One of the most glaring legacies 20thcentury Chinese socialism is a sharp and widened divide between China's urban rural areas. urban-rural arose from socialist industrialization process, which created hastened heavy-industrial base at expense its population. vast population not only endured standard living far below that in sector, they were also denied access to many social welfare benefits social-mobility opportunities (Martin King Whyte, 1996). This gap economic wellbeing, together with...

Many Chinese jurisdictions are establishing "service-oriented" local governments in order to make public service delivery more effective and thereby increase government capacity. This article explores whether the use of e-government improves citizens' perceptions their government. The results indicate that accessing information through Web sites satisfaction with transparency. Citizens' frequent sites, partially mediated transparency, enhances capacity for delivery. Providing on indirectly...

Abstract The New Public Management (NPM) has achieved many successes in public service delivery, but practitioners frequently observed failures developing and transitional economies. For instance, China's public–private partnerships (PPP) since 2014 have failed to transfer risks the private sector, involve skills expertise, reduce local government's debt. This article claims that PPP China are associated with contractual type of nonconcessions choice is influenced by both political...

Abstract The use of campaign‐style enforcement is often criticized for its lack long‐term impacts and beyond campaign‐focused issues. Using a mixed approach that combines regression analysis in‐depth interviews, we studied the campaigns against straw burning in several provinces China, found evidence to support contrary. did effectively reduce straw‐burning activities, more importantly, impact appears be long lasting may spill over other environmental We further informal institutions, such...

In this paper, we present a new image encryption algorithm based on chaos system. First, deal with using technique of permutation transform in image. Then, two-dimensional nonlinear map is utilized to circularly iterate gray value pixels. The validly solves problem failure owing the self-similarity and visional physiological characteristic At same time, it remedies inadequateness cryptological intension other algorithms merely adopting have super security.

Demographic And Economic Change The Many Facets of and Their Interrelations, 19501990 (Alice Goldstein.) Birth Wealth in Peasant China: Surplus Population, Limited Supplies Family Labor, Reform (Kyung-Sup Chang.) Patterns Infant Mortality (Dudley L. Poston Jr.) Fertility Trends Fertility: From the 1970s to 1990s (Gu Baochang.) Determinants Decline Shanghai: Development or Policy (Guo Shenyang.) A Decade One-child Policy: Achievements Implications (Wang Feng.) Household Structure Changing...

Since China's marketization-featured housing reform, homeowner associations have played a greater role in neighbourhood governance. Using the theory of social movements and organizations, this article investigates how strategically reorganize themselves to achieve their goals. Our survey Beijing suggests that about half adopted bottom-up governance structures, which are not specified governmental regulations. We find such innovations more likely occur when needs grassroots participation deal...

Objective To explore the relationship between outdoor lighting and sports development of myopia, to analyze effects exercise on diopter children with normal vision so as provide guidance for prevention treatment myopia in adolescents future. Methods A total 201 were divided into two groups according or not. Each group was randomly 4 groups: group, control indoor group. Among them, received moderate high intensity aerobic 3 times a week 60 min each time 12 months, while had study life during...

Chinese homeowner associations (HOAs) are citizen-initiated, self-governing neighborhood organizations that emerged very recently in urban China. HOAs take various legal, political, and social actions to deal with issues. However, there large discrepancies the effectiveness of these actions. Using data collected from in-depth interviews leaders 91 registered Beijing, this study investigates contextual organizational factors explain heterogeneity outcome. The results show affecting HOAs’...

Abstract This study examines how nonlisted small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) respond to the financial constraints imposed by responsible investment policies. We examined SMEs' operational environmental behaviors changed following China's Green Credit Policy, combining a synthetic control method with triple difference‐in‐differences approach. found that SMEs were likely exit market Policy; however, surviving significantly decreased their pollution. also discovered foreign firms...

As a complement to traditional scholarship concerned with the production, transfer, and practical utility of management knowledge in professional graduate degree program, this paper focuses on relational benefits MPA learning education.1 In exploratory study, we investigated extent which academic, career advice, friendship, socio-emotional support networks were developed among cohort students at Chinese university's program. We applied social network approach examining structural...

ABSTRACT The purpose, structure, and outcomes of cross-sector collaborations are subject to the institutional environment from which they emerge. This article examines how background could determine nature through a case study collaborative natural disaster insurance system in Zhejiang Province China. Although guiding principle reform China asserts that should be operated based on market mechanisms, we find practice for is far being established. Insurance products primarily designed by...

This study investigates key aspects of administrative process in citizen contacts with local government agencies and their impact on satisfaction those an institutional context limited accountability channels for obtaining information public service outcomes performance. Using survey data collected a Chinese city district, we examine the effect processes—the quality results citizens’ bureaucratic contacts—on police departments role expectation this relationship. The findings indicate that...

This study explores how intra-alliance factors (size, resource constraints, mission nature, operating mechanisms) and contextual combine to contribute the sustainability of self-organized non-profit collaboration in disaster relief. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis was used analyze 17 collaborations that emerged after 2008 Wenchuan 2013 Lushan earthquakes China. The findings show absence political pressure (a factor) having a formal contract-based mechanism (an are two necessary...

Abstract Performance‐oriented management has been proposed as a remedy to policy implementation failure, which is persuasive woe globally. Recent scholarship on through performance measurement and focuses client‐oriented services, with less attention paid the inadequacy of indicators in covering all desirable goals incentivizing government officials non‐client‐oriented service arena, for instance, environmental governance. Based station‐level water quality data before after China's Huai...