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The fast economic growth in East Asian economies has attracted much attention from the world to their background culture – Confucianism. Many, like Max Weber, think that Confucianism is not suitable for generating capitalism or economic modernization whereas others hold that the economic take-off and the economic miracle achieved in East Asia should be attributed to Confucianism. Too positive or too negative an attitude is not realistic. This paper focuses on the interaction between culture and economic development. It is becoming quite necessary to re-think and re-evaluate what elements of Confucianism and in which circumstances Confucianism would be conducive to the building of a market-oriented economy. The study of the CEOs in five Chinese leading companies and the Confucian-values-based questionnaire survey in Haier, a leading company in home-appliances, reflect that Confucianism is still vigorous and influential in the business world of China today. Meanwhile, Confucianism is also being transformed in the course of their development. In this sense, the five successful enterprises have set up a good example in how to maintain the essentials of Chinese traditional culture while overcoming its backward aspects and let the past serve the present well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dependence on foreign trade reflects the extent, which a country's economy contact with the whole world economy, and to some extent, reflects the importance of foreign trade in the national economy. The concept of scientific development is the important guideline of our country's economic and social development. This paper analyzes the status, cause and effect of our country's dependence on foreign trade in recent years, and provides some effective measures to promote the scientific development of China's foreign trade from the perspective of dependence on foreign trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article introduces the philosophy and strategy of social development adopted by Chinese revolutionary leader Deng Xiaoping. Under the primacy of economic growth, he designed a three-stage development strategy. The first stage was to double the 1980's per capita gross national product by the year 1990 and the basic problem of feeding the population should then be resolved. China aims to become an affluent society comparable to other middle-income nations.