China has seen an increasing number of mass disturbances over the past few years and most were due to back pay, housing demolitions and land acquisitions.

The book gives an introduction of cloud computing, representing new generation communication technologies and revolutionary changes in the IT industry.

The author uses an innovative research framework and Stochastic Frontier Analysis to examine globalisation, international trade, cross-border investment, international finance, and technological progress - the five major problems affecting the global economy.

The book introduces that strict interest rate controls have existed in most countries and successful interest rate liberalization needs to be realized gradually and may take 10 to 20 years.

The authors offer policy suggestions - based on various studies - to explore how to improve the basic operating system in rural areas and to make innovations concerning the agricultural production and operation system.

The author analyzes the achievements and challenges in the process of China's urbanization, and makes suggestions concerning the improvement of social policies in the process of China's urbanization.

The author analyzes many issues concerning China's housing market, such as its characteristics, government regulation, the main influencing factors, major housing policy tools and their mechanism, and housing policies.