106 research outputs found
Manufacturing sector FDI and performance of domestic banks
No full text[Extract] Since the market reform in the late 1970s, China's economy has been growing quickly, to which the manufacturing sector has made significant contribution. One characteristic of development in China's manufacturing sector is the importance of foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI in the manufacturing sector has been found to affect domestic firms' productivity (see, for example, Buckley et al., 2002, 2007a, 2007b; Li et al., 2001; Liu, 2002, 2008; Sun, 2011; Xu and Sheng, 2012a, 2012b) and exports (see for example Sun, 2009, 2010; Swenson, 2008) in China. In the same period, China's banking sector, a major funding source for firm production and exporting activities, has also experienced significant development. For example, from 2005 to 2010, the four major commercial banks in China have all been listed in the stock market
Patterns of industrial dynamics in the manufacturing sector
No full textThis chapter investigates the industrial dynamics in Chinese manufacturing sector, where we find two common properties that also hold in many previous studies, namely the Gibrat's Law and a typical tent shape of growth rate distribution. We further connect the growth rate distribution with the average firm size in a sector and the industrial policy regime shift that occurred in China in 2006. A 'big sector effect' and 'policy regime shift effect' are found, where bigger sectors tend to have growth rate distributions with a fatter tail but smaller dispersion and the policy regime shift also exerts similar impact
Comparison of Engineering Education in Norway and China
No full textThe Washington Accord is an internationally recognized agreement in engineering education of undergraduates. China joined the agreement as the 18th member country in 2016. The exploration technology and engineering major of China University of Petroleum has obtained the professional certification from international engineering education system and will adopt the international standards of personnel training that is substantially equivalent to the Washington Accord to train students. Based on the personal experience of two years of study abroad combining with the major, the author compares the difference of engineering education at home and abroad. At the same time, according to the domestic actual situation of education and the overall situation of students, the author gives corresponding opinions and improvement methods.</jats:p
Regional Environmental Performance and Its Determinants in China
No full textA growing awareness of environmental quality has placed increased pressure on China to improve environmental protection and regulations in the country. How have the regional economies in the country performed in terms of environmental efficiency? The answer to this question is yet to be explored in the case of China. The objective of this paper is to present a quantitative analysis of environmental performance in China's regional economies and to examine the determinants of regional variation in performance. The findings are used to draw policy implications for environmental protection and are helpful in the discussion of China's future sustainable development. Copyright (c) 2010 The Author Journal compilation (c) 2010 Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Designing three-dimensional acicular sheaf shaped BiVO4/reduced graphene oxide composites for efficient sunlight-driven photocatalytic degradation of dye wastewater
No full textA simple and cost-effective method for the tailored synthesis of uniform three dimensional (3D) acicular sheaf shaped BiVO4 architectures under mild conditions was designed, where the as-synthesized BiVO4 products were then incorporated with prepared reduced graphene oxide (RGO) sheets to form novel BiVO4/RGO composites. The obtained composites were well characterized with the aid of various techniques to study their morphological, physical, optical, and photo-chemical properties. Photocatalytic performances of the pure 3D BiVO4 architectures and BiVO4/RGO composites have been evaluated by investigating the degradation of Rhodamine B-contained wastewater under natural sunlight irradiation, where the BiVO4/RGO composites displayed enhanced sunlight-driven photocatalytic activities. The effects of the active species involved in the photocatalytic process and the cycle-stability of the as-obtained BiVO4/RGO photocatalysts have also been examined. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Engineering, EnvironmentalEngineering, ChemicalSCI(E)[email protected]; [email protected]
Introduction and editorial overview — In search of new sources of growth: what China should do next?
No full text[Extract] Welcome to this special issue of Singapore Economic Review on “In Search of New Sources of Growth: What China Should Do Next”!
In the past three decades, remarkable achievements have been made in China’sdevelopment, with economic growth averaged at around 9% per annum. Rapid economic growth benefits ordinary Chinese, as can be observed that more and more Chinese travel overseas, for sight-seeing, shopping and even hunting for real estate assets. Coupled with these remarkable achievements are a number of challenges that are exerting an increasingly significant constraint on China’s road ahead, such as environmental pollutions, income inequality and regional disparities. For example, the widely spread smog in China’s major cities is likely to affect people’s health in a negative way
Application Research on Energy Saving Technology of Waste Heat Recovery and Defrosting for Low Temperature Cold Storage
No full textIn this paper, a glycol defrosting system using waste heat exhaust from refrigeration compressor is designed. The defrosting numerical model, heat transfer model and frost growth model were established. The frost thickness, defrosting heat consumption and ethylene glycol flow rate were calculated, and the ethylene glycol pipeline was designed. The project solves the problems of traditional defrosting of cold storage, such as high power consumption, fluctuation of storage temperature, hidden danger of safety, high condensation temperature and low efficiency of refrigeration system
Data governance and open sharing in the fields of life sciences and medicine: A bibliometric analysis
No full textObjective This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of literature related to data governance and open sharing in the fields of life sciences and medicine, so as to clarify the characteristics of publications and explore research hotspots and trends. Methods A total of 2529 valid documents published in the Web of Science Core Collection database from 2000 to 2024 were included in this study. VOSviewer was used for co-occurrence analysis, while CiteSpace was employed for clustering, burst detection, and thematic evolution analysis. Results Between 2000 and 2024, the number of studies on data governance and open sharing in the fields of life sciences and medicine has increased annually, indicating the growing importance of research in this area. The USA led as the country with the most research output in this field. The University of Oxford was the institution with the highest publication volume, Amy L. McGuire was the most active author, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association were the most frequent publication outlets. The most cited reference was ‘Comment: The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship’. Conclusions Topics such as the FAIR principles, ethical issues, public attitudes toward data sharing, data quality, databases, and big data analysis techniques are hotspots in this field. Potential research frontiers include the FAIR principles, data quality, public trust and attitudes toward data sharing, the application of artificial intelligence technology in data governance and sharing, governance and sharing of epidemiological and public health data, governance and sharing of data on chronic diseases such as diabetes, and the construction of data governance models
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