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.

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.

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

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According to the statistical information of WTO, Japan is an important outbound tourist market in Asia. By the way, it owns high consumption. Therefore, the Japan tourist is the important tourist market which all states want to strive for. Since 1980, Accounts for the total number of the foreigner to mainland China that Japanese occupies most. So far, the number of the Japan tourist travel to mainland China is growing. The reasons include that the outbound tourist in Japan has a massive increase; Recently, the Japanese is interest in a short itinerary; the number of scheduled flight between mainland China and Japan is unceasingly increases; rich world inheritance in mainland China has the high well-known; the price index in mainland China is lower; Japanese has more vacation than before; Chinese and Japan's historical culture approaches very much. If the mainland China wants to increase Japanese tourists, the author suggests that the quality of tourist service and facilities has to upgrade¡Fto attract the tourism market of juvenile and the feminine.

In past decades, the location of resources was placed on building and guiding how to improve manufacturing in both cross-strait, and Taiwan and Mainland China were benefited from this. The characteristic of industry in cross-strait has no differentiation, and, because of raising cost for labor and rent, reduce the comparative advantages. Furthermore, Know-How is becoming main bargaining chip for this age, so the problems are how to solve crises caused by lacking of comparative advantages, how to transformation of industry, and how to ensure vitality of innovation to the primary industry or traditional industry. ¡§Cultural Industries¡¨ catches attentions from about 1994. This year, Council for Cultural Affairs of R.O.C. addressed an advocate for community building, and this idea attracted attentions from all circles, because it gathered culture and industry, industrial and local development together, to solve unemployment. In governmental project ¡§Challenge 2008 ¡V National Development Plan¡¨, ¡§Cultural and Creative Industry Development Plan¡¨ is one of ten key individual plans. And Office for Cultural and Creative Industries defines the industry as ¡§An industry accumulates of cultural and creative, knows where it originates and how it uses, has potential to create fortune and job opportunities, and promotes whole life.¡¨ The main purpose of Cultural and Creative Industries is trying to combine Creative, Science and Technology, and Humanity into industry and daily life, in order to fitful energy for creative and produce, to have a either rational and perceptual taste in a daily life, then to initiate a new civilization. Therefore, it is a best way to solve problems caused by transformation process in cross-strait. This essay hopes to find out some fields in Cultural and Creative Industries for cross-strait by studying this industry. Driven by Cultural and Creative Industries, there is a way to break the old manufacturing-first model into a high value-add model, and to provide more chances for the industry.