World 500's operating strategy in China

Author: Wang Zhongming
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This book is written by several young researchers. As a collective, the entire staff of the Economic Research Center of the State Economic and Trade Commission has organized two "World 500 Leaders' Dialogue." Focusing the entire book's theme on the operating strategies of the World 500 in China demonstrates that the research rigorously excludes vague and useless content. At its core, whether creating "World 500 Studies" or studying the World 500 as a whole as a "powerful phenomenon," the ultimate goal must be to benefit China and its numerous enterprises. If this pragmatic and innovative attitude can be transformed into a research habit, a strength, or even a distinct creative personality, not only will the creation process of "World 500 Studies" be accelerated healthily, but its "added value" will also be substantial.
Studying the World 500 is worthy of being taken seriously and advanced as a discipline, even a new field of study, due to its immense barometer-like, trend-setting, and kaleidoscopic analytical and exploratory value, as well as the depth and breadth it can achieve. The World 500 accounts for an overwhelming proportion of the global economic total, with unparalleled massive production and marketing scales. Its pivotal influence and guiding role in shaping world markets, industrial restructuring, and modern commercial progress, as well as the vast intellectual space and endless novelty it offers in its rise and fall, progress and decline, and ever-changing dynamics, all make us feel urgently that only the creation of "World 500 Studies" can truly engage with it and do justice to it.
Creating "World 500 Studies" is a highly constructive and challenging task. It requires researchers to meticulously address internal relationships, establish academic or theoretical frameworks with multiple perspectives, and firmly grasp the research direction starting from the definition of a discipline as "a specific scientific field or a branch of science." The creation of "World 500 Studies" is an inevitable response to China's further integration into the global wave after its entry into the WTO. It is a responsibility bestowed upon China's economy and academia as history enters a new millennium. It exudes exciting creative tension, reflects the international vision of a new generation of researchers, and expresses the inner voice of more Chinese enterprises determined to join the ranks of the World 500 in the face of market competition.
For a country advancing rapidly toward civilization and prosperity, the essence of "World 500 Studies" lies in "learning from the World 500," even though many people remain indifferent or do not feel particularly proud about a few state-owned enterprises in China recently joining the list.