Publications & Documents

Measuring Innovation in Education - Hong Kong,China

The ability to measure innovation is essential to an improvement strategy in education. This country note analyses how the practices are changing within classrooms and educational organisations and how teachers develop and use their pedagogical resources.

Services Trade Restrictiveness Index Country Note: China (ZH)

A two-page OECD summary and analysis of the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index results for China in Mandarin Chinese.

China - OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators

Analysis for China from OECD trade facilitation indicators that identify areas where countries can improve border procedures, reduce trade costs, boost trade flows and reap greater benefits from international trade.

China: Structural Reforms for Inclusive Growth

中国:推进包容性增长的结构改革

本报告借鉴了经合组织成员国及其伙伴国家的专长和集体经验，就一些对中国经济社会长期发展至关重要的问题进行了分析并提出了政策建议，包括包容性增长、金融体制改革、财政政策、贸易与投资、农业、绿色城镇化和能源。

Industrial Production for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

These statistics set out industrial production of total industry, manufacturing, manufactured crude steel, manufactured intermediate and investment goods, energy, construction. The series are updated continuously and are shown as seasonally adjusted indices. The series are updated continuously.

Are the Chinese cheating in PISA or are we cheating ourselves?

Whenever an American or European wins an Olympic gold medal, we cheer them as heroes. When a Chinese does, the first reflex seems to be that they must have been doping; or if that’s taking it too far, that it must have been the result of inhumane training.

China’s march to prosperity: reforms to avoid the middle-income trap

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called "middle-income trap" and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon.

Learning in rural China: The challenges for teachers

This blog post by Andreas Schleicher describes the challenges for teachers teaching in rural China, as witnessed by Mr. Schleicher in October, 2013.

Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased further thanks to agglomeration effects.