Binhong Shao, Senior editor of the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), is Secretary-General of China Society of World Economics. Since 1996, she has been managing editor-in-chief of the International Economic Review, one of China’s core periodicals.

• Series Advisor’s ForewordList of ContributorsList of Journals1 Introduction: the Cultural Value Drivers of the Economic Achievements of China’s Reform and OpeningShao Binhong and He Huaihong2 The Cost of Systemic Institutions and the Chinese EconomyZhou Qiren3 Historical Moments and Salient Facts: an Update on China’s UrbanizationCai Fang4 Land Issues in China’s Urban-Rural Stage of DevelopmentLiu Shouying5 A Trade War That is UnwarrantedYu Yongding6 Sino-US Trade: Multilateral and Bilateral PerspectivesZhu Min and Miao Yanliang7 Forty Years of China’s Development as an Open Economy: Retrospect and ProspectsHong Junjie and Shang Hui8 China’s Opening Up after 40 Years: Standing at a Historic Turning PointJu Jiandong and Yu Xinding9 The Great Opening Up and the Roadmap for the Future: the Story of China’s International TradeDu Yan and Lu Yi10 Opening Up in the Upper Middle-Income Phase: Lessons from International ExperienceZou Jingxian and Zhang Bin11 What Is “New” in China’s New Open Economy System?Sheng Bin and Li Feng12 Opening to the Outside World in the New Era Should Respond to Declining Demographic and Globalization DividendsXu Qiyuan13 Actively and Prudently Open Up China’s Financial SectorHuang Yiping14 On Appropriately Sequencing in China’s Financial Opening Up around the “Three-in-One”Guan Tao, Zhang Antian, and Liu LipinIndex