China?s role in global affairs today continues to rise. This book provides an authoritative, comprehensive and detailed overview of contemporary economic developments in China. Key topics includeagriculture; the market gradually replacing central planning; the global financial crisis; the reform of state-owned industrial enterprises; the non-state sectors; the ?open-door? policy (including the WTO, exchange rate policy, and inward and outward direct foreign investment); and China?s economic performance in general.

The book continues - and adds to ? the overview of developments up to May 2006 which were covered in the author?s China: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments(2006), and is the companion volume to Political Developments in Contemporary China: A Guide(2010) - both published by Routledge.