Development of China's rural industry and measurement of its productive efficiency at firm level

Through the remarkable growth of over a decade China's rural industry has already become an important pillar of its national economy. The primary goal of this dissertation is to place China's rural industry in a historical and a market economic perspective in an efforts to link its rapid development and its economic performance to its market-oriented characteristic, and to analyze its productive efficiency at firm-level, in order to demonstrate that firms operating in a competitive market economic environment should have better economic performance.