After more than two decades of progress in market reforms and liberalization, the entry of China into the WTO marks a new era for its integration into the world economy. No global business can now ignore the tremendous potential of China as a massive new marketing and a powerful business partner. Doing Business with China is a unique and timely guide to business practice opportunities in this dynamic economy. Up-to-date and authoritative, it's an essential reference source for those engaged in financial services, corporate planners, entrepreneurs and China's would be trading partners. In addition to detailed economic and trade statistics, there is a mass of invaluable information on the country's foreign trade activity, business start-ups in China, joint ventures and market research, advice on such matters as business relationships and the impact of Chinese cultural values on them, plus useful historical information on the development and reform of state-owned enterprises.The book is supported by FREE online access by password to a dedicated web site with regular information updates. Editorial contributors include: Bank of China; CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office; China Association of International Trade; China Customs Research Society; China Securities Regulatory Commission; Denton Wilde Sapte; Department of Foreign Investment, MOFTEC Department of Policy Research, MOFTEC; Development Research Centre, State Council; Economic Restructuring Office, State Council; Herbert Smith; HSBC; Lignan University of Hong Kong; Ministry of Agriculture; National Bureau of Statistics; Policy Research Department, Central Committee of the Communist Party PricewaterhouseCoopers; Export-Import Bank ofChina; State Administration of Foreign Exchange; Guanghua Management School, Beijing; University of International Business and Economics, Beijing

Designed to provide a comprehensive handbook for those seeking to do business in China, the essays address a wide range of practical issues. The volume contains seven main sections: China's economy and administrative system, its foreign trade within the WTO, foreign company operation in China, banking, sectors of opportunity, and local economies (with a chapter on each of the 49 provinces and other regions). Appendices present statistics on China's companies, GDP, foreign debt, import and export businesses, shares on the Chinese stock exchanges, and summaries of contract law. The contributors include attorneys, pubic officials, business people, and academics, many of them working for the China Association of International Trade, which helped oversee the book's production. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

After more than two decades of progress in market reforms and liberalization, the entry of China into the WTO marks a new era for its integration into the world economy. No global business can now ignore the tremendous potential of China as a massive new marketing and a powerful business partner."Doing Business with China" is a unique and timely guide to business practice opportunities in this dynamic economy. Up-to-date and authoritative, itbs an essential reference source for those engaged in financial services, corporate planners, entrepreneurs and Chinabs would be trading partners. In addition to detailed economic and trade statistics, there is a mass of invaluable information on the countrybs foreign trade activity, business start-ups in China, joint ventures and market research, advice on such matters as business relationships and the impact of Chinese cultural values on them, plus useful historical information on the development and reform of state-owned enterprises.