✍ Scribed by Wang Shaoguang
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Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
Ridiculous Prediction
Ridiculous Theory
What Does China’s Rise Mean to the World?
2 Revelation: State Capacity and Economic Development
Many Countries (Regions) Carried Out Reform and Opening-Up
Conditions Required for Successful Reform and Opening-Up
State Capacity and East–West Divergence
State Capacity and China–Japan Divergence
Summary
3 Groundwork: From Old China to New China
National Reality Before the Founding of New China
Repeated External Aggressions
Internal Division
Powerful Distributional Coalitions Politically
A Sheet of Loose Sand Socially
Backward and Poor Economy
Universal Illiteracy
Low Health Level
From the Founding of New China up to 1978, Before the Reform and Opening-Up
Political Infrastructure
Independence
National Unification
Social Stability
Eradication of “Distributional Coalitions”
Social Infrastructure
Social Equity
People’s Health
Universal Education
Material Infrastructure
Based on Agriculture
Effective Irrigation
Led by Industry
Establishment of Integrated Industrial System
Summary
4 Exploration: From New China’s First 30 Years to Next 40 Years
Explorations in the 30 Years Pre-reform
Explorations in Ownerships
Explorations in Planning Economy
Explorations in Breaking “Bourgeois Rights”
Achievements of Explorations in the First 30 Years
Explorations in the 40 Years Post-reform
Explorations in Economic Reform
Explorations in Political Reform
Political Direction of Economic Reform: Always Focusing on the Improvement of Well-Being of the Overwhelming Majority of the People
Stakeholders of Reform: Benefit the Most Possible People, and Impair the Least of Them
Path of Reform: Groping for Steppingstones While Crossing the River
Achievements of Exploration in the 40 Years Post-reform
Summary
5 Steering: From Planning to Programming
Planning Well for Decision Made, Action Taken with Success Secured
Preparedness Ensures Success, Unpreparedness Spells Failure
Summary
6 Pillar: State-Owned Enterprises and Industrialization
New China’s Starting Point
Starting Point in Economy
Starting Point in Industry
Starting Point in State Capital
Starting Point in SOEs
From an Agricultural to an Industrial Country, 1949–1984
Growth of SOEs
Growth of State Capital
Growth of Industry
Growth of Economy
From Industrial Country to Industrial Power, 1985–2019
SOEs Grow Stronger
State Capital Grows Stronger
Industry Grows Stronger
Economy Grows Stronger
Summary
7 Direction: From Economic to Social Policies
Take Economic Construction as the Central Task
Reduce Inequality
Narrow Regional Disparities
Narrow Urban–rural Disparities
Reduce the Sense of Insecurity
Minimum Living Guarantee Scheme
Medical Insurance System
Old-Age Security System
Housing Security System
Other Securities
Summary
8 Leapfrogging: Striding from Middle Income to High Income
Appendix: A Look at the “Great Famine” from a Historical and Comparative Perspective
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