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Singapore-Based Asian American Medical Group and Rich Tree Holdings Break Ground on Zhuhai-Singapore Life Science Park; Advanced Diagnostic and Wellness Medical Centre Will Bring World-Class Services to Southern China in 2018.

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals Opens China Office.

China to Improve Basic Science Research.

Chinese Scientists Edit Genes to Resist HIV in Embryos.

Scientists Find How Red Wine Compound Protects Heart.

Alliance for Stem Cell Technologies Established in Guangzhou.

China and Germany Keen to Deepen R&D Cooperation.

Study Unveils Novel Crosstalk Mechanism between Mitochondrial Translation and Cytoplasmic Translation.

China's Seed Haven Protects Endangered Plants.

Scientists Find that miR-155 Suppresses ErbB2-induced Malignant Transformation.

Nectar and Scent Secretion Patterns Reflect Floral Color Change Rhythm in Quisqualis indica.

This paper examines how sub-Saharan Africans do business in China, particularly in the province of Guangdong. Through a qualitative approach, the paper analyzes data obtained from twenty interviews with sub-Saharan Africans. It’s a descriptive study that explores the strategies, tactics and attitudes adopted by those sub-Saharan Africans to cope with a particularly difficult Chinese business environment. Using the concepts of foreignness and adaptation, the study identified four categories of immigrant entrepreneurs: the assimilators, the conservatives, the adventurers and the cautious. Concomitantly, this research identified factors and skills that contributed significantly to immigrants’ success in China. The paper also underlines challenges sub-Saharan Africans still face in China and the unconventional tactics they use. The study represents an insightful exploration of an increasingly important subject but still under-studied. It calls for a thorough research toward the understanding of African businesses in China.

This study selects Guangzhou as the research object based on the carbon emission accounting method in accordance with Guangzhou, using the LMDI model and the Tapio decoupling model to investigate the driving factors of the indirect carbon dioxide emissions of its residential living energy consumption. Research shows that: Guangzhou residential indirect energy consumption accounts for a high proportion of carbon emissions (60%–73%), which is more worthy of attention; its consumption structure needs to be optimized and upgraded to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction; other driving factors other than energy consumption intensity. There is more room for emission reduction; the decoupling relationship between indirect energy consumption carbon emissions and consumption expenditures of residential lives is unstable, and the overall situation is positive. Further, we put forward countermeasures and suggestions to promote the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from the indirect energy consumption of residents in Guangzhou, guide the optimization and upgrading of the consumption structure, advocate green consumption, promote the carbon inclusive system, control the intensity of energy consumption, promote energy conservation and emission reduction, control population scale and optimize population structure.

Ecological connectivity is an important indicator for ecological relations among patches. Based on the least-cost distance model, this paper conducts a systematic assessment of ecological connectivity before and after ecological corridor planning of Guangzhou using the Barrier Effect Index (BEI) and Ecological Connectivity Index (ECI). And the driving mechanism of its landscape pattern changes is analyzed. The result shows that spatial differentiation of BEI is driven by woodland and construction land in Guangzhou. The distribution pattern of Ecological land presents islanded and media fragmentation in the whole city. The relentless growth of built-up areas has been identified as the leading cause for landscape deterioration. The important habitat and ecological corridor can be made clearly base on ECI, and spatial planning approach of ecological corridor is proposed. The level of Ecological Connectivity has been improved significantly after planning corridor, and the area of ECI-increasing region is 473.58 km². The area proportion of Ecological Connectivity Index above medium level (ECI=3∼5) increased 7.52%. And landscape fragment of Guangzhou is weakened. Ecological service functions and ecological connectivity were improved significantly between islanding ecological resources and urban ecological land. The past unreasonable development mode of urban land in Guangzhou should be abandoned to strengthen the urban green-space construction. The level of ECI of Guangzhou can be enhanced by using survival ecological resources and assisted by essential protection, restoration and construction.