China's 11th Five Year Plan (2006-2010) aims to sustain the rapid and steady development of China's socialist market economy while achieving the "five balances" between: rural and urban development; interior and coastal; economic and social; people and nature and domestic and international development.
Subject Focus:
• KS 5: How local markets affect large corporations.
• KS 5: Compare and contrast ways of doing business in Asia.
• KS 5: Identify key factors that make an organisation successful.
• KS 5: Understand the responsibility large businesses have on a global economy.
Student Outcomes:
• Understand how markets affect and are affected by businesses.
• Explore the possibilities of doing business in an Asian organisation.
• Place the role of stock markets and commodities in economies.
• Appreciate the scale and structure of global trading patterns and their role in national and global economies.
• Find out how companies prepare and undertake long term strategies.
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