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This book examines the various social contradictions that sit at the heart of China's strategy of maintaining a harmonious socialist society while generating vertiginous economic growth. Edited by a senior member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the book discusses the roots and backgrounds of the key theories of contradiction, alongside the practical implications on modern-day China. The content is divided into two unique parts. The first section focuses on the contradictions among the people, while the second section examines the contradictions between different social groups and so

Chapter1.Implementing the Paris Agreement: Forging Ahead Despite Challenges -- Chapter2.Storm Resilience of Chinese Cities: Ranking and Analysis -- Chapter3.Scientific Assessments of Climate Change in the Post-Paris Era -- Chapter4.Climate Change Policies of the Trump Administration and China's Response -- Chapter5.China's Role in Global Climate Governance and Causal Analysis -- Chapter6.Flood Risk and Flood Management Policies in China -- Chapter7.Climate Resilient Cities: Water Security -- Chapter8.Energy Transition Driven by the Energy Internet -- Chapter9.Issues Concerning the Design of China's National Emissions Trading System -- Chapter10.Low-carbon Transport: Trends and Prospects -- Chapter11.Wind Power in China: Current State and Future Outlook -- Chapter12.Distributed Renewable Energy in China: Current State and Future Outlook -- Chapter13.Combating Climate Change, Desertification and Sandstorms: A Collaborative Approach -- Chapter14.Extreme Precipitation and Disasters: A Risk Analysis Based on Solar Radiation Management

China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs. Both internationally and within China itself, people have great expectations of its future role. This book aims to clarify many aspects of China's key position in the climate change situation and policy debates. However, limited by its development stage, natural resource endowment, and other unbalanced developing issues, China is still a developing country. This book shows the reader the real China, which can provide more comprehensive solutions for future global climate regimes. This book includes rese.

This paper targets at understanding the causal effects of maternal marital instability on children's marriage dissolutions through exploring a natural experiment and implementing IV approach, the forced rustication during 1968-1978 in China. With the 2008 and 2010 waves of Chinese Family Panel Survey, significant estimates imply that in urban China, one extra year of forced immigration has increased mother's marital instability by 1.5%, further contributed to doubling the risk of her children to encounter marital instability. Contemporary comparisons show that, on average, the sent-down parents experienced more marital instability by 2%; married two years later; married older spouses; value relatively less in spousal intimacy. The latter two are proved to be significant mediators.