A Love Too Tough

<正>Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua, has captured global attention and aroused heated debate. Since the author, a professor at Yale Law School and a mother of two daughters, is a Chinese-American and stresses throughout her book the merits     

Tough 'Love'

In today's American politics, being hard on Russia and China seems to be the new politically correct suit to try on. As if a reincarnation of McCarthyism, politi-cians dove right in, regardless of the negative effects of this apparent hard lesson in the past.     

反腐败：当代中国的硬仗

透视腐败１、社会上腐败现象越来越普遍和严重。海洋生物的灭绝性捕捞，森林资源的破坏性采伐，矿产资源的损害性开采，自身和眼前利益胜过一切，一些地方、企业和个人根本不顾及社会持续发展和子孙后代；社会交往和商业交易不稳定性增强、安全系数降低，据不准确测算，超过３０％的合同缺乏诚意，将近一半产生纠纷，信任少了、信用减低，社会、经济关系越来越不稳定；走私猖獗，上个世纪末的最后一年，走私额超过１５００亿，假冒伪劣泛滥，总值也已超１３３０亿，严重损害了国家利益、经济秩序、人民的健康和生命安全。债务拖欠、偷税漏税…     

Talking Tough on China

As the United States’ largest trading partner, China represents an increas-ingly important issue in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Both presidential candidates, Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, have pledged a strong stance against unfair trading practices, concerns over human rights and intellectual property.     

Getting Tough On Polluters

Nation tries to curb pollution by imposing harsher penalties Pollution in a river in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has caused a stir. Fengkai County authorities in neighboring Guangdong Province reported thallium and cadmium contamination in the Hejiang River on July 6. Fengkai is downstream fromGuangxi’sHezhouCity.Deadfishhasbeen seenfloatingintheriversinceJuly1.Authorities prohibited about 30,000 Fengkai residents from using river water for three weeks, and tens of millions more in the Pearl River Delta were put on     

Soft Landing,Tough Tasks

AFTER a four-month vacancy the Beijing residence of the U.S. ambassador to China received its new occupants on August 13 when Gary Locke arrived in Beijing with his wife and three kids. Dressed casually and carrying a backpack, the eagerly awaited diplomat strolled out of the airport with his family as if he had just arrived back from vacation. The scene was electrified by a barrage of flash photography, and the images quickly spread throughout the worldwide media.     

A Villagein Transition

Yantian Village in Dongguan, south China’s Guangdong Province, defies stereotypical images of the southern Chinese countryside. It has no expansive paddy fields, nor blooming rapeseed flowers, nor livestock wandering on streets. Rather, it features row after row of modern buildings nestled amongst green, undulating hills.     

Will Tough Regulations Helpthe Online Car-Hailing Business?

正In early October,transport authorities in Beijing,Shanghai,Guangzhou and Shenzhen—four mega-cities—separately issued draft local regulations on qualifications for drivers who provide ridesharing services.The new rules feature restrictions on drivers’place of residence,car registration locale,vehicle model and age,and insurance.In Beijing,for example,only residents who have a locally registered car     

Home Appliances a Tough Sell in the Countryside

A brand-new color TV set stands in Shi Yunguo＇s house. ＂The set cost me RMB 1,350, and the government gave me an RMB 175 subsidy,＂ said Shi Yunguo, a farmer in Linyi, Shandong Province. Beginning in February 2009, Chinese farmers qualify for a 13 percent govern.ment subsidy on TV, mobile phone, refrigerator and washing machine purchases.     

Mid-Career Transition

Abstract

The era of change is now the rule rather than the exception. Organizations are adapting to environmental demands such as an expanding international market, individual work techniques in manufacturing are being replaced by work group techniques because of increasing competition, and the individual himself/herself is experiencing changes in values through the maturation process as well. At mid-career these transitions pose difficult questions for the individual; he/she is concerned with maintaining work competency and managing change related stress. A strategy involving the continuous scanning of organizational, work and individual issues may assist the mid-careerist in answering these questions. Learning, understanding, predicting and acting, and controlling are the elements required in the process of problem-solving and decision-making for the individual as he manages his/her mid-career transition through this myriad of organizational, work, and individual change.     

Economic Transition

正China remains a powerful driving force for the world economy despite a slowdown in growth Stock traders in New York, factory workers in Shenzhen, freight companies in Seoul, technology and retail companies in Hangzhou and luxury fashion executives in Paris all have one thing in common. The state of the Chinese economy matters to them.     

扬州:以善治破解城市管理难题

善治理论是21世纪针对经济全球化、世界多极化和国际关系民主化等世界性发展趋势而提出的,善治的基本定义是指在政府和民间组织之间,公共部门和私人部门之间建立合作管理和伙伴关系,以促进社会公共利益的最大化。在一定意义上说,善治也是进一步法治化的过程。善治,作为一种新的管理方式,更新了城市治理模式和衡量管理成效的规范性标准,被越来越多地应用于城市管理实践中。扬州城管在工作实践中,以城市善治理论为指导,创新城市管理体制机制与运作方式,有效破解了城市管理长期存在的难题,大大提高了城市品位和质量,改善了城市人居环境。     

Germany in Transition

Political parties vie for votes ahead of major election deep and complicated changes have been ongoing in Germany’s political architecture in recent years. The biggest German political party,     

Progress in Transition

正Ukraine tries to restore order after crisis Two years have elapsed since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis during which unremitting conflicts brought the European country close to disaster.But looking back on 2015,Ukraine was not as out of control as some people had asserted.     

社会转型时期政治文化建设探析

本文认为,政治文化对于政治发展乃至社会的全面发展具有及其重要的基础性作用。中国社会正处于转型时期,悠久的历史文化传统,加之改革开放的新背景,使当前我国政治文化呈现多样化、复杂化的特征,主要体现为主流政治文化与非主流政治文化并存。因此,转型时期政治文化建设必须从政治文化的内容、主体、外部环境、思想教育等多个环节入手。     

社会转型中的民间组织审视

民间组织是介乎于国家和家庭之间的群众性自治性组织 ,在现代社会转型过程中发挥着重要作用 :它是社会整合的重要力量 ;有利于社会主义民主法制建设 ;有利于促进市场规范和经济的良性运行 ;能丰富人们文化生活 ,满足人们精神需要。现阶段我国的民间组织虽然发展很快 ,但还必须加强管理 ,使民间组织真正民间化 ,发挥其应有的作用。     

试论经济增长中制度变迁和技术变迁的共同决定作用

对经济增长决定因素的分析,学术界存在三种观点。一是技术决定论,二是制度决定论,三是技术和制度共同决定论。笔者从历史和哲学的角度分析了技术和制度的差异性和相通性,论证了在经济增长中制度和技术的共同决定作用。     

Responsible Transition from Resource-dependency

DONGYING City has been dependent on non-renewable petroleum resources but these days it is successfully facing the heavy burden of economic transition.     

转型时期强化澳门特区政府权威的若干思考

当前,在澳门特区致力打造世界旅游休闲中心和推进经济适度多元发展战略的前提下,必将要求特区政府管理职能做出与时俱进的调整,由此亦导致了现代文化与传统文化新一轮的碰撞乃至冲突,加速了澳门广大民众的价值观念、民族心理和政治文化的嬗变,使整体社会面临转型,政府治理模式亦将随之转型。本文藉着澳门回归祖国迈进第2个十年的历史新高度,论证了强化政府权威是推进社会转型的必由之路,并梳理出其五点基本思路。