TY - BOOK ED - Development Research Center of the State (Beijing, Alabama), ED - World Bank Group (Washington, District of Columbia), TI - Innovative china : : new drivers of growth SN - 9781464813351 PY - 2019/// CY - Washington PB - World Bank Group N2 - "After more than three decades of average annual growth close to 10 percent, China's economy is transitioning to a 'new normal' of slower but more balanced and sustainable growth. Its old drivers of growth -- a growing labor force, the migration from rural areas to cities, high levels of investments, and expanding exports -- are waning or having less impact. China's policymakers are well aware that the country needs new drivers of growth. This report proposes a reform agenda that emphasizes productivity and innovation to help policymakers promote China's future growth and achieve their vision of a modern and innovative China. The reform agenda is based on the three D's: removing Distortions to strengthen market competition and enhance the efficient allocation of resources in the economy; accelerating Diffusion of advanced technologies and management practices in China's economy, taking advantage of the large remaining potential for catch-up growth; and fostering Discovery and nurturing China's competitive and innovative capacity as China approaches OECD incomes in the decades ahead and extends the global innovation and technology frontier"-- UR - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-1335-1 ER -