China New Development Awards

2020 Shortlist 

We are delighted to announce the 2020 China New Development Awards to present you with the most impactful sustainable development research books from China, published by in 2019. This is the second year we are hosting the awards. We celebrated the very first “China New Development Awards” at the Beijing International Book Fair in August 2019, as part of the ’s Sustainable Development Goals program. The book awards recognize and promote academic research that addresses pressing issues affecting the development of our societies, and seeks to provide insights into their sustainable long-term solutions. 

We will reveal the 10 winning titles of our 2020 Award by the end of August. Now please first check out the 20 shortlisted titles selected by the Award judges. Selected chapters in each title will be opened up for free access to all until 31 August. And please stay tuned for the finalists and our online celebration of the 2020 : China New Development Awards.

Shortlisted Books

Free Chapters from Shortlisted Books

Free to read our selected chapters until 30 Oct. 2020, while open access articles are available online on a permanent basis.

from the Artificial Intelligence and Inclusive Education 

Authors: Phaedra S. Mohammed, Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Greening China’s Urban Governance

Authors: Stefan Brehm, Jesper Svensson

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Golden Goose

Authors: Xu Liu, David Burnett

from the Aging Welfare and Social Policy

Authors: Yi Pan

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the South-south Cooperation and Chinese Foreign Aid

Authors: Meibo Huang

from the Environmental Sustainability in Asian Logistics and Supply Chains

Authors: Xiaohong Liu, Alan C. McKinnon, Ning Wei

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the The Palgrave Handbook of Local Governance in Contemporary China 

Authors: Jianxing Yu

from the China’s Domestic and International Migration Development 

Authors: Huiyao Wang, Lu Miao

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Winning at the Turning Point 

Authors: Fulin Chi

from the Societal Development in Rural China

Authors: Wenrong Qian


from the Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting

Authors: Joshua K. Roundy, Qingyun Duan, John C. Schaake

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Immunization Program in China

Authors: Jingshan Zheng, Huaqing Wang

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Intelligent Robotics and Applications​​​​​​, Part I 

Authors: Jize Chen, Yanning Zuo, Dali Zhang, Zhenshen Qu, Changhong Wang

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Production of Materials from Sustainable Biomass Resources 

Authors: Gen-Que Fu, Ya-Jie Hu, Jing Bian, Ming-Fei Li, Feng Peng, Run-Cang Sun

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Chinese Water Systems

Authors: Chengzi Zhou

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Smart City and Informatization

Authors: Amir Javadpour, Guojun Wang, Kuan-Ching Li

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the River Basin Management

Authors: Qing Zhou, Xiangzheng Deng, Omaid Najmuddin, Qian Zhang, Chunhong Zhao

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Advances in Food Processing Technology

Authors: Jingdun Jia, Yiqiang Ge, Xun Wei

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Shrinking Cities in China 

Authors: Ying Long, Shuqi Gao

Springer 20 px © 2020

from the Forest Carbon Practices and Low Carbon Development in China

Authors: Guoqiang Qian, Xiaochen Huang, Han Lai, Xiang Zou

Springer 20 px © 2020