solutions to the challenges confronting China in engaging smallholders in higher value, specialty, agricultural product markets … (operational efficiency). The marketing experiment/trial was conducted in three fine‐wool‐growing counties in Western China in 2008 …/value – Engaging smallholders in specialty agricultural product markets poses significant challenges for China. The market efficiency …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize the China Agricultural Economic Review ( CAER )'s second annual …

provinces in China, the authors estimated a quantile regression (QR) model to demonstrate how changes of fresh fruit and …/value – There has been considerable interest in estimating food demand structure in China due to its huge market for food products …

tertiary education as the proxy, on the urban‐rural income gap in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using a panel dataset … covering 28 provinces of China over the period from 1988 to 2007, this paper employs Hansen's method and two‐step GMM … national level by 2014, when China's GDP per capita assumes an annual growth rate of 7.5 percent. Originality/value – This, it …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the technical efficiency of wheat and paddy rice processing in China … efficiency. Studies on China's technical efficiency of flour and rice processing are scarce. This paper fills this gap. Design …/methodology/approach – With a unique set of firm‐level survey data collected by China's State Statistical Bureau, this study adopts a stochastic …

Purpose – Urban‐rural interaction in China has evolved over time and presented features in different periods since 1949 …. The aim of this paper is to measure urban‐rural interaction in China in a 50‐year period from 1958 to 2007, and to see if …. Originality/value – The paper systematically reviews the evolution of urban‐rural interaction in China, and analyzes the features …

power generation sector in China. Design/methodology/approach – The analytical model is developed using a joint production … removes the emissions. The results are estimated using data from China's electricity generation sector. Findings – The …

transmission relationships between agricultural futures and the agriculture index in China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper … review about the estimation methods. It also provides information about China's soybean, soy meal industry. Originality …/value – The paper contains updated information about China's soybean and soybean meal trading. It uses new estimation methods (TAR …

(NSC) development at county level in China, and by which to evaluate the level of NSC construction among different regions … in China. Then, some problems of rural development can be found and corresponding measures can be proposed, which could … index system was used to evaluate the level of NSC construction in 28 counties of China in 2007. Finally, we calculated …