scholarly journals A Review of the Chinese Government Support and Sustainability Assessment for Ecovillage Development with a Global Perspective

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-73
Author(s):  
Xihong Gao ◽  
Fan Wang ◽  
Chenxi Liu ◽  
Tao Luo ◽  
Yukun Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Chinese Government

scholarly journals Evaluating Poverty Alleviation by Relocation under the Link Policy: A Case Study from Tongyu County, Jilin Province, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 5061
Author(s):  
Zou ◽  
Liu ◽  
Liu ◽  
Zheng ◽  
Fang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Jilin Province ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
Persistent Poverty

Land, nature, and the social environment in contiguous poor regions are harsh and difficult to change. The poor adaptive capacities of the socio-ecological systems of these regions are the main causes of deep, persistent poverty. In February 2016, the Chinese government issued a policy proposing to promote poverty alleviation by relocation (PAR) by means of the “Linking increases in urban construction land with decreases in rural construction land” policy (or simply, the “Link Policy” or LP), which intends to realize the sustainable social and economic development of local villages. Since then, many pilot projects have been carried out across the country based on local resources, environment, and economic development; however, few related studies on these cases have been conducted. After a review of poverty alleviation policies, this paper first introduces the unsustainable conditions of poor rural areas and the implications and advantages of PAR under the Link Policy; we then analyzed the complete PAR process, including formulation, implementation, and completion, by taking Tongyu County in Jilin Province as an example. The study found that the “whole village relocation” model practiced in Tongyu County was relatively successful in terms of improving the living environment, income, and public services of local villagers. On the other hand, there were three main problems: first, many follow-up industries were dominated by the village collectives and heavily dependent on government support or subsidies; second, the newly built village faced the dilemma of “re-hollowing” due to the out-migration of young people and the aging population; third, it was difficult to achieve a true requisition–compensation balance of farmland.

scholarly journals Sustainability Assessment of Bioenergy from a Global Perspective: A Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianliang Wang ◽  
Yuru Yang ◽  
Yongmei Bentley ◽  
Xu Geng ◽  
Xiaojie Liu
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Electricity Generation ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Renewable Energy Resource ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Significant Development

Bioenergy, as a renewable energy resource, is expected to see significant development in the future. However, a key issue that will affect this trend is sustainability of bioenergy. There have been many studies on this topic but mainly focusing on only one or two-dimensions of the issue and also with much of the literature directed at studies of European regions. To help understand the wider scope of bioenergy sustainability, this paper reviews a broad range of current research on the topic and places the literature into a multi-dimensional framework covering the economic, environmental and ecological, social and land-related aspects of bioenergy sustainability, as well as a geographical analysis of the areas for which the studies have been carried out. The review indicates that it is hard to draw an overall conclusion on the sustainability of bioenergy because of limited studies or contradictory results in some respects. In addition, this review shows that crop-based bioenergy and forest bioenergy are seen as the main sources of bioenergy and that most studies discuss the final utilization of bioenergy as being for electricity generation. Finally, research directions for future study are suggested, based on the literature reviewed here.

scholarly journals Chinese Special Needs Adoption, Demand, and the Global Politics of Disability

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Raffety
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Special Needs Adoption ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Economics And Politics ◽  
Market Economics

This article explores three related phenomena: first, the abandonment and institutionalization of children with disabilities in China that increased disproportionately in the 2000s; second, the important relationships between such abandonments, culture, economics, and politics in contemporary China; and third, the relationship between such abandonments, the increasing rates at which Chinese orphans with disabilities are being adopted to Western countries through Inter-country Adoption (ICA), and the global politics of ICA and disability. Although the rise in the proportion of ICA from China of "children with special needs" is widely acknowledged, the reasons for the recent increase in abandonments of children with disabilities have been largely analyzed from the perspective of Chinese cultural views regarding disability (Holroyd 2003; Qian 2014), market economics (Wang 2016), the lack of Chinese government support for services for families (Shang 2008), as well as government coercion (Johnson 2016), thus, relatively divorced from the demand side of ICA. However, this article highlights the relationship between the disproportionate abandonment of children with disabilities in China and their increasing rate of ICA from China, arguing that discrimination toward persons with disabilities, or ableism, is not merely operative in abandonments of Chinese children with disabilities, but also embedded in the global politics of ICA.

scholarly journals Determinants of Financial Performance in China’s Intelligent Manufacturing Industry: Innovation and Liquidity

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Guanghong Zhang ◽  
Yune Lee
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Intelligent Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Endogenous Factors

This study focuses on the mediation channels through which the financial performance of intelligent manufacturing industries closely related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been affected. Along with compiling a massive volume of datasets publicized by the Chinese government and other authoritative institutions, a survey of the 317 listed enterprises of the intelligent manufacturing industries in China has been established for statistical analysis. Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), this research tests six hypotheses and confirms the inter-factor impact relationship between exogenous and endogenous factors. We find that innovation efforts mainly led by increasing investment in Research & Development (R&D), along with high liquidity, surely lead to good financial performance, whereas innovation efforts alone do not. Government support policy has been found to be closely related not only to higher liquidity, but to good financial performance through the common channel of R&D investment. Regional innovation capability has been revealed to be related to R&D investments, and, furthermore, to liquidity, which shows that the regional innovation system in China has been functioning relatively well to induce enterprises to increase investments and secure higher liquidity, and finally contribute to achieving better business performance. However, regional economic development shows no relationship with R&D investments, and consequently neither with liquidity nor with performance.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Renewable Energy System For Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Shoeib Faraji Abdolmaleki ◽  
Pastora M. Bello Bugallo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Sustainability Evaluation

This study reviews sustainable development (SD) elements through a holistic literature review to consider the relationship between SD indicators in the renewable energy (RE) sector, to identify critical drivers and methodologies needed to solve sustainability problems in RE. Through a systematic review, some compatible articles are selected from the electronic libraries. Driven information is employed to make a database that gives themes, dimensions, and indicators. Afterward, the sustainability evaluation of RE systems is investigated as an objective. Scopes and themes regarding SD and RE are investigated. As a result, SD indicators, RE systems, energy and sustainability, environmental sustainability assessment, energy security, electricity/power production, and energy geopolitics are the most existing scopes. Eleven sustainability frameworks, which scholars have used to consider RE sustainability, are identified appropriately. As a result, key dimensions are environmental, economic, social, technical, and institutional drivers. Therefore, indicators and criteria are reviewed for the top five drivers. Some of the most important of these indicators are: social (acceptability, job creation, social benefit, impact on health), economic (investment cost, operation, maintenance cost, and energy cost), environmental (CO2 emission, land use, impact on ecosystem, NOx and SOx emissions, GHG emission reduction, particle emission, noise), technical (efficiency, reliability, resource availability, maturity, safety, primary energy ratio, feasibility), and institutional (legal regulation of activity, government support, political stability, absence of violence/terrorism). Also, methodologies are examined to solve the challenge of sustainability evaluation. Literature review, MCDM techniques, LCA, PCA, and statistical methods are among the most widely used. Therefore, fully understanding the evaluation elements of SD in RE systems and having a database can speed up such studies.

scholarly journals The lack of government support for CEUSRI and measure to promote it

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Huozue Shi
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Important Measure ◽  
Governmental Support ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
The Government

CEUSRI (Cooperation of Enterprises, Universities and Scientific Research Institutions) is an important measure for the Chinese government to carry out the strategy of rejuvenating the Chinese nation through improvements in science and education. However, there are a series of obstacles unfavorable to this measure, of which lack of governmental support is the most important one. The present paper addresses this issue and describes strategies for persuading the government to support CEUSRI.

Why investing in Africa? The differential role of Chinese government support

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Benfratello ◽  
Anna D'Ambrosio ◽  
Alida Sangrigoli
Keyword(s):  
Government Support ◽  
Chinese Government

scholarly journals China’s “Going Global” Policy in Africa: An Exploratory Overview of an Evolving Policy Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Sigli M. Mumuni ◽  
Shelly Ann Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Government Support ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Chinese Companies ◽  
Essential Questions ◽  
China’S Foreign Policy ◽  
Economic Engagement ◽  
Trade And Investment

<p><em>The pace of economic engagement between China and Africa has increased exponentially in recent years, fueled mostly by burgeoning trade and investment ties. This impressive transformation of Sino-African relations has been complimented significantly by China’s “Going Global” policy, resulting in a huge number and diversity of Chinese multinational companies on the African continent. This proliferation of Chinese companies in Africa has generated new opportunities and prospects for all stakeholders, but has also engendered a host of challenges. This has no doubt had a significant impact on both the making and shaping of China’s foreign policy in Africa, and subsequently China Africa relations as a whole. This study relies on an extensive review of available qualitative and quantitative data to gain insights into the complex institutional and operational framework behind Chinese government support for the international ambitions of Chinese companies in Africa. What are the motives behind Beijing’s “Going Global” Policy? Which key institutions are involved, and what policy tools are employed to encourage the overseas investments of Chinese companies? What are the key drivers behind Chinese companies’ foray into the African market</em><em> </em><em>and what are the implications for China Africa relations, both in the short-term and long-term? These and other essential questions are addressed in this paper.</em><em></em></p>

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