EU Expansion Brings New Business Opportunities: Prospects for the Development of China-EU Economic and Trade Relations in the New Century

Author: Li Gang
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book takes the policy documents successively published by China and the EU, the establishment of the China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, and the EU's eastward expansion as the main thread and background, comprehensively and deeply exploring the relevant fields and issues of developing China-EU economic and trade cooperation in the new situation. It analyzes new business opportunities in the EU markets one by one and provides forward-looking forecasts for their future development. The book is divided into 7 parts and 32 chapters.
Part 1: EU Expansion and Central and Eastern Europe's Return
It briefly reviews the history of the EU's economic union, the development of the EU as a world political pole, the process of Central and Eastern European countries returning to Europe, and the EU's continuous "eastward and southward" expansion to build the European house.
Part 2: China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
It briefly elaborates on and evaluates the formation and development of the EU's strategy toward China, China's strategic policies toward the EU, and provides an assessment of the new progress in establishing the China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
Part 3: New Business Opportunities in EU Expansion
It analyzes in detail the cornerstone of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: China-EU economic and trade cooperation, China's economic and trade cooperation with new EU member states and candidate countries, and deeply explores the new business opportunities and challenging impacts brought by EU expansion for Chinese enterprises.
Part 4: Subsequent Trends in China-EU Trade and Investment
It conducts an in-depth analysis of the complementary and competitive factors in the development of China-EU trade, provides a model-based forecast for China's future development as the EU's biggest trading partner, and analyzes in depth the strengthening of the use of EU direct investment in China while actively implementing the "going global" strategy to expand new investment areas in the EU.
Part 5: Strengthening Dialogue and Cooperation
It provides a detailed analysis and discussion of some important hot issues that constrain the development of China-EU economic and trade relations.
Part 6: New Business Opportunities in EU Traditional Markets
It analyzes the markets of the original 15 EU member states one by one.
Part 7: New Business Opportunities in EU New Markets
It introduces the business opportunities in the markets of the 10 new member states and the two candidate countries that are scheduled to join on July 1, 2007, and also analyzes bilateral economic and trade relations at the national level and future development.