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This article investigates the spatial determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) at the provincial level in China. Pecuniary externalities and technological externalities are the two main reasons behind the concentration of FDI in China. This article examines the resulting imbalance in the regional distribution of FDI among China's 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. It takes a novel approach to further investigate the role of innovation efficiency. This is also an indicator of technological externality. Panel data sets from 1999 to 2007 reveal that in attracting FDI, the domestic regional markets and foreign markets have substitution effects with one another based on the samples representing the national, eastern and central provinces. This effect, however, is not found in the samples from the western provinces. (CIJ/GIGA)

The male-male romance web series The Untamed reached a height of media interest in the summer of 2019 in China. Numerous Chinese young women were obsessed with the drama centred on the relationship between the two male protagonists, and many fan followers identified themselves as ' The Untamed Girls'. Through online observation of young female fans of the male-male romance web series, this study articulates how they were self-organised as a counterpublic and utilised strategic ways to negotiate with the party-state censorship. Drawing upon the conceptualisation of 'ambivalence', the study analyses a dual ambivalence in their collective actions. It is argued that The Untamed Girls' participation as a popular feminist project is, however constantly intertwined with an assumption of heteronormativity and an internalised misogyny, where these seemingly empowered women are simultaneously reaffirming a heterosexual regulation of sexual desires and devaluing women when they celebrate the male-male romance embodied in such a drama series.

The literary form of danmei, in which male–male romance and/or erotica is portrayed, is a flourishing genre in China which has received significant attention from academia in recent years. This article focuses on a notorious subgenre of danmei, A/B/O fiction, which introduces three additional sexes, alpha, beta and omega, into mankind, alongside the male/female binary sex/gender system. By focusing on a popular but atypical example of this subgenre, this study aims to contribute to the understanding of how female danmei writers constantly question the hierarchical and heteronormative system in the A/B/O world and interrogate the fixed identities of gender, sexuality and class, by imagining love, sex and intimacy among male protagonists. Drawing on Judith Butler's gender performative theory and resignification politics, this article suggests that the behaviour of the characters in these texts engenders reciprocal and equal relationships, reverses the various heteropatriarchal norms through the employment of technology, and questions the compulsory regulatory power embodied in the biological pheromone in A/B/O. Simultaneously, this study also identifies the notion of 'love' itself as a limiting factor of this genre of male–male romantic and/or erotic writing.

In order to quantitatively study the effect of environmental protection in China since the twenty-first century and the environmental pollution projected for the next ten years (under the model of extensive economic development), this paper establishes a Bayesian regulation back propagation neural network (BRBPNN) to analyze the typical pollutants (i.e., cadmium (Cd) and benzopyrene (BaP)) for Taihu Lake, a typical Chinese freshwater lake. For the periods 1950–2003 and 1950–2015, the neural network model estimated the BaP concentration for the database with Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency (NS) = 0.99 and 0.99 and root-mean-square error (RMSE) = 3.1 and 9.3 for the total database and the Cd concentration for the database with NS = 0.93 and 0.98 and RMSE = 45.4 and 65.7 for the total database, respectively. In the model of extensive economic development, the concentration of pollutants in the sediments of Taihu reached the maximum value at the end of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century, and there was an inflection point. After the early twenty-first century, the concentration of pollutants was controlled under various environmental policies and measures. In 2015, the environmental protection ratio of Cd and BaP reached 52% and 89%, respectively. Without environmental protection measures, the concentrations of Cd and BaP obtained from the neural network model is projected to reach 2015.5 μg kg(−1) and 407.8 ng g(−1), respectively, in 2030. Based on the results of this study, the Chinese government will need to invest more money and energy to clean up the environment.

The article presents the latest status of the Maidanak 1 m telescope, instruments and the related facilities of the Observatory as well as the science projects. The renovation of the 1 m telescope of Carl Zeiss (Germany) at the Maidanak observatory of the Ulug Bek Astronomical Institute (UBAI) AS of Uzbekistan has been made. All systems of the telescope were completely modernized based on modern standards, the main results of modernization are also described. All modernization works, as well as scientific research on this project are carried out in close cooperation of UBAI with the National Astronomical Observatories of the Academy of Sciences of the PRC in framework of the Agreement on cooperation between these organizations. The FOV has been enlarged and new CCD camera is mounted. The related facilities, like the observing circumstance monitoring system and the photovoltaic station, are also built for the observing support. The telescope and new camera will be tested and used for the science projects of the 1 m telescope. According to the collaboration agreement, a large-scale scientific project on a full survey of the northern sky in special photometric system - Stellar Abundance and Galactic Evolution (SAGE) survey will be carried out with the upgraded 1 m telescope. The main goal of the project is to measure the stellar atmospheric parameters for more than 500 million FGK stars. As other projects, the time domain science, like GRB, SNe searching, variable stars, also will be performed.