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Amidst the financial turmoil of the Asian economies, the most severe flooding in 50 years and domestic resistance to radical change, China is boldly moving forward with new reforms geared to dismantling state-owned enterprises, revamping the financial sector and downsizing a lethargic administrative bureaucracy. In Business Opportunities in Northeastern China, the twelfth volume in the Nanyang Business Report Series, the editors untangle the massive reform challenges embedded in China's northeastern industrial heartland which are crucial to sustaining the country's domestic growth. This book addresses the unique regulatory and market reforms facing the central government, unparalleled anywhere, but which offer business and investment opportunities spanning new capital, technology, multimedia and human resources. ns, highlights their global competitiveness and hub location attributes before it synthesises various issues underlying the East-West values debate and the imminent linkage of trade to social values and environmental protection. Throughout, these topics are braided with policy implications emanating from the agendas of major world organisations such as WTO, ILO and the World Bank, among others. U.S.-ASEAN relations depict a remarkable partnership that is vibrant, comprehensive and dynamic - a major globtructure realignment within the "Bohai Ring" and the government's commitment to boost, in every manner, the vast domestic rural economies. Business Opportunities in Northeastern China unveils the reality of these challenges and, therefore, is an essential reference for potential international investors, global entrepreneurs and traders, professional and governmental agencies, researchers and students.