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Especially since 2012 Chinese companies have acquired stakes as investors and constructors of overseas ports in both high-income and emerging economies. These initiatives play an important role in the construction of a Maritime Silk Road and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Although a result of many factors, of which Chinese port investments are only one, macro-geographical gravity methods show that distance impedance and increases in the export market potential, export supply capacity and access to imports of these countries drove increases in income per capita. Export supply capacity rose particularly in Southeast Asia and more recently in Sub-Saharan Africa. In difficult times for the world economy, countries in which China invested in overseas port infrastructure saw increases in national export market potential and income per capita, due to reduction in the impedance of distance, while in the case of developing economies export market supply capacity and access to imported capital equipment and intermediate goods improved.

Objective: To investigate the effects of Xuezhikang capsule (XZK) on blood lipids level, platelet activation and coagulation-fibrinolysis activity in patients with hyerlipidemia.Methods: Seventy-six patients of hyperlipidemia were randomly divided into two groups, the XZK group (n = 38) treated with XZK 600mg, taken two times per day and the Simvastatin (SIM) group (n = 38) treated with SIM 20mg per day, with the treatment lasting 8 weeks for both groups. Levels of fasting serum lipids, including total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), high and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C and LDL-C), plasma GMP-140, fibrinogen (FIB), tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA), plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-) and prothrombin time (PT) were all measured before and 8 weeks after treatment. Data were compared before and after treatment and also compared with those measured in 20 healthy subjects of control.Results: Before treantment the levels of TC, TG and LDL-C were obviously higher and HDL-C level was significantly lower in hyperlipidemia patients than those in healthy subjects (P 0.05), instead it showed obvious increase of HDL-C and decrease of TC and LDL-C after treatment (P

In electricity distribution system, engineers of the power industry and utilities for general distribution applications have commonly used oil-immersed transformers. Other insulation options of transformers such as cast resin transformer (CRT), and SF6 gas-insulated transformer have also been mainly employed by engineers for the purpose of meeting environmental consideration and fire risk protection requirement. However most engineers might like to see the availability of an alternative option to SF6 gas transformer. A 110 kV cast resin transformer, which is now commercially available, may be considered as an ideal option for application in a fire risk-free 110 kV substation in urban areas with dense population. This paper attempts to describe the design and development of the proto-type CRT in different key technical aspects. The solutions to technical barriers due to resin insulation v.s. voltage level limitations were based on technical research, operation experience and supported by comprehensive tests. The construction and the technical characteristics of the CRT are therefore described in brief details. The paper discusses the general design aspects namely winding structure, heat dissipation, insulation compound structure capability to withstand high impulse voltage and short-circuited forces.