Author's Name:	Larisa Luchian
Subject Area:	Social Science and Humanities
Subject	Economics
Section	Informative Article

Chinese Empire, China s economic growth, emerging economies, transition

The study provides an overview of China s evolution towards the status of pole of economic power. In this respect, an incursion into the historical past of this state in order to explain its current behaviour has been made. Factors that contributed to the launching of modernization and democratization process have been identified. There has also been determined the position of this state in the world s centres of power through the analysis of economic indicators such as GDP, unemployment rate, imports and exports or foreign exchange reserves. The study is divided into three parts, each of them offering the necessary support to identify premises, factors and effects of China s transition to a market economy. The first part of the study describes the Chinese manner of approaching the international relations in the nineteenth century. The second part refers to China s transition from imperialism to global China, and the third part quantifies the effects of this transition through the indicators that were took into consideration.