State-owned natural resource assets are important national wealth and have a profound impact on socio-economic development, ecological civilization construction, protection of people's rights and interests, and realization of political advantages. It is of great practical significance and value to systematically grasp the theoretical logic of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the practical logic of natural resources, and to analyze and clarify the overall logic of the reform of China's state-owned natural resource asset management system. Guided by Xi Jinping's thought of ecological civilization and practice of the concept of "two mountains", the paper analyzes and proposes the functional positioning and target requirements of state-owned natural resource asset management, and expounds the characteristic facts and challenges of management system reform based on the institutional efficiency support of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the institutional construction requirements of ecological civilization construction and the basic attributes of state-owned natural resource assets. Focusing on the core issues such as management objectives, departmental responsibilities, revenue models, and supervision methods, and on the basis of comparing and learning from the experience of two different types of countries, the paper proposes to clarify the boundary of authority and responsibility of government departments under the commission-agent relationship, foster the participation of multiple subjects in management, promote the sharing of asset management benefits among all people and inter-generational owners, and realize the independence and standardization of supervision of natural resource asset management.

How to characterize the legal attributes of state ownership of natural resource assets is related to the implementation of the entrustment of natural resource assets by all people. Without determining the legal attributes of the entrustment, it is impossible to delineate the boundary of rights and responsibilities, as well as the form of authorized delegation. In the face of the complicated natural resource system, the attributes of state ownership of natural resource assets are also debated. In reality, it is difficult to define the exercise of ownership of natural resources assets owned by the whole nation as an administrative duty, and it is impossible to establish a civil agreement between two administrative organs, and at this stage its legal nature can be considered as an administrative agreement between the upper and lower levels of governments, through which the eligibility to exercise the ownership of natural resources assets is distributed among all levels of government.

In order to establish the method system and institutional norms for the state-owned natural resource assets inventory (SNRSI) physical quantity update, and explore the application of its achievements in the principal-agent mechanism, this paper clarifies the concepts of SNRSI and the lack of theory research for various natural resources assets update. The method of the SNRSI's physical quantity update and application scenarios was expounded. By taking the state-owned agricultural land, state-owned construction land, and state-owned forest resources assets in City A as examples, we tested the methods of incremental update and full update. The research results showed that the physical quantity update of different resource types need to adopt corresponding methods. Among them, the incremental update method is more suitable for the state-owned agricultural and construction lands. The state-owned forest resource assets should adopt the method of full change+patch identification to realize the update of quality indicators and reflect their changes. The research results will provide theoretical reference for the establishment of the method system and application of the results for the SNRSI's physical quantity update.

How to define the property of energy utilities is an important theoretical premise to restore the attributes of energy commodities. To analyze the attributes of energy utilities, this paper constructs a dynamic analysis framework based on social publicity and technological development to extend the exclusive and competitive goods classification. And then, taking the three kinds of network energy public utilities of electricity, gas and heat as examples, this paper analyzes the commodity attributes and governance. The core point of this paper is that the products provided by network-based energy utilities can be divided into "energy goods" and "transportation services", of which the commodity attributes of energy products tend to be private goods, while transportation services tend to be quasi-public goods. The essence of energy utilities governance is to deconstruct the traditional operation mode of bonding "energy products" and "transportation services". The governments need to deepen the implementation of the overall reform idea of demand-side and supply-side flexibility while regulating the grid infrastructure.

This article aims to probe the development process and its underlying mechanisms of spatial reconstructions amidst the land-driven development mode through the lens of regional coordinated development. Grounded in the 'projects of cooperation between mountainous and coastal areas in Zhejiang province', this study investigates the unfolding spatial reconstruction processes and mechanisms of the land-driven development mode among the positive or reverse enclaves. Key findings of an examination of Longquan-Xiaoshan Industrial Cooperation Park and Quzhou Overseas Talents Innovation Park are as follows: firstly, the spatial reconstruction of the land-driven development mode is a networked process. The multi-level governments propelled land-centric economic developmental model based upon re-arranging their administrative powers. Secondly, within the positive or reverse enclaves, the land-driven developmental mode has embodied the various paths for spatial reconstruction, which are subject to the effects of path lock-in. Hereto, it is urgent to develop a spatial re-distribution mechanism for land development rights at regional scale. Finally, the continuous construction of a land-driven development mode is the institutional task for achieving cooperation between mountainous and coastal areas in it, and the designs for inverted enclaves are a future direction which is beneficial to the path adjustment. This study unfolds that the proper optimization of the land-driven development mode has been a crucial starting point for forging regional coordination. And multi-level governments could play the dual roles of regulation and empowerment based on the regional collaborations for land property rights.

The purpose of this study is to reveal and corroborate the underlying patterns that the institutional arrangements and local conditions for rural construction land transfer synergistically facilitate secondary and tertiary industry development in rural areas of China. To that end, a theoretical framework of the synergism between institutional arrangements and local conditions is developed, based on which an innovative method of archetype analysis is adopted in this study. Totally 6 archetypes are extracted from 20 typical projects of rural construction land transfer in the pilot areas across China, exhibiting the combination of institutional and conditional factors of rural construction land transfer that leads to secondary or tertiary industry development in rural areas. The results show that: (1) Decentralized institutional arrangement of decision-making contributes to the strategies of rural construction land transfer and rural industry development in line with the advantageous local conditions of land resources endowment, land user types and secondary industry foundation. (2) Institutional arrangements of transfer ways, transaction methods and supporting policies launched by the local government are expected to align with the local conditions, including land resources endowment, land user types, rural economic capacity and secondary industry foundation. (3) Institutional arrangement of transparent information is the precondition for decentralized decision-making, which ensures the rights of stakeholders to know and reduces information asymmetry. (4) The appropriate institutional interplay of incentive and control with cost-benefit distribution accelerates rural construction land transfer and ensures that rural households and rural areas can sufficiently benefit from thriving rural industry. These research findings provide scientific references for promoting rural construction land transfer to achieve thriving secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas in consistent with the context-specific conditions.

The research on urban spatial assets considering ecosystem is of great significance for quantifying ecological assets and regulating urban human-land relationship. Taking Wuhan Fuhe wetland as an example, this study analyzed the change of ecosystem assets and human-land relationship by constructing the evaluation framework of urban spatial ecosystem assets. The results show that: (1) From 2015 to 2021, the Fuhe wetland enriched the supply of ecological wealth of urban spatial assets. Under the effect of ecological engineering, the quality of stock assets improved, the total amount of flow assets was high, and the supply of upstream and downstream assets was comparatively uneven. (2) The increased demand for ecological recreation among residents manifested as quantity growth and space expansion. Meanwhile, the demand space had the characteristics of distance decay and leisure time constraint. (3) Although the supply and demand in the internal system were out of balance, this system generated a long-term interaction between ecological and human activities, which expanded the spatial scale of the coupled human and environment system. The combination of remote interaction and internal coupling constituted the human-land coupling model of urban spatial ecosystem in the new era. The research results can provide some reference for the systematic quantification of urban spatial ecosystem assets, and a scientific basis for promoting the coordination and balance of ecosystem services and human welfare.

Since 2003, a new round of the collective forest tenure reforms (NRCFTR) and its Match Reform Measures (MRMs) have been implemented in China, aiming to encourage farmers to engage in forest production input. Based on the balance panel data of 1062 sample rural households in 18 counties, 9 provinces from 2003 to 2019, by distinguishing the mediating effect of "forestland fragmentation" and "tenure incentive", this paper measures the impact of NRCFTR and MRMs on rural households' forest production input. Empirical results show that: (1) The NRCFTR intensifies the forestland fragmentation and thus reduces the rural households' forest labor and capital input. (2) Confirming collective forestland tenure has a positive incentive on labor and capital input of rural households, but the impact of the NRCFTR on rural households' forest capital input is limited due to the intensification of forestland fragmentation, and the impact of NRCFTR on rural households' forest production input displays regional and forest species heterogeneity. (3) Impacts of the MRMs on rural households' forest production input are different. Easiness to obtain Annual Allowable Cut (ACC) increased rural households' forest labor and capital input, and afforestation subsidy and using forestland as collateral for a loan raised the forest capital input of rural households. The research findings of this paper are helpful to understand the impact and its mechanism of collective forest tenure reform on farmers' allocation of production factors, and to provide follow-up policy options for deepening collective forest tenure reform.