Journal of Global Trends in Social Science
JGTSS is an international, peer-reviewed, open access academic journal committed to publishing cutting-edge research and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in the social sciences. JGTSS provides a platform for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to share insights and engage in discussions about emerging trends, global challenges, and transformative opportunities in the field. Official Partner of the Center for Surrounding Communication Studies, Peking University
Inter-City Cinematic Networks in Cold War Global History
This article examines the circulation of Chinese-language films between Hong Kong and Phnom Penh from the 1950s to the 1970s, situating it within the dual analytical frameworks of Cold War global history and inter-city cinematic networks to reassess the cultural circulation mechanisms generated by these two cities through the interweaving of diaspora communities, markets, and ideological forces. First, the article demonstrates how Hong Kong films entered Phnom Penh’s Chinese communities through diasporic networks, exhibition circuits, and Cold War political contexts. Cantonese opera films and leftist productions were reinterpreted locally, becoming key media through which emotional bonds were sustained and political imaginations were projected. Second, the article foregrounds Phnom Penh’s agency, arguing that it was not merely a passive recipient of cultural imports but an active node that, through local production, cross-border collaboration, and market feedback, exerted reverse influence on Hong Kong and neighboring regional film industries. Based on this historical process, the article proposes an analytical model of cross-city image circulation, suggesting that cities constitute crucial units for understanding the circulation of Chinese-language films during the Cold War, and demonstrating how Hong Kong and Phnom Penh formed an interconnected system that transcends the conventional “center–periphery” paradigm. By moving beyond the nation-centered framework of film historiography, this study highlights the composite roles of urban actors, diasporic structures, and political forces in Cold War-era cinematic flows, offering new theoretical insights for the transnational history of Chinese-language cinema.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yunping Li (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
AI-Powered Digital Human Live Streaming and Chinese Consumers’ Purchase Intention
Against the backdrop of the digital economy, AI-powered digital human live streaming, a novel marketing format that integrates artificial intelligence with live-streaming e-commerce, is profoundly reshaping Chinese consumers’ shopping experiences and purchasing decisions. This paper employs a systematic literature review methodology to collate recent research findings on the factors influencing Chinese consumers’ purchase intentions in relation to AI-powered digital human live streaming. Through integrated analysis, this paper first defines the conceptual evolution and technical characteristics of AI-powered digital humans. Second, it systematically identifies three core categories of factors influencing consumer purchase intention: feature dimensions of AI-powered digital humans (anthropomorphism, intelligent interactivity, and personalized recommendation), psychological mechanisms (social presence and trust in AI), and boundary conditions (product type and consumer characteristics). Consequently, this paper proposes an integrated dual-path model of presence and trust, revealing the underlying mechanisms through which these influencing factors affect purchase intention via the presence and trust pathways. Finally, this paper reviews the methodological characteristics of existing research and identifies future research directions. This paper provides a systematic knowledge base for theoretical construction and empirical research in the field of AI-powered digital human live streaming.
Copyright (c) 2026 Dan Hu, Vincent Wee Eng Kim (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Privacy-Preserving and Trustworthy AI Infrastructures for Digital Commerce
Digital commerce is moving from an era of unconstrained data accumulation to one in which privacy regulation, platform restrictions, and public distrust directly shape how artificial intelligence can be designed and deployed. This review synthesizes research on privacy-preserving machine learning, digital advertising measurement, recommender systems, social commerce, creator monetization, platform architecture, and AI governance in order to frame digital commerce as an infrastructure problem rather than a collection of isolated model-level optimizations. The core argument is that privacy-preserving and trustworthy commerce AI requires joint design across four layers: data topology, learning protocol, measurement logic, and governance architecture. At the data layer, the fragmentation of consumer traces across merchants, platforms, creators, and devices makes centralized modeling increasingly costly, risky, and legally fragile. At the learning layer, federated learning, differential privacy, secure aggregation, and related cryptographic tools provide a modular stack for distributed model training and protected analytics, but they also introduce accuracy loss, communication overhead, personalization challenges, and new attack surfaces. At the measurement layer, the decline of third-party identifiers changes attribution, conversion measurement, audience matching, and incentive design; privacy-preserving measurement therefore becomes central to campaign optimization rather than a compliance afterthought. At the governance layer, multi-tenant platform architecture, API standardization, content governance, auditability, and risk management determine whether privacy-enhancing technologies can become operational at scale, especially for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that lack internal AI governance capacity. By integrating evidence from computer science, information systems, marketing, and policy research, the review develops an analytical framework for commerce AI systems that must simultaneously preserve privacy, sustain model utility, support cross-channel decision making, and remain governable. The paper concludes that the next stage of digital commerce AI will be defined less by raw prediction performance than by the ability to institutionalize privacy, transparency, and accountability within commercially viable infrastructures.
Copyright (c) 2026 Ahmad Zulkifli Bin Idris, Weiling Tan, Kavitha Rajendran (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Artificial Intelligence in Financial Decision-Making
Artificial intelligence has become a major methodological force in financial decision-making, but the literature remains fragmented across at least three partially connected domains: financial time-series forecasting, portfolio construction, and firm-level sustainability analysis. This review argues that these domains should be interpreted as parts of a broader decision architecture in which algorithms extract signals from noisy data, transform those signals into investment or financing choices, and then evaluate outcomes under multiple objectives that increasingly include environmental, social, and governance criteria. The review first synthesizes the evolution of forecasting methods from classical econometric models to recurrent neural networks, transformers, and hybrid architectures. It then examines how predictive outputs are translated into allocation rules, with emphasis on mean–variance optimization, shrinkage-based risk estimation, risk parity, hierarchical allocation, and reinforcement-learning-based dynamic rebalancing. The third substantive line concerns corporate finance and sustainable finance, where AI is used not only to predict ESG ratings and financial constraints but also to identify firm heterogeneity, financing frictions, and disclosure-based signals. Across these streams, the article compares predictive and explanatory models, clarifies the role of structured, textual, and alternative data, and evaluates major methodological risks including overfitting, regime instability, interpretability deficits, and institutional dependence. The central conclusion is that the next stage of research should not treat forecasting, allocation, and ESG-related corporate finance as separate literatures. Instead, future work should build integrated frameworks in which market prediction, portfolio design, and firm-level sustainable finance analysis are jointly modeled under explicit assumptions about data quality, decision frequency, and accountability.
Copyright (c) 2026 Adrian Lim, Putri Rahayu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Explaining Cost Performance in Belt and Road Transport Projects
The literature on cost performance in major transport infrastructure projects has expanded rapidly, yet much of it still explains overruns through macro conditions, project characteristics, or single-case narratives. Far less is known about how contractor-side capabilities are translated into cost outcomes in cross-border settings, particularly within Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) transport projects where institutional variation, technological demands, and multicultural collaboration are unusually salient. This article addresses that gap by examining contractor experience, contract management capability, technological complexity, and government support as antecedents of project cost performance, with project risk management capability as a mediator and cross-cultural communication effectiveness as a moderator. Drawing on a survey of 391 contractor project management personnel involved in railway and highway projects across Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Central Asia, the study applies partial least squares structural equation modelling. The results show that contractor experience, contract management capability, and government support have significant positive direct effects on cost performance, whereas technological complexity does not. All four antecedents significantly affect project risk management capability, which in turn improves cost performance. Mediation analysis shows a partial indirect effect for contract management capability and a full indirect effect for technological complexity, while the indirect effects of contractor experience and government support are not statistically significant. Cross-cultural communication effectiveness significantly strengthens the positive effect of project risk management capability on cost performance. The article contributes to BRI project management research by developing a contractor-centred explanation of cost performance, clarifying the differentiated roles of internal capabilities and external support, and showing that risk management and communication operate as distinct but complementary mechanisms in multinational project environments.
Copyright (c) 2026 yongli Zhang, WEIXIANG GAN, Tara Ahmed Mohammed, Mengfei Xiao, Jialin Liu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Exploring Key Dimensions of AI-powered Digital Human Live Streaming
AI-powered digital human live streaming is emerging as a significant marketing format in the e-commerce sector. however, academic understanding of its core characteristics remains confined to conceptual transposition and theoretical deduction, lacking empirical evidence of actual perceptions from consumers and multiple stakeholders. Through in-depth interviews with 19 multiple stakeholders from China (Generation Z consumers, e-commerce practitioners, and academics), this study employed thematic analysis with manual coding throughout the process to systematically identify and define three core dimensions of AI-powered digital human live streaming: anthropomorphism, intelligent interactivity and personalized recommendation, while further revealing the multi-layered internal structures of each dimension. The findings reveal that anthropomorphism comprises three levels: visual anthropomorphism, Behavioral anthropomorphism and emotional anthropomorphism; intelligent interactivity encompasses three elements: response immediacy, response relevance and conversational coherence; and personalized recommendation consists of three dimensions: content relevance, perceived personal attention and interaction customizability. This study provides an empirically grounded, user-language-based feature dimension framework for the field of AI-powered digital human live streaming, bridging the conceptual gap between macro-theoretical concepts and micro-level user perceptions, and laying a solid conceptual foundation for subsequent scale development and quantitative model testing.
A Study on the Development of Community Worker Teams in Modern Grassroots Governance
Modern grassroots governance is grounded in problem-oriented approaches, responsive to needs, rich in contextual scenarios, and characterized by diverse participation. Among these elements, the development of the community worker workforce has become a key factor in enhancing community governance capabilities and service quality.This paper focuses on the community worker workforce, analyzing the current status and existing issues in talent development. It proposes the following policy recommendations: strengthening Party leadership to establish a model-based training mechanism for grassroots workers; constructing a talent development system that fully integrates Chinese theoretical frameworks with local practices; prioritizing talent cultivation by establishing an evaluation system for community workers; and enhancing guidance and incentives by leveraging performance-based training mechanisms. These measures aim to provide a solid foundation for the modernization of community governance.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yan Gao, Yonggang Yang, Ju Huang (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Impact of the Stratified Teaching Model in Physical Education on Middle School Students' Physical and Mental Health from a Gender Perspective
With the deepening understanding of students' individualized needs in the field of education, particularly in physical education (PE) teaching, the conventional unified teaching model can no longer adequately address the differentiated learning requirements among students. Middle school students are in a critical period of physical and mental growth and development, during which the value orientation of teaching plays a pivotal role in cultivating students' correct gender concepts and awareness. Moreover, significant differences exist in individual physical conditions during this period, rendering the adoption of more personalized and flexible teaching strategies essential. This study employs an elastic stratified teaching method, utilizing research methodologies such as literature review, questionnaire survey, teaching experiment, statistical analysis, and logical analysis to explore its application and effectiveness in middle school PE teaching. The objective is to provide each student with personalized instruction tailored to their abilities and needs, thereby maximizing the promotion of students' physical and psychological development. The findings indicate that the elastic stratified teaching model, when examined through a gender lens, demonstrates significant advantages over conventional teaching approaches in enhancing both physical fitness indicators and psychological well-being among middle school students, while simultaneously contributing to the dismantling of traditional gender stereotypes in physical education settings.
Copyright (c) 2026 Jiayu Qiu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This article focuses on an innovative system in China’s digital government construction from a legal perspective, called open government data. This system can improve government administrative efficiency and promote the use of data to expand the data factor market. However, in practice, the indiscriminate use of the concepts of open government data (OGD) and government information disclosure (GID), as well as legal problems such as the direct transplantation of existing systems, seriously hinder the effective advancement of OGD. To explore current status of OGD practices, this article selects 4,629 judicial documents of litigation related to GID and 4 types of indexes about OGD platforms as empirical analysis samples, aiming to clarify meanings and relationships between two concepts at the legal level. A deep analysis of these samples reveals litigation dilemma, platform development dilemma, and legal dilemma in the process of OGD. In response, this article proposes some measures including regulating OGD through separate law, replacing the three-tier system with the three-tier & dual system, and establishing the collaborative rights protection system. In this way, the ultimately goal that promoting the efficient and orderly advancement of OGD will be achieved.
Copyright (c) 2026 Layton Ren, Fei-hung Yu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Research on the Construction of Tourism Scenarios and the Reshaping of Relationships in Intelligent Media Environments— A Case Study of Short Videos
With the development of mobile internet technology, the communication ecosystem has undergone significant changes, and the tourism industry’s content presentation has gradually shifted from text and images to short videos. This shift has enhanced the efficiency of the tourism supply and demand chain and created an open, interactive, and multi-directional new type of tourism scene for users. This study, based on scene theory and social network theory, explores the production and diffusion process of tourism short videos within the framework of “new media—new scene—new behavior—new impact.” Through case studies and in-depth interviews, the research analyzes the construction of tourism scenes and their reshaping of social relationships. The study argues that the construction of short video tourism scenes involves three key elements: place, user activities, and space. Furthermore, new behavior patterns emerge through human-computer interaction, driving multi-dimensional interactions between people and landscapes, people and other people, and people and goods. Ultimately, the diffusion of short videos reshapes social relationships at three levels: between individuals, between individuals and scenes, and between scenes and spaces. This process fosters the integration and complementarity of real and virtual spaces.
Short videos; Tourism scenarios; Relationship reshaping; Five Forces of Scenario.
Copyright (c) 2026 lina Che, Chaunggang Li (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The increasing flow of marriage migration from Vietnam to China has drawn scholarly attention to the figure of the Vietnamese bride, women whose lives are suspended between two nations, cultures, and systems of belonging. While prior studies have examined their economic adaptation and social identity, less is known about how their everyday media practices shape and are shaped by underlying power asymmetries. Through a year-long ethnographic study in Daxin County, Guangxi, including in-depth interviews with 12 Vietnamese brides, this paper explores how media serve as both a resource for and a constraint on cross-cultural adaptation. We introduce the twin lenses of strategic and affective media engagement to analyze how these women navigate the double bind of host-society exclusion and home-society stigma. Findings reveal that media use not only facilitates linguistic acquisition, social networking, and identity re-articulation but also reinforces structural marginalization through digital divides and symbolic violence. The study identifies three distinct patterns of media engagement: strategic integration, affective preservation, and resistant appropriation. By framing media practice within a hierarchy of citizenship and cultural power, this research contributes to a critical reappraisal of cross-cultural communication, one that situates technology within the geopolitics of intimacy and the political economy of marriage migration. The findings challenge linear models of migrant adaptation and call for more nuanced understanding of digital agency within constrained circumstances.
Copyright (c) 2026 Tsun Wong, Xufan Chen, Felong He (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Cross-Dimensional Representation of Space and Memory: A Multi-Sensory Communication Study of Science and Technology Museums through the Perspective of Artistic Narrative
In an era where digital technology profoundly reshapes cultural experiences, science and technology museums are undergoing a pivotal transition from static, knowledge-authoritative exhibition halls to dynamic, public-participatory experiential venues. This study focuses on the core perspective of artistic narrative, aiming to systematically explore how science and technology museums achieve paradigm innovation in scientific communication through cross-dimensional sensory representation. The article indicates that effective communication of scientific knowledge has evolved from purely visual presentation into a multi-sensory collaborative design practice unified under artistic narrative thinking. Through deep analysis of cutting-edge science museum cases globally, this study reveals how the perceptual structure ‘visual narrative-auditory landscape-olfactory awakening-tactile interaction’ is artistically rendered. This approach integrates abstract scientific principles with grand technological narratives, forging immersive, empathetic, and embodied physical experiences and collective memories for the public. Cross-dimensional representation grounded in artistic narrative not only reshapes the physical and psychological space of museums as ‘sites of memory,’ but also establishes a new communicative paradigm linking cognition, emotion, and values, provides theoretical pathways and practical strategies for the innovative development of future science and technology museums.
Copyright (c) 2026 Shuyang Shi (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Construction and Empirical Analysis of an AHP-Based Decision Model for Enterprise Accounts Payable Clearance
Taking the accounts payable of A Power Grid Enterprise as the research object and combining value chain theory, this study selects the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as the method to determine the weight of factors influencing accounts payable payment. It constructs a payment decision model for accounts payable to provide risk warning references for accounts payable management. The model's operability is tested through a practical case application, aiming to offer ideas and references for improving accounts payable management in similar enterprises.
Account Clearance; Accounts Payable; Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Copyright (c) 2026 chuangang Li, lina Che (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Formation and Development of China's Art Education System: A Study Based on Historical Context and Policy Practice
Taking the historical evolution of China's art education system as the main line, combined with policy changes, educational practice and cultural context, this paper divides its development process into four core stages: Modern Germination (1901-1949), Transformation and Adjustment (1949-1978), Recovery and Expansion (1980s-1990s), and Deepened Reform (2000-present). By systematically sorting out the foundational practice of Cai Yuanpei's thought of "aesthetic education replacing religion", the localization adaptation of the Soviet teaching model, the academic system innovation of early new-style art schools, and the dynamic adjustment of policies in different periods, this study deeply analyzes the transformation logic of China's art education system from the traditional master-apprentice system to the modern classroom teaching system, from elite training to popularization, and from a single style orientation to diversified and innovative development. Based on the core data and cases of 10 authoritative literatures, the research confirms that policy orientation and cultural integration are the core driving forces for the system's evolution, while digital transformation, interdisciplinary integration and educational equity constitute the key issues of contemporary reform.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yiran Tian, Bolodko V.F. (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
From Spatial Production to Memory Production: The Inscription Mechanism as an Analytical Model in Heritage Contexts
Heritage spaces are commonly treated as stable containers of historical meaning, yet their significance is continuously produced, mediated, and reactivated through spatial arrangements, visual representations, and social practices. Although theories of spatial production and collective memory have each addressed aspects of this process, the mechanisms connecting spatial production to memory production remain insufficiently articulated. This article introduces the inscription mechanism as an analytical model for understanding how collective memory is produced in heritage contexts. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s concept of inscription and the medial turn in spatial theory, inscription is conceptualized as a mediating process operating across temporal, spatial, visual, and practical dimensions. The article develops a four-dimensional model that highlights the governing role of temporal organization in coordinating memory activation. By reframing heritage spaces as memory-producing systems, this study offers a theoretical and methodological framework for future research on spatial narratives and public memory.
Copyright (c) 2026 Zhen Liu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Policy–space interactions in urban and regional development: A systematic review with a focus on policy spatial footprints
Amid slowing urbanisation, tightening climate constraints and growing fiscal pressures, the spatial consequences of public policy have become a central concern in urban and regional research. Yet most empirical studies still represent policy exposure with coarse buffers, administrative units or stylised scenarios, which makes it difficult to disentangle the effects of overlapping instruments and governance arrangements. This review synthesises peer-reviewed work published mainly between 2020 and 2025 that explicitly links public policies—particularly land-use regulation, transport and mobility interventions, environmental and climate policies, and selected social and health measures—to spatially explicit outcomes such as land prices, urban form, emissions and socio-spatial inequality. Drawing on Web of Science and Scopus searches complemented by targeted snowballing, we retain studies that (i) conceptualise policy as a spatially delimited intervention and (ii) employ explicit spatial indicators of exposure and outcome. Within this corpus, the Policy Spatial Footprint (PSF) framework is highlighted as one representative approach that converts legal and planning clauses into auditable geometries with time stamps and intensity levels and, in the Yangtze River Delta case, combines network-time exposure with staggered difference-in-differences models to identify land-value capitalisation effects. Across domains, we find persistent sectoral fragmentation, short time horizons and a marked geographical bias towards large cities in Europe, North America and China, with small cities, peri-urban areas and the Global South under-represented. Methodologically, recent studies advance spatial econometrics, quasi-experimental designs, remote sensing and digital-twin infrastructures, but open, standardised spatial policy datasets remain rare. The review proposes a policy–space–outcome framework anchored by PSF, outlines priorities for multi-scale causal designs, open PSF repositories and comparative governance research, and argues that integrating resilience, justice and digitalisation is essential for evaluating how policy packages shape spatial development trajectories.
Copyright (c) 2025 Mado Nakamura (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Study on the Pathways of Immersive Technology Empowering the Dissemination of China’s Red-Culture
This article analyzes how the immersive technology rejuvenates the dissemination of the revolutionary culture of China, taking the Guizhou Long March Digital Technology Art Museum (Red Ribbon) as an example to follow the dual transformation of the revolutionary culture in terms of narrative approaches and value dimensions in the digital media context. Research shows that the immersive technology transforms static displays into navigable historical sites through virtual scenes and symbolic reconstruction, and transforms the audience from spectators to participants through embodied experiences and interactive narratives. When emotions are triggered by the environment, value cognition crystallizes into self-awareness. This technological intervention does not only innovate dissemination formats, but also creates new trajectories for the reproduction of cultural and social values, providing a reproducible paradigm for sustaining red culture in the new era and crafting its overseas narratives.
Copyright (c) 2025 Fan Yang, Yanling Wang, Jie zhang, Zongye GU, Hami Lei (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Competing for International Discourse Power in the Digital Platform Era An Embedded Model and Case Analysis
Discourse possesses the capacity to shape reality, and the concept of “discourse power” continues to evolve alongside transformations in global communication. Digital platforms, by virtue of their vast user bases and extensive data resources, have restructured multiple dimensions of social life and emerged as a key arena for contesting international discourse power. This study develops an embedded model of digital platforms and international discourse power by examining their theoretical implications, strategic orientations, and structural interconnections. Using TikTok and Twitter as illustrative cases, it analyzes how major powers engage in discourse competition within the digital platform environment. The findings suggest that international discourse power in the platform era follows a logic of contestation for dominance, characterized by competition over capital, content, and technology—injecting new variables and uncertainties into the global communication order. Looking ahead, artificial intelligence will play an increasingly central role, discourse dissemination mechanisms will continue to innovate, and the development of autonomous, internationally recognized digital platforms will be imperative.
Thematic Section: Surrounding Communications Research
Copyright (c) 2025 Ruotong Yi, Jianfeng Zhang (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Research on the Development Mechanism and Practical Path of Digital Tourism Economy Under Environmental Constraints
Against the backdrop of the global digital transformation of tourism and the growing urgency of ecological protection, digital technology has become a crucial link in balancing tourism economic growth and sustainable environmental development. This study comprehensively adopts the literature research method, multi-case comparative analysis, and field investigation. It systematically integrates theories of digital tourism, environmental economics, and sustainable development to construct a "Digital Technology-Environmental Management-Tourism Economy-Educational Empowerment" Four-Dimensional Interactive Theoretical Model. Taking three empirical cases—Sanjiangyuan World Heritage Site in Yunnan (ecologically sensitive scenic area), Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou (mature tourist scenic area), and Huangshan Geological Study Tour Base in Anhui (study tour scenario)—the research deeply analyzes the application mechanisms and effects of digital technology in environmental monitoring, passenger flow regulation, experience enhancement, and educational empowerment. The results show that through the progressive action path of "intelligent monitoring-dynamic regulation-immersive experience-educational collaboration," digital technology can increase the efficiency of ecological early warning responses by over 40%, reduce tourist flow in core ecological areas by 30%, and lower energy consumption per tourist in scenic areas by 26%. However, issues such as insufficient technological adaptability (e.g., a 23% failure rate of IoT devices in remote areas), cross-departmental data sharing barriers (less than 30% data utilization rate), and long investment return cycles (an average of 3.5 years) still significantly restrict development effectiveness. The conclusions of this study provide differentiated practical paths for constructing an environmentally friendly digital tourism economic system in different types of scenic areas and offer empirical support for improving the theory of sustainable tourism.
Copyright (c) 2025 Yuhao Gu, Yanhui Wang, Xianpeng Wang, Zining Wang (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Development Pathways for Low-Altitude Technology and Engineering Disciplines under the Perspective of “Extraordinary” Deployment
As a national strategic emerging industry, the low-altitude economy boasts a vast market scale and promising industrial prospects. However, it lacks a compatible disciplinary system. Therefore, in June 2025, the Office of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council launched a pilot program for the extraordinary deployment of cross-disciplinary degree-granting points in low-altitude technology and engineering, aiming to systematically cultivate high-caliber talent for the sector. This paper reviews the current status of low-altitude economic development at home and abroad, examines the establishment of relevant academic programs in higher-education institutions, and analyzes the requirements for this degree-point deployment. Based on the official list released by the Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education, 131 universities have applied to establish or rename 136 first-level interdisciplinary disciplines, second disciplines outside the catalog, or self-initiated interdisciplinary programs. To support the trillion-yuan market and the safe, sound development of the low-altitude economy, the study proposes policy breakthroughs, disciplinary restructuring, and regional collaboration.
Copyright (c) 2025 Yue Chen, Qian Liu, Guopei Chen, Dejun Hu, Li Dong (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Scars of Memory, the Trap of Desire, and the Mirror of Class
Bong Joon-ho's films are renowned for their profound revelation and critique of South Korean social realities. This paper interprets the social allegories in Bong Joon-ho's films, such as Parasite, Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer, The Host, and Mother, through the lens of the scars of memory, the trap of desire, and the mirror of class. The films touch upon the collective "scars of memory" of the Korean people, demonstrating the historical causes and social impact of the "Han" cultural psychology through metaphors and representations of historical traumatic events. Employing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, this paper analyzes the "trap of desire" – the alienation of characters in the context of capitalism, revealing the anxiety and loss of the lower class in the pursuit of the "ideal self." Furthermore, these films construct a "mirror of class" that reflects the solidification of social hierarchy and the disparity between the rich and the poor in South Korean society by depicting the living conditions of different classes. Bong Joon-ho's cinematic allegories are not only artistic representations of social issues in South Korea but also provide profound insights into understanding the universal problems of class conflict, human alienation, and historical memory in contemporary society.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ying Ma (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The narrative character of planting design is the fun of landscapes, telling stories and morals in a unique way in planning. When the landscape stimulates our multiple senses, it even has a great impact on our behavior, our views, and our psychological perception of the world. The way of landscaping tells stories or conveys ideas from four planting design angles, including the symbolic meanings of plants, dynamic storytelling, philosophical design and contrast with Eden. It reflects the importance of a successful landscape and public values, and enhance the interaction with public emotion. This paper provides a detailed exposition of methods and specific scenarios for creating narrative landscapes through the use of plants, drawing on examples from classical gardens in various countries, including Europe, England, and China. This study aims to organize and summarize the cultural symbols present in planting design, clarify the expressive techniques of narrative landscapes through plant design, and provide theoretical insights for interpreting and understanding classical gardens, as well as practical support for future landscape design endeavors.
Copyright (c) 2025 Manqing Yao (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Identification and Optimization of Attractive Territorial Spaces in Gansu Province Based on the Supply-Demand Ratio of Ecosystem Services
High-quality Attractive Territorial Spaces (ATS) are key to enhancing national territorial space quality. This study proposes a systematic framework for identifying and optimizing ATS, integrating ecosystem service (ES) supply-demand analysis, driving factor detection, ATS identification, landscape pattern analysis, and optimization strategies. Key findings include: (1) Significant spatial imbalances in ES supply-demand in Gansu Province, with the west as a vital water source and carbon sink and the east excelling in cultural services. (2) NDVI and population are primary factors driving ES spatial differences, influencing carbon sequestration, recreation, and aesthetic landscapes. (3) Urban and ecological spaces exhibit fragmentation, while agricultural spaces lack diversity and connectivity. The Attractiveness Territorial Index (ATI) aligns with Gansu’s spatial planning, providing targeted strategies to improve territorial space value and quality while protecting attractiveness elements.
Strategy Matrix for Attractive Territorial Spaces
Copyright (c) 2025 Yaqi Wang (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Study on the Intervention of Inattentive Behaviors in Children With Moderate Intellectual Disabilities Based on Positive Behavior Support
This study evaluated the use of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) based on Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) to reduce inattentive behaviors in children with moderate intellectual disabilities. Employing a multiple-base-line design, three 15-year-old male students from a special education school in Shandong participated in individualized interventions lasting 9–15 sessions. Strategies included classroom environment adjustments, behavior cues, differential reinforcement, and timely behavioral interruptions. Results showed substantial reductions in inattentive behaviors across all three cas-es, with Case J showing the greatest improvement (from 11.78 to 2.45 in-stances per session), followed by Cases W and G, with decreases of 6.44 and 4.97, respectively. All cases had a Tau effect size of 1.00, reflecting strong intervention effectiveness. Participants also displayed enhanced fo-cus, self-regulation, and quality of life, as reported by teachers and parents. However, limitations such as short intervention durations and limited parent involvement were noted, pointing to the need for extended interventions and stronger home-school partnerships. Overall, PBS proved to be an effective and flexible approach to improving classroom behaviors and social adapt-ability in children with moderate intellectual disabilities.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ziai Liu, Yixin Li, Xiaodi Xie, Hanjie Zhang, Mingyu Ye (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
British Colonial Strategy in Malaya in the 19th Century
The Industrial Revolution drove Britain’s globally strategy in the 19th century, which saw the Malay Peninsula’s geographic location and resources as key. The process of British colonization in Malaysia was as much the result of deliberate strategic planning as it was of geopolitical in rivalry and flexibility. Britain progressively increased its authority over the Malacca Straits by managing tin and rubber assets. And it would strengthen her hold over the area. Britain first focused mostly on the security of shipping in the Indian Ocean. It did not see the strategic value of the Malay Peninsula until rivalry with other powers increased. Adopting “informal imperialism” and “sub-im-perialism,” Britain indirectly controlled the Malay area by means of trade control and cooperation with local the rich and famous. And its lower the cost of conflict but also causing social divisions and laying the seeds of later ethnic conflicts and independence movements. British colonial advances on the Malay Peninsula mixed global strategies and geopolitical reality is unspoken threats due to the variety and complexity of imperialism.
Copyright (c) 2025 Yutong Wen, Chenglin Liu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
GRU-Enhanced Attention Mechanism for LSTM in Hybrid CNN-LSTM Models for Stock Prediction
We propose a novel GRU-enhanced attention mechanism integrated into LSTM layers to improve stock prediction accuracy in hybrid CNN-LSTM models. The proposed method dynamically adjusts the importance of different time steps by combining the strengths of GRUs and attention mechanisms, thereby capturing temporal dependencies more effectively in volatile financial time series. The GRU processes the input sequence to generate hidden states, which are then weighted by an attention mechanism to compute a context vector. This context vector is fed into the LSTM layer, enabling the model to focus on the most relevant time steps and enhance its ability to handle non-stationarity and noise. The integration of GRU-enhanced attention into LSTM allows the model to better capture long-term dependencies and temporal patterns, which are critical for accurate stock prediction. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms traditional methods in terms of prediction accuracy and robustness, particularly in scenarios with high market volatility. Furthermore, the model’s adaptability to varying time scales and its ability to filter out irrelevant information make it a promising tool for financial time series analysis. The proposed method not only advances the state-of-the-art in stock prediction but also provides a framework for integrating attention mechanisms into other sequential data tasks.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jiahui Zhang, Laipeng Yan (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
AIGC Words and the Lexical System in the Digital and Intelligent Era
This study uses a corpus generated by ChatGPT to apply cognitive linguis-tics, philosophy of technology, and sociolinguistics in analyzing how genera-tive AI impacts the Chinese lexical system. Grounded in the “replication-variationselection” model of language evolution, the research finds that ab-stract concepts created by AI mimic human conceptual systems via “algo-rithmic metaphors,” yet lack experiential grounding. Platform algorithms re-structure language dissemination, establishing a “digital register” communi-cation hierarchy, while the technological framework leads to a vocabulary hollowing effect, necessitating a new “algorithm governance” dimension in language planning. The study offers a theoretical framework for human-ma-chine language interaction, suggests AI language ethics policies, and rede-fines traditional language evolution models by proposing a three-stage process: “variation-algorithm screening-platform diffusion.” It extends meme theory, identifying “technological memes” as engineering-driven replications. Practically, it provides strategies for language planning by advocating trans-parency, diversity, and morality as core algorithm planning principles, help-ing to address language alienation, maintain a dynamic balance between innovation and standardization, and support effective communication and the healthy evolution of language in the age of generative AI.
Copyright (c) 2025 Mingyang Shen (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Swot Analysis of the Construction of a National Junior Paddleboard Instructor Training Course
The purpose of this review is to analyse the current situation of junior pad-dleboard instructor training courses in China, and to explore their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges, in order to promote the stan-dardised development of instructors, raise awareness of water sports safe-ty, and encourage the consumption of fitness and sports tourism for all. This study used questionnaire data from 103 junior coaches to comprehensively assess the current situation of paddleboard coaches in China. The results of the study show that the strengths of China's paddleboard instructor train-ing courses lie in the abundance of university resources, frequent races and a relatively complete curriculum system; the weaknesses lie in the incom-plete curriculum system, inadequate safety services, small market capacity and unclear policy on water development. Opportunities lie in national sup-port for the development of outdoor sports, and threats are mainly the lack of training funds. The conclusion is that there is still much room for im-provement in China's paddleboard instructor training courses, and exces-sive competition should be avoided, focusing on experience, consumption and cultural promotion, and promoting the development of sports tourism and the industrial chain. It is recommended to enrich the course content, provide career development channels, strengthen instructor training, and establish a systematic and efficient instructor training mechanism
Copyright (c) 2025 Jiahui Li, Yabin He (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Italian opera Madama Butterfly, which was created in the early 20th century, is one of the representative works of Western art that integrates Eastern elements. This paper examines the evolution of Madama Butterfly in its global dissemination and explores how power dynamics within a colonial context have shaped Western perceptions of Japan and its cultural hierarchy. It focuses on the shaping, dissemination and reproduction of the image of Asian women in Western art works, revealing how they have been symbolized and commodified, gradually solidifying into stereotypes of submission, sacrifice, and tragedy to align with Western aesthetic and cultural expectations. At the same time, it explores how Madama Butterfly has been reinterpreted in different historical stages, especially in the context of the awakening of Asian cultural subject consciousness, how Japan and other Asian countries reflect on and challenge the image of the East created by the West through reinterpretation and adaptation. The study reveals that the dissemination of Madama Butterfly not only reflects Western cultural hegemony in shaping Asian identities but also underscores the dynamic nature of cultural exchange. In the process of globalization, Asian nations are increasingly transitioning from passive recipients to active cultural agents, driving the reconstruction and critique of Orientalist narratives.
Copyright (c) 2025 Hongling Wu, Jianfeng Zhang (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Bargaining Power and Market Turning of Export-Oriented Firms in the Context of Anti-Globalization
Against the background of reverse globalization and the new development pattern, to address the market strategy choice problem of Chinese export-oriented enterprises, this paper takes the supply chain bargaining power as the entry point to construct a theoretical framework of corporate bargaining power and market steering. It argues that bargaining power leads to the dif-ferentiated market steering behavior of Chinese export-oriented enterprises. Based on the above logic, the analysis of empirical data from Chinese ex-portoriented firms from 2009 to 2020 reveals that: corporate bargaining power has a positive relationship with the market steering of export-oriented firms; the impact of bargaining power on the market steering of export-ori-ented firms is enhanced in both cases of a larger institutional distance ratio and non-state-owned firms. The findings of this paper enrich the research results on reverse internationalization of firms and are also instructive for the dual-cycle strategy currently being implemented by the Chinese gov-ernment.
Copyright (c) 2025 Zhanlingyan Guo, Yuzhong Zhou (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0