1.Will help the academic community better grasp China's national and sectoral balance sheets on the basis of scientific estimates of various kinds of data.2.Brings together a group of top scholars on the much-debated issues of development sustainability, government transformation, local government debt, welfare reform, financial opening-up and stability that are currently troubling China.3.The authors are prominent scholars in economics finance in contemporary China, specializing in banking, macroeconomics, finance and public economy.