Business and Enterprise Reform
China's dramatic economic growth over the last several decades derived from the shift commenced in 1978 from a centrally planned and centrally controlled economy to a more liberal model of economic management.
This transformation has produced a remarkable array of new businesses and enterprises that are independent of the Party-state or linked loosely to it.
After the PRC joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001 world economic protocols were integrated into China's domestic economic and regulatory policies.
Researchers in the Centre are concerned to generate knowledge of the broad economic changes occurring in China including the legal impacts, taxation patterns, corporate culture, CEO training and international and regional engagement.
Current projects being undertaken by researchers in the China Research Centre in this area include:
Openness in China under the WTO Regime: the Case of Dingzhou
Researcher: Dr. Yingjie Guo
The World Trade Organization is often predicted to bring openness and socio-political change to China. A study of Dingzhou County, Hebei will examine the impact of WTO on legal regulation at the central and local level administrative control of economic activities and the ideological control by the Chinese Communist Party and the local state. Preliminary research suggests that China's accession to the WTO has given an unprecedented impetus to openness in Dingzhou, although both external and domestic openness here remain limited and predominantly confined to economic and social spheres of activity. The applicability of these findings will be tested more systematically in the project.
