Sports resources utilization efficiency, productivity change, and regional production technology heterogeneity in Chinese Provinces: DEA-SBM and Malmquist Index Approaches

• Hanzhong Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Institute of Physical Education, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China, Institute of Physical Education, Henan University, Kaifeng, China

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• Youkuan Shi,

  Roles Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Physical Education, Henan University, Kaifeng, China

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• Xuetao Jiang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Physical Education, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

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• Xiaowei Xu,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sports Education Center, Zhejiang Shuren University, Hangzhou, China

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• Wasi Ul Hassan Shah

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: wasi450@yahoo.com

  Affiliations School of Management, Zhejiang Shuren University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Economics, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1470-4861

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