How to Evaluate the Efficiency of Green Economy and Its Regional Differences: Evidence from China by Xin Duan, Miaomiao Tang, Kui Zhang

“…Third, through regional comparison, it is found that the green economy efficiency in eastern China is higher than those in central and western China and the green economy efficiency in northeast China is the lowest. …”
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Land use transition and its driving mechanisms in China’s human-elephant conflict areas by WANG Yuan, WANG Yahui, YANG Aoxi, FAN Hui, XIE Fei

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The impact of digital payments on the financial vulnerability of rural households: empirical evidence from China by Fan Xu, Lezhu Zhang

“…IntroductionPoverty eradication is the primary goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs). Despite China’s significant achievements in poverty alleviation, many rural households still struggle to maintain a sustainable livelihood may even slip back into poverty due to ineffective risk responses when facing risks and challenges.MethodsThis study employs data from the 2017–2019 China Household Finance Survey to theoretically and empirically examine the impact and mechanisms of digital payments on the financial vulnerability of rural households.ResultsThe study’s results indicate that digital payments significantly reduce the financial vulnerability of rural households, a finding that remains robust even after accounting for endogeneity, employing alternative variable measurement approaches, and conducting propensity score matching tests. …”
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Study on the Loess Immersion Test of Metro Line 2 in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China by Yuanjun Xu, Jiading Wang, Tianfeng Gu, Dengfei Zhang, Weiqian Ma

“…With the implementation of China’s western development and “One Belt, One Road” initiative, there are more and more projects in the collapsibility loess area, and the collapsibility loess problem encountered in the construction is becoming more and more prominent. …”
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Spatiotemporal changes of ecosystem health and the impact of its driving factors on the Loess Plateau in China by Xuepeng Zhang, Taixia Wu, Qiqi Du, Ninglei Ouyang, Wei Nie, Yang Liu, Peng Gou, Guangchao Li

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Museographic narrating of dissonant heritage in Tianjin’s former international concessions by Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Yue Lu, Chensi Shen

“…This paper highlights and further develops how former Western concessions are imbued with a sense of both nostalgia and patriotism and sets out to gain a deeper understanding of the tension between these two attitudes.…”
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Effects of migrant workers’ health capital on their returning home intentions: evidence from China by Haitao Li, Haitao Li, Haibo Li, Hao Xiang

“…Data were collected from a sample of 810 migrant workers from three provinces located in eastern, central, and western China using a survey questionnaire.ResultsMigrant workers’ HC had a significant and negative impact on their RHI, and mental health (MH) had a greater impact on migrant workers’ RHI than physical health (PH). …”
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Educational sustainability: A multi-scale elementary school resource distribution variability from China by Jiali Cai, Wenhua Wei

“…The study reveals that the internal variability of primary education resources in the eastern, central, and western regions of China has significantly decreased, with the Gini coefficient in the western region dropping from 0.40 in 2006 to 0.12 in 2020. …”
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The impact of digital technologies on modern society. An example of a social credit rating system in China by A. P. Klimovich

“…The issue on the first principles of Internet building in China has been considered. An overview of establishment has been made and the specifics of the development of the Chinese information technology industry in recent years has been analysed. …”
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Research on the reuse path of the Third Front construction stock space in China based on value assessment by Liquan Xu, Zhentian Zhang, Gangyi Tan, Lei Yuan

“…The Third Front construction played a crucial role in China's socialist development, resulting in an excess of stock space after four decades of evolution. …”
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An Empirical Study on the Agglomeration Characteristics of China’s Construction Industry Based on Spatial Autocorrelation and Spatiotemporal Transition by Likun Zhao, Junsen Tian, Yanqi Liu, Rui Liu

“…Based on the analysis of the spatiotemporal distribution of China’s construction industry agglomeration, this paper analyzes the characteristics and evolution trend of the spatiotemporal agglomeration of construction industry in 31 provinces and cities of China from 2010 to 2019 by using Moran’s index and the spatiotemporal transition measurement model. …”
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«Вот скажем лицом я в Китае». Стереотипы и имаготипы Китая, китайца и китайского в практике обращения к чужому в геопоэтике и геоэстетике Дмитрия Пригова... by Rainer Grübel

“…These phenomena and their historical development are of special interest in the present context of the Russian war against Ukraine, the Western sanctions against Russia and the growing political, economic and military approximation of Russia to China. …”
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The Struggle for Influence on the Roof of the World by E. M. Kozhokin

“…The gradual establishment of China's dominance in the economic sphere is accompanied by an increase in China's presence in education and culture. …”
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China’s national continuing medical education program for general practitioners: a cross-sectional survey (2016–2023) by Conglei You, Lingling Wang, Jian Zhang, Mi Yao

“…In this process, continuing medical education (CME) is essential for medical professionals to maintain high standards of patient care. In China, where the healthcare sector is undergoing considerable reforms and faces challenges owing to socioeconomic development and demographic shifts, an effective CME system is vital for general practitioners (GPs). …”
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Taming the Bear while Riding the Dragon? Central Asia confronts Russian and Chinese economic influences by Julien Vercueil

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Reconstruction of Dynamical Forecasting Model between Western Pacific Subtropical High Area Index and Its Summer Monsoon Impact Factors Based on the Improved Self-Memorization Prin... by Mei Hong, Ren Zhang, Xi Chen, Shanshan Ge, Chengzu Bai, Vijay P. Singh

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The Comparison and Modeling of the Driving Factors of Urban Expansion for Thirty-Five Big Cities in the Three Regions in China by Tian Guangjin, Xu Xinliang, Liu Xiaojuan, Kong Lingqiang

“…According to Seventh Five-Year Plan, China had been divided into three regions, Eastern China, Middle China, and Western China, by their geographic position and economic development. …”
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Land Price Distortion, Financial Development, and Regional Innovation by Pengcheng Zhou, Ruiqi Qin, Baitang Luo, Hao Wen

“…Further analysis shows that the impact of land price distortion on improving regional innovation ability is significantly different between central or western regions and the eastern regions. This study provides empirical evidence for promoting regional innovation ability by land price distortion, which is conducive to a better understanding of the importance of reasonable land resource allocation and financial market development in the process of high-quality economic development, providing a useful insight into China’s future reform of land market and financial market.…”
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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

“…It plays a critical role in achieving economic growth and environmentally sustainable development. 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. …”
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ANN Model-Based Simulation of the Runoff Variation in Response to Climate Change on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China by Chang Juan, Wang Genxu, Mao Tianxu, Sun Xiangyang

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