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178441
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China's e-commerce boom has attracted global attention. Existing literature has attributed this development to state initiatives. By examining the interactions between the rising grassroots e-commerce sector and the Chinese state apparatus from the perspective of e-traders in the city of Yiwu, Zhejiang province, this study finds that the Chinese state at different levels has indeed made tremendous efforts to foster the e-commerce industry as a new economic growth engine. However, due to their high ambitions for and anticipation of quick success, coupled with local officials' bureaucratic management of development projects, their endeavours have largely failed to satisfy the needs of grassroots e-traders. Left to fend for themselves, the e-traders regard themselves as self-reliant entrepreneurs who had laid the cornerstone of Yiwu's local e-commerce economy. By taking advantage of the less-regulated business environment given the central state's tolerance and the local state's ignorance, e-traders venture into the uncertain yet profitable e-commerce market. Their entrepreneurial experiences not only lead to their full embrace of the market, but also shape their indifference or resistant attitude towards state intervention in the economy.
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2014.
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Knowledge of the factors driving greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cities is crucial to mitigating China's anthropogenic emissions. In this paper, the main drivers increasing GHG emissions from the Chinese city of Suzhou between 2005 and 2010 were identified and quantitatively analyzed using the Kaya identity and the log-mean Divisia index method. We found that economy and population were the major drivers of GHG emissions in Suzhou, having contributed 162.20% and 109.04%, respectively, to the increase in emissions. A decline in carbon intensity, which was caused by the declining energy intensity and an adjustment to the mixture of power and industrial structures, was the major determinant and accounted for a reduction of 171.24% in GHG emissions. Slowing and maintaining healthy growth rates of economy and population could be the primary and most effective means if Suzhou tries to curb the total emissions over the short term. It may be more realistic for Suzhou to control emissions by optimizing the economic structure for low-carbon industrial development because of the city's relative high energy requirements and low potential to mitigate GHGs by adjusting the energy mixture.
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