This Dictionary provides the theoretical summary and conceptual framework around the milestones obtained through Chinese reform and development and highlights the research achievements of Chinese economics over the past 40 years. It also presents Chinese economics to the world, featuring the Belt and Road Initiative and the Chinese theory and Chinese system to be known and shared internationally with a Chinese intellectual foundation. It sets out to frame the theoretical achievements of extraction and summary of practice experience from Chinese reform and development.  The choice of entries in the Dictionary seeks to embody the very Chinese characteristics of economics and the combination of theory and practice is illuminated.  Furthermore, the dictionary explores examples of scientific achievements that traditional economics has brought forward and how they fit and unify within both a Chinese, as well as an international context.

Hong Yinxing obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Renmin University of China, and later was awarded Honorary Doctor of Law from the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is University Distinguished Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanjing University, Professor of Economics at the Business School of Nanjing University, and Deputy Chairman of the Social Science Committee of the Chinese Ministry of Education. He has served as the Party Secretary of Nanjing University and a member of the Fourth and Fifth Theoretical Economics Discipline Assessment Committees under the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. In 1987, he was awarded the Sun Yefang Economic Science Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the economic field in China, and the title of "Chinese Doctoral Degree Winner with Outstanding Contributions" in 1991. In September 2000, he visited the United States as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2009, he was selected as one of the 100 economists who had made a significant impact on China's economic development over the past 60 years. In 2017, he won the first prize for Wu Yuzhang Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences, the first prize of national teaching achievements in 2018, and the China Economic Theory Innovation Award in 2019. In 2020, he won the first prize for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences in National Universities.

Preface.- Contents.- Political Economy.- Transition Economics.- Development Economics.- World Economy and International Economics.- Resource and Environmental Economics.- Methodology of Economics.- National Economics.- Industrial Economics.- Public Finance.- Financial Economics.- Regional Economics.