There has been much analysis of the potential impact of China's membership of the WTO on world trade in agricultural … products but few studies of the actual effects thus far on China's trade performance. This paper compares changes in the … competitiveness of China's trade in primary agricultural food and processed food products over the period 1998 to 2003 through a range …

The western part of China has a long history and reputation of growing a variety of quality melons largely due to its … to be explored. This paper analysed the melon supply chain in western China in the areas of logistical efficiency and …

Although health is an important factor in economic development, millions of China's rural residents have no medical … coverage. Nearly 10 percent of those that were sick in rural China consciously did not seek medical care, mostly because of … deteriorating situation, a new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was initialized in rural China in 2003 by the government. However …

The impact of China's new rural income support policy and recent price trends on grain production and rural income … for many other villages and regions in China. Simulation results show that the income support policy does not reach its …

China but also to the stability of the world economy. The transformation of the Chinese wool textile industry illustrates …

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

The rapidly growing beef cattle herd of the Peoples Republic of China is largely carried as small numbers of animals on … south-central China. An economic model and a synthetic case example of a smallholder farm enterprise are used to briefly …

recent years there has been a rapid increase in the incidence of land rental activities in China. Large differences exist … within China, namely Puding County in Guizhou Province. Data from 792 households in three villages are used to analyze the …

for three typical marketing chains in Nanjing area, P.R. China. The impacts of the transaction costs to the supply chain …