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BACKGROUND: The Chinese government uses health literacy as an evaluation to estimate population health status in national strategic planning. A health literacy survey system for the city of Beijing, China was established in 2012 with triennial surveys to obtain representative data for the whole city. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine results of the 2015 Beijing Health Literacy Survey and to identify population subgroups that may warrant intervention due to high risk for not having adequate health literacy. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study in which participants were selected by multistage stratified cluster sampling. The information was collected in 2015 in face-to-face interviews on the Chinese Citizen Health Literacy Questionnaire. A total of 12,876 interviews were included in the final analyses. Weighting was conducted in all statistical analyses to obtain representative estimates, and multiple logistic regression was applied to examine the independent influencing factors on health literacy level (adequate/inadequate). KEY RESULTS: Overall, 28% of participants had adequate health literacy. Urban residents had a higher proportion of participants with adequate health literacy compared to rural residents (29.5% vs. 19%, p < .01). Women (29.7%) had a higher proportion of participants with adequate health literacy compared to men (29.7% vs. 26.4%, p < .01). The proportion of participants with adequate health literacy was significantly different among age groups (χ(2) = 332.9, p < .01). Residents age 25 to 34 years had the highest rate of adequate health literacy (33.9%). The proportion of participants with adequate health literacy increased as participants obtained more education (χ(2) = 818.4, p < .01). Residents in households with higher income had a higher rate of adequate health literacy (χ(2) = 462.4, p < .01). Gender, age, education, and household income were independently associated with the level of health literacy. CONCLUSIONS: Substantial variation exists in ...

The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as?floaters? has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, China, and questions the city?rights? issues beneath the city-making movement in contemporary China. In revealing and explaining the socio-spatial injustice phenomenon, this volume re-theorizes the?right to the city? in the Chinese context since Deng Xiaoping?s reforms. The policy review, census analysis, and housing survey are conducted to examine the housing rights of migrant workers, who are the least protected and most marginalized displacee groups in Beijing. The comparable studies serve to distinguish the displaced migrants from local displacee groups, and Beijing Municipality?s style of governance towards its urban informalities from that in other Third World cities like São Paulo. The reader will gain a better understanding of migrant workers? housing rights in China?s globalizing and branding primary cities. Audience: This book will be of great interest to researchers and policy makers in housing supplies, governance towards urban informalities, human rights and migration control, and housing-related social discontent issues in China today.

While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, the author presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth interviews in Beijing, Chicago, and Paris, the author finds that urban preservation provides a tool for diverse political and social actors to frame their propositions and advance their favored courses of action. In cities from West to East, divergent political and economic interests have caused urban preservation to become contested. Exploring three of the world's great cities, the author deftly navigates readers through each case study, illustrating the complexities of the politics of urban preservation in each city. In Beijing, urban preservation was integral to promoting economic growth and enhancing the city's image during the lead-up to the 2008 Olympics; in Chicago, it is used to increase property values and revitalize neighborhoods; and in Paris, it offers a channel for national and municipal governments to compete for control over urban space. Although urban preservation serves various purposes in these cities, the author explains how different types of political fragmentation have affected the implementation of preservation initiatives in predictable ways, thus generating distinct patterns of urban preservation. A comparative urban politics study of unusual breadth, this book gives us insight into the complex policy process of urban preservation through which political institutions are intertwined with interests and inclinations, fundamentally shaping the direction of urban development, the physical forms of cities, and the lives of citizens. -- Provided by publisher.

This paper examines whether the government support in favour of firms located in the Haidian district of Beijing, which includes the Zhongguancun Science Park, was effective in terms of innovation and economic performance. We use a dataset of 500 manufacturing firms that results from a merger of the 2007 nation-wide innovation survey and the Annual Survey of Industrial Enterprises databases from the National Bureau of Statistics. We find that among all firms (state- or collectively-owned, nonstate- or collectively-owned and Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan or other foreign-funded firms) that received direct government support for innovative activities only the non-state- or collectively-owned domestic firms invested more in innovation than the firms that did not receive such support. However, despite higher government support, domestic firms have lower labour productivity than foreign-funded firms, including those funded from Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan.

Beijing ("nördliche Hauptstadt"), abgekürzt Jing, ist die Hauptstadt der Volksrepublik und eine ihrer drei regierungsunmittelbaren Städte. Sie ist das politische, wissenschaftliche und kulturelle Zentrum sowie ein Wirtschaftszentrum und ein wichtiger Verkehrsknotenpunkt des Landes. Sie liegt inmitten der Provinz Hebei am nördlichsten Rand der nordchinesischen Tiefebene, 150 km vom im Südosten gelegenen Bohai-Meer entfernt. Ihre Gesamtfläche entspricht in etwa der Größe Schleswig-Holsteins und Hamburgs zusammengenommen.

Kurze textliche und z.T. tabellarische Angaben zur "nördlichen Hauptstadt" Chinas mit ihren 10 Millionen Einwohnern: politisches, wirtschaftliches, wissenschaftliches und kulturelles Zentrum sowie Verkehrsknotenpunkt des Landes. Ihre Gesamtfläche von 16.800 qkm entspricht etwa der Größe Schleswig-Holsteins und Hamburgs zusammen. Topographie, Klima, Bevölkerung, administrative Struktur, Verkehr, Bodenschätze, Binnenwirtschaft, Außenwirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Stadtentwicklung, Bildung und Wissenschaft, wichtige politische Persönlichkeiten, Partnerschaften mit der Bundesrepublik. (DÜI-Rmb)

After several years of restraint, the United States conducted its latest freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea on 22 January 2016. Three weeks later President Barack Obama hosted a conference of the ASEAN heads of state and government in California to discuss the opportunities for reducing tensions in the region, which is witnessing spiralling conflicts between China and its East Asian neighbours over island territories and their resources. Rather than contributing to a deescalation, China fanned the flames by stationing missile batteries on Woody Island, which is also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam. Alongside that regional conflict, the South China Sea is also turning into an arena of conflict between Beijing and Washington. Amidst different interpretations of maritime law and the Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the question of whether the "freedom of the seas" is upheld or curtailed will have considerable geopolitical and strategic military consequences. (author's abstract)