The shortage of junior seafarers in China in recent years raises a salient question as to how international shipping companies can improve retention rates among Chinese crews. This issue has become increasingly prominent in the context of a global lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic....

Background & aim Hepatitis B is globally recognized as a major public health problem that imposes a huge economic burden on society. China is a major country with hepatitis B infection; however, an updated overview of the economic burden of hepatitis B and related diseases in China has not been...

Combining the company’s risk of financial fraud predicted by the machine learning method and unique Chinese data of board voting, this study investigates whether independent directors can identify the company’s risk of financial fraud. We find that independent directors are more likely to...