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24 Citations
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12 July 2022

Green development is an important path to achieving economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Based on the comprehensive evaluation system of economy, environment, and society, this study used the entropy method, Theil index decomposition m...

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1 Citations
543 Views
34 Pages

Higher Education, Innovation, and Regional Economic Development in Kazakhstan: Panel-Data and Difference-in-Differences Evidence, 2010–2024

  • Aigerim Lambekova,
  • Azamat Zhanseitov,
  • Yuliya Sayfullina,
  • Valentina Berezyuk and
  • Gulnazym Shakenova

This study examines the relationship between higher education development, innovation capacity, and regional economic performance across Kazakhstan’s regions during the 2010–2024 period. The analysis is motivated by the growing role of hi...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic Development)
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7 Citations
4,899 Views
17 Pages

Regional Differences in the Quality of Rural Development in Guangdong Province and Influencing Factors

  • Zhao-Jun Wu,
  • Da-Fang Wu,
  • Meng-Jue Zhu,
  • Pei-Fang Ma,
  • Zhao-Cheng Li and
  • Yi-Xuan Liang

18 January 2023

Achieving rural revitalization is the aim of building a strong modern socialist country. However, regional heterogeneity exists in rural development in general, and studying regional differences in rural development quality is an important prerequisi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Land Resource Management and Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,215 Views
29 Pages

5 June 2024

Sustainable agricultural development is a fundamental requirement and a crucial goal of modern agriculture. It is also a significant means of enabling farmers to increase their incomes. This paper analyses the evolutionary characteristics, regional d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agriculture, Forestry, Land Allocation and Environmental Sustainability)
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39 Citations
7,194 Views
20 Pages

In the context of the rapid development of the global Internet, evaluating the digital village development level (DVI) in different regions is important for policy formulation and scientific research in the field of rural digital development. Based o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Food Marketing, Economics and Policies)
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20 Citations
4,090 Views
15 Pages

26 December 2022

Analyzing the dynamic evolution and regional differences of the level of high-quality economic and social development based on the perspective of long time can be beneficial for informing the effect of the economy in China. This study builds a develo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Economic Inequality, Regional Disparities and Sustainable Development)
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1,590 Views
22 Pages

17 April 2025

Green development is an important path to breaking the “growth-pollution” paradox and realizing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Most of the countries along the “Belt and Road” are developing countri...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,863 Views
20 Pages

20 June 2023

Following the new development philosophy, this research elaborates the connotation of sustainable high-quality forestry development and constructs an evaluation index system based on the connotation. The entropy-based TOPSIS method was used to measur...

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7 Citations
3,568 Views
30 Pages

31 December 2024

Sustainable development (SD) is vital for the progress of Chinese provinces, especially in the face of emerging challenges. This study constructs an index system for SD based on five dimensions: economic, social, ecological, political, and cultural a...

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6 Citations
4,340 Views
23 Pages

7 May 2022

As an important focus of China’s new urbanization construction, the policy of “city–industry integration” has played a key role in promoting the sustainable development of urban construction. This paper integrates the three ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Sustainable Science and Technology)
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4 Citations
2,184 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2023

Modern cities require urban compact development to be sustainable. The evaluation of urban compact development may help create more accurate and realistic policies. The spatio-temporal dynamic evolution of urban compact development efficiency and its...

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19 Citations
3,420 Views
19 Pages

Grey water footprint is included in the green development efficiency evaluation index system of the chemical industry. From 2002 to 2016, the super efficiency Slack Based Measure (SBM) model was used to measure the green development efficiency of the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Energy Efficiency, Environment and Health)
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13 Citations
7,444 Views
23 Pages

24 February 2023

Agricultural industries are the foundation of the modernization of agricultural and rural areas in China. National Modern Agricultural Industrial Parks (NMAIPs) provides a considerable nationwide platform for agricultural industries. We take 200 NMAI...

(This article belongs to the Topic Novel Studies in Agricultural Economics and Sustainable Farm Management)
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8 Citations
5,192 Views
21 Pages

Based on a comprehensive review of previous studies about the threshold effects of financial development on the process of foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers, the present work roundly measures the financial development from the aspects of sca...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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12 Citations
3,630 Views
23 Pages

25 October 2022

In the transportation sector, new energy vehicles (NEVs) are critical to reduce CO2 emissions in the context of carbon neutralization. The study of dynamic evaluation and regional difference analysis is helpful to the NEV industry development in poli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development Trends of Environmental and Energy Economics)
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72 Citations
5,887 Views
16 Pages

25 November 2021

The rapid development of the digital economy is a powerful driving force to promote high-quality economic growth all over the world. Although a number of studies have been conducted to investigate the development of the digital economy in China, thes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structure and Dynamics of Complex Socioeconomic Networks)
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3 Citations
1,869 Views
32 Pages

12 November 2024

This article constructs an evaluation index system for the development of nutrition-sensitive agriculture in China and measures the development level of nutrition-sensitive agriculture using the entropy method, based on the panel data of 31 provinces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Productivity and Efficiency of Agricultural and Livestock Systems)
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5 Citations
2,316 Views
17 Pages

13 August 2024

In the current study, an index system for digital agriculture growth was constructed. The index encompasses six key dimensions, namely production, operation, service, management, sustainability, and digital information infrastructure. Data from 30 Ch...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
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9 Citations
2,629 Views
22 Pages

21 May 2025

The digital economy, as an emerging productive force, has become a critical catalyst for economic sustainable progress. This study examines the regional disparities and origins of the digital economy, as well as its spatial and temporal growth patter...

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23 Citations
5,543 Views
17 Pages

30 January 2023

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China first proposed the strategy of rural revitalization. This proposal constitutes a major strategic deployment for work related to “agriculture, the countryside and farmers&r...

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11 Citations
3,524 Views
21 Pages

26 October 2023

A comprehensive and scientific system for measuring the quality of economic development will provide the basis for and guarantee high-quality economic development (HQED) in China. In this paper, we constructed an indicator-evaluating system for the h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Sprawl: Spatial Planning, Vision Making and Externalities)
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5 Citations
5,171 Views
20 Pages

Postal motorcyclists who regularly conduct deliveries are particularly vulnerable to road accidents since they are exposed to traffic throughout their work day. To reduce accident rates, safety officers in each of the local delivery offices alert pos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discovery and Prediction of Moving Objects in Databases using GIS-based Tools)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,916 Views
26 Pages

25 October 2023

Regional socio-economics has multiple and far-reaching influences on the development of top-tier education, and the development of top-tier education also represents the strength and level of the regional socio-economics to a large extent. The presen...

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22 Citations
3,736 Views
20 Pages

29 January 2021

This study adopted the two-stage super-efficiency network slack-based model (SBM) to measure the green development performance index (GDPI) of 30 provinces in China. The Dagum Gini coefficient decomposition was used to analyze the regional difference...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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1 Citations
752 Views
33 Pages

30 March 2026

With the increasing constraints of resource and environmental factors and the prominent issues of regional development imbalance, how to scientifically measure the level of agricultural sustainable development and reveal its spatial-temporal differen...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,669 Views
24 Pages

13 June 2025

Agricultural modernization is the key path and core strategy for the transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, and it constitutes the cornerstone of China’s modernization system. Gansu Province is a typical ecologically...

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24 Citations
4,024 Views
15 Pages

Evaluating the level of green development is of great significance to better implement the concept of green development. By constructing an evaluation index system for green development, this paper comprehensively uses the entropy weight Technique fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Governance and Low-Carbon Development)
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531 Views
24 Pages

8 August 2026

Coordinated regional development plays an increasingly important role in promoting low-carbon transitions across China’s urban agglomerations. This study examines the effect of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Coordinated Development Strat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate and Carbon Cycle Impact Assessment of Land Policies, Prospects and Challenges)
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7 Citations
3,110 Views
29 Pages

23 July 2024

Ethnic regions in China primarily focus on the development of agricultural and animal husbandry economies, which are relatively underdeveloped. Rural industry integration development (RIID) is considered the foundation and guarantee for ethnic region...

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12 Citations
4,996 Views
23 Pages

11 April 2019

The effectiveness of support directed to less developed regions is a timely question more than halfway through the 2014–2020 programming period. We present an analysis of the impact of rural development support on the well-being of Hungarian LA...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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8 Citations
2,651 Views
18 Pages

16 May 2024

Digital economy has emerged as one of the primary driving forces for economic globalization. However, assessing digital economy development in a robust and scientific manner remains a great challenge. This paper proposes an evaluation system with mea...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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9 Citations
1,858 Views
34 Pages

17 April 2025

In the context of high-quality economic development, the empowering effect of regional integration policies on urban green and low-carbon development has significantly strengthened, playing a crucial strategic role in achieving the coordinated develo...

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14 Citations
3,702 Views
17 Pages

16 September 2024

Regional integration policies play a crucial role in promoting coordinated regional development. However, it remains unclear whether the polices simultaneously take into account urban–rural integration to achieve a dynamic balance between effic...

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5 Citations
4,593 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2022

With the rapid development of the digital economy, the level of Internet development has become increasingly important to the national economy. The development and application of the Internet have brought new impetus to economic development. At prese...

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12 Citations
5,215 Views
21 Pages

Social Sensing of the Imbalance of Urban and Regional Development in China Through the Population Migration Network around Spring Festival

  • Ruoxin Zhu,
  • Diao Lin,
  • Yujing Wang,
  • Michael Jendryke,
  • Rui Xin,
  • Jian Yang,
  • Jianzhong Guo and
  • Liqiu Meng

23 April 2020

Regional development differences are a universal problem in the economic development process of countries around the world. In recent decades, China has experienced rapid urban development since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy....

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22 Citations
3,941 Views
14 Pages

6 December 2022

The coupling coordination between the digital economy and industrial green high-quality development has become an inevitable choice to promote economic high-quality development in China. This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the coupling coord...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation, Social Innovation and Sustainable Business Model Innovation)
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56 Citations
6,218 Views
23 Pages

2 February 2020

With the rapid development of economy, the scale of the logistics industry is also expanding rapidly, which brings great convenience to economy and trade, and becomes one of the pillar industries of national economy. However, with the development of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation and Green Logistics with Big Data)
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24 Citations
6,350 Views
37 Pages

22 September 2024

Based on the theory of regional innovation niches, this study calculates the resilience of regional innovation ecosystems and constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system for regional artificial intelligence development, resulting in a panel da...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Transformation of Urban and Region: Design, Planning and Governance)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,250 Views
32 Pages

12 September 2025

Under the context of the “dual carbon” goals, the synergistic development of green finance and low-carbon innovation plays a significant role in driving the green transformation of the economy and high-quality development. This paper, bas...

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20 Citations
3,723 Views
32 Pages

The coordinated promotion of urban digitalization and green development is an inevitable requirement for sustainable development in the digital age. Based on the coupling mechanism of urban digitalization and green development, in this study, we took...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology)
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538 Views
64 Pages

18 July 2026

The systemic shift in the energy consumption structure from high-carbon fossil fuels to low-carbon clean energy constitutes a critical pathway toward global climate governance and carbon neutrality. However, this sustainable transition is consistentl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Low-Carbon Energy Transition and Achieving Carbon Neutrality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives)
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12 Citations
3,816 Views
31 Pages

Amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), China’s digital village initiative has emerged as a localized implementation for achieving multidimensional sustainability. However, the progress of digita...

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2 Citations
484 Views
37 Pages

11 June 2026

This study examines whether digital infrastructure contributes to sustainable development by improving green total factor productivity (GTFP)—a comprehensive measure that jointly evaluates economic output and environmental performance—in...

(This article belongs to the Collection Green Innovation: The Power Source of Enterprise Sustainable Development)
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10 Citations
2,589 Views
23 Pages

16 June 2023

The rapid pace of urbanization in China has led to a significant increase in haze pollution in its cities. However, there has been limited research on the dynamic impact and mechanisms of smart city pilots, which offer an innovative approach to urban...

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1 Citations
2,391 Views
23 Pages

This study seeks to address the question of whether China’s Western Development Strategy (WDS) has affected the carbon emission intensity of the regions it covers. There remains a distinct lack of analysis based on the normative causal inferenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Urban Spatial Planning and Carbon Emission)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,590 Views
23 Pages

28 November 2024

The capacity of agricultural cultivation for carbon sequestration and emission reduction plays a key role in advancing the green and sustainable development of agriculture and achieving both emission reduction and carbon sink objectives. This study c...

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7 Citations
2,892 Views
24 Pages

Ecological welfare performance (EWP) is a necessary condition for achieving sustainable economic development and is a crucial initiative for resolving the dilemma of balancing economic development, social welfare, ecology, and the environment. This p...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
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2 Citations
5,249 Views
17 Pages

Regional Analysis of Socio-Economic Development: The Case of Poland

  • Kinga Smolińska-Bryza,
  • Obinna Okereke and
  • Daniel Anyebe

22 February 2025

This article analyzes and evaluates the levels of socio-economic development of Polish voivodeships in two periods, 2010–2012 and 2020–2022. The purpose of this study was to outline regional disparities in development across the regions o...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,745 Views
23 Pages

25 May 2022

In the post-epidemic era, balancing epidemic prevention and control with sustainable economic development has become a serious challenge for all countries around the world. In China, a range of interventions include detection policies, clinical treat...

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9 Citations
6,068 Views
16 Pages

23 February 2018

Education is the driving force of social development, while regional differences have restricted the balance of educational development. This paper provides a political and geospatial analysis of regional inequality across the province from 1990–2015...

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