Fantasy and Reality

"When it comes to China,you can never know enough."These were the words inscribed on the first page of the booK Law and Society in Traditional China,given to me by a fellow student Tan Bo-Chen,on day one of my year at Peking University back in September 2016.Over the past few years,I have slowly come to understand the depth of meaning in this phrase about such a culturally unique and historically great civilization.The more time I spend in China,and indeed the more I know about China,the less I seem to comprehend it This country is absolutely fascinating:There is a mismatch between past and present;tradition and modernity;fast pace and slow pace;cities and mountains.     

New-Energy Autos： From Fantasy to Reality

THE 2008 Olympic Games turned out to be a showcase for China＇s new technologies and products, such as the 598 new-energy automobiles （hybrid, fuel/cell and full-electric vehicles） that served the sporting event, receivine a oositive resoonse for their excellent oerformance.     

Sojourn in A Strange Land

Representing the New Zealand China Maori Friendship Trust and Tuwharetoa Paramount Chief, Sir Tumu te Heuheu, our group was made up of Cedric Nepia, Robyn Tauroa,and Thomas Hawtin. From the time we were met at Beijing Airport till our departure at Pudong Airport, Shanghai,we were accompanied by one or more interpreter guides associated with a National or Provincial office of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries(CPAFFC).     

B3W: America's 'Make The World Great Again' Fantasy

正The recent Group of Seven(G7) leaders' meeting in the UK announced support for a new U.S.-led effort called Build Back Better World(B3W), a global infrastructure plan to challenge China's Belt and Road Initiative. While details remain vague and support within the G7 tepid at best, this announcement has caused a big splash in global discussions, particularly its offer "to help narrow the $40+ trillion infrastructure need in the developing world."     

Skyrocketing ChiNext：A Land of Chances and Risks

<正>Despite warnings from numerous skeptical commentators,the prices of stocks on Chi Next,China’s NASDAQ-style board for growth enterprises,continue to shoot upward.On May 18,the Chi Next index ascended by 4.23 percent,with one third of its stocks hitting the upper limit.     

再论我国农村土地集体所有权

农村土地集体所有权是关系农民生存保障的基本权益。不论是考察其历史形成还是为解决其在现实中的困境,都应以确定农民对土地的直接占有为前提。文章整理了目前关于农村土地集体所有权的有关学说,赞成在我国物权法中直接规定农村土地集体所有权;分析了集体所有权的概念并提出以农民集体共同共有权解释农村土地集体所有权的合理性。     

Land Purchase

China Vanke Co.Ltd.,the nation’s largest real estate developer by sales,secured 38 plots of land valued at 25 billion yuan($4 billion) within five months.     

Land Grab

正Chinese investors enter the U.S.real estate market at a breathtaking speed Investors are pumping Chinese capital into the U.S.real estate market,which totaled a whopping$350 billion in U.S.commercial and residential investments by 2015,according to a new report by Asia Society and the Rosen Consulting Group(RCG)."This wave of investment is coming from     

全民节地建设节地型社会

土地资源是人类生存之本,社会经济发展之基。节约集约用地,不仅关系到当前经济社会发展,而且关系到国家的长远利益和民族生存根据。     

如何制度化解决当前中国土地问题——对土地管理制度改革目标模式的探讨

土地领域存在的矛盾和问题已经成为影响中国社会和政治稳定的主要问题之一。土地问题产生的根源是土地权利与义务的双重缺失与失衡。这种缺失和失衡,使得国家、集体和个人的利益都缺乏制度化的实现和调节机制,导致土地利用上的囚徒困境博弈和公地悲剧。因此,要制度化地解决中国土地领域存在的问题,必须构建权利与义务平衡的土地管理制度体系,形成各方合理的利益结构,而这也构成了中国土地管理制度改革的一个主要目标。同时,制度化的土地管理模式,也需要进行财税体制改革,改变中国土地管理的制度环境。     

土地市场寻租行为的对策研究

当下,土地市场的“双轨制”造成了房地产业发展的不平衡、不规范和土地资源的严重浪费,更导致了相关的腐败犯罪,其中最直接、最明显的后果就是征地制度的权力寻租化。中央政府和地方政府财税关系不清和土地产权制度的不健全是地方政府在土地市场寻租的根本原因。重塑中央政府与地方政府的财税关系和进一步完善土地拍卖政策,能非常有效地防范、遏制“寻租”;而推动房地产企业的适度集中,则是有效遏制寻租、减少寻租社会损失的另一条重要途径。     

Washing Dirty Land

<正>Scientists use biology to purify polluted land In the old section of Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, a 40-hectare piece of land has been deserted for three years.     

Land of Bicycles

There are currently more than 500 million cyclists in China, 10 million of them in Beijing. Despite efficient bus networks, legions of taxis and surging private car ownership, the bicycle remains a firm fixture in Chinese daily life. But it is much more than just a means of transport to cyclists today, who demand a far greater choice of design and function than ever before.     

The Promising Land

Rich resources and multiple economic patterns are vitalizing the vast rural region of Xinjiang Tianshan Mountain, a part of the Himalayan orogenic belt, divides Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region into three parts: the north, south and east.     

Land of Abundance

<正>Sichuan taps Belt and Road for overseas partnerships It has the sixth highest GDP in China,the largest potential for hydropower generation and is the gateway not only to China’s west,but also to Southeast Asia’s developing markets.It’s also home to pandas.But it’s not enough,and Sichuan,a southwestern province of China,is on a mission to climb the GDP and development indicator rankings in the country,using the Belt and Road Initiative.     

Land of Sweetness

正The town of Pangezhuang in suburban Beijing, also known as the land of watermelons, has been hosting a watermelon festival for 32 years to celebrate its green prowess. And among the watermelon growers in the town, Song Shaotang is one of the most famous ones, a second-generation entrant who learned the skills from his father, a melon grower since the 1980s.