How Can the Layout of Public Service Facilities Be Optimized to Reduce Travel-Related Carbon Emissions? Evidence from Changxing County, China by Fengying Yan, Ningyu Huang, Yehui Zhang

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Benefit packages for chronic disease outpatients in the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in 32 Chinese counties [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/z2] by Chuangzhou Xu, Christian A Gericke

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The Impact of Urbanization on Farmland Productivity: Implications for China’s Requisition–Compensation Balance of Farmland Policy by Zhongqi Deng, Qianyu Zhao, Helen X. H. Bao

“…To investigate the undesirable effects, based on some stylized facts, this study selects 29,415 county-level samples in a Chinese county from 2000–2014 to construct an empirical model. …”
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Use of random forest based on the effects of urban governance elements to forecast CO2 emissions in Chinese cities by He Zhang, Jingyi Peng, Rui Wang, Mengxiao Zhang, Chang Gao, Yang Yu

“…To predict and regulate CO2 emissions through comprehensive urban governance elements, this paper use the random forest model through the data from 1903 Chinese county-level cities in 2010, 2012 and 2015, and establish a CO2 forecasting platform based on the effects of urban governance elements. …”
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Spatial–temporal changes in grain input–output and the driving mechanism in China since 1985 by Yan-jun Ye, Qing-wen Qi, Li-li Jiang, Xiao-feng Li

“…Based on Chinese county-level statistic data, this paper reveals spatial–temporal distribution and changing of grain production, by studying gravity centres of grain input–output regions in China from 1985 to 2009. …”
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Urban–rural differences in primary school resources in China: a case study of Yuncheng County by Wenwen Sun, Xin Hu, Akari Nakai Kidd, Zhuoran Li, Chunlu Liu

“…Urban–rural differences in the resources of Chinese county schools, which are triggered by population migration and residents’ preference for high-quality schools, are a common phenomenon emerging in the context of rapid urbanization. …”
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Hospital management practices in county-level hospitals in rural China and international comparison by Min Hu, Wen Chen, Winnie Yip

“…China ranked higher than the two LMICs in each of the four dimensional scores. Conclusions Chinese county-level hospitals should improve their low quality of management by prioritizing target-setting and process implementation, particularly in personnel management. …”
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Disparity in hospital beds’ allocation at the county level in China: an analysis based on a Health Resource Density Index (HRDI) model by Zuobao Wang, Lin Dong, XinYi Xing, Zhe Liu, Yuxiang Zhou

“…Methods Data were drawn from the Chinese County/City Statistical Yearbook (2001–2020). …”
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Complementarity or Substitution: A Study of the Impacts of Internet Finance and Rural Financial Development on Agricultural Economic Growth by Bingjing Mei, Arshad Ahmad Khan, Sufyan Ullah Khan, Muhammad Abu Sufyan Ali, Jianchao Luo

“…Based on the Chinese county-level panel data from 2014–2018, in the study reported in this paper, we empirically tested the “complementarity and substitution” effects of internet finance and rural finance on rural economic development using the feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) estimation method. …”
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Predictors of referral behaviour and intention amongst physicians in a medical consortium based on the theory of planned behaviour: a cross-sectional study in China by Dongbao Zhao, Shengliang Chen, Sihui Jin, Lijin Chen, Caiyun Zheng, Xin Wang, Yixiang Huang

“…Meanwhile, in the model with participants in township health centres, there were no significant associations between referral behaviour and other TPB constructs.ConclusionPhysicians’ referral behaviour was influenced by intention, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control in Chinese county hospitals.…”
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A Dynamic Benchmark System for Per Capita Carbon Emissions in Low-Carbon Counties of China by Lijie Gao, Xiaoqi Shang, Fengmei Yang, Longyu Shi

“…It can provide scientific basis for Chinese county decision makers to formulate reasonable targets under the management idea driven by evaluation indicators and emission reduction targets and help counties explore the coordinated paths of economic development and emission reduction in different development stages. …”
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Analysis of County-Scale Eco-Efficiency and Spatiotemporal Characteristics in China by Hui Zhang, Yingqi Sun, Zhaoying Fan, Zhi Long, Shilong Wan, Zilong Zhang, Xingpeng Chen

“…The redundancy rate of input indicators was high in Chinese counties. (3) During the study period, the eco-efficiency of most counties displayed a fluctuating growth trend. …”
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From control to elimination: a spatial-temporal analysis of malaria along the China-Myanmar border by Fang Huang, Li Zhang, Jing-Bo Xue, Hong-Ning Zhou, Aung Thi, Jun Zhang, Shui-Sen Zhou, Zhi-Gui Xia, Xiao-Nong Zhou

“…The number of reported malaria cases and the proportion of vivax infection in the 18 Chinese counties were strongly correlated with those of the 23 Myanmar townships (P < 0.05). …”
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Social-economic transitions and vulnerability to extreme temperature events from 1960 to 2020 in Chinese cities by Yang Xie, Ziqiao Zhou, Qinghua Sun, Mengdan Zhao, Jinlu Pu, Qiutong Li, Yue Sun, Hancheng Dai, Tiantian Li

“…Using an epidemiological approach, we analyze all-cause deaths related to heatwaves and cold spells in 2,852 Chinese counties from 1960 to 2020. Economic losses associated with these events are determined through the value of statistical life. …”
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The river chief system and agricultural non-point source water pollution control in China by Li ZHOU, Ling-zhi LI, Ji-kun HUANG

“…The effect of the river chief system on reducing agricultural NPS pollution is explored in this study using panel data from 308 Chinese counties during the period from 2004 to 2015. The results reveal that the negative impact of manure output from animal breeding operations on surface water quality is reduced with the implementation of the river chief system. …”
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Distribution Characteristics of the Transportation Network in China at the County Level by Minmin Li, Renzhong Guo, You Li, Biao He, Yu Chen, Yong Fan

“…The research shows that transportation network distribution is low in most Chinese counties, and that there are obvious differences in distribution between counties in the east and west in addition to identifying multiple dense areas of transport layout distribution. …”
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Mortality risks from a spectrum of causes associated with sand and dust storms in China by Can Zhang, Meilin Yan, Hang Du, Jie Ban, Chen Chen, Yuanyuan Liu, Tiantian Li

“…We analyzed 1,495,724 deaths and 2024 SDS events from 1 February to 31 May (2013–2018) in 214 Chinese counties. The excess mortality risks associated with SDS were 7.49% (95% CI: 3.12–12.05%), 5.40% (1.25–9.73%), 4.05% (0.41–7.83%), 3.45% (0.34–6.66%), 3.37% (0.28–6.55%), 3.33% (0.07–6.70%), 8.90% (4.96–12.98%), 12.51% (6.31–19.08%), and 11.55% (5.55–17.89%) for ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke, hypertensive heart disease, myocardial infarction, acute myocardial infarction, acute ischemic heart disease, respiratory disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), respectively. …”
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Cardiovascular mortality risks during the 2017 exceptional heatwaves in China by Meilin Yan, Yang Xie, Huanhuan Zhu, Jie Ban, Jicheng Gong, Tiantian Li

“…Using daily data for a spectrum of cardiovascular mortality and temperature for 102 Chinese counties (2014–2017), we estimated the association between heatwave and mortality by generalized linear mixed-effects models. …”
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A generalized framework for agricultural field delineation from high-resolution satellite imageries by Yu Zhu, Yaozhong Pan, Tangao Hu, Dujuan Zhang, Chuanwu Zhao, Yuan Gao

“…The proposed GF-AFD framework was validated cross three diverse Chinese counties. The results demonstrate the framework's robust performance, providing a valuable solution for delineating agricultural fields.…”
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Geographical Patterns and Influencing Mechanisms of Digital Rural Development Level at the County Scale in China by Tianyu Li, Shengpeng Wang, Pinyu Chen, Xiaoyi Liu, Xiang Kong

“…This paper constructs the “environmental-economic-social” analysis framework for digital rural development, analyzes the spatial variation of the digital rural development level (DRDL) in Chinese counties in 2020, and conducts the factor detection and interaction detection of its influencing factors. …”
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