This book analyzes how Chinese people use their time, including how busy Chinese seek a healthy work-life balance, how some children win from the outset in terms of education, and how people pursue quality of life outside of or after work. General readers will get a vivid and detailed impression of the way Chinese people spend their time, while researchers will find a wealth of phenomena and data for analysis from both economic and social perspectives. The research presented here was conducted in the context of the Chinese Time Use Survey (CTUS), a nationwide initiative launched by Inner Mongolia University in 2017. The CTUS covers 29 Chinese provinces, and the database contains the time use information of 30,591 people aged 3 years and over from 12,471 households. The survey collects information at three main levels: personal, family and community.
本書分析了中國人如何使用他們的時間，包括忙碌的中國人如何尋求健康的工作與生活平衡、某些孩子在教育方面如何從一開始就贏在起跑線上，以及人們如何在工作之外或之後追求生活品質。一般讀者將對中國人如何花費時間有生動而詳細的印象，而研究者則會發現豐富的現象和數據，供經濟和社會角度的分析。本研究是在中國時間使用調查（CTUS）的背景下進行的，該調查是由內蒙古大學於2017年啟動的全國性計畫。CTUS涵蓋了29個中國省份，數據庫包含來自12,471個家庭的30,591名3歲及以上人員的時間使用信息。該調查在個人、家庭和社區三個主要層面收集信息。
Fenglian Du, professor of economics, doctoral supervisor, Sino-US Fulbright Program visiting scholar, vice president of Inner Mongolia University, dean of School of Economics and Management of Inner Mongolia University, director of Survey and Research Center for China Time Use of Inner Mongolia University. Selected by the "New Century Excellent Talents Plan" of the Ministry of Education and State-Council Allowance Expert. Her research fields are labor market issues and regional industrial development. Her papers have been published in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Economy, China Population Resources and Environment and other journals. Currently, her main research fields are time utilization, intergenerational transmission of education and economy and regional coordinated development.
Wenbin Wang, Ph.D. of Economics, deputy director of China Time Use Survey and Research Center of Inner Mongolia University. His research field are labor economics, time use economics and urban economics.
Xiaoyuan Dong, professor of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Winnipeg, associate editor-in-chief of Feminist Economics, member of International Association for Feminist Economics. Her research areas are China's economic transformation, labor market, gender and women's status. Her articles have been published in many international core academic journals, including Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics of Transition, Feminist Economics and so on. Her current research areas are unpaid care, time use, social gender, etc.
杜鳳連，經濟學教授，博士生導師，中美富布賴特計畫訪問學者，內蒙古大學副校長，內蒙古大學經濟與管理學院院長，內蒙古大學中國時間利用調查與研究中心主任。曾被教育部「新世紀優秀人才計畫」選拔為國家津貼專家。她的研究領域包括勞動市場問題和區域產業發展。她的論文發表於《經濟發展與文化變遷》、《劍橋經濟學期刊》、《世界經濟》、《中國人口資源與環境》等期刊。目前，她的主要研究領域為時間利用、教育與經濟的代際傳遞以及區域協調發展。
王文彬，經濟學博士，內蒙古大學中國時間利用調查與研究中心副主任。他的研究領域包括勞動經濟學、時間利用經濟學和城市經濟學。
董小媛，溫尼佩格大學商業與經濟學院教授，《女性主義經濟學》副主編，國際女性主義經濟學協會成員。她的研究領域包括中國經濟轉型、勞動市場、性別與女性地位。她的文章發表於多個國際核心學術期刊，包括《政治經濟學期刊》、《發展經濟學期刊》、《比較經濟學期刊》、《轉型經濟學》、《女性主義經濟學》等。她目前的研究領域包括無償照護、時間利用、社會性別等。
