No Looming Baby Boom in China

正YANG Wenzhuang,director of the primary level family planning guidance department of the National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC),has announced that the whole country is preparing to implement the new birth policy of allowing two children for families in which either parent is an only child.The policy is expected to come into force in some provinces in the fi rst quarter of2014.Vice Minster of the NHFPC Wang Pei’an commented that the policy adjustment would not lead to a sharp increase of yearly births;by 2020,the population will be below 1.43 billion,peaking at less than 1.5 billion,far behind the country’s long-term projection.     

New Trend in Economic Development

正THE 2013 Central Economic Work Conference,an annual tone-setting economic meeting attended by top Chinese leaders,listed six major tasks for2014:ensuring food safety,industrial restructuring,controlling debt risks,promoting coordinated development between different regions,improving people’s livelihood and deepening reform and opening-up.     

The Untold History Of Movies

正A well-known American film director working today,Oliver Stone,was invited to attend the Fourth Beijing International Film Festival(BJIFF)between April 16 and 23.During his stay in Beijing,he talked to Beijing Review on film,culture and Sino-American co-production.The following are excerpts from the interview.     

Food Safety Warrior

正A graduate student becomes the latest online phenomenon with his Internet database of problematic food Wu Heng,a 27-year-old postgraduate student in historical geography at Fudan University in Shanghai,never expected the food safety informationsharing website he created a year ago would go viral as it did in May.On May 11 alone the site received 404,000 visits,compared     

论上市公司独立监事制度

独立监事制度有助于提高监事会的独立性,从而强化监事会对董事和经理的监督职能。在对日本和我国台湾外部监事制度进行介绍的基础上,对我国的独立监事规定及实践进行分析,进而提出我国引入独立监事制度的建议。     

我国上市公司独立董事"独立性"的研究

"独立性"是独立董事制度的"基石和灵魂"。但我国的上市公司由于股权结构不合理等因素,造成了这种独立性在实际中的缺位。本文以独立董事独立性的基本标准为研究起点,分析影响我国上市公司独立董事独立性的主要原因,提出了从确定独立性的标准为出发点,建立包括完善独立董事选拔机制以及合理的薪酬制度等措施来提高我国上市公司独立董事的独立性。     

论我国上市公司独立董事制度

从 2 0世纪 90年代开始 ,独立董事制度作为一项规范和完善公司治理结构的制度日益受到世界各主要国家和地区的重视。在我国 ,随着证券市场的发展 ,上市公司暴露出越来越多的问题 ,我国的独立董事制度 ,还不是一项十分成熟的制度。要完善这一制度除了赋予独立董事一定的权利之外 ,更重要的是要加大对独立董事的监管 ,建立自律组织 ,从而在根本上保证独立董事的独立和公正 ,更好地完善公司的智力结构     

Mis-marketing the Conservatives: The Limitations of Style over Substance

Every Tory leader since 1997 has made significant attempts to use marketing; the most recent, Michael Howard, appointed the first ever UK party Marketing Director to head a specialised Marketing Department. However, whilst the Conservatives have made use of the tools of marketing (polling, focus groups, public listening exercises, communication) they have misunderstood the concept of political marketing, which is concerned with creating a unified political product that is responsive to voter demands. Political marketing has hitherto not worked for the Conservative party. This is because there is a lack of a supportive internal culture that accepts the party change necessary to produce a market-orientated political product including policy, leadership and candidates. If political marketing is only used to sell a product that the party elite rather than the British public wants, it will never help the Conservatives regain control of government.     

关于完善我国独立董事制度的探讨

独立董事制度是美、英等金融资本市场较发达国家对上市公司进行公司治理所采用的一种制度。独立董事对完善上市公司治理结构,保护和均衡公司各利益相关者的合法利益,特别是广大中小投资者的利益等方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。文章通过剖析独立董事制度在我国适用的现状,在检讨实践中存在的问题的基础上,提出了完善我国独立董事制度的见解。     

对董事离任义务立法现状的分析及建议

我国现行《公司法》只对董事的在任义务作了规定,而未涉及到董事的离任义务。随着社会经济活动的多元化和复杂化,越来越要求在《公司法》中对董事的离任义务作出规定。应在《公司法》中明确规定董事离任后的竞业禁止义务、禁止篡夺公司机会义务、保守秘密义务、不得与公司从事特定财产交易义务、不得策反公司重要职员义务、不得随意转让其所持股份之义务。