This book reviews the development of Chinese economics since the reform and opening-up, associated with the history and experience of China's economic growth. This book makes a systematic study of the direction of reform, the method of reform, the path of reform, the main body of reform and the motive force of reform, accumulates more experiences that can be used for reference for the exploration of new reforms to be opened, and probes into the way of reform in the next period. The topics cover all key concepts and theories relating to the China's economic reform.

Zhang Zhuoyuan, a renowned economist and a representative of the "robust reformers", graduated from the Economics Department of the Central-South University of Finance and Economics in 1954. He has served as a research intern, assistant researcher, associate researcher and researcher of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (later the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), editor, deputy director and director of the Editorial Department of Economic Research, director and researcher of the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics of the Academy of Social Sciences, editor-in-chief of Finance and Trade Economics, doctoral supervisor, director, researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Academy of Social Sciences, and editor-in-chief of Economic Research, etc.