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market with strong structural, behavioural and cultural constraints.
The government emphasizes personal income and consumption by introducing new management systems to help
increase productivity. The government also focuses on foreign trade as a major vehicle for economic growth, which led
to 5 Special Economic Zones (SEZ: Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, Xiamen, Hainan Province) where investment laws are
relaxed so as to attract foreign capital. Since the 1990s, SEZs and similar concepts have been expanded to major
Chinese cities, including Shanghai and Beijing. The result has been a 6-fold increase of GDP since 1978. Chinese
economic development is among the fastest in the world, and has been growing at an average annual GDP rate of 9.4%
for the past 25 years.[57] At the end of 2005, the PRC became the fourth largest economy in the world by exchange rate,
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