China's main railway line linking east and west was speeded-up in Oct. 21, 2000, which improves freight efficiency … between eastern China and Xinjiang (the hub of China and Central Asia). This paper tests the impact of exogenous domestic …

China's programme for inter-regional economic connectivity, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), will develop new trade … the shift of the US rhetoric since 2017, characterising China as a strategic competitor. Conventional geopolitical … benefits to China and costs to others, yet there is a significant research gap in empirical case studies of what is actually …

The issue of the possible adverse effects of a reduction in pollution on the economy is a very real one for China … exacerbate the already large and persistent inter-regional disparities in China. Policy choices will therefore be complicated and … tax on pollution and a subsidy on abatement activity. We help elucidate this policy choice by exploring the tax-subsidy …