China’s New Environmental Protection Law and Green Innovation: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Cities by Wen Chen, Ying Wu

“…Further, we find that the impact of the new environmental protection law on green innovation is more prominent in prefecture-level cities with a lower level of banking competition and for prefecture-level cities with stronger intellectual property protection. …”
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Heterogeneous influences of urban compactness on air pollution: evidence from 285 prefecture-level cities in China by Dan Yan, Shaoxuan Huang, Guoliang Chen, Huan Tong, Peiyuan Qin

“…Second, on the basis of panel data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2010 to 2021, exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) was applied to reveal the spatiotemporal nonstationary distribution of urban PM2.5 pollution. …”
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The Impact of Digitization on Green Innovation Performance: Evidence Based on Panel Data of 228 Prefectural-Level Cities in China by Lijiang Jia, Xiaoli Hu, Zhongwei Zhao, Tianze Zhou, Weiming Liu, Bin He

“…Based on panel data, taking 228 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2019 as an example, this study expounds three dimensions of promoting green innovation performance in the internal mechanism of digital development: direct transmission mechanism, indirect transmission mechanism, and regional heterogeneity transmission mechanism. …”
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Has Digitalization Boosted the Rural Tourism Income?—Evidence from Prefecture-Level City Panel Data in China by Qirui Zhang, Hao Feng, Xinhui Feng, Wangfang Xu, Longbao Wei

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Relationship between Urban Innovation Capability and Energy Utilization Efficiency: An Empirical Study of 281 Prefecture-Level Cities in China by Wanshu Wu, Kai Zhao

“…Using the 2003–2020 panel data of 281 prefecture-level cities in China, this study confirms that energy utilization efficiency improves owing to the improvement of urban innovation capability. …”
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(Re)devenir Hui : l’ethnicisation d’une municipalité autonome à Baiqi (Fujian) by Pascale Bugnon

“…This article discusses the fluidity of ethnic categorization on the outskirts of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou (Fujian province), where the Guo Han lineage has recently been recognized as Hui. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Distribution and Influencing Factors of “Water-Energy-Food-Ecology” System Resilience by Yaofeng Yang, Yajuan Chen, Xiuqing Li

“…To investigate WEFE system resilience and its influencing factors, this paper constructs an indicator system for WEFE system resilience based on prefecture-level city data from the Yellow River Basin spanning the years 2008 to 2021, and explores its dynamic evolution. …”
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Survey on the Status and Training Demands of Capabilities for Diagnosing and Treating Common Diseases of Primary Care General Practitioners in Hunan Province by LI Lingqi, GAO Yinyan, ZHANG Yuqin, SUN Dingkui, WU Xinyin, ZHANG Weiru

“…Results A total of 337 valid questionnaires were collected from each prefecture-level city and autonomous prefecture in Hunan Province, with 128 coming from community health service centers and 209 from township health institutions. …”
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An Analysis of the Allometric and Multifractal Features of a Development in the Urban-Rural Area in the Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River: 2012 Cross-Sectional Data of Four Provin... by Zhi-jun Song, Yi Chen, Yun Li, Xin Zhao

“…By drawing on the perspective of allometric growth, this paper conducts fundamental analysis and multifractal analysis of 52 prefecture-level cities in four provinces and one city in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. …”
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Digital financial inclusion's impact on farmers' income and spatial spillover effects: Evidence from inner Mongolia, China by Hua Li, Xue Wei, Wenhui Chen

“…This study analyzes data from 12 prefecture-level cities in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from 2011 to 2022 to investigate how digital financial inclusion(DFI) affects the increase in farmers' incomes and its spatial spillover effects. …”
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Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Financial Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Spatial Durbin Model by Jianmin Liu, Xiaomei Hu, Hongli Tang

“…Based on panel data covering the period from 2003 to 2012 in China’s 281 prefecture-level cities, we use superefficiency SBM model to measure regional financial efficiency and empirically test the spatial effects of fiscal decentralization on regional financial efficiency with SDM. …”
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Digital financial inclusion, population structure, and consumption upgrades: Evidence from China. by Qianwen Liu, Jianjie Zheng, Shihui Luo

“…This study empirically tests the role of population structure in the process of digital financial inclusion empowering the upgrading of consumption structure by taking 248 prefecture-level cities between 2013 and 2019 as the research objects. …”
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Environmental tax reform roles and strategies of local governments: A quasi-natural experiment from China by Tianyang Chu

“…This study examines the impact of environmental tax reform on local governments using panel data for 247 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2011 to 2021 and the difference-in-differences method. …”
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Motorcycle Ban and Traffic Safety: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment at Zhejiang, China by Jingjing Chen, Qian Wang, Jie Huang

“…This study applies a quasi-experiment on whether or not and when motorcycle bans are implemented in the 11 prefecture cities in Zhejiang Province, taking the prefecture-level cities with motorcycle bans as the experimental group and the others as the control group, so as to identify whether such bans can effectively reduce the number of traffic accidents and deaths, as well as the related internal mechanism. …”
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Teaching Evaluation Algorithm Based on Grey Relational Analysis by Xiaoying Zhang, Xiuying Yang, Jing Yang

“…In this paper, we examine the problem of evaluating the quality of undergraduate education by multiple indicators and establish a comprehensive evaluation model of the quality of undergraduate education in the 13 prefecture level cities by using the grey correlation analysis. …”
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Joint Optimization of a Dry Port with Multilevel Location and Container Transportation: The Case of Northeast China by Feng Pian, Qiuju Shi, Xue Yao, Huiling Zhu, Weixin Luan

“…Considering dry port capacity limitations and scale advantages, this study calculates the costs associated with dry port construction and operations, transportation, time, and the environment and constructs a joint optimization model of the dry port location and transportation scheme to minimize the total cost. Taking 35 prefecture-level cities in Northeast China as the source of container goods and Dalian port as the destination, this study conducts an empirical analysis using the Gurobi 9.0.2 optimizer of the AMPL software to solve the problem and takes the minimum total cost as the goal to select the best dry port and container transshipment scheme. …”
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Labor Industry Allocation, Industrial Structure Optimization, and Economic Growth by Liyuan Shi

“…Using the sample data of 282 prefecture-level cities from 2008 to 2018, this paper tests whether this wage-guided labor industry allocation will affect economic growth and whether there is an intermediary effect of industrial structure optimization. …”
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The impact of ecological civilization construction on the resilience of green technology innovation: evidence based on double dual machine learning by Cunlin Li, Cunlin Li, Shiyu Zhang, Shiyu Zhang, Baojun Yang, Baojun Yang

“…Based on a sample of 237 prefecture-level cities across 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2021, our double dual machine learning and spatial difference-in-differences model indicates that ECDZs significantly enhance urban green innovation resilience. …”
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Can Highway Networks Promote Productivity? Evidence from China by Yumei Lin, Junpei Huang

“…In this paper, we first use the OD-MATRIX method to calculate the shortest highway traveling time among 332 prefecture-level cities in China from 2000 to 2013. It is shown that the reduction of traveling time brought by highway construction significantly improves enterprise productivity. …”
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The impact of carbon emissions trading on green total factor productivity based on evidence from a quasi-natural experiment by Haisheng Hu

“…Abstract Based on a balanced panel dataset of 272 prefecture-level cities from 2000 to 2022, this paper systematically investigates the impact of the carbon emissions trading system on green total factor productivity and its underlying mechanisms from an integrated perspective of overall, dynamic, and spatial dimensions. …”
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