Yang Weimin

Research on RFID Technology Adoption of Vegetable Supply Chain in China

Information is the key element of supply chain management. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic identification and data capture technology. The paper explains the working principle and features of RFID technology. The vegetable supply chain contains vegetable cultivation, processing, storage, transportation and retailing in China. The RFID technology adoption will improve the effeciency of these vegetable supply chains. Meanwhile, This paper explores the existing challenges and obstacles to RFIDs quick adoption in vegetable supply chain, which include technology challenges, standard challenges and cost challenges. The RFID technology has not widely used in Chinese vegetable enterprises and and it is expected to be adopted in future.

Industrialization and Social Differentiation: Changes in Rural Social Structure in China since Reform

Extract: In view of the paths of development exemplified by the various countries around the world, we describe two models in which industrialization has been organized. The first involved organizing industrialization entirely through the market, as in the capitalist countries and the societies of the West; the second involved organizing industrialization through, or with the assistance of, administrative means, as in urban China. In China, as industry has been introduced into the rural countryside, these two modes of industrialization have been employed synthetically and in conjunction with each other. In this regard, Chinas countryside can generally be seen as being divided into four basic categories, each different from the others in terms of the level of industrialization and the extent to which the society or community has been collectivized. Each type has its own characteristics in terms of social division and in terms of the modes in which stratified control is exercised. Significant differences a...