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Heated Debate over New Strategies for Opening Up

Debating Strategies for the New Opening Up

Content Summary The primary content of Debating Strategies for the New Opening Up, the third volume in the "Chinese Economic and Social Development Think Tank Series," is a collection of articles and relevant materials by experts and scholars advocating various policy positions, compiled from the achievements of this forum. Edited by Cheng Enfu, Debating Strategies for the New Opening Up is organized into three sections—Side A, Side B, and Side C—which respectively compile representative viewpoints selected from the forum’s papers, supportive or similar scholarly perspectives published in public journals over the past year or two, and other propositions and policy opinions carried in relevant periodicals and media. Among these: the viewpoints of Side A primarily consist of reflections, analyses, and suggestions regarding China's outlook on opening up to the outside world, advocating for the establishment of a new outlook on opening up and the implementation of new strategies and policies for opening up. The viewpoints of Side B tend primarily toward making timely adjustments to China’s strategy for opening up and related policies. The viewpoints of Side C maintain that it is currently difficult for China to transform its policy of opening up to the outside world, or tend toward maintaining China’s existing opening-up strategy, foreign-related systems, and policies regarding foreign investment and foreign exchange. The debate among these three parties reflects different reflections and respective propositions regarding China’s opening-up policy. Additionally, some relevant trends and commentaries regarding China’s external economic development are included in the book for the benefit of the reader.

Contents

Introductory Treatises The Scarcity of Seven Major Resources Calls for Accelerating the Shift in the Mode of Economic Development [1] —Address at the 3rd High-Level Forum of the Chinese Economic and Social Development Think Tank

Accelerating the Shift in the External Mode of Economic Development to Promote Economic and Social Development —Address at the 3rd High-Level Forum of the Chinese Economic and Social Development Think Tank

Several Issues Regarding the Adjustment of Foreign Trade Strategy

Several Opinions on "Accelerating the Shift in the External Mode of Economic Development" [2]

Exploring the Theoretical Basis for Transformation in the Post-Crisis Era

Reflections on Shifting the Mode of Foreign Trade Development

Implementing an Intellectual Property Strategy to Accelerate the Shift in the Mode of Economic Growth

Keynote Report "Strategies for the New Opening Up" for Shifting the External Mode of Economic Development

Side A Viewpoints Accelerating the Shift in the External Mode of Economic Development: A Greater Need for State-Owned Enterprises to "Advance and Be Proactive" [3] —Simultaneously Commenting on the Counter-Productive Nature of the Recent Theory that "Whether the Market Can Regulate" Determines the Survival of State-Owned Enterprises

A Critique of the Development Strategy of the "Great International Circular" Economy [4]

The Key to Shifting the External Mode of Economic Development Lies in Changing Foreign-Capital-Led Export Orientation

Defending Core Economic Interests and Realizing the Shift in the Mode of Development

U.S. Pressure for Renminbi Appreciation and the Strategy to Contain China’s Rise —Simultaneously Discussing Strategies for Adjusting Economic Structure and Countering the American Exchange Rate War

The Potential for Autonomy in Development to Transcend the Irrationality of the World Economic System —An Exploration of the Relationship Between Globalization and the Nation-State from the Perspective of the Scientific Outlook on Development [5]

Looking at the Sino-U.S. Trade Balance Dispute from the Trade-Inducing Effects of Outward Direct Investment

Research on the Construction of an Evaluation Index System for Industrial Security in the New Period

Research on China’s International Economic Status in the Post-Crisis Era —An Investigation Based on the Perspective of Dependency Theory

The Issue of Exogenous Resource Substitution —Market Transformation and the Low-Carbon Transition of Real Estate

A New Outlook on Opening Up at a New Starting Point for Reform

Side B Viewpoints Moving Toward Rebalancing: Ending the Export-Oriented Policy of Earning Foreign Exchange

Staying Vigilant Against the Resistance of Foreign Capital Forces to Our Policy of Independent Innovation

Grasping the New Policy on Utilizing Foreign Capital from the Height of Scientific Development

"Independent Innovation": A "Chinese Concept" in a Globalized Perspective

Major Issues Currently Facing the Open Economy

Five Issues in the Structural Adjustment of the Open Economy

How Much Foreign Exchange Reserves Does China Need?

Side C Viewpoints Export Orientation and the Policy of Opening to Foreign Capital Are Not Mistakes

Establishing a Market Economy to Give Play to Comparative Advantage [6]

Long Yongtu: China May Have to Make Shirts for Another 30 Years [7]

Excessive Reliance on Exports Is a Misjudgment; Need to Maintain Exchange Rate Stability

Expanding Domestic Demand Must Involve Stabilizing External Demand —An Interview with Zhang Zhigang, Member of the National Committee of the CPPCC and Former Vice Minister of Commerce

Related Information The Positive Impact of China’s Open Economy on the World —A Commentary on Krugman’s "Chinese New Year" Thesis

Look at Economic Aggregates, but Look Even More at Per Capita Quantities

Changing "Stable Growth" to "Stable Development": Foreign Trade Policy Changes with the Times

Accelerating the Promotion of the Shift in the External Mode of Economic Development

Theoretical Debates and Enlightenments Regarding China's Utilization of Foreign Direct Investment

Strategies for the New Opening Up: The Western Financial and Economic Crisis and China’s Shift in the External Mode of Economic Development —A Summary of the "3rd High-Level Forum of the Chinese Economic and Social Development Think Tank"

Postscript Published by China Social Sciences Press, 2010 edition.