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ZHANG Daogen：A Political-economic Analysis of China's Economic Institutional Innovation

ZHANG Daogen，Researcher，Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Abstract Institutional innovation is the source power of China's rapid economic development after the reform and opening up. China's economic institutional innovation is highly endogenous and path-dependent in nature, and is closely related to China's conditions, history and development stages. Such an institutional innovation usually takes an internal and top-down approach, and quantitative changes gradually accumulate to qualitative transformation over time. The innovation of economic institution is not only restricted by productivity, but also deeply influenced by historical and cultural traditions. Since 1978, China has adopted a step-by-step approach to reform its economic system which is in line with China's reality. T...
2021-01-19
Wang Zhan: Why “Pudong New Area” instead of “Pudong Special Economic Zone”?

Wang Zhan, Chairman of Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations “Pudong's development and opening up has been a success for three basic reasons: unswerving adherence to the guideline of ‘seeking truth from facts and emancipating the mind,' thorough insistence in serving the national strategic requirements, and constant emphasis on the opening up and reform-driven innovation,” said Wang Zhan, in his speech marking the 30th anniversary of Pudong's development and opening up. Looking back, he mentioned the designation of Pudong as"New Area"rather than"Special Economic Zone." When Pudong was decided as the theatre of a development and opening up campaign, there was a problem of designation. By then, there were already five"special econom...
2021-01-02
Quan Heng: Pudong as a leader in transforming and upgrading the city's functional centers

Quan Heng, Secretary of the Leading Party Members'Group & Executive Vice Chairman of Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations Among the achievements made by Pudong in its development and opening up for the past three decades plus, what is most worthy of in-depth investigation is its leading role in transforming and upgrading the city's functional centers. When the concept of developing Pudong was put forward and demonstrated in the early 1980s, as a local development strategy, it was developed around optimizing and enhancing the urban functions of Shanghai, especially for the purpose of enhancing the comprehensive service functions of the central city. By the end of the 1980s, the strategic positioning of Pudong’s development and opening up was clarified, not only to...
2021-01-02
Zhou Zhenhua: Innovation only can upgrade Shanghai's “urban energy level” and core competitiveness

Zhou Zhenhua,Director of the Shanghai Global City Research Center Innovation is vital to the development of any country. China's economy is shifting from rapid growth to high-quality development, for which the driving force of innovation is even more essential, as it always is for such a critical transition from"old fuel"to"new fuel."The low-level expansion highly reliant on large investments of manpower and material resources and in real estate development will not work any longer. For high-quality development, the country must have a modernized industrial system and enhance industrial competitiveness, both of which can only be made possible by innovation. Since China's 12th Five-Year Plan proposed"innovation-driven development, economic restructuring and upgr...
2021-01-02
Zhang Xueliang: The growth and development of the Yangtze River Delta in the future depends on “four keys”

Zhang Xueliang, Chair Professor of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics The Yangtze River Delta, originally a mere geographic term, has gradually acquired the meaning of an economic zone. With the strengthened regional economic connections, the scope of the Yangtze River Delta has also expanded. Today, the development of the Yangtze River Delta is at a new critical point. At the present stage, we must put the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta in the light of the national masterplan for regional development strategy, closely following the country's strategic policy of promoting economic regions for"strong and active growth driver,""exemplary high-quality development,""leading modernization,""advanced regional integration,"a...
2021-01-02

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ZHANG Daogen：A Political-economic Analysis of China's Economic Institutional Innovation

Wang Zhan: Why “Pudong New Area” instead of “Pudong Special Economic Zone”?

Quan Heng: Pudong as a leader in transforming and upgrading the city's functional centers

Zhou Zhenhua: Innovation only can upgrade Shanghai's “urban energy level” and core competitiveness

Zhang Xueliang: The growth and development of the Yangtze River Delta in the future depends on “four keys”