Enrich Series on China's Economic Reform provides a comprehensive analysis of China's 30-year process of economic reform. Based on an analysis of the interplay between theory and implementation, this volume, Reforming China: Theoretical Framework, outlines the theoretical framework that underpins China's 30-year economic reform. It describes the difficulty facing the newly established system and explores the policies adopted ta overcome fundamental theoretical and ideological issues. It also examines major social changes brought about by the formation of a market economy and elaborates on the significance of the rule of low in China's economic reform and social transformation.About the Author: Li Tieying is a former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China. For more than 20 years he served as the minister in charge of the State Commission for Economic Restructuring, and he participated in the implementation of China's economic reforms during that time.