Foreign Investment, The State and Labour in China

Economic development in China – key trends

Deng Xiaoping’s market-orientated reforms (1979+)

‘Open door’ policies

Special economic zones (SEZs)

Share of world FDI stock: 1% in 19806% in 2002

Mainstream views on China’s economic development – China as ‘threat’?

China’s rise as ‘threat’ to status quo in international economic relations

China as ‘workshop of the world’‘weapons of mass production’

Government support to domestic firms in ‘going global’

High-tech exports and R&D

Barriers to upgrading domestic maufacturing firms What is ‘Chinese’ about manufacturing in China?

‘China’ as a coherent economic whole?

‘Domestic’ firms internationally non-competitive in advanced manufactures‘

global business revolution’ of the 1990s

Trade protection is less of an option since joining WTO in 2001

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