An Intensive Discourse On The Construction Of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area Under The Background Of Economic Globalization

Since the 1990s, the globalization of economy and the integration of regional economy in the world have been expanding rapidly, which demonstrates a momentum of powerful development, and undoubtedly have become the two major main tendencies in the globally economic development. To seek for much larger development space by establishing various preferential benefits in economic treading, especially with the cooperators for the free-trade zones, has become an important political choice for most nations in the world. In the forth meeting of the leaders from Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China, Premier Zhu Rongji proposed to establish China - Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Area, which aroused universal recognition of all the nations in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Leaders from China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations achieved the mutual consensus about strengthening the cooperation on both sides in the new century in the forth meeting period in November, 2001, resolving to establish the China - Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Area in the coming decades. In November, 2002, Premier Zhu Rongji and the leaders of 10 nations from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed "Chinese and the Association of Southeast Asian Nation's Frame Agreement on the Comprehensive Cooperation in Economy " after attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Chinese Leaders'Conference, defining the basic frame of the China - Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Area, since than China started the establishment free-trade area negotiations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The establishment of the China - Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Area increasingly causes closer economic links between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and promoted the cooperation and the mutual trust in the political and the security domains, also plays a positive role in peace, the stability and security in the East Area. It is the first free trade organization proposed initiatively by China in Asia, and it will help China gain much preciously successful experience to participate in or establish bilateral or regional economic organizations in the future.Based on the fact, the present thesis chooses the construction of China - Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Areas and the prospects of its development in the future as the research object, combining the macroscopic assurance with the micro-study, and analyzing the background of its construction, the content of its cooperation and the achievement it has gained, mainly making the research in the advantaged facts of the Construction of China - Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Areas, the troubles which will possibly appear and the prospects during its development, and proposing some suggestions about how China should take some measures in the future.