Building an independent conceptual system for the Chinese ethnic community is a major theoretical and practical issue to promote the highquality development of Chinese philosophy and social sciences. This conceptual system, supported by Marxist ethnic theory and community idea, is based on the core dimensions of Chinese identity and position, and characterized by autonomy, constructiveness, and subjectivity, presenting the independent features of Chinese characteristics, development and civilization. The Chinese attributes are the local foundation of the conceptual system, reflected in the deep accumulation of history, country, ethnicity and essence while the Chinese stance is the value anchor from four dimensions: politics, people, civilization and values and in line with the Partys stance and the ethnic work stance although it has its own emphases. The Chinese stance is systematically expressed through the connotation setting and logical connection of specific concepts. In knowledge production, it is necessary to take spiritual independence, methodological consciousness and goal selfsetting as the core, and promote the deep integration of Chinese attributes and Chinese stance through the triple reconstruction of attribute infiltration, twoway construction and selfconfidence cultivation so as to achieve the endogenous construction of the conceptual system and find the innovative expression of external discourse, thus building the discourse foundation of the independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics.

The concept of “mutual assistance in solidarity” is deeply rooted in the fine traditional Chinese culture and epitomizes the fundamental requirements of the “Two Combinations” in the field of ethnic work after its creative transformation from local ethics to national consensus. It originated from the governance wisdom at the grassroots level in traditional agrarian societies, and its community idea and homeland guarding consciousness were clearly manifested in the great struggle of the Chinese nation against foreign aggression in modern times that it not only achieved a crucial expansion from “neighborhood mutual aid” to “interethnic solidarity”, but became a core principle for the Communist Party of China in handling ethnic relations as well. On the new journey in the new era, thoroughly interpreting and practicing the contemporary implications of mutual assistance in solidarity to promote highquality development in ethnic regions, guide all ethnic groups to achieve allround integration, and build a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation constitutes an important path for advancing the cause of ethnic unity and progress and the building of a community for the Chinese nation.

Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people have successfully carved a path of Chinesestyle modernization, creating a new form of human advancement. This new form of human advancement embodies the socialist ideological characteristics of putting the people first, principleabiding in innovation, transforming while inheriting traditions and global vision. It has achieved an ideological transcendence of Western discourses about modern civilization, including the capitalcentered logic, the “coreperiphery” hegemonic order, the illusion of civilizational conflict and confrontation and the propaganda lie that a growing nation will inevitably seek hegemony. Under the new historical conditions, to highlight the ideological value of the new form of human advancement, we must not only insist on and but strengthen as well the Partys comprehensive leadership, adhering to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, carrying forward the spirit of great struggle, promote the common values of all humanity, and build a community with a shared future for mankind.

In the digital era, a systematic coupling mechanism exists between common prosperity in spiritual life and a new form of human advancement. The former offers spiritual connotations and value support to the latter, while the latter provides the former with broader development space and civilization goals. Grounded in the historical materialism, this study systematically elucidates the coupling mechanisms historical formation, operational logic and practical pathways, revealing the law of their coordinated development under digital technology. The mechanism relies on the synergy of technological, institutional and value logics: The technological logic reshapes the modes of spiritual production, consumption and dissemination, the institutional logic adjusts the spiritual production relations and curbs the capital monopolies, and the value logic guides the civilizational evolution and lays the foundation of ethics. Its core features are systematicity and dynamic evolution. However, the coupling is also faced with structural obstacles: inclusiveness bottlenecks at the productivity level, capitaldriven expansion at the production relations level and institutional supply lagging at the superstructure level. Therefore, a systematic path featuring value guidance, institutional innovation, capacity improvement and open cooperation should be implemented to continuously optimize and improve it.

To reveal the indepth mechanism of how Party building branding transforms from a political symbol into a sustainable rural governance paradigm and address the dilemmas of “formalization” and “detachment” that Party building brands often encounter in practice, this study takes the “Good Morning” Party building brand of Datang Village in Changshan County, Zhejiang Province as a case, constructs a “symbolemotion” dualdrive analytical framework, and adopts the case study method and theorytesting process tracing method. It is found that successful Party building branding is a systematic project where “symbolic capital” and “emotional energy” promote and coordinate with each other, and that Datang Village has achieved a leap in governance paradigm from institutional embedding to value internalization through the fourstage linkage of “symbol coding—ritual empowerment—capital transformation—paradigm generation”. In this process, symbol coding converts abstract political discourse into perceptible governance symbols, collective emotional energy is injected into ritual empowerment through highfrequency interactions, and capital transformation promotes the multidimensional value increment of symbolic capital into economic, social and cultural capital that finally, the fourdimensional reconstruction of governance subjects, efficiency, values and systems is realized.

Resorting to the Chinesestyle modernization of the rule of law to empower rural governance in the new era is a must for realizing the rule of law in the governance of rural China and achieving comprehensive rural revitalization. In terms of empowering logic, it is in line with the Marxist rule of law theory as well as responds to the fundamental demands of comprehensively advancing the rule of law in the new era. In terms of functional positioning, it plays the role of normative safeguarding, valueguiding and environmentshaping and thus is of great significance for clarifying the direction of rural governance and coordinating resources. Currently, to advance the empowerment of rural governance in the new era through the Chinesestyle modernization of the rule of law with high quality, it is imperative to strengthen the toplevel institutional design of empowerment, uphold the peoplecentered principle in the process of empowering rural governance through the modernization of the rule of law, and strengthen all the aspects of the rule of law to enhance the effectiveness of rural governance in the new era so as to lay a modernized foundation of rule of law for comprehensive rural revitalization.

Humanmachine empathy is the emotional connection established between humans and intelligent machines in the process of humanmachine interaction. Its technological implementation takes anthropomorphism as the logical starting point, “emotion response” as the logical process and meeting human emotional needs as the logical direction. However, the humanmachine empathy that emerged in the era of digital intelligence is a contradictory entity that couples opportunities and challenges, accompanied by a series of ethical risks that impact the authenticity, autonomy and privacy of human emotions. As an ethical solution to ensure the “goodness” of humanmachine relationships and achieve “digital happiness” in the digital age, digital ethics, in contrast with traditional ethics, has such advantages as being more openminded, precisely targeted and forwardlooking in resolving the ethical risks of humanmachine empathy. From the perspective of digital ethics, we should start with technological design, subject application and external regulation to clarify the technological design orientation of emotional goodness and emotional truthseeking, ensure the coupling and symbiosis of subject emotional immersion and emotional consciousness, and promote the joint role of responsibility implementation and institutional soundness so as to achieve the rational and ethical development of humanmachine empathy.

Utilizing digital transformation to enhance an enterprises green technology is of great significance for promoting green dual innovation, building green competitive advantages and improving innovation performance. However, the mechanism by which digital transformation drives the green dual innovation performance of exportoriented manufacturing enterprises remains unclear. Based on the dual innovation theory and the highlevel team theory, this study tries to explain the mechanism of exportoriented manufacturers digitalization on their green dual innovation performances and analyzes the mediating effect of green technology capabilities and the contingent role of senior managements green innovation support. An empirical test is conducted through 312 questionnaires from export manufacturing enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta region, showing that digital transformation significantly enhances the green dual innovation performance of these enterprises, that green technology capabilities play a partial mediating role between the two, and that senior managements green innovation support positively moderates this mediating effect, highlighting the crucial role of senior managements green innovation support. This research deepens the application of the dual innovation theory in the context of digital transformation and provides a reference for exportoriented manufacturers to enhance their green dual innovation performance through digital strategies and green technology accumulation.

Relational capital is of great significance to the international performance of enterprises, but there are few studies on its specific influencing mechanism. Drawing on the resourcebased view, dynamic capabilities and tacit knowledge, this paper puts forward the view that relational capital is transformed into a companys intrinsic ability and then affects its international performance. An empirical test of Ashare listed companies shows that relational capital significantly promotes their international performance in which innovation ability plays an intermediary role, and internationalization experience significantly and positively moderates the relationship between innovation ability and international performance. Therefore, we suggest that multinational companies should strengthen the construction of overseas social networks, build a dynamic cycle of “relational capitalinnovationperformance”, optimize business strategies based on international experience, and strengthen sustainable international competitiveness to improve their performance.

The history of global trade is one of crises and governance. When trading activities are faced with crises, licensing systems become the core tool for state intervention in the market. By examining the three paradigmatic cases spanning five centuries—the Ming Dynastys Xinpiao (trade permit) system addressing Japanese piracy and trade disorder in the 16th century, the COCOM (Coordinating Committee for Export to Communist Countries) technical embargo licensing during the 20thcentury Cold War, and the contemporary U.S. semiconductor export controls, this study finds that trade licensing systems embody an inherent core logic of crisis response, power projection and efficacy contestation. Xinpiao pioneered the “trade with permit + timelimited permission” paradigm; COCOM transformed licenses into tools for ideological confrontation; digitalage licenses embed themselves into the global supply chains through technological means. A comparison of these three systems not only traces the historical evolution of state governance capabilities but also dissects such deepseated contradictions as the tension between sovereign authority and market autonomy, and the clash between technological control and innovative countermeasures, offering historical insights for institutional choices amid the current global trade frictions.