The Chinese Path Toward a Leaner Government
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This book focuses on the administration streamlining aligned with the market-oriented reform process in China. The book is divided into two parts. The first part clarifies why administration is necessary and important, what it covers, and how to deal with the relation between the central and the local governments. The second part presents empirical analysis in specific areas, including agricultural reform, fiscal reform, government reform and education reform, and a series of decentralization reforms. This book is a collective wisdom from Peking University and is edited by Chinese economist Yining Li.
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Professor Yining Li is the founding Dean and Honorary Dean of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He graduated from the Department of Economics of Peking University in 1955. He has served as Data Clerk, Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Head of the Department of Economics and Management of Peking University, and Dean of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He is currently the Honorary Dean of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.
Professor Li Yining has written many books and published a large number of articles in economic theory. He is one of the first scholars to put forward the theory of joint-stock reform in China. He put forward the theory of the unbalanced Chinese economy and its dual transition. In addition, he presided over the drafting of the Securities Law and the Securities Investment Fund Law. All these have had a profound impact on the reform and development of China's economy.
Dr. Zhiqiang Cheng is an economist, and Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor of Peking University. His main research areas include macroeconomics, energy strategy, business management, etc. He has published a number of monographs such as Resolving the "Poverty of Prosperity"--Coal Resource Utilization and Development of Underdeveloped Areas, Resource Prosperity and Development Dilemma, Research on Agricultural Industrialization and Land System Innovation, and State-owned Enterprise Reform and Mixed-Ownership Economic Development .