Work Hard for the Building of a Rich and Strong and Modernized Socialist Country-----(Excerpts of "The Proposal for the Formulation of the Ninth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Term Target for the Year 2010" and "Premier Li Peng's Explanations on the Proposal") The Editorial Department(96--1--4)

Proposal for Formulating the Ninth Five-Year Plan and the Long-Term Target

for the Year 2010 is China's Grand Cross-Century Program Wang Menghui (96--1--12)

Government Intervention: Role, Results, and Reform in China

Yang Fenglin Chen Jinxian(96--1--16)

China's Economic Reform and Its Efforts to and Bring Inflation Under Control

Liu Yingqiu(96--1--21)

THE WORLD ECONOMY

The Roles of China and Northeast Asian Countries in Future World Economy

Xu Gengsheng(96--1--25)

The Status of the United States in the World Economy Fan Xinyu(96--1--28)

Northeast-Asian Economic Cooperation within the Framework of APEC

Shen Jiru(96--1--34)

THE WORLD ECONOMY & CHINA

A Comparative Study of Population and Development in China and Other Some Asian Countries Hong Yingfang(96--1--40)

*News in Brief*

1. PBOC Seeks Overseas Funds for the Massive Payment System;

2. China's  Securities Market Needs Group Investor; 3. China's Foreign Trade Development Strategy for the Last Five Years of This Century; 4. Sino-Swedish Joint Venture Starts.(96--1--43)

*Statistical Data*

China's 1994 Foreign Debt The State Administration of Exchange Control(96--1--46)

INFORMATION AND SERVICES

*Who's who*

Chinese Economist: Professor Xu Wenyuan Gao Xingmin(96--1--47)

*Research Organs*

The Institute for Fiscal Science Research, Ministry of Finance of P.R. China

Chen Shufen(96--1--49)

*AcademicActivities*

China-Japan-ROK Forum on Northeast Asia Held in Beijing * Wang Yizhou(96--1--53)

*Book Review*

A Pioneering Study in China's Economic Science

----On The World Economic History Edited by Song Zexing and Fan Kang

Fu Yincai(96--1--55)

Main Contents for World Economy (No. 1-2 1996) Xin He(96--1--59)