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.

Precipitation transformation pathway and mechanical behavior of nanoprecipitation strengthened Fe-Mn-Al-C-Ni austenitic low-density steel

Precipitation strengthening has been widely adopted in austenitic low-density steel owing to excellent hardened effects.This approach generally employs the coherentκ′carbides and non-coherent B2 particles.Revealing the precipitation transformation pathway is decisive for further optimizing the microstructures under specific engineering applications.Herein,the detailed precipitation sequence of Fe-28Mn-11Al-1C-5Ni(wt%)austenitic low-density steel as well as its influence on mechanical prop-erties during aging process is systematically investigated.Our results reveal that nano-sizedκ′carbides domains(2 nm)exist in the solution-treated specimen.During aging at 500℃for 1 h,the cuboidalκ′carbides(15-20 nm)uniformly disperse in austenite matrix.However,after aging at 700℃for 15 min,the coarsenκ′carbides(30-35 nm)inhomogeneously distribute and align preferentially along the〈100〉directions.Further,extending the aging time to 60 min,the needle-type B2 particles replace theκ′carbides due to the enrichment of Ni elements at the phase boundaries among the austenite andκ′carbides.After aging at 900℃,κ′carbides entirely dissolve into the austenite matrix,and the intragranular B2 particles are the sole precipitates in the austenite matrix and follow the K-S orientation relationship with austenite.The work hardening capability seriously deteriorates due to the shearing ofκ′carbides by gliding dislocations.While the intragranular B2 particles preserve excellent work hardening rate by dislocations bow-out mechanism.The present work is meaningful for guiding the design of new generation dual-nano precipitation austenitic lightweight steel.