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												Breeder Raises Venomous Snakes for Market
CHINA DAILY Thursday, April 14, 2016 CHINA 7 GROUND LEVEL: PEOPLE Breeder raises venomous snakes for market Farmer pulled family out of poverty Still, it is impossible to avoid the inevitable. In 2011, as Luo’s snake business started to by selling serpents to restaurants show promising results, he was bitten. By YANG JUN and “I was once the owner of a “It felt worse than being ZENG JUN in Liping, Guizhou restaurant and guitar factory stung by a bee and that is the in Guangdong province, but first time I faced a life-or- A farmer who swapped rais- the financial crisis in 2008 death situation,” Luo said. ing crops for breeding venom- took nearly everything from Even now, he has kept the ous cobras and other less- me,” Luo said. incident from his parents and deadly snakes, lifting his Seeking another business, children. Only his wife is family out of poverty in just a he learned that snakes are aware of what happened and few years, is eager to share his quite popular as food in “she’s been nagging at me ever skills with other villagers in Guangdong province and the since”,Luo said. Southwest China’s Guizhou Guangxi Zhuang autonomous “She’s fine with me breeding province. region. Hunting wild snakes is snakes, since it’s profitable, In a peaceful courtyard in strictly prohibited in China, so but I have to get rid of the Liping county’s Niujiaowan the demand for farmed snakes deadly ones, such as the village, a neat row of bunga- is quite large. - 
												
												Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project (Cofinanced by the Global Environment Facility)
Technical Assistance Consultant’s Report Project Number: 39321 June 2008 PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project (Cofinanced by the Global Environment Facility) Prepared by: ANZDEC Limited Australia For Shaanxi Province Development and Reform Commission This consultant’s report does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB or the Government concerned, and ADB and the Government cannot be held liable for its contents. (For project preparatory technical assistance: All the views expressed herein may not be incorporated into the proposed project’s design. FINAL REPORT SHAANXI QINLING BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECT PREPARED FOR Shaanxi Provincial Government And the Asian Development Bank ANZDEC LIMITED September 2007 CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as at 1 June 2007) Currency Unit – Chinese Yuan {CNY}1.00 = US $0.1308 $1.00 = CNY 7.64 ABBREVIATIONS ADB – Asian Development Bank BAP – Biodiversity Action Plan (of the PRC Government) CAS – Chinese Academy of Sciences CASS – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences CBD – Convention on Biological Diversity CBRC – China Bank Regulatory Commission CDA - Conservation Demonstration Area CNY – Chinese Yuan CO – company CPF – country programming framework CTF – Conservation Trust Fund EA – Executing Agency EFCAs – Ecosystem Function Conservation Areas EIRR – economic internal rate of return EPB – Environmental Protection Bureau EU – European Union FIRR – financial internal rate of return FDI – Foreign Direct Investment FYP – Five-Year Plan FS – Feasibility - 
												
												563 14C Dating of Soil Organic Carbon
14C DATING OF SOIL ORGANIC CARBON (SOC) IN LOESS-PALEOSOL USING SEQUENTIAL PYROLYSIS AND ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY (AMS) Peng Cheng1,2,3 • Weijian Zhou1,2,4 • Hong Wang5 • Xuefeng Lu1,2,4 • Hua Du1,2 ABSTRACT. The chemical extraction of soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions from soils often does not produce satisfactory results for radiocarbon dating. In this study, a sequential pyrolysis technique was investigated. The soil was pyrolyzed at tem- peratures of 200, 400, 600, and 800 C to partition organic carbon into pyrolytic volatile (Py-V) and pyrolytic residue (Py-R) fractions. The preliminary results show that the 14C dates of both fractions become progressively older as the pyrolysis tem- perature is increased. In addition, the ages of the Py-V fractions are consistently younger than the corresponding Py-R frac- tions extracted at the same temperature. Experimental results of known-age paleosol samples indicate that the Py-V fractions obtained between 600 and 800 C yield the most reliable ages. This technique provides a new approach to improve the accu- racy of 14C dating of loess-paleosol sequences. INTRODUCTION Loess-paleosol sequences are valuable natural archives that preserve high-resolution continental proxy records of past climate. In order to understand these records in a global context, it is critical to establish accurate age models for individual sequences. In samples from the Late Quaternary, radiocarbon has been used with some success to date loess-paleosols; however, these deposits often do not contain ideal dating materials such as wood or charcoal (Zhou et al. 1992; Wang et al. 2003). - 
												
												Effects of Formulated Fertilizer, Irrigation and Varieties on Wheat Yield in Shaanxi China
Available online www.jocpr.com Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2014, 6(7):1124-1129 ISSN : 0975-7384 Research Article CODEN(USA) : JCPRC5 Effects of formulated fertilizer, irrigation and varieties on wheat yield in Shaanxi China Xiaoying Wang1, Yanan Tong1,2*, Pengcheng Gao1, Fen Liu1, Yimin Gao1, Zuoping Zhao1 and Yan Pang1 1College of Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China 2Key Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Agricultural Environment in Northwest, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT In order to study the effects of formulated fertilization, irrigation and different varieties on crop yields and farmer’s income, this research used household survey data and demonstration test data of formulated fertilization, which was collected from the project of soil testing and formulated fertilization in Shaanxi province from 2007 to 2011. For analysis, there were a total of 53 counties in the sample. The results show that in Weibei, Guanzhong and Qin-Ba regions, compared with conventional fertilization, formulated fertilization decreased nitrogen (N) fertilizer rates by 31.92%, 12.59% and 10.13% respectively, decreased phosphate (P2O5) fertilizer rates by 20.44%, 2.10% and 26.19% respectively, increased potassium (K2O) fertilizer rates by 105.98%, 193.99% and 382.58% respectively. The yields of wheat improved 330 kg ha-1, 403 kg ha-1 and 738 kg ha-1, the yield increase rates were 7.73%, 6.26% and 19.71%, the average profits increased about 906 yuan ha-1, 689 yuan ha-1 and 1423 yuan ha-1 respectively in the three regions. In addition, the average yields were higher up to 19.07%, 14.96% and 17.76% respectively when irrigation had been used than without, and it was not the most productive varieties that were the most grown in the three regions. - 
												
												Distribution, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Aegilops Tauschii Coss. in Major Whea
Supplementary materials Title: Distribution, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Aegilops tauschii Coss. in Major Wheat Growing Regions in China Table S1. The geographic locations of 192 Aegilops tauschii Coss. populations used in the genetic diversity analysis. Population Location code Qianyuan Village Kongzhongguo Town Yancheng County Luohe City 1 Henan Privince Guandao Village Houzhen Town Liantian County Weinan City Shaanxi 2 Province Bawang Village Gushi Town Linwei County Weinan City Shaanxi Prov- 3 ince Su Village Jinchengban Town Hancheng County Weinan City Shaanxi 4 Province Dongwu Village Wenkou Town Daiyue County Taian City Shandong 5 Privince Shiwu Village Liuwang Town Ningyang County Taian City Shandong 6 Privince Hongmiao Village Chengguan Town Renping County Liaocheng City 7 Shandong Province Xiwang Village Liangjia Town Henjin County Yuncheng City Shanxi 8 Province Xiqu Village Gujiao Town Xinjiang County Yuncheng City Shanxi 9 Province Shishi Village Ganting Town Hongtong County Linfen City Shanxi 10 Province 11 Xin Village Sansi Town Nanhe County Xingtai City Hebei Province Beichangbao Village Caohe Town Xushui County Baoding City Hebei 12 Province Nanguan Village Longyao Town Longyap County Xingtai City Hebei 13 Province Didi Village Longyao Town Longyao County Xingtai City Hebei Prov- 14 ince 15 Beixingzhuang Town Xingtai County Xingtai City Hebei Province Donghan Village Heyang Town Nanhe County Xingtai City Hebei Prov- 16 ince 17 Yan Village Luyi Town Guantao County Handan City Hebei Province Shanqiao Village Liucun Town Yaodu District Linfen City Shanxi Prov- 18 ince Sabxiaoying Village Huqiao Town Hui County Xingxiang City Henan 19 Province 20 Fanzhong Village Gaosi Town Xiangcheng City Henan Province Agriculture 2021, 11, 311. - 
												
												Minimum Wage Standards in China August 11, 2020
Minimum Wage Standards in China August 11, 2020 Contents Heilongjiang ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Jilin ............................................................................................................................................................... 3 Liaoning ........................................................................................................................................................ 4 Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ........................................................................................................... 7 Beijing......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Hebei ........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Henan .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Shandong .................................................................................................................................................... 14 Shanxi ......................................................................................................................................................... 16 Shaanxi ...................................................................................................................................................... - 
												
												Study of Road Landscape Design at Portal Space of Small Towns in Guanzhong
Send Orders for Reprints to [email protected] 92 The Open Construction and Building Technology Journal, 2015, 9, 92-98 Open Access Study of Road Landscape Design at Portal Space of Small Towns in Guanzhong# Quanhua Hou* and Wenhui Wang School of Architecture, Chang' an University, Xi'an 710061, China Abstract: To further study the effects of public service facilities on the land use intensity at regulatory planning level and enhance the scientific determination of land use intensity, this paper expounds the influence mechanism and factors of the public service facilities on land use intensity in regulatory planning, and conducts quantitative evaluation of the influence factors through theoretical analysis, mathematical analysis and analytic hierarchy process etc. The results show that the in- fluence mechanism of public service facilities on the land use intensity goes throughout all three levels of regulatory plan- ning. Different characteristics of public service facilities on each level determine their different influence factors and take effect on the land use intensity index of the corresponding level, thus affecting the determination of the block floor area ratio. Based on this, this paper proposes a method to determine the land use intensity in regulatory planning under the re- striction of public service facilities and completes the test in practice, which may provide a reference for determining the land use intensity in regulatory planning. Keywords: Impact assessment, land use intensity, public service facilities, regulatory - 
												
												Survey of Guoxia-Silaotou Fault
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science PAPER • OPEN ACCESS Survey of Guoxia-Silaotou fault To cite this article: Baolai Li et al 2021 IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 783 012044 View the article online for updates and enhancements. This content was downloaded from IP address 170.106.34.90 on 27/09/2021 at 01:49 2nd International Conference on Geology, Mapping and Remote Sensing IOP Publishing IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 783 (2021) 012044 doi:10.1088/1755-1315/783/1/012044 Survey of Guoxia-Silaotou fault Baolai Li1, Hanliang Zhang1, Fengwen Ren1, Dawei Nie1 and Chunfeng Li1* 1Shaanxi Earthquake Agency, Xi'an, Province, 710086, China *Corresponding author´s e-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Guoxia-silaotuo fault is a part of Longxian-Baoji fault zone. In previous studies, people only inferred the spatial distribution of the fault from the indirect evidences of geomorphology and geophysics. In this paper, through the detailed investigation of the fault, the outcrop of the fault plane is found; the trenching method is used to investigate the fault, and the activity scale of the fault is revealed. It is found that in the late Pleistocene, the activity intensity of the fault is relatively high. 1. Introduction As shown in Figure 1, the Longxian-Baoji fault zone is a part of the compression boundary structural zone between the northeastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the southwestern margin of the Ordos block. The active faults in the fault zone play an important role in the tectonic evolution of the Western Weihe basin. - 
												
												Early Chinese Dynasties
246 ASIA Early Chinese Dynasties From the early second millennium to the third century BCE, a period that corresponds approximately to China’s Bronze Age, three dynasties (Xia, Shang, and Zhou) fl ourished in succession in north-central China’s Yellow River valley and environs. Beyond this area, Bronze Age cultures developed in the Yangtze River Valley in the south (Xingang) and southwest (Sanxingdui). hina’s Bronze Age civilization developed out emerging bronze metallurgy, as well as ritual jades of a variety of regional Late Neolithic cultures and ornaments. Aside from a few undecipherable Cthat are sometimes collectively described as signs carved on some pottery, at Erlitou there is no the Longshan horizon (c. 3000–2000 BCE). evidence of writing, a fact which renders diffi cult the confi rmation of the existence of the Xia Dynasty. LATE NEOLITHIC AND XIA Some of the traits that characterize the culture of THE SHANG DYNASTY the Bronze Age dynasties, such as city building, jade Th e Shang, who appear to have been eastern working, bone divination, and ancestor worship, neighbors of the Xia, established their rule probably appear already as signifi cant traits of the Chinese late between 1600 and 1550 BCE by replacing their Neolithic. According to historical accounts, the fi rst predecessors as the dominant political force in the dynasty to dominate the region of the middle Yellow middle Yellow River and surrounding areas. Various River valley was Xia (traditionally 2100–1700 BCE). Shang sites (capitals, large settlements, and burial Several archaeologists in China believe that the grounds) have been excavated. - 
												
												208021 Westchina Cover-Pp12 28/11/06 5:37 PM Page 1
WCC cover dps Outers 28/11/06 17:43 Page 2 WEST CHINA CEMENT LIMITED PLACING AND ADMISSION TO AIM BY INSINGER DE BEAUFORT WEST CHINA CEMENT WCC cover dps Inners 28/11/06 17:42 Page 1 Clockwise from top: Pucheng limestone quarry; Pucheng facilities monitoring station; Lantian development site; main Pucheng production plant and further view of main Pucheng production plant. 208021 WestChina cover-pp12 28/11/06 5:37 PM Page 1 THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. IF YOU ARE IN ANY DOUBT ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT AND WHAT ACTION YOU SHOULD TAKE YOU ARE RECOMMENDED IMMEDIATELY TO SEEK YOUR OWN FINANCIAL ADVICE FROM YOUR STOCKBROKER, SOLICITOR, ACCOUNTANT OR OTHER INDEPENDENT ADVISER WHO SPECIALISES IN ADVISING ON THE ACQUISITION OF SHARES AND OTHER SECURITIES AND IS AUTHORISED UNDER THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS ACT 2000. This document is drawn up as an admission document in accordance with the AIM Rules. This document does not constitute an offer to the public in accordance with the provisions of Section 85 of FSMA and is not a prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Rules. Accordingly, this document has not been approved by the FSA. The document has been approved as a prospectus by the Jersey Financial Services Authority. A copy of this document has been delivered to the Registrar of Companies in Jersey in accordance with Article 5 of the Companies (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2002, as amended, and he has given, and has not withdrawn, his written consent to its circulation. The Jersey Financial Services Commission has given, and has not withdrawn, its consent under Article 2 of the Control of Borrowing (Jersey) Order 1958, as amended, to the issue of the Ordinary Shares in the Company. - 
												
												A Typological Study of the Palace Buildings at Zhouyuan and Related Issues
A Typological Study of the Palace Buildings at Zhouyuan and Related Issues A Typological Study of the Palace Buildings at Zhouyuan and Related Issues Du Jinpeng* Key words: Zhouyuan Palace Styles–Developments Typology The Zhouyuan ruins, located in the northern portion of Dynasty archaeological materials from the Central Plains Qishan and Fufeng Counties, Shaanxi, are the remnants area to assist in an analysis of the characteristics and of the capital city established by the Zhou headman development of the Zhouyuan palace buildings, followed Gugong Danfu around the end of the 12th or beginning by an investigation of the relationship between the Shang of the 11th century BCE. Later, King Wen moved the and Zhou cultures. capital to the city of Feng, but Zhouyuan remained an I. The Archaeological Discovery of the important center of Zhou governmental activities until the later years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Zhouyuan Palace Buildings Through several years’ effort of the archaeologists, a 1. The Fengchu Ruins are situated atop a large rammed- number of rammed earth foundations associated with earth platform measuring 45.2m long from north to south, palace buildings have been discovered. The principal 32.5m wide from east to west, and approximately 1.3m among these include the building foundations at the four high. This was a complex of buildings with two court- sites of Fengchu in Qishan County; and Shaochen, yards arranged along the longitudinal axis, opening Yuntang, and Qizhen in Fufeng County (Figure 1). southwards at an orientation of 170°. It was comprised Based on a summary of the typology of the palace of a gate-screen, two gatehouses, a front hall, a rear building ruins at Zhouyuan, this article adduces Shang building, and two side rooms on the eastern and western sides (Figure 2). - 
												
												Minimum Wage Standards in China June 28, 2018
Minimum Wage Standards in China June 28, 2018 Contents Heilongjiang .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Jilin ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Liaoning ........................................................................................................................................................ 4 Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ........................................................................................................... 7 Beijing ......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Hebei ........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Henan .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Shandong .................................................................................................................................................... 14 Shanxi ......................................................................................................................................................... 16 Shaanxi .......................................................................................................................................................