How China Will Deal with the Impact after Its Accession to the WTO—Interview with Dr.Klaus Kautzor-Schroder

On 10 April 2002, Professor Qin Yi, Editor-in-Chief of Social Sciences in China Press,interviewed Dr. Klaus Kautzor-Schroder. The influence of China's accession to both of theWTO and China itself, and how China will implement its accession protocol were discussedin the interview. Dr. Kautzor-Schroder served in the GATT from the 1970s to the pre-found-ing period of the WTO. He was Director in the GATT Secretariat for 20 years and responsiblefor tariffs, NTMs, AD, Subsidies, safeguards, FTA and a number of other trade policy-relatedareas. During his tenure of office he took part in the Tokyo Round and Uruguay Round multi-lateral trade negotiations. After retiring in 1991, Dr. Kautzor-Schroder has given his help toa number of developing countries in their accession process. He has visited China many timesin connection with the training of Chinese civil servants and young professionals. This inter-view was conducted during his stay in China.     

Liaoyang,One of China's 100 Top Cities for Comprehensive Strength

Faced with the opportunity of rejuvenating the old industrial base in Northeast China, the people in Liaoyang persist in the spirit of pioneer and hard work and thus make outstanding achievements. Respectively, Liaoyang City has     

Special Issue: preservation and Operation of Cul-tural Heritage

The undertaking of cultural heritage has received increasing attention from all social strata in contemporary China due to both positive and negative factors. Among the positive factors, large-scale land development projects amidst the rapid economic and social advances in China led to the discovery of large quantities of cultural relics     

Labor Shortages:Should We Take Precautionary Measures?

While people generally worry about unemployment and the pressures on employment in China, the relationship between supply and demand in the labor market has quietly shifted in the opposite direction. First, shortages of migrant workers occurred in coastal areas in 2004 and have not yet been alleviated. Even in some central provinces     

A Microsimulation of the Old-age Pension Policy

The old-age pension system is an important constituent part of the social security system in China, but in this respect revenue and expenditure are increasingly out of balance and the pressure in financial expenditure is increasing. At present, old-age pension institutional restructuring has become a hot topic in society and in academic circles,     

Research on Green and Low-Carbon Development Path of China's Automotive Industry

China’s automotive industry has been dedicated to a series of carbon-reduction efforts and has strived for comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation in order to achieve carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. On the basis of automobiles’ whole life-cycle(WLC) carbon emission accounting, this paper calculates life-cycle carbon emissions per vehicle, proposes green and low-carbon development path for China’s automotive industry, quantifies and analyzes implicated carbon-reduction poten...     

SPECIAL ISSUE： SPACE PRODUCTION AND URBAN ORDER IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA

Contemporary China＇s rapid urbanization has highlighted the importance of urban order and meaning, In the absence of order and meaning, a city will never be able to achieve sustainable survival, development and prosperity. It is of world-historical significance to focus on and probe into the problems, essence, reality and trends of China＇s urban development as well as possibilities and ways of constructing urban order and meaning in China.     

A Study on Institutional Change and the Innovation Path of the Securities Market in China

The driving force of institutional changes in the Chinese securities market and in- novative patternsThe emergence and development of the securities market in China has not followed the Western path of natural growth. Because the government plays a dominant role — providing the program for institutional changes and concretely implementing and controlling the organizational and institutional process of securities financing — the Chi- nese securities market has chosen a short- cut model of su…     

Can NGOs Solve China''''s Difficult Problems?

In present-day China, "NGO" has become one of the most fashionable concepts in the wake of the WTO. However, in practice NGOs encounter many institutional obstacles. The first is difficulty in registration, which has forced some NGOs to register as enterprises with the departments in charge of industry and commerce. Some others are simply "illegal" organizations, not registered and just operating in their own way. The other obstacle is diffi-     

重镇千古 一砖知辽阳

Liaoyang is the first historical town of militaryimportance in the northeastern part of China. It has beenfor a long time a military and political center, and alsothe capital of Qidan, Jin and Late Jin Regime.Early in 300 (BC), General Qin Kai of Yan Statecommanded his army to attack Liaodong and built up