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Rail Transit improves the way residents travel, it greatly provides convenience while also affecting the surrounding housing prices. Rail Traffic not only entails different urban routes but is also a great source of research on other factors that impact the urban environment. Real estate developers are also very concerned about the development of railway traffic. Research on the impact relationship between railway transportation and real estate prices can provide useful insights to both real estate developers and consumers. Currently, the Shanghai Metro is being expanded, and the lines extend to the suburbs. Shanghai's subway construction is mature but there is not enough research on the effects it has had on the suburbs. In this regard, this new study will compare the transit stations and the base through stations of the Shanghai Line No. 16 and their subsequent impact on the aforementioned suburbs with regards to the real estate market. This paper is a comparison of transit stations and base through stations. This will first be accomplished by studying the concept of rail transit, real estate relevant theories, and market development through relevant literature. Second, the methodology of data analysis will be explored. After comparing the transportation cost model, the hedonic price model, and demand function comprehensive model of the expenditure system, finally, the hedonic model was chosen as the methodology. Cross sectional data were collected through the Internet and field survey methods, also using Fang.com, An Ju Ke, Lianjia, Baidu Map, Google Maps, etc. The main research objectives are the second-hand housing market around the transit stations and the base through stations; and grasping the influence of micro elements, regional elements, neighborhood elements, and structural elements on the surrounding housing prices. The independent variable uses the region, neighborhood, and structure variables while the subordinate variable uses the housing unit price. Using SPSS 24 statistics, regression analysis was carried out. In the hedonic model, a semi-logarithmic model with relatively high fitness was selected for empirical analysis. The analysis results can be summarized into four types. First, the studying of the impact of the two station types, the housing price data, and characteristic variable data of the adverse trend circle. By combining the characteristics of the Shanghai housing market and by utilizing a questionnaire survey, 14 characteristic variables were selected to construct the housing hedonic price model. Second, housing prices are affected by various factors. Using the semi-logarithmic function model, there were 10 variables influencing the housing prices around the transit stations, and 5 variables influencing the housing prices around the base through stations. Third, the transit stations and the base through stations have a positive impact on the surrounding housing prices. If the transit station is compared with the station crossing, the price of the houses near the subway stations of the transit stations are very high; and the farther away from the subway station, the higher the decline in the rate of the housing prices. Finally, if the transit stations are compared with the base through stations, the prices of the houses near the transit stations are very high while contrastingly the farther away from the subway station the location, the higher the decline in the housing prices. However, in contrast to this, the prices of houses near base through stations are relatively low, and the rate of decline with regards to distance is also low.

Social media platforms are proliferating with continuing advances in Web2.0 and social networking technologies. Microblogging is becoming increasingly popular vis-à-vis other social media because of features such as interactivity, disintegration of central authority, and capacity of being widely duplicated and disseminated. Currently, the Chinese mainland is home to more than 300 million microblog users who include leaders of all walks of life: influencers, celebrities, public officials, and all types of organizations. In addition, more than 200,000 enterprises have pages on varied microblogging platforms. The impact of microblogging has increased dramatically since its introduction to mainland China in 2009. Like other forms of digital social media, microblogs are transforming information dissemination channels used by enterprises to reach their customers, transfiguring the pathways of dialog and converting the modes through which enterprises influence their customers. An increasing number of organizations, media persons, and scholars are now utilizing microblogging’s disseminative features for accurate and low-cost marketing drives. Scholars of microblog marketing usually attend more to the effects of brand awareness, information quality, and customer interactions on the online purchase intentions of customers, tending to underestimate the importance of entrepreneurial microblogs. The attributes of Chinese microblogging platforms and their foreign counterparts are significantly different. Hence, this study explored the effects of the three variables of brand awareness, information quality, and customer interaction on the perceived value and trust of Chinese microblog users, adding the entrepreneurial viewpoint as a new fourth variable. A popular microblogging website formed the research platform for this study conducted through in-depth interviews of microblogging users to ascertain the influence of the abovementioned four factors on microblogging marketing efforts undertaken by enterprises.

With the increasingly severe global environmental problems, the economic model of sustainable development and ecological protection puts forward higher requirements for social responsibility and transformation development of all walks of life. Because of its intermediary role in the economy, banks shoulder more important social responsibilities for sustainable development, which makes the combination of environmental protection and credit inevitable. The development of Chinese green credit business is still in its initial stage. Based on SWOT analysis model, starting from the internal and external environment in which Chinese commercial banks are located, this paper analyzes, synthesizes and summarizes the influencing factors of developing green credit business in commercial banks such as their own advantages, disadvantages, opportunities and threats. The paper devotes to studying the development strategy and the main influencing factors of choosing strategies for Chinese commercial banks to carry out green credit business. After consulting 15 authoritative experts in the industry, all influencing factors were compared and scored in pairs, and the SWOT-AHP model was used for statistical calculation. All influencing factors were ranked according to priority. The analysis and calculation results are as follows: at present, the most suitable green credit business development strategy for commercial banks is SO-growth strategy. That is, commercial banks take advantage of their own reputation and other competitive advantages, seize the development opportunities of domestic and foreign markets, and carry out diversified development strategies. At the same time, it is necessary to try to reverse the disadvantages of commercial banks by cultivating professional talents and innovating credit products, and improve their risk defense ability to prevent potential threats from the market environment.

This study examines how cultural values were reflected and expressed on the local web sites (Korea, China, and U.S.A.) of global companies in the consumer goods industry. In particular, the web site of companies in the consumer goods industry is characterized by appropriately reflecting the changing cultural values compared to other industries, so this study intends to conduct a qualitative research on consumer goods companies. To this end, this study selected consumer goods companies operating local web sites in Korea, China and U.S.A. among Fortune 500 global companies. Through contents analysis of the web sites, it is intended to analyze how the local web site contains the cultural value of individualism and the characteristics of low-context communication culture style. Singh and Matsuo (2004) proposed an effective analysis framework that can compare and evaluate the cultural values of web sites by utilizing Hofstede's individualism and collectivism dimensions and Hall's high and low context communication culture. The findings of content analysis show the differences in cultural value's embeddedness of the web sites of global companies in Korea, China, and U.S.A. In other words, it was found that the contents of local web sites in Korea, China, and the United States show different patterns in reflecting individualistic cultural values and low-contextual communication culture style. This study has a distinction in that, unlike previous studies that compared cultures between countries in various product categories, this study was limited to the consumer goods industry and conducted a cultural comparative study. In addition, academic implications exist in that it was the first to compare the individualistic cultural dimension and low-context communication characteristics inherent in the contents of the formal local web site, centering on Korea, China, and U.S.A., which have close relationships with each other through economic and cultural exchange. Finally, this study will also have academic implications in that it reverified the existing Hofstede's theory of cultural value and Hall's context theory. Practical implications may be that multinational companies can take useful practical guidelines on how to properly plan and develop website contents when planning strategies for localization of web sites in various countries.

The study of Korean ethnic minority literature in China has mainly focused on the themes of Korean immigration, of the participation in China’s Anti-Japanese War, and of the ethnic cultural identity as the minority. Yet in Korean ethnic minority literature, it not only shows the history of how the Koreans became one of ethnic minorities in political way, but also the history of how the Koreans settled down in Yanbian area of Northeast China and fused themselves with the local Chinese and adapted to Chinese social systems successfully in ecological way. The rice planting during the Japanese occupation and apple-pear grafting as the style of cultural fusion in Korean ethnic minority literature represent the development of Korean ethnic responses to the new land, new national identity in China. The Koreans’ settlement and transformation of their identity have gone through three steps of positive feedback, negative feedback, and adaptive system for the sustainable development. Throughout the history of China’s Korean ethnic literature, the cross-border Koreans survived successfully in China and became part of China’s social systems and ecosystems, and have satisfied several conditions of human ecology. First, the Korean population in China in a certain time, particularly during the war time, increased to a larger number, because of the drastic change caused by positive feedback. The Koreans’ flowing into Northeast China and planting rice there in Li Huiying’s novelette Wanbaoshan (1933), is presented as the positive feedback to bring not only the instability to both Korean and Chinese social systems but also cause the change of the ecosystems in this region. Second, cross-border Koreans joined the biological community at certain site in Northeast China with self-organization to keep the stability made by negative feedback. In Korean ethnic minority literature, An Shouji’s novel Rice (1940) and Li Huisan’s novelette The Apple-pear Children (2006) delineate the Koreans’ interaction for the stability in the circular chain of effects that opposed the change. Third, cross-border Koreans in China adapted to the physical conditions of lowlands in this region and cultivated rice and apple pear, the right kind of food at the site. Finally, cross-border Koreans grafted their own culture successfully on the rootstock of Chinese culture both politically and ecologically. In turn, all the conditions helped the cross-border Koreans fulfill the transformation from the Koreans immigrants to be one of ethnic minorities in China.

In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, while the Chinese domestic economy has enjoyed a period of rapid development high-polluting industrial projects have caused significant environmental damage. Unfortunately, such cases are not rare, but rather occur with alarming frequency. These projects damage ecologies, impair human health, interfere with animal reproduction and survival, and ultimately result in substantial economic losses. For this reason, the Chinese government has echoed and acted on the calls of broader Chinese society that the economic priorities of the country be adjusted to emphasize sustainability. In order to solve the problems of environmental pollution and lack of funds for the development of green industry, the Chinese government has vigorously promoted the green credit business in the field of commercial Banks, which is conducive to promote the sustainable development of China's environment. Due to a lack of the intrinsic development motivation, banks tend to regard the green credit business as the public welfare activity all the time. Therefore, it is an urgent problem need to be solved in China at the present stage. This paper will explore how the green credit business of Chinese commercial Banks can achieve better profits and how the green credit business affects the performance of commercial Banks. As a step towards solving the problem of environmental pollution and prioritizing the development of sustainable ‘green’ industry, the Chinese government has vigorously promoted the green credit business of commercial banks. These commercial banks, however, have always regarded their green credit business as an act of public welfare, and as such often allow this aspect of their business to languish. This paper examines 16 A-share listed commercial banks in China and determines the impact of their green credit business on their business performance, i.e. their profitability, liquidity, and security. The results show that the green credit business had a significant positive influence on the achieved by commercial banks, which can promote the improvement of commercial bank’s profitability. The results also indicate that the green credit business and commercial bank's non-performing loan rate is U-shaped relationship. It can be concluded that a green credit business can significantly improve bank’s loan structure, optimize the quality of its assets, and improve its liquidity and security.

The present research aimed to investigate the influence of semantic transparency and familiarity in reading Chinese compound words by Korean-Chinese bilingual children in Yanji, China. Participants were elementary school students in Grade 2, 4, and 6, who were divided into two sub-groups according to Chinese proficiency. Participants were given Chinese compound words, of which semantic transparency (transparent vs. opaque) and familiarity (familiar vs. unfamiliar) were manipulated and asked to decide the meaning of each word by choosing one among four alternatives. The results revealed that response accuracy was higher for semantically transparent words than semantically opaque words in general. However, the semantic transparency effect was interacted with familiarity of words differently in the second, fourth, and sixth grade students. In the semantically transparent word condition, the accuracy of familiar words was higher than that of unfamiliar words in most students except high proficient fourth grade students and low proficient sixth grade students. On the contrary, in the semantically opaque word condition, familiar words were decided more accurately than unfamiliar words in most students except low proficient students in the second grade. In conclusion, results of the current study imply that the elaboration of morphological knowledge by increasing familiarity of words is critically important to improve the Chinese words reading ability of Korean-Chinese children.

Based on computer thinking and the prompt development of Internet network science and also to promote and expand this knowledge from physics, engineering, information and fields to the humanities and society. Meanwhile, public art that has become an important chapter in humanities subject and it also provided with the basic attributes of the network structure. Therefore, using the research results of network science is the main research method of application of study public art. The study of public art by network thinking is to take network science as a tool to study public art. It focuses on the importance of network node "connection" and the influence of the network on individual practitioners. Meanwhile, the structural characteristics of the network are also crucial to its survival and competitiveness. In the research on the network structure of public art, this paper first systematically analyzes the source of network nodes, the value of "centrality" and the importance of "bridges". Secondly, it elaborates the basic characteristics of public art network nodes from distance connection, intensity, and power-law distribution which summarizes the network nature of public art from the network density, network efficiency, network resilience and informal network. Finally, it expounds the operation mechanism of public art from network infection, threshold model, self-organization function and dynamic network of public art. In conclusion, this study is from the perspective of the network to analyze the study of public art by using connections, network, and mechanisms, describing the characteristics and attributes of the network nodes, various relations between nodes and their impact to network structure, and the operation mechanism of network structure itself. The result of this study will offer new possibilities to the research of public art.

Since the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s, Chinese leaders have been constantly wary of famine and their country’s food security, as reflected in the stress on food security in China’s official plans and documents in the subsequent decades. The integral position of food security was reflected in its inclusion in the National Security Law of 2015. However, empirical data published by China, the United States, and international organizations reveal that China has persistently struggled with the shortage of a key grain for protein, soybean, since the mid-1990s. For China, addressing the need and want of soybeans is essential for its entire food security. China has been able to secure a consistent supply of soybeans to meet its domestic demand, initially importing largely from the U.S., and later adding Brazil as a major supplier. Moreover, it is safely assumed that the U.S. would not stop its soybean supply to China for the sake of its own economic and political benefits. In this sense, China and the U.S. are economically and politically interdependent in demand and supply of soybean. However, for sure, China has not been gratified with the fait accompli. It has continued to diversify its sources of soybean imports along its One Belt One Road initiative and pursue its “Go Global” strategy to cultivate foreign territories. China has also increased its investments in agricultural science and technology in order to strengthen its domestic soybean production. Still, the self-help policies China has adopted would be controversial in their effect. It is time for China to think of a better or new path for its soybean security.