Economic Powerhouse—China's Trend and Goals of Peaceful Rise: China's Trend and Goals of Peaceful Rise

Author: Zhang Huawen
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book has a complete system, in-depth discussions, rich materials, and clear viewpoints. It not only provides important reference value for scholars and experts studying China's construction of an economic powerhouse but also offers significant enlightenment for a broad readership concerned about China's rise. The book systematically elaborates on the objective trends, scientific goals, and international impacts of China's peaceful rise and its construction of an economic powerhouse. It first proposes the fundamental characteristics of a modern economic powerhouse and points out the connotation of China's goal to build an economic powerhouse. The first part summarizes the historical experiences of the rise of major countries in the modern and contemporary world, highlighting the historical opportunities for China to build an economic powerhouse in the context of economic globalization and the knowledge economy. Through an analysis of the structural characteristics of economic powerhouses, it demonstrates the significant trends of building an economic powerhouse based on the objective facts of China's economic development and the positive assessments of its future prospects by the international community. The book proposes a new quantitative analytical method to evaluate China's ranking among global economic powerhouses and its upward trend, while also providing a basis for structural strategies to accelerate the realization of the economic powerhouse goal. The second part of the book focuses on analyzing the constraints and international responses in China's path to building an economic powerhouse, including resource constraints and market constraints. It examines the international institutional effects of China's rise, studies various forms of regional cooperation in China, and holds strategic significance for theoretically addressing the China threat theory and strategically reducing international friction in the process of China's rise. By exploring China's role and position in the world's multilateral trade system and its policy proposals for participating in global governance, the book explores the role that China's peaceful rise should play as a major economic power in the world and clarifies the positive significance of China's rise for global win-win outcomes through theoretical analysis.