How to properly deal with capital is an important theoretical and practical issue in the new era. To address this issue, Marx constructed the scientific methodology beyond Smith, thus realizing the dialectical analysis of capital civilization. In other words, Marx affirmed the civilized function of capital on one hand and criticized the limitations of capital civilization on the other. To be more specific, he expounded four tensions of capital civilization, revealed and criticized its four limitations. His dialectical criticism, therefore, provides a scientific methodology for how to properly treat capital as a factor of socialist production. Capital, capitalist and capitalism are similar concepts sharing family resemblance, but capital is not equal to capitalism. Two wrong tendencies should be criticized based on China’s basic national conditions of socialism with Chinese characteristics and adherence to the historical dialectics of human civilization and progress. At the primary stage of socialism, we should take full advantage of the tension of capital so as to stimulate the vitality of capital and market, thus making an innovation on the new form of socialism with Chinese characteristics. At the same time, we should transcend its limitations through system, law, policy norms and value orientation.

Either the CPC inspection tour system or the Western ombudsman system falls into a sort of supervision as both share many similarities in the subject, content, methods and techniques, of supervision. However, there lie some differences in type, social nature and principles. A reflection of that Western system on promoting the scientific construction of the CPC system tells: 1) the inspection power drives from the authority of authorization, and the construction should be carried out with adhering to the CPC leadership; 2) the inspection power is subject to the heterogeneity of power, and an key topic deserving attention is to properly deal with the relationship between the subjects and objects, of inspection; 3) the long-term effect of inspection power depends on the legitimacy of power, and the legitimacy of inspection tour system construction is ultimately based on the trust and support of the people.

Actor-centered institutionalism in policy research was initially put forward by German scholars Fritz Sharpf and Renate Mayntz, and it was developed by Sharf into one important theory of policy process. This theory assumes that social reality can be interpreted as the result of interaction, carried out in a structured environment, of purposeful actors, including individuals, collective and corporate actors, and the interaction results are shaped by their institutional settings. The effectiveness and legitimacy of public policy, as well as the policy process of their guarantee have been the ultimate issues of this study. Actors, actor cluster, interaction mode, and system become the elements of this framework and theory, among which interaction mode is its core content, with four types: unilateral action, negotiation agreement, majority decision-making, and hierarchical order. The organic combination of actors and institutions will be the forward direction of institutional theory. China’s policy process and governance process will provide a broader space for the application, testing and expansion of the theory, and in this process we will form a sense of theoretical development.

For a long time, the “dilemma” of China’s “issues concerning farmers” was told as “growth without development”, i.e. the labor productivity and per capita income of farmers had not improved at all with a continuous increase of the total agricultural output. Real addressing such an issue started from the reform and opening up (since 1978), and from the migrant workers’ flow. Our survey tells: 1) the trend of more Chinese farmers’ getting employed in fields out of agriculture grows, and their regional choice is widening; 2) in terms of their choice of working place, the first choice lies in the counties and towns nearby, followed by the second and third tier cities, few first tier cities also on the list. There is no doubt that the high income of cities has a strong pull-out effect on farmers. Such a factor runs together with the rapid development of agricultural science and technology. However, farmers’ non-agricultural employment is also fragile and unstable. To cope with that, we should, on the one hand, establish the absorption mechanism with counties and small towns as the focus in time according to farmers’ employment trend and their regional distribution, and speed up the process of confirming and transferring the right of rural land so as to form a virtuous circle between farmers’ getting employed out of villages and their expanding land management in villages. The population base in rural areas has been still very large for a long time. In view of this, the rural revitalization is also the key to realize China’s modernization with Chinese characteristics, and to settle “issues concerning farmers” in China.

Fiscal policy, as a selective tool, plays an important role in promoting innovation by enterprises. This paper, based on the data of listed manufacturing companies in the Wind database (2007-2015), employs OLS estimator and SLS estimator to establish regression model for analyzing the impact of financial subsidies on innovation by enterprises. The results tell that financial subsidies 1) reduce the innovation cost of manufacturing enterprises and reduce their research and development risk, 2) stimulate enterprises to conduct research on invention patents, 3) influence greatly on the innovation of low capital intensive enterprises; for high capital intensive enterprises, the influence on their personnel ratio and invention patent application is not significant. Therefore, fiscal policy should be well-targeted with emphasis on key points and classified governance.

Fiscal deficit is one of the core issues of contemporary mainstream finance theory and practice. Its root lies in the two-dimensional cognition of “market or government”. Under such an interpretation, fiscal deficit not only cannot be eradicated but also can not be avoided, even with a trend of expanding as there lies an increase in population aging and public interest. Moreover, this kind of fiscal theory and practice weakens the social group functions and social emotions. An ignorance of its social dimensions makes it difficult, through social mutual assistance, for an effective exchange of information, knowledge, and skills that individuals cannot obtain through market dealing, thereby reducing the efficiency of markets and government mechanisms. In view of this, we should build up a financial framework based on the three-dimensional cognition of market, government and society; market transaction should be given priority and social mutual assistance should be promoted based on an analysis of the exchange characteristics of market transaction, government transfer payment and social mutual assistance, so as to reduce the transfer of government relief to be the lowest and last choice.

This paper, on the basis of clarifying the concept of supply-side structural reform and macroeconomic policy, discusses the specific measures of their coordination. Through a comparative analysis of the different effects of two supply-side structural reforms in Japan in 1970s and 1990s, it points out that the coordination of the two in 1990s are out of order, which further hinders the implementation of the structural reform. By employing the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, it is found that positive fiscal policy, stable monetary policy and strong forward-looking guidance of monetary policy will noticeably improve the macroeconomic operation environment and provide support for the implementation of supply-side structural reform, an lesson which China can learn from Japan to better carry out China’s supply-side reform.

QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis), though a new research paradigm widely adopted in the social science field, is commonly found not to be fully understood and standardized, thus reducing its effectiveness, and even triggering some misunderstandings sometimes. In view of this, this paper, through the design of typical scenarios of QCA application, reveals the key decision points in the QCA solution process. The calculation process and method of QCA core indicators are provided, and the working principle of QCA is seen through. In addition, the QCA solution process, including three stages and 10 steps, is completely described to explore the strategy of rational application of QCA at the method and technical level. Finally, it is pointed out that QCA, a method of configuration comparison that integrates qualitative and quantitative analysis, has a wide application prospect in evaluation and prediction.

That the incidence rate of autism spectrum disorders is rising has made it a social problem to be solved urgently. As there lie no effective medicine and method, education intervention training is the best way for children to recover from autism. The educational intervention based on human-computer interaction technology, the research reveals, is a feasible new way to recover for these children. This study analyzes the application of virtual reality, augmented reality, multimedia, intelligent robot and natural human-computer interaction technology in the education intervention of autistic children. On this basis, it summarizes the problems faced in this field and puts forward suggestions for the development of an interactive technology intervention method that includes different development tracks of autistic children and suits different children.

As autistic children have serious barriers in communication and social contact, it is very important to carry out social situation education intervention with appropriate learning materials so as to enhance their social ability. In order to explore the visual attention characteristics of those children in watching different types of social situation learning materials, cartoon and real person dynamic social situation videos are taken as experimental materials, 28 autistic children aged 3-6 selected as research objects, single factor intra-subject design adopted, eye tracking technology and SPSS employed for analysis. The results show 1) autistic children cast more attention to characters’ head and eyes in cartoon situation, while to the body in real situation; 2) their recognition score of characters’ emotions in cartoon situation is significantly higher than that in real situation. The results of this study provide theoretical support for the education intervention of autistic children and give guidance for the design of education intervention learning materials.

The paper reviews the issue of scientific approaches in the studies of China’s early civilization and discusses the big deal of ontology, epistemology and methodology. On the basis of the significance of conceptualization of common terminology, the paper sorts out a few key terms namely archaeological culture, ethnicity, and state employed in the research, and argues that among these concepts there lie no corresponding relationships. Thus, unconvincing is the conclusion that Erlitou Culture corresponds to the Xia ethnic group and the Xia Dynasty made by some scholars who prefer dual evidence law. Facing the trend of academic globalization, we have to widen our perspective and adopt modern sociological methods, thus ranking top internationally in our exploring early civilization.