Frontiers in Public Management ISSN Print: 3104-4441 ISSN Online: 3104-445X CD ISSN: 3104-4468
Research on the Upgrade Path of the Manufacturing Industry Chain in Guangdong Province Enabled by the Digital Economy
The digital economy is profoundly reshaping the development paradigm and competitive landscape of the manufacturing industry. As China‘s largest manufacturing province, Guangdong has achieved remarkable progress in digital transformation, yet it continues to grapple with multiple structural challenges, including insufficient industrial chain coordination, difficulties in SME transformation, reliance on foreign core technologies, a shortage of interdisciplinary talent, and pronounced regional development disparities. This paper systematically examines the current state of digital economy—manufacturing integration in Guangdong and identifies the core bottlenecks constraining industrial chain upgrading. It proposes a systematic pathway for empowering Guangdong’s manufacturing industrial chain upgrading through five interrelated dimensions: “chain-style transformation”led by leading enterprises, artificial intelligence—driven intelligent upgrading, targeted support for SMEs, industrial internet and data factor synergy, and regionally coordinated development. The findings indicate that Guangdong should establish a collaborative upgrading framework characterized by “leading enterprises pioneering, SMEs actively participating, and the entire industrial chain responding in concert.” Through a “point—line—area” integrated digital upgrading system, the province can transition from fragmented breakthroughs to chain-wide coordinated transformation, ultimately achieving the goals of high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industrial chain.
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The Impact of Cross-Border Data Flows on Digital Trade in RCEP Countries and Policy Responses
With the rapid development of the global digital economy, digital trade has become an important component of the world economy. As a core driver of digital trade, cross-border data flows run through every stage of digital transactions and, amid the digital transformation of the global economy, have a significant impact on transaction efficiency and business-model innovation. First, after clarifying the concepts of digital trade and cross-border data flows, this paper describes stylized facts about digital trade using data from the UNCTAD database. Second, given RCEP's important position in the global economy and its substantial potential in digital trade, the paper examines the current state and limitations of data-flow regulation under the existing framework. Finally, it compares the regulatory policies of China, the United States, and the European Union and identifies current regulatory challenges. The findings indicate that cross-border data flows positively affect digital trade among RCEP members, while also raising issues concerning data sovereignty, privacy protection, and development gaps within the region. The paper emphasizes the urgent need for unified rules on cross-border data flows under the RCEP framework to promote the secure and balanced development of regional digital trade. It further recommends that China, as an RCEP member, actively advance data sharing and security cooperation, continuously reduce barriers to digital trade, and address regulatory risks and challenges while realizing economic benefits, thereby contributing a China-based approach to the prosperity of regional digital trade.
Governance of High-Dimensional Data-Driven Intelligent Platforms
This study proposes a unified governance framework for high-dimensional data-driven intelligent platforms by integrating insights from platform ecosystem theory, algorithmic governance, and data governance research. Rather than conceptualizing intelligent platforms as neutral technological tools, the paper positions them as decision infrastructures that structure authority, accountability, and regulation through data architectures and algorithmic control. Using tourism and healthcare platforms as comparative governance contexts, the analysis demonstrates that platforms perform equivalent institutional functions, including regulation, coordination, monitoring, accountability, and optimization, despite differences in service domains and data content. A central contribution of this research is the introduction of data efficiency as a governance performance criterion, emphasizing the capacity of platforms to transform complex, high-dimensional data into interpretable, actionable, and institutionally usable decisions. By shifting evaluation from predictive accuracy toward governance outcomes such as transparency, compliance, coordination, and trust, the study reframes intelligent platforms as socio-technical governance systems. The findings confirm that platform governance logic is institutional rather than sector-specific and that algorithms operate as operational governors within platform ecosystems. This framework advances management science by providing a transferable model for understanding how intelligent platforms govern through high-dimensional data in smart service environments.
Governance of Data-Driven Intelligent Service Platforms: Tourism and Healthcare Cases
Data-driven intelligent service platforms have evolved from simple service intermediaries into institutional governance infrastructures that shape decision-making, coordination, and accountability across sectors. This study examines how platform governance operates in tourism and healthcare systems, emphasizing the roles of data integration, algorithmic decision mechanisms, and institutional oversight. Rather than treating these platforms as domain-specific service tools, the analysis positions them as decision infrastructures that regulate participation, coordinate stakeholders, monitor performance, and enforce compliance through embedded governance mechanisms. Drawing on verifiable platform datasets and governance frameworks, the study demonstrates that tourism platforms historically pioneered large-scale data-driven governance through booking systems, mobility analytics, and review ecosystems. Healthcare platforms subsequently adopted similar governance architectures to support service coordination, regulatory compliance, and risk management in high-stakes institutional environments. Despite differences in sectoral context, both domains rely on the same core governance functions: regulation, coordination, monitoring, accountability, and optimization. The findings show that intelligent platforms enhance decision quality, institutional coordination, policy compliance, and risk governance by embedding regulatory logic into technical systems. Public trust is strengthened through transparent reporting, accountable platform operations, and responsible data stewardship. Healthcare is treated as a governance application case, while tourism represents the methodological origin of platform-based governance practices. Overall, this study contributes to platform governance and AI management research by demonstrating that data-driven platforms function as institutional governance systems rather than merely as service delivery technologies. It highlights the cross-domain transferability of platform governance logic and clarifies how big data and AI reshape contemporary institutional decision-making.
A Study on the Impact of Fiscal Expenditure Efficiency on the Urban-Rural Income Gap in the Context of Common Prosperity
Under the goal of common prosperity, the moderating effect of fiscal expenditure efficiency on the urban-rural income gap holds significant theoretical and practical importance. Based on provincial panel data from China for 2011–2020, this study employs a two-way fixed-effects model and mediating analysis to empirically examine the mechanism through which fiscal expenditure efficiency influences the urban-rural income gap.The findings reveal the following: First, improved fiscal expenditure efficiency significantly narrows the urban-rural income gap; urbanization serves as a key mediating pathway through which fiscal expenditure efficiency influences the income gap; in terms of regional heterogeneity, the narrowing effect is greater in central and western regions than in the eastern region; regarding expenditure structure, the moderating effect is more pronounced in regions with weaker infrastructure; and in terms of economic development levels, the effect is more pronounced in less developed regions.
Evolutionary Trajectories of China's Internet User Population and Identification of Internet Usage Patterns from 2015 to 2025
The changes in the demographic structure and application ecosystem of the Chinese Internet have shown distinct phased characteristics with the development of digital technology. Based on the statistical reports of CNNIC from 2015 to 2025, this paper utilizes visual technology and DTW-Ward hierarchical clustering algorithm to systematically examine the evolution of the Internet user demographic structure and the time series patterns of the usage rates of major Internet applications. The study reveals that China's mobile Internet has entered a high penetration stage, with the growth of the user base slowing significantly, meanwhile, the user structure also shows new dual changes, namely, the base of both younger and older user groups is growing. The clustering results show that the evolution paths of different Internet applications are not consistent, and can be classified into four types of evolution patterns: fluctuation convergence driven by context dependence, decline and transformation driven by exogenous shocks, rapid saturation driven by network effects, and stable growth driven by ecological synergy. The development of China's Internet is shifting from scale expansion to a new stage of structural adjustment and ecological differentiation, which can provide a basis for enterprises to identify market segmentation directions and optimize business strategies, and also offer references for the government to improve digital economy policies, implement classified supervision, and conduct network governance.
A Review of Research on Intergenerational Income Mobility
One important measure of the degree of class inequality and the equity of social opportunity is intergenerational income mobility. Enhancing it has broad strategic implications for reducing economic inequality, dismantling class divisions, and attaining the objective of shared prosperity. Although there is extensive scholarly research on intergenerational income mobility, few papers provide a thorough analysis of its conceptual framework, measurement techniques, and influencing factors. As a result, this study discusses its limitations and future research goals while methodically reviewing the conceptual framework, measurement techniques, and factors influencing intergenerational income mobility. Future studies should emphasize the varied effects of public policies, expand multidimensional assessments of intergenerational mobility, deepen the perspective of inclusive finance, and encourage the integration of measurement techniques.
Measuring and Understanding Intergenerational Social Mobility: Policy, Technology and Education Perspectives Literature Review
Drawing on three dimensions—policy, technology and education—this paper systematically examines the key factors and mechanisms influencing research on intergenerational social mobility. The study finds that, at the policy level, measures such as compulsory education, the allocation of teaching resources and fiscal transfers generally exhibit a ‘bottom-up’ orientation, thereby playing a more significant role in promoting intergenerational mobility among disadvantaged groups;at the technological level, digital finance and internet usage provide new pathways for intergenerational mobility by alleviating liquidity constraints and expanding information channels, although the distribution of technological dividends is uneven across different groups; at the educational level, education serves as a key mediator for achieving upward intergenerational mobility, yet may also become a tool for class reproduction under conditions of unequal resource distribution, with its effects moderated by factors such as educational level, gender and family background.Current research suffers from limitations such as relatively isolated perspectives, insufficient attention to the internal structure of education, and a need for more in-depth examination of the digital divide. Future research could construct an integrated analytical framework, deepen studies on the heterogeneity within the internal structure of education, and broaden the research perspective on the digital divide.
Organizational Integration of Smart Tourism Public Services from Digital Governance in Hangzhou
Driven by China’s Digital China strategy, smart tourism has become a core engine for the high-quality development of China’s tourism industry, so Hangzhou it is; while Hangzhou still faces severe challenges of fragmented service supply and supply-demand mismatch. Taking Hangzhou as a case, this paper constructs a three-dimensional analytical framework of digital regulation, digital integration and digital absorption based on organizational integration and digital governance theories. Drawing on an analysis of 300 valid questionnaires collected during the 2026 Spring Festival in four core cultural tourism districts of Hangzhou, the study identifies insufficient organizational integration as the core bottleneck hindering the city’s smart tourism development. Targeted optimization paths are proposed accordingly, offering both theoretical insights and practical value for related research and urban practices.
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Research on the Localization of Post-disaster Reconstruction in Southwest Ethnic Areas Under the Concept of "Building Back Better"
Post-disaster reconstruction in ethnic minority areas should not only focus on material recovery but also take into account cultural inheritance, social governance, and the enhancement of community resilience. On this basis, four reconstruction paths are proposed: integrating local disaster prevention wisdom with modern disaster resistance technologies, activating cultural inheritance and community collaboration mechanisms, innovating livelihood models and promoting industrial integration, and strengthening ecological protection and risk prevention and control. These paths are conducive to transforming post-disaster reconstruction from material restoration to social and cultural regeneration, providing a reference for post-disaster reconstruction in ethnic minority areas.
Research on the Impact of Transformational Leadership on Employees' Digital Creativity
With the advent of the digital era, the operation and management modes of enterprises have undergone fundamental changes. As an effective leadership style, transformational leadership exerts a significant impact on employees' digital creativity. Based on transformational leadership theory, this paper explores how direct managers can enhance employees' innovative self-efficacy by demonstrating transformational leadership behaviors in the context of digital technology application, thereby improving employees' creativity in the digital field. Furthermore, this paper introduces organizational learning theory to the individual level and investigates the mediating mechanism of two modes of digital technology learning—digital exploration and digital exploitation—between transformational leadership and employees' digital creativity.
A Study on the Mechanisms Underlying Employees’Deviant Innovation Behavior within the AMO Framework: Based on the QCA Method
Deviant innovation is becoming increasingly important for corporate development and has emerged as a focal point for scholars both domestically and internationally. Previous research has examined the antecedents of deviant innovation primarily from a single perspective, lacking investigations into the synergistic interactions among multiple variables. Drawing on AMO theory and employing the QCA method, this study explores the mechanisms that drive employees to engage in either high or non-high deviant innovation behavior. The findings reveal that: (1) No single condition—whether Sense of responsibility, Job autonomy, Role Breadth Self-Efficacy, Organizational Innovation Climate, or Transformational Leadership—constitutes a necessary prerequisite for employees' high or non-high deviant innovation; rather, such behavior requires the synergistic interplay of multiple factors. (2) Six pathways lead to high deviant innovation behavior, which can be categorized into three types: deviant innovation driven by Transformational Leadership and Role Breadth Self-Efficacy, deviant innovation driven by Job autonomy, and deviant innovation driven by Sense of responsibility. (3) Four pathways are found to result in non-high deviant innovation, which fall into two main types: lack of opportunity and lack of individual ability or motivation. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying employees' deviant innovation behavior under the influence of multiple factors, thereby providing a theoretical basis for organizations seeking to encourage deviant innovation.
From "Resettled Individuals" to "Governing Entities": How Does Spatial Reconfiguration Drive Identity Transformation ?
The large-scale remote centralized resettlement communities face a governance paradox where the spatial resettlement has been completed but social integration has not yet occurred. This study takes Community C in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province as a case, and constructs an "space reconfiguration - identity transformation" analytical framework to reveal the internal mechanism of resettlement community governance. The study finds: First, the governance dilemma of the resettlement community stems from the dual disengagement of spatial disorder and identity rupture, which is mainly manifested as the tension between physical space and social space, as well as the suspension of three-dimensional identities of interests, relationships, and emotions. Second, the driving force of space reconfiguration to drive identity transformation comes from the four-dimensional endogenous needs of residents' interests, relationships, emotions, and governance. Its mechanism is reflected in the horizontal spatial - interest - relationship - emotion collaborative embedding and the vertical individual - neighborhood - community - governance subject hierarchical transformation. The latter two interact through the progressive path of private domain - semi-public - public space. Third, the key to effective governance of large-scale resettlement communities lies in activating identity transformation through space reconfiguration, enabling residents to complete the identity transformation from "resettled individuals" to "governance subjects" in the continuous spatial practice. The constructed two-way construction framework of space reconfiguration and identity transformation provides a new theoretical perspective and practical path for understanding the current transformation of grassroots social governance.
The Impact of Sino-US Trade Friction on the Total Factor Productivity of Manufacturing Enterprises in China
This study examines the impact of the 2018 Sino-US trade friction on the total factor productivity (TFP) of manufacturing firms. Employing a multi-period difference-in-differences model and drawing on theories of creative destruction and growth options, we analyze data from A-share listed manufacturing firms in China from 2014 to 2023. Our findings indicate that: (1) The trade friction exerted a significant forcing effect, compelling firms to improve their TFP. (2) The underlying mechanisms include enhanced asset operational efficiency, intensified innovation efforts, and increased competitive pressure within industries. This research provides micro-level evidence and policy insights for governments to design targeted and differentiated policies aimed at stimulating firms' endogenous dynamism and systematically strengthening the resilience of the manufacturing sector in complex international trade environments.
Government Environmental Attention and Urban Carbon Emissions: A Governance-Based Interpretation from the Perspective of Harmonious Human–Nature Coexistence
In the context of China’s pursuit of the “dual carbon” goals and the broader modernization agenda centered on harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature, the role of local governments in carbon mitigation has become increasingly important. Existing studies have primarily focused on the effectiveness of specific policy instruments, such as environmental regulation, carbon taxation, emissions trading, and fiscal subsidies, while paying comparatively less attention to a more fundamental issue: how local governments’ environmental attention shapes the governance process prior to the implementation of concrete policies. This paper argues that governmental environmental attention should be understood as a prior governance variable that influences policy priorities, resource allocation, enforcement preferences, and ultimately urban carbon emissions. Rather than assuming a simple linear relationship, the paper emphasizes that governmental environmental attention may generate both restraining and promoting effects on carbon emissions through multiple channels, including regulatory constraint, market-based incentives, green investment, industrial restructuring, and governance capacity. These effects are further conditioned by development stage, industrial structure, regional competition, and institutional capacity. The paper therefore proposes a governance-based analytical framework for understanding the complex relationship between governmental environmental attention and urban carbon emissions. Its central argument is that environmental attention matters not because it is merely discursively present in official texts, but because it determines whether environmental concerns are effectively incorporated into local development priorities and transformed into institutionalized governance arrangements.
From Compliance to Customer Experience: Managing Service Operations Quality in Chinese Swimming and Fitness Centers
This paper examines customer experience in Chinese swimming and fitness centers through an operations lens. Although prior research in sport and fitness services has consistently shown that service quality affects satisfaction and future behavioral outcomes, less attention has been paid to the operational conditions that make quality stable, visible, and reproducible in high-contact, risk-sensitive service systems. Addressing this gap, the paper develops the concept of service operations quality to explain how compliance-oriented managerial inputs are translated into customer experience across the service journey. The analysis organizes service operations quality around three interdependent dimensions: hygiene and safety, staff professionalism, and facilities and environment. Rather than treating these dimensions as isolated service attributes, the paper argues that they function as a coordinated operational capability through which venues become governable, intelligible, and dependable in customers’ eyes. This capability is shown to become visible across acquisition, entry, use, change, and after-sales touchpoints, where operational consistency shapes whether the service is experienced as orderly, trustworthy, and worth repeating. The paper further argues that, in multi-store swimming and fitness networks, customer experience depends less on isolated moments of excellence than on the repeated consistency of operational control across outlets, staff teams, and time windows. On this basis, the study offers a managerial framework for standardization, service consistency, and resource prioritization under real-world constraints. By shifting the discussion from perceived service quality to service operations quality, the paper contributes a more practically grounded account of how compliance can be converted into stable customer experience in contemporary sport services.
From "Cultural Blood Transfusion" to "Cultural Hematopoiesis" : A Study on the Theoretical Logic and Practical Mechanism of Red Aesthetic Education Empowering Rural Endogenous Development
Against the strategic backdrop of comprehensively advancing rural revitalization, the revitalization of rural culture is in urgent need of a paradigm shift from external "blood transfusion-style" supply to internal "hematopoiesis-style" development. The current practical model dominated by one-way "cultural delivery" often leads to the disconnection between the inheritance of red culture and the fabric of rural life, making it difficult to effectively stimulate endogenous motivation. This study aims to propose and demonstrate "red aesthetic education" as a key enabling path to achieve this transformation. It is argued that red aesthetic education is not a simple artistic education activity, but a comprehensive social practice integrating value guidance, emotional activation and subject creation. Through theoretical deduction, this paper constructs a trinity theoretical analysis framework of "Value Identity-Subject Empowerment-Space Production", and systematically explains how red aesthetic education drives the endogenous development of rural culture through three practical mechanisms: emotional activation and memory reconstruction, knowledge production and skill inheritance, and social connection and capital appreciation. The results show that red aesthetic education can effectively promote the in-depth integration of red genes and local values, reshape the subjectivity of rural culture, and activate rural public cultural spaces. Thus, it provides a solution with both theoretical depth and practical operability for breaking the predicament of "cultural alienation" and cultivating sustainable endogenous development capacity. This study offers a new theoretical perspective and practical path for the creative transformation of red cultural resources and the revitalization of rural culture in the new era.
Research on the Practical Application and Optimization Path of Artificial Intelligence in School Education Equity
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, the digital transformation process in the field of education is accelerating, bringing new opportunities and challenges to the promotion of educational equity in schools. This study is based on the perspective of educational principles, supported by core theories such as the essence and laws of education, and focuses on the practical foundation and core practice dimensions of school education equity driven by artificial intelligence. It systematically analyzes the current difficulties in the practical process, such as value deviation, theoretical disconnection, practical shortcomings, and institutional deficiencies. On this basis, an optimized path for empowering school education equity with artificial intelligence is constructed from four aspects: anchoring the value core, deepening theoretical integration, accurately matching needs, and improving guarantee mechanisms. The aim is to achieve the organic unity of technological empowerment and the essence of education, enhance the efficiency of promoting school education equity, and provide theoretical reference and practical guidance for the high-quality development of education in the new era.
Research on the transformation strategy of scientific and technological achievements of Suzhou's new R&D institutions based on SWOT analysis
The transformation of scientific and technological achievements is a key path to accelerating the cultivation and development of new productivity and a crucial link in the integration of science, technology, and the economy. This article, using a SWOT analysis, comprehensively analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of scientific and technological achievement transformation in Suzhou's new R&D institutions. It also offers strategic recommendations for innovating systems and mechanisms, optimizing talent recruitment and training, strengthening industry-university-research collaboration, and enhancing the ability to transform scientific and technological achievements.
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A Review of the Dilemmas and Path Optimization of Empowering Community Governance with Red Cultural Resources
At the critical juncture of the second century, Zhejiang Province adheres to the "Eight-Point Strategy" as the overarching guideline and implements the "Red Root and Foundation Strengthening Project" as the overall focus. It leverages the combat fortress role of grassroots Party organizations to promote an overall improvement in the quality of grassroots Party building and create a new era of Party building highlands. Jin Dong District, Fucun Town, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, responded positively to the policies and, relying on the rich red cultural resources in the area, led community development through Party building and promoted social governance with the red gene. In this context, the team conducted questionnaires and on-site visits to summarize the experience of Fucun Town in leveraging red cultural resources to empower community governance, sorted out the problems encountered during the implementation and proposed suggestions, aiming to promote the application of Fucun Town's use of red cultural resources to empower community governance and provide the Jin Dong experience for regional governance.