As a significant achievement of the Party's innovative theories, Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization represents an original contribution. Its originality is reflected not only in theoretical innovation but also in leading practical transformation and methodological innovation. The theoretical contributions of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization are primarily manifested in the creative proposal of ecological ontology, which deepens the understanding of natural laws; the innovative theory of a new form of human civilization, which deepens the understanding of the laws of social development of human beings; the groundbreaking theory of green development, which deepens the understanding of the laws of economic and social development; and the strategic positioning theory, which deepens the understanding of the laws of the Communist Party of China's governance. The practical contributions of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization are mainly reflected in leading the historical transformation and achieving breakthrough progress on the path of ecological civilization in China. The methodological contributions of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization are primarily embodied in three principles: adhering to both breaking down and establishing while prioritizing establishment; maintaining stability while seeking progress and achieving goals step by step; and persevering with unwavering commitment for long-term success. The theoretical, practical, and methodological contributions of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization have strongly propelled the construction of ecological civilization under socialism with Chinese characteristics to a new level.

A profound summary of the valuable experience of ecological civilization construction under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party since the 18th National Congress of the CPC has extremely important practical enlightenment for promoting the Chinese-style modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature on the new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects. In the new era, the Communist Party of China has led the people in promoting ecological progress with unprecedented determination and strength. While achieving remarkable results, we have also accumulated valuable experience: adhere to the Party's leadership and the people's ecological rights and interests, adhere to the ideological guidance and institutional constraints of the same force, adhere to the overall promotion and key breakthroughs mutually reinforcing, adhere to the positive interaction between top-level design and grassroots exploration, adhere to the integration of traditional Chinese culture and human civilization achievements of innovation, adhere to domestic governance and international assistance to build and share.

Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization, characterized by its unique ideological and practical value, offers Chinese wisdom, philosophies, and solutions that support the sustainable development of humanity, thus receiving extensive acknowledgment from the international community. Strengthening the global dissemination of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization enables individuals to fully acknowledge China's significant contributions to global environmental protection and governance, in turn amplifying China's influence in global dialogues on ecological civilization. This study explores the significance of promoting Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization globally, reviews its ongoing dissemination processes, analyzes the challenges and obstacles faced, and proposes strategies to expand its outreach. These strategies involve establishing an independent knowledge framework for China's Ecological Civilization, creating compelling content with broad international appeal, leveraging the advantages of international partners in dissemination, offering a unified platform for international communication, and innovating narrative techniques for global engagement.

The "certain chief system" is a significant institutional innovation in China's natural ecological environment sector, playing an important role in achieving the sustainable development of natural resources. This paper, from the perspective of ecological civilization, examines the origins and diffusion mechanisms of the "certain chief system" and reviews its connotations and supporting theories. It systematically analyzes the relevant literature on the governance performance of the "certain chief system" since its implementation, attempting to reveal the theoretical mechanisms and empirical outcomes of its impact on natural resources governance. The findings show that most existing studies suggest that the "certain chief system" can incentivize government actions and integrate governance resources, thereby serving as a concrete operation of China's approach to "mobilizing resources to accomplish significant tasks", which helps improve natural resources governance performance. However, since the "certain chief system" fundamentally involves constraining governance responsibility entities, its governance effects vary across regions. Excessive horizontal policy innovations could distract government attention and increase regulatory costs, making it difficult for the system to become a long-term, one-size-fits-all solution for natural resources governance in China. In the future, research on the "certain chief system" needs to focus on longer policy cycles and explore governance approaches and pathways under the coexistence of various "certain chief system" policies, based on policy effects and grassroots governance realities. The government should also reduce the burden on grassroots levels and avoid unrestricted horizontal policy innovations under the "certain chief system".

Developing new quality productivity is an important focus that aims to accelerate green, low-carbon and high-quality development, and to realize Chinese path to modernization. This article first analyzes the current situation and problems of China's agricultural green and low-carbon development from four aspects: industrial system, production system, management system, and policy system. Secondly, from the perspectives of agricultural industry transformation and upgrading, improvement of agricultural production efficiency, cultivation of new agricultural management entities, and improvement of agricultural policy system, this paper studies the internal mechanism of new quality productivity driving agricultural green and low-carbon development. Finally, from the perspectives of enhancing the exploration and utilization of the functions of new quality productivity, increasing innovation and application of key agricultural technologies, strengthening the intensive allocation of production factors and efficient utilization of resources, establishing and optimizing an agricultural policy system that is compatible with the development of new quality productivity, this paper proposes targeted policy paths to empowering green and low-carbon development of agriculture through new quality productivity, in order to play a powerful and effective role in promoting the agricultural green and low-carbon development in China.

Based on the WSR methodology, this paper uses 80 manufacturing companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen A-shares as research samples, and uses fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to explore the green transition mechanisms of manufacturing enterprises. The results show that there exist three high-level green transition paths, i.e., flexible and change-oriented path, structural balance path, and government-supported path; and two low-level green transition paths, i.e., stagnant path, and monopolistic and profit-oriented path. The study finds that financial flexibility is particularly important for the green transition of enterprises. In the strategic decision-making process of green transition in large enterprises, government subsidies can effectively motivate strategic managers' willingness to pursue green transition. Because of the capacity paradox dilemma, large firms with high levels of equity balance will cater to the conservative goals of small-sized and medium-sized shareholders once they lack the financial flexibility or the liquidity advantage of government subsidies. Companies with low levels of equity balance are prone to fall into the trap of "shareholder negativism", both of which will lead to inefficient green transition outcomes.

Under the background of promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas and the full arrival of the digital economy era, it is of great significance to explore in depth the relationship between digital economy development and the income gap between urban and rural residents to better solve the unbalanced development of urban and rural areas. Based on the data of 226 cities in China from 2011 to 2021, the entropy weight method is used to find out the level of digital economy development of each city, and the two-way fixed effects model is used to empirically test the impact of digital economy development on the income gap between urban and rural residents. It is found that: ① the impact of the digital economy on the income gap between urban and rural residents shows a U-shaped trend of narrowing and then expanding, and most of the cities in China are located on the right side of the U-shaped curve, and the conclusion is still valid after a series of tests. ② From a regional perspective, the impact of digital economy development on the income gap between urban and rural residents in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions of China shows a trend of decreasing first and then increasing, and it is found that the eastern region has the largest "inflection point" value, i.e., it has experienced this transformation only at a higher level of digital economy development. ③ Further analysis reveals that the degree of financial activity and the level of human capital can weaken the effect of urban-rural income expansion brought about by the development of the digital economy. Accordingly, it is proposed that, while promoting the development of the digital economy, measures should be taken to bridge the "digital divide" between urban and rural areas, regionally differentiated development strategies should be formulated in accordance with the different stages of development and the actual situation, and financial support and investment in educational resources should be increased, so as to ameliorate the widening of the urban-rural residents' income gap as a result of the impact of the digital economy.

As an important reform measure in the process of urbanization, "shift of village to residence" aims to promote the transformation of administrative villages into neighborhood committees, which is initially implemented in economically developed areas such as Beijing. Existing research focuses more on its macroeconomic impact and lacks a micro analysis from the perspective of farm households' participation. Based on the data of 416 sample farm households in Shigezhuang area of Beijing, we empirically examined the impacts and influential mechanism of social capital on the contract signing behavior of farm households using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that: social capital has a significantly positive effect on farmers' contract signing behavior, in which social network has the largest effect, followed by social participation, and social trust in the last place. This positive impact comes from the direct effect of social capital on contract signing behavior, and also indirectly promotes contract signing behavior through the mediating variable of policy satisfaction. The innovation of the present paper lies in the construction of a theoretical analysis framework that covers three dimensions: social capital of farmers, policy satisfaction, and actual participation behavior, which enables a more comprehensive understanding of the behavioral logic and decision-making mechanism of farmers in the process of "shift of village to residence".

How to properly resolve the conflict of interests between national park protection and small hydropower projects is a serious issue that must be taken seriously in promoting the construction of ecological civilization and the rule of law. In practice, it happens often that local government sacrifices the resources and energy rights of local community residents for the sake of constructing national parks, at the expense of local power supply safety and energy structure. Therefore, it is necessary to re-examine the connotation and extension of environmental public interests, clarify the various public interests that may be involved in the construction and management of national parks, uphold environmental justice, and properly handle the contradictions and conflicts between hydropower energy interests, environmental public interests, and private rights. The Opinions on Further Improving the Classification and Rectification of Small Hydropower Projects have made useful explorations and proposed a categorized rectification opinion of "exit, rectification, and retention" based on the principle of classification and implementation, which is highly inspiring. We suggest that the National Park Law, which is currently being formulated, draw on this approach, be guided by Xi Jinping's thought of ecological civilization, introduce a mechanism for balancing interests, establish basic principles such as prioritizing high-level interests, proportionality, maximizing overall interests, and tilted protection, strengthen the construction of energy justice system, improve procedural justice guarantee measures, and coordinate the promotion of ecological protection, green development, and people's livelihood improvement, so as to achieve "the common development of life, production and environment".

Achieving standardized management and operation of national parks construction in China is a crucial step towards the establishment of a unified, scientific, standardized and efficient national parks system. The National Parks Management Policy states that national parks construction, focusing on protection, education and livelihood, should align with the concept of green construction. At present, the green construction of China's national parks is still in its early stage. This research aims to provide international experiences and inspirations through a comparison of international and China Taiwan region green construction standards (LEEDv4.1 BD+C, BREEAM INC 2016, EEWH-BC 2023, known as LEED, BREEAM, EEWH, respectively) with green construction standards of China's national parks (GB/T 50378—2019 Assessment Standard for Green Building). Five suggestion have been proposed for green construction standards of China's national park: ① strengthen laws and regulations, and control construction strictly; ② consolidate scientific research, protect and manage biodiversity; ③ align with carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, address climate change through mitigation and adaptation; ④ promote the certification of international standards, and accelerate the integration of domestic standards; ⑤ establish a public participation model, and enhance the participation of local communities.

In 2013, China first proposed the establishment of a national park system, encountering management challenges, particularly the lack of experience in managing soundscapes. In contrast, the United States has accumulated significant knowledge and practical outcomes in national park soundscape management over the years. This paper takes the United States as a case study and examines its soundscape management experience, including accelerating the development of relevant laws and regulations, establishing dedicated soundscape management institutions, fostering active collaboration among multiple stakeholders, enhancing soundscape monitoring and noise control capabilities, and improving public awareness and engagement with soundscapes. These measures provide valuable reference for the comprehensive protection and sustainable management of soundscapes within China's national parks.

The evaluation of visual resources constitutes a significant basis of sustainable resources management. Since the 1960s, the United States Natural Resources Management Agencies have initiated the review of visual resources for large-scale landscapes such as forests, lands, and national parks. These practices have been internationally recognized and adopted by other countries. This paper delineates the origins and evolution of visual resources evaluation in the United States. It mainly investigates and analyzes the evaluation processes, characteristics, and innovations of the Forest Service's Scenery Management System, the Bureau of Land Management's Visual Resources Management, and the National Park Service's Visual Resources Inventory. Furthermore, from the perspective of institutional responsibilities, this paper compares the management objectives, public attention, applicable land types, and the application of new technologies among the three visual resources evaluation methods. The Forest Service's Scenery Management System is more focused on the aesthetic value of forests. The Bureau of Land Management aims to minimize the visual impact caused by all resources development through Visual Resources Management. The National Park Service's Visual Resources Inventory excels at identifying important landscapes rich in historical and cultural significance viewed from specific locations. Building upon this foundation, this paper, in conjunction with China's national conditions and current situation, proposes recommendations for managing visual resources within the system of natural reserves. Establishing a graphic resource evaluation system for different types of nature reserves is necessary. Secondly, it is essential to utilize new technologies to construct databases and monitor resources. Furthermore, enhancing public participation can be more conducive to evaluating the importance and aesthetic value of resources.

A comprehensive and systematic examination of the legal responsibility in the legislation for the protection of ancient and famous trees in China is conducted. Through combing the list of legal responsibilities of the administrative counterparts involved in the protection of ancient and famous trees in the 55 provincial local legislation in China, it is found that they present a variety of types of offence, and the way of assuming the responsibility is mainly by imposing fines. There are other problems such as legislative gaps in the setting of legal responsibilities for the protection of ancient and famous trees in legislation, contradiction of the higher law, large differences in the amount of fines, and different bases for penalties inside and outside the urban planning area. In this regard, it is proposed that regulations on the protection of ancient and famous trees should be issued as soon as possible at the national level to fill the legislative gaps, to unify the basis for penalties inside and outside the urban planning area, to set up offences scientifically, to set up reasonable fines, etc., so as to provide references for the legislation on the protection of ancient and famous trees at the national level.

The Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Criminal Cases of Destruction of Forest Resources has come into effect since the first National Ecological Day (August 15, 2023). This explanation has redefined the behavior and criteria for the crime of illegal logging of trees, added conversion rules and value standards for the volume of standing trees and the number of young trees, and clarified the nature of dead trees. However, there is still significant controversy over whether the crime of illegal logging belongs to the offence to intent, the standard of achievement, whether the illegal logging behavior includes "illegal excavation", and the relationship between larceny and the crime of illegal logging of trees. It should be clarified that the crime of illegal logging is not aimed at "illegal possession". From the perspective of legal interests, the standard of achievement for the crime of illegal logging should be grasped. It should be clarified that illegal logging behavior should include "illegal excavation", and the imaginative competition relationship between the crime of illegal logging and larceny should be correctly understood, in order to further improve the judicial application of the crime of illegal logging.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Huizhou region frequently witnessed phenomena such as illegal logging, digging up tree stakes, and setting fires to burn mountains, which destroyed the nurturing of forest resources. In some areas, the scale of stone quarrying, lime burning, and coal mining continued to expand, causing significant damage to the mountains within the region. At the same time, local residents also followed the example of the immigrant settlers to cultivate the mountains, planting cash crops, mining, and coal extraction, which accelerated the destruction of vegetation and led to environmental problems such as soil erosion, soil degradation, and the inability to reclaim good farmland. The academic community generally believes that the mountain reclamation activities of the immigrant settlers in Huizhou during the Qianlong period were the main cause of the local environmental crisis. However, this is not the case; even before the settlers arrived, there were signs of environmental destruction in the Huizhou region, and the large influx of settlers in the Qing Dynasty accelerated this process. In fact, the deforestation, mining, and mountain reclamation activities imitating the settlers by the indigenous Huizhou residents are also significant factors that cannot be ignored in the deterioration of the Huizhou region's environment.

Peasant education is an important initiative of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to lead peasants in the socialist revolution and the construction of new rural areas. By sorting out the historical lineage of the CPC's peasant education actions, we clarify its evolutionary process and basic logic, and summarize the lessons learned, in order to promote the in-depth development of peasant education in the new era, and to help revitalize the countryside. The study finds that peasant education under the leadership of the CPC has gone through three successive periods: the New Democratic Revolution, the Socialist Revolution and Construction, and the New Period of Socialist Modernization, and has changed from focusing on education to the revolutionary struggle to ideological-political education and basic cultural education, and then to vocational-technical education and education for cultural quality. It highlights the logical threads of strengthening political leadership, serving the theme of the times, and promoting the development of peasants, and inspires the CPC to continue to carry out in-depth education for peasants in the new era.