A Concise Course on the History of China's Economic Development

Author: Liu Fangjian
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is compiled according to the textbook development plan of the "Project 211" at Southwest University of Finance and Economics, specifically designed for use by students majoring in finance and economics. The main purpose of this book is to systematically introduce the entire historical process of the development and evolution of China's economic modernization. It focuses on teaching the basic processes of China's socio-economic development and evolution before 1840; how China's traditional economy was passively transformed toward opening up to the outside world since 1840, and the historical process of actively opening up since 1978; and how China's traditional agricultural economy transitioned into modern capitalist industrial and commercial economy, and then into a socialist modernized economy. During the writing process, the book adopts a method of vertical historical evolution and tracing in China's history, as well as horizontal comparisons of economic system evolution in the same historical stage between the East and the West, systematically presenting the historical process of China's socio-economic development.