Hope Springs Eternal

During the Double 11 online shopping festival season, Liu Lu, a 28-year-old res-taurant owner in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, "purchased" something rather special on Taobao, one of China's leading online shopping platforms. With 66 yuan ($10.32), he made a dona-tion to the online store of the China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF), which will be used to buy stationery, sports goods, musical instruments and other things for children in need, such as those who suffered accidents, or those living in remote rural areas whose parents work in large cities—the left-behind children.     

WINGS OF TECHNOLOGY

In December 2020,a new type of apple,named"the Super Apple,"debuted at supermarkets across China.Before reaching the market,the product had undergone over500 tests by Geneva-headquartered SGS,a multinational inspection,verification,testing and certification service provider,showing no signs of pesticide residue.     

SMART POWER

正Technological progress is key to the future If technological breakthroughs can be made in the next 65 years at a speed comparable to that of the past 65 years, future technological development will be even faster, famed American cryptographer and scholar Whitfield Diffie said during a session on artificial intelligence(AI) at the Boao Forum for Asia(BFA) Annual Conference on April 19.     

我国农民工心理健康与保护策略研究概述(2010-2019年)

农民工从乡村到城市后,面对就业收入、子女教育、人际关系等剧烈变化的陌生环境,往往承受着较大的心理压力。过高压力可能带来诸多社会和医学问题,导致事故、酗酒、意外伤亡、自杀和家庭破裂,使社会蒙受巨大损失。解决农民工心理健康问题牵涉到社会保障、城市管理、工业发展等工作,需要政府及卫生部门、安监部门、社会保障部门等密切配合,供给有效保护农民工心理健康的社会政策。     

Ester Sin-man Leung:《法庭的語言鑑證》(Forensic Linguistics in the Courtroom)

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique -     

KEEPING IT NEUTRAL

Yang Zhongyong, a farmer in Anji, a county known as the Kingdom of Bamboo in Zhejiang Province, would never have dared to imagine making money out of "thin" air. But this actually became a reality through the bamboo forest he had grown. At the price for carbon quotas announced at China's national carbon market in Shanghai on its opening day of July 16, Yang stood to gain more than 370,000 yuan ($57,831) from the carbon emission trading of his bamboo forest.     

Is the Chinese ‘entrepreneurial welfare state’ an industrial policy in disguise?

Abstract

What has driven China, a developing country that has only recently saved itself from nationwide poverty, to increase its investment in social welfare so rapidly and extensively in the past decade? Drawing on extensive field research in a prefecture-level district in southwest China between 2014 and 2017, the authors argue in this article that local governments in China provide welfare housing programmes as a veil for developmentalist industrial policies aimed at industrial upgrading and the improvement of dynamic efficiency. The article demonstrates the unique incentive structure behind the local Chinese governments’ role as the front-line investor in social welfare benefits, and how the local state has cunningly used the façade of welfare provision to (1) divert the earmarked budget to implement development-oriented industrial policy; and (2) fake a discursive congruence between the heavily interventionist local practice and the overall neoliberal central-level policy discourse that features deregulation, small government and a laissez-faire developmental pathway. Exploring this set of strategic dynamics underlining the manoeuvres of the Chinese welfare operation helps us understand the variability of welfare state forms and trajectories of developmental strategy in the Global South.     

巴基斯坦三军情报局揭秘

不久前,英国挫败恐怖分子炸机阴谋,让无数人长舒了一口气.心惊胆颤之后,人们把目光投向这场危机的化解者--英国军情五处和伦敦警察局反恐特别小组,各种赞美、奖励和期望接踵而来.但实际上,这场胜仗还有一个功臣,它虽身处幕后,但却发挥了极其关键的作用,它就是巴基斯坦三军情报局.     

鸡传染性支气管炎病毒分子变异机理和免疫机理的研究进展

为阐释鸡传染性支气管炎病毒(avian infectious bronchitis virus,IBV)的高变异特性及其原因,从IBV的不同病变型、分子变异及免疫机理几方面概述了IBV的研究进展,提出了IBV基因组突变、免疫压力和不同毒株基因组间的同源重组所导致的病毒血清型、基因型和组织嗜性的改变是造成免疫失败的主要原因。