1999165438+1October 15. China and the United States signed a bilateral agreement on China's accession to the WTO. Shi Guangsheng, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of China, and barshefsky, US Trade Representative, raised their glasses to congratulate after the agreement was signed.

From 65438 to 0995, China formally applied to join the WTO and began to negotiate with 37 WTO members one by one. Among them, the most complicated and difficult negotiation was between China and the United States, which lasted for 25 rounds.