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Inside the Red Box: The Complexities of Doing Business in China
It’s easy to view China as a single, rapidly growing country. But it’s the unique attributes of the provinces that will ultimately determine its place on the global stage

China's explosive growth in recent years has been the subject of countless articles and books. With annual GDP growth over 9 percent for each of the last 28 years, the economy has grown to be the second largest in the world in terms of purchasing power parity, with a GDP of US$8.8 trillion in 2006. The combination of an authoritarian society ruled by a single communist party and a dynamic capitalistic economy in one nation makes it a compelling and at times difficult culture for foreign investors to understand.

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