China Special Issue A Introduction: Economic Growth, Social Policy, and Technological Development

Abstract China’s rapid economic development has attracted the interest of many scholars following its emergence as the world’s second largest economy and stimulated research into the underlying factors that may have made this development difficult to overlook. In advancing research, papers included in Issue A help with refining our understanding of the forces that have been driving China’s social-economic, political, and technological developments, addressing the related issues, thus, advancing the social economic literature in its influence in the world, specifically, within the China context.