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China is a vast country, and its citizens can make massive differences to the world's economic markets. It is the second largest importer of goods in the world, with electrical and other types of machinery, oil and fuels, medical and optical equipment, metals ores, plastics and organic chemicals the sectors where foreign businesses have had the greatest success.
Between them, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan provide nearly a third of China's imported goods each year, but a significant and growing proportion is now sourced from the European Union.
The country's communist leaders developed a highly structured economy, which, for three decades following the Second World War, concentrated heavily on building up its industrial production capacity.
The first foreign investment in the country came as recently as 1978, and in the early 1980s, drastic reductions in the amount of red tape signalled a loosening of attitudes towards such input.
As much of the investment from outside into China was long-term, this enabled to country to ride out the economic troubles which hit the wider Far Eastern countries in the 1990s.
China became the world's second largest economy in mid-2010, overhauling Japan, and it is forecast to become the largest by 2030.
Despite this overall success, it is a country in which the state of regional economies varies widely, with coastal provinces faring far better than those of the country's interior.
Far-reaching consequences are also now being felt of the government's policy of one child per family'. This has led to the average age of the population increasing dramatically, and this, combined with an exodus of more than 200million people from the poor inland areas towards the coast has led to the economy coming under increasing strain, despite recording annual growth of 9.5 per cent in 2009.
China will need far greater input from foreign businesses than it has so far allowed if it is to meet the demands of its people for a wide range of products.
As a result, there will be considerable demand for imports to provide the products which China's more prosperous population needs. And international delivery companies are well-placed to be able to meet that demand, having committed huge resources to being able to serve every part of the country to the same high standards as their more established markets.
So while China is increasingly turning westward in the quest to satisfy its people's needs, companies here which are up to the challenge of serving its markets can depend on world-class service from many worldwide couriers.
The leading worldwide delivery companies are bringing new standards of service to companies which need to send a parcel to China, handling consignments of all types and sizes smoothly and efficiently.
