%0 Thesis %9 Doctoral %A Zhang, L %D 1991 %F discovery:44701 %T Evaluating the Chinese government's policy of encouraging direct foreign investment in manufacturing in China with a special focus on Guangdong province %U http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/44701/ %X 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.