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In 2020, China's poverty alleviation has made decisive achievements, and the regional overall poverty problem and the absolute poverty problem of the rural population in China have been basically solved. But when the national poverty alleviation policy is optimized and adjusted, enhancing the endogenous sustainable development capacity of poverty-stricken areas and households has become the focus of consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization. Livelihood resilience, which focuses specifically on the ability of individuals to withstand external shocks and disturbances with their own capital, is a necessary attribute for achieving sustainable development. However, previous studies paid less attention to the disturbance of social factors and the driving effect of social environmental factors on the construction of livelihood resilience. Using 518 farmer survey data from Shaanxi Province, this paper explores the mechanism by which farmers individual capital affects their livelihood resilience through ICT adoption. Statistical analysis shows that social networks are the most important factor for farmers to resist risks and develop sustainably. The empirical study finds that farmers' individual capital and ICT adoption are important variables in the construction of farmers' livelihood resilience. Specifically, the more individual capital farmers possess, the more likely they are to have higher levels of livelihood resilience. The higher the level of ICT adoption by farmers. the more they tend to have higher levels of livelihood resilience. At the same time, the impact mechanism of farmers' individual capital and ICT adoption on livelihood resilience shows an intermediary effect: individual capital use of digital technology livelihood resilience. In this path. ICT adoption partially mediates the impact of individual capital on the level of livelihood resilience, and the indirect effect of ICT adoption on livelihood resilience is greater than the direct effect, and the results are robust. Further analysis shows that there is no significant gender difference in the impact of farmers' individual capital on livelihood resilience. Compared with previous literature this paper expands on the following aspects: first, the risk factors of most previous studies on livelihood resilience are natural and ecological. In this paper, the risk scenario of livelihood resilience was extended from relatively sudden natural ecology to changes in social factors, and the construction mechanism of livelihood resilience under changes in the social environment was constructed. Second, previous studies on livelihood resilience rarely included the effects of ICT adoption. In this paper, ICT adoption is included in the relationship between farmers' individual capital and livelihood resilience. Third, most previous literature finds that ICT adoption exacerbates the digital divide between urban residents and rural residents. However, this study finds that in the face of risks, digital technology, as an external social construction, also brings about social integration, and ICT adoption essentially plays a role in the redistribution of resources and factors between urban and rural areas and between regions. An important policy implication of this study is that in terms of effectively connecting the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, the path of individual capital-digital technology-sustainable development should be generally followed, which would improve farmers' livelihood resilience and endogenous sustainable development ability in the face of external risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forecasting trends in sustainable sustainability levels in metropolitan areas serves as the foundation for developing development policies that are tailored to local conditions. Sustainability evaluation studies based on a multidimensional comprehensive index system fall short of highlighting the variability, systemic, and dynamic nature of metropolitan area development. To better understand the role of multidimensional scenarios in guiding the sustainable development of metropolitan areas, a greater emphasis on suburban spatial units and spatial heterogeneity characteristics is required. Methods: We simulate the trends of sustainable development levels of 16 municipal districts in Beijing, China from 2011 to 2030 by combining the system dynamics model and the shared socioeconomic pathways, and thus condense the metropolitan area's sustainable development model and compare the advantages and shortcomings of each development scenario under different models. Results: The findings show that: (1) Beijing's municipal districts perform differently in economic, social, and environmental subsystems, and there are three types of typical districts: Synergistic development, ecologically biased development, and economic constraint. (2) Shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) 1 is the most desirable urban sustainable development scenario among the four scenarios of SSP1, SSP2 (BAU (business-as-usual)), SSP3, and SSP5. (3) In order to achieve the transition from the historical trajectory to the SSP1 scenario, each district type should pursue a distinct development strategy. To improve the quality of coordinated development, synergistic development type zones should use social security and employment expenditures to compensate for the shortcomings of social development. Ecologically biased zones should reduce energy consumption and increase environmental protection investment to maintain environmental advantages, and economic constraint type zones can maintain high gross domestic product growth rates in the short term to get out of the development dilemma. Conclusions: The findings of this paper highlight the complex cause-and-effect relationships between urban economic, social, and environmental systems and offer a framework for system evaluation and simulation technology for the sustainable development of metropolitan areas. This framework will serve as a source of regulations and a foundation for management of urban refinement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a leading scholar in the field of sustainable development research, Herman Daly developed original and unique thoughts on sustainable development that have had world-class impacts on the theories, indicators, and policies in this field. Based on the frame-work of ' Ends-Means,' Daly's thoughts on sustainable development focus on the Ultimate End (well-being improvement) and the Ulti-mate Means (natural capital). Daly advocated that to use natural capital to promote human well-being in a sustainable manner, the cur-rent growth economy has to be transformed into a steady-state economy. Because economic growth has biophysical properties and is re-stricted by many factors, such as the laws of thermodynamics and planetary boundaries, unlimited growth is impossible. When its marginal ecological and social costs begin to be larger than its economic benefits, economic growth would turn into uneconomic growth. In this sense, unlimited growth is undesirable. As an alternative to the growth economy, the steady-state economy advocates promoting hu-man well-being within ecological limits and demands that stocks of material wealth be used efficiently and equitably. The steady-state economy is one of the most effective ways of achieving sustainable development. Along the main line of transforming the growth economy into the steady-state economy, as required by sustainable development, this paper reviews Daly's main thoughts on sustainable development on the following topics: ' a new perspective of economic production,' ' unlimited growth is impossible,' ' unlimited growth is undesirable,' and ' the steady-state economy is compatible with sustainable development.' Based on this review, the paper points out that, Daly's thoughts on sustainable development provide theoretical support and ideological implications for China's high-quality development from a different perspective, and broaden the theoretical horizon of China's high-quality development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the deepening of the “double carbon” goal in agricultural development, the green development of agriculture has become a concrete practice to accelerate the structural reform of the agricultural supply side and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. As a big agricultural province, Jiangxi has great potential to promote the green transformation of agriculture, but the green development of agriculture is still in the embryonic stage, and it faces new opportunities and challenges in the new historical period. Based on the investigation of the current situation of agricultural green development in Jiangxi Province, this paper expounds the development process and achievements in agricultural green development system, agricultural resource protection, low-carbon industry construction and other aspects, and analyzes the existing problems and deficiencies in agricultural industry structure, scientific and technological service level, characteristic industry development, green brand building and other aspects. The feasible suggestions for better and faster development of green agriculture were discussed from the optimization of industrial structure, expansion of the scale of operation, improvement of the quality and quantity of agricultural products, strengthening the restoration of ecological function, increasing the introduction of talents, innovation of green development mode and other aspects, in order to provide reference for speeding up the green development of agriculture in Jiangxi and even the whole country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the development process, current situation and existing problems of agricultural standardization demonstration areas in China are analyzed in depth. It is found that there are many problems in the agricultural standardization demonstration zone, such as insufficient policy support, insufficient capital investment, lack of professional and technical personnel, and weak farmers’ awareness of standardization, which need to be solved. Therefore, in the construction process of agricultural standardization demonstration zone, governments at all levels should provide a good policy environment in terms of policies, projects and systems; by formulating corresponding local standards, improve the standardized production system and build a diversified technology promotion system; establish the traceability system of agricultural products, create agricultural brands, continue to promote the construction of agricultural standardization in the way of brand-driven standardization, continue to improve the economic, social and ecological benefits of the demonstration zone, and ensure the sustainable development of the agricultural standardization demonstration zone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the recycling of used shared bicycles has seriously lagged behind, which has caused environmental pollution and resource waste. To foster green and low-carbon development as well as to stimulate the efficient recycling of used shared bicycles for improved environmental performance, this paper constructs a four-party evolutionary game model that includes the government, operation platforms, suppliers, and consumers, who are the stakeholders of the current bicycle-sharing industry. Among them, the government can voluntarily choose to adopt the 'regulatory or non-regulatory' strategy based on its regulatory cost, tax, and environmental benefits, while suppliers can voluntarily choose to adopt the 'participating in recycling' strategy or the 'non-participating in recycling' strategy based on their basic revenue, government policy incentives, and opportunity costs. Operation platforms can voluntarily choose the 'building recycling channels' strategy or 'not building recycling channels' strategy based on their basic revenue, government subsidies or fines, and opportunity cost factors. Consumers can voluntarily choose the 'participating in recycling' strategy or 'non-participating in recycling' strategy along with the suppliers based on their basic income, government policy incentives, and opportunity cost factors. This paper further analyzes the game process and stability strategy of associated agents and obtains meaningful conclusions. Finally, MATLAB software is used for numerical simulation to analyze the evolution paths of the agents. The results show that: the government and consumers will gradually withdraw from their participation in the recycling process over time, and the participation efforts of operation platforms and suppliers are related to their own profit yield. The government should reallocate regulatory costs and subsidies to consumers to improve the income conversion rate of enterprises, effectively promote the recycling rate of used shared bicycles, and enhance environmental performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is essential to adhere to the optimization of national land use development patterns and the green development policy for achieving ecological conservation and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin. This paper used the undesirable output SBM model to measure the green development efficiency of 36 prefecture-level cities in the restricted development zones of the Yellow River Basin from 2010 to 2019. It also used the Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (FsQCA) method to explore the complex influence mechanism of the linkage of various influencing factors on the efficiency of green development. The results showed that: ① The green development efficiency of the restricted development zones in the whole basin showed an overall fluctuation and upward trend, and the green development efficiency of various regions in the basin varied significantly. The downstream restricted development zones had the highest green development efficiency, followed by the middle stream restricted development zones, with the upstream restricted development zones having the lowest efficiency. ② The areas with high green development efficiency in the restricted development zones of the whole basin changed from cluster distribution to contiguous distribution, the effective efficiency areas changed from being concentrated in the upper and middle reaches to the middle and lower reaches of the areas, and the green development efficiency of the restricted development zones on the southern bank of the Yellow River was significantly higher than that of the areas on the northern bank. ③ Each of these factors--the level of economic development, urbanization, environmental regulation, degree of trade openness, advanced industrial structure, and investment in science and education--could not singularly become a necessary condition for promoting the formation of high green development efficiency in the restricted development zone of the Yellow River Basin. ④ Four models were identified as those that could promote green development efficiency in the restricted development zones in the Yellow River Basin. In terms of the different types of cities, the 'environmental regulation + export-oriented economy' linkage model could promote the green development efficiency of agricultural cities in the restricted development zones of the Yellow River Basin. The linkage model of 'basic dynamic + environmental regulation + export-oriented economy + industrial upgrading' could promote the green development efficiency of resource-based cities in the restricted development zones of the Yellow River Basin. The two models of 'export-oriented economy + industrial upgrading' linkage and 'basic dynamic + industrial upgrading + science and education investment' linkage could promote the green development efficiency in the old industrial bases in the restricted development zones of the Yellow River Basin. Based on the perspective of configuration association, this paper provides policy suggestions for promoting green development in agricultural cities, resource-based cities, and old industrial base cities in the restricted development zones of the Yellow River Basin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The core of low-carbon development lies in reducing carbon sources and increasing carbon sinks, and the construction of free trade zones (FTZs), as an experimental field for China' s comprehensively deepening reforms, is of great significance to urban lowcarbon development. Based on the panel data from 288 cities in China from 2007 to 2020, this paper first comprehensively evaluated the carbon neutrality levels of cities from two aspects: carbon emission and sequestration. Then, it used the multi-period difference-indifferences method and the spatial Durbin model to explore the 'low carbon effect' of the establishment of FTZs. The results showed that: the establishment of FTZs had a significant impact on the low-carbon development of the cities where they were located. Specifically, the establishment of FTZs could drive urban low-carbon development from within the cities by improving their digitization and resource allocation efficiency. At the same time, increased government attention to green development enhanced the carbon emission disincentive and boosted carbon uptake facilitation, fostering a more robust urban low-carbon development. Moreover, the carbon emission suppression effect, carbon absorption promotion effect, and carbon neutral effect of establishing the FTZs varied according to the batches of the establishment, city location, and city characteristics. The 'low-carbon effect' of the first two batches of FTZs, the region south of the Qinling-Huaihe River, and the cities with a higher degree of openness were more pronounced overall. Furthermore, the establishment of the FTZs also had a certain spatial spillover effect on urban low-carbon development. Based on these findings, the paper suggests prioritizing top-level design, exerting comparative advantages, and promoting the low-carbon development benchmark area in a gradient manner. Acceleration of trade facilitation and digital financial reform, promotion of the digital transformation of traditional industries with advantages, and encouragement of digital and low-carbon deep integration are also recommended. The introduction of highquality foreign investment should be combined with the improvement of the effectiveness of supervision and services to improve the efficiency of resource allocation. The study proposes leveraging digital platforms and free trade alliances to maximize the FTZs' catalytic effects. Overall, this study offers significant theoretical and practical insights for enhancing the construction of the FTZs, promoting urban low-carbon development, and advancing towards the goal of carbon neutrality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research explored the temp-spatial evolution characteristics for the spatial mismatch and vulnerability among the tourism-economy-ecosystem along the Yangtze River Economic Belt by using research methods including the spatial mismatch and vulnerability based on the panel data from 2004 to 2018. The results are as follows. (1) The overall mismatch along the Yangtze River Economic Belt presented a polarized development trend within which Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang showed a typical positive mismatch and other provinces showed a negative mismatch; the overall spatial mismatch index tended to be more severe, the phenomenon of antagonism occurred more frequent and the situation of mismatch became more critical. (2) The overall vulnerability index along the Yangtze River Economic Belt presented a fluctuating trend and the healthy, risky, and severe development trends coexisted within the development process of each province’s vulnerability index. (3) The nine provinces and two cities could be decided into 3 typical categories of planned development regions by the comprehensive spatial mismatch and vulnerability index: Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Hubei belonging to developing regions; Hunan, Chongqing, and Sichuan belonging to development and protection regions; Anhui, Jiangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan belonging to protective regions. In the end, the paper puts forward specific suggestions on how to eliminate the spatial mismatch and vulnerability situation in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from both macro and micro perspectives, so as to provide theoretical reference for the high-quality sustainable development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and other major river basins. The research explored the temp-spatial evolution characteristics for the spatial mismatch and vulnerability among the tourism-economy-ecosystem along the Yangtze River Economic Belt by using research methods including the spatial mismatch and vulnerability based on the panel data from 2004 to 2018. The results are as follows. (1) The overall mismatch along the Yangtze River Economic Belt presented a polarized development trend within which Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang showed a typical positive mismatch and other provinces showed a negative mismatch; the overall spatial mismatch index tended to be more severe, the phenomenon of antagonism occurred more frequent and the situation of mismatch became more critical. (2) The overall vulnerability index along the Yangtze River Economic Belt presented a fluctuating trend and the healthy, risky, and severe development trends coexisted within the development process of each province’s vulnerability index. (3) The nine provinces and two cities could be decided into 3 typical categories of planned development regions by the comprehensive spatial mismatch and vulnerability index: Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Hubei belonging to developing regions; Hunan, Chongqing, and Sichuan belonging to development and protection regions; Anhui, Jiangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan belonging to protective regions. In the end, the paper puts forward specific suggestions on how to eliminate the spatial mismatch and vulnerability situation in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from both macro and micro perspectives, so as to provide theoretical reference for the high-quality sustainable development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and other major river basins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strong sustainable development sticks to the irreplaceability and uniqueness of natural capital and maintains that the essential stock of natural capital should be passed on from one generation to another. It achieves environmental equity and intergenerational equity by maximizing the intertemporal utility of environmental benefits. This paper analyzes the dimensions of the strong sustainable development paradigm in identifying ecological space. The ecological space can be divided into two categories: strong sustainable development space and weak sustainable development space. The former refers to the critical ecological space where ecological security is maintained and the priority is to maintain the status quo of the ecosystem, or at least keep it from sinking into degeneration. In contrast, the latter belongs to the non-critical ecological space, where proper development and construction can be carried out within the ecological security threshold. Based on the case study of the Tarim River Basin and the concept of strong sustainable development, this paper keeps to the method of combining ecological service function and ecological sensitivity in assessment and conducts research on the classification of the ecological space and the patterns of strong and weak sustainability. According to the research, the sensitive and extremely sensitive areas of the Tarim River Basin take up the lion ’s share of the total area, or 55.01% and 29.23%, respectively. The strong sustainable development ecological space incorporates the urgent ecological space and the crisis ecological space, which stand at 305 257.84 km² and 573 281.16 km², respectively, accounting for 29.28% and 54.98% of the researched area, respectively. The re‑ search reveals a high degree of conflict over the ecological security of land use in the Tarim River Basin and a desperate adjustment ca‑ pability for the strong sustainable development of ecological space. Ecological space of strong sustainable development is an important ecological functional space. Accurate identification of ecological space can provide a scientific basis for the delineation of ecological protection red lines and the management of ecological space. Ecological space evaluation based on the paradigm of strong sustainable development can provide green development planning ideas under ecological priority for the subsequent development strategies of respective regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As typical representatives of high-quality development, world-class enterprises are the fundamental direction and goal of Chinese enterprise development. Building a group of world-class enterprises with global competitiveness and building up the strength, quality, and size of Chinese enterprises are important tasks to accelerate the construction of Chinese path to modernization in the new era and new journey. However, there is still a significant disagreement between the academic and business communities regarding the cognition and understanding of world-class enterprises. There is no consensus on the basic issue of what world-class enterprises are and what characteristics they possess. Therefore, a “cognitive jungle” of world-class enterprises has emerged, which has constrained China's practice of building world-class enterprises. Based on a systematic review, induction, and evaluation of existing research on world-class enterprises at home and abroad, this article deeply deconstructs and redefines the concept and characteristics of world-class enterprises. Research has found that: firstly, the divergence in the definition of world-class enterprises focuses on the differences in the definition of “scope”, “degree”, and “elements” of world-class enterprises, with different limiting conditions forming the concept of world-class enterprises in a broad, narrow, and medium sense. Secondly, through a re-examination of the “scope”, “degree”, and “elements” of world-class enterprises, world-class enterprises could be defined as benchmark enterprises with outstanding core competitiveness, leading value creation capabilities, and excellent sustainable development capabilities globally or in specific industries and fields. And world-class enterprises could be divided into global world-class enterprises and industry-specific world-class enterprises. Thirdly, the existing research perspectives on characteristics recognition of world-class enterprises include characteristics recognition that focuses on resource capabilities, characteristics recognition that focuses on behavioral performance, and characteristics recognition that is diversified and balanced, but they have varying degrees of limitations. Fourthly, the reconstruction of the characteristics of world-class enterprises should cover two levels: explicit representation and implicit elements. For the former, comprehensive value leadership is the overall manifestation of a world-class enterprise, with product excellence as the primary condition, innovation leadership as the core condition, governance modernization as the basic condition, and brand excellence as the high-level condition, all of which constitute the concrete representation of the “four in one” of a world-class enterprises. For the latter, the long-term mission driven, strategic flexibility in responding to change with change, dynamic ability to traverse cycles, symbiotic and mutually beneficial ecosystems, and unique and outstanding cultural genes drive world-class enterprises to move towards and maintain success at a deep level. Compared with the existing researches, this paper deepens and expands in the following two aspects. First, this paper goes beyond the previous definition of empiricism, and structurally analyzes and defines the concept of world-class enterprises from the perspective of three components: “scope”, “degree” and “element”. Secondly, beyond the previous single perspective, this paper logically and consistently identifies the characteristics of world-class enterprises from two levels: explicit features and implicit elements. This study helps government departments and the business community to have a more scientific understanding and cognition of world-class enterprises, and provides direction guidance for Chinese enterprises to build world-class enterprises in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the proposal of“dual carbon”goals, China′ s construction of an ecological civilization has entered a new stage with the focus on reducing carbon. The eastern grassland area of the eastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region plays an important role in ensuring national energy security, ecological security, and achieving the goal of“carbon neutrality”as scheduled. However, the ecological environment in this area is characterized by extreme cold, semi-arid conditions, and a scarcity of topsoil. Furthermore, the ecological environment problems caused by mineral resources exploitation seriously restrict the sustainable development of regional energy and ecological security. Therefore, it is necessary to perform research on ecological restoration of mines in the grassland area in eastern Inner Mongolia. This paper reviews the research process of mine ecological restoration at home and abroad, summarizes the existing research on mine ecological restoration and the advanced technologies of mine ecological restoration in the grassland area of eastern Inner Mongolia, and analyzes the path and mode of mine ecological restoration in the grassland area under the background of carbon neutrality. This paper preliminarily clarifies the existing problems and deficiencies in the research of mine ecological restoration in the eastern grassland area of Inner Mongolia and considers the prospects of future research trends, with the goal of providing reference for future generations to study the ecological restoration of mines in these grasslands and similar areas both at home and abroad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Construction of "blue granary" is an important move to implement China's maritime power strategy, and is of great strategic significance for maintaining sustainable development of marine resources and guaranteeing national food security. As a major fishery province, Guangdong Province has rich marine resources and is one of the key provinces for the construction of blue granary in China. This paper analyzes the development characteristics of the international blue granary industry powerhouses, the United States and Norway, and the domestic blue granary industry powerhouses, Shandong and Fujian, comparing and analyzing the main problems faced by the development of blue granary industry in Guangdong Province, such as insufficient level of scientific and technological innovation, low level of community participation and lack of supervision and management, and drawing on the initiatives and experience of the construction of the blue granary at home and abroad, it proposes promote the transformation and upgrading of the fisheries industry, promote the development of the marine tertiary industry; improve the capacity of fisheries science and technology research and development, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in fisheries; play the role of fisheries associations to guide the masses to participate consciously; improve the legal management system, integration of management institutions intelligence and other suggestions for improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rural tourism is an important way to promote rural economic development and improve farmers' life, and it is of great significance to the economic and social development of northwest minority areas. Based on the actual situation of rural tourism development in northwest ethnic areas, this paper aims to study the development path and key factors of rural tourism in northwest ethnic areas of China, and put forward feasible suggestions. Through the research, it is found that the rural tourism resources in this area are rich, but there are still a series of problems in the development process, such as insufficient government guidance, single tourism products, rural image and quality is not high. The development path of rural tourism in northwest ethnic areas should pay attention to culture, ecology and community participation. The government should strengthen guidance and promotion, improve the quality and image of rural tourism, and promote the coupling development of tourism industry and rural economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past few decades, earth observation has experienced rapid development, which provides necessary theoretical knowledge, research means and methods for global sustainable development. By searching the Web of Science core collection database and using CiteSpace, a knowledge map tool, this study conducted a bibliometric analysis of sustainable development research based on earth observation from 1991 to 2021. This study analyzed the research progress based on the literature output trends, publishing regions and cooperation network, high-frequency terms and terms with the strongest citation bursts, and proposed future research directions. The results show that: ①The number of articles published in the field of "earth observation technology and sustainable development" is generally on the rise, which can be divided into germination stage, growth stage and rapid development stage. ②There is close international cooperation in the study of earth observation technology and sustainable development, among which, United States and Germany are in a leading position in terms of the number and influence of published paper. These countries are rich in scientific research. China and other developing countries have a dominant position in the number of publications, but their international influence still needs to be improved. ③At present, research focuses on the environmental protection related contents such as land use/land cover change, climate change, natural resources and water resources. In recent years, the research field has been constantly integrating artificial intelligence, mathematical statistics and other emerging methods, and the research content tends to be diversified. In the future research, it is necessary to fully achieve the supporting role of earth observation technology and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through a Decade of Action, and to deepen the study of earth observation data and facilitate data sharing in order to open up a new path for wide application. The combination of earth observation data with traditional statistical data should be strengthened to achieve the fully functioning of the potential of earth observation in SDGs monitoring. We can focus on international cooperation and take global action. These can help us to provide effective strategic and decision reference for the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the basis of defining the concept of “risk of poverty alleviation industry development”, this paper identifies the risk of poverty alleviation industry development in the four prefectures of southern Xinjiang and proposes risk control measures. The results indicate that the development of poverty alleviation industries in the four regions of southern Xinjiang faces natural risks mainly caused by meteorological, biological, and geological disasters, market risks mainly caused by risks such as interest rates, costs, sales, and prices, operational risks mainly caused by risks such as technology, credit, and dividends, and asset loss risks mainly caused by risks such as asset loss and equity debt loss. We should strengthen the monitoring and warning of the development risks of poverty alleviation industries, improve the county-level policy based financial support system, optimize public services for poverty alleviation industries, and strengthen asset supervision of poverty alleviation industries, in order to effectively manage the development risks of poverty alleviation industries in the four regions of southern Xinjiang. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Promoting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a world consensus and a necessity for China. In the process of achieving a sustainable future, evaluating a country's sustainable development progress, understanding China's position in global sustainable development, and identifying the advantages and challenges of China's sustainable development are of great signif-icance for the world to understand China and for China to optimize its sustainable development system. Based on this, this paper took the Sustainable Development Reports issued by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network from 2015 to 2022 as the main carrier to explore the assessment and progress of global SDGs, and analyzed the effects of China's implementation of SDGs and the gap be-tween China and other countries in the world from the perspective of how China was viewed by the world in order to provide a possible path for improving China's sustainable development and to drive the sustainable development of the world. The results showed that, on a global scale, sustainable development had obvious regional and economic agglomeration characteristics, and the progress in realizing the SDGs was homogeneous to a certain extent. From a global perspective, China's sustainable development progress was relatively sta-ble and ranked at the uppermiddle level of the world. In 2022, China's SDG score was 72.4, ranking 56th among 163 countries. In particular, China made remarkable progress in achieving the ' No Poverty,' ' Quality Education,' and ' Responsible Consumption and Produc-tion' goals, and provided basic experience for the sustainable development of the world. The sustainable development goals of ' Life Be-low Water' and 'Life on Land' were prominent weaknesses in China's sustainable development, and there was a certain gap between China and other countries in the world. Further optimizing the assessment system for sustainable development, clarifying priorities for sustainable development, focusing on key regions and groups, and building global partnerships are inherent requirements for implement-ing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and building a more inclusive and sustainable development pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the cross-dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) reaction has received widespread attention in the field of organic synthetic chemistry. This strategy avoids the pre-functionalization of substrates in the reactions that form carbon--carbon bonds. It demonstrates high atomic economy and aligns with the development requirements of green chemistry. Furthermore, asymmetric CDC reactions can realize stereoselective construction of carbon--carbon bonds, which currently constitutes a key area of research in organic synthesis. This paper reviews the research progress in asymmetric CDC reactions and provides a perspective on the future development direction in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studying the effects of expected economic growth targets and environmental constraint targets set by Chinese local governments at the beginning of the year on high-quality development can provide empirical evidence for optimizing expected target management, improving macro-control, and fulfilling governance efficiency in the new development stage to some extent. Therefore, based on the theory of economic growth accounting and the stochastic frontier model, this paper calculated the level of high-quality development at the urban level, extracted the economic growth targets and environmental constraint targets from the Report on the Work of the Government with text analysis, constructed instrumental variables based on the spatial weight matrix, and then discussed the effects of the expected development targets formulated by local governments on high-quality development, conditional heterogeneity, and mechanisms. The results showed that: ① Excessive economic growth targets were not conducive to high-quality development, while environmental constraints targets had a significant role in promoting it and could slow down the erosion effect of excessive economic growth targets on high-quality development. This conclusion still held after solving a series of robustness tests, such as the endogenous bias. ② Heterogeneity analysis found that, with the implementation of the ecological civilization concept, China' s economy could achieve a win-win situation of quantity increase and quality improvement. To better promote high-quality development, the target positioning of cities with good economic foundations should weaken economic increment and strengthen environmental constraints, and the growth targets and environmental constraints set by local governments should be endogenous to their own regional resource endowments and leave appropriate elastic spaces. ③ The mechanism test showed that improving the economic growth targets reduced the level of innovation and raised the amount of new investment in the region, which was not conducive to high-quality development. Environmental constraints could promote technological innovation and limit the blind expansion of new investment, thus promoting high-quality development. Based on the above research conclusions, this paper summarizes policy implications from the aspects of political performance evaluation, formulation of expected development targets, technological innovation, and green development to promote the synergy between economic growth and green development in China and the synchronization of expected target management and high-quality development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The energy conservation and low carbon action plan in the Top-10 000 Energy-Consuming Enterprises Program (T10000P) was an important policy underpinning for achieving the constrained targets of energy consumption and carbon emission reduction during the 12th Five Year Plan period, and is a representative large-scale national energy saving and emission reduction policy with Chinese characteristics. Green technology innovation (GTI) is an important driving force for green development and enterprises are the main participants of GTI. In view of the fact that T10000P is an exogenous shock and based on the green patent panel data of Chinese listed companies from 2004 to 2018, this paper employed the difference-in-differences (DID) method and the count data model to examine the impact of T10000P on GTI at the micro level. Moreover, this paper designed an intermediary effect model to study the mediating role of local governments in the process of T10000P affecting corporate GTI and conducted the triple difference model to study the heterogeneity of T10000P on corporate GTI. The study showed that: ① T10000P significantly promoted corporate GTI. ②Considering the excessive discretization and zero inflation of the data, the regression results of the count data model further supported the conclusion.③The conclusion was still robust after a series of robustness tests such as variable index change, placebo test, and post-matching regression. ④ The assessment constraint of T10000P on local governments affected the subsidies to the top-10 000 enterprises, which promoted their GTI level. ⑤ The GTI effect of T10000P had dynamic characteristics in time, marginal characteristics in innovation level, and heterogeneous characteristics in cooperate property rights: the effects were significant during the policy implementation period, but not significant when the policy phased out. Compared with the regions with low urban innovation index, the promotion effect of T10000P on cooperate GTI was more significant in the regions with high urban innovation index. Compared with private enterprises, the promotion effect of T10000P policy on cooperate GTI was more significant in state-owned enterprises. Based on these conclusions, policy design should be optimized to actively guide enterprises to improve the level of GTI. The green-oriented assessment system for local government should be improved. The environmental regulation and innovation incentive policies should be implemented according to enterprises' conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As an essential factor of production in economic development, land is an important tool for local governments to boost economic growth. The goals of reaching peak carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality will push local governments to change the extensive mode of attracting high energy-consuming and high-pollution enterprises by transferring industrial land at low prices. The lowcarbon city pilot policy is important for China to achieve green and low-carbon economic transformation and sustainable development. This policy will inevitably influence the land transfer behavior of local governments in heavily polluting industries. Based on the panel data of 286 cities from 2007 to 2019, this paper took the low-carbon city pilot policy as a quasi-natural experiment and used the time-varying difference-in-differences method to empirically study the relationship between the pilot policy and the land transfer behavior of local governments. The results showed that: ① The implementation of the low-carbon city pilot policy significantly reduced the area and number of land transfers in heavily polluting industries. The above conclusions still held after a series of robustness tests. ② The impact of the low-carbon city pilot policy on land transfer in heavily polluting industries was affected by the intensity of environmental regulation of local governments and the tenure of officials. The stronger the intensity of environmental regulation in the pilot city became, the more the area and number of land transfers in heavily polluting industries were reduced. When the tenure of the secretary of the municipal CPC committee in the pilot city was less than or equal to 3 years, the area and number of land transfers in heavily polluting industries were significantly reduced. However, the age of the secretary of the municipal CPC committee had no significant impact on the land transfer in heavily polluting industries. ③ Heterogeneity analysis showed that non-resource-based cities, cities with high levels of economic development, and large cities displayed a higher reduction in the area and number of land transfers in heavily polluting industries. Based on these, this paper puts forward suggestions from three aspects: we should further promote the low-carbon city pilot policy, add environmental objectives to the assessment system of officials to increase the constraints of environmental objectives, and formulate and implement environmental policies in accordance with local conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assessing the sustainable development of agriculture is a hot topic in global agricultural research and an important task of rural revitalization and agricultural upgrading in the new era. Reform and opening up promote the rapid development of the agricultural economy, but the conflict between agricultural development and agricultural resources and ecological environment is serious. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the sustainable development of agriculture has been given more prominence. It is of great significance to study the evaluation of agricultural sustainable development. Firstly, this paper studies the relevant literature on agricultural sustainable development evaluation at home and abroad. Based on wavelet transform, support vector machine(SVM), genetic algorithm (GA)and ant colony optimization(ACO) algorithm, a combination evaluation method of wavelet and intelligent optimization support vector machine is proposed. Secondly, by referring to the existing evaluation index system and combining with the actual situation of China's agricultural development, the alternative index set of agricultural sustainable development evaluation is established. Using SPSS software, the significance and correlation of 150 primary indexes are analyzed, and an evaluation index system including 62 indexes is established. Thirdly, using one-dimensional discrete stationary wavelet analysis, data denoising processing, genetic algorithm, ant colony algorithm, optimize the parameters of support vector machine, get better penalty parameters, kernel function, insensitivity coefficient, and then train the support vector machine. Fourth, taking 31 provinces (municipalities) in China as an example, this paper evaluates the agricultural sustainable development by applying the wavelet-GASVM model and the wavelet-ACOSVM model, and using the GA-SVM model and the ACO-SVM model to evaluate the agricultural sustainable development of 31 provinces (municipalities) in China. Fifthly, the reliability of the wavelet intelligent optimization SVM method is verified by changing the number of test sets and conducting multiple tests. The evaluation and simulation results show that: 1) The mean square error of agricultural sustainable development evaluation of Wavelte-GASVM is 9.641×10-5, and the correlation coefficient is 0.980; however, under the same training set and test set, the mean square error and correlation coefficient obtained by GASVM are 0.006 and 0.979, respectively. 2)The mean square error of Wavelet-ACOSVM agricultural sustainable development evaluation was 9.318×10-5, and the correlation coefficient was 0.972; the mean square error MSE and correlation coefficient of ACO-SVM are 0.016 and 0.953, respectively, under the same training set and test set. 3) Change the number of test sets and perform several tests and compare the results of GASVM model and ACO-SVM model before and after wavelet denoising respectively. It can be seen that under the GASVM model, the mean square error of the running results after wavelet denoising is smaller than that before wavelet denoising, and the correlation coefficient is larger than that before wavelet denoising, and the running time is shorter. Under the ACOSVM model, the mean square error of the running result after wavelet denoising is also smaller than that before wavelet denoising, and the correlation coefficient is larger than that before wavelet denoising, and the running time is shorter. Conclusion: The prediction accuracy and convergence speed of agricultural sustainable development evaluation by wavelet-GASVM and wavelet-ACOSVM are better than GA-SVM and ACO-SVM, respectively, and the effect of agricultural sustainable development evaluation by wavelet-GASVM is more ideal. This study provides a method reference for agricultural sustainable development assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Green development is an important aspect of the new development concept, and innovation is an important driving force of green development. Based on the panel data of 277 cities from 2006 to 2019, this paper used the EBM-GLM model to calculate and decompose green total factor productivity and the multi-period DID model to test whether innovative city policies could promote green development. Furthermore, from the perspective of urban network externalities, this paper used the spatial DID model to analyze the spillover effects of pilot policies and explore the mechanism of the innovative city policy in the promotion of urban green development. The study found that: ① The construction of innovative pilot cities could significantly improve the level of urban green development and reduce pollutant emissions. ② The construction of innovative pilot cities could significantly advance urban green technology, but had no significant effect on the improvement of urban green technology efficiency. ③ Due to the existence of urban network externalities, the construction of innovative pilot cities could have a negative spillover effect on the green development level of neighboring cities. Furthermore, this negative spillover effect was mainly reflected in the green technology progress of neighboring cities, and the spillover effect on the green technology efficiency of neighboring cities was not significant. ④ The construction of innovative pilot cities could significantly improve the level of green urban development by improving the level of science and technology, enhancing the strength of financial support, and promoting the intermediary effect of industrial structure upgrading. To promote the development of innovative cities, it is necessary to pay attention to the importance of urban network externalities, strengthen the coordination of different green development transmission paths, and construct the green development system of innovative cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Natural product-derived botanical insecticides have the advantages of strong target specificity, easy degradation, pesticide residue free and no pollution to the environment compared to the traditional chemical insecticides. They meet the development requirements of green agriculture and are one of the important research and development fields of insecticides. In this paper, the current status of the research and development of botanical natural product insecticides as lead compounds for structural modification since 2015 were reviewed. Finally, the trends of future development, current challenges and the subsequent research strategy of botanical insecticides were analyzed and prospected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the scientific and standardized development of poultry breeding industry, antibiotics, hormones and other additives are added to the poultry diet. It is common to add antibiotics, hormones, and other substances to poultry diets. While improving production performance and breeding efficiency, there are also many harmful substances left in poultry bodies, leading to environmental pollution and endangering human health. Chinese herbal medicine preparation is harmless, low pollution and less toxicity, It has become the best product to replace chemical synthetic antibiotics, and is an important choice for the healthy and green development of animal husbandry in the future. Based on the characteristics and functions of Chinese herbal preparations, this paper expounds their effects on poultry growth performance, fertility, immunity, meat quality and intestinal flora, and aims to provide theoretical reference for the wide application of Chinese herbal preparations in poultry industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Green algae polysaccharides are the main bioactive molecules in green algae, which have a variety of biological activity, such as antiviral, antioxidant, antibacterial, immunostimulatory and other biological activities. Green algae polysaccharides can regulate immune function of animal, improve health status and promote growth in animal production, which is one of the potential substitutes for feed antibiotics in animal production. The paper mainly reviews the physical and chemical properties, physiological functions and application of green algae polysaccharides in animal production, to provide reference for the further development of green algae resources and animal breeding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To promote the green transformation and development of manufacturing enterprises, and aiming at the collaborative optimization of IPPS and multi-source energy supply, this paper proposed a novel multi-verse optimization algorithm. Through the improved operations of embedding the sub-population fusion initialization strategy, the NSGA-II mutation strategy and the disturbance strategy of external files, the algorithm expanded the individual population diversity, developed new search ranges, also improved the optimization performance and the quality of Pareto solutions. The multi-energy consumption comparative experiments verified the multi-source energy supply system can effectively improve the proportion of renewable energy consumption and help the manufacturing enterprises achieve the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction; The algorithms comparison experiments showed the effectiveness, feasibility and competitiveness of the novel multi-verse optimization algorithm for solving the problem of IPPS and multi-source energy supply collaborative optimization for manufacturing enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Yangtze River Delta is the source of national innovation with the most concentrated advanced manufacturing industry, the solidest development foundation, and the most active and potential innovative economy. The construction of a national computing hub node in the "Channel Computing Resources from the East to the West" project is great significance to accelerate the upgrading and transformation of the advanced manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta. Therefore, this paper explored the logical mechanism, practical challenges and development path of the digital transformation of manufacturing industry enabled by the national computing hub node in the Yangtze River Delta based on the current difficulties and problems encountered in the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, with a view to promoting the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry and the green and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Promoting rural environmental planning is an important measure to optimize the allocation of spatial resources, balance economic development and ecological protection, and realize the green transformation of agriculture and rural areas. It is a specific starting point to address the current problems that are hindering increasing farmers′ income, and agricultural development and rural stability, in order to realize the coordinated development of living, ecological, and agricultural environments. It is also an inevitable requirement for realizing the rural revitalization strategy and promoting the green and sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas. At present, rural development is subject to the drawbacks of the development of China ′ s urban-rural dual structure, in which long-term industrialization and urbanization have given rise to a series of significant problems, including rural aging, pollution, and emptying, and have become key bottlenecks to green sustainable development. Therefore, in order to achieve the necessary planning requirements, this paper deconstructs all elements of the current rural environmental planning process as a systematic overall plan, defines the development orientation and objectives of the current policy system, elucidates the basic connotation of rural environmental planning, and proposes a theoretical system of rural environmental planning, which includes agricultural, human settlement, and ecological environments. In the context of rural environmental planning alongside green development, our analysis identified problems and shortcomings in current practices, including a lack of connection between different types of rural environmental planning, a lack of scientific and technological innovation, and a lack of understanding with regards to new development concepts. To address these issues, problem-oriented corresponding solutions and management approaches are put forward to provide theoretical and policy support for the better construction of rural ecological environments and the realization of rural green development goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vigorously promoting photovoltaic power generation meets the requirements of energy structure transition, which contributes to environmental protection. Abundant land resources in rural areas provide inherently convenient conditions for photovoltaic power generation. Rural photovoltaic projects provide a sustainable, clean, and low-carbon power supply for production and life, which increases positive ecological values, such as reducing carbon emissions by helping farmers wean off traditional fossil fuels, creating employment opportunities, etc. However, there are also some negative ecological values, such as the construction of photovoltaic power stations causing soil-water losses and construction occupations, which not only reduce the planting incomes of farmers, but also damage rural ecosystems. Therefore, ecological compensation for participators in the photovoltaic project, i.e., photovoltaic power station construction enterprises, farmers, and village collectives, is required to balance the participants' benefits and losses. However traditional compensation methods cannot decide the accurate compensation standards for participators. Hence, referring to the ecosystem service values in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an ecosystem service assessment index system (ESAIS) that includes economic, social, and environmental aspects is proposed in this paper. Based on the proposed ESAIS, the calculation modes for economic values (e.g., electric energy, construction incomes, etc.), social security values, and environment values (e.g., energy conservation and emission reduction, soil-water losses, etc.) are proposed based on market valuation methods, shadow project approaches, opportunity cost methods, etc., can be employed to quantitatively analyze the ecological values of participators. On this basis, the relationship between benefits and expenditures among the participators is established. Then an optimal decision-making model for ecological compensation is introduced to minimize the proportion of low-income farmers with the constraints of the balance of payments, which contributes to achieving win-win cooperation among the participators and sustainable energy development. Based on actual data from rural photovoltaic projects in China, case studies are carried out to verify the proposed ecological compensation model. Under the premise of ensuring reasonable profitability for all participators, the proposed model maximizes the contributions of beneficiaries in the ecological compensation schemes, which contributes to preventing farmers from returning to low income. Compared to traditional compensation methods that compensate farmers based on production inputs, direct losses, or waste disposal fees, the proposed method not only guarantees all participators have positive ecological values and environmental values after compensation, but also increases all farmers’ income levels by maximizing their incomes. Hence, the proposed model contributes to the realization of rural revitalization strategy and sustainable development, which has directive significance for economic advancement in underdeveloped regions worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Green credit is an important financial tool to promote the transformation of the low-carbon economy. On the basis of clarifying the theoretical mechanism of the impact of green credit on carbon emission reduction, this paper used the fixed effect stochastic frontier model containing unexpected output to measure the total factor carbon productivity of 156 cities in China from 2000 to 2019 and empirically tested the carbon emission reduction effect of green credit and its mechanism from the three dimensions of productivity, intensity, and total amount. The research found that: ① Green credit development significantly improved total factor carbon productivity and reduced carbon emission intensity, but the average impact on total carbon emissions was not significant. The above conclusions were still valid after a series of robustness tests and treatments of endogeneity problems. ② The carbon emission reduction effect of green credit was heterogeneous due to differences in regional location, resource endowment, and financial efficiency. In the central region, non-resource-based cities, and cities with higher financial efficiency, green credit had significant carbon reduction effects in both carbon productivity and carbon intensity dimensions, while green credit in the eastern region, resource-based cities, and cities with lower financial efficiency only reduced carbon intensity. ③ The stimulation of green innovation and the reduction of energy intensity were the most effective channels for green credit to reduce carbon emissions, whereas the mediating effect of the structural transformation channel was not yet significant. Green credit was more effective in promoting green innovation and generating positive spillovers in the green innovation channel. However, green credits were more effective in improving carbon emission efficiency in the energy intensity channel, but the role of supporting low-carbon technologies must be enhanced. ④ Environmental regulations had two moderating mechanisms, 'positive compensation' and 'negative offset,' for the carbon reduction effect of green credit. When the demand and supply of financial resources were low, strengthening environmental regulations would weaken the incentive effect of green credit on low-carbon economic transformation. The above conclusion not only provides a new research perspective and supplementary empirical evidence for understanding the environmental effects of green credit, but also provides a useful reference for further improving green credit policies and promoting the development of a low-carbon economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Saving energy resources and reducing energy intensity are crucial to promoting China' s major strategic goals of reaching peak carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality, and are hence key to the promotion of green transformation and development in the new development stage. As an important practice, the policy of establishing pilot zones for green finance reform and innovations in China aims to promote green finance reform in depth, construct ecological civilization, and realize green economic transformation. Can the policy reduce energy intensity and contribute to energy conservation? What is its impact mechanism? There is a shortage of systematic analysis in academia on these issues. With panel data from Chinese cities from 2007 to 2020 and a generalized synthetic control method, this paper evaluated how the establishment of pilot zones for green finance reform and innovations affected energy intensity and analyzed its impact mechanisms. The results showed that: ① The implementation of the policy significantly reduced the energy intensity of the pilot zones, and the energy-saving effect exhibited 'policy first' and timeliness characteristics. ② The policy-induced energysaving effect was achieved by improving green innovation, easing financing constraints, optimizing industrial structure, and strengthening environmental governance. ③ The policy' s energy-saving effect was more remarkable in areas with better marketization and a higher education level. The findings suggest that the government should fully consider the differences in aspects such as institutional environment and resource endowment among varying regions, design distinct measures to attract more market players to participate in the green finance system oriented by energy efficiency improvement, energy structure transformation, and environmental governance, and create a much better market-oriented environment for green innovation and corporate financing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China further clarifies the major development goal of accelerating the transition to a model of green development. Improving carbon emission efficiency is undoubtedly a necessary way to achieve this goal. At present, with the pressing goals of reaching peak carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality and the tendency of the financial industry to be diverted out of the real economy, the high-quality development of the financial industry has become an objective need to improve carbon emission efficiency and promote the realization of the 'dual carbon' goals as scheduled. However, there are obvious differences in carbon emission efficiency and financial industry high-quality development between different regions, which makes it urgent to realize efficient collaboration between inter-regional carbon emission efficiency and high-quality development in the financial industry. This paper used the coupling coordination degree model, the Dagum Gini coefficient decomposition method, and the spatial Kernel density estimation method to measure the coupling coordination degree between China' s carbon emission efficiency and the high-quality development in the financial industry and to fully reveal its spatio-temporal evolution characteristics. The results showed that: ① The coupling coordination degree between carbon emission efficiency and high-quality development in the financial industry basically stabilized at the intermediate coordination level. The key to advancing this coupling coordination degree to a high-quality coordination level was to improve the level of high-quality development in the financial industry. The eastern region rose to a good coordination level. The western and central regions were stable at the intermediate coordination level. The northeastern region was mainly at the primary coordination level. ② The coupling coordination of carbon emission efficiency and high-quality development in the financial industry had a problem of spatial distribution imbalance. Inter-regional differences were the main source of spatial differences. The contribution rates of intra-regional differences and the intensity of transvariation to spatial differences were relatively low. ③ There was a multipolar differentiation phenomenon in the coupling coordination between carbon emission efficiency and high-quality development in the financial industry in the central region. The coupling coordination in both the western and northeast regions showed a polarization trend. ④ Under the condition of considering spatial factors and time span, most provinces and their neighboring provinces had a spatial connection between the coupling coordination of carbon emission efficiency and high-quality development of the financial industry. These findings are conducive to the promotion of the construction of a collaborative linkage pattern between inter-regional carbon emission efficiency and the high-quality development in the financial industry. They can serve as an important decision-making reference for realizing the overall transition to a model of green development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China’s marine environment has enormous volumes of oil and gas (O＆G) resources and immense “blue carbon” potential. In the 14th Five-Year Plan, developing the marine economy, using marine resources, and protecting the marine ecological environment are one of China’s important socioeconomic development goals. However, the relationship between the exploitation of offshore O＆G resources, the protection of the marine ecosystem, and the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality has not been fully elucidated. This study expounds on the importance and vulnerability of marine ecosystems. Then it combines the status of offshore O＆G exploration and exploitation to present a conceptual model of offshore O＆G-ecology carbon feedback cycle, the pathway of deep connection, and the necessity of synergic development in carbon neutrality process. This paper advocates strategies such as closer combination of marine protection with offshore O＆G design and development, evaluating the carbon budget in the regional ecological assessment and developing low-carbon green oilfield materials to improve the sustainable development and utilization scheme of marine resources. This study aims to provide scientific and theoretical support for relevant institutions and promote in-depth collaboration across marine departments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the goal of developing high-quality applied talents, a comprehensive experiment, "Preparation and capacitive properties of porous carbon materials", has been designed to cultivate the practical and innovative abilities of students. The experiment consists of multiple parts, including formulating a scheme, preparing and characterizing materials, measuring the performance, processing data, and writing a paper based on the basic theory and preparation principles of porous carbon materials that the students have mastered. After this training, students will be familiar with scientific research ideas and will have mastered the experimental methods and skills to operate a tube furnace; conduct scanning electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction characterization, N2 adsorption-desorption, and capacitance performance analyses; and perform data processing. Thus, the goal of nurturing students' scientific research interest, cultivating awareness on sustainable development, and inculcating an innovative spirit will be realized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of green agricultural development is an important basis for guiding agricultural transformation and upgrades with advances in China. Since its proposal, this concept has received extensive attention from researchers and the number of papers published on it has increased rapidly. We examined research papers related to green agricultural development published since 2016 and used a bibliometric method to comprehensively and systematically analyze research hotspots in green agricultural development. The hot topics for research in this field include：theory, policy mechanisms, evaluation, controlling agricultural non-point pollution sources, and the experience of developed countries. We propose future research directions based on an in-depth analysis of various hot research topics. These results provide a scientific reference for further studies of green agricultural development in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact of climate warming on world agricultural production and food security has become increasingly obvious. As an important source of carbon emissions and the carbon sink system, the green development of agriculture is one of the important ways to alleviate the crisis and achieve China' s goals of reaching peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality. Exploiting the potential of agricultural carbon sinks and accurately calculating agricultural net carbon emissions are of great significance to promoting the green development of agriculture meeting the ' dual carbon' goals. Based on the dual characteristics of the agricultural carbon cycle, this paper sorted out the logical relationship between agricultural green development and the agricultural carbon cycle, incorporated the role of agricultural carbon sinks into the calculation framework of agricultural carbon emissions, and measured China' s agricultural net carbon emissions from 2000 to 2019 by time and region. The decoupling model of agricultural net carbon emissions from agricultural economic growth was constructed. The results of the study found that the total amount of carbon emissions from agricultural sources increased from 277.899 million t in 2000 to 308.383 1 million t in 2019, with an average annual growth rate of 0.52%, but the agricultural carbon emission intensity showed a trend of continuous decline; the agricultural carbon sink increased from 99.539 9 million t in 2000 to 133.039 million t in 2019, with an average annual growth rate of 1.46%, and the agricultural carbon sink resources were considerable. The intensity of agricultural carbon source emissions was higher in the west than in other regions and there was a clear gap with the eastern region. The total amount of agricultural carbon source emissions, carbon sinks, and net carbon emissions all showed a medium-high pattern. The decoupling relationship between agricultural economic growth and agricultural net carbon emissions was mainly manifested in two decoupling states: strong decoupling and weak decoupling. Nearly 50% of the provinces achieved the ideal strong decoupling state in terms of agricultural green development, while the remaining provinces were in a weak decoupling state, and the decoupling state was generally ideal. Finally, this paper puts forward targeted countermeasures and suggestions to promote the green development of agriculture and help achieve the ' dual carbon' goals: we should accurately locate the carbon source; ensure the ' double bottom line' of food security and pig production capacity under low-carbon agriculture; resolve the resource endowment differences between regions; explore the potential of the agricultural carbon trading market; create a new path for farmers to increase their income, maintain the strong and improve the weak; and strive to achieve the ' package' of strong decoupling in agriculture to help achieve the ' dual carbon' goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Purpose/Significance] Based on the research of library transformation from the mode of "high-speed growth" to "high-quality development", this paper addressed the green development as one of the key routes for the transformation of public libraries and provides a multifaceted definition of green development and sustainability from home and abroad as applied to public libraries. [Method/Process] By investigating the transformation and development of domestic libraries in recent years and drawing on the experience from a range of international projects, this paper found out how dedication to be sustainable and green action has become more central and widespread in the library sector worldwide. Successful examples were drawn from IFLA Green Library Award as well as other innovative programs, services, buildings and projects based on increasing consciousness around the green development. This paper integrated an overview of various efforts to define the green library and arguements for sustainable libraries. At the same time, some typical examples of libraries' environmental awareness and sustainability have been presented. [Results/Conclusions] This paper puts foreword the key areas to implement the concept of green development in libraries, including library buildings, facilities and equipment, collections, information services, operational management as well as library strategic development plan, thus incorporating the library development in the scope of environmental, economic and social sustainability. Libraries should take into account the environmental impact of their building as well as their own activities. They should also consider their specific features, not just the criteria for green buildings and offices. Besides, they can promote recycling and sharing in the community in various ways. These actions can raise environmental friendliness as a value and signals the importance of environmental issues to the community. In the aspect of resource development, the basic task of libraries is to ensure open and easy access to reliable information, which includes environmental information. With the provision of information, libraries should also promote the information retrieval skills ofthe community in order to improve the information literacy of the public with regard to environmentally sustainable awareness. In conclusion, libraries should create an environmental strategy that defines the means and objectives of the environmental work. It is important to raise awareness of the role public libraries can play in the near future, showing proofoftheir contribution to UN 2030 Agenda and SDGs by measuring and gathering evidence of their performance, namely the access to information and knowledge, access to information infrastructures as well as literacy competences development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eco-agriculture focuses on the green development of agriculture and it is an essential part of agricultural development in China and worldwide. As part of the first batch of national eco-agriculture construction pilot counties and one of the China Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems（China-NIAHS）sites，Deqing County occupies a vital position in the practice of eco-agriculture in China. Thus, this paper traces the basic history of eco-agricultural practices and summarizes the current typical models of eco-agricultural development in Deqing County. In addition, this paper analyses the core connotations and primary values of the typical models of ecoagriculture in this county. The typical models include the“pearl mussel-fish-grain-mulberry-livestock”complex system, rice field ecological planting and breeding models, aquaponics, and agritourism. Additionally, this paper makes targeted suggestions to promote the sustainable development of eco-agriculture in Deqing County based on current problems and challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is of theoretical and practical significance to study the impact of mixed-ownership reform, the core measure of stateowned enterprise (SOE) reform, on the green innovation of SOEs. Using the data of SOEs listed in the China A-share stock market from 2010 to 2019, this study empirically tested the impact, mechanisms, and heterogeneous impact of mixed-ownership reform on the green innovation of SOEs through a Propensity Score Matching+Difference-in-Differences (PSM-DID) model based on the shareholding ratio of non-state-owned shareholders among the top ten shareholders of state-owned enterprises. On this basis, this paper further explored the spillover effect of mixed-ownership reform on the green innovation of SOEs. The results showed that: ① Mixed-ownership reform could effectively promote the green innovation of SOEs. After using the placebo test and instrumental variable method to alleviate the endogenous problem and replacing the matching basis for the robustness test, the conclusion was still valid. ② The mechanism test showed that the improvement of corporate governance level and the knowledge spillover effect were important channels for mixed ownership reform to promote the green innovation of SOEs. The profit-seeking nature of non-state-owned shareholders might have a dampening effect on the green innovation of SOEs in mixed-ownership reform. ③ The heterogeneity analysis of industry characteristics showed that in competitive industries and environmental protection industries, mixed-ownership reform had a more obvious impact on promoting the green innovation of SOEs. ④ Although the mixed-ownership reform promoted the green innovation of SOEs, it was not the higher the better in terms of the proportion of non-state-owned shareholders. When non-state-owned shareholders accounted for 15% to 30%, the promotion effect on the green innovation of SOEs was most obvious. ⑤ The mixed-ownership reform had a spillover effect on the green innovation of unreformed SOEs, effectively promoting the substantive green innovation of these SOEs in the same industry. Therefore, the study proposes that the important role of mixed-ownership reform in green development should be fully recognized and the mixed-ownership reform of SOEs should be further promoted. We should promote the formation of a mutually balanced equity structure and rationally allocate the proportion of non-state-owned capital. At the same time, we should avoid the ‘one-size-fits-all’ mixed-ownership reform and adhere to the classification and stratification of orderly progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Big data, a vital driving force of high-quality economic development in China, improves both the speed and efficiency of information exchange and knowledge dissemination. Existing studies have conducted a series of discussions on the dividend effect of big data development, but few have analyzed it from the perspective of corporate green development. Based on the theoretical analysis of the impact of big data development on the internal mechanisms of corporate green technology innovation and on the regulatory role of intellectual property protection, in light of the exogenous policy shock from the ‘National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zones,’ this paper studied the A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen by adopting the difference-in-differences model (DID) to evaluate the impact of big data development on corporate green technology innovation and the moderating effect of intellectual property protection between them. The research results showed that the development of big data significantly promoted corporate green technology innovation, and that the conclusion still held after a series of robustness tests. Heterogeneity tests showed that the promoting effect of big data development on corporate green technology innovation was more observable in large-scale enterprises, state-owned businesses, and companies with high-level access to data from local governments. The mechanism test indicated that the development of big data could promote corporate green technology innovation by improving the intensity of regional environmental regulation, easing the financing constraints of enterprises, and improving their human capital level. The moderating effect test showed that intellectual property protection played a significant positive moderating role between big data development and corporate green technology innovation. Accordingly, the government should improve the big data development policies to promote deep integration of big data and the real economy in a consistent manner, reinforce the system design concerning corporate green technology innovation guided by policies of big data development, and combine big data development with green development goals such as achieving peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality. Meanwhile, policies should be refined based on different types of enterprises in different regions so that a long-term mechanism can be established to support corporate green innovation development. It is also necessary to strengthen the construction of an intellectual property protection system so as to accelerate corporate green technology innovation and green development more effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Faced with the high-quality demand for low-carbon and green development, we need to know if the construction of an intellectual property system (CIPS) can be a covert force to restrain the industrial pollution of Chinese cities. This paper regarded the establishment of intellectual property demonstration cities as a quasi-natural experiment. Based on explaining the impact mechanisms of CIPS on industrial emissions, this study adopted the panel data of 108 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2003 to 2019 and empirically tested the emission reduction effect of CIPS and its mechanisms by using the difference-in-differences (DID) method. The heterogeneity, dynamic effects, and spatial spillover effects were also explored. The results showed that: ① At the urban level of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the CIPS significantly reduced industrial pollution emissions, and the emission reduction effect kept in‑ creasing. This conclusion was still valid under a series of robustness tests, such as continuous DID and instrumental variable methods (IV). ② Heterogeneity analysis showed that the CIPS had good emission reduction performance in the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and large and medium-sized cities, and the emission reduction effect was better in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and large cities. The CIPS had more obvious inhibitory effects on water pollution and gas pollution than on soot pollution. ③ Spatial spillover effect analysis showed that the CIPS restrained the industrial pollution of the demonstration cities and their neigh‑ boring cities, the policy effect showed spatial spillover, and the indirect effect was greater than the direct effect. ④ Mechanism analysis showed that the CIPS could lead to urban industrial upgrading and allocation optimization through technological innovation, indirectly inhibit industrial pollution emissions, and directly promote industrial pollution control through green innovation. Based on this, this pa‑ per proposes to promote the CIPS, explore and implement differentiated intellectual property governance policies, and strengthen ex‑ changes and cooperation on intellectual property among cities, in order to drive the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt through innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper mainly introduces the development status of homogeneous catalysts and heterogeneous catalysts according to the types of catalysts. The research progress of synthesis and separation technology is briefly described. The research progress of propylene glycol ether preparation by propylene oxide method and the application status of propylene glycol ether are discussed. The future development goals of propylene glycol ether catalysts are pointed out. The future research directions of catalysts are put forward. It provides a research idea for the development of green synthesis process of propylene glycol ethers in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To accelerate the green development of the aquaculture industry,solve the shrimp pond aquaculture non-point source pollution and achieve a balance between the economy and ecology,this paper studied shrimp pond culture environment restoration technology to realize the purpose of water saving and emissions reduction. The study mainly included solid waste collection facilities’ efficiency and tail water treatment. The aquaculture waste collection facilities are mainly composed of sedimentation towers for solid waste collection. The tailwater was treated in a three-stage upward vertical flow processing bucket by the nitrification-denitrification-secondary nitrification principle. The results showed that the solid waste collection efficiency of the sedimentation tower was 10. 6%±1. 8%,31. 1%±5. 7%,and 52. 2%±5. 2%,respectively,in the early,middle,and late stages of shrimp pond culture. The total nitrogen collection ratio was 1. 4%±0. 2%,3. 4%±0. 6%,and 9. 1%±0. 1%,respectively. Three-stage upward vertical flow processing bucket filled with biological brush under wastewater flowing condition for 60 d. After 30 days of aeration and anaerobic treatment,the dissolved oxygen content range remains 1. 11-1. 98 mg/ L,0. 27-0. 45 mg/ L,and 4. 60-5. 82 mg/ L,respectively. After determination and analysis,the removal rates of total nitrogen and ammonia nitrogen in the tailwater after solid waste collection could reach 45. 5% and 93. 6%. High-throughput sequencing analysis was conducted on the biological brush in the thirdstage treatment bucket,and it was found that the abundance of nitrifying bacteria in the third-stage bucket was the highest. They mainly include Nitrosomonas,Nitrosospira,and Nitrospira,which can well explain the effect of third-stage nitrification. The construction of the " sedimentation tower" + " three-stage upward vertical flow processing bucket" mode,will provide a leading technology and demonstration mode for promoting the shrimp seawater pond aquaculture industry transformation and upgrading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research on the multi-dimensional relationship and coordinated development of ecology-economy-society has important theoretical significance for the sustainable development of coal resource-based cities. Taking the ecological, economic and social subsystems of Ordos City as the research object, this paper constructs the ecological-economic-social evaluation index system, adopts the AHP-entropy weight comprehensive weighting method, the coupling coordination degree model, and the gray prediction model to evaluate the coordinated development level of Ordos City. The results show that: (1) The evaluation index of the economic subsystem shows a rapid growth trend, the ecological and social subsystems have a relatively large lag compared with the economic subsystem, and the ecological subsystem shows a fluctuating downward trend. (2) The two-dimensional and three-dimensional systems of Ordos City are mainly high-level coupling. The degree of coupling coordination of multi-dimensional systems is on the rise, and the type of coupling coordination development shifts from a disordered decline type to a transitional development type. (3) According to the prediction of GM(1,1), the coupling and coordination degree of EES three-dimensional system will increase in the next 10 years, and the level of coordinated development will continue to improve. The index system and evaluation model constructed according to the characteristics of Ordos City have important reference value for realizing the coordinated development of the regional multi-dimensional system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some state-owned enterprises take part in financial trading to live up to assessment indicators such as business revenue and earned profits, resulting in events with legal risks and causing enormous losses of state-owned assets.The paper introduced the connotation and typical trading patterns of financial trading, analyzed the legal risks of financial trading in state-owned enterprises, and put forward suggestions including making up the trading system, regulating the business operation flow sheet, reinforcing management and control measures, and implementing management and control responsibility, expecting that the study can be used as a reference to promote robust and sustainable development of state-owned enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existing studies focus on analyzing the impact of manufacturing agglomeration from the aspects of economic benefits and en⁃ vironmental benefits, but few studies systematically explore how manufacturing agglomeration affects regional green development wel⁃ fare. In fact, China has entered the stage of high-quality development, and improving the social welfare of green development is an in⁃ herent requirement and essential attribute of this stage. From the unique perspective of manufacturing agglomeration, based on external economic theory, this paper systematically explored the influence mechanism of manufacturing agglomeration on green development welfare. Using the panel data of 110 cities of the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2003 to 2016, the green development welfare level was evaluated dynamically and multi-dimensionally, and the GS2SLS method that controls the spatial spillover effect and endogeneity simultaneously was adopted to systematically investigate the impact of manufacturing agglomeration on regional green development wel⁃ fare, thereby revealing the character of the spatial spillover effect and its attenuation, and verifying the differential impact of the exter⁃ nalities of manufacturing agglomeration on regional green development welfare. The historical instrumental variables such as whether the city was a trade port forced to open in a series of unequal treaties from 1840 to 1909 in the Qing dynasty, and whether the city had a railroad by 1933, and the natural instrumental variables such as the topographic relief amplitude of the cities were collected manually and used as instrumental variables for endogenous variables. The results showed that: ① The green development welfare of the Yangtze River Economic Belt presented a spatial pattern of 'clumpy aggregation at low level and point-like distribution at high level', and the upstream areas had more potential for growth in the future. ② Appropriate manufacturing agglomeration could improve regional green development welfare, while excessive manufacturing agglomeration would inhibit the improvement of regional green development wel⁃ fare. ③ The impact of manufacturing agglomeration on regional green development welfare decreased with the increase of spatial dis⁃ tance, showing a 'double peak' structure. ④ MAR externality and Jacobs externality contributed to the improvement of regional green development welfare, while Porter externality showed a negative effect. Accordingly, this paper puts forward relevant policy recommen⁃ dations from the aspects of grasping the evolution law of green development welfare, formulating differentiated regional policies, promot⁃ ing regional integration, and selecting appropriate industrial agglomeration models, thus providing theoretical support and empirical evi⁃ dence to promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and build a world-class advanced manufacturing cluster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of China' s active construction of a multi-party environmental governance system, it is worth discussing how environmental regulation policies affect the market contractual relationship. In fact, government environmental regulation can trigger interactions between enterprises. When an enterprise gets environmental penalties such as fines and halts production, this enterprise will affect the customers, and the customers may adjust their buying strategies or replace this supplier in order to avoid risks. Given that environmental regulation will increase the risk of polluting enterprises and further affect the operation of downstream customers, this paper empirically tested the impact of environmental regulation on market contractual relationship based on the data of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2009 to 2019. We found that: ① The strengthening of environmental regulation on suppliers would cause the customers to reduce the purchase quantity; thus, environmental regulation could trigger a negative market response. ② Between 2015 and 2019, with the overall and long-term tightening of environmental regulation, enterprises usually increased investment and innovation in environmental protection, resulting in a weakening of the negative market response. ③ When customers had a green reputation or the suppliers belonged to a polluting industry, the customers' negative response was significantly stronger, but when the suppliers were state-owned enterprises, customers were no longer sensitive to their environmental risks. ④ Further analysis showed that environmental regulation affected customers' adjustment of purchase share through 'risk' mechanism and 'environmental governance' mechanism. This article reveals that the government environmental regulation will impact the market contractual relationship, which complements and enriches the relevant literature on environmental governance from the micro perspective, and makes a solid attempt to promote corporate environmental governance from the perspective of the supply chain. The policy implication of this article is that we should strengthen the fairness of the implementation of environmental regulation policies and encourage the development of green supply chains. The conclusion of the study has certain implications for further improving the government environmental regulation, motivating corporate environmental governance, and realizing the multi-party co-governance environmental governance system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The system as a whole is composed of various interrelated sub-systems. The effect of a system will be affected by the coordination of other systems associated with it. Only when the complementarity and coordination between systems increase can the implementation effect of the system be fully brought into play. As an informal system, social trust can affect the implementation effect of formal environmental regulations, but there are few studies on the moderating effect of social trust on the impact of environmental regulations on carbon emissions. Based on this, the panel data of 281 prefecture-level cities in China from 2010 to 2019 were selected as research samples. The moderating effect model and mediated moderating effect model were used to study the moderating effect and mechanism of social trust on the impact of environmental regulations on carbon emissions. In addition, the heterogeneity of this moderating effect was tested by region. The results showed that: ① The impact of environmental regulations on carbon emissions showed an inverted Ushaped nonlinear relationship, and the promotion effect of environmental regulations on carbon emissions was dominant in the present stage. FDI, the upgrading of industrial structures, and R&D innovation were important mediating channels for environmental regulations to affect carbon emissions. ② As a moderating variable, social trust positively moderated the impact of environmental regulations on carbon emissions and accelerated the arrival of the inflection point of the inverted U-shaped curve. ③ In terms of the mediating effect, the moderating effect of social trust on the impact of environmental regulations on carbon emissions was realized through the mediating effect of FDI, the upgrading of industrial structures, and R&D innovation, and the impact of social trust on the inflection points of the three intermediary channels was heterogeneous. ④ The moderating effect of social trust had regional heterogeneity. In small cities, the impact of social trust on environmental regulations on carbon emissions was greater than that in large and medium-sized cities. The moderating effect of social trust was greater in the cities without environmental protection than in the cities with environmental protection. The above conclusions were still valid after a series of robustness tests. It is hoped that this paper can enrich the relevant research on environmental regulations and social trust and be helpful for local governments to formulate relevant policies according to local conditions, improve the carbon emission reduction effect of environmental regulation, and accelerate the green development and transformation of Chinese cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gentrification has been a trending topic in human geography and urban planning over the past several decades. Based on classic gentrification, scholars have proposed new concepts, such as new-build gentrification, educational gentrification, rural gentrification, tourism gentrification, and environmental gentrification. Among these concepts, environmental gentrification has received particular attention in recent years. This paper introduced the concept, background, and impacts of environmental gentrification through a review of existing literature on environmental gentrification published in English journals. We argued that environmental gentrification is a process of physical improvement, social upgrading, and direct or indirect displacement of the disadvantaged or low-income classes, driven by environmental improvement practices such as environmental beautification or environmental rehabilitation. Three perspectives of environmental gentrification research have been identified: classic gentrification, environmental injustice, and the inherent contradictions in sustainable development. We summarized solutions to environmental gentrification in foreign countries from the perspective of environmental injustice. Lastly, we advocated that Chinese scholars should pay more attention to environmental gentrification in China, where urban ecological environment management and "greening and beautification" projects have become the new impetus of gentrification in the past decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]