Blue carbon economy is a new economic form that focuses on the carbon sequestration function of marine ecosystems. It aims to protect and restore coastal blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass beds, and salt marshes, develop their carbon sequestration value and derivative industrial chains, and achieve the transformation of ecological benefits into economic benefits. Mangrove forests are important coastal blue carbon ecosystems, with mangrove cultivation as the core leading the development of blue carbon economy. It is a key area for expanding new space for marine development and building a maritime power. The overall development of China’s blue carbon economy lags behind, with problems such as weak blue carbon core technologies, insufficient industrial extension and expansion, incomplete trading system construction, and inefficient value realization mechanisms. This article starts from the value realization mechanism of “blue carbon resources-blue carbon assets-blue carbon products -blue carbon capital”, combined with Guangdong’s development practice, and proposes to strengthen the basic function of mangrove forests in driving the development of blue carbon economy, coordinate the promotion of blue carbon element cultivation, full industry chain layout, trading market construction, technology innovation driven, and institutional mechanism innovation in five aspects, accelerate the pace of blue carbon economy development, seize the new track of marine economy, and provide theoretical references.

As an emerging model in marine tourism, “island-hopping tourism” has become a pivotal force in reshaping global tourism and cultural consumption by expanding the cultural-tourism landscape, building distinctive regional brands, and strengthening the industry ecosystem. By integrating scattered island resources into interconnected “island chains” and fostering cross-regional cluster competitiveness through land-sea-island collaborations, this model not only offers tourists “a thousand islands, a thousand charms, and a thousand experiences” but also drives the integration and upgrading of tourism systems, spurring broader economic prosperity through the “tourism-led, multi-industry synergy” effect. Based on Guangdong practices , this study proposes a five-pronged enhancement strategy.A coordinated provincial approach is essential to drive systematic planning and design for island-hopping tourism. Product innovation should be achieved through the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism, while industrial innovation necessitates a holistic "sea-land-air" collaborative framework. Tailored strategies should be implemented to enhance service quality, and collaborative governance mechanisms must ensure safety and security. These measures aim to establish Guangdong as a national exemplar for island-hopping tourism, offering a replicable model for China’s marine tourism advancement.

The policy of carbon emission trading as a significant institutional exploration in the field of environmental regulation in China serves as an important tool for implementing the sustainable development strategy, and it also has a significant impact on the development of new quality productivity. This paper takes the policy of carbon emission trading as a quasi-natural experiment, uses the entropy method to measure the new quality productivity of 272 cities in China from 2010 to 2022, and employs a two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model, a two-step mediating effect method, and a spatial Durbin model to explore the impact and mechanism of the policy of carbon emission trading on the new quality productivity of Chinese cities. The research concludes that: the policy of carbon emission trading significantly enhances the new quality productivity of cities, and this conclusion still stands after a series of robustness tests such as PSM, placebo test, and excluding the interference of other policies; the policy of carbon emission trading has a better promotional effect on the new quality productivity of non-resource-based cities and large cities than that of resource-based cities and small and medium-sized cities, has a significant positive impact on the new quality productivity of non-old industrial base cities, but has no significant impact on the new quality productivity of old industrial base cities; the policy of carbon emission trading can cultivate and develop new quality productivity by stimulating green technological innovation, upgrading the industrial structure as a whole, and improving energy efficiency; the policy of carbon emission trading will have a positive spatial spillover effect on the new quality productivity of neighboring areas. Continuously advancing the construction and improvement of a unified national carbon trading market, building a mature carbon trading market mechanism and supervision system, and designing differentiated support policies in combination with regional differences are the keys to further driving the development of new quality productivity through the construction of the carbon trading market.

Promoting the deep integration of the “four chains”- innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain - is an important path to promote scientific and technological innovation and industrial development. Based on the definition of “four chains” integration and the essential connotation of science and technology business incubators, this paper takes Foshan Industrial Technology Research Institute as an example to analyze the internal mechanism and path of the deep integration of “four chains” by science and technology business incubators.The study found that the technology business incubator promotes the knowledge, technology, talents, capital and other elements of regional key development industries to accelerate the agglomeration and rapid integration in the region, thus promoting the accelerated development of the regional innovation chain, the accelerated upgrading of the industrial chain, the accelerated circulation of the capital chain, and the accelerated agglomeration of the talent chain. It is the core carrier to promote the deep integration of the regional “four chains”. In the incubator, the information and service ideas of R&D incubation should be established based on the needs of local industrial development; the management service mode of science and technology innovation enterprises should be established based on the interests of innovation subjects; the linkage mode of science and technology finance should be established based on the capital needs of start-up enterprises;  all kinds of talents should be gathered to support the collaborative innovation of enterprises based on the driving role of talents’ engine. The research has important reference significance for each region to give full play to the important role of technology business incubators in the regional innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, promote the deep integration of the “four chains”, cultivate new productivity, and enable high-quality economic development.

Using corporate venture capital (CVC) to search for external knowledge is an important part when firms’ implement open innovative activities. The formulation of search strategy is closely related to firms’ future strategic adjustments, while their strategic planning are deeply influenced by the traits of top executives. Based on the top echelon theory, this paper empirically examines the impact of executives with rich career experience on the knowledge search strategy of CVCs using a sample of A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2021. We find that the richer of executives’ career experience, the more diversified of knowledge and the further distance of knowledge of CVC units investing in startups. Executives with rich career experience are able to promote diversification and long-distance knowledge search in CVC investments by enhancing firms’ external attention allocation and the willingness of risk-taking, which is manifested in the more significant positive effect of executives when firms’ knowledge breadth is lower and economic policy uncertainty is higher. Moreover, more redundant resources, stronger absorptive capacity and more social resources are more conducive to the positive role of rich career experienced executives. Finally, rich career experienced executives are more inclined to promote binary knowledge search combining diversification and distance. This paper enriches the research on the drivers of CVC investment strategy choices and expands the discussion of the economic consequences of executives’ career experiences.

This study takes the public policy of social enterprises in Chengdu as the research object, and based on the publicness theory in public management, discusses how the public policy can build social enterprises into a localized public governance actor that helps to promote Chinese modernization, and reveals the logic therein. Research has found that public policies, based on the institutional space and growth potential of social enterprises in China, combined with China’s tradition of target governance and governance mobilization, shaping the image of social enterprises as “high political authority - high economic authority”—— a governance actor under the leadership of the CPC and utilizing market mechanisms to achieve specific governance goals, balancing active administration and effective governance.

The modern workplace is complex and ever-changing, with employees frequently facing illegitimate tasks. Based on the resource conservation theory, this article investigated the impact and consequences of illegitimate tasks on employee family satisfaction, and respectively explored the mediating and the moderating effects. This article obtained 240 valid research samples through a survey questionnaire, and obtained the following research conclusions through regression analysis: (1) illegitimate tasks have a significant negative impact on employee family satisfaction; (2) work-family conflict partially mediates the relationship between illegitimate tasks and employee family satisfaction; (3) work-family segmentation preference plays a moderating role in the relationship between illegitimate tasks and work-family conflict.

Against the backdrop of promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, the development of rural collective economic organizations is essential for achieving appropriately scaled agricultural land management and promoting agricultural transformation and upgrading. Strengthening rural governance capacity through collective economic organizations ensures that the rights and interests of smallholder farmers are protected in the process of land transfer. This study, from a political economy perspective, explores the correlation between property rights and governance rights, advocating for a paradigm shift from property rights definition to implementation. By reconstructing collective economic organizations and reshaping rural governance structures, rural governance capacity can be enhanced, thereby establishing an institutional framework for the transfer of land management rights in the modernization of agriculture. Therefore, leveraging the institutional advantage of collective land ownership in China and harnessing the governance effects of collective economic organizations can facilitate large-scale collective operations and contribute to rural revitalization.