China's Trade Patterns and International Comparative Advantage

by Xiao-guang Zhang

This book provides the first comprehensive and quantitative assessment of the impact of reform policies on the Chinese domestic economy at the detailed sectoral level. Beginning with a survey of China's economic reform progress, the author quantitatively measures China's trade performance and the comparative advantage for tradable-good-producing industries over the reform period.

270 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999