Chinese economists on economic reform: collected works of Du Runsheng

1. On a responsibility system for agricultural production (September 14, 1980) -- 2 Some opinions on rural economic policies (February 1981) -- 3. The historic transformation in [the Party's] rural work (September 4, 1982) -- 4. The household contract system linking remuneration to output represents a new development in the rural cooperative economy (November 13, 1982) -- 5. Explanations on some issues regarding current rural economic policies (December 31, 1982) -- 6. Explanation of the CPC Central Committee's notice on rural work in 1984 (December 18, 1983) -- 7. Several 'social objectives' behind developing a rural commodity economy (December 20, 1984) -- Getting rich first, later, and together (December 20, 1985) -- 9. Raise the economic standing of agriculture through reliance on science and technology (April 11, 1986) -- 10. Foreign-oriented development strategy for coastal regions (December 3, 1987) -- 11. Economic development in mountainous areas is a major focus for research (October 1988) -- 12. Reforms in socialist countries must pass the 'test of the market' and the 'test of democracy' (May 9, 1989) -- 13. The objective of reform : establish a market economy under socialist conditions (October 1992) -- 14. Cooperative shareholding systems featuring land-to-shares conversion (January 1994) -- 15. Reform of 'supply-and-marketing' cooperatives (November 7, 1995) -- 16. Stabilizing the household contract system : how to understand the 'two leaps' correctly (January 1996) -- 17. Adhere to strategies that allow for sustainable development (December 11, 1996) -- 18. Contracted family operations should be kept stable for a long time (October 27, 1998) -- 19. Farmers should be 'free men' (December 15, 1998) -- 20. Sustainable utilization of water resources (March 11, 1999) -- 21. Use the economy to motivate people, and use democratic politics to unite people (October 1999) -- 22. Historical status of small-and medium-sized enterprises (October 24, 1999) -- 23. Agricultural industrialization and 'dragon-headed' [leading] enterprises (November 10, 1999) -- 24. Thoughts on the Wenzhou economic model (May 25, 2000) -- 25. Brief remarks on innovation (July 18, 2000) -- 26. Prospects for a vitality of a 'mixed economy' (May 13, 2001) -- 27. Give farmers national citizenship (June 1, 2001) -- 28. Industry must repay agriculture (December 5, 2001) -- 29. Raise the degree to which farmers are represented through organizations (December 6, 2001) -- 30. A recommendation to exempt farmers from taxation (November 9, 2002) -- 31. The non-state-owned economy should be owned and operated by, and for the benefit of, the people (November 11, 2002).

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China's economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China's economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, unlike many other books on China's economic reform which are written by outside observers. Du Runsheng (1913-) has made major contributions to policy making on land reform, rural development and science policy. Politically active from the 1930s, when he served as a guerrilla leader fighting Japanese aggr