FOCUS: Ruling China
Preparing for Change with Promises of Continuity
Stability and State-sector reform were the watchwords of the 15th
Communist Party Congress.
H. Lyman Miller
The Give and Take of Central-Local Relations
The central government searches for ways, from legislation to fiscal reform,
to reassert more control over the economy.
James V. Feinerman
The Straight and Narrow
Business risk in China arises from typical as well as not-so-typical sources.
Jake Stratton
Features
China's Untapped Resource
Bonds wait on the sidelines as China slowly develops its financial sector.
Ji Chen and Stephen C. Thomas
An IPR Overhaul
A look at Hong Kong's revamped copyright, patent, and design laws.
Henry J. H. Wheare and Henry Alan Adcock
Retail Roundabout
Many foreign investors are thriving in China's retail sector, despite daunting
regulatory restrictions.
Steven Shi and Anne Stevenson-Yang
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Cover illustration by Greg Berger
Departments
Trends and Issues
The US-China Business Council on
the World Wide Web; foreigners rate
Shanghai's investment climate; and
mainland and Hong Kong 1998
holidays.
Letter from the President
A new and promising pattern
emerges in US-China relations.
1997 Index
Council Activities
The Council hosts PRC President
Jiang Zemin.
Bookshelf
The World Bank's impressive
seven-volume survey of China;
SEZs; and Greater China.
China Business
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