Enterprises, Industry and Innovation in the People’s Republic of China Questioning Socialism from Deng to the Trade and Tech War

Preface: The Economic Structure of the PRC: Basic Facts
	GDP Growth and Structural Change
	Finance
	Trade
	FDI
	R&D and Innovation
	Poverty and Inequality
	Human Development
Acronyms
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: China as the First Example of a New Class of Social Economic Formations
Part I: Market-Oriented Enterprises
	Chapter 2: Productive Market-Oriented Enterprises
	Chapter 3: Agricultural and Industrial Rural Enterprises
	Chapter 4: SOE Reforms: Grasp the Large and Let the Small Go
	Chapter 5: Recent Trends in the Reform of Industrial Enterprises
	Chapter 6: SOE Governance and Performance
	Chapter 7: Between Public and Private: The Rise of Mixed Industrial Enterprises
	Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks: The Role of Public Industry in the PRC
Part II: China’s National Innovation System
	Chapter 9: Introduction to Part II
	Chapter 10: The 15-Year Plan for Science and Technology and the Partial Shift of R&D Towards Industrial Enterprises
	Chapter 11: The Made in China 2025 Plan
	Chapter 12: Patents, Technology Transfers and Other Areas of Innovation and Technology Policies
	Chapter 13: Is It Working?
	Chapter 14: Statistical Evidence
	Chapter 15: China’s Major High Tech Companies
	Chapter 16: Concluding Remarks: China’s NIS Has Come a Long Way—Will It Be Enough?
Conclusions
Annex A: Real-World PRC and Its Self-Representation as Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
	Epistemological Caveats
	Some Critical Remarks on Socialist Market Economy, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Market Socialism, and State Capitalism
	Seven Heuristic Criteria to Evaluate the Degree of Realization of Socialism in the PRC
	State Capitalism in China?
	Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
Annex B: The Evolution of World Capitalism Since Its Inception to the Twenty-First Century
References