ACFTU |
All China Federation of Trade Unions |
AFC |
Asian Financial Crisis |
CCP |
Chinese Communist Party |
CDS |
Coastal Development Strategy |
CEMA |
Chinese Enterprise Managers Association |
CJV |
Contractual Joint Venture |
EJV |
Equity Joint Venture |
FDI |
Foreign Direct Investment |
FIE |
Foreign-Invested Enterprise |
GJV |
Grafted Joint Venture |
JV |
Joint Venture |
KMT |
Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) |
LAC |
Labor Arbitration Committee |
LCS |
Labor Contract System |
LSC |
Labor Service Company |
M&A |
Mergers and Acquisitions |
MNC |
Multinational Cooperation |
MOFCOM |
Ministry of Commerce (formerly MOFTEC) |
NICs |
Newly Industrialized Countries |
PRC |
People’s Republic of China |
SEZ |
Special Economic Zone |
SHE |
Shareholding Enterprise |
SOE |
State-Owned Enterprise |
TEDA |
Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area |
UC |
Urban Collective |
TVE |
Township-Village Enterprise |
WFOEs |
Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise |
WTO |