Too often opportunities concentrate within capital cities or designated special economic zones, and thereby render the rest of the country peripheral.

Local-level debt, an imbalanced industrial structure and population outflows continue to take a hefty toll on efforts to revitalise China's poorer regions Traditional economic pillars of China's ...

COPD mortality in China decreased from 2014 to 2021, but the disease burden remains high in underdeveloped regions. COPD is mainly caused by air pollution and smoking, with older adults being the most ...