Four Basic Dimensions and Contemporary Significance of Xi Jinping's Ecological Concept

Faced with increasingly severe ecological pollution and environmental degradation, Xi Jinping has put forward the scientific thoughts on ecological civilization construction and environmental protection. Xi Jinping's ecological concept is an important part of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. This has come into being under a particular historical background and a certain theoretical basis, and comprises four dimensions; ecological concepts of civilization, economy, security and livelihood. Xi Jinping's ecological concept is conducive not only to the construction of a harmonious socialist society and building a beautiful China, but also to the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and creating a community of shared future for mankind.

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On the Nature and Direction of State-owned Enterprises Reform in a New Era

State-owned enterprises(SOEs) serve as an important material and political basis for socialism with Chinese characteristics. SOEs must be reformed in accordance with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialist Economy with Chinese characteristics for a new era, which is the fundamental basis for maintaining the nature and direction of reform for SOEs. Reforms must be built on the fundamental standpoint with people at the center, and aimed at emancipating, developing and protecting productive forces based on the principles of justice and fairness, which is also the direction for Chinese SOEs reform in the new era. Adherence to the public ownership of state-owned assets in the form of value and its market-oriented management in the form of use-value is not only the objective requirement of a production mode adapting to the growth of productive forces, but also the logic of SOEs reform in the new era. Meanwhile, SOEs need to highlight the top-level designs of governmental systems in the reform process, giving e ective play to the leading and guiding roles of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialist Economy with Chinese characteristics for a new era.

New Ideas for RMB Internationalization under the Belt and Road Initiative

President Xi Jinping put forward that, "China will further push the open economy to a higher level by enlarging its scale, expanding its area, and deepening its degree." This proposal provides new perspectives for RMB internationalization. The new path of RMB internationalization shall be achieved under the Belt and Road Initiative and be a new option that is di erent from the "Three-Stage Theory" and regional monetary cooperation. RMB internationalization can only be realized through a government-driven mode with Chinese characteristics which shows the fundamental di erence from the internationalization of other currencies such as the US Dollar, Euro and Japanese Yen. The Chinese government can realize the strategic objective of RMB internationalization through improving national governance, applying policies and tools for macroeconomic regulation, and implementing the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as the operation of its nancial industry, the Silk Road Fund(SRF), and that of regional banks like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank(AIIB) and the BRICS New Development Bank(NDB). RMB internationalization is an important objective of China's political and economic development. Efforts must be made to steadily promote market-oriented reform of the RMB exchange rate and its forming mechanism, and reform of capital account convertibility so that RMB can become the leading global reserve currency. Meanwhile, China will also undertake more responsibilities as a major power for stable development of the international economy and nance.

A Legal and Economic Study of Cooperation among the BRICS Countries under BRI

With the advancement of economic globalization and regional economic integration, the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – by means of the BRICS countries cooperation mechanism, demonstrate a new platform of cooperation, dialogue and the shared aspirations of emerging market countries. The BRICS have created a new model of international economic cooperation which has made significant contributions to the global economic recovery. This article discusses the reality of the BRICS countries' economic cooperation, analyzes their obstacles and deficiencies and puts forward relevant countermeasures and suggestions to further improve their international economic cooperation in perspertive of law and economy.

China's Process and Action Framework for Transforming to a Manufacturer of Quality

China's construction of a manufacturer of quality mainly relies on infrastructure improvement, cutting-edge technological breakthroughs, manufacturing development at the enterprise, sector and region levels, and the enactment and implementation of supporting policies, which can be combined to form an action framework for the construction of building China into a manufacturer of quality. At present, there are still some weak areas in China's construction of a manufacturer of quality, such as backward technologies comparing with world's leading players in some areas, limited contributes to the formulation of international standards, insu cient invests in building a system of supporting policies concerning nance, banking and taxation, and scant attention to cultural development as a manufacturer of quality. China should attach more importance to the technological research and development in these weak areas, align its manufacturing standards system with international standards, improve its system of supporting policies concerning nance, banking and taxation, and make more e orts in the development of advanced manufacturing system.

International Communication Theories:Main Development Stages and Reflections

From the Persian Empire in the 5 th Century BC to the age of globalization, the significance of international communication to international studies and related problems has been repeatedly testi ed by history. The theory of international communication originated in the West. In the new era, many of its theoretical perspectives need to be reviewed and re-evaluated. Compared with other communication patterns such as mass communication, international communication is highlighted by notable characteristics such as its concern for core national interests, distinctive strategic objectives and e ective changes. It offers a new approach to showcasing comprehensive strength among countries and regions. The development of international communication theory can be divided into three main stages. One prominent contribution of the established theoretical achievements lies in its re ning of multiple important general laws of international communication based on the actual needs and its forming of a theoretical system. The major limitation is that these theoretical achievements, under the influence of Western centralism, place excessive emphasis on competition while paying scant attention to accommodation and mutual learning. In the face of new characteristics and practical requirements in the new era, international communication theory should be equipped with a broader vision for more breakthroughs and innovations.

The Overseas Reception of Chinese Science Fiction Works from a Perspective of Western Interpretation Preference——A Case Study of Reader's Reception of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem in the USA

The Three-Body Problem, written by Liu Cixin, won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, with over 200,000 copies in English already sold. This gure is hundreds of times the average sales volume of Chinese novels in the USA. Through qualitative and quantitative analyses of overseas readers' comments on The Three-Body Problem posted on the online platforms of Goodreads and Amazon, this paper concludes that the novel's success overseas lies in its catering to the concerns of overseas readers. The ThreeBody Problem is popular among overseas readership thanks to its re ection on the ultimate existence of mankind, science ction vision & imagination, literary familiarity & identi cation, ideological di erence-triggered cultural curiosity, and a good translation. This paper attempts to interpret Liu Cixin's work on the map of world literature from the perspective of overseas readers' preferences to provide references for contemporary Chinese science ction creation and overseas reception.

Exchange of Presents:The Name and Nature of Chinese Red from the Perspective of Anthropology of Art

Chinese red refers to a key visual symbol of the multiethnic Chinese nation. From naming to local color preference, the visual experience accumulation in Chinese red lies not just in the solitary and fossilized historical relics, but in a ceaseless and dynamic process of formation, recognition, conversion and transmission. Moreover, the symbolic constitution and ethnic identi cation of Chinese red exempli es historical accomplishments in local exchanges of artifacts, technologies, systems, and outlooks with foreign partners. Therefore, as part of the country's cultural heritage, Chinese red also encompasses two aspects, cultural integration based on its identification and artistic productivity with a focus on di erentiation.

On the Farmers' Role Differentiation and the Effective Implementation of Rural Vitalization Strategy——A Perspective from the Targets,Process and Evaluation of Policy Implementation

During the historical period of securing a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and striving for the great success of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, the 19 th National Congress of the CPC put forward the signi cant deployment of rural vitalization strategy, drawing a great blueprint for the prospect of China's "three issues" of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers and acting as an important focus of these "three issues" in the future. This paper discussed the relationships between farmers' role di erentiation and ve objectives of the rural vitalization strategy on the basis of farmers' role di erentiation and conversion in the process of agriculture and countryside modernization and the interpretation of farmers' role di erentiation and the rural vitalization strategy. Based on the logical relationships between farmers' role di erentiation and the rural vitalization strategy, we discuss the e ective implementation of the rural vitalization strategy in terms of its targets, processes and e ectiveness evaluations. We also propose that the implementation of the rural vitalization strategy can only be implemented when farmers are given the rst priority as strategy subjects, farmers' wills are respected in the implementation process, and farmers' satisfaction is highlighted in the strategy implementation e ectiveness evaluations.

Lower-Elementary Level School Pupils' Developmental Trajectories of Chinese Verbal Vocabulary Knowledge and Influential Factors

149 elementary school pupils were selected as the subjects for this study, to whom five tracking assessments of their verbal vocabulary knowledge were given over a period of three years. In addition, a latent variable growth model was adopted to explore grades 1-3 elementary school pupil's developmental trajectory for verbal Chinese vocabulary knowledge. The phonological awareness, homomorphic morpheme awareness, compound morpheme awareness and family socioeconomic status(SES) on the students' verbal vocabulary knowledge were also investigated. The ndings are: 1, grades 1-3 elementary school pupils verbal Chinese vocabulary knowledge developmental trajectory shows a curvilinear form, of which linear development is trended in the first two years, and as of the third year the developmental rate doubles the previous two years, whereas individual di erences are remarkable in both the initial level and the growth rate; 2, awareness of phonetics, homomorphic morphemes and complex morphemes as well as the family socioeconomic status can be referred to for a positive forecast of the students' initial level of verbal vocabulary knowledge; 3, only the awareness of homomorphic morphemes and the family socioeconomic status can be applied to a positive prediction of the students' verbal vocabulary knowledge growth rate..

The Study of Higher Vocational English EGP+EOP Teaching Model Reform

The teaching model of English for Occupational Purposes plus English General Purpose(EOP+EGP) meets the needs of the higher vocational English pedagogy in China. This paper analyzes the importance and necessity of the model as well as its speci c implementation.

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