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Author Liu, Weidong (Geographer), author.

Title Exploring the Chinese social model : beyond market and state / Weidong Liu, Michael Dunford, Zhigao Liu, and Zhenshan Yang
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Agenda Publishing, 2022
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Description 1 online resource
Series Economic transformations
Economic transformations (Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- 1 Introduction: the china model as a specific socially embedded market economy -- Beyond market and state: a framework for examining the china model -- Marketizing the chinese economy -- 1978-92: marketization of product market prices -- 1993-2012: marketization of factor market prices -- Since 2013: improving factor market efficiency -- Major characteristics of the chinese social model -- Fiscal transfer system and counterpart assistance
Anti-poverty campaigns -- Pro-poor regional development strategies -- Infrastructure development -- Education -- Social security -- Conclusions -- 2 Governance instruments: the role of the party and the state -- Cultural basis of china's governance -- The political regime -- Administrative structure -- Conclusions -- 3 Spatial governance instruments in china -- Introduction -- Spatial planning and its reform -- Spatial planning systems -- Urban and rural planning -- Land use planning -- Functional environmental regionalization -- Major functional zoning plan
Reform of the spatial planning system: towards the maturation of the chinese social model -- Integrated spatial planning system -- Underlining the importance of the protection and promotion of ecology and the environment -- Enhancing the monitoring capacity of spatial governance -- Land governance in china -- Hukou or the household registration system as a governance tool -- Conclusions: roles and trends -- Supporting and speeding up economic development -- Recognizing the increasing importance of social stability -- Enhancing the capacity to protect and promote the ecological environment
Reducing regional disparity -- 4 Special economic spaces in china -- The roles of SESs in china's development model -- A taxonomy of SESs in china -- The development of special economic spaces -- The origin and development of SEZs (1979-84) -- The rapid growth of development zones (1984-92) -- Development zone fever and bureaucratic matrix (1992-2007) -- New directions towards national new areas, national innovation demonstration zones and pilot free trade zones (2008 to today) -- Effects of special economic spaces -- Economic effects of special economic zones
Effects of economic and technological development zones -- Effects of high-tech industrial development zones -- Conclusions -- 5 Regional development in china -- Introduction -- Theories of regional development -- China's economic growth and territorial development -- Geography, regional development and the path to ecological civilization -- China's economic growth and regional development policies -- Instruments and policies for regional economic growth -- China's urbanization and regional economic growth -- Chongqing and the development of western China -- Conclusions
Summary Exploring the Chinese Social Model presents new analysis and fresh research on how China deals with unequal development and inequality in the context of its surging economic growth
Subject Economic development -- China
Equality -- China
Economic development
Equality
Social conditions
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000602
Subject China
Form Electronic book
Author Dunford, Michael, author
ISBN 9781788214766
1788214765