TY - BOOK ID - 1549191 TI - The chemical and pharmaceutical industry in China: opportunities and threats for foreign companies AU - Festel, Gunter AU - Kreimeyer, Andreas AU - Oels, Udo PY - 2005 SN - 1280234784 9786610234783 3540265619 3540225447 3642061400 PB - Berlin Springer DB - UniCat KW - Chemical industry KW - Pharmaceutical industry KW - Drug industry KW - Drug trade KW - Medicine industry KW - Medicines industry KW - Prescription medicine industry KW - Pharmacology. Therapy KW - Chemistry KW - China KW - Management. KW - Chemistry. KW - Pharmacy. KW - Chemistry/Food Science, general. KW - Physical sciences KW - Administration KW - Industrial relations KW - Organization KW - Medicine KW - Drugs KW - Materia medica KW - Pharmacology KW - 615 <510> KW - 661.1 <510> KW - Farmacologie. Farmaceutische wetenschappen--China KW - Special chemical industries--China UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1549191 AB - “Don’t miss out on China!” and “What are you doing about China?” Catch phrases like these are spreading among managers all over the world. Just take a brief look at the business class occupancy of flights from Europe, North America or Japan to major Chinese cities: This gives you a glimpse of how business people are attracted by steady growth rates of 6 percent to 10 percent. It also indicates how much attention is given to a market featuring 1.3 billion potential consumers and a government committed to rapidly changing the country from an agricultu- dominated developing country into one of the world’s economic powerhouses. Most of the global industrial players have had economic ties with China for decades already, but they were further strengthened after the country’s opening to the world in the early 1980s. Furthermore, China’s accession to the World Trade Or- nization is expected to catapult this already surging economy into another sphere of development. ER -