China Economic Quarterly

China Economic Quarterly

June 2000

Guangdong: Another Country?

Twenty years in the vanguard of reform have turned Guangdong into a southeast-Asian style economy that differs profoundly from the rest of China.Yet aside from a few obvious observations about the paucity of state owned enterprises and the entrepreneurialism of local bureaucrats, not much work has been done to define exactly how mainland China’s most successful regional economy differs from its peers. As a step towards more detailed analysis, CEQ takes a closer look at China’s richest sub-economy.

Also in this issue:

  • Fiscal sustainability: between a rock and a hard place

  • On the block: China’s family silver

  • The last gold rush

  • Monkey King: Gareth Chang

Tomas Wiik1997-01