The Rough Guide Snapshot to The Yellow River is the ultimate travel guide to this fascinating part of China. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the magnificent Terracotta Army to the walled city of Pingyao and from the Yungang Caves to the mountains of Wutai Shan. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best restaurants, hotels and bars, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for a week or longer. Also included is the Basics section from The Rough Guide to China, with all the practical information you need for travelling in China, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, entry requirements and personal safety. Also published as part of The Rough Guide to China. Full coverage: Ningxia, Zhongwei, Shapotou, Yinchuan, Inner Mongolia, Genghis Khan's Mausoleum, Hohhot, the grasslands, Shanxi, Yungang Caves, Wutai Shan, Pingyao, Shaanxi, Xi'an, The Terracotta Army, Henan, Longmen Caves, Luoyang, Song Shan, Shaolin temple, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng (Equivalent printed page extent 134 pages).

The Rough Guide Snapshot to The Yellow River is the ultimate travel guide to this fascinating part of China. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the magnificent Terracotta Army to the walled city of Pingyao and from the Yungang Caves to the mountains of Wutai Shan. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best restaurants, hotels and bars, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for a week or longer. Also included is the Basics section from The Rough Guide to China, with all the practical information you need for travelling in China, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, entry requirements and personal safety. Also published as part of The Rough Guide to China. Full coverage: Ningxia, Zhongwei, Shapotou, Yinchuan, Inner Mongolia, Genghis Khan's Mausoleum, Hohhot, the grasslands, Shanxi, Yungang Caves, Wutai Shan, Pingyao, Shaanxi, Xi'an, The Terracotta Army, Henan, Longmen Caves, Luoyang, Song Shan, Shaolin temple, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng (Equivalent printed page extent 134 pages).

This book presents state-of-the-art scientific evidence and technological innovations to restore lands on the Loess Plateau of China, known worldwide for its serious land degradation and desertification problems. Supported by a rapidly developing Chinese economy and the dissemination of effective technology, the Grain-for-Green Project and Western Development Action launched by the Chinese government have resulted in successful ecological restoration and protection over the past 30 years. These programs have contributed not only to conservation of soil and water, but also to economic development. At the same time, however, these developmental interventions have brought new challenges that have not yet been fully addressed. The book describes (1) case studies of success and failure in practice, including rare success stories of combating desertification; (2) technical issues such as erosion control and breeding of stress-tolerant plant species, and socioeconomic measures taken by the Chinese government and lending policies with support from the World Bank; and (3) comprehensive measures against desertification, such as water and wind erosion, salinization, and deforestation. This volume is recommended for researchers and students above the undergraduate level in diverse fields including soil science, rural engineering, social technology and civil engineering, biology, ecology, climatology, physical and human geography, and developmental economics, among others. It also serves as a valuable resource for engineers, government officials, and NPOs and NGOs involved in afforestation, ecological restoration, combating desertification, disaster prevention, and sustainable rural development.

This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measures evolved from the simplistic aid of the 1950s to Xi Jinping’s precision poverty alleviation and its goal of eliminating absolute poverty by 2020. The book also addresses the implications of China’s experience for other developing nations tackling not only poverty but such issues as pandemics, rampant urbanization and desertification exacerbated by global warming. The first of three parts draws upon interviews of rural and urban Chinese from diverse backgrounds and local and national leaders. These interviews, conducted in even the remotest areas of the country, offer candid insights into the challenges that have forced China to continually evolve its programs to resolve even the most intractable cases of poverty. The second part explores the historic, cultural and philosophical roots of old China’s meritocratic government and how its ancient Chinese ethics have led to modern Chinese socialism’s stance that “poverty amidst plenty is immoral”. Dr. Huang Chengwei, one of China’s foremost anti-poverty experts, explains the challenges faced at each stage as China’s anti-poverty measures evolved over 70 years to emphasize “enablement” over “aid” and to foster bottom-up initiative and entrepreneurialism, culminating in Xi Jinping’s precision poverty alleviation. The book also addresses why national economic development alone cannot reduce poverty; poverty alleviation programs must be people-centered, with measurable and accountable practices that reach even to household level, which China has done with its “First Secretary” program. The third part explores the potential for adopting China’s practices in other nations, including the potential for replicating China’s successes in developing countries through such measures as the Belt and Road Initiative. This book also addresses prevalent misperceptions about China’s growing global presence and why other developing nations must address historic, systemic causes of poverty and inequity before they can undertake sustainable poverty alleviation measures of their own.

- A New Order

The most comprehensive English-language overview of the modern Chinese economy, covering China's economic development since 1949 and post-1978 reforms--from industrial change and agricultural organization to science and technology.