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TO THE POINT:The United States took further protectionist moves against "made-in-China" products by levying preliminary countervailing duties on potassium phosphate salts and coated paper from China.China’s nouveau riche are becoming an ever-important purchasing power for the world’s luxury products.January sales for the nation’s 100 key retailing enterprises made large increases from last December’s figures.Foreign distiller Diageo’s attempt to control the well-known domestic liquor brand Swellfun has come to fruition.High domestic coal prices forced power plants to turn to international coal supplies.The 14th China International Fair for Investment and Trade will be held on September 8-11 in Xiamen,Fujian Province.     

From Olympic to National Games

China's 14th National Games officially opened in Shaanxi Province on September 15, marking the first time for a province in west China to organize the quadrennial multi-sport event since its inaugural edition in 1959. As the highest-level sporting event in the country, a total of 50 Olympic cham-pions, representing all of the country's provinces, municipalities and autono-mous regions, compete during the athletic extravaganza. With COVID-19 still a major consideration, the National Games' organizing committee devised and implemented comprehensive pandemicprevention regulations, with the goal of "zero infections."     

新冠疫情背景下中国的公共卫生外交:成就、困难与进一步推进的路径

新冠疫情治理需要国际社会加强合作,公共卫生外交是促进各国进行公共卫生合作、建立疫情全球防线的关键举措。通过开展公共卫生外交,一方面,中国争取了世界卫生组织和国际社会的支持和帮助,满足了中国抗击国内新冠疫情形势的需要;另一方面,中国凭借丰硕的抗疫成果在全球树立了典范,通过对国际社会进行疫情通报、经验沟通、技术合作和医疗援助,推动了人类卫生健康共同体理念的传播,守护了全球疫情防线。同时也应注意到,国家层面公共卫生安全战略的不完善、一些西方国家的大国博弈旧思维,以及各国公共卫生治理理念与能力的差异等问题对中国当前的公共卫生外交提出了挑战。对此,中国应尽快完善国家公共卫生安全战略,秉承人类卫生健康共同体理念,大力推进全球公共卫生外交并积极贡献卫生公共产品,以巩固新冠疫情防控的全球战线。     

Faster and Greater

正The Chinese Government has launched new moves in its development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council jointly released,on September 5 and September 6 respectively,the Hengqin plan and Qianhai plan,outlining the development of the Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone in Hengqin and that of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone.The upgraded strategies will lead the integration of the Greater Bay Area into a new phase of more in-depth and detailed practice.     

从中国共产党百年历史看加强政治建设的内在逻辑

中国共产党是社会主义中国的领导核心,是中国政治体系的核心特征和显著优势,是实现中华民族伟大复兴的根本保障。党的十九大在党的建设方面最具开拓性的贡献,是第一次把党的政治建设纳入党的建设总体布局,突出新时代党的建设要以党的政治建设为统领。我们不仅要把政治建设看作党建理论和实践的重大突破,更要把它作为党建重大课题的破题和任务的开启。要深刻理解和把握党的政治建设的深刻内涵和重大实践意义。从理性逻辑上看,中国共产党强调政治建设遵循了现代政党建设的一般规律和要求;从历史逻辑上看,中国共产党强调的政治建设是总结国际共产主义运动和中国共产党百年历史经验教训所得出的基本结论;从现实逻辑上看,中国共产党强调的政治建设是推进党的自身建设和实现中华民族伟大复兴的要求。     

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Moderate Prospects Investment and consumption have been the biggest motors of the economy,both surging in the first four months this year.Exports also regained some lost ground,soaring 30.5 percent in April from a year ago.     

谈环渤海区域经济发展中的软环境建设

环渤海区域经济发展软环境的好坏,决定着经济发展的速度和质量。环渤海区域各省、市应下力气抓好本区域经济发展的软环境建设,在区域经济竞争中创造凝聚力、形成吸引力、提高生产力,推动环渤海区域经济快速发展。     

The Ascendency of State-owned Enterprises in China: development,controversy and problems

The state sector still plays an important role in China's economy. One of the key development phenomena characterizing the Chinese economy is the rapid ascendency of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and the resurgence of the state. The strength of China's SOEs is projected in the centrally administrated state-owned enterprises (CSOEs). They are the backbone of the national economy, spearheading national economic development and Beijing's ‘going-out’ strategy. The CSOEs have expanded their reach and increased their power, domestically and globally. In seeking to boost local GDP growth, the eastern provinces in China have joined the western provinces in a fierce contest to attract investment from SOEs. Nevertheless, the rapid ascendency of the SOEs has brought many negative consequences for China's economic, social and political development by causing conflict with the market-oriented development direction of Chinese economic reform and hindering fair competition between state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises.     

The ‘China Threat’ through the Lens of US Print Media: 1992–2006

China scholars have examined the ‘China threat’ theory from various theoretical perspectives, offered a range of explanations for the theory's emergence and forecast the potential implications for US–China relations. However, few scholars have empirically studied the ‘China threat’ theory through the lens of the US media. This is a critical oversight, because the media plays a pivotal role in shaping US public opinion and US foreign policy, and the media is a key channel for ‘China threat’ dissemination and popularization. This study seeks to redress this oversight by empirically examining ‘China threat’ coverage in the US print media over a 15-year period from 1992 to 2006. We use content-analysis methodology to systematically collect, code and analyze ‘China threat’ data from five major US newspapers and to track the frequency and content of this coverage over time.

Our analysis reveals many interesting patterns in ‘China threat’ media coverage. First, the initial emergence of ‘China threat’ arguments in the US print media corresponded with the sharp upward turn in China's economic growth rates in the early 1990s. However, since the early 1990s, ‘China threat’ coverage has not mirrored China's steady growth. Rather, the media coverage was cyclic, featuring three key peaks (1996, 2000 and 2005) followed by subsequent declining interest. Second, our analysis reveals that the focus of these stories also varied over time. Perceptions of China as a political/ideological threat dominated media coverage in the earlier years (1992–1994) but steadily declined after 1995 and totally disappeared from the US print media after 2001. Perceptions of China as a military/strategic threat replaced political/ideological concerns in 1995, and the military focus has dominated media coverage ever since. Perceptions of China as an economic/trade threat persisted steadily throughout the 15-year time period with a clear uptick in recent years. We conclude this analysis by turning to the literature on realism, agenda setting and information processing to offer possible explanations for these empirical trends.     

我国民法典对赠与人形象的革新

君士坦丁通过革新罗马赠与法,树立了慷慨的赠与人人像,但在18、19世纪,赠与人的传统形象倒塌,近代欧洲民法典奉行商业至上,塑造了一种不信任赠与人的法律文化。我国民法典根据新的经济社会实践,全面涤除了赠与人形象的消极设定,从同等重视营利法人与非营利法人,到重整赠与的定义性规范、形式性规范、实质性规范,系统塑造了诚信友善的赠与人是社会交换的中坚的新形象。     

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Outbound Rush Despite a deep downturn in the world economy, Chinese firms are beefing up efforts to head overseas. China's outbound direct investment (ODI) rose 1.1 percent year on year to $56.53 billion in 2009, the largest among developing countries, said a report jointly released by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the National Bureau of Statistics and the Sate Administration of Foreign Exchange on September 5. This was the eighth consecutive year of growth.     

A Chinese View of China's Energy Security

This article attempts to examine how China perceives its energy security issues. A survey of its research on energy issues offers hints on how experts influence the Chinese leadership. This article briefly looks at the assessment of the energy situation in China and the policy programmes released to tackle the problems. It then analyses the policy programmes and evaluates the overall strategy. It mainly relies on published data from China to reflect a Chinese view. China in some ways would like to follow Japan's example in response to the international oil crises in the 1970s, i.e. upgrade its industrial structure, introduce energy conservation measures, develop new sources of energy supply, and engage in an ‘energy diplomacy’ to diversify and guarantee its energy supply.     

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The auto markets stage a mild comeback,with sales rebounding in September.The government starts a trial scheme allowing four local governments to issue bonds.Not only small companies,but also some larger,listed companies are feeling the pinch of financial difficulties.Parts of the country are reeling from diesel shortages as demand shoots up.China’s total household wealth is expected to become the second largest in the world by 2016.     

关于推动胶州湾区经济高质量发展的几点思考

"湾区经济"是当今世界一流滨海城市的重要标志,是区域经济发展的重要增长极和引领技术变革的领头雁。胶州湾是青岛的内湾,从海湾形态及自然地理位置来看,胶州湾区有衍生出"湾区经济"的潜力。通过对比胶州湾区和日本东京湾区及粤港澳大湾区的发展规律,分析了胶州湾区经济发展的优势条件,提出了推动胶州湾区经济高质量发展的几点对策。     

The emergence of Shanghai's role as entrepôt centre since the mid‐1980s

Shanghai's new role as an entrepôt centre has emerged since the mid‐1980s when the central procurement system of export products was abolished. Along with Shanghai's investment, labour intensive industries have been shifted from Shanghai to its inland provinces. Consequently, the commodity composition of re‐exports has been rapidly changed from agricultural products to manufactured products. Meanwhile, the suppliers became much more concentrated in its immediately neighbouring provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, the changing in the commodity composition is not due to the rise in the heterogeneity which would increase the need of the services of middlemen in entrepôt as suggested by the theory which was developed by Yunwing Sung. In the absence of a well‐functioning market mechanism, Shanghai's re‐exports became increasingly depending on the products manufactured in Shanghai's FTCs (Foreign Trade Companies)’ joint ventures invested in other provinces, while its comparative advantage in trade as a middlemen has not been fully utilized since then.     

男孩偏好与父权制的制度安排——中国出生性别比失衡的性别分析

出生性别比失衡是中国突出的社会问题,其背后与男孩偏好紧密相关。本文通过6个省的实证调查,揭示出生性别比失衡的根本原因是父权制的三大要素:一是从夫居的婚居制度,二是父子相承的财产继承制度,三是父子相传的姓氏继承制度。这3项制度不仅仅是历史,更是司空见惯的现实;不仅仅是文化观念,更是强制性的资源分配制度安排;不仅仅是家庭和村规民约的相互作用,更是政府的默认和法律的不作为。由此揭示中国当代社会性别制度的结构方式。     

War on the Virus

A new round of COVID-19 infections has swept across China beginning on October 17. As of November 12, 1,499 cases had been reported across the country in this round, 279 of which were imported cases. And as of November 13, the virus had spread to 21 provinces. "The situation is becoming more stable as the clusters of cases in multiple provinces have been brought under control," Wu Liangyou, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control with the National Health Commission (NHC), said at a press conference on November 13. The case clusters in Heilongjiang, Hebei, Henan and Sichuan provinces have been brought under control while those in Liaoning, Jiangxi and Yunnan provinces, as well as in Beijing, require additional efforts.     

“双循环”新发展格局的历史逻辑、理论逻辑和实践逻辑

改革开放40余年,中国经济总体规模和发展质量有了大幅度提升,为应对新冠肺炎疫情和国际经济环境的急剧变化打下了坚实的基础。"双循环"新发展格局形成的历史逻辑清晰地表明中国经济发展的结构和质量均已达到了一个新的历史阶段;其理论逻辑则基于李嘉图比较优势理论,对我国要素禀赋及由此衍生的制度和文化需求提出了更高的要求;其实践逻辑则对深化改革和扩大开放双管齐下促进新发展格局的平稳形成,提供了更为基本的抓手和更为合理的预期。     

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The central bank on November 19 ordered commercial banks to set aside an additional 0.5 percent of their reserves amid looming inflationary risks.Investors are on the defense and preparing for the worst by buying up gold as a safe haven against inflation and market uncertainties.China’s stateowned enterprises earned a combined profit of 1.626 trillion yuan($245 billion) from January to October this year,soaring 44.8 percent year on year.In a push into renewable energies,China should enhance efforts in hydropower,wind power and inter-provincial trade,as well as green electricity schemes,said the World Bank.The aviation industry booms as air traffic increases.     

Festival Begins in Tibet

A giant Tangka,a religious silk embroidery or painting of Buddha,is unfolded by monks on the hill slope near Drepung Monastery on the outskirts of Lhasa,capital city of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region,starting the 2011 Shoton Festival,which lasts from August 29 to September 4.Shoton Festival,one of the most popular traditional festivals in Tibet,is celebrated annually from the end of the sixth month to the beginning of the seventh month according to the Tibetan calendar.It attracts tens of thousands of Buddhists and tourists each year.During the weeklong festival,people gather to drink yogurt,watch Tibetan operas,and pay homage to giant paintings of Buddha.Originating from the 11th century,the festival is now a national intangible cultural heritage.