Harmony Is Most Valuable——the Cultural Implications of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

The distinguished tradition of Chinese culture, i.e., the belief that harmony is most valuable, contains the cultural genes constituting a community with a shared future for mankind. Xi Jinping's thoughts about a community with a shared future for mankind consciously carries on and promotes the Chinese nation's cultural tradition that harmony is most valuable, advocates the cultural contents of peace, harmony, concord, kindness and pleasantness. It integrates the theory and practice of a community with a shared future for mankind with the traditional Chinese cultural concept that harmony is most valuable which is an important value orientation for contemporary human society to deal with human, ethnic and international relations.

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Cultivating Contemporary Chinese People’s Global Consciousness from the Perspective of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

Building a community with a shared future for mankind calls for contemporary Chinese people’s understanding of the future of the community of mankind.Chinese people must also be encouraged to engage in the practices of global governance.Given their historical traditions,cultura thoughts and our nation’s current conditions,contemporary Chinese people must enhance their understanding of the development of the modern world especially the intertwined fate and differentiated interests of humans within such a community.Chinese people must arm themselves with a better globa view,cultivate a global consciousness,consolidate the concept of community and participate with a more open view,a more inclusive mind and more sensible strategies in the campaign initiated by the CPC to build an open inclusive,clean,and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace,universa security,and common prosperity.Grand-scale education must be launched and relevant policy must be introduced to enhance people’s enthusiasm for global governance.International cooperation and communications mus be expanded so that Chinese people’s awareness of the community can be strengthened.Then a community with a shared future for mankind tha follows the rules of the development of China and the world,and that respects the historical trends and serves multiple interests can be constructed.

New Trends in the World Economy and the Countermeasures for Development in the New Era

In the context of"the world is undergoing great development,transformations,and adjustments,"the new trends in the world economy deserve more attention.This article gives a brief review of changes in international trade growth,current account balances,international investment flow,effective interest rates,and relative growth rates of both developed and developing economies.It argues that the slowdown in external demands will continue for a long time,that countries may attach more importance to external markets and competition will intensify.In the course of economic globalization,China needs to focus on developing its domestic markets,devote itself to creating favorable social and economic institutional conditions to increase efficiency and constantly progress in endogenetic technology,and explore an upgraded system for international multilateral trade and investment.

The Determination of Excessive Defense by Judicial Practice and Its Rethinking——Based on an Analysis of 722 Criminal Judgments

Concerning the determination of excessive defense,the main problems are the judicial practice of determining excessive defense only based on the resul of harm inflicted on a perpetrator;identifying excessive harm generally as an intentional crime;limiting the scope of exemption from punishmen of excessive defense relatively narrowly as well as repeated appraisals and indirect punishments.For the improvement of judicial determination of excessive defense,the following efforts should be made.First,from the perspective of ex ante,determining the necessary limits as the standard of whether the act of defense was necessary to stop unlawful infringement Second,paying due attention to the influence of the awareness of defense on the form of culpability and in general circumstances determining excessive defense as a negligent crime.Third,giving sufficient consideration of the extent to which the possibility of anticipation decreased when the defender was faced with unlawful infringement and expanding the scope of exemption from punishment for excessive defense.Fourth,avoiding repeated appraisals and indirect punishments by analyzing the factual grounds and essentia foundations of the circumstances of lesser or greater punishments.

Discussion on Kazakhstan's Construction Laws from the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative

This article introduces the present situations of Chinese enterprises engaged in construction in Kazakhstan under the Belt and Road Initiative,analyzes the three main legal issues faced by Chinese enterprisesc and the related laws and regulations in Kazakhstan,and finially provides some legal advice forChinese companies.

Establishing a Social Governance Model Based on Collaboration,Participation,and Common Interests:Value,Structure and Roadmap

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC)put forward the proposal of establishing a social governance model based on collaboration,participation,and common interests,with the aim of developing new approaches to social governance and further modernizing China’s social system and capacity for governance.As a structuralized social relation addressing diversified governance bodies,the model has consolidated the social governance innovations achieved since the 18th CPC National Congress.Focusing on three dimensions—"value,""structure"and"roadmap,"this paper tries to interpret the value connotations and defining features behind the model and explores its development roadmap.Such a social governance model is a response to political,social and public value appeals,and an adjustment to the order of governance bodies,resource allocations and the benefit distribution structure.Its construction is a systematic and long-term project,which should aim continuously at satisfying people’s ever-higher needs,perfecting laws and regulations,cultivating a pool of specialized organizations and talents,exerting the technology advantages of the Internet in governance,and promoting socialization,legalization,specialization and intellectualization in social development.

Study of the Development of Chinese sports Industry in the Context of Supply-side Structura Reform

In recent years,China’s sports industry has witnessed rapid development gradually forming an emerging strength in its Supply-side Structural Reform and thus increasingly being highlighted in the development of the nationa economy.Being integrated,society-based,green and sustainable,the sports industry is gaining popularity among the Chinese people.This paper studies the overall development of Chinese sports industry during the 12th FiveYear Plan period(2011-2015)and unveils the key achievements it made,such as the expansion of scale,the diversification of products and services,the improvement of industry policies,the apparent upgrading and optimization of the industry’s structure and its further integration with the Internet However,there are still some problems in the development of China’s sports industry&Chinese sports industry accounts for a fairly low proportion in the gross domestic product(GDP)and cannot yet compare with those of developed countries.Besides,given that its the sports services make up only a small share and that a supply-demand imbalance still exists in the sports products and services,its industrial structure requires further upgrading and optimization.In addition,failure to fully stimulate an innovation initiative restricts this industry’s further development.Targeting the bottleneck facing Chinese sports industry and corresponding path selection,this paper mainly analyzes its institutional mechanism reform,structural upgrading and layout product quality improvement and talent supply optimization.Based on the analysis,it is concluded that the development of Chinese sports industry is of great importance to China’s economic transformation,upgrading and healthy development and it echoes the call of Supply-side Structural Reform.

New Strategy and Kinetic Energy Regeneration for the Developmen of China’s Urban Agglomeration

The rapid development of modern urban agglomerations has reshaped the territory of China’s economic geography and reconstructed the spatial forms of Chinese cities and regions.Since the reform and opening-up,China’s urban agglomerations have experienced three stages,i.e.spontaneous cultivation,rapid growth,and the super leading role of planning.The gian development area composed of super urban agglomerations is becoming an emerging geographic unit that improves the urban development quality promotes regional integration processes and participates in global industria competition and innovative resource allocations in China.While encountering challenges such as insufficient innovation kinetic energy and implementation difficulties of cross-regional coordination mechanisms,it has also ushered in new opportunities brought about by the shift of the global urban network system focus,the accelerated formation of high-speed rail urban belts,the rise of innovative geographic unit communities,etc.As entering the new era,centering on the high-quality development requirements of urbanization and urban agglomerations,China should establish a new mechanism for more effective coordinated regional development,build an urban pattern of coordinated development of large,medium and small cities and towns with urban agglomerations as the main body,comprehensively enhance the competitiveness of urban agglomerations and regions,and take a steady and innovation-driven road to modernization.

On the Planning of Chinese Marine High-tech Industry Demonstration Zones:From the Perspective of Supply-side Structural Reform

China’s national agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zones focus on supply-side structural reform in their overall plan of development.This paper selected the China’s marine industry as its research subject and analyzes its current situation and major problems.After summarizing the current researches of China’s marine industry parks,from the perspective of supply-side structural reform,this paper specifies the tasks and objectives of the construction of the marine hi-tech industry demonstration zones.The overall planning of the demonstration zones must set distinctive developmen as its orientation,and we should emphasize innovation-driven and green development,devise a functional zoning that embraces marine-land and allround integration,and seek mechanism innovations that could invigorate the inner drive of development.The paper also puts forward the major principles that the planning of marine hi-tech industry demonstration zones should obey in the context of supply-side structural reform.

Parallel Studies and Hermeneutic Variation

To understand parallel studies from the view of hermeneutics would be a helpful way to break through their developmental predicament.Theoretically,parallel studies have clear connotation of hermeneutics.Meanwhile,the practices of seeking common hermeneutics between literary works and theories,and the hermeneutic approach highlight the essence of parallel studies.Hermeneutic variation of parallel studies caused by the heterogeneity of different cultures falls into two types:unconscious hermeneutic variation and conscious hermeneutic variation.Moreover,hermeneutic variation might cause the aphasic problems,or become the potential power of cultural innovation.

Gu Jiegang’s “Discussion of Ancient History” Movement and It Relationship with Developments in Western Sinology

The scholarship in modern China is closely related to Western sinology in terms of school ties.Gu Jiegang’s launching of the"Discussion of Ancient History"movement centered on the"theory of the accumulated creation of Chinese ancient history"was a representative example.At the beginning of the movement Hu Shi and Gu Jiegang proposed the notion that,"there was no history before the Eastern Zhou Dynasty"which was indebted to the historical skepticism by Philip Van Ness Myers(American scholar)and Friedrich Hirth(German sinologist)of the same period.The idea that"the Shang Dynasty is still in the late Stone Age"advocated by Hu and Gu was also directly influenced by J.G.Andersson’s An Early Chinese Culture.Conversely,American sinologist Arthur W.Hummel Sr played a key role in introducing and evaluating the first volume of Discussion of Ancient History to Western academia.Paradoxically,while Swedish sinologis Bernhard Karlgren wrote On the Authenticity and Nature of the Tso Chuan to refute Kang Youwei’s reinterpretation of Confucian Classics(The Forged Classics of the Wang Mang Period),his work however became of value for Chinese historic doubt scholars to reaffirm the value of New Text Confucianism and advance the"Discussion of Ancient History"movement.If we would like to choose a saying to describe the relationship between the"Discussion of Ancien History"movement and Western Sinology,the Chinese proverb,"Stones from other hills may serve to polish jade of this one,"may be an appropriate choice.

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