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112844
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China's food security is a cornerstone of China's socioeconomic stability and a key issue for the world food market. Over the past twenty years, China has seen its food production generally rising commensurately with population growth. There has been need for only minimal supplements from the world grain market, despite recurrent natural disasters and two episodes of precipitate output fall. Underlying China's strong grain security is the government's full support for agricultural production, tight control on land use and some strategic use of the world market. In future, China's continued food security will largely depend on the government's capacity to address short- and long-term climate and environmental challenges.
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112842
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This article reflects upon contemporary education in Chinese diplomacy covering three aspects: curriculum contents, teaching methods and teaching goals. It argues that the curriculum contents have the following shortcomings: poor awareness of the real problems in China's diplomatic practices, lack of global awareness that is consistent with China's image as a great country, blurring of the boundaries between academic and policy systems, oversight of practices and lack of good understanding of ancient, early modern and contemporary Chinese diplomacy and lack of adequate training in research methodologies. Teaching methods are problematic as the continued dependence on traditional historical research methods has failed to recognise the usefulness of theoretical analytic tools. Also, the value of case studies has not been fully recognised and utilised. With regard to teaching goals, Chinese diplomatic teaching desperately needs some vitality. This article makes recommendations for improving Chinese education in diplomacy, such as applying psychology in diplomatic education, offering a course on comparative diplomacy, developing a course on diplomacy theory, emphasising diplomatic history and improving the training in social sciences research methodologies.
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112838
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This article is based on data from 32 Chinese transnational corporations in the energy and manufacturing sectors. The results demonstrate a positive correlation, after the reforms, between the proportion of state-owned shares and corporate governance performance in Chinese TNCs. There is found to be no linkage between the proportion of corporate shares and corporate governance performances. The proportion of outstanding shares and corporate governance performance show a positive correlation.
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112845
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2012.
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Shi Tianjian's whole academic career was devoted to the understanding of citizens' values and behaviours in China. With exceptional competence in survey design and analysis, he aimed at explaining how citizens perceive and interact with politics within the Chinese cultural and institutional context. His studies on the Chinese case are at the same time closely integrated with the debates about political culture and institutions. Throughout his career, his work closely engaged concepts and paradigms in comparative political studies as well as general social science. That way, his work provided and continues to provide ample opportunities for scholarly debates and further advancement.
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112837
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2012.
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This article investigates the spatial determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) at the provincial level in China. Pecuniary externalities and technological externalities are the two main reasons behind the concentration of FDI in China. This article examines the resulting imbalance in the regional distribution of FDI among China's 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. It takes a novel approach to further investigate the role of innovation efficiency. This is also an indicator of technological externality. Panel data sets from 1999 to 2007 reveal that in attracting FDI, the domestic regional markets and foreign markets have substitution effects with one another based on the samples representing the national, eastern and central provinces. This effect, however, is not found in the samples from the western provinces.
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112839
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2012.
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This article studies the influence of the institutional environment on Chinese enterprises' selection of entry mode for overseas investment from three dimensions: regulation, normalisation and imitation mechanisms. The results show that the regulation mechanism has a significant influence on the choice of mode of entry for overseas investment. Chinese enterprises tend to make investments in the form of acquisitions and wholly-owned subsidiaries in countries with sound policies, laws and formal institutional factors. The normalisation mechanism takes into consideration the influence of informal institutional factors including cultural distance mainly through adjustment of ownership mode. The greater the cultural distance between the host country and China, the higher the possibility that Chinese enterprises will opt for the joint venture mode of entry. The imitation mechanism takes into account the degree of integration between parent and subsidiary companies. Chinese enterprises which are highly integrated are likely to enter the local market via greenfield investment. Unlike the transnational enterprises of many developed countries, international experience has no significant impact on Chinese enterprises' choice of mode of entry for overseas investment.
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112841
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2012.
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After opening its doors to foreign trade and investment in 1978, China has become the largest recipient of inward foreign direct investment among developing and transition economies. The early policy of investment attraction, by means of fiscal incentives and special economic zones, has been relaxed now that many, though still not all, operating environment deficiencies have been effectively addressed and strong domestic enterprises have developed. While China remains the developing world's favourite investment destination, the government is adopting a more selective approach that may result in slower IFDI growth. The global crisis reduced FDI inflows to China, but this impact was lower than in many other FDI destinations, and flows have recovered considerably.
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112843
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2012.
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The competency of the Chinese health bureaucracy has long been questioned in light of past healthcare reform failures. This article, however, by analysing the case of the Fujian Provincial Health Bureau and a policy intervention led by it aimed at curbing rampant cost inflation, demonstrates that with a conducive political environment and firm policy determination, it is possible to achieve effective cost containment without touching fundamental economic levers. The health bureaucracy is not inherently incapable. It still possesses essential authority and policy instruments to exercise strong stewardship. The reassertion of its legitimacy, reinforcement of government stewardship, restoration of the collapsed accountability mechanisms and realignment of government tools epitomise the experiences of Fujian's healthcare reforms.
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112840
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2012.
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Since 2000, China's outward foreign direct investment has grown rapidly due to the government strongly encouraging Chinese enterprises to "go global". Thus far, the bulk of the investment has gone into the primary and tertiary sectors, with relatively little going into manufacturing. Most investments are concentrated in Asia, but they are now spreading throughout the world. Much of it passes through tax havens. The government has been slow to tackle administrative obstacles facing Chinese companies wishing to invest abroad. However, the global financial crisis has presented opportunities for Chinese multinationals to raise their stake in the world economy.
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