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15 May 2025, Volume 41 Issue 3

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Resilient Governance: Definition, Paradigm Shift, and a New Integrated Framework

Yang Lihua, Liu Huayu, Ma Yi

2025, 41(3):  4-26. 

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Faced with emerging risks, resilient governance is increasingly becoming a new choice for human social governance. So far, the academic community has not provided sufficient clarification on key issues. What is resilience governance; what stages of development has it gone through; what is its best state? Dividing governance types into two dimensions of recoverability and adaptability, and comparing resilient governance with rigid, brittle, and capricious governance, clarifies the meaning of resilient governance. After a systematic review of theoretical evolution and key practices, we found that resilient governance has both domestically and internationally undergone a paradigm shift of three stages—engineering, ecological, and social—with both similarities and differences among them. To further develop resilient governance, it is necessary to simultaneously achieve an “eight alls” resilient governance from eight dimensions: all connotations, all fields, all levels, all subjects, all values, all technologies, all processes, and all generations.

A Brief Discussion on the Functional Role and Theoretical and Practical Significance of the “Third Hand” of Social Humanities in Resource Allocation

Hu Chenghuai, Hu Wenmu

2025, 41(3):  27-35. 

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What forces regulate the allocation of social resources? Is there a third force beyond the regulatory power of the market and the state (government)? In addressing this important theoretical and practical issue, our research confirms from the two dimensions of history and reality that the social humanities are the third major force regulating resource allocation in our historical stage of a commodity economy. This article analyzes the dialectical relationship between the “invisible hand” of the market, the “tangible hand” of the state (government), and the “third hand” of social humanities in the process of resource allocation. Although each is independent and isolated from the others, they still support, influence, and permeate each other. This article also analyzes and demonstrates the scientific understanding and grasp of the functional role of social humanities in resource allocation. As an addition to theory, this article will make our understanding of the laws of social and economic operation more comprehensive and profound. In practice, this contribution provides greater theoretical support for the formulation and implementation of action strategies by party committees, governments, and market entities at all levels.

Promoting the Concretization, Precision and Normalization of Political Supervision: Practical Basis, Basic Requirements and Practical Path

Qin Shusheng, Gao Qijia

2025, 41(3):  36-49. 

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Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has scientifically summarized the concrete practice of comprehensively governing the Party strictly. This includes the historical experience of a century of Party building, Party management, and Party governance. He has also creatively forwarded the thesis of advancing the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision. The intrinsic basis for this assertion is the requirements of following and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party. This is an inevitable requirement for deepening the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, a key link in improving and perfecting the supervision system of the Party and the state. It is also an important guarantee for promoting the modernization of the nation’s governance system and its governance capacity. The promotion of specificity in political supervision requires being specific; the promotion of precision in political supervision requires being precise; and, the promotion of the normalization of political supervision requires permanence. In the new era and new journey to promote the specificity, precision, and normalization of political supervision, we should determine the effective hand of political supervision and anchor the goal of political supervision with specificity. We should find the entry and the breakthrough points for political supervision and clarify its focus. Finally, we should form the standardized working mechanism of political supervision and ensure the implementation of political supervision through normalization.

The Effectiveness of Party Discipline Education in the New Era: Core Connotations, Problem Review, and Enhancement Approaches

Kan Daoyuan, Tan Zhuang

2025, 41(3):  50-63. 

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Effectiveness is the most direct reflection of the quality and results of Party discipline education in the new era. From the internal mechanism perspective, Party discipline education is hierarchical. Interlinked and progressive, the system operates from superficial understanding to profound knowledge, from recognition to internalization, and from knowledge to action. Although the effectiveness of Party discipline education in the new era is remarkable, problems still restrict its effectiveness. They include the obstruction of the transformation from discipline cognition to discipline identification, the unresolved tension between discipline identification and enforcement, the need to consolidate the overall atmosphere of integrity and honesty from individual compliance with regulations to collective integrity, and the difficulty in evaluating and assessing the effectiveness of Party discipline education. Party organizations at all levels should promote the coordination and connection between Party discipline education in the new era and the various tasks of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. Such deliberate actions will enhance the timeliness, accuracy and appeal of Party discipline education, ensure the regularity and long-term effectiveness of Party discipline education through institutional guarantees, and establish and improve the assessment and evaluation system for the effectiveness of Party discipline education. In the end, this will open up a series of effective paths for enhancing the effectiveness of Party discipline education.

Toward Emergency Governance: Reflection on Dealing with Major Public Health Emergencies

Yang Kaifeng, Cao Jiaqi, Chen Mei

2025, 41(3):  64-85. 

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In the era of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA), emergencies arise incessantly, societal security faces reconstruction, and emergency management urgently needs innovation. This paper reviews the international research literature on emergency management in the field of public administration from 2019 to 2024, analyzing research hotspots, development trends, and future prospects, against the backdrop of major public health events. Based on an analysis of 504 papers from 30 representative journals, we found that emergency management research generally adopts the theoretical framework of emergency governance, focusing on the interactive mechanisms among government, society, and market, and delves deeply into core issues from the governmental, societal, and government-society collaboration dimensions. The seven major trends in emergency management include the transformation of governance paradigms, the deepening of ethical issues, the integration of interdisciplinary approaches, the application of digital tools, the construction of global emergency response systems, the optimization of decision-making in uncertain environments, and innovations in resilient governance. These advancements not only enrich the theoretical system but also expand practical pathways, providing insights for emergency management in the new era.

Differences in Attention Allocation, Task Structure, and Emergency Response Effectiveness: A Comparative Study Based on Two Counties in E Province

Yang Kexin, Wu Kechang

2025, 41(3):  86-101. 

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Under similar emergency institutional environments and organizational structures, why do grassroots emergency management activities exhibit significant differences in effectiveness? Existing studies focusing on emergency management systems and processes have struggled to answer this question. By comparing the flood prevention and preparedness processes in counties A and B in China’s southern E Province, we found that, contrary to existing explanations, the differences in grassroots emergency effectiveness are not solely determined by the completeness of emergency management systems and mechanisms. Instead, they are influenced by the government's attention allocation regarding the structure of multitasking. Through the government's attention allocation, two task structures, parallel execution and nested execution, have emerged within organizations. The former may exacerbate organizational emergency risks and lead to poor emergency outcomes by decentralizing responsibilities. Conversely, the latter reshapes task division and emergency processes, guiding hierarchical organizations to focus on core tasks and achieve better emergency outcomes. This paper not only supplements the meso-level explanation of differences in government governance effectiveness during non-routine situations but also provides action strategies for improving grassroots governance task structures and enhancing emergency performance.

Self-Alienation in Digital Communication and its Governance Logic

Zhang Chenggang, Wang Mingyu

2025, 41(3):  102-112. 

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Intelligent digital devices are deeply embedded in human society, providing convenient access to digital life through connectivity. Given the foundation and conditions of today’s world, social communication gradually expanded from interpersonal relationships to human-machine relationships. In a digital society, technology deepens the degree of self-alienation both explicitly and implicitly. From the dominant point of view, digital communication provides a technical path for self-objectification and makes the self quantifiable. Implicitly, the influence of digital communication on self-alienation is imperceptible, but it nonetheless permeates daily life. There are four ego types in digital communication: the incarnated ego, the quantified ego, the accessed ego, and the serviced ego. Their forms of alienation differ, but they all reflect the subjectivity of the human ego that is transferred to technical controllers through technology. This paper suggests a governance path for these four types of self-alienation. In our era of artificial intelligence, we should return to human subjectivity and move towards human-machine symbiosis through a combination of technical governance and human governance.

Beauty and Profit: Digital Control Over the Face and Its Social Impacts

Xie Xinshui

2025, 41(3):  113-126. 

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From agrarian to industrial societies, technologies such as painting, sculpture, and photography could represent the human face but not control it. In the emerging intelligent digital society, driven primarily by platforms and traffic economies, digital technologies have realized comprehensive control over the face. This kind of control leverages two fundamental human impulses: the desire for beauty and the pursuit of profit. A digital platform’s “one-click generation” of beauty immediately satisfies people desire for digital beauty. However, digital capital compels individuals to use digitally enhanced faces to attract social attention, gain traffic, and generate benefits. In a digital society, machines have given us “beautiful faces”, while also giving us “beautiful traps”. Excessive beautification and deepfakes are weakening the recognizability of the human face and the ability of humans to obtain real experiences based on other humans’ faces. Meanwhile, illegal AI face-swapping technologies undermine not only the authenticity of society but also disrupt the foundations of trust and credibility, bringing various social problems. To build a benevolent intelligent digital society, it is imperative to deeply explore this new “technology-society” phenomenon of digital technology’s control over the face, and more importantly, to scientifically prevent and solve the social impact it causes.

Can Urban Collaborative Innovation Narrow the Regional Economic Development Gap?

Liu Naiquan, Xu Wanqing, Zhang Jian

2025, 41(3):  127-142. 

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Using patent application data and cities’ economic characteristics, we investigate the causal relationship between collaborative innovation and the regional development gap. Our empirical results indicate that collaborative innovation helps reduce economic disparities between regions. This effect is most pronounced in central and western cities, inland cities, cities dominated by tertiary industries, and prefectures within urban agglomerations. However, cities with higher levels of economic disparity have not experienced significant benefits from the coordinated effect caused by collaborative innovation. Mechanism analysis reveals that this positive effect primarily stems from the enhancement of innovation capabilities, reduction of regional innovation disparities, and improvements in regional total factor productivity. Additionally, collaborative innovation fosters connections between cities, boosts market integration, optimizes resource allocation, and advances industrial specialization, all of which leads to the reduction of the regional economic development gap. Nonetheless, collaborative innovation has not effectively promoted the interprovincial flow of R&D funds and talents, further efforts are needed to strengthen regional economic development.

Driving High-Quality Regional Coordinated Development through Spatial Restructuring of Production Modes

Zhou Shaodong, Liu Yang

2025, 41(3):  143-157. 

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From the perspective of Marxist political economics, the combination of labor and means of production constitutes the mode of production, which operates across regional and industrial dimensions. The spatial realignment of labor and production factors serves as the fundamental pathway to advancing high-quality regional coordinated development. Against the backdrop of policies and practices promoting new quality productive forces tailored to local conditions, a four-stage spatial restructuring process emerges. Staged transformations in productive forces is the main thread, and adjustments to regional production relations is the secondary thread. At the productive forces level, these stages manifest as technological innovation incubation, emerging industry formation, new model cultivation, and dynamic synergy convergence. Correspondingly, at the regional production relations level, they evolve through localized growth poles, inter-regional development axes, regional urban clusters, and nationwide development networks. The ultimate objective is to establish a unified national market that drives high-quality coordinated regional development through domestic circulation, while further expanding openness via synergistic domestic-international dual circulation.