Transformation and Stability: How China Achieves Long-term Peace and Prosperity

Author: Hu Angang
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: This book is divided into four parts: Introduction, Part I, Part II, and Part III. The Introduction primarily provides a chronological review and systematic summary of the author's understanding of "how China can achieve long-term stability" over the past decade. It also serves as the general outline and introduction to the entire book. Part I focuses on the broader context of China's social transformation and the overall strategy, explaining the deep-seated contradictions, characteristics of Chinese society, and basic governance approaches, comprising six chapters. Part II addresses the economic foundation for social stability and long-term peace, covering how to comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society, how to reduce various forms of poverty under globalization, how to create employment and alleviate unemployment, how to regulate income disparities, and how to establish a social security system. Part III discusses the political system construction for social stability and long-term peace, covering how to establish a strategic vision for long-term stability in a socialist country, how to learn from the historical lessons of the Soviet Union's disintegration, how to manage major political relationships during social transformation, how to strengthen the Communist Party's construction, how to combat corruption, and how to transform government functions and respond to various crises. The most important conclusion of this book is that the establishment of national institutions is the fundamental guarantee for a country's long-term stability. It is essential to base efforts on China's national conditions, learn from all outstanding achievements of civilizations worldwide, and vigorously advance institutional innovation, system construction, and institutional modernization to achieve China's long-term stability. The entire book reflects the author's specific proposals for institutional construction aimed at "long-term stability" at different periods, which are both forward-looking and preemptive, yet also practical and feasible.