This book systematically reviews the theoretical origins, methodological applications, and empirical studies of agricultural technological progress and productivity research since 1949. What is agricultural technological progress and productivity, and how is it measured? How has the contribution of agricultural technological progress in China changed since the founding of New China? What are the causes of agricultural technological progress in China? What are the problems of existing resea...

This book portrays the middle class in contemporary China with plain language and precise professional knowledge in an all-round, broad and responsible way from the perspectives of income, property, profession, education, consumption, investment, physiological and behavioral characteristics, history and development. It gives, in a logical order, the reasons for stimulating the rise of the middle class in contemporary China. It emphatically describes what the middle class is and what the mi...