China: Surpassing the “Middle Income Trap”

Shaojie Zhou received his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007. Currently, Zhou serves as the associate professor of School of Public Policy and Management, the deputy director of the Institute for International Development and Global Governance at the school and a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University, China. His research interests include development research and policy, the Chinese economy, international development, and global governance. Angang Hu now serves as the Professor of the Institute of State and Global Governance, Dean of the Institute of Contemporary China Studies, at Tsinghua University, China. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Thirteenth, Twelfth and Eleventh Five-Year Plans under the National Development and Reform Commission.

• 1. What is the "Middle Income Trap"?.- 2. How Did China Overcome the "Poverty Trap"?.- 3. Will China Fall into the "Middle Income Trap"?.- 4. How Can China Overcome the "Middle Income Trap".- 5. Looking Ahead: China Becoming a High-Income Economy.