Second Transformation: National System Construction: National System Construction

Author: Hu Angang
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book is the result of a two-year research project by the "National System Research" task force. While the researchers fully acknowledge the Party's first transformation—the strategy of prioritizing economic development since 1978—they point out that this strategy cannot address or mitigate the increasingly prominent social inequalities, unfairness, instability, and other social crises arising under economic prosperity. They clearly propose the second transformation—a strategic vision centered on the construction of national basic institutions—with the goal of achieving the maximization of social welfare through national institutional development and ensuring that the Party and government represent and realize the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people. The book includes the following content: the meaning of the second transformation, the paradox of transformation and development challenges, the history and experience of national institutional construction, and the conceptual framework and summary of basic institutional construction.