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China's college graduates are suffering from various types of underemployment, especially manifested in a mismatch between their qualifications and expectations and the actual jobs they are in. This is the result of a shortfall in university education and structural problems in the economy. A socioeconomic conundrum, the problem of educated underemployment will require reforms in both higher education and the economic structure.

Introduction -- Market, state and capitalism: theories of political economy and China -- Market in state: a theory of Chinese political economy -- The state and market in imperial China -- Origins of the modern Chinese political economy: geopolitics, mobilization, and state building -- Grassroots capitalism and marketization: dynamics of market reform in the contemporary era -- The middle-ground: the nexus between the state and private enterprises -- The money regimes: fiscal and monetary reforms and their limits -- State capitalism: the centrally-managed SOEs and economic domination -- Conclusion

China's food security is a cornerstone of China's socioeconomic stability and a key issue for the world food market. Over the past twenty years, China has seen its food production generally rising commensurately with population growth. There has been need for only minimal supplements from the world grain market, despite recurrent natural disasters and two episodes of precipitate output fall. Underlying China's strong grain security is the government's full support for agricultural production, tight control on land use and some strategic use of the world market. In future, China's continued food security will largely depend on the government's capacity to address short- and long-term climate and environmental challenges. (CIJ/GIGA)

The labour market in China has been experiencing severe labour shortage and radical wage increases for migrant labour since February 2011. The current tightening of labour markets nationwide underlies the demographic shift and generation change in the migrant labour force

In early April 2009, the Chinese government released a Guideline and an Action Plan on health care reform. By 2020, China plans to establish a functioning system that is affordable and accessible. In sharp contrast with the retreat of the state from the health care sector since the 1980s, the Chinese government is now willing to play a much larger role in providing basic healthcare to its citizens, rural or urban. (East Asian Pol/GIGA)

Since China's recovery from the global financial crisis in late 2009, coastal China has been confronted with massive shortage of migrant workers. The Pearl River Delta alone needed one million more workers. Labour shortage clearly signalled structural changes in China's labour market with the rise of second generation migrant workers. (East As Pol)