Abstract
In 1981 the Chinese leadership set the goal of quadrupling China's 1980 per capita GNP by the year 2000 in order to raise the people's standard of living to a “relatively comfortable level.” But apart from sustained growth, the Chinese planners are also very much concerned with economic efficiency and price stability. The new development strategy to attain these goals is economic reform and opening to the outside world Over a decade has now elapsed since these goals were set. This article addresses the issues of how far the Chinese economy has advanced toward those objectives, the major challenges that lie ahead and China's economic prospects in the 1990s.

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