| It is a time that witnesses a historical transformation of globalization. Being a component, China is inevitably connected to the world while changing itself. International capital flow is the main characteristic of economic globalization, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), most manifested and impelled by MultiNational Corporation, plays a basic role in this. The most direct result of FDI is the distribution of investment, which affects the world economic situation and changes the invested cities. MultiNational Corporation is gradually becoming the main factor of world economic competition and an important issue for those cities accelerating globalization, entering the global city network and promoting its status.This thesis is a study mainly based on the Fortune Top 500 by the collection and analysis on their distribution of investment in China throughout 25 years from 1979 when they firstly entered China to 2003. The development of MultiNational Corporation is systematically explained and the analysis research is then made with related data.Firstly it analyzes the total investment of Fortune Top 500 on every single city in China by which the preference of city is shown. By analyzing the location of these cities, it compares their statuses in Chinese economy and reveals the reason of the difference in the investment amount. Meanwhile the investment amount of different industries in different cities and areas are being compared to find out the relationship between the attracting industry type and the functional position of the city.Secondly, the essay analyzes the investment amount of Fortune Top 500 in different years and assumes that there is a stage compartmentalization according to a curve. By analyzing the comparison of the investment amount in different cities of every year, it validates this curve and relationship. It also reveals a time connection between industry type and investment amount by the comparison. With the analysis above, four stages are eventually and experimentally compartmentalized according to annual investment amount, increasing rate and industry development characters, etc.Finally based on the analysis results, the essay compares the progressrelationship of Fortune Top 500's distribution of investment in China both in time and space, including the changing process in different locations, areas, and industries. Combined with the economic development and four stages set forth above, the principle of Fortune Top 500's distribution of investment in China is thus concluded.By these analysis results this essay explores a new orientation for future research, bases a good foundation for related research and offers sufficient preparation for further research. |
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