In order to achieve sustainable, equitable, and innovative GDP growth, China needs a new, more sophisticated growth model – more like a “growth order.” With a more inclusive, long-term approach that emphasizes strong institutions and eliminates perverse incentives, China's leaders can foster a more balanced economy and society.

While many analysts have characterized China's economic slowdown as a “black swan” event, Yu Xiang explains how this slowdown is the “New Normal” in China. As China’s economy is reformed and rebalanced, the United States will benefit from increased bilateral trade and greater cooperation.

In the past year, with a slowing Chinese economy coming under increased scrutiny, local government financing vehicles have become a source of concern. However, Joe Zhang dismisses these alarmist predictions and forecasts an “inevitable wave of privatization” for local Chinese government projects.

In the fall, China will initiate a massive urbanization plan, which could fuel the mainland’s growth prospects in the next two decades. The United States can only provide limited guidance to Chinese policymakers who are tackling challenges of an unprecedented magnitude.

China's government is now attempting fiscal decentralization to revitalize the public-finance position, while adopting financial decentralization to maintain currency stability. Indeed, the quest for macroeconomic balance has become the main goal of economic policy.

Yu Yongding explains the implications of China’s slowing economic growth rate and attempts to preempt a rise in inflation.

The Chinese yuan may become a potential challenger to the U.S. dollar as the top choice of reserve currency in central banks around the world. However, for the yuan to make this move, there are several major factors, which it must address first. Daniel McDowell explores the prospects for the yuan’s potential growth.

Canada’s large supply of raw materials and natural resources has made it an ideal trade partner for China. Now, as China’s economy begins to slow, Hugh Stephens examines how a positive, long term perspective on Sino-Canadian relations could be beneficial for all of North America.

China can successfully make the industrial transition that will generate stable and sustainable growth in the long run, writes Chen Dongxiao, president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.

Responding to concerns that China’s economic growth continues to decline, Qi Jingmei lays out why China’s economic performance succeeded in the first half of 2013 and what must be done to see steady growth in the second half of 2013.