China 2005: The next economic superpower?

Already the world's fourth largest trading nation, China seems likely to move into second place by 2008, when Beijing will host the Olympic Games. UGI last looked at China at the end of 1999. This issue charts the huge developments which have caught the headlines in the last five years. Yet most of these are in the coastal cities and provinces. Inland, there is another China where some 900 million people live on less than $300 a year. We take a new look at the complex condition of the world's most populous country.

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