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The division of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states in South China Sea disputes brings up the question of how state coalitions form. Analysis of this issue often delves into specific factors such as the legality of territorial claims and each state's military and economic power. Generalized predictions of coalitions, however, require analysis of a variety of factors that...
This paper examines the variation on the contribution rate of university education to economic growth of Chinese manufacturing from the year 2005 to 2014. We divided the period of economic growth of Chinese manufacturing into two stages; 2005–2010 and 2011–2014, and then calculated the contribution rates respectively. The results of both stages are then compared. Findings suggest, the contribution...
Since 2014, China's National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance have been promoting the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) mode. Value-For-Money (VFM) assessment is one of the indispensable assessment in the PPP project operation process, which provide powerful guidelines for the project decision through the quantitative or qualitative analysis. However, the period of China...
This paper discusses the interpretation for the Theil index, and takes the length of highways as prior probability, reveals the tendency and composition of domestic tourism in China from 2006 to 2014. Based on the results, the construction of transportation infrastructure in Western China is emphasized.
Russia is one of the major global actors in the field of energy. Endowed with abundant resources, it enjoys high production rates in oil and natural gas. The country is the world's largest natural gas exporter controlling almost 20% of the international gas market. It is particularly well known for its dominant position in the FSU and EU gas markets where it provides most of the gas imports. Strong...
Firms voluntarily incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) principles often assume they can benefit from some kind of competitive advantage. Yet, we know relatively little about the impact of different dimensions of CSR activities on firms' environmental innovation or their impact on performance. This paper distinguishes between the strategic and responsive dimensions of CSR and investigates...
Generally for most of the countries developing border areas is very important concern. However, due to security issues, most of the countries are not interested to place important industries in border areas. Tourism development is the most suitable solution for developing boarder areas. People Republic of China and Russian Federation are among big countries in the world and their border is about 4159...
The purpose of this article is to study a widespread type of policy-led University Science Park in China and draw lessons for their future development. In recent years many University Science Parks sponsored by local governments have emerged in China, whose mission is to raise regional level of innovation and economic growth through promoting university-industry connections. We conduct an in-depth...
This paper aims to investigate the major driving forces dominating energy efficiency of industrial sectors in China. The results show that the energy intensity effect is the major driving force for improving the energy efficiency of the whole industrial sectors. Before 2002, the reduction of energy consumption was the major driving force for improving the energy efficiency of the whole industrial...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of urbanization on hotel industry development. We employ the proportion of urban population to represent urbanization level and construct a panel regression model using statistical data of Chinese provincial hotel industry in the 2001–2012 periods. The econometric analysis shows that urbanization has positive effects on hotel industry development...
Increasing consumer motivation to pursue online reviews and information has recently become a potential area of study. Perusing the literature reviews, it is fairly evident that disseminating information largely depends on the innovativeness and the interpretative caliber of writers. Individuals that are involved in electronic word of mouth communication may have high ambitions to realize the needs...
The advent of the cyber domain has introduced a new dimension into warfare and complicated existing strategic concepts, provoking divergent responses within different national contexts and strategic cultures. Although current theories regarding cyber deterrence remain relatively nascent, a comparison of U.S. and Chinese strategic thinking highlights notable asymmetries between their respective approaches...
The Chinese government's Internet Plus action plan aims to integrate mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) with traditional industries to promote economic restructuring, improve people's livelihoods, and transform government functions. However, this plan is still in its early stages, and lacks an innovation-driven ecosystem as well as open and customizable platforms...
Tech companies required to comply with controversial regulations in foreign countries as a cost of doing business there must trade off the potential economic benefits with the risk of long-term harm.
As China attempts to transition to a service economy, it struggles with high-growth expectations and tries to break the habits and policies that promoted the country's export-led manufacturing growth. The author examines some of these challenges and presents an insider's view of the current IT situation in China.
Modern China is exposed to many societal risks in the process of social transformation and globalization. Previous psychological researches have proven that emotion is of importance in individual risk perception. Could the effect apply to large societies? The five social mood time series including happiness, disgust, fear, anger and sadness were obtained by analyzing the text content of daily Sina...
Modern China is exposed to many societal risks. The risk perception induced emotion at the individual level but their relationship on a large scale is costly to assess, while some social emotional reactions such as anger may evoke collective actions. The seven societal risk perceptions including social stability, daily life, resource & environment, public moral, government management, national...
There is continuing demand for more and better major infrastructure to achieve sustainable high quality growth in China. Approval process of major infrastructure projects is vital to the successful construction. Ineffective and inefficient decisions lead to irretrievable results, long duration, great financial loss and waste. Therefore, conducting a research in the approval process of the major infrastructure...
This study investigates the cost-effective pathways of China's power decarbonization with various low-carbon power technologies, incorporating the uncertainties of CO2 price. An adapted low-carbon generation expansion planning model (GEP) was applied to determine the least-cost decision. Based on the scenario analysis, we conclude with the following findings. First, technically, carbon capture and...
With the degeneration of environment and acceleration of urbanization, urban human settlement environment has been in rapid change and attracted great attentions worldwide. Meanwhile the Quantitative evolution on the natural suitability of urban human settlement environment (NSUHSE) is essential for a better and powerful understanding of the urbanization process, such as the direction and pace of...
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