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Sustainable mobility in rural China

Journal of Environmental Management, 2008
Rural areas in China suffer from various problems. The stagnating economic development and a lack of (sufficient) job opportunities and basic services, etc., lead to disadvantages for great parts of China's population. In this context, the transport sector plays a crucial role for the development of rural settlements. Although the degree of undersupply
Holger, Dalkmann, Sabine, Hutfilter, Karin, Vogelpohl, Peter, Schnabel   +3 more
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Glaucoma in rural China (the Rural Epidemiology for Glaucoma in China (REG-China)): a national cross-sectional study

British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022
ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate the prevalence of glaucoma with associated factors in the rural populations of 10 provinces in China.DesignA population-based cross-sectional study.MethodsAll participants aged 6 years or older from 10 provinces completed visual acuity testing, slit-lamp examination, ophthalmoscopy and non-contact tonometry ...
Yuanyuan Liu, Baoqun Yao, Xi Chen, Xueli Yang, Yong Liu, Zhenggao Xie, Xiaofeng Chen, Zhigang Yuan, Xingrong Wang, Dan Hu, Xiang Ma, Weiqi Gao, Ruifeng Wang, Yuzhong Yang, Song Chen, Jingkai Zhang, Zuoqing Song, Junsu Wang, Jing Wang, Jinyun Pei, Weijuan Wang, Meiyan Wang, Jun Gao, Hongwen Zhang, Lian Tan, Wei Du, Xuehui Pan, Gang Liu, Xiujuan Du, Xu Hou, Xin Gao, Zhen Zhang, Zhansheng Shen, Changfu Wu, Xiaochang Yan, Shaoye Bo, Xinghuai Sun, Nai-jun Tang, Chun Zhang, Hua Yan   +39 more
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Challenge of China’s rural health

BMJ, 2016
Rural health has been sacrificed for economic prosperity Although China has created an economic miracle over the past 30 years, the resulting adverse effects have become a thorny problem for the entire nation. People living in rural areas, where mortality remains substantially higher than in urban areas, have been hardest hit.
Jun, Han, Meng-Chao, Wu, Tian, Yang
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On Rural Urbanization in China

Chinese Sociology & Anthropology, 1995
The author reviews "the debate regarding rural urbanization in the Chinese literature and the political factions that support different positions. He also introduces us to the complexity of defining ¿urbanization' in a Chinese context. He cautions us in the use of the common but important yardsticks for measuring basic data, such as growth in the ...
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Rural‐to‐Urban Migration in China*

Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 1996
One consequence of economic reform in China has been the greatly accelerated migration of labour from rural areas to cities. Estimates suggest an annual migrant labour flow of around 50‐60 million people, of whom 10–15 million have settled permanently in cities.
H X, Wu, L, Zhou
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Organizing Rural China -- Rural China Organizing

2012
During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signalled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization, marketization and increased geographical ...
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HIV Education in Rural China

Promotion & Education, 2005
A room full of Chinese health workers. Each holds a beaker full of clear liquid in one hand and a syringe in the other. Using their syringe each draws a small amount of the fluid from their own beaker and injects it into the beaker of a colleague. Their colleague does the same thing in return.
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Rural transformation and the persistence of rurality in China

Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2013
The aim of this paper is to exam rural transformation and the persistence of rurality in China. Recent discussions on the “end of village” in China and policy suggestions that aligned to them have indicated that villages will not completely disappear unless institutional constraints are removed.
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RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION IN CHINA: APPROACHES AND RESULTS

World Development, 1975
Abstract The rural areas are, in most provinces, in China dotted with hundreds of thousands of small rural industrial enterprises most of which serve very limited local markets. The units are usually small, and their technology primitive but appropriate.
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