Cross border traders make a major contribution to the growth of economies in Southern Africa. Cross border trade is a source of livelihood for many poor people, especially women. However, few studies examined challeng...Cross border traders make a major contribution to the growth of economies in Southern Africa. Cross border trade is a source of livelihood for many poor people, especially women. However, few studies examined challenges facing cross border traders and future business prospects.The aim of this paper is to examine the challenges that face Zimbabwean cross border traders in South Africa. The paper goes further to review existing literature as well as empirical studies in order to identify the major challenges that face Zimbabwean cross border traders. Among the challenges noted are crime, harassment due to xenophobia, traders are often stigmatized as ＂prostitutes＂ or ＂smugglers＂, accommodation problems, extortion and bribery by the South African Police and municipal police officials, delays at the border post during peak periods and banks that close early and also do not operate on Sundays. The Zimbabwean Cross Border Traders Association should build office in Musina and Johannesburg so that members can easily consult with the association in times of problems and also help with marketing information like distribution of brochures showcasing Zimbabwean products sold by cross border traders and also organize fairs where Zimbabwean traders can display their products. Furthermore cases of harassment by police officials should be investigated and dealt with. Banks that do have branches at the border posts are also urged to provide 24 hour service to cross border traders.展开更多
On May 14th,following the U.S.adjustment of additional tariffs on Chinese goods,American buyers began stockpiling in earnest.Many cross-border e-commerce companies also received a surge of orders.At 7 PM,a bustling Ha...On May 14th,following the U.S.adjustment of additional tariffs on Chinese goods,American buyers began stockpiling in earnest.Many cross-border e-commerce companies also received a surge of orders.At 7 PM,a bustling Hangzhou-based cross-border e-commerce company was alive with multiple languages echoing through its live-streaming rooms as backend order numbers climbed steadily.展开更多
Along China's southwestern border,Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province shares mountains,rivers,ethnic ties,and cultural connections with Myanmar.This land,imbued with the spirit of the pa...Along China's southwestern border,Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province shares mountains,rivers,ethnic ties,and cultural connections with Myanmar.This land,imbued with the spirit of the pauk-phaw friendship(pauk-phaw means fraternal in Myanmar language),has in recent years been exploring innovative approaches to international communication with Myanmar.Centered on serving the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI)and building a China-Myanmar community with a shared future,Dehong has incorporated the vision of“Mingalaba”(auspiciousness in Myanmar language)into its cross-border communication e"orts,sharing stories of China-Myanmar friendship with people far and wide.展开更多
In our opinion,being associated with the art of painting,these shifts laid the groundwork for the exciting painting art trends coming in 2025.Immersive installations(沉浸式虚拟现实装置).Imagine stepping into a paintin...In our opinion,being associated with the art of painting,these shifts laid the groundwork for the exciting painting art trends coming in 2025.Immersive installations(沉浸式虚拟现实装置).Imagine stepping into a painting that moves,speaks,and reacts to your presence.With virtual reality(VR)and augmented reality(AR),artists are building sensory⁃filled spaces where you're not just a viewer—you're part of the art.Picture entering an exhibit where the walls ripple as you walk by,sounds shift with your movements,and you can alter the piece just by being there.These installations combine technology and creativity to offer unforgettable experiences that redefine art as a shared and living entity.展开更多
On April 12,a 200-kilogram shipment of fresh coconuts departed from Jakarta,Indonesia,bound for Changle Airport in Fuzhou,southeast China’s Fujian Province.After customs inspection,the coconuts were promptly transpor...On April 12,a 200-kilogram shipment of fresh coconuts departed from Jakarta,Indonesia,bound for Changle Airport in Fuzhou,southeast China’s Fujian Province.After customs inspection,the coconuts were promptly transported to the Yuanhong Investment Zone,the Chinese side of the China-Indonesia“Two Countries,Twin Parks”project.展开更多
In recent years,with the support of national policies,Cross Border E-Commerce(CBEC)has developed rapidly.This business model not only brings significant benefits to the national economy,but also has many unique challe...In recent years,with the support of national policies,Cross Border E-Commerce(CBEC)has developed rapidly.This business model not only brings significant benefits to the national economy,but also has many unique challenges,especially at the level of supply chain management.Therefore,to enable CBEC enterprises to develop sustainable supply chain,this study discusses the performance evaluation model of supply chain and proposes a CBEC Supply Chain Performance Evaluation Model(CBECSC-EM)based on the Levenberg–Marquardt Backpropagation(LMBP)algorithm.This experiment constructs performance evaluation indicators for the supply chain of CBEC enterprises.On this basis,the LMBP algorithm is introduced,and improved in the experiment to make the overall performance of the evaluation model more scientific and reasonable.In the verification set,the maximum F1 values of LMBP,DEA,SBM,and BP are 98.46%,93.78%,87.29%,and 78.95%,respectively.The MAPE value of LMBP model is 0.102%,which is lower than the other three methods(0.282%,0.343%,and 0.385%)selected in the experiment.The maximum standard deviation rates of importance and operability of the evaluation indexes are 0.1346 and 0.1405,respectively,and there is a significant consistency between the expert scores.Therefore,the LMBP algorithm has broad application prospects in supply chain performance evaluation of CBEC enterprises.展开更多
The meteoric rise of cross-border e-commerce has become one of the pillars of our foreign trade, while the lack of quali-fied talents in the industry may restrict its benign development. This paper analyzes the major ...The meteoric rise of cross-border e-commerce has become one of the pillars of our foreign trade, while the lack of quali-fied talents in the industry may restrict its benign development. This paper analyzes the major problems existing in the BusinessEnglish talents cultivation in university, and offers advice for the construction of training modal for Business English talents basedon the cross-border e-commerce.展开更多
In recent years,while the traditional trade sectors have been shrinking,China’s cross-border e-commerce has undergone rapid development and has become a new driver of its international trade.Based on analysis of the ...In recent years,while the traditional trade sectors have been shrinking,China’s cross-border e-commerce has undergone rapid development and has become a new driver of its international trade.Based on analysis of the evolution pattern of China’s cross-border e-commerce,this paper uses a revised gravity model to test empirically the driving factors and the resistance factors in the development of the country’s cross-border e-commerce.The results show that the total GDP,per capita disposable income of urban residents,total imports and exports,and the scale of the online shopping market have a positive relationship with cross-border e-commerce transactions,which are conducive to the development of cross-border e-commerce,while logistics costs inhibit the development of cross-border e-commerce.Accordingly,the paper puts forward several policy recommendations.展开更多
David Wong Louie demonstrates the emotional pangs between the immigrant parent Mrs. Pang and her Americanized children in Pangs of Love. Through examining the source of the pangs, this paper argues that characters'...David Wong Louie demonstrates the emotional pangs between the immigrant parent Mrs. Pang and her Americanized children in Pangs of Love. Through examining the source of the pangs, this paper argues that characters'pangs mainly stem from confrontations between their different cultural identities. Focusing on the way of dealing with conflicts of cultural identities in contemporary Chinese American families, this paper illuminates that Chinese Americans need to cross cultural borders and negotiate cultural identity between Chinese and American cultures under the circumstance of globalization.展开更多
Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins offers a best perspective in their book Doris Lessing： Border Crossings, to contemplate Lessing’s writing. In her 57-year publishing career, Lessing always crosses the borders： as a f...Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins offers a best perspective in their book Doris Lessing： Border Crossings, to contemplate Lessing’s writing. In her 57-year publishing career, Lessing always crosses the borders： as a feminist or anti-feminist, as a science fiction writer or a realist who lost her way, as a Marxist or a reactionary, as a British writer or a postcolonial one. Lessing’s border-crossing not only lies in her different genres of writing or in different novels, but even in a single comparatively traditional novel. The Summer Before the Dark is a representative work of Lessing’s women portrayal transition from focusing on their outside world exploration to on their inner world seeking. This essay tries to look at the content and form of the novel, and to illustrate that Lessing’s border-crossing is also fulfilled in one single novel. She successfully crosses the border of convention and innovation： conventional in content, while innovative in form.展开更多
This study is being carried out in the cross-border area of </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-fam...This study is being carried out in the cross-border area of </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the tri-national Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM), subject of a cooperation agreement between Cameroon, Congo a</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">nd Gabon in 2005. The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamics of changes in land use in the context of cross-border cooperation. Geographic information systems and remote sensing were used to produce the various land use maps. For this purpose, the MERIS satellite images for the periods 1992, 2005 and 2018 were used. The exploration of the different images and the field visits made it possible to identify the following six land use classes: dense forests, degraded/deforested forests, savannas, swamp forests, buildings and bare soils, water surfaces. It emerges that the TRIDOM landscape is mainly occupied by dense forests which represent 97.02%, 96.72% and 96.52% respectively in 1992, 2005 and 2018. Then, degraded/deforested forests and savannas which would correspond to cultivation areas and fallow land only represent respectively 1.06% and 0.68% of the landscape in 1992. This proportion in 2005 is respectively 1.22% and 0.77%, whereas in 2018, it is respectively 1.36% and 0.81% of the massif. The landscape of TRIDOM has not experienced any significant land use change during the period after the signing of the cooperation agreement. Historical rates of deforestation are low during the period under study. They are estimated at 0.042% and 0.030% respectively for the period 1992-2005 and the period 2005-2018. These low rates of deforestation seem to be due to the measures taken to secure and sustainably manage the massif taken by the three countries, the low population density in this area and the still difficult level of accessibility of a large part of the massif.展开更多
As the "Internet +" action plan proceeds, e-commerce further integrates traditional sectors and increasingly promotes development. In the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese cross-border e-comme...As the "Internet +" action plan proceeds, e-commerce further integrates traditional sectors and increasingly promotes development. In the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese cross-border e-commerce, through channel expansion and market share increase, is taking the lead in trade and investment development, and facilitating labor division & coordination, resource & product sharing, as well as opening new markets. To promote the long-term economic development of countries along the Belt and Road, a series of development strategies have been designed, which concern constructing an "online silk road" for cross-border e-commerce, building new trade passages and bridges, innovating traditional trade models, and gathering a trade development momentum.展开更多
Border crossing in English, as a phenomenon in post-industrialized society, refers to forms of English in one situation are crossing borders into other ones. The originally formal institutional discourse in the writte...Border crossing in English, as a phenomenon in post-industrialized society, refers to forms of English in one situation are crossing borders into other ones. The originally formal institutional discourse in the written form can cross into the fields of advertising, informal, and spoken form. Informalisation and marketisation are the two distinct trends of border crossing. Institutions of higher education need to adjust their discourse to suit the development of the commercialized society.展开更多
THIRTY-year-old Hong Jun, a Chinese Muslim from Yinchuan. capital city of west China＇s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, could not have imagined that his religious heritage and Arabic language skills would lead him to t...THIRTY-year-old Hong Jun, a Chinese Muslim from Yinchuan. capital city of west China＇s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, could not have imagined that his religious heritage and Arabic language skills would lead him to travel across the Arab world and even to estab- lish his own company. ＂I always saw studying Arabic as a means of communication, a way to build relation- ships, but never as a profession,＂ he said.展开更多
Border crossing is a metaphoric term in sociolinguistics referring to a blurring of English use across different domains of social discourses.This article shows how border crossing in English job-seeking discourse is ...Border crossing is a metaphoric term in sociolinguistics referring to a blurring of English use across different domains of social discourses.This article shows how border crossing in English job-seeking discourse is manifested in a real-life English creative résumé,and how this phenomenon brings about two related consequences,informalization and marketization,through critically analyzing the informal and promotional features of the résumé.It then reaches the conclusion that such border crossing phenomenon reflects a voice by the young in reconstructing their self-identities in job-seeking discourse in post-industrialized,post-modern western societies.展开更多
文摘Cross border traders make a major contribution to the growth of economies in Southern Africa. Cross border trade is a source of livelihood for many poor people, especially women. However, few studies examined challenges facing cross border traders and future business prospects.The aim of this paper is to examine the challenges that face Zimbabwean cross border traders in South Africa. The paper goes further to review existing literature as well as empirical studies in order to identify the major challenges that face Zimbabwean cross border traders. Among the challenges noted are crime, harassment due to xenophobia, traders are often stigmatized as ＂prostitutes＂ or ＂smugglers＂, accommodation problems, extortion and bribery by the South African Police and municipal police officials, delays at the border post during peak periods and banks that close early and also do not operate on Sundays. The Zimbabwean Cross Border Traders Association should build office in Musina and Johannesburg so that members can easily consult with the association in times of problems and also help with marketing information like distribution of brochures showcasing Zimbabwean products sold by cross border traders and also organize fairs where Zimbabwean traders can display their products. Furthermore cases of harassment by police officials should be investigated and dealt with. Banks that do have branches at the border posts are also urged to provide 24 hour service to cross border traders.
文摘On May 14th,following the U.S.adjustment of additional tariffs on Chinese goods,American buyers began stockpiling in earnest.Many cross-border e-commerce companies also received a surge of orders.At 7 PM,a bustling Hangzhou-based cross-border e-commerce company was alive with multiple languages echoing through its live-streaming rooms as backend order numbers climbed steadily.
文摘Along China's southwestern border,Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province shares mountains,rivers,ethnic ties,and cultural connections with Myanmar.This land,imbued with the spirit of the pauk-phaw friendship(pauk-phaw means fraternal in Myanmar language),has in recent years been exploring innovative approaches to international communication with Myanmar.Centered on serving the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI)and building a China-Myanmar community with a shared future,Dehong has incorporated the vision of“Mingalaba”(auspiciousness in Myanmar language)into its cross-border communication e"orts,sharing stories of China-Myanmar friendship with people far and wide.
文摘In our opinion,being associated with the art of painting,these shifts laid the groundwork for the exciting painting art trends coming in 2025.Immersive installations(沉浸式虚拟现实装置).Imagine stepping into a painting that moves,speaks,and reacts to your presence.With virtual reality(VR)and augmented reality(AR),artists are building sensory⁃filled spaces where you're not just a viewer—you're part of the art.Picture entering an exhibit where the walls ripple as you walk by,sounds shift with your movements,and you can alter the piece just by being there.These installations combine technology and creativity to offer unforgettable experiences that redefine art as a shared and living entity.
文摘On April 12,a 200-kilogram shipment of fresh coconuts departed from Jakarta,Indonesia,bound for Changle Airport in Fuzhou,southeast China’s Fujian Province.After customs inspection,the coconuts were promptly transported to the Yuanhong Investment Zone,the Chinese side of the China-Indonesia“Two Countries,Twin Parks”project.
文摘In recent years,with the support of national policies,Cross Border E-Commerce(CBEC)has developed rapidly.This business model not only brings significant benefits to the national economy,but also has many unique challenges,especially at the level of supply chain management.Therefore,to enable CBEC enterprises to develop sustainable supply chain,this study discusses the performance evaluation model of supply chain and proposes a CBEC Supply Chain Performance Evaluation Model(CBECSC-EM)based on the Levenberg–Marquardt Backpropagation(LMBP)algorithm.This experiment constructs performance evaluation indicators for the supply chain of CBEC enterprises.On this basis,the LMBP algorithm is introduced,and improved in the experiment to make the overall performance of the evaluation model more scientific and reasonable.In the verification set,the maximum F1 values of LMBP,DEA,SBM,and BP are 98.46%,93.78%,87.29%,and 78.95%,respectively.The MAPE value of LMBP model is 0.102%,which is lower than the other three methods(0.282%,0.343%,and 0.385%)selected in the experiment.The maximum standard deviation rates of importance and operability of the evaluation indexes are 0.1346 and 0.1405,respectively,and there is a significant consistency between the expert scores.Therefore,the LMBP algorithm has broad application prospects in supply chain performance evaluation of CBEC enterprises.
文摘The meteoric rise of cross-border e-commerce has become one of the pillars of our foreign trade, while the lack of quali-fied talents in the industry may restrict its benign development. This paper analyzes the major problems existing in the BusinessEnglish talents cultivation in university, and offers advice for the construction of training modal for Business English talents basedon the cross-border e-commerce.
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation General Program (12BJY009)the National Natural Science Foundation (71673087)Shanghai Municipal Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning General Program (2018BJB025)
文摘In recent years,while the traditional trade sectors have been shrinking,China’s cross-border e-commerce has undergone rapid development and has become a new driver of its international trade.Based on analysis of the evolution pattern of China’s cross-border e-commerce,this paper uses a revised gravity model to test empirically the driving factors and the resistance factors in the development of the country’s cross-border e-commerce.The results show that the total GDP,per capita disposable income of urban residents,total imports and exports,and the scale of the online shopping market have a positive relationship with cross-border e-commerce transactions,which are conducive to the development of cross-border e-commerce,while logistics costs inhibit the development of cross-border e-commerce.Accordingly,the paper puts forward several policy recommendations.
文摘David Wong Louie demonstrates the emotional pangs between the immigrant parent Mrs. Pang and her Americanized children in Pangs of Love. Through examining the source of the pangs, this paper argues that characters'pangs mainly stem from confrontations between their different cultural identities. Focusing on the way of dealing with conflicts of cultural identities in contemporary Chinese American families, this paper illuminates that Chinese Americans need to cross cultural borders and negotiate cultural identity between Chinese and American cultures under the circumstance of globalization.
文摘Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins offers a best perspective in their book Doris Lessing： Border Crossings, to contemplate Lessing’s writing. In her 57-year publishing career, Lessing always crosses the borders： as a feminist or anti-feminist, as a science fiction writer or a realist who lost her way, as a Marxist or a reactionary, as a British writer or a postcolonial one. Lessing’s border-crossing not only lies in her different genres of writing or in different novels, but even in a single comparatively traditional novel. The Summer Before the Dark is a representative work of Lessing’s women portrayal transition from focusing on their outside world exploration to on their inner world seeking. This essay tries to look at the content and form of the novel, and to illustrate that Lessing’s border-crossing is also fulfilled in one single novel. She successfully crosses the border of convention and innovation： conventional in content, while innovative in form.
文摘This study is being carried out in the cross-border area of </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the tri-national Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM), subject of a cooperation agreement between Cameroon, Congo a</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">nd Gabon in 2005. The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamics of changes in land use in the context of cross-border cooperation. Geographic information systems and remote sensing were used to produce the various land use maps. For this purpose, the MERIS satellite images for the periods 1992, 2005 and 2018 were used. The exploration of the different images and the field visits made it possible to identify the following six land use classes: dense forests, degraded/deforested forests, savannas, swamp forests, buildings and bare soils, water surfaces. It emerges that the TRIDOM landscape is mainly occupied by dense forests which represent 97.02%, 96.72% and 96.52% respectively in 1992, 2005 and 2018. Then, degraded/deforested forests and savannas which would correspond to cultivation areas and fallow land only represent respectively 1.06% and 0.68% of the landscape in 1992. This proportion in 2005 is respectively 1.22% and 0.77%, whereas in 2018, it is respectively 1.36% and 0.81% of the massif. The landscape of TRIDOM has not experienced any significant land use change during the period after the signing of the cooperation agreement. Historical rates of deforestation are low during the period under study. They are estimated at 0.042% and 0.030% respectively for the period 1992-2005 and the period 2005-2018. These low rates of deforestation seem to be due to the measures taken to secure and sustainably manage the massif taken by the three countries, the low population density in this area and the still difficult level of accessibility of a large part of the massif.
基金"E-commerce and Trade Facilitation along the Silk Road Economic Belt"(13SC025),a research program sponsored by Shaanxi Provincial Social Sciences Fund
文摘As the "Internet +" action plan proceeds, e-commerce further integrates traditional sectors and increasingly promotes development. In the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese cross-border e-commerce, through channel expansion and market share increase, is taking the lead in trade and investment development, and facilitating labor division & coordination, resource & product sharing, as well as opening new markets. To promote the long-term economic development of countries along the Belt and Road, a series of development strategies have been designed, which concern constructing an "online silk road" for cross-border e-commerce, building new trade passages and bridges, innovating traditional trade models, and gathering a trade development momentum.
文摘Border crossing in English, as a phenomenon in post-industrialized society, refers to forms of English in one situation are crossing borders into other ones. The originally formal institutional discourse in the written form can cross into the fields of advertising, informal, and spoken form. Informalisation and marketisation are the two distinct trends of border crossing. Institutions of higher education need to adjust their discourse to suit the development of the commercialized society.
文摘THIRTY-year-old Hong Jun, a Chinese Muslim from Yinchuan. capital city of west China＇s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, could not have imagined that his religious heritage and Arabic language skills would lead him to travel across the Arab world and even to estab- lish his own company. ＂I always saw studying Arabic as a means of communication, a way to build relation- ships, but never as a profession,＂ he said.
文摘Border crossing is a metaphoric term in sociolinguistics referring to a blurring of English use across different domains of social discourses.This article shows how border crossing in English job-seeking discourse is manifested in a real-life English creative résumé,and how this phenomenon brings about two related consequences,informalization and marketization,through critically analyzing the informal and promotional features of the résumé.It then reaches the conclusion that such border crossing phenomenon reflects a voice by the young in reconstructing their self-identities in job-seeking discourse in post-industrialized,post-modern western societies.
