The unsustainable agricultural production mode of “high input and high output” has imposed a heavy burden on China’s ecosystems, and severely restricted the sustainable development of the country’s agrifood systems.
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With rapid improvements in agricultural productivity and residents’ income, China has made remarkable advances in reducing hunger and malnutrition, as well as quality improvements in residents’ diets, witnessed by the progressively increasing cons
Rethinking agrifood systems for the post-COVID world
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has caused a global public health crisis. It has also severely damaged the world’s agrifood systems.
Urbanization is a pressing challenge for earth’s humans because it is changing not only natural environments but also agricultural lands.
Evaluating economic output and carbon footprint of different rice production systems, based on several long-term experiments.
One year after COVID: The challenges and outlook of Chinese micro and small enterprises
The Center for Enterprise Research and the Institute of Social Science Survey at Peking University, in collaboration with Ant Group Research Institute, conducted a new wave of Online Survey of Micro- and Small-Enterprises (OSOME) in March 2021.
“Moving umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China
This paper studies the pattern of interregional investment after bureaucratic transfers across Chinese cities.
We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the “missing girls” phenomenon. A shortage of brides causes many parents with sons of marriageable age to work harder and seek higher-paying but dangerous jobs.
Nutrition, cognition, and social emotion among preschoolers in poor, rural areas of South Central China: Status and correlates
Existing empirical evidence suggests that the prevalence of undernutrition in remote and poor, rural areas is still high among Chinese children.
Elite capture, the “follow-up checks” policy, and the targeted poverty alleviation program: Evidence from rural Western China
Decentralized methods for targeting poverty are widely adopted in developing countries to improve the performance of various poverty alleviation programs.
Water scarcity will constrain the formation of a world-class megalopolis in North China
The formation of world-class megalopolises has been a goal of urban development agencies around the world owing to their economic advantages.
China economic review 30 years
Reducing urban-rural gaps in child health and nutrition is one of the most difficult challenges faced by many countries.
The impact of COVID-19 on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Evidence from two-wave phone surveys in China
This paper examines the short-term and mid-term impact of COVID-19 restrictions on SMEs, based on two waves of phone interviews with a previously surveyed large SME sample in China.
On the origins of food loss
Initial impacts & resilience of China's food systems during the pandemic and the government's responses & long-term efforts to promote resilience.