On Answering the Question Related to the Legal Regulation of Working Hours in the New Era:Western Experience and Chinese Approach

The popularity of flexible working hours around the world has slowed down the historical trend of reducing working hours.It even shows signs of regression.Whether and how to guide the cur-rent society with flexible working hours to return to the historical track of reducing working hours,improve the quality of working hours,and promote a smooth transition from the era of traditional standard work-ing hours to the era of flexible working hours has become a question related to the legal regulation of working hours in the new era.In this regard,although Western countries have proposed new regulatory concepts and carried out legislative practices with distinctive charac-teristics,the limitations of legal regulation capabilities have prevented them from proposing a package of institutional solutions.The advan-tage of China in the ability of legal regulation of working hours has been gradually formed in the legislation on working hours unnder the leadership of the CPC in the past century.It enables China to break through the limitations of the West and propose a Chinese approach to answer the question of the legal regulation of working hours in the new era from three aspects:limiting the extension of working hours,improving the quality of flexible working hours,and optimizing the funnctions of the multi-funnctional regulatory system for working hours.

The Significance of the Historical Materialist View of Labor in the New Era

Labor has the core significance in the philosophy of historical materialism.Its concept of labor defines the nature of labor,affirms the decisive role of labor for human and social progress,demonstrates the form,intrinsic quality and inevitable result of labor under the capitalist economic system,and looks forward to the ultimate liberation of human beings brought by labor in Communist society in the future.The whole social life of each particular era is fundamentally determined by labor,and labor is the final basis for historical materialism to divide the times.In the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics,historical materialism’s labor concept points out the fundamental way to realize individual value and all-round development,provides a reference path for the development of grassroots democracy,and guides the practice of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

New Sinology in the New Era

Kevin Rudd,former prime minister of Australia,notes that the new era is calling for new sinology that puts emphasis on analyzing and explaining to the world at large what core Chinese concepts actually mean.LAST December,the International Financial Center located in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area was decorated with colorful lights to welcome the upcoming Christmas Day.Standing nearby was the soaring landmark superstructure–the Oriental Pearl TV Tower,the newly opened Disney flagship store,and the Shanghai International Conference Center.

China and the World——The New Era

THE significance of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC)reaches beyond China to the global theater.China’s development is impacting the world due to both the size and the success of the nation.Emblematic of China’s development,beyond becoming a moderately prosperous

Making China Stronger in the New Era

CHINESE President Xi Jinping pointed out that both China and the bigger world are in the midst of profound and complex changes in the report delivered at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC)in October.As the Party’s general secretary,he presented a review of the work and historic change over the past five years,and reached the important conclusion that

China’s Development Concepts,Thoughts,and Strategies for the New Era

THE five years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012 are an extraordinary period in the course of the Party and the state’s development.It is a time when,facing a slew of profound changes at home and abroad including a sluggish world economic recovery,recurrent regional tensions and conflicts,festering

The Value Structure and Reconstruction of China's Rural Civilization in the New Era——An Exploration of Rural Revitalization through the Rejuvenation of Rural Civilization

Rural civilization is a pattern of human civilization that is profoundly linked with values.Rural revitalization means the rejuvenation of rural civilization under new historical circumstances.To that end,it is necessary to adopt a holistically interpreting mode that transcends individual cases,and to look through the wide-angle lens of civilization and grasp rural civilization's development trend of "prosperity-decline-rejuvenation," as well as its constructive route of "traditional construction-modern deconstructionneo-modern reconstruction." This paper analyzes the "three-in-one" value structure concerning rural civilization's being a cultural carrier,its subjective demands,and objective production,to understand and follow the diachronic evolution of the position and function of rural civilization values "from being a subject,through being an object,to being a subject." Based on this,this paper studies the construction of a subjective rural civilization with Chinese characteristics in the new era and explores a possible approach to rural revitalization through the rejuvenation of rural civilization.Accordingly,the basic idea and strategy is to boost the rejuvenation of rural civilization through innovative time-space integration; to establish rural civilization's subjective status and to always prioritize agricultural and rural development; to rediscover and redefine the principles,values and functions of the rural civilization construction in the new era; and to further advance campaigns of rural civilization constructions to integrate the development of urban civilization with that of rural civilization.

China-Rwanda Relations Embrace New Opportunities in the New Era——An Exclusive Interview with Rwandan Ambassador to China Charles Kayonga

RWANDA,a landlocked country in Central and East Africa,is not well known by many ordinary Chinese.As President Xi Jinping started his state visit to the African country in late July,the first paid by a Chinese president since the two countries

Strive for A New Chapter of China's Trade Promotion Cause for the New Era

This year marks the40th anniversary of China’s adoption of reform and opening-up policy.Openness has become a theme of modern China.The19th National Congress of CPC has set out a clear plan to make new grounds in pursuing opening-up on all fronts,which pointed a new direction of the opening-up in the new era.

Fresh Prospects in the New Era

The year 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up policy.In the past few decades,the country has raised more than 700 million people out of poverty and has significantly improved people’s quality of life.Moreover,China has created a miracle in economic development.Nowadays,China has become the world’s second largest economy,con-

Chinese Diplomacy in the New Era

AMID the development,adjustment,and transformation sweeping the world of our times the relationship between China and the rest of the world is undergoing profound changes.At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC),General Secretary Xi Jiping declared that socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era,and elaborated

Thoughts on Pushing Forward People-to-People Diplomacy in the New Era

I.The Situation of China’s People-to-People Diplomacy in the New Era As an indispensable part in China’s overall diplomacy, the people-to-people diplomacy aims at enhancing the friendship between peoples, and hence promoting state-to-state relations. As one of the most vibrant areas with full development potential in China’s overall diplomacy,

Observations on the Theoretical System of People-to-People Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era

With salient hallmarks of the time,people-topeople diplomacy with Chinese characteristics was proposed against the backdrop of China’s integration with the world as well as the strategic transformation of China’s people-to-people diplomacy.The establishment of a theoretical system for it conforms to the new situation and new requirements of the times,and is line

New development of men's wear in the new era

The 3rd China Men’s Wear Summit Forum is held in Ningbo Recently,the 3rd China Men’s Wear Summit Forum which was sponsored by China National Garment Association and Ningbo People’s Government and jointly organized by Men’s Wear Specialized Committee of China National Garment Association,Ningbo Economy

Acquire A Full Understanding of the Guidelines for Running CAS in the New Era and Promote the Knowledge Innovation Program in An All-round Way

Editor's note: We are sorry that because of the over-crowded space in our last issue, we are delayed in presenting the second part of the report delivered by the CAS President Lu Yongxiang at the 2002 working conference of CAS. The report appears in two installments in this and the 1st issue of this volume.

Acquire a Full Understanding of the Guidelines for Running CAS in the New Era and Promote the Knowledge Innovation Program in an All-round Way

Editor's note: We are sorry that because of the over-crowded space in our last issue, we are delayed in presenting the second part of the report delivered by the CAS President Lu Yongxiang at the 2002 working conference of CAS. The report appears in two installments in this and the 1st issue of this volume. ……

A Theoretical Outline for National Security Studies for the New Era

China is tasked with attaining the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and facing global changes unseen in a century.To this end,a pressing task for China’s national security studies in the new era,under the guidance of a holistic concept of national security,is to provide an analytical framework and scholarly insights.Seven theoretical propositions can be derived when we clarify the relationships between security level,security capability,and security threats.They are:absolute security is out of reach;growing security investment that eyes absolute security will create a security dilemma;under closed conditions,the country should put the brakes on building relative security when it achieves equilibrium security;under open conditions,hegemonic powers may generate security capabilities that exceed equilibrium security and tend to“protect”or prey on countries whose development has relatively high output efficiency rather than those whose security capabilities have relatively high output efficiency;and following separate technical routes for dealing with intentional and unintentional threats may achieve a higher security level than managing in an undifferentiated way.The“Great Yu Improvement”pattern is pivotal to“Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind”as it can transform other actors’capacity to address intentional threats into a capacity for shielding oneself against unintentional threats;and appropriate allocation of excessive security capability and stronger national system security capability are major solutions to the uncertain nature of security threats.

China’s Development Concepts, Thoughts and Strategies for the New Era

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC)has laid out a blueprint for China’s development in the years to come.Xia Yipu,an associate researcher with the Academy of Marxism,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,has made a