Background: After 15 years of negotiations and diplomatic struggle, China was finally given the formal approval to join the World Trade Organization as the 143rd member. China has been driving for years to join the WTO since that is a crucial part of its plan to reform its economy and to build the economic modernization.
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to gain a general knowledge of China’s economic development, analysis advantages and disadvantages associated with China’s WTO membership as well as to answer the questions addressed.
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND
1.2 PROBLEM DISCUSSION
1.3 PROBLEM FORMULATION
1.4 PURPOSE STATEMENT
1.5 LIMITATIONS
1.6 DISPOSITION OF THE THESIS
2 METHODOLOGY
2.1 SCIENTIFIC GROUND VALUES
2.2 AUTHOR PROFILE
2.3 METHODOLOGY OF THIS THESIS
2.3.1 Quantitative and Qualitative Research
2.3.2 Data Collection
2.4 VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY
2.5 METHODOLOGICAL CRITICISM
3 FRAME OF REFERENCE
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 MACROENVIRONMENT
3.2.1 Economics
3.2.2 Politics
3.2.3 Social trends and Demographics
3.2.4 Competition
3.2.5 Global and Regional Approach
3.2.6 Technology
3.2.7 Culture
3.2.8 Risk Assessment
3.3 PLANNED ECONOMY AND MARKET ECONOMY
3.3.1 Plan or Market
3.3.2 From Plan to Market
3.4 GLOBALIZATION – INTERDEPENDENCE
3.5 WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION CHINA
4.1 Overview
4.2 HISTORY OF PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
4.2.1 Chairman Mao’s Time and the Planned Economy 1949-1976
4.2.2 Deng Xiaoping’s Time and the Open Door Policy 1976-1997
4.2.3 China Today – Economic Development and Political Progress
5 EMPIRICAL DATA
5.1 EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
5.1.1 Chinese Hope for Consumer Revolution
5.1.2 Chinese Hope for International Communications
5.2 EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
5.2.1 Reforms of the Chinese Government Bureaucracy
5.2.2 Chinese Labor Market, Unemployment and Stability
5.3 EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL
5.3.1 China Legal Changes to Meet WTO requirements
5.3.1.1 Rep Offices of Foreign Law Firms
5.3.1.2 Foreign Investment in Telecommunications
5.3.1.3 Foreign-Invested Employment Agencies
5.3.1.4 Foreign Investment in Movie Theaters
5.3.1.5 Foreign-Invested Insurance Companies
5.3.2 Relation to Taiwan
5.4 EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
5.4.1 Bilateral Agreement
5.4.1.1 China- European Union WTO Agreement
5.4.1.2 China-US WTO Agreement
5.4.2 Booming Foreign Investment
5.4.3 Competitive Threat
6 ANALYSIS
6.1 ECONOMICS
6.1.1 Benefits to the Chinese Economy
6.1.1.1 Benefits to the China’s Economic Reforms
6.1.1.2 Benefits to China’s Economic Growth
6.1.1.3 Benefits to the Chinese People
6.1.2 Benefits to the World Economy Benefits to Industrial
6.1.2.2 Benefits to Agriculture
6.2 POLITICS
6.2.1 Influence on Chinese Politic
6.2.1.1 Chinese Political Development
6.2.1.2 Relation to Taiwan
6.2.1.3 Relation to Hongkong
6.2.2 Influence on the World’s Politics
6.2.2.1 China as a Member of the WTO Community
6.2.2.2 Developing Giant
6.2.2.3 Contribution to the World Peace
6.2.2.4 China – US
6.3 GLOBALIZATION
6.4 WTO AND DOMESTIC FEARS
7 CONCLUSIONS
8 REFERENCES
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Author: Cao, Teresa Yanhong
Source: Linköping University
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