The discussion on the logical starting point of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics focuses on the four core categories, namely “commodity”, “relations of production”, “the people” and “state”. The key disputes cover a series of core propositions, such as the classical proposition of the logical starting point, the maturity of the development of the socialist economic and social formation with Chinese characteristics, the essential characteristics of the socialist economy with Chinese characteristics, and the relevant theoretical views of western economics. Such an inclination well tells the diversity of academic research and the lack of adequate dialogue in its current studies. To cope with that, the core proposition to be answered should be shifted to how to reasonably derive the logical starting point of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics from the logical starting point of Marxist political economy and how to handle the dialectical unity of the principle and practical applicability of the establishment of the logical starting point according to the development of socialist economy with Chinese characteristics. The logical starting point directly decides the starting point and logical method of building the theoretical system. Therefore, its discussion can better promote the building of the theoretical system of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics. Based on this, this paper proposes to adhere to and improve the basic socialist economic system as the logical starting point of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics.

The standardization of law enforcement in urban management reflects the institutionalization of law enforcement capacity and is the inherent requirement of the modernization of national governance capacity. Michael Mann defines the infrastructural power as the institutional capacity of the state that enables the state to obtain social support, and implement policies and coordinate social life through the established system, without relying on arbitrary violence to achieve its will. China’s practice of interaction between the state and society in urban primary-level law enforcement shows that law enforcement organizations promote cooperation between the state and the public by such mechanisms as building authority, guiding cooperation, promoting legalization, building consensus, so that law enforcers can accomplish their tasks in a way that wins social support and voluntary obedience, thus shaping the infrastructural power in primary-level governance. However, the mechanisms are also constrained by policy changes, stability maintenance thinking, insufficient institutional resources and conflicts of interest, thus making a maintenance of its long-term effectiveness a tough mission. These constraints pose challenges to the institutional governance capacity of one state, and thus may inhibit the growth of its infrastructural power. In the long run, an independent and rational administrative system and a cooperative society of consensus will provide the necessary impetus for the growth of infrastructural power in the bureaucratic and social dimensions respectively.

In the process of promoting the better transformation of institutional advantages into national governance efficiency, the CPC community-level organizations’ spearheading community governance is an important starting point. Under the background that the rapidly changing socio-economic environment poses new challenges to old communities, it is worth thinking about how to integrate the community-level Party organizations into the urban “peripheral nerve” renewal and governance system. The research, taking the elevator installation in 15 old communities (4 cities) as examples, adopts the grounded theory to construct a path model of community-level Party organizations’ spearheading public service co-production to realize community regeneration. In the public service co-production, community-level Party organizations well cope with the problem of community heterogeneity by means of direct guidance and embedded guidance, thus promoting the development of cooperative relations between multiple governance actors from low level to high level. Under the spearheading role, formal leaders, through acting as the coordinator of multilateral relations, the organizer of formal consultations, and the promoter of common vision, and informal leaders who serve as opinion leaders, action leaders, and community elites, take different governance tools to play their leadership to promote public service co-production and realize the renewal and development of old communities. It will give enlightenment to innovate the spearheading role of community-level Party organizations, promote the cooperative relationship between the government and residents, solve the dilemma of renewal and governance of old communities, and provide community co-production public services in the future.

As relocated migrants are labeled as both “farmers” and “citizens”, the duality of their identity and the diversity of relocation methods make their social integration an issue more prominent, more complex and more extensive, and thus a topic more urgent. Through relocation farmers move to the “crossing” space, thus changing their livelihood, communication and management methods, all combined achieving the “liberation” of life. However, farmers confront with headaches in ensuring sustainable livelihoods, reshaping social networks, lack of conventional governance resources and the like, resulting in a “floating” identity. Therefore, we should build a long-term mechanism of mutual support of aspiration and intelligence from the perspectives of individual cultivation, family guidance, community coordination and social support, so as to stimulate the endogenous motivation of relocated farmers in an all-round way; the “reproduction” of economic space, psychological space, service space and resource space of relocated farmers should be realized by means of consolidating economic foundation, strengthening community identity, reshaping community culture, and accelerating community integration.

Whether policies can be well implemented relies on the performance of primary-level policy executors. Such performance, however, in reality often presents a complex and contradictory pattern. This paper takes the implementation of targeted poverty alleviation policies in X Town (Sichuan) as a case, and finds that there has been a triple logic in implementing policies: 1) when dealing with the conflict between policy objectives, implementation pressure and insufficient resources, these executors give normative response that will produce a compliant logic of policy target effect; 2) when dealing with the internal contradiction of policy design and its conflict with the working environment and target groups, they take the initiative to adjust the behavior and promote the adaptive logic of policy localization; 3) when there are institutional loopholes in the policy implementation system and profit opportunities provided by the working environment, they strive for self-protection and self-interest, leading to distorted logic of policy alienation. Through an in-depth analysis of this individual case, we hope to make up for the shortcomings of the current policy implementation design and thusprovide inspiration for China’s rural revitalization: rural revitalization cannot be measured by various indicators alone, nor can it be promoted by administrative forces alone; the system and specific measures for rural revitalization should be designed according to local conditions. In terms of the corresponding policy design, we must be aware of the inherent flexibility of primary-level policy executors and their positive role in resolving the unique organizational paradox in China; the key is to find the crux of the problem, and find the right path for development; policies should be implemented in line with local conditions for localization, instead of relying on various indicators, an approach resulting in bench-marking in response to pressure.

The difficult point in China’s science education reform is to construct a curriculum system that scaffolds children engaging in scientific innovative activities. That system needs to be cultivated through a perspective of Big Science Education Curriculum, which could cover multi-dimensional scientific continuums. To evaluate the effect of this curriculum, a science education actor network should be analyzed. “Double Reduction” provided a lens to observe this network’s characteristics and change tendencies. Using policy tools that control time, space and identity, it brought in change in actor, meaning translation model, and network mode. It will reinforce reconstruction in science teacher education in normal universities.

Grounded theory (GT), as a research methodology in its own right, has been widely misused in its popularization and use in China. By doing a review of the GT literature from the perspective of sociology of knowledge, this paper aims to clarify the roots of the methodology amid distortions since its origination. It intends to help novice researchers employ the methodology more knowledgeably. Strauss, as one of the originators, was indeed absent in the process of establishing the methodology. This explains his subsequent departure from the original methodology and many more “versions” of grounded theory as witnessed in the literature at the present moment in time. In actuality, these “versions” have significantly deviated from the original methodology on the pretext of “innovation” and “localization” in several aspects including deep description, the hypothetical deductive thinking, the use of “three-level coding” and the introduction of NVivo as part of the methodology. Novice researchers are strongly urged to revisit the original text of GT methodology and adopt GT in their research as it is intended, and to follow the basic principle of natural presentation and “let the data speak for themselves”, so as to generate abstract conceptualization theory. Novice researchers should be clear about the original aspiration, conduct embodied learning, and pursue social practice if they want to integrate the method core into the research.

Short videos have become an important new media channel for telling Chinese stories. This study takes the most subscribed YouTube accounts owned by foreigners living in China as the research object, analyzes the content characteristics and narrative strategies of their Chinese stories posted on YouTube, with an aim to reflect on the value of the unique narrative paradigm. Through quantitative analysis and qualitative observation, this study finds foreigners take the role of “inter-subjectivity” for their experiences in China and foreign identity. To be more specific, they act as “witness”, “China hand” and “commentator”, employing a different narrative framework of “witnessing China”, “interpreting China” and “debunking stereotypes about China” on the social media platform. They construct an image of China that is politically distinct from the West, with long-term planning and strong execution power, a China that enjoys dynamic economic and technological development and innovation, multi-culture, as well as a peaceful and affluent society. Their storytelling goes beyond the traditional narrative paradigm characterized by dichotomous lens of “self” or “others”. This unique narrative paradigm tells diverse and authentic Chinese stories and promotes cross-cultural communication. For China, this kind of narration based on Chinese facts and aimed at foreign audiences makes up for the limitation of China’s “self-shaping” subject. These foreign friends have helped built a bridge for the exchange and dialogue between China and the West, presenting a true, multi-dimensional and panoramic view of China.

Relying on short videos,the Internet has swept rural China for the third time, a new hit.This paper adopts the co-occurrence analysis method to explore the media reports on the interaction (2015—2021) between short videos and rural China. Media reports, the paper finds, focus on three themes: short videos and rural culture, short videos and rural e-commerce, and short videos and rural poverty alleviation.The three themes correspond to the cultural, economic and political attributes of short videosand the latter two are in line with the policy agenda and incorporate short videos into the national narrative.Meanwhile, the reports reflect the typical perspective of help and the discourse of “common prosperity”, creatingtheimage of “the new farmer”. On the one hand, the “secondary construction” of the reports have shaped the new placeness of rural China, but on the other, it also obscures the practical issues brought about by short videos, and ignores the cultural attributes of short videos and their deep-seated impact. This suggests that we need to observe for a long time the interaction between short videos and rural China from the perspective of history and practice.

Building a new development pattern of “dual circulation” to cope with the severe domestic and international situation is of strategic significance for building a higher-level economic system. However, the dual circulation without technical support is undoubtedly low-level. Multinational enterprises span the internal and external circulations, and their OFDI guides the development of China’s technological innovation and provides technical support for the construction of the dual-circulation system. Under the internal circulation system, OFDI mainly promotes China’s technological innovation through reverse technology spillover effect, while technology absorption capacity positively regulates the promotion of reverse technology spillover effect. The external circulation plays a supporting role in the transmission of the reverse technology spillover effect; the influence of the political governance and economic freedom of the host country on the reverse technology spillover effect varies. OFDI plays a connecting role in dual circulation as its strategic layout determines the development of reverse technology spillover effects and relates to the construction of China’s technological innovation system. The closer the economic systems of the two countries are, the less obstacles China has. A close degree of economic freedom enables transnational enterprises to adapt to the business environment of the host country in a short time and reduce sunk costs. However, the distance between political systems runs opposite, which fully shows that China’s socialist system bear its own characteristics, and also reflects China’s investment preference to the developed countries. To promote OFDI for obtaining reverse technology spillover effect and accelerating technological innovation, China can take the following measures: to improve China’s technology absorption capacity under the internal circulation; to attach importance to the institutional environment of the host country under the external circulation; to rationally distribute the location selection of OFDI under the dual circulation.

In order to defend the scientific nature of Marxist theory and give proper play to the ideological function of Marxist theory, Althusser, based on research method of “general problem”, adheres to the principle that “science is antagonistic to ideology”. He believes that there is a “coupureépistémologique” in the development of Marx’s thought, that is, from the ideological period that believes in the bourgeois humanitarianism theory to the scientific period that believes in historical materialism theory. He thus argues that Marxism is the “theory of anti-humanitarianism and anti-historism” and “history without a subject”, which has a broad influence and stirs a debate among the Marxist research group. Around his “coupureépistémologique”, “the relationship between science and ideology”, “the relationship between Marxism and humanitarian”, and the criticism that his theory employs structuralism to explain the results of Marxism, Althusser admitted that he had made a theoretical mistake and began to criticize himself, and further defended and refined his proposition. The accurate understanding of the connotation of Althusser’s theoretical proposition and his revision of the theory is of great significance for us to gain insight into the essence and value of Althusser’s scientific Marxist theory.

The meta-universe is a major event that has swept through all fields of academia and society recently. For this event, in addition to a comprehensive description from the empirical perspective, we also need to launch a profound reflection from the perspective of philosophy. Therefore, we try to introduce the concept of “media event” first, and then reveal the two seemingly opposite distinctive features that it embodies, namely continuous generation, and negative fracture. Our next step is to make a comparison between Deleuze’s and Derrida’s event theories, with an aim to deeply explain a series of contradictory and related dual aspects, namely, internality and transcendence, affirmation and negation, continuity and rupture, and combine the three main points of ontology, timeliness and subjectivity, thus leading to the philosophical clarification of the duality of meta cosmic events. If the affirmation of internality ultimately leads to Nietzsche’s life optimism, the negation of transcendence ultimately results in Sacker’s cosmic pessimism. The meta universe should be a philosophical event that turns from pessimism to optimism, and that awakens hope from despair.