This forward-looking volume offers insights into the globalization of the Chinese economy and its accession to the WTO. The contributors provide updated accounts of recent developments in the Chinese economy and examines the implications of China's accession for the rest of the world.

If China's rural families are to participate fully in the future economic growth there must be a large reduction in the number of farm workers. In order to accommodate the reduction needed over the next three decades, there will need to be 12-15 million new non-farm jobs created every year....