Abstract:Urban-rural integrated development is a key initiative to crack the urban-rural dual structure and promote coordinated regional development, but it still faces challenges such as the uneven distribution of urban and rural resources, excessive infrastructure gaps and poor factor flows. How to promote high-quality integrated development of urban and rural areas has become a realistic problem that needs to be solved urgently in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. The essence of new quality productivity is advanced productivity, and its formation and development will profoundly reshape urban-rural relations and have an important impact on urban-rural integrated development. It is of great significance to explore the realistic path of new quality productivity to help urban-rural integrated development and to realize high-quality economic development. The article constructs a municipal new quality productivity evaluation index system covering three dimensions of scientific and technological productivity, green productivity and digital productivity, and utilizes the entropy method to measure the level of new quality productivity of 275 cities in China from 2011 to 2021, and examines the impact of new quality productivity on urban-rural integrated development and its mechanism. It is found that new quality productivity can significantly promote the development of urban-rural integration, and this conclusion still holds after the endogeneity test and a series of robustness tests. Mechanism analysis shows that new quality productivity can promote urban-rural integrated development through two important channels, namely, enhancing employment quality and improving entrepreneurial vitality. Threshold regression results show that under the threshold conditions of efficient market and active government, the impact of new quality productivity on urban-rural integrated development is characterized by positive and increasing marginal effects. Further analysis reveals that the effect of new quality productivity on urban-rural integration is more significant in the eastern region. Accordingly, we propose the following policy recommendations: accelerate the development of new quality productivity and pay attention to the powerful role of new quality productivity in urban-rural integrated development; explore multi-dimensional urban-rural integrated development driving paths to maximize the activation of the development potential of new quality productivity; give full play to the roles of effective market and active government to create a favorable development environment for new quality productivity; follow the comparative advantages of the regions, and implement differentiated development strategy of new quality productivity in accordance with local conditions.

Abstract:The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China points out that the integrated development of urban and rural areas is an inevitable requirement of Chinese path to modernization. Promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas is an important element of promoting all-around rural revitalization, and it is also an important path to building a unified national market. The integrated development of urban and rural areas requires breaking down a series of institutional barriers and promoting the orderly flow of urban and rural factors. The rapid rise and prosperity of the digital economy provide new opportunities for the integrated development of urban and rural areas. Exploring the impact of digital economy on the integrated development of urban and rural areas has important theoretical and practical significance. This article focuses on the upgrading of industrial structure, marketization process, and equalization of basic public services. Through mathematical analysis, it clarifies their inherent mechanisms, enriches existing research, and provides empirical evidence. Firstly, based on Chinas inter-provincial panel data from 2011 to 2020, the article constructs an evaluation system of relevant indicators, measures the development level of provincial digital economy and urban-rural integrated using the entropy method, and explores its spatiotemporal evolution characteristics using Kernel density estimation method. The results show that in general, the level of digital economy and urban-rural integrated development is showing a continuous upward trend, but there is a regional imbalance in the degree and speed of development. The level of digital economy is showing a multipolar trend among regions, while the gradient effect of urban-rural integrated development between regions continues to strengthen. Secondly, the article uses empirical methods to examine the impact of digital economy on the integrated development of urban and rural areas, and explores the path of the impact. Results show that, firstly, digital economy can significantly promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas, but the degree of impact varies regionally. The impact of digital economy on the integrated development of urban and rural areas in the western region is higher than that in other regions, and has no significant impact on the northeast region. Secondly, digital economy can affect the level of urban-rural integrated development by promoting industrial structure upgrading, advancing marketization processes, and promoting equalization of basic public services. Finally, the article analyzes the spatial effects of digital economy on urban-rural integrated development. Using the global Morans I index, the spatial correlation test results based on the economic distance matrix show that there is a significant spatial correlation between digital economy and the integrated development of urban and rural areas. The spatial spillover effect test results based on adjacency matrix, inverse distance matrix, and economic distance matrix show that the improvement of digital economy level has a positive impact on local urban-rural integration, but has a negative spillover effect on neighboring areas. Research suggests that in order to effectively leverage the role of digital economy in promoting urban-rural integration, relevant policy measures should be implemented in areas such as formulating differentiated digital economy and urban-rural development policies, accelerating the construction of digital infrastructure, breaking down factor barriers to promote orderly flow of urban-rural factors, and optimizing the allocation of digital economic resources.

Abstract:The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has put forward new requirements for the integrated development of urban and rural areas. With the deepening of the urban-rural integration strategy and the arrival of the comprehensive leisure era, the planning of leisure oriented rural public spaces is facing significant development opportunities. Oriented towards the practical needs of the development of leisure oriented rural public spaces, by introducing Lefebvres theory of spatial production and using the framework of dialectical analysis, this paper deconstructs and analyzes the logical relationship between dialectical theory of space and rural public space planning from the three levels of spatial practice, representations of spaces, and representational spaces, discusses the interpretation of spatial planning from the perspective of tripartite dialectical theory and the practical guidance significance of tripartite dialectical theory for spatial planning, and analyzes the development strategies of leisure oriented rural public spaces from the perspective of planning and design, elaborates on the spatial planning strategies for aesthetic soothing leisure spaces with natural scenery and cultural heritage as elements, entertainment experiential leisure spaces with the purpose of relaxation and enjoyment, and social gathering leisure spaces with family and friendship as the main tone. The construction of aesthetic soothing leisure spaces based on natural scenery and cultural heritage is mainly reflected in optimizing the original ecological space foundation, emphasizing the coordination of local landscape resources and driven by the concept of leisure, shaping the thematic form of rural public spaces. The planning of entertainment experiential leisure spaces with a relaxed and enjoyable experience is mainly reflected in the systematic integration of entertainment resources, the creation of rural entertainment experience brands, and the balanced development of commercialization and authenticity of rural public spaces. The planning of social gathering leisure spaces based on family and friendship is mainly reflected in two dimensions: exploring regional cultural characteristics to shape the spiritual core of rural spatial planning, and increasing the construction of governance systems to ensure a balance of diverse social interests. The study proposes that in the context of urban-rural integration, the planning of rural leisure public spaces is influenced by a comprehensive combination of institutional, capital, social, and cultural factors. The proposal of a leisure oriented rural public space planning strategy based on spatial dialectics has important practical guidance value for meeting the demands of various social forces such as rural elites, farmers, planners, capital, and tourists for rural public spaces. In response to the problems and challenges faced by rural leisure public spaces under the tripartite dialectical logic, promoting the healthy development of rural leisure public spaces requires the construction of a collaborative development mechanism of spatial practice, representations of spaces, and representational spaces, ultimately achieving organic collaborative development. The mechanism and strategy analysis of the article can help guide the healthy development of leisure oriented rural public spaces, ultimately achieving the dual goals of optimizing rural environment and promoting rural economic development.

Abstract:Population is a fundamental, long-term and strategic element for the development of the country, society and nation. Reasonable population distribution, high-quality human capital, and abundant working-age population will form a situation conducive to the investment and consumption of high-speed economic growth, create a demographic window of opportunity, and enhance the citys ability to bear risks and restore the economy. Currently, Chinas population is experiencing a transition from a continuous increase in the total amount of population to a continuous decrease, and the quality of the population is changing from the overall low level of education and short life expectancy to the massification of higher education and longevity. On the basis of discussing the intrinsic mechanism of the impact of the demographic dividend and human capital dividend on urban economic resilience, this paper uses the panel data of 272 cities in the period of 2010-2021, and makes an empirical analysis of the direct and indirect effects of demographic dividend and human capital dividend on urban economic resilience. The study finds that human capital dividend can significantly enhance urban economic resilience, while the effect of the demographic dividend is not obvious. The results of the heterogeneity test show that there is no obvious urban heterogeneity in the impact of demographic dividend, and the economic resilience enhancement of any type of cities is not prominent. While the effect of human capital dividend on the enhancement of urban economic resilience is more obvious in the cities in the southeast area of Hu Huanyong line, inland cities, and cities with relatively low levels of economic development, and the effect on the rest of the cities is weaker. The results of the test of the mechanism of the role show that the construction of information infrastructure effectively improves the enhancement of quality of population utilization efficiency on urban economic resilience, while the effect brought by the construction of transportation infrastructure is not obvious, and even there is a tendency to weaken the quality of population utilization efficiency to enhance urban economic resilience, at the same time, there is a significant mediating role of labor productivity in the impact of quality of population utilization efficiency on urban economic resilience. Further research finds that there is a threshold effect of population agglomeration in the impact of quality of population utilization efficiency on urban economic resilience, and the positive impact of population utilization efficiency on urban economic resilience will be weakened after crossing the threshold. Based on the above findings, the article believes that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of public health system, continuously optimize the layout of medical and health resources, and comprehensively improve the capacity of medical and health services; strengthen the construction of information infrastructure and promote its extension to the west and other border areas, and strive to play the role of informatization in promoting the flow of information elements and broadening the channels for laborers to obtain employment information; formulate talent policies in accordance with the local conditions to let talents stay and work well, fully releasing the dividend of talent, and providing sustained human capital for cities to withstand external shocks and recover their economies.

Abstract:In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a major strategic plan for urban construction in the new era, pointing out that it is necessary to build livable, resilient and smart cities, and establish high-quality urban ecosystems and safety systems. Economic resilience is the key ability of an economy to maintain economic security and achieve sustainable economic development. It plays an important role in building resilient city and maintaining urban economic security. As a key link in Chinas financial reform, the national pilot zone for financial reform is conducive to strengthening the ability that finance serves real economy and forestalling financial risks, and plays an important role in improving economic resilience. It also has great significance for building the resilient city and achieving sustained, stable and healthy development of Chinas economy. This paper regards the establishment of the national pilot zone for financial reform as a quasi-natural experiment, and attempts to incorporate financial reform policy and urban economic resilience into one analytical framework. Based on the panel data of 277 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2020, this paper uses the multi-period DID model to examine the impact and its mechanism of financial reform policy on urban economic resilience. At the same time, this paper further discusses the differences in the effects of financial reform policy on cities of different sizes and different geographical location. The results show that the financial reform policy has significantly improved the urban economic resilience, and the conclusion is still valid after considering the superposed impact about the policy of smart city construction, innovative city pilot and low-carbon city. Robustness tests such as parallel trend test, placebo test, treatment of endogeneity, replacement of explanatory variables and change time window further confirm the reliability of the conclusions. Mechanism test shows that the policy effect of financial reform policy on urban economic resilience is achieved by enhancing credit availability and improving capital allocation efficiency. From the perspective of heterogeneity, compared with larger-scale cities and southern cities, financial reform policy has a stronger policy effect on smaller-scale cities and northern cities. Therefore, this paper suggests to build more distinctive and fully functional national pilot zone for financial reform, further expand the radiation scope of the national pilot zone for financial reform to promote the economic resilience of the pilot cities and surrounding cities. This paper also suggests to establish a long-term mechanism to enhance credit availability and capital allocation efficiency. With the help of administrative and financial means, local government should give full play to the positive role of credit availability and capital allocation efficiency in the process of financial reform policy affecting urban economic resilience. Finally, it should increase the policy resources of smaller and northern cities. For example, increasing the number of national pilot zone for financial reform in the above areas, optimizing the local financial supply structure and capital market environment, and improving the local governments ability to guide the economy, so as to enhance the urban economic resilience.

Abstract:Accelerating the synergy between digitalization and green transformation is an intrinsic requirement for high-quality development and an important pathway for constructing a digital ecological civilization. A pressing question is whether digital economy policies are facilitating digitalization while simultaneously achieving regional green transformation. This study constructs evaluation indices for digitalization and green transformation at the provincial level in China. Based on a coupling and coordination model, the study calculates the digitalization-greenization synergism development index (DGSDI) for 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2020, analyzing its variation characteristics and regional differences. Additionally, employing a quasi-natural experiment of national big data comprehensive pilot zones, the study empirically tests whether digital economy policies have achieved synergistic development in digitalization and green transformation and delves into their internal mechanisms and heterogeneity. The findings reveal: 1) Both digitalization and green transformation levels in provinces have improved annually, yet the overall levels remain low with clear regional disparities. The synergistic development level of digitalization and green transformation has continuously increased, yet it remains low overall. Only Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, and Jiangsu have a coupling coordination degree above 0.7, reaching a moderate coordination level, while 22 other provinces have a degree below 0.5, not reaching the coordination level.2) The establishment of big data pilot zones significantly promotes the levels of digitalization, green transformation, and their synergistic development.3) Mechanism testing shows that: firstly, big data pilot zones have promoted provincial-level digital development through two channels: digital industrialization and industrial digitization, promoting green development through green innovation. Secondly, there exists a circular and mutually reinforcing mechanism between digitalization and greening, which is the underlying logic of the coordinated development of digitalization and greening. Specifically, digitalization empowers greening by promoting green innovation and production through digital infrastructure construction, as well as the positive role of digital innovation capabilities in promoting green innovation; Greening driven digitization is achieved through the demand driven effect of green innovation on digital infrastructure and digital technology. Thirdly, big data pilot zones have strengthened the digital effect of green development, but has not strengthened the green effect of digital development. The reason is that big data pilot zones have improved green innovation capabilities, thereby stimulating demand for digital infrastructure and technology, and enhancing the traction effect of green development on digital development; However, due to the failure of digital industrialization and industrial digitization to promote the green transformation of production, big data pilot zones have failed to strengthen the empowering effect of digital development on green development.4) Heterogeneity analysis shows that in regions with stronger knowledge absorption capacity and higher levels of industrial structure upgrading, the construction of big data pilot zones has a more significant promoting effect on the collaborative development of digital and green development.

Abstract:As digital economy becomes a trend to achieve high-quality economic development and green low-carbon transformation, digital infrastructure also rises to the level of national strategy. In this context, in-depth exploration of the intrinsic impact mechanism of digital infrastructure on carbon emissions, and systematic analysis of whether the Broadband China policy has dynamic sustainability and spatial spillover effects from theoretical and empirical perspectives are of great practical significance for the further implementation of the national strategies of Network Power and Digital China, and for the advancement of the construction of digital infrastructure and the exploration of new urban development models and governance models for low-carbon development. This paper puts digital infrastructure and carbon emission into the same framework, explores the intrinsic influence mechanism and spatial-temporal dynamic effect of digital infrastructure on carbon emission from the theoretical level, and innovatively incorporates double-difference into the construction of spatial matrices. Based on the Broadband China strategy as a quasi-natural experiment, using the panel data of prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2019, this paper utilizes the asymptotic double difference method, spatial model and mediation effect model to test the intrinsic mechanism and spatial-temporal dynamic effect. The results show that the Broadband China policy has a significant inhibitory effect on carbon emissions, and this conclusion still holds after the robustness tests of instrumental variables method, triple difference method, and PSM-DID. Impact mechanism analysis shows that digital infrastructure can both directly affect carbon emissions and promote carbon emission reduction through industrial structure upgrading and green technology innovation. Spatial-temporal dynamic effects analysis shows that the impact of the Broadband China policy on carbon emissions has a time lag, and it will be played only in the second year, but the marginal effect shows an increasing trend over time. Moreover, the Broadband China policy has a positive spatial spillover effect on carbon emissions in geographically and economically similar regions. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the carbon emission reduction effect of the Broadband China policy is not significant in the western region, but more obvious in the eastern and central regions, and the effect in the central region is larger than eastern region. Therefore, the article suggests continuing to improve the digital infrastructure, strengthening the promotion of the pilot policy of Broadband China; implementing dynamic and differentiated strategies according to local conditions; accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, improving the level of green technological innovation, and smoothing the intermediate channels of digital infrastructure for carbon emission reduction.

Abstract:The construction of Chinas independent knowledge system is an indispensable means of developing philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics, and of advancing a Chinese path to modernization. This paper collates and organizes domestic and international literature on knowledge system research in order to elucidate the concept of independent knowledge system. It then presents an analytical framework for such a system, examines the historical development of Chinas independent knowledge system, and provides a summary of the environmental and developmental factors that have shaped this system. With the core topic of constructing Chinas independent knowledge system, an analytical framework is proposed for understanding Chinas independent knowledge system from three dimensions: practice, history and subject. Firstly, the practical dimension emphasizes that knowledge production is rooted in specific social practices. It is therefore evident that the existing Western knowledge system cannot be accepted or discarded in its entirety. Instead, it must be tested in practice to ascertain its suitability for the development needs of Chinese society. Secondly, the historical dimension reveals that the evolution of the knowledge system must be considered within the context of historical and cultural traditions. It is essential to respect these traditions while transforming the system into an independent Chinese knowledge system through the critical assimilation and localization of external knowledge. Thirdly, the subjective dimension considers the independence and distinctiveness of those engaged in the production and application of knowledge within a specific cultural, historical and social context. This should involve exploring localization pathways with Chinese characteristics, while seeking to balance the relationship between globalization and localization. This paper analyses the implications of knowledge system independence from the perspectives of knowledge production, knowledge evaluation and the construction of knowledge system. Furthermore, a model for the evolution of independence in the knowledge system is proposed and a historical account of the development of Chinas independent knowledge system in accordance with this model is offered. Finally, the paper argues that Chinas independent knowledge system is confronted with two significant challenges of globalization and path dependence. The core path for the development of Chinas independent knowledge system is based on local history and practice, breaking path dependence, fostering academic exchanges between China and the West, and accelerating the global dissemination of independent knowledge system.

Abstract:The international communication of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics is an important part of the construction of the Chinese modern international discourse system, and also the due meaning of improving Chinas international communication ability and international discourse power. The construction of Chinas independent knowledge system is not only a practical necessity to promote Chinese modernization and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, but also a theoretical requirement to contribute to the global knowledge system the Chinese wisdom and experience that can be stated, established and disseminated. The independent knowledge system based on the three major systems is the origin of the international communication of Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Without Chinas independent knowledge system, there is no foundation for enhancing the dissemination and influence of Chinese civilization, and the international communication is like water without a source or a tree without roots. The unity of independence and embeddedness, value relevance and value independence is the theoretical form that the international communication of Chinese philosophy and social sciences should possess. However, at present, comparing with Harvard Universitys Fei Zhengqing Center for China Studies, it can be found that the international communication of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics still has many problems, including insufficient research on the international communication object, lagging behind of international communication media and channel construction, insufficient setting of international communication agenda, and imperfect funding and control system of international communication. In this regard, suggestions are proposed from the dimensions of constructing an independent knowledge system with Chinese characteristics embedded in the world, and constructing an international communication system of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics that is more suitable for communication.

Abstract:The third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee opened a new chapter for further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese path to modernization. The combination of comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese path to modernization further highlights the new leap in the Partys understanding of the law of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. Further comprehensively deepening reform is an extension of the breadth and depth of comprehensively deepening reform measures and the only way to achieve Chinese path to modernization. Through analysis, the logic of further comprehensively deepening reform is mainly reflected in the following aspects: firstly, the historical logic is to open a new chapter in the history of the journey of reform and opening up; Secondly, the theoretical logic is to write the theoretical dimension of the evolution of productivity and production relations; Thirdly, the logic of practice is the practical deepening of comprehensively deepening reform in the new era. Further comprehensively deepening reform highlights rich contemporary value implications, mainly manifested in the following aspects: firstly, upholding integrity and innovation, demonstrating the superiority of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics; secondly, putting the people first, highlighting the Partys value and sentiment of always putting the people at the center; thirdly, self revolution, which demonstrates the Partys firm determination to break down the barriers of interests. Based on a rigorous logic system and rich value implications, and then combined with reality, we should clarify the evolution path of further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese path to modernization, which mainly covers: first, strengthen scientific thinking and lead the direction of further comprehensively deepening reform; second, adhere to the leadership of the Party and ensure the further comprehensively deepening reform process; third, enhance confidence in the road and firmly adhere to the path of further comprehensively deepening reform; fourth, pay attention to systematic thinking and clarify the logic of further deepening reform comprehensively; fifth, follow the legal track and standardize the order of further deepening reform comprehensively; sixth, promote the spirit of struggle and enhance the effectiveness of further comprehensively deepening reform. To further comprehensively deepen reform and promote the evolution of Chinese path to modernization are a systematic and organic whole, they work together to safeguard the comprehensive construction of a socialist modernized country.