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995 1998 1998 : 1998 ISSUE PAGE ISSUE TATTLE ISSUE BANKING, FINANCE, AND INSURANCE CHEMICALS AND PETROCHEMICALS Beijing Discusses Foreign-Exchange China’s Untapped Resource Fertile Ground Regulations, Customs Projects.... . 6 PRC Government Debt and Debt China’s Fertilizer Market (Table) .. . . Companies Tackle Year 2000 Financing, 1979-96 (Chart) China’s Pesticide Market (Table) . Problem, Tax Consolidation China’s Government and Cooperating on Chemical Controls Council Welcomes Mack Liedeker . . . Non-Government Bonds (Chart). . . (Box) The Pressures of Project Finance... . Selected Agrochemical Projects DISTRIBUTION, An Update on Infrastructure in China, 1996-98 (Table) MARKETING, AND PROMOTION Retail Roundabout Financing Issues (Box). ......... Network-Building (Box) Financial Fallout CONSUMER ISSUES Secrets of the Supply Chain Selected Foreign Purchases of Soup’s On Firms Weigh in on Distribution (Box) 5 Listed and Unlisted Shares of PRC Outfitting Chinese Households Getting the Word Out Companies (Table) Shanghai Scoops The Many China Markets Accounting Adjustments Owned Products and Planned SAFE and Sound... . COUNCIL ACTIVITIES Purchases (Chart) Beijing Discuses Defense Issues, Food Retailing Takes Off (Box) BOOK REVIEWS MBA Programs, and Pensions... . . Planned Purchases, 1998-2000, China 2020: Development Challenges Council Hosts PRC President By City (Chart) in the New Century. Jiang Zemin. . . China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.: SPC, MOFTEC, and Chongqing The Dynamics of aN ew Empire. . . . Officials Meet with Members in ECONOMY China’s Race with Globalization ... . The Special Economic Zones of Washington . China and Their Impact on its Due Diligence, SOE Reform Top State-Owned Enterprise Profits, Economic Development Hong Kong Agenda Borrowing, and Investment as a Share of GDP (Chart) Distribution in China: Charting a SAR Solicitor General on Subsidies to SOEs as a Share 6 EO) c/ait ae Z Hong Kong Law of GDP (Chart) + Pollution Control in the People’s Republic Annual Conference Sizes Up ‘97, of China: An Investor's Guide.... . 2 PHCRANESTOT 08 ac 537 eG Saw a eT Beijing Moves to Stimulate Economy . 6 Optimism on Asia Prevails Big Dragon: China’s Future— Asia’s Financial Crisis Tops What it Means for Business, the Shanghai, Hong Kong Agendas. .. . Economy, and the Global Order . . . 5 Beijing Office Convenes China ENVIRONMENT China's Transition (OSBORNE YS sy aca aes 2 Opening the Floodgates .......... The Dynamics of Urban Growth Council Welcomes New PRC Major World Bank and Asian in Three Chinese Cities. ......... 5 Ambassador to the United States. . . Development Bank (ADB) World Investment Report 1997: Environment, IPR, and Water Sector-related Projects Transnational Corporations, Market Brand-building Updates in China cat). 6 bcseen Structure and Competition Policy . . 5 Council Celebrates its China’s New Business Elite Silver Anniversary FOREIGN TRADE Doing Business in China, Members Gather in Washington, Details Make the Difference ....... Second Edition Elect Board ATANBIER IED) 85 .5)-5s acs Mesa The Asian Development Bank Council Hosts Provincial, China’s Export Control Regime (Box) Annual Report 1997 Municipal Delegations US-China Trade, 1972-1997 (Chart) . . ; Operational Issues Top China China Data Agendas 42| THE CHINA BUSINESS REVIEW J January-February 1999 995 1998 1998 : 1998 ISSUE PAGE ISSUE TATTLE ISSUE BANKING, FINANCE, AND INSURANCE CHEMICALS AND PETROCHEMICALS Beijing Discusses Foreign-Exchange China’s Untapped Resource Fertile Ground Regulations, Customs Projects.... . 6 PRC Government Debt and Debt China’s Fertilizer Market (Table) .. . . Companies Tackle Year 2000 Financing, 1979-96 (Chart) China’s Pesticide Market (Table) . Problem, Tax Consolidation China’s Government and Cooperating on Chemical Controls Council Welcomes Mack Liedeker . . . Non-Government Bonds (Chart). . . (Box) The Pressures of Project Finance... . Selected Agrochemical Projects DISTRIBUTION, An Update on Infrastructure in China, 1996-98 (Table) MARKETING, AND PROMOTION Retail Roundabout Financing Issues (Box). ......... Network-Building (Box) Financial Fallout CONSUMER ISSUES Secrets of the Supply Chain Selected Foreign Purchases of Soup’s On Firms Weigh in on Distribution (Box) 5 Listed and Unlisted Shares of PRC Outfitting Chinese Households Getting the Word Out Companies (Table) Shanghai Scoops The Many China Markets Accounting Adjustments Owned Products and Planned SAFE and Sound... . COUNCIL ACTIVITIES Purchases (Chart) Beijing Discuses Defense Issues, Food Retailing Takes Off (Box) BOOK REVIEWS MBA Programs, and Pensions... . . Planned Purchases, 1998-2000, China 2020: Development Challenges Council Hosts PRC President By City (Chart) in the New Century. Jiang Zemin. . . China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.: SPC, MOFTEC, and Chongqing The Dynamics of aN ew Empire. . . . Officials Meet with Members in ECONOMY China’s Race with Globalization ... . The Special Economic Zones of Washington . China and Their Impact on its Due Diligence, SOE Reform Top State-Owned Enterprise Profits, Economic Development Hong Kong Agenda Borrowing, and Investment as a Share of GDP (Chart) Distribution in China: Charting a SAR Solicitor General on Subsidies to SOEs as a Share 6 EO) c/ait ae Z Hong Kong Law of GDP (Chart) + Pollution Control in the People’s Republic Annual Conference Sizes Up ‘97, of China: An Investor's Guide.... . 2 PHCRANESTOT 08 ac 537 eG Saw a eT Beijing Moves to Stimulate Economy . 6 Optimism on Asia Prevails Big Dragon: China’s Future— Asia’s Financial Crisis Tops What it Means for Business, the Shanghai, Hong Kong Agendas. .. . Economy, and the Global Order . . . 5 Beijing Office Convenes China ENVIRONMENT China's Transition (OSBORNE YS sy aca aes 2 Opening the Floodgates .......... The Dynamics of Urban Growth Council Welcomes New PRC Major World Bank and Asian in Three Chinese Cities. ......... 5 Ambassador to the United States. . . Development Bank (ADB) World Investment Report 1997: Environment, IPR, and Water Sector-related Projects Transnational Corporations, Market Brand-building Updates in China cat). 6 bcseen Structure and Competition Policy . . 5 Council Celebrates its China’s New Business Elite Silver Anniversary FOREIGN TRADE Doing Business in China, Members Gather in Washington, Details Make the Difference ....... Second Edition Elect Board ATANBIER IED) 85 .5)-5s acs Mesa The Asian Development Bank Council Hosts Provincial, China’s Export Control Regime (Box) Annual Report 1997 Municipal Delegations US-China Trade, 1972-1997 (Chart) . . ; Operational Issues Top China China Data Agendas 42| THE CHINA BUSINESS REVIEW J January-February 1999 1998 1998 1998 ISSUE ISSUE ISSUE PAGE EU Dumps PRC “Non-Market” INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS Bridging Business Cultures Classification An IPR Overhaul MEDIA INVESTMENT AND JOINT VENTURES Word Games Business Group Sizes Up Broadcast Pioneers.............. 3 An Advocate for Enhancing US Shanghai’s Investment Climate ... . Exports to China Centrally Approved Sino-Foreign OIL AND GAS The US Cracks Down on Insect Fuel for the Next Century Retail Joint Ventures (Table) ROMER ANS ea seid NG weslotg fo,a pa lanavd's 6 Beijing Rethinks Investment Policies . 2 Natural Gas Gains Momentum China’s Natural Gas Production Lessons Learned GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Foreign Equity Shares of Joint (Chart) Preparing for Change with High Hopes for Natural Gas in Ventures (Table) Promises of Continuity Years to Profitability (Table) China (Box) Who's Who in the New Politburo M&A in China Comes of Age Standing Committee POWER AND ENERGY A New Investment Vehicle (Box). . . . POWER OUNDUIE ee leeAd ra caea The Give and Take of Central-Local Modeling Success (Box) EDT ea DD od nee oe a 1 National People’s Congress Initiates TRANSPORTATION Reshuffle LABOR Oipthe Cipem ROA 6Ssss aesc ann . Bureaucratic Mergers and Toward a Less Hazardous Highways (km) per Million People, ACGUISINIONS.. 6..3).. x 4 MVE GRACO i a 5952 alard Ste es ccd tal a 40Ldo,( a 2 Highlights of the 1998 PRC PRC Bureaucrats Flock to US....... ; China’s Transportation Growth, Ministerial Restructuring (Box) .. . . 7 1992-95 (Chart) A New Triumvirate Selected PRC Highway Deals with China’s Government Structure (Chart) 4 Foreign and Red Chip Participation, LAWS AND LEGAL ISSUES PRC Government Restructuring VY Te 31!) a ae 2 One Country, Two Systems (Box). . . Continues New Airport Takes Wing The Straight and Narrow Making Room for Private Jets US Anti-Corruption Philosophy Gains HEALTH CARE Ground (Box) Kai Tak Converts The Health Market Following Through on Arbitration. . . 5 US-CHINA RELATIONS Medical Investment Alternatives ... . Enforcement Record of CIETAC Once in a While, Less is More Awards in China (Table) The Fundamental Things Remain .. . HONG KONG Grounds for Non-Enforcement of Anniversaries & Annual Rituals Hong Kong Election Sets Precedent. . 4 CIETAC Awards in China, 1990-96 The Ties That Bind What a Difference a Year Makes... . 4 (Table) A Retrospective of Commercial Having Their Say in Hong Kong... . The Right Price Relations, 1971-98 Distribution of Hong Kong Government-set Prices (Table) Again the Crossroads Legislative Seats (Table) Relief for the Twice-taxed Notes on the Aftermath Adversity Knocks INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCES A Housing Market in the Making. . . . PRCCHIEMEMB HERS: vena ater ote s Son woes 3 MISCELLANEOUS A First-Time Homeowner in Why Chinese Managers Leave Shijiazhuang Diary .............-: 2 63 Shanghai (Box) Their Jobs (Table) Snapshots of China Business, 1974-98 Profile of Chinese Managers and Their Job Satisfaction (Table).... . 3 52 THE CHINA BUSINESS REVIEW / January-February 1999 |4 3