A careful review of China's trade policy will more than deepen understanding of the far-reaching significance of China's economic and trade growth to the world.

It will also underscore the urgency for the international community to stand firmly against trade protectionists who try to make trade champions like China the scapegoat for domestic woes.

Four years on, the fragile global recovery is still increasingly threatened by an evolving European debt crisis. This should reinforce the necessity of international efforts to keep trade protectionism at bay in the wake of the 2008 global crisis.