China - Long-term issues and options

11269 October 1985 Long-Term Development Issues and Options ''' ~,~ WORID BANK COtINTY ECONOMIC REPORT  CaCLs,z)r Aida CHINA A World Bank Country Economic Report  This report is supplemented by six annex volumes published by the World Bank: I China: Issues and Prospects in Education 2 China: Agriculture to the Year 2000 3 China: The Energy Sector 4 China: Economic Model and Projections 5 China: Economic Structure in International Perspective 6 China: The Transport Sector In addition, nine background papers, numbered here as they are referred to in tbe text, have been prepared in connection witb the report. They are available as World Bank staff working papers. 1 IThe Asian Experience in Rural Nonagricultural Development and Its Relevance for China (Staff Working Paper 7 5 7) 2 International Experience in Urbanization and Its Relevance for China (Staff Working Paper 758) 3 Alternative International Economic Strategies and Their Relevance for China (Staff Working Paper 759) 4 International Experience in Budgetary Trends during Economic Development and Their Relevance for China (Staff Working Paper 760) 5 Productivity Growth and Technological Change in Chinese Industry (Staff Working Paper 761) 6 Issues in the Techniological Developmcnt of China's Electronics Sector (Staff Working Paper 762) 7 'Fhe Environment for Technological Change in Centrally Planned Economies (Staff Working Paper 718) 8 Managing Technological Development: Lessons from the Newly Industrializing Countries (Staff Working Paper 717) 9 Growth and Structural Change in Large Low-Income Countries (Staff Working Paper 763) These supplementary, works may be ordered, by annex or working paper number, from local distributors of World Bank publications andfrom the World Bank Publications Sales Unit, 1818 H Street, N.W, Washington, D.C. 20433, US.A.  Long-Term Development Issues and Options The report of a mission sent to Cbina by The World Bank Edwin Lim Adrian Wood Cbief of mission Deputy chief of mission Contributing authors Ian Porter Robert P. Taylor William Byrd Gene Tidrick Timothy King Wouter Tims Gerhard Pohl Publisbedfor The World Bank The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London  Copyright