The New Democracy Theory found its victory in China, a fact which is told by the founding of PRC in 1949. Such a victory also made a preparation for building up a socialist system in terms of political institution, economy and culture-a mission well accomplished in China. The theory, afterwards has been marching towards the third world, as a historical project of further liberation for nations exploited and manipulated by those world capitalist hegemony. New concepts, subjective or objective, have been infused by the contemporary world capitalist system. Subjectively, China’s peaceful rise over the past 70 years has drawn more attention of the Third World to the “China model”. Objectively, the national liberation that swept Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the mid 20th century surely realized the abstract independence and democracy, but failed to abolish the control from the colonists, new and old. The social conditions rooted from semi-colonized and semi-feudal structure have never been transformed in those countries as there still prevail the ideological, military, financial and political oppression in various forms. The theory focusing on the pre-condition for socialism, in view of that, will still inspire further liberation.

“Technology governance” is a term that is “being used” rather than “being understood”. To understand it, we should first answer the question “what is technology?” Technology is an autonomous tool, and its core is a kind of knowledge, a kind of rational human intellectual achievement. Its extension includes “hard” tools in engineering sense and “soft” tools in social sense. The term bears four implications: an object, a means, a mechanism, and a concept, of governance. And it has much in common with public administration as both take technical rationality as their basis. The latter appeared initially as a means of governance, and later from it derived "technology governance" as a mechanism of governance, but its core remains technological as a governance concept. Since the reform and opening up, China’s governance practice has undergone a transformation from overall control to technology governance, featuring mainly technically.

The in-depth application of information technology in urban governance has promoted a wide range of changes in public governance, profoundly affecting the structure, process and results of governance. "Palm cloud community" in Qixia District of Nanjing is a typical case of adopting information technology to improve public governance. What changes has information technology brought to public governance, and what hasn’t changed yet? This research tries to answer the two questions from the aspects of values, information transaction, power structure, governance process, governance effect, and the like. Information technology embedded in public governance drives the continuous change of governance practice, while the governance system that absorbs and utilizes technology resources also continues and maintains its inherent form and characteristics. This provides a comprehensive analysis for understanding and assessing the impact and trends of technology governance.

The construction of digital government can never be finished without civil servants competent for Internet work, i.e. with Internet thinking, and ability of applying information technology, topics which, however, few studies has even touched. For that, a questionnaire data of more than 4400 civil servants in 112 cities in China is collected to evaluate the information technology ability of civil servants, and analyze the influencing factors from jurisdiction, organization, position and individual. The civil servants interviewed, the research tells, can well use information technology to carry out work, understand how to employ big data to improve government management, and know about the challenges of the Internet to public policy. The results show that civil servants’ ability of this sort is mainly affected by the work they pursue such as handling affairs that require contact with the ordinaries or holding leadership positions, and by organizational factors such as working in some municipal departments, followed by personal factors such as Internet usage, education background, while the influence of urban factors is not that significant. These findings show that there is still a gap between the information technology capacity and the construction of digital government. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen relevant training and enhance the attraction of government departments to information technology talents.

One of the reflections of traditional governance that features with overall control and intensive governance is that modern countries attach more and more importance to governance technology. Poverty alleviation in rural areas, supported by the concept of “precision” and a set of technologies, has become a practical sample of observing “technology governance”. Objectively, the operation of “precise” mechanism driven by technology, while arousing more complex and multi-dimensional effects, bears many risks: 1) isolation of the action subject and weakening of the governance ability; 2) sinking and expansion of the governance organization and transformation of the system; 3) exclusion of the administrative mechanism to the market and social elements; 4) large-scale investment of the governance resources and its dissipation, and degeneration of governance function. Such risks are directly resulted from over dependence on governance technology: 1) fixation of technological objectives and the dynamics of social demand and development; 2) integrity of technological application and segmentation of administrative organizations; 3) lack of connectivity of technological embeddedness and cohesion government-society cohesion; 4) continuous tension between the support requirements of technological sinking and rapid expansion of governance costs. The risk and evolution logic embodied in technological governance tell the dual construction of institution and technology in current national governance. Transcending the vision and limitation of pure technology governance and returning to the norms and construction of governance system will avoid and resolve governance risks, thus promoting the modernization of national governance.

Digital technology has served as an important force in rural governance as it promotes the evolution of both the structure and process of the latter. In an analysis framework of compressing time and space and building society, this paper studies the mechanism and trend of rural governance driven by digital technology. The results tell that digital technology has built “Utopian villages” represented by digital platforms and groups, by integrating internal and external resources of villages, transforming villages; it is also adopted by village heads to consolidate power and by villagers to consume, seek safety and identity, and express and reproduce rural social mechanism. Rural governance, the study reveals, lies not in digital technology, but in the power relationship driven by digital technology, social mechanism and the evolution of public and private fields. In view of this, vigilance is needed to combat digital bureaucracy, and the synergy between digital technology and social mechanism should be promoted, thus rebuilding a rural community.

Technology governance refers in particular to the application of information technology in governance. Previous studies, while generalizing its concept, ignored the interaction between technology and bureaucracy. The introduction of technology governance from top to bottom, the case study finds, promoted the standardization and electronization of traditional bureaucratic organizations, formed its features, thus improving the capabilities of bureaucratic organizations. At the same time, technology governance in bureaucracy is more dependent on political logic than pure technology logic. It is an integral part of bureaucracy reform, while it is inevitably regulated and restricted by bureaucracy. In short, technology empowers bureaucracy, bureaucracy regulates technology, and the two bears a “two-way” relationship. Whether the technology governance within the hierarchical system is systematic or not often depends on the will of the superior rather than the executor himself. To judge whether the technology governance is holistic or not, it is necessary to introduce a complete chain of “superior decision makers and specific executors”. If technology governance is driven by the expectation of “short-term administrative procedure improvement”, it is easy to stop at the bureaucratic isomorphism of “involution”.

The evaluation index system of high-quality development of China’s municipal economy is constructed from the six dimensions namely green ecology, social culture, enterprise development, economic efficiency, open innovation and people’s livelihood sharing; that figure of China’s 286 prefecture-level cities is measured by the evaluation model of variation coefficient-principal component analysis. The research tells 1) China’s eastern region enjoys a higher speed than the central, the west and the north-east; 2) “Belt and Road Initiative” has well served as an engine for a coordinated development in China’s western region; 3) around the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Yangtze River Delta are clustered many cities with intense radiation, and has taken shape an economic layout bearing distinctive features and complementary advantages; 4) green development has been the block on the way of high-quality development for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Integration Plan. Social culture and enterprise development are adopted in the evaluation index system, an innovation of this study. With that, the results have a strong reference value for the relevant cities to identify their strengths and weaknesses of high-quality development for better decision-making.

With an analysis of the mechanism of financial development affecting industry performance, added by the cross-border panel data of 128 industries in 78 countries (1990-2010), this paper explores the impact of financial development and its volatility on industry performance. In the empirical part, robust standard error for mixed cross-section is adopted to construct indicators that characterize financial development and its volatility, and the impact of financial development on industry performance is explored according to the heterogeneity of liquidity demand. The results show that a high efficiency of national financial development noticeably enhances the industry performance, in particular to those with greater liquidity demand and more dependence on external financing, and vise versa.

China's ecological civilization education has been experiencing “an alienation of nature”, critical to some extend. In view of this, the “place-based” nature should return, i.e. natural experience should be practiced, a mode of ecological civilization education through systematic experiential activities in the natural environment which puts emphasis on the cultivation of students’ ecological thinking, and gives more care to ability and responsibility. While the practice forms are various, we need to, for an satisfied practice, build a multi-support system involved government, school and society, develop school-based courses featuring natural experience, and strengthen teachers’ training.

Early intervention research on disadvantaged children deserves attention. In the United States, it serves not only as an important means for the government to help disadvantaged, but also as an crucial approach to promote equality in education and society. Hundreds of large-scale such studies have been carried out in the United States, among which one of the most famous and oldest is "the Chicago Parent-Child Center Program". In China, researches of such sort started late with focus till today on introducing special children intervention and many lack relevant policy support and evaluation supervision. On such an account, American experience enlightens us: 1) the project design needs the guidance of scientific theory; 2) its implementation should build an ecological intervention system with appropriate culture; 3) the evaluation, together with the analysis is the scientific basis for making policies on children's education and welfare.

Experts are divided on the mental problem of artificial intelligence-machine mind can be generated basically (the digital Utopian), and the strong artificial mind will not be generated (the technical skeptic), both biased to some extend. To cope with that, we should take “real people” as the logical starting point of research, take “practice” of “real people” as the reference for the development of artificial intelligence, and take the reasonable part of “sensibility” as the basis to guide the development of artificial intelligence. From the perspective of “real people”, we reflect in three aspects, and we advocate that the dynamic development of history, society, machines and people should be taken into consideration, so as to provide a new perspective and a new way for the research.