ecological agriculture, which is precious heritage for China and the whole world. Originality/value – The originality of this …

Purpose – Since the start of the twenty‐first century China has stepped into a new stage of harmonious urban … brief review of China's rural reform with focus on the policy framework and changes since the reform of rural tax and fee … system in 2000. Next, the paper focuses on food security to discuss grain price increase and China's grain imports, then the …

‐food chains in China is becoming the issue of how to link these small‐scale farmers into the modern chains. Consequently, it is … governance relationships between small scale producers in China and their buyers.  …

investigates whether or not rural farm households in China balance business risks from agricultural production with financial risk …

Purpose – The social safety net of health care insurance is rapidly expanding in rural China. New Rural Cooperative …

Purpose – Historically, China's political attempts to provide access to rural credit has met with mixed results and an … institutions in China appears to have robbed from the poor to lend to the rich, with actions that severely depleted the lending … the many policy‐driven financial institutions that dominated the rural financial system in China. More recently, ongoing …

China has made encouraging progress in education and health causes, the role of poor health as an intervening factor in … status of elementary school children living in the poor countryside of western China and its educational consequence with the …

investment activities of farm households in rural areas of China. Design/methodology/approach – This paper empirically … investigates repression in rural China using the McKinnon‐Shaw model and microeconomic data combined with lending and savings rates … evidence of repression. Originality/value – The political focus of economic reformation in China has been one of rapid economic …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to yield more plausible rural poverty lines for China and then assess the … lines are derived with Ravallion's method with a rural household survey data of China's two provinces, Hubei, and Inner … how the rural poverty determinants might yield implausible policy implications. Practical implications – China needs to …

consumption patterns. Over the past several years, per capita wine consumption in China has doubled. Although off a relatively low … undergoing restructuring with China now emerging as a major producer in world terms. These developments have been occurring at a … threats as well as opportunities presented by China as a relatively new player in the market. Design …