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This paper tries to present two ideal concepts-regional governance structure and growth system-based on coordinated development among the regions, which aims at designing a coordinated development mechanism. This paper puts forward compatible life cycle hypothesis, and find that government and industrial structure match each other, and the enterprise growth system shows a character of evolution.
Lighting consumes one fourth of all energy consumed worldwide, and case studies have shown that commonly 50 to 90 percents of building lighting is unnecessary for the purposes required. Energy is wasted when light does not fall on its intended target, as when lighting fixtures allow light to go up instead of (as it is generally preferred) downward. Leakage also occurs when more light is generated...
Since China's reform and opening to the outside world, the performance of Zhejiang Model in promoting the local economic development has attracted worldwide attention. Zhejiang's private enterprises gradually reduce production costs and improve product quality with incremental innovation, and have gained great competitive advantages. However, with the depleting incremental innovation opportunities,...
The lack of effective policy and law enforcement is a serious and pervasive problem in China and environmental protection is particularly affected. Low SO2 removal and operation rates at SO2 scrubbers were of specific interests of this paper. Through active capacity building and mobilization of local governments, significant progress was achieved with a new policy of desulfurized electricity price...
Based on the actual control of listed companies as the standards of the ultimately control, the state-controlled listed companies will be divided into county government control, the municipal government control, the provincial government control and the central government control. this paper provides an analysis of the relationship between government control level and cash dividends of the listed...
Wind power concession refers to the way of selection of the owner of concession - the concessionaire by bidding, which is mainly carried out by local government with wind resources or its authorized company to delimit a wind resource district with commercial development value. In this paper, strong supporting degree and low effectiveness of the concrete terms of current Chinese policies, laws and...
Consists of a set of presentation slides covering aspects of strategies to reduce UK housing emissions by 80% by 2050 using low-carbon methods. The objectives of the strategy are: reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050; eradicate fuel poverty - a legal obligation; low-carbon homes for low-income households; a radical new approach by Government; and getting people taking action.
The analysis object of this paper is the six provinces and one municipality in East China, and the research method which is adopted is grey relational analysis. The research result shows that for the influence of scientific and technical output indexes, the greatest is both "expenditures for scientific and technological activities" and "R&D expenditures". The next is "scientists...
This paper is concerned with a debatable policy of choosing taxi types. Now prevalent in many urban transportation management departments, such a policy strongly favors automobiles of large displacement and rejects those of small displacement. Despite the joint policy of six national ministries and commissions that all restrictions on energy-saving environment-friendly automobiles of small displacement...
Current annual expenditure for management and renewal of Infrastructure assets around the world is 500 billion US dollars. With an aging stock of infrastructure, innovative methods for management of risk of failure and optimizing of maintenance expenditure becomes extremely important. Whilst different infrastructure assets may have different attributes, governing issues are similar in nature. Prediction...
Many Chinese scholars have studied on regional investment climate (RIC) recently. However, few of them applied cluster analysis on regional investment climate of mainland China. We first set an appraisal index system about regional investment climate of 31 Chinese provinces (include 4 municipalities directly under the central government and 5 autonomous regions), and then on the basic data from Chinese...
Based on the functional model of economic institution and economic growth, and using the panel data of all Chinese provinces, the paper does some empirical study on the efficiency of economic institution transition and Chinese best economic growth path. It shows that: First, the economic institution is the fundamental cause of economic growth. Second, the economic institution is endogenous. Third,...
Clusters perform differently. Many studies have focused on the competitiveness and strategy, among which the GEM (Groundings-Enterprises-Markets) model is quite favored in practice though with some intrinsic drawbacks, i.e., heuristic, simple and general. By analytic hierarchy process (AHP), detailed and weighted indicators through SPSS analysis and a special cluster, we try to overcome the defects...
This paper reviews development strategies in small island jurisdictions with particular attention paid to the case of Prince Edward Island on Canada's east coast. Old models of development have failed to deliver on their promises and have in fact exacerbated developmental difficulties. A paradigm shift may needed to achieve the developmental results that are desired in many island jurisdictions, including...
Prince Edward Island is a region that has historically failed to achieve goals of economic development Questions of how Prince Edward Island can implement economic development leading to the Island's prosperity persist. The Island has a strong identity and cultural assets which include social cohesion, ethics and political institutions as well as a sense of place. These assets can not only help bring...
It is essential to establish a responsible, service government in modern social and economic development. In this paper, firstly, we researched a service system of a government organization, including the sector structures, resource elements, internal service activities, service quality and public service affairs. Then unit management, module management and element management of government organization...
This paper examines some of the policy issues and concerns of local municipalities with respect to dynamic spectrum policy, the establishment of secondary markets for spectrum use and the organization of first responder communications. The paper discusses local and state methods (current and future) for achieving interoperability between first responders and how local policy approaches affect those...
In July 2002, the Korea Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy(MOCIE) opened to the public "solar land 2010 program" which aims at the acceleration of R and D and dissemination of photovoltaic power systems in Korea and fostering photovoltaics as a new exporting industry as well. The key of the program is to install 30,000 rooftop photovoltaic systems of 3 kW capacity until the year 2010...
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