The Concepts of "Putting People First" and "Regarding Harmony as the Fundamentality" under the Framework of Cultural Diversity

Human civilization is currently undergoing another important turn. Following the economic globalization,cultural globalization has become an inevitable trend.

A Study of the Relationship between Development of Sports and Harmonious Society of the New Age

Sports aims to improve the quality of people＇ s health and lead them to live a healthy life of leisure. When it comes to its inherent significance, the national fitness helps them understand the spirit of competition and its relevant values in the process of sports activities, which in turn aids to the building of right value concepts and national cohesion. For this aim, this paper discusses the relationship between development of sports and harmonious society of the new age, in the hope of contributing to the overall sports and building of the harmonious socialist society.

Harmony between man and nature:the base for the harmonious society

The harmony between man and nature is the base for the harmonious society. It is determined by the eco-ruleand eco-economic rule. Human being should not violate the eco-rule. However, human being can make eco-systemsupply suit economic growth and its speed through systematical innovation and restriction of human economic activityand choice. Through technological innovation, efficiency satisfaction of unit resource can be increased; structure andfunction of eco-system can be perfected; supply capability of eco-system can be improved. To build the harmonioussociety, human should consider the reasonable distribution of limited resources from two sides. The first one is that theutilization of two functions of resource supply and pollution purification to nature should not exceed its special supplycapability formed under its special structure and function states, i.e. harmony between man and nature. The second sideis human being should think over the reasonable and effective distribution of limited resources in economic society, i.e.harmony between human beings and society. The reasonable economic activity of human being is the key to the harmo-nious development of man and nature.

Hawthorne's Pursuit of an Ideal Harmony——A Case Study of the Image of Forest in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

As a masterpiece of Hawthorne's works, The Scarlet Letter sets up on New England in the seventieth century and successfully depicts the cruelty of Puritan society and the kill to human nature. However, it seems that this is not the only purpose for the author to criticize the Puritanism. Hawthorne also endeavors to pursuit an ideal harmony through the image of the forest,which is omitted by most of the scholars who research Hawthorne's works, especially for The Scarlet Letter. In this thesis, it aims to illustrate the ideal harmony from two perspectives: first, the image of the forest stands for the harmony of the primitive life; second, the image of the forest represents the harmony of the development both in body and mind.

The Comparison of Confucian and Plato's Ideal Society

Analyzing the difference between Confucius and Plato's ideal society that includes ideal social structure,ideal ruler and ideal administration,we can find their common desire to build the harmonious society.We hope to promote English teaching through the comparative study of Chinese and western culture.

Eco-economic research and construction of harmonious society in China:a survey of the 7^(th)Biennial Conference of Chinese Ecological Economics Society,2006

The 7th Biennial Conference of Chinese Ecological Economics Society (CEES) was held from 5th to 7th, Nov.2006 in Qingdao University. The paper summarizes the major viewpoint presented at the conference: eco-economicresearch and construction of a harmonious society in China. The conference put forward that it is an objectivity andinevitability for human being to enter the harmonious society, that eco-economics is one of the theoretical bases for theconstruction of the harmonious society, and that the research of eco-economics in China should reflect new contentsdeveloped in the process of modernization in China and make proper contributions to the construction of the harmonioussociety.

Study on the Epistemology Development of the Correlation between Human Beings and Nature

This study aimed to alert people that the harmony between human beings and nature has already become an urgent problem. All people are responsible for maintaining the harmony, which is the also the inexorable trend of historical development. Reviewing the evolution history of human kind, the relationship between human beings and nature from harmony to imbalance, from imbalance to a new harmony was analyzed from the macro perspective, and it was pointed out that the present society is in the transitional phase from imbalance to a new harmony and also a phase that people are consciously coordinating their relationship with nature. It was found through the study that a harmonious society relies on the harmony between human beings and nature, and the latter is a necessary condition for a real harmonious society, however, people always forget such a principle. The imbalanced relationship between human beings and nature has seriously influenced many aspects of social harmony, and become instable factors in China and international society, even threatened the development and survival of human beings. Thus, all people should make joint efforts in creating win-win conditions for the development between human beings and nature, and ensuring offspring a healthy and green earth.

Establish Rational Ecological Man to Construct the Harmonious Society

Rational Ecological Man （REM） is the integration of government, enterprise and the public, which plays an important role in our society. This paper firstly clarifies the definition of REM and regards that REM differs essentially from Rational Economic Man. Subsequently, the.paper analyzes the signi＇ficance of establishing REM to construct the harmonious society. Finally, the paper provides some specific suggestions on how to establish REM.

Analysis on the Evolution of Regional Economic Disparity in the West Coast of the Strait

With the implementation of reform and opening-up, the overall economy of China has made brilliant achievements; meanwhile, however, the economic disparity has been enlarging among some regions, and between the city and the countryside. The existence and evolution of this kind of economic disparity is concerned with social stability, sustainable development and the construction of harmonious society, which has gradually become the hotspot in social economic development. The West Coast of the Strait (WCS) located in southeast littoral areas is adjacent to the Pearl and Yangtze River Delta in the south and north and faces Taiwan Province in the east. The stability and development of this region has vital political and economic meaning in the social eco-nomic development of our country. It has important theoretical meaning and practical value to research the form, characteristics and evolution of regional economic disparity in the WCS. Based on insightful analysis on existing study results on the WCS, the paper defines the connotation and extension. By a series of abso-lute and comparative relative evaluation indexes and taking the WCS since 1992 as the study object, the paper makes analysis on different scales including three regions, four regions, 20 cities and 152 counties, quantitatively evaluates the level, characteristics and evolution of the regional economic disparity and compares the regional economic disparity on different scales. The main conclu-sions are as follows: the variation trend of the absolute disparity of the whole region is obvious and stable, which has presented an inflating trend; the comparative variation trend on a large scale has waved, The comparative disparity of the three regions in-creased annually from 1992 to around 2000, which had a decreas-ing trend from around 2000 to 2005; the comparative variation trend on a small scale was not stable, which showed an annual increase of four regions, 20 cities and 152 counties from 1992 to around 2003 and a decrease from around 2003 to 2005; there were some correlations between the regional disparity and scale. In other words, the smaller the scale was, the bigger the disparity was.

The Study of Civilized Etiquette of Contemporary College Students

During the long history of cultural development, etiquette education is an important module in China traditional education. The etiquette education as a starting point in college students＇ ideological education, it is one of the important content of college students＇ student lives. Cultural knowledge learning is equally important. This article through study on contemporary college students of civilization etiquette education problems, elaborated some of the problems existing in the contemporary college students＇ etiquette education, and put forward opinions and suggestions how to improve college students＇ etiquette education in the future.

The Contemporary Value of the Marxist View of Happiness

With the rapid development of the market economy and the establishment of the harmonious society,the happiness index of life has been draw ing more and more attention at present. However,in the current situation,there is not the positive correlation between the happiness index and the development of economy and society. On the contrary,some people feel unhappy and worried. The traditional cultural system seems to collapse and the gap between the rich and the poor tends to increase,so being happy is easier said than done. Under such a circumstance,the Marxist view of happiness is of great theoretical value and practical value to the realization of happy life.

The three problems in the development of the social work profession and its response research

Social Work Education is imposing special education training for individuals by specialized organizations, institutions or professional, to make them meet the practical requirements of the social work profession in terms of expertise, skills, and professional ethics as well as practical experience, to complete individual professional socialization process. As the train qualified social workers as well as an important foundation for the development of professional knowledge and practice patterns and key links, Social Work Education must continue to respond to the international trend of the social work professional development, meanwhile it should base on the local characteristics in national conditions, in province situation and even the city situation, to build a large social work personnel, and ultimately serve for the development and stability of the local society.

Speech by Mr. Chen Zongxing at the 2012 Understanding and Cooperation Dialogue Part II: New-type Community and Harmonious Society

正Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends: Today we meet here in picturesque Hangzhou for the 2012 Understanding and Cooperation Dialogue Part II: New-type Community and Harmonious Society. On behalf of the National Committee

Buddhism and Building of Harmonious Society

EDITOR＇S NOTE： To mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of Tibet Autonomous Region, the ＂Pearl on the Land of Snow-China Tibetan Cultural Week＂ was held July 15-21 in Hong Kong under the joint auspices of the State Council Information Office, the Central Government Liaison Office in Hong Kong and the People＇s Government of Tibet Autonomous Region. On the afternoon of July 16, eminent monks from Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan and local Buddhists and Buddhism scholars held a forum on how their religion is related to the building of a harmonious society and in what ways it can contribute to the endeavor. Zhu Weiqun, deputy director of United Front Work Department, CPC Central Committee, spoke on the occasion. Excerpts of the speech follow：

Assessment and Countermeasures of Ecological Civilization Construction in Changsha,Zhuzhou and Xiangtan

[Objective] The aim was to assess the ecological civilization construction in urban agglomeration composed of Changsha,Zhuzhou and Xiangtan synthetically.[Method] By means of analytic hierarchy process,the assessment system of ecological civilization in Changsha,Zhuzhou and Xiangtan was established firstly,and then the ecological civilization construction in Changsha,Zhuzhou and Xiangtan was evaluated comprehensively,and the existing problems and causes of ecological civilization construction were analyzed,finally the corresponding suggestions and countermeasures were put forward.[Result] For natural subsystem and social subsystem,the comprehensive scores of Changsha,Zhuzhou and Xiangtan were 0.143 and 0.214,and Changsha had the highest scores (0.150 and 0.221),and next came Xiangtan (0.142 and 0.219),while the scores were the lowest in Zhuzhou (0.136 and 0.213).From economic subsystem,the comprehensive score of urban agglomeration composed of Changsha,Zhuzhou and Xiangtan was 0.216,and the maximum score appeared in Changsha (0.247),Zhuzhou the second (0.201),while Xiangtan owned the lowest score (0.197).In cultural subsystem,the comprehensive score of urban agglomeration was only 0.078 which was the lowest score among four subsystems,and it was related to its low weight.In addition,the scores of Changsha and Xiangtan took the first place (0.079),while it was lower in Zhuzhou (0.077).[Conclusion] The ecological civilization construction in Changsha,Zhuzhou and Xiangtan persisted at a higher level and developed well on the whole.

J. B. Priestley's Advocacy on Consructing a Harmonious Society in an Inspector CallS

J.B. is one of the most popular writers of the last hundred years and many of his stories have a prophetic quality. His books are full of descriptions of abundant life. Many critics still treasure his great literary works and salute the memory of the remarkable man who wrote them. An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, which is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. In the play, Priestley advocates to restore the wholeness of the community and construct a harmonious society fit for people to live in. This article will analyze why he advocates it and what are the possible ways to achieve it in the eco-feminism view.

Economic Analysis and Countermeasures of Migrant Workers' Problems

Generation and development of migrant workers' problems are analyzed from the perspective of economics. There are economic factors causing migrant workers' problems: imbalance in the industrial structure brings farmers living pressure; urban modern civilization is attractive to farmers; urban economic development needs a large number of agricultural laborers engaged in manual labor. Moreover, relevant countermeasures are proposed. The dual economic structure is to be broken to gradually eliminate the barrier between urban and rural areas; an unified and standard labor market is to be established to narrow the gap between urban and rural areas; overall considerations should be taken and the reform of matching system should be quickened; the construction of urbanization is to be duly promoted to improve the level of modernization in the countryside.

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL ERA, HORIZONTAL EFFECT AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ＂STATE＂ AND ＂SOCIETY＂ IN GERMAN AND EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY

The article discusses the proposal for a ＂Charter of Digital Fundamental Rights of the European Union,＂ whose central element is a binding effect of its fundamental rights not only to state authorities, but also to powerful private intemet companies, which have a potential similar to that of the state to infringe on fundamental rights in the digital era. The article outlines the traditional German approach to fundamental rights and its underlying distinction between state and society, which makes it difficult for German scholars to handle a so-called horizontal effect of fundamental rights. Finally, the article discusses the main objections to such a horizontal effect and shows some practical problems it has the potential to cause in German and European constitutional law.

Research on Issues concerning Social Security for Migrant Workers in Harmonious Society

This article analyzes the status quo of social security for migrant workers in China,and points out that there are deep system and concept reasons for the lack of labor rights and interests security,social security,equality and the right to development,political participation channels for the current migrant workers. This article then expounds the adverse effects of lack of social security for migrant workers on building a harmonious society: the lack of social security for migrant workers poses an enormous hidden trouble to the social stability,restricting the urbanization process in China,and hampering China's agricultural development. To improve social security for migrant workers and promote the harmonious development of society,it is necessary to adhere to " people-oriented" outlook of development,give full play to migrant workers' social creativity; implement the development strategy of comparative advantage,enhance material basis of social security for migrant workers; break the trade barriers between urban and rural areas,build unified urban-rural labor market; based on the actual situation of various regions, use hierarchical classification method to progressively improve the social security mechanism for migrant workers.