China’s five-year work plan is striking for several reasons: the high degree of continuity from five years ago, the push by Beijing for Chinese companies to assert themselves globally, the strong hand of the state in areas of the economy considered integral to social stability, and the potential for serious debate over several of the redistributive aspects of the plan.

China's government wants to fight inflation and redistribute income, giving households a bigger slice of the pie. Higher interest rates would achieve both.

The recent general consensus in the government, business and academic circles is that the 12th Five-Year Guideline marks a new historic start for China’s econo

China has promulgated five-year plans since 1953 and experienced  a fast growth rate of 9.2 percent in the First Five-Year Plan period (1953-57). The plans wer

At the starting year of the 12th Five-Year Guideline, let us look back to the last Five-Year Guideline which was intended to promote institution advancement, sustainable society and so on, and see the challenges we are still facing now.

Whatever one thinks of the debate over Huawei’s relationship with the Chinese government and how it should be treated in the U.S., one thing is clear: The Chin

Although China's competitiveness has been rising over the years, its stellar economic performance could be masking other factors that prevent it from moving

China’s embrace of global institutions and their rules and norms has helped guide its spectacular economic growth and integration into the world economy. But C

China’s emergence as the second largest economy in the world, and on some reckoning an economy that is already nudging America for the top spot, inevitably rai

China’s economic reforms originated in political reforms and, conversely, once economic reforms took off they had a major impact on the political life of socie