March 2003 / No. 22

Special Report in Special Pictures

China Can Serve as a Model

China’s strategic policies have propped up exports, wooed foreign investors, rallied more contribution from local governments and promoted the private sector that have fast tracked the country to an unprecedented and astonishing economic boom. Beijing ascended to the World Trade Organization and its foreign trade hit the $500 billion mark in 2001, so Tehran knows it has a lot to learn from this giant.