@phdthesis{discovery44701, booktitle = {University of London}, title = {Evaluating the Chinese government's policy of encouraging direct foreign investment in manufacturing in China with a special focus on Guangdong province}, author = {L Zhang}, year = {1991}, pages = {1--260}, url = {http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/44701/}, abstract = {This dissertation examines the effects of China's economic reform and open-door policy on foreign direct investment in the manufacturing industry in South China in late 1980s and the latter's effects on local industrialisation and economic development.} }