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This book contains mostly empirical analyses of the author’s own, focusing on various issues and problems related to openness, economic growth and regional disparities in China. The whole book consists of 15 chapters. Apart from this introduction chapter, Chap. 1, and a concluding chapter, Chap. 15, all of the other 13 chapters in between, Chaps. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, each aim to address some certain aspects of the central topic of this book.
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By the end of 2004, foreign-invested enterprises employed 23 million Chinese, comprising about 10 % of total manufacturing employment.
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Jiang, Y. (2014). Introduction. In: Openness, Economic Growth and Regional Disparities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40666-9_1
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