Production efficiency and change characteristics of China’s apple industry in terms of planting scale

• Yu Sun,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Management, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7059-177X

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• Yonghua Lu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  * E-mail: sylyac2006@163.com

  Affiliation Department of Management, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

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• Zichun Wang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Management, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

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• Mingyue Li

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

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