Index
Contents I-III
List of Figures IV
List of Tables V
Preface.1
Chapter 1 Chinese National Culture.6
1.1. Introduction.6
1.2.Confucianism Philosophy.8
1.2.1. Rite.8
1.2.2.Benevolence.11
1.2.3.Righteousness.13
1.2.4. Knowledge.15
1.2.5.Trustworthiness.16
1.3. Evolution of Confucianism Philosophy.19
1.3.1.Evolution of Chinese National Culture in Mao Zedong Era.29
1.3.2.Evolution of Chinese National Culture in Deng Xiaoping Era.35
1.3.3.Evolution of Chinese National Culture in Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao Era.79
1.4. Current China’s National Culture.101
End Notes.121
Chapter 2 Organizational Structure of Governance System.127
2.1. Introduction.127
2.2. Overview of China’s Top Organizational Structure of Governance System.132
2.3. China’s Communist Party (CCP).133
2.3.1. Top Organizational Structure of China’s Communist Party (CCP).133
2.3.2. Stringent Constitution and Regulation of China’s Communist Party (CCP).140
2.3.3. Leadership Bodies of China’s Communist Party (CCP).146
2.3.4. Master Special Departments under the CCP Central Committee.190
2.4. China’s National People’s Congress (NPC).212
2.5. China’s State Council.221
2.6. Central Military Commission and Armed forces of China’s Communist Party (CCP).262
2.7. Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).275
2.8. The Distinctive Features of Governance System of China’s Communist Party (CCP).282
2.8.1. Centralized Governance System by One-Party Dictatorship within a Multi - Hierarchical Society.282
2.8.2. Democratic Centralism and Collective Leadership.284
2.8.3. Social and Political Stability.285
2.8.4. Planning and Top-level Design.287
2.8.5. Age and Term Limits for Official Positions.288
End Notes.290
Chapter 3 Decision and Policy- Making Process.293
3.1. Unique Connotation of Decisions and Policies Making.293
3.2. Decisions and Policies-Making Process.301
3.2.1. CCP Apparatus’ Decisions and Policies-Making Process.302
3.2.2. Decisions and Policies-Making by the Paramount Leader.304
3.2.3 Decisions and policies-Making by the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC).304
3.2.4 Decisions and Policies-Making by the Political Bureau (PB).306
3.2.5. Categorical Decisions and policies-making Process.306
3.2.6 A Case: Decisions and Policies-Making Process for “Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on Some Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening the Reform”.309
End Notes.313
Chapter 4 Legislative Process.314
4.1. Legislative Procedures for National Laws.314
4.1.1. Legislative Procedures for the National People’s Congress (NPC).316
4.1.2. Legislative Procedures for the Standing Committee of NPC.319
4.2. Legislative Procedures for Administrative Regulations.324
End Notes.341
Chapter 5 How to look at China.342
5.1. Will the Rising China Assumes the Leadership of Globalization?.343
5.2. China Files WTO Complaint Against US, EU over Its Non-Market Economy Status, Challenge to Liberal Global Economic Order?.350
5.3. Chinese Geopolitics and Donald Trump Took Office Could Trigger a Military Conflict?.363
5.4. China’s Principled and Potent Foreign Policies Adapting Changing International Situation.388
5.4.1. Peaceful Development.391
5.4.2. New Model of Major-Country Relations.392
5.4.3. Neighborhood Diplomacy.395
5.4.4. Cooperation with Developing Countries.397
5.4.5. Multilateral Relations.398
5.4.6. Strategy of “One Belt, One Road”.399
5. 5. China’s Assertions and Practices for Cyberspace.405
5.5.1. China’s Assertions for Cyberspace.407
5.5.2. China’s Practices for Cyberspace.412
5.5.3. Some Revelations.414
5.6. China’s Transformation of Economic Development Pattern.416
5.7. U.S.–China Trade Conflict, How Does China Deal with It?.464
5.8. What Role Will China Play and Its Relationship with World Order?.496
5.8.1. Oriental Middle Kingdom—ancient China.498
5.8.2. China’s Rise and Its Relationship with Existing International Order.500
5.8.3. Geo-culture and Chinese National Culture.514
5.8.4. What Role Will China Play?.522
End Notes.526
Chapter 6 The Challenges for Governance System of China’s Communist Party (CCP).537
6.1. Bureaucracy.540
6.2. Relationship between Central Government and Local Governments.542
6.3. Weak Rule of Law and Missing Values.546
6.4. Corruption.550
6.5. People’s Willingness and Social Stability.553
6.6. Conclusion.554
End Notes.558
List of Tables
List of Tables
Chapter 1
Table 1.3. A Brief Chinese Chronology.19
Table 1.3.2.1. Reform Programs of SOEs.42
Table 1.3.2.2. Ownership Structure of Industrial Production.43
Table 1.3.2.3. Foreign Direct Investment and Other Foreign Investment.48
Table 1. 3.2.4. Total Chinese Imports and Exports.53
Table 1.3.3.1, Government Expenditure for Education, Medical Care, Social
Security and Employment.99
Table 1.4.1. A List of Headlines of CCP’s Major Guiding Opinions, Programs
and Measures for Reform.110
Chapter 2
Table 2.3. 1. The Departments under the CCP Central Committee.135
Table 2.3.3.1. The 19th Central Committee’s Politburo Standing
Committee..151
Table 2.3.3.2. Leading Group for Continuing the Reform Comprehensively
(Leading Group for Overall Reform).156
Table 2.3.3.3. Standing Committee and Committee of the National Security
Commission of the CCP.161
Table 2.3.3.4. Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs of the
CCP.164
Table 2.3.3.5. Foreign Affairs Leading Group of the CCP.167
Table 2.3.3.6. Central Leading Group for Cyberspace Affairs of the CCP.169
Table 2.4.1. Chairmen's Council of 13th National People's Congress (NPC).218
Table 2.5.1. The Incumbent Top-Ranking Members of the State Council.222
Table 2.5.2. The Incumbent Ministers and Directors of Ministries and
Commissions.223
Table 2.5.3. Organizational Structure of the China’s State Council.240
Table 2.5.4. Organizational Structure of Chinese Ministry of Commerce.260
Table 2.6.1. The Members of Central Military Commission (CMC).263
Table 2.7.1. Chinese Minor Political Parties.280
Chapter 5
Table 5.6.1. China’s Area of Commercial Housing for Sale.450
Table 5.6.2. Rank of Housing Price-to-Income Ratio of 40 Large and Medium
Cities Nationwide (July 2017).454
List of Figures
List of Figures
Chapter 1
Figure 1.2. Authoritarian Governance System of Chinese Feudal Society and
National Culture sustaining Authoritarian Governance System.18
Figure 1.3.2.1 Indices of GDP, General Retail Price Index and Currency in
Circulation.75
Figure 1.3.3.1. Contribution of Consumption, Investment, Net Export to
GDP.98
Figure 1.3.3.2. GDP Growth Rate.100
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1 China’s Current Administrative Divisions.132
Figure 2.2. Overview of China’s Top Organizational Structure of Governance
System.133
Figure 2.3.1. Current Top Organizational Structure of 19th Central Committee
of China’s Communist Party (CCP).134
Figure 2.3.3.1. Hierarchical Structure of the CCP Central Committee.150
Figure 2.4.1. Current Top Organizational Structure of 13th China’s National
People’s Congress (NPC).214
Figure 2.6.1. Top Organizational Structure of the Chinese Armed Forces.273
Figure 2.7.1. Current Top Organizational Structure of Chinese People’s
Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).279
Chapter 3
Figure 3.1.1 Strange Mode of Decision and Policy Making..296
Chapter 5
Figure 5.3.1. China’s Defense Spending Budget and Growth Rate from 2010 to
2017.383
Figure 5.6.1. Accumulated Fixed Investment Growth of Private Sector and
Whole Society (2016).457
Figure 5.6.2. China’s GDP Quarterly Growth Rate.459