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Increasingly China’s new leadership has revitalized the topic of urbanization. Last November, the vice-premier, Li Keqiang, wrote an article calling urbanization a “huge engine” for future economic growth. More recently, the newly released income inequality plan has even described urbanization as a tool to reduce income inequality. This renewed emphasis on urbanization appears to have [...]
Beijing released policy guidance for consolidating nine “key” industries on January 22, triggering concerns that China is redoubling efforts to boost state-owned enterprises and tighten their grip on the marketplace. The circular, Guiding Opinions on Pushing Forward Enterprise M&A and Reorganization in Key Industries (“Opinions”), was issued by a collection of Chinese bureaucracies under the [...]
The State Council’s newly released income inequality reform plan set forth an ambitious sounding goal that by 2015 the minimum wage should be 40 percent of the average wage throughout most of the country. Like many parts of the plan, this is actually a recycled policy from the 12th Five Year Plan that was released [...]
We first commented on China’s new income inequality plan back in November when there was still a bit of skepticism over whether it would be released at all (it has been in the works since 2004). The initial outline of the plan was released this week in a notice (CN) by the State Council. The [...]
Hot off the press, here’s our new policy brief on economic rebalancing in China. The paper takes an updated look at the key policy reforms necessary to achieve economic rebalancing, sketches out a feasible rebalancing scenario over the next decade, and analyzes the domestic political challenges. As always, your public and private comments on this paper are [...]