At present, suggested means for the reduction of state shares mainly include sale, repurchase and auction.

China’s listed companies have a history of merely 10 years. So far, the total number of listed companies in China is only a little more than 1,000.

During the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, China scored unprecedented achievements in infrastructural construction.

The strong growth of world economy in 2000 is out of people’s expectation.

The national economy stopped decreasing and began to rise this year.

Economic security and other elements like economic growth, full employment, economic stability and equal distribution constitute important policy targets of macro-management.

As an international organization devoted to handling international trade relations, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is in essence designed to restrict the trade policies of its members by various kinds of agreements so as to guarantee liberalization of trade.