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This thesis examines the impact of economic reform on the mass media system in Shanghai municipality since 1990. It attempts to portray that Shanghai, as the forerunner of China's economic reform and growth in the 1990s, is also a pioneer in China's media liberalization, media decentralization and transition toward the information society. Shanghai's case demonstrates that market forces are the principal factor that is reshaping China's former state-centered mass media system.

On 1 October 1949, the Communist Party of China under the leadership of Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Mao was to lead the People’s Republic of China for the next twenty seven years until his death in 1976. During this twenty seven year period under Mao’s leadership the Communist Party of China consolidated its position as the leader of Chinese society and in so doing consolidated communist ideology as the central perspective that guided social and economic planning in China. In 1978, two years after Mao’s death, Deng Xiaping assumed the leadership of the Communist Party of China and this period marked the beginning of far reaching economic and social reforms in China. Over the next thirty years these reforms were to transform China’s economy from the tenth largest to the second largest in the world by the end of 2013. During this period China grew its manufacturing base to the extent that the country has become the world’s largest manufacturer and the world’s leading exporter. This transformation of China’s economy has translated to the country experiencing a period of high levels of economic growth over a sustained period of over 30 years. Estimates suggest that the country’s gross domestic product grew at an average annual rate of nearly 10% over a thirty year period from 1978. These high levels of economic growth have significantly contributed to the overall reduction of poverty levels in the country, with some estimates suggesting that between 300 million to 500 million of the country’s citizens have been lifted out of poverty over a period of thirty years. China’s economic growth has had an impact beyond its own borders, as growth in many developing countries has been inextricably linked to developments in the Chinese economy in particular its demand for raw materials.For developing countries that continue to grapple with high levels of poverty among its citizens, China’s experience of lifting such large numbers of its own citizens out of poverty at the back of high levels of economic growth over a period of thirty years must serve as a basis for some learnings. The primary purpose of this research is aimed at contributing towards building the basis for such learnings, particularly with regards to building an understanding of how China has been able to grow its economy at such high levels over a sustained period of time. This research aims to identify the determinants of China’s growth post 1978. The determinants of growth are studied particularly from 1978 because the year marks the beginning of the period of economic reforms.

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朱穎. / 論文(哲學碩士) -- 香港中文大學硏究院政治與行政學部, 1997. / 參考文獻: leaves 129-135. / Zhu Ying. / Chapter 第一章： --- 導論 --- p.7 / Chapter 一、 --- 現化化：世界性的潮流 --- p.7 / Chapter 二、 --- 東亞「四小龍」工業化戰略和措施 --- p.10 / Chapter 三、 --- 現代化：中國幾代人的探索 --- p.13 / Chapter 四、 --- 蘇州工業園區的嘗試 --- p.17 / Chapter 五、 --- 硏究焦點 --- p.22 / Chapter 六、 --- 硏究方法 --- p.23 / Chapter 七、 --- 章節安排 --- p.23 / Chapter 八、 --- 本硏究的意義 --- p.24 / Chapter 第二章： --- 改革開放的十字路口和經濟性特區的第二次創業 --- p.26 / Chapter 一、 --- 改革開放的十字路口和鄧小平南巡 --- p.26 / Chapter 二、 --- 經濟性特區區誕生背景 --- p.28 / Chapter 三、 --- 經濟性特區地位和作用 --- p.30 / Chapter 四、 --- 開發區存在的問題及發展方向 --- p.33 / Chapter 五、 --- 小結 --- p.37 / Chapter 第三章： --- 新加坡經驗的啓示和裕廊工業區模式 --- p.39 / Chapter 一、 --- 新加坡經驗的啓示 --- p.39 / Chapter 二、 --- 新加坡工業化槪況和特點 --- p.41 / Chapter 三、 --- 設立裕廊工業區的背景和目的 --- p.47 / Chapter 四、 --- 裕廊工業區白勺發展槪況和成 效 --- p.50 / Chapter 五、 --- 裕廊工業區的條件和特點 --- p.52 / Chapter 六、 --- 小結 --- p.61 / Chapter 第四章： --- 蘇州工業園區的決策過程和發展槪況 --- p.63 / Chapter ´ؤ、 --- 雙方合作動機 --- p.63 / Chapter 二、 --- 園區產生的決策過程 --- p.67 / Chapter 三、 --- 蘇州工業園區的區位 --- p.71 / Chapter 四、 --- 發展目標和規劃設想 --- p.75 / Chapter 五、 --- 目前的進展和開發前景 --- p.76 / Chapter 六、 --- 政策環境 --- p.77 / Chapter 七、 --- 中新雙方合作的制度機制 --- p.79 / Chapter 八、 --- 小結 --- p.79 / Chapter 第五章： --- 蘇州工業園區的開發和管理體制 --- p.81 / Chapter 一、 --- 蘇州工業園區的開發體制 --- p.81 / Chapter 二、 --- 蘇州工業園區的管理體制 --- p.90 / Chapter 三、 --- 小結 --- p.100 / Chapter 第六章： --- 蘇州工業園區的激勵和制約機制 --- p.101 / Chapter 一、 --- 蘇州工業園區的激勵機制 --- p.101 / Chapter 二、 --- 蘇州工業園區的制約機制 --- p.106 / Chapter 三、 --- 小結 --- p.112 / Chapter 第七章： --- 結論 --- p.113 / 附圖 --- p.120 / 附錄 --- p.125 / 參考文獻 --- p.129

published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Transport Policy and Planning / Master / Master of Arts

Master Thesis Paper Submitted to: Wits Business School University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa Master in Finance & Investment, 2015 / Does the volatility of the Renminbi (RMB) have any significant impact on China’s trade? This fundamental question has garnered considerable debate in both the academic and financial circles. The recent “currency wars” amongst larger economies has further fueled the question. Using a number of econometric methods, this research dissects the heart of the effect of the volatility of exchange rate on trade. The research makes crucial findings to provide an affirmative response to the central question posed. In line with most theoretical and empirical studies, the study found that volatility of exchange rate has a positive impact on trade by boosting exports and reducing imports. The appreciation of the RMB has tended to lead to a decrease in China’s global competitiveness, and often suppresses growth. The research provides an important insight on how Chinese monetary authorities can maintain the managed pegged currency system while simultaneously expanding economic growth. Key words: Exchange rate volatility; trade balance; imports; exports; causality; appreciation; depreciation. / MT2016

This is an in-depth study of the structural change and transition of the Chinese consumer goods market from 1954 to 1991 using disequilibrium econometric methodology. The model for the Chinese consumer goods market is based on the Portes-Winter disequilibrium model for centrally planned economies (1980). The demand function is derived from the Houthakker-Taylor savings function. The supply function is composed of approximations to the government's long-term and short-term plans. The transaction quantity in the market is defined as the smaller of effective demand and supply. Using the traditional global fitting method, three models are evaluated: one model that assumes no structural change, and two models that assume structural change. The estimations show that the structures of the demand and supply functions of the Chinese consumer goods market have changed since the economic reform in 1980. An innovative non-parametric method of locally weighted optimization is applied to further test the variations in model parameters during the period between 1954 and 1991 without assuming explicit functional forms of demand and supply. The estimation results show that the Chinese consumer goods market fits the Portes-Winter model well in the earlier years. The results confirm that the structures of demand and supply functions have changed since the economic reform. In the late 1980's, the Chinese consumer goods market is shown to have shifted away from a pure centrally planned system. Other main conclusions of this study include, first, that chronic shortage does not exist in the Chinese consumer goods market from 1954 to 1991. Second, a rigid price level has not caused the market to be persistently in disequilibrium. Third, the classical disequilibrium model of consumer goods market in centrally planned economies does not fit the Chinese consumer goods market in the later years.