In the present paper, we examine the larger context of China's "going out" approach and its policy towards CEE-16. We analyze also the distribution, structure and trends of the Chinese ODI in five CEE countries, correlated with its investment projects, motivations and constraints. In the final...

After 30 years of restructuring, high economic growth and development, China could face the onset of the global economic crisis from a very favourable position: it was the third largest economy in the world, the second most important FDI destination, a leading manufacturer in many industries,...

Clusters are complex economic structures in which similar companies, their up-stream and down-stream business partners, universities, research institutes, educational units, various service providers, diverse private and public institutions concentrate geografically, striving to get economies of...

The Central and Eastern European countries (CEE) share an old, constant and strong friendship relation with China. Along the last decades, both China and CEE countries underwent tremendous changes following different paths to development. These changes, as well as the outburst of the global...

n its first part, this paper looks at China’s rapid economic transformation of the last more than three decades, at its accelerated, never-met-in-history growth, and at the factors underneath: masive investments, both foreign and local, technology and managerial know-how transfers,...

Along more than three decades, China has managed one of the most impressive catching-up drives in human history. Its accomplishments in terms of extensive development are outstanding and undeniable, but the country has now already reached a turning point, when internal and external factors call...

China’s economic pathway subsequent to 1978 is the greatest and most spectacular catching-up process ever succeded in the hystory of development. This country’s unprecedented race to regain the statute of a great economic power - lost in the 19th century, against the backdrop of the western...

In this paper, we explore the trade flows between Romania and China, in the framework of the bilateral EU-Chinese relationship. In the fist chapter, we highlight that, throughout decades, Romania and China have built a strong bilateral relationship, founded on friendship and mutual trust, which...