CONTENTS
Preface Ownership Reform Forges Ahead and Makes Innovation
in the Midst of Disputes ......................................./1
Introduction The “Mount Everest” and “Mariana Trench”
in Chinese Economic System Institutional Reform ............/1
Chapter 1 Theory and Practice of Public Ownership ......................./16
Section 1 Tracing the Origin: Utopian Socialism ...................../16
Section 2 Re-Interpreting the Classics: Great Theory
and Dilemma in Practice ................................../33
Section 3 At the End of Resources: Ownership Issue Becomes
the Obstacles to Development ............................./51
Chapter 2 Debates and Theoretical Innovation of Ownership Reform ......../66
Section 1 Breakthrough from the Confinement of the Two “Whatevers” /66
Section 2 Free form the Debates on “Socialism or Capitalism” ....../85
Section 3 Remove the Restrictions of “Public or Private” ........../106
Section 4 Ownership Theory Keeps on Innovating ....................../121
Chapter 3 Ownership Restructuring and Chinese Economy Development ......./149
Section 1 Readjustment: Diversity of Ownership Structure and
Economic Performance ...................................../149
Section 2 Upgrading: Diversity of Property Rights and Efficiency of
Resource Allocation ....................................../167
Section 3 Summary: Basic Experience in Ownership Reform ............./188
Chapter 4 Property Rights Theory and Reform of State-Owned Enterprises ../198
Section 1 Reform of Property Rights: The Key to Solution of Various
Problems in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises ............../198
Section 2 Modern Property Rights System: Measures to Solve
the Problems of Ownership and Property Rights
in State-Owned Enterprises .............................../210
Section 3 Reform of State-Owned Asset Management System:
The Vital Way to Invigorate State-Owned Enterprises ....../220
Section 4 Invigorate State-Owned Enterprises and
Improve Their Competitiveness ............................/235
Chapter 5 Ownership Reform and Development of Non-Public Sector of
the Economy ................................................../251
Section 1 From Hiring Labors to “Original Sin” of
the Private-Owned Enterprises ............................/251
Section 2 The Three Major Questions of Theory and Practice of
Chinese Private Entrepreneurs ............................/266
Section 3 Regulation and Service to Non-Public Sector of
the Economy ............................................../282
Section 4 Further Development of Non-Public Sector of the Economy:
Theoretical Innovation and Policy Realization ............/290
Chapter 6 Rural Land System and Reform of Collective Ownership ........../307
Section 1 Evolution of Land Property Rights in Chinese Rural ......../307
Section 2 Improve the Household Contracted Responsibility System ..../324
Section 3 Whither Should the Reform of Rural Land System Go? ......../340
Section 4 Breakthrough the Institutional Obstacles to
the Development of Collective Ownership Economy ........../362
Section 5 Nondescript Shareholding Cooperative System and
the Development of Collective Economy ..................../372
Chapter 7 Ownership Reform Will Not Result in Privatization ............./397
Section 1 Ownership Reform and Protection for Private Property ....../397
Section 2 Shareholding System Does Not Mean Privatization .........../414
Section 3 Shareholding System: The Major Form to
Realize Public Ownership ................................./436
Chapter 8 Theory and Practice of Ownership System Keep Abreast
of the Times ................................................./462
Section 1 Further Innovation for Ownership Theory .................../462
Section 2 Ensure the Success of Ownership Reform ..................../470
Section 3 Whither Should Chinese Ownership Reform Go? .............../479
Conclusion Emancipating the mind is a Magic Weapon for
Ownership Reform ............................................/494
References .............................................................../499
Postscript Ownership Reform is the Most Difficult Part of
Economic System Reform ......................................./503
Description:
In the process of transformation from planned economy to market economy, the reform of ownership is an important subject with difficulty. On the one hand, the traditional socialist theory would not solve this problem. On the other hand, there is no successful experience could follow with. With full and accurate materials of China’s Opening-up and Reform, integrating theory with practice, this book made a comprehensive and systematic analysis to the course, principle contradiction, develop trend and basic experience in terms of China’s reform of ownership.