Panda and elephant – contesting animal icons in Thai tourism

In May 2009, during a period of rising political polarization in Thailand, a cub was unexpectedly born in Chiang Mai's Zoo to a pair of Chinese pandas. The authorities used the occasion to boost the crisis-ridden tourism to the northern Thai city, instigating an unprecedented national craze around the tiny cub, and promoting a massive pilgrimage of domestic visitors to the zoo. In a conspicuous act of protest against the prioritization of the foreign pandas, some elephant keepers in the Ayutthya kraal, painted their animals in panda colors, leading to an implicit contest between the two animal icons. In this case study, the wider theoretical and comparative implications of that contest are analyzed. Whereas previous studies of tourists engagement with captive wild animals paid scant attention to its wider social context, the article examines the cultural and economic background of the contest, and the manner in which it became implicated in the process of political polarization between the societal center and the periphery.     

种养殖业保险发展问题分析

农业是国民经济的根基。但是占农业较大比重的种养殖业保险发展比较滞后的问题,削弱了保险服务经济社会的功效。虽然国家实施了一系列的政策性保险,但是种养殖业保险面临的风险较大、管理较弱、人才紧缺、环境不优的问题,限制了这一领域保险的健康快速发展。本文提出,现阶段要通过科学确立其发展模式,建立有效的风险分担机制,加强管理、优化环境,实现种养殖业保险的又好又快发展,服务农业产业发展大局。     

讨论法在《动物法律法规》课程教学中的意义及模式探讨

讨论课是提高《动物法律法规》教学效果的重要方式之一,它不仅能提高学生学习兴趣,巩固和加深所学知识,而且能培养和提高学生的多种能力,并促进教学相长。真正意义上的讨论模式需通过"教师-学生1-学生2-学生3……教师"这样的方式展开。为取得良好教学效果,讨论课上需要教师提出真正抓住学生心思的发问,并要求教师对学生的回答采取宽容的态度。     

Is there a case for revising the UNWTO's Global Code of Ethics to include a new article on the ethical treatment of animals by the tourism industry? A response to the opinion piece by David Fennell

This opinion piece reviews and critiques the opinion piece by David Fennell which presents a proposal for a new article about the ethical treatment of animals to be added to the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics for the tourism industry. The case presented here rests on a detailed examination of the use of the concepts of speciesism and anthropocentrism in the original opinion piece. It finds that, while speciesism is currently a fashionable way to draw parallels between animals and humans, it is dependent on the evidence around the questions of sentience, cognition and consciousness. While there is increasing evidence for animal sentience and cognition, human consciousness is wholly different from that of even the most advanced animals. And, although anthropocentrism is a dominant idea in many forms of political decision making in general, it cannot be used as a stick with which to beat tourism scholarship: many writers on tourism adopt distinctly ecocentric lines of argument, including the concepts of ecotourism and sustainable tourism. The paper also notes that only ca. 30% of UNWTO's national members had given legal recognition to the existing code of ethics nearly 10 years after its ratification by the UN.     

当前内蒙古居民收入分配现状、原因及其对策

当前内蒙古居民收入在稳步增长的同时,出现了城乡、地区、行业收入差距拉大的趋势,特别是农牧民收入水平与全国平均水平相比还存在较大差距。居民收入不平衡的现状不仅直接影响着居民的生活质量,而且在客观上制约了和谐内蒙古的构建。为此,应立足于内蒙古地区优势,通过多种途径,逐步缩小居民收入分配差距,努力提高少数民族贫困居民收入,实现内蒙古地区经济社会的和谐发展。     

On the Differences between English- Chinese Animal Language Connotation and Its Translation

英、汉语言中,动物词汇常发生语义重叠现象,即词汇对应关系。但是由于英、汉两民族长期生活在不同的文化背景中,对同一动物词汇产生不同联想而赋予不同文化内涵,因此,研究和发掘动物习语所承载的文化信息和语言功能,在跨文化交际及翻译中有很大的实用价值。本文采用大量的实例,探讨英汉动物类象征词的语义差异现象,指出动物类词语的内涵在不同的文化中不同之处以及不同动物词的翻译方法。     

肃南县山地草原畜牧业的发展模式

本文以祁连山区的肃南县为实验基础,通过对山地草原牧区生态保护和经济发展之间现存问题的分析,提出了以草原管理,牲畜繁育和产业发展为主要内容的山地草原畜牧业的生态经济发展模式。它将山地草原的生态保护与农户的经济增长兼容起来,从而成为山地草原畜牧业的一个可持续发展模式。     

中国农产品对荷兰出口实证研究

本文运用出口量、出口金额、出口均价等综合指标对我国出口荷兰的农产品进行了总量、结构的统计分析,重点研究了动物类产品、蔬菜类产品、水果类产品的品种构成和出口变化,提出政府应积极发展农产品加工业,培育拳头产品的出口,同时建立起对荷兰农产品标准和贸易法规的跟踪系统,以及对国内生产和出口企业的完备监控体系。