Pinyin: gāng English Definition: head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program Chinese Definition: ①提网的总绳。 ②事物的关键部分：大纲。纲领。纲目。纲要(a。提纲；b。概要)。 ③中国从唐代起转运大批货物所行的办法：一纲(把货物分批运行，每批车辆船只的计数编号)。花石纲。生辰纲。 ④生物学分类的一种类别(生物学把同一门的生物按照彼此相似的特征和亲缘关系再分成若干群，每一群为“一纲”，“纲”以下再分为“目”)。 ⑤统治者认为维持正常秩序的必不可少的行为规范：纲纪。纲常(“三纲”、“五常”的简称，是一种封建道德)。朝(cháo)纲(统治集团内部应遵守的法纪)。 Antonyms:目
As with networked markets, people are also talking to each other directly inside the company—and not just about rules and regulations, boardroom directives, bottom lines.
Groups of closely related species belong to the same genus, which in turn are clustered into families, then orders, then classes, then phyla, and finally into kingdoms (such as the animal kingdom).
