A Family By Yellow River

A 63 minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.This filmed 5 years' record of a small village community, namely Lijiashan (Li's Mountains) of Qikou, Shanxi Province, might serve as an illustration for a profoundly changing rural China. A town in the valley of the Yellow River, Qikou lies culturally in the heartland of the vast yellowish land. It used to be the hinge of transportation and still boasts a legacy of architecture created hundred years ago in the Ming or Qing dynasties. You naturally sense a perplexity of time, particularly on market days when you walk up and down the town in the fusion of the ancient style of the weatherbeaten buildings with a modern variety of commodities hawked by peddlers

Are railways really that bad? An evaluation of rail systems performance in Europe with a focus on passenger rail

With a large number of railway development projects in Europe and worldwide, which once completed will be serving rail passengers of the future, this paper aims to take a step back and evaluate current railway systems performance. The objectives are to compare statistical data on various parameters of the railway system in a number of selected European countries and draw conclusions on the level of their performance when compared to the European average. Analyses of publically available statistical data, extracted from the Eurostat service at a European level will allow for a comparison of various indicators which influence the performance of the railway systems from an infrastructure and operational perspectives. The analyses will also allow identifying key performance indicators for the accurate assessment of the rail systems. The paper will highlight case studies for various parameters which are important to stakeholders of the railways, including infrastructure managers, rail operators, policy makers and the end users. This knowledge will be to the benefit of today’s railway industry as well as the rail systems of the future, as it will show trends drew upon existing data which might continue in the future

The value of CCTV surveillance cameras as an investigative tool: an empirical analysis

There has been extensive research on the value of closed-circuit television (CCTV) for preventing crime, but little on its value as an investigative tool. This study sought to establish how often CCTV provides useful evidence and how this is affected by circumstances, analysing 251,195 crimes recorded by British Transport Police that occurred on the British railway network between 2011 and 2015. CCTV was available to investigators in 45% of cases and judged to be useful in 29% (65% of cases in which it was available). Useful CCTV was associated with significantly increased chances of crimes being solved for all crime types except drugs/weapons possession and fraud. Images were more likely to be available for more-serious crimes, and less likely to be available for cases occurring at unknown times or in certain types of locations. Although this research was limited to offences on railways, it appears that CCTV is a powerful investigative tool for many types of crime. The usefulness of CCTV is limited by several factors, most notably the number of public areas not covered. Several recommendations for increasing the usefulness of CCTV are discussed

Interorganisational conflict between national and provincial sport organisations within China's elite sport system: Perspectives from national organisations

© 2018 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. In this article, the authors examine interorganisational conflict between provincial and national sport organisations in China. The authors theoretically ground the research in work related to interorganisational relationships and interorganisational conflict. The three case studies are artistic gymnastics, swimming, and cycling, and the authors conducted interviews with 11 staff from the relevant national-level sport organisations. Secondary data was sourced from official publications, websites, and influential domestic media. The key finding is that, whilst famed for its top-down bureaucratic system, there is considerable interorganisational conflict within the Chinese sport system. The extent and characteristics of the national-provincial conflict vary between sports. But there is also some consistency regarding the causes of the conflict and the measures adopted to mitigate the tension. Interorganisational conflict provides a useful heuristic for articulating and understanding the interorganisational relationships within the Chinese elite sport system and hence advances elite sport management research

Grandpa Jing and his old customers

A forty-three minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.In the centre of the city of Beijing there is an ancient residential area named Shichahai (‘hai’ means ‘a big lake’), which has a history of four hundred years. The inhabitants used to think the lake as two parts – Qianhai (the front lake) and Houhai (the rear lake), with the Yinding Bridge as the division. This telefilm records the life of Old Man Jing, the barber, as well as the life of a dozen of his old customers. The group of old men, aged from 65 to 96, are mostly ordinary working people. In their placid retirement, haircut means quite an occasion to them. It seems only during this activity that they are tasting the sweetness of life

The Chuanxi Hall (A place to teach and learn folk arts in Yunnan)

A forty minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.In 1993, Tian Feng, a composer of China Symphony Orchestra, came to Yunnan Province where live the greatest number of ethnic people. He established the so called Chuanxi Hall to house folk artists and talented children of the province. His goal was to protect ethnic cultures and to preserve them by teaching. This documentary film is about his Chuanxi Hall

Abing in 1950

A Thirty-four minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.The documentary described the life and music of the most famous Chinese erhu player, Abing

Dabia (Yunnan)

A 60 minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.Dabiya is a musical instrument used by Nu people in Yunnan. Nu is a minority which still keeps a primitive way of life. As they have no writing of their own, Nu people have handed down their history and legends by intoning. And while doing this, they play Dabiya. By the ancient custom only boys have been allowed to learn to be balladists. Oudede, the hero of our story, is outstanding in this training for he is the only one who has mastered forty ballads. But now something worries him. He has three daughters and no son, and this means he has no one to inherit him. The Party Secretary of the village asks him to choose a non-kin boy as his pupil. Oudede is annoyed with the seemingly ugly custom but he does not feel he would like to violate it. He goes to the tombs of his father and grandfather, where he throws away his century-old Dabiya