The Third Plenum of the Twentieth CPC Central Committee set the continued improvement and development of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and the promotion of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity the overall goal of further deepening the reform in a comprehensive manner. One of the important subgoals is to promote the modernization of the rural governance system and governance capacity with its key being rural governance innovation. By analyzing the 155 cases of local rural governance innovation, this study finds that the basic characteristics of Chinas local rural governance innovation are in such areas as Party building leading the construction of the governance system, activating the kinetic energy of governance through the sinking of resources, cultivating a civilized countryside by changing customs, and reshaping the order of the countryside through the application of the rule of law. Rural governance innovation is the result of the external stimulus of policy, the internal incentive of political performance, the solution of problems, the driving of digital technology etc. It will show four development trends: further deepening of cooperation and common governance under the leadership of the Party, further deepening of the practice of democratic consultation; further expanding the space of “microgovernance”, and further accelerating the transformation of digital governance.

Based on the survey data from 882 farmers in Jiangxi Province, this paper analyzes the impact and mechanism of nonagricultural employment on farmers enthusiasm for crop growing. It is found that firstly, nonagricultural employment has a significant inhibitory effect on farmers enthusiasm for growing crops—Nonagricultural employment not only reduces the probability of farmers planting double cropping rice, but also reduces the planting area of double cropping rice; secondly, agricultural socialized services on the whole can alleviate the adverse impact of nonagricultural employment on farmers enthusiasm for growing crops, and weaken the inhibitory effect on their planting behavior, and compared to laborintensive agricultural socialized services, technology intensive agricultural socialized services have a more significant positive moderating effect on the impact of nonagricultural employment on farmers rice growing; thirdly, nonagricultural employment has a more significant inhibitory effect on the enthusiasm of farmers with smaller business scales, higher levels of fragmentation, household heads over 60, and no agricultural skill training. So, we should vigorously develop agricultural socialized services, especially the technology intensive agricultural socialized services, lower the fragmentation of lands and continuously improve farmers enthusiasm for planting.

The security exceptions in trade agreements permit parties to deviate from their obligations to protect essential national security interests. In practice, Western states, especially the United States, have increasingly invoked the security exception provisions to tighten domestic security reviews and impose unilateral sanctions, stressing their purely selfjudging nature, undermining existing multilateral frameworks, and crafting “new rules” within limited coalitions. WTO dispute settlement rulings have affirmed the justiciability of the security exceptions, delineated an analytical framework for their application, and established legal standards for what constitutes national security interests. In this context, China should adopt the holistic approach to national security as theoretical guide, advocate for multilateralism as driving force,and use jurisprudence to guide the construction and application of the norm to promote the building of a community of shared security and advance Chinas proposals to the improvement of the global security governance system.

The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is a legally binding multilateral treaty covering energy investment, energy trade etc. However, in the renewable energy transition, ECT is born with such problems as overemphasis on investment protection, shortage of balancing provisions, and ambiguity in substantive clauses. As a result, it is unable to reconcile the conflicts between investment protection and climate governance, thereby triggering a series of climaterelated investment disputes. In recent years, the European Union has moved to modernize ECT, culminating in revisions to substantive provisions and perfection of climaterelated provisions. At present, the substantive provisions of Chinas existing IIAs are outdated and the climaterelated provisions are absent. So, as a major player in global energy investment, China faces escalating litigation risks as the investor as well as the invested. In the future, China, in line with its strategies, should borrow from the modernized ECT provisions to update its substantive investment regulations, construct a climaterelated provision framework for investment, and achieve synergistic alignment between investment regulations and climate governance objectives.

As a responsible major developing country, China has creatively proposed the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, offering the Chinese wisdom for meeting the global challenges in the context of profound changes. The “Three Global Initiatives” aim to solve the global development problems, eliminate international security dilemmas and promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations. They not only are an important manifestation and vivid practice of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind in the fields of world development, international security and human civilization, but also provide solid support for further promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. On the new journey, China will continue to set an example, win global support for the “Three Global Initiatives”, persist in promoting new practices with new ideas, build and improve relevant cooperation platforms and mechanisms on the basis of dialogue and exchanges with all countries, formulate the relevant documents and establish projects in key areas for implementing the “Three Global Initiatives”, so as to better demonstrate its responsibility in building a community with a shared future for mankind.

In the context of unprecedented changes in the world in a century, the change of international power balance and the deepening of the crisis of global governance objectively require that the current international order be reformed. The Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative are the latest international public goods provided to the world by China to promote global governance and transformation of international order. This set of international public goods is endowed with strategic, collaborative and systematic nature, with both toplevel design and practical exploration. As far as the toplevel design is concerned, the “Three Global Initiatives” rectify the dominant logic of the international order by innovating the concept of statetostate interactions, reshape the generative foundation of the international order by innovating the mode of international interactions, and defuse the crisis of the malfunction of the international order by leading international interactions. They designate a reform program from concept to model and then to action to promote the revolution and operation of the international order for the better. As far as the practical exploration is concerned, the “Three Global Initiatives” focus on such governance problems as global development imbalances, security deterioration and value conflicts, and provide feasible paths and solid support for promoting the construction of a community of a shared future for mankind from the aspects of consolidating the material basis and security guarantees and strengthening spiritual ties.

International communication is an international information dissemination process that transcends national boundaries, with the nationstate as the basic unit and mass communication media as the pillar. The international communication of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind aims at promoting world peace and development with the discursive image of “Chinas responsibility”, winning international recognition with the discursive concept of “Beauty and unity”, and gaining confidence in the discourse of “China program” on the international stage. At the present stage, we are faced with such dilemmas as  insufficient support for academic researches of international communication,  ongoing ideological and cultural conflicts with other countries, inadequate construction of Chinese discourse communication power, and basic restriction of economic benefit factors. To address these issues, it is necessary to enhance the comprehensive national strength to solidify the discursive foundation for international communication, improve the Chinese discourse system to strengthen the construction of international communication capabilities, and expand feedback channels to improve the evaluation system for international communication.

Digitization of services trade is the main driving force behind the development of global services trade at present, but the barriers along with the digitization have become a notable obstacle to services trade. Based on the data of services trade of 13 RCEP countries, who are supplementary to each other economically and show great potentials in cooperation,  from 2014 to 2021, this paper uses gravity model to analyze the impact of RCEP countries digital services trade barriers on Chinas services exports. The results show that the RCEP countries digital barriers have a suppressive effect on Chinas services exports; the expansion of the heterogeneity of bilateral trade services supervision will enhance the suppressive effect. A detailed study of the RCEP provisions reveals that the effective implementation of these provisions reduces in a sense the digital services trade barriers. However, it should be noted that the RCEP agreement places greater emphasis on the balance between flexibility and high standards, and it falls short of the stricter free trade agreements like CPTPP. Therefore, to overcome the trade barriers and raise its services export competitiveness, China should constantly close the gap between its domestic services trade rules and RCEP ones, strengthen the free trade agreement negotiations with its trading partners, and benchmark against CPTPP to bring out a “China proposal” in line with its national conditions.

In the goal of carbon neutrality, sustainable entrepreneurship will become an inevitable trend for the development of new ventures. Yet as the survival and development of new ventures are constrained by various factors, their mission valence is of great significance in overcoming these constraints. Based on the Triadic Reciprocal Determinism, this study constructs a moderated mediation theoretical model, focusing on exploring the mediating roles of entrepreneurial bricolage and team cognitive flexibility, while introducing digital technology as a moderating variable. The results show that mission valence has a facilitating effect on sustainable entrepreneurial behaviors, entrepreneurial patchwork and team cognitive flexibility for new ventures; both bricolage and team cognitive flexibility play a partial mediating role in the influence of mission valence on sustainable entrepreneurial behaviors of new ventures; digital technology use has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between mission valence and bricolage and team cognitive flexibility. The study reveals that new entrepreneurs should actively use mission valence to improve bricolage, enhance team cognitive flexibility, and better utilize digital technology to achieve sustainable entrepreneurial development.

The establishment of Xiamen Special Economic Zone, one of the earliest special economic zones in China, resulted from intergovernmental policy coordination, featuring distinct policies. The central governments strategic decisionmaking, careful guidance and policy support were the fundamental premise and strong guarantee for the establishment and early development of the Special Economic Zone while the Fujian local governments positive response to the central governments policy, policy refinement and reinnovation were the driving force for its establishment and development. The positive interaction between the central and local governments and the coordination of intergovernmental policies caused Xiamen Special Economic Zone to achieve fruitful results, establishing the unique development path of Xiamen Special Economic Zone and carrying out beneficial exploration for the adjustment of the centrallocal relationship in the early stage of reform and opening up.