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The book: Understanding the Chinese Economies The author: Rongxing Guo (all website materials provided by author) The Publisher: Academic Press/Elsevier The lecturer:* □ □ □ (You are free to use and edit these slides.) Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo2

3 Which countries match the population of Chinese provinces?

Notes to the map: The equivalents are as follows: Algeria=Fujian, Argentina=Guizhou, Armenia=Tibet, Burundi=Hainan, Cameroon=Shanghai, Canada=Shaanxi, Chile=Beijing, Congo (Dem. Rep. of)=Hebei, Denmark=Qinghai, Ethiopia=Henan, France=Hunan, Germany=Sichuan, Ghana=Gansu, Iran=Jiangsu, Italy=Hubei, Jordan=Ningxia, Kenya=Jiangxi, Myanmar=Zhejiang, Papua New Guinea=Hong Kong, Philippines=Guangdong, Poland=Heilongjiang, Romania=Xinjiang, Saudi Arabia=Jilin, Solomon Islands=Macau, South Africa=Guangxi, Spain=Yunnan, Sudan=Liaoning, Uganda=Shanxi, UK=Anhui, Venezuela=Chongqing, Vietnam=Shandong, Yemen=Inner Mongolia, and Zimbabwe=Tianjin. Data are as of Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo

How to use this book The text Useful websites Suggested reading 5Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo

Chapters 1.A Brief History of China 2.Spatial and Administrative Divisions 3.Human and Cultural Contexts 4.Natural and Environmental Resources 5.Political and Administrative Systems 6Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo

6.Economic Systems in Transition 7.Understanding Chinese Economic Reform 8.Economic Growth and Income (Re)distribution 9.A Multiregional Economic Comparison 10.Regional Diseconomies and Development 7Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo Chapters

11.Industrialization and Technological Progress 12.International Economic Engagement 13.Inward and Outward Direct Investments 14.Doing Business in China 15.Understanding the Chinese-Speaking Economies 8Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo Chapters

Notes on the text: Unless stated otherwise, the geographical scope of China covers only mainland China, although Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan are mentioned in a number of the chapters. The term “Chinese economies” refers either to China’s provincial/local economies or to the larger extent of all the Chinese-speaking economies. Chinese names are customarily written in the order of family name (which is in the single syllable in most cases) followed by given name. Chinese names and geographic terms in mainland China are written in China’s official (pinyin) form, while those outside mainland China are in the conventional form. For the sake of convenience, specific autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government will be referred to alongside provinces by a single name. Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo9

Title Version(s) YearsEditor(s)Publisher “China Statistical Yearbook”( a ) Chinese/ English 1981– SSB NBS CSP “A Compilation of Historical Statistical Materials of China’s Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities” English1949–89 SSB (1990) Hsueh et al. (1993) CSP WVP “Historical Data on China’s Gross Domestic Product” Chinese1952–95SSBNCUFE “Almanac of China’s Economy”Chinese1981–EMP “China Industrial Economic Statistical Yearbook” Chinese1988–SSBCSP “Price Yearbook of China”( b )Chinese1990–ECPYCCPP Notes: ( a ): Also available at the website ( for the data from 1996 onwards. ( b ) Some price information is available at CPP=China Price Press; CSP=China Statistics Press; ECPYC=editing committee of Price Yearbook of China; EMP=Economics and Management Press; NBS=National Bureau of Statistics of China; NCUFE=Press of Northeast China University of Finance and Economics; WVP=Westview Press; SSB=State Statistical Bureau. Sources for statistical data : 10Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo

Useful websites: This book’s supplement materials: China’s political and economic conditions: (the website of the Communist Party of China) (the website of Central People’s Government of the PRC) m (the website of the National People's Congress of the PRC) (the website of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress) m Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo11

Other useful websites: economy economy china/?page=full china/?page=full ople's_Republic_of_China ople's_Republic_of_China 12Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo

Suggested reading China Quarterly (Cambridge University Press); Journal of Contemporary China (Taylor & Francis); and The China Journal (Australian National University). Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo13

Suggested reading China Economic Review (Elsevier) and Journal of Comparative Economics (Elsevier). Prepared with assistance by Luc Guo14

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