Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the production risk for winter wheat producers in Beijing, China …

Purpose – Since 1999, China has undergone reform of its healthcare system. City‐based social health insurance (SHI) is … cooperative medical system (NCMS) was introduced in 1993 and extended to cover the whole of rural China in 2003. Design … in China for urban citizens and rural residents separately. Least square and logistic regressions are employed. Findings …

Purpose – China's economic and social structure are changing quickly since the start of the new century and how to …/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the framework of China's rural policy since 2000 in the first section. Then, the impact of the financial … China's agriculture and rural development and points out the new issues during the rural reform. The impact of the financial …

Purpose – The paper aims to review and assess China's food security practice over the past three decades with a view of … security framework is used to assess China's food security achievements and examine any remaining and emerging issues in its … pursuit for food security. Findings – China has done well in achieving grain security in the past three decades. However, it …

national grain market in China's transition economy. Design/methodology/approach – The dataset used includes information about … inter‐provincial grain trade on China's grain market from November 1999 to October 2000. A priori blockmodelling method is … the beginning of the twenty‐first century in China in spite of local protectionism. Additionally, the emergence of this …

Purpose – China has embarked on a major concerted strategy to arrest grassland degradation and livelihood problems in …, administrative, and management – and a discussion of the emphasis that China has and should place on each policy category. Data are … drawn from policy documents and interview material collected through extensive fieldwork in large tracts of China's western …

China as an example. Design/methodology/approach – A simple numerical global general equilibrium (GE) model of two regions … (China and the rest of the world) and three commodities (agriculture, manufacturing goods, and services) is used to assess … to aggregated China's input‐output tables of 1987, 1997, and 2005. Findings – The results suggest that China witnessed a …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the growth and regional disparities of China's dairy market since 1980 …, examine urban consumer demand for three major dairy products (fluid milk, yogurt, and milk powder), analyze China's import … patterns of major dairy products since 1995, and discuss China's potential roles in the world dairy market and implications for …