As a government institution specializing in development-oriented finance, the China Development Bank (CDB) has combined advanced international financial theories with China's practical conditions and has done remarkably well in removing financing bottlenecks, establishing market credit systems, and ensuring faster and better economic and social development. Its practice and theory in development-oriented finance represent a major distinctive feature of China's socialist market economy.Written in the setting of great history, great changes and great challenges, this book contains a systematic study of the theory and practice of development-oriented finance that has evolved along with China's reform and opening up. It provides an in-depth analysis of the ideological basis, theoretical contents, operating principles and innovative development of China's financial system.China's Rise: Development-Oriented Finance and Sustainable Development will promote further discussions and researches on China's modern economic and financial systems and in turn the sustainable development of the Chinese economy and the world economy at large.