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Zhou, Qiren

Zhou Qiren (Ph.D., UCLA) is Chair Professor of Peking University and has served as Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. An eminent economist in China, Dr. Zhou is a member of the Expert Committee of National Development Planning and has been an advocator and adviser for decades for China’s reform and opening-up.
On the Breakout of Chinese Economy</a>

On the Breakout of Chinese Economy

Reform has long been a consensus in China, but after decades of rapid growth, there still remain numerous intractable barriers and institutional constrains to solve, and new problems are continuously emerging, all these hinder the implementation of China’s deepening reform.

Urban and Rural China</a>

Urban and Rural China

Following years of investigation and research on the changes of China’s land system, the author discusses the evolution of urbanization and rural land system reform in China, arguing that the shackles of institutional arrangements, especially the dual track of the urban-rural system, hinder the free flow of resource elements, creating different property rights for rural or urban people and leading to an extremely unbalanced development of urban and rural China.