This book is a full review of China's foreign trade in the past 70 years of institutional changes and reform. It presents a magnificent historical overview for China's economic history, sometimes full of trials and hardships, while facing the growth and rise. The author aims to build a unique narrative system to analyze the success and failure, gain and loss during the period, and present the China path in foreign trade among numerous events and different stages under a complex context. It is a must-read book for readers who are interested in China's foreign trade during 19492019.
Chapter
1. A Centralized Management System, 1949-1952.- Chapter
2. From
Centralized Control to Central Planning, 1953-1966.- Chapter
3. A Growing
Number of Trading Partners, 1966-1976.- Chapter
4. Loosening Control and
Diversifying Trade Models, 1976-1978.- Chapter
5. Initial Steps in
Institutional Reform, 1979-1984.- Chapter
6. The Foreign Trade Contract
Responsibility System, 1984-1989.- Chapter
7. Toward a Market-driven Foreign
Trade System, 1989-1992.- Chapter
8. Accelerated Market Reform and Final Push
Toward WTO Membership, 1992-2001.- Chapter
9. Trade under the WTO,
2001-2008.- Chapter
10. Increasing Frictions and Adaptation, 2009-2019.
