The article uses a sample of four state-owned commercial banks, ten joint-share commercial banks, and all foreign banks in China to examine the changes in market structure and financial performance (profitability) of Chinese commercial banks. The market structure appears to have some influence...

Recently, a task force formed by the People's Court of Leling county, with the help of county agencies in charge of business administration, taxation, health, and epidemic prevention, conducted a preliminary survey of contract disputes among individually owned small businesses across the county....

It was not until the 1970s that the idea of "service trade" was proposed and generally accepted as an independent and separate concept [in the field of international commerce]. Since then, however, the international service trade has grown by leaps and bounds; not only has it developed into one...