Structural Change in Contemporary China --Interdisciplinary Approaches to Structural Change in China : In Quest of a New China Research Paradigm

改革开放二十年来，中国实现了约10%的年增长率，并作为区域强国进入了相互依存的世界关系。我们的研究围绕中央与地方关系、经济市场化、国家与社会关系、人在发展中、历史的连续性与间断性、与少数民族和亚太地区的台湾、香港、中国的关系等七个具体主题对中国的这些变化进行了分析。总小组致力于设计新的分析方法，组织关于结构变化的跨学科研究，并促进国际交流和公共信息。我们先后6次召开大会，邀请30名外国学者，与斯拉夫世界研究团队合作，两次与上海社会科学院举行研讨会，出版12卷《中国α地区研究丛书》，收集基本资料，就上述7个主题反复讨论，得出初步结论：1)如果假设中国的蜕变经历了三个阶段，第一个阶段是结构的变化，第二个阶段的结构变化，以及随着市场化和民主化而发生的制度变化，改革开放20年是第一阶段的开始。如今，在亚洲金融危机的催促下，中国进入了第二个阶段。2)第一阶段的特点是传统的二元结构(中心/地方、计划/市场、国家/社会)转变为三方结构(中心/中间/最低、计划/半市场/市场)。3)展望中国的未来，我们可以借鉴台湾和韩国的经验，作为从低发展向经济增长、从威权政权向民主(东亚模式)转变的有益借鉴。

In twenty years of reform-and-open up policy, China realized about 10% annual rate of growth and entered into the interdependent relations in the world, as a Regional Power.Our research analyzed these changes in China, focusing on seven specific themes which included center-local relations, marketization of economy, state-society relations, human beings in development, historical continuity and discontinuity, relations with the ethnic-minorities and Taiwan, Hongkong, China in Asia-Pacific region. The general team engaged in the work for contriving the new method of analysis, for organising interdisciplinary research on the structural changes, and in promoting the international exchanges and in the public information. We held six times general research assembly, invited 30 foreign scholars, collaborated with the research team on Slavic World, held symposium with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences twice, published 12 volumes of Chinα Area Studies Series and collected basic materials.We talked over and over again on above mentioned seven themes and came to the provisional conclusion ; 1) if we assume that there are three stages of metamorphosis of China, the first structural change, the second structural change and systemic change which goes with the marketization and democratization, 20 years of reform and open-up policy was the beginning of the first stage. Now China is passing into the second stage urged by the Asian monetary crisis. 2) The feature of the first stage is that the traditional structure of dualism (center/local, planned/market, state/society) has changed into trilateral structure (center/middle/lowest, planed/half market/market). 3) When we see into the future of China, we can use the experience of Taiwan and South Korea, as the useful vandage, which transfered from the low development to economic growth, from the authoritarian-regime to the democracy (East Asian Model).