International Private Sector Participation in Water Governance in China under CEWP in the Future

Water utility is considered as unique among all the natural monopolies. Overseas private sector involvement in water utility operation has been always being a sensitive topic in China. Overseas investment and engagement has happened progressively in spite of implicit and explicit barriers within China. Reviewing past foreign investments in water supply and sanitation in China, experiences and lessons co-existed, based on the combined analysis both concerning the past practices and current new possibilities, the future cooperation on international private sector participation can be looked forward to.

Private- Sector Standards Regulation with Food Safety in China：Can It Learn Anything from WTO？

It is predicted that in the near future,private- sector standard will,like Tesco,Wal- Mart,Carrefour,still exit. China should modify its current legal regal disciplines' to make the private entities with regards food safety. Probably the mechanism of government-private entities collaboration governance would be a best choice.

China Encourages Private Investment into Energy Sector

China encourages private capital entering the energy sector as part of the efforts to promote the sector’s market-oriented reform.The reform is expected to'give full play to the fundamental role of the market in allocating resources',according to the white paper on China’s energy policy released recently by the Information Office of the State Council.

Internet Brings New Development of China’s Catering Sector

In recent years,China’s catering sector has experienced profound changes in terms of industrial scale and management level,showing a favorable development momentum with steadily expanding industrial scale,optimizing market structure,complete categories,various brands,more standardized industrial management and upgrading service quality.

The Clean Development Mechanism and Sustainable Development in China's Electricity Sector

The Clean Development Mechanism,a flexibility mechanism contained in the KyotoProtocol, offers China an important tool to attractinvestment in clean energy technology and processesinto its electricity sector. The Chinese electricitysector places centrally in the country’s economy andenvironment, being a significant contributor to theacid rain and air pollution problems that plague manyof China’s cities and regions, and therefore a focusof many related energy and environmental policies.China’s electricity sector has also been the subjectof a number of economic analyses that have showedthat it contains the highest potential for clean energyinvestment through the Clean DevelopmentMechanism of any economic sector in China. Thismechanism, through the active participation frominvestors in more industrialized countries, can helpalleviate the environmental problems attributable toelectricity generation in China through advancingsuch technology as wind electricity generation, cleancoal technology, high efficient natural gas electricitygeneration, or utilization of coal mine methane. Inthis context, the Clean Development Mechanismalso compliments a range of environmental and energypolicies which are strategizing to encourage thesustainable development of China’s economy.

China's Farming Sector Having a Global Presence

Nowadays,the Chinese market is full of imported farming products,including products such as Thai rice,Vietnamese durian,Australian fresh meat.In the meantime,China’s special farming products also appear on the overseas dining table.Utilizing both the domestic and overseas markets and resources,China’s farming has

Ten Years in the WTO,China's Agricultural Sector Still on the Road

In the process of accession to the WTO, China opened up its agricultural market to a large extent, cut its agricultural tariffs by 72%. The current agricultural tariff is less than 1 / 4 of the average international level, lower than developing nations such as India

The Scope of China's Service Sectors Permitting Foreign Participation

Finance It is permitted to establish Sino-foreign joint-venture financial companies, wholly foreign-owned financial companies, and Sino-foreign joint-venture banks, provided that both sides in the joint venture are financial institutions, and the foreign side has a representative office in China.

China’s Mining Sector an Opportunity for Africa

Overview of China＇s mining sector Although Africa is home to some of the largest mining deposits. China retains the title of the world＇s largest mining sector, It is a leading producer of minerals such gold. lead, zinc, coal, tin, iron and silver and the world＇s foremost producer of rare earths, accounting for over 90 percent of the global production. Ironically, China is also the world＇s top consumer of the,same minerals and often has to rely on imports to deal with the internal deficit. There is no doubt that the future success of the Chinese economy is dependent on the ability to secure long- term access to mineral and metal resources,

China catches up with the U.S. as the world's largest manufacturer

This paper compares the internal structures of the manufacturing industries in China and the U.S. from 1998 to 2005 and leads to three major discoveries: First, the gaps between China and the U.S.'s manufacturing capacity have been narrowing at a high speed in the last seven years, during which the share of added value of China's manufacturing industry to that of the U.S. increased from 13% to 52%, and then reached 76% in 2007. Second, the labor force employed in China's manufacturing industry increased by 50%, of which the increase in capital and technology-intensive production sectors exceeded that in labor-intensive sectors. Meanwhile, the labor force employed in the U.S. manufacturing industry decreased. Third, labor productivity in China's manufacturing industry increased by 2.78 times, and profits increased by 2.21 times, much higher than the U.S. growth rates of 18.2% and 49.5%. Obviously, the narrowing gaps between China and the U.S.'s production capacities mean China's industrial progress and the hierarchy of world industrial powers will be rearranged.

Korea's Textile and Clothing Industry still Sees China as a Major Trading Partner

On June 2-3,International Textile and Clothing Bureau held its inaugural meeting for Private Sector Consultative Committee(PICC)in Geneva on June 2-3 to discuss the issues of common concerns and impacts that challenged textile and clothing sectors against global economic recession.

Zhejiang Province:Varied Practices Indicate Need for Standardization

In 2002, Zhejiang province in south east China, one of the most prosperous provinces in China with a well-developed private sector, set up a fund to help families whose only child was dead or disabled. Under the system, households whose only child had died receive a monthly stipend of RMB50-300 per person, or RMB500-

Banking on The Private Sector

The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission(CBIRC)'s nod to the Jiangxi Yumin Bank makes it the first private bank in eastern Jiangxi Province and the 18th private bank in China.