ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN CONSULATES IN CHINA IN 1851–1852 by E. P. Koudryavtseva

“…None of the documents from the Archive of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs were used by national historians, they only mentioned the fact, that according to the Treaty of Kulja Chinese cities Yili and Tarbagatai hosted Russian representatives that looked after trade. …”
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Efficiency of Chinese Real Estate Market Based on Complexity-Entropy Binary Causal Plane Method by Yan Chen, Ya Cai, Chengli Zheng

“…We firstly discuss the formation mechanism of real estate price, which provides a theoretical basis for testing the efficiency, and compute the real estate market efficiency of 70 main Chinese cities. The results show that neither the whole market nor the main cities have reached the weak efficiency, and the efficiency and complexity of each city are different, and the relationship between them is significantly negative. …”
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Does urban green development attention improve energy resource misallocation? by Yongjian Lai, Xiangmin He

“…The study finds that urban green development attention has improved energy resource misallocation in Chinese cities. Urban green development attention improves energy resource misallocation through strengthening environmental regulation, promoting green technology innovation, and driving the greening of industrial structures. …”
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Research on Congestion Pricing in Multimode Traffic considering Delay and Emission by Hongna Dai, Enjian Yao, Rui Zhao

“…Rapid development of urbanization and automation has resulted in serious urban traffic congestion and air pollution problems in many Chinese cities recently. As a traffic demand management strategy, congestion pricing is acknowledged to be effective in alleviating the traffic congestion and improving the efficiency of traffic system. …”
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Can the “multi-plan integration” pilot policy facilitate the low-carbon transformation of land use? Evidence from empirical studies in China by Jingjing Qian, Xiaomin Zhang, Ning Xu

“…This study treats the implementation of MIPP as a quasi-natural experiment, using panel data from 283 Chinese cities between 2006 and 2019 to examine the impact of MIPP on the low-carbon transformation of land use (LCTLU). …”
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Unleashing the green potential: exploring the dynamic influence of the urban digital economy on carbon emissions by Xin Sun, Xueyu Rui, Zhikun Cui, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Xin Zhao

“…To address this gap, we collected data from 270 Chinese cities from 2011 to 2021 and used benchmark regression, mediated effects, and panel threshold models to explore the DE’s impact on CEs. …”
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Impact of digital greening synergistic transformation on urban economic resilience in China: Evidence from quasi-natural experiments by Liangen Zeng, Meiyu Wen, Chengming Li, Yang Nie, Saige Wang

“…This paper examines panel data from 280 Chinese cities (2008–2021) by performing quasi-natural experiments from the ‘Broadband China’ and ‘Low-Carbon Cities’ pilot initiatives and employing a multi-period difference-in-differences (DID) approach. …”
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Housing Vacancy Rate in Major Cities in China: Perspectives from Nighttime Light Data by Zhiru Tan, Donglan Wei, Zixu Yin

“…In recent years, the phenomenon of housing vacancy rate (HVR) has attracted considerable attention, especially concerning unjustified expansions of Chinese cities. The aforementioned trend is disadvantageous in that it will ultimately lead to tremendous wastage of valuable land that could otherwise be more productively utilized. …”
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Systemic Impacts of National Civilized Cities on Sustainable Development: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Economic and Environmental Outcomes in China by Weixin Yang, Yunpeng Yang, Zhili Chen, Yuxun Gu

“…Employing a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences (DID) method, we analyze data from a panel of Chinese cities (1997–2019) to assess how the NCC title influences economic growth and urban sustainability. …”
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Multi-Modal Social Media Analytics: A Sentiment Perception-Driven Framework in Nanjing Districts by Meng Xia, Zhengyang Lu, Feng Wang

“…This study investigates the complex urban-rural dynamics of Nanjing through a novel multi-modal analysis of 76,288 social media posts, addressing the critical gap in understanding intra-city variations in perceived urban characteristics across rapidly developing Chinese cities. By integrating computer vision techniques with natural language processing, we develop a comprehensive framework for analyzing public sentiment and attention patterns across eleven districts. …”
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Lessons from China’s 48-h COVID-19 testing regime during the dynamic zero COVID policy period by Ali Cheshmehzangi, Zhaohui Su, Tong Zou, Zaheer Allam, Tian Tang

“…Abstract During the pandemic, China’s dynamic zero-COVID policy received much support and criticism simultaneously. In 2022, most Chinese cities of medium to large size had to conduct regular mass testing, leading to a sort of 48-h/48 h COVID-19 testing regime that financially affected many local governments. …”
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Performance of the Priority Control Strategies for Bus Rapid Transit: Comparative Study from Scenario Microsimulation Using VISSIM by Min Yang, Wei Wang, Bo Wang, Jing Han

“…Bus rapid transit (BRT) has a great potential to improve the service level of transit system and has been implemented in many Chinese cities. However, the priority it can provide to buses has not been explored fully. …”
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Transcending the urban–rural dichotomy: inequality in urban green space availability among urban neighbourhoods, urban villages and rural villages in Guangzhou, China by Fubin Luo, Yunzheng Zhang, Luyang Zhang

“…Urban green spaces (UGS) are integral to sustainable urban development, yet the urbanization process has resulted in unequal distributions of green resources across different neighbourhoods. In Chinese cities, there are three primary types of neighbourhoods with different socioeconomic features – rural villages (RV), urban villages (UV), and urban neighbourhoods (UN). …”
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Factors Driving Social Capital Participation in Urban Green Development: A Case Study on Green Renovation of Old Residential Communities Under Urban Renewal in China by Guoshuai Sun, Hengfu Zhang, Jiao Feng

“…The renovation of old residential communities within the context of urban renewal is becoming a focal point in the development of Chinese cities. To promote green development in the renovation of old residential communities in China, this study introduces the collaborative governance mechanism of government–social capital cooperation and identifies the factors influencing social capital participation in green development. …”
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Quantifying Urban Sprawl and Its Driving Forces in China by Jintao Wang, Shiyou Qu, Ke Peng, Yanchao Feng

“…The findings of the article may help people to realize that urban sprawl has become a staggering reality among Chinese cities; thereby urban planners as well as policymakers should make some actions to hinder the urban sprawl.…”
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Spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of green finance on carbon dioxide emissions based on panel data of cities in China by Qiuyi Xu, Li Yao, Kaifang Shi, Wei Zhou, Xuguang Tang

“…To investigate its tangible effects on China since the implementation of green finance, we utilized the nighttime lighting (NTL) data to evaluate urban CO2 emission of Chinese cities from 2010 to 2020. Then, this study utilized the geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) model to examine the correlations between green finance and carbon intensity in different cities across four dimensions including green credit, green insurance, green investment, and government support. …”
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Does Industrial Agglomeration Promote Carbon Efficiency? A Spatial Econometric Analysis and Fractional-Order Grey Forecasting by Zuoren Sun, Yi Liu

“…By the virtue of its advantage in dealing with small sample data which lack statistical rules, this paper makes an out-of-sample prediction of carbon efficiency and industrial agglomeration degree of Chinese cities. By adding the predicted results to the spatial correlation test, new evidence on the spatial correlation of carbon efficiency and spatial division of labor between cities is obtained. …”
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A Real Estate Price Index Forecasting Scheme Based on Online News Sentiment Analysis by Tao Xu, Yingying Zhao, Jie Yu

“…This scheme involves crawling historical online real estate news data in China, employing a BERT-based sentiment analysis model to identify news sentiment, and subsequently aggregating the monthly Real Estate Sentiment (RES) index for Chinese cities. Furthermore, we construct a Vector Autoregression (VAR) model using the historical RES index and housing price index to forecast future housing price indices. …”
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Spatio-temporal evolution and driving forces of urban gravity centers and ecological security risk gravity centers in China by Peng Chen, Jiaojiao Duan, Yihan Wang

“…To gain a deeper understanding of the influence of gravity center migration on urban safety, we select 30 Chinese cities for analysis and apply various methods, such as the center-of-gravity technique, the construction of an ecological security risk index, and a comprehensive center of gravity, to conduct a thorough study of urban gravity centers, ecological security risk gravity centers, and migration trajectories between the two. …”
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Research on the synergizing the reduction of pollution and carbon emissions of new-type urbanization by Yuanyuan Zhao, Hongwei Zhou, Chuanzeng Jiang, Linlin Xuan, Liming Chen

“…Based on the data of 282 Chinese cities from 2011 to 2018, this article analyzes and explains the synergizing the reduction of pollution and carbon emissions (PCE) of new-type urbanization (NTU) by employing the Differences-in-Differences (DID) model. …”
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