The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
The examination of a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies demonstrated that product market competition holds an external governance mechanism, which can reduce corporate cash flow risk. Considering different hierarchies of government control, this paper finds that compared with nongovernment controlled and local government controlled enterprises, product market competition creates a stronger...
Generally for most of the countries developing border areas is very important concern. However, due to security issues, most of the countries are not interested to place important industries in border areas. Tourism development is the most suitable solution for developing boarder areas. People Republic of China and Russian Federation are among big countries in the world and their border is about 4159...
The purpose of this article is to study a widespread type of policy-led University Science Park in China and draw lessons for their future development. In recent years many University Science Parks sponsored by local governments have emerged in China, whose mission is to raise regional level of innovation and economic growth through promoting university-industry connections. We conduct an in-depth...
Developing new energy vehicle industry is critical for China to cope with the energy and environmental challenges, and to promote the technological innovation, transformation and upgrading of the automotive industry. In this study, the current status, achievements and barriers of China's local new energy vehicle industry are comprehensively reviewed. Details are explored in terms of regional protectionism,...
In April 2015, Bureau of Energy, Ministry of Economic Affairs and the local government of Taiwan(R.O.C.) promoted the Energy-Smart-City project plan jointly. Therefore, Kaohsiung City Government started up the energy investigation and improvement for Energy Saving Plans. A total of 3,000 energy users were selected form 20 categories in service industry to conduct energy investigation in order to gather...
This paper introduces a new organization form of university-industry links: the Relocated University Affiliated Research Institute (RUARI), which is established by parent university based in other region and supported by local government aiming to upgrade its local industries. Through RUARIs, the industries otherwise not local become “local”. However, this new localization effect is moderated by parent...
Concerning the construction of charging piles, opportunities coexist with challenges. It refers to a series of issues, such as who should bear the cost, and how to achieve maximum cost saving. At present, there are three parties, namely the local government, State Grid Corporation of China, and clean-energy vehicle manufacturers, willing to invest in the construction, thus leads to the formation of...
The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11th, 2011 caused severe damage to the northern coast of the main island in Japan. Since then we have been working to help out the affected area in terms of IT support such as internetworking and providing PCs. Through our support activities we came across an interesting issue concerning collaboration with people from heterogeneous backgrounds. We call this...
With the ever-increasing fierce competition, some small and medium sized enterprises have come across more and more difficulties in logistics infrastructure, technicians, industry cluster etc., which greatly hinder the rapid growth of logistics industry. In allusion to the problems above, this paper puts forward a regional logistics system for small and medium sized logistics enterprises. Meanwhile,...
Earthquake is one of the serious disasters which may induce heavy casualties and economic losses. Japan is a country with frequent earthquake disasters. Administrative authority for disaster management in Japan covers the central government, local governments and public institutions. Earthquake insurance has become the important way to manage significant disastrous risk in Japan. As a socialized system...
The role of the local government should be defined correctly when undertake industry transfer, so as to avoid the role of the local government misplaced. For clearing the role of the local government, measurements are brought from aspects of fully understanding the condition and the motive of the private enterprise's industry transfer, raising the quality of the local government's service, enlarging...
Economic development in Zhejiang is in state of comparative dilemma, so as it is necessary to achieve transformation and upgrading by producer services' returning nurturing manufactures. The level of producer services being comparatively low and the pressure of transformation of manufactures being high, there exist larger dilemma both producer services and manufactures, and relevant policies made...
The paper investigates institutional change and urban development in Shanghai from 1978 to the present. It analyzes a series of institutions evolved in the course of China's gradualist economic reforms from a central planning system towards a market mechanism. It identifies milestone institutional changes, and elucidates the interplay between these institutional changes and the path of urban development...
The regional Informationization is inseparable from government's push and promotion. From the observation, the Governments can directly contributes to informationization by making overall planning, developing strategies, conducting the infrastructure roll-outs, encouraging ICT-use, or indirectly improve the external environment of ICT development by establishing regulatory agencies, introducing regulation...
Revitalizing regional economy is one of the economic development basic strategies in our country. Finance policies, as the main macroeconomic control legal means under the conditions of market economy, play a positive and key role in revitalizing regional economy, including the development process of special economic zones, southeast coastal open, developing western regions and revitalizing northeast...
Today with the fast economy development in China, tourism has became a very important industry for many areas. However, how to properly manage the development of tourism industry so that it can be sustainable is still a very challenging task faced by the local governments. In the past, some touristic areas, after a short flouring period, are abandoned by tourists for various reasons. In this paper,...
The innovative advantages of industrial agglomeration lie in innovation cluster. From the perspective of innovation network system, industrial agglomeration innovation system is a special system,which includes enterprises, governments,universities, research institutes, financial institutions, and intermediary service agencies. The realization of industrial agglomeration innovation depends on the stress...
Urban agglomeration has become an important carrier in the regional economic development. The leading industry and advantage industry support ability is an important source of promoting comprehensive competitiveness. To strengthen the construction of industry agglomeration, we must adopt powerful measures to support in concept changing, mechanism formation, industrial restructuring, county economy...
This paper explains why China's future requires a “right” urbanization and how it can be achieved. The paper first indicates that the process of a “right” urbanization should be gradual in order to reduce destruction to the rural sector and the end result should appropriately diminish Chinese rural and urban divide. In addition, the paper advises that Chinese urbanization should avoid two pitfalls:...
The nature reserve is an important and special carrier of the ecotourism in China. Tourism on nature reserve not only need to pursue an economic performance, but also need to obey the initial target of protection, pursuing coordination among the functions of protection, research and educating etc. There are a series of problems in the nature reserve tour ism industry currently, such as the problems...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.