Hong Kong's Prosperity Will Surely Be Continued after 1997 Zhou Xingbao(96--4--4)

Developing an Export-oriented Economy of Township Enterprises Chen Junsheng(96--4--7)

PRC Promulgates New Regulations on Exchange Control State Exchange Control Administration(96--4--10)

*News in Brief*

China Lists 100 Top Agricultural Production Counties Rural Appraising Center of the State Statistical Bureau(96--4--17)

Economy Sound Growing Despite Floods in China Xiao Ning(96--4--18)

THE WORLD ECONOMY

A Relatively Balanced and Stable Multipolar Structure Will Be of Benefit to World Peace and Development Wang Chongjie(96--4--19)

The Situation and Pattern of East Asian Region in the 1990s Huang Fanzhang(96--4--22)

On US Agricultural Act of 1996 Xu Gengsheng(96--4--29)

Signs of the 21st Century World Economy

----On the Characteristics of the Current World Economy Wu Yikang(96--4--35)

Cooperation and Division of Labor in Northeast Asia Shuichi Kadowaki(96--4--42)

The Challenges America Faces in Shifting Its Economic Strategy to the East

Zhu Shida(96--4--45)

*Statistical Data*

1995 Sample Population Survey in China State Statistical Bureau PRC(96--4--52)

INFORMATION AND SERVICES

*Who's Who*

Chinese Economist: Yang Shengming Hong Xia(96--4--54)

*Research Organs*

A Brief Introductions to the Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

yanyan(96--4--57)

An Introduction to World Economy & China Staff Reporter(96--4--34)

Main Contents for World Economy, Issue No. 7-8,1996 Bai xiaoqing(96--4--58)