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 40%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 83%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 …
Hangzhou, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 40%47/100
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 56%47/100
Since March 2022, China's Cyberspace Administration has required platforms to file algorithm and AI disclosures before deployment — 190 generative-AI models filed …
Beijing, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 56%47/100
iFLYTEK's speech-recognition AI scores spoken English in China's zhongkao and gaokao oral exams across dozens of provinces, processing millions of students a …
Hefei, China
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 56%47/100
China's May 2025 national guideline tiers generative-AI school use by age: primary pupils barred from unsupervised open-ended AI, middle-schoolers examine its logic, …
Beijing, China
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 70%40/100
Guangdong, Hainan and Shandong deployed AI 'intelligent patrol' cameras across Gaokao exam halls, while Alibaba, Tencent and Moonshot AI froze chatbot photo-recognition …
Guangzhou, China
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 70%40/100
A 30-month study tracking 26,811 middle- and high-school students in a central Chinese county found generative AI homework tools raised homework scores …
Five East China universities (Zhejiang, Fudan, Nanjing, Shanghai Jiao Tong, USTC) jointly award an 'AI+X' micro-major launched March 2025. A 2025 mixed-methods …
Hangzhou, China
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 58%40/100
Since 2011, China's Grassland Ecological Compensation Policy has paid herders 37.5-112.5 yuan/ha to reduce grazing, investing over 150 billion yuan across 13 …
Hohhot, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 58%40/100
A double-blind, pre–post RCT with 259 Fudan University students found a fine-tuned Qwen-based AI feedback system significantly improved undergraduate critical-writing quality versus …
With UNEP-GEF and EU-China funding, Ruoergai's wetland reserve administration dammed drainage canals to rewet part of the Tibetan Plateau's largest alpine peatland, …