Social Economic Development In China Research Articles

Sports industry investment and social economic development in China based on Grey Relation Analysis

Sports industry investment and social economic development in China based on Grey Relation Analysis

Is benzo[a]pyrene a reliable chemical indicator of social-economic development in China?

The current approaches to study the coupling mechanism between economy and environment seem to fall into self-circulation, failed to reveal “economy–environment interdependence”. In this context, an exogenous variable is introduced into these models for better understanding the relationship. Benzo[a]pyrene (Bap) environment inventories in different cities in China were estimated by fugacity model based on Bap concentration data collected from previous studies. An extended model, stochastic impacts by regression on population, affluence and technology (STIRPAT), generated from original IPAT (a model that expresses the idea that environmental impact (I) is the product of three factors: population (P), affluence (A) and technology (T)) was used to study the relationship between Bap environment inventory and anthropogenic factors including population, vehicle amount, affluence and energy consumption. A ridge regression has been applied to optimize the model parameters. Overall, there exist good relationships between Bap inventories and economic factors. Specifically, population and affluence are the most significant factors that influence Bap inventory. Rise of the scale of population and vehicle amount increases the Bap inventory, as growth of GDP per capita and the efficiency of energy utilization have inhibitory effect on Bap inventory. Apparently, the influences of anthropogenic factors on Bap inventory are different between north and south China. Bap inventory in north China is more sensitive to the change of population and energy consumption, while is highly correlated to GDP per capita in south China. Further, according to social-economic development prediction, with assist of the result from STIRPAT model, we find out that Bap inventory drop 31% from 2001 to 2020 in China. Our estimates are comparable with the published data and confirmed that Bap can be regarded as a chemical indicator of social-economic development in China.

Analysis of Environmental Tobacco Smoke in China

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), also known as second-hand smoke (SHS), is a complex mixture of chemicals generated during the burning and smoking of tobacco products. Smoking has become the most important indoor air pollutant source in China in terms of human health. The paper firstly analyzed the health effects of environmental tobacco smoke, the conditions of the environmental tobacco smoke exposure in recent years, and environmental impact of environmental tobacco smoke. The exposure to ETS that has influence on human heath, specially the women and children is the important risk factor. Meantime, the ETS exposure rate in the crowd has risen in recent years, and the public places, workplaces and families that pose the ETS exposure are the main sites. Second-hand smoke severely impact on the indoor air quality, especially it is the most important pollutant source of indoor air PM2.5. The exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) does severe harm not only to the people’s lives and health, but also to social economic development in China. Finally, the paper put up with some suggestions to control environmental tobacco smoke in China.

Fuzzy AHP-Based Algorithm for Performance Evaluation of New Socialist Countryside in Northwest Minority Regions of China

New socialist countryside (NHC) is usually observed in rural social economic development in China since 2005. In this paper, we analyzed NSC construction in Northwest Minorities regions of China based on the idea of an Fuzzy AHP Algorithm which builds a combined analysis technique of AHP and Fuzzy theory for multiple criteria decision making, and by four aspects: new farmersdeveloped agricultureharmonious countryside and environment for minority populations. The result show that evaluation index system based on Fuzzy AHP Algorithm in Northwest Minority regions has good reliability.

Strategies for Economic Reforms and Development of Western China

Western China, known for its diverse ethnic cultures and abundant natural resources, is a vast territory with a great potential for development owing to its unique geographic location in proximity to China's neighbouring countries. Still, it remains underdeveloped and lags far behind the rest of the country in social-economic development, and the growing disparity between the western and eastern parts of the country threatens to undermine the overall social-economic development of China. A strong case can be made for easing government control over state-owned enterprises, encouraging private entrepreneurship with appropriate incentives, and forging economic links with both the Eastern region of the country and the countries sharing borders with Western China.