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Nie Huihua on the non-Westernness of Chinese government and the challenge to innovation

South China Morning Post

June 21, 2026

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Nie Huihua on the non-Westernness of Chinese government and the challenge to innovation

Nie Huihua, a professor of economics at Renmin University, discusses how an effective understanding of China’s development requires a shift from Western-centric frameworks to an integrated perspective that recognises how formal institutions, informal grass-roots mechanisms and cultural collectivism couple to create a self-consistent and adaptive governance system. SCMP Plus readers get early access to articles in the Open Questions series. You received economics training at Harvard, but your...

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