China’s environmental journey: 1972 Stockholm

27/09/2021 CEN_net 0

The Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, in June 1972, was the first major United Nations event featuring the People’s Republic of China. It helped shape the country’s understanding of environmental issues ever since. In 2022, China was set to […]

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The role of State-owned enterprises in China

15/09/2021 CEN_net 0

Chinese SOEs are social enterprises that effectively balance the demands of multiple stakeholders. More importantly, China’s institutions provides a better supporting ecosystem for SOEs to reinforce the creation of social value when pursuing value maximization. The Chinese SOEs are able […]

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Understanding China’s economic miracle

15/06/2021 CEN_net 0

China has recorded the greatest economic growth by a major country in the whole of human history. In parallel, China has produced the most rapid increase in living standards of any major country in human history. A new book China’s […]

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Ecological civilization: A new development paradigm

13/06/2021 CEN_net 0

By Pan Jiahua, Professor of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences University, with assistance from Yang Xinran. Almost every strategic study on environment and development solicited by the Chinese government refers to ‘ecological civilization’. Successive presidents have connected their names […]

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Marxism and the Origins of the Ecological Critique

08/06/2021 CEN_net 0

John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2020) shows the role played by biologists and other scientists with a non-mechanistic, materialist outlook, alongside various Marxists, in laying the foundations of ecology in the late […]