China Joins the World Trade Organization Knowledge Reader (1) -- Basic Knowledge of the World Trade Organization

Author: Shi Guangsheng, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2001-11-01
Features: Joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) was a major decision made by the Party Central Committee and the State Council for the new century, marking a new stage in China's opening-up. Understanding and mastering the basic knowledge of the WTO is not only an urgent requirement for expanding opening-up and actively participating in economic globalization, but also an objective need to improve the quality of cadres and professionals, enhance adaptability, and promote greater development of China's economy in the new era. This series of readers, edited by Shi Guangsheng, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and written by experts and scholars who have long studied the WTO, as well as comrades directly involved in China's entry negotiations with the WTO, serves as an accurate, accessible, and concise readership and reference book for cadres, researchers, business professionals, students, and general readers to learn about the WTO. It can also be used as a basic textbook for WTO knowledge training. Authority, accuracy, and readability are the major features of this series. The series includes: "Basic Knowledge of the World Trade Organization," "Results of the Uruguay Round Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Legal Texts," "Legal Documents of China's Entry into the WTO," and "The Journey of China's Entry into the WTO."