Is the Street Stall Economy Possible for Sustainable Development?

By Kaiyue Zheng, Yihang Feng, Yujing Zheng In the early summer of 2020, “street-stall economy” became a much-discussed term in China, just after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang praised and voiced his support for such an economy in his speech in June. Tens of thousands of people devoted themselves to the street vending economy, bringing long-lost prosperity to the cities and the streets, right after the … Continue reading Is the Street Stall Economy Possible for Sustainable Development?

To What Extent Do Grameen Bank’s Microfinance Programs Help Women in Lukou on Their Path Towards Empowerment?

By Ashley Zhang, Dora Ye, Amy Huang, Daisy Lu Mrs. Huang is a 50-year-old villager in Lukou, a small village near Xuzhou China, who manages a plantation business. In the beginning, her business only contained ten acres of land, and the low revenue of the business hardly allowed her to support her two daughters’ education. But when discussing Grameen Bank, her face lit up with … Continue reading To What Extent Do Grameen Bank’s Microfinance Programs Help Women in Lukou on Their Path Towards Empowerment?

COVID-19’s Impact on the International Trade of Guizhou Province Based on Stata

By Ruotong Guan, Xinya cai, Yiling Lu As an inland province in western China, Guizhou is relatively backward in foreign trade compared with other big foreign trade provinces. In recent years, Guizhou province has been committed to developing the international market and foreign trade. Since 2019, Guizhou’s GDP has grown rapidly, with the total value of imports and exports of goods reaching 45.357 billion yuan. … Continue reading COVID-19’s Impact on the International Trade of Guizhou Province Based on Stata

Two Peas in the Same Pod – Comparison Study of Left-Behind Children and Migrant Children in China

By Jiajie Xu, Jiale Huang, Qilong Tan, Yuan Shi, Yiwei Xuan, Zichen Yuan With urbanization accelerating at an alarming pace in recent decades, China has approximately 290,000,000 migrant workers migrating from rural to urban areas according to the 2019 Migrant Workers Monitoring Survey Report. If taken by their parents to urban areas, children of these migrant workers are referred to as migrant children. In contrast, those who … Continue reading Two Peas in the Same Pod – Comparison Study of Left-Behind Children and Migrant Children in China

Three Important Trends to Notice About China-Africa Relationship in 2020

From a report by the Africa Report, “twitter diplomacy”, debt and sustainable energy will shape China-Africa relationship in the year ahead. This article was written prior to the COVID-19 became a global pandemic. “Twitplomacy” Beijing had started an experiment on public diplomacy last year. Previously, public diplomacy was about a staid interview on CCTV. But now, Chinese diplomats in Africa started to have their own … Continue reading Three Important Trends to Notice About China-Africa Relationship in 2020