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Klappentext This study focuses specifically on the giant state-owned enterprises to unravel the intriguing dynamics between industrial deregulation and inflation. Zusammenfassung A study of the relationship between China's giant state owned enterprises and the dynamics between industrial deregulation and inflation in the context of China's desire for stable economic growth. The volume is part of the STUDIES ON CONTEMPORARY CHINA series. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction 1: Y. Y. Kueh: Economic Reform in Chinese Industry: Efficiency and Instabilty 2: Joseph C. H. Chai, Gang Fan, and Y. Y. Kueh: Nature and Scope of the Survey Data Part II. Enterprise Behaviour and Efficiency 3: Mee-kau Nyaw: Readjustment of the Managerial and Organizational Structure of Chinese Enterprises 4: Shuguang Zhang and Y. Y. Kueh: Measuring the Changing Degree of Enterprise Autonomy and Constraints 5: Hing-lin Chan and Shu-kam Lee: Employment Policy and Productive Efficiency as Alternative Mangerial Objectives 6: Pak-hung Mo and Sung-ko Li: The Contract Responsibility System and X-efficiency in the Machine Industry 7: Y. Y. Kueh: Investment Financing and the Profitability Criterion 8: Pak-hung Mo and Shui-pui Tong: Marketization, Regional Economic Integration, and the Profit Criterion Part III. Macroeconomic Instability 9: Gang Fan: Industrial Reform as a Major Cause of Inflation 10: Zhongwei Yang and Zhineng Han: Wage Reforms and the Effectiveness of Aggregate Wage Target Control 11: Shu-ki Tsang and Yuk-shing Cheng: Empirical Evidence of the `Twin Expansion' of Investment and Wage Outlay 12: Joseph C. H. Chai and Clem Tisdell: Hardening `Budget Constraint' to Control Inflation under the Two-Track System 13: Cheng Wang and Shu-ki Tsang: Macroeconomic Policies, Financial Conditions, and Enterprise Behaviour Part IV. Conclusion 14: Y. Y. Kueh: Prospects for a Transition to a Market Economy without Runaway Inflation App 1. A Note on the Changing Quantitative Importance of State-owned Large and Medium-scale Industrial Enterprises in China, 1980-1994 App 2. Major Production and Financial Statistics for the 300 Sample Satte-owned Large and Medium-scale Industrial Enterprises in Comparison with the National Aggregates for the Large and Medium-scale Industrial Enterprises and Other Categories of Industrial Establishments, 1980-1994 ...