As recent reports suggest the Renminbi yuan is going through its most active role in the global trading market in history, Yi Xianrong advises against overestimating what this means for the yuan’s globalization. Yi suggests accelerating the pace at which the yuan is open to the outside world and establishing an effective exchange-rate pricing mechanism before globalization can be discussed.

Both the US and China, as the world two largest economies and members of G20, share a strong responsibility in supporting the common goal of establishing a job-rich, strong, sustainable and balanced growth path, writes He Weiwen.

To facilitate its drive to upgrade the national economy, China needs to renew its national economy accounting system according to the new international standard, says Zhang Monan.

In order to achieve sustainable, equitable, and innovative GDP growth, China needs a new, more sophisticated growth model – more like a “growth order.” With a more inclusive, long-term approach that emphasizes strong institutions and eliminates perverse incentives, China's leaders can foster a more balanced economy and society.

While many analysts have characterized China's economic slowdown as a “black swan” event, Yu Xiang explains how this slowdown is the “New Normal” in China. As China’s economy is reformed and rebalanced, the United States will benefit from increased bilateral trade and greater cooperation.

China's government is now attempting fiscal decentralization to revitalize the public-finance position, while adopting financial decentralization to maintain currency stability. Indeed, the quest for macroeconomic balance has become the main goal of economic policy.

Yu Yongding explains the implications of China’s slowing economic growth rate and attempts to preempt a rise in inflation.

China can successfully make the industrial transition that will generate stable and sustainable growth in the long run, writes Chen Dongxiao, president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.

Responding to concerns that China’s economic growth continues to decline, Qi Jingmei lays out why China’s economic performance succeeded in the first half of 2013 and what must be done to see steady growth in the second half of 2013.

Addressing a number of articles highlighting China’s future economic risks, Michael Justin Lee describes calls for economic reforms as merely stating the obvious. Instead of continued reforms to the financial markets, increasing consumer demand could provide stability for China’s economy.