This paper reviews reserves and exploration & development of energy resources, metallic ores and industrial minerals inArgentina, analyzes its politics, economy, infrastructure, laws and human resources, and concludes that Argentina, although issues in mining investment environment, is steady in political environment, has a good economy, sound mining laws, developed infrastructures, abundant and quality labor resources. So Argentina fits mining investors. This paper gives an outlook for Chinese investors to invest in Argentina’s mining sector, with petroleum, gas, copper, uranium and nonconventional energy preferred by using flexible investment methods.

This paper, by means of Theil index method and factor analysis, applies single index and synthetic indexes to analyze the evolution and characters of urbanization level difference (ULD) among cities in Shandong province, and concludes that the ULD among cities in Shandong province diminishes and so do the ULD in east, middle and west Shandong, but the regional ULD expands. The ULD displays in general an internal difference in middle Shandong. The Comprehensive ULD is reflected in three aspects, modernization level, building density and environmental quality, and exists an east-west gradient difference regionally.