As the second of two issues of iChinese Economic Studies/i dealing with China's coastal development strategy, six articles reflecting different aspects of the problem are brought together here. The first is by Liu Guoguang, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and an...

After having decreased in the early 1980s, losses by Chinese industrial enterprises began to go up in 1985, reaching 4.05 billion yuan, an increase of 18.3 percent over 1984. In 1986, losses increased another 78.7 percent to 7.42 billion yuan, and in 1987 they increased another 16.9 percent to...

Lin Zili was born in Lianjiang County, Fujian Province, in 1925. He became involved in the revolutionary movement at a young age and, in 1945, was arrested by the Guomindang. Three years later, he was released and went to Hong Kong where he became editor of iShijie zhanwang/i (World Observer), a...

China's entrance into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been controversial, not only in the United States but also in China. Unlike the old days, when foreign-policy decisions went unchallenged by the public, a very lively debate on the benefits and costs of joining the WTO has emerged in...

In recent years not only has the rapid economic development of the People's Republic of China continued to catch people's attention but the emergence of a so-called "Greater China" has similarly become a topic of wide-ranging discussion. Greater China is by no means a precise term, as the...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i continues the translation of important sections of an internal study on enterprise deficitsâiInvestigation and Research on Deficits in Industrial Enterprises/i (iGongye qiye kuisun diaocha yanjiu/i)âthat was published in 1989. Whereas the previous issue of...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i translates a number of articles that were published together in iZhongguo jingji tizhi gaige tansuo/i (Explorations in China's economic structural reform), which was edited by Lin Ling and published by Chong jng Publishing House in 1986. Lin wrote these...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i continues to translate Chinese reactions to China's impending accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). As noted in the previous two issues of iThe Chinese Economy/i (vol. 33, no. 1 [January/February 2000] and no. 2 [March/April 2000]) dealing with the...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i translates three articles, two by Long Yongtu, vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) and China's chief negotiator for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO). Both...

Theoretical discussions on economic structural reform in the Dengist period can probably be dated from Hu Qiaomu's important speech to the State Council, "Act in Accordance with Economic Laws," in July 1978. Following that speech, it became legitimate to explore the "economic laws," and the...