China in 2006: Focus on social development

Asian Survey

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-43

  Saich, Tony ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Corruption; Japan; North Korea; Social unrest

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; LEADERSHIP; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KOREA; NORTH KOREA;

EID: 34247330917     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2007.47.1.32     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Liu Guoguang, "Shehui Zhuyi Shichang Jingji ye Xuyao Jihua" [The socialist market economy also needs planning], Zhongguo Qingnian Bao [China Youth Daily], March 20, 2006.
2. See Joseph Kahn, "A Sharp Debate Erupts in China over Ideologies," New York Times, March 12, 2006.
3. Zhong Xuanli, "Hao bu Dongyao de Jianchi Gaige Fangxiang wei Shixian 'Shiyiwu' Guihua Mubiao Tigong Qiangda Dongle he Tizhi Baozhang" [Unswervingly uphold the direction of reform to provide a powerful driving force and institutional guarantee for realizing the goal of the 11th Five-Year Program], Renmin Ribao [People's Daily], June 5, 2006, p. 2.
4. Shi Ping, "Jianchi Buyidi Tuijin Gaige Kaifang wei 'Shiyiwu' Shiqi Jingji Shehui Fazhan Tigong Qiangda Dongle he Tizhi Baozheng" [Uphold pushing forward reform and opening up to provide a powerful driving force and institutional guarantee for developing the economy and society for the period of the 11th Five-Year Program], Qiushi, June 1, 2006, pp. 18-20.
5. Communiqué of the Sixth Plenum of the Sixteenth Central Committee, October 11, 2006, .
6. Peter Ford, "Ahead of Olympics, China Lifts Foreign Media Restrictions," Christian Science Monitor, December 1, 2006.
7. Ching-Ching Ni, "Wave of Social Unrest Continues across China," Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2006.
8. Dong Jun, "Commentary," Xinhua News Agency, September 13, 2006.
9. Xia Wensi, "Wen Jiabao Qi Er de Heijin Neimu" [Scandals concerning Wen Jiabao's wife and son] Kaifeng [Open Magazine], no. 6, June 2006, pp. 16-18.
10. People's Daily online, "The Limitation of the Gini Coefficient in China," July 20, 2006, . The higher figures come from personal communication with Professor Hu Angang, Tsinghua University.
11. This was a joint survey between the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Horizon Group, "2005 Nian Zhongguo Jumin Pingjia Zhengfu ji Zhengfu Gonggong Fuwu Yanjiu Baogao" [2005 research report on Chinese citizens' evaluation of government and government public services], Beijing, December 2005.
12. For the Chinese version of Document No. 1, see Xinhuanet, February 21, 2006. For an English translation, see BBC Monitoring International Reports, Financial Times Information, ACC-NO: A200602248-1031B-GNW.
13. "Building a New Socialist Countryside Is an Urgent Immediate Task of China: Official," Xinhua, February 22, 2006.
14. See BBC Monitoring International Reports, Financial Times Information, ACC-NO: A200602248-1031B-GNW.
15. Lu Mai and Calla Wiemer, "Putting Farmers First: An End to China's Agricultural Tax," East Asia Institute Background Brief, no. 231, Singapore, 2005, p. 2.