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Focuses on several papers on marine shrimp that were presented at the World Aquaculture 2002 held in Beijing, China. Findings of studies on white spot syndrome virus; Survival and weight gain of white shrimp; Effect of protein and energy levels on the growth performance of Indian white shrimp.

Due to the deterioration of China's external environment in general, and its escalating tensions with the United States in particular, the Chinese government has readjusted its economic development strategy. As delineated in Beijing's 14th Five-Year Plan, which was unveiled in mid-March of this year, China will invest in efforts designed to strengthen its economic security and better protect its economy from external economic threats. These initiatives include science and technology self-sufficiency, secure supply chains in its manufacturing economy, growth sustained by domestic demand, and food and energy security. Although these efforts seem attractive on paper, China will likely encounter immense challenges in trying to implement its new development strategy. Chinese leaders may have underestimated the potential costs of strengthening national security at the expense of global integration. Beijing's disappointing records in executing industrial policy and rebalancing its economy also raise doubts whether it will be able to meet its ambitious goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that the Beijing TV producer of the report "Paper-Stuffed Dumplings" has been detained after the Beijing Food Security Office claimed that they found no paper-stuff dumplings. The issue originated in July 2007 when Beijing TV life channel (BTV-7) reported about "Paper-Stuffing Dumplings" in its special program "Transparency." This was followed by another program which was rebroadcasted on many TV stations and was in newspapers across China. The news along with the information on price hike on pork attracted attention abroad.

The article reports on the plan of exiled Chinese protesters to launch a series of campaigns, including the release of a white paper, to demand that China apologize for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. It comes before the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on student dissidents on June 4, 1989. Protesters include Wuer Kaixi and Wang Dan, student leaders in the 1989 democracy movement.

Abstract: An integrated ecological evaluation of the Beijing economy was presented in the paper based on the emergy accounting with the data in 2004. Through calculating environmental and economic inputs within and outside the Beijing economy, this paper discusses the Beijing’s resource structure, economic situation and trade status based on a series of emergy indicators. Through the comparison of the systematic indicators of Beijing with those of the selected Chinese cities, the general status of the Beijing economy in China is identified. The results also show that most indicators of Beijing are located at middle levels among the selected Chinese cities. Particularly, the environmental impacts, expressed by the ratio of waste to the renewable emergy, and the ratio of waste to the total emergy use, are 84.2 and 0.26, respectively in Beijing in 2004, which indicate that the Beijing economy is greatly reliant on the imported intensive fuels, goods and services with high empower density and environmental loading. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The author comments on the findings of a survey conducted by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics regarding the average monthly wage of city employees in 2008. It revealed that the average age of these employees reached 3,726 yuan or a 12% increase as compared to 2007. The author reveals the findings of an online survey stating that 74.2% noted that their incomes were below the local average. He thinks that the bureau's claim indicates the fact that ordinary people enjoy a rich life only in terms of statistics.

The article focuses on the piece of paper team, an environmental protection group organized by Yuan Rishe, a middle-school student, that advocated using both sides of a piece of paper. The members of the group also collected and sold used paper to raise money for tree planting. The student presented 2008 trees to the Beijing Olympic Committee on March 12, 2007, the 23rd Tree-planting Day in Beijing, China, as a gift and called them Young Pioneer Woods. It cites that her story calls for everybody's participation in saving energy.

Abstract: For urban economies, an ecological endowment embodiment analysis has to be supported by endowment intensities at both the international and domestic scales to reflect the international and domestic imports of increasing importance. A three-scale input–output modeling for an urban economy to give nine categories of embodiment fluxes is presented in this paper by a case study on the carbon dioxide emissions by the Beijing economy in 2007, based on the carbon intensities for the average world and national economies. The total direct emissions are estimated at 1.03E+08t, in which 91.61% is energy-related emissions. By the modeling, emissions embodied in fixed capital formation amount to 7.20E+07t, emissions embodied in household consumption are 1.58 times those in government consumption, and emissions in gross capital formation are 14.93% more than those in gross consumption. As a net exporter of carbon emissions, Beijing exports 5.21E+08t carbon embodied in foreign imported commodities and 1.06E+08t in domestic imported commodities, while emissions embodied in foreign and domestic imported commodities are 3.34E+07 and 1.75E+08t respectively. The algorithm presented in this study is applicable to the embodiment analysis of other environmental resources for regional economies characteristic of multi-scales. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Ecological systems modelling based on the unified biophysical measure of cosmic emergy in terms of embodied cosmic exergy is illustrated in this paper with ecological accounting, simulation and scenario analysis, by a case study for the regional socio-economic ecosystem associated with the municipality of Beijing. An urbanized regional ecosystem model with eight subsystems of natural support, agriculture, urban production, population, finance, land area, potential environmental impact, and culture is representatively presented in exergy circuit language with 12 state variables governing by corresponding ecodynamic equations, and 60 flows and auxiliary variables. To characterize the regional socio-economy as an ecosystem, a series of ecological indicators based on cosmic emergy are devised. For a systematic ecological account, cosmic exergy transformities are provided for various dimensions including climate flows, natural resources, industrial products, cultural products, population with educational hierarchy, and environmental emissions. For the urban ecosystem of Beijing in the period from 1990 to 2005, ecological accounting is carried out and characterized in full details. Taking 2000 as the starting point, systems modelling is realized to predict the urban evolution in a one hundred time horizon. For systems regulation, scenario analyses with essential policy-making implications are made to illustrate the long term systems effects of the expected water diversion and rise in energy price. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Within a Collaboration Agreement between INFN and CAS (Chinese Academy of Science), the ARGO-YBJ experiment is completely installed and has been in stable data taking since November 2007 at the YangBaJing Cosmic Ray Laboratory (Tibet, P.R. China, 4300 m a.s.l.). In this paper we report a few selected results in γ-ray Astronomy and Cosmic Ray Physics. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Ecological treatment engineering has been widely accepted as an artificially designed work to deal with the deteriorating ecological environment with low energy and resource consumption. To measure the energy and resource consumption and environmental support contained in the constructed wetland as a kind of ecological treatment engineering, emergy as embodied solar energy based assessment is performed and relative emergy-based indices including emergy yield ratio (EYR), emergy load ratio (ELR), emergy sustainability index (ESI), net economic benefit index (Np), and renewable percentage index (Pr), are also modified to evaluate the local sustainability of the constructed wetland in this paper. A case study on Longdao River constructed wetland compared with those of some earlier conventional treatment systems indicate that more local renewable resources and less ecological cost are involved, thus promoting the economic benefit due to less energy and resource consumption and simultaneously lowering the environmental stress of the treatment system on the local areas. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Presented in this paper is an integrated cost and efficiency analysis of a pilot vertical subsurface-flow constructed wetland (CW) built up in 2004 near the Longdao River in Beijing, China. The CW has been monitored over one year and proved to be a good solution to treat the polluted water and restored the ecosystem health of the Longdao River. The modified CW system in accordance with local conditions costs less in construction, operation and maintenance than traditional wastewater treatment system and occupies less land than conventional CW. Also, derived from the efficiency analysis, the Longdao River CW provides better elimination effects for nutrient substances in the polluted river water and has stable performances in cold seasons. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Information about several papers discussed at a conference on the need for the development of agricultural and rural areas in China, which was conducted in Beijing on December 2005 is presented. The economy in the country can be developed in the right direction if problems relating to agriculture, rural areas and the farmers have been solved properly. The conference was attended by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice-Premier Huang Ju. INSET: OVERPOPULATION: A MAIN CAUSE OF RURAL POVERTY.

The article discusses the cleanup campaign of Chinese government in the city of Beijing that includes demolitions of illegal structures made by building walls and digging holes, aimed at driving out as many of the city's incomers as possible. It mentions that the campaign leaves a new level of legitimacy for shop owners to save their businesses, that is the right papers in the right zone, including personal residence permit listed in the right city. Other topics mentioned include Beijing's nominal population, the impact of breaking small businesses on the poor, and government's promises to control migration and to prevent peasants from using hospitals and schools of metropolises.

The article reports that North Korea has submitted a paper on its nuclear activities to the head of the Chinese delegation Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Dawei, at the six-party talks on the Korean nuclear problem in Beijing. The state has disclosed its nuclear programs for material aid in the form of fuel oil supplies and for an easing of international sanctions. Furthermore, Wu Dawei states that a monitoring mechanism will be established to ensure the commitments of both parties.

The article discusses the highlights of the Symposium on China's Peaceful Development, held in Beijing, China on September 15, 2011. The symposium has gathered 200 officials and scholars who discussed the country's future development path. It was held after the State Council Information Office has released a white paper, titled China's Peaceful Development. According to Chinese Councilor Dai Bingguo, China's peaceful development is not a challenge, but an opportunity, to the rest of the world.

In the far west of Beijing, in a neighborhood called Apple Orchard, there is a small concrete bunker with a green sign at its mouth that says, ''Air-Defense Basement.'' Down three flights of stairs into a tunnel lighted only by the occasional fluorescent bulb, the air gets cold and musty, and as you walk through here, it's impossible not to think that hideous things could happen without anyone ever knowing. Eventually you come upon a doorway with a white air-lock portal, which opens onto another corridor that splits off in two directions. At the end of one branch, there is a metal door framed by red paper banners, one of which reads, ''May good things you want to happen come to pass.'' This is where Wang Xiuli lives with her husband and 16-year-old son, in two rooms that together add up to about 215 square feet, one of the largest apartments available in this warren of tunnels. Thick pipes protrude from the ceiling, and a window in the front room opens onto nowhere, just another gray tunnel wall beyond it. A blue plastic table and bright pink, orange and green chairs, meant as a play set for children, serve as the family's dining table. There is no heating, and the day I visited, Wang's husband, who works as a deliveryman for a hip clothing company called Vancl, lay sick in bed. The ruddy-cheeked Wang herself stood bundled in a red down jacket, stuffing plastic bottles into a clear trash bag. A full bag, sold to a recycler, could fetch about 40 cents. Her son stood by watching. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the All Artisans Shop museum in Beijing, China. The museum gathers more than 100 folk art masters who have set up workshops to both make art and cultivate students. According to the article, museum visitors can see demonstrations of the skills needed for making glass and baccaro teapots, Beijing embroidery and paper cuttings. It also features several artists, including Zhao Caixuan, a fifth-generation hand-torn artist.

The article discusses the highlights of the International Academic Conference on Underground Space held on November 18-19, 2006 in Beijing, China, organized by the China Civil Engineering Society (CCES), Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (CSRME) and Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC). The conferences features academic paper communication, an exhibition on urban underground space planning, and an exhibition on examples of large urban underground spaces.

Reports that visitors hang pieces of paper, on which they write down their wishes, on the big Christmas trees erected in the Xidan business pedestrian in Beijing, China.

Features Wang Chengfeng, chief resident physician of the Beijing, China-based Cancer Hospital. Career background; Achievements in the field of diagnosis and treatment of cancer; Papers published by Wang.

Highlights the 16th World Computer Congress in Beijing, China. Statement of Chinese President Jiang Zemin on the importance of information technology (IT) to China's economic development; Number of IT experts participating in the conference; Volume of research papers submitted and discussed.

The article reports on the completion of a giant mural project that was started by environmentalist Wyland. In a lead-up to the 2008 Olympics, the artist finally completed the undertaking at the International Stadium in Beijing, China, in July 2008. Children from around the world, as well as Chinese environmental artist Xikun Yuan, helped Wyland create a Great Wall of China with life-size canvas segments representing endangered and threatened marine wildlife from 191 nations. It also features several products in the Golden Open line.

The article highlights the Olympics opening ceremony at the National Stadium in Beijing, China on August 8, 2008. One of the most stunning performances was the demonstration of printing. A huge scroll painting, which represented the ancient invention of papermaking, was rolled open at the center of the stadium. Gunpowder was represented in the event by the fireworks displays.

In this article the author describes the difficulties she associated with her move to Beijing to set up a bureau for Great Britain's "Channel 4 News." She is required to adopt a Chinese name, corresponding phonetically to her English one, and explains the problems of buying a "chop" or rubber stamp inscribed with Chinese characters representing her company. She rents an apartment in the diplomatic quarter of the city.

The article deals with the use of cutting-edge technology in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Yu Jianping, head of the technology group for the opening ceremony, relates that advanced technologies were employed for the ceremony, including materials for spaceships. It describes how light-emitting diode screens were used in the ceremony. It discusses the Chinese cultural elements utilized in the opening ceremony such as papermaking and movable type printing.