YAO Zhizhong1 (姚枝仲), LIU Shiguo2 (刘仕国)   Editorial note: In 2005, America’s trade deficit was as high as 725.8 billion U.S. dollars in terms of commodities and services – a rise of 17.5% from the previous year – while China’s trade surplus for the ...

LU Bu1 (卢布), YANG Ruizhen2 (杨瑞珍), CHEN Yinjun3 (陈印军), WU Kai4 (吴凯), ZHANG Yanqing5 (张燕卿)   Editorial note: With the growing need for resources brought about by economic development, countries throughout the world have attached greater importance to the development and exploitation of marine resources. ...

LIU Shijin1 (刘世锦)   Editorial note: That the Chinese economy has been burgeoning for nearly 30 years is an irrefutable fact. However, this robust growth has been achieved amidst accusations of “extensive” development and “low-efficiency”. Many scholars believe that low-priced labour is pivotal to China’s ...

LI Yuefen1 (李月芬)   Editorial note: Although the benefits of China’s trade expansion have been distributed much more broadly than those of some early industrialized nations, China has become the primary target of anti-dumping activities. Being a new and relatively efficient new rival in ...

JIN Bei1(金碚)   Editorial note: The Chinese economy has continued to grow robustly amidst accusations of “extensive growth”, and a scientific concept of development is now needed to provide leadership and guidance for China’s development. How did China come to embark upon the path ...

JI Zhu1 (季铸)   Editorial note: Given their differences in economic structure, development level and growth path, China and the U.S. are strongly complementary and symbiotic, sharing common interests. China can expand export to the U.S. and boost growth and employment through the mechanism and path ...

CAI Fang1 (蔡日方) and WANG Meiyan2 (王美艳) 1Director and Professor at the Institute of Population and Labour Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 2Associate Professor at the Institute of Population and Labour Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences   Editorial note: Not long ago, ...

ZOU Wei1 (邹薇), ZHANG Fen2 (张芬) and SONG Hairong3 (宋海荣)   Editorial note: China’s regional inequality is reflected in the different economic structures of the various regions (much the same as with inequality of regional industrialization, described in ‘A Comprehensive Evaluation of Regional Industrialization ...

ZHOU Tianyong1(周天勇)   Editorial note: According to statistics from the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, towards the end of 2005, there were 3.5 million domestic enterprises in China, a reduction of 301,000 or 7.9% from the previous year, and the number of registered ...

ZHONG Funing1 (钟甫宁) Editorial note: The rise to prominence of the Chinese economy represents one of the major events in modern history, with China’s huge population and ever-growing productivity commanding worldwide attention in the process of industrialization. From doubts in previous years over ...