"This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to...

Between 1964 and 1971 China carried out a massive programme of investment in the remote regions of south-western and western China. This development programme - called the "Third Front" - envisaged the creation of a huge self-sufficient industrial base area to serve as a strategic reserve in the...