Economic and Social Development in South China

Edited by Stewart MacPherson, Professor of Comparative Social Administration and Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng, Contemporary China Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Contents: Preface (J.Y.S.Cheng) 1. Measuring Economic and Social Development: Statistical Data on the Pearl River Delta (S. MacPherson, K.-Y. Lau) 2. Structures and Functions of Town and Township Governments in Guangdong (J.Y.S. Cheng) 3. Civil Service Reform in Shenzhen: Expectations and Problems (A.B.L. Cheung) 4. The Basic-Level Elections in Guangzhou Since 1979 (K.-K. Leung) 5. Guangzhou’s Municipal Leadership and Development Strategy in the 1990s (P. Cheung) 6. Strategy and Motivation for PRC Outward Direct Investments with Particular Reference to Enterprises from the Pearl River Delta (C.-S. Tseng, S.K.M. Mak) 7. Foreign Investments as an Engine of Economic Growth: the case of Guangdong (X. Zhang, W.-S. Hung 8. Individual Economy in the Pearl River Delta Region: A Study on Dongguan, Guangzhou, Zongshan and Nanhai (W.-N. Ho) 9. Welfare in a Stratified Immigrant Society – Shenzhen’s Social Policy Challenge (L. Wong, G. Lee) 10. Social Status of Occupations in Guangzhou (C.C.H. Chiu, H. Cai) 11. The Emergence of Private Education in the Pearl River Delta: Implications for Social Development (K.-H. Mok, D. Chan) 12. Ecology and Economic Reform: Towards an Effective Environmental Law in Southern China? (B. Bachner) 13. Reforms of Metropolitan Development in Guangzhou Municipal City (R.C.K. Chan, C. Gu) Index

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