Social Trust

ISBN-13: 9789819929306 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Liu Weiping

Opis

This book explores how social trust impacts the Chinese economy. Due to the profound social changes brought by rapid urbanization, China's traditional social trust system gradually weakens. How to rebuild and enhance social credit remains as a key and difficult project. Exploring case studies from the real estate market, private banking, and urban financing, this book explores the value of informal social links to the economic functions of a society and how to rebuild them when they erode. This is of interest to scholars of China's economy and society. 

Spis treści

Part I Social Trust and Private Finance

Chapter 1 The Significance of Sociological Research on Private Finance

1. Why should we study private finance and the social problems caused by it

2. The sociological significance of studying private finance

3. Origin of the study: observations, research and reflections on finance in city D after returning home in recent years

4. Theoretical basis: sociological discussion of financial issues

5. A new theoretical perspective: social trust and transformation theory

6. Significance of the study

Chapter 2 Concepts, Methods, Research Findings and Innovations

1. Core concepts involved in the study: personal trust and system trust

2. Names of places and persons involved in the study

3. Research methodology: case studies based on city D

4. Main findings of the study

5. Innovations and inadequacies of the study

 

Chapter 3 Trust in A Traditional Society and the Rise of Private Finance

1. The scale of private finance in city D

2. The important background against which the rise of private finance in D City took place

3. Several stages of the development of private finance in city D

 

Chapter 4 A Breakdown of Social Trust and the Private Financial Crisis in City D

1. How the private financial crisis broke out in city D

2. The spread of rumors and panic: the collapse of the social trust network

3. The government was turned to as a last resort: creditors' fight and actions they take to defend their rights

4. Summary: A breakdown of social trust is the root cause of the spread of the private financial crisis in city D

 

Chapter 5 Different Departments' Strategies for Dealing with the Private Financial Crisis

1. Financial sector: tightening credit and building a high firewall against risks

2. Regulators: cracking down on "illegal fund-raising" in the private sector

3. Governments at the grassroots level: maintaining stability and pacifying

4. Judicial system: willing to be the "grandson" of creditors

5. Summary of this chapter: system trust building was neglected as part of crisis response

 

Chapter 6 Efforts to Reshape Regional Finance by Government Credit

I. What is done cannot be undone: regional economy after a private debt crash

2. Efforts of guarantee platforms affiliated with or endorsed by state-owned enterprises to reshape regional finance: from city construction investment to venture capital investment

3. Summary: The difficulty of rebuilding trust and the root cause of the government's failure to reshape regional finance

 

Chapter 7 Rebuilding of the Trust System and Modernization of Regional Finance

1. An objective evaluation of private finance is a prerequisite for correctly dealing with the crisis

2. It is urgent for social modernization to move from traditional trust to system trust

3. Top priority: building a financial system commensurate with a modern economy

 

Part II National Trust and Economic Transformation

 

Chapter 8 Development Finance: Solve the Financing Risk of Urbanization Through Government-Backed Credit Enhancement

1. New-type urbanization is impossible without innovations in investment and financing models

2. Practice of investment and financing model innovation in eco-urbanization

3. Realize the combined effect of "ecology, society and economy" through investment and financing model innovation

 

Chapter 9 Development Finance: Financing Platform Between Government and Market

1. Characteristics of development finance with Chinese characteristics

2. "Wuhu Model": use government-organized credit enhancement to solve the problem of financing risk in urbanization

3. "Qibin Model": Development finance solves financing problems for international production capacity cooperation

4. Overseas political risk associated with Chinese-style development finance

 

Chapter 10 Speed up the Building of China's Medium- and Long-Term Financing System

1. The inherent demand for medium- and long-term financing in national development strategies

2. Challenges and opportunities faced by the building of a medium- and long-term financing system

3. Policy recommendations

4. Building a policy-based financial system and enacting relevant legislation is a matter of great urgency

5. Speed up the building of a "green finance" system with Chinese characteristics

 

Chapter 11 Global Financial Reform and China's Monetary Policy in the New Era

1. Implications of global financial reform and China's financial positioning

2. Challenges facing China's financial sector in achieving global strategic positioning

3. The reform of the international monetary system and the strategy for the internationalization of the RMB

 

Chapter 12 China's Economic Restructuring and Rebalancing: Implications, Challenges, and Strategies

1. Implications of China's economic restructuring and rebalancing

2. Challenges facing China's economic restructuring and rebalancing

3. Strategies for China's economic restructuring and rebalancing

 

Chapter 13 Four Leverage Points for China's Economy to Meet Current Challenges

1. Improve the fiscal system to compensate for slowing economic growth and weakening exports

2. Implement the principle of neutrality in competition, break up monopolies, and enable private enterprises to play a greater role

3. Actively yet prudently advance urbanization and improve the quality of urbanization

4. Comprehensively raise the level of development of the export-oriented economy and improve the level and returns of opening-up

 

Chapter 14 The Belt and Road Initiative and Economic Transformation: Building A Strategy for Eurasian Economic Integration in the 21st Century

1. Promote Eurasian economic integration and realize China's greatest strategic interests

2. The necessity of China's strategic hedging in the current diplomatic environment

3. China's grand strategy should be to establish a hedge between sea power and land power

4. The strategy of opening up westward and promoting Eurasian economic integration is in line with the general trend of world economic development

5. It is imperative to implement comprehensive economic and social planning under the Belt and Road Initiative

6. How can China's economy reduce risks associated with going global

 

Chapter 15 Economic Transformation Problems and Challenges Faced by China in the Middle-Income Stage

1. Imbalances in economic structure

2. Disappearance of the demographic dividend

3. Resource and environmental constraints

4. Lack of scientific and technological innovation

5. Insufficient effective consumer demand

6. Institutional constraints on investment and financing

7. Constraints posed by the international environment

 

Chapter 16 Moral Culture Promotes the Smooth Transition of Economy and Society to the Medium-to-High Income Stage

1. The two-way efforts of the government and society to build institutional support for basic morality - a prerequisite for strengthening the development of social moral culture

2. Reform the social governance system and enhance social trust - a guarantee for strengthening the development of social moral culture

3. Strengthen the power of middle-income groups - the mainstay of preventing and resolving the decline of social morality

4. Consolidate basic morality and improve basic order - the key to strengthening the development of social moral culture

 

O autorze

Liu Weiping, born in Changsha, Hunan province, is a researcher with China Development Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University, presides over Professor John L.Thornton's Global Leadership Program, and holds a M.A. in management; he holds a Ph.D. in economics and a B.A. from and is a dual-employed professor of law and economics at the Department of World Economics, Wuhan University; he is a visiting scholar and researcher at the MIT Sloan School of Management and School of History.

Blurb

This book explores how social trust impacts the Chinese economy. Due to the profound social changes brought by rapid urbanization, China's traditional social trust system gradually weakens. How to rebuild and enhance social credit remains as a key and difficult project. Exploring case studies from the real estate market, private banking, and urban financing, this book explores the value of informal social links to the economic functions of a society and how to rebuild them when they erode. This is of interest to scholars of China's economy and society.

 

Liu Weiping, born in Changsha, Hunan province, is a researcher with China Development Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University, presides over Professor John L.Thornton's Global Leadership Program, and holds a M.A. in management; he holds a Ph.D. in economics and a B.A. from and is a dual-employed professor of law and economics at the Department of World Economics, Wuhan University; he is a visiting scholar and researcher at the MIT Sloan School of Management and School of History.