Intro -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. 40 years of China's reform and development: How reform captured China's demographic dividend -- Part I: The Chinese economic transformation -- 2. 40 years of Chinese economic reform and development and the challenge of 50 -- 3. Reflections on 40 years of China's reforms -- 4. GDP and the new concept of development: Understanding China's changing concept of development in regards to GDP after the reform and opening-up -- 5. The political economy causes of China's economic success -- 6. China's economic transformation -- 7. Reform and development strategy -- 8. The complex task of evaluating China's economic reforms -- 9. Decentralisation, local innovation and competition among cities -- Part II: Macroeconomic development and structural adjustments -- 10. China's macroeconomics in the 40 years of reform -- 11. China's economic rebalancing: Drivers, outlook and the role of reform -- 12. China's price liberalisation and market reform: A historical perspective -- 13. How has the Chinese economy capitalised on the demographic dividend during the reform period? -- 14. Marketisation in China from 1997 to 2014: Achievements and contribution to growth -- 15. An update on fiscal reform -- 16. 'Strong on quantity, weak on quality': China's financial reform between 1978 and 2018 -- 17. The reform of China's exchange rate regime -- 18. Private sector development -- 19. State-owned enterprise reform in China: Past, present and prospects -- 20. State enterprise reform today -- Part III: The development experiences -- 21. Rural-to-urban migration and migrants' labour market performance, 2008-16 -- 22. The structure of and changes to China's land system
