scholarly journals On the Settlement of the Floating Population in the Pearl River Delta: Understanding the Factors of Permanent Settlement Intention versus Housing Purchase Actions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqu Wang ◽  
Zehong Wang ◽  
Chunshan Zhou ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Song Liu
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Floating Population ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
Settlement Intentions ◽  
The Impact

Previous investigations of the settlement intentions of China’s floating population have been undermined by an oversimplification of the concepts and measurements related to settlement intentions. More attention should be paid to influencing factors from the theoretical framework of “place utility” in new periods. Based on this framework, we use a multinormal logistic regression model to explore the impact of economic, human capital, and social factors on migration intentions and housing purchase actions of the floating population in the Pearl River Delta. The results revealed that the floating population’s purchasing ability is generally lower than its willingness to settle down, and this population experiences an incomplete citizenization problem. Among the economic and human capital factors, family economic factors have become an important basis for the housing purchase actions of the floating population and may even be more important than their own economic income and education level. After the State Council implemented the “Notice of Further Promoting the Reform of the Hukou System”, the decision of whether to pass restrictions of urban hukou (household registration) acquisition threshold has played an important role in the settlement decisions of the floating population. The government should formulate settlement policies according to the characteristics of the floating population.

scholarly journals Impact of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric Environment Using Refined Land Surface Properties in the Pearl River Delta, China

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anqi Lai ◽  
Yiming Liu ◽  
Xiaoyang Chen ◽  
Ming Chang ◽  
Qi Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Atmospheric Environment ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
Pollutant Concentrations ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
The Impact

We replaced the outdated land-use of the Weather Research and Forecasting-Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model with a refined dataset, the Global Land Cover 2009 (GLC2009) dataset, to investigate the impact of land-use change on the regional atmospheric environment in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region. Simulations of two months in 2014 (January and July) showed that land-use change increased the monthly averaged 2 m temperature by 0.24°C and 0.27°C in January and July, respectively. The relative humidity decreased by 2.02% and 2.23% in January and July, respectively. Due to the increase in ground roughness, the monthly averaged wind speed in January and July decreased by 0.19 m/s and 0.16 m/s. The planetary boundary layer height increased throughout the day and with larger relative increase during the nighttime. These subtle changes caused by land-use resulted in discernable changes in pollutant concentrations. Monthly averaged surface O3 concentration increased by 0.93 µg/m3 and 1.61 µg/m3 in January and July, while PM2.5 concentration decreased by 1.58 µg/m3 and 3.76 µg/m3, and the changes in pollutant concentrations were more noticeable during the nighttime. Overall, the impacts of land-use change on the atmospheric environment are obvious throughout the PRD region, especially in the urbanized areas.

scholarly journals Workplace quality and labour turnover in the electronics industry of the Pearl River Delta, China

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Hartmann Kilian ◽  
Daniel Schiller ◽  
Frauke Kraas
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
Demand Changes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Labour Turnover

AbstractExport-oriented manufacturing firms in developing countries need to be highly flexible in order to respond to demand changes in volatile global markets. By using a modified version of Atkinson’s flexible firm concept as a framework, it is the aim of this paper (i) to describe the impact of workplace quality on labour turnover and (ii) to derive implications of this relationship for upgrading processes. Empirical data are combined from two surveys of migrant workers and electronics firms in the Pearl River Delta, China.

Diasporic Memories and Conceptual Geography in Post-colonial Hong Kong

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1593 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANGELINA Y. CHIN
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Pearl River Delta Region ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Pearl River

AbstractThis paper explores how the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been trying to incorporate post-1997 Hong Kong into the framework of a Greater China. The construction of two ‘narratives’ are examined: the grand narrative of Chinese history in secondary school textbooks in Hong Kong; and the development of a new regional framework of the Pearl River Delta. The first narrative, which focuses on the past, signals the PRC government's desire to inculcate through education a deeper sense of collective identity as patriotic citizens of China amongst residents of Hong Kong. The second narrative, which represents a futuristic imagining of a regional landscape, rewrites the trajectory of Hong Kong by merging the city with the Pearl River Delta region. However, these narrative strategies have triggered ambivalent responses from people in Hong Kong, especially the generations born after 1980. In their discursive battles against merging with the mainland, activists have sought to instil a collective memory that encourages a counter-imagination of a particular kind of Hong Kong that draws from the pre-1997 past. This conflict pits activists and their supporters against officials in the local government working to move Hong Kong towards integration with greater Guangdong and China at large. But the local resistance discourses are inadequate because they are constrained by their own parochial visions and colonial nostalgia.

scholarly journals Spatiotemporal Patterns and Decomposition Analysis of CO2 Emissions from Transportation in the Pearl River Delta

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 2171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoshu Cao ◽  
Shishu OuYang ◽  
Dan Liu ◽  
Wenyue Yang
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Spatiotemporal Patterns ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
The Impact

Controlling and mitigating CO2 emissions is a challenge for the global environment. Furthermore, transportation is one of the major sources of energy consumption and air pollution emissions. For this reason, this paper estimated CO2 emissions by the bottom-up method, and presented spatiotemporal patterns by spatial autocorrelation methods from transportation during the period 2006 to 2016. It further analyzed the impact factors of CO2 emissions in the Pearl River Delta by the Logarithmic Mean Divisa Index (LMDI)decomposition method. The results indicated that from 2006 to 2016, total CO2 emissions increased year by year. Guangzhou and Shenzhen were the major contributors to regional transportation CO2 emissions. From the perspective of different transport modes, intercity passenger transport and freight transport have always been dominant in the past 11 years. The results indicated that aviation transport was the largest contributor, and that travel by road was the second one. The CO2 emissions generated by rail and water transport were much lower than those from aviation. Private cars became the main source of urban passenger transport CO2 emissions, and their advantages kept increasing. The results indicated that the spatial agglomeration trend feature was negatively correlated, and the further the distance, the more similar the attributes. The cumulative contribution values of population, economic development, transport intensity, energy intensity and energy structure were all positive values, while the cumulative contribution values of transport structure and emission factor were negative. The findings of this study offer help for the scientific understanding of those CO2 emissions from transportation, and for adopting effective measures to reduce CO2 emissions and for the development of green transportation.

Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta Qiaoxiang

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Williams
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
The Impact

In the history of links between people from the Pearl River Delta with the countries of South-East Asia and the Pacific, the role played by Hong Kong cannot be ignored. It is the purpose here to examine the role and contribution of Hong Kong to these Pearl River Delta links over the period 1842 to 1942. Such an examination, it is hoped, will also allow the impact of Pearl River Delta links on Hong Kong to be investigated. Much of the material presented by this paper is not new, rather the aim is to view Hong Kong from the perspective of the Pearl River Delta qiaoxiang. A perspective, it is suggested, that will enable aspects of Hong Kong's history and its contribution to the history of the Pearl River Delta counties and their overseas links to be seen in a new way.

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