Naoyuki Shinohara, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund
China's admission to the WTO brought forward the establishment of a free trade area (FTA) between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy is on record as saying that 2011 was the "window of opportunity" for the Doha Round of global trade talks, but now that window seems to be closing without any concrete results.
China has been the biggest target in the anti-dumping investigations over 16 successive years and targeted most in anti-subsidy investigations over five successive years, officials said.
In the last decade, China has signed free trade agreements with quite a few other countries for mutual trade benefits, notably with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) nations, especially in machinery and electronic products.
Agriculture was the most worrisome sector of China's economy back when it joined the WTO, but something helped it meet the challenges and rise.
China's Henan province, everyone knows, was referred top as the "central land" long ago, but both its economy and the minds of its people remained closed for a long time - until China joined the World Trade Organization.
China's service trade has continued to grow over the past 10 years, with service-sector exports going from 12th in the global market in 2001 to fourth in 2010, especially in new services, thanks to China's membership in the World Trade Organization.
Since China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) 10 years ago, it has seen not only an unprecedented growth in foreign trade, but also growing trade remedies and barriers.
The more China developed and expanded its foreign trade over the past decade, the more the competition from emerging nations grew and the greater the conflicts of interest and trade disputes emerged.
Reading trade statistics, everyone should be very impressed with China's tremendous achievements in the decade since it joined the WTO.
The world has witnessed an economic miracle over the past three decades: the Chinese economy has grown 15 times larger since the late 1970s.
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