中国政府花了漫长的16年进行谈判，申请重新加入世贸组织，而且很快与巴西、印度和南非一起领导20国集团，足见其决心勇气。 20国集团主要由充满活力的发展中国家组成，在2003年9月坎昆举行的世贸组织部长级会议上，他们向工业化强国提出挑战。
It took China’s government a protracted sixteen years to negotiate its re-entry into the GATT/WTO, but it soon showed its mettle by assuming joint leadership (along with Brazil, India, and South Africa) of the G-20, a group of primarily dynamic developing countries that threw down the gauntlet to the industrialized powers at the Cancún WTO ministerial meeting in September 2003.