China's social assistance policy: experiences and future directions

The Minimum Living Standard Guarantee System (MLSGS) forms the core of China's current social assistance policy, and special assistance programmes are used to supplement this policy. This paper scrutinizes the evolution and achievements of the social assistance policy, and analyses the challenges and problems that the policy faces. In this paper, we argue that the international trend of social assistance reforms, institutional background changes and the problems of social assistance in China require a developmental model to guide the future development of the social assistance policy. Therefore, social assistance policy should not only fulfil the basic living requirements of the underprivileged and enable underprivileged people to share the outcomes of economic and social development, but also should enable the underprivileged to develop human capital and participate in the labour market. To move towards developmental social assistance, this article proposes several relevant policy suggestions.     

行政复议与信访的联动与对接

目前,“大信访、小复议”的行政救济选择格局与“小信访、大复议”的理想选择格局背道而驰。基于这一现实,应当在行政复议与信访之间建立对接联动机制。该机制的建立应遵循缓兵原则和引导原则。在具体措施方面,一是建立案件分流机制,二是实现政务公开。     

师范院校音体美专业“大学英语”教学存在的问题与对策

以教学实践为基础,就目前师范院校音体美特殊专业的大学英语教学中存在的问题进行分析并提出了一些对策,认为只有学校、教师和学生三者一起努力、互相配合,才能真正提高特殊专业的英语教学质量,从而推动整个大学英语教学的进一步发展。     

城镇化进程中失地农民权益缺失与保障机制研究

随着我国工业化和城镇化进程的加速,失地农民正在成为一支新兴的"弱势群体",由于立法、制度、政府和农民自身的原因,其权益得不到应有的保障。因此,应从加强立法、完善制度、转变政府角色以及提高农民自身素质等着手,切实保障失地农民的权益。     

大学生拖延行为的影响因素及对策

拖延不仅是时间管理问题．也是包含认知、情感和行为的复杂过程。拖延行为的影响因素分为内部因素和外部因素。要减少,消除拖延的产生,就必须养成坚毅性格,强化时间管理,培养积极情绪。     

大学生社会责任感培育的真理尺度与价值尺度

马克思主义理论课作为一个整体,旨在对大学生进行科学的世界观和方法论的教育,在提高他们社会责任感的培育中,不仅要教会他们如何学习和掌握真理,更要求其在实践中以真理为指导,通过改造客观世界,寻求真理与价值的统一和最佳结合.因此,在教学中要使大学生树立正确的世界观、人生观和价值观,通过“三观”的培养提高他们的社会责任感.为达到这一目的,就应该在培育过程中做到真理尺度与价值尺度的统一.     

现代服务业人才培养现状及应用型高级专门人才培养特征

分析现代服务业人才培养的背景和现状,结合现代服务业概念发展的内涵界定来探讨现代服务业人才需求,并结合天津的实际情况,探索高校相关专业应用型特色人才培养体系创新的思路。     

A study of the operation efficiency and cost performance indices of power-supply companies in China based on a dynamic network slacks-based measure model

This paper applies the dynamic network slacks-based measure model with free links and fixed links (hereafter referred to as DNSBM-Free and DNSBM-Fixed respectively) to evaluate the operational performance of 31 electric power-supply companies (hereafter referred to as EPCs) in China from 2010 to 2012. This approach allows for the consideration of the group heterogeneity of electric power transmission. This approach also considers the new structural reform in the power grid of China in the near future, i.e., the separation of the transmission division (hereafter referred to as T) and the distribution division (hereafter referred to as D). We extend several performance indices to measure the cost efficiency and technology gaps in electric power supply. We estimate the efficiencies of the EPCs under different policies. The results indicate that regional economic development level has a significant impact on the performance of the EPCs. Under the DNSBM-Free and DNSBM-Fixed models, while the efficiency of D was a slightly higher than that of T before separating T and D, however, the efficiency of D was significantly lower than that of T after separation. Conversely, divisional efficiencies of some companies show a significant gap between T and D. This suggests that policy-makers should seriously balance the pros and cons of separation policy before making decisions, and the EPCs in China focus on enhancing operating efficiency of D when deciding to separate T and D in the future. Furthermore, this paper speculates that the macro-economic environment influences the policy of separation of T and D.     

泰国经济特区的潜力和机遇

近年来,泰国边境贸易年增长超过20%,但其全球市场贸易年增长只有8%。边境贸易仍然是使泰国保持连续贸易顺差的主要贸易形式,每年贸易额平均值约9 000亿泰铢并有快速增长的趋势,尤其是2015年底东盟经济共同体成立之后。近两三年以来,泰国的全球市场贸易一直出现逆差,这主要是由于成员国之间不同的发展模式造成了一些限制,同时政府旨在发展连接东盟地区的邻国边境,以改善和提高公众的生活质量、促进贸易和投资,其最重要的目的是支持东盟经济共同体的发展。因此,泰国政府决定在边境建立经济特区。泰国经济特区建设的第一阶段涉及五个地区:德府、沙缴府、达勒府、莫拉限府及宋卡府。采用SWOT分析法对泰国经济特区发展进行分析,并提出一些发展建议。