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Since the end of the Cold War, economic security has become the key issue for regional stability. This high-level survey of China's key priorities in this area arises from an EU-China Academic Network workshop at which international specialists were invited to contribute on vital issues such as: energy future, economic security, unemployment, regional disparities; rural-urban migration trends, the grain problem, and the environment. The results constitute an essential guide and reference to some of the regional issues which, because of the size and growing economic importance of China, are at the same time global in implication and anticipate some of the major shifts likely to take place in the 21st century.