The government provided free coal for heating in North China.

政府为华北地区提供免费的取暖用煤。

youdao

Like other developing countries which are attempting to become more export-orientated, China has started to set up free trade zones.

像其他试图更加突出出口导向型的发展中国家一样，中国已经开始建立自由贸易区。

youdao

However, once China began embracing free-market reforms in the 1980s, followed by India in the 1990s, both countries achieved rapid growth.

然而，上世纪80年代，中国开始推行自由市场改革；90年代，印度紧随其后，两国都实现了快速增长。

youdao

Sensing such a risk, Brazilian industrial groups nipped in the bud some recent discussions about a Brazil-China free-trade agreement.

ECONOMIST: China and Latin America

Many observers have also argued that a number of countries have grown rapidly -- Western Europe and Japan before and China today -- without free mobility of private capital, especially of portfolio capital.

CNN: VIEWPOINT

In April, China signed a free-trade deal with Iceland, its first with a European nation.

WSJ: Arctic Body Weighs China's Bid to Observe