The Land Committee of Japan completed a report recently, which is a comprehensive study on land related issues: the success and remaining problems in land planning policy in the past, the changes in the environment which caused changes in the land policies, fundamentals in land policy in the future, and the practical meaning in land planning itself.

The successful banking service by Japanese Peasants' Association is a typical case in cooperated financial service.

Based on a study on recent international petroleum price variations and its impact on China's economic development, the article made the following policy recommendations.

The European Community is undoubtedly enjoying the highest degree of unification in the world, in terms of both the format and the largest group of member countries.

The origin of the disorder in the non-governmental trade between China and Russia is traced and the crux of the practice, i.e., "gray" customs clearance, is discussed.

The international relocation of the US service industry is rooted in the global structural transfer from massive production to massive service industry in the economy, which provided the organizational and technical source to the relocation.

China's foreign trade experienced a rapid growth in 2003. It is estimated that the trend of growth will continue in 2004, but the rate will be substantively lower, with the annually accumulated trade surplus declining as well.