In the administrative contract system, the grassrootslevel governments are faced with three layers of difficulty in governanceThese difficulties prevent the grassrootslevel governments from effectively responding to peoples different needsCentering on the question of “what is the driving mechanism for the improvement of the responsiveness of grassrootslevel governments from the perspective of platformbased government?”, this article takes the reform of the Beijing swift response to public complaints as an example to construct a theoretical framework on the platformbased contract system from the dimension of statesociety relationshipIn analyzing the total number of 2 167 telephone questionnaires, this study finds that the platformbased contract system improves the responsiveness of grassrootslevel governments through the mechanisms of empowerment, motivation, and supervision, and that the reform of the administrative contract system has been accomplished in the contracting process and structure through the platformIn this process, the governmental platform and public opinions have been successfully integrated.

The development of logic in premodern China started from rectifying names, a practice of political management of restoring rituals in the beginning, and then evolving into the theory on names and argumentThe theory on names and argument explains reasons through analogies with many argumentation skillsThe core concept of the theory of names and argument is category, which is a generalization of the universal conceptThere are two modes of reasoning, both of which include classification, classifying, comparison with analogy, and reasoning by analogy, and both of which obey the principle of class similarityPremodern Chinese logicians did not make a clear distinction between these two modelsNeither did they make a clear distinction between deduction and nondeduction, which made the theory of reasoning by class limited in seeking truths, yet more suitable for literary and artistic creation and the exploration of goodnessThese features are rooted in the fact that the theory of reasoning by class is not based on a proper conceptual framework, and the classes it needs to process include lots of actionevent classesAll these hinder people from transforming the theory of Three Categories into the system of inference rules, and, as a result, limit the development of premodern Chinese logic theoriesThis is in sharp contrast with the western logic theories, which starts from the exploration of the primitive and has a complete conceptual system as the foundationThe latter rely on the predication structure to explore the general laws of the predication relation, which is suitable for seeking truths in scientific research.

As one of the latest achievements in the historical transformation and development of Chinese social governance, the “four turns” of social governance (socialization, legalization, intelligentization, and specialization) not only provide specific directions for the construction of the system of the New Eras social governance, but also provide new standards for the evaluation and form a new paradigm for Chinese social governanceThis study proposes a new theory called a multidimensional, composite, social governance based on a systematic literature review and a comparison of traditional Chinese and Western societies, and advocates for an indepth exploration of various possible composite effects between the “four turns” innovation of social governance in the New Era, such as the offsetting, paralleling, average, complementary, synergistic, and multiple composite effectsThis new theory not only provides a good explanation for the practice of “four turns” in social governance, but also provides important references for optimizing Chinese and other like social governance practices.

Since the 21st century, Government-Guided Funds(GGFs)have emerged as a key policy instrument for central and local governments to shape industrial distribution and drive highquality economic growthThis study examines the role of GGFs in influencing the spatial distribution of hightech manufacturing industries, drawing on citylevel data on land leasing from 2007 to 2020The empirical results indicate that the establishment of GGFs significantly promotes the land resource allocation for hightech manufacturing projects, with the impact being particularly pronounced in cities with strong hightech industrial foundations, high levels of industrial clustering, and the presence of nationallevel development zonesThis study also finds that GGFs lead to a more diversified and homogeneous distribution of new hightech investment projects across citiesWhile these results highlight the positive role of GGFs in promoting the industrial distribution of hightech manufacturing, they also underscore the potential risks of repetitive projects and excessive homogeneity in local industrial planningThese findings may provide some insights and policy recommendations to improve the effectiveness of GGFs in fostering sustainable industrial development.

Confronted by todays myriad imminent global human crises and the predicaments of global governance, we must break the barriers of interests and ideologies and enhance cultural recognition and unity, on the one hand, and uphold the basic concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and think about the construction of a new governing system, on the otherTo this end, we need to establish the ontological status of the world and recognize the world as a subject of rights to pursue the greatest common interest of all humankindThe practice of a community with a shared future for mankind requires the formation of a unified political community based on a democratic and republican system, so as to realize the creative transformation from an ancient political unification to a modern political unificationIn addition, in terms of values, we should go beyond the binary opposition of communitybased standard and individualbased standard, and lay a real ethical foundation for a human community with a shared destiny through the integration of individuals and the community, so as to realize their coevolutionThis is the civilizational dimension of the world harmony that we hope for.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), General Secretary Xi Jinping has clearly put forward the major assertion of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation and defined it as the main line of the Partys ethnic work and all work in ethnicminorityinhabited areas in the new eraAs the guiding principle for the Partys ethnic work in the new era, this assertion is a major theoretical and practical achievement of the PartyIt is the result of the Party adhering to the“two combinations”, focusing on the“two overall situations,”deeply summarizing the experience and lessons of ethnic work at home and abroad, and profoundly examining the developmental trend of the community of Chinese nationThis assertion has enriched and developed Marxist ethnic theory, played a fundamental role in the formation of General Secretary Xi Jinpings important thought on strengthening and improving ethnic work, consolidated and expanded the correct path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics, and pointed out the forward direction for the highquality development of the Partys ethnic work in the new era. This paper summarizes and combs the development of this major assertion, comprehensively analyzes its scientific connotation and main content, reveals the internal logic and great significance between the abovementioned connotation and content, and points out the basic principles, key tasks, and basic requirements for implementing the forging of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation and promoting its constructionAccurately grasping the scientific connotation and task requirements of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is a prerequisite for earnestly implementing General Secretary Xi Jinpings important thought on strengthening and improving ethnic work.

In examining the emergence of Chinese guoxue in the beginning of the 20th Century and the turning point of its development in 1920s, this article finds that Chinese guoxue reflects the efforts to establish the study of archaic China made by the earliest groups of Chinese scholars traveling to Japan to study after the SinoJapanese war in 1895, who were strongly influenced by the trends promoting Japanese national pride of its own culture and the study of archaic JapanWhat differentiates Chinese from Japanese guoxue is that Chinese guoxue considered the Qing rule as the other in its initial phase, while Japanese guoxue regarded classical Chinese scholarship as the otherNeither Japanese nor Chinese guoxue promoters argued strongly against the western influencesIn 1920s, Hu Shi, representative of a group of likeminded Chinese scholars, redefined guoxue as an academic field studying all the materials related to Chinas past with the guidance of modern scientific way of categorizing and arranging knowledgeFollowing this trend of scientifically arranging knowledge related to Chinas past, guoxue institutes appeared in Beijing and other places in China from 1920s and this initiated the modernization of traditional Chinese learning.

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasized that to further deepen reform comprehensively, we should regard economic structural reform as the spearhead, and greater social fairness and justice and increased wellbeing of the people as our ultimate objectivesTo achieve the modernization of common prosperity for all, it is essential to enhance efficiency in achieving fairnessUnder the ideal conditions of a perfectly competitive market, it is possible to unify efficiency and fairnessHowever, in the case of market failure and individual differences, fairness is an issue of social values, while efficiency is a scientific issue based on social valuesThe values embedded in Chinese modernization are peoplecentered and guided by common prosperity for allIn order to effectively realize the goals of social welfare determined by social values, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed a series of policies to build a highstandard socialist market economy, implement a distribution approach oriented toward social values, eliminate externalities from economic management, and solidly promote common prosperity for all in the context of highquality development.

The dilemma of modernization facing most developing countries are closely linked to the Western dominated world systemOn the one hand, the advantage of the developed countries makes it difficult for developing countries to catch up, and, in the meantime, those developed nations intentionally hinder the economic development of developing countriesOn the other hand, structural changes in the world system make it hard for developing countries to have the“window of development.” As developing countries gradually transit from colonial oppression to political independence, the global economic structure has also shifted from national to transnational economiesWhile the former provides conditions for developing countries to autonomously formulate developmental strategies, the latter continuously weakens their economic sovereignty, forcing them to passively respond to the global economic systemThe success of Chinese modernization demonstrates that internal factors remain the key for latecomers to catch up with the developed economiesThree factors deserve our special attention, which are, achieving political independence, establishing a socialist system that serves the interests of the majority, and adopting a competitive strategy of advantage under the principle of selfreliance.

Based on the Intercountry Inputoutput database developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECDICIO database), this article constructs a revealed comparative advantage (RCA) model based on the value added in exports from the perspective of division of labor in the industrial chain, and analyzes the characteristics and driving factors of the relative levels of Chinese manufacturing enterprises participation in international industrial chain, domestic upstream industrial chain, and domestic downstream industrial chainIt shows that the comparative advantage of the division of labor in the industrial chain of Chinas manufacturing industry has been at a low level for a long timeThe manufacturing industry with high research and development (R&D) intensity is highly dependent on international industrial chain and has not extended enough to domestic downstream industrial chain, while the medium and mediumlow R&D intensity manufacturing industries have achieved a certain degree of improvement in the division of labor of the industrial chain by expanding to domestic upstream and downstream linksHow to reduce the dependence of Chinese manufacturing enterprises on upstream international supply, increase their extension to domestic downstream industrial chain, and improve the overall level of division of labor in Chinese industrial chain is one of the key directions for Chinas manufacturing industry to achieve industrial transformation and upgrading.

The technologypolitics relation is a key issue in the philosophies of technology. Compared to the popular micro and mesolevel studies, an intellectual review that may be considered slightly too grand is far from outdatedThis approach reveals an intellectual map formed in the historical development of the technologypolitics cognitive structure, a map with the contents of “technical craftsmanship being external to the good governance of the premodern polis”,“technical rationality being dependent on the political commitment of modernity”,“technocracy being subject to the political criticism of antimodernity”,and“technical governance being internal to the postmodern construction of biopolitics”. A review as such is not far from the reality of technical change, which not only depicts their contemporary form, but also obtains a reflexive prism to reveal the reality of the technologypolitics structure characterized by the tension between public politics and technical citizenship, between technical liberalism and technical leviathan, between opposition and defense of technocracy, and between technical governance and biopoliticsIn reconsidering the relationship of science and technology, such review provides a philosophical aspect for the understanding of the current relationship between technology and politics.

As a specialized entity, institutions of big data management represent not only a modern interpretation and extension of bureaucratic theory, but also a profound selfreform and transformation of governments in the digital eraAgainst the backdrop of governmental digital transformation, this study employs the urban panel data to examine the impact and mechanisms of institutional specialization on government information disclosureThe findings reveal that the establishment of the institutions of big data management significantly enhances the level of governmental information disclosure, with the mechanisms of platform building and capacity enhancement serving as key explanatory factorsFurthermore, the effect varies according to different regional distributions and institutional typesThe effect is more noticeable in northeastern regions and central cities, and better in departments established through restructuring or new formations than in those merely rebranded unitsThe institutions of big data management play a critical role in optimizing governmental structures and functions, serving as a driving force for advancing information disclosure and enhancing the effectiveness of governance.

Urban villages are formed in the process of rapid development of industrialization and urbanization with the characteristics of both urban and rural structuresThese double structures form a common problem facing the governance and highquality development of major cities, and has affected the process of Chinesestyle modernizationUnder the background of modernizing Chinese urban governance, the renovation of urban villages should be guided by the concept of peoples city, and the reform of the systems and mechanisms for the construction, operation, and governance of urban villages should be deepened along the main line of institutional building to promote the modernization of the governing system and capacity of urban villages“Governing a community through property management”is an important practice for establishing a sustainable model for the renovation of urban villages and an innovative choice for the transformation of urban development in China from“planning cities”“building cities”to“operating cities”“governing cities”in the context of urban village transformationFrom the perspective of modernizing urban governance and the practical process of urbanvillage renovation, the propertymanagementbased governance of urbanvillage communities can be divided into the models of integrated service of both renovation and operation mode, provision of property service through market, and villageenterprise cooperationDifferent models reflect different choices made by urban villages to meet their current demands for the modernization of urban governance.

In the process of deconstructing and reconstructing traditional Kangaku in modern Japan, the saying of Kangaku innovation has been advocated repeatedly by the scholars of Chinese classics, which resulted in an intellectual selfreflection bound to occur throughout East Asia on the way to modernity, a reflection of the ideological changes in the process of social transition periodVarious ideas of Kangaku innovation were raised from different standpoints, yet most of those ideas shared some common characteristics, such as their emphasis on the studies of words, language, and classic works with positivist methodologies, on one hand, and the abandonment of metaphysical interpretative or annotative study of classical texts by critical reading, on the otherThe reconstruction of Kangaku reflects the pursuit of practicality in modern Japan, but the different visions of the Kangaku innovation show a tendency to standardize Kangaku as a sort of classical study of specific region in a narrow senseCompared to those sayings, the assumption of classicology raised by Ryūkichi Endō emphasized more about spiritual cultivation and moral development, which can also provide a meaningful reference to the construction of classical discipline in presentday China.

The digital transformation of Chinas public sector has entered a stage characterized by topdown leadership and guided by strategic designs and institutionalized plansAnalyzing and refining the effective working mechanisms of leading agencies for digital transformation at various levels and in different regions, and enhancing creative execution capabilities through comparison, mutual learning, and dynamic optimization are essential for supporting the implementation and effectiveness of the overall Digital China StrategyThis study examines the preparation, establishment, and continuous work of a leading agency for digital transformation in a prefecturelevel city over the recent three yearsDrawing on the efficiencylegitimacy theory from neoinstitutionalism and the synthesis of existing literature and empirical observations, the study presents three theoretical propositions organized into distinct phasesThe study then conducts a longitudinal case analysis of multisource and dynamic qualitative materials to test the explanatory power of the theoretical propositions regarding the evolution of the leading agencys working mechanismsThe analysis identifies the connections among different working mechanisms, the external environment, and key organizational events, and explores the conditions under which different working mechanisms are applicable as well as the factors that trigger their transformation.

Qi is a Chinese concept used here to analyze social relations for the purpose of constructing and enriching the theoretical structure of Chinese sociologyQi has its positive and negative aspectsPositive qi is an important force in maintaining harmony and stability, while negative qi takes different forms in a changing environment and has negative effect on social relationshipAs a case study on the events occurring in a village of western Jiangxi this article analyzes justified qi, resentful qi and angry qi in qis rural setting, and discusses the transforming mechanism driving group members to actTo reduce the tension in changes of rural social relations, it is necessary to avoid the spread of seemingly justified qi causing violent actions, to release resentful qi and to manage, regulate, and control collective angry qi in order to reduce the risk of possible social conflicts.

As our intrinsic subjective experience, pain possesses the following distinct characteristics: intrinsic direct relevance, subjectivity, and crosssubjective shareabilityThe intrinsic subjective sensation is the fundamental characteristic of qualiaIt cannot be reduced to its various external manifestationsQualia are our intrinsic subjective sensations, but this does not mean that they are private and unique to each individualOn the contrary, qualia can be shared across subjectsThe crosssubjective shareability of qualia forms the true foundation of human social communitiesThe subjectivity of sensation is a product of biological evolution, through which, life has acquired the capacity for subjective sensations, even selfawareness, and so forthSuch capacity constitutes a new mode of existence for life, and reestablishes the foundation for the existence of living beings.

Maintaining a stable manufacturing proportion within its economy constitutes a crucial policy objective of the Chinese governmentIn recent years, China has witnessed a continuous decline in the proportion of its manufacturing sector, indicating a significant trend toward deindustrializationUtilizing the data of a number of cities, this article examines the impact and mechanisms of deindustrialization on economic growthIt reveals that premature deindustrialization characterized by an underdeveloped manufacturing sector significantly hinders economic growthThe analysis further indicates that the constrained expansion of the manufacturing sector and the reduced factor productivity constitute two primary mechanisms through which premature deindustrialization slows down economic growthThis article also demonstrates that the effects of premature deindustrialization are more pronounced in the central and western regionsHowever, by expanding the scale of the manufacturing sector, regional industrial transfer can alleviate these negative effects in less developed areasThese findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the scale, mechanism, and responses related to premature deindustrialization, and provide empirical insights for implementing the manufacturing powerhouse strategy to promote highquality development in Chinas manufacturing sector.

Zhang Taiyan is one of the most representative guoxue scholars from the late Qing to the era of the Republic of ChinaHe took history, canonical systems and iconic figures as the main contents of Chinese guoxue studies, and emphasized the importance of guoxue in establishing Chinese peoples cultural selfconfidence and national identityAs a result, he engaged in heated debates with such scholars as Kang Youwei, Wu Zhihui, and Wang Guowei on the approaches to Chinese guoxue studies, the characteristics of Chinese academics, and the establishment of cultural confidence, which show the richness of his view on guoxue and make the establishment of a modern nation as the core demand in his advocacy of Chinese guoxue studies.