China has enjoyed unprecedented high economic growth for three decades. This growth has however been unbalanced and has led to some serious consequences which C

In the last two decades, China's western inland region has largely been left out of the nation's economic boom. While its 355-million population accounts for 28

County-level fieldwork and unique data demonstrate how leadership and career incentives explain regional variation in China's economic development.

Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Wenzhou City of China's Zhejiang Province has witnessed large-scale institutional change and rapid economic d

The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques