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Publication: Sustainable Growth Model
Policy recommendations for a carbon-neutral China
by FES Shanghai
This paper discusses the drivers behind China’s quest for carbon neutrality and makes policy recommendations.
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Publication: Sustainable Growth Model
Position Paper »The resilient city«
by FES Shanghai
Weather extremes, failures in global supply chains, dangers from digitized processes and systems. Phenomena like these will increasingly threaten the functionality of a city. This vulnerability will make cities more likely to fall short on their promise of economic and social progress. Establishing resilience is therefore crucial for risk minimisation and quick recovery from shocks.
Publication: Regional and International Affairs
Global Health Policy: Perspectives from the EU and China
by BI Qiuchen
The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a global health crisis the world has not witnessed within a century – since the “Spanish Flue” pandemic of 1919. Unlike 1919, when many governments were still busy dealing with the aftermaths of World War I, the COVID-19 pandemic was met with considerable counter-measures across the world.
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Publication: Social Justice and Trade Unions
Machines replace Humans? Automation at Chinese car suppliers
by FES Shanghai
What is the actual impact of increased automatisation in the manufacturing sector? This study looks at several automotive supplier firms in South China and their workers in an attempt to find out. While there have not been dramatic job losses so far, and although workers often welcome higher automatisation during the gradual transformation of their workplace, problems emerge that are contributing to an increasingly unbalanced worker-employer relationship.
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Publication: Social Justice and Trade Unions
Gender Perspectives on the Future of Work in China
Author: Chen Yuting (Shanghai Administration Institute)
by FES Shanghai
Outlook on China’s industrial development and the impact of digitalisation and automation on employment.
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Publication: Sustainable Growth Model
Taobao Villages - The Emergence of a New Pattern of Rural Ecommerce in China and its Social Implications
Author: Fan Lulu, Sun-yat Sen University, Guangzhou; FES Shanghai 2018
by FES Shanghai
Taobao, a subsidiary to the biggest Chinese e-commerce player Alibaba, is a Chinese online shopping website and platform with over 580 million monthly active users in 2018.
A Taobao Village by Chinese definition is a village with at least 50 households operating their own shops on Taobao. These clusters of rural online entrepreneurs have become a significant force behind the development of “rural e-commerce” in China.
If the negative aspects of Taobao villages on labour, social and safety standards can be mitigated, it might not only be an interesting development and employment programme for rural and remote areas in China, but most probably also for other Asian countries with a distinct rural character and a rural-urban divide to connect unique local products with urban purchasing power.
Publication: Social Justice and Trade Unions
Discussion Paper: German Robots in China and the Alibaba Villages
Sergio Grassi, Stefan Pantekoek, Yannick Ringot; FES Shanghai and FES Indonesia 2018
by FES Shanghai
At the conference "Intelligent Manufacturing and Work 4.0 - Challenges and Perspectives in China, South-East Asia and Germany", the ongoing global technology-driven industrial and platform-based revolution was discussed by experts from industry, trade unions and academia from Asia, Europe and the United States. The results of the debates are summed up in this discussion paper which was jointly authored by the Shanghai Representative Office and the Indonesia Office of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
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Publication: Sustainable Growth Model
Achieving a Socially Equitable Energy Transition in China
ZHANG Junjie, Donghui LIU, XUE Lan, CHEN Xiduo, WU Honglin; FES Shanghai 2018
by FES Shanghai
In China, efforts towards an energy transition are increasingly ambitious. But although these policies have ushered in rapid gains in renewable energy, China continues to rely in large part on coal, mainly because of its steadily rising energy consumption which suggests a challenging path for a true clean energy transition. This study on China's energy transition provides a starting point for further analysis.
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Publication: Society and Politics
Different societies, same solutions? A critical reflection on ‘ageing as a burden’ in China and the EU
Authors: Traute Meyer (U. Southampton) and Feng Jin (Fudan U.); FES Shanghai 2018
by FES Shanghai
For several decades, policy makers in China and the EU have stated that their ageing societies are a burden for their pension systems and that the retirement age should be increased and costs strictly controlled. But is pension retrenchment the only viable response to societal ageing?
Publication: Regional and International Affairs
China Radio International (CRI) "Today" Live Interview with Mr. Christoph Pohlmann on important breakthrough in coalition deal in Germany
by FES Shanghai
Mr. Christoph Pohlmann, Resident Representative for China of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, participated in the live panel discussion of “Today” on February 8th 2018 and shared his views of the results of collapsed talks on forming a coalition government in Germany.