Category: China

China, Health

The Existing Difficulties of Pneumoconiosis Patients

By Joyce Chen, Chujun Liu, Xintong Ye
Special Thanks: Haozhe Li
When entering Mr. Yang’s home, his family was assembling components. His mother’s trembling hands struggled to stuff the lamp wick into a red rubber covering, then hanging a plastic buckle onto it. Mr. Yang said that assembling such a component takes him about 15 seconds, and two of them are worth one cent (in RMB), which means that he could only earn one yuan from finishing 200 of these. A one-meter-high oxygen bottle was hanging on the wall, bags of medicine were stacked on the table, and thousands of accessories were stored in the corner. This is the life of Mr. Yang, one that reflects the current status of many rural pneumoconiosis patients in China. Continue reading The Existing Difficulties of Pneumoconiosis Patients

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Business and economics, China

义乌外贸那些事儿——汇率波动引发的蝴蝶效应

作者：王朱菲、黄榆哲、吴志昊、郑泽佑、蒋睿炀（排名不分先后）
“说到义乌啊，这里可是世界小商品的摇篮啊。”Bina外贸公司的秦老板如是说。义乌是一个进出口贸易十分发达的城市。在这里，哪怕是路边一家平平无奇的餐厅，其老板都有经营外贸公司的经历。 Continue reading 义乌外贸那些事儿——汇率波动引发的蝴蝶效应

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Business and economics, China, Society and culture

Social integration assessment：foreign merchants in Yiwu

By Jiajun Li, Haozhe Meng, Jiadong Zhu, Yihong Yin, and Lezhong Wang
Located in the middle of Zhejiang province, Yiwu is home to nearly 2 million residents, including 13 thousand foreigners from more than 100 countries. The city owns the largest commodity wholesale market in the world. Yiwu has been developed into one of the most significant locations for international trade since the implementation of the “Economic Reform and Opening-up” policy in the 1980s and the introduction of the “Belt and Road Initiative” in the 2010s. Continue reading Social integration assessment：foreign merchants in Yiwu

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Business and economics, China, Labor

Live Streaming: A Glimmer of Hope for the “Grassroots”

By Jiayi Zhang, Jiaxin Liu, Lukai Du and Jiawen Mei (listed in no particular order)
Numerous Chinese companies suffer from difficulties during the epidemic – labor shortages, drop in production, and even bankruptcies. As a result, the unemployment rate has risen substantially. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the unemployment rate in January 2020 was 5.3 percent. In February, the rate climbed to 6.2 percent. In comparison to the 2019 average rate of 3.62, the unemployment rate almost doubled. Continue reading Live Streaming: A Glimmer of Hope for the “Grassroots”

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China, Environment, Technology

“斗不过，躲还不行吗”——如何通过红外相机缓解大树脚村“人象冲突”？

作者：杨沐之 刘仲慷 徐浩真
“象爷爷，你别全吃完，留着给我家小孩吃一点吧。”
一日饭后，杨姐讲起了大象吃庄稼的故事——云里看山，遍野的玉米地中“秃”了几块，格外显眼。杨姐来自云南大树脚村。在这里，大象随意吃农作物的事例，早已不胜枚举。 Continue reading “斗不过，躲还不行吗”——如何通过红外相机缓解大树脚村“人象冲突”？

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