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...

Under the strategy of rural revitalization, China has a considerable demand for building rural green housing, and the self-built mode of rural housing is in favor of green building (GB) development. However, the GB development in rural housing still remains in demonstration phase within recent...

Uranium extraction from seawater has attracted increasing attentions for nuclear raw material to support the sustainable development of nuclear power plants. However, it is still a grand challenge to overcome the high salinity background and ultra-low uranyl concentration. Herein, we...

As a rising star among two-dimensional materials, transition metal carbides (MXenes) with prominent characteristic including chemical functionality and high hydrophilic unfold enormous potential for radionuclide sequestration. The design of functionalized MXenes with high uptake capacity and...

In March 2018, the US used an immense trade deficit as an excuse to provoke trade friction with China. This study uses the EGARCH model and event study methods to study the impact of the major risk event of Sino-US trade friction on soybean futures markets in China and the United States. Results...

This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, and examining the corresponding counteracting policies and...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the characteristic of mobile devices, particularly high accessibility, influences a consumer's intention to post an online review depending on the valence of consumption experiences. Design/methodology/approach - This paper employs a...

We investigate how material well-being has changed over time for single mother headed families--the primary group affected by welfare reform and other policy changes of the 1990s. We focus on consumption as well as other indicators including components of consumption, measures of housing...

The systematic review of rural energy research is important to accurately identify the existing shortcomings and future research directions for the advancement of the rural energy upgrading (REU). This article selects the research on rural energy from the perspective of the economy, environment...