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The editors have reviewed your manuscript, “XXXXXXXXX ”and I regret to inform you that we cannot accept it for publication. The editors appreciated your mentioning of a trade-off between efficiency and fairness in China, but agreed that the manuscript did not make a sufficient theoretical or empirical contribution to warrant publication in a journal like XXX that focuses on both empirical and theoretical analysis. The editors agreed that the paper could benefit from the definition of a clear argument that is substantiated by evidence, and from a thorough grammatical revision.
We appreciate your interest in SCID and wish you the best of luck in revising and submitting the manuscript elsewhere.
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