Since 2010, Shenzhen's Qianhai zone has piloted cross-border legal, financial and professional-recognition rules with Hong Kong. By December 2025 it hosted 10,500+ …
Shenzhen, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 19%81/100
Recognised in 1988 as China's first state-level high-tech zone, Zhongguancun in Beijing grew from a district electronics market into a technology-transfer hub …
Beijing, China
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 45%74/100
Since 1989, the China Children and Teenagers' Fund's Spring Bud Project has funded schooling, mentoring and skills training for 4.22 million disadvantaged …
A 12-week RCT with 190 Chinese university EFL students found Grammarly-based automated writing evaluation significantly improved task achievement, coherence, lexicon and grammar …
Tangshan, China
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 33%53/100
A 14-hectare former steel-mill and shipyard on Shanghai's Huangpu River was rebuilt as a 1-mile constructed wetland that biologically treats ~2,400 tonnes …
Shanghai, China
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 33%53/100
China's first Verra- and CCB Gold-certified blue carbon project restored 380 hectares of mangroves in Zhanjiang (2015–2019), expected to offset 160,000 tonnes …
Zhanjiang, China
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 66%53/100
Shenzhen's courts deployed an in-house LLM covering 85 trial procedures; judges' caseload rose 50% (495→744/year) after launch. An Oxford-published study of 139 …
Shenzhen, China
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 66%53/100
China's central government allocated CNY 20.7 billion (about US$3bn) to 16 pilot 'sponge cities' from 2015-2017; Wuhan alone built 389 water-retention projects …
China's first trans-provincial watershed PES: downstream Zhejiang pays upstream Anhui to protect Xin'an River water quality; CNY 2.2 billion exchanged 2012–2020, reducing …
Huangshan, China
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 43%53/100
A commercial adaptive-tutoring system serving millions of Chinese students via thousands of learning centres; vendor experiments show score gains, but independent evidence …
Shanghai, China
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 85%52/100
A bilateral China-Singapore government project built a 123 km2 knowledge district in Guangzhou that has drawn over 400 enterprises, 1,300 high-level talents …
Since 2004, Zhejiang province has paid forest owners and collectives annual per-area compensation to maintain designated 'public welfare forests' for water and …
Shenzhen's Guangming District retrofitted roads and drainage with permeable pavement, swales and constructed wetlands under China's national Sponge City pilot. Runoff-control rates …
A one-week RCT with 187 Chinese dental undergraduates found ChatGPT-3.5 access alongside standard video instruction significantly improved procedural performance and cut eye-tracking-measured …
Wuhan, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 59%47/100