With Advantages,Development and Innovation Promote International Trade in All-round Way

In 2004, under the leadership of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), CPC Shanghai Committee and Shanghai Municipal government, CCPIT Shanghai Sub-Council established scientific viewpoint of development, centered by export-oriented economy, strengthened active serving and innovation, raised service level which made great contributions to Shanghai's opening-up and economic development as well as drove the whole development of society.……

Standardization Promotes Enterprises' Independent Innovation and International Competitiveness

Erdos Group, a large-scale enterprise group with more than 20,000 employees, was developed and expanded from Yih Ju League Cashmere Factory set up and put into production in 1981. Its "Erdos" brand, the first brand in Chinese cashmere textile industry, has won the title of "Chinese Famous Brand".……

Does urban technological innovation and cooperation promote its green development?Evidence from cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration,China

The internal technological innovation(IT)and external technological cooperation(ET)of a city are crucial drivers for its green development(GD).Although previous studies have extensively explored the effect of IT on GD,IT,ET and GD have not been integrated into the same framework to explore their relationship.Using panel data of 13 cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration,this study revealed the spatio-temporal evolution of GD and analyzed the effects of IT and ET on GD from the perspective of baseline impact,spatial effect and synergy effect.Empirical results demonstrate that the level of urban GD has upgraded and the difference in GD between cities has been narrowed though it decreases from the middle to both ends.IT significantly promotes the growth of GD while ET has an inverted U-shaped effect on GD.Under the influence of spatial spillover,IT has a U-shaped effect on the GD of neighboring cities while the effect of ET on neighboring GD is not significant.Additionally,the interaction between IT and ET has not been effective,leading to an insignificant synergy effect on GD.These findings will provide reference for taking rational advantage of IT and ET to facilitate urban GD.

Industrial upgrading based on global innovation chains:A case study of Huawei technologies Co.,Ltd.Shenzhen

Although China is a global trade power,it has low value-added trade,which lies at the bottom of the global value chain.Therefore,there is an urgent need to change the unfavorable position of the international division of labor in China.The global innovation chain is a new development of innovation through which China can implement open innovation and utilize the world's advanced knowledge,technology,information,and other resources to enhance its innovation capabilities,promote industrial upgrading,and improve the status of its global value chains.This paper takes Huawei as an example of international cooperation and innovation,aspects that have allowed the company to rapidly improve its position and prestige in the industry.The case study of Huawei suggests that China should introduce talent,increase investment abroad,attract foreign investment,expand intellectual property trade,develop outsourcing and international strategic research and development alliances,build a global innovation chain,and promote industrial upgrading to elevate the status of its international division of labor.

Hierarchical Linear Modeling in International Marketing Research： A Review with an Application on Innovation and Export in China

While much of international marketing research involves two or more levels, limited work in the international marketing literature uses hierarchical linear modeling to examine different level effects. This study conducts a thorough literature review on hierarchical linear modeling （HLM） in 28 international marketing papers that employed HLM from 2005-2014 and evaluates the use of HLM in these papers on the objects, operating levels, and other issues. We call for more applications of HLM in international marketing research, particularly for research on emerging markets with significant sub-national and institutional variations. The paper provides an illustrative empirical study that employs HLM to test the moderating role of industry-level government subsidies in the relationship between firm innovation and exporter performance in China.

First International Sister Cities Outstanding Innovation & Venture Project Promotion Launched in Chengdu

On May 11, an outstanding innovation and venture project promo-tion was presented to the 2017 Chengdu Innovation Forum for Mayors of International Sister Cities. The event, conducted in the form of TED speeches, presented the innovation and venture resources of Chengdu’s sister cities and served as a platform for participants to ex-plore ways of developing professional and international in-depth coop-

Second Cultural Inheritance and Innovation International Forum held in Fuzhou Gathering in Tang Xianzu’s hometown to discuss drama development

In September,the season when the osmanthus blossoms,the Tang Xianzu Drama Festival and International Drama Exchange Month was held in Fuzhou,Jiangxi province,hometown of the famous 16th century Chinese dramatist.On Sept 5,Chinese and foreign scholars and guests gathered in Fuzhou from all over the world to attend the second Cultural Inheritance and In-

An Innovative Path of the Hainan Free Trade Port from the Perspective of Global Experience

The construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port(FTP)should not only exploit the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics but also research and draw on the advanced institutions and successful experience of typical international free trade ports.The emergence of typical international free trade ports in Singapore,Dubai,and Chinese Hong Kong depends on an embedded international economic and trade order and institutional innovation practices.Both conditions are interactively embedded through a series of institutional designs with similar characteristics.The paper sorts out the necessary factors of the successful practice of typical international free trade ports,and proposess that the Hainan FTP should continue to exert its advantages by building on existing institutional innovation.At the same time,it should actively embed the regional multilateral international and economic and trade landscape represented by the Belt and Road Initiative and expedite institutional innovation and reform,and development in different fields,to create a socialist free trade port with Chinesecharacteristics.

Appraisal of the Production-Oriented Approach： An Introduction

The production-oriented approach （POA） has been developed over a decade. It is driven by the need to improve English classroom instruction for university students in China （Wen, 2016）. It is also motivated by the aspiration to enhance the quality of foreign language education in other similar pedagogical contexts outside China. A volume of research has been done by Wen Qiufang and her research team, to formulate the theory of POA and to test its effectiveness in classroom pedagogy （e.g. Wen, 2016, 2015; Yang, 2015; Zhang, 2015）. At the moment, the POA is still at an early stage of theory building and almost all empirical research is done in the Chinese context. In order to improve the quality of this theory and to make it intelligible to the international academic community, a one-day symposium was held in Beijing Foreign Studies University on May 15, 2017. The symposium was entitled ＇The first international forum on innovative foreign language education in China： Appraisal of the POA＇. In the forum, leading experts in applied linguistics were invited to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the POA and the directions for its future development. The symposium was the first attempt for the POA research team to discuss its latest work with international scholars. This Viewpoint section collects the responses of four experts who participated in the symposium, listed in alphabetical order. The collection of articles covers three topics related to the POA： its pedagogical application, its use for teacher training, and its research. Alister Cumming is Professor Emeritus and the former Head of the Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies, University of Toronto, Canada. His article focuses primarily on POA research as an exemplary case of design-based research. Rod Ellis is Research Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia. He discusses POA in terms of pedagogy, teacher training and research, with both critiques and constructive suggestions. Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University, the writed states. He responds to POA from the perspective of an expert researcher and teacher of L2 writing. Charlene Polio is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Linguistics ＆ Germanic, Slavic, Asian ＆ African Languages atMichigan State University, the writed states. She conceptualises POA as a useful method to address some issues in pre-service teacher development. Overall, the articles in this section are insightful and reader-friendly. They are not only useful for the development of POA in particular, but may also be valuable to a broad range of researchers as they touch upon pertaining issues, as well as emerging topics, in the field of applied linguistics. We therefore find it necessary to make them accessible to a wide readership.