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The EU-China strategic partnership in climate change: the biodiversity programme. EU Diplomacy Paper 02/2011, March 2011
Get PDFThe economic reform in China did not take into consideration consequences such as social adaptation and land degradation. As a result, civil society and environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) are becoming more active and visible actors in China’s environmental politics. Chinese civil society is involved in environ-mental issues by carrying out government functions, but it lacks capabilities and resources to tackle environmental matters alone. This paper examines the European Union’s (EU) cooperation with China in the fight against climate change. It asks to what extent the EU has realised the importance of Chinese civil society in the environmental field and how the latter can play a role in the strategic partnership between the EU and China. It is argued that the shift in the behaviour of Chinese society and its relationship with the government could further improve the EU-China partnership in the fight against climate change. The EU needs to understand the role of Chinese ENGOs in implementing and improving environmental policies in China. The approach of Civic Environmentalism, which focuses on local efforts, introduces a bottom-up perspective in the environmental dialogue. The case of the EU-China Biodiversity Programme serves as an example to illustrate the usefulness of such an approach.
The Malaysia-China Advanced TVET Mobility Programme (MyChat24) offers students a unique experience
Get PDFPEKAN, 2 July 2024 – The Malaysia-China Advanced TVET Mobility Programme (MyChat24) Phase 3 recently took place at Liuzhou Railway Vocational Technical College (LRVTC), China, lasting nine days
Learning on two campuses: students' transition experiences in a China- UK Articulation programme
No full textThis thesis presents a longitudinal ethnographic research study of the intercultural transition experiences of 50 engineering students in the China- UK Articulation programme. The aim is to explore the factors that have influenced their transition and the impact of their transition on the educational context on both campuses. The field work was carried out over fifteen months in China and the UK. Data have been collected mainly through participants observations, document analysis and in-depth interviews with 16 Chinese programme students (3 rounds), 5 home students, 2 international students, 10 Chinese academic and administrative staff, 8 British academic and administrative staff and 2 parents. Data were analysed by using the data analysis principles advocated in grounded theory
Urban Social Exclusion in Transitional China
Get PDFThis paper demonstrates that urban social exclusion in China does not only include restricted participation by the ¿underclass¿ in urban life, but also the deprivation of certain political, social and economic rights. In addition, the paper describes how the character of urban social exclusion has changed over time. The author also examines the social exclusion of rural workers living and working in urban areas. The paper concludes by arguing that urban social exclusion in China needs coordinated reforms that target the whole set of problems in the urban ¿underclass¿ lacking political rights, social protection and economic opportunities.social exclusion, urban China, rural to urban migrants
ADiL benefiting China dairying
No full textThe New Zealand Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme develops emerging agribusiness leaders to help shape the future of New Zealand agribusiness and rural affairs. Lincoln University has been involved with this leaders programme since 1979 when it was launched with a grant from the Kellogg Foundation, USA.This report identifies the opportunity for dairy farm development work in
China, which lead to the formation of the company Agricultural
Developments International Ltd (ADiL's). The report summarises the
challenges and influences effecting ADiL in its quest to find a suitable
starting point for agriculture development in China.
The report covers a number of the influences including cultural beliefs
and practices, macro and micro economic effects, central and local
government drivers, and social and environmental outcomes suitable for
'the people'
On a Chinese screen: media, power, and voice in China
No full textThe previous decade saw widespread discussions about the role of the Internet in reshaping power relations in Chinese society. New media—it was widely believed—would give voice to the poor and downtrodden, allow citizens to better supervise government activity, and foster lively cultural exchanges. Workers would also benefit from this, as the Internet provided them with the tools needed to bring their grievances into the spotlight and enhance their ability to connect with their peers to establish new forms of solidarity. A decade later, what is left of that cyber-utopian discourse? This issue of Made in China offers a series of essays that attempt to answer this question against the backdrop of the latest developments in Chinese politics and society.Made in China is a quarterly newsletter on Chinese labour, civil society, and rights. This project has been produced with the financial assistance of the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU, and the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 654852
Socioeconomic inequalities in hospital births in China between 1988 and 2008.
Get PDFOBJECTIVE: To assess trends in hospital births in China during 1988-2008 in an effort to determine if efforts to overcome financial barriers to giving birth in hospital have reduced the access gap between the rich and the poor. METHODS: Cross-sectional data obtained from four National Health Service Surveys were used to determine trends in hospital births during 1988-2008. Crude and adjusted annual rates were calculated by means of Poisson regression and were used to define trends across socioeconomic regions and households in different income quintiles. FINDINGS: In 2008 women throughout China were giving birth in hospital almost universally except in region IV, the most remote rural region, where the percentage of hospital births was only 60.8. Hospital births in this region had increased steadily before 2002, but after that year the upward trend slowed down. During 1988-2001 the average yearly increase had been 21%, but in 2002-2008 it dropped to 10% (P = 0.0031). Inequalities between socioeconomic regions were greater than among individual households belonging to different income strata. By 2008 the difference between low- and high-income households in the proportion of hospital births had become very small (96.1% and 87.7% of high- and low-income households, respectively, gave birth in hospital that year). CONCLUSION: Most Chinese women now give birth in hospital, but the poorest rural region is still lagging behind. A more active and comprehensive approach will be needed to increase hospital births in these remote, hard-to-reach populations
Sectoral energy demand in China
No full textRAS/86/136Government of The People's Republic of China in cooperation with The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, The United Nations Development Programme, The Government of France. RAS/86/136Funding support from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through Regional Energy Development Programme (REDP) and supplementary funding from the Government of France for the Central Consultant?s Team at AI
Land Contamination and Brownfield Management Policy Development in China: Learning from the UK Experience
Get PDFMing Liu (Department of Science, Technology & Innovation, British Consulate-General Guangzhou), Xia Yang (Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda21) and Paul Wills (UK Trade & Investment) helped discussion and revision of the report. Diogo Gomes (Cranfield University) also provided support for the graphical arts and assisted with the editing.
The authors are grateful to all partners of the SPF project which include a wide team of collaborators and advisors across China and UK for their useful discussions and contribution during the two workshops organised during the project. Government, Academia, Industry and Public bodies have been collaborating together to drive structural changes far beyond the scope of a single organisation.Over the last 30 years, China’s fast urbanisation along with huge expansion of its manufacturing industry has
led to the emergence of significant soil and water contamination problems across China. In the meantime, a number of policies and regulatory agencies for the protection of the environment have been implemented to stop deliberate pollution and more recently to address pollution prevention at source on a wider scale.
Soil protection and management have been featured in policy discussions since the late 1950s in China.
However, the topic has recently been of greatly expanded interest in the development of
emerging policies, particularly with regards to the role of soil as a resource, independent of the functions that it carries out. Soil provides multiple important functions such as provision of food and raw materials, a platform for urban development and human wellbeing and a filtering and transforming media for water, nutrients, and carbon.
However as pointed out by Yuan Si, Deputy Director of the Environmental Protection and
Resources Conservation Committee of the National People Congress (China Daily, 11 March 2016), the move toward integrated management that has been driving policies for air and water has proven to be a challenge for soil management, mainly due to the multiple functions that soils provide. This is also true internationally and explained by several drivers for soil protection including among others soil contamination, construction, agriculture and amenity value.Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Prosperity Fund programme - China Prosperity Strategic Programme Fund (SPF) 15SU3
"China in the Global Economy"
Get PDFChina occupies a unique position among developing countries. Its success in achieving relative stability in the financial sector since the institution of reforms in 1979 has given way to relative instability since the beginning of the current global financial crisis. Over the last few years, China has been on a path of capital account opening that has drawn larger inflows of capital from abroad, both foreign-direct and portfolio investment. Of late, a surge in these inflows has introduced problems for the monetary authorities in continuing with an autonomous monetary policy in China, especially with large additions to official reserves, the latter in a bid to avoid further appreciation of the country’s domestic currency. Like other developing countries, China today faces the “impossible trilemma” of managing the exchange rate with near-complete capital mobility and an autonomous monetary policy. Facing problems in devising and sustaining this policy, China has been using expansionary fiscal policy to tackle the impact of shrinking export demand. The recent drive on the part of Chinese authorities to boost real demand in the countryside and to revamp the domestic market shows a promise far different from that of the financial rescue packages in many advanced nations. The close integration of China with the world economy over the last two decades has raised concerns from different quarters that relate both to (1) the possible effects of the recent global downturn on China and (2) the second-round effects of a downturn in China for the rest of world.Trade Surplus; Official Reserves; Impossible Trillemma; Integration; Capital Account Opening; Financial Crisis; State-owned Enterprises; Stock Markets; Volatility
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