After more than 40 years of market reform and transformation, Chinese business associations have come to play an important role in China’s economic and social system. This book explores the role that these organizations play, and what that means for the relationship between the state and society in contemporary China. How exactly should Chinese business associations conduct policy engagement? What factors influence the policy engagement behaviors of Chinese business associations? In this book, Professor Shen sheds lights on the inner working of China’s economy and society as it seeks to move up global value chains. 

Yongdong Shen is Professor at the School of Public Affairs, Deputy Dean of the Academy of Social Governance, and Research Fellow of Institute of State System Research at Zhejiang University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo and a visiting scholar at Boston University. Shen’s research focuses on the intersection among enterprises, nonprofits and governments in China.