This study contributes to the literature discussing food security in China. This study holds food security to rest on two complementary dimensions: food availability and food accessibility. This study looks at both dimensions. It examines the food availability dimension by evaluating the effects of government’s expenditures on agricultural science & technology on China’s grain output. Running

To estimate the relation between FDI and domestic firm exports, this paper employed several variables, such as domestic firm exports for each province, FDI, GDP, average money wage, the number of labors in manufacturing sector, exchange rate, dummy variable about exports processing zones, lots of time dummies. The panel data about these variables contains 4 municipalities and 23 provinces covering

Railway expansion is usually associated with containing and supporting economic growth. This particular research approaches railways from the angle of technological potential. It explores whether railways can drive China towards technology-led growth, and if so, the way in which this process occurs. The study uses a theoretical framework of complementarities adjusting it to the qualitative analysi

Garment industry is the most traditional and the most fashion industry in the world. The sales of the world textile and apparel goods are only lower than the tourism industry and information industry which means it is the world's third largest industry. As the leading province, Guangdong's output, value and export amount of production rank first in the nation for many years. Despite the ra

Thirty-five years after the massive earthquake that shook the city on July 28, 1976, Tangshan residents still live with the scars of the losses and injuries that were suffered. This case study is about possible recent changes to commemorations and public memory in Tangshan. Firstly, it will examine how the Tangshan earthquake is commemorated publicly through monuments, ruins and at schools. Second

Our model suggests that an extra focus on what the customers perceives as quality is needed in order to succeed on emerging mid-markets. As actual quality only matters if it affects perceived quality this information is needed in order to develop “the right product”. It is not only about having a customer focus; rather we suggest that the company must “turn the customer perception into its reality

In this article, ther concept "happiness" is discussed from two angles: subjective aspect and econometrical aspect. After looking back upon Richard. A. Easterlin and Tommy Bengtsson,s brilliant work, I try to use both short-term stress analyses method and subjective explanation to find out the reason of such question: Why Tianjin people feel happier than Beijing and Shanghai which both m