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This paper discusses the influence of teachers' teaching ideas and classroom activities design on international students' Chinese learning anxiety. The study found that Chinese teachers classroom management and communication style are the main factors causing anxiety of international students in classroom learning. Chinese teachers' improper error correction methods, ignorance of cultural and cognitive style differences in learning activities have also made international students feel so stressed in classroom learning that they were reluctant to participate in classroom activities. The author suggests that Chinese teachers should enhance their sensitivity to cross-cultural communication by way of facing up to international students' language learning anxiety and taking cultural and cognitive style differences into fully consideration in their language teaching planning. The author also suggests adopting teaching strategies such as group activities and delaying error correction to provide appropriate academic support to reduce international students' anxiety, stress and frustration in Chinese language learning.

This paper uses a panel of 224,604 Chinese firms over the period 2004–2009 linked with a set of unique city-level financial development data to examine how financial development affects the way corporate inventory investment is financed. We find that financial development enhances the use of interest-bearing loans and discourages the use of trade credit in financing inventory investment. These effects are more pronounced after the 2007 property rights reform, as well as for privately-owned firms, small firms, firms with no political connections, and firms located in coastal regions. Our results are robust to using a variety of different specifications, as well as different measures of financial development and estimation methods.

This study explores how China seek international cooperation opportunities in higher education. Due to the change of U.S. new immigration policy toward international students, it is more difficult for Chinese students in some STEM fields to have further study in the United States. Besides, the greatly increased tuition fees, as well as the worry about personal safety distract Chinese students' willingness to study in the United States. Chinese colleges and universities take this opportunity to actively explore high-quality overseas higher education resources in Belt and Road countries to meet the great needs of Chinese students' studying abroad. At the same time, China speeds up the process of internationalization of higher education by recruiting scholars all over the world and initiating research and training projects specialized in STEM fields with top universities in the world. Furthermore, Chinese universities strive to contribute intellectual support in global governance and work together with universities from the SCO member States under the framework of SCO University to provide more options for Chinese students to receive high quality international education and training as well.