Every year some 15 million Chinese officials are trained by teaching personnel numbering around 108,000 - a volume unmatched anywhere else in the world. This book gives readers a rare insight into how China educates and trains its officials to run the most populous country and second biggest economy in the world.
For 3 continuous decades, China; a country of 1.4 billion people has experienced annual economic growth of 10% or more, which has brought it to the forefront of the world. It now moves into an era of consolidation. This book describes how the Communist Party of China intends to guide the country on its continuing path to greater prosperity.
China's `reform and opening up' process started in the countryside in the late 1970s with the change from collectivised agriculture to the creation of town and village enterprises (TVEs) based on the household contract responsibility system. This transformed China's agricultural economy from one characterized by perennial shortages to surpluses.