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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...
High-tech industry has become a key component of international competitiveness of one country. This paper analyses the general development of China's high-tech industry and compares it with strong competitive high-tech industries of other countries. And then this paper reveals major problems and challenges faced by China's high-tech industry and also provides strategies for high-tech industry per...
Credit markets play essential roles in financial institutions. In developing countries, especially in emerging market countries which are in the process of restructuring of industry, it is important to identify the reasons of credit constrains by an efficient way to facilitate economic transaction. On common phenomena in China rural credit markets is the informal credit market develop rapidly, it...
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...
With the Massive open online courses (MOOCs) platform Coursera, Udacity and edX established in the United States, MOOCs led to a major change of education in global. MOOCs have experienced the development process of Network Course, National Excellent Network Courses, and Excellent Resource Sharing Course, HMOOCs by pushing with the government, colleges and universities in China. MOOCs are applied...
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...
Aiming to the disaster risk communication, this paper compare the government system of China with USA to find out the strength and weakness in risk communication. The research analyzed two country's emergency management system, risk communication activities, and risk communication responsibilities. As the result of comparison research, this paper discussed the different structure between two countries,...
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...
Chinese Government has attached great importance to the cause of China's international student education ever since. The paper aims to introduce the current situation of international student education in China from the perspective of Chinese Government Scholarship and then to elaborate on its education finance and great achievement. It finally makes the strategy analysis of Chinese Government Scholarship...
In this research, we investigated the differences in the roles and responsibilities across the CIO's job across three main regions of one country - China. In particular, we studied how CIOs of Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan varied across the regions. We found that the roles and responsibilities of China's CIOs were influenced by the region's government strategy and the maturity of its technology...
Based on the basic data of the housing price and housing price-to-income ratio in 286 prefecture-level cities in 2009, this paper analyzes the spatial differentiation pattern, overall trend, spatial heterogeneity and correlation between the absolute housing price and relative housing price. The results show that: 1) there is significant spatial differentiation in terms of China's urban housing price,...
IT industry is both fundamental and strategic to a country's economy, and it will continue to play a critical role in industry upgrade and economic development in the foreseeable future. The future of IT industry lies in cloud computing. In recent years, many countries in the world respond enthusiastically to cloud computing. The U.S., Japan and European countries have created strategies to develop...
Because whether China can change the role on global stage has important means in the background of information technology revolution, this paper discusses the development countermeasure of China. The paper contains three parts, firstly, the author introduces the concept of informatization by reviewing Chinese achievements in informatization and discussing the potential of informatization development...
The aim of this study is to find a model to forecast China's carbon emission using the neural network. Some variables, such as GDP, export, investment in fixed assets and population, are considered. First, the neural network is constructed. Then, considering the effect of sub prime mortgage crisis and European debt crisis, we forecast the emissions in the next 10 years through the network. We find...
This paper reviews and summarizes the research achievements of environmental services in China, including the definition of environment service, current status, problems and policies regarding the environment services. The paper also proposes the direction of future development of environmental services in China.
This paper studies the management and policy design for low carbon transition of electricity system in China. Based on the discussion of innovation theory, the paper firstly proposes an interactive management framework for transition management in China. The top-down line of the framework is as “vision-strategy planning-implementation plan”, the bottom-up is detailed technology appraise and policy...
In order to improve its foreign trade development pattern, China is striving to expand foreign trade in services. Competition to expand local shares among the Chinese provincial regions is fierce. The paper is to provide policy recommendations for Shandong province to win this competition. Based on an analysis of the current features of world trade in services, the author examines the development...
As the educational exchange between the China and U.S. has become more extensive, examining the history of this educational exchange may provide us a better understanding of where we are today and what we might do to make the exchange more mutually beneficial. The author divides the exchange into three periods: the 19th century, the first half of the 20th century, and the second half of the 20th century...
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