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Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are currently attracting attention as a new form of zero-emission vehicles, just as the commercialization of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is underway. In the prior 20 years, however, FCEVs failed to be properly commercialized. In this paper, a new approach to the emerging economy of FCEVs and a hydrogen refueling station (HRS) network are studied.
The smart grid vision relies on active interaction with all of its stakeholders. As consumers are acquiring energy generation capabilities, hence becoming prosumers (producers and consumers), a meaningful way to interact among them would be to trade over a marketplace. Market-driven interactions have been proposed as a promising potential interaction method due to the monetary incentives and other...
As an emerging industry, creative industries provide high value-added, knowledge-intensive producer services and consumer services. Based on the value chain smiling curve, this paper first proposed a wave curve, which reflects the basic value chain of creative industries. The new value chain links increase from 3 to 4 by adding a cultural resource conservation link, focusing on the two high value-added...
Hanzheng Street is in full demolition, and soon will be razed to the ground. From the perspective of protection of cultural heritage this paper interprets the meaning of spontaneous block of Hanzheng Street as an informal neighborhoods that developed under formal society. Through excavating the historical, social, and cultural value of spontaneous neighborhoods of Hanzheng Street, it explores the...
Being rich in various resources, especially in human resources, the western China is suitable for labor intensive industries. Based on the practical situation, four patterns of developing labor intensive industries in the western China are introduced and discussed. They are patterns of town cluster which utilizes the urbanization, of industry transfer which takes advantage of the upgrade of the eastern...
Information technology highly developed, industrial organization reformed, industrial value chain being divided and reassembled and global production network is forming. City group formation and development face new economic environment. The paper advance a three-dimension research frame of agglomeration economy including spatial agglomeration, industrial agglomeration and value section agglomeration...
Commerce is an important function of city. The study of urban commercial spaces is constantly on the rise along with the vigorous development of China's urban commerce since the introduction of the reform and opening up policy in 1978. Looking into the spatial distribution of urban commercial spaces in Nanjing in 1930, 1949, 1978, 1990 and 2003, this paper recalls the evolution of the inner structure...
This is an empirical paper that measures and interprets changes in intercity relations at the global scale in the period 2000-2008. We draw on the network model devised by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research group to measure global connectivities for 132 cities across the world in 2000 and 2008. A range of statistical techniques is used to explore changing connectivities at the city...
To enlarge the difference of assessment values for energy consumption in equipment manufacturing industry among varied time, AIA based time series scatter degree method (AIA/TSSDM) is proposed so as to improve the energy consumption assessment performance. The comprehensive solution for energy consumption assessment by AIA/TSSDM is presented. AIA is introduced to adapt the conventional scatter degree...
Among all the types of distributors who play different roles in the vegetables and fruits distribution system, farmer middlemen have attracted increasing attention. Farmer middlemen, who hold more than 80% of the market in strawberry distribution in Jiande Strawberry Wholesale Market located in Xutang village, have fulfilled a very important function in the distribution process. The paper takes farmer...
It is unavoidable to decline of the mine for the nonrenewable and finite of the coal. In the declined phase of the mine, the coal is getting less and less even to exhausted, the scale of the production is also smaller than before, and many staffs transfer to other places, so a lot of infrastructure are in idle state and the utilization rate of the infrastructure is low. Based on the circular economy,...
The waste materials that are produced daily from different sources can be used to produce energy from which we can get electricity. The conventional fuels required for production of electricity is decreasing day by day and it is very important to find out alternative sources which can be used as the fuel for the production of electricity especially for developing countries like Bangladesh. This paper...
In the current market environment, the producer services has gradually become a major value added part of the value chain, and all the countries in the world take the producer services as a new economic growth pole. This article unified producer services' own characteristics, and elaborated the necessity and the evolution mechanism of the producer services. The article explored the mode selection...
Every kind of inquisition data shows, in recent years some multinational enterprises have already withdrawn from the delta of Yangtze River or the delta of Zhujiang River in China, the other some are thinking it over, and even simply trying to withdraw from China. By building up an oligopoly output competition model consists of multinational enterprises and the host state enterprises, this paper analyzes...
The problems faced by the development of regional economy,how to promote regional economic development and give full play to the traction role of the region's Leading cities,adjusting and optimizing industry structure,and through the changing of economic development mode to realize regional economic survival and sustainable development,which has become key issues in regional economic development....
This paper discusses the different ways of obtaining technology for the development of products made by companies in developing countries that have production units abroad. As the literature, companies hold FDI for several reasons, but there are few studies on the foreign direct investment of firms from developing countries. We believe that the acquisition of technology and make partnerships with...
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