Some interesting research areas of pulp and paper science and technology proposed by the scientists in USA,including fiber en-gineering,fibrous fillers,single stage bleaching,one-way press and compact integrated recovery system,are introduced in the paper.

This paper builds a simple model of vertical squeeze,sets the example of IT industry in Suzhou,and explains some ingredients influencing the vertical squeeze,and considers the unequal powers are important reason of engendering vertical squeeze.

This paper proposes a tradeoff model for industry investment decision-making and investigates the vertical squeeze phenomenon between retailing and manufacturing from the viewpoint of vertical relationship.