Zhang Zhuoyuan, a renowned economist and a representative of the "robust reformers", graduated from the Economics Department of the Central-South University of Finance and Economics in 1954. He has served as a research intern, assistant researcher, associate researcher and researcher of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (later the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), editor, deputy director and director of the Editorial Department of Economic Research, director and researcher of the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics of the Academy of Social Sciences, editor-in-chief of Finance and Trade Economics, doctoral supervisor, director, researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Academy of Social Sciences, and editor-in-chief of Economic Research, etc.

• Overview.- Economic Research in China: Analysis Based on Papers Published in the Economic Research Journal.- Chapter 1  The Establishment and Development of the Socialist Market Economy Theory.- Chapter 2  The Establishment of the Theory of the Primary Stage of Socialism.- Chapter 3  The Establishment and Development of the Basic Socialist Economic System Theory.- Chapter 4  The Innovation and Development of Enterprise Theory.- Chapter 5  The Construction and Theoretical Innovation of the Socialist Market System.- Chapter 6  The Interaction of Theory with Practice in China’s Price Reform.- Chapter 7   The Theory of Industrial Structure and Industrial Organization.- Chapter 8 Macroeconomic Management Theory with Chinese Characteristics.- Chapter 9  The Reform of China’s Fiscal and Taxation System.- Chapter 10  Innovation and Development of China’s Financial Theory.- Chapter 11  Innovation and Development of Income Distribution Theory.- Chapter 12  From “Development is the Absolute Principle”, to the Scientific Outlook on Development, to the New Development Concept.- Chapter 13  The “Three Rural” Issues in China’s Market-oriented Economic Reform.- Chapter 14  The Main Progress and Innovation of Regional Economic Theory Research.- Chapter 15  Exploration and Development of Natural Resource Economics.- Chapter 16  The Transformation of Mode of Economic Growth and the Structural Reform of Supply-side.- Chapter 17  The Development and Review of the Opening Up Theory.- Chapter 18  The Construction of Socialist Political Economics with Chinese characteristics.- Postscript.