The book integrates the principles of economics with the practice of economic development in China and other major economies of the world, explaining how entrepreneurship has driven economic growth, and how government intervention has optimized the economic structure, prevented capital plunder, and promoted distributional equity. It also explains how China's unique institutional advantage of combining a market economy with a professional civil service system has unleashed the potential of local development and promoted equity in development, fully demonstrating the author's in-depth understanding of the uniqueness of China's political and economic system.

Li Xiaopeng, Chief Economist of the ZTE Dacheng Think Tank, Doctor of Economics from Renmin University of China, visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, former researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Author of From the Yellow River Civilization to the Belt and Road (3 volumes), Imperial Rule and the Prosperous Age, Revolution and Reform in the Late Qing Dynasty, and the bestseller Learning Changes Destiny. Among them, From the Yellow River Civilization to the Belt and Road (Volume 1) was selected as one of the 25 key books recommended by the People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency for the first Belt and Road Summit in 2015.