Assessing the Extent of China's Marketization

Xiaoxi Li is Director and Professor of the Institute of Economic and Resources Management with Beijing Normal University, China and an Invited Professor with Peking University and the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Li has been well known as one of major advocators of China's market-oriented reforms in the 1980s as well as an authority on assessing the extent of China's marketization during recent years.

• Introduction; Part 1 New Progress in Market Economy in 2002 and 2003; Chapter 1 Reform of Government Administrative System; Chapter 2 Marketization of Enterprises; Chapter 3 Labor Flow and Market Determination of Wage Rates; Chapter 4 Market-determined Capital Transaction; Chapter 5 Market-oriented Land Transaction; Chapter 6 Marketization of Trade; Chapter 7 Scale of Intermediary Organizations and Their Market-oriented Operations; Chapter 8 Marketization of Money and Finance; Chapter 9 Improvement in China’s Market Economy Legal Framework; Chapter 10 Evaluation of the Degree of China’s Market Economy Development in 2002–2003; Part 2 The Development of China’s Market Ecomony by Western Standards; Chapter 11 The Free Convertibility of Renminbi; Chapter 12 Independence of the Financial Sector; Chapter 13 Freedom of the Employee in Bargaining with the Employer for Wage Rates; Chapter 14 Extent of Admission of Foreign Investment; Chapter 15 Extent of Government Ownership or Control of the Means of Production and Enterprises; Chapter 16 Extent of Government Control over the Output, Price and Sales Decisions of Enterprises and over the Allocation of Resources; Chapter 17 The Protection of Property Rights and the Bankruptcy Law; Chapter 18 Implementation of Laws and Regulations Relating to Investment and Taxation; Chapter 19 Company Law and Corporate Governance; Chapter 20 Laws on Enterprise Accounting and Auditing Standards and their Enforcement; Chapter 21 The Use and Disposal of State-owned Enterprises’ Assets; Chapter 22 Analysing Corruption, Trade Ties, and Other Factors;

'This book documents clearly and thoroughly how far China has come in the past two decades from an old-style centrally planned economy to one where prices, wages, and production are determined by market forces. It will become a standard reference for all those interested in China's economic evolution.' Richard N. Cooper, Harvard University, USA This study provides the most comprehensive analysis available of China's transition to a market economy. It not only reviews the rising importance of the market in setting prices for goods, it explains the reforms that have supported the growing role of the market in determining wages and the price of land and more generally China's growing reliance on market-determined resource allocation.' Nicholas R. Lardy, Institute for International Economics, USA 'As China's global footprint expands, this wide-ranging and extensively documented volume will help outsiders understand how Chinese economists and policy analysts view their nation's growth process, institutional structure and reform agenda.' Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh, USA '...this volume offers rich rewards for those seeking to identify recent changes in policies and institutions across a broad range of issues.' China Review International