China's Accession To The Wto And Domestic Reforms

This is a study of the evolving relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the world economic system, based on the theory of how domestic actors response to the international forces.China's entry to WTO is a process under the interactive forces of external factors and internal causes. The external forces exerted great influences on the domestic reform, and each progress of reform became new driving power on further reform in China, which in turn speed up China's embracing of international forces. Because of the interactive forces between inside and outside actors, China becomes a biggest beneficiary of globalization and a positive pusher of globalization as well.This study has combed theory of how domestic actors response to the international forces, especially "The Second Image Reversed Theory" aroused by an American scholar Peter Gourevitch. The study provides a chance to examine carefully the IPE theory development from political angle to economic angle in 1990s, which enticed more and more scholars to explore the impact of the international system on domestic politics. The study argues that in the case of China's entry to WTO, interest groups, political-decision makers and theory promoters are the main intermediate channels. This article believed that the impact of international forces on domestic politics is undergoing, through the idea dissemination, the benefit differentiation and the political union. The intermediate channels are so built up.Based on this, this study is composed by two aspects. First, in the stream line of history, this article discusses the relationship between the process of China' s entry to WTO and the meanwhile domestic open and reform policy choices. Second, this article analysis the impact of international forces on domestic policy changes in the field of economic, political, and social as well, under the guide of national treatment principle, market access principle and the transparency principle.This article draws the conclusion of that the impact of international forces on domestic policy in the case of China's entry to WTO lies on three aspects. First, China's entry to WTO provided innovation power of institutions which causes interactions between each layer of domestic politics with international standards. Second, China's entry to WTO accelerates the speed of domestic reforms. In order to undertake WTO duties, China undertook a large scale policy adjustment in the field of economy, administrative institution and legal system, and cleaned up the local rules and regulations which do not adapted with GATT and WTO rules. Third, China's entry to WTO provides safeguard to domestic reform achievements through exterior pledges.The study makes a premier research on the interact principals of international forces and domestic policy changes. The study argues that, firstly the premise of international forces impact on domestic policies is the domestic need of internationalization. Secondly, the channels of international forces impact on domestic policies are the interaction between domestic actors. Thirdly, the means of international forces impact on domestic policies are self-circulation. In the case of China's entry to WTO, the impact lies not merely in the field of economy. China's economic reform challenged the way government manage economic affairs, which in turn arouse the request of political reform.This study suggested that facing the international pressure, a country needs to establish the confidence. And healthy international pressure is somehow good push power of development. The case of China's entry to WTO, is both the historic experience of "By opens presses the reform", and a national development course of initiatively contract with international pressure.