The deep integration of culture and tourism has sparked numerous hot topics worthy of academic and professional discussion. This study synthesizes experts' views on these topics, analyzing key phenomena such as "digital intelligence empowerment", "rural tournaments", "national style breaking the circle", "officials'endorsement", "film and television empowering tourism", "off-site performances", and "city blogging". The study further examines these topics in terms of "emotional value", "cross-border integration", "risk management", and develops five key viewpoints: (1) Despite the explosive growth in public attention and replication of social behaviors, each hot topic has distinct values. (2) The "breaking the circle" phenomenon is triggered by the intersection of accidental inspiration and underlying logic, with both shared and unique triggers. (3) The formation mechanism of culture and tourism integration hot topics is complex, involving political, economic, social, technological, and other factors, driven by local governments, enterprises, institutions, and market demand. (4) The evolution of these hot topics is characterized by trends, with multiple types of cycles such as short cycle, long tail, and steady state. (5) The hot topics reflect the comprehensive effects of cross-border integration, demonstrating the depth and breadth of cultural and tourism integration, and varying in scope, intensity, and effectiveness of resource utilization. Positive and negative effects emerge simultaneously, with varying levels of controllability, necessitating the exploration and categorization of negative effects to strengthen risk management.

Utilizing green financial policies to promote green transformation of enterprises is not only a requirement for high-quality development of enterprises, but also an important part of building a green financial theory with Chinese characteristics. Selecting A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2008 to 2021 as research samples, a PSM-DID model is employed with the Green Credit Guidelines as a natural experiment. This study establishes an evaluation index system from five dimensions: green production, green innovation, environmental quality, social sharing, and green system to comprehensively evaluate the green development of enterprises, and explores the effects and mechanisms of green credit policies on the green development of enterprises. Research has found that the implementation of green credit policies has significantly promoted the green development of enterprises, and improved the levels of green production, green innovation, environmental quality, and green institution. From the perspective of enterprise investment structure, it has been verified that green credit policies can facilitate the green development of enterprises through investment duration, investment risk bearing capacity, and digital investment. From a dimensional perspective, emphasizing long-term investment can help improve green production, green innovation and environmental quality for enterprises. The increase in investment risk bearing capacity is conducive to enhancing the level of green production, innovation, and institutional management for enterprises. The raising of digital investment helps to improve the green institutional management of enterprises. Heterogeneity testing found that green credit policies have a significant promoting effect on the green development of small-scale enterprises, enterprises in central and western regions, and enterprises in high-intensity environmental regulation areas.

With the vigorous development of the Internet, data have become an important means of production, penetrating all areas of the tourism industry and giving rise to various "Internet-famous" tourist destinations. The "explosion of popularity" of traditional villages is not only a concentrated reflection of the transformation of rural tourism development mode promoted by digital intelligence technology, but also the basic characteristics and operating logic of the traffic economy in the New Era. Taking Xunpu village in Quanzhou city as a case study, this paper applies the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) theory, grounded theory and the fsQCA method to reveal the influencing factors behind traditional villages becoming "Internet-famous" and to explore pathways for sustaining "long-term popularity". The research shows that: (1) Xunpu village has become an Internet-famous village with the help of network traffic, and its life cycle curve has deformed due to time compression, showing an extruded S shape. (2) The "explosion of popularity" of Xunpu village results from the interaction of five factors: symbolic value, virtual and real culture, spatial reconstruction, optimized management, and traffic dissemination, which jointly promote the mobility of village stock resources and production factors. (3) The three main paths for Xunpu village to achieve long-term success are "symbolic value-driven type by traffic dissemination", "symbolist value-optimized management boosted type" and "spatial reconstruction-optimized management driven type". Under the coordination of virtual and real culture and traffic dissemination, symbolic value plays a core leading role. The flow economy, as an important form of tourism productivity, has brought new opportunities and challenges to the sustainable development of traditional villages. Future related research can further expand the sample range to cover more types of Internet-famous villages, to enhance the explanatory power of the lifecycle model of Internet-famous tourist destinations. At the same time, further in-depth exploration is needed on the path and impact mechanism of transforming the information flow of Internet-famous villages into tourist flow, as well as determining the conversion rate of different types of tourist destinations.

In building China's modern tourism system, the innovative use, effective protection, and judicious transformation of tourism resources serve not only as core supporting elements, but also as critical drivers of industrial upgrading and sustainable development. To address this topic, the paper convened experts and scholars from geography, tourism, culture, and management to discuss issues such as the integration of culture and tourism, resource potential, and technological change. A synthesis of their main insights points to three pressing questions: (1) From an institutional and strategic perspective, rethinking the value system of tourism resources is essential, moving beyond traditional views rooted in the "natural-human" dichotomy. Less obvious factors, such as everyday lifestyles and cultural identity, should be recognized as key components of the resource spectrum and aligned with national objectives for cultural soft power and high-quality development. Interdisciplinary research, technological tools, and robust institutional support, including planning, management, and legal safeguards, can help steer resource development toward richer and more innovative pathways. (2) Regarding implementation models and strategies, success hinges on a three-way partnership among government, enterprises, and society. The government supplies top-level design and oversight in aspects like planning, property rights coordination, and funding support; enterprises respond to market demand by offering differentiated, high-quality products and services; at the same time, local residents and social organizations should be encouraged to participate in uncovering and shaping local knowledge and values. By leveraging new digital technologies, immersive and interactive forms of tourism can be promoted, expanding the benefits of industry integration. (3) Considering potential drawbacks and countermeasures, it is vital to guard against excessive commercialization that may undermine ecological integrity and cultural authenticity, making it necessary to set reasonable limits on development intensity. Strengthening cross-regional collaboration and policy support, along with optimizing transportation and public services, can help less-developed regions translate their natural and cultural resources into genuine engines of high-quality growth. This paper ultimately calls for a multidisciplinary effort under a broader national strategic vision, where "collaborative innovation" turns tourism resource advantages into catalysts for sustained industrial and regional growth. By doing so, it reinforces national cultural confidence and soft power, while contributing China's insights to the global discourse on tourism theory and practice.

Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a crucial cultural resource and an integral part of China's excellent traditional culture. Protecting, inheriting, and promoting ICH is significant for preserving historical context, strengthening cultural confidence, fostering civilizational exchanges, and building a socialist cultural power. After over two decades of efforts, China has achieved remarkable progress in ICH protection and accumulated valuable experience. Currently, ICH preservation is transitioning from "rescue-oriented protection" to "systematic protection", marked by new characteristics. This special discussion invites experts and scholars from ICH and related fields to explore topics such as ICH protection system construction, innovative protection models, and inheritance pathways. Based on their insights, the following priorities emerge for innovative protection and inheritance in the New Era: (1) Promote systematic ICH protection by emphasizing the relationship between ICH and its environment, implementing regional holistic conservation through cultural ecological reserves, and building a people-centered protection system. (2) As a crystallization of ethnic wisdom and a key bond for consolidating the Chinese national community, ICH must connect with contemporary life. Multi-stakeholder collaboration should facilitate its integration into modern society to achieve creative transformation and innovative development. (3) Technology and tourism can empower ICH protection and inheritance across multiple dimensions. However, the core objective of heritage preservation must remain paramount. Strategic integration of technological tools can deepen ICH-tourism synergies, improve heritage experience infrastructure, facilitate ICH preservation and adaptive reuse, and effectively support both rural revitalization and urban renewal initiatives.

Innovating the multi-stakeholder collaborative governance model is essential for addressing the China's urban renewal and developmental obstacles. It would also assist in promoting high-quality urban development. This study analyzes the practical pathways and internal mechanisms of collaborative governance in urban renewal. With Hangzhou as an example, the study adopts a case study and inductive analysis methods to explore these dynamics. The results indicate that: (1) Hangzhou's urban renewal has developed four governance paths. The first path is building a governance environment through an integrated management system and diverse policy tools. The second path is establishing a governance structure that coordinates the efforts of government, market, residents, and society. The third path is applying governance tools that combine knowledge-based discourse and physical technology. Finally, the fourth path is achieving governance outcomes that balance development, livelihood, and preservation. (2) Multi-stakeholder collaborative governance of urban renewal should encompass an integrated framework of 'synergistic environment-structure-means-outcomes.' This includes an environmental synergy through self-consistent management and coordinated policy innovation, a structural synergy via diversified interest coordination and differentiated power allocation, a means synergy through normative procedures and incentive controls, and a results synergy focused on balancing conflicting goals with universal sharing. These integrated mechanisms are designed to facilitate high-quality urban renewal through coordinated development strategies. Therefore, this study offers four key governance insights. Firstly, it highlights the principles of responsibility-rights coordination and dynamic adjustment to innovate management systems and policy tools. Secondly, it calls for allocating stakeholder power based on roles to build an inclusive urban renewal governance community. Thirdly, it proposes combining regulation and incentives for flexible yet effective governance approaches. Finally, it stresses balancing efficiency and equity to achieve coordinated economic, social, and environmental development. These insights provide valuable lessons for advancing urban renewal governance in the New Era.

High-quality integrated development of culture and tourism is of great significance in building a new development pattern of the two industries. Based on the system theory, this paper constructs an evaluation index system for the development of culture and tourism industries from four dimensions of "elements-structure-function-environment", and explores the spatial and temporal variations of the development level of high-quality integration of and cultural and tourism industries in 30 provincial-level regions in China from 2013 to 2022 by using the comprehensive evaluation model of fitness, Moran's I index and hot spot analysis, and examines the grouping paths to achieve high-quality integration of cultural and tourism development through fsQCA analysis. The results show that: (1) China's cultural and tourism industry development indexes show a fluctuating growth, and first increase and then decrease, respectively, both showing the spatial and temporal characteristics of "increase in the south and decrease in the north". (2) China's high-quality integrated development of culture and tourism presents a spatial pattern of "high in the southeast and low in the northwest", with high-adaptation and high-match types mainly concentrated in East China, and low-adaptation and low-match types mostly found in Southwest China, South China and Northeast China. (3) The development of high-quality integration of culture and tourism in China is characterised by 'multiple concurrency', with circularity and openness being one of the main core conditions for achieving high-quality integration of culture and tourism in multiple stages, and coordination, ecological civilisation, and scientific and technological innovation playing an important driving role in different stages. China should use policy coordination, integrated layout and comprehensive development as a means of governance, and benchmarking, collaborative and combined development as a policy guide to continuously promote the high-quality integrated development of the culture and tourism industries.

Network attention is a concentrated expression of market demand, and it provides a new focus for releasing the potential of tourism consumption and optimizing the allocation of tourism resources in the context of flow economy. Based on the phenomenon that the current network focus hotspots and spatially based resource distribution abundance are not fully coordinated, and the transformation of tourism resource utilization value to product market value is insufficient, this paper takes Yunnan province data from the whole and local scales as the cases from 2013 to 2022 to explore the spatial mismatch relationship and driving mechanism of tourism resource abundance and network attention in this province through the methods of gravity center model, spatial dislocation index and geographic detector. The results show that: (1) From the perspective of the overall mismatch, the gravity center of tourism resources abundance and tourism network attention during the study period present the characteristics of moving to the southeast and the southwest of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, respectively. The fluctuation amplitude of the distance between the two centers of gravity is relatively large, showing a repeated alternation of "approaching-distancing-approaching". (2) From the perspective of regional dislocation, the spatial mismatch relationship between the two regions has obvious regional characteristics, presenting a distribution pattern of "positive mismatch area-negative mismatch area-positive mismatch area" from northwest to southeast. (3) From the perspective of driving mechanism, the four driving forces, namely, resource endowment, human resource potential, economic development and information dissemination, are intertwined, which jointly drive the evolution of tourism resource abundance and network attention in Yunnan from spatial dislocation to spatial adaptation. The results of this study not only respond to the practical needs and academic concerns of the adaptive development of regional tourism resources "quantity and quality" and network attention in the context of flow economy, but also promote the rational explanation of the driving mechanism of spatial mismatch between them.

The Yellow River Basin is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, the main hub of historical evolution, and the key support of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin are related to the overall situation of comprehensively promoting Chinese path to modernization. The Yellow River Basin is an economic, social, ecological, and cultural complex system that is comprehensive, holistic, diverse, and complex, while also having close and distant coupling relationships with external regions. In the past five years since the implementation of the major national strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, there has been a turning point in the quality of the ecological environment in the basin. The ability to maintain national food and energy security has significantly improved, and solid steps have been taken in the development of urban and rural areas. New breakthroughs have been made in cultural inheritance and development, and domestic and international opening-up and cooperation have reached a higher level. The industrial economy in the basin has made significant progress in innovation, green development, and coordination. The support capacity for technological innovation has been enhanced, and the transformation of industrial structure has achieved initial results. The efficiency of resources and environment has been greatly improved. Anchoring the grand goal of basically achieving socialist modernization by 2035, it is necessary to seize the opportunity of cultivating and developing new quality productive forces on the premise of better coordinated development and security, promote economic-social-environmental co-upgrading with high-quality population development, coordinate the nexus of people-water-food-energy-carbon-ecology, accelerate the construction of the physically bounded Yellow River National Cultural Park, and explore the modernization path of the great river basin to achieve high-quality integrated development of economy, society, ecology, and culture in a coordinated manner. In order to drive the transformation and upgrading of industries, the basin needs continuously to promote regional coordinated development, technological innovation, consumption upgrading, and high-level opening up. Aiming to give full play to the role of national energy security ballast stones and important production bases for green energy in the Yellow River Ji-shaped bend, it also needs to accelerate the construction of national energy security guarantee bases in the Ji-shaped riverbend. Facing the complex human-water relationship, the Yellow River Basin needs to construct a coupled model of the human-nature system based on human-water relationship and systematically understand the human-water relationship in the Yellow River including the integrity from the perspective of the nexus, the systematicity from the perspective of critical threshold, and the synergy from the perspective of remote coupling, which is an important scientific and technological support for promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in this region.

Grain production capacity is the first essential to ensure food security. Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the rapid urbanization process and significant climate change, China's grain production capacity has undergone a significant spatial reconstruction process. Based on the long-term multi-source provincial panel data from 2000 to 2022, this paper deconstructs the spatial reconstruction process of China's grain production capacity, identifies the dominant driving factors and key driving mechanisms, in order to provide scientific reference for China's food security and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The results show that: (1) China's grain production capacity shows spatial and temporal significance and complexity in terms of production quantity, production potential and production structure. (2) The spatial center of gravity of the grain production quantity shifted from Southern Henan to Northern Henan and Southern Hebei. (3) The spatial autocorrelation and spatial stratification heterogeneity of the spatial distribution of production capacity are significant and increasing. The expansion and reduction of inter-provincial differences in production capacity coexist, and the primary distribution characteristics are not prominent and continue to weaken. (4) There are dimensional heterogeneity in the driving factors of production quantity, production potential and production structure. The two main controlling factors of climate change and urbanization are changing in the process of spatial reconstruction of grain production capacity. Climate change is dominant in the early stage and urbanization is dominant in the later stage. (5) Under the coupling of urbanization and climate change, the nonlinear spatial reconstruction process of grain production capacity occurs at three levels of production quantity, production structure and production potential. (6) Agricultural policies can directly inhibit excessive "non-grain" and "non-agricultural" transformation by ensuring agricultural land input and increasing agricultural economic benefits, thereby regulating production structure, ensuring production quantity and improving grain production capacity.

A comprehensive policy system is an important institutional guarantee to help improve the modern tourism system and accelerate the construction of a powerful tourism nation. This paper constructs a four-dimensional analysis framework of policy evolution, policy subjects, policy tools and policy effectiveness. Using content analysis method, social network analysis method and policy consistency index model (PMC), this paper systematically examines 884 national tourism policies from 1978 to 2020. The results show that: (1) Since the reform and opening up, the evolution of tourism policy has experienced an budding stage (1978-1991), a rapid development stage (1992-2011) and a comprehensive deepening stage (2012-2020). Slightly different from existing research, this study's policy sample better reflects the changes in the practical goals and development directions of China's tourism industry at various stages of development since the late 1970s, and expands them in the temporal dimension. (2) The formulation and issue of tourism policies are mainly independent release, with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) being the main policy issuing department. (3) The policy tools present the structural unbalance state, which place emphasis on environmental policies but lack of supply policies. This phenomenon may be related to the timely adjustment of the goals of the tourism industry in different periods, as well as the changes in the environment of the tourism industry development. (4) The text validity of tourism policy is good on the whole, but the performance of the policy nature, policy field and policy audience dimension needs to be improved. Based on this, the paper puts forward some suggestions: (1) Optimize the cooperation mechanism among tourism policy issuing bodies and coordinate multi-bodies to strengthen cross-departmental cooperation in tourism policy making. (2) Rationally allocate policy tools, give full play to the linkage role of three policy tools to promote the healthy development of China's tourism industry. (3) Coordinate the text effectiveness dimension and constantly improve the poorly performing dimension to optimize the overall tourism policy effectiveness mechanism. This study clarifies the logical evolution and structural system of China's tourism policy since the late 1970s, and provides theoretical references for the future clarification of the focus areas of tourism policy and the construction of a more reasonable and effective tourism policy system. In addition, it provides insights into the high-quality development of tourism industry.

Rapid industrialization and urbanization have led to significant changes in the utilization of black soil cultivated land, which profoundly affects the sustainable utilization of black soil resources. Based on the human-land system perspective, this paper constructs an analytical framework for the transformation of cultivated land utilization, takes Qiqihar city as a case study area, and adopts the mutation level model to quantitatively analyze the process of cultivated land utilization and its key turning points from 1995 to 2020, and to examine the main driving factors of different transformation stages. The results show that: (1) The state evaluation value of cropland utilization system fluctuates and rises from 1995 to 2020, concentrating between 0.35 and 0.45, indicating that the cropland utilization system in Qiqihar has different stages of utilization state and is in the process of transformation and change. (2) With 2003 and 2015 as the turning points, the cropland utilization mode in the study area has experienced the rough development and utilization, high-intensity and intensive utilization, protection and sustainable utilization, and its function has realized the transformation of food from "self-sufficiency" (1995-2002) to "external transfer of commercial food (2003-2014)", and then to "green transformation (2015-2020)". The utilization of cultivated land has gone through two transformations. (3) The transformation of cultivated land utilization from the first to the second stage in the study area from 1995 to 2020 was mainly driven by key factors such as factor inputs and policy regulation, and the second to the third stage was mainly driven by market demand, policy regulation and technological progress. It is recommended to continue to strengthen the protection and utilization of black soil, coordinate the allocation of factors and resources in the black soil area, optimize the structure of regional cultivated land utilization, promote the upgrading of black soil cultivated land functions, and strengthen the cornerstone of guaranteeing national food security and the sustainable development of regional agriculture and rural areas.

China has currently entered a stock era of comprehensive renewal, while urban renewal has become the primary task and form of urban development. Japan, a developed adjacent country, has similar geographical and cultural backgrounds to China. As such, understanding its urban renewal can help to formulate and develop sustainable strategies for urban renewal in contemporary China. In doing so, this study aims to compare and discuss the differences in the characteristics of stages of urban renewal between China and Japan by analyzing the case of the process of urban renewal at Shibuya, Tokyo. It is found that urban renewal in Japan has gone through five stages since the Meiji Restoration, and there are significant differences in terms of time dimension, driving factors, location, and scale compared to urban renewal in China. However, from the dynamic development process, urban renewal in China gradually converged with the development characteristics of Japan in the later stages. Therefore, based on the inspiration from Japan's experience, this study summarizes the path and countermeasures for the future development of urban renewal in China: first, building a more refined and perfect urban renewal policy system; second, exploring the autonomous creation model under government led coordination; and third, using Japan's pioneering experience for reference and considering in advance the response to social issues.

Based on the unique geographical and historical background, red brick has become a distinctive urban characteristic in the Fujian-Taiwan region, with its complex cultural background endowing it with rich potential value. However, the current inheritance and continuation of red brick cultural genes face significant challenges. In this study, we apply scene theory to Quanzhou West Street historical and cultural district, which is the most representative red brick area in Quanzhou. This study adopts the framework of the five elements of a scene to analyze the evaluation process of carrier characteristics, behavioral perception, and amenity value. Through a combination of field research, in-depth interviews, surveys, and big data statistical analysis, we investigate the evaluation indicator system for scene amenities at two levels: the macro-level of the entire district and the micro-level of red brick buildings. Our research findings reveal: (1) The scene elements of the red brick historical district include spatial environment, functional medium, diverse groups, activity combinations, and value attraction. (2) The scene functions of the overall district environment include: historical artifacts, cultural displays, and consumption experiences. These three aspects are interrelated, but the overall satisfaction of Quanzhou West Street still needs improvement. (3) The amenities of red brick architecture can be categorized into four types: color aesthetics, texture, decorative details, and regional characteristics. These categories include 12 traditional architectural features such as red bricks, white stones, wood, windows, balconies, external structures, beam decorations, columns, bricklaying methods, internal spaces, main structures, and roofs. Finally, we propose principles for protection and renewal, specific measures, and strategies for controlling the architectural style of red brick buildings. Our research extends the empirical application of scene theory in China, and provides effective approaches for the protection and renewal of historical and cultural districts.

To promote the integration of urban ecology, culture and tourism, it is necessary to provide both supply side capital supply and demand side consumption activation. In order to accurately identify the impact of the government's bilateral guidance on the integrated development of culture and tourism, this paper uses the data of 285 cities in China from 2011 to 2021 to measure the level of urban cultural and tourism integration development under the systematic framework of "culture-ecology-tourism", and then uses the difference-in-differences model to identify the role of capital supply and demand expansion based on the government's cultural and tourism industry guidance fund and consumption pilot policy. Research has found that: (1) The integrated development of urban ecology, culture and tourism presents an overall spatial pattern of "high in the east and low in the west", with gradient differentiation within the region. Its spatial imbalance and differentiation characteristics are more obvious. (2) The cultural and tourism industry guidance fund has a significant positive effect on the integration of ecological culture and tourism, while the implementation of consumption pilot policies cannot pass the significance test. However, the coordination between supply side and demand side policies can produce stronger positive effects, and there is spatial heterogeneity in the coordination. (3) The integration of the market, the improvement of the business environment, and the increasing attention to the integration of cultural and tourism networks can strengthen the policy coordination between supply and demand and promote the integration of urban ecology, culture, and tourism. In addition, there is a U-shaped negative spatial spillover characteristic in the government's policy coordination of both sides, and the "siphon effect" reaches its maximum at around 300 km.

Developing new quality productive forces is an inherent requirement and important focus for promoting high-quality development, and tourism resource development is a typical field for achieving this goal. Among them, art resource development is particularly representative-the development of art tourism resources in the New Era is not only highly compatible with new quality productive forces, but also a key innovative path for promoting the development of cultural industries. However, at present, the question of how new quality productive forces empowers the development of art tourism resources, its connotation and mechanism, has not been systematically answered. Based on this, firstly, this study proposes a full value chain model that empowers the development of art tourism resources with new quality productive forces, explains its basis and connotation, and analyzes the exploration and production, creation and innovation, assignment and value-adding, dissemination and marketing, benefits and distribution, management and governance, inheritance and protection, as well as the entire chain process of sustainable development of art tourism resources covered by it; proposes a full value chain value-added model for material, spiritual, and constructive art tourism resources. Secondly, the study proposes a full value chain development mechanism for empowering art tourism resources with new quality productive forces from three dimensions: subject expansion, industrial driving force of supply and demand coordination, and development path of new quality technology. Thirdly, the study proposes future research directions for the development of art tourism resources, covering innovation led research, research on new growth models, new development paths, and the supporting role of high technology. Overall, the study takes art tourism resources as the starting point, aiming to use this type of resource with typical new quality characteristics as an example to explain the connotation, model, mechanism, and future research of high-quality development and value enhancement of tourism resources in the creative era. This research is not only of great significance for the theoretical and practical development of tourism resources, but also helps to promote high-quality development of urban and rural areas in China in the New Era by leveraging tourism resource development.

At present, the core of China's food safety problem is structural safety and nutritional safety. Based on the data of food production, consumption and trade in China, this paper calculates the scale of food gap from the dimensions of consumption, trade and nutrition, and introduces the concepts of virtual water and virtual land to calculate the water and soil resource gap. On this basis, the solution path of food gap is constructed under the guidance of the concept of the greater food approach. The research indicates that: (1) On the supply side, while food production capacity is increasing, the external dependence for some food items is also rising. The production structure shows a trend of reduced proportions of grains and pork, and expanded proportions of corn, poultry meat, vegetables, etc. On the demand side, apparent food demand is generally increasing, and the dietary structure is transitioning from a "grain and vegetable-based" type to a "grain, meat, vegetable, and fruit diversified" type. (2) Through comprehensive analysis of consumption, trade, and nutrition, it is found that nine types of food, including corn and soybeans, have gaps. The virtual water and virtual land gaps are 269.55 billion m³ and 68.8283 million ha respectively, with gap ratios of 22.49% and 40.80%, respectively. (3) Adjusting dietary structure, reducing and substituting the use of soybean meal for animal feed, and developing and utilizing backup resources can mitigate resource gaps and ensure food security. Among these, adopting a healthy dietary pattern can save 275.987 billion m³ of virtual water and 92.7871 million ha of virtual land. Implementing the greater food approach concept urgently requires the establishment of a macro food system security responsibility mechanism, optimization of food security evaluation standards and evaluation systems, and guanantee of food security from the perspective of the entire industry chain and comprehensive resource utilization.

As an important bridge connecting the natural ecosystem and human society, the improvement of the value realization efficiency of forest ecological products significantly impacts the realization of sustainable development goals. This paper aimed to explore how the new quality productive forces can empower the value realization efficiency of forest ecological products and promote the sustainable and efficient utilization of forest resources. Based on the dynamic qualitative comparative analysis method, using the panel data of 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) from 2011 to 2022, this paper analyzed the multi-factor synergistic linkage effect of new quality productive forces in the process of improving the value realization efficiency of forest ecological products. The study found that: (1) A single factor couldn't constitute a necessary condition for the high value realization efficiency of forest ecological products, but the necessity of innovative productivity, technological productivity, resource productivity, environmental productivity, digital industry productivity and industrial digital productivity was gradually increasing. (2) The high value realization efficiency of forest ecological products had four driving paths: "innovation+environment", "technology+environment+industrial digit", "resources +digit" and "innovation+resources". The low value realization efficiency of forest ecological products had three restrictive paths: "green+industrial digit", "technology+green" and "innovation+environment". (3) All the four driving paths of high value realization efficiency of forest ecological products had spatial heterogeneity, and the "innovation+environment" driving path has significant time effect. The research results provided not only theoretical support for understanding the empowering effect of new quality productive forces on the value realization efficiency of forest ecological products, but also practical guidance for optimizing the management of forest ecological products and enhancing the value of ecological services.

Clarifying the spatial network characteristics of typical mountainous tourism resources development level has important reference value for maximizing the public welfare function of tourism resources and promoting social well-being. Taking 71 counties (cities, districts) in the Wuling Mountain area from 2008 to 2022 as the research object, this study measures the development level of tourism resources and social well-being. It characterizes the spatial network characteristics of tourism resources development using the modified gravity model and social network analysis method, and analyzes its social well-being effects from the perspective of centrality using spatial econometric models. The results show that: (1) The development level of tourism resources and social well-being in the study area are increasing, with significant spatial differentiation. The former exhibits a spatial pattern of "northern protrusion, central depression, and southern stability," while the latter shows a "point-belt" pattern and tends to be polarized. (2) The spatial network of tourism resources development exhibits an imbalanced structure with "denser in the middle and looser in the surrounding areas, as well as denser in the southeast and looser in the northwest". The network connections and network density are both increasing, while network efficiency and spatial network hierarchy are gradually decreasing. (3) Centrality in the spatial network of tourism resources development has a positive direct impact and spatial spillover effect on social well-being.

Horizontal ecological compensation serves as a pivotal safeguard for ensuring equitable access to survival, environmental, and developmental rights across diverse regions. It is also a crucial approach for fostering inter-regional harmony, balance, and sustainable progress. This study zeroed in on the Chishui River Basin, aiming to scientifically quantify the ecological compensation amount based on the ecosystem services' value. We further established a horizontal ecological compensation mechanism that encompassed the government, enterprises, and other stakeholders through the identification of both compensated and paying regions. The key findings were: (1) The upstream and western bank areas of the Chishui River Basin constitute the compensated regions, covering 54.8% of the basin's total area. Conversely, the downstream and eastern bank regions, being beneficiaries of ecological protection, represent the paying regions, accounting for 21.3% of the total area. (2) The theoretical compensation amount for the Chishui River Basin in 2021 stood at 7.72 billion yuan. Renhuai city, Huichuan district, Qixingguan district and Bozhou district bored respectively 58.1%, 19.4%, 17.7% and 4.8% of the compensation amount according to the proportion of water consumption. (3) Under the government's guidance, a water fund model tailored to the Chishui River Basin, integrating government and enterprise compensation, had been formulated. This model fostered a collaborative mechanism among multiple stakeholders, promoting the coordinated and equitable development of the watershed through incentives for ecological protection, the development of eco-industries, and the provision of ecological institutions.

The reasonable selection and configuration of environmental regulatory tools are key to balancing economic growth with the dynamic equilibrium of Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Goals. Based on panel data from 284 cities at the prefecture level and above in China from 2003 to 2021, this study empirically examines the impact and mechanisms of command-and-control and market-based environmental regulations on carbon emission performance using a two-way fixed effects model, a difference-in-differences model, and a threshold effect model. The study further analyzes the threshold effect of government technology support. The results show that: (1) Both command-and-control and market-based environmental regulations have a significant positive impact on carbon emission performance, with the effect of market-based regulations being stronger. These findings are also supported by empirical evidence from the "Action Plan for Air Pollution Prevention and Control" and the "SO₂ Emission Trading Pilot". (2) Green technological innovation and industrial structure upgrading are important mechanisms by which both types of regulations improve carbon emission performance. (3) The implementation effects of the two types of environmental regulations are affected by differences in urban resource endowments, marketization levels and geographical locations. (4) Government science and technology support has a significant threshold effect on the impact of the two types of environmental regulations on carbon emission performance. Finally, policy recommendations are put forward in terms of the construction of environmental regulatory system, the choice of environmental regulatory tools, and the government's strategy for scientific and technological expenditures.

On the basis of the general characteristics of common prosperity, the development of common prosperity at county scale has certain particularity, and the study of common prosperity from the county scale is helpful to explore the differentiated development path of each region. In order to analyze common prosperity at the county scale, with Zhejiang province as an example, the global entropy method is used to carry out dynamic measurement of the common prosperity level and analyze the evolution characteristics. The geographically and temporally weighted regression model is used to identify the driving factors of the development of common prosperity in counties, and refine the driving pattern of common prosperity. The results show that the level of common prosperity in Zhejiang is on the rise in stages, and the development of common prosperity has obvious disequilibrium line and "dual core" structure. The common prosperity level of counties in the province is driven by natural factors, economic factors, population factors and policies, and the driving effects of each factor have spatial and temporal heterogeneity, forming 16 driving patterns. We should give full play to the geographical advantages of the region, improve the population, economic and policy environment, and formulate a differentiated path suitable for the common prosperity and development of all counties. The results of this study provide enlightenment for realizing the goal of high-quality development and building common prosperity demonstration zone in regional complementarity.