Self‐help in housing and chengzhongcun in China's urbanization

This article focuses on the housing issues of rural migrants arising from urbanization, with particular reference to chengzhongcun, a topic with considerable impact on policymaking. An attempt is made to understand the underlying rationale of self‐help in housing and the important role of chengzhongcun in sheltering rural migrants in the context of China's rural‐urban dichotomy. As demonstrated in this study, chengzhongcun accommodate, with little in the way of government resources and assistance, millions of rural migrants because of their social accessibility and affordability. While not denying their social problems, we argue that chengzhongcun in fact act as an innovative and positive agent to promote urbanization in present day China by housing massive numbers of rural migrants and assimilating them into cities. Current government policies towards chengzhongcun have generated a wide range of interest conflicts and confrontations. The consequences of such conflicts show that the government policies were problematic and unworkable, as they violated basic market principles as well as citizen rights. Policy strategy towards the redevelopment of chengzhongcun must acknowledge their credibility in the Chinese road to urbanization and requires more thoughtful and prudent consideration of migrants' demands for affordable housing.     

Regional economic performance in China1

This paper investigates convergence patterns among China's provinces using GDP data for the period 1952–97. We analyze convergence behaviour on the basis of Markov chains proposed by Quah (1993 ) and the generalized entropy decomposition proposed by Shorrocks (1980, 1984 ). Both sets of results show similar evidence of convergence within the pre‐defined geo‐economic sub‐regions, but no evidence is found of convergence between the sub‐regions. This finding has important policy implications for regional economic development in China. JEL classification: C33, E20, O47.     

再论“三位一体”的农村改革观——农村管理模式的逻辑演进

历史上每一次土地制度、赋税制度和行政管理体制的较大规模变革,都是同步配套进行的,有其相互关联性和一般规律性.新中国成立后,在城乡对立的二元经济社会结构中,农村集体土地制度、农民收入分配制度和农村行政管理体制自成一体,封闭运行,城乡差别日益扩大,同时附带了明显的"外部性"问题.改革开放以来,国家新的农村政策导向和农村新经济因素的产生,正在促使中国经济社会结构由农村农业、城市工业的二元结构向城市、小城镇、乡村多种产业组合和多样化的生活方式并存的三元结构转换,终将形成城乡一体化发展的新格局.农村集体土地制度、国民收入分配制度和国家行政管理体制,必须要按照社会主义市场经济发展的基本规律和城乡经济社会协调发展的新要求,进行一次最彻底的整体性配套改革.     

生命周期评价方法及其应用

介绍了生命周期评价的目的、意义和基本方法，并运用该方法对燃煤发电、废纸造纸、废旧塑料气化发电等几种不同工业过程的环境影响进行了分析。     

对银行营业网点存款盈亏的分析

该通过对银行某一时期的经营成果进行分析，建立营业网点存款盈亏的计算模式，以此考核营业网点的经营管理水平。     

从消费者行为差异看生活形态营销

随着人们生活水平的提高,消费者具备了满足个性消费的经济基础.人们不是仅仅要满足自己的基本需要,而是要在满足基本需要的同时来展现自己的个性、品味和身份,力求产品风格与自己的生活风格相一致,或者体现自己的生活风格.企业为了在激烈的市场竞争中准确找到自己的目标消费者,准确把握市场动向,制定正确的营销策略就必须对目标消费者的生活风格和价值观念等深层心理变量有一个透彻的了解.了解消费者的生活形态,认真研究其消费行为选择是企业在竞争中夺取市场先机的法宝.     

保税区与保税区外减免税及加工贸易政策对比

对照我国现行进出口管理、产业政策和加工贸易的相关规定,保税区内企业在进口设备减免税和加工贸易管理等方面与保税区外企业存在着一定的差异.对于保税区内企业来说,了解和认真研究这些差异,并在政策规定范围内充分用足、用好政策,以便为企业带来更大的经济效益.     

浅谈污泥减量技术

本文综述了目前国内外对污泥减量化研究的主要理论和方法,介绍了隐形生长、生物捕食、微生物强化、代谢解偶联和投加酶等污泥减量技术,比较了各种技术的优缺点,可供相关工程技术人员参考.     

高职高专计算机专业课程改革的取向研究

当前高职高专计算机专业课程设置存在着与其培养目标和办学模式不相符的问题.提出改革的实践化、信息化、综合化、个性化四个取向.     

Rural taxation and government regulation in China

This paper places the problem of Chinese rural taxation in the context of government regulation and seeks to present an integrated theoretical framework of Chinese rural development in the past two decades. Our theoretical framework reconciles the seemingly contradictory facts that the average level of rural taxation relative to rural net income did not increase quickly from 1990, but rural taxation became a very serious problem in this period. Our findings suggest that this is in large part due to increases in rural income disparity from 1990 and uneven tax distribution among different income groups. We argue that differentiated enforcement of government regulations such as grain procurement and birth control play an important role in the rural taxation problem, and more generally, the problem of local government expansion and rising rural income disparity. The empirical findings support our hypotheses.