Economics & Business Management ISSN Print: 3079-5214 ISSN Online: 3079-5222
A Literature Review on the Impact of the Digital Divide on Residents' Income Gap
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China has successfully accomplished the task of poverty alleviation as scheduled, eradicating absolute poverty in rural areas, and has now entered a new stage of comprehensively advancing rural revitalization. The 20th National Congress of the CPC pointed out that "common prosperity is an essential requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the most arduous and onerous task in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way still lies in rural areas." At present, China’s policies are gradually shifting toward raising the income level of rural residents, enhancing their sense of well-being, and continuously improving their quality of life, striving to push the development of the rural economy to new heights. With the continuous development and transformation of network information technology, the digital economy has not only spawned new social trends but also brought about the issue of the digital divide among Chinese residents. Due to differences in the level of access to and use of network information in rural areas, the income distribution gap caused by the digital divide is gradually widening. Rural residents in China are at a disadvantage compared with urban residents in terms of access to network information technology resources; furthermore, the network information technology resources held among rural residents themselves are also fragmented, making the problem of the digital divide they face quite severe. Therefore, at this stage, how to bridge the digital divide and alleviate the imbalance in income distribution among rural residents has become a key part of realizing social equity, advancing rural revitalization, and safeguarding the achievements of poverty alleviation. Eliminating the digital divide, promoting the income growth of rural residents, and narrowing the income gap among them will help rural residents better engage in the historical process of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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Market-based environmental regulation and labor demand — An empirical study based on carbon emissions trading pilot policies
The carbon emission trading system is an effective policy tool to realise carbon emission reduction. However, environmental regulation will inevitably affect economic and social operation, how to realize the coordination between promoting environmental protection and stabilising employment is a question that needs to be answered urgently. Based on the micro data of listed companies and the macro data at the city level from 2010 to 2021, this paper uses multi-period DID to study the impact of the carbon emissions trading system on labor demand and its mechanism. It is found that the carbon emission trading system reduces the labor demand of enterprises but increases the employment of cities, and the overall employment effect is positive. The mechanism test shows that the carbon emission allowance trading system causes the reduction of enterprise labor demand mainly through the factor substitution effect, skills, and there is a different effect of the policy effect. Further research shows that the carbon emission right trading system make the flow of labor from polluting industries to non-polluting industries and from non-pilot areas to pilot areas. Therefore, the policy effect is inconsistent between micro and macro effects. The findings of this paper provide a useful reference for improving the carbon trading system and safeguarding employment
Digital Transformation and New-Quality Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
The deep integration of the digital and real economies has become a key engine for high-quality economic growth. This paper examines how firm-level digital transformation affects new-quality productivity—a qualitative upgrade in productivity driven by digital technologies, data assets, and organizational complementarities—using firm-level data for Chinese listed companies. I find three main results. First, digital transformation significantly raises firms’ new-quality productivity. The effect is economically larger for non-state firms and for firms operating in more competitive (less monopolistic) industries than for state-owned or highly monopolized firms. Second, digitalization raises productivity chiefly through three channels: it lowers managerial costs and raises managerial efficiency, it increases total factor productivity, and it optimizes the firm’s talent composition. Third, these mechanisms together account for a substantial share of the overall digitalization effect. The findings underscore the role of corporate digitalization in generating qualitative productivity gains and suggest policies that facilitate firm digital adoption and complementary organizational and human-capital investments.
Research on the innovative strategy of e-commerce marketing model under the background of artificial intelligence
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, its application in e-commerce marketing models has become an important force to promote economic growth and enterprise transformation and upgrading. This paper delves into the development of artificial intelligence e-commerce, analyzes the problems existing in the current e-commerce marketing model, and focuses on the strategic methods of optimizing and innovating the e-commerce marketing model in the context of artificial intelligence.
Enhancement of Government Audit Independence and Standardization of State-Owned Enterprises: A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the Reform of the Management System for Personnel, Finance, and Materials at the Sub-Provincial Level
This study takes the 2015 reform of unified management of personnel, finance, and materials in local audit institutions below the provincial level (implemented in 7 provinces/municipalities in China) as a quasi-natural experiment. It empirically tests the impact of this audit management system reform on the standardized operation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The results show that after the reform, the violation behaviors of local SOEs in the pilot areas decreased significantly. Further analysis reveals that the reform mainly restrains information disclosure violations and leader-related violations. This study provides empirical evidence for the effectiveness of the audit management system reform at the sub-provincial level, enriches the literature on audit independence, and offers insights for the deepening of future policies.
A Study on the Improvement of Marketing Strategies for Wealth Management Services at HF Branch of ZS Bank
Commercial banks, as pivotal asset management entities in China, have served as critical intermediaries in financing and investment over the past decade. However, with the rapid expansion of the wealth management market in recent years, issues such as implicit guarantees and maturity mismatches have become increasingly pronounced. This study focuses on the personal wealth manage-ment business of the HF Branch of ZS Bank, examining its operational context to diagnose challenges in the sale of wealth management products during the tran-sition and post-implementation phases of the Asset Management Regulatory Guidelines. The aim is to formulate effective marketing strategies that offer both theoretical insights and practical guidance for peer institutions. The research proceeds along four dimensions: (1) contextualizing the study within domestic and international developments, clarifying its background, significance, re-search framework, and methodology, while reviewing relevant literature on wealth management and marketing strategies to identify current advancements and areas requiring improvement; (2) delineating the institutional profile, his-torical evolution of wealth management marketing, product portfolio, and oper-ational performance of the HF Branch of ZS Bank, alongside an analysis of the macro-marketing environment and competitive dynamics within the industry; (3) conducting a questionnaire-based survey to gain in-depth insights into the branch’s wealth management clientele and to identify key obstacles in market-ing execution; and (4) performing an STP (Segmentation, Targeting, Position-ing) analysis to propose targeted improvements across seven strategic do-mains—product, pricing, promotion, place, people, process, and physical evi-dence—based on empirical findings. As a representative case among Chinese commercial banks, the HF Branch of ZS Bank exemplifies industry-wide chal-lenges and trends in wealth management. This underscores the imperative for commercial banks to carefully assess both internal capabilities and external regulatory and market conditions under the new asset management regime, and to develop forward-looking marketing plans and strategies to ensure long-term, sustainable growth.
Research on the Mechanism and Policy Support of "New Farmers" in Promoting Rural Revitalization in Western Rural Areas
This study takes Wansheng District in Chongqing as a case to systematically analyze the internal mechanisms and policy support of "new farmers" in driving rural revitalization. Based on theories such as human capital, industrial integration, social embedding, and policy tools, it constructs a three-dimensional analysis framework of "actor-behavior-environment" to reveal the dual-path mechanism through which new farmers activate rural endogenous dynamics via technological empowerment and social capital reconstruction. Empirical research demonstrates that new farmers significantly enhance agricultural added value and farmer income through measures such as industrial chain reshaping (agricultural orders, deep processing, cloud warehouse logistics), organizational innovation (the "leading enterprise + new farmers + cooperatives" model), and cultural activation (intangible cultural heritage IP development), with the synergistic effect of technology diffusion and organizational restructuring contributing 53%. However, rural areas in western China still face structural constraints such as land fragmentation, limited financing channels, and infrastructure deficiencies, along with issues like "elite capture" and insufficient departmental coordination in policy implementation. Drawing on 1,200 questionnaires and multi-source data, the study validates through multiple regression and structural equation modeling that policy support (β=0.352) and digital skills (β=0.287) are core drivers, yet farmland fragmentation (CFI=0.89) significantly undermines the synergistic effect of policy and technology diffusion. To address these issues, the study proposes a "three-chain synergy" policy toolkit: promoting virtual plot consolidation and securitization of land use rights; innovating supply chain ABS and insurance futures coordination; and establishing village-level mid-level platforms and resident "digital stewards." Additionally, it designs a policy performance evaluation system covering economic, social, ecological, and innovation dimensions, along with a fault-tolerant and corrective mechanism to ensure policy implementation. Theoretically, this study integrates new endogenous development and urban-rural interaction theories to construct a mechanistic model tailored to the western context. Practically, it provides replicable policy solutions for western counties, aiding in addressing the sustainability challenges of rural revitalization.
Research on the Promotion Path, Consumption Intention, and Influencing Factors of Green Beauty under the "Dual Carbon" Goal
This study focuses on the "dual carbon" goal, based on 1024 valid questionnaire data from 16 cities in Anhui Province. Using a multidimensional mixed methods system, it deeply explores the public's cognitive characteristics of beauty pollution and the mechanism of green product consumption behavior, analyzes the constraints and driving factors of green beauty promotion, and proposes systematic solutions from multiple dimensions, aiming to assist the low-carbon transformation of the green beauty industry and promote the achievement of the "dual carbon" strategic goal.
Research on the Coupling Coordination of Digital Economy and High-Quality Agricultural Development in Hefei
Utilizing a series of statistical model methods and statistical data from Hefei for the period 2005-2023, this study analyzes the level of high-quality agricultural development, the development level of the digital economy, and the coupling coordination degree between the digital economy and high-quality agricultural development in Hefei. The results indicate that from 2005 to 2023, both the level of high-quality agricultural development and the development level of the digital economy in Hefei showed steady improvement, and the coupling coordination degree between the two systems continuously increased.
Research on the Impact of Educational Investment on Regional Economic Growth
This paper aims to explore the impact of educational investment on regional economic growth. By applying econometric models and regression analysis methods, an in-depth analysis was conducted on the relationship between educational investment and economic growth in different regions. The research results show that the investment in education funds has a significant impact on regional economic growth, but this impact varies among different regions and at different levels of economic development. In addition, the investment in education funds affects regional economic growth in other forms through mediating effects. In the short term, it will lead to a slowdown in economic growth, but in the long term, it has a profound impact on economic growth. Moreover, this influence varies in different regions and at different levels of economic development. Therefore, the government should increase its investment in education, especially in backward areas, to promote balanced regional economic development.
The Impact of Media Trust on Political Consumption: An Empirical Study Based on CSS2021
In the era of mediatized politics, news media serve not only as the core vehicle for information dissemination but also as a crucial intermediary shaping public political cognition and behavior. As the global media trust crisis intensifies and political consumption becomes increasingly explicit, the associative mechanism between media trust and political consumption has emerged as a hot topic in academic research. This study utilizes data from the 2021 China Social Survey (CSS), involving 3,546 respondents, to validate the impact of media trust on individual political consumption orientation through a multiple linear logistic regression model. Results indicate that differences in media trust significantly and positively influence individual political consumption orientation. This research offers a new theoretical perspective for un-derstanding emerging political participation patterns in the digital age and provides practical implications for optimizing media governance.
Research on the Impact of Internal Control Quality on Corporate Debt Financing Costs
In recent years, the instability of the international economic situation and the turbulence in China's domestic and external environments have caused a downturn in the domestic financial market, leaving enterprises facing the dilemma of "difficult and expensive financing". Therefore, based on the theories of information asymmetry, principal-agent, and signal transmission, this paper analyzes the impact of internal control quality on corporate debt financing costs, using listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets from 2019 to 2023 as samples. Empirical research finds that improving internal control quality can effectively reduce corporate financing costs. Meanwhile, from the perspectives of audit quality and nature of property rights, this paper analyzes their moderating effects on the relationship between internal control quality and corporate debt financing costs. The study reveals that the impact of internal control quality on corporate debt financing costs is more significant in enterprises with lower audit quality compared to those with higher audit quality. Furthermore, the impact is more pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises compared to state-owned enterprises. This research helps enterprises recognize the important role of internal control quality in corporate financing processes and enriches theoretical research in related fields.
The Carbon Reduction Effect of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulation Tools
Against the backdrop of the "double carbon" goals, reducing the carbon intensity of heavy-polluting enterprises with high energy consumption and carbon emis-sions has become crucial. As an important policy tool to guide green and low-carbon development, environmental regulation policies are indispensable for governing enterprise carbon intensity. This study focuses on two heteroge-neous environmental regulation tools—environmental subsidies and pollution discharge fees—and selects 8,258 sample observations of Chinese listed compa-nies from 2011 to 2021 as the research object. The findings show that: Environ-mental subsidy policies can significantly reduce the carbon intensity of heavy-polluting enterprises, while pollution discharge fees exacerbate enterprise carbon intensity to a certain extent.The research conclusions are of great signif-icance for improving environmental regulation policies and guiding heavy-polluting enterprises to save energy and reduce emissions, providing a realization path for achieving the carbon neutrality goal by 2060.
Heterogeneous environmental regulation tools
Research on the Impact of Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zones on Urban Economic Resilience
Against the backdrop of prevailing trade protectionism and frequent global crises, China's economy is undergoing a critical transition from rapid growth to high-quality development. Economic resilience reflects the ability of a country or region to restore economic growth and forge a new pattern of development after suffering external shocks. Therefore, studying the factors influencing economic resilience can provide references for China to achieve high-quality development. Meanwhile, the pilot cities for cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones have basically achieved nationwide coverage. the State Council has approved the construction of eight batches of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zones, forming an open pattern of "East-West two-way mutual aid, land and sea linkage". Based on this context, this paper explores whether the policy of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones can effectively enhance urban economic resilience. This paper first reviews the literature on the impact of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones on urban economic resilience. It then uses theories such as transaction costs, path dependence, and growth poles as the theoretical foundation to analyze the mechanisms through which the policy of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones affects urban economic resilience. Subsequently, it briefly elaborates on the establishment and institutional system of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones. Based on the research conclusions and relevant theoretical analysis, countermeasures and suggestions are proposed from aspects such as improving the development mechanism of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones, strengthening the introduction and cultivation of professionals, and optimizing the spatial layout of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones.
Cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone
Low-Altitude Economy Empowering High-Quality Development of Rural Industries: Internal Mechanisms, Practical Challenges, and Implementation Pathways
The development of China's rural low-altitude economy has emerged as a new driving force for revitalizing rural industries. Empowering high-quality devel-opment of rural industries through low-altitude economy serves as a crucial foundation for achieving rural revitalization. This is manifested in how low-altitude economy promotes innovative diversification of rural industries, facilitates their integration and upgrading, and enables deep technological em-bedding. Current challenges in low-altitude economic development include a shortage of highly skilled digital professionals, inadequate infrastructure, and room for improvement in management systems. To address these issues, efforts should focus on targeted training, innovative recruitment, and scientific de-ployment of skilled personnel; further enhancing infrastructure for rural low-altitude economic development; and establishing comprehensive support-ing regulations and systems for low-altitude economic growth.
Empowering High-quality Development of Rural Industries
How does Digital Transformation Affect the Conversion of R&D Investment into Green Technological Innovation in Enterprises ?
Against the backdrop of global climate change and intensified resource constraints, green technological innovation has become the core driving force for enterprises to achieve sustainable development. Although research and development(R&D) investment is widely recognized as a key element in promoting green technological innovation in enterprises and has received considerable attention, the moderating role of digital transformation, an emerging technological environment factor, in the process of converting R&D investment into green technological innovation in enterprises has rarely been explored. Based on the resource-based theory and the innovation process theory, this paper aims to deeply investigate the impact of R&D investment on green technological innovation in enterprises and further analyze how digital transformation plays a moderating role in this process. Through an empirical study of sample data from manufacturing enterprises listed on the A-share market from 2013 to 2024, the following findings were discovered: (1) R&D investment has a significant positive impact on green technological innovation in enterprises, meaning that R&D investment is conducive to promoting both substantive and strategic green technological innovation in enterprises;(2) Digital transformation has a significant positive impact on green technological innovation in enterprises, indicating that digital transformation is beneficial for enterprises to carry out both strategic and substantive green technological innovation;(3)Digital transformation positively moderates the relationship between R&D investment and green technological innovation, meaning that enterprises with a high degree of digital transformation can more effectively convert R&D investment into substantive and strategic green technological innovation. This research finding reveals the crucial role of digital transformation in facilitating the conversion of R&D investment into green technological innovation, providing practical guidance for enterprises in formulating R&D strategies and digital transformation strategies to accelerate the pace of green technological innovation.
Enterprise green technological innovation
From the Perspective of Computational Communication: A Study on the Dynamics of Online Public Opinion in the Comment Sections of Weibo Regarding the 315 Gala (2021-2025)
This study takes the comment sections of blue-V media official accounts related to the "3·15" Gala on Weibo from 2021 to 2025 as research samples. By compre-hensively applying methods such as word cloud analysis, sentiment computa-tion, IP location correlation, and topic categorization, it systematically explores the evolution of netizens’ comment content, dynamic emotional characteristics, regional sentiment differences, and location-based topic preferences over the five-year period. Integrating theories from computational social science and communication studies, the research reveals a diachronic shift in consumer rights protection public opinion "from physical infringement to digital in-fringement." It also identifies regional patterns such as "relatively moderate sentiment in eastern regions, more pronounced negative sentiment in central and western regions, and divergent regional topic concerns." The findings pro-vide data support and practical pathways for the dynamic optimization of mar-ket supervision policies, including differentiated regulation, sentiment-oriented response, and precise reaction to regional issues.
consumer rights protection public opinion
The Impact of Digital Finance on Corporate Export Resilience
Based on data from Chinese A-share listed companies from 2016 to 2023, this study examines how digital finance affects corporate export resilience. Using a two-way fixed effects model , we find that digital finance significantly enhances export resilience. This conclusion remains valid after robustness tests. Digital finance strengthens firms' capacity to resist external shocks, recover exports, and facilitate upgrading by easing financing constraints and improving resource allocation. We recommend further developing digital financial infrastructure, creating tailored financial services for exporters, and enhancing policy coordi-nation to boost firms' risk resilience and international competitiveness, thereby supporting high-quality foreign trade development.
Research on the Efficiency Measurement and Improvement Paths of the Logistics Industry Innovation Ecosystem
The logistics industry, as a rapidly developing composite service industry in China, provides a solid foundation for successfully building a "strong logistics nation," optimizing the operation of related industries, and enhancing competitiveness. According to statistics from the National Development and Reform Commission, the total social logistics volume in China has maintained steady growth in recent years, ranking among the top globally. Despite this, the development model of China's logistics industry still suffers from a series of drawbacks such as "high input, high energy consumption, and low efficiency," which adversely affect the future high-quality economic development. Therefore, the state has successively issued several plans to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the logistics industry, emphasizing that the logistics industry should gradually transition from a "quantity-oriented" model to an "efficiency-oriented" one, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the logistics industry's development model. Against this backdrop, measuring the efficiency of the logistics industry, identifying the formation paths of high logistics industry efficiency, and recognizing the key factors influencing logistics industry efficiency have practical significance for promoting the healthy and high-quality development of China's logistics industry. This paper, based on a holistic perspective and configurational thinking, uses the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) method to explore the multiple concurrent causal relationships and diverse paths of factors influencing high logistics industry efficiency from both internal and external industry dimensions.
Research on the Development of Cross-Border Trade of China's Foreign Trade Enterprises from the Perspective of New Quality Productivity
At an important stage of structural transformation in China's foreign trade, the new-type productive forces have a profound practical impact on the develop-ment models, driving forces, and strategic choices of current Chinese foreign trade enterprises in cross-border operations. Against the backdrop of expanding international business for Chinese foreign trade enterprises, the growth of new-type productive forces has not only become a core element in solving ex-isting challenges but also prompts significant changes in China's international trade pattern. Accelerating the cultivation and development of these new-type productive forces is an indispensable path to guiding the foreign trade sector towards a higher level of development. In this regard, this article aims to explore the future outlook and influencing factors of the transformation and upgrading of Chinese foreign trade enterprises in the international market, and analyze how the new-type productive forces can promote the development path of high-quality cross-border trade. The ultimate goal is to utilize these new-type productive forces as a driving force to assist Chinese foreign trade enterprises in achieving more high-quality and efficient cross-border trade.
Looking at The "China Wisdom" of Foreign Investment From The Perspective of The Belt And Road——
This research based on the context of China's continuous expansion of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and deepening international tax cooperation, focuses on the impact mechanisms and policy practices of the tax environment in Belt and Road countries on China's OFDI. Through a systematic review of relevant literature and practical achievements, the study finds that the tax environment is one of the key factors influencing Chinese enterprises 'outbound investment decisions, with a favorable tax business environment significantly promoting OFDI development. China has achieved multiple practical outcomes through initiating the Belt and Road tax administration cooperation mechanism, including establishing long-term mechanisms, optimizing tax services, and enhancing information sharing, thereby providing enterprises with a more stable, transparent, and convenient international tax environment. Meanwhile, China's direct investment scale in Belt and Road countries continues to grow, investment sectors become increasingly diversified, and cooperation quality steadily improves. Based on research conclusions, this research proposes recommendations to strengthen academic-government collaboration, deepen international tax coordination, guide enterprises to scientifically assess host country tax environments, and coordinate domestic tax system reforms with opening-up policies. These measures aim to facilitate high-quality "going out" and "bringing in" for Chinese enterprises, contributing Chinese wisdom to jointly building the Belt and Road.
Research on the Path of Carbon Trading Policies Affecting Industrial Structure Upgrading
Carbon trading, as a market-based carbon emission management tool, has grad-ually been widely used in most regions of China. In order to effectively respond to the challenge of climate change, many countries and regions have begun to explore and implement carbon trading policies. This study is based on panel da-ta of 31 provincial-level regions from 2005 to 2023. A multi-temporal double difference model is used to assess how carbon trading policy affects regional industrial structure upgrading. The results show that the carbon trading policy significantly upgrades the level of industrial structure in the pilot regions, and this conclusion still holds after the robustness test. Moreover, the mechanism analysis shows that the policy promotes regional industrial structure upgrading by improving the resource allocation efficiency and R&D investment in each region. The moderating effect shows that government intervention plays a posi-tive moderating role in the carbon trading policy on industrial structure up-grading. The results of the heterogeneity analysis show that the promotion effect of the carbon emissions trading pilot policy on the industrial structure level of the low level of trade capacity and the eastern and western regions is more sig-nificant and more effective in playing the role of the policy.
The Impact of Short-term Loans on Long-term In-vestments on Corporate Financial Risk: An Empiri-cal Evidence Based on Listed Real Estate Companies in A-share Market
Taking Chinese real estate enterprises listed on the A-share market from 2005 to 2022 as samples, this paper empirically examines the impact of "short-term bor-rowing for long-term investment" on the financial risks of real estate enterprises by using the two-way fixed effects model and the mediating effect model. The re-sults show that "short-term borrowing for long-term investment" intensifies the financial risks of real estate enterprises, and it mainly exerts negative impacts on the finance of real estate enterprises by increasing excessive debt, aggravating debt costs, and reducing profitability. This study is helpful to clarify the causes of risk agglomeration in China's real estate enterprises and provides references for the risk control and investment-financing decisions of real estate enterprises.
Short-term loans for long-term investments
mismatch between investment and financing terms
The impact mechanism and path optimization of blind box economy on residents' consumption from the perspective of uncertainty
Under the background of the dual circulation strategy, in-depth exploration of domestic market demand and comprehensive promotion of residents' consumption have become the key to promoting the sustained and healthy development of China's economy. As an emerging consumption model, the blind box economy has the characteristics of strong randomness, strong sociality, and strong collectibility, which helps to enhance the expectation experience of consumption activities. Whether this model can effectively stimulate residents' consumption deserves in-depth study. Based on the uncertainty theory, this project studies the impact mechanism of the blind box economy on residents' consumption and attempts to optimize its implementation path. Key research: (1) How does the blind box economy affect the consumption activities of different types of residents; (2) Revealing the internal mechanism of the blind box economy affecting residents' consumption from the perspective of uncertainty theory; (3) Based on the goal of sustainable and healthy development, optimize the implementation path of the blind box economy to stimulate residents' consumption. The research results of the project help to reveal the formation mechanism of residents' consumption activities under the influence of uncertain consumption patterns.
Policy Responses to Ageing in Guangdong Amidst Population Ageing Pressures
Against the backdrop of accelerating population ageing, Guangdong Province faces the contradiction between rapidly growing demand for elderly care services and insufficient supply capacity. This paper systematically analyses the implementation outcomes and shortcomings of the elderly care security system, medical security system, and elderly care service system, starting from the spatial distribution and structural characteristics of ageing. It explores an optimised pathway for elderly care policies tailored to Guangdong's provincial context, providing decision-making references for promoting high-quality development in elderly care services.
integration of medical care and elderly care
Research on the influence of supply chain stability on the innovation ability of enterprises
At a time of increasingly fierce competition in the global economy, corporate innovation is regarded as a key element to gain sustainable competitive ad-vantage, and the stability of the supply chain, as an important link in corporate operations, should not be underestimated in terms of its role in promoting or constraining innovation. This paper analyzes the impact of the stability of up-stream and downstream relationships on the innovation ability of enterprises by taking 3,096 A-share listed companies in China from 2013 to 2023 as the re-search object. The findings show that the stability of both suppliers and custom-ers has a U-shaped relationship on firms' innovation capability, and that digital transformation plays a mediating role in the inverted U-shaped relationship between supply chain stability and innovation capability. In the heterogeneity test, the effect of supply chain stability on firms' innovation capability is more significant in large-scale firms and firms in capital-intensive industries. This paper concludes that enterprises should maintain a moderate degree of supply chain stability and adjust their management strategies for supply chain rela-tionships according to their own characteristics in order to effectively enhance their innovation capability.
Research on the Development Opportunities and Strategies of Digital Trade in the Guang-dong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area under the Background of "Dual Circulation"
Based on the "dual circulation" strategic framework, this study constructs a three-dimensional collaborative theoretical model of "system - industry - tech-nology" and proposes differentiated development strategies. Research findings show that the Greater Bay Area, relying on the institutional advantages of "one country, two systems, and three customs territories", has formed distinctive advantages such as cross-border e-commerce, digital infrastructure, and a closed loop of the innovation chain. However, issues such as data standard barriers, core technologies being controlled by others, and the lagging transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in the three regions still restrict its devel-opment. The international competitiveness of digital trade in the Greater Bay Area can be effectively enhanced through institutional measures.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
Digital Transformation and Enterprise Labor Employment: Incentivizing or Suppressing ?
In the context of accelerated digital economic development, digital transfor-mation has not only become a core driver for organizational restructuring and business model innovation in enterprises, but also profoundly influenced labor market reforms, serving as a crucial approach to achieving stable employment goals. Using the establishment of National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zones as a natural experiment, this study employs the difference-in-differences method to demonstrate that these zones significantly enhance corporate em-ployment levels. Mechanism tests reveal that these zones boost employment scale through three pathways: improving production efficiency, reducing op-erational costs, and enhancing business performance. Expanding the research framework to examine how National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zones affect productivity, the study finds that such zones improve factor allocation, promote specialized division of labor, and optimize human capital to enhance production efficiency. Heterogeneity tests indicate that the employ-ment-promoting effects are more pronounced in pilot zones with stronger internal controls, those located in Northeast China, northern coastal regions, and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as non-technology-intensive enterprises. This research not only deepens our understanding of how National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zones empower corporate employment, but also holds significant practical implications for advancing and refining industrial policies aimed at stabilizing employment.
National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone
Corporate Governance and Corporate Green Innovation
After the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy has experienced a sluggish recovery, with declining trade and rising demands for corporate innovation. In China, while the economy is shifting toward high-quality development, environmental issues have become a central concern of society. Against this backdrop, the impact of corporate governance on green innovation has attracted growing scholarly and practical attention. An effective governance structure not only provides strategic guidance, resource allocation, and institutional safeguards but also plays a crucial role in advancing environmentally oriented innovation. Efficient boards of directors and management teams can improve decision-making quality, balance economic performance with social responsibility, and promote the research and application of green technologies. Moreover, sound governance mechanisms help build trust among stakeholders, thereby facilitating the smooth implementation of green innovation projects. Existing studies further suggest that firms with stronger green governance awareness tend to demonstrate greater technological creativity and competitiveness, driven by both regulatory pressures and market demand. Therefore, examining the role of corporate governance in green innovation not only enriches the theoretical understanding of sustainable development but also offers practical implications for achieving ecological and economic synergies in China’s new development context.
Analysis of Changes in Chinese Consumers’ Attitudes Toward Imported Products in Recent Years — An Analysis Based on CGSS Data
This study uses Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data from 2018 and 2021 to examine changes in consumer attitudes toward imports. Results show in-creasing acceptance of imported goods and declining support for restrictions, driven by rising incomes, globalization, and consumer confidence. Younger, higher-income, and more educated consumers, as well as internet users, display stronger support, while lower-income and less educated groups remain cautious. Subjective factors such as happiness and social values also foster openness. Findings confirm that attitudes are becoming more positive, shaped by demo-graphic and social differences, with implications for trade policy and market openness.