✅ Positive💰 economy11 December 2001

WTO Accession — China Joins the Global Trading System

China's accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001 locked in market-opening commitments and gave Chinese exporters predictable access to global markets, underpinning two decades of extraordinary economic growth and further poverty reduction.

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Jiang Zemin — Chinese Communist Party

In power 1989–2002

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