Market segmentation

The manufacturing and service industries profiled in Part VI are those which we have identified as offering growing opportunities for foreign companies, either to invest, as shareholders restrictions are relaxed , or to trade profitably as tariff barriers or quotas are progressively reduced.

Part VII profiles the local economies of China's 49 provinces , autonomous regions, leading cities and the two special administrative regions (SARs), Hong Kong and Macao. Statistics and commentaries are more comprehensive than in previous editions.