China after 35 years of economic transition

Abstract

This special section of China Economic Review includes ten selected papers from a conference on “China after 35 Years of Economic Transition”, held in London at London Metropolitan Business School on 8-9 May 2014. The conference provided a platform for experts, academics, and policy makers to exchange their in-depth insights into all aspects of the Chinese economic and social transformation since 1978. It was also an opportunity to evaluate the prospects for the decades ahead. Keynote speakers at the conference included Mr Xianhong Deng, Deputy Governor of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) of China, and Dr Linda Yueh, Director of the China Growth Centre at Oxford University and the BBC Chief Business Correspondent.