Yishui County——New Outlook Through Reform and Economic Opening

Located on the upper part of the Yi River, Shandong Province, Yishui County has jurisdiction over 13 towns and 1, 219 administrative villages, with a total population of 1.13 million, covering an area of 2, 434.8 square kilometers. Because of its moderate climate and geographic advantages, the county is an ideal place for foreign investment. The county seat is 110 km from Rizhao Port, 240 km from Oingdao Port, 90 km

China Needs the World,and the World Needs China——Mr.Li Lanqing on China's economic opening to the outside world

Mr. Li Lanqing, Vice Premier of the State Council, expounded on China’s economy heading towards the 21st century,at the 32nd ICC World Congress. He said: China is greeting the 19th year of its reform and opening to the outside world. In the past 18 years, especially in the 1990s,China’s economy, as an integral part of the world economy, has assumed three interrelated new features, under the circumstances of speeding up the development, deepening the reform, and expanding the opening. 1. Lasting trend for sustained and rapid economic growth. China has 1.2 billion people with everrising income and consumption levels and huge market demand, and the Chinese people have the habit of saving. So there are large amounts of bank deposits to

Further Economic Opening in Langfang

Situated between Beijing and Tianjin, Langfang City has a jurisdiction of two cities and six counties with a population of 3.52 million, and covers an area of 6, 429 sq kms. With a superior geographic position, rich natural resources, convenient transport and highly-developed telecommunications, the city is known as the Beijing-Tianjin Golden Corridor. Since the reform and econotnic opening, the city has

Making Efforts to Open up New Prospects for Jiangsu's Foreign Economic Work

The Eighth Five-year Plan period wasa fast growing period for Jiangsu’sforeign economic and technical co-operation. Guided by the policy of seizingopportunities, expanding the opening driveand promoting development, all the staff atthe provincial foreign economic front madeevery effort to fulfill the goal of the sus-tained, fast and healthy development in for-

The Economics of China’s Opening Up:Developing an Economic Theory That Explains China’s Achievement

Research on the construction of a theory for China’s open economy should break through the limitations of mainstream Western international economics.Firstly,we need to reveal the laws revolving around"three relationships and six threads"that governed China’s incremental process of trade liberalization.Secondly,we need to summarize China’s experience of the way new technologies,including the Internet,digital technologies and artificial intelligence(AI)have fostered and reshaped the position of small and mediumsized enterprises(SMEs)as micro-actors,providing us with new advantages in international competition.Thirdly,we need to analyze the new win-win mode of the international division of labor over land and sea established under the guidelines of the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI),as well as a new concept of pluralist balance in the international economy marked by a close connection between trade surplus and foreign investment.Fourthly,under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s important discourses,we should offer a rationale for the Chinese scheme of global economy governance within the community of shared future for mankind.

Forty Years of Ming and Qing Research Following China＇s Opening Up and Economic Reform

Increasingly, Chinese history is becoming a more significant component of academic international history. This is particularly true in light of the Chinese economic reform, whereby historical narrative has been able to go beyond more traditional standards of periodization, allowing, for example, Ming and Qing-era historical research to grow and develop qualitatively as well as quantitatively. In this sense, the field has greatly benefitted from the ＂ideological liberation＂ which followed in wake of the reform. However in a broader sense, this development is also closely related with academic exchange. Communications among domestic and international scholars of Ming and Qing history, as well as of international history, has normalized in the years following the reforms. This has not only led to a considerable influx of ＂overseas＂ historical research to China＇s mainland, but has also allowed for a larger-scale access to and citation of Chinese historical research by these overseas scholars. Domestic and international scholars have, from this, established much closer academic relations with one another. This tremendous progress made within the field Ming and Qing-era historical research during the past forty years was established upon the foundation of Chinese scholars＇ assiduous efforts as well as their increasingly frequent exchanges with international scholars and academics.

Economic Openness and Subjective Well-being in China

Using a large household survey administered across 30 cities in September 2003, we examine the relationship between the degree of economic openness, measured as the sum of imports and exports as a share of GDP, and subjective well-being in urban China. We find that respondents who live in cities with high levels of economic openness report significantly lower levels of subjective well-being ceteris paribus. We offer four explanations for this result; namely, inadequate social protection in the face of globalization, unfulfilled expectations, political dissatisfaction and anomie.