How Healthy Is China''''s Stock Market?

It seems that China is on a roll. The world’s fourth largest economy now has a high flying stock market. According to Shang Fulin, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, China’s booming stock market, previously having a poor reputation, should be attributed to the almost concluded split share reform that requires the country’s listed companies to convert their state holdings to tradable shares. Investors are now thrilled at soaring stock indexes.     

Is There a Road Ahead?

As the Iranian nuclear issue was submitted to the UN Security Council, observers are not entirely pessimistic about the outlook for resolving the problem. Hua Liming, former Chinese Ambassador to Iran, comments on the issue in an article carried in the People's Daily Overseas Edition. His main ideas follow:     

Is China Losing its Appeal to Foreign Capital?

正CHINA,as an emerging economy,has experienced slowing economic growth since 2013.For the fi rst eight months of 2014,foreign direct investment(FDI)into non-financial sectors edged down 1.8percent from the same period in 2013.Certain domestic and overseas media have come to the conclusion that the frenzied infl ux of foreign capital into China is cooling down.But     

Is Overseas Relocation The Way to Salvage China''''s Ancient Houses?

A 200-year-old greater ancient teahouse called Cuipingju in Shitai County, Anhui Province, was scheduled to be sold to a Swedish businessman for 200,000 yuan, as the owner was financially overburdened for the routine maintenance of the property. But after intensive media coverage of the deal in early July, the local government immediately identified Cuipingju as a cultural relic and the sale was canceled.     

Is There“Backsliding”in China's Human Rights?——On US-China Dispute over Human Rights

On March 30. 2004, the Information Office of the State Council of China issued a white paper entitled Progress in China's Human Rights Cause in 2003. This is the seventh white paper ever published by the Office to expound China's human rights conditions and its views since 1991, when it first issued Human Rights in China. Based on solid facts, the latest Chinese white paper on human rights, as well as the previous ones, elaborates convincingly the efforts made by the Chinese government to promote and protect human rights and progress in China's human rights conditions, refuting the alleged "China's backsliding in human rights" made up by the US government.     

Is the ‘Circuit Breaker' to Blame for the Stock Market Fall?

正In an effort to tame the frenzied stock market last year,the China Securities Regulatory Commission(CSRC)implemented a"circuit breaker"mechanism to mitigate the impact of future fluctuations.The mechanism started operating on January 4,but was subsequently responsible for the early end of the first day of trading in 2016.(Editor’s note:China has introduced the"circuit breaker"mechanism to follow the Hushen     

Foreign Bestsellers in China:A License to Print Profits?

Autobiographies of Western political and sports figures sit beside tell-alls by captains of industry and self-help books in China's bookshops.     

Is‘Made in China’ Bust?

正The manufacturing industry will undergo a disruptive,but creative period China is facing challenges in its economic horizon.The sharp fluctuations of its stock and foreign exchange markets in January have cast a gloomy light on its fnan-     

Is Swimming in the Nude in Public Places Acceptable Behavior?

Swimming has become a popular sport for both young and old in China as it doesn't require complicated equipment and it is easy to get access to water. Even in winter, it is common to see people plunging into the icy waters of a river or lake. But when some people do so without any clothing, controversy arises. This winter, in some places in Lanzhou, in northwest China's Gansu Province, such     

Luxury in China:Where Is It Headed?

China tops the world in luxury spending, but is there room for the country’s buddinghomegrown brands? After having lived in France for four years,Jiang Jianlong developed a propensity for luxurygoods.     

Is There Hope for Firms Facing the Technology Gap? A case of China's mobile industry

We have examined the way in which local firms in China's handset industry, confronted with a technology gap, have achieved growth, using the concept of boundaries of the firm. Chinese local firms have lacked technology, and have therefore turned to outside firms for development, design, and manufacturing in some cases. On the other hand, they themselves have focused on sales and marketing, using their advantage of familiarity with the home market. Consequently, by establishing a growth condition in which their selection of boundaries counterbalances the technology gap, they have been able to expand their market shares in comparison with foreign firms.     

How Much Surplus Labor Is in the Countryside?

The long-held belief of an inexhaustible surplus of labor in rural areas of China is fading fast.Amid worries over its aging popula- tion,China is confronted with serious challenges to sustain its labor supply so as to shore up its growing economy.How to fur- ther transfer the remaining surplus labor into cities and how to improve the quality of Chinese laborers are questions the country faces.The Guangming Daily,a newspaper based in Beijing,con- ducted an interview with Cai Fang,an economist and Director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,to delve into China's labor dilemma.Cai gave his opinions in the following excerpts:     

Is Facial Recognition Technology Being Abused in Classrooms?

正Today, facial recognition technology is being used in many public places. Recently,China Pharmaceutical University, which is based in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province,instal ed a facial recognition system in some classrooms as a trial run to prevent students     

China Is in?the?Mind of Every Arab and Muslim

正CHINA has a strong relationship with Kuwait,characterized by continuous improvements and mutual respect.To shed more light on these relations,China Today sat down with Kuwait’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China Mohammed Saleh Ahmed Al-Thuwaikh.     

Is It OK to Install Video Cameras in Taxicabs?

Wuhu City in Anhui Province initiated a program to install GPS video surveillance and alarm systems in taxicabs across the city in August.It is projected that all of the city's 3,024 cabs will be equipped with security cameras by mid-October.Wuhu is not alone in adopting such a system.Several other Chinese cities,including Chongqing,Xi'an and Nanchang,have engaged in a similar campaign.     

Is It Appropriate to Quote Classic Works in Court?

When a Beijing resident surnamed Zhang signed a property transaction agreement with his mother, she refused to pay for the house.Zhang’s mother, a 85-year-old woman surnamed Lu, sued her for breaking the     

Child Well-Being: Where Is It in Our Data Systems?

Child well-being is a required goal for public child welfare. Despite this requirement, there continues to be no systematic inclusion of child well-being indicators in administrative data, particularly for children remaining in the home. This brief commentary provides a rationale and suggested steps for moving toward inclusion of well-being indicators as a part of standard electronic record-keeping. Suggested operationalized elements for inclusion in electronic records are offered as well as suggestions for linkage across systems to begin to capture elements of the outcome of well-being automatically. Limitations and barriers are discussed as well as present policy changes that may provide support for this endeavor.     

Is Controversy Over TV Editing A Storm in a B-Cup?

<正>Dear Readers,Forum is a column that provides a space for varying perspectives on contemporary Chinese society.We invite you to submit personal viewpoints on past and current topics(in either English or Chinese).yanwei@bjreview.com Please provide your name and address along with your comments     

Is procrastination all that “bad”? A qualitative study of academic procrastination and self-worth in postgraduate university students

ABSTRACT

Most of the existing literature investigated the construct of procrastination using quantitative paradigms—primarily self-administered questionnaires. However, such approaches seem to limit insight, elaboration, and deeper understanding of central facets that might influence procrastination. The present qualitative study explored how a sample of postgraduate students from Cambridge University represented academic procrastination framed within their personal perspectives and context using semistructured interviews. This study extends the existing quantitative literature by adding students’ personal narratives and voices. Ten postgraduate students were interviewed and the data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The preponderance of the literature on academic procrastination has described it as a maladaptive and detrimental behavior. However, the present study found evidence which supports the existence of a positive form of procrastination as well which suggests that procrastination can sometimes be worthwhile and allow further thinking time, allowing students to do a task and enable them to give more attention to detail which suggests a reconsideration of the negative image commonly associated with procrastination.