We couldn’t resist to temptation to dedicate an our issue to China. We see a country that is maintaining a very high resilience production system, with gigantic interventions of massive state and private capital that push in designated directions - but it is also a country that is opening up more and more to the world. The point of view that we propose this time, compared to other monographic issues on the same subject, wants to be more original: people who work or have worked in China try to describe what their eyes have seen, and what their feelings of Westerners have caught.