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Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China [PDF]

Available data indicates a growing urban-rural income gap (the ratio of mean urban to rural incomes) with a significant increase from around 1.8 in the late 1980's to over 3 today.
John Whalley, Ximing Yue
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Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns [PDF]

Continued industrialization in China and increase in its agricultural productivity imply that surplus rural workers will to be attracted into non-agricultural production activities and, consequently, will have the opportunity to increase their off-farm ...
Diao, Xinshen, Somwaru, Agapi, Tuan, Francis   +2 more
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China’s ongoing rural to urban transformation benefits the population but is not evenly spread

Communications Earth & Environment
China prioritizes a coordinated and sustainable shift from rural to urban areas, termed rural-urban transformation. This involves land, population, and industry urbanization.
Xin Chen, Le Yu, Yaoyao Li, Tao Liu, Jingming Liu, Dailiang Peng, Xiaoling Zhang, Chuanglin Fang, Peng Gong   +8 more
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in 15.8 million men aged 15–49 years in rural China from 2010 to 2014

Scientific Reports, 2017
Obesity has been increasing worldwide. Data on obesity status among men of reproductive age are scarce. This study aimed to assess the national prevalence and trend of overweight and obesity among reproductive-age men in rural China.
Yuan He, A. Pan, Yuanyuan Wang, Ying Yang, Jihong Xu, Y. Zhang, Dujia Liu, Qiaomei Wang, Haiping Shen, Yiping Zhang, D. Yan, Zuoqi Peng, F. Hu, Xu Ma   +13 more
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Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia? [PDF]

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas ...
Gustafsson, Björn, Li, Shi, Nivorozhkina, Ludmila   +2 more
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Removing border protection on wheat and rice: effects on rural income and food self-sufficiency in China [PDF]

In this paper, I use the Monash Multi-Country model – a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium model of China, Australia and the Rest of the World – to analyse the effects of removing border protection on wheat and rice in China.
Mai, Yinhua
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Spatial distribution pattern and influencing factors of relative poverty in rural China

Innovation and Green Development, 2023
Exploring the spatial distribution pattern of rural relative poverty and its influencing factors is of great significance for solving the problem of poverty.
Kai Tang, Zhenshan Li, Chun He
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Does Guanxi matter to nonfarm employment?: [PDF]

Because land is scarce, farmers in China increasingly have to rely on nonfarm activities to enhance their incomes. The functioning of rural nonfarm labor markets is therefore crucial in determining who has access to nonfarm employment.
Li, Guo, Zhang, Xiaobo
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How to Understand Carbon Intensity? A Comparative Study of China and Europe Regarding the Relationship Between Rural Development Regimes and Carbon Emission Intensity

Proceedings
Background: China’s rural revitalisation policy has promoted the transformation of rural industries, which always neglect the “dual-carbon” goal in rural. Rural industrial upgrading in Europe can inspire sustainable rural development in China.
Jiaqi Li, Yishao Shi
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Who Changed the Destiny of Rural Students, and How?: Unpacking ICT-Mediated Remote Education in Rural China [PDF]

arXiv
The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has shown great promise in addressing educational challenges facing rural areas. However, the complex rural context poses significant challenges to the effective utilization of these technologies.
arxiv