Titlebook: China’s Trade Patterns and International Comparative Advantage; Xiao-guang Zhang Book 2000 Wei-Bin Zhang 2000 China.foreign trade.reforms.

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Reforming a Centrally Planned Foreign Trade System,hen, China’s foreign trade has been growing at an average rate of 15.5 per cent a year in nominal terms, more than twice as fast as world trade. Between 1978 and 1997, the volume of total trade rose from US$21 billion to US$325 billion and the volume of exports had increased by 18.9 times in nominal

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Factor Intensity of Chinese Tradable Commodities,of commodities are classified into different categories according to their factor intensities. Alternative methods of estimating factor intensity are discussed in the context of their applicability to the Chinese economy; the purpose of this classification is to indicate the factor contents of Chine

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,China’s Foreign Trade Patterns and Performance, gross national output since 1950. From 1953 to 1996, gross domestic product (GDP) grew at 10.8 per cent per annum in nominal terms (State Statistical Bureau, Department of National Economic Accounting 1998:3–4). During the same period, the total value of China’s foreign trade increased at an averag

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,Tradable Goods Price Structure in China, 1978–95, central planning and isolation. These distortions had resulted in a huge loss of allocative efficiency for the Chinese economy and hindered the opening up of the domestic economy. It was clear that the domestic price system had to be reformed and realigned with the rest of the world. After nearly t

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,China’s Trade Patterns and Comparative Advantage, led to a convergence between China’s trade patterns and its underlying comparative advantage? The net export performance ratio (NEPR) and the domestic resource productivity (DRP) measures estimated in the previous chapters allow a further investigation into the relationships between China’s trade p