YANG Yang ( 杨 扬) Director-General of International Cooperation Bureau, CASS Editorial note: “Building a new socialist countryside is a historic mission in China’s modernization drive”. This mission was enshrined in the Recommendations on Formulating the Eleventh Five-Year Plan of Economic and Social ...

SHI Xiancheng ( 史先诚 ) Associate Professor of the Department of Economics, Nanjing University Research fellow of the Yangtze River Delta Economic and Social Development Research Centre Editorial note: Inter-industry wage disparity has received the utmost attention in China, with a host of ...

LU Rongshan ( 卢荣善 ) Professor of the School of Economics, Nanjing Audit University Editorial note: Farmers are at the heart of China’s “three agricultural issues” (agriculture, rural areas and farmers). Characterized by inequality and vulnerability, classification as a “farmer” or “peasant” in China ...

LIN Jinzhong1( 林金忠 ) and WANG Ying2 ( 王 莹) 1,2 The Economic Research Institute, Xiamen University Editorial note: Economy at the present stage, as indicated by all the various methods of income gap measurement. Based on such a judgment, the authors offer ...

LI Kui ( 李 魁) School of Economics & Management, Wuhan University Editorial note: Private enterprises in China, which did not exist before the reform and opening-up, have now developed from a minor to a major player in China’s economy. The selected top 500 ...

JIN Bei ( 金 碚) Deputy Director General, Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Editor-in-chief of China Economist magazine Editorial note: Real estate is a prominent issue of worldwide concern and in particular, it has come under the spotlight ...

HAN Jun ( 韩 俊) Director and Research Fellow, Rural Economy Department, Development Research Centre of the State Council Editorial note: The Fifth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth Central Committee of the Party put forward the important strategic task of promoting the building ...

HAN Changfu ( 韩长赋 ) Research Division of the State Council, Governor of Jilin Province Editorial note: The emergence of rural migrants marks a further step in the liberation of Chinese farmers since the adoption of the rural household contract responsibility system in the ...

GUO Jinguang ( 郭劲光 ) Doctor of Industrial Economics, Institute of Public Management, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics Editorial note: The achievements of China’s economic growth haven’t yet facilitated poverty reduction to the extent anticipated. China continues to have a large poor population ...

ZONG Chengfeng1( 宗成峰 ) and ZHU Qizhen2( 朱启臻 ) 1Lecturer, China Agricultural University 2Professor, China Agricultural University Editorial note: Rural migrant workers are a new type of work force emerging from the process of China’s reform and opening, industrialization and urbanization. Due to ...