China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative High-Income Society is an extensive study of the Economy of China published in 2012 by the World Bank, Washington, D.C., and the Development Research Center of the State Council, People’s Republic of China, Beijing. China 2030 attempts to set forth a possible development path for China that would result in attainment of the status of a "rich country" by 2030. An earlier report "China 2020" was prepared under World Bank auspices in 1998.