Keywordsurban land use; economic efficiency; sequential SBM model; China; environmental constraints; global generalized directional distance function approach (GGDDF); Chinese hospitals; technical efficiency; public-private partnership (PPP); intermediary propositions; facilitator; SWOT matrix; green growth; coal consumption; temporal and spatial patterns; ArcGIS; barycenter model; spatial econometrics; location planning problem; home healthcare; mixed integer programming; sustainability; water pollution; emission right initial allocation; China; Tai Lake; water footprint; water footprint assessment; Leshan City; water resources management; renewable energy; subsidy mode; financial performance; panel data model; PV industry; subsidy policy; regional difference; green growth; social development; human development index; convergence; inequality; sustainable investments; private participation in infrastructure; sustainable financial market development; green efficiency; FDI; economic growth; environmental pollution; China; mining city; sustainable development; brownfield redevelopment; fuzzy real option; normal fuzzy number; specialized markets; industrial clusters; global production networks (GPN); sustainable competitiveness; value chains; ordinary least squares; spatial autocorrelation; spatial econometric model; real transaction land prices; assessment uniformity; population structure; carbon emission; LMDI; urbanization; residents’ consumption; Sustainable Asia Conference; innovation frontier; green growth; urbanization