Since the late 70's, China's comprehensive transformation has been total with policies that have changed institutional arrangements, societal frameworks, and governance structures of one of the most influential countries today. Though these policies have brought prosperity and power to China, they have also resulted in demographic and environmental challenges that have in turn required counteracting policy responses.

Today we ask how China balances its public policy against the corresponding effects, and what kinds of conversations are being generated around questios of an overburdened public sector, rapid urbanisation, food security, environmental degradation and the NIMBY phenomenon to name a few.