China’s New Environmental Protection Law and Green Innovation: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Cities by Wen Chen, Ying Wu

“…Further, we find that the impact of the new environmental protection law on green innovation is more prominent in prefecture-level cities with a lower level of banking competition and for prefecture-level cities with stronger intellectual property protection. …”
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Heterogeneous influences of urban compactness on air pollution: evidence from 285 prefecture-level cities in China by Dan Yan, Shaoxuan Huang, Guoliang Chen, Huan Tong, Peiyuan Qin

“…Second, on the basis of panel data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2010 to 2021, exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) was applied to reveal the spatiotemporal nonstationary distribution of urban PM2.5 pollution. …”
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The Impact of Digitization on Green Innovation Performance: Evidence Based on Panel Data of 228 Prefectural-Level Cities in China by Lijiang Jia, Xiaoli Hu, Zhongwei Zhao, Tianze Zhou, Weiming Liu, Bin He

“…Based on panel data, taking 228 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2019 as an example, this study expounds three dimensions of promoting green innovation performance in the internal mechanism of digital development: direct transmission mechanism, indirect transmission mechanism, and regional heterogeneity transmission mechanism. …”
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Has Digitalization Boosted the Rural Tourism Income?—Evidence from Prefecture-Level City Panel Data in China by Qirui Zhang, Hao Feng, Xinhui Feng, Wangfang Xu, Longbao Wei

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Relationship between Urban Innovation Capability and Energy Utilization Efficiency: An Empirical Study of 281 Prefecture-Level Cities in China by Wanshu Wu, Kai Zhao

“…Using the 2003–2020 panel data of 281 prefecture-level cities in China, this study confirms that energy utilization efficiency improves owing to the improvement of urban innovation capability. …”
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Eco-cities of tomorrow: how green finance fuels urban energy efficiency—insights from prefecture-level cities in China by Jiaomei Tang, Kuiyou Huang

“…Using panel data from Chinese prefecture-level cities spanning 2006 to 2021, the analysis shows that a one-unit increase in GFM improves UEE by 0.221 standard deviations. …”
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(Re)devenir Hui : l’ethnicisation d’une municipalité autonome à Baiqi (Fujian) by Pascale Bugnon

“…This article discusses the fluidity of ethnic categorization on the outskirts of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou (Fujian province), where the Guo Han lineage has recently been recognized as Hui. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Distribution and Influencing Factors of “Water-Energy-Food-Ecology” System Resilience by Yaofeng Yang, Yajuan Chen, Xiuqing Li

“…To investigate WEFE system resilience and its influencing factors, this paper constructs an indicator system for WEFE system resilience based on prefecture-level city data from the Yellow River Basin spanning the years 2008 to 2021, and explores its dynamic evolution. …”
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Association analysis of dry heat or wet cold weather and the risk of urolithiasis hospitalization in a southern Chinese city by Yanlu Li, Xubiao Duan, Shichen Wan, Xiaoning Wang, Yanbin Hao

“…Based on a total of 38,184 urolithiasis-related hospitalizations from 2018 to 2019 in Ganzhou as a large prefecture-level city in southern China, dry-heat weather during the hot season (May to September) increased the risk of urolithiasis-related hospitalizations (relative risk [RR]: 1.17, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.02, 1.35), with the most pronounced effects in those aged 21–40 years and male. …”
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Survey on the Status and Training Demands of Capabilities for Diagnosing and Treating Common Diseases of Primary Care General Practitioners in Hunan Province by LI Lingqi, GAO Yinyan, ZHANG Yuqin, SUN Dingkui, WU Xinyin, ZHANG Weiru

“…Results A total of 337 valid questionnaires were collected from each prefecture-level city and autonomous prefecture in Hunan Province, with 128 coming from community health service centers and 209 from township health institutions. …”
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Can big data reduce urban environmental pollution? Evidence from China's digital technology experimental zone. by Jiahao Zhang, Fusheng Liang, Peng Gao

“…This paper investigates the impact of the digital economy on urban environmental pollution by analyzing panel data from 283 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2019 and using the digital technology comprehensive pilot zone of China as a natural experiment. …”
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An Analysis of the Allometric and Multifractal Features of a Development in the Urban-Rural Area in the Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River: 2012 Cross-Sectional Data of Four Provin... by Zhi-jun Song, Yi Chen, Yun Li, Xin Zhao

“…By drawing on the perspective of allometric growth, this paper conducts fundamental analysis and multifractal analysis of 52 prefecture-level cities in four provinces and one city in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. …”
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Digital financial inclusion's impact on farmers' income and spatial spillover effects: Evidence from inner Mongolia, China by Hua Li, Xue Wei, Wenhui Chen

“…This study analyzes data from 12 prefecture-level cities in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from 2011 to 2022 to investigate how digital financial inclusion(DFI) affects the increase in farmers' incomes and its spatial spillover effects. …”
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Research on the Coupling Relationship between Professional Clusters and Industrial Clusters in the Pearl River Delta Region of China by Li Li, Yuzhou Hu, Sisi Zheng, Yimian Lin

“…The quantitative indicators and coupling models are established to estimate the degree of coupling between the construction of professional clusters in 9 prefecture-level cities located in the Pearl River Delta region and the level of regional industrial clusters. …”
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A study of the impact of urban business credit environment on environmental pollution. by Jing Wu, Qing Guo

“…The study takes the entropy method for calculating the environmental pollution index of 276 prefecture-level cities across China from 2010 to 2021, the CE1 index to describe the urban business credit environment, and a spatial Durbin model to empirically analyze the mechanism and transmission path of the urban business credit environment on environmental pollution. …”
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Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Financial Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Spatial Durbin Model by Jianmin Liu, Xiaomei Hu, Hongli Tang

“…Based on panel data covering the period from 2003 to 2012 in China’s 281 prefecture-level cities, we use superefficiency SBM model to measure regional financial efficiency and empirically test the spatial effects of fiscal decentralization on regional financial efficiency with SDM. …”
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Digital financial inclusion, population structure, and consumption upgrades: Evidence from China. by Qianwen Liu, Jianjie Zheng, Shihui Luo

“…This study empirically tests the role of population structure in the process of digital financial inclusion empowering the upgrading of consumption structure by taking 248 prefecture-level cities between 2013 and 2019 as the research objects. …”
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Environmental tax reform roles and strategies of local governments: A quasi-natural experiment from China by Tianyang Chu

“…This study examines the impact of environmental tax reform on local governments using panel data for 247 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2011 to 2021 and the difference-in-differences method. …”
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Motorcycle Ban and Traffic Safety: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment at Zhejiang, China by Jingjing Chen, Qian Wang, Jie Huang

“…This study applies a quasi-experiment on whether or not and when motorcycle bans are implemented in the 11 prefecture cities in Zhejiang Province, taking the prefecture-level cities with motorcycle bans as the experimental group and the others as the control group, so as to identify whether such bans can effectively reduce the number of traffic accidents and deaths, as well as the related internal mechanism. …”
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Teaching Evaluation Algorithm Based on Grey Relational Analysis by Xiaoying Zhang, Xiuying Yang, Jing Yang

“…In this paper, we examine the problem of evaluating the quality of undergraduate education by multiple indicators and establish a comprehensive evaluation model of the quality of undergraduate education in the 13 prefecture level cities by using the grey correlation analysis. …”
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