Long-term wage inequality in imperial China: From 202 BCE to 1912 CE. by Qiang Wu, Guangyu Tong, Peng Zhou

“…This paper attempts to describe and explain the long-term evolution of wage inequality in imperial China, covering over two millennia from the Han dynasty to the Qing dynasty (202 BCE-1912 CE). …”
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Risk Assessment of Biological Asset Mortgage Loans of China’s New Agricultural Business Entities by Shuzhen Zhu, Yutao Chen, Wenwen Wang

“…The large-scale proliferation of China’s new type of agricultural entities has given rise to a higher demand for funds. …”
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Projected Urbanization Impacts on Surface Climate and Energy Budgets in the Pearl River Delta of China by Chunhong Zhao, Qunou Jiang, Zhongxiao Sun, Haiyue Zhong, Shasha Lu

“…The urban temperature rise is more apparent in summer than it is in winter. …”
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Trends in the disease burden of cystic echinococcosis in China, 1990–2044 analysis and forecasting study by Jianping Li, Jingjing Wei

“…According to the Nordpred modeling results, the incidence, prevalence, and DALY rates of cystic echinococcosis in China are expected to rise slightly over the next 25 years. …”
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Impacts of Groundwater Recharge from Rubber Dams on the Hydrogeological Environment in Luoyang Basin, China by Shaogang Dong, Baiwei Liu, Huamin Liu, Shidong Wang, Lixin Wang

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Government environmental information disclosure and digital transformation of manufacturing companies: evidence from China by Songtao Xu, Xia Chen

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Mechanism for meeting the care of older adults in rural China—relying on spouse, offspring or community? by Ziyue Dong, Jianliang Nie, Dan Li, Yufeng Wu

“…Abstract Background Within the population aging and the trend of aging in place on the rise, it is crucial to explore how care needs are being met for this demographic within the community. …”
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Homogeneity Test and Correction of Daily Temperature and Precipitation Data (1978–2015) in North China by Lingling Shen, Li Lu, Tianjie Hu, Runsheng Lin, Ji Wang, Chong Xu

“…During 1978–2015, the temperature in North China shows a rise trend, while the precipitation tends to decrease.…”
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The effects of unified pooling arrangement on health inequity in China: a DID-RIF approach by Jing Wu, Yuqing Liu, Chuncheng Wang, Lianjie Liu, Jiaqian Lu

“…Abstract Background To address the health inequity caused by decentralized management, China has introduced a provincial pooling system for urban employees’ basic medical insurance. …”
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Ethnobotanical studies on rice landraces under on-farm conservation in Xishuangbanna of Yunnan Province, China by Fei Wang, Tao Sun, Shuai Yu, Chunhui Liu, Zhuo Cheng, Jianxin Xia, Longzhi Han

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The mechanism-specific injury mortality burden associated with heatwave in China in a warming world by Jianxiong Hu, Shaoli Huang, Yulin Zhuo, Jianhua Zhang, Weiwei Gong, Guanhao He, Maigeng Zhou, Fangfang Zeng, Ruilin Meng, Tao Liu, Chunliang Zhou, Yize Xiao, Min Yu, Biao Huang, Guoxia Bai, Hua Guo, Wenjun Ma

“…Additionally, future mortality burdens from 2030 to 2099 were projected, revealing that under the SSP5-8.5 scenario, the attributable fractions (AFs) of injury mortality due to heatwaves is expected to escalate from 2.66 % in the 2030s (95 % CI: 2.02 %, 3.44 %) to 7.72 % (95 % CI: 5.87 %, 9.97 %) in the 2090s, particularly in southwest China. Regarding specific mechanisms of injury, AFs for drowning is projected to rise significantly from 4.60 % (95 % CI: 3.36 %, 5.87 %) in the 2030s to 13.35 % (95 % CI: 9.75 %, 17.02 %) by the 2090s under the SSP5-8.5 scenario. …”
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Early Revelation of Leprosy in China by Sequential Antibody Analyses with LID-1 and PGL-I by Pan Qiong-Hua, Zheng Zhong-Yi, Yang Jun, Wen Yan, Yuan Lian-Chao, Li Huan-Ying, Steven G. Reed, Malcolm S. Duthie

“…Our data indicate that rising antibody titers can be used as a trigger for physical examination or increased monitoring of particular individuals in order to provide early leprosy diagnosis.…”
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Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China by Biao Luo, Jianwei Huang, Xueying Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Amos P. K. Tai

“…Here we show that the PM2.5-related mortality attributable specifically to dietary changes and the associated rising agricultural emissions has a high Gini coefficient of 0.369 in China in 2010, and raises the Gini coefficient of all-cause PM2.5-related mortality from 0.189 to 0.197 with more uneven allocation among income groups, reflecting worsened health inequity and an export of pollution from richer coastal regions to poorer agricultural regions via food trade. …”
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Trade policy uncertainty and corporate financialization: strategic implications for non-financial firms in China by Mingyao Wang, Normaziah Mohd Nor, Norhuda Abdul Rahim, Faisal Khan, Ziyu Zhou

“…This study investigates the impact of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on the financialization of non-financial firms in China. Corporate financialization is the process in which corporations prioritize financial assets and generate profits primarily via financial investments rather than product markets. …”
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Carbon emission effects of land use change in Nanchang, West of Central China Region by Shuai Fu, Bingxian Xu, Yuxin Peng, Ciyi Huangxiong, Xiuxiang Li

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A comprehensive analysis of trends in the burden of gout in China and globally from 1990 to 2021 by Shiwei Xie, Heng Xiao, Lei Xu, Gengwu Li, Fan Zhang, Mingwei Luo

“…Our findings revealed a global increase in gout incidence from 93.097 per 100,000 in 1990 to 109.075 per 100,000 in 2021, with cases rising from 3,983,109 to 9,401,585. In China, incidence increased from 122.522 to 151.612 per 100,000, with cases growing from 1,182,498 to 3,079,836. …”
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Changing trends in lung cancer disease burden between China and Australia from 1990 to 2019 and its predictions by Dan Zhao, Haijun Mu, Ping Yu, Chao Deng

“…Conclusions The disease burden of LC in China is rising, whereas in Australia, it is declining. …”
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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

“…The findings are as follows: (1) China’s construction industry has experienced two stages in terms of time: steady rise and turbulent rise. …”
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Hydrologic response and prediction of future water level changes in Qinghai Lake of Tibet Plateau, China by Haibin Wang, Jiahong Liu, Zhuoran Luo, Sana Nazli, Lu Shi

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Research on the multi-agent motivation coupling evolution and synergy improvement for farmland ecological protection in China by Adila Ainiwaerjiang, Xueying Jin, Zhen Xie, Tian Tian, Yuxuan Dang

“…The global ecology movement of the 1960s gave rise to international efforts to of farmland ecological protection. …”
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