In the early 1990s, hoping to reduce chronic electricity shortages and enhance the efficiency of Chinese power plants, China opened its doors to foreign direct investment (FDI) in electricity generation. Using data from an original survey of US private investors, official Chinese statistics, and...

China has emerged as one of the world's most active markets for public-private partnerships (PPP) in the water sector, while the pace of such development globally has slowed in recent years. This article investigates the dynamics of the development of PPP projects in the Chinese water sector...

While local government entrepreneurship has long been regarded as one of the main drivers of China's economic growth, it has increasingly been recognised as a potential source of a set of harmful policy consequences in recent years, such as rising government debt crises, pervasive corruption and...

While it is widely agreed that local governments played a critical role in infrastructure building and industrial development in China – as key factors in its “economic miracle” - the relationship between local government entrepreneurship and the development of specialized markets through...

The development of Public Administration (PA) as a field of study in China has been tremendous over the last three decades. This paper provides an overview of PA research in China from a sample of 2,877 articles published in six top PA journals in mainland China and Taiwan between 1998 and 2008....

Quantification of evapotranspiration (ET) is critical to sustainable management of irrigated agriculture. To date, attempts at measuring regional ET in arid and semi-arid regions with complex surface characteristics have been largely unsuccessful. In this study, we proposed a remote sensing data...