How Chinese Financial Centers Integrate into Global Financial Center Networks: An Empirical Study Based on Overseas Expansion of Chinese Financial Service Firms

The increasing globalization of the Chinese economy has been enabled by both Chinese financial institutions operating globally as well as international firms operating within China. In geographical terms, this has been organized through a number of strategic cities serving as gateways for the exchange of financial functions, products and practices between China and the global economy. Drawing on location data of financial service firms in China listed on stock exchanges in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Hong Kong, this paper shows that Chinese financial firms are expanding globally and how Chinese financial centers are positioned and connected in the urban networks shaped by these financial service firms. It is found that Hong Kong, China, holds strategic positions in the integration of Chinese cities into global financial center networks, and that establishing a foothold in global financial centers such as New York and London has been a priority for Chinese financial institutions. The increasing capital flows directed by Chinese financial institutions suggests a shifting global financial geography, with numerous Chinese cities playing increasingly important roles within global financial center networks.     

碳氧比能谱测井精细解释方法研究及应用

利用碳氧比规范化处理，将碳氧比值限制在广义动态范围之内解决零值漂移问题，使用通用解释模型处理碳氧比资料。利用试验数据分析了碳氧比能谱测井零值漂移与产额的关系。建立了高精度碳氧比能谱精细解释标准。在精细研究和动态分析的基础上，结合多种测井资料，综合评价储层，取得了很好的地质效果。该方法实际处理了大庆、辽河等油田的多口井，效果表明，该解释方法的综合解释符合率在80％以上。     

Local institutional actors and globally linked territorial development in Bekasi District: A strategic coupling?

Ever‐changing spatial divisions of labour have led to an altered integration of many developing countries into global production networks (GPNs), leading to new spaces of territorial development in these countries. Against this background, this paper examines the role of local institutional actors in co‐shaping territorial development driven by global industrial relocation. Drawing on the case of Bekasi District, Indonesia, this paper nuances the notion of ‘strategic coupling’ in specific national and local settings of developing countries. Drawing on empirical material obtained through a series of in‐depth interviews conducted between 2012 and 2016, our analysis reveals that although local institutional actors have participated in Bekasi District's territorial development processes they sometimes exhibit a hesitant and less‐than‐creative attitude in this participation. Meanwhile, non‐local actors, most notably private developers and central government agencies, tend to have a more significant leverage in these development processes at the local level, suggesting complex institutional arrangements in tying Bekasi District's assets with GPNs.     

Engaging with “urban science”

In this Intervention we discuss possible engagements between an inherently diverse urban geography and an emergent “urban science” dealing with information technology-driven, quantitative analysis of urban data. Although initial responses from some quarters of the urban geography community have been dismissive, we highlight three ways in which urban geography could positively engage with urban science: (1) by exhibiting greater ownership of our discipline’s past and the legacy of spatial science; (2) by resisting equating post-positivism with anti-positivism; and (3) by recognizing that the inherent ability of urban science to address post-truth thinking can be a useful building block in a pluralist approach to urban geography. We contend that (a) urban geographers need to be open to the use of new urban science methods to interrogate the pressing issues of our time and (b) where appropriate, inject cautionary tales of the dangers of a naive positivism in an uncritical urban science.     

Research on tidal current characteristics and numerical simulation of the Xinghua bay and the surrounding waters

基于2011年兴化湾及周边海域的流速、流向的观测资料,应用短期资料的潮流准调和分析方法,对海流周日连续观测数据进行分析,探讨海域潮流特征.最后,针对兴化湾岸线复杂、岛屿众多的特点,基于FVCOM数值模式,采用非结构三角形网格,建立兴化湾及周边海域潮流动力数值模型,经实测站潮汐、潮流数据对模拟结果验证,模型能够较好的刻画各测站潮汐、潮流过程特点,反映研究海域流场特征规律,可为该海域海洋环境保护和海洋开发利用提供科学论证依据.     

Searching for the Mecca of finance: Islamic financial services and the world city network

This paper presents an analysis of the geography of the booming 'Islamic financial services' (IFS) sector, which provides a host of financial services based on Islamic religious grounds. The relevance of such an analysis is discussed against the conceptual backdrop of the world city network literature. It is argued that a focus on the globalisation of the IFS sector may provide an alternative to hegemonic geographical imaginations of world city-formation through its focus on other forms of globalising economic processes and regions that do not commonly feature in this literature. Based on information on the location strategies of 28 leading IFS firms in 64 cities across the world, we analyse different features of this decentred global urban geography. Manama is hereby identified as the Mecca of the IFS sector, while other major Gulf cities such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi are also primary nodes in this urban network. Other major Middle East North Africa (MENA) cities such as Tehran follow suit, but also more traditional financial centres such as London are well connected.     

Diffusion Gradients in an Eclogite Xenolith from the Roberts Victor Kimberlite Pipe: 1. Mechanism and Evolution of Garnet Exsolution in Al2O3-rich Clinopyroxene

Xenolith JJG41 is from the Roberts Victor kimberlite and isa bimineralic eclogite which is striking for its Al- and Ca-richclinopyroxene crystals showing garnet exsolution lamellae. Thedevelopment of the exsolution has been interpreted as a resultof a slow cooling at depth from near-solidus conditions (c.1400?C) towards normal mantle lithosphere temperatures (Harte& Gurney, 1975). The clinopyroxene retains marked compositionalgradients adjacent to the garnet lamellae and the present paperis concerned with the generation and preservation of these diffusiongradients within a rock from the Earth's mantle In order to understand the mechanism of exsolution reactiona re-examination has been made of the microtexture and chemistryof the garnet lamellae in relation to the compositional gradientsin adjacent clinopyroxene. Three sets of garnet lamellae, whichappear to have crystallized in sequence, may be recognised:type A, large lamellae, nucleated first and closest to the transformationtemperature; type B of intermediate size and age; and type C,small lamellae, nucleated last and with the greatest overstepof the transformation temperature. The major compositional zoning in JJG41 clinopyroxene, a decreaseof Al as Si and Mg increase, is consistent with the garnet growthreaction 2Diop+Al₂Si^–1Mg^–1=2Gros, 1Py.Ca, unlikemost of the elements, shows very flat composition profiles,but with a higher concentration than the initial Ca contentof the unexsolved clinopyroxene. Garnet lamellae are individuallyhomogeneous, but Ca contents vary between lamellae as a functionof lamellae size. In contrast the Fe/Mg distribution coefficientsat interfaces between garnet and clinopyroxene are relativelyconstant irrespective of garnet size. The redistribution of the principal cations—Ca, Fe, Mg,Al, Si—between and within the clinopyrox ene and garnet,during garnet exsolution and cooling, obviously proceeded differentlyfor different elements. Two principal stages in the coolinghistory may be identified: (1) The growth of the sets of garnetlamellae controlled by Al₂Mg^–1Si^–1 redistributionin clinopyroxene. This redistribution was both part of the nettransfer reaction creating garnet, and an exchange reactionin clinopyroxene essential for the diffusional transport ofAl to the growing garnet. Al diffusion in clinopyroxene wasprobably the rate-limiting step, and all other cations, Ca andFe as well as Mg and Si, were mobile during this stage. (2)The occurrence, after the cessation of garnet growth, of diffusionof Fe, Mg and Ca in garnet and interdiffusion of Fe-Mg in clinopyroxene.This resulted in the setting of the KD Fe-Mg at the Cpx-Gt interfacesto a roughly constant value equivalent to approximately 1000?C,which is taken to be the final (‘freezing-in’) temperaturefor redistribution of any elements. During this post garnet-growthstage Ca also became homogenized within individual garnet lamellae,but there is no evidence of Ca equilibration with the clinopyroxene.Under the P-T conditions operating, the initial clinopyroxenecomposition probably resulted in a maximum (M2 site fully occupied)Ca content in clinopyroxene during the stage of garnet growth,and this was maintained during the post-growth stage.     

Tracing Lithosphere Evolution through the Analysis of Heterogeneous G9-G10 Garnets in Peridotite Xenoliths, II: REE Chemistry

Following previous publication of major–minor elementdata, this paper presents rare earth element (REE) data forheterogeneous (chemically zoned) garnets belonging to the peridotitesuite of mantle xenoliths from the Jagersfontein kimberlitepipe, South Africa. The rim compositions of the garnets in thehighest temperature–pressure (deepest) deformed peridotitesshow a typical megacryst-like pattern, of very low light REE(LREE) increasing through the middle REE (MREE) to a plateauof heavy REE (HREE) at c. 20 times chondrite; these compositionswould be in equilibrium with small-volume melts of the mid-oceanridge basalt (MORB) source (asthenosphere). With decreasingdepth the garnet rims show increasing LREE and decreasing HREE,eventually resulting in humped relative abundance patterns.A set of compositions is calculated for melts that would bein equilibrium with the garnet rims at different depths. Theseshow decreasing relative abundance of each REE from La to Lu,and the La/Lu ratio of the melts increases with decreasing depthof formation. Modelling of the effects of crystal fractionationshows that this process could largely generate the sequenceof garnet rim and melt compositions found with decreasing depth,including the humped REE patterns in high-level garnets. Consideringthe behaviour of major–minor elements as well as REE,a process of percolative fractional crystallization is advocatedin which megacryst source melts percolate upwards through peridotitesand undergo fractionation in conjunction with exchange withthe peridotite minerals. The initial megacryst melt probablyincludes melt of lithospheric origin as well as melt from theMORB source, and it is suggested that the process of percolativefractional crystallization may form a variety of metasomaticand kimberlitic melts from initial megacryst melts. Repeatedmetasomatism of the lower lithosphere by such differentiatingmelts is suggested by consideration of garnet core compositions.Such metasomatism would progressively convert harzburgites tolherzolites by increasing their CaO content, and this may accountfor the fact that the Cr-rich diamond–garnet harzburgiteparagenesis is commonly preserved only where it has been encapsulatedin diamonds. KEY WORDS: cratonic lithosphere; garnet zoning; mantle xenoliths; megacryst magma; metasomatic melt     

基于全球离散网格框架的局部网格划分

从全球离散网格系统的应用需求出发,分析全球框架下建立局部网格的重要性,在此基础上提出全球离散网格系统下同构化的局部网格生成的基本思路,详细分析局部网格的复杂球面边界问题,从点与球面三角形的位置关系入手,讨论点与任意球面多边形的相对位置关系,研究基于球面任意多边形的边缘简化算法、判断点与球面任意多边形相互关系的算法、考虑跨面问题的网格区域裁减以及网格数据的层次生成算法.通过实验证明这些方法的效率和准确性.

Abstract：

Firstly, the paper analyzed the essentiality of generating partial grids based on the application and requirement of discrete global grid systems. And then, we brought forward the fundermental thought of generating partial grid which is under the discrete global grid frame, and discussed the detailed edge problems of partial highprecision grid. Started with the ubiety between a point and a spherical triangle, we discussed the ubiety between a point and a spherical random polygon, and then edge simplifying algorithm of spherical random polygon are studied, as well as co-relationship between points and spherical random polygon, grid district clipping based on spanning the developed surface and grid data hierarchical creating algorithm. In the end we prove exactness and efficiency of the algorithm through the experiments.     

关于立体集约生态用海的案例借鉴与制度探索

随着海洋经济的发展,海域资源的开发从单一立体开发逐渐向多层立体开发转变,且开发的力度和密度不断加大,海洋生态环境面临着巨大压力。为缓解当前用海紧张与生态环境保护之间的矛盾,提高海域利用综合效益,亟须探索符合生态化、集约化、立体化和现代化的用海模式。在此背景下,“立体集约生态用海”的概念应运而生。文章通过列举国内外立体集约生态用海的典型案例,总结归纳其用海特点,对其未来的应用进行讨论。立体集约生态用海的出现将带来海域管理制度体系一系列的调整与改革,对中国未来走出一条海洋空间高质量发展与高水平保护的协同道路具有重要意义。