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China's White-Collar Wave

Service Industry Trends

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Examines the increasing importance of the service industry in China
  • Explores how China is seeking to make sustainable economic models driven by domestic consumption
  • Brings together a broad range of research, which has been used directly by Chinese policymakers in crafting 5 year plans

Part of the book series: The Great Transformation of China (TGTC)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. China’s Service Industry: Review and Prospect

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 1-30
  3. Development of Service Industry: Problems and Concerns

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 31-58
  4. “The 13th Five-Year Plan”: Choices for the Future

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 59-87
  5. Service Agglomeration: Characteristics, Mechanism and International Experience

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 89-112
  6. Construction of Service Agglomeration Zone in China

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 113-140
  7. Opening up the Service Sector

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 141-163
  8. The Development and Policy Choice of China’s Service Trade

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 165-186
  9. Service Industry Safety

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 187-206
  10. Producer Services: The Engine of Industrial Transformation and Upgrading

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 207-231
  11. Advice from Others: Australia

    • Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu
    Pages 255-273
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 275-284

About this book

This book explores the move from manufacturing towards service industry jobs in China's economic development during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. The service industry now makes up the highest proportion of the GDP and employs the largest number of people in China. In the next Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to actively push forward the strategic transformation by placing emphasis on the service industry to press ahead with system and mechanism reforms and policy innovations and cultivate diverse, sustainable and continuous forces for driving its growth. Efforts are made to upgrade the service industry to better achieve economic and social development in an innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared way. This book will be of interest to scholars researching China's future. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • National Development and Reform Commission, Beijing, China

    Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu

About the authors

Changyun Jiang is Deputy Director, research fellow and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Industrial and Technological Economics, Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, China.  

Qunlian Hong is associate research fellow at the Institute of Industrial and Technological Economics, Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, China.

Ling Qiu is associate research fellow at the Institute of Industrial and Technological Economics, Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, China. 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: China's White-Collar Wave

  • Book Subtitle: Service Industry Trends

  • Authors: Changyun Jiang, Qun Lian Hong, Ling Qiu

  • Series Title: The Great Transformation of China

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9483-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9482-0Published: 18 November 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9485-1Published: 18 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9483-7Published: 04 November 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2509-6001

  • Series E-ISSN: 2509-601X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Asian Economics, Sociology of Work, Asian Politics

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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