Another Consumption Boom

Consumers celebrate the Spring Festival in a spending frenzy,both at home and abroad After holding their wedding ceremony in Zunyi,Guizhou Province,Tian Yun,a bond trader who works at a Shanghai-based securities company returned to Kaifeng Henan Province,with her husband during the Spring Festival holiday(February 9-15).In her hometown,relatives and folks prepared a party to celebrate. "My mother booked the banquet tables three months ahead.Since banquet booking is always popular during the Spring Festival,     

Baby Boom

THE Year of the Pig is upon us, and along with that chubby pink animal comes 12 months of good luck and fortune...nd plenty of babies too. Every so often a year comes along that is deemed so auspicious it sparks off a baby boom in the world's most populous country, and 2007 is one of them. Wu Jian and his wife feel especially lucky in this Year of the Pig. The couple's efforts to conceive had been for years hampered by Mrs. Wu's health problems. So, in June 2006, they moved to Beijing to be treated in the city with the best hospitals and fertility doctors in China. Their efforts-and expenses-soon paid off. Mrs. Wu     

Duty-Free Boom

正Hainan's new shopping policy adds power to dual circulation development The duty-free shop at Sun Moon Plaza in downtown Haikou,capital of Hainan Province in south China,is a bustlinglittle place,especially since it added new mobile phone and tablet counters,which are a magnet for visitors.He Jing is one of them.     

Bond Boom

The Ministry of Finance recently kick-started a pilot program allowing local governments of Shanghai and Shenzhen, and Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces to issue bonds for the first time. How will the new policy affect fiscal capacities of local governments and the broader economy? What else should the country do to build a healthy bond market? Economists and experts discussed these issues in an interview with the ShanghaiSecuritiesJournal. Edited excerpts follow:     

Unicorn Boom

正A tech startup company that reaches a $1-billion market value within 10 years is known as a unicorn,with such enterprises recently becoming a hot topic in China.Many domestic and international research institutes have analyzed Chinese unicorn companies to find out why they have experienced explosive growth in both number and scale within a short period of time.According to last year's China-U.S.Unicorn Research Report released by global     

FTZ Boom

正Seven more free trade zones aim to open up China’s markets further Jiulian E-commerce Co.is a cross-border online trading platform for imported wine.Though registered in Hong Kong to take advantage of the special administrative region’s preferential tax policies,it is actually located in Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning Province.Jiulian’s senior executives made inspection tours of the pioneering free trade zones     

Tourism Boom

Corporate and governmental determination set on establishing solid foundation for economic comeback     

A Robotic Boom

<正>Industrial and service robots are in demand as China’s labor becomes more expensive By Tang Yuankai China’s importance in the global robotics industry is increasing,with more companies moving to develop industrial and service robots,along with artificial intel igence.Even some property tycoons are     

The Central Boom

After development strategies in Xiongan New Area,the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Yangtze River Delta have all been put on track,another region in China is going to see a great upsurge.During a recent visit to Jiangxi Province,President Xi Jinping presided over a work symposium on May 21 on the rise of China's central region.     

人文知识中的"消费时代"及其批判

具有特定含义的“日常生活审美化”是人文知识对“消费时代”的一种文化阐释 ,但当前出现在中国社会的消费文化有其特殊性 ,它由“消费时代”尚未全面来临和消费主义已经形成这两个部分构成。对“消费时代”这一议题的抽象化 ,掩盖了社会不同群体的感受差异性 ,因此应当反省知识分子的批判立场和当前学术话语的生产机制 ,以剖析“日常生活审美化”、“消费时代”与当下中国社会究竟具有怎样的关联。     

Xinjiang's Tounsm Boom

Tourism is booming due to combined efforts of local government and individuals in Xinjiang sixty-year-old Niyaz Rehep never thought he could be more     

文化消费语境与民族歌舞艺术的发展

民族歌舞艺术是民族文化资源的重要组成部分,在现代文化消费、大众文化消费语境的影响下,民族歌舞艺术在其生存环境、表现形式和意义、功能方面发生着变化.民族歌舞通过广泛融入当下大众日常生活和狂欢式的娱乐实现新的传承和发展.许多地区的民族歌舞艺术迅速复苏发展,公共民族演艺产品大量涌现,同时,民族歌舞艺术还呈现出向民族文化旅游演艺产品、商业化舞台演艺产品发展的趋势,共同演绎了文化消费语境下民族歌舞艺术的多元化的发展态势.     

The IP Boom

Azeal for adapting works from other mediums is sweeping China's film industry.An"IP film"refers to a film adapted from an original work protected by intellectual property (IP) rights. Film adaptations are nothing new in China. Previously, the majority of adaptations had their roots in masterpieces of classical literature, stage plays or older films.     

Electronic Trade Boom

正China-ASEAN e-commerce collaboration expands China’s huge market and strong consumption power are"very attractive" to traders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN),said Selina Eu,co-founder of e-commerce platform Monzter from Malaysia.Monzter participated in the China-ASEAN Expo(CAEXPO)from September 11 to 14     

No Baby Boom

<正>Data show that nearly one year after the relaxation of China’s family planning policy,a baby boom has not appeared The policy allowing urban parents to have a second baby,so long as at least one of them is an only child,has been implemented in China for about a year.People worrying the policy might create a rapid population surge can exhale a collective sigh of relief.     

文化消费时代报告文学的文体力量

当代中国,文化市场对作家创作的影响已是不争的事实。然而,学界和民间对此却存在着不同的观点。一方面,大众惯于把文学艺术当成奇观,把文化消费当成娱乐;另一方面,一批学者又大声疾呼文学的失落,纷纷为当代文学把脉。市场/消费是否必然给中国文学的发展带来桎梏?中国当代文学是否真的走进了精神窄门?如果不是桎梏,那么文化市场的催化带来了哪些新文学的景观?文学写作者、批评家如何在这样的背景下重新调整思路?鉴于这些话题日益受到人们的重视,我们推出4位学者的文章,他们分别从不同的角度进行思考。同时,我们希望更多的学者能参与其中,发表看法。--主持人:叶祝弟     

The Qinggang Broom Boom

TRULY on-the-ball economic innovators spot the lucra-tive potential of everyday, household equipment as mundane as the humble broom. A case in point is Qinggang County, Heilongjiang Province in North-east China.     

Boom Times in Guangxi

GUANGXIZhuangAutonomousRegionislikeonebigconstructionsite,withtrucksmovingearthwhereveryoulook.Underwayisanewproject,theNBQF(anabbreviationtakenfromtheregion'sfourmajorcities─Nanning,Beihai,QinzhouandFangcheng)EconomicZone,expectedtotake30yearstobecompleted.GuangxiisonChina'ssouthernborderwithVietnamandtouchestheSouthChinaSea.Beihai,QinzhouandFangchengareportcitiesthathavealwaysbeenmajorstopsonsealanes,attractingthetradethathelpedthelocaleconomyprosper.Frequentwarfareintheregionthi…