Author: Pengjun Zhao
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 981196498X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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This book examines the rural transition and transportation in China. It covers demographic change, settlement transformation, and infrastructure development in rural areas, as well as changes in transportation expenditures, travel behavior, and accessibility of basic public services among rural Chinese residents. The book contributes to the new body of knowledge from an international perspective in three ways. First, it explores the changes in travel behavior of rural residents and related factors. Second, it provides new evidence on the relationship between rural social transformation and transportation infrastructure development. Third, it discusses the impact of transportation investments on rural poverty reduction. The book enhances our understanding of the changes in travel behavior of rural residents. In particular, the results of the multi-source big data analysis will provide new evidence on the link between social transformation and changes in travel behavior in rural China. It also helps planners and politicians to develop policies aimed at improving quality of life, rural poverty, and the efficiency of transportation investments in rural areas. The book is of great interest to scholars interested in rural transformation and development, sustainable transport, regional planning, and environmental policy and is relevant to China and other developing countries.
Author: Chia-Lin Chen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1786439247
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 467
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Since 1978, when China embarked on a new period of economic reforms and introduced open door policies, it has experienced a great urban transformation. The role of transport has proved indispensable in this unprecedented rapid urbanisation and economic growth. As the first research-focused book dedicated to this important topic, the Handbook on Transport and Urban Transformation in China offers new insight into the various opportunities and challenges brought by fast-paced motorization and urban development, and explores them in broad spatial-economic, environmental, social, and institutional dimensions.
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Publisher: DEStech Publications, Inc
ISBN: 1605951463
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The main objectives of 2013 International Conference on Transportation (ICTR2013) are to bring together representatives of transportation engineering , of various institutions, universities, industry and professional associations, to debate and exchange experience on important conference topics. Another main objective of ICTR2013 consists of providing a good networking opportunity to all these groups. The ICTR2013 became a major conference to exchang e new ideas of transportation in Asia researchers and provide a form to present their new results in transportation engineering, vehicle operation engineering, transportation planning, traffic information engineering and control, pavement and bridge engin eering and other related topics. ICTR2013 is held in Xianning, China from December 4 to 6, 2013 sponsored by Shanghai Jiaotong University and DES t ech Publishing Inc. In the first edition of the ICTR2013 189 papers were submitted, 69 of which were accepted . In addition to the authors that were present at the conference, researchers from universities and institutions also send papers. The organizing committee hopes this conference proceedings will provide readers a broad overview of the latest advances on tr ansportation. The organizing committee also believes this conference proceedings would be a good reference for academic researchers and industrial professionals in these fields. The ICTR2013 organizing committee would like to express our sincere appreciat ions to all authors for their contributions to this conference. We would like to extend our thanks to all the referees for their constructive comments on all papers. Finally, we would like to thank DES t ech publishing Inc . for producing this conference proc eeding. We hope you will have a unique, rewarding and enjoyable weekend at ICTR2013 in Xianning, China.
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821359762
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Since opening to the outside world and embarking on an economic reform programme in 1978, China has had one of the highest rates of sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in the world. However, during the 1990s several challenges emerged in relation to levels of inequality and environmental degradation. This evaluative report on the relative effectiveness of World Bank assistance to China focuses on the period 1993-2002, although it includes some references to developments in earlier and more recent years also. Findings include that the World Bank has made important contributions to economic reform, poverty reduction, infrastructure development, and environmental protection, but has fallen short of its objectives in promoting fiscal and financial reforms to reduce inequality and risk.
Author: Michael Dunford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131761478X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The aim of this book is to examine the transformation of the geography of China in the years since the start of China's policy of reform and opening-up in 1978, as seen through the eyes of Chinese geographers. Throughout that period, Chinese geographers have studied these environmental, economic, political and cultural processes closely, drawing on sources that are far from easy to access, and have published their results in Chinese. Much of this research has underpinned the Chinese government's assessment of policies and the policy choices at different levels, yet it is not well known outside of China. This volume deals with aspects of the socio-economic geography of China's transformation including its changing relations with the rest of the world, although it also deals with the impact of China's development path on the country's ecological systems. Each chapter deals with aggregate trends and specific cases to show the ways in which the particular characteristics of China's economic and social order (economic organization, political system and cultural model and values) have shaped and are shaped by its geography.
Author: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309182123
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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In October 2003, a group of experts met in Beijing under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Engineering (NAE)/National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies to continue a dialogue and eventually chart a rational course of energy use in China. This collection of papers is intended to introduce the reader to the complicated problems of urban air pollution and energy choices in China.
Author: Chaolin Gu
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819737826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 443
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Author: Anne S. Tsui
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317474953
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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One of the most important outcomes of market reforms in China over the past 20 years has been the emergence of a significant domestic private sector, which now accounts for almost a third of China's GDP and is by far the country's most important source of employment growth. This book is the first in-depth analysis of the management and operation of these domestic private firms, which are defined as companies or organizations created by PRC citizens, including township enterprises and collectives. The book provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary perspective on the factors important to the successful operation and growth of these firms. It begins with a review of the literature on the topic in three different disciplines - economics, sociology, and management - each followed by several chapters covering recent developments in these areas. Featuring contributions by distinguished scholars and China experts, the work concludes with an insightful chapter on the future of China's public sector in the global economy.
Author: Li Zhang
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1783474742
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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China’s urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China’s urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of the demographic, spatial, economic and social aspects of China’s urban transformation. Based on years of fieldwork and data analysis from different types of cities and towns in every region of China, the authors present a detailed description of how China has urbanized since 1978 and an original theory about the way in which top-down and bottom-up policies have impacted urbanization. They describe China’s on-going urbanization process as a ‘double-dual’ transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one and from a concern with the quantity to the quality of urbanization. In doing so, the authors provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on Chinese urbanization to date. This scholarly study will appeal to academics and practitioners, including professors and postgraduate students of urban studies, planning, geography, Asian studies, and other social science disciplines and professional fields concerned with cities and urban development. Professionals involved in international development, particularly in China and elsewhere in Asia, will be particularly interested in the book.
Author: Andrew Watson
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
ISBN: 0892649038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 113
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Water transport is a major feature of the traditional Chinese economy because of its magnitude and comparative efficiency. Yet this feature has all too often been ignored by scholars, with the notable exception of Japanese scholars. We cannot hope to gain any real conception of how the Chinese economy worked in the past, or works now, until we have a clearer picture of the circulation of men and commodities. In this circulation, water transport has been and is of crucial importance. Transport in Transition collects and translates notable Japanese articles to throw some light on the evolution of traditional junk shipping during a key transitional phase, 1900–1940, when it was absorbing the influences of various forms of modernization and on the eve of its major organizational transformation under the direction of the Communisty Party. The articles chosen concentrate on two main themes: the institutional organization of the shipping business, and the forms of ownership and operation. They will be of value to business historians and economic sociologists generally as well as to economic historians interested in transport. Several features of the Chinese economy are sharply illuminated. Most striking is the extent of regional variation. North and central Chinese shipping are shown to have differed both in their methods of operaiton and organization. Also noteworthy is the enduring strength of some traditional features of shipping operation and business practice. An unexpected feature of this endurance was the strength of traditional shipping in the face of steady competition from all forms of modern transport and from reputdely more efficient forms of business management.
