An audit committee with financial expertise is expected to strengthen the firms' internal control system, and consequently, contribute to reliable and relevant financial reporting. The controversial definition of financial expert was intensively commented on before the Securities and Exchange...

<bold>Problem, research strategy, and findings:</bold> To address one of China's most pressing planning problems, Chengdu was designated a national pilot region for coordinated urban-rural development. Using a wide variety of sources, we describe the theory and practice of coordinated urban-rural development...

This paper examines the location characteristics of the newly emerged producer services in Shanghai. The research questions are: how does the location of producer services fit into Shanghai's spatial context? What are the factors shaping the spatial distribution pattern? Are the spatial...

This paper examines the location patterns of and the reciprocal relationships between corporate location and office market in Metropolitan Shanghai. Corporate location is viewed a reflection of the globalization process in which metropolitan economies are restructured and firms relocate. Office...

The first release of the Sixth National Population Census results in April 2011 revealed that mainland China had a total population of 1339.72 million, of which 665.58 million resided in urbanized areas. This suggested that the urbanization process had accelerated during the period 2000–2010,...

This paper examines the emerging multiple centre urban spatial structure in Beijing using housing price variation as an indicator. A random sample of 3783 apartment units was used. These apartments were recent sales in 2001, 2003 and 2005. The dataset included transaction prices and main housing...