China, modernisation and the goal of prosperity : government administration and economic policy in the late 1980s / edited and compiled by Kate Hannan ; [introduction by Ma Hong].

Includes index.

Introduction / Ma Hong -- Sect. I. National Financial Management. 1. Government Financial Regulation. 2. Monetary Policy and Monetary System. 3. Bonds, Stocks, Banks and Insurance. 4. Price Reform. 5. Taxation Policy -- Sect. II. Economic Law and the Administration of Industry. 6. The Economic Legal System. 7. Economic Planning. 8. Administration of Industry and Commerce. 9. Enterprise Classification and Management. 10. Employment, Wages and Welfare. 11. Housing, Land Use and Environmental Protection -- Sect. III. Industrial Production and Infrastructure. 12. The Structure of Industry. 13. Fixed Asset Construction. 14. Industrial Materials and Equipment. 15. Provision of Energy, Transport and Communication Services. 16. The Electronics, Nuclear and Astronautical Industries -- Sect. IV. Rural Production. 17. Agriculture. 18. Township Enterprise Production -- Sect. V. Foreign Investment. 19. Foreign Economic and Technical Cooperation. 20. China's Foreign Investment Experience.

The Chinese economy underwent a period of rapid expansion and modernisation during the late 1980s. The process of economic reform was launched ten years earlier, in 1979, and this book describes the first decade of economic reform in China with particular analysis on the late 1980s. It is unique in presenting a Chinese perspective on this economic reform to western readers. The material in the book was collated by a team from the Institute of Industrial Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Science in Beijing. This work was completed during the period immediately before the social unrest that culminated in the Tiananmen Square incident of June 1989.