The article consist of two parts. The first looks at China's industrial performance in terms of the pace and pattern of industrialization, regional industrial distribution and technological change. This analysis is set in the context of the policy background against which industrial changes were...

As the author sees it, foreign direct investment (FDI) in China is the most dramatic manifestation of China's open-door policy. After discussing the economic importance of the "economically opened coastal areas" (econocoas), he examines overall qualitative trends in foreign investment and its...

Economic integration is essentially a process of unification, the means whereby coherence is imposed upon previously separate, even disparate, geographical regions. According to the authors, cultural and linguistic affinities have no doubt helped to facilitate the economic integration of China,...

Critical appraisal of the agricultural reform envisaged in Document No.1, 1984 of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Types and variants, 1980-83, of the agricultural production responsibility system. The greatly increased rural labour reserves, released by the much more...

Trade policies between the autumn of 1976 and the summer of 1978. Trade policies during the "readjustment" 1979-84. The impact of "readjustment": trade surplus achieved by China in 1982, rapid increase in the exports of manufactured and semi-manufactured goods etc. A radical new attitude in the...

In the terminology of Chinese planning the "state plan" embraces both the central and provincial plans, while the "local plan" refers exclusively to the one for the Xian (county) and its administrative equivalent, namely the provincial municipality. After identifying the major Xian planning...