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Innovation new driver of developmen­t

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TESLA SAID ON THURSDAY that it will establish a research and developmen­t center in Beijing, the first one outside of the United States. The electric carmaker also announced earlier that it will establish a factory in Shanghai. Beijing News comments:

China’s strong market demand has no doubt been a big incentive for Tesla. As the company’s statistics show, China is its largest overseas market, and Beijing is one of its largest regional markets in China.

With more than 20 million permanent residents, Beijing is a large market for new energy cars. More than 175,000 battery electric vehicles are running on its roads, and the capital seeks to be an example in green developmen­t so it continues to support the developmen­t of new energy vehicles.

But it is not only about the market, Beijing also has a good business environmen­t and support for innovation, which have prompted Tesla to choose the capital as the location for its R&D center. It also has a rich reserve of talent. Beijing boasts many prestigiou­s universiti­es and (tuōqiàn nóngmíngōn­g gōngzī hēimíngdān)

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has released the first “blacklist” of enterprise­s and individual­s that have defaulted on paying migrant workers’ wages.

According to the official website of the institutes, which cultivate a steady flow of hightech and innovative talents.

For instance, Zhongguanc­un, a cradle of many IT companies and a college town as well, is evolving into an incubator for high-tech startups with global influence.

Beijing also has advantages in financing, and capital, which is indispensa­ble for new startups and R&D industries.

It is noteworthy that, in the 1980s and 1990s, multinatio­nal companies coming to China concentrat­ed in the field of consumer goods. After that, foreign companies in some labor-intensive industries moved their factories to China. Now more and more high-tech companies are setting up R&D facilities in China, which is an indicator of the successful transforma­tion of the Chinese economy and the upgrading of its market.

Blacklist of those who default on migrant workers’ wages

ministry, it has establishe­d a blacklist system for enterprise­s and individual­s that withhold the wages of migrant workers in order to safeguard the legitimate interests of migrant workers and enhance the constructi­on of a social credit system. On July 12, the ministry held a special news conference to release the blacklist for the first time and announced it would punish those on the list.

As early as 2016, the State Council, China’s Cabinet, issued a document to deal with the problem of migrant workers not being paid.

The blacklist aims to increase the pressure on those who fail to pay their workers through comprehens­ive social management methods. According to the ministry, restrictio­n will be imposed on the financing and loans available to enterprise­s and individual­s on the list and they will be forbidden from bidding and tendering for government procuremen­t.

If within a year of being blackliste­d they commit no additional violations, their names will be removed and all privileges restored.

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