The English version of Technological Progress and the Transformation of China’s Economic Development Mode, the final research achievement of a key project approved by the National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC) with Professor XIAO Wen, Dean of the School of Business, as its chief expert, was recently published by Springer, a famous international academic publishing house. The original Chinese version, selected into the National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences in 2016, was published by People’s Publishing House. In the same year, the book was approved by the NSSFC to be translated into foreign languages.

This book explores how technological progress accelerates the transformation of economic development by adopting a fundamental logical approach to technological progress, intensive inputs, and promotion of productive efficiency to transformation of economic development. It investigates the internal mechanisms and the choice of corresponding modes that initiate technological progress to accelerate the transformation of economic development at three basic research levels: micro-enterprise level, mid-industry level and macro-economy level. Based on the above research, the book summarizes four dimensions facilitating the transformation: agricultural intensification, new industrialization, modernization of the service industry and the advanced manufacturing industry, and linkage of the modern service industry. This book is especially valuable in its hierarchical categorization covering theoretical, empirical, industrial and strategic exploration. On one hand, it analyzes the mechanisms and approaches influencing the transformation of economic development driven by technological progress from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. On the other hand, based on the introduction of advanced international experiences, it probes into the guarantee basis for the strategic implementation and the corresponding mode choices of the transformations. Furthermore, it offers specific policy proposals from both the macro level of how technological progress promotes the transformation of economic development and the micro level covering the agricultural, industrial and service industries.

More than 10 papers, further elaborating on core viewpoints of the book, have been published in authoritative and important journals and newspapers like Management World, Guangming Daily, The Journal of World Economy, which are of high academic and application value.