2024 Vol. 23 No. 1
The ecological civilization in the new era is guided by the Marxist Thought on the relationship between man and nature, continues the excellent traditional Chinese culture, carries forward the people's interest position of the Communist Party of China in ecological civilization construction, and bases on the practical needs of solving prominent environmental problems that harm people's health. In general, it is conducive to constructing the modernization with harmony between man and nature, mapping out a development path that meets the people's needs for a better life, translating the building of a beautiful China into conscious action by all the people, and coordinating the building of a beautiful China and a clean and beautiful world. To maintain and strengthen ecological civilization and improve people's well-being in the new era, we must firmly establish the green concept of development that clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, cultivate and promote socialist ecological culture, adhere to the strictest system and the strictest rule of law to protect the ecological environment, and persist in jointly building a global ecological civilization.
Based on the panel data from the regional statistical yearbook, this paper uses the non-expected output superefficiency SBM-Malmquist index model to measure the forest green total factor productivity and its heterogeneity structure in 30 provinces of China from 2008 to 2019. By constructing a nonlinear dynamic panel threshold regression model, the influence mechanism of forestry industry agglomeration on forestry green total factor productivity was analyzed from the perspective of financial support. The results show that: overall, the green total factor productivity of Chinese forestry is in a slow growth trend, but it fluctuates obviously year by year and there is regional heterogeneity. In addition, under different financial support levels, the effect of forestry industry agglomeration on forestry green total factor productivity presents nonlinear characteristics, that is, lower financial support level inhibits the positive effect of forestry industry agglomeration on the improvement of forestry green total factor productivity. However, when the financial support level increases and exceeds the critical value, the positive externalities of forestry industry agglomeration can be better utilized to promote the improvement of forestry green total factor productivity. The paper provides a new perspective and a new plan for promoting ecological civilization construction and realizing forestry modernization.
The paper uses the social network analysis method to construct the competitive networks and complementarity networks among 74 major wood forest product economies from 2009 to 2019. From the perspective of network density, node centrality and trade block-models, the paper studies the competitiveness and complementarity among the economies. The results show as follows: first, competitive networks and complementary networks are less closely connected, but complementary networks are closer than competitive networks; thus, there is still a large space for cooperation among the major economies. Second, China is becoming more connected in all trade networks. In the competitive networks, China's node degree ranking is promoted rapidly, and it competes fiercely with other economies. In the complementarity networks, China's node strength increases rapidly, and the trade potential is rather considerable. Third, the trade of wood forest products has formed three competitive groups, the competition between China and other economies has been increasing, and the complementarity relationship within China's plate has gradually weakened from 2009 to 2019. The plate composed of Belarus, Denmark and other economies is an important potential trade partner of China.
This paper uses panel data from a sample of 485 new forestry management entities in 15 counties and cities in 6 provinces of China from 2015-2018 field research to empirically analyze the factors affecting entities' demand for government-oriented forest insurance. The results of the study show that: each increase of 1 unit in the affected area and damage caused an increase of 1.728 unit and 1.704 unit, respectively, in the demand for government-oriented forest insurance by new forestry management entities; each increase of 1 unit in production costs and income caused an increase of 0.213 unit and 0.052 unit, respectively, in the demand for government-oriented forest insurance by new forestry management entities; each increase of 1 unit in infrastructure investment and financial cost investment caused a decrease of 0.303 unit and 0.05 unit, respectively, in the demand for government-oriented forest insurance by new forestry management entities. In addition, the moderating effect of operation scale on the demand for government-oriented forest insurance was further tested. In response to the research results, this paper proposes policy recommendations in terms of further promoting the scale of forestry production, promoting the diversification of insurance products, and increasing government support for forest insurance.
Based on the panel data of Beijing, Tianjin and 11 cities in Hebei from 2005 to 2019, this paper measures the per capita carbon dioxide emissions of each city and establishes an extended STIRPAT model including financial scale and financial efficiency. On this basis, the paper establishes mediation effect model and spatial Durbin model to explore the mechanism and spatial effect of financial development on per capita carbon dioxide emissions. The results show as follows: ① The expansion of financial scale increases the housing prices, pushes up the production cost of enterprises, affects the layout migration of traditional manufacturing, and thus curbs carbon emissions. ② The improvement of financial efficiency provides financing convenience for the expansion of industrial enterprises, and the resulting scale effect promotes carbon emissions. ③ The role of financial development in supporting technological innovation is not significant. ④ There exists negative feedback effect between the carbon emissions of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cities, which is not conducive to the coordinated development of urban agglomeration's environmental governance. ⑤ Compared with the local effect, the influence of financial scale and financial efficiency on carbon emissions of neighboring cities is weaker. Based on the above findings, policy suggestions are proposed on speeding up the improvement of green finance system, promoting credit support for green innovation, and resolutely eliminating excess production capacity.
Government-guided industrial poverty alleviation is an important initiative to consolidate the results of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization in an effective way. The key to this is that government embedding can truly help poor households to enjoy the dividends brought by the industry in a fair and reasonable way. This paper presents an empirical analysis of the distribution of subject interests in the Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County government's embedded industrial development model from the perspective of the distribution of interests of multiple subjects. The study found that government-embedded industrial poverty alleviation effectively realizes the goal of poverty alleviation and income generation. In the process of promoting industrial development, the government and village collectives play a supporting role for industrial development, and cooperatives and farmers bear all the risks of industrial development. In terms of the distribution of subject interests, the professional cooperatives are the highest, followed by the local government, the poor households, and the village collectives. However, the actual benefits of each subject are lower than the theoretical benefits; thus, it is necessary to further improve the distribution of benefits among subjects to better protect the benefits of farmers. This paper puts forward corresponding optimization suggestions for the participating subjects to ensure the benefits of farmers. Firstly, to improve the accuracy of the government embedding, it needs to establish a reward mechanism and third-party supervision mechanism to motivate the grassroots government workers to actively help the development of the industry. Secondly, to strengthen the shareholding cooperation mechanism between the professional cooperatives and farmers, it needs to promote the active participation of farmers as shareholders to participate actively in the cooperative's operation and production, and to increase the cooperative's operational efficiency. Thirdly, enhancing the stability of industrial development, standardizing order contracts, improving the vocational skills of the participating subjects, and promoting the sustainable development of the industry. Fourthly, building an incentive-compatible benefit distribution mechanism. Under the premise of fairness and reasonableness, dynamically adjusting the distribution of benefits according to the changes in the market prices of the production factors, so as to prioritize the protection of reasonable rights and interests of the poor households, and to realize the sustainable elimination of poverty.
Population migration is an important driving force to promote rural transformation and development. However, few studies have examined how rural China evolves from traditional to modern from the perspective of labor migration. Focusing on this issue, this paper finds that the lack of population mobility is a typical characteristic of traditional villages. This paper argues that the migration of rural labor force has gradually weakened the expected benefit exchange model characterized by the exchange of favors in the countryside, and then evolved into a cooperation model dominated by the market transaction mechanism. However, this does not mean that the mechanisms that maintain the traditional acquaintance society are no longer functioning, but on the contrary, the mutual assistance and cooperation among the residual population of the village, the contact between the migrant group and the village, and the role of the returning group are all constrained by the rules of acquaintance society. The key to future rural governance is to build an appropriate institutional mechanism, give full play to the role of the market and the advantages of information symmetry among the remaining rural population, and promote close cooperation among farmers. At the same time, building a mechanism for linking interests between migrants and villages can provide more possibilities for the modernization of rural governance.
Under the background of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality", agricultural and forestry biomass coupled power generation has become a new path of coal power transformation. How the government formulates effective subsidy and supervision policies and how the power plant chooses the right strategy is the key to promoting the development of agricultural and forestry biomass coupled power generation industry. In this paper, a hybrid strategy game model between the government and the power plant was constructed to analyze the game relationship and the dynamic evolution process of the behavior strategy of both sides. Then, system dynamics was used to conduct modeling and simulation and further explore the influence path of key factors on the behavior strategy of the government and the power plant. The results show that the behavior strategies of the government and power plant are not stable in a long period, but fluctuate in the interaction. At the same time, formulating subsidies and supervision policies by the government, improving the benefits of coupled power generation, and reducing the cost of coupled power generation, will promote more power plants to choose agricultural and forestry biomass coupled power generation, and further promote industrial development.
Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to explore the preparation of the Balance Sheet of Natural Resources (BSNR), a lot of theoretical research and reporting practice have been carried out. Based on the conceptual framework for financial reporting, this paper reveals the changes in the research fields and contents of the BSNR, and comprehensively combs the research on the concept of the BSNR, the reporting subject, the confirmation and measurement of the reporting elements, and the reporting format. We find that the existing researches have some insufficiency in the positioning of the BSNR, the reporting body, the recognition conditions and measurement methods of the reporting elements, information disclosure, etc. The research basis and research path of different scholars differ considerably, and there is still a distance from forming a consensus. Based on the existing research situation and the practical needs of national governance of natural resources, it is proposed that, on the premise of clearly defining the reporting subject and objectives, independent research should be carried out from the two paths of statistics and accounting, and confirmation, measurement and disclosure of statement elements should be explored in-depth under different paths.
"Shifting village to residential area" has become the path to achieve common prosperity in urban and rural fringe areas, and common prosperity is the fundamental goal of "shifting village to residential area". This study takes the Shigezhuang Street in Beijing, which is in the late stage of the "shifting village to residential area" policy, as the research object. Based on the theory of institutional change, a theoretical analysis framework is established. Through field research, data and information are obtained, the practical needs, model formation, and phased results of the "shifting village to residential area" policy are analyzed, and countermeasures and suggestions are proposed. The research indicates that Shigezhuang's "shifting village to residential area" is necessary for three reasons: exploring a "new rich path" to replace the "tile economy", eliminating the income gaps between villagers and between villages, and supporting the common prosperity of the region where the villages are located. "Shifting village to residential area" adopts the model of "mandatory institutional change + induced institutional change", in which the demolition of "old villages" followed existing policies and carried out institutional innovation in such aspects as the new collective economic development model, making the government and villagers collaborate and form a joint force. "Shifting village to residential area" has achieved phased results, such as, building governance guarantees for common prosperity, consolidating the economic base, and establishing a distribution mechanism to reduce the income gap between villages. The study puts forward recommendations as such: to improve the modern property rights system, establish supervision and incentive mechanisms, and innovate the development format of the collective economy, for an efficient development of the collective industry. When referring to the model of "shifting village to residential area" at Shigezhuang for reference, attention should be paid to the mechanism in the exploration and formation of the model.
We recruited 821 college students and used questionnaire survey to measure their Big Five personality, environmental value, garbage sorting experience, and garbage sorting intention. The results showed that: ① Conscientiousness, agreeableness and extroversion of the Big Five personality positively predicted garbage sorting intention. ② Environmental values played a partial mediating role in the relationship between extroversion/conscientiousness/agreeableness and garbage sorting intention. ③ Garbage sorting experience moderated the mediating effect of environmental values on the relationship between extroversion and garbage sorting intention. However, garbage sorting experience did not moderate the mediating effect of environmental values on the relationship between conscientiousness/agreeableness and garbage sorting intention. Specifically, garbage sorting experience promoted the formation of environmental values of college students with high extroversion. The results imply that personality not only directly promotes the formation of college students' garbage sorting intention, but also improves their garbage sorting intention by shaping environmental values. Garbage sorting experience will accelerate the formation of this outcome.
From the perspective of humanities and social sciences and with the help of CiteSpace, a bibliometric analysis tool, this paper combs relevant literatures on Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) studies in CNKI and ponders over future studies. The results show that the number of published papers on Chinese fir studies presents a trend of increasing before decreasing; the research institutes involve a wide variety of colleges and universities, such as agricultural and forestry, comprehensive, normal and national ones; the research periods lasted from the Ming Dynasty to the contemporary era and are concentrated mainly in the Qing Dynasty; the study areas are focused mainly on the provinces and regions of southern China where Chinese fir is grown. The studies have experienced the inceptive stage before 1992, the rising stage from 1992 to 2007, and the developing stage from 2008 to date, exhibiting the features of keeping up with the national policy and serving the local development. The hot spot of Chinese wood studies includes four subjects: fir wood management, forestry contract, timber trade, and forest carbon sink. It is further proposed that Chinese fir studies under the perspective of humanities and social sciences can be carried forward at economic, political, social, cultural, ecological, and other different levels in combination with requirements of the national development strategy in the new era.
In the historical period, people of the Jino nationality utilized the forest to a high degree in terms of ecological security and material level. The mountains, on which Jino people depended for survival and development, still had a high forest coverage by the end of the 1950s. The integration of forest utilization and protection is an important reason for the forests to remain in good condition. From the technical perspective, the integration lies mainly in utilization of different items in good time and fire prevention; at the spiritual level, it is to respect first and use later; from the system aspect, it mainly includes clear ownership and punishment for excessive cutting. Forest utilization and protection show a strong integrity, forming a two-way cycle operation mode of "forest use—forest protection—forest use" with forest protection as the center. On this basis, a pattern of forest and human symbiosis is formed.