China's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth

Richard Sanders is Director of the China and Transitional Economies Research Centre at the University of Northampton, UK, and past president (2006–07) of the Chinese Economics Association (UK). His main research interest is the political economy of modern China, with particular reference to environmental protection, property rights and organic farming. Yang Chen is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Northampton Business School, UK, and is the Assistant Director of the China and Transitional Economy Research Centre. Her principal research interests are institutional change and evolutionary economics in transitional countries. Her most important publications examine the change of property rights and ownership in transitional China.

• 1 Introduction PART I China’s post-reform economy: achieving harmony 2 The origins of China’s quest for a harmonious society: failure on the governance and environmental fronts 3 Environment, health and sustainability in twenty-first-century China 4 Challenge, governance reform and disharmony in rural society 5 Exit of involution in rural China 6 Regional vulnerability, inequality and asset growth PART II China’s post-reform economy: sustaining growth 7 China’s banking reform 8 Ownership reform, foreign competition and efficiency of Chinese commercial banks 9 Local states and the building of a regulatory state 10 The dynamics of industrial clusters in China 11 Industrial catch-up during transition and globalization 12 The importance of ultra high speed railways for China in the twenty-first century 13 Managing the transition from administrative monopoly to regulated monopoly in China’s strategic sectors