Closing speech

M. Pilliard explained that he was not speaking as an academic, a researcher, a sociologist or a futurologist, but as an industrialist From this starting point he was concerned with broadening the idea of product and extending the role of demand in the search for innovation. He was also concerned with the way in which the different stages of R & D evolution related to the growing interdependence of business with its environment     

关井压产要下真功夫

在去年１１月国务院召开关井压产工作会议之后,各省（区）政府按照全国关井压产领导小组的统一部署,把关井压产作为重点任务来抓,迅速打开了工作局面,形成了良好的氛围。从前段的情况看,发展势头较好,取得了阶段性成果。截止３月底,全国已取缔和关闭各类小煤矿１５...     

Advance Notification of Plant Closing: Does It Matter?

A review of the literature on the empirical effects of advance notification of plant closings (voluntary and mandated), including the authors' recent study using data drawn from the 1984 Survey of Displaced Workers. suggests that advance notice reduces the probalility that displaced workers suffer any spells of unemployment and may also moderated temporary increases in area unemployment rates. There is little evidence of adverse effects of advance notice, either to workers or to firms. The implications for public policy are discussed.     

打好关井压产攻坚战

关闭非法和布局不合理煤矿,是国务院做出的重大决策,是调整煤炭结构、解决总量过剩、实现产需平衡的重要举措,对优化煤炭资源配置、促进煤炭工业健康发展具有重大意义。为部署关井压产工作,国务院于１９９８年１１月１１～１２日在北京召开了“全国煤炭行业关闭非法和...     

Toward Closing the Loop between Infrastructure Investments and Societal and Economic Impacts

The long-term value proposition of transportation infrastructure investments can be significantly distorted if the short-term effects of spatial externalities on land use patterns, economic expansions, and migration patterns are not properly included in the analysis. Some of these effects occur over a short period of time and soon after the investment materializes, whereas others take longer and follow more steady patterns. In this article, we develop a novel dynamical model of a primal society with constructs that are specifically geared toward transportation infrastructure expansions and investments. The model quantifies the impact of these expansions on some key performance indicators and on the overall utility and production capacity of the society. We argue that traditional analytical models that work on the premises of stationary behavior and a static response of society to changes in infrastructure do not correctly capture these effects. The land use patterns and spatial expansion computed from the model are validated against existing theory on land use. Preliminary results on how to use the model for value proposition analysis are also presented using simple case studies.     

《石油工业技术监督》杂志首届理事会闭幕词

你们好!在秋菊正旺、秋风送爽之际，在历史名城古都西安，我们胜利地召开了《石油工业技术监督》杂志社首届理事大会。会上，与会代表认真听取了西安石油大学校长张宁生教授热情洋溢的讲话、中油集团质量安全环保部副主任杨果细致人微的工作报告和《石油工技术监督》杂志社社长秋波同志关于理事会章程的说明，同时还讨论通过了理事会工作报告、理事会章程，选举产生了理事会理事长、副理事长、常务理事、理事及秘书长。让我们对《石油工技术监督》杂志首届理事大     

对关井压产工作的剖析、反思和建议

茅于轼,著名经济学家,１９２９年生于南京。抗战时辗转于大后方,１９５０年毕业于上海交通大学机械系,以后２０余年从事铁道机械机车车辆研究。７０年代中期开始从事运输经济、数理经济的研究。１９８４年从铁道部科学研究院调到中国社会科学院美国研究所。１９９３年...     

Closing the rural broadband gap: Promoting adoption of the Internet in rural America

Even as geographic disparities in high speed Internet access narrow, an urban–rural broadband gap persists, pointing to the importance of individual differences in motivations to adopt broadband as the key to closing the gap. Diffusion of innovation is reconceptualized through contemporary perspectives of the digital divide and social cognitive theory and tested on a survey sample drawn from four rural communities. Path analysis was used to examine the factors that cause broadband Internet service adoption in rural communities. Prior experience with the Internet, the expected outcomes of broadband usage, direct personal experience with broadband, and self-efficacy had direct effects on broadband intentions. Age and income, but not education or ethnicity, also had direct impacts. Efforts that promote the personal benefits of broadband and advanced ICT literacy skills among Internet users are recommended.     

Closing information asymmetries: A scale agnostic approach for exploring equity implications of broadband provision

A persistent challenge for telecommunications policy is the determination of broadband provision footprints in both space and time. In the United States, Form 477 data from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) provide a valuable snapshot of broadband provision at the block level, but there are often inconsistencies with the underlying data. These inconsistencies include overly-optimistic self-reports from providers, requirements to report broadband provision within inflexible census administrative units, and a modest temporal reporting schedule (biannual) with a significant, one year temporal lag. These uncertainties are often compounded by telecommunications providers refusing to disclose any information on service footprints, geographic expansion plans or the characteristics of populations served by broadband. This type of obfuscation drastically limits the ability of policy analysts to evaluate outcomes (both positive and negative) associated with service provision and the digital divide, more generally. With the recent entry of Google Fiber to several metropolitan markets in the United States, many of the broadband reporting and evaluation challenges have re-emerged. The purpose of this paper is to leverage basic data mining techniques, a scale agnostic geographic framework and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA), to uncover the geographic intricacies of Google Fiber (Fiber) service for both Provo, Utah and Austin, Texas and compare them to Form 477 reports. In addition, we use basic statistical approaches to explore issues of broadband access and equity, accounting for the differences in socio-economic and demographic status of the populace served/not served for both cities, as well as basic pricing within and between communities.     

宜将剩勇追穷寇--再谈关井压产

关井压产是国务院作出的重大决策,是调整煤炭工业结构,解决总量过剩,实现国有煤炭企业三年改革与脱困目标的有力举措。我们欣喜地看到,各省区政府对贯彻落实国务院的决策,认识是明确的,态度是坚决的,措施是有力的。经过近半年的艰苦奋战,关井压产取得了阶段性成果...     

优胜劣汰适者生存--谈煤炭企业关闭、破产

优胜劣汰、适者生存,这是市场经济的一大规律。规律实为法则,是事物内部的本质联系和必然的发展趋势。我们搞市场经济,就必须按市场经济规律办事,自觉利用市场经济规律来组织生产经营活动。否则,就会受到客观规律的惩罚。对那些长期亏损、扭亏无望、资不抵债的企业,...     

关停小火电机组对“十一五”规划电网的影响分析

大多数小火电机组处在电网的负荷中心,对电网起着提供灵活有功和无功电源的作用。通过分析可知,按照要求关停的小火电规模,对国家电网公司经营范围内的"十一五"电网规划总体影响不大,对局部电网供电能力、网架结构、动态无功和网损将产生一定影响,需要增加部分配套的电网建设项目和适当调整原规划中某些电网项目的建设时序,以满足"上大压小"方案实施后安全、可靠供电的需要。     

国务院办公厅关于关闭国有煤矿矿办小井和乡镇煤矿停产整顿的紧急通知

各省、自治区、直辖市人民政府 ,国务院各部委、各直属机构 :今年以来 ,各地人民政府和煤矿安全监察机构贯彻落实党中央、国务院关于安全生产工作的一系列重要指示精神 ,加强煤矿安全生产监督管理和监察工作 ,取得了一定成效。但是 ,全国煤矿安全生产形势依然严峻。今年 1至 4月 ,共发生重大、特大事故 118起 ,死亡 891人。在这些重大、特大事故中 ,乡镇煤矿和国有煤矿矿办小井的事故占绝大多数。为遏制煤矿事故多发的势头 ,扭转煤矿安全生产工作面临的严峻形势 ,切实维护人民群众生命财产安全 ,国务院决定 ,立即关闭国有煤矿矿办小井(以下…     

实施关闭破产的有关问题及政策--国家煤炭工业局副局长王君谈"14.40"工程

一、实施关闭破产是煤炭企业扭亏脱困的重要举措 实现党的十五大提出的三年改革脱困目标,是全党的重要任务,也是煤炭行业重大而艰巨的任务.当前,煤炭行业比较困难,市场供大于求,价格持续下滑,货款拖欠猛增,亏损大幅度上升.造成这种局面的深层次原因,是煤炭工业的结构不合理.