China's Financial System and Economy: A Review

Zhiguo He () and Wei Wei ()
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Wei Wei: Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Annual Review of Economics, 2023, vol. 15, issue 1, 451-483

Abstract: China's financial system has been integral to its spectacular economic growth over the past 40 years. We review the recent literature on China's financial system and its connections to the Chinese economy based on the categories of Aggregate Financing to the Real Economy (AFRE), a broad measure of the nation's yearly flow of liquidity accounting for unique features of China's financial system. While early work on China's financial system emphasizes the state-owned enterprise reform, the recent literature explores other more market-based financing channels—including shadow banking—that grew rapidly after 2010 and have become important components of AFRE. These new financing channels not only are intertwined with each other, but also, and more importantly, are often ultimately tied back to the dominant banking sector in China. Understanding the mechanisms behind these channels and their intrinsic connections is crucial to alleviate capital allocation distortion and mitigate potential systemic financial risk in China.

Keywords: economic reform; development; financial markets; implicit guarantee; fintech (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G10 G20 G30 O16 O17 O33 P34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-072622-095926

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