Restructuring In China Research Articles

Semi-Competitive Elections at Township Level in Sichuan Province

In late 2001 to early 2002, about 2000 townships in Sichuan province implemented semi-competitive elections , which was a great development concerning political restructuring in China. Township level is the fifth level among the six levels of authorities in China: the centre at the top (zhongyang), 32 provinces (sheng) at the second level, 333 prefectures (diqu) at the third, 2,861 counties (xian) at the fourth, about 43,500 townships (xiang zhen) at the fifth, and about 800,000 villages (cun...

The Political Economy of Industrial Restructuring in China: The Case of Civil Aviation

The Political Economy of Industrial Restructuring in China: The Case of Civil Aviation

Economic Restructuring in China's Large and Medium-sized State-owned Enterprises: Evidence from Liaoning

Through field trips and interviews, which took place in June and November 2000, this article discusses recent developments in the economic restructuring of five large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in one city in Liaoning. We found that most of the firms we interviewed have attempted to compete in the market and upgrade technologies. This is most apparent in attempts to separate the production and social welfare functions of the enterprise and related progress in the areas of housing, medical care and pension reform. However, we also found that the SOEs we interviewed are still heavily dependent on preferential government policies. In particular, several of the SOEs interviewed for this article appear to be primarily profitable due to government policy favors (debt-for-equity swaps, outright debt write-offs and subsidized loans).

Impact of reform and economic restructuring on rural systems in China: a case study of Yuhang, Zhejiang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic and social impact of rural reform and economic restructuring in China. The impact is assessed through a case study of Yuhang, Zhejiang, by focusing on the changing economic landscape and rural–urban relationship in China during the reform period. While we note that peasant living conditions have been improved, particularly in the 1990s, we argue that such progress has been an outcome of agricultural and industrial production at the household level rather than simply from the rapidly growing township and village enterprises as it is generally believed. In contrast to the macro-level trend, the growing economy has reduced the overall spatial disparity, and produced a fairly even economic landscape in Yuhang. However, the rise of private industries has caused an economic gap between social groups, particularly the local entrepreneurs and migrant workers. Participated by both local peasants and outside migrants, urbanization has rapidly penetrated into localities, traditionally referred to as rural, in a “hidden” form, through which people's interactive space is enlarged and villagers become urbanites in activity and behaviour. The reform-induced industrialization and urbanization have also rapidly altered the physical landscape at the local level, as evidenced by the substantial rate of rural housing development, rural to urban migration, and agricultural to non-agricultural land conversion.

A Powerhouse Reform: Conversion from the Ministry of Electric Power to the State Power Corporation of China

This paper examines the relationship between economic reform and government restructuring in China by examining the reform in the power industry in general and the conversion of the Ministry of Electric Power to the State Power Corporation of China in particular. It shows two distinct features of this relationship. One is that political and economic reforms must proceed in tandem. That is, economic reform requires ideological shifts by the Party and changes in government policies, which in turn propel changes both in government structures and in the economic structure of industries. The other is the combination of top-led and bottom-driven reform. Changes in government policies and ideological guidelines encourage and promote economic reforms in power plants in provinces and regions. Reforms adopted and confirmed from the bottom-up demand and drive political restructuring in the central government.

Analysis on property investment structure in China

Using the quantitative analysis method, this paper studies the property investment differentia in areas such as East China, Middle China and West China, as well as the characteristics of property investment based on the relevant economic index in different areas. After studies, the paper reveals the cause of formation for the property investment differentia in the areas and puts forward a lot of constructive suggestions on how the adjustment of property investment structure can meet the requirements of the recent economic restructuring in China and the ambitious strategy of developing the West China area.

From State-Owned Enterprise to Joint Venture: A Case Study of the Crisis in Urban Social Services

Previous articleNext article No AccessReports from the FieldFrom State-Owned Enterprise to Joint Venture: A Case Study of the Crisis in Urban Social ServicesRobert P. Weller and Jiansheng LiRobert P. Weller Search for more articles by this author and Jiansheng Li Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 43Jan., 2000 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2667533 Views: 25Total views on this site Citations: 12Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright The China JournalPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Scarlett Ting Jin, Daniel Zhi Sui Do central state interventions cause urban shrinkage in China?, Journal of Urban Affairs 43, no.99 (Mar 2020): 1310–1329.https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2020.1730696Christopher J. Rees, John Hassard, Jonathan Morris, Jackie Sheehan, Xiao Yuxin China's state‐owned enterprises: economic reform and organizational restructuring, Journal of Organizational Change Management 23, no.55 (Aug 2010): 500–516.https://doi.org/10.1108/09534811011071252Jonathan Morris, Barry Wilkinson, Jos Gamble Strategic international human resource management or the ‘bottom line’? The cases of electronics and garments commodity chains in China, The International Journal of Human Resource Management 20, no.22 (Feb 2009): 348–371.https://doi.org/10.1080/09585190802670722 References, (Jan 2007): 147–157.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-84334-180-2.50019-0Mark W. Frazier State-sector shrinkage and workforce reduction in China, European Journal of Political Economy 22, no.22 (Jun 2006): 435–451.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2005.09.012Jieming Zhu A Transitional Institution for the Emerging Land Market in Urban China, Urban Studies 42, no.88 (Jul 2005): 1369–1390.https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980500150714Mary E. Gallagher “Time is money, efficiency is life”: The transformation of labor relations in China, Studies in Comparative International Development 39, no.22 (Jun 2004): 11–44.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686276John Hassard, Jonathan Morris, Jackie Sheehan The ‘third way’: the future of work and organization in a ‘corporatized’ Chinese economy, The International Journal of Human Resource Management 15, no.22 (Mar 2004): 314–330.https://doi.org/10.1080/0958519032000158536Russell Smyth, Zhai Qingguo Economic Restructuring in China's Large and Medium-sized State-owned Enterprises: Evidence from Liaoning, Journal of Contemporary China 12, no.3434 (Feb 2003): 173–205.https://doi.org/10.1080/10670560305461 Dorothy J. Solinger Chinese Urban Jobs and the WTO, The China Journal 49 (Oct 2015): 61–87.https://doi.org/10.2307/3182195Russell Smyth, Zhai Qingguo, Hu Wenguo Restructuring China's Petrochemical Enterprises: A Case Study of the Fushun Petrochemical Company, Post-Communist Economies 13, no.22 (Aug 2010): 243–261.https://doi.org/10.1080/14631370124898 Literatur, (): 197–219.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90477-1_10

The Communist Legacy in Post-Mao Economic Growth

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Communist Legacy in Post-Mao Economic GrowthLance L. P. GoreLance L. P. Gore Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 41Jan., 1999 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2667586 Views: 342Total views on this site Citations: 14Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright The China JournalPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Bin Xu Historically Remaining Issues: The Shanghai–Xinjiang Zhiqing Migration Program and the Tangled Legacies of the Mao Era in China, 1980–2017, Modern China 48, no.44 (Apr 2021): 721–753.https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004211003280Jing Li What causes China's property boom?, Property Management 31, no.11 (Feb 2013): 4–21.https://doi.org/10.1108/02637471311295388Wooyeal Paik, Myungsik Ham From Autonomous Areas to Non- Autonomous Areas, Modern China 38, no.11 (Jan 2012): 110–133.https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700411424566Shiuh-Shen Chien Economic Freedom and Political Control in Post-Mao China: A Perspective of Upward Accountability and Asymmetric Decentralization, Asian Journal of Political Science 18, no.11 (Apr 2010): 69–89.https://doi.org/10.1080/02185371003669379Khan-Pyo Lee In Search for Consolidation: The Political Economy of Industrial Restructuring in China's Automobile Industry, International Area Review 12, no.22 (Sep 2009): 151–175.https://doi.org/10.1177/223386590901200208Shiuh-Shen Chien LOCAL RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION IN CHINA: A TERRITORIAL RESTRUCTURING PROCESS PERSPECTIVE, Pacific Economic Review 13, no.44 (Oct 2008): 492–517.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0106.2008.00414.xShiuh-Shen Chien, Ian Gordon Territorial Competition in China and the West, Regional Studies 42, no.11 (Feb 2008): 31–49.https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701543249Shiuh-Shen Chien The Isomorphism of Local Development Policy: A Case Study of the Formation and Transformation of National Development Zones in Post-Mao Jiangsu, China, Urban Studies 45, no.22 (Feb 2008): 273–294.https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098007085963Shiuh-Shen Chien Institutional Innovations, Asymmetric Decentralization, and Local Economic Development: A Case Study of Kunshan, in Post-Mao China, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 25, no.22 (Apr 2007): 269–290.https://doi.org/10.1068/c0558Elaine Jeffreys Governing buyers of sex in the People's Republic of China, Economy and Society 35, no.44 (Nov 2006): 571–593.https://doi.org/10.1080/03085140600960823Alexei Shevchenko Bringing the party back in: the CCP and the trajectory of market transition in China, Communist and Post-Communist Studies 37, no.22 (Jun 2004): 161–185.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2004.03.002 Jae Ho Chung The Political Economy of Industrial Restructuring in China: The Case of Civil Aviation, The China Journal 50 (Oct 2015): 61–82.https://doi.org/10.2307/3182246Randall Peerenboom China's Long March toward Rule of Law, 2 (Jul 2009).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511493737Paul Bowles, Xiao-yuan Dong Globalisation, ‘Chinese Walls’ and Industrial Labour, IDS Bulletin 30, no.44 (Oct 1999): 94–105.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.1999.mp30004011.x

Urban restructuring in China’s emerging market economy: towards a framework for analysis

The objective of this article is to speculate on the urban restructuring process in China’s transition to a market economy. Previous studies suggest that a broad theoretical framework is much needed to develop hypotheses for further empirical studies. This paper draws its insights from relevant studies on contemporary capitalist cities, in particular, political economy analysis of the urban process and capital switching, the structure of building provision and the creation of a rent gap, and institutional analysis of property rights. Summarily, it suggests that the basic logic of production in the context of a socialist city requires a specific way of coordinating — through economic planning and a specific configuration — the state work‐unit system. Manifested in the production of the built environment was project‐specific development. The structural tendency to disinvest in developed land has engendered a rent gap, which has laid the foundation for the phase of redevelopment in reforming socialist economies. Urban restructuring in the recent emerging market economy, which mainly involves decentralization, reorganizing the production of the built environment, and an increasing local‐global link through overseas capital, is understood through this perspective. The post‐reform built environment is characterized by land‐use restructuring and polycentric development. It is argued that the physical reshaping of Chinese cities can be understood with respect to the redefinition of property rights, hence, capturing the rent gap by the main actors — state work‐units, municipalities, the central state, real‐estate investors, original residents and farmers. By its nature, the process favours big builders who have either de facto rights over existing urban land property or huge capital that enables them to ‘wipe out’ small owners. Western experience of gentrification reminds us that social problems may be created during the process, which calls for continuing insights to shed light on urban restructuring in post‐reform China.L’objectif de cet article est de spéculer sur le processus de restructuration urbaine durant la période de transition de la Chine à une économie de marché. Les études précédentes suggèrent qu’un modèle théorique large est absolument nécessaire pour développer des hypothèses pour des études empiriques additionnelles. Cet article tire ses idées des études des villes capitalistes contemporaines, en particulier des analyses d’économie politique du processus urbain et du tranfert de capitaux, de la structure de la provision de bâtiments et de l’écart entre les loyers, et de l’analyse institutionnelle des droits de propriété. Succintement, cet article suggère que la logique fondamentale de la production dans le contexte d’une ville socialiste demande une méthode particulière de coordination — par la planification économique et une configuration spécifique — le système d’unité de travail de l’état. Le développement spécific de certains projets était manifeste dans la production de l’environnement urbain. La tendance structurelle au désinvestissement des terres développées a produit un écart dans les loyers, qui a créé une base pour une phase de redéveloppement des économies socialistes en réforme. La restructuration urbaine dans l’économie de marché naissante, qui implique principalement la décentralisation, la réorganisation de la production de l’environnement urbain, et, de plus en plus, un lien entre le local et le global grâce au capital d’outremer, peut être comprise dans cette perspective. L’environnement urbain d’après les réformes est caractérisé par la restructuration de l’aménagement du territoire et le développement polycentrique. Cet article soutient que le remaniement physique des villes chinoises peut être compris par rapport à la redéfinition des droits de propriété, et l’écart des loyers est donc accaparé par les agents principaux — les unités de travail de l’état, les municipalités, l’état central, les investisseurs immobiliers, les résidents d’origine et les fermiers. Vu sa nature, ce processus favorise les gros entrepreneurs qui ont soit les droits de facto aux terres urbaines existantes soit des capitaux considérables qui leur permettent de ‘liquider’ les petits propriétaires. L’expérience occidentale d’embourgeoisement nous rappelle que les problèmes sociaux peuvent être créés durant ce processus, qui demande une attention continue afin d’expliquer la restructuration urbaine dans la Chine d’après les réformes.

Reforming China's social security system: Facts and perspectives

This article overviews the social security reform started shortly after the commencement of the general economic system restructuring in China in 1978. The reform is remarkable not only for its scale in terms of population covered, territory affected and comprehensiveness sought, but also for the difficulties confronted, progress made and confidence achieved. Although there is still a long way to go to fulfil its ambitious ultimate objectives, 14 years of reforming exercises have built up a solid basis for a sound social protection system to be gradually extended to the non‐covered population. China now can share its experience with other nations in a similar situation.

Power restructuring in China and Russia

Power restructuring in late-imperial, republican and revolutionary China power restructuring in Muscovite, imperial and revolutionary Russia the origins, rise and consolidation of the Stalin system restoration, reform and reaction in the Khrushchev era Chinese communism, Maoism and the origins of the Cultural Revolution the Cultural Revolution and the origins of post-Mao reform power dynamics in post-Mao China power restructuring in the Soviet Union in the period of perestroika.

Social Protection, Labor Market Rigidity, and Enterprise Restructuring in China

Social Protection, Labor Market Rigidity, and Enterprise Restructuring in China

Power restructuring in China and the Soviet Union

Comparing types within the same species, Raymond Aron once wrote, is the essential task of sociology.' Comparative analysis is especially vital in studying the two major communist systems of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union and Communist China. These systems of power represented powerful historical syntheses of imperial national culture, social revolution, and Marxist-Leninist ideology and organization. Despite periods of stability, the Soviet and Chinese Communist systems have been repeatedly shaken by restructuring processes set in motion from within. Notable instances include the Stalin Revolution of

VARIATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND EFFICIENCY IN NEWLY EMERGING EXTENDED METROPOLITAN REGIONS OF JIANGSU PROVINCE, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Recent economic reforms and restructuring in China have resulted in significant changes in the nature and efficiency of farm production. In southern Jiangsu (SUNAN), a region developing and urbaniz...

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Hans Singer, Neelamber Hatti and Ramesbwar Tandon (eds), Technology Transfer by Multinationals.Paul W. Beamish, Multinational Joint Ventures in Developing Countries.Yves Beigbeder, Management Problems in United Nations Organizations: Reform or Decline?Frits van Holthoon and Marcel van der Linden (eds), Internationalism in the Labour Movement 1830–1940.R. Vos (ed.), From Crisis to Equitable Growth. A New Development Agenda for Latin America.PREALC, In Search of Equity. Planning for the Satisfaction of Basic Needs in Latin America.Margaret Garritsen de Vries, Balance of Payments Adjustment, 1945 to 1986. The IMF Experience.Birol A. Yesilada, Charles D. Brockett and Bruce Drury (eds), Agrarian Reform in Reverse: The Food Crisis in the Third World.J. Hinderink and J. J. Slerkenburg, Agricultural Commercialization and Government Policy in Africa.Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield, Land Degradation and Society.Mike Donaldson and Kenneth Good, Articulated Development: Traditional and Capitalist Agriculture in Papua New Guinea.Sun Jingzhi (ed.), The Economic Geography of China.Peter Bowden, National Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Programs in the Third World.Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Public Intervention and Industrial Restructuring in China, India and Republic of Korea.William K. A. Agyei, Fertility and Family Planning in the Third World: A Case Study of Papua New Guinea.G. N. Ramu, Family Structure and Fertility: Emerging Patterns in an Indian City.S. Alessandrini and B. Dallago (eds), The Unofficial Economy: Consequences and Perspectives in Different Economic Systems.The Netherlands Review of Development Studies.

Rural Economic Restructuring and Farm Household Income in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Abstract Economic reform and restructuring in China have resulted in substantial changes in how farmers earn their livings and how much they earn. Based on a neoclassical model of economic development and structural change as interpreted by Oshima (1983) for East Asia, we hypothesize that farmers in Jiangsu Province earn greater incomes from off-farm jobs associated with nearby cities and urban market centers. This income pattern, we believe, results in distinctive household types associated with specific employment and economic activities of family members and reflects a sequence of change in the farm economy suggestive in part of the farm evolution model posed by Weitz (1971). A 167-farm-family sample was surveyed in four agricultural regions in Jiangsu in 1986–87. Sample data identified sources of family income and determined the significance of activity types and proximity to cities for family income. Variables of income, farm, and family size were cross-correlated to determine those with the most sig...

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market. Edited by George A. Akerlof and Janet L. Yellen. Mergers and Acquisitions. Edited by Alan J. Auerbach. Dynamic Fiscal Policy. By Alan J. Auerbach and Laurence J. Kotlikoff. Public Intervention and Industrial Restructuring in China, India and Republic of Korea. By Amiya Kumar Bagchi. The Economics of Education and the Education of an Economist. By Mark Blaug. Monetary Chaos in Europe: The End of an Era. By Brendan Brown. The Political Economy of Central America since 1920. By Victor Bulmer‐Thomas. Exchange Rates and the Open Economy. Edited by K. Alec Chrystal and Robert Sedgwick. Unemployment, Hysteresis and the Natural Rate Hypothesis. Edited by Rod Cross. Managing Industrial Change in Western Europe. Edited by Francois Duchêne and Geoffrey Shepherd. The Slump in Europe: Reconstructing Open Economy Theory. By Jean‐Paul Fitoussi and Edmund S. Phelps. Economic Choice under Uncertainty: A Perspective Theory Approach. By J. L. Ford. The Dynamics of a Capitalist Economy: A Multi‐Sectoral Approach. By Richard M. Goodwin and Lionello F. Pmzo. Financial Deregulation: A Comparative Study of Australia and the United Kingdom. By Maximilian Hall. Surveys in the Economics of Uncertainty. Edited by John D. Hey and Peter J. Lambert. Privatization and Ownership. Lloyds Bank Annual Review. Volume 1. Edited by Christopher Johnson. The Individual in the Economy: A Survey of Economic Psychology. By Stephen E. G. Lea, Roger M. Tarpy and Paul Webley. The London and New York Stock Exchanges 1850–1914. By R. C. Michie. Economic Methodology and the Freedom to Choose. By Patrick J. O'Sullivan. Political Economy: A Synthesis of Kaleckian and Post Keynesian Economics. By Peter J. Reynolds. The Economics of François Quesnay. By Gianni Vaggi. Socialism in England. By Sidney Webb. Policy Options for the Singapore Economy. By Lim Chong Yah and Associates.

Uncertain Paternalism: Tensions in Recent Regional Restructuring in China

This paper explains the reform of the regional structure of the Chinese economy in the late 1970s and 1980s in light of the concept of uncertain paternalism. This qualified state protectivism encourages local dependence on the central government but also trains localities in tactics of encapsulation, self-reliance, and hoarding. The concept of uncertain paternalism is used to elucidate the dynamics operating in four classes of spatial economic reforms, and the progress and problems of these reforms are discussed, as well as their potential contribution to the modernization of the Chinese economy.

Year-End Student Presentations - M.A. Double Degree Program in Global Communication

The 2nd cohort of M.A. Double Degree Program in Global Communication are finishing their first year at SFU and will soon start the second year of study in Beijing. Prior to the departure, the students will present their capstone projects completed at SFU. As part of the event, Dr. Yu Hong from School of Communication at USC Annenberg will give a guest lecture. The topic of her speech is "Networking the nation: communication and economic restructuring in China". The event will be hosted on August 7, Friday (9:00am to 4:00pm) at Harbour Centre, Room 7000.