China’s emerging financial markets reflect the usual contrast between the country’s measured approach toward policy, regulatory, and market reform, and the dynamic pace of rapid economic growth and development.

Section 1 Overview of the Chinese Financial System.- A Review of China’s Financial System and Initiatives for the Future.- The Transformation of China from an Emerging Economy to a Global Powerhouse.- China’s Financial Sector: Contributions to Growth and Downside Risks.- Section2 Monetary Policy and the Foreign Exchange Market.- Monetary Policy Implementation in China: Past, Present, and Prospects.- The China Monetary Policy Handbook.- The RMB Debate and International Influences on China’s Money and Financial Markets*.- The United States–China Currency Dispute: Is a Rise in the Yuan Necessary, Inevitable, or Desirable?.- New Estimation of the Renminbi Regime.- The Chinese Imbalance in Capital Flows.- Some Issues Regarding China’s Foreign Reserves.- Section 3 The Banking System.- Institutional Development, Ownership Structure, and Business Strategies: A New Era in the Chinese Banking Industry.- China’s Nonperforming Loans: A $540 Billion Problem Unsolved.- The Evolution of Bank Lending Patterns in China: A Post-1994 Province-By-Province Analysis.- Determinants of Location Choice of Foreign Banks Within China: Evidence from Cities.- Financial Institutions’ Lending and Real Estate Property Prices in China.- Combating Financial Exclusion in China: A Banking Regulatory Perspective.- Section 4 The Bond and Equity Market.- The Chinese Bond Market: Historical Lessons, Present Challenges, and Future Perspectives.- An Update on China’s Capital Markets: Focus on China’s Securities Industry.- Privatization in China: Experiences and Lessons.- The Emergence of Shareholder Protection in China.- An Appraisal of the Impacts of Non-tradable Shares Reform on Large Shareholders’ Behavioral Modes of Listed Companies in the A-Share Market.- Will China Surpass the UnitedStates?.

China’s rapid pace of economic growth and development is accompanied by needed reforms in its emerging financial markets. The government’s measured approach in developing these markets is creating unusual challenges and opportunities, both domestically and internationally. This book offers one of the most insightful up-to-date looks available at the evolving Chinese financial system. It provides alternative perspectives of the system’s evolution and its potential contribution to economic growth. The book also discusses financial institutions as well as the bond, equity, and real estate markets, focusing on the ways in which governmental policies are affecting their performance. China’s Emerging Financial Markets: Challenges and Opportunities presents an in-depth assessment of such important issues as the performance and lending patterns of China’s banks, as well as an assessment of real estate property prices. Significant attention is also paid to the important role that globalization is having on China’s exchange rate and monetary policies. This book is the eighth in the Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovation and Economic Growth, and brings together the ideas of forty-one widely recognized financial and policy experts. Notably, more than half of the contributors are Chinese and have the advantage of front-row seats in China’s emerging financial markets.