Iris Claus & Les Oxley 
China’s Economy [EPUB ebook] 
A Collection of Surveys

1. The Chinese Economy, Past, Present and Future 1
Iris Claus and Les Oxley
2. A Survey of Recent Research in Chinese Economic History
7
Kent Deng
3. Demographic Transition and Labour Market Changes:
Implications for Economic Development in China 25
Yang Du and Cuifen Yang
4. Pension Reform in China: Challenges and Opportunities
45
Yong Cai and Yuan Cheng
5. The Evolution of the Housing Market and Its Socioeconomic
Impacts in the Post-Reform People’s Republic of China: A
Survey of the Literature 63
Jie Chen and Xuehui Han
6. Urbanization and Urban Systems in the People’s Republic
of China: Research Findings and Policy Recommendations 83
Ming Lu and Guanghua Wan
7. Income Inequality in the People’s Republic of China:
Trends, Determinants, and Proposed Remedies 99
Chen Wang, Guanghua Wan and Dan Yang
8. The Evolving Geography of China’s Industrial
Production: Implications for Pollution Dynamics and Urban Quality
of Life 125
Siqi Zheng, Cong Sun, Ye Qi and Matthew E. Kahn
9. Innovation in China 143
Peilei Fan
10. China’s Service Trade 165
Hejing Chen and John Whalley
Index 197

Iris Claus is a Senior Fellow, Department of Economics,
Waikato University, New Zealand. Her current research interests are
in unconventional monetary policy, taxation, financial
intermediation, open economy macroeconomics and general equilibrium
modeling. She is the Managing Editor for Journal Economic
Surveys and Associate Editor of Asian Economic
Papers.
Les Oxley is Professor in Economics, University of
Waikato, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor, School of Economics
and Finance, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. He is the
editor of, amongst others, Innovation, Entrepreneurship,
Geography and Growth (with P. Mc Cann, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012),
Economics and History: Surveys in Cliometrics (with D.
Greasley, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and the author of
China’s Energy Economy: Reforms, Market
Development, Factor Substitution and the Determinants of Energy
Intensity (with Hengyun Ma, 2012).