Foreign direct investment in China by country of origin, on the one hand, presents significant diversification in terms of the total number of investing countries; on the other hand, it also shows great concentration in terms of the overwhelming dominance of developing source countries,...

China began its urban housing system reform in 1980. This reform has experienced four stages: decentralisation in housing investment, sale of urban housing, experiments with low rent reforms and implementation of the urban housing system reform all over the country. During this process, living...

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,...

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...

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...

This paper surveys most recently published, specially large sample survey-based, studies on China’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 causes of poverty in rural China have been explained in a variety of ways. These explanations include poor natural endowments, a high dependency ratio and inadequate capital and education. These explanations are examined using a unique set of survey data.

Energy security is of increasing concern to China. This arises from the rapid growth and non-substitutability of China's energy demand, the perceptible downturn in China's energy production, and competition for energy imports from neighbouring East Asian economies. This paper explores some of...

China's maize production has experienced rapid growth during the period of on-going economic reforms. However, the magnitude of the growth has varied across regions. The bulk of the increased output has been generated from a few large producing provinces, whereas the increase in other provinces...