How to Evaluate the Green and High-Quality Development Path? An FsQCA Approach on the China Pilot Free Trade Zone

In today’s world, green development has become an important trend, and many countries regard the development of green industry as an important measure to promote economic restructuring. Green development is consistent with sustainable development in ideology. China’s economy is in the stage of high-quality development. As an important foundation for China’s external economic development, the free trade zone can play a good role in promoting its green and high-quality development. Based on the data of 18 free trade zones in China in 2020, this paper explores the green and high-quality development path of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone. Firstly, the green development index is constructed according to the existing research and experience, and then the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method is used to evaluate the green and high-quality development path. The results show that the development of pilot free trade zones is not the result of a single condition but the result of a combination of green policy effectiveness, foreign investment participation, green production growth rate, and other conditions. Combined with the green and high-quality development path, this paper further provides enlightenment for the development of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Analysis of Problems and Countermeasures in Bilingual Teaching of Marketing Specialty

In the context of economic globalization, cultivating students’ cross-cultural marketing ability is becoming more and more important; The implementation of bilingual teaching is an important way to cultivate and enhance this ability. In recent years, the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce and free trade zones has greatly increased the demand for bilingual marketing talents, which has promoted the rapid development of bilingual teaching of marketing specialty. From the perspective of international talent training, there are some problems in bilingual teaching of marketing specialty in Colleges and universities, such as textbook selection, teacher construction, students’ English level, teaching quality, curriculum incentive and so on. Based on the author’s five-year bilingual teaching experience of marketing specialty and the goal of international talent training, the bilingual teaching of marketing specialty can be improved from the following aspects: practicing the international educational concept.

Analysis on the Development of Business Invitation and Investment Attraction in Nansha Free Trade Zone—Taking the Pony.ai’s “Unicorn” Project as an Example

Nansha Free Trade Zone is one of the most representative and potential free trade zones in China. Since its establishment in 2015, with the unique geographical advantages of the geometric geographical center of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) and relying on the strategic development plan of “Three Areas Integration”, it had made continuous innovation and development in political, economic, cultural and other fields. The plan is constantly innovating and developing in various fields such as politics, economy, and culture. In the past two years, the development of the Nansha free trade zone had attracted cooperation and investment from many well-known enterprises. The municipal government had also invested in many key projects in Nansha. The Pony.ai’s “Unicorn” Project, as a project just started in recent years, had undoubtedly become a key project for business invitation and investment attraction in the Nansha Free Trade Zone in the near future. Taking the “unicorn” pony Zhixing project as an example, this paper analyzes the current situation and existing problems of business invitation and investment attraction in the Nansha Free Trade Zone and puts forward some suggestions.

Have China’s Pilot Free Trade Zones Improved Green Total Factor Productivity?

Free trade zones (FTZ) are designated areas for promoting trade openness and investment facilitation. In China, FTZs are also regarded as “green areas” in which planning actions and institutional innovations are implemented, and there is a commitment to promoting urban green and healthy development. Given that green total factor productivity (GTFP) is an important measure of a city’s health and green performance, this study exploits the difference-in-differences method to explore the impact of pilot FTZs on urban GTFP in 280 cities in China for the period between 2005 and 2017. The results show that the green areas positively contributed to the growth of GTFP. Moreover, the outcome holds with robustness tests. Statistically, the positive effect emerged in cities during the first three years after introducing the initiative, with the effect disappearing afterward. It also had a strong positive impact in the central and western regions and in large and medium-sized cities, while the influence remained insignificant in the remaining areas in China. Furthermore, the paper also reveals that the promotion of foreign direct investment and industrial structure upgrading are the primary channels through which the positive relationship between pilot FTZs and GTFP is established.

Construction Scheme and Talent Policies of Free Trade Zones in China

Free Trade Zones (FTZs) are the important product of deepening reform, expanding opening up and promoting high-quality economic development under the unified deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. As the core competitiveness of FTZs, talents play an important role in the construction and development of FTZs, and the formulation of talent selection policies are vital in talent introduction. This article mainly discusses the construction scheme and talent policies of FTZs in China for reference of relevant departments.

International Anti-Money Laundering Measures and Professional

Money laundering is one of the biggest and the fastest growing problems in the contemporary world. It is seen that in legitimate economy most of the dirty money i.e. 38.6% comes from the investment fraudulent schemes, bankruptcy fraud and corporate frauds whereas, 27.5% comes from drug trafficking. This rising trend of money laundering and other financial frauds are due to several reasons, which include the activities in businesses that do not comply with professional ethics. The current research is a qualitative research that has used secondary data to derive the results. Because the study followed a deductive approach, the results of the study have been derived by utilising the existing theories and established data from published literature and different reports. The analysis of the obtained data has been conducted in the form of content analysis to attain the objectives of the current study. The findings of the study suggest that the international organisations have taken several steps to ensure the reduction of money laundering by imposing several unified acts based on the Vienna Convention and the Palermo Convention. It has also been found that ethically compliant professional activities also play an integral part against money laundering. Some of these activities have been reported as forming strong codes of conduct for monetary operations, informing the bad repercussions of participating in money laundering activities, and having proper control and management strategies in position that can have adequate monitoring on institutional improper conduct. The study recommends that every state should have regulated and monitored free trade zones as they are often used as the cornerstone of money laundering. Moreover, a centralised reporting system of the financial institutions have also been recommended, alongside the establishment of a regulatory body for the lawyers and accountants.

Poor science meets political neglect: Land use changes of high conservation value forests in Indonesia

Forest land allocation and use in Indonesia have been politically contested and characterized by poor data and competing interests of different institutions. This study analyzes the process of integrating scientific findings in policymaking about land use and changes. The focus is on the processes related to the changes of Highly Important Forest Zones with Strategic Values (Dampak Penting Cakupan Luas dan bernilai Strategis/DPCLS). DPCLS forests are unique as any changes require approval from the parliament to complement the processes at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and must be based on rigorous scientific evaluation. This study uses the case of Riau Islands (Kepri) Province, previously part of Riau Province, which to date is one of only two Indonesian provinces yet to accept the forest zonings of the Ministry. The province’s strategic positions as exclusive economic and free trade zones make it further interesting in terms of land allocation as land becomes increasingly valuable for other uses. This paper specifically asks how the scientific investigation on the potential land use changes were conducted, how reliable the discoveries are, and how they were utilized in multiple steps at different institutions from the proposal evaluations to the approval stages. Our research indicates that scientific findings have rarely been integrated in policy making regarding DPCLS forests in Kepri Province. In addition, the scientific findings are weak; the institution producing them is heavily dominated by government officials and paid consultants/ experts. The scientific body was only established to fulfill the formal processes required by the regulatory frameworks. Proposals and decisions on the changes of DPCLS forests in Kepri Province are more characterized by political considerations. The “scientific findings” of the current land use in Kepri Province is used as a political commodity (or commodities) to support the interests of actors.

La casa nelle narrazioni in lotta

This article advances an analysis of the struggles led by women living in Tangier’s working-class neighbourhoods over the past decade. Protest movements have emerged in Northern Morocco in response to the impacts of neoliberal processes, and specifically against the proliferation of Free Trade Zones and urban developments associated to internal migration. These social struggles are analysed through the “house” category, whereby the house is interpreted as a dynamic, ever-changing and situated category, through which a language of ordinary struggles has developed. Women play a crucial role in such struggles, using their agency to defend a whole set of values under attack by neoliberal processes. The narrative of household-centred struggles gives back the image of a constant urban turmoil, as well as a feeling of familiarity with such struggles that is a key factor behind the massive participation in protests in Southern Mediterranean countries.