In the first half of the year, economic growth accelerated, economic efficiency improved, and the economic performance developed with an obvious upward trend.

In the first half of the year, China’s GDP grew by 8.2 per cent, the total volume of retail sales in social consumption goods rose by 10.1 per cent, fixed asset investment in the society as a whole swelled by 11 per cent, export increased by 38.3 per cent, and the consumption price index went up by 0.1 per cent.

Report on the 2000 survey of growth and development of entrepreneurs in China

Manifestations and characteristics of growing disparity in people’s income.

China’s trade dependence ratio has been on the rise in the past 20 years.

Opening to the outside world is a fundamental state policy of China and is also an important component of the Tenth Five-Year Plan.

Trans-regional migration has become an important form of employment for rural laborers, and has come to be referred to as the “tide of rural laborers” in recent years.

An unprecedented wave of merger and aquisition (M&A) and restructuring is now sweeping the world. In 1998, value of M&A in the world was US$2,500 billion, 54 percent more than in 1997.