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This paper analyzes the problem of economic disparity by considering China’s economic growth after its economic reforms and the open-door policy. China's economic growth is clarified from the viewpoints of domestic investment, exports and foreign direct investment, and changes of industrial structure. Moreover, by using the provincial-level data from 1978 to 2014, including period analyses, China’s economic growth is empirically analzed, and economic convergence is verified. The analyses show that the level of economic growth is relatively high in the eastern provinces, while in the central and western provinces, especially in the western provinces, the level of economic growth is still low. However, the analyses of the convergence hypothesis reveal that poorer provinces tend to show a higher rate of economic growth than richer provinces in the whole sample period of 1978-2014, and the sub-periods of 1978-1991 and 2002-2014.

Previous studies suggest that the process of learning a second language is often influenced by the first language (mother tongue), and this interference is often negative. For decades, second language acquisition research often focuses on L1 constraints on L2 learning and performance, positive language transfer in second language acquisition is rarely mentioned. In fact, adult learners often take advantages of the similarities between their mother tongue and the target language to learn new knowledge. This is especially the case for Vietnamese learners learning Chinese, as Vietnam and China have close and related history, geography and culture, Vietnamese and Chinese languages also share many similarities. The development of the Vietnamese language has been influenced remarkably by the Chinese language, and indeed, a large number of Chinese originated words have still existed in the contemporary Vietnamese. Moreover, Vietnamese people had used Chinese language for their everyday communication for a long period of time in their history. Thus Vietnamese learners learning Chinese gain more advantages over Western learners. The similarities between the two languages and cultures have helped Vietnamese learners a lot in acquiring Chinese as a second language. This helps students not only better acquire the language, it also helps them to better understand the target culture. This paper aims to discuss the position of Sino-Vietnamese words in the Vietnamese language system and the positive language transfer these words can create for Vietnamese learners learning Chinese. It also suggests that the Sino-Vietnamese words can also be used in the teaching of Chinese phonetic and vocabulary for Vietnamese students.

This paper compares disregarding corporate entity in law between Korea and China. Especially this study investigates the problems of adopting disregarding corporate entity in tax law and suggests policy directions for Korea and China. Except the environment difference between Korea and China, the application conditions of the piercing corporate veil on commercial law and tax law are also quite different between two countries. Those differences must be put into the consideration when applying the theory on tax law. It’s necessary to notice that the relationship between the theory and principles of actual taxation, the relationship with the second tax obligation of oligopolistic stockholders, the relationship between the theory and tax heaven and the abuse of the theory when applying the theory on tax law. And the principles of the piercing corporate veil on tax law should be focused as the court can apply the rules to deal with the specific situation flexibly.

Public policies have become the criteria of regulating and guiding social organizations and the public to achieve public wills and meet social needs. Nowadays the world economy has entered a new normal state and a vacuum occurs in global governance. Aligned with the actual situation of the recent current world economy, the economic development of China also indicates the low level of growth fluctuation, with the risk of the stagnation for a long time, the degradation of demographic dividend, and the deterioration of income distribution. Based on the background of the new normal, public administration presents the characteristics of new publicness. The major decisions of public policies are often associated with public administrators’ faiths, values and customs, and so on. Therefore, the core of public policies under the new normal is to have a sufficient insight into humanity, which is also an important criterion to be applied when formulating public policies. Therefore, the success of an activity or a policy should be judged by considering the humanity, public spirit, and rationality which are used to study those issues in this paper.

Nowadays to improve the protection of the intellectual property (IP) law and codify civil law have been put forward by the Chinese government as a vital issue. Some experts and scholars have exerted an extreme influence on incorporating the IP law into the civil code, as a result the latest "General Principles of Civil Law (Draft)" embraces the IPR (intellectual property rights) as the current one which passed in 1986 and the IP law will be integrated into the final civil code, but many of them admit major discrepancies existing between them with the rapid development of science and technology. In fact the IP law has gone far away from traditional civil law system, they intrinsically stand for extricating the IP law from the civil code, however they have suffered too much from administrative power on rent-seeking in the field of the IP of China, so they are reluctant to support of incorporating the IP law into the civil code simply in order to implement “autonomy of will” which is the fundamental principle of civil law against administrative intervention in the future. This article does not follow the crowd instead of revealing the truth and arguing over the history, territory, the nature as well as the relationship between the IP law and civil law in the first chapter, beyond that, along with total 6 aspects of critical analysis on the ground principle of civil law, the mechanism of implementation, the unequal treatment, the retroactive effect, the uncertainty in different county on codification and the tendency of development from the perspective of judicial practice in the second chapter, finally the conclusion in the last chapter is the less integrating the IP law into the civil code the better.

This paper stresses the importance of IP Industrialization to the success of China’s innovation-driven strategy based on the current Chinese situation, which is right underway. With many cutting-edge problems arisen from the implementation of China’s intellectual property (IP) rights, this paper tries to solve the IP finance difficulties by IP pledge financing and IP securitization; to sort out the relationship between IP implementation and the antitrust enforcement; and to actively participate in International IP rule-making. We also suggest that judicial protection is considered with high priority in Chinese IP protection and development. In addition, it is needed to perfect the in-employment invention system in order to balance the interests of different stakeholders, as well as to use economics methods in assessing IP value. This paper urges the Chinese government to respect the law of market and create a favorable macro-economic environment for the Chinese innovation-driven strategy.

The Amendment (Ⅸ) to the China Criminal Law, as adopted in the 16th Session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on August 29, 2015, came into force on November 1, 2015. Since the 1997 revision of the Criminal Law, the Standing Committee of the National People’s congress has enacted One Decision and Eight Amendments to the Criminal Law that have revised and perfected the Criminal Law on the basis of the needs to punish crime, protect the people and maintain a normal social order. The standing Committee deliberated and passed the 52 articles Amendment (Ⅸ) to the Criminal Law, making considerable revisions and improvements to it. In the face of a grave and complex situation and the fight against terrorism in China, Amendment (Ⅸ) to the Criminal Law, imposed criminal sanctions against five types of terrorism and extremism. Furthermore, the revisions mainly involve abolishing capital punishment for nine crimes that rarely saw the sentence applied; improving legal regulations for punishing embezzlement and bribery, with a paragraph stipulating the applicability of life imprisonment and inapplicability of commutation or parole for a specific circumstance; imposing heavier punishments on cybercrime; strengthening protection of the minors, the elderly and women’s right making it a crime to disrupt courtroom order, organizing cheating in examinations, funding illegal assemblies, fabricating or purposefully disseminating false information; and repealing the crime of having paid sex with a girl under the age of 14, instead treating such an act as a case of rape in which stringency should be shown under the relevant stipulations of the Criminal Law.

The purpose of the study was to empirically investigate the impacts of formal mentoring on individual creativity and the mediating role of psychological safety in the relationship between formal mentoring and individual creativity in Chinese employees. Moreover, this study demonstrates the moderating role of affective commitment not only between formal mentoring and psychological safety but also between psychological safety and individual creativity. The results are as following: first, formal mentoring was found to have a significant relationship with individual creativity; second, there is a positive relationship between formal mentoring and psychological safety. Third, as predicted, psychological safety was positively related to individual creativity, Fourth, the mediating role of psychological safety was identified in the relationship between formal mentoring and individual creativity. Fifth, the moderating role of affective commitment between formal mentoring and psychological safety and between psychological safety and individual creativity are both significant. Finally some practical recommendations to develop the formal mentoring for Chinese managers were suggested.