LIU Changquan Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Abstract: Employing the statistics of 750,000 firms obtained from China’s Third National Industrial Census, this paper estimates the production functions of 112 3-digit industries in four categories to examine the patterns of agglomeration economies, ...

LI Xiangyang Director and Professor, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Abstract: The rapid growth of Asian economies and their rising share of the global economy give rise to a prevailing view that the global economic center is moving ...

LI Shi and SONG Jin School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University Abstract: Along with further reforms of the state-owned sector and rapid growth of the private sector, the earnings structure of urban residents has undergone significant changes that have led ...

ZHANG Juwei ( 张车伟 ) Professor, Deputy Director General, Research Institute of Demographic and Labor Economy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Abstract: This paper examines inequalities in China’s job market. The first section answers the question of whether rapid economic growth ...

LI Shantong , LIU Yunzhong , XU Zhaoyuan  and HE Jianwu Development Research Center, China Abstract: Considering domestic and international impact on economic growth, this paper adopts a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to simulate three scenarios for China’s economic growth. Results indicate ...

YANG Xianming (杨先明), YUAN Fan (袁帆) and LIU Yan (刘岩) School of Development Studies, Yunnan University Abstract: It is difficult to attract FDI into western China. This situation might not be explained by traditional geographical factors, because the gap of inward FDI ...

LI Gang1, MA Yan2 and YAO Leilei1 1Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 2International Statistical Center, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Abstract: This paper examines the current costs, benefits and intensity of China’s industrial environment regulation, as well as ...

JIN Bei Director and Professor of Institute of Industrial Economics, Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Abstract: The purpose of economic activities boils down to improving people’s commonweal (“minsheng” in Chinese, which refers to people’s welfare, well-being and livelihoods). The more equal ...

YAN Kun (闫坤)1 and YAN Xiaofa (鄢晓发)2 1 Professor, Research Institute for Fiscal Science (RIFS) 2Associate Professor, Professor, Research Institute for Fiscal Science (RIFS) Abstract: Savings rates are the biggest difference in the economic structures of China and the United States, ...

DONG Xiaodan, WEN Tiejun and SHI Yan  2 School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China Abstract: The chronic problems of having a large population versus limited land resources and an urban-rural dual system are the premise for discussing ...