China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 10 Issue 2

Off-farm employment over the past four decades in rural China

Linxiu Zhang, Yongqing Dong, Chengfang Liu, Yunli Bai

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the trend of off-farm employment in rural China over the past four decades since the reform and opening-up.

Returns to public agricultural and rural investments in China

Shenggen Fan, Emily EunYoung Cho, Christopher Rue

The purpose of this paper is to review China’s past returns in a period over the last 40 years to public agricultural and rural investments to highlight the importance for future…

Rural energy policy in China: Achievements, challenges and ways forward during the 40-year rural reform

Ling-Yun He, Bingdong Hou, Hua Liao

Rural energy policy is a critical measure to fight the long-standing poverty issue in China. Energy poverty, per se, is one important yet too often neglected dimension of poverty…

Poverty alleviation in rural China: policy changes, future challenges and policy implications

Yansui Liu, Yuanzhi Guo, Yang Zhou

Poverty alleviation is a global challenge. Human society has never ceased to fight against poverty. China was once the developing country with the largest rural poor population in…

China’s urban-rural relationship: evolution and prospects

Zhenghe Zhang, Yawen Lu

In the 69 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, especially the 40 years since the reform and opening-up, the relationship between urban and rural areas has…

Will farmland transfer reduce grain acreage? Evidence from Gansu province, China

Ying Liu, Chenggang Wang, Zeng Tang, Zhibiao Nan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of farmland renting-in on planted grain acreage.

Dynamic and static analysis of agricultural productivity in China

Panpan Diao, Zhonggen Zhang, Zhenyong Jin

The purpose of this paper is to analyze agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) and input redundancies in different regions of China, and to bring out the policy implications…

Market power, scale economy and productivity: the case of China’s food and tobacco industry

Jiawu Dai, Xun Li, Hailong Cai

The purpose of this paper is to measure and examine the relationships between market power, scale economy and productivity for several important food and tobacco industries in…

Do agricultural services contribute to cost saving? Evidence from Chinese rice farmers

Liqun Tang, Qiang Liu, Wanjiang Yang, Jianying Wang

The purpose of this paper is to clarify agricultural services into five categories, including agricultural materials supply service, financial service, technical service…

Off-farm employment, land renting and concentration of farmland in the process of urbanization: Chinese evidence

Weiliang Su, Tor Eriksson, Linxiu Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of off-farm employment on the concentration of farmland via households’ land rental activities in rural China.