The Path of the Party

As the world’s largest Marxist ruling party with more than 91 million members,the Communist Party of China(CPC)has been in power for over 70 years in the world’s most populous country.What are the secrets behind its enduring vitality?Putting people first The people are the CPC’s source of strength.     

Will China Be Rich Before It Grows Old？

It is common knowledge that China, with its 1.3 billion people, is the most populous country on the face of the earth. Fewer people, however, know that the number of senior citizens in China also ranks first in the world. An internationally accepted definition of an aging society is one where more than 10 percent of the population is aged over     

Great Achievements Secured by the CPC

C HINA has effected many achievements unprecedented in human history under the leadership of the Communist Party of China(CPC).We know that China is the most populous country in the world.About four decades ago it was still a country with hundreds of millions people ensnared in poverty.In the following years since the country's reform and opening-up policy was rolled out,China has made tremendous develop-ment strides.This great progress was not purely a coincidence,but rather came about through effective measures,planning,and guidance of the CPC,which has presented the world with a different develop-ment model in contrast to the neoliberal capitalism that has led to some chaos across the world.     

China's women: A new spirit for a new century

Counting only China's female population, China would still be the second most populous nation on earth. With the implementation of the “Open Door” policy and the introduction of a market economy, Chinese women will gain new opportunities and face unfamiliar obstacles. To adapt, they must be willing to reevaluate traditional roles, and meet these challenges head‐on. Chinese women can learn some from the spirit of western women in their struggle for equality. Like it or not, the reality of “China at the Turn of the Century” will demand changes. This article attempts to (1) draw attention to the changing status of women in China; (2) compare their emerging struggle to that of American women; (3) suggest that Chinese women adopt the spirit of western women to redefine themselves without losing their Chinese identity.     

编制我国《国家妇女地图集》的必要性、可行性分析及初步设想

中国是世界上的人口大国,妇女的人口数也很多,中国妇女在中国和世界的作用不容忽视,让妇女了解自己、让政府了解妇女、让世界了解中国妇女,《国家妇女地图集》在其中将发挥重要作用。出版《国家妇女地图集》将会遇到许多问题,本文旨在论证编制《国家妇女地图集》的必要性和可行性,初步设计出《国家妇女地图集》的指标体系和内容结构,希望能引起广泛关注,有更多的有识之士参与研究和讨论,使《国家妇女地图集》早日出版。     

China's Shifting Policies towards Sustainability: a low-carbon economy and environmental protection

China is currently not only the most populous country on earth, but also the world's largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter. As China's population growth continues contributing to the overall global population increase, the country remains a significant player in the global problems related to climate change. The Chinese government, however, has recognized that a low-carbon economy is in the country's long-term economic and social interests and this is now a key part of its national development strategy. This paper examines the evolution of policies for sustainability in China and explores their compositions, functions and operational mechanisms. Some emerging features and trends in China's development model are examined, arguing that they represent a clear shift towards sustainability. Further problems and challenges associated with this change and how they impact on China's policies and strategies are also discussed.     

Buddhist Believers

As China becomes richer and more populous, and continues to open to the outside world, the Chinese people wish to further enrich their spiritual and cultural lives. Now they have more time to think about these needs, and some are choosing to pursue religion.     

Striving for Stability

Had it not been for the COVID-19 pandemic,Auckland, New Zealand's most populous city, would have been a busy place this month. Leaders, ministers and business communities from the 21 economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), including China, the U.S. and Russia, would have been gathering there to discuss the development and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region. Instead, New Zealand, which currently holds the rotating presidency, has decided to hold all of this year's APEC meetings online, drawing together representatives from 11 time zones. APEC, established in 1989, is the highest-level intergovernmental economic cooperation platform in the region. This year also marks the 30th anniversary of China's joining the alliance. While addressing the 28th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on November 12, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, "It has been three decades of deepening reform and opening up for China, and of broadening economic cooperation across the Asia-Pacific."     

China–Africa Trade Patterns: causes and consequences

China's trade patterns with African countries have made Beijing the focal point of new anti-Chinese resistance narratives in Africa. Unlike the Maoist era, when China's trade policies served its leaders' political goals, now they aim to access markets as part of China's larger domestic development strategy. China's state-run firms can channel China–Africa trade through extra-market decisions that influence flows, yet, ultimately, Beijing's ability to direct trade with Africa is constrained by market forces. Despite suggestions that shared illiberalism drives China–Africa trade the author concludes that five interrelated causal factors overwhelmingly determine China–Africa trade: China's comparative advantage in labor-intensive and capital-intensive production; Africa's abundant natural resource endowments; China's rapid economic growth; China's emphasis on infrastructure building at home and in Africa; and the emergence of economies of scale in China's shipping and light manufacturing sectors.     

China Goes to Africa: a strategic move?

Entering the twenty-first century, particularly under the reign of Hu Jintao, China began to pursue an increasingly pro-active diplomacy in Africa. Most analysis on China's offensive diplomacy in Africa focuses on Beijing's thirst for energy and raw materials, and for economic profits and benefits. That is why it is often called ‘energy diplomacy’ or ‘economic diplomacy’ as if China, just like Japan in the 1980s, became another ‘economic animal’. But if one looks at the history of the PRC's foreign policy, Beijing has seldom pursued its diplomacy from purely economic considerations. Is this time any different? This article exams China's diplomacy in Africa from a strategic and political perspective such as its geo-strategic calculations, political and security ties with African countries, peacekeeping and anti-piracy efforts in the region, support for African regionalism, etc. It argues that China's diplomatic expansion in Africa, while partially driven by its need for economic growth, cannot be fully understood without taking into consideration its strategic impulse accompanying its accelerating emergence as a global power. Africa is one of China's diplomatic ‘new frontiers’ as exemplified by new Chinese leader Xi Jinping's maiden foreign trip to Africa in 2013.     

The Determinants of Provincial Presence at the CCP Central Committees, 1978–2002: an empirical investigation

Drawing on provincial-level time-series cross-section data for the period of 1978–2002, I test hypotheses on the determinants of Chinese Communist Party Central Committee (CC) membership shares for incumbent officials from different provinces. I find that officials from more populous provinces tended to take up higher alternate CC membership shares, but lower full CC membership shares. While urbanization is negatively associated with provincial alternate CC membership shares, there is little support for the role of other economic variables. The constrained nature of alternate CC membership implies greater ‘symbolic representation’ for the more populous and rural provinces on the national level in this period. These findings, based on considerations of distinct categories of CC membership, do not corroborate arguments sweepingly attributing CC representation to either provincial economic resources or performance.     

China in Africa: presence,perceptions and prospects

This article reports and analyzes China's presence in Africa with an emphasis on how that has been perceived by the Africans. Based on the findings from surveys and field research conducted in eight sub-Saharan African countries and interviews with scholars and practitioners from other African countries as well as Chinese and Americans in Africa, we outline the diverse, complicated and evolving African perceptions about China's explosive presence in general and the booming Chinese business activities in particular that now range from love to suspicion. Our findings about how China is perceived in Africa suggest that Beijing has acquired substantial goodwill in Africa yet is developing deep issues and facing uncertain challenges and growing obstacles.     

Taiwan's Foreign Policy and Africa: The limitations of dollar diplomacy

The search for status, or more correctly, the desire to maintain status, lies at the heart of the Republic of China on Taiwan's (ROC) foreign policy. This is particularly so vis-a ¤ -vis its official state-to-state relations. In this regard, the ROC has been constrained by a conscious policy by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to try and marginalize Taiwan on the international stage. Due to objective realities, Taiwan has had to become satisfied with maintaining official state relations with small states only. All, with the exception of the Vatican, are in the developing world, with a number in Africa. This paper examines Taiwanese foreign policy and its diplomatic initiatives, with particular reference to its use of 'dollar diplomacy' in its activities in Africa. The constraints and limitations of such policies are drawn out.     

俄罗斯大部制改革及其评析

俄罗斯从2003年至2008年进行了一场以联邦权力执行机构大部制和行政三分制改革为核心内容的行政改革运动,这是俄罗斯自上世纪九十年代初转轨以来在政治和行政管理领域最重要的事件之一。本文运用中外最新的资料和数据全面、细致地描述了俄罗斯俄罗斯大部制改革的过程和制度安排,深入分析了改革的效果及其背后的原因,并结合我国的实际情况提出了推进大部制改革需要注意的几个问题。     

Eradicating Extreme Poverty,the CPC's Historic Feat

T HE Communist Party of China (CPC) turns 100 in 2021,making it a year of celebration and of historical and symbolic significance for the Chinese people.Under its leadership,China has achieved spectacular development and succeeded in eradicating extreme poverty all over the country. With the centennial celebration of the CPC,the big question that many people have in mind is how the People's Republic of China managed to eradicate extreme poverty on its soil during a span of only sev-eral decades,a goal set by the United Nations which seemed at first a utopian,theoretical conception for many countries,especially in Africa.     

New Era,Great Prospects

African studies are gaining promi-nence in China,as the country forges closer ties with Africa. At the end of last year,the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS),one of the leading think-tanks in China,issued a strategic report on China-Africa relations and submitted it to China's top leadership. Beijing Review reporter Liu Wei spoke to Li Weijian,Director of the Department of West Asian and African Studies at SIIS,who headed the strate-gic report project,on the evolving relations between Chi...     

A Neo-Colonialist Predator or Development Partner? China's engagement and rebalance in Africa

While China has found niches based on its comparative advantages and gained a solid ground in Africa, its almost single-minded way of pursuing business interests without regard to many issues of local and international concern has caused backlashes. Learning lessons the hard way, China has made efforts to adjust such insensitive business practices in recent years, motivated by its changing economic and strategic interests.     

高校英语教学中的生态理念

当前英语作为使用最广泛的国际通用语已“渗透”到我国社会的各个层面。在愈演愈烈的英语热中，如何保持清醒头脑，在学习英语和借鉴西方文化精华的同时，维护本民族语言文化的独立性和纯洁性，并关注世界语言的生态平衡，是高校外语教学中的一个重要课题。     

China–Africa Cooperation: promises,practice and prospects

Chinese engagement in African states has increased tremendously over the last decade, much in line with Chinese globalisation strategies and supported by state encouragement and financial support. The size and potential of China as a world power leads to the level of expectations the country faces from the developing world. However, some elements of these expectations are also created through political discourses which emphasise differences with Western countries. The types of promises that the Chinese leadership makes to create such enthusiastic welcome amongst African political leaders are linked closely to the discourse on South–South cooperation. Albeit different from Western development assistance promises and parallel attempts to produce moderate expectations, the current discourse is thus partly sowing the seeds for future disappointment. This article takes a closer look at the discussions around South–South cooperation in China–Africa relations and at key rhetorical features (‘mutual benefit’; ‘non-interference’) and at the practice of this cooperation. It concludes that the Chinese discourse is creating large public expectations in African countries and while China delivers on many projects, its impact on development is less certain. The overall development success of this strategy builds on longer-term success and is implicitly linked to the occurrence of more reforms in Africa. Chinese policy thus ‘bets on the future’ in their foreign relations with Africa; the success of this strategy is dependent on political circumstances among the partners that are largely beyond Chinese control. In a number of cases, it can thus be expected that currently up-beat political rhetoric is going to meet obstacles that will require adjustments in a discourse that, in its current form, might undermine Chinese credibility if not the core elements of South–South cooperation altogether.     

论当代法治建设中的人文关怀

我国近年来的法治建设取得了巨大的成就,但也存在不少问题,很重要的一点就是缺少对人的关怀和重视。根据我国当前的国情,加强当代法治建设的人文关怀,需要构建彰显人文精神的法律体系,培养以人为本的法律精神以及在司法实践中加强人文关怀。