《中國道路：中國經濟學家的思考與探索》就是以《中國經濟學人》2010年所發表的文章為主體，按照若干重要主題進行精選，而編輯成書的。可以說，《中國道路：中國經濟學家的思考與探索》代表了中國經濟學家近年來對中國經濟問題的重要研究成果和主要觀點，從多角度透視了中國經濟的現狀與發展趨勢。這些經濟學家有的在中國高學術研究機構和政策咨詢機構工作，有的在相關部門工作，也有的在高校工作。因此，《中國道路：中國經濟學家的思考與探索》的內容在很大程度上反映了中國主要的經濟研究機構、政策咨詢機構、政府政策研究部門和高等院校在中國經濟研究上所關注的主要問題和所進行的努力方向。

• 

Part One： Macroeconomic Operation and Control
Chapter 1 China's Economic Growth Cycles Over the Past 60 Years and the Cur-rent New Cycle
Chapter 2 Domestic，External Demands： Dual-Engines of China's Growth
Chapter 3 China，an Emerging Power，is Exploring Its Own Development Mod-el
Chapter 4 Efficiency，Mechanism of China's Macroeconomic Policies
Chapter 5 China's Target-setting Scenario Needs Flexibility

Part Two： Industrialization and Urbanization
Chaoter 6 Fiscal Revenue Growth Depicts China's Industrialization Steps
Chapter 7 Thoughts on China's Industrial Economic Development Amid the Glo-bal Financial Crisis
Chapter 8 Theoretical Explanation of China's Outward Direct Investment
Chapter 9 Rural Institutional Transformation since the Foundation of PRC and Its Prospects
Chapter 10 Migrant Workers' Citizenization Creates Demand for Consumption

Part Three： Finance and Banking
Chapter 11 China's Fiscal System Grows via Decades of Reforms
Chapter 12 China Faces Single Asian Currency Dilemma
Chapter 13 A comparison of China，the U. S. Savings Rates
Chapter 14 Marketization the Key to Solving China-U. S. Trade Imbalance
Chapter 15 Strategic Interaction among Local Governments，Fiscal Spending Competition and Regional Economic Growth

Part Four： Social Protection and Employment
Chapter 16 Major Contradictions in China's Current Employment Sector and Countermeasures
Chapter 17 Labor Force ParticiDation Rates in China： Present and Future
……
Part Five： International Comparison

Salient characteristics of industrial clevelopment in the modern world include： development oftraditional industries based on fossil fuels like oil has peaked; development of high-tech industriesexemplified by electronic information technology is at the prime stage; and development of modernservices represented by financial services has entered an expansion period. The three industries thatredefine the modern economic landscape-the traditional industry （ mainly the industrial sector） ，the high-tech industry （including the industrial and services sectors） and the financial services in-dustry-have become the three pillars of the econoomy. Each of these industries occupies a pivotal po-sition and penetrates or relies on the other. When the global financial crisis broke out， the three in-dustries faced some deep-rooted contradictions：
The traditional industry faced increasingly severe resource and environmental constraints. In theface of cost pressures and because of the lack of a flexible mechanism， the traditional industry wassubsequendy transferred from developed countries into developing countries. In the high-tech indus-try ， investors were inclined to make riskier short-term investments because of a lack of confidence inlong-term investments due to the absence of an effective business model protecting against the " crea-tive destruction" of technological innovation， even though developed countries possessed technolog-ical advantages. With a high proliferative capacity， the financial services industry expanded rapidlythrough high leverage Lo create a disproportionate expansion in the virtual economy， thereby exacer-bating the systemic risks of the financial system.
There were substantial obstacles in front of the three mechanisms underpinning irulustrial devel-opment worldwide： 1） The coexistence of inadequate innovation in some areas and excessive inno-vat.ion in other areas arose， partly from a lack of impetus for industrial innovation because of itsspillover effects and high risks and part.ly because of innovators' ability to transfer the risk of failure （ which may lead to excessive innovation in certain areas）. Thus， the prospects for breakthrough in-novation in core industrial technologies remained unclear. Meanwhile， enormous investment re- sources were absorbed and increasingly high risks built up in the virt.ual economy; 2） Firms （ par-ticularly super-large firms） cost control capabilities were in decline but their earning power or profit-ability was heavily dependent on capital operations （ mergers， acquisitions， spin-offs， reorgani- zations and securitizations） in the virtual financial economy since the institutional mechanism lackedflexibility. Whenever there is a change in the market environment， the entire economic system might be exposed to serious systemic risks; 3） The traditional and high-tech industries' market penetrationcapabilities lacked adaptability and scalability， making it difficult to cope with the substantial change /n the market demand structure and social （ residential） wealth structure. This was reflected in traditional and high-tech firms' lackluster sales performances and their increasing dependence oncredit expansion.
……