This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key … service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in … their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002. While it would seem that China will have extraordinarily open markets for …

China's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments represent the most radical services reform program … negotiated in the World Trade Organization. China has promised to eliminate over the next few years most restrictions on foreign … liberalization. • Restrictions on foreign ownership (temporary in most sectors but more durable in telecommunications and life …

China's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments represent the most radical services reform program … negotiated in the World Trade Organization. China has promised to eliminate over the next few years most restrictions on foreign … countrywide liberalization. Restrictions on foreign ownership (temporary in most sectors but more durable in telecommunications …

The separation of the government from the industry in telecommunications sector was carried out in a gradualist or … winners” who were in favor of the status quo. A meaningful industrial reform started from 1994 but ended in 1998. China …, determined by the nature of uncompetitiveness and state monopoly, the telecommunications sector was against the liberalization …