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Towards a new Political Economy in Rural China? (Editorial)

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  • Sylvie Démurger

    (GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENS LSH - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jean-François Huchet

    (CECMC-CCJ - Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine - CCJ - Chine, Corée, Japon - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The stagnation of China's rural economy over the last decade has become a major challenge for sustainable development of the whole economy. With a rural population of more than 745 million accounting for 57 percent of China's total population in 2005, the country cannot afford to ignore rural issues such as restructuring the agriculture sector, modernising rural areas, and improving farmers' welfare. Ensuring a smooth transition in rural China has become the top priority in the Chinese government agenda since Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao took over the key political positions in 2003. This represents a clear departure from the previous policy followed by Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji in the 90s. The political and economic costs of the growing imbalances in the rural economy have become too important for the leadership to ignore.

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  • Sylvie Démurger & Jean-François Huchet, 2008. "Towards a new Political Economy in Rural China? (Editorial)," Post-Print halshs-00354338, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00354338
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    political economy; rural China;

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