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Annotation As China continues to be heralded as a rising economic power, the need for an understanding of its institutional effects--such as investment-related policies, regulations, and laws--on foreign direct investment increases as well. Institutions and Investmentsemploys interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, business, law, and political science to shed light on the interaction between institutional changes and investment patterns and to form a clear picture of investment behavior as China's legal and regulatory infrastructure has developed over the reform years.Organized into three main parts, the book first discusses the evolution and nature of China's FDI regulatory framework. Part 2 examines the various modes and variant patterns of FDI in China in the reform years. Part 3's central task is to demonstrate a systematic link between institutional changes in China's FDI regulatory framework and the changing patterns of FDI. In conclusion, Jun Fu finds that China has made substantial progress from a command economy to a market system, but that it still has a long way to go before it truly attains a transparent and rule-based system. This book adds new dimensions to the scholarship on China as a growing economic power and will be of particular interest to international economists, political scientists, and business scholars studying China. Jun Fu is Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

Trace metals, tropical estuary, Hainan, Brazil. - This work investigated the concentrations, the distributions and the behaviors of five trace metals (nickel, cobalt, copper, cadmium and lead) plus iron in the aqueous and in the particulate phase in two tropical estuarine systems of China and Brazil, and estimated their contamination levels. The field work was carried out in the Wanquan Estuary and in the Wenchang-Wenjiao Estuary of the Southern Chinese island of Hainan as well as in the Mundaú Lagoon and in the Manguaba Lagoon of Northeast-Brazil, which are all characterised by relatively low contents of dissolved humics and DOC. The surface water samples were seperated into the dissolved ( 0.45 µm) phase by conventional filtration followed by a further separation of the dissolved phase into two colloidal fractions (HMW "high molecular weight : 10 kDa - 0.45 µm; LMW "low molecular weight : 5 kDa - 10 kDa) and a fraction (TD: < 5 kDa) considered as "truly dissolved" fraction. The levels of these trace metals with high contamination riscs is generally higher in East-Hainan than in Northeast-Brazil. However, the estuarine behaviors of these metals in the two study areas are very similar. Dissolved cadmium appears more or less to be enriched in the dissolved phase, while dissolved iron and lead are rapidly removed from the dissolved phase when salinity increases. Nickel, cobalt and copper in solution, as well as all trace metals in particulate forms essentially follow a conservative mixing line. The relative significance of the truly dissolved fraction (< 5 kDa; TD) of the metals increased with increasing salinity. Dissolved iron, nickel and lead are mainly associated with the high molecular weight fraction (10 kDa - 0.45 µm; HMW), whereas dissolved cadmium predominantly occurs in the truly dissolved fraction. The truly dissolved fraction is also dominant for dissolved cobalt and copper; however, the high molecular weight fraction and the low molecular weight fraction (5 kDa - 10 kDa; LMW) cannot be neglected for these two metals. Despite the massive aquaculture industry in East-Hainan and the extensive cultivation of sugar cane in monocultural form in Northeast-Brazil as well as general anthropogenic activities, no significant impact of trace metals on the local environment could be detected in the two study areas. Although elevated metal concentrations occurred (in the Wenchang-Wenjiao Estuary and in the Mundaú Lagoon), they were leveled out effectively during estuarine processing. At high salinities, the metal concentrations in East-Hainan and in Northeast-Brazil are approximately at the same level. In comparison with averages of estuaries worldwide, both dissolved and particulate metal concentrations in the two study areas are similar or lower, except for iron probably originating from specific geographic settings.

This article examines how young Chinese adults living in urban areas experience cunzaigan (a Chinese word that translates to 'sense of existence') through sharing mundane life moments on the social media platform—WeChat. We draw on the theories of social acceleration and social presence to interpret this practice and, in so doing, find that for our participants, cunzaigan signifies a subjective experience, testifying that they are here, providing a counterpoint to their mobile and fast-paced urban lives. Drawing on their experience of temporal social presence on WeChat, we contend that technological developments, which have been identified as a key motor of social acceleration, can also be harnessed as a resource to serve ontological and social purposes in an accelerated social context. In so doing, we address the role that everyday engagements with social media play in shaping the temporal nature of young people's lives.

Chapter 1: Mitigation & Adaptation – China's Evolving Policy Framework -- Chapter 2: Drawing Strategic Roadmap of Decarbonization for the Steel Sector -- Chapter 3: Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage: A General Overview -- Chapter 4: What Is It? How Much Does It Cost? Techno-Economic Analysis of CCUS -- Chapter 5: Building Carbon Market in China: Take Stock and Look Ahead -- Chapter 6: Design Options of ETS: How to Incentivize CCUS for the Steel Sector -- Chapter 7: Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2060: What (More) Has to Be Done?.