The techno-feudalism discourse that emerged around 2020 finds its most significant representation in the work, Techno-feudalism, authored by French left-wing economist Cédric Durand. Departing from the “California Ideology”, Durand critiques contemporary high-tech innovation firms and the corresponding Silicon Valley consensus myth. The success of these firms does not draw from their leaders’ knowledge, cultivation, or innovation spirit, but from their monopolization of a new form of “land”: intangible assets. By creating diverse rentier modes such as intellectual property rents, natural monopoly rents, differential rents of intangible assets, and dynamic innovation rents, they formulated the hypothesis of techno-feudalism. In this framework, on one side lies the mythical kingdom of tech elites, lavishing the huge rents collected from intangible asset monopolies, while on the other side are precarious gig economy workers adrift in destitution. This constitutes a novel relation between class and production, which Durand suggests, paradoxically, paves the way for communism by fostering all-around individuals and partially alleviating alienation.

The rise of new quality productive forces signifies a comprehensive transformation encompassing technological innovation, social change, and ethical evolution. This transformation not only emphasizes human subjectivity but also advocates for harmony in social ethics, coexistence between natural ethics, unity of spirit and morality, and expansion of international perspectives. Its goals embrace not only the full realization of individual potential and social progress but also environmental sustainability and global cooperative well-being. A thorough analysis of the ethical relationship changes brought about by the development of new quality productive forces is crucial for refining the theoretical and practical pathways of ethical reconstruction. Ensuring that the outcomes of new quality productive forces development truly benefit the people and promote harmonious coexistence between humans, nature, economy, and society holds profound significance for advancing new forms of human civilization and constructing a more just, inclusive, and sustainable world.

Fundamental to achieving national security and social stability is to resolve contradictions and disputes at the primary-level and in their initial stages. The “Fengqiao experience” in the new era serves as a guide for addressing such issues. A multi-level coding and category extraction of the national “Fengqiao Experience” under the Grounded Theory have revealed that to cope with the practical pressures arising from new changes in primary-level contradictions and disputes, the adherence to and development of the “Fengqiao experience” in the new era, along with the advancement of primary-level governance modernization, have become the macro policy orientations. The processes of political leadership, system operation, and collaborative governance interact and overlap, with the integration of “human” and “means” elements, synergistically contribute to the construction of a systematic framework and a coordinated mechanism characterized by “leadership, systematization, and high efficiency”. With the institutional mechanisms in place, the resolution of contradictions and disputes requires an adherence to the principle of adapting measures to circumstances. The powerful potential of the Party committees and governments is harnessed to accurately obtain comprehensive information about contradictions and disputes, to tailor dispute resolution strategies, and to precisely allocate interactive dispute resolution conditions, thereby achieving substantial resolution of primary-level contradictions and disputes through an approach of “one case, one strategy” and “one strategy, one allocation”.

This paper investigates why primary-level governments establish organizational structures outside of superior institutional regulations. The operational case of T Town reveals that while maintaining the formal organizational structure stipulated by higher authorities, T Town creates a flexible “work line” system to perform functions originally assigned to the formal structure. Key findings include: The shift from “centralized work” to “multi-centered work” in governance, coupled with the autonomy-constraining effects of a pressure-based system, leads to conflicts between normative institutional isomorphism and performance-oriented technical isomorphism, resulting in organizational decoupling at the primary level; Faced with triple constraints of intense competition, coordination difficulties, and resource scarcity, township governments reshape attention structures through “starting from scratch”; The “work line” system replaces whole-scale mobilization with multi-line coordination and achieves multi-task parallelism and attention synchronization by de-specializing responsibility allocation, de-institutionalizing setup methods, and maintaining a flexible yet permanent organizational structure. The organizational decoupling phenomenon represented by T Town’s “work lines” leads to passive wear-out at the primary level, reflecting enhanced administrative control from higher levels rather than improved local autonomy or innovation capacity.

With the growth of metaverse technology, the application of digital humans has gradually become an emerging trend in the field of education. However, current research often involves conceptual exploration, technical analysis, and lacks rational reflection on their hidden risks. Starting from the intrinsic features and key technologies, this research reveals the positive roles of educational digital humans in scenarios such as dissemination of educational resources, construction of educational contexts, and emotional interaction in education. However, a closer examination exposes potential risks in their educational applications, including issues related to data ethics and scrutiny, the blurred boundary between virtual and real in educational content, and the emotional attenuation of teaching subjects. It is necessary to detect risks and propose strategies from aspects such as foundational support, content definition, subject collaboration, and technical standards. By focusing on the benign collaboration between educational subjects, teaching content, and digital humans, this research aims to improve the policy and regulatory framework, enhance technological empowerment for quality and efficiency, and promote the deep integration and healthy development of digital humans in education.

Integrated learning is a learning approach reform oriented towards the cultivation of core literacy. It is an important pivot for furthering the reform of China’s new curriculum. Integrated learning adapts to the era features of core literacy, the mechanisms of literacy learning and the requirements for students’ lifelong development. It is thus a learning orientation that dialectically unifies subject logic and psychological logic, learning space and learning practice. As a form of learning practice under uncertain domains with authentic interactions, study trip is highly consistent with the integrated learning concepts. With metaphors to express the ideal state of integrated learning with study trip as the carrier, its form deconstruction, or students’ continuous learning experiences achieve open migration through the “channel” of trip experiences, active construction of interdisciplinary knowledge through the “creation” of trip activities, cooperative collaboration of dialogic practice through the “dance” of trip interaction, and evocation of significance through expanded learning domains in the “space” of trip expansions. With study trip as the carrier, integrated learning guided by core literacy can achieve authentic occurrence through constructing systematic study trip experience events, regulating serialized study trip activity tasks, building three-dimensional study trip interaction networks, and exploring vitalized study trip expanded domains.

“Great Ideological and Political Education Course” represents a novel educational philosophy and model drawn from a profound summary and understanding of China’s long-term ideological and political education practices, thereby signifying an innovative exploration and development in the construction of ideological and political courses in the new era. The spatiotemporal construction of this course aims to break through the spatial and temporal limitations of traditional classrooms, thus expanding educational activities into broader dimensions to fulfill the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education. To advance its construction in the new era, it is essential to examine practical issues such as the rational allocation of time within and outside the classroom, the collaborative interaction of multidimensional spatial entities, and the seamless integration of online and offline platforms. Only by establishing a comprehensive, multidimensional collaborative education system, improving long-term mechanisms for deep integration of in-class and out-of-class education, and leveraging digital technologies to empower online and offline educational models can the spatiotemporal construction of this course be effectively advanced. This will better leverage its educational role and truly promote high-quality, and connotative development of the course in the new era.

A questionnaire survey is conducted with 584 college students from three cities as the subjects: Beijing, Xiamen, and Wuhan, by adopting the UCLA Loneliness Scale, the FOMO Scale, the Social Media Dependence Scale, and the Sleep Procrastination Scale, with an aim to explore the relationship between loneliness and sleep procrastination among college students, and to test the chain mediating roles of fear of missing out (FOMO) and social media dependence in this relationship. The results indicate that loneliness significantly positively predicts sleep procrastination, with FOMO and social media dependence serving as the chain mediators. Specifically, loneliness indirectly promotes sleep procrastination behavior by triggering FOMO and increasing social media dependence. FOMO and social media dependence are potential mechanisms through which loneliness affects sleep procrastination, a conclusion that provides theoretical insights for addressing sleep procrastination issues among college students.

Under the reshaping of the US supply chain, the resilience and security issues of China’s key industrial chain and supply chain have become prominent. By constructing an import diversification index for industry products and matching data from the BEC product classification (upstream, midstream, downstream) with monthly import data of China’s HS6-digit products under HS2017 statistics for 2018 and 2022, this study evaluates the resilience and vulnerability of China’s import supply chain across upstream, midstream, and downstream industries. The findings show that: (1) China does not face the risk of industrial and supply chain disruption in importing upstream primary intermediate consumption goods and upstream generic processed intermediate consumption goods, but exposes import vulnerability in high-tech upstream products such as miscellaneous chemical products. (2) China demonstrates import vulnerability in specific midstream processed intermediate consumption goods such as inorganic and organic compounds, but faces no risk of industrial and supply chain disruptions in importing midstream generic gross fixed capital formation goods; China reveals import vulnerability in portable automatic data processing equipment and aircraft weighing>15 tons for specified midstream gross fixed capital formation goods. (3) China does not run the risk of industrial and supply chain disruptions in importing downstream primary durable and non-durable, processed durable and non-durable final consumption goods, but shows import vulnerability in high-tech downstream products such as vaccines and portable automatic data processing equipment. To strengthen the industrial chain and supply chain and enhance the competitiveness of China’s economy, on one hand, it is necessary to address the independent R&D and production of weak links in the chemical industry to achieve partial import substitution. On the other hand, it is essential to vigorously diversify the import sources of these short-boards to mitigate the risk of import disruption. Meanwhile, efforts should be concentrated on the independent R&D and production of organic compounds, inorganic compounds, portable automatic data processing equipment, and small aircraft, while also expanding the import diversification of these products. Additionally, it is important to increase R&D investment in vaccines and automatic data processing equipment by universities, research institutes, and enterprises, and to foster their independent innovation.

Rural revitalization has become a critical national issue. The improvement of rural living environment as one of its components has been widely concerned. With the rapid development of information and communication technology and an easier access to the network, digital literacy has become an important quality to promote the production and living standards of farmers. Therefore, digital literacy is selected as the core explanatory variable to study its relationship with farmers’ green behaviors. Based on the CLES2020 data, this paper adopts the binary Probit Model for empirical analysis and draws the following conclusions: (1) The impact of farmers’ digital literacy on green behaviors varies with different levels of literacy, with the effect intensifying as literacy improves; (2) When digital literacy is high, it significantly promotes farmers’ engagement in green behavior; (3) Psychological cognition acts as a mediating variable between digital literacy and green behaviors, and even when psychological cognition is included as a mediator, digital literacy maintains a significant positive effect on green behaviors. These findings offer valuable insights for rural living environment improvement in China.

As the key driving force for the development of the current digital economy era, digital technology innovation cannot be separated from the support of the social credit system. This paper constructs a quasi-natural experiment with the National Social Credit System Construction Pilot Cities, it employs a multi-period difference-in-differences (DID) model to evaluate the impact of credit city construction on enterprise digital technology innovation. The empirical research finds that the credit city construction significantly promotes enterprise digital technology innovation, with a more pronounced effect on enterprise digital invention patent applications. The research conclusions remain robust after a series of robustness checks and with the consideration of endogeneity issues. The significance lies in three mechanisms: R&D investment, agency costs, and credit financing. Heterogeneity tests reveal that the policy effects are more significant for state-owned enterprises, capital-intensive and technology-intensive enterprises, and enterprises in regions with higher levels of legal environment. This study not only effectively evaluates the policy effects of credit city construction in promoting enterprise digital technology innovation but also provides practical evidence for the role of credit city construction as an essential support for digital China construction and digital economic development.

The contemporary framework of public privacy protection upholds a robust tradition of individual autonomy. Throughout history, the evolution of media has metaphorically fostered the establishment of an individual-centered privacy tradition, evolving from “privacy as isolation” to “privacy as control” in practical terms. In the new media ecology, algorithms have emerged as a new generation of dominant factors, leading to corresponding changes in technical conditions, connection relations, and power dynamics within society. Consequently, the traditional approach towards privacy autonomy faces multiple constraints. Considering the current status of media landscape, it is imperative to disrupt semantic continuity by enhancing investigations into information processing and providing necessary support for individuals. This approach will enable us to navigate the information order in this era of intelligence and explore a more suitable path towards privacy autonomy that aligns with present-day media conditions.

Merleau-Ponty proposes the concept of “lived time” (temps vécu) based on Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre’s notions of temporality, advancing the study of temporal phenomenology. Unlike subjectless objective or natural time, “lived time” is grounded in the relationship between the self and the world. Here, time constitutes the existential significance of the subject rather than serving as a component of the objective world. The structure of time itself emerges from the body’s situatedness within the world and its perceptual perspectives. It is precisely through these temporal viewpoints embedded in the perceptual field that the synthesis of past, present, and future is actualized. Emphasizing the primacy of subjective perception, Merleau-Ponty particularly highlights the ontological importance of the “now”. The present perceptual situation converges both past and future, thereby reconstructing the subject as an embodied being within the world.