Foreign invested enterprises China

It worked extremely well. Today Shenzhen - which was a sleepy coimtry town of atoimd 20,000 people - is the size of New York City. By 2005, China had well over a half million resident foreign invested enterprises (FIEs), up from basically none imder Mao in the 1970s. Aroimd 2006, China became... 

Lou, Y, 1997. Guanxi and performance of foreign-invested enterprises in China. Management International... 

The Chinese chemical market is attracting huge foreign direct investments. Between 1993 and 2003, investment projects amounted to around EUR 20 billion of contractual FDI, with Bayer, BASF, Shell, and BP the four biggest investors. Over the last ten years, five percent of foreign direct investment was into the chemicals sector. Multinational corporations (MNCs) tend to enter via joint ventures partially driven by the need for feedstock access, but wholly foreign-owned enterprises will become more common following China s membership of the WTO. 

Since China s economic reform, numerous foreign companies have directly invested in industries in China. Many foreign corporations have established their positions in the Chinese market through joint ventures and/or wholly owned enterprises. Some foreign firms with multiple ventures in China establish holding companies to better coordinate their operations, marketing, raw material imports, product exports and other business issues. 

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