Energy poverty, especially in rural areas, has become a central focus of scholarly and policy discussions. However, there is a significant gap in understanding the impact of religious beliefs on this phenomenon. This paper aims to fill this gap by utilizing household survey data from the China...

Childhood and adolescence overweight and obesity have implications for both health consequences and economic burden. Although it has been an emerging public health problem for primary school children in rural China and the importance of the diet–health link has been stressed for many years,...

ABSTRACT. It is of considerable scientific and technological importance to enhance the thermal conductivity ( k ) of polymers for the application in thermal management. In this work, we study the thermal transport in amorphous/low-crystalized polyimide (PI) composite fibers (crystallinity lower...

In 2014, the Chinese government issued the “Guiding Opinions on Further Deepening the Reform of the Household Registration System”. The urban hukou system in megacities, with urban populations above 5 million, remained under strict control. The restrictions on urban hukou in medium-sized...

Purpose: The need for a universal rural pension system has been heightened by demographic changes in rural China, including the rapid aging of the nation’s rural population and a dramatic decline in fertility. In response to these changes, China’s Government introduced the New Rural Social...

Over the past few decades, the Internet has rapidly diffused across China. The spread of the Internet has had a profound economic and social impact on Chinese rural areas. Existing research shows that Internet access significantly impacts agricultural production and improves smallholder...

China is undergoing a campaign which is called “The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy” to eradicate extreme poverty from rural China until 2020. Though poverty in rural China has been studied intensively in different objective dimensions, little attention has been paid to poverty line...