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Macau Periodical Index (澳門期刊論文索引)
- Author
- Ji, Qiuying
- Title
- China's reform in foreign trade: towards a modern enterprise system
- Journal Name
- Euro Asia Journal of Management
- Pub. Info
- Jul. 1999, No.18, pp. 37-53
- Abstract
- Abstract : Since the reform and open policy began to take shape 16 years ago, China's door has been gradually opening to the rest of the world. Her achievements in the field of foreign trade have been remarkable. Chinese economy undergoes a process of transition from an isloated or semi-isolated mode into an open mode having closer relationships with the global economy. As a result, foreign trade has played an ever more imoportant and strategic role in the country's construction towards modernization. The past sixteen years have witnessed steady and constant growing of China's foreign trade. There was an average annual increase of 16 per cent during the years between 1979 and 1992. The total import-export volume in 1993 amounted to US$ 195.7 billion, an increase of 18.2 per cent against that in the previous year, which included US$91.8 billion for import and US$ 104 billion for export. The trade value (contains import and export) comprised 40 per cent and the export volume 18.8 per cent of China's GNP in the said year. Paragraph Headings: 1. Existing problems since system reform in China's foreign trade 1.1. Great gap to fill for real market economy 1.2. Obscurity of relationship between right and property obstructs enterprises taking over the responsibility of losses and profits 1.3. With mixed-up responsibility of the government and enterprises, independent operation becomes impossible 1.4. Enterprise responsibility system, with the managers appointed by administrators, lacking the sense of competition, and without supervision 1.5. A serious tendency: state-owned assets turning into private properties 1.6. Lack of scientific balance in the relationship among foreign trade, industry, agriculture and technology 2. A solution to the state-owned foreign trade enterprises -- Towards modern enterprise system 2.1. The concept of modern enterprises 2.2. Role played by state-owned foreign trade enterprises in adopting modern enterprise system 3. Suggestions for the way: A modern enterprise system is to be established in foreign trade enterprises 3.1. An introduction of the enterprise system used in the USA and Japan 3.2. Proposals for the modern enterprise system in China's foreign trade enterprises 3.3. Points for attention in adopting the modern system in China's foreign trade enterprises