On Chinese productivity studies

Abstract

The key to making China wealthy and powerful was to raise total factor productivity. (Dwight Perkins 1988)

Keywords:

• productivity
• China
• growth

Acknowledgements

We thank Angang Hu for hosting and providing financial support for the 2007 International Workshop on Chinese Productivity at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University; his generosity and hospitality at the workshop are highly appreciated. The special issue benefited tremendously from the important contributions of Gary Jefferson and his colleagues. Support and encouragement from Gregory Chow are gratefully acknowledged. We thank the entire editorial team of JCEBS for their efforts in improving the quality of the special issue, especially Guy Liu who reviewed a set of eight manuscripts in the first round of the screening process. We are grateful to Arne Bigsten and Lennart Hjalmarsson for their unwavering support of activities related to Chinese productivity studies at the Department of Economics, Göteborg University. The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs provided crucial assistance when the special issue was being finalized.

We are heavily indebted to a number of scholars and students who were involved at different stages during the preparation of the special issue, including Yanrui Wu, Harry X. Wu, Wing Thye Woo, Jun Zhang, Xiaolan Fu, Yue Ma, Yifan Zhang, Yang Yao, Yuxin Zheng, Rouen Ren, Xiaoxuan Liu, Shuangjie Li, Yuning Gao, Li Zhao, Yizhi Xiong, Qingfeng Zhang, Donghua Kong, Zheng Wang, Jiegen Wei, Fulvio Castellacci, Lisa Bang, and Susan Høivik.

Jinghai Zheng

Guest Editor