China began its urban housing system reform in 1980. This paper will explore whether the reform has fulfilled the scheduled goals. In terms of urban housing availability, living space per capita is now more than double what it was before the reform, and living conditions have been improved. But,...

This paper examines the process and extent of China's commercial integration into the global economy through its trade and investment links. China's emergence as an economic entity appears to have been a result of combination of 'push' factors in capital rich economies such as the NIEs and...

Using an econometric regression analysis to test the hypotheses based on the location advantages of the theory of FDI, this paper investigated and answered two main questions: what are the location determinants of FDI inflows into developing countries and what is the relative performance of...

Using panel data, a multiple regression model of the location decision of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China is developed and estimated. The results for the period of 1987-94 of China's 29 provinces indicate that provinces with higher GDP, higher per capita income, higher level of...

The stock market reappeared in Mainland China in the late 1980s and since then has experienced a rapid growth. Listed companies increased from one dozen in early 1991 to over 600 in mid 1997. The market capitalisation increased from less than 10 billion to over 1300 billion renminbi yuan in the...

A factor influencing China's integration with world steel markets is steel's status as a canalised or "designated" commodity under Chinese trade laws. Canalisation limits the number of enterprises permitted to engage in import operations. Canalisation is particularly strict in the case of steel...

This paper applies a demand model to examine alcohol consumption in rural China. Its objective is to investigate alcohol consumption patterns and their determinants in rural households. The empirical analysis is based on survey data of 1000 rural households located in twenty counties within five...

This paper surveys most recently published, specially large sample survey-based, studies on ChinaÂ’s rural-to-urban labour migration. Apart from discussing the recent trends in labour migration in China, including the size, the spatial pattern and temporal dimension of migration, and the...

The paper examines trends in China's regional grain production during the reform period and their impact on national grain output and interregional grain transfers. It finds that there are significant variations between regions in terms of magnitude and patterns of growth. In general, northern...