World Bank Document

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

World Bank Document Document of The World Bank FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Public Disclosure Authorized Report No: ICR00004154 IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETION AND RESULTS REPORT IBRD-76930-CN ON A Public Disclosure Authorized LOAN IN THE AMOUNT OF US$ 60 MILLION TO THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR THE CN-GUIZHOU CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT ( P091950 ) Public Disclosure Authorized December 18, 2017 Public Disclosure Authorized Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice East Asia And Pacific Region CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (Exchange Rate Effective June 30, 2017) Currency Unit = Renminbi (RMB) US$ 1 = RMB 6.78 FISCAL YEAR January 1 - December 31 Regional Vice President: Victoria Kwakwa Country Director: Bert Hofman Senior Global Practice Director: Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez Practice Manager: Abhas Kumar Jha Task Team Leader(s): Guangming Yan ICR Main Contributor: Natsuko Kikutake ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ADB Asia Development Bank AP Affected People CBD Community Based Development CF Community Facilitator CPMG Community Project Management Group CPMO Country Project Management Office CPS Country Partnership Strategy EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EIRR Economic Internal Rate of Return EMP Environmental Management Plan FM Financial Management FYP Five-Year Plan GNU Guizhou Normal University GPFB Guizhou Provincial Finance Bureau GPG Guizhou Provincial Government GTB Guizhou Provincial Tourism Bureau ICR Implementation Completion and Results Report IOI Intermediate Outcome Indicator IP Implementation Progress IPP Indigenous People’s Plan ISR Implementation Status and Results Report KPI Key Performance Indicator LG Local Government M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MIS Management Information System MTR Mid-term Review O&M Operation and Maintenance PAD Project Appraisal Document PC Project Consultant PDO Project Development Objective PIU Project Implementation Unit PLG Project Leading Group PMO Project Management Office PPLG Provincial Project Leading Group PPMO Provincial Project Management Office PRC People’s Republic of China RAP Resettlement Action Plan RP Restructuring Paper RPF Resettlement Policy Framework SOE State Owned Enterprise TA Technical Assistance UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNWTO United Nations World Tourism Organization VSG Village Supervision Group WTP Willingness to Pay TABLE OF CONTENTS DATA SHEET .......................................................................................................................... 1 I. PROJECT CONTEXT AND DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES ....................................................... 6 A. CONTEXT AT APPRAISAL .........................................................................................................6 B. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES DURING IMPLEMENTATION (IF APPLICABLE) ..................................... 10 II. OUTCOME .................................................................................................................... 11 A. RELEVANCE OF PDOs ............................................................................................................ 11 B. ACHIEVEMENT OF PDOs (EFFICACY) ...................................................................................... 12 C. EFFICIENCY ........................................................................................................................... 17 D. JUSTIFICATION OF OVERALL OUTCOME RATING .................................................................... 19 E. OTHER OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS (IF ANY) ............................................................................ 20 III. KEY FACTORS THAT AFFECTED IMPLEMENTATION AND OUTCOME ................................ 21 A. KEY FACTORS DURING PREPARATION ................................................................................... 21 B. KEY FACTORS DURING IMPLEMENTATION ............................................................................. 22 IV. BANK PERFORMANCE, COMPLIANCE ISSUES, AND RISK TO DEVELOPMENT OUTCOME .. 23 A. QUALITY OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION (M&E) ............................................................ 23 B. ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND FIDUCIARY COMPLIANCE ..................................................... 24 C. BANK PERFORMANCE ........................................................................................................... 27 D. RISK TO DEVELOPMENT OUTCOME ....................................................................................... 28 V. LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................. 29 ANNEX 1. RESULTS FRAMEWORK AND KEY OUTPUTS ........................................................... 31 ANNEX 2. BANK LENDING AND IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT/SUPERVISION ......................... 42 ANNEX 3. PROJECT COST BY COMPONENT ........................................................................... 45 ANNEX 4. EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS ........................................................................................... 47 ANNEX 5. BORROWER, CO-FINANCIER AND OTHER PARTNER/STAKEHOLDER COMMENTS ... 55 ANNEX 6. SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS .................................................................................. 55 ANNEX 7. OUTPUTS BY COMPONENT AND SELECTED OUTCOMES ........................................ 56 ANNEX 8. SOCIAL SAFEGUARD IMPLEMENTATION ............................................................... 64 ANNEX 9. PHOTOGRAPHS .................................................................................................... 67 ANNEX 10. ORIGINAL RESULTS FRAMEWORK AND KEY OUTPUTS ......................................... 75 ANNEX 11. VALUE OF ASSETS BEFORE AND AFTER WORLD BANK PROJECT ........................... 80 ANNEX 12. LEVERAGE OF DOMESTIC FUNDS AND PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENTS ............... 81 ANNEX 13. INCREASE IN AVERAGE INCOME PER PERSON FOR PROJECT SITES ....................... 82 ANNEX 14. PROJECT MAP .................................................................................................... 83 The World Bank CN-Guizhou Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development ( P091950 ) DATA SHEET BASIC INFORMATION Product Information Project ID Project Name CN-GUIZHOU CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE P091950 PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT ( P091950 ) Country Financing Instrument China Specific Investment Loan Original EA Category Revised EA Category Full Assessment (A) Full Assessment (A) Organizations Borrower Implementing Agency International Department, Ministry of Finance Guizhou Tourism Development Commission Project Development Objective (PDO) Original PDO The project development objective is to assist Guizhou Province in increasing economic benefits to local communities (including minority groups) through increased tourism and better protection of cultural and natural heritages. Revised PDO The project development objective is to assist Guizhou Province in protecting cultural and natural heritage, improving basicinfrastructure, and fostering tourism development for the benefit of selected communities (including ethnic minority groups). Page 1 The World Bank CN-Guizhou Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development ( P091950 ) FINANCING Original Amount (US$) Revised Amount (US$) Actual Disbursed (US$) World Bank Financing 60,000,000 60,000,000 59,167,978 IBRD-76930 Total 60,000,000 60,000,000 59,167,978 Non-World Bank Financing Borrower 30,000,000 30,000,000 34,850,000 Total 30,000,000 30,000,000 34,850,000 Total Project Cost 90,000,000 90,000,000 94,017,978 KEY DATES Approval Effectiveness MTR Review Original Closing Actual Closing 05-May-2009 16-Sep-2009 07-Jan-2013 30-Jun-2016 30-Jun-2017 RESTRUCTURING AND/OR ADDITIONAL FINANCING Date(s) Amount Disbursed (US$M) Key Revisions 08-Jul-2014 27.49 Change in Project Development Objectives Change in Results Framework Change in Components and Cost Change in Loan Closing Date(s) Change in Financing Plan Reallocation between Disbursement Categories Change in Disbursements Arrangements Change in Procurement Change in Implementation Schedule KEY RATINGS Outcome Bank Performance M&E Quality Satisfactory Satisfactory Substantial Page 2 The World Bank CN-Guizhou Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development ( P091950 ) RATINGS OF PROJECT PERFORMANCE IN ISRs Actual No. Date ISR Archived DO Rating IP Rating Disbursements (US$M) 01 21-Jun-2010 Satisfactory Satisfactory .15 02 06-Mar-2011 Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory .30 Moderately 03 25-Feb-2012 Unsatisfactory 3.13 Unsatisfactory 04 09-Dec-2012 Unsatisfactory Unsatisfactory 10.48 05 25-Jun-2013 Unsatisfactory Moderately Unsatisfactory 13.01 06 22-Nov-2013 Unsatisfactory Moderately Satisfactory 15.64 07 23-Jun-2014 Moderately Satisfactory Satisfactory 24.44 08 29-Nov-2014 Satisfactory Satisfactory 30.40 09 15-Apr-2015 Satisfactory Satisfactory 36.32 10 25-Nov-2015 Satisfactory Satisfactory 38.93 11 01-Jun-2016 Satisfactory Satisfactory 46.66 12 29-Oct-2016 Satisfactory Satisfactory 54.80 13 11-May-2017 Satisfactory Satisfactory 56.91 SECTORS AND THEMES Sectors Major Sector/Sector (%) Social Protection 100 Social Protection 24 Transportation 100 Other Transportation 13 Page 3 The World Bank CN-Guizhou Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development ( P091950 ) Water, Sanitation and Waste Management 100 Other Water Supply, Sanitation and Waste 13 Management Industry, Trade and Services 100 Other Industry, Trade and Services 50 Themes Major Theme/ Theme (Level 2)/ Theme (Level 3) (%) Private Sector Development 100 Jobs 100 Urban and
Recommended publications
  • Dressing for the Times: Fashion in Tang Dynasty China (618-907)
    Dressing for the Times: Fashion in Tang Dynasty China (618-907) BuYun Chen Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2013 © 2013 BuYun Chen All rights reserved ABSTRACT Dressing for the Times: Fashion in Tang Dynasty China (618-907) BuYun Chen During the Tang dynasty, an increased capacity for change created a new value system predicated on the accumulation of wealth and the obsolescence of things that is best understood as fashion. Increased wealth among Tang elites was paralleled by a greater investment in clothes, which imbued clothes with new meaning. Intellectuals, who viewed heightened commercial activity and social mobility as symptomatic of an unstable society, found such profound changes in the vestimentary landscape unsettling. For them, a range of troubling developments, including crisis in the central government, deep suspicion of the newly empowered military and professional class, and anxiety about waste and obsolescence were all subsumed under the trope of fashionable dressing. The clamor of these intellectuals about the widespread desire to be “current” reveals the significant space fashion inhabited in the empire – a space that was repeatedly gendered female. This dissertation considers fashion as a system of social practices that is governed by material relations – a system that is also embroiled in the politics of the gendered self and the body. I demonstrate that this notion of fashion is the best way to understand the process through which competition for status and self-identification among elites gradually broke away from the imperial court and its system of official ranks.
    [Show full text]
  • Ming China As a Gunpowder Empire: Military Technology, Politics, and Fiscal Administration, 1350-1620 Weicong Duan Washington University in St
    Washington University in St. Louis Washington University Open Scholarship Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations Arts & Sciences Winter 12-15-2018 Ming China As A Gunpowder Empire: Military Technology, Politics, And Fiscal Administration, 1350-1620 Weicong Duan Washington University in St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds Part of the Asian History Commons, and the Asian Studies Commons Recommended Citation Duan, Weicong, "Ming China As A Gunpowder Empire: Military Technology, Politics, And Fiscal Administration, 1350-1620" (2018). Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1719. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/1719 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts & Sciences at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Dissertation Examination Committee: Steven B. Miles, Chair Christine Johnson Peter Kastor Zhao Ma Hayrettin Yücesoy Ming China as a Gunpowder Empire: Military Technology, Politics, and Fiscal Administration, 1350-1620 by Weicong Duan A dissertation presented to The Graduate School of of Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2018 St. Louis, Missouri © 2018,
    [Show full text]
  • Chinese-To-English Translation of Publicity on Chinese Minority Culture from Narrative Perspectives
    Journal of Literature and Art Studies, August 2019, Vol. 9, No. 8, 897-906 doi: 10.17265/2159-5836/2019.08.012 D DAVID PUBLISHING Chinese-to-English Translation of Publicity on Chinese Minority Culture From Narrative Perspectives XIAO Tang-jin Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang, China Narrative is a literary notion. In narrative translation theory, narrative involves personal narrative, public narrative, disciplinary narrative, and meta-narrative. This paper adopts the notions of personal narrative, public narrative, and meta-narrative to analyze specific cases concerning the Chinese-to-English translation on Chinese minority culture publicity, proposes two narrative translation models, namely, the annotation narrative translation model and the manipulative narrative translation model, and explores the concrete translation procedures and the embodied meta-narrative, covering introduction to minority tales, minority festivals, and minority customs. Narrative translation research is part of the multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary turn in the 21st century, and this research is an organic part of cross-cultural communication translatology. Keywords: narrative, Chinese-to-English translation, publicity on Chinese minority culture, model Foreword Cross-cultural communication translatology explores translation theories and practice from the perspectives of cross-cultural communication based on multiple disciplines. Thus, it shows interdisciplinary, intercultural and interlingual features (Xiao, 2018). This means that it is different from conventional approaches to translation in theory and practice, such as form equivalence and functional equivalence. Nowadays, narrative, an approach in literary studies, and sociology, a discipline which studies social structure, social mobility, and other social issues, are also adopted in translation studies. They are labeled as “interdisciplinary turn”, “sociological turn”, “power turn”, and other things alike.
    [Show full text]
  • The Imperial Tomb Tablet of the Great Ming
    The Imperial Tomb Tablet of the Great Ming 大明皇陵之碑 With translation into English, annotations and commentary by Laurie Dennis October 2017 The town of Fengyang 凤阳, to the north of Anhui Province in the heart of China, may seem at first glance to be an ordinary, and rather unremarkable, provincial outpost. But carefully preserved in a park southwest of the town lies a key site for the Ming Dynasty, which ruled the Middle Kingdom from 1368 until 1644. Fengyang is where the eventual dynastic founder lost most of his family to the plague demons. This founder, Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, was a grieving and impoverished peasant youth when he buried his parents and brother and nephew on a remote hillside near the town that he later expanded, renamed, and tried (unsuccessfully) to make his dynastic capital. Though Zhu had to leave his home to survive in the aftermath of the burial, he was a filial son, and regretted not being able to tend his family graves. Soon after becoming emperor, he transformed his family’s unmarked plots into a grand imperial cemetery for the House of Zhu, flanked by imposing statues (see the photo above, taken in 2006). He ordered that a stone tablet be placed before the graves, and carved with the words he wanted his descendants to read and ponder for generation after generation. The focus of this monograph is my translation of this remarkable text. The stele inscribed with the words of Zhu Yuanzhang, known as the Imperial Tomb Tablet of the Great Ming 大明皇陵之碑, or the Huangling Bei, stands over 7 meters high and is borne on the back of a stone turtle.
    [Show full text]
  • The Interaction Between Ethnic Relations and State Power: a Structural Impediment to the Industrialization of China, 1850-1911
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Georgia State University Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Sociology Dissertations Department of Sociology 5-27-2008 The nI teraction between Ethnic Relations and State Power: A Structural Impediment to the Industrialization of China, 1850-1911 Wei Li Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/sociology_diss Part of the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation Li, Wei, "The nI teraction between Ethnic Relations and State Power: A Structural Impediment to the Industrialization of China, 1850-1911." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2008. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/33 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Sociology at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ETHNIC RELATIONS AND STATE POWER: A STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENT TO THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF CHINA, 1850-1911 by WEI LI Under the Direction of Toshi Kii ABSTRACT The case of late Qing China is of great importance to theories of economic development. This study examines the question of why China’s industrialization was slow between 1865 and 1895 as compared to contemporary Japan’s. Industrialization is measured on four dimensions: sea transport, railway, communications, and the cotton textile industry. I trace the difference between China’s and Japan’s industrialization to government leadership, which includes three aspects: direct governmental investment, government policies at the macro-level, and specific measures and actions to assist selected companies and industries.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Report 2013 Contents
    AMITY A member of Annual Report 2013 Contents 01 A Message from the General Secretary 03 Project Reports 03 Church and Social Services 07 Community Development, Disaster Management, Environmental Protection, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Public Health 11 Education and Orphan Fostering 15 Education and International Exchange 20 Social Welfare 24 NGO Development 28 Urban Community Services 31 Resource Development 34 Amity Foundation, Hong Kong 43 Amity Printing Co., Ltd. 45 Who We Are 45 Organizational Chart 46 Amity Staff 47 Statistics 47 Where the funds come from 47 Where the funds go 48 List of Institutional Partners 55 Auditors Reports 2013 AMITY 01 A Message from the General Secretary In mid-January 2014, the Center for Civil Society Studies of Peking University announced Top Ten Events in Social Sectors in China 2013, among which were direct registration of four types of NGOs as a result of reforming the dual management system, population policy shift from quantity control to structure optimization remarked by the adoption of two-child fertility policy for couples where either the husband or the wife is from a single child family, citizens’ actions urging the government to share the responsibility to address the haze-highlighted environmental problems, Rule of Law in China as a resolution of the 3rd Plenary Session of 18th CPC Central Committee accompanied by a nationwide debate on political and legal basis for China Dream, and smoother cooperation between NGOs and the government occurring during Ya'an earthquake where the emergency response mechanism for disaster relief was challenged. Reading through the Top Ten Events, we find that more and more public voices were heard and taken seriously and eventually became driving forces to social development.
    [Show full text]
  • By Cao Cunxin
    Introduction On a cold December night in Quedlinburg, Germany, in 1589, thirty-two women were burnt at the stake, accused of possessing mysterious powers that enabled them to perform evil deeds. Thousands of people were similarly persecuted between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries.1 However, this event was not unique, as fifty years earlier on a rainy night in August, 1549, ninety-seven maritime merchants were beheaded on the coast of Zhejiang 浙江 province for violation of the Ming maritime prohibition. In addition, 117,000 coastal people were immediately ban- ished from their homes to prevent them from going to sea. Thousands of Chinese and foreign merchants lost their lives in the subsequent military campaigns in support of the maritime interdiction. 2 If historians were asked to list the early modern phenomena that have most „disturbed‟ their academic rationale, the two centuries-long witch-hunt in early modern Europe (1500–1700) and the 200 year term of the maritime prohibition, or “hajin 海禁” (1372–1568), during the Ming dynasty (1368––1644) would probably be near the top of the list. For the past few centuries, scholars have debated vigorously the two phenomena and tried to iden- tify the factors that led to their formation, maintenance and eventual change. While the study of the witch-hunt has generated a degree of consensus, there are still many questions surrounding the Ming maritime prohibition. The maritime prohibition policy, introduced in 1371 by the newly enthroned Ming founder, the Hongwu Emperor 洪武 (r. 1368–1398), was institutionalised to maintain systematic control over foreign contact and foreign trade relations.
    [Show full text]
  • Female Genitalia of Seasogoniayoung from China
    A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeysFemale 164: 25–40 genitalia (2012) of Seasogonia Young from China, with a new synonym and a new record... 25 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.164.2132 RESEARCH ARTICLE www.zookeys.org Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Female genitalia of Seasogonia Young from China, with a new synonym and a new record (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellini) Ze-hong Meng1,†, Mao-fa Yang1,‡ 1 Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; the Provincial Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Manage- ment of Mountainous Region, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, China Corresponding author: Mao-fa Yang ([email protected]) Academic editor: M. Wilson | Received 24 September 2011 | Accepted 28 December 2011 | Published 11 January 2012 Citation: Meng Z-H, Yang M-F (2012) Female genitalia of Seasogonia Young from China, with a new synonym and a new record (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellini). ZooKeys 164: 24–40. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.164.2132 Abstract Seasogonia Young, 1986 is a sharpshooter genus with 13 species, four of them recorded from China. In this paper, S. sandaracata (Distant, 1908) is recorded as new for China and S. rufipenna Li & Wang, 1992 is regarded as a junior synonym of S. nigromaculata Kuoh, 1991. The morphological diversity of the female genitalia of Seasogonia is still poorly known. We provide herein detailed descriptions and illustrations of three Chinese Seasogonia species. Notes on the female genitalia of Seasogonia, including intraspecific and interspecific variation, and comparisons between the female genitalia of Seasogonia and of other related genera from China are provided. The preliminary results indicate that the female genitalia may provide useful features for the taxonomy of Seasogonia and other members of the Old World Cicadellini.
    [Show full text]
  • Communication, Empire, and Authority in the Qing Gazette
    COMMUNICATION, EMPIRE, AND AUTHORITY IN THE QING GAZETTE by Emily Carr Mokros A dissertation submitted to Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Baltimore, Maryland June, 2016 © 2016 Emily Carr Mokros All rights Reserved Abstract This dissertation studies the political and cultural roles of official information and political news in late imperial China. Using a wide-ranging selection of archival, library, and digitized sources from libraries and archives in East Asia, Europe, and the United States, this project investigates the production, regulation, and reading of the Peking Gazette (dibao, jingbao), a distinctive communications channel and news publication of the Qing Empire (1644-1912). Although court gazettes were composed of official documents and communications, the Qing state frequently contracted with commercial copyists and printers in publishing and distributing them. As this dissertation shows, even as the Qing state viewed information control and dissemination as a strategic concern, it also permitted the free circulation of a huge variety of timely political news. Readers including both officials and non-officials used the gazette in order to compare judicial rulings, assess military campaigns, and follow court politics and scandals. As the first full-length study of the Qing gazette, this project shows concretely that the gazette was a powerful factor in late imperial Chinese politics and culture, and analyzes the close relationship between information and imperial practice in the Qing Empire. By arguing that the ubiquitous gazette was the most important link between the Qing state and the densely connected information society of late imperial China, this project overturns assumptions that underestimate the importance of court gazettes and the extent of popular interest in political news in Chinese history.
    [Show full text]
  • Studies in Late Qing Dynasty Battle Paintings*
    HONGXING ZHANG STUDIES IN LATE QING DYNASTY BATTLE PAINTINGS* PART ONE DOCUMENTS FOR FOUR CHINESE BATTLE PAINTINGS IN WESTERN COLLECTIONS n his seminal work on European culture in the late medieval period, Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) I observed that history has always been more possessed by the problem of origins and development than by those of decline and fall. He writes: "When studying any period, we are always looking for the promise of what the next is to bring."' This observation still holds true if applied to the study of nineteen-century Chinese art, a burgeoning field in recent years. Thus, in art historical discourse on this period, much attention has been given to the search for the origins of modern Chinese culture. Many works have focused on the artistic productions shaped by new cultural forces, such as Sino-west- ern pictures, popular prints, early photography, and above all paintings of the Shanghai School. The nineteenth century has been treated as if it had been no more than the infancy of modern China. Con- sequently, the contemporary court cultural production has been largely neglected. Since the art at the late Qing court has been so poorly studied that reliable dates and attributions have not been established for even the most important artworks commissioned by the Manchu court, I want to postpone the reappraisal of the nature of the Chinese art during the nineteenth century. The present study considers dating and attribution problems of four large battle paintings in Western col- lections - one painting in the Mrs. Cecile McTaggart Collection, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (fig.
    [Show full text]
  • 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 ......................................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Announcement of Annual Results for the Year Ended 31 December 2020
    Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this announcement, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this announcement. ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020 The board of directors (the “Board”) of Bank of Guizhou Co., Ltd. (the “Bank”) is pleased to announce the audited annual results (the “Annual Results”) of the Bank for the year ended 31 December 2020. This results announcement, containing the full text of the 2020 annual report of the Bank, complies with the relevant content requirements of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in relation to preliminary announcements of annual results. The Board and the audit committee of the Board have reviewed and confirmed the Annual Results. This results announcement is published on the websites of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (www.hkexnews.hk) and the Bank (www.bgzchina.com). The annual report for the year ended 31 December 2020 will be dispatched to the shareholders of the Bank and will be available on the above websites in due course. By order of the Board Bank of Guizhou Co., Ltd. XU An Executive Director Guiyang, the PRC, 30 March 2021 As of the date of this announcement, the Board of the Bank comprises Mr. XU An as executive Director; Ms.
    [Show full text]