Having argued the importance of China's sustainable development in global sustainability, the authors review the achievements of China in sustainable development, especially its institutional construction. Environ...Having argued the importance of China's sustainable development in global sustainability, the authors review the achievements of China in sustainable development, especially its institutional construction. Environment to be counted in official's political performance rating system is thought of as a new institutional mechanism in China facilitating its sustainable development and then global sustainability. Then its significance is narrated and visions in future are envisioned. In the end, certain concrete suggestions for the rating system are given in a practical way.展开更多
China’s reform and opening-up policy,which started in 1978,has become more effective.The success of reform and opening-up has transformed China from a low-income country to one of the world’s largest economies today...China’s reform and opening-up policy,which started in 1978,has become more effective.The success of reform and opening-up has transformed China from a low-income country to one of the world’s largest economies today.In my view,the success of China’s development lies in the country greatly reducing the number of people living in poverty.According to the World Bank,hundreds of millions of Chinese people have been lifted out of展开更多
Customs statistics show the foreign tradevolume of eastern China’s Zhejiang Provincein 1998 amounted to US$14.85 billion,anannual increase of 4.3 percent.The exportswas US$10.8 billion,up 7.7 percent from1997;the imp...Customs statistics show the foreign tradevolume of eastern China’s Zhejiang Provincein 1998 amounted to US$14.85 billion,anannual increase of 4.3 percent.The exportswas US$10.8 billion,up 7.7 percent from1997;the imports ranked the fourth in thenation.This was hard won in the difficultiescaused by the Asian financial crisis.展开更多
Dear Readers, Recently I had the great honor to meet Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Ms．Karen Hughes,and Public Di- plomacy Envoy Ms．Michelle Kwan(关颖姗)during their visit to Guangzhou in late January...Dear Readers, Recently I had the great honor to meet Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Ms．Karen Hughes,and Public Di- plomacy Envoy Ms．Michelle Kwan(关颖姗)during their visit to Guangzhou in late January this year．I was even more thrilled to show our Crazy English Teens magazine to such distin- guished guests．Ms．Hughes and Ms．Kwan were visibly im- pressed by the cover and the enjoyable entertainment展开更多
Based on the non-financial listed enterprises data from 2000 to 2014,this paper calculates the level of environmental governances of enterprises with environmental investment,and empirically analyzes the impact of pro...Based on the non-financial listed enterprises data from 2000 to 2014,this paper calculates the level of environmental governances of enterprises with environmental investment,and empirically analyzes the impact of provincial official tenure and Five-Year Plan target assessment on the environmental governance of enterprises.The results show that the enterprise environmental investment presents a significant periodic trend in the Five-Year Plan,while the trend is not significant in official’s tenure.The further test suggests that with the clear requirement of“environmental performance”incorporated into the performance evaluation system of local government officials,it has become significant in the periodic trend in the impact of officials’tenure on environmental investment.In contrast,the trend has become less prominent in the Five-Year Plan,which indicates that there is a substitute relation between the two evaluation systems.The mechanism test also finds that both environmental subsidies and pollution abatement expenditures present a significantly periodic trend in the Five-Year Plan.And official’s tenure plays a regulatory role in the Five-Year Plan periodic trend in the environmental governance of enterprise,showing that it is more significant when the time about officials’tenure evaluation is earlier than Five-Year Plan target assessment.The above results indicate that it is beneficial to improve local environment governance from the perspective of top institutional design by both strengthening the environmental evaluation.展开更多
文摘Having argued the importance of China's sustainable development in global sustainability, the authors review the achievements of China in sustainable development, especially its institutional construction. Environment to be counted in official's political performance rating system is thought of as a new institutional mechanism in China facilitating its sustainable development and then global sustainability. Then its significance is narrated and visions in future are envisioned. In the end, certain concrete suggestions for the rating system are given in a practical way.
文摘China’s reform and opening-up policy,which started in 1978,has become more effective.The success of reform and opening-up has transformed China from a low-income country to one of the world’s largest economies today.In my view,the success of China’s development lies in the country greatly reducing the number of people living in poverty.According to the World Bank,hundreds of millions of Chinese people have been lifted out of
文摘Customs statistics show the foreign tradevolume of eastern China’s Zhejiang Provincein 1998 amounted to US$14.85 billion,anannual increase of 4.3 percent.The exportswas US$10.8 billion,up 7.7 percent from1997;the imports ranked the fourth in thenation.This was hard won in the difficultiescaused by the Asian financial crisis.
文摘Dear Readers, Recently I had the great honor to meet Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Ms．Karen Hughes,and Public Di- plomacy Envoy Ms．Michelle Kwan(关颖姗)during their visit to Guangzhou in late January this year．I was even more thrilled to show our Crazy English Teens magazine to such distin- guished guests．Ms．Hughes and Ms．Kwan were visibly im- pressed by the cover and the enjoyable entertainment
文摘Based on the non-financial listed enterprises data from 2000 to 2014,this paper calculates the level of environmental governances of enterprises with environmental investment,and empirically analyzes the impact of provincial official tenure and Five-Year Plan target assessment on the environmental governance of enterprises.The results show that the enterprise environmental investment presents a significant periodic trend in the Five-Year Plan,while the trend is not significant in official’s tenure.The further test suggests that with the clear requirement of“environmental performance”incorporated into the performance evaluation system of local government officials,it has become significant in the periodic trend in the impact of officials’tenure on environmental investment.In contrast,the trend has become less prominent in the Five-Year Plan,which indicates that there is a substitute relation between the two evaluation systems.The mechanism test also finds that both environmental subsidies and pollution abatement expenditures present a significantly periodic trend in the Five-Year Plan.And official’s tenure plays a regulatory role in the Five-Year Plan periodic trend in the environmental governance of enterprise,showing that it is more significant when the time about officials’tenure evaluation is earlier than Five-Year Plan target assessment.The above results indicate that it is beneficial to improve local environment governance from the perspective of top institutional design by both strengthening the environmental evaluation.
