Alibaba's Taobao and the China Disabled Persons' Federation have backed disability-led online shops since the early 2010s. A 2019 joint report counted …
Hangzhou, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%92/100
Since 2009, China Agricultural University has embedded graduate students in villages to co-develop farming practices with smallholders; a Nature-published evaluation credits the …
Quzhou County, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%81/100
Shanghai is retrofitting neighbourhoods so daily needs sit within a 15-minute walk, completing 180+ projects toward 99% population coverage by 2035. Over …
Shanghai, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%81/100
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 17%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 42%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 …
Beijing, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 22%73/100
World Bank-financed terracing, afforestation and grazing bans across 1.56M ha of China's Loess Plateau (1994-2002) cut Yellow River sediment by 57Mt/year and …
Jixian County, China
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%60/100
A Hangzhou Dianzi University-led team built ReadCraft, letting children with dyslexia co-create illustrated stories with AI before practising reading them. A controlled …
Hangzhou, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%53/100
Shenzhen verified 38,745 t of mangrove-protection carbon sink at Futian Nature Reserve (2010-2020) and auctioned 3,875 t in China's first mangrove carbon-credit …
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 27%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 27%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 62%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 …