LIU Shucheng ( 刘树成 ) Director , Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Editorial note: “Sound and rapid” has replaced “rapid and sound” as China’s guiding principle for economic growth. Behind such a change in phrasing, the Chinese government is working hard ...

LI Ruogu ( 李若谷 ) Chairman & CEO of China Exim Bank Editorial note: China-U.S. trade frictions have not only taken the spotlight at head-of state meetings but have also become a hot-button issue between diplomats and businessmen in recent years. Under the backdrop ...

BEI Duoguang（贝多广） and ZHU Xiaoli（朱晓莉） The Renmin University of China Editorial note: RMB has been depreciating internally while appreciating externally since 2002. How can such a seemingly contradictory phenomenon be explained? What are the causes underlying this phenomenon? How can asset price hikes be ...

ZHAO Jinghua1(赵景华), HU Naiwu2 (胡乃武) and REN Rong3 (任荣) 1Executive Dean and Professor of the School of Government Management, Central University of Finance and Economics 2Professor and Doctoral Adviser of China Renmin University 3Ph.D. of the School of Management, Shandong ...

YANG Yang ( 杨 扬) Director-General of International Cooperation Bureau, CASS Editorial note: “Building a new socialist countryside is a historic mission in China’s modernization drive”. This mission was enshrined in the Recommendations on Formulating the Eleventh Five-Year Plan of Economic and Social ...

SHI Xiancheng ( 史先诚 ) Associate Professor of the Department of Economics, Nanjing University Research fellow of the Yangtze River Delta Economic and Social Development Research Centre Editorial note: Inter-industry wage disparity has received the utmost attention in China, with a host of ...

LU Rongshan ( 卢荣善 ) Professor of the School of Economics, Nanjing Audit University Editorial note: Farmers are at the heart of China’s “three agricultural issues” (agriculture, rural areas and farmers). Characterized by inequality and vulnerability, classification as a “farmer” or “peasant” in China ...

LIN Jinzhong1( 林金忠 ) and WANG Ying2 ( 王 莹) 1,2 The Economic Research Institute, Xiamen University Editorial note: Economy at the present stage, as indicated by all the various methods of income gap measurement. Based on such a judgment, the authors offer ...

LI Kui ( 李 魁) School of Economics & Management, Wuhan University Editorial note: Private enterprises in China, which did not exist before the reform and opening-up, have now developed from a minor to a major player in China’s economy. The selected top 500 ...

JIN Bei ( 金 碚) Deputy Director General, Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Editor-in-chief of China Economist magazine Editorial note: Real estate is a prominent issue of worldwide concern and in particular, it has come under the spotlight ...