We need to accomplish the five tasks of cutting excessive industrial capacity, destocking, de-leveraging, lowering corporate costs and improving weak links.

Efforts need be made to achieve the transformation and upgrading of China’s international competitiveness from labor-intensive industries and value-added links to capital and technology-intensive industries.

2016 is the first year of the 13th Five-Year Plan period and a crucial year to propel various reforms.

The other day, I went by the gate of No. 9 Courtyard in Beijing (The author once worked in No. 9 Courtyard in Beijing- note added by the translator).

By examining the expansion of township governments’ setups, we may find at least four reasons for their expansion. First, the staffing framework is gigantic perse.

With regard to the clash of social orders, the scale of floating population will definitely affect the established order of urban society.

Reform has brought about profound changes to the rudimentary power structure of villages. The power of community cadres is no longer involved in direct production and operation fields and their capability to control resources is largely reduced.

The background of migrant workers varies in different areas. In terms of the specific entities of migration, the reasons for farmers’ migration are different relating to their motivations, family conditions and personal background.