This book focuses on an attractive theoretical subject as well as a practical issue, which analyses the inner relationship of economic growth and income distribution in China. During the forty years of China's reform and opening up many influential changes occurred in the structure of the national income distribution, the mechanism of income distribution, and the policies of distributing income with the high-speed development of China. From historical and regional analysis, this book collects a good deal of data and objectively summarizes the practice and experience of renovation of income distribution in China. Based upon the summary and conclusion above, the book paraphrases and creates a conceptual mechanism, a basic theory, and a basic methodology of socialism with Chinese characteristics and discovers the internal rules of the changing relationship between high-speed economic development and income distribution in China to guide and facilitate the further improvement and innovative development of income distribution in China. Furthermore, the book enriches the political economy theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the aspect of practical experience, as well as theory.

Auteur

Heng QUANProfessor of Economics, Executive President of Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations Concurrently also serving as deputy chairman of the Shanghai Economist Association and policy-making consultant of the Shanghai Municipal Government; Interested in developmental economics and macro-economics.

Contenu
Introduction.- Practices and Changes in China's Income Distribution over the Last 40 Years.- Total Size and Pattern of China's Income Distribution over the Last 40 Years.- Causes and Explanations of Changes in China's Income Distribution Pattern over the Last 40 Years.- Debates over Income Distribution in China and Changes in Ideas and Theories over the Last 40 Years.- Experience and Characteristics of China's Income Distribution Reform over the Past 40 Years.- Chinese Income Distribution Over the Past 40 Years: Theoretical Development and Innovation.- China's Income Distribution Reform in the New Era: New Problems and Challenges.- Further Income Distribution Reform in the New Era.- Policy Framework for Promoting Income Growth and Income Distribution Reform in the New Era.