中国是1947年成立的关贸总协定创始国之一。1984年4月,中国取得了总协定观察员地位。1986年7月,中国向总协定正式提出恢复关贸总协定缔约国地位的申请,从此开始了“复关”和“入世”谈判15年的漫漫征程。1986年9月,中国开始全面参与关贸总协定乌拉圭回合多边贸易谈判。1987年3月,关贸总协定设立中国工作组,并于同年10月举行第一次会议。至1992年10月,工作组基本结束了对中国经贸体制的审议,并进入有关复关 China was one of the founding nations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade established in 1947. In April 1984, China achieved observer status with the GATT. In July 1986, China formally submitted to the GATT an application for resuming the status of a signatory to the GATT. Since then, China has started a long journey of 15 years of negotiations on “restoration of customs” and “WTO accession.” In September 1986, China began full participation in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations on the GATT. In March 1987, the GATT established the China Working Group and held its first meeting in October of the same year. By October 1992, the working group basically concluded its consideration of China’s economic and trade system and entered the review on the relaunching