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Urbanization is the both the result of the social and economic development and the essential trend of history. The time of beginning of urbanization of China is later than that of European countries, which started in late period of 19th century. Until now, the speed of urbanization is slow and the development is imbalanced in China. Nowadays, the urbanization of China is in the period of acceleration...
China's gross amount of hydraulic resource ranks first in the world; however, at present, China's economic development faces energy bottleneck. Huge market demands, as well as the strategy of western development, provide hydropower with an opportunity and a broad development prospect. At the same time, some negative influence on environment and ecology also give hydropower development with unprecedented...
With China's rapid economic development and the world's total primary Energy declining, Energy bottleneck effect on China's economy has become increasing evident. China's economic growth pattern is in the transitional period from extensiveness to intensiveness, the improvement of the energy structure also becomes more urgent. In this paper, the authors put forward some measures to adjust China's energy...
In order to rank and cluster the economic status of Household Consumption Expenditure in 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions, the MATLAB software is used and the principal component analysis and the K-M cluster analysis are conducted on the data reflecting the economic status of each area. The results show that the provinces or cities with high comprehensive, scores are Shanghai Municipality,...
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,...
The core of Changzhutan Megalopolis region was the research object in this paper. Based on the source data of multitemporal RS image and Used by the method of RS&GIS analysis technology, the author analyzed driving Force and spatial evolution of Changzhutan Megalopolis in Recent 20 Years Results show that Chang-zhu-tan Megalopolis land area expanded nearly 2 times, especially after 2007 developed...
With China and the west economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation in many aspects as well as Chinese rapid economic development, financial management has been developed from the initial simple investment, financing ideas into a mature subject branch coming to China. In China, financial management is a young subject, who has a relatively short history, its theoretical system, logical structure,...
To solve the defects of cross-section data or time series data for statistical analysis of econometrics, the paper introduces a powerful econometric tool-Panel-Data model which provides more samples that help to improving the effectiveness of the estimated parameters and deeply analyzes the problem. Taking the important regions of China's economic development---east China as the object of its study,...
Nowadays SME clusters have become important economic bodies in national economy in China. However, financing difficulties of SME cluster may be the foremost difficulty that restricts economic development. So an innovative trend that SME cluster financing business should be developed to solve the problem. It is kind of secured loans based on the guarantee of small and medium guarantee companies. Through...
Recently, the Tianjin and Hebei area has become one of the fastest developing areas in China. As the hub of logistics, the port system plays an important role in further boosting the region's economic development. This paper starts with an overview of port logistics in Hebei and Tianjin and then identifies the necessity of port cooperation in this area. An index system for port logistics competition...
A risk assessment for water shortage is constructed to analyze the carrying capacity of water resources in Sheshui River watershed, China. It is based on the information of present economic development. There are several serious environmental problems which might cripple the development potential in Sheshui River watershed. Risk assessment results are used to analyze the carrying capacity of water...
The article is based on the two-variable model, we use the annual economic data from 1990 to 2008 to analyse the relationship between our country GDP and the exports. Demonstrated results show that there is causality between Chinese economic growth and the exports, the exports is markedly affected by GDP increase,and the growth of GDP of our country also affects the development of the exports;The...
In this work we mapped the spatial and temporal patterns of the land subsidence near the city of Hangzhou, China by PSI analysis with 49 scenes of ERS-1/2 SAR images acquired from 1992 to 2006 to detect and retrieve the subsidence due to economic development. The main reason of land subsidence in Hangzhou is groundwater exploitation, which is necessary for the rapid economic development, especially...
In recent years, extensive studies have been done in dynamic monitoring on urban built-up spatial expansion and its dynamic mechanism using the integration technology of remote sensing (RS) and GIS. These previous studies, however, focused on the spatial expansion of a single town without taking into consideration of the spatial morphology evolution of the town groups constituted of several towns...
Since the 1980s, Chinese water environment has got worse and worse, and water pollution extended from local pollution to total watershed pollution. From the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the government recognized the seriousness of water pollution, and put the core of the prevention and cure of water pollution in Three Rivers and Three Lakes, e.i. Huaihe River, Haihe River, Liaohe River, Taihu Lake, Chaohu...
The paper focuses on the pressure of China's consumption on resources and environment with the economic development. The paper shows that an increase in consumer demand places more pressure on the environment, there are distinct differences of economic and social circumstances from regions to regions; and when looking at the social formation, there is typical dual economic and social structure in...
This study collecting the monitoring data for surface water quality and economic development data of Tianjin, and analyzed the water quality according to national water environmental quality standards between 1998 and 2008, it is found that Hai River and other main rivers were polluted badly except Yuqiao Reservior which is only drinking source water body. In the past two decade, economy of Tianjin...
Rural Urbanization is a process of the transfer of the rural population to cities and towns and the change of the rural economy into urban economy. Urbanization is a major issue for the social and economic development of China in the new era. This paper mainly describes the development history, current situation and development models of rural urbanization in China, focus on analyzing the problems...
As the world's second largest FDI inflow country, and the world's largest developing country, China faced with the increasingly serious environmental problems. The FDI inflow is a two-edge sword, along with the great effect in host country's economic development, they also bring in the pollution industries which badly influence the environment. In this way, the studies on the coordination between...
Adopting an evidenced-based approach, this paper seeks to examine the usage of external services by small business sectors in China. The empirical data are based on the first large-scale survey of small businesses and service providers designed and organised by the authors in Chengdu, Lanzhou and Shenzhen between November 2005 and March 2006. The three cities were selected to enable the market conditions...
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