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Examined by Mr. Li Yining himself, the forty articles included in this book present a panorama of the forty years since China adopted the reform and opening-up policy. The issues range from the reform of the Chinese economic system to the challenges and chances encountered in this process, from China s agricultural and industrial reform to education and management closely related to economy. A crystallization of Mr. Li s thesis during the past four decades, the book sheds light on future economic reform and development in the country.
List of contents
Technical education and capitalist industrialization--Research on the formation of technical forces in Western Europe and the United States.- Discussion on the role of capital-intensive and labor-intensive economies for developing countries' modernization.- The role of education in economic growth.- Import substitution or export substitution? -- An exploration of China's import and export strategy at the current stage.- Effective and rational investment under socialism.- Factor analysis in educational economics.- Issues on the unified regulatory mechanism of macro and micro economy.- Discussions on the regulating effects of financial measures on the macro economy at China's current stage.- Reform of ownership and management of shareholding enterprises.- A tentative study of socialist ownership structure.- The overall design of economic reform - making economic reform thoughts policy-oriented.- Agricultural products market and macro regulation.- Discussions on social mobility.- Development Environment for Chinese Enterprises and Qualities of Chinese Entrepreneurs.- Market regulates the economy, and government manages the market.- Growth and fluctuations in economic disequilibrium.- Property rights reform of rural enterprises.- Accelerate economic legislation and eradicate corruption.- Rely on the working class to deepen enterprise reform.- Meshing fiscal policy with monetary policy.- The dual foundations of efficiency.- Management, Self-discipline and Moral Motivation.- It is a correct choice for China on the reform path.- Views on the scope of economics research.- Discussions on the development of local industry.- The protection of private property is beneficial to improving China's basic economic system.- Improving the quality of economic growth.- Corporate social responsibility.- A comparative study of industrialization.- Some views on current macro-control.- The review and prospect of China's joint-stock system reform.- Towards urban-rural integration: changesof the urban-rural system in the past 60 years since 1949.- Pay equal attention to aggregate control and structural control--thoughts on China's monetary policy.- Ten Questions about China's Economic Development.- Ten comments on expanding domestic demand.- Discussions on China's dual transformation.- Several issues on property rights reform.- Several issues about China's economic development.- How to make the supply side work better.- Realizing the glorious and arduous historical mission of making China strong and prosperous.
About the author
Li Yining (1930-2023) was a prominent Chinese economist. He has been a leading voice for the privatization of state-owned companies, and his advocacy led to the establishment of China's stock markets in 1990. Nicknamed "Mr. Stock Market", he is credited with providing the theoretical basis for the market-oriented reform that has propelled China's economic growth.
Li is a long-time professor at Peking University and former dean of the Guanghua School of Management. In 2004 he was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize of Japan.
