year 2008 marked the thirtieth anniversary of China’s reform and opening up. Over the past thirty years, China has achie ears, China has achieved unprecedented economic growth and social progress—the so-called China growth miracle. This book series represents a concerted effort by a group of Chinese economists to review and analyze the miracle. This book series various aspects of China’s reform and opening up from 1978 through 2008. It addresses topics such as rural reform, structural evolution, enterprise restructuring, local governance, specialized markets, institutional innovation, and the micro-foundation of a market economy. The authors aim to decipher the China growth miracle, tease out its inner logic, and extract some general patterns that may apply to other developing countries