Transformation and Stability: How China Ensures Long-term Prosperity

Author: Hu Angang, Hu Lianhe, et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
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 authors' understanding of "how China can achieve long-term stability" over the past decade, serving as the general outline and overview of 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 security, 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 inequality, and how to establish a social security system. Part III discusses the political institutional framework for social stability and long-term security, involving how to establish a long-term stability strategy for a socialist state, how to learn from the historical lessons of the Soviet Union's dissolution, 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 long-term stability. It is essential to base efforts on China's national conditions, draw on the world's finest achievements in civilization, and vigorously promote institutional innovation, institutional construction, and institutional modernization to achieve China's long-term stability. The entire book reflects the authors' specific institutional proposals for "long-term stability" at different stages, which are both forward-looking and preemptive, yet also practical and feasible.