Trailblazer——Tracing the First Wholly Foreign-owned Company in China

FOREIGN firms have been involved in the Chinese market for more than 30 years,starting from just a few processing factories manufacturing products for overseas companies in the late 1970s in Guangdong Province,to joint ventures projects and finally to wholly foreignowned companies settled in China. From their first tentative dabbling in manufacturing to finally being rooted in the market,these firms have grown in tandem with the progress of China’s reform and opening-up.