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Revenues from land sales have been supporting the local public finance in recent years in China, while tax revenues from urban industries would dominate in future. A shortage of land resources seems to threaten many cities after two decades of economic growth and extensive exploitation, which resulted in the booming of the land reserve centers. However, urban industries depend on sufficient supply of land. Intensity of land use, in essence, is optimization of land production, not simply frugal, not partial maximization of government departments. Land supply influences not only urban industries and local economies, but also the relations between administrative divisions, even the economic geographical features of China.

Ordos Basin is concentrated rich areas of coal, natural gas and oil. In last years it is becoming an important mineral resource and energy base of China. To the most well-known and good studied gas fields belong Sulige and Tabamiao, where natural gas takes place in carbonate rocks of Early Ordovician time. As the result of an investigation that made by author, there is a definition of five types of reservoirs which lay in the core of weathering of Ordovician carbonate deposits.

After allowing direct flights from Mainland China to Taiwan, Chinese tourists increased according to Tourism Bureaustatistics. There are from 0.19 to 2 million tourists from 2008 to 2011. Mainland China has become the main source of Taiwan developing tourism industry. Taiwanese government should know more about comments from Chinese tourists to Taiwan in order toproperly market Taiwan tourism and enhance the overall quality of tourism. In order to understand Chinese visitors' comments, this study adopts content analysis to analyze electronic word-of-mouth on Web. This study collects 375 blog articles of Chinese tourists from Ctrip.com as a database during 2009 to 2011. Through the qualitative data analysis the traveling destination imagesis divided into seven dimensions, such as senic spots, shopping, food and beverages, accommodations, transportation, festivals and recreation activities. Finally, this study proposes some practical managerial implication to know both positive and negative images of the seven dimensions from Chinese tourists, providing marketing strategies and suggestions to traveling agency industry.

Cover -- Housing Policy and Practice in China -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Social, Economic and Political Context -- 3 The Beginning of Urban Housing Policy 1949-56 -- 4 Establishment of The State Housing Provision System: 1956-77 -- 5 The Housing Boom 1978-90 -- 6 Urban Housing Reform Since 1980 -- 7 Urban Housing Development in the 1990s -- 8 Rural Housing Since 1949:An Overall View -- 9 Conclusions: Continuities and Changes -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This paper explores the psychological processes that connect virtual communities to political behavior. Drawing on previous findings in political psychology, I argue that the psychological sense of community may be an important mechanism that dictates people's behavioral responses toward incoming information or mobilization pressure in the online environment. I then discuss the role of different dispositional and situational variables in: a) contributing to the formation of sense of community in the virtual world, and b) serving as potential moderators to influence the strength of virtual sense of community and its subsequent impact on individuals' political behavior. Finally, I consider the methodological approaches that may be used as well as the theoretical implications for future research in this area.

Taiwan is undergoing both a process of nation building and a phase of democratic consolidation, and the experience of divided government at the national level together with Taiwan's unresolved relationship with China have further complicated matters. The end result of these developments will, therefore, have enormous political consequences both for the island, as well as for the peace and stability of eastern Asia. This special issue aims to examine two separate, but closely related, issues: the effects of an emerging national identity in Taiwan and the consequences of the island's rapid democratization. This introduction summarizes the key arguments of this collection of articles.

Generational succession in leadership is always an important event because the differences in formative experiences of a new generation can result in radically different policies and views of the world. The recent leadership transition in China thus deserves scholarly attention. In the aftermath of the Sixteenth Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, this edited volume aims to examine the "prospects and challenges" for China's new leaders in the areas of elite politics, political reform, democratization, the economy, the military, Sino-U.S. relations, and cross-Strait interactions. This introductory chapter summarizes the key arguments of this collection of articles.