Foreign Direct Investment And Economic Development In Western China

The Western Development Strategy and the tenth Five-Year-Plan offered development opportunities to the West. It is a theoretically and practically important problem to take advantages of the existing superiorities to accelerate regional development and to enhance the harmonize development of our whole nation. We hold the idea that it is feasible to use FDI to upgrade traditional industries in old industrial bases in the West, and to improve infrastructure construction by attracting BOT.Named as "Foreign Direct Investment And Economic Development in Western China", this thesis is divided into six parts: 1.Preface. FDI is much stable than other kinds of foreign capital, but there is a great difference between the East and the West on FDI utility. 2.Chapter I, Utilization of foreign capital and FDI, Gives relative definitions and theories. 3.Chapter II, Ways and effects of FDI. Introduces methods of FDI, and describes effects of FDI on both positive and negative sides, compares experiences outside and inside China. 4.Chapter III, FDI in China. Introduces the current situation and problems in China; 5.Chapter IV, Consideration on Enlarging FDI in West China. Gives suggestions to the West according to its special situation. 6.Conclusion. Western China should take the best use of its existing priorities and use FDI to upgrading its industries, meanwhile, enhance the infrastructure construction by BOT.Integrates the Western Development Strategy and the 10th Five-year-Plan withthe study into the particular situation of West China, this thesis has its theoretical and practical meaning to our economic development. And its innovation lies in that it takes West China as a basic unit, and gives the idea that we should attract both FDI and capital from the Middle and the East.