Integrated Study of China's Development and Reform

China's reform, opening-up, and development since the late 1970s have achieved extraordinary success and have attracted world-wide attention. The author, vice President of Academic Committee of Development Research Centre of the State Council, graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department, Shanghai Jiaotong University, in 1947. He has 22 years' experience in policy research in macro socio-economic issues, and has led and has been a chief researcher in national and international large-scale cooperative policy research projects. He has been invited to over 100 international conferences to give speeches on social, economic, environmental and technological questions, and half of these papers have been published as books or articles in international journals. His major publication (in Chinese) was a pioneering study in China, titled An Introduction to Systems Engineering. Integrated Study of China's Development & Reform: Preliminary Exploration of Social System is a collection of eighteen papers. They provide an overall picture of the development and reform of China as well as some other issues in a comprehensive perspective. This book is in five parts: overall perspective of development strategy of China; development of science & technology of China; economic development & reform of China; some social aspects of China; & some environmental aspects of China.