Public data security, as an important issue, plays a crucial role in the construction of resilient cities. Through theoretical deconstruction and comparative analysis, the limitations of the traditional defense-oriented governance model in responding to dynamic risks are revealed. The research results show that the current public data security field is facing multiple challenges such as the resilience paradox, ethical conflicts, and the responsibility dilemma of multi-center governance. It is imperative to enhance the governance efficiency of public data security. By critically reconstructing the cognitive paradigms of ecological resilience and engineering resilience, and taking the concept of data resilience as the core to build dynamic adaptation, elastic recovery, and collaborative integration mechanisms, the public data security protection system can be transformed from a “compliance-based” to a “resilience-based” approach, thereby ensuring the efficient circulation and value release of data under the premise of security, and providing solid support for the construction of resilient cities. The reconstruction of governance solutions should be based on a three-dimensional coordinated path of technology, institutions, and the rule of law: strengthening the resilience foundation, enhancing the resilience of infrastructure; improving resilience mechanisms, establishing a dynamic adaptation system; reinforcing resilience guarantees, and perfecting the legal operation system. Based on the research conclusions, it is suggested that legislation should be deepened and standardization level should be improved, collaborative drill and evaluation mechanisms should be established, innovative models should be explored, and public participation should be expanded, so as to promote the modernization of the urban public data security governance system and governance capacity.

As the core driving force of a new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the digital economy is profoundly reshaping traditional economic structures and modes of social development. It not only promotes high-quality economic growth but also provides new pathways and momentum for achieving common prosperity.Using the Difference-in-Differences (DID) method, this study systematically examines the causal effects and mechanisms of digital economy and common prosperity based on balanced panel data from 286 cities in China during the period from 2011 to 2021.The research findings indicate that the digital economy is an indispensable driving engine for advancing common prosperity, playing a fundamental, structural, and strategic role. However, risks such as the digital divide and platform monopolies warrant close attention. Based on these findings, targeted policy recommendations are proposed: Expanding digital infrastructure to less developed areas can promote balanced regional development and help the eastern, central, and western regions share the benefits of growth; The inclusive growth characteristics of the digital economy can help narrow income disparities; Institutional development and digital governance capabilities need to be strengthened; A better integration of an effective market and an enabling government should be pursued.

Based on the person-environment (P-E) fit theory, this study uses data from the China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey in 2020 to construct multidimensional P-E fit indices. Using multilevel multinomial logistic models and moderation effect analysis, we examine how urban older adults’ P-E fit affects their intentions for old-age support. We also examine the moderating role of economic resources. The results show that the aging-in-place group is characterized by high P-E fit and low financial expenditure, the family-based care group exhibits low fit and limited assets, and the institutional care group shows low fit and high expenditure. The intention for old-age support is significantly shaped by the degree of P-E fit. Greater facility and service fit significantly increases older adults’ intention to age in place. Economic resources play a significant moderating role in how P-E fit influences elderly care preferences. Lack of property ownership weakens the positive effect of high facility and service fit on aging-in-place preference, while high expenditure levels strengthen the impact of service misfit on institutional care preference. This study reveals the heterogeneous needs of different elderly groups towards the neighborhood environment and their impact on old-age support intentions. Based on empirical findings, this paper discusses policy implications to contribute to the scientific foundation and practical strategies for building age-friendly cities.

Based on Actor-Network Theory and employing a dynamic Qualitative Comparative Analysis, this study explores a mechanism and analytical framework for modern maritime city building and identifies the phases and pathways of that process. The findings show that,within the actor network of modern maritime city construction, the government occupies the central coordinating position.By setting phased “obligatory passage points,” it clarifies the common goals for all actors and, through translation mechanisms such as interest translation, enrolment and mobilization, aligns human actors (government, firms, research institutes) with non-human actors (ports, marine environments) into a dynamically linked organic network. The construction process generally exhibits the characteristic of goal-oriented multi-stage evolution. Pathway 1 is an “Economy & Finance—Science & Education—International Cooperation” configuration; Pathway 2 is a “Marine Industry—Science & Education—Environment-absent” configuration. Science and Education emerge as a necessary condition in both pathways, while Economy & Finance, International Cooperation, and Marine Industry serve as different supportive elements. Cities with different endowments display a clear pattern of pathway matching. Economically internationalized cities such as Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, leveraging their economic base and openness, predominantly rely on Path 1 and constitute the mainstream development model. Cities with strong marine-industry foundations—Qingdao, Fuzhou and Dalian—initially relied on Path 2 to achieve high construction levels.

As one of China’s fundamental governance mechanisms, the policy pilot system has been integrated into the broader national strategy for modernizing state governance. From the perspective of vertical-horizontal relations, this study takes the municipal-level social governance modernization pilot in Sichuan Province as an empirical case to reveal the logic and mechanisms of benchmark competition in local governance.The study finds that the municipal pilot program has shifted from the traditional “apply first, accept and award later”model to a new approach of “construct first, apply later.”Evaluation criteria now include not only the absolute performance improvements before and after policy implementation in each locality, but also comparative performance across peer jurisdictions,thereby forming a competitive framework to identify qualified pilot sites.The mechanism involves the following elements:The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission establishes institutional frameworks through benchmark-setting, incentive-driven competition, and relative ranking systems, while local governments achieve effective adoption and dynamic adaptation of central governance objectives through top-down mobilization,bottom-up coordination, and differentiated operational approaches.The concept of benchmark competition offers a novel theoretical lens for understanding the internal logic of China’s policy pilot system. It helps reduce information asymmetries between upper- and lower-level governments, mitigates the institutional fragmentation caused by vertical-horizontal divides, and contributes to the formation of localized governance experiences under therubric of “governing the city to govern the country.”

Innovation in grassroots governance is an important part of promoting the modernization of the grassroots governance system and governance capacity. How to enhance the sustainability of grassroots governance innovation has become a core issue in grassroots governance research. Based on the theory of attention allocation, an analytical framework of “attention-driven - social participation - resource support” was constructed. Taking the typical cases of national grassroots governance innovation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 2021 as samples, the fsQCA method was adopted to conduct an empirical analysis of the influencing factors of whether grassroots governance innovation is sustainable. The research results show that officials’ attention and public support are the core conditions for the sustainability of grassroots governance innovation, no single condition can alone constitute a necessary condition for the sustainability of grassroots governance innovation. The various factors need to work in coordination and interaction to effectively promote the sustainability of innovation. The paths to the sustainability of governance innovation are respectively Party building-led type, government-society cooperation type, and resource support type. Only through the interaction of multiple factors can the sustainability of innovative behavior be achieved. The ternary dynamic coupling mechanism of attention-driven, social participation and resource support is the internal mechanism for the sustainable development of innovation. To promote the sustainable development of grassroots governance innovation, it is necessary to establish a long-term mechanism for “sustained attention”. Continue to strengthen the leading role of Party building and activate the endogenous driving force of “social participation”. Strengthen the foundation of innovation resources at the grassroots level; Strengthen the ternary dynamic coupling mechanism.

The central-local relationship has always been the focus of research on territorial spatial governance, but existing studies have focused on exploring the antagonistic dichotomy between the central and the local, neglecting the behavioral mechanisms of provincial governments in the synergy of central-local games. Based on the perspective of principal-agent and soft budget constraint theory, this paper innovatively constructs a systematic framework of “three stages + three levels” to analyze the “two-way soft constraint” vertical inter-governmental interaction mechanism of provincial governments in territorial spatial governance from the perspective of provincial governments’ behaviors. By tracking the implementation of land binding quota policy in Province F, it is found that the upward and downward soft constraint behaviors at the provincial level affect the implementation of the quota policy through target adaptation and autonomous power expansion, respectively, and that when the central government adopts an institutional design that decentralizes land control and strengthens accountability constraints, it helps to push provincial governments to play a coordinating role in the central-local relationship. In response to this, reforms in territorial space governance should be promoted through selective centralization, institutionalized decentralization, and improvements in the governance capability of provincial government.

To reveal the internal mechanism of City Walk in optimizing space utilization, expanding demand and promoting consumption, based on the complex network analysis approach, and according to the trajectory data of City Walk tourists in Hong Kong, a City Walk network model containing four levels, namely sightseeing and entertainment, functional activation, catering facilities, and shopping facilities, is constructed. The research finds that: The network structure characteristics of various nodes are significantly different. Among them, traditional nodes such as the Avenue of Stars dominate the global network; activated nodes such as Tai Kwun realize interactive associations across all-level networks; consumption nodes such as Central Market gather intra-layer networks. The tourism flow presents the characteristics of a high traffic proportion in the core-peripheral area and balanced diffusion, effectively weakening the polarization effect dominated by traditional scenic spots, and providing a traffic penetration path for the urban secondary space through the formed “consumption-exploration” community. Moreover, The City Walk network has a synergy mechanism, including the structural complementarity, traffic predictability, and redundancy and anti-interference. The above results show that City Walk can effectively promote the multi-dimensional utilization of urban resources and the re-balance of space functions. Based on this, it is suggested that urban planning administrators should focus on City Walk models with high economic vitality and resilience levels, and promote the sustainable development of urban tourism by means of exploring local cultural resources and activating secondary consumption spaces.

Based on the theory of externalities, this study employs two-way fixed effects model and panel threshold model to empirically analyze panel data from 258 prefecture-level cities in China from 2000 to 2023, using the SARS epidemic, global financial crisis, and China-US trade friction as shock events. The findings reveal that technological diversification significantly enhances urban economic resilience, with a more pronounced effect during economic shocks. Technological innovation and industrial structure optimization serve as the primary mechanisms through which technological diversification improves economic resilience, while market size and information network development can further strengthen this effect. Extended analysis indicates that diversified technological structures contribute more to urban economic resilience in high-tech and medium-high-tech sectors, whereas specialized structures prove more effective in traditional technology domains. Eastern and central regions, as well as large, megacities, are more suited for a diversified structure, while western regions, along with small and medium-sized cities, benefit more from specialization. Additionally, the enhancement effect of technological diversification on urban economic resilience exhibits a threshold effect. These conclusions provides theoretical references and practical foundations for cities to formulate tailored technological development strategies according to their local conditions.

Promoting synergistic efficiency in pollution and carbon reduction is a crucial pathway to achieving the deep integration and harmonious alignment of the “Beautiful China” initiative with the “dual carbon” goals. From the perspective of marginal abatement costs, this study empirically examines the synergistic potential of pollution and carbon reduction of 275 Chinese cities from 2011 to 2022 leveraging duality theory within the DEA framework. Furthermore, it explores the evolution patterns, regional disparities, and driving mechanisms of these synergistic effects using the spatial Markov chain, Dagum Gini coefficient, and QAP methods. The findings are as follows: Synergistic governance of pollution and carbon reduction can simultaneously reduce the marginal abatement costs of air pollution and CO₂ in China. The synergistic effects are widespread across regions and cities, although challenges such as “pollution reduction impediments” and “carbon mitigation delays” persist. The synergistic effects of pollution and carbon reduction exhibit a relatively stable development trend, with phenomena such as “hierarchical lock-in” and spatial club convergence. Significant spatial disparities are observed, forming a “convex” interregional pattern characterized by “core leadership and peripheral catch-up”. Hyper-variable density and interregional disparities are the principal contributors to the persistent imbalance. Reducing regional disparities in carbon mitigation effects is the fundamental to promoting coordinated regional development in pollution and carbon reduction. The positive impacts of external factors, such as industrial structure, openness, population density, and economic development, on co-benefit disparities gradually diminish. Moreover, the intensity and direction of these driving factors vary across regions, reflecting pronounced regional heterogeneity.

Based on the panel data of 276 prefecture-level cities in China from 2007 to 2023, this paper uses instrumental variable regression to explore the impact mechanism of different forms of industrial land misallocation on the innovation level of enterprises, and whether fiscal expenditure can optimize these effects. It is found that industrial land price mismatch and supply mode mismatch will inhibit enterprise innovation, while structural mismatch will have a positive impact on enterprise innovation. Further analysis of the optimization effect of government fiscal expenditure shows that when the price of industrial land is mismatched, fiscal expenditure can have a significant positive impact on the level of enterprise innovation. Based on this, it is suggested that in the future policy formulation, the role and boundary of the government and the market should be further clarified, the land price should be dynamically optimized, the land supply structure should be adjusted, the regional differences should be fully considered, the allocation of industrial land resources should be adjusted, the structure of public financial expenditure should be optimized, and the dominant position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation should be strengthened.

Under the binding constraints of the dual carbon goals (carbon peaking and carbon neutrality), the imperative to achieve coordinated economic-ecological development through innovation-driven strategies has emerged as a critical policy challenge. This study employs a reflective iteration methodology to construct a city-level economic complexity index, systematically investigating its impact on urban green development and underlying mechanisms. Key findings reveal: Enhanced economic complexity significantly promotes urban green economic development, with marginal effects exhibiting an increasing trend as complexity elevates. These results remain robust after addressing endogeneity through instrumental variable approaches, controlling policy interventions, and conducting multi-dimensional sensitivity analyses. Mechanism analysis demonstrates that the green effect of economic complexity originates from structural upgrading of urban innovation capacity, transmitted through a four-dimensional pathway: “innovation input intensification → output greening → value chain deepening → efficiency enhancement”, with effect intensity following a nonlinearly increasing pattern. Heterogeneity analysis identifies asymmetric marginal green effects across industrial sectors,and reveals stronger complexity-driven green upgrading effects in cities characterized by abundant venture capital, superior resource endowments, and intensive innovation-entrepreneurship policies. This research provides theoretical foundations and policy insights for optimizing urban innovation ecosystems, overcoming path dependence in green transition, and advancing high-quality development under the dual carbon paradigm.

Based on the identification of the emergence of popular cities and the challenges posed by the promotion of comprehensive tourism to the value of scenic spots, taking 51 western cities as examples, the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method is applied to reveal the hybrid dynamic structure of urban and scenic spot elements. The results show that: at present, the combination of scenic spots in the western cities is not good, which makes it difficult to drive the development of tourism in these cities, the hybrid structure of urban and scenic spots is the power source to promote the formation of the joint effect of urban and scenic spots in western cities of China, and the multi-functional aggregation of cities is conducive to the improvement of the joint effect. The combination of urban service functions of “scenic spot occurrence”, “connection + scenic spot occurrence”, “environment + connection + scenic spot occurrence”, “environment + scenic spot spatial distribution”, “environment + connection + scenic spot spatial distribution” and “environment + scenic spot occurrence” can form a higher city-scenic spot joint effect, and the probability increases with the increase of antecedent conditions. Urban functional advantages can dominate the formation of city-scenic joint effects, and improving urban service functions and optimizing the combination of scenic spots are the key indicators to enhance tourism in western cities.

Given that current regional division practices have shifted toward new forms based on industrial and supply chains, relevant studies remain focused on measuring disparities between producer services and manufacturing sectors, which restricts the optimization and updating of inter-city division policies. Taking 12 China’s urban agglomerations as research units and using supply chain data from listed companies (2009-2022), this paper unveils the spatial patterns of functional division within urban agglomerations from the perspective of upstream-downstream relationships and empirically examines its impact on economic performance. The main findings are as follows: Firstly, a decentralized upstream-downstream division significantly enhances the economic performance of urban agglomerations. This effect operates through the optimized allocation of supply chain factors derived from diversified cities participation and the expansion of borrowed market size. Secondly, related variety positively moderates the relationship between functional division and economic performance, indicating that urban agglomerations benefit more economically from inter-city relations among upstream and downstream companies within the same industrial sectors. Thirdly, the economic impact of functional division exhibits heterogeneity across urban agglomerations, with stronger effects observed in coastal and “optimization-upgrading” urban agglomerations compared to inland and “development-growth” urban agglomerations. This underscores the pivotal role of economic foundations and integration levels in shaping division outcomes. This study enriches the theoretical understanding of functional division from a relationship perspective and offers policy implications for regional integration within urban agglomerations.

In response to the policy trends and practical needs of mega-cities in preventing and mitigating disaster risks, this study employs John Holland’s Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory to investigate the generative mechanisms and governance practices of disaster resilience in mega-cities. Using a three-stage framework of self-construction, self-evaluation, and self-optimization, it analyzes how adaptive agents within cities develop disaster response mechanisms. Research reveals that mega-cities constitute complex systems formed by massive aggregations of urban adaptive agents, with their disaster resilience arising from the continuous optimization and emergent properties of micro-level agents' disaster response rules. Current governance models face challenges including amplified risk multiplier effects, macro-planning overlooking grassroots agency, and an overemphasis on "hard resilience" at the expense of "soft resilience". Thus, accelerating a shift toward adaptive agent-centered governance is essential to enhance comprehensive disaster resilience efficacy in mega-cities. Specific recommendations include: accelerating conceptual shifts to activate the proactive roles of micro-level agents, accelerating institutional innovation to establish dynamically evolving governance frameworks, and accelerating technological transformation to build multi-tiered, multi-agent collaborative systems.

The implementation of human-centered new urbanization is not only a key measure to achieve Chinese-style modernization, but also an important task for national development at this stage. Looking back on the development process, since modern times, China’s urbanization has experienced revolutionary urbanization with the joint force of workers and peasants as the main body, production-oriented urbanization with labor factors as the guide, rapid urbanization driven by economic construction, and governance-oriented urbanization with living needs as the scale. At present, the opportunities and challenges of new urbanization coexist, and there are still some practical problems, such as the superposition of multiple subject characteristics of urbanization and social transformation, the spatial separation of population in the promotion of “ four modernizations synchronization, ” and the relative lag of concept mobilization under the guidance of stress policy. In order to effectively promote the new urbanization with people as the core, it is urgent to give full play to the institutional and organizational advantages of the party’s overall leadership in the main dimension; in terms of value concept, adhere to the essential attributes and core position of the people’s city in the strategy; on the practical path, we actively explore the model innovation and discourse autonomy construction of Chinese-style urbanization construction.

The industrial space reconfiguration guided by the policy can effectively alleviate the resource constraints of the supply side and provide structural support for the sustained growth of domestic demand, thus becoming the core driving force for enhancing economic resilience and forming a benign interaction mechanism of “ industrial undertaking-domestic demand activation-resilience improvement. ” The policy of undertaking industrial transfer demonstration area at the national level is regarded as a quasi-natural experiment. Based on the data of China’s cities from 2010 to 2023, the effect of this policy on urban economic resilience is evaluated by using the progressive difference-in-difference DID model.The study finds that the implementation of the national-level industrial transfer demonstration zone policy can significantly improve the level of urban economic resilience. Mechanism analysis shows that the policy can enhance urban economic resilience by increasing residents’ consumption, expanding corporate investment and enhancing the synergy between the two. Heterogeneity analysis shows that,the effect of industrial undertaking is highly dependent on the supporting capacity of the undertaking city. In cities with higher levels of infrastructure supporting, policy service supporting and industrial ecological supporting, the policy has a more obvious effect on the improvement of urban economic resilience. Based on this, the study puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to strengthen the domestic demand activation effect and continuously improve the urban economic resilience through the construction of high-quality industrial transfer demonstration areas.

This paper takes 260 prefecture-level cities and above in China as the research object and comprehensively calculates the development level of inclusive green growth in Chinese cities from 2010 to 2022. Under the pilot policy framework for industry-finance collaboration, this study empirically examines the impact and transmission mechanisms of industry-finance collaboration on urban inclusive green growth. It is found that the level of urban inclusive green growth has shown a continuous upward trend, with a significant increase particularly after the implementation of industry-finance collaboration policies. Empirical results indicate that industry-finance cooperation facilitates the development of inclusive green growth in cities, and this conclusion remains valid after multiple robustness tests. Industry-finance cooperation empowers the development of inclusive green growth in cities through three channels: enhancing technological innovation, optimizing industrial structure, and improving employment quality. The enabling effects of industry-finance cooperation on inclusive green growth exhibit heterogeneity across resource endowments, urban tiers, and digital development levels. Specifically, the enabling effects of industry-finance collaboration are more pronounced in non-resource-based cities, developed cities, and cities with low digital development levels.

Against the backdrop of rapid digital economic development, government digital governance has become a crucial pathway for innovating public governance and achieving national governance modernization. This study, grounded in the perspective of production relations optimization and adjustment within the Marxist theory of the interaction between productive forces and production relations, constructs a government digital governance index based on data from Chinese government digital procurement contract announcements. Simultaneously, considering the characteristics of new productive forces, a non-radial, non-angle SBM model is employed to develop an urban new productive forces index. Utilizing panel data from Chinese cities spanning 2011–2022, this study examines the impact of government digital governance on the development of urban new productive forces. The results indicate that government digital governance significantly enhances urban new productive forces. Further analysis reveals that improving digital infrastructure and promoting urban innovation policies strengthen the positive effect of government digital governance on new productive forces. Moreover, cities where production relations align more closely with productive forces experience a more pronounced impact of government digital governance on new productive forces. This research provides valuable theoretical and practical insights for advancing digital transformation in government governance, enhancing the effectiveness and modernization of government economic and social governance, and ultimately fostering the development of urban new productive forces.

Grounded in the structure-technology analysis framework derived from complex adaptive systems theory, this study examines the internal mechanisms through which digital technology enables agile governance, using "141" grassroots intelligent governance system in Chongqing as a case study. The findings reveal that the "141" system achieves hierarchical differentiation of digital application scenarios through the establishment of three-tier digital urban governance centers. By decentralizing law enforcement resources, it fosters endogenous development of digital technologies. Through governance modularization, it facilitates institutional digital integration, while an integrated digital infrastructure enhances cross-domain and cross-departmental collaboration. The study concludes that the optimal configuration lies in the co-evolution and integration of digital technology and organizational structure, oriented toward enhancing grassroots self-adaptability. The core mechanism underlying this agility is termed "structure-led interactive empowerment", that is, the downward reorganization of structured elements such as hierarchical relationships, power, and resources can transform external digital technologies into internal structured elements, and promote organizational adaptive adjustment through their integrated combination. "Structure-led interactive empowerment" not only clarifies the fundamental and purposeful nature of the downward reorganization of structure in theory, but also provides inspiration for the deepening of agile governance in megacity: the integrated advancement of organizational structure adjustment and digital technology application should take structural adjustment as the starting point and the end point.

The construction policy of "Zero-Waste City" can improve the utilization level of solid waste resources and is an important way to promote the sustainable development of cities.. Utilizing panel data encompassing 286 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2008 to 2023, this study employs the ZWC policy as a quasi-natural experiment. A Difference-in-Differences (DID) model is constructed to empirically examine the policy's impact on achieving both a quantitative reduction and qualitative improvement in urban carbon emissions. The findings reveal that the ZWC policy exerts a significant positive effect on lowering total urban carbon emissions and enhancing carbon total factor productivity, thereby effectively promoting the dual objectives of quantitative reduction and qualitative improvement. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the emission reduction and quality enhancement effects are more pronounced in central and western regions, higher-tier cities, and non-resource-based cities. Mechanism analysis demonstrates that the policy facilitates the dual carbon objectives by strengthening public environmental awareness, elevating green technology innovation capability, and boosting energy use efficiency. Furthermore, digital inclusive finance and government debt levels exhibit positive and negative moderating effects, respectively, on the policy's effectiveness in driving the quantitative reduction and qualitative improvement of carbon emissions. Extended analysis shows that the ZWC policy construction policy has a significant enhancing effect on improving urban environmental pollution and achieving the co-benefits of pollution and carbon reduction. This study provides critical insights to inform the optimization of the ZWC policy initiative and to advance the integrated governance of solid waste with climate objectives, thereby contributing to the realization of China's carbon neutrality and peaking targets.

The opening of public data,as a key measure to unlock the value of data as an economic factor, presents opportunities for enhancing the quality of basic public services.Based on panel data from 283 Chinese cities between 2010 and 2023,employing a dual machine learning approach to analyze the impact of public data openness on basic public service levels and further dissect its underlying mechanisms.Findings reveal that public data openness significantly enhances basic public service levels,with conclusions validated through parallel trend tests,placebo tests,robustness tests,and endogeneity tests.Mechanism tests indicate that public data openness enhances basic public services through three channels:optimizing government attention allocation,promoting digital economic development,and increasing social inclusion.Heterogeneity tests indicate that public data opening promotes basic public service levels more significantly in cities with higher administrative ranks,internet penetration,and fiscal transparency.These findings provide key references for developing differentiated data opening strategies.

Based on the spirit of the 2025 Central Urban Work Conference, this paper analyzes the logical approach and realization mechanism of the Five Transformations in advancing the modernization of urban governance. The research results show that the logical approach of the Five Transformations presents three dimensions: the paradigm logic from material-centered to people-oriented reflects the reconstruction of governance models; the theoretical logic of the unity of instrumental rationality and value rationality demonstrates the innovation of governance theory; and the practical logic of problem-oriented and governance innovation promotes the reform of the governance system. On this basis, a multidimensional implementation mechanism is constructed: consolidating the value foundation of people-oriented through public demand response mechanisms; improving the intensive and efficient level by relying on spatial governance; shaping distinctive development advantages with the cultivation of endogenous driving forces; continuously enhancing public service supply by improving governance investment; and strengthening coordinated efficacy through multi-stakeholder collaboration and regional cooperation.

In the context of increasing global economic uncertainty and the gradual disappearance of the demographic dividend, China's export industry is facing multiple challenges such as weakening labor cost advantage, frequent external shocks and increasing industrial chain security risks. Based on panel data from 257 cities in China from 2009 to 2023, this paper empirically investigates the impact of industrial robot penetration on export resilience from the city level. The results show that industrial robots can greatly reduce the cost of export industries through labor adjustment and upgrading effects and industrial chain integration and coordination effects, reshape the comparative advantages of cities, and then improve export resilience. Further analysis shows that the promotion effect of industrial robots on export resilience is more significant in inland areas and cities with high regional integration level. The nonlinear test results show that there is an "inverted U" relationship between robots and export toughness, and moderate penetration is the key to achieve the maximum effect of industrial robots. The research conclusions show that industrial robots are not only an important tool to make up for the decline of comparative advantage in labor, but also a key driving force to promote the transformation and upgrading of the export system.

The strong interconnectivity of urban regionalization has led to the cross-boundary nature of sudden incidents, and the frequent occurrence of such crises continually stimulates emergency cooperation among regions. In the face of tensions within the emergency cooperation framework, this paper employs the case of emergency cooperation practices in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) to construct a "Structure-Technology" analysis framework, offering a comprehensive examination of the internal logic driving effective intergovernmental emergency cooperation in the region. The study identifies several core mechanisms underpinning effective cooperation in the GBA: agreement-based safeguards, command coordination systems, information-sharing protocols, and an integrated early warning mechanism. Legitimacy in emergency cooperation is reinforced through regional planning and formal cooperative agreements, while intergovernmental collaboration is coordinated via joint meetings, the establishment of emergency command centers, and lead roles in multi-level prevention and control mechanisms. Technological tools empower these cooperative efforts, encompassing information systems and platforms that facilitate information sharing, as well as joint emergency drills, early warning information dissemination, and targeted warning prompts to strengthen proactive response efforts. The key to resolving tensions within regional emergency cooperation mechanisms lies in a coordinated approach encompassing both structural and technical dimensions.

Using the panel data of 209 counties in the Yangtze River Delta from 2014 to 2021, this study systematically explores the effects and mechanisms of county-level transportation infrastructure construction on urban-rural integration development from the perspective of labor and capital allocation efficiency. The empirical findings demonstrate that the construction of county-level transportation infrastructure significantly promotes urban-rural integration development. Mechanism analysis reveals that county-level transportation infrastructure facilitates urban-rural integration development by improving the allocation efficiency of labor and capital factors. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the promoting effect is stronger in counties with higher level of economic development, in counties far from urban built-up areas, and in counties that have joined the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration. Furthermore, spatial effect analysis suggests that county-level transportation infrastructure construction has a significant positive spation spillover effects on urban-rural integration development, which promotes not only urban-rural integrated development in the county, but also adjacent counties. Based on these findings, policy recommendations are proposed to strengthen the construction of county-level transportation infrastructure, facilitate the free flow of urban-rural factors, and thereby promote urban-rural integration development.

Against the tasks and requirements outlined in the Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Promoting High-Quality Urban Development regarding the optimization of a modern urban system, China's urban system still faces several shortcomings, manifested as follows: excessive scale and insufficient radiation-driven capacity of megacities and large cities; small scale of small cities and significant "siphon effect" from large citiesi; substantial room for improvement in specialized division of labor and collaboration among cities; long way to go in integrated public service provision and environmental governance; lack of inter-city governance coordination as a bottleneck in building a modern urban system; incomplete spatial organization of the urban system. The optimization direction of the urban system should focus on promoting scale coordination, functional complementarity, governance synergy, and efficient spatial organization among cities. Scale coordination serves as the foundation, underpinned by functional complementarity, and both rely on synergistic governance mechanisms as a prerequisite. The efficient operation of the urban system also requires orderly spatial organization as a support. In terms of optimization measures, a multi-pronged approach should be adopted:enhance the carrying capacity of megacities and large cities through comprehensive policies; boost the radiation-driven capacity of large cities through innovation-driven development;develop small and medium-sized cities in a tailored manner based on local conditions; deepen functional specialization and promote inter-city division of labor and collaboration; innovate governance systems to provide institutional safeguards for modern urban system development; improve the governance scale to enhance spatial efficiency of resource allocation.

Urban smart shrinkage in China constitutes a distinctive governance process shaped by the dual constraints of compressed modernization and institutional path dependence. Its essence lies in promoting intensive development through reduction in quantity and improvement in quality, thereby achieving a strategic restructuring of urban development models. Confronted with the disjunction between Western theories of urban smart shrinkage and China’s context, this study endeavors to construct a theoretical framework tailored to China’s national conditions. It systematically reveals the local dilemmas across three dimensions: institutional constraints, governance structures, and implementation mechanisms. The study reveals an internal logic of “constraint identification-advantage activation-element metabolism-system adaptation” and constructs a realization pathway comprising “industrial advancement-spatial regeneration-governance transformation.” A comparative analysis is conducted using specific cases representing three types of shrinking cities: structurally imbalanced, regionally siphoned, and locationally disadvantaged. In the future,governance of urban shrinkage in China should break through the “growth-oriented” mindset, refine the theoretical system of smart shrinkage, and formulate management systems and policy solutions suited to the Chinese context, thereby contributing Chinese wisdom to global urban governance.

Building green, low-carbon, and beautiful cities is one of the seven key tasks proposed at the 2025 Central Urban Work Conference. In line with the spirit of this conference, this study elaborates on the contemporary value, core tasks, and practical pathways of constructing green, low-carbon, and beautiful cities. The findings indicate that promoting urban green and low-carbon transformation is an important measure to practice the concept of ecological civilization, actively respond to climate change, foster new quality productive forces, and enhance urban resilience, all of which hold great strategic significance. The core tasks include consolidating the achievements of ecological and environmental governance, promoting coordinated and synergistic progress in pollution reduction, carbon mitigation, and ecological expansion, advancing ecological protection and restoration, and encouraging green and low-carbon lifestyles. To achieve these goals, it is essential to strengthen planning guidance and top-level design for green and low-carbon development; adhere to innovation-driven approaches to stimulate internal momentum for green transformation; improve the policy framework to build a long-term mechanism that balances incentives and constraints; enhance coordination to advance the modernization of urban governance; and mobilize the whole society to form strong synergy in building beautiful cities.

Uneven regional development has long been a fundamental national condition in China, and coordinated regional development stands as a crucial governing strategy of the Communist Party. Set against the historical backdrop of the Western Development Strategy, this paper conducts an in-depth analogy between the East-to-West Data Transmission and Computation Project and the West-to-East Electricity and Gas Transmission Projects. It analyzes the unique advantages of the East-to-West Data Transmission and Computation Project in promoting coordinated regional development from the perspectives of factor flow characteristics, regional innovation convergence, industrial synergy, and green transformation. Furthermore, it points out four major practical dilemmas in coordinating regional development through the East-to-West Data Transmission and Computation Project, namely negative externalities of data elements, “bottlenecks” in key core technologies, institutional and systemic issues, and resource rigidity. Policy suggestions are put forward to strengthen digital regulatory governance, accelerate the formation of new productive forces, break market segmentation, and enhance energy conservation and emission reduction.

Digital technologies are increasingly empowering the construction of community governance communities, becoming an important aspect of advancing the modernization of national governance. A case study of the Ministry of Civil Affairs’ “National Experimental Zones for Community Governance and Service Innovation” using Grounded Theory reveals that this process involves reconstructing the community governance ecosystem through the dynamic interaction of technological and governance logics. Specifically, digital technologies empower the reshaping of governance concepts, the cultivation of community consciousness, and the innovation of participation mechanisms, shifting community governance actors from passive response to proactive co-construction, thus solving the problem of “who governs”; they empower the adaptation of governance structures, the opening of governance spaces, and the clarification of rights and responsibilities, constructing an institutional framework for “how to govern”; they empower the activation of social capital, the integration of service resources, and the convergence of data elements, solving the resource allocation problem of “what to use for governance”; and they empower the precise matching of service needs, the improvement of public service quality, and the collaborative resolution of conflicts, achieving the goal of good governance of “why govern”. This study transcends the traditional narrative that views community governance subjects as passive recipients of technology, and provides an explanatory path with Chinese characteristics and universal significance for how modern urban communities with low connectivity and high mobility can achieve the ecological construction of a community governance community.

Domestic trade plays a pivotal role in facilitating internal circulation and building a unified national market. This study constructs China’s intercity trade networks (CITNs) from 2009 to 2023 using transaction data between listed firms and their suppliers and customers.It analyze the multi-dimensional network structure at the overall, community, and individual levelsby applying complex network theory and Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (TERGM). The goal is to uncover the evolutionary mechanisms driven by both endogenous structural effects and exogenous regional attributes, and to identify the core driving forces behind the development of trade relationships. The results show that China’s intercity trade has entered a stable phase marked by rising efficiency and strengthening cohesion. The network displays a clear core-periphery structure, with cross-regional collaboration and regional agglomeration forming a symbiotic spatial pattern. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen consistently dominate the network, while intermediary cities exhibit notable volatility. Endogenous mechanisms—reciprocity, triadic closure, preferential attachment, and path dependence—positively shape trade ties. At the same time, exogenous factors such as economic scale, infrastructure, industrial structure, and geographical, institutional, and cultural proximity also promote intercity trade linkages. The network has evolved under a stable configuration dominated by internal structural dynamics with complementary external forces. Among these, path dependence emerges as the most influential internal driver, while industrial structure serves as a key external engine. In addition, the endogenous network structures further amplify the influence of certain exogenous factors on the evolution of intercity trade networks. These results suggest that cities should not only strengthen existing trade ties and maintain cooperative stability, but also focus on upgrading their industrial structures to boost trade expansion capacity.

Urban renewal serves as a crucial lever for resolving deep-seated contradictions in urban development and advancing the construction of modern people-centered cities. Conducting a quantitative evaluation of urban renewal policies in the Yangtze River Delta region contributes to refining and improving such policies, while promoting coordinated development and local innovation across the region. Using the LDA model, we conducted content mining on 37 urban renewal policy texts from the Yangtze River Delta region. By integrating existing research, we constructed an urban renewal policy indicator system and performed quantitative evaluation on 30 policy texts based on the PMC index model. The results indicate that the overall policy quality in the Yangtze River Delta region is acceptable, but significant disparities exist in policy quality across different regions. Common characteristics include high systemic complexity, insufficient openness in policy participation, and poor policy operability. Policy coordination among the three provinces and one municipality in the Yangtze River Delta is strong, manifesting in distinct policy development models: “innovation-led,”“tool-empowered,”“normative-guaranteed,”and “system-coordinated.” Based on these characteristics and issues, it is recommended that urban renewal policy formulation in the Yangtze River Delta should further improve the tool support system to enhance policy operability; Broaden the scope of open participation to strengthen policy implementation safeguards; Promote policy sharing and mutual learning to stimulate regional coordination efficiency.

This paper constructs a dual-region DSGE model including ocean and inland cities, and introduces the cost difference of factor flow, technology spillover, complementary intermediate products and coastal export-oriented mechanism to study the coordinated development mechanism of land and sea economy under the dual-cycle pattern. The research shows that reducing the cost of inland capital flow, strengthening coastal technology spillover and optimizing regional industrial complementarity can significantly narrow the regional development gap; The impact of external demand will promote the cooperation between land and sea in the short term, and it is necessary to rely on the flow of technology and factors to prevent the imbalance of economic development in land and sea areas in the long term. Based on this, this paper puts forward some suggestions, such as reducing the cost of inland factor flow, strengthening the spillover conduction of coastal technology, optimizing the complementary pattern of land and sea industries, resolving the impact risk of external demand and implementing differentiated monetary policy, which provides theoretical basis and policy enlightenment for implementing the new development pattern of land and sea planning, realizing common prosperity and smooth double circulation.

This paper is based on the national marine park construction as a quasi-natural experiment, utilizing panel data from 51 coastal cities at the prefecture level and above in China from 2004 to 2023. It employs a multi-period difference-in-difference approach to analyze the impact of national marine park construction on the tourism industry in coastal cities. The study finds that the construction of national marine parks significantly promotes the development of the tourism industry in coastal cities. This conclusion remains valid after a series of robustness tests, including parallel trend tests, placebo tests, tests for other policy interference, PSM-DID tests, excluding municipalities from the sample, tailing retraction test, and changing the sample time. The policy effects are more pronounced in cities with high endowments of tourism resources, advanced tourism development levels, high government environmental concerns, and strong clan cultural intensity. The construction of national marine parks primarily drives the development of the tourism industry in coastal cities by improving ecological environment quality, increasing tourism service supply, and promoting industrial structural adjustments. Therefore, coastal cities should fully seize the opportunity presented by the construction of national marine parks, implement differentiated strategies to amplify the marginal effects of this construction, and continuously release the effectiveness of national marine parks in promoting marine tourism development through the synergistic interaction of the ‘ecology-service-industry’ chain, making the tourism industry in coastal cities a key force driving the high-quality development of the marine economy.