Eastern Coastal Region Of China Research Articles

Enterprise digitization and marine economic performance: An empirical study of listed enterprises in China's maritime economy.

The scale and connectivity of marine resources make them more complex than land resource management. Although digitization has been recognized as an organizational change process that can effectively improve resource efficiency and enhance network resilience, however, gaps remain in establishing the theoretical links between digitization and marine economic performance. Based on a panel fixed-effects model, this study evaluates the interrelationships and potential mechanisms of different firms with data from annual reports of listed firms in the marine economy in the eastern coastal region of China. The results indicate that there is a 'U-shaped' relationship between digitalization and enterprise efficiency in the maritime sector, and significant heterogeneity exists in the characteristics of these enterprises. Notably, firms' technological innovation capability can modulate the 'U-shaped' relationship through the interaction of economies of scale and economies of scope. This paper highlights how digitization mitigates the fragmentation and sectionalization of marine information and addresses the digital overload and productivity paradox that firms may face in the early stages of digitization. The study suggests that institutional diversity shapes resilience. Governments need to promote top-down regulation and industry collaboration, while marine enterprises need to coevolve collaboratively with them through bottom-up internal communication and external interaction to enhance the value chain of marine enterprises.

Cytological analysis of flower development, insights into suitable growth area and genomic background: implications for Glehnia littoralis conservation and sustainable utilization

BackgroundGlehnia littoralis F. Schmidt ex Miq., an endangered plant species with significant medicinal, edible, and ecological value, is now a central concern for conservation and sustainable utilization. Investigating the physiological and ecological mechanisms leading to its endangerment and elucidating its genetic background constitutes the foundation for conducting in-depth research on G. littoralis.ResultsOur observations have revealed a significant degree of floral sterility in wild populations of G. littoralis. The inflorescences of G. littoralis are classified into three types: completely fertile, completely sterile, and partially fertile compound umbels. Moreover, the flowers of G. littoralis can be categorized into fertile and sterile types. Sterile flowers exhibited abnormalities in the stigma, ovary, and ovules. This study is the first to discover that the presence or absence of a giant cell at the funiculus during the initiation of ovule primordium determines whether the flower can develop normally, providing cytological evidence for female sterility in G. littoralis. Conversely, both fertile and sterile flowers produced normally developed pollen. Field observations have suggested that robust plants bear more fertile umbels, while weaker ones have fewer or even no fertile umbels, indicating a close relationship between flower fertility and plant nutritional status. Our model correctly predicted that the eastern coastal regions of China, as well as prospective areas in Neimenggu and Sichuan, are suitable environments for its cultivation. Additionally, Using flow cytometry and genome survey, we estimated the genome size of G. littoralis to be 3.06 Gb and the heterozygosity to be 4.58%.ConclusionThe observations and findings presented in this study were expected to provide valuable insights for further conserving its genetic resources and sustainable utilization of G. littoralis.

The Impact of Pilot Policies for Smart Cities on Carbon Emissions in Cities along the Eastern Coast of China

Based on panel data from 111 prefecture level cities in the eastern coastal region of China from 2006 to 2021, this article regards the three batches of smart city pilot policies implemented since 2012 as a "quasi natural experiment", uses the asymptotic difference in differencesAA (DID) method to explore their impact on carbon emissions in the eastern coastal region of China, and verifies the scientific and credibility of the research results through multiple robustness tests. Then, heterogeneity analysis and mechanism analysis are conducted to explore the impact mechanism of smart cities on carbon reduction according to policies. The research results indicate that, firstly, the pilot policy of smart cities is beneficial for reducing carbon emissions in the eastern coastal areas of China, and this result remains robust after robustness tests such as PSM-DID (propensity score matching), placebo test, and exclusion of other policy interferences. Secondly, the pilot policies of smart cities have different carbon emission reduction effects in cities with different characteristics, and have more significant carbon emission reduction effects on small cities, non resource-based cities, and high GDP cities. Thirdly, the pilot policy of smart cities promotes the green and low-carbon development of cities in the eastern coastal areas of China by enhancing technological level and optimizing industrial structure.

Discussion of the classification of pediatric drug clinical trials in children's hospitals in China.

This study aimed to gain insights into pediatric clinical trials conducted in children's hospitals in China and provide valuable references for the development of children's hospitals and the research and development of pediatric drugs. A comprehensive search was performed on the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (Chi CTR) and ChinaDrugTrials.org.cn to collect information on all clinical trials involving subjects under 18 years, including those conducted in children's hospitals. The retrieval period was extended until 31 December 2022. A total of 459 pediatric clinical trials were collected, comprising 299 from Chi CTR and 160 from the Drug Clinical Trial Registration and Information Publicity Platform (Information Platform). Post-marketing drug studies and phase III clinical trials accounted for the majority of research stages. These trials covered a wide range of diseases/systems, with a particular focus on respiratory system disorders, tumors, endocrine disorders, and nutritional or metabolic diseases. Chemical drugs constituted the most extensively studied category, while traditional Chinese medicine/natural drugs received comparatively less attention. Clinical trial activities were primarily geographically focused on the eastern coastal regions of China, with multicenter trials being the most predominant. Ethics committee approval was obtained for 427 studies. The pediatric clinical trials conducted by children's hospitals in China have shown an overall upward trend; however, there is limited research focusing on traditional Chinese medicine, along with significant regional and institutional imbalances. Furthermore, there is still room for improvement regarding ethical review processes. It is recommended that children's hospitals enhance their scientific research capabilities while optimizing resource allocation to meet medical service demands effectively. Additionally, fostering more research-focused children's hospitals will contribute to the high-quality development of children's health in China.

Measuring the healthcare spatial deprivation in multiple perspectives: a case study of Ningbo city

BackgroundEqualization of medical services is fundamental to the development of people-centered urbanization in Chinese-style modernization. In the past few decades, the achievements of the Chinese economy have remarkably increased the quantity and quality of healthcare services. Under rapid urbanization, large-scale population floating has led to a mismatch between supply and demand for healthcare services and raised the tension between spatial demographic reorganization and the relative stability of public healthcare service facilities. The current studies of healthcare spatial deprivation (HSD) mainly are focus on either supply, or demand, or accessibility based on census data. Therefore, it is necessary to build a multiple index that could give a physical result by using ordinary indices and mixing them together by relative methods to overcome this problem.MeasureWe chose Ningbo city, Zhejiang province, located in the eastern coastal region of China, as the study area. Moreover, from 2000 to 2020, the urbanization rate of Ningbo rapidly increased from 55.75 to 78.0%. In order to show the HSD in a rapidly urbanizing city, we first consider the subdistrict as the scale, innovatively absolve the medical accessibility to the IRD (Index of Relative Disadvantage), and construct the Index of Healthcare Relative Spatial Deprivation (IHRSD) framework. Based on the seventh national census data, we apply an IHRSD with Entropy Weight Method, 2SFCA (Two-step Floating Catchment Area Method) and GDM (Geographical Detector Model) to measure where and who are vulnerable to deprive in healthcare.ResultMeasured by IHRSD, (1) There is stronger healthcare spatial deprivation in peri-urban and developed-town in Ningbo; (2) Young childhood and fertile-women are vulnerable to healthcare spatial deprivation, in fact, they are spatially deprived in healthcare; (3) The socio-demographic attribute is a significant factor in healthcare spatial deprivation, especially the level of aging and population clustering; and (4) The relationship between healthcare spatial deprivation and accessibility shows an inverted U-shaped structure.ConclusionOur experiments show that the problems of HSD are mainly from the characteristics of the population, the layout of healthcare service institutions, the accessibility of the traffic system and the natural conditions. Although the constructions of equalization of primary medical and health services, hierarchical diagnosis, and treatment, and the “healthcare complex” are currently trying to reduce the phenomenon of HSD. Faced with groups and location, the acquisition of the accurately healthcare service supply is the key to realizing healthcare spatial equity.

Instability mechanism and failure criteria of large-span flexible PV support arrays under severe wind

Compared with independent flexible PV support, the entire structure force performance and transfer mechanism of inter-row cables and inter-span rods of flexible PV support arrays are more complex, it is easy to have large vibration or even instability failure under strong wind. In this study, the three-span and five-row flexible PV support array of a 66 MW Fishery-PV Complementary demonstration site in the eastern coastal region of China is used as the research object. The rigid body pressure measurement wind tunnel test was designed and carried out, and the wind pressure distribution characteristics of the PV panels surface were analyzed. A three-dimensional explicit dynamics model of the flexible PV support array considering inter-row cables and inter-span rods is established, and the wind-induced dynamic response characteristics and instability processes of the large-span flexible PV support array are effectively simulated. Finally, the instability mechanism of the large-span flexible PV support array is revealed, and the dual failure criteria based on structural deformation and energy increment are proposed. Results demonstrated that the maximum values of displacement and von Mises stress of the large-span flexible PV support array are concentrated in the 1st row of the span in the windward side. The array under 0° and 180° wind direction angles induces local instability and failure at wind speeds of 51 m/s and 46 m/s due to the failure of the 1st row of triangular rods and crossed diagonal rods on the windward side, respectively, and the rods instability mechanisms are Eulerian buckling mechanism and Limit point buckling mechanism, respectively. When the axial compression ratio [Δ] > 0.1 or the strain energy increment [ΔU] > 1.0 × 105J of the instability rod, the structure will be locally destabilized. This paper presents a systematic work around the wind-induced response and instability characteristics of the large-span flexible PV support array, the results are of significance for the engineering application of solar energy generation structures.

Analysis on the Substitution of Perfluoro-Octane Sulphonates in Foam-Based Extinguishing Agents in China

In this comprehensive study, we examined an extensive array of 1396 production certifications, which encompassed 136 foam-based extinguishing agent manufacturers in China. Our investigation focused on the production, application, and composition of various foam-based extinguishing agents utilized in recent years. Notably, a significant proportion of the domestic market, i.e., 64.1% of the total, consisted of fluorocarbon surfactants devoid of perfluorooctane sulfonates (PFOS). These manufacturers predominantly operated in the economically thriving eastern coastal region of China. Our research delved into the correlation between diverse parameters of foam-based extinguishing agents and their performance indices. It was observed that foam-based extinguishing agents with resistance to seawater exhibited superior performance to conventional agents in cold environments. Additionally, we synthesized the findings of PFOS-free products, which serve as promising alternatives to foam-based extinguishing agents in China. This study furnishes statistical evidence and establishes a theoretical foundation to facilitate future control measures for PFOS foam-based extinguishing agents, while promoting nationwide research and development of alternative solutions.

The Relationship between Parent-Offspring Communication and the School Adaptation of Leftover Children in Overseas Countries: The Mediating Role of Companionship and the Moderating Role of a Sense of Safety.

In the diasporic eastern coastal region of China, leftover children are a unique group of children; their social adaptation challenges are more prominent due to transnational separation from parents. This study explores the relationship between parent-offspring communication and school adaptation among leftover children. We administered questionnaires to 957 children from six schools in June and December of 2022. All students in the sample were randomly selected from within the classrooms. In total, 561 (47.95% female, mean age = 12.84, SD = 0.95) of them were leftover children. Self-report questionnaires on communication with their parents, school adaptation, companionship, and feelings of safety were used in this investigation We subsequently used SPSS software and the PROCESS plugin to analyze the relationships between variables. A significant and positive relationship was found between parent-offspring communication and school adaptation in leftover children. Companionship mediated this effect. Additionally, the impact of parent-offspring communication on companionship was moderated by a sense of safety. The study concluded that parent-offspring communication, school adaptation, companionship, and a sense of safety were all positively correlated. In addition, companionship partially mediated the relationship between parent-offspring communication and school adaptation. Moreover, a sense of safety played a moderating role. These conclusions can provide empirical support for improving the school adaptation of leftover children.

Analysis of the Proportion and Effect of Each Industry in the Eastern Coastal Region of China

Analysis of the Proportion and Effect of Each Industry in the Eastern Coastal Region of China

Spatial patterns and hotspots of plant invasion in China

Understanding the large-scale distribution patterns of invasive alien plants can not only identify potential high-risk areas but also provide key information for developing management strategies to mitigate plant invasion. Here, for the first time, we mapped the spatial distribution of 239 invasive plant species in China at much finer spatial resolution (50 × 50 km2). We also developed a new metric, invasion level score (ILS), which represent both invasive plant richness and the number of high-risk invasive plants per grid cell, to identify hotspots of plant invasion. Finally, we compared differences in invasive plant richness and ILS between protected and non-protected areas. We found that the counties and grids in the southern and eastern coastal regions of China have the highest species richness and ILS. The richness and ILS decrease from southeast to northwest China. Meanwhile, the high-risk areas for invasion level are concentrated in and around provincial capitals in the southern, eastern, and northern China. We also found that protected areas in China have significantly more invasive plants and higher ILS than non-protected areas. The grid cells with high invasive plant richness and ILS are mostly distributed in regions with high population density, likely due to urban effect. The need to direct management attention towards the southern and eastern China and particularly within protected areas was suggested by our findings. Our study provides a comprehensive assessment of the distribution and risk of invasive plants in China, as well as a scientific foundation for further advancing the prevention and management of invasive plants.

Investigation of PM2.5-bound Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their derivatives (nitrated-PAHs and oxygenated-PAHs) in the roadside environment at the eastern coastal region of China: characterization, source identification, and toxicity evaluation

Investigation of PM2.5-bound Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their derivatives (nitrated-PAHs and oxygenated-PAHs) in the roadside environment at the eastern coastal region of China: characterization, source identification, and toxicity evaluation

Perceived participation and autonomy structural relationships among related factors in patients with stroke and hypertension in China: A ISM model approach.

To explore the structural relationship between perceived participation and autonomy among older adults with stroke and hypertension in home and community-based services (HCBSs) in the eastern coastal region of China. An explorative cross-sectional study. From July to September 2021, a total of 714 respondents were reported to have stroke and hypertension, and their information was used in the analysis of this study. A multiple linear regression analysis was used to explore the factors influencing factors older adults' perceived participation and autonomy. Using the ISM model, we analyzed the factors affecting social participation in patients with stroke and hypertension and explained the logical relationships and hierarchy among the factors. The mean score of perceived participation was 58.34 ± 27.57. Age, marital status, health insurance, living status, number of children, chronic diseases, sleep time, frequency of outings, and health utility value were significant factors affecting perceived participation and autonomy with stroke and hypertension patients. Among them, health insurance is the direct factor on the surface, age, number of children, chronic diseases, sleep time, frequency of outings, and health utility value are the intermediate indirect factors, and marital status and living status are the deep-rooted factors. By the study that the hierarchical structure provides a visualization of interrelationships and interdependences among the influencing factors of perceived participation and autonomy. It also may be a significant complement to traditional variable-entered approaches and construct an optimized multidimensional perspective of participation and autonomy. Future research should focus on optimizing the living environment of older adults with stroke and hypertension to explore the model of rehabilitative intervention and help patients successfully reintegrate into their families/societies.

The impact of environmentally-specific servant leadership on organizational green performance: The mediating role of green creativity.

Due to the increasingly prominent environmental problems caused by excessive carbon dioxide emissions, many countries have put forward higher requirements for the green development of enterprises. Therefore, how to improve the green performance of enterprises has become a hot issue. Based on the social learning perspective, we examine the impact of environmentally-specific servant leadership on organizational green performance and test the mediating role of green creativity and the moderating role of power distance orientation. We test the theoretical framework by means of a questionnaire survey with a research sample of employees and their leaders working in the eastern coastal region of China. The results of the study suggest that: environmentally-specific servant leadership has a positive influence on organizational green performance; green creativity plays a mediating role between environmentally-specific servant leadership and organizational green performance; power distance orientation plays a moderating role between environmentally-specific servant leadership and green creativity; specifically, the higher the power distance orientation, the more significant the influence of environmentally-specific servant leadership on employees' green creativity. This study enriches the research on environmentally-specific servant leadership and proposes a new perspective on how to improve green performance in organizations.

A study on the association between anxiety level and family parenting styles of university students in the eastern coastal region of China

In today’s society, psychological problems are frequent among university students, especially anxiety. Family of origin is inextricably linked to a person’s mental health. Parents often have different parenting styles in the process of educating their children, and different parenting styles have different impacts on children’s psychological development. This research explores the correlation between college students’ anxiety and their family parenting styles by taking college students in the eastern coastal region as an example. This paper investigates how to prevent and alleviate college students’ anxiety by improving family parenting styles. The Chinese version of the Short-form Parenting Style Scale (S-EMBU-C) and the Sel Assessment Scale for Anxiety (SAS) were used to survey university students in Jiangsu.Family parenting style and anxiety level of university students in Jiangsu were analysed by the statistical software SPSS. The following conclusions were obtained in this study: The anxiety level of male students is higher than that of female students. Boys’ families are more likely to develop a parental rejection type of family parenting, and girls’ families are more likely to develop a parental emotional warmth type of family upbringing. The College student anxiety was positively correlated with the following factors: the rejection factor and the overprotection factor on the father and mother scales. The effect of paternal and maternal rejection on college students is actually the most important of all parenting styles. In the case of only children and non-only children, parental rejection is more likely to develop in families with only children.

Driving forces of nitrogen use efficiency in Chinese croplands on county scale

Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE, defined as the fraction of N input harvested as product) is an important indicator to understand nitrogen use and losses in croplands as an element of determining sustainable food production. China, as the country with the largest amount of nitrogen fertilizer use globally, research into NUE consistently finds it to be much lower than that in developed countries. Understanding the driving forces of the underlying causes of this low NUE is thus crucial to improve nitrogen use and reduce losses in China. Here we applied the CHANS model to estimate cropland NUE for over 2800 counties in China for the year 2017. Results showed that in most counties NUE ranged between 20% and 40%, while an NUE >50% was mainly found in Northeastern China, likely as a result of large-scale, modern agriculture operations. The source of N input and crop types significantly affected NUE in our assessment. Nitrogen deposition, straw recycling, and biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) could improve NUE, while chemical nitrogen fertilizer and manure inputs reduce NUE. Grain crops have a much higher NUE compared to vegetables, which are often over-fertilized. Moreover, NUE in Southern China is strongly influenced by natural factors such as temperature and precipitation. Specifically, NUE in the Yangtze River Delta (eastern coastal region of China) is associated with socio-economic factors including GDP and the degree of urbanization, while in North-central China, NUE is mainly determined by nitrogen input sources. These examples illustrate that approaches aiming at improving NUE need to be location-specific with consideration of multiple natural and socioeconomic factors.

The temporal and spatial pattern evolution of land-use carbon emissions in China coastal regions and its response to green economic development

Carbon emissions based on land use change have attracted extensive attention from scholars, but the current land use carbon emission accounting model is still relatively rough. Despite the continuous promotion of China’s ecological civilization strategy, whether green economic development promotes carbon emission reduction remains to be studied. This study uses the Exploratory Spatial-temporal Data Analysis (ESTDA) framework system to revise the land-use carbon emission accounting model; it integrates the NDVI adjustment index and systematically analyzes the spatial and temporal patterns and evolutionary path characteristics of carbon emissions from 2000 to 2020 for 130 prefecture-level cities in the eastern coastal region of China, a high carbon emission region. The spatial econometric model is further used to explore the impact of green economy development on carbon emissions. The results show that the spatial distribution of carbon sources and sinks in the eastern coastal cities demonstrates a year-on-year increase during the study period. The spatial distribution of carbon sources is higher in the north than in the south, and the economically developed regions are more elevated than less developed economic areas. Net carbon emissions show prominent spatial clustering characteristics. The south has a more stable internal spatial structure than the north, and the inland has a more stable internal spatial structure than the coast. Green economic development can significantly reduce carbon emission intensity and has a significant spatial spillover effect. The findings imply that policy-makers need to consider the spatial and temporal distribution and spatial correlation of carbon emissions among cities; they can achieve carbon emission reduction by formulating a more reasonable green economy development approach and implementing regional linkages.

Financial Time Series Model Based on Least Squares Support Vector Machine Predictive Control Algorithm in Financial Market

China’s financial market also faces some outstanding problems, namely, obvious structural imbalance in the size of the financial market, on the one hand, the absolute dominance of the size of the indirect financing market, mainly the bank lending market and on the other hand, the imbalance in the size of the direct financing market and the indirect financing market. At the same time, there is also a structural imbalance of the financial market among regions in China. How to verify the objective existence of such structural imbalance in different regions and measure the difference in the level of financial market development among regions is the focus of this paper. This paper constructs a financial market development level indicator system from three dimensions, equity market, bond market, and lending market, and measures the financial market development level by using inter-provincial panel data from 2001 to 2020 through neural network algorithm, time series model, and support vector machine algorithm, and analyzes the regional heterogeneity of financial market development on this basis. The results show that the overall market level of the financial industry in the eastern coastal region of China is the highest, but the intra-regional differences are also the most obvious; the overall market level of the financial industry in the northeastern region of China is the lowest, and the differences with the eastern region rise significantly; the market level of the financial industry at the provincial level in the central and eastern regions shows an all-time decreasing trend, while the western and northeastern regions of China show a convergence, then divergence, and then convergence trend. Therefore, differentiated financial policies should be implemented according to the stage of regional development in order to enhance the financial development level of each economic region and gradually narrow the regional financial development gap.

Spatial Pattern of Underground Space Development in Major Cities in China: Evaluation and Analysis

Underground space development has gradually become an organic part of China’s urban development and construction. Comprehensively developing underground space scientifically and rationally to give full play to its comprehensive benefits is the main problem faced by China’s underground space development at this stage. This research starts with the measurement of the level of urban underground space (UUS) development. This paper constructs a UUS development level measurement indicator system, which is composed of Construction of UUS (D1), urban economic development indicators (D2), and urban population development indicators (D3), which has 12 secondary indicators, and then we use entropy-TOPSIS method to quantitatively evaluate the development level of underground public space in 39 prefecture-level cities and above in my country and analyze its spatial differentiation. The results show that the urban agglomeration has the characteristics of “high-high” cluster distribution with the development level of underground space. However, the overall level of underground space development in China’s major cities is not high and there are apparent differences in the level of UUS development. In terms of spatial distribution, the sustainable development level of cities in the eastern coastal regions of China is relatively high, with towns in the central and northeastern areas ranking second and western towns and northeastern cities ranking the lowest. At the same time, we found that there is a mismatch between the underground space development index and the economic population development index in the evaluation index. Finally, some suggestions are put forward to realize the balanced development of UUS development in our country.

Temporal profiles, source analysis, and health risk assessments of parent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PPAHs) and their derivatives (NPAHs, OPAHs, ClPAHs, and BrPAHs) in PM2.5 and PM1.0 from the eastern coastal region of China: Urban coastal area versus coastal background area

The eastern coastal region of China is the area with the highest emission of PAHs in China. Therefore, understanding the sources and health risk of parent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PPAHs) and their derivatives in eastern coastal cities of China is the main basis for air pollution control. In this study, we measured the concentrations of 18 parent PAHs, 17 nitrated PAHs, 7 oxygenated PAHs, 8 chlorinated PAHs, and 13 brominated PAHs in PM1.0 and PM2.5 samples collected at an urban coastal city site and a coastal background site in 2019. We analyzed the temporal distribution, molecular composition, and sources and performed health risk assessments for both winter and summer samples. The average concentration of the PPAHs and their derivatives (all 63 compounds combined) in the PM1.0 samples accounted for 75.57% of the PAHs concentration in PM2.5 samples. The average concentration of PM2.5- and PM1.0- bound PPAHs in winter was 114.70 times higher than in summer, and their derivatives was 27.51 times. Both the combined concentrations of the 18 PPAHs and the combined concentrations of the 45 derivatives were higher in the coastal city compared to the background site during the winter (1.90 and 1.48 times, respectively), but they were comparable during the summer. The positive matrix factorization analysis indicated that the compounds mainly originated from coal/biomass combustion, industrial sources, vehicle emissions, and secondary formation. In addition, the concentration-weighted trajectories model revealed that the PAHs were mainly emitted locally in Shandong Province and surrounding areas, such as Hebei Province, Henan Province, and Bohai Sea. The compounds 1-NPYR, 2+9-BrPHE, 9,10-Cl2PHE, and 1-ClPYR dominantly contributed to the derivatives of TEQ during the winter due to their high concentrations or the high TEFs of these compounds.

Accumulation Characteristics and Dietary Exposure Estimation of Heavy Metals in Vegetables from the Eastern Coastal Region of China

The levels of six toxic metals and five essential metals in five groups of vegetables marketed in the eastern coastal region of China were analyzed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The results showed that the concentrations of six toxic heavy metals in all the vegetables did not exceed the maximum residue limits. The health risk assessment indicated that consumption of vegetables may not pose a potential noncarcinogenic risk to consumers, while there is a carcinogenic risk level of 10-5 level from inorganic arsenic exposure through vegetable consumption. Additionally, a similar trend was observed for the accumulation of toxic and essential metals. Furthermore, compared with other vegetable groups, edible fungi have a high potential to accumulate toxic and essential metals, which indicates that pollution monitoring of edible fungi should be strengthened.