Following years of investigation and research on the changes of China’s land system, the author discusses the evolution of urbanization and rural land system reform in China, arguing that the shackles of institutional arrangements, especially the dual track of the urban-rural system, hinder the free flow of resource elements, creating different property rights for rural or urban people and leading to an extremely unbalanced development of urban and rural China. However, China’s incremental reform experience began in the countryside and from there encircled the cities. In order to...

Reform has long been a consensus in China, but after decades of rapid growth, there still remain numerous intractable barriers and institutional constrains to solve, and new problems are continuously emerging out, all these hinder the implementation of China’s deepening reform. How can China breakout those encirclements? This book is a collection of the author's series articles which concluded China’s experience of social and economic reform and proposed that new momentum is needed for overall deepening of reform. Based on his years research on the real-world economics in rural land...