Provides key points on how China can use its new economic leverage to shape its long-term outward investment strategies in Africa and in ASEAN countries; Proposes short-term and long-term measures to ensure the sustainability and solvency of local public financial institutions in China amid mounting government debt; Assesses China's latest policies to promote the Renminbi as a world reserve currency amid a global currency war; Analyzes China's national pension system and labor issues in the wake of President Xi's sweeping reforms.