Fujian : gateway to Taiwan
In 1979 Fujian was selected, along with Guangdong, as a key province for the promotion of China's economic reforms and Open Door policy. Since then, the province, including its Special Economic Zone, Xiamen, has received special privileges allowing it to develop a more market-based economy and to expand its external trade, investment, and social links. Once a notoriously poor province, geographically isolated from the mainland with a large emigration rate, Fujian has made impressive leaps. Foreign capital, primarily from Taiwan, now flows into the province. As ancestral home to more than six million, cash-rich overseas Chinese, Fujian continues to serve as an eastern gateway for integration with the world economy in the 1990s
Print Book, English, 1996
Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1996