Private enterprises and China's economic development / edited by Shuanglin Lin and Xiaodong Zhu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research contributed by participants of the International Symposium on Private Enterprises and China's Economic Development, organized by the Chinese Economists Society and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing on 18-20 June 2004.

Introduction and overview / Shuanglin Lin, Xiaodong Zhu -- Some thoughts on financial reform in rural areas / Xiaochuan Zhou -- Is public listing a way out for China's state-owned enterprises? / Xiaozu Wnag, Lixin Colin Xu, Tian Zhu -- Financing of private enterprises and deepening financial reform / Yingfeng Xu -- Commercial bank regulation and supervision: US experiences and implications for China / Jing Lu -- Private enterprise development and the profitability of China's regional state-owned enterprises / Shuanglin Lin, Wei Rowe -- A panel data sensitivity analysis of regional growth in China / Kerk L. Phillips, Baizhu Chen -- Private, state-owned, and foreign-invested enterprises: analysis of investment sources on growth in China / Yi Feng, Yi Sun -- Trade Foreign direct investment, and productivity of China's Private enterprises / Bin Xu -- The demand for and supply of energy in China: implications for the private sector / David F. Gates, Jason Z. Yin -- Legal protection of administrative regulations on private enterprises / Hong Lu -- Policy reforms, private enterprise development, and rural household earnings / Dennis Tao Yang, Vivian W. Chen -- Effects of privatization on employment in transitional China / Gene Hsin Chang -- The effect of education and wage determination in China's rural industry / Haizheng Li, Aselia Urmanbetova -- Privatization and rising earnings inequality in China's rural industries: evidence from Shandong and Jiangsu / Xiao-Yuan Dong.

Private enterprises have contributed significantly to China's recent economic growth and will play a key role in achieving China's goal of building a comprehensively well-society. But how can private enterprises help China mitigate its macroeconomic problems such as unemployment, income inequality, financial disintermediation, and an unhealthy economic cycle? And what are the main obstacles to private enterprise development? Private Enterprises and China{u2019}s Economic Development answers these questions by identifying the range of cultural, political and financial challenges confronting China's private enterprises, and assessing their performance and potential. Contributors also analyse the experiences and lessons of other countries, and propose strategies and policies to help China promote private enterprise development. Using the most up to date research on private enterprises, including detailed econometric analysis and national representative data, authors including economists, policy-makers and academics from the USA, China, Singapore and Canada comprehensively address the most important aspects of China{u2019}s private enterprise development. As such this book will appeal to students, scholars and policy-makers alike with an interested in the Chinese economy, economic growth, comparative economics and transitional economics.