Owning Coastal Waters

The AU＇s plan to introduce cabotage laws restricting the movements of foreign vessels in African coastal waters could be a major step toward the continent＇s economic independence

Take an Adventure in the Magic 8D City of Chongqing

Renowned as the Mountain City,Chongqing’s landform is uneven and the buildings there are distributed in an intriguing way,such that Chongqing is also known as the“Magic 8D City of China”.You would be hard-pushed find a place anywhere else like Chongqing where you can see a light rail traversing through a high rise.Sounds amazing?Well,it is time for us to explore this magical city.

A Honey Pot for Investors

European tech companies outline the reasons why the Greater Bay Area has become such an attractive destination for them.HEADQUARTERED in Cologne,Germany,the TÜV Rheinland Group is a leading independent third-party testing,inspection,certification,training,and consulting company,with a history of over 150 years.It has three wholly-owned subsidiaries in China’s Greater Bay Area-a development cluster comprising Hong Kong,Macao and nine cities in Guangdong Province on the mainland.Since 2018,the company has invested more than RMB 220 million in this region.Over the past three years especially,its investment has been increasing,with an advanced testing center established in the Greater Bay Area,focusing on the development of new-energy vehicles(NEVs),information technology,artificial intelligence,and energy storage.

Beyond the Boundaries of Humanism

The Starry Sky:Narrators of the Human Soul Author:Wang Wangwang Price:RMB 168 Hardcover,331 pages Published by Foreign Languages Press The Starry Sky:Narrators of the Human Soul is a book of masterful portraits that capture the essence of humanism.In nine chapters,the author paints,pop art-style,portraits of renowned philosophers,thinkers,writers,poets,musicians,painters,psychologists,scientists,directors,and performing artists from the West and the East who have transformed human history at some point in different ways.In a visual narrative,the book presents a multi-dimensional journey through the legacy of human civilization.

International Renowned Databases and Institutions Indexing Asian Agricultural Research

Asian Agricultural Research(ISSN 1943-9903),founded in 2009,is a monthly comprehensive agricultural academic journal published and approved by the Library of Congress of the United States of America.·CNKI(China National Knowledge Infrastructure),China·CSA Illumina(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts),USA·EBSCO database,USA·CABI(Center for Agriculture and Biosciences International),UK·AgEcon Search(Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics),USA·Naresuan University Library,Thailand·Agricultural Development Foundation(ADF),India。

Beijing International Exchange Association Holds the 2023 AAAS Scientific Session

Organised by Beijing International Exchange Association,the 2023 AAAS scientific session Female Sci-Tech Talents Capacity Building on Entrepreneurship was successfully held on the morning of March 3 at the Washington Convention Centre.Renowned experts from the U.S.,Portugal and China shared their experience on female entrepreneurship from the perspective of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals,the supporting system of female entrepreneurs within the EU’s Entrepreneurship Competence Framework as well as China’s efforts on promoting the capacity building of female sci-tech talents.

Building a Contemporary Silk Road under the Belt and Road Initiative

Development history Sino-P ipeline International(SPI)is a company specialized in construction,operation and management of overseas oil and gas pipelines under CNPC.It is responsible for the construction and operation of two major oil and gas transport channels in northwest and southwest China.It has 13 joint ventures and wholly-owned subsidiaries,with a total pipeline mileage of more than 11,000 kilometers and an annual oil and gas transport capacity exceeding 109 million tons of oil equivalent.

Analysis of China’s Urban Gas Market

Urban gas is one of the main fields of natural gas consumption in China,accounting for more than half of the total natural gas consumption.Urban gas enterprises show a diversified development pattern and are gradually transforming to comprehensive energy service providers.In the future,under the background that the national natural gas consumption market will continue to grow,CO_(2) emission constraints,environmental protection requirements will promote the increase of urban gas consumption.It is expected that the urban gas consumption will reach 260 billion m3 in 2025,with an average annual growth rate of 7%.Industrial,commercial and residential gas consumption is the main field of urban gas consumption.State owned oil companies have the advantages of natural gas resources and capital.It is suggested that while being the main force of urban gas supply increase and providing resource support for urban gas supply increase,they should strengthen the construction of natural gas industry chain,supplement the short board of industrial chain and cooperate in the development of urban gas business.

艺术节--更绿色,更环保

主题语境:艺术节理念篇幅:318词建议用时:6分钟1 In an industrial area close to Egypt􀆳s northern coast,colored lights and nine huge shining artworks made of factory waste materials by seven recycling artists brightened the night.2 The artworks,mostly made of wastes of iron,plastic and wood,were on display at the first edition of the Alamein Art Festival.The festival held at an industrial park owned by Industrial Development Group(IDG)in the Mediterranean resort city of New Alamein was organized by Art D􀆳Egypte,an Egyptian platform for art and heritage.

Productive Union

As South Africans adjust to living in darkness with no end in sight to power outages,many are desperate for alternative energy sources.Known locally as loadshedding,widespread electricity blackouts are carried out multiple times a day by state-owned energy utility Eskom to avoid the total collapse of the grid.For some people,lack of reliable power supply can be the di!erence between life and death,as blackouts have become routine,a!ecting every part of the South African society.

CHINA RARE EARTH INFORMATION

China Rare Earth Group and Guangdong Rising Holding Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement On October 31,2022,China Rare Earth Group and Guangdong Rising Holding Group Co.,Ltd.signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Guangzhou.Weng Jieming,deputy director of the Stateowned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council,attended the signing ceremony and delivered a speech.Liu Leiyun,general manager of China Rare Earth Group,and Chen Shengguang,general manager of Guangdong Rising Holding Group signed the strategic cooperation agreement on behalf of each party.

基于OWns的WDM光网络仿真软件RwaOWns的开发

OWns是基于ns的WDM光网络仿真软件,被人们广泛用于光网络的研究。仿真软件RwaOWns扩充OWns以支持多种RWA算法,提供一个对多种RWA算法进行性能比较的平台,且有一个简便的RWA算法模块加入接口。给出了RwaOWns的总体结构和详细的设计,描述了如何编写新的RWA算法模块,最后给出了使用RwaOWns软件进行仿真的方法。

WTO与江苏国有企业的深化改革

While China will become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the reform of state - owned enterprises (SOEs) is still in dilemma. This paper analyzes the main difficulties of SOEs’ reform in Jiangsu Province, and attributes them to the entrance of non - state - owned enterprises. Specifically, it includes the following reasons: (1)it is the inevitable results of the Chinese step - by - step reform, and the difficulties of SOEs’ are covered by the properity of non - SOEs. The factors market has become the most difficulties of the SOEs’ reform today. (2) it will not be useful if the economic reform only focuses the individual SOE. For China, the following problems must be solved as soon as possible: (1 ) the incentive mechanism; (2) the election mechanism on the top management; (3 ) the fair competitive environment, otherwise, the SOEs will not have competitive abililty in the international market after the entrance of WTO.

英语自学口语考试指导(6)

上一期谈到我国的汽车工业发展缓慢问题,原因应该说很多,考生可以随意发挥。比如你可以说:The biggest consumers of carsused to be the large state-owned companies andgovernment offices,but the situation haschanged drastically with the economic reform inthe past decade.With the shift of consumptionfrom the collective to the individual.the autoindustry should aim its target at householdconsumers.当谈到价格问题时,不要只是一味地抱怨汽车价格高,那样不会有说服力,你可以采取对比或比较的方法。

Private hospital expansion in China:a global perspective

Objective:To assess the private hospital development in China during 2005-2016 from a global perspective.Methods:We searched the English and Chinese literature in PubMed,CNKI and Google Scholar databases with the keywords including“private hospitals in China”,“hospital ownership”,“public and private hospital”,“private hospital development”.Descriptive statistical analysis was used to assess the trend of the private hospital development in China and worldwide.Both the change of private hospitals in supply capacity and health care delivery were studied in this paper.The number of hospitals,number of hospital beds and the average number of hospital beds per hospital were employed to measure the supply capacity.The visit number,inpatients number,and bed occupancy rate(BOR)were used to measure the healthcare delivery.The data was collected from the China Health Statistical Yearbook and the“Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development(OECD)Statistics”website.Results:The private sector rapidly expanded in China’s hospital market in recent years.The number of private hospitals exceeded the public in 2015.There has also been a signi cant rise for the indicators of both the supply capacity(including number of hospitals,number of hospital beds and the average number of hospital beds per hospital)and the health care delivery(inpatients number and BOR)of the private hospitals.However,the growth rates of them were relatively lower than the public.The expansion trend of China’s private sector in the hospital market accorded with most the OECD countries around the world.In 2016,China was above the medium level of the share of the private hospitals’number with the OECD countries,but below the medium for the supply capacity,in terms of the hospital beds.Conclusion:As a result of the economic growth and supporting policy,the private sector has experienced a vast expansion in China’s hospital market in the past decade.The rising gap in average size between private and publicly owned hospitals,and the inconsistent development between the private hospitals’supply capacity and their market share,have become the two main challenges.Meanwhile,the future policy in supporting the private sector should be carefully introduced to advance the whole healthcare delivery system development in China.

Diversity and more investment needed in Chinese medical education

China has the largest population in the world and has a huge medical needs.Research on China’s health workforce indicate that China encounter problems of shortages,imbalances and maldistribution in medical resources.Until 2014,China’s total health workforce are 10.2 million,of which licensed doctors are 2.4 million and licensed assistant doctors are 0.5 million(1).Most of these doctors are distributed in state-owned health institutions in relatively developed areas,working as civil servants,rather than independent medical professionals.Taking eye care as an example,there was only about 26 ophthalmologists per million population in China according to the latest domestic survey in 2016(2).And it is reported that cataract surgery rate in China is lagging behind.Only 1,425 people per million received cataract surgery in 2014,while about 5,000 people per million receive such surgery in India and 8,000 people in the US every year(3).Additionally,China has been suffering a high attrition rate among physicians and medical graduates over the past 10 years,going with low physician production,and rapid population growth(4).Based on its national conditions,China institute double reforms of its health-care systems and medical education.

Promoting High-quality Digital Transformation and Intelligent Development

In recent years,CNPC has firmly grasped the development trend and law of the digital economy,achieved a series of significant achievements in the construction of "Digital CNPC",and given full play to its vital role as an important state-owned backbone enterprise in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation.

Performance and capital structure of IPOs in Pakistan from 2000 to 2015

Background:When a privately owned firm or privatized government entity raises capital by selling its stocks for the first time to general public,is known as initial public offering(IPO).The underpricing phenomenon and ownership structure are important characteristics of IPO process that significantly affect the short-run and long-run performance of private firm and privitized entity.This study compares the short-and long-run performance,and factors affecting these performances for both private IPOs and privatized IPOs in Pakistan.It further investigates the relationship between capital structor and initial underpricing for both group of IPOs.Methods:Event study methodology is used to compares short-and long-run performance spanning from March 2000 to June 2015 of two categories of IPOs issued in the Karachi Stock Exchange(KSE).Multivariate regression analysis is applied to examine the factors that affect the short-run and long-run performance as well as for investigating the relationship betwen underpricing and ownership structure for both group of IPOs.Results:We find that both categories outperform in IPOs at which they are offered to investors on first day of trading,although differences in mean are insignificant.Over a five-year buy-and hold strategy,privatizing IPOs outperform and private IPOs underperform returns on the benchmark KSE 100 Stock Index.The results reveal that the size of the private firm or government entity,aftermarket risk of IPOs,and subscription ratio are significantly associated with the underpricing of IPO shares brought to market.First-day returns,market volatility and retained ownership are associated with higher five-year performance.We find that the concentration of ownership is similar,for both categories of IPOs;and significantly positive related to underpricing.The size of the firm/entity,aftermarket risk,return on assets and subscription ratio also affect ownership concentration.Conclusions:Same level of underpricing in both private and privatized IPOs reveals that Pakistan’s government is committed to its privatization policies as they developed capital markets by underpricing of IPOs.To make dispersion in ownership structure and to involve more small investors,the regulatory authorities such as Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan(SECP are required to take some steps to minimize concentration in ownership structure).There is a need of some specific range of underpricing by issuers and SECP.