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Although some documents deal with the impacts of producer services on regional innovation capability, relative empirical studies are rarely found in China. The relationship between producer services and innovation capability of state-level hi-tech development zones is empirically studied with principal component analysis and correlation analysis respectively, and it is proved that producer services...
The exploitation of coastal beach plays a great role in promoting the development of local economy. The employment of different development modes of coastal beach will in different degrees influence local resources, environment, ecosystem stability, economic and social development and so on. Therefore, the choice of a scientific and rational model is particularly important to the exploitation of coastal...
The 21st century is the critical period that the development strategy of urbanization of China to implement, urbanization's success is a direct impact on the healthy economic and social development of China, but the accelerating urbanization causes a severe challenge to the sustainable development. The eastern coastal regions' economic development is the most rapid one of China, and its urbanization...
This research is innovative in such aspects as research content, method and so on. Authors took Northeast China as study area, with the help from "3S" technology and based on spatial and temporal land resource data, agricultural statistics data and considering the natural and socio-economic factors. And, this paper analyzed the impact of cultivated land change on the grain production capacity...
Morphological property and development level of bourg housing at present were obtained through investigation and analysis at typical bourgs in central and southern Shaanxi in China. It was discovered that morphological property and development level of bourg housing in different regions were with dissimilar characteristics, which were influenced synthetically by natural factor, social factor, and...
Water shortage is a critical problem in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) of China. A serial of water allocation policy reforms on the Yellow River have been taken in the lasted 2 decades. However, because of the existing operation institute of water allocation and social problems resulted from historic reasons, the water usage efficiency is too low to impact the sustainable development within the YRB...
In order to realize farmland quantity and quality protection and socioeconomic development coordination, this paper took Shunyi District, Beijing as a case, based on quality evaluation of farmland status quo (2009) and other planning systems, the quantity and spatial distribution of prime farmland plots in Shunyi District were identified. And the results indicate that, the amount of planned prime...
Influenced by the global financial crisis since later 2008, the economy of Russia has declined across the board. Russian GDP has fallen by about 9% in 2009. In this paper, the economy in Russian Far East grew slowly, however, the overall situation was better than the whole country's situation. With the post crisis era coming, the government and enterprises must have a clear view of local coming socio-economic...
Facts show that there are existing great risks in the course of M&A for SOEs, resulting in the low rate of success. In order to analyze the features of M&A conducted by SOEs in China, qualitative research method and inductive research method are applied. What is more, with the aid of the PEST model, some cases concerned, both successful and unsuccessful, are further delved into and many key...
This research aims to explore the laws governing the drives and motives of the luxury consumption motivation based on the luxury and conspicuous theories. Firstly, this research analysis and discuss four-dimensionality of conspicuous consumption of luxury goods of Chinese customers. Then, the authors evaluate the four factors of influence include luxury brands, patron status, fashions and experiences,...
In order to better carry out the research of forest carbon sinks and serve the forest management, as well as to promote the economic development of carbon sinks, this paper has established the regression model of forest carbon sinks accounting, using forest stock conversion method, and has analyzed the characteristics of this model based on the collected data of forest stock, forest mortality and...
The emergence and growth of global city-regions (GCRs) or mega-city region (MCRs) around the world has become an important phenomenon. In China's Pearl River Delta, the area in the very South-East which incorporates Hong Kong and Guangzhou has seen 30 years of extremely rapid economic growth and urbanization, turning the many agglomerations into one super-large urbanized zone, a real MCR. Bit the...
The imbalanced urban-rural development and enlarging urban-rural income gap have become the main bottleneck of social and economic sustainable development in China. Firstly, this paper analyzed the actual situation and historical evolvement trend of income disparity between urban and rural residents in China. We concluded that since the reform and opening up, the urban-rural income disparity in China...
The concept of the sustainable development is brought forward in the 1980s and has been received and paid close attention in the world. Under the new situation, highway transport is considered as an important transport, so it is worthwhile to how to play the role and provide strong guarantee for socio-economic development and achieve the own sustainable development. From the point of sustainable development,...
This study deals with the issue whether HRM policies/practice are cultural specific with consideration on the moderating effect of firm strategy. Based on relevant literature, we predict that HRM is cultural-specific and the alignment of HRM with societal culture should have a positive effect on firm performance. Also, we argue that a contingent factor, i.e., firm strategy of product diversification,...
Turnover is one of the most studied behaviors in human resource management. Hofstede's framework for assessing culture is one of the most influential and frequently quoted ones. In this research, we applied Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory in human resource management problems and analyzed the cultural influences on the employee turnover and perception of incentive between China and Australia...
The aim of this study is to examine the influence of environmental satisfaction, job satisfaction, and Big Five personality traits on subjective well-being. Data were collected from white-collar workers across four Chinese cities in 2009. All the research variables were measured with multi-item instruments with good psychometric properties. The research found that environmental satisfaction, job satisfaction,...
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of China-Africa agricultural cooperation. China and Africa are highly complementary in the agriculture resources, markets and technologies. After fifty-year development, China-Africa agricultural cooperation has yielded great results; the bilateral trade of agricultural products is developing rapidly and potentially. This paper systematically analyzes the determinants...
China has experienced a noteworthy phenomenon among migrant farmers characterized by their moving in the form of families since 1990s.It is meaningful to help migrant farmer families, especially settling down ones including couples with their children,integrate into urban life for breaking down the two categories urban-rural system in China, improving urban harmonious development and constructing...
Aimed at the problem of resident-government conflict during the course of tourism development in world natural heritage site in China, and within the Attitude-Behavior-Situation analysis frame work, the research explored the major internal and external factors that influence local residents' interest conflict handling style on the base of the conflict handling model of Callanan et al. (2006) and Rahim(2000)...
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