The empowerment of the high-quality development of the cultural industry through New Quality Productive Forces is not only an inevitable requirement for strengthening cultural confidence and undertaking the cultural mission of the New Era, but also a important path to building Modern Chinese Civilization. This empowerment mechanism is deeply rooted in the urgent need for the transformation and upgrading of the cultural industry and coincides with the internal logic of the cultural industry's pursuit of high-quality development. Both demonstrate a high degree of compatibility in innovation drive, market demand response, and industrial structure optimization and upgrading. New Quality Productive Forces, as a new driving force for the development of the cultural industry, achieve empowerment through four key mechanisms:firstly, the creativity stimulation mechanism, which leverages advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data to provide endless possibilities for the innovation and diversification of cultural content, accelerating the conversion process from ideation to product; secondly, the industrial integration mechanism, which breaks traditional boundaries and promotes deep integration between culture and various fields such as technology, tourism, and education, forming new modes of cross-sector collaboration and broadening the industrial value chain; thirdly, the resource allocation mechanism, which relies on digital platforms to optimize resource allocation, improve production efficiency, and ensure the most effective utilization of cultural resources; fourthly, the green and low-carbon effect, which advocates environmental protection concepts, promotes the transformation of the cultural industry towards a low-carbon and environmentally friendly direction, and achieves dual improvements in economic and ecological benefits. At the practical level, to effectively empower the high-quality development of the cultural industry through New Quality Productive Forces, six dimensions need to be addressed:firstly, strengthening technology application, encouraging technological innovation, and especially enhancing the application of digital technologies in cultural creation, dissemination, and consumption, to elevate the industry's level of intelligence; secondly, promoting cluster development, constructing cultural industry parks and characteristic industrial clusters to form scale effects and synergies; thirdly, improving financial services, broadening financing channels, providing customized financial services for cultural enterprises, and reducing financing costs; fourthly, enhancing public services, strengthening infrastructure construction, optimizing the business environment, and providing a fertile ground for the development of the cultural industry; fifthly, building a green system, promoting green production methods and consumption patterns, and achieving sustained development of the cultural industry; finally, deepening international cooperation, strengthening cultural exchanges and cooperation, using advanced foreign technologies and management experience for reference, while promoting Chinese culture globally to enhance international influence. Through this series of measures, the optimization and upgrading of the internal structure of the cultural industry can be effectively promoted, the overall competitiveness of industry chain can be enhanced, the cultural innovation vitality can be stimulated, the ever-growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people can be met, and both economic and social benefits can be achieved. More importantly, by empowering the high-quality development of the cultural industry with New Quality Productive Forces, the China's cultural soft power can be further strengthened and the international dissemination and influence of Chinese culture can be enhanced. Therefore, the empowerment of the high-quality development of the cultural industry through New Quality Productive Forces is not only a strategic choice for industrial development, but also an important path for enhancing cultural confidence and international competitiveness.

Industrial clusters are the most effective industrial organization form for the high-quality development of manufacturing and an important carrier for promoting new industrialization and developing New Quality Productive Forces. Affected by geographical conditions, resource endowments, and the stage of economic and social development, the formation mechanisms of industrial clusters vary across regions, necessitating government guidance and tailored strategies to nurture and reinforce these clusters. Focusing on the 22 key industrial clusters in Liaoning, this paper examines the formation mechanisms and main characteristics of industrial agglomerations, including those driven by leading enterprises, guided by national strategies, supported by resource endowments, underpinned by technological innovation, directed by government planning, and enabled by location advantages. Considering the current development status of industrial clusters in Liaoning and the challenges they face, such as their relatively small overall scale, low industrial agglomeration, weak local supporting capacity, imprecise investment attraction, underdeveloped leading enterprises, lack of cluster branding and recognition, limited capability in commercializing scientific and technological achievements, insufficient innovation support, inadequate planning coordination, and the need for stronger policy impetus, this paper explores development strategies tailored to different industrial clusters. It proposes countermeasures, such as strengthening coordinated planning and strengthening market promotion, implementing classified guidance with precise strategies, enhancing the construction of industrial parks to boost their carrying capacity, emphasizing the dominant role of enterprises to solidify the foundation of industrial clusters, and promoting the deep integration of industrial cluster innovation with scientific and technological innovation, etc., in order to clarify the optimization paths and specific development measures for industrial clusters.

Against the backdrop of pursuing a strategy of national rejuvenation amid profound changes unseen in a century, promoting the construction of a modern industrial system through the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation is not only a proactive choice to respond to the global technological revolution but also a crucial measure to achieve high-quality economic development in China. The deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation empowers the construction of a modern industrial system through three pathways:first, addressing gaps in the industrial technology system and deficiencies in the industrial structure system, consolidating the integrity of the industrial system; second, promoting the intelligent, green, and integrated development of industries, enhancing the advancement of the industrial system; and third, improving the level of independent control and risk resistance of industrial and supply chains, ensuring the security of the industrial system. Currently, there are four problems in China's efforts to empower the construction of a modern industrial system through the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation:first, insufficient supply of high。quality innovation factors; second, inadequate prominence of enterprises as innovation entities; third, low efficiency of the industrial system; and fourth, imperfect systems and mechanisms for the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements. Therefore, this paper proposes countermeasures and suggestions from the aspects of consolidating the foundation of high-level innovation factors, strengthening the dominant position of enterprises in innovation, improving industrial quality and efficiency, and improving the systems and mechanisms for the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements. This paper provides theoretical support and policy insights for driving the construction of a modern industrial system through the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation.

With the rapid development of the market economy, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and restructuring have become the main commercial activities in the securities market. To explore the impact and mechanism of M&A and restructuring inquiry letters on corporate ESG performance, based on the theoretical analysis, all A-share listed companies that underwent M&As and restructuring from 2015 to 2021 are selected as the research objects, and regression tests are conducted under strict control of time and individual fixed effects, further expansion analysis is conducted on the economic consequences and characteristics related to M&A and restructuring inquiry letters, and the heterogeneity of the impact of M&A and restructuring inquiry letters on corporate ESG performance under different levels of financing pressure is explored. Research has found that M&A and restructuring inquiry letters can significantly improve the ESG performance of the surveyed companies through a dual path of increasing analyst attention and alleviating information asymmetry issues. Further analysis reveals that the impact of receiving letters on a company's ESG rating is short-term, with an improvement in the quality of ESG information disclosure after receiving letters, and the mechanism of action is similar to that of ESG performance. At the same time, changes in the effectiveness of M&A and restructuring inquiry letters are revealed, and it is found that their impact on ESG performance significantly decreases after 2019. Heterogeneity analysis shows that this promoting effect is more significant in non-state-owned enterprises and enterprises with higher levels of financing constraints. This paper verifies the optimization effect of M&A and restructuring inquiry letters on corporate ESG performance, there is heterogeneity in the regulatory effects on companies under different financing pressures, indicating that the ability of companies to withstand potential risks in their financing activities weakens the promotion effect of M&A and restructuring inquiry letters on ESG performance.

Employment is the foundation of people′s livelihood and economic development. To achieve fuller and higher-quality employment is a necessary requirement for making solid progress in promoting common prosperity in China. The digital economy, as an important driving force to advance Chinese modernization, contributes to high-quality employment in multiple dimensions, including the employment structure, employment boundary, employment quality, and regional equilibrium. However, it has also triggered a series of social problems, such as the supply and demand mismatch in the labor market, structural employment contradictions, industry involution, and algorithmic hegemony. Therefore, exploring the impact of digital economy on China′s employment holds profound significance for achieving higher-quality employment and promoting common prosperity. As China′s economy moves towards a new stage of high-quality development, it should involve strengthening support for digital employment, optimizing the employment environment, improving employment-first policies, and standardizing labor management systems in platform-based enterprises during the process of promoting digital industrialization and industrial digitalization. With the fundamental goal of narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor and achieving common prosperity, it is crucial to develop a more inclusive digital economy and transform limited human capital into a new driver of high-quality economic development. Only in this way can China build resilient industrial and supply chains, fully energize its super-large market, and lay a solid foundation for inclusive economic growth and high-quality employment under the New Development Pattern.

The resilience and security of industrial chain in China's medical equipment sector have garnered significant attention, particularly in addressing various emergencies. From the perspective of New Quality Productive Forces, this paper first summarizes the current status of the resilience and security of industrial chain in China's medical equipment sector, then systematically reviews policies aimed at enhancing such resilience and security, and finally proposes countermeasures to further strengthen the resilience and accelerate domestic substitution. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China has seen continuous growth in the market shares of complete equipment and key components of medical equipment. The market shares of complete equipment in multiple sectors have exceeded 50%, and a majority of key components are now domestically produced. However, some critical components or sub-components, especially high-end, high-reliability, and premium-grade components, still rely on foreign suppliers, posing challenges to the independence and controllability of the entire industrial chain. To enhance the resilience and security of industrial chain in the medical equipment sector from the perspective of New Quality Productive Forces, continuous innovation is essential to achieve full domestic substitution. China has introduced a series of policies and measures to support industrial chain in terms of institutional design, financial investment, and industrial foundation, effectively boosting the development, resistance, recovery, control, and innovation capabilities of the sector. Looking ahead, driven by an innovation-oriented ecosystem and robust policy support, the resilience and security of industrial chain in China's medical equipment sector are expected to further improve. It is recommended that the government leverage its control over the downstream of the industrial chain as a policy tool to integrate and regulate midstream and upstream, foster a moderately competitive industrial structure, launch pilot programs for medical big data, establish unified standards and property rights systems, and actively promote the intelligentization of medical equipment.

This paper systematically elucidates the unique status and contributions of Liaohe River Culture in the formation and development of the pluralistic unity pattern of Chinese civilization, and deeply explores the spiritual connotations and outstanding values of Liaohe River Culture as a crystallization of joint creation, arduous struggle, and integrated development among various ethnic groups. Concurrently, this paper investigates how Liaohe River Culture, in the context of the New Era, can empower regional economic and social development, shape local narratives, and ultimately serve the significant strategic goal of constructing a common spiritual homeland for the Chinese nation. By employing methods such as historical analysis, literature analysis, and interdisciplinary research, etc., this paper systematically reviews the historical trajectory of the Liaohe River basin, analyzes the role of Liaohe River Culture in economic development and cultural inheritance, and reveals its intrinsic value in constructing a common spiritual homeland for the Chinese nation. Liaohe River Culture serves as a significant witness to and an integral component of the formation, development, and consolidation of the pluralistic unity pattern of Chinese civilization. Its historical process vividly illustrates the mainstream trend of interaction, exchange, and integration among Chinese ethnic groups. Liaohe River Culture encapsulates the core characteristics of being long-established and jointly created, marked by arduous struggle and collaborative progress, and demonstrating openness, inclusiveness, and assimilation. It embodies the spiritual genes of the Chinese nation that unremitting self-improvement and unity. The rich ethnic and cultural resources of the Liaohe River basin hold significant practical transformation value, which can effectively vitalize the local economy, promote social harmony, and empower rural revitalization through industrial development. The “Liaohe River Stories” represented by ancient civilizations (e.g., Hongshan Culture, Chahai Culture), folklore, and the “Six Places” Red Culture in Liaoning, are invaluable narrative resources for inheriting cultural genes, shaping collective memory, consolidating value consensus, and enhancing national cultural identity and confidence. Liaohe River Culture is not merely a brilliant gem within the treasure trove of Chinese culture, but also an indispensable cultural resource and spiritual pillar for constructing a common spiritual homeland and forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation in the New Era. Protecting, inheriting, and innovatively transforming Liaohe River Culture holds profound theoretical significance and major practical value for carrying forward cultural traditions, enhancing the cohesion and centripetal force of the Chinese nation, boosting China's cultural soft power, and promoting regional sustainable development. By examining Liaohe River Culture as a specific regional culture, this paper deeply explores its historical contributions and contemporary significance in the formation of the pluralistic unity pattern of the Chinese nation, offering a novel perspective and research pathway for constructing a common spiritual homeland for the Chinese nation. Through analyzing Liaohe River Culture and utilizing its cultural resources, this paper systematically integrates and elucidates its historical status, spiritual connotations, social functions, and contemporary values.

As a traditional heavy industry base in China, Liaoning Province possesses a solid industrial foundation in both traditional materials and advanced basic materials. However, it also faces challenges in transforming its manufacturing sector toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. Based on the perspective of industrial chain synergy and framed within the theoretical context of New Quality Productive Forces driving industrial upgrading, this paper systematically examines the current status of China's new materials industry, the strengths and weaknesses of Liaoning's new materials sector, and the driving mechanisms and implementation pathways for its upgrading. This paper finds that Liaoning holds significant advantages in the manufacturing of advanced basic materials and their application in equipment manufacturing. Nonetheless, the industry suffers from structural issues such as disrupted industrial chains, regional development imbalances, and delayed green transformation. Empowering the industry with New Quality Productive Forces can help reconstruct the value logic of the industrial chain: digital and intelligent technologies enhance production efficiency and responsiveness through data-driven R＆D, flexible manufacturing, and full life cycle management; industrial chain synergy networks improve industrial resilience through vertical integration and horizontal collaboration; and green transformation promotes sustainable development through low-carbon process innovation, circular economy systems, and green standards. This paper further proposes that Liaoning should leverage its institutional advantages to improve top-level designs that promote the development of New Quality Productive Forces and the new materials industry; utilize the capital and technological strengths of large state-owned enterprises to drive collaborative innovation among small and medium-sized private enterprises within upstream and downstream of the industrial chain; encourage universities, research institutions, and enterprises to establish collaborative innovation platforms for new materials, thereby strengthening the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, optimizing regional factor allocation, and promoting talent mobility; and the government should coordinate the division of labor across the industrial chain, establish dedicated funds to support breakthroughs in core technologies, promote the development of pilot testing platforms for new materials, and improve green finance and insurance compensation mechanisms.

Achieving equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas is an important means to bridge the gap between urban and rural development and promote common prosperity. The digital economy is an emerging economic form. Promoting the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy can effectively facilitate the construction of China's modern industrial system, enhance the momentum of high-quality development, and consolidate the material basis of basic public services in urban and rural areas. In order to maximize the potential of the digital economy to enable equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas, so as to provide strong support for achieving common prosperity, it is very important to study the influence mechanism of the digital economy on equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas. Based on the provincial panel data from 2012 to 2022, a comprehensive evaluation index system is established according to the connotations of the digital economy and basic public services in urban and rural areas. On the basis of measuring China's digital economy and the degree of equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas, a fixed effect model, a threshold effect model and a moderating effect model are used to explore the effect of the digital economy on equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas. The benchmark regression results and the threshold effect test show that the coefficient of the digital economy on equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas is positive at the significant level of 1%, and there is a significant double threshold effect, that is, the digital economy can significantly promote equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas, with a typical dynamic “N type” nonlinear effect. Through the regional heterogeneity test, it is found that the Matthew effect makes the digital economy exert a relatively stronger enabling effect on equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas in regions with high fiscal transparency and small urban-rural income gap, but exert an inhibiting effect in regions with low fiscal transparency and large urban-rural income gap. The test of the moderating effect of public service financial input as a moderating variable finds that the increase in public service financial input helps to promote equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas enabled by the digital economy, namely that public service financial input has a significant positive moderating effect in this process. Therefore, this paper puts forward the following suggestions:speed up the construction of new digital infrastructure to drive the development of the digital economy, and effectively play the multiplier effect of digital technology elements on the supply of basic public services; accelerate the process of digital rural construction in rural areas, especially in underdeveloped areas, increase the pace of improving Internet speed and lowering prices, narrow the digital divide among different regions, and urban and rural residents, and address the deficiencies in digital public services and people's livelihood in rural areas; and take financial investment as an important starting point to ensure equitable access to basic public services in urban and rural areas, and provide financial guarantee for promoting the establishment of basic public service guarantee system in urban and rural areas.

Guided by the new development concept, the evaluation index system of high-quality economic development in China is constructed from the five dimensions of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing. The entropy method and coefficient of variation are comprehensively used to comprehensively reveal the high-quality economic development level and regional differences of 30 province-level regions in mainland China (the data of Xizang is missing) from 2011 to 2021. The research results show that the overall high-quality development level of China's economy has steadily improved; There is an imbalance in the development of various dimensions of high-quality economic development, tending towards unbalanced development, with the highest score for innovative development and the lowest level of open development, and the gap between various dimensions is gradually widening. There are significant differences in the level of high-quality economic development among different regions; The level of high-quality economic development in the central, western, and northeastern regions is significantly lower than that in the eastern region, and there is a large gap between them. The overall coordination of high-quality economic development regions is gradually strengthening, and regional disparities are gradually narrowing; The internal disparities in high-quality economic development among the eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions are uneven, showing a trend of differentiated evolution. Regional differences are the main reason for the differences in high-quality development of the Chinese economy, with the degree of differences being in the order of East Northeast, East Central, East West, West Northeast, Central Northeast, and Central West. The largest regional differences are in the eastern region, which is significantly higher than in the northeast, west, and central regions.

With the promulgation of the Measures for the Review of Science and Technology Ethics (for Trial Implementation) in China, the review of science and technology ethics has become a legal procedure for carrying out scientific and technological activities. In recent years, judiciary authorities have sought to leverage technology to modernize judicial work, and the integration of technology and the judiciary has deepened, with technology even affecting existing judicial decision-making to a certain extent. This paper provides legal reasoning and empirical analysis of the establishment and operation rules of the Judicial Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics Committee. At the legal level, the establishment of the Judicial AI Ethics Committee in the context of judicial automated decision-making is necessary, legitimate, and justified. This committee is responsible for the ethical review of the court's scientific and technological activities. At the same time, its operation rules are special “reference-based applications” based on the general review of science and technology ethics, which will inevitably conflict with general provisions to a certain extent. Its review forms, such as the granting of review powers, the formulation of review procedures, and the composition of reviewers, should be discussed from the perspective of legal doctrine, which can be used as the core element for the review of science and technology ethics at the court level, so as to accelerate the construction of the future framework of the Judicial AI Ethics Committee mechanism to address the challenges and difficulties in ethical reviews in judicial automated decision-making. Currently, judicial automated decision-making is no longer a prospect but a reality. The Judicial AI Ethics Committee must go beyond general ethical reviews and refine review standards based on specific requirements of the judicial field. At the same time, in response to the particularity of the judicial scene, more detailed ethical norms should be formulated, and the review process should be continuously optimized, to enhance the effectiveness of ethical reviews, guarantee the fairness and transparency of judicial decision-making, and ultimately achieve the organic integration of judicial automated decision-making and ethical norms.

New forms of consumption can not only meet the people's ever-growing needs for a better life but also hold an important strategic significance for expanding domestic demand, improving industrial quality and efficiency, and developing New Quality Productive Forces. On the basis of reviewing the dynamic changes in new forms of consumption, this paper analyzes its current challenges and prospects and then puts forward some suggestions. This paper reveals that, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China has achieved remarkable progress in developing new forms of consumption. Specifically, the scale of digital consumption has grown rapidly, with increasingly diversified and high-quality offerings; green consumption concepts have gained widespread acceptance, reflected in strong sales of new energy vehicles and eco-friendly home appliances; and health awareness has been significantly enhanced, driving the upgrading and expansion of health-related consumption. However, new forms of consumption in China are also faced with such challenges as an insufficient supply of high-quality products, weak income expectations among residents, and an under-optimized consumer market environment regarding regulation, standards, and infrastructure, thus inhibiting the release of consumption potential. Looking ahead to the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the prospect of new forms of consumption is promising. Technological transformations will continue to drive the development of new consumption forms and models. Green consumption is gradually becoming more widespread, injecting new vitality into the market. Changes in the demographic structure hold new momentum for new forms of consumption. Therefore, China should make efforts to create effective demands for new forms of consumption with high-quality supply, release the consumption potential by enhancing consumption expectations, and optimize the environment of new forms of consumption by strengthening the construction of “soft” institutions and “hard” infrastructure.

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made significant arrangements to create a first-class business environment characterized by market orientation, rule of law, and internationalization. The business environment has thus become a subject of intense academic and industrial focus through both theoretical and practical explorations. What kind of business environment is beneficial to improving regional innovation capacity has also become a pressing research question. Given that the business environment is a complex ecosystem, this paper adopts a complex systems perspective and uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to analyze the complex relationship between the business environment and regional innovation capacity from the perspective of configuration. The results show that a single business environment element is not a necessary condition for high regional innovation capacity, but optimizing the innovation environment universally enhances regional innovation capacity. Three types of business environment configurations can foster high regional innovation capacity: the government-led, human resource-based type driven by finance and innovation, the government and market dual-logic type driven by finance and innovation, and the type driven by the market and innovation, presenting multiple paths for improving regional innovation capacity in China. From the perspective of institutional configuration theory, this paper deeply analyzes the impact of the coupling relationship of multiple elements in the business environment on regional innovation capacity, aiming to reveal the construction path of the business environment that can cultivate high regional innovation capacity, enrich the cognitive framework of the relationship between the business environment and regional innovation capacity in theory, and provide practical references for policymakers.

This paper deeply analyzes the logical basis and value implications of the scientific worldview and methodology of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, as well as its practical requirements in the New Era. This paper persists in applying the Marxist standpoint, viewpoint, and methodology to systematically study the worldview and methodology of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, utilizes the research method of logical and historical unity, emphasizes the integration of theory and practice, and employs the basic tenets of Marxism to analyze and summarize the rationale for upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, its value, and practical application methods. The main viewpoints of this paper are as follows:upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground is the organic unity of Marxist materialism, epistemology and dialectics; the nourishment of the fine traditional Chinese culture is the cultural soil for upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground; upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground has been carried out through the practical exploration of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in its more than a hundred years of struggle, and the CPC's more than a hundred years of remarkable history is a history of constantly pursuing, revealing and practicing the truth of Marxism, which carries the genes and lineage of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground helps to enrich and develop Marxism, uphold and improve the system of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, promote cultural prosperity and enhance China's cultural soft power, and build China into a great modern socialist country. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new groud demands us: Firstly,with upholding fundamental principles at the core, to always take the right principles and traditions as the foundation and firmly uphold theoretical beliefs by adhering to the basic principles of Marxism to ensure the orthodoxy of theory; to uphold the CPC's comprehensive leadership to ensure the orthodoxy of direction; and to uphold Socialism with Chinese Characteristics to ensure the orthodoxy of essence. Secondly, it requires us to focus on innovation and actively promote advancements in the path, theory, system, and culture, injecting momentum into building China into a great modern socialist country. Thirdly, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground requires us to grasp the dialectical unity of the two. On the one hand, it requires us to treat science with a scientific attitude and achieve the dialectical unity of conformity to laws and purposiveness. On the other hand, it demands pursuing truth with the spirit of seeking truth, thereby realizing the dialectical unity of adhering to and developing truth. Not only upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground should reveal the truth, but also uphold and practice it to transform the real world by the guildance of the fundamental principles of truth and drive social progress forward in a manner that is both timely and consistent with the evolving demands of society. From the perspectives of logical basis, value implications and practical requirements, this paper offers a comprehensive theoretical exposition on upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. It puts forward a series of innovative viewpoints, providing valuable references for theoretical research and practical exploration in related fields, which facilitates a deeper understanding and application of the worldview and methodology of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, thereby offering methodological guidance for building China into a great modern socialist country.

The miniaturization of smart factories is an important path for small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve intelligent manufacturing. Using a literature review method, this paper systematically retrieves related literature on micro smart factories from databases such as CNKI, Web of Science, and Scopus. Combining studies on micro factories and smart factories, this paper defines a micro smart factory and analyzes the constituent elements of a micro smart factory from three aspects: conceptual subjects, technical foundations, and development goals. It is believed that micro smart factories have characteristics of subject specificity, technical similarity, subject applicability, and functional fundamentality compared to traditional smart factories. This paper also clarifies conceptual differences among micro factories, smart factories, intelligent manufacturing, and micro smart factories. Additionally, based on application scenarios of micro smart factories, it constructs a research framework following the logic of “influencing factors-development barriers-implementation paths-goals and outcomes”. This paper finds that influencing factors of micro smart factories involve three aspects: technological, organizational, and environmental levels. Development barriers include financial, technological, talent, and management obstacles. Building micro smart factories requires solving issues in five areas: finance, technology, talent, cognition, and management support. The goals and outcomes of micro smart factories differ at both micro and macro levels. Finally, this paper proposes future development directions for micro smart factories from four dimensions: construction and practice, theoretical framework, benefits and governance, and growth changes and boundary effects, providing references for theoretical research on micro smart factories and the future development of intelligent manufacturing in China.

The global industrial and supply chains are important platforms for the division of labor and cooperation and common development among countries around the world. At present, as profound changes unseen in a century accelerate across the world and the global economic development environment is becoming more complex and severe, China is accelerating the optimization of the international cooperation layout of its industrial and supply chains and further expanding new space for international economic and trade cooperation. Against this backdrop, Northeast China, as an important gateway for China's opening up to the north, should deepen international cooperation in industrial and supply chains as an inevitable path to achieve its comprehensive revitalization and development. Based on the theories of economic globalization, global value chain, and industrial structure evolution, this paper adopts the methods of statistical analysis and comparative study, focusing on the three northeastern provinces, to comprehensively analyze the industrial characteristics of Northeast China. It also reviews the current situation of international cooperation in the industrial and value chains from five aspects. This paper holds that under the current international circumstances, Northeast China is presented with new development opportunities. Increased national policy support for its revitalization has provided impetus for the region to deepen international industrial cooperation. The region needs to base itself on domestic and international development circumstances. At the strategic level, the region should further leverage the alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative with frameworks like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to accelerate its integration into the unified national market and global value chain. From the industrial perspective, emphasis should be placed on building broader industrial and value chains in manufacturing, agriculture, cross-border e-commerce, and the ice-and-snow cultural tourism economy. From the perspective of key regions, efforts should be made to strengthen industrial chain cooperation with the Asia-Pacific and the EU, deeply promote the joint construction of production capacity chains with Mongolia and Russia, and improve industrial and supply chain services by taking the construction of international industrial parks as key platforms, so as to achieve high-quality economic development through high-level industrial cooperation.

“People-centered” philosophy is the main dimension of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, which profoundly reflecting the core connotation and value orientation of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. A multi-dimensional analysis of people's subjectivity in Xi Jinping Thought on Culture helps to grasp literary and artistic leadership policies in the New Era and guide cultural construction in the New Era. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, while inheriting and developing Marxist humanism philosophy, represents both a continuation and advancement of the literary and artistic policies upheld by the successive generations of the central collective leadership of the Communist Party of China, as well as a profound comprehension of the laws governing and promoting socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, thus possessing rich theoretical implications. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture is a significant achievement in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, which profoundly reflecting the people's subjectivity through three dimensions:the subject in practice, the subject in cultural creation, and the subject for cultural evaluation. First, the people act as the principal force in cultural creation, constituting the main body of historical development. Their practical activities form the foundation of both material and spiritual social life. As the driving force behind historical progress, the people are the creators of history. Second, the people constitute the central focus of cultural creation. It is essential to consistently regard the people as both the subjects of representation and reception, firmly uphold the Marxist perspective on literature and art, and steadfastly adhere to a people-centered creative orientation. Third, public recognition serves as the fundamental criterion for cultural evaluation. The realization of the value of cultural products ultimately hinges on the validation by the people, which represents not only a market-driven selection, but also a value-oriented endorsement. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, the emphasis on people's subjectivity is aimed at achieving the free and comprehensive development of individuals, consolidating spiritual strength to lay an ideological foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and contributing Chinese wisdom to provide new experience in creating a new form of human advancement.

Urban transportation is one of the key sectors contributing to urban carbon emissions. Investigating efficient carbon reduction paths is of significant importance for promoting the high-quality development and green, low-carbon transformation of the transportation sector. Beijing, a city with a dense population and frequent economic activities, has considerable energy consumption and carbon emissions in its transportation sector. The Chinese government has pledged to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Therefore, studying the relationship between transportation carbon emissions and economic growth in Beijing, as well as exploring effective carbon reduction measures, is crucial for achieving these goals. This paper takes Beijing as a case study and employs a “top-down” approach to calculate the annual carbon dioxide emissions from its transportation sector. It analyzes the decoupling status between transportation carbon emissions and economic growth and constructs a system dynamics model for urban transportation carbon emissions. The model considers multiple subsystems, including the population and economy subsystem, the transportation subsystem, the energy and carbon emissions subsystem, and the private car cost subsystem. By simulating and forecasting the trends in carbon dioxide emissions from urban transportation in Beijing, the study investigates the changes in emissions under various carbon reduction strategies. The study calculates and analyzes the carbon emissions from Beijing's transportation sector, revealing an increasing trend in recent years. It also shows that the decoupling status between transportation carbon emissions and economic growth is characterized by either an expanding or weak decoupling, failing to achieve the ideal state of strong decoupling. Based on this, the study develops a system dynamics model for urban transportation carbon emissions and simulates the emission trend variations under different scenarios. The results indicate that adjusting the vehicle energy structure, controlling private transportation demand, and improving energy efficiency are effective measures for reducing transportation carbon emissions. Promoting new energy vehicles, implementing stringent traffic restriction policies, and enhancing energy-saving technologies can significantly reduce transportation carbon emissions. This paper not only examines the ecological benefits of implementing carbon reduction measures from a policy perspective but also assesses their economic benefits, thereby enriching the evaluation framework of transportation carbon reduction policies. Furthermore, the study considers the cost changes for consumers resulting from policy implementation, comprehensively evaluating the implementation effects and guiding role of the policy from both the ecological and economic benefits. The findings offer valuable guidance for government departments in selecting efficient and rational carbon reduction policies, which will help promote high-quality economic development and high-level protection of the ecological environment. Additionally, the research provides insights for low-carbon transportation development in other regions and holds significant theoretical and practical values for achieving the green and low-carbon transformation of the transportation sector.

At the ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), General Secretary Xi Jinping summarized the CPC's century-long experience in theoretical innovation and explicitly proposed the significant proposition of integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with fine traditional Chinese culture, namely the “Second Integration”. Later, at the meeting on cultural inheritance and development in 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping further emphasized that the “Second Integration” is another manifestation of our commitment to freeing the mind. This has laid a solid cultural foundation for the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New Era, demonstrating that the CPC has reached new heights in promoting theoretical innovation and strengthening cultural confidence by inheriting fine traditional Chinese culture. In-depth study and a profound grasp of the connotation of the “Second Integration” hold great significance for upholding the guiding role of Marxism, establishing a connection between tradition and modernity, continuously advancing theoretical innovation, and fulfilling new cultural missions. From a cultural perspective, the “Second Integration” adheres to a grand view of history. It places the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with fine traditional Chinese culture within the century-long historical development of the CPC, clarifies the internal mechanism of integrating the “soul vein” of Marxism with the “root vein” of fine traditional Chinese culture, and employs the methodology of unifying logic and history to deeply explore the successful experience gained from this integration. Research findings reveal that the “Second Integration” has accumulated major experience in three aspects:the subjective consciousness of persistence through collision and selection, the path optimization of inheritance and integration, and the mission-driven commitment to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. The experience carries vital importance for implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, achieving the “Second Integration”, and advancing the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture.

The sense of community for the Chinese nation is the foundation of ethnic unity, an emotional bond of national identity and ethnic integration, and a source of strength for the continuous development of the Chinese nation. Systematically reviewing the theoretical foundation, historical context, and practical paths through which the Communist Party of China (CPC) forges a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is not only a three-dimensional perspective for grasping the general development trend of the Chinese nation but also a necessary path for revealing the internal laws governing the evolution of the CPC's ethnic work. As the main thread of the CPC's ethnic work in the New Era, forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation presents a theoretical construction with threefold ideological origins: taking Marx's community thought as its philosophical foundation and inheriting the value pursuit of the “association of free individuals”; upholding adapting Marxist ethnic theory to Chinese context and needs of times as its methodology to innovate and develop the pluralistic unity concept of the nation; and drawing cultural nourishment from traditional political wisdom of Chinese civilization, such as “great unity” and “harmonious coexistence”, to achieve the modern transformation of fine traditional Chinese culture. Over the past century, the CPC's efforts to forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation have undergone dual tests of practice and history, evolving through four interconnected development stages: fermentation and foundation-laying, exploration and establishment, innovation and development, and maturity and sublimation. In the practical context of the New Era, forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation has formed a promotion path integrating economic, political, cultural, and social dimensions. This involves a comprehensive deployment and integrated advancement of four components: solidly promoting common prosperity, firmly advancing political identity, stimulating deep-seated cultural identity, and promoting interaction, exchange, and integration. This multi-dimensional and integrated practical system inherits the historical wisdom of Chinese civilization and responds to the development needs of the New Era, rallying strength and focus for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In recent years, China′s digital economy has developed rapidly, and digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data have also shown accelerated growth, which has become an important force in improving urban carbon productivity. This paper selects panel data from prefecture-level cities in China from 2010 to 2022 for empirical testing and employs a two-way fixed effects model for benchmark regression analysis. Then, this paper conducts robustness tests by replacing the dependent variable and changing the sample size, performs heterogeneity tests across different regions, and carries out transmission mechanism tests by enhancing green technology innovation capabilities and promoting industrial structure upgrading. The research results indicate that the digital economy promotes urban carbon productivity by enhancing green technology innovation capabilities and promoting industrial structure upgrading. Based on these findings, this paper proposes countermeasures and suggestions, such as breaking through digital technology barriers, enhancing innovation capabilities, narrowing the digital divide between different regions, promoting regional coordinated development, optimizing industrial and energy structures to improve carbon productivity, and fully leveraging the role of green technology innovation in boosting carbon productivity.

In the face of increasingly complex economic situation in the world, the integration of business development with digital technology application has accelerated enterprise digital transformation, making it a key strategy for enterprise adaptation. Against the backdrop of shrinking foreign trade demand, the impact of enterprise digital transformation on export resilience has received growing attention from both academia and industry. Using data from the CSMAR database and annual reports of listed companies, this paper takes the 2020 public health crisis as an exogenous shock and applies a Difference-in-Differences (DID) approach to examine how enterprise digital transformation affects export resilience and its underlying mechanisms. The baseline results show that digitally transformed enterprises exhibit stronger export resilience after the shock, demonstrating the positive role of digital transformation in enhancing export resilience. The findings remain robust and highly credible across multiple tests. Mechanism analysis reveals that the current ratio plays a positive mediating role in the effect of digital transformation on export resilience, implying that digital transformation strengthens export resilience under external shocks by enhancing financial liquidity. Furthermore, digital transformation can significantly alleviate insufficient innovation investment, thereby improving export resilience. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the positive effect of digital transformation on export resilience is more pronounced in state-owned enterprises and enterprises in the eastern region of China. This paper aims to enrich the current academic findings on the effect of digital transformation and provide empirical evidence for enterprises developing digital transformation strategies.

The consumer goods industry serves as a strategic industry of the national economy, and its brand building is crucial to corporate benefits and the market landscape. In the past development process, Liaoning Province, by virtue of its outstanding industrial heritage, industrial system, abundant resources, and other advantages, has laid a solid foundation for cultivating high-quality brands in the consumer goods industry. In order to implement the strategic goal of “building a trillion-yuan high-quality and characteristic consumer goods industrial base” proposed at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 13th Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, this paper, based on the actual industrial development in Liaoning, systematically analyzes the multi-dimensional advantages of the consumer goods industry and further discusses the multiple problems faced in the current development, such as inadequate strategic planning for brand building and limited industrial scale and brand value, severe insufficiency in effective supply of consumer goods industry, a lack of well-known leading brands and weak market expansion capability, and fragmented brand promotion efforts, etc. On this basis, this paper proposes the development strategy of the “Ingenious Liaoning Products” brand and puts forward systematic implementation paths and safeguard measures of brand building in consumer goods industry in Liaoning Province. These include improving the top-level design to optimize the brand building environment, establishing an “Ingenious Liaoning Products” brand catalog to construct “four beams and eight pillars” for high-quality consumer goods, nurturing leading brands through scientific and technological innovation to enhance effective supply in the consumer goods industry, and precisely developing characteristic brands through the “Ingenious Liaoning Products” image project, etc.

As an important path to promote common prosperity, the inclusive development of digital technology has significantly optimized the income distribution pattern by empowering the three distribution mechanisms. Based on the Inclusive Green Development Follow-up Survey (IGDS) data in the first quarter of 2024, this paper systematically examines the impact of digital technology on primary, secondary, and tertiary distribution. The findings are as follows. At the primary distribution level, digital skills have significantly improved workers′ income levels by reconstructing the labor market, with the income growth effect being particularly prominent among groups with high digital skills. However, skill stratification has exacerbated the income gap. At the secondary distribution level, the transformation of government governance driven by digital technology has effectively improved the fairness and efficiency of the secondary distribution policies through intelligent tax supervision, precise social security, and digital public services. At the tertiary distribution level, digital technology has increased charitable donations by reducing participation costs, enhancing information transparency, and broadening donation channels, initially shaping a collaborative mechanism between marketization and socialization. Nevertheless, the digital divide persists, manifested as the structural disadvantages of rural and low-skilled groups in terms of access to, use of, and benefit from technology. Based on this, it is proposed a four-dimensional policy system of “digital skills training-balanced infrastructure-digital and intelligent taxation-charity transparency” to consolidate the institutional foundation of common prosperity through the inclusive development of digital technology.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has always been unswervingly pursuing corrupt fugitives and retrieving stolen assets, which achieving remarkable results. However, it also faces the regulatory dilemma of insufficient fugitive pursuit efforts and insufficiently sound rule of law fugitive pursuit mechanism. As an institutional response, the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China was amended in 2018 to add a criminal procedure for trial in absentia. Up to this day, there is only one case, the Cheng Sanchang case, under the “fugitive-type” criminal procedure for trial in absentia, and the application rate is abnormally low. Fundamentally, this is not only because the procedure for trial in absentia may focus on deterrence and other reasons, but also because the procedure has not achieved an integrated construction. Therefore, on the occasion of the fourth amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law, it is necessary to reconstruct the procedure for trial in absentia to facilitate its transition from segmentation to integration. China's “fugitive-type” criminal procedure for trial in absentia is essentially an in absentia procedure, consisting of three parts, namely, investigation in absentia, prosecution in absentia, and trial in absentia, with the first two constituting the pre-trial part of the procedure. Using normative research and countermeasure research, this paper examines the current application status of this procedure. It is believed that there are problems such as the scope of investigation in absentia not taking into account the trial, the limited procedural control of the procuratorial authorities, and the lack of guarantee of the right to defense throughout the whole process. These problems result in the pre-trial procedure being separated from the trial procedure and make the procedure show the characteristics of segmentation, which seriously hindering the application of the procedure. The research found that the procedural segmentation has the disadvantages of linearization of the litigation structure affecting the procedural legitimacy, nominal court hearings restricting the procedural substance, and pre-trial procedural functioning in a generalized manner restricting procedural effectiveness. Based on legal interpretation and legislative arguments, the integration of the procedure should give play to the synergistic resonance effect between the pre-trial procedure and the trial procedure, improve the procedural initiation mechanism centered on the supervisory power, construct the procedural control mechanism centered on the procuratorial power, and construct the human rights safeguard mechanism centered on the right to defense, so that the supervisory power, procuratorial power, right to defense, and right to trial can interact effectively, and better play the due role of the procedure in pursuing corrupt fugitives. The innovation of this paper lies in the fact that, on the basis of the existing theories, the procedure is examined externally from the new perspective of integration, and the reasons for the low application rate of the procedure are explored through the phases and coherence of the procedure, rather than being limited to the specific construction of an internal detail of the procedure. This paper will help to improve the ontological framework of the “fugitive-type” criminal procedure for trial in absentia, provide a truly applicable procedure for pursuing corrupt fugitives, facilitate the legalization of China's pursuit of corrupt fugitives, and offer corresponding references for the fourth amendment of the Criminal Procedure Law.

As a crucial instrument in civil and commercial transactions, valuation adjustment mechanism (VAM) agreements are commonly utilized in private equity and venture capital investments. This paper analyzes the causes of obstacles in the performance of equity repurchase-based VAM agreements, attributing them primarily to the facts that the Minutes of the National Courts' Civil and Commercial Trial Work Conference fails to effectively address the relationship between capital reduction procedures and equity repurchase, and treats them as bundled requirements, and the investor is in a disadvantaged position in terms of equity proportion in the target company, which prevents them from dominating capital reduction procedures. This paper argues that equity repurchase-based VAM agreements should be characterized as contracts with conditions attached to their terms rather than as aleatory contracts or conditional contracts. Specifically, the failure of the VAM agreement is an agreed-upon intentional condition for equity repurchase. To overcome obstacles in performance, the provisions of Article 159 of the Civil Code regarding the improper obstruction of the fulfillment of conditions can be analogously applied to resolve the predicament of malicious refusal to initiate capital reduction procedures. Since the equity repurchase claim has become enforceable, target companies that fail to fulfill their repurchase obligations may be held liable for breaches of contract. As ultimate remedies for such breaches, investors may seek compensation under debt law provisions for delayed performance or request for the return of the original property as property right holders.

Ordered to await investigation, as a non-custodial compulsory measure added in the new Supervision Law, has the dual functions of ensuring the efficiency of supervision procedures and restricting the arbitrary exercise of power. However, its alignment with the principles of the rule of law and rights protection still need to be improved. This paper analyzes the nature orientation and value guidance of ordered to await investigation, arguing that the current norms suffer from ambiguities in legal application, inadequate rights protection of persons ordered to await investigation, and unclear connection mechanism between ordered to await investigation and criminal procedural compulsory measures. These legislative omissions have expanded the discretionary space for the operation of the supervision power and increased the risk of the procedural justice and rights protection being nullified. Based on the value orientation of the rule of law and rights protection, the improvement of the system needs to be premised on legislative refinement. This can be achieved by clarifying the specific legal application of ordered to await investigation, perfecting the rights relief system for persons ordered to await investigation, reducing the space for the abuse of discretion by incorporating the principle of proportionality review and establishing a hierarchical approval procedure, strengthening the external supervision mechanism for rights relief, integrating the procuratorial organs into the supervision objection and appeal procedure, and refining the substantive connection rules between ordered to await investigation and criminal procedural compulsory measures. Only by promoting the rule of law transformation of the operation of supervision power and the coordinated optimization of the rights protection mechanism can the dynamic balance between anti-corruption governance effectiveness and procedural justice be achieved, and sustained legal impetus be injected into the supervision system reform.

The relationship between the digital economy and residents′ cultural consumption involves not only micro-level issues closely related to residents′ daily lives but also macro-level issues concerning the formulation of cultural consumption policies in China. By combining macro and micro data, this paper constructs an evaluation index system for China′s digital economic development from three aspects: digital infrastructure, digital application, and digital innovation. It calculates the comprehensive index of digital economic development for 30 provincial-level regions in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Xizang) from 2011 to 2021 and empirically examines the impact of digital economic development on households′ cultural consumption level and its mechanism. This paper finds that the digital economy significantly enhances households′ cultural consumption level, with significant heterogeneity among households at different life cycle stages, with different income levels, and in different regions. Specifically, the digital economy exerts the most significant positive effect on cultural consumption in households with a household head aged 60 and above, followed by those with a household head aged 30 to 39; it most significantly boosts cultural consumption in upper-middle-income households, with high-income households ranking second; and the promoting effect of the digital economy on the central and western regions is greater than that on the eastern region. The results of the mediation effect test show that the digital economy elevates households′ cultural consumption level by increasing per capita net income on the demand side and facilitating industrial structure upgrading on the supply side. Therefore, it is necessary to actively encourage the innovative development of the digital cultural industry, enrich the supply of digital cultural products to meet the cultural consumption needs of different groups, and at the same time cultivate and expand new forms of digital cultural consumption, expand cultural consumption scenarios, and release the potential of digital cultural consumption.

Against the backdrop of a new round of technological revolution accelerating the digital transformation of traditional industries, China's home appliance industry is experiencing profound changes. Grounded in the context of industrial digital transformation, this paper focuses on how digital technologies reshape the supply-demand structure and operational logic of the home appliance industry. It systematically analyzes the internal mechanisms, practical progress, and major constraints of digital transformation in China's home appliance industry, revealing its significance in promoting industrial structure upgrading and transformation of development models. Employing an approach that integrates analysis with synthesis and unifies logical and historical perspectives, this paper conducts a comprehensive structural analysis of the evolution of China's home appliance industry in manufacturing systems, channel structures, factor allocation, product forms, and consumption patterns from both the supply and demand sides. The findings show that, on the supply side, manufacturing processes have been upgraded toward smart factories and new production models, improving efficiency and precision of production and meeting personalized customization needs; in sales, traditional channels are being upgraded while new channels are emerging, with social e-commerce growing swiftly; at the product level, terminals are becoming digitalized, intelligent, and system-oriented, forming product ecosystems; in terms of factor allocation, information platforms integrate the entire industrial process and promote intelligent matching between supply and demand. On the demand side, in the digital era, home appliance consumption demand is shifting toward intelligence and personalization, with consumption habits characterized by scenario-based usage and a greater focus on services; the emergence of new consumer groups further drives products toward intelligent and scenario-based development. Nevertheless, in the face of rapid digital technological advancement, China's home appliance industry still suffers from inadequate capacity for digital transformation, challenges in building digital ecosystems, and relatively outdated service concepts and models. Looking ahead, China's home appliance industry needs to accelerate digital transformation, innovate customer value, build “home appliance interconnection” platforms, and develop new sales channels and intelligent new retail scenarios, in order to achieve high-end, green-oriented and intelligent development.

This paper aims to clarify the coupling and coordination relationships among the three systems of basic public services, new urbanization, and industrial transformation and upgrading. It measures the comprehensive development levels of basic public services, new urbanization, and industrial transformation and upgrading in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region as a whole and in its sub-regions, as well as the degree of coupling coordination in their development. The study also aims to distinctly categorize the current types of coordinated development among the three systems in the BTH region and analyzes the factors influencing the coupling and coordination development of these systems. This paper constructs a comprehensive index system for basic public services, new urbanization, and industrial transformation and upgrading in the BTH region, employs the entropy method to determine the weights of the indicators, and subsequently uses a comprehensive development level evaluation model to measure the development status of each system. It also applies the coupling coordination degree model to ascertain the coupling and coordinated development of the three systems in the BTH region, and to identify the coupling coordination types of the three systems in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. Finally, this study uses the grey relational analysis model to calculate the grey relational coefficients, thereby analyzing the factors that influence the coupling and coordinated development of the three systems. Based on the research of data from 2009 to 2022 in the BTH region, the following findings are observed. Firstly, overall, the development levels of basic public services, new urbanization, and industrial transformation and upgrading in the BTH region have increased. Secondly, when examining the sub-regions and systems, all three areas in the BTH region show a pattern of “basic public services level>new urbanization level>industrial transformation and upgrading level”. Thirdly, the coupling coordination evaluation results indicate that the level of coupling coordination among the three systems in the BTH region has gradually increased, with Beijing and Hebei shifting from a “barely coordinated” to a “well-coordinated state”, Tianjin adjusting from a “near dysfunctional state” to a “well-coordinated state”, and all three areas moving from the “transitional harmonized” to the “coordinated development interval”. Lastly, education and culture have the greatest impact on the coupling and coordinated development of the three systems in Beijing and Hebei, while infrastructure has the most significant influence on Tianjin. Therefore, in promoting the coupling coordination development of the three systems, it is necessary to formulate differentiated regional development strategies.

New Quality Productive Forces are the fundamental force to comprehensively advance Chinese modernization, and intellectual property rights (IPR) are the internal requirements and important focus to promote the development of New Quality Productive Forces. The IPR judicial practice plays multiple roles in promoting the development of New Quality Productive Forces. The people's courts, taking the IPR judicial practice as a starting point, explore specific paths to empower New Quality Productive Forces, which is consistent with the generative logic and development direction of New Quality Productive Forces. By systematically reviewing the research results of the people's courts at all levels in China and combining typical cases in the judicial field, this paper examines the research status, practical effects, and structural assumptions of IPR judicial practice empowering New Quality Productive Forces from the perspectives of literature, cases, and theory. It explores and demonstrates the value structure and theoretical model of IPR judicial practice empowering New Quality Productive Forces and proposes specific paths and hierarchical plans for this empowerment effect. This paper finds that IPR judicial practice achieves its empowerment effect through methods such as element extraction, mechanism innovation, and overall protection. Its judicial content, judicial process, and judicial results jointly constitute the theoretical model of the empowerment process. The operational basis of this model lies in the fact that the logic of IPR judicial practice empowering New Quality Productive Forces is premised on typified cases, promoting continuous technological breakthroughs and innovative allocation of production factors through differentiated judicial treatment methods, ultimately driving the deep transformation of industrial models. The operational logic of this model is rooted in the interconnectedness of IPR judicial practice and the elements of New Quality Productive Forces, and its judgment results can shape the relerant rule of New Quality Productive Forces. Through IPR judicial practice, it can maintain and enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises, guide the formation of advanced production relations, improve total factor productivity, and ultimately have the overall effect of empowering New Quality Productive Forces. With the continuous deepening of IPR judicial practice and related research, the hierarchical plans for IPR judicial practice empowering New Quality Productive Forces should be further developed from four dimensions:the conceptual elevation from rights protection to empowerment for New Quality Productive Forces, the process cultivation from element identification to precise application, the interpretation of judicial judgments from a new perspective, and the release of effectiveness of promoting the development of New Quality Productive Forces from individual cases to similar cases.

The Law of the People's Republic of China on Specialized Farmers Cooperatives (hereinafter referred to as the Law) is rich in empowerment ideas. Significant achievements have been made in the study of cooperative empowerment across various disciplines such as economics, sociology, political science, and management. However, legal research has not adequately addressed the legal empowerment of cooperatives and their members based on ontology empowerment of the Law, and there is still room for further research. Legal empowerment is precisely the fundamental empowerment of cooperatives and their members, and an in-depth analysis of this empowerment is conducive to highlighting the profound theoretical and practical background and long-term objectives. Based on ontology empowerment norms of the Law, starting from the principle that the law is a social habit and ideological achievement, this paper integrates the concepts of empowerment, the endogenous power of specialized farmers cooperatives and their members, and rural revitalization. The research results indicate that there is a closed-loop mechanism among empowerment, endogenous power, and rural revitalization. The five types of empowerment in the Law embody the important ideas of ontology empowerment of the Law. The essence and characteristics of ontology empowerment are reflected in the following aspects: for enhanced endogenous power, the empowerment of legal attributes to cooperatives serves as the foundation, the empowerment of cooperatives through policies are driving forces, the empowerment in cooperative markets is crucial, the empowerment of cooperative organizations is the guarantee, and the empowerment of cooperative members forms the basis. The closed-loop operation mechanism and five types of empowerment bring new perspectives and results to the study of empowerment of the Law. The five types of empowerment, endogenous power, and rural revitalization in the Law form a closed-loop empowerment pattern under the promotion of theoretical and practical logical forces, revealing the inherent mechanism of linkage between empowerment and endogenous power as well as rural revitalization, and the feasibility of forming a closed-loop framework for enhancing endogenous power and achieving rural revitalization through empowerment. The law is the core and cornerstone in supporting the development of cooperative system. The legal empowerment of cooperatives will be continuously optimized and refined in accordance with the evolving goals of rural revitalization and their future upgrades. As cooperatives continue to encounter new problems in their ongoing development, these problems will become new topics for the evolution of cooperative empowerment ideas. Analyzing new topics will be more helpful in improving the ontology empowerment concept of the Law and advancing rural revitalization across the board.

With the in-depth advancement of the Internet Power strategy, the big data strategy, and the development of a digital economy during the 14th Five-Year Plan, China's digital economy has been continuously expanding, accounting for more than 40％ of GDP, and it has become an important driving force for promoting regional integration. The digital economy, with its spatial correlation characteristics, can break through geographical limitations and play a leading and driving role in regional economic development. However, due to the neutrality of technology and the profit-seeking nature of capital, problems such as data security, subject status alienation, and digital governance disorder have emerged during the integration of the digital economy with regional integration construction. Focusing on the dialectical relationship between the digital economy and regional integration, using literature analysis and comparative research methods, this paper analyzes the economic factual characteristics under the dual spatial superposition effect from two dimensions: foreign context and local practice. This paper finds that while integrating the digital economy with regional integration optimizes resource allocation, it also brings losses of non-economic values such as damage to data rights and alienation in the field of digital labor. This contradiction stems from the excessive pursuit of economic interests while ignoring the balance of political and social interests. Based on this, this paper reconstructs the abstract value system for big data applications. It is proposed that economic value targets should focus on data's value creation mechanism, resource optimization effect, and high standard effect as a production factor, as well as the spatial integration mechanism for the free circulation of data; non-economic value targets should strengthen citizens' data right protection and the realization of equality and justice in the field of digital labor. This paper further reveals the development tensions constituted by unbalanced resource allocation, differences in technology application capabilities, and differences in institutional implementation and proposes institutional optimization paths for value integration: constructing an institutional system in which the digital economy empowers regional integration, striking a proper balance between the government and the market, respecting market rules to maximize economic welfare output, strengthening regulatory functions to ensure the realization of non-economic goals, and coordinating regulatory tools to improve the normative system. This paper aims to provide a theoretical basis for promoting the benign interaction between the digital economy and regional integration, and it has important reference significance for promoting the construction of the data factor market, solving the problems of data silos and data barriers, and achieving coordinated regional development.

The rule of “exercising rights by rural households”, as a long-term operational rule of agricultural rights in China, carries unique historical connotations and Chinese characteristics. However, the reality of China's vague regulations on the exercise of rural households' rights is hindered by the huge contrast between the traditional Chinese household agricultural land system and the Western theory of individualistic private law, making it difficult to meet the needs of new agricultural production methods. Therefore, it is urgent to reconstruct the rule of “exercising rights by rural households” in line with the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. This paper adopts the methods of historical analysis, normative analysis, and empirical analysis, and starting from a historical perspective to deeply examines the rule of “exercising rights by rural households” and proves that the rule has historical rationality and a profound social foundation. Taking the legal norms such as the Civil Code, Rural Collective Economic Organizations Law, Law on Land Contract in Rural Areas, and Land Management Law as main research objects, the value orientation inherent in the norms themselves are analyzed, and the dilemma faced by the rule of “exercising rights by rural households” is revealed, which is rendered inapplicable due to the ambiguous legal positioning of rural households as legal subjects in China. The reality of the rule of “exercising rights by rural households” is clarified and the challenges posed by individualism and the traditional agricultural model to this rule is pointed out by examining the actual production and living conditions of rural households in China. At present, the academic community has paid attention to the importance of the positioning issue of rural households to rural revitalization, the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and the reform of rural collective assets. However, most scholars focus on the discussion of macro theories, and few conduct systematic research and analysis on the rule of “exercising rights by rural households”. Based on the unique advantages and practical value of the rule of “exercising rights by rural households” in China, this paper sorts out the existing necessity and the contradictions with the times of the rule of “exercising rights by rural households”, creatively transforms the existing parts that are not suitable for the rule, and reconstructs and discusses the future realization path of this rule, striving to innovate from the research perspective and research content. This paper draws the following conclusions: firstly, in terms of concept, we should adhere to the dialectical unity of tradition and modernity, and clarify the independent legal subject qualification of rural households based on the requirements of historicism and functionalism; secondly, in terms of institutional design, we should adhere to the principle of rural households as the center and reconstruct the rule of “exercising rights by rural households” from two aspects, namely, the external disclosure of agricultural matters and the internal rights structure of rural household members. Based on it, the legitimate rights and interests of members of rural collective economic organizations can be effectively protected, to promote the high-quality development of the rural economy.

Marx′s theory of labor liberation is not only a profound criticism of labor alienation in capitalist society but also a positive exploration of reconstruction of labor relations in future social forms. In the context of the digital economy, the rapid development of digital and intelligent technologies has profoundly changed traditional forms of labor and labor relations, and labor subjects seem to have favorable conditions for labor liberation. However, capital exploitation hidden behind the digital economy has also shackled the liberation of labor subjects profoundly. The new escalation of labor alienation and issues such as power imbalance caused by capital exploitation have triggered a series of paradoxes about the liberation of labor subjects in the context of the digital economy. While the digital economy brings opportunities for the liberation of labor subjects, it also exposes workers to the dilemma of losing their subjectivity and intensifying alienation. The reasons for the formation of the paradox of labor subject liberation can be attributed to four aspects: firstly, the private ownership system and traditional forms of division of labor still dominate; secondly, workers are gradually marginalized under the intensification of capital domination; thirdly, social equity and justice are facing challenges from the digital divide; fourthly, the imperfection of relevant policies and laws has led to the inability to guarantee the basic rights and interests of workers. In order to seek the liberation of labor subjects in the context of the digital economy, it is necessary to improve the literacy of workers to meet the development needs of New Quality Productive Forces, create fair and orderly principles and institutional norms for digital labor to safeguard labor justice, adhere to the people-centered value orientation and break the shackles of capital logic, and deepen the reform in the field of division of labor and construct a modern division of labor order that is compatible with the level of social and economic development. These paths are interrelated and mutually reinforcing, collectively constituting an effective path to break through the paradox of labor subject liberation in the context of the digital economy. They provide multidimensional solutions to reveal the complex relationship between technological progress and labor subject liberation.

From the perspective of a holistic approach to national security, the prevention and control of the invasion of alien species not only hold traditional values such as safeguarding agricultural and pastoral production security, economic and trade security, food security, and human health and safety, but also embodies the value of the times in ensuring biosecurity and enhancing national security capabilities and sustainability in the biological field. China′s inspection and quarantine system for the entry and exit of animals and plants, initially established to prevent the introduction of pests and diseases, has progressively developed into a relatively comprehensive legal framework for biosecurity assurance guided by the risk prevention principle of the Biosecurity Law. However, in terms of the legal regulation nowadays of the prevention and control of the invasion of alien species, several critical issues remain unresolved, such as the ambiguous basic concepts, the lack of standards for the identification of regulatory objects, the incomplete implementation of the risk prevention principle, the fragmented regulatory measures, and the regulatory blind spots, etc., making it difficult to fully ensure biosecurity and national security. From the perspective of a holistic approach to national security, it is necessary to take the compilation of the overarching Ecological Environment Code for the ecological and environmental sector as an good opportunity to systematically consider by placing the prevention and control of the invasion of alien species within a broader context of the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature. This legislative effort should clarify the legal definition of the invasion of alien species, establish a whole-process legal supervision system for risk prevention and damage prevention separately based on risk levels according to “general alien species” and “invasive alien species”, construct an interconnected, interactive, and integrated prevention and control system under the whole-process prevention and control principle characterized by internal coordination among administrative agencies, and collaborative participation from diverse social stakeholders, and encourage public participation in the prevention and control of the invasion of alien species.

Modern economic development has offered vast non-agricultural employment choices for the rural labor force. Nevertheless, this off-farm behavior has simultaneously challenged the traditional labor-intensive agricultural production model. As the land plots contracted by rural households in China are generally small in size, it is difficult to mitigate the agricultural production losses resulting from rural labor force outflows by using large-scale agricultural mechanization. In response to this practical predicament, the Chinese government is actively promoting the rural land transfer policy, aiming to optimize the allocation of land resources and enhance agricultural production efficiency to adapt to the changes in the labor structure. However, it remains undetermined whether such behavior can alleviate the contradiction between rural labor transfer and agricultural production. To explore whether rural land transfer alleviates the agricultural production disturbance caused by rural labor transfer and its threshold level, we conduct an empirical study on this issue using the sample of rural households from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study database in 2018 and contrast it with the sample in 2013 when the rural land transfer policy was not yet widely implemented. The polynomial regression and threshold regression analysis are innovatively conducted, in which agricultural productivity is the explained variable, rural labor transfer is the core explanatory variable, and rural land transfer is the threshold variable. (1) The rate of rural labor transfer, and the rate of rural land transfer in 2018 all exceed those in 2013, indicating that the three are experiencing profound changes. (2) The impact of rural labor transfer on agricultural productivity in 2018 presents a U-shaped pattern of first decreasing and then increasing, with no significant relationship between the two in 2013. By dividing the sample into two parts based on whether rural land transfer has occurred and re-conducting the polynomial regression, it is discovered that rural households who choose land transfer can significantly enhance agricultural productivity with the transfer of labor force, suggesting that rural land transfer might be a crucial reason for the alteration in the relationship between the two. (3) The agricultural productivity exerts a significant single threshold effect. When the average rural land transfer area of rural households in this sample exceeds 20.83% of the contracted rural land, rural labor transfer can significantly improve agricultural productivity, namely that promoting rural land transfer is conducive to achieving a win-win situation of non-agricultural employment for rural households and the enhancement of agricultural productivity. (4) For rural households whose land rights have been confirmed and those in grain-producing areas, the threshold value of rural land transfer is lower than the average level of the sample, namely that a relatively low degree of the threshold of rural land transfer can achieve a positive impact of rural labor transfer on agricultural productivity. Based on this, we propose that rural land transfer should continue to be promoted, and in the overall direction of rural land transfer, more emphasis should be placed on the land area transferred rather than expanding the number of rural households participating in the transfer. Additionally, it is necessary to accelerate the confirmation of land rights and implement differentiated rural land transfer scale strategies based on local conditions to adapt to the needs of different rural households and the characteristics of local agricultural development.

Since the implementation of publicity institution of judgement documents for more than ten years, the court′s judgement documents have gradually changed from closed to open and made great progress. From the external perspective, the publicity of judgement documents effectively guarantees the public′s right to know and right to supervise, and plays an incomparably positive role in unifying judgment standards, regulating judicial behaviors, assisting the construction of social credit system, enhancing the credibility of judiciary, and promoting legal education and research. However, from the internal perspective, the court faces some problems in the publicity of judgment documents, such as the damage to judicial authority, the increased judicial costs, the conflict with protection of privacy, and the increased risk of negative public opinion. The difference of internal and external perspectives provokes the debates on how to promote and improve the publicity institution of judgment documents, whose essence is the conflict between “costs and benefits” of publicity of judgement documents, especially the insufficient allocation of judicial resources becomes the Achilles′ Heel of publicity of judgment documents. In order to achieve the goal of lawful, comprehensive, timely and standardized publicity of judgement documents, it should be started from two aspects of transferring costs and reducing costs. It is not only necessary to clarify the responsibility for the publicity of judgement documents, but also to expand the technical embedding space for publicity of judgement document, enhance the judicial capacity to handle disputes, establish a unified publicity mode for dedicated personnel, and establish rules and regulations for the utilization of judgement documents, so as to make the publicity of judgement documents be carried out steadily and farther by improving judicial resource support.

Since the mid-20th century, economic, social, and environmental problems have intertwined under the logic of capital. Among them, ecological crisis and consumption alienation profoundly reflect the organic interaction among capital, nature, and society, which deeply reflect the dual alienation of nature and society in modern capitalist society as well as the internal unity of human alienation and world alienation. Therefore, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to re-examine the complex interaction between ecological crisis and consumption alienation from the critical context of Marxist political economy. Taking Aristotle′s Four Causes theory as an analytical framework, this paper analyzes the homogeneity of ecological crisis and consumption alienation in terms of material, formal, efficient, and final causes. By revealing the deep-seated reasons, action mechanisms, and governance dilemmas of the metabolic rift between man and nature under the logic of capital, it further expounds on the importance and urgency of constructing a community of life for man and nature. This paper shows that in the social-ecological system of capitalism, the homogeneity of ecological crisis and consumption alienation is manifested in the following aspects: in terms of the material cause, both man and nature have become the factors of production of capitalism involved in capital accumulation and value proliferation, which serve as the basis of their homogeneity; its efficient cause is jointly shaped by the accelerated operation of production and consumption treadmill driven by the logic of capital; its final cause lies in the misplacement of ecological values and the deviation of consumption meanings under the dual control of man and nature in capitalist society; in the aspect of formal cause, it is manifested in the metabolic rift between man and nature, that is, the irreparable rifts between men and between man and the external world, which is the final result of the homogeneity of the two. It has been proved that the conflict between man and nature and the contradiction between production and consumption ultimately stem from the opposition and contradiction among humans, all of which are rooted in the capitalist system. However, capitalism cannot fundamentally extricate itself from the dual dilemma of ecological crisis and consumption alienation. In this case, reshaping a better human ecological civilization in a socialist ecological civilization that emphasizes ecological justice and sustainable social development has become the right and necessary way to build a community of life for man and nature and to achieve the dual liberation of man and nature.

“Chinese modernization” and “striving in unity” are iconic concepts emphasized in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Unlike the previously emphasized notions of “striving diligently” and “working tirelessly”, the report integrates striving in unity with the cause of national modernization and elevates it to the thematic height of the National Congress of the CPC, and highlights the significant value of the spirit of striving in unity. This paper aims to apply the principles of analysis and synthesis, as well as the unity of logic and history, to reveal the cultural imprint, valuable experience, scientific path, and grand practice of Chinese modernization endeavors from the perspective of striving in unity. Striving in unity is historical experience formed through the CPC′s century-long journey of endeavors and is an essential element of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times in the new era. It provides indispensable ideological guarantees and spiritual motivation for addressing various practical challenges on the journey ahead and for advancing the great cause of Chinese modernization. In the process of the CPC leading the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in a concerted effort to build China into a modern socialist country in all respects and to advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts, striving in unity has demonstrated its success-promoting functions through cultural accumulation, experiential summarization, theoretical guidance, and methodological generalization. These functions form a comprehensive system with a clear theme, well-defined main line, firm argumentation, and standardized principles. This system answers critical questions about the profound cultural foundation, rich experience, rigorous theories, and robust development of Chinese modernization. Researching Chinese modernization from the perspective of striving in unity breaks through traditional, singular research paradigms. It offers a holistic and stratified analysis of striving in unity and Chinese modernization from both micro and macro dimensions, revealing the theoretical and practical significance of integrating striving in unity into the cause of Chinese modernization. In the face of profound changes in the global, national, and Party contexts in the new era, exploring Chinese modernization endeavors within the framework of striving in unity unveils broader theoretical and contemporary significance. This proposition not only summarizes historical experience but also addresses current practical needs, contributing to carrying out the spirit of striving in unity and the development of Chinese modernization on the new journey ahead. It is further conducive to amassing tremendous strength for creating a bright future for the Chinese nation and achieving its great rejuvenation.