%A L Zhang %T Evaluating the Chinese government's policy of encouraging direct foreign investment in manufacturing in China with a special focus on Guangdong province %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. %D 1991 %P 1-260 %L discovery44701