This book elaborates on how China’s previous leaders established, consolidated, developed and improved China’s basic modern governance system. It also explores and discusses how to correctly, objectively and scientifically perceive, evaluate and promote the modernization of China’s state governance and its capacity. Using detailed and accurate data and extensive background information, this book analyzes the changing history and future perspectives of the relationship between China’s government and the market, state-owned economy and private economy. Covering an extensive timespan, this comprehensive book includes contributions from Chinese scholars specialized in contemporary China studies discussing the major breakthroughs and decision-making consultations in Chinese development strategies. It also offers insights into the research mechanism and development levels of Chinese think tanks based at research institutes. Last but not least, it sheds light on the democratic advances in the Chinese decision-making process. Angang Hu, a leading expert in China Studies, is a professor at the School of Public Policy and Management and Dean of the Institute of Contemporary Studies, Tsinghua University. He is a representative of the 18th CPC National Congress Committee of the13th Five Year Plan and an NDRC expert. He received the Honorable Doctorate awarded by the Russia Academy of Science’s Institute of Far East Studies. Acknowledgements On the completion of this book, I should like to express my deepest gratitude to all my colleagues and students, whose hard work and efforts have made this work possible. Doctor Yan Yilong assisted me in organizing the special study on the ‘Modernization of China’s National Governance’ selected by Research Institute of National Conditions, and acted as one of its authors. My young doctoral students Tang Xiao and Yang Zhusong have been directly involved with the writing, organization of material, research and calculations, editing, and modification, for which they deserve respect. The updated online version of this book can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3370-4
