It is a correct choice for China on the reform path.- Views on the scope of economics research.- Discussions on the development of local industry.- The protection of private property is beneficial to improving China's basic economic system.- Improving the quality of economic growth.- Corporate social responsibility.- A comparative study of industrialization.- Some views on current macro-control.- The review and prospect of China's joint-stock system reform.- Towards urban-rural integration: changesof the urban-rural system in the past 60 years since 1949.- Pay equal attention to aggregate control and structural control--thoughts on China's monetary policy.- Ten Questions about China's Economic Development.- Ten comments on expanding domestic demand.- Discussions on China's dual transformation.- Several issues on property rights reform.- Several issues about China's economic development.- How to make the supply side work better.- Realizing the glorious and arduous historical mission of making China strong and prosperous.