City Profile: Datong, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-192
Author(s):  
Chenguang Li ◽  
Tao Sun ◽  
Lei ZHAI ◽  
Ke Yuan
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Huge Investment

Small- and medium-sized cities have not received enough scholarly attention in China. In fact, these cities have a larger share of urban population than large-sized cities. Therefore, the paper focuses on one such typical medium-sized city in North China named Datong; a resource-reliant city with a long history but undergoing a difficult phase of transformation. Its industrial structure is upgrading from unitary resource-dependence to balanced development, but it is also accompanied by recessive unemployment and a depressed consumption pattern of its residents. Datong’s urban planning generally reflects the ideas of its leaders and often demonstrates high efficiency and execution. However, abrupt change in the leadership has brought new challenges such as constant adjustment and restructuring along with huge investment and financial risks to cities. This model also fully illustrates the self-repairing and error-correcting ability, which is guiding Datong towards sustainable development.

Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Urbanization Level and Industrial Structure: Empirical Evidence from North China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuoya Siqin ◽  
Dongxiao Niu ◽  
Mingyu Li ◽  
Hao Zhen ◽  
Xiaolong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
North China ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Unit Root Test ◽  
Panel Cointegration ◽  
Test Panel ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Urbanization Level

Abstract This paper aims to examine the nexus among carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, urbanization level and industrial structure in North China over the period 2004–2019, according to an expanded Cobb-Douglas production function. The panel econometric techniques are employed to complete the empirical analysis, including cross-sectional correlation test, panel unit root test, panel cointegration test and panel Granger causality test. The empirical results support the long-term equilibrium relationship among CO2 emissions, urbanization level and industrial structure in North China, and the urbanization level contributes most to CO2 emissions, followed by fossil energy consumption. Furthermore, the bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and urbanization level and unidirectional causality from industrial structure to CO2 emissions are found in North China, indicating that urbanization level and industrial structure have significant impacts on CO2 emissions. Finally, according to the empirical findings, several policy suggestions are proposed for the purpose of reducing CO2 emissions in North China.

Effective Decision Making in Simple and Combined Cycle Schemes at the Turn of the Millennium

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Gayraud ◽  
Riti Singh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Load Following ◽  
Cost Planning ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Save Energy

The electricity supply industry is being restructured all over the world. Privatisation, with the emergence of Independent Power Projects (IPPs), especially in developing countries, and liberalisation of the power generation market are changing decision-making processes in a radical way. New challenges of deregulation and customer demands, and economic instabilities in south-east Asia, oblige electric utilities to face a double jeopardy: least-cost planning and least-risk investments. Consumers are encouraged to save energy and emission reduction policies are implemented to promote utilisation of high efficiency, clean power production technologies. The aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of life cycle risk management and Decision Support System (DSS) for open and combined cycle schemes, highlighting the market potential for Flexible Mid-size Gas Turbines (FMGT) in mid-merit applications. The DSS that has been developed at Cranfield University includes: plant simulation program, providing design and off-design performance, maintenance planning, component degradation, and load-following models. In addition several economic techniques based upon engineering finance and project accounting make power plant economic appraisals possible. The DSS also provides a Monte Carlo risk analysis in order to deal with technical and economic uncertainties in a very effective way. Case studies will stress several parameters that planners have to carefully assess when making decision in the context of the coming millennium, bringing all sorts of new challenges and areas of uncertainty that will be discussed in the paper.

Brief Analysis of Regional Economic Cooperation Based on Low Carbon Economy between the Regions of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 5863-5867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Mei Gao ◽  
Zheng Fang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Regulation System ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Market Transaction ◽  
Carbon Economy

At present, industrial structure in the regions of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia is still at energy intensive phrase, with highlighted contradiction between supply and demand of energy, higher carbon emission, lower low-carbon technology, and lacking of integrated planning and coordination in economic development, environmental protection and ecological construction. To realize advantages integration and balanced development under the orientation of low-carbon economy, we should vigorously probe into the market transaction mechanism of regional low-carbon economy, build a micro economy policy and regulation system for low-carbon economy, strive to develop clean energy, and construct a new scientific innovation mechanism with energy conservation and emission reduction.

scholarly journals The Impact of Innovative Development on the Competitiveness of Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Nataliia Hurzhyi ◽  
Tetiana Mishustina ◽  
Tetiana Kulinich ◽  
Iryna Dashko ◽  
Larysa Harmider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Development Program ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Competitiveness Of Enterprises

This article examines the impact of innovative development on the competitiveness of enterprises. The current trend of globalization and the spread of innovation has a comprehensive effect on the economic environment. Businesses that are the driving force of the economy must take into account the current conditions of post-industrial society to maintain their position in the market. With the openness of the domestic market, enterprises operate in terms of inclusion in a single economic, information and communication space, which leads to increased competition and the need to ensure adequate to the new reality of approaches to the activities of enterprises. The factors of competitiveness of enterprises that will ensure high efficiency of their work, competitiveness, stable market position and the possibility of development in accordance with the objectives are analyzed. In a competitive environment, stable positions are occupied by enterprises that are able to form a balanced development program, effectively maneuvering the internal factors of competitiveness and adapting to the conditions of external factors. It is noted that innovative development affects both external and internal factors of competitiveness. External factors of competitiveness under the influence of innovative development tend to improve the conditions for entrepreneurs. The application of innovation to the internal factors of innovation competitiveness is an important element of competitive strength.

scholarly journals Resource Curse: Experience Study on Economic Development of Petroleum Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 292 ◽  
pp. 02057
Author(s):  
Yuan Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Resource Curse ◽  
Dutch Disease ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Growth Status ◽  
Oil Resources ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Petroleum Resources ◽  
Rich Countries

This paper studies the causes of “resource curse” from the perspective of “national utilization of petroleum resources” and uses the samples of eight typical oil resource-rich countries to study their national economic growth status. Empirical studies show that the resource curse effect of most countries is caused by “Dutch disease". Relying too much on the development of the oil resources industry, with the unreasonable industrial structure, the excessive export of oil resources, and the “extrusion effect” of production factors are the reasons that delay the technological innovation and development of the industry and inhibit the balanced development of other industries.

scholarly journals Analysis on Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Industrial Green Innovation Efficiency—From the Perspective of Innovation Value Chain

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 342
Author(s):  
Pengzhen Liu ◽  
Liyuan Zhang ◽  
Heather Tarbert ◽  
Ziyu Yan
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Clear Trend ◽  
Temporal Characteristics ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Government

Green innovation has become an important combination of high-quality economic growth and ecological sustainability. In this paper, the super-efficiency network SBM model was used to measure the two-stage green innovation efficiency of the industrial technology research and development (R&D) stage and achievement transformation stage in China (30 provinces and cities) from 2009 to 2019. The results show the following points. Firstly, in terms of temporal series, the efficiency of technology R&D and achievement transformation has experienced three stages of “upward-declining-revitalized period”. Secondly, in terms of spatial trend, the industrial green innovation efficiency gradually increases from northwest to southeast. The high-efficiency areas are still concentrated in the eastern coastal region, with a clear trend towards balanced development in the central and western regions. Finally, openness, industrial structure, government technical expenditures, enterprise scale, and environmental regulation all have different degrees of impact on the efficiency of green innovation in the two stages. Based on the above, this paper is helpful for the government to formulate laws and regulations and coordinate the level of regional economic development and clarify the spatio-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of the efficiency of green innovation.

scholarly journals Stability, efficiency and financial risks of islamic banks in conditions of instability of global financial system

Upravlenie ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana Mazurina ◽  
Shukrullokhon Sharipov
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Crisis Period ◽  
Global Financial System

In modern conditions of implementation Islamic model of banking, the issues of increasing efficiency of its activities and ensuring the long-term stability of Islamic banks come to the fore. Article analyzes the activities of Islamic banks in the post-crisis period, both in the global Islamic banking sector as a whole, and in the context of individual countries in which Islamic banks are predominantly or significantly represented, as well as financial risks that pose a threat of losses for Islamic banks. It has been concluded that the Islamic financial system is becoming one of the most important components of the international financial system, and Islamic banks within the global financial system are becoming more recognized and competitive, as they demonstrate a sufficiently high efficiency and stability of activity, a positive trend of development. Analysis found that Islamic banking has demonstrated its reliability and stability in the post-crisis period and continues to be a viable and effective mechanism of financial intermediation in the conditions of global financial system instability. The differences in the functioning and performance of Islamic banks in different countries within a single consolidated Islamic banking system have been revealed, a comparative analysis effectiveness of banking sectors a number of Muslim countries has been given, the directions of development of Islamic banking in them have been shown. Conclusions have been drawn on the need for Islamic banks to introduce effective mechanisms for monitoring and managing financial and investment risks in order to increase their ability to withstand adverse external factors, since in the future, despite the positive trends in the activities of Islamic banks, there are potential financial risks due to the growth of their current costs associated with the possibility of potential deterioration in the quality of assets and reduction in the level of profit.

Study on Creative Industries Correlativity for Sustainable Economy

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 2386-2389
Author(s):  
Da Deng ◽  
Yang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Economic Growth Mode

The creative industries are playing an increasingly significant role in the sustainable development of various countries, especially large cities all around the world for its low carbon and high efficiency. On the basis of summarizing the research status of creative industries, this paper focuses on analyzing the particularity of its relevance mode. This paper points out that the creative industries are standing at the top of all traditional industries, and its special industries correlativity mode widely exists inside this industry, between this industry and other industries, among industries in different regions as well as between this industry and traditional industries. The relevance of creative industries shall be utilized to give full play to its promoting function on the transformation of economic growth mode, the upgrading of industrial structure and other aspects, so as to serve for the low carbon economy and sustainable development strategy.

scholarly journals The Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS-V) and its use in Latin American adolescents: Alcohol consumption pattern as an external criterion for its validation

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 776-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanina Schmidt ◽  
María Fernanda Molina ◽  
María Julia Raimundi
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
American Population ◽  
External Criterion ◽  
Adolescent Sample ◽  
Novel Complex ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale ◽  
Latin American Population

Sensation Seeking is a trait defined by the seeking of varied, novel, complex, and intense situations and experiences, and the willingness to take physical, social, and financial risks for the sake of such experience. The Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS-V) is the most widely used measure to assess this construct. In previous studies a variety of psychometric limitations were found when using the SSS-V with Latin American population. The purpose of this study is to present additional psychometric properties for its use with Latin American adolescents. It was applied to a 506 adolescent sample (from 12 to 20 years). The result is a scale of 22 items that cover four factors. It seems that sensation seeking among Latin American adolescents can be described in terms of four factors, but with some slightly content differences from what is usually found in adult samples from other countries. Future lines of research are proposed.

scholarly journals Temporal variations of streamflow in a mid-latitude Eurasian steppe watershed in the past half century

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xixi Wang
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
Upward Trend ◽  
Abrupt Decrease ◽  
The Past ◽  
Eurasian Steppe ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Past Half

Previous studies either did not identify abrupt change or identified such change but did not exclude it from the detection of trend in streamflow. As a result, an overall downward trend might be erroneously detected as an upward trend because of abrupt increase, while an overall upward trend could be faked as a downward trend due to abrupt decrease. The objectives of this study were to: (1) present a methodology to analyze trend in streamflow in the presence of abrupt change; and (2) use this methodology to detect trend and extreme occurrence of streamflow in the Upper Balagaer River watershed, a mid-latitude nearly pristine precipitation-fed Eurasian steppe watershed in north China. The results indicate that streamflow abruptly decreased around 1994 and exhibited no significant trend from 1960 to 1993 but a significant decrease trend since 1994 (in particular after 1999). In addition, the occurrence of days with a low streamflow was greater after 1994, whereas the occurrence of days with a high streamflow was smaller. Further, the inclusion of the abrupt change in the analysis could compound the detection of the pre-1994 trends but had minimal influences on the detection of the post-1994 trends. These results can be representative across the Eurasian steppe region beyond the study watershed.

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