Since the beginning of the 21st century, China has been experiencing a dramatically rapid economic development. What is the real life of Chinese people like under China’s steady GDP fast growth? How rich are the rich and how poor are the poor? This book provides first-hand data on standards of living in Chinese households, which may help to answer the above questions.The Survey and Research Center for China Household Finance conducted the first and only nationally representat...

This pioneering Handbook explores how AI is transforming strategic management across theory, practice, and education. Bridging strategy, technology, ethics, and policy, it demonstrates the broad societal and business implications of this emerging technological advancement.Organized around four themes - theories, tools, teaching, and terrains - it collates diverse perspectives from leading scholars to examine AI’s multifaceted impact on strategy. It outlines contemporary sh...

This book systematically summarizes the advanced development of carbon-based nanomaterials for electrochemical catalysis, and it is comprised of four sections. The first section discusses about the fundamental synthesis, characterization techniques, and catalytic effects on the energy conversion and storage mechanism. The second section elaborately reviews various types of electrocatalytic reactions on carbon-based materials and their performance. The third section focuses on batteries abo...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2018, held in Nanning, China, in November 2018.The 19 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: information security, information abuse prevention, security implementations, knowledge discovery, and applications.