Nonetheless, when China began its economic reform program, Coca-Cola was one of the first international companies to understand the inherent potential of the vast China market and returned to the country in 1979.
China's remarkable four decades of economic reform and growth have catapulted it to wealth and power -- China is a global power, with global interests.
His research interests include economic reform in China, U.S. fiscal and monetary policy, and constitutional political economy.
According to this theory, new social forces have emerged in China as a result of economic reform and the party must seek to represent them.
Dr. Doug Guthrie, Dean, Professor of International Business and Professor of Management at the George Washington University School of Business is an expert in the fields of economic reform in China, leadership and corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility.
Economic reform has stalled because China has progressed about as far as it can within its existing political framework.
It used to be a platitude of Western and Marxist analysis of China that wrenching economic change would demand political reform.
Whatever the new sense of urgency to modernise China's economic institutions, the need to reform its political ones is greater.
The top political official in attendance will be Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's economic planning body.
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Jiang dwelt on what is considered China's biggest economic challenge: how to reform, even privatize, failing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) without adding to social problems stemming from growing unemployment.
The bond quota issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic-planning body, will be used to help the ministry finance the maintenance and construction of a rapidly expanding railway network.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has made energy and financial market reform in China a focus of the "Strategic Economic Dialogue" between Washington and Beijing.
We will continue our currency reform but it will be determined by China's economic development, not by politicians.
The conglomerate has outmaneuvered state-owned rivals as well as giant multinationals to become China's largest privately held company and a national model of economic reform.
After 30 years of economic reform and catching up, I would argue that China, as a country, is just now reaching the top of that wall.
China needs to continue to grow so that more Chinese can benefit from economic reform.
Serious reform took a back seat to the robust economic growth China experienced over the last two decades.
Conditions are "basically ripe" for interest-rate liberalization, China's central-bank governor said, bolstering other leaders' calls for economic reform.
If Beijing's goal is to choke off unrestrained foreign borrowing by provincial governments and centralize control over China's finances, Zhu's willingness to let Gitic die means his economic reform agenda has not been completely blocked, argues Ballingal.
But as China's coastal provinces -- which were first opened for Western-style economic reform in 1979 -- grow more expensive, more companies are moving factories into rural areas, sparking a new wave of development and giving workers more options closer to home.
The rest of the world should be encouraged that China has great humility and eagerness to learn and innovate, and will keep promoting both economic reform and political reform.
China needs a "renewed reform momentum" to sustain long term growth, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said.
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In a speech in August in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, to mark its 30th anniversary as one of China's first Special Economic Zones, Mr Wen argued in unusually strong terms for the importance of political reform.
Most experts and media say she left a controversial mixed legacy in terms of economic reform, but praise her for negotiating the smooth handover of former British colony Hong Kong to China and facilitating China's reintegration with the international community.
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