Growing Demands
A sailor looks at the photographer on the West River.
Captain Lin has been sailing the Xijiang river in Guangdong for the past 30 years, slowly working his way up from mariner to deck officer and then captain. In that time China has grown to become the world’s largest exporter, with international trade now making up a sizeable part of the overall economy.
Since the economic reforms that started in the late 1970’s China decentralized its foreign trade mechanisms which led to joining the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in 1991, and the World Trade Organisation in 2000. China’s global trade first broke the $100 billion mark in 1988, the $1 trillion mark in 2004 and exceeded $4 trillion by the end of 2013.
05/09/2014, Zhaoqing, China.
Growing Demands
A sailor looks at the photographer on the West River.
Captain Lin has been sailing the Xijiang river in Guangdong for the past 30 years, slowly working his way up from mariner to deck officer and then captain. In that time China has grown to become the world’s largest exporter, with international trade now making up a sizeable part of the overall economy.
Since the economic reforms that started in the late 1970’s China decentralized its foreign trade mechanisms which led to joining the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in 1991, and the World Trade Organisation in 2000. China’s global trade first broke the $100 billion mark in 1988, the $1 trillion mark in 2004 and exceeded $4 trillion by the end of 2013.
05/09/2014, Zhaoqing, China.