In light of the major financial crisis in July 1999, Midland China got to realize a fact that it would lead to an unbalanced industrial structure if she kept on nourishing big enterprises, and ignored smaller ones. As a result in beginning of year 1998, she started to concentrate on small and medium size companies by adapting methods like reforming medium, and small size private businesses, improving investment environments, upgrading professional skills, and adapting innovations. Now medium, and small business sectors are new economy forces. The goal of the thesis is to understand China private sectors from different aspects. It seems that China private sectors could properly react to the open market after China joined WTO. How would entrepreneurs from Taiwan face the challenges from these sectors? Medium, and small size companies could take advantage of lower labor costs in China, and sell products to China market or export to foreign counties.

After 1949 the Chinese Communist Party takes power of People¡¦s Republic of China, Mao Ze Dong had said ¡G¡§Women can hold the half sky¡¨ and since then the gender relationship had changed. Under many movements, women of China move toward society and participate in work. The government promotes sexual equality and appeal women to participate in movements. To understand women of China in political status, this study takes the historical viewpoint and other aspects to judge women of China including laws, parties, basic levels, legislative assemblies, policy-making bodies, political consciousness, and international statistical data. Finally the study compares the women of cross-straits in order to judge women of China in political status. Actually China doesn¡¦t regard Women's Liberation as its top priority, but it helps to promote women in social status by economic reform, laws, advocating the sexual equality and so on. The political status of women has changed by the women's liberation movement which is acted form down to top. In China, women¡¦s political status is related to the state policies closely which means when the Party needed women to pursue social economics transformation, it emphasized role of woman in official and encouraged women to become the leading cadres. Therefore, it promotes women representative proportions in politics. But when the political needs decline or economic structure faces to be adjusted, the Party brings pressure to make women movements decline.

Mainland Chinese spouses to come to Taiwan's immigration system and management research and counseling After many years of separation between Taiwan and mainland China due to historical factors and the war, in November 2, 1987, the government allowed Taiwan people to visit their relatives in mainland China. The people on both sides are closer than ever because the factors such as the same language and the geographically proximity. To handle the related affairs, in 1981, section 11 of the Constitution was amended and gave the power to specify the "Regulations Governing Relations Between the People of Taiwan Area and the Mainland." Article 17 of the law supports elements that regulate the immigration of mainland Chinese spouses who come to Taiwan system. With the number of cross-strait marriages frequent exchanges between the two sides, so far nearly 290,000 pairs have registered. The implementation of the immigration system from 1992 to 2004 for Mainland Chinese spouses to come to Taiwan, as amended by section 17 of the regulations, substantial revisions started to take place and the entire system then began to undergo major changes. Of this study was to first explore the evolution of process for mainland Chinese spouses to come to Taiwan since the immigration system from 1992 to 2004 by analyzing the three dimensions of the mainland to Taiwan immigration system content and characteristics - evolution in the process, system, counseling and management. Furthermore, to understand the differences between different systems, and the impact of mainland spouses counseling, and how to take care of such a large number of these mainland spouses living in Taiwan. Finally, to conclude with recommendations to improve the system so that mainland spouses .

A Study of the Political Interaction between Taiwan and Mainland China (1995-2000)

Since the old time, Vietnam and Mainland China have maintained a commercial relationship in the border area, due to their similarities in long-standing culture, custom, geographical location, trade and economy. Following this, the first purpose of this thesis is to look into the policies that the governments of both Vietnam and Mainland China have for the border trade and to understand the characteristics of the development in the border trade between these two countries. However, since the official statistic of international trade differs significantly between Vietnam and China, I have, therefore, encountered tremendous difficulty in data collection, filtering, and analysis. The second purpose of this thesis is to explain how the border trade influences the development of the frontier region. The influence resulted from the border trade brings both advantages and disadvantages to the two countries. The advantages lie in advancing the development, which stabilizes the lives of the border residents as well as the local government, in such fields as the infrastructure, government, inhabitants, industry, etc. As to the disadvantages, their existence prevents border trade from expanding. These disadvantages originate from such factors as smuggling, mimicry, trade deficit and so on. These unfavorable factors will have significant negative influence on policy makers¡¦ decisions about trading issues over the boarder. The issue of whether the participation in WTO of Mainland China now and the participation in NAFTA of Vietnam in the near future give an impetus to the development of the border trade or not is also included in the discussion of this thesis.

This thesis evaluates the comparison between China¡¦s Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) and Philippines¡¦ Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). TVEs and SMEs are considered ¡§economic equity¡¨ programs of the two countries that serve both as a fiscalizer of the adverse effects of rapid urbanization and as poverty alleviation industry, more specifically in the rural areas. Both economic equities play an important role in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contribution and employment rate. Although the two countries differ in some aspects, the author compared two regions from each country, namely Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China and SOCSKSARGEN Region in the Philippines, to situate the shared commonalities and differences that may affect their economic performance. From the data gathered, the research proceeded to evaluate the reasons for the slow growth of SMEs in the Philippines as compared with the TVEs in Mainland China. The rural industrialization was viewed from the perspective of three important factors: societal, economic, and government policy support. After examining these three factors, China¡¦s TVEs proved to be successful because all the three factors have been favorable to them. On the Philippines¡¦ side, despite all the government support and economic opportunities attendant to it such as its richness in natural resources and good trade access to major foreign markets, there seemed to be sluggish economic growth brought about by societal factors like massive poverty in the rural areas, lack of skills and entrepreneurial capabilities, and other factors such as the prevalence of armed conflicts between the government and the various threat groups in some regions. Furthermore, this paper has driven home the point as exhaustively shown in the discussions in Chapter 4 that - ¡§the more successful China¡¦s TVEs and Philippines¡¦ SMEs are, the better for the rural development of the country¡¨. China has proven this after the 1978 reforms when in 1990 TVEs dramatically rose 13 times more from its 1979 level - that is from 1.4 million to 18.5million. This included other factors of growth like output value, employment and taxes remitted. While the features of the 1978 reforms - open door policy, decollectivization and decentralization, among others, were macro policies which fertiled the soil for rural industrialization in China, its TVEs growth was in a SULNAM (Spontaneous, Unorganized, Leaderless, Non-ideological, Apolitical Movement) phenomenon. Thus, it was more of societal and economic factors with the local government providing the policy support. Undeniably, it is one of the strong pillars of China¡¦s economic growth and social-equity considering that 800 million of the 1.3 billion population of China is in the countryside.

The methodology applied to the study is based on mass data collected from secondary market. Through analyzing four aspects which include the developing situation of foreign banks in Mainland China (including case study of two foreign banks),the general situation of target customers (Taiwanese Companies) for Taiwanese banks, the financial contact between Taiwanese Banks and Mainland China (including the standpoints of primary Taiwanese Banks about how to enter China market), and the regulations of Cross Strait governments, referring to theses about how Taiwanese Banks getting into Mainland China, and also combing the SWOT analysis of Taiwanese banks, the study proposes the suggestions about target market, market position, distribution strategy, product and service strategy, and the direction of business cooperation which hopefully can be referable for the entry strategy of Taiwanese Banks in Mainland China.

As the popularity of air transportation has grown, so has the traffic at airports around the world. Many North American airports are becoming increasingly congested as more people are flying and as more aircraft and airlines are operating. As aircraft movements at these airports have risen, so has the call for expansion of these facilities. Vancouver International Airport is one such case. Built on Sea Island in 1931, Vancouver International has served the people of the Lower Mainland very well over the years. Recent trends in the aviation industry, coupled with Vancouver's strategic location with respect to the Pacific market and the Lower Mainland's rapidly increasing population, have resulted in a major jump in the air traffic volume at Vancouver International over the past decade. Airport planners and government officials have responded to this rapid growth by implementing various enhancement measures and by proposing the physical expansion of Vancouver International by building a third runway. A third runway will greatly improve conditions at Vancouver International by reducing congestion and consequently decreasing aircraft delays. With the third runway in place, Vancouver International will be able to effectively compete with other west coast airports in attracting new business and investment, especially from the rapidly growing Pacific Rim. But an important question remains: for how long? Built on an island, Vancouver International can only expand by so much. The third runway represents the last major expansion possibility available to the airport. If aviation forecasts for the region are essentially correct, or more importantly, are considerably under-estimated, Vancouver International will be congested once again early in the next century. Therefore there is a need at this time to begin planning for the inevitable: a multiple airport system in the Lower Mainland. Vancouver's growing stature as an international city indicates that growth in this region will continue well into the next century, but all may be for not if this region cannot offer an efficient and effective airport system. Only a multiple airport system will be able to handle the predicted passenger and cargo loads resulting from this growth and recognition of the Lower Mainland. There is no need to begin building a second airport at this time; however planning for such an airport system must begin soon. This planning involves: * Deciding on an appropriate location * Ensuring that land is available for all airport infrastructure requirements (roads, transit links, parking, and airport related industrial complexes) * Notifying the public of airport development intentions * Incorporating a development plan for the second airport The question of when to build a second airport or even if a second facility should be built remains undetermined but if planners wait until it is absolutely necessary to build one, the land and time required may not be available. Everyone will lose. Hence, the time is now to beginning planning for a multiple airport system in the Lower Mainland. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

Abstract This thesis is focus on exploring the effect that domestic manufacturing vendors investing in Mainland China vs. Taiwan domestic employment issue. That the trend of the Taiwan unemployment rate gradually increasing these years is whether not related to the domestic vendors investing in Mainland China is the main topic of what we are discovering from the research. We have been observing the yearly tendency toward investing in other countries and change of the domestic labor demand and supply. According to the labor demand theory and other factors of labor demand affected we simultaneously consider one real model is built. Afterwards, we have divided manufacturing into 15 industries that categorizes labor intensity and capital intensity depended on industry characteristic. Based on the 1991-2202 pooling data calculated by OLS, we proceed to get the real evidential analysis of the domestic labor demand effect by investing in China. The result found: labor intensity of manufacturing who invest in China have outstandingly negative effect on the Taiwan domestic labor demand that means the employment opportunity in Taiwan is dramatically decreasing. The higher the investment percentage is, the lower the domestic labor demand is. Capital intensity of manufacturing, however, have positive effect that is not that outstanding at this moment. Therefore, the reason of unemployment rate yearly increasing in general is the manufacturers¡¦ enthusiastic investing behavior to Mainland China that only happened in labor intensity of manufacturing. Beside the factor of labor manufacture, the domestic economy downside is decreasing labor demand that is one of the reasons for unemployment rate increasing.

Abstract Since the reform and open policy makes national and society's separation in Mainland China, the society gradually retrieves the independency which formerly lost, and the state can control the scope gradually reduces. The society thus appears many spaces, and appears many emerging social stratum. That creates the social mobility. At the same time, the society inequalities also gradually expand. How does the social independent strength will have any type influence to Mainland China political development? First, we discuss the relations by three stages of the social stratification and Mainland China political development. The first stage (1949~1978) is the inner-party conflict of authority expands for the social conflict. The second stage (1978~1992) is the reform and open policy creates the social mobility. After the third stage (1992~2002) is the Post-Deng time, the Chinese Communist Party long-term being in power creates each kind of society inequalities. Second, we discuss the impact of the social stratification on the political development in Mainland China. This is main core in this paper, the impact includes: To change of the ideology, and to change of the Chinese Communist party physique, and the interest-politics are formation. All of these influence contain, the obverse and the negative impact. Finally, we will according to these influences to extrapolate the future direction of Mainland China political development. Keywords¡Gsocial stratification¡BMainland China¡Bpolitical development¡Binterest