This statistical bulletin consists of 285 tables of agricultural statistics for the People's Republic of China. The statistics cover land use, population, labor force, gross value of agricultural output, agricultural investment, crop production, crop sown area, state procurement, livestock...

The authors analyze the existing problems and macroscopic influencing factors in grain production of Henan Province, and then carry out an empirical study on the correlation between grain production and eight influencing factors in Henan Province of China by using the gray correlation analysis...

We define the category of agricultural products, and introduce the demand standard of population for agricultural products. Furthermore, we adopt the mathematical model to forecast the future population of Zhengzhou City, as well as the demand of agricultural products, the logistics demand and...

The objective of this research is to estimate the economic impact of climate change on tea production in China. We use historical weather and production data from 1980 to 2011 to construct a yield response model from panel data that estimates the partial effect of specific weather factors on tea...

The cointegration analysis and a vector error-correction (VEC) model are applied to examine the short- and long-run relationships among foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth, and the environment in China and India. The results show that FDI inflow plays a pivotal role in determining...

This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.

Rural Development

We study the factors influencing the sugar imports in China. A multivariate linear regression model for quantitative analysis in established and the model is researched with multicollinearity treatment, autocorrelation and heteroscedasticity test. Research result shows that the per capita income...

As the world's largest carbon resources country with relatively great carbon emission, China in has just started its carbon trade. China is only a passive participant in international carbon trading market, rarely participating in the project of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Therefore,...

Previous studies commonly assume that the effects of introducing and ending cereal price subsidies on the poor’s nutrient intakes are symmetric. We question the assumption of symmetry and show that the poor’s nutrient intakes respond asymmetrically to declines and increases in the price of...