Great changes have taken place in China’s agricultural and food markets in the past several decades. However, the … impact of the transformation brought by modern supply chains on the welfare of farmers in China is unclear. This paper … attempts to understand whether or not the recent changes in China’s food economy have contributed to an improvement in the …

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 …