Rethinking the Role of State-owned Enterprises in China’s Rise

The massive overseas expansion of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is a central aspect of China’s ‘rise’ to great-power status. There is significant disagreement, however, over how to interpret SOEs’ role. Are they instruments of Chinese statecraft, being directed purposefully from Beijing as part of a ‘grand strategy’? Or are they relatively autonomous, profit-maximising businesses, their free-wheeling behaviour often undermining Chinese foreign policy? Finding that there is evidence for both theses, we provide a framework to explain this. We propose theorising party-state/SOEs relations using the concepts of state transformation and regulatory statehood. We show that the Chinese state’s fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation since the late 1970s has substantially increased SOE autonomy and weakened but also transformed the executive’s control, reconfiguring it towards a regulatory mode of governance. Party-state/SOEs relations are thus characterised not by direct command and control but weak oversight and ongoing struggles within the party-state. We illustrate this using a case study of China Power Investment Corporation and its Myitsone hydropower dam project in Myanmar. Here, a central SOE clearly defied and subverted central regulations, profoundly damaging Sino-Myanmar state-to-state relations. Party-state authorities are now struggling to rein in this and other central SOEs.     

试析城镇化战略中的农民科学素养提升——基于角色转型的视角

本文在城镇化战略背景下基于角色转型视角,着重分析引导农民提升科学素养的动力与路径,包括实现角色意识、思想观念、社会权利、行为模式和生产生活方式的变迁,并提出需要从宏观历史和制度变迁的层面、从中观的社会网络与社会资本的层面、从微观的人力资本层面,有效地帮助提升农民科学素养,从而在有序推进农民市民化的实践中,为在角色群体的内涵上实现真正的转型打下坚实的基础.     

Modern Money Theory and Distributive Justice

Modern money theory is a conjecture concerning fiscal spending and the nature of money. I show that modern money theory provides two interesting insights into distributive justice that have not been addressed in the recent Anglo-American distributive justice literature: (i) that the nature of a sovereign fiat currency allows for some distributive conflicts to be avoided; and (ii) that recent Anglo-American distributive justice theories assume that the economy is at capacity. Based on this, I consider whether the policy results of modern money theory can help foster a sense of justice.     

均衡视角下集体化转型对中小企业劳动关系的影响研究

当前我国劳动关系出现集体化新趋势,这必将对中小企业劳动关系产生深远影响。为适应新趋势,中小企业首先要进一步规范个别劳动关系,并在此基础上逐步构建适合中小企业特点的集体劳动关系,同时要在理念、方式和机制上进行变革。     

Government intervention,sectoral productivity growth and structural transformation

This article examines the long-term impact of government intervention and sectoral productivity on structural transformation. We construct a multi-sector Dynamic General Equilibrium model that explicitly incorporates government intervention as a force of structural transformation. The government affects the economy through taxation and lump sum transfers. We show that in the steady state, a reduction in the tax rate and an increase in sectoral productivity will decrease the agricultural employment share, and when nonhomotheticity of preference is strong enough, these changes can also increase the share of services employment.     

重点国有林区产业结构综合效益的影响及评价

通过测算2003~2013年重点国有林区产业结构综合效益指数Z及产业结构贡献份额指数Z',对林区产业结构综合效益进行综合评价,得到以下主要结论:2003~2013年Z值与Z'值均大于零,反映了期间林区产业结构效益较好,产业结构实现了一定程度的优化;2005~2010年Z值与Z'值的变动趋势始终保持很高的一致性水平,说明产业结构调整长期以来对重点国有林区产业结构效益及经济发展具有重要影响;2003~2004年Z值和Z'值的变动趋势是相反的,Z值上升,Z'值下降,说明技术进步因素对改善林区产业结构效益同样具有积极作用。建议进一步调整和优化产业结构,增加产业发展的技术含量,为重点国有林区充分应对全面停伐新常态提供支撑。     

现代林业运营绩效评估研究——以新疆为例

论述新疆现代林业运营现状,建立现代林业运营绩效评估体系,应用ANP方法确定评估指标的局部优势度与全局优势度,构建现代林业运营绩效评估模型,科学测度2005~2014年新疆现代林业运营绩效,结果表明:新疆现代林业运营整体绩效呈现上升趋势,但整体水平薄弱;新疆干旱区营林生产、林产加工绩效弱化且波动显著,林业生态与服务、林业发展贡献绩效持续优化;森林病虫害防治低下、林业生态建设用水投入量减少、家具制造业优势不足、传统林业产业项目路径锁定等是制约新疆现代林业运营绩效的关键因素。为切实提升新疆现代林业运营绩效,提出建立森林病虫害生态防治机制、确保林业用水安全、提升家具等木材精深加工产业的技术增值能力、加快推进林产加工业结构调整、持续挖掘林业旅游与特色林果业的发展潜能等建议。     

变电设备红外线热成像诊断技术的准确性分析

红外诊断技术是一种新型诊断技术,为变电设备的热诊断提供了很好的诊断方式,该种诊断方式有着不解体、直观性、快速性、准确性的特征,也适宜用在大面积检测中,同时,该种诊断技术也能够与其他检测方式联合使用,定位故障的具体位置,这就可以有效提升检修的便利性。但是,影响红外线热成像诊断技术准确率的因素是多种多样的,在进行诊断时,必须要合理地控制其测量环境与测量方式。本文主要分析影响红外线热成像诊断技术准确性的因素,并提出相关的解决措施。     

徐州物流业发展现状及对策分析

本文结合现代物流特点,对徐州目前物流业发展状况进行分析,并提出具体解决措施,这些措施为徐州物流业的发展提供很好的借鉴意义。     

终身学习视角下公共图书馆的转型与发展思考

公共图书馆作为公共文化服务体系的重要组成部分,在构建学习型社会的大背景下,为促进终身学习的理念,借鉴国外图书馆的前沿探索,提升人文素质和知识内涵,实现公共图书馆在新的历史形势下自身的转型与发展。