Against the strategic backdrop of ecological civilization construction in the New Era, nature-based study tours, an important innovative form integrating education and tourism, are evolving into a systemic educational practice grounded in natural settings as the cognitive foundation, ecological values as the core of cultivation, and public resources as institutional support. This developmental trajectory holds significant implications for promoting the synergistic advancement of the ecological civilization agenda and the modernization of education. To deepen theoretical understanding and advance the construction of a practical system for nature-based study tours, this research invited experts from relevant fields to engage in cross-disciplinary interviews, focusing on diverse topics such as theoretical connotations and knowledge systems, industry self-regulation and governance frameworks, product innovation and digital responses, knowledge dissemination, and international experience. The discussions indicate that: (1) As a new educational model that connects humans and nature and cultivates practitioners of ecological civilization, the innovative development of nature-based study tours urgently requires the establishment of a new paradigm centered on "harmonious coexistence between humans and nature", the formation of a knowledge system rooted in the Chinese context, and deep coordination with national parks and nature reserves to achieve a win-win outcome between ecological value transformation and educational practice. (2) In response to structural challenges arising from rapid expansion, it is necessary to establish cross-sector, multi-actor collaborative governance mechanisms, and to improve institutional arrangements for entry accreditation, curriculum evaluation, industry standards, talent cultivation, and technological empowerment, thereby enhancing the standardization and professionalization of the sector. (3) A composite study tour product system that balances educational value with adaptive flexibility should be developed by means of multidisciplinary integration and cross-sector collaboration, so as to achieve a deep integration of "teaching" and "touring" through the interactive mechanism of "knowledge construction - site organization - participant activation". Digital technologies should play a part in extending resources and enhancing learning interactions, while caution must be exercised to prevent "virtual nature" from replacing authentic experiences. (4) Knowledge dissemination in nature-based study tours should be grounded in local resources and culture, integrate multiple stakeholders, construct a composite media matrix, and employ intelligent digital tools to build a public engagement system that balances scientific rigor with accessibility. Moreover, through effective interaction between international experience and the practices and resources of China's ecological civilization construction, cross-national ecological cooperation should be pursued to develop a "Chinese solution" with global applicability. As a vital nexus linking education, nature, and society, nature-based study tours should, in the future, be oriented toward cross-disciplinary, cross-industry, and cross-scalar collaborative innovation, improving their academic system and practical pathways to become an educational engine and key practice arena for promoting "harmonious coexistence between humans and nature" in the process of Chinese modernization.

Against the backdrop of China's strategic transition from incremental urban expansion to stock-based quality improvement, this paper provides a systematic review and synthesis of 304 academic presentations delivered at the First Annual Conference of the Committee on Resource Activation and Urban Renewal of the China Society of Natural Resources. It comprehensively identifies the new issues, new paths, and new practices shaping contemporary research and policy innovation in this field. In terms of new issues, scholarly attention has shifted from land redevelopment and spatial optimization to institutional reform, social equity, and value reconstruction, reflecting a paradigmatic move from "material renewal" to multidimensional frameworks integrating spatial, social, and institutional dimensions. Theoretical explorations increasingly emphasize spatial justice, ecological civilization, and community resilience, laying the foundation for a more integrated understanding of resource activation. Regarding new paths, cross-disciplinary convergence around health-oriented cities, ecological transition, and digital transformation is reshaping the logic of urban renewal. These innovations mark a shift from construction-led interventions to holistic governance and human-centered development, fostering a "people-ecology-intelligence" synergy in renewal practices. As for new practices, collaborative governance among local governments, markets, and communities has emerged as the key mechanism for activating underutilized resources and improving implementation effectiveness. Institutional innovation in fiscal sustainability and land market reform provides crucial leverage for scaling up renewal outcomes. Overall, the study argues that resource activation represents not merely a technical process of spatial improvement, but a systemic restructuring of urban social relations, institutional frameworks, and value systems. By synthesizing nationwide scholarly findings, this paper outlines the evolving interaction between resource activation and urban renewal, offering theoretical insights and practical guidance for advancing China's high-quality urban transformation in the New Era.

Under the profound advancement of ecological civilization construction and high-quality development strategies, territorial spatial planning, as a core instrument of China's spatial governance system, has seen continuously strengthened demands for "whole-life cycle" management. National policy documents explicitly require the establishment of an integrated "sky-ground-space-network" monitoring system to enhance closed-loop management across the entire chain of planning implementation. In this context, monitoring the implementation of territorial spatial planning has become a critical tool for coordinating development and security, balancing conservation and exploitation, and a key guarantee for translating the vision of "multi-plan integration" from blueprint to reality. However, challenges persist in theoretical frameworks, technical pathways, and institutional coordination. To address these, we invite interdisciplinary experts from academia and industry in spatial planning, land management, geomatics, to exchange insights on the theoretical foundations, content frameworks, methodological innovations, and institutional mechanisms of monitoring territorial spatial planning implementation. Synthesizing expert viewpoints reveals the following priorities: (1) Refining indicator-driven system to ensure effective transmission and dynamic feedback of planning objectives. (2) Leveraging AI and digital twins to empower digital governance while balancing technical rationality with human-centric values. (3) Strengthening institutional synergy to transform monitoring outcomes into actionable spatial governance policies. Overall, monitoring territorial spatial planning implementation is a systemic endeavor. Future efforts must deepen cross-disciplinary collaboration, explore monitoring-response mechanisms for emerging challenges like climate change and urban-rural integration, and advance the modernization of territorial spatial governance capabilities.

The Chinese tourism industry is undergoing a profound reconstruction of its value logic. Tourists are increasingly shifting their pursuit from objective functions to subjective meaning, and their decision-making focus is moving beyond facility evaluation toward deeper interaction and value co-creation. In the face of this transformation, however, tourism resource development remains frequently trapped in a cycle marked by resource similarity, product homogenization, and mediocre experience. This stagnation stems largely from the traditional development paradigm, which overlooks the active role of tourists and fails to recognize tourism as a meaning-generating process. Accordingly, this study begins by systematically reviewing the dialectical evolution of tourism resource development paradigms from resource-oriented and product-oriented to experience-oriented, and argues that the industry must now advance toward a new paradigm centered on "scenario co-creation". Furthermore, it contends that this shift represents not merely a methodological innovation, but a new ontology of tourism resources, manifested across three key dimensions: in value logic, from functional supply to the activation of emotional value and place spirit; in subject relations, from tourists as passive recipients to active co-creators; and in experience mode, from standardized product consumption to an open-ended process of meaning co-creation. Finally, from the perspectives of concept, pathway, and evaluation system, this article demonstrates that such a paradigm shift offers a critical pathway for promoting high-quality development in tourism and enhancing public well-being, while contributing theoretical insights and a practical framework for effectively communicating China's story through tourism in a global context.

Modern tourism geography in China began in the late 1970s. After sustained exploration and development, it has made remarkable achievements in theoretical development, talent cultivation, and practical advancement. However, with ongoing societal change, tourism geography in China faces unprecedented challenges. How to better serve national strategies and industrial development has become an important question of the times. This paper provides an in-depth discussion of the discipline’s internal logic of formation, the evolution of research paradigms, knowledge spillover effects, and the construction of its disciplinary system in the new era. The findings are as follows: 1) After decades of practical exploration and theoretical development, the theoretical system of Chinese tourism geography has matured, its research agenda has continued to deepen, and its capacity to support national strategic needs has strengthened markedly. 2) Tourism geography has consistently taken the tourism human-environment relationship as its central thread, shifting from an early emphasis on “land” to a focus on the mechanisms of human-land interaction. 3) The field’s research paradigm has gradually moved from experience-based induction to an approach that gives equal weight to theory and empirical analysis, forming a methodological system grounded in the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods and the cross-validation of multiple data sources; this work has also generated knowledge spillovers to economics, management, and sociology. 4) Driven jointly by national and regional needs, talent cultivation and institutional restructuring, and shifts in research paradigms and themes, interdisciplinary integration has increasingly become a major development trend in tourism geography in China. 5) The inheritance and future development of Chinese tourism geography should remain problem-oriented, strengthen technology-enabled research, and concentrate on key tasks including talent development, innovation in foundational theory, optimization of the disciplinary system, and service to major national strategies.

This study aims to investigate how environmental regulations affect the green efficiency of water resources in tourism, and to verify whether technological innovation plays a mediating role in this relationship. Using panel data from 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China from 2012 to 2021 (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan due to incomplete and inconsistent statistics), this study first introduces the tourism grey water footprint and constructs an evaluation index system for the green efficiency of water resources in tourism. The slack-based measure (SBM) model is employed to measure the green efficiency of water resources in tourism. Then, with environmental regulation as the core explanatory variable, a fixed-effect panel regression model is constructed to examine its direct impact on tourism’s green water efficiency. Furthermore, a mediating effect model is adopted to explore the transmission mechanism, with technological innovation as the mediating variable. A series of robustness tests are conducted to ensure the reliability of the estimation results. The results show that: 1) The overall level of green efficiency of water resources in China’s tourism industry is moderate, with an annual average value of 0.475 during 2012—2021, showing a steady upward trend. Significant regional disparities exist among eastern, central and western China, presenting a concave pattern characterized by ‘lower in the central region and higher in the eastern and western regions’. 2) Environmental regulation has a significant positive effect on the green efficiency of water resources in tourism, and this result is robust after controlling for industrial structure, population size, resource endowment and other variables. Regional heterogeneity tests show that environmental regulation plays a significant role in central and western China, while the effect is not significant in eastern China. 3) Technological innovation plays a partial mediating role in the process whereby environmental regulation promotes the green efficiency of water resources in tourism. Environmental regulation stimulates the innovation compensation effect, encouraging tourism-related enterprises to carry out technological innovation, and such innovation further improves the green efficiency of water use in tourism. Environmental regulation can directly and significantly improve the green efficiency of water resources in tourism, and indirectly enhance such efficiency by promoting technological innovation. The implementation intensity and policy effects of environmental regulation vary across regions. It is recommended that eastern regions focus on high-quality innovation-driven development, while central and western regions should strengthen environmental regulation intensity and optimize policy implementation. Promoting coordinated improvement of environmental regulation and technological innovation is an effective path to upgrade the green efficiency of water resources in tourism and realize the high-quality and sustainable development of tourism.

Village industrial land is an important support for the development of new rural industries and new formats in the new era, and it is of great significance to promote the revitalization of rural industries. This study analyzes the spatial characteristics of China’s village industrial land use in 2020 by using the land change survey data based on the Third National Land Survey, and examines the driving mechanism of village industrial land use changes at different spatial scales by using the Geodetector model. The results show: 1) The average scale of village industrial land in counties is 821.47 hm², and the per capita village industrial land is 43.52 m²/person, both of which have a significant positive correlation in spatial distribution. 2) At the regional level, the scale of village industrial land in the eastern region is significantly higher than in other regions, and both the Northeast and Eastern regions have a per capita village industrial land scale exceeding 60 m²/person. The Theil index indicates that the differences within the four major regions dominate the formation of national differences. At the provincial level, only Hebei and Shandong have industrial land scales exceeding 2×10⁵hm², and Qinghai has the largest internal differences in village industrial land. 3) At the national level, rural permanent population, topographic relief and rural per capita disposable income factor have a greater driving force on the scale of village industrial land. At the regional level, urbanization rate, topographic relief and rural per capita disposable income have a greater impact on the scale of village industrial land in the western region, while other regions are mainly affected by rural resident population, topographic relief, and cultivated land area. The interactive detection shows that the scale of village industrial land in various regions is also affected by multiple factors, but there are heterogeneity characteristics. Focusing on the needs of rural industrial revitalization in the new era, this study analyzes the characteristics and trends of rural development in various regions, and puts forward policy suggestions to promote the integration of village industrial land and intensive and economical utilization.

In this study, 115 resource-based cities were selected as cases, and an evaluation index system of potential, correlation and resilience was constructed based on the adaptive cycle theory. On the basis of analyzing the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of three-dimensional attributes, the evolution stages of resource-based cities were identified, and then the evolution characteristics of each stage were analyzed. The results show that: 1) The growth of potential, correlation and resilience of resource-based cities shows a phased evolution feature of “slow growth in the early stage and rapid growth in the later stage”. But there are significant differences in spatial distribution; Among them, the spatial dispersion of potential is obvious, the correlation shows a decreasing trend from the southeast coast to the northwest inland, and the resilience shows a spatial agglomeration characteristic of “coastal and river”. 2) Under the comprehensive action of internal and external factors, the development and evolution of resource-based cities are in the stages of exploitation-conservation, conservation-release, release-reorganization in the adaptive cycle. The cities in exploitation-conservation stage are mainly growth-oriented and mature ones, mainly located in energy rich areas, such as Shanxi, Gansu and Inner Mongolia. The cities in conservation-release stage are mainly declining ones, concentrated in the old industrial base of northeast China. The cities in release-reorganization stage cover all types and are mainly distributed in the eastern part of the Hu-Huanyong Line. 3) The different stages correspond to different development and evolution characteristics.The cities in the exploitation-consrvation stage have obvious path dependence and extension characteristics, and their potential, correlation and resilience are on the rise; In the process of development, problems such as economic recession, environmental deterioration and population contraction occur in the exploitation-release stage, and the three-dimensional attribute value of the cities is in a declining trend. In the release-reorganization stage, the cities realize the renewal and reorganization of the elements, forming a new development path, and its three-dimensional attribute value recovers after the decline.

In response to the current bottlenecks in China’s territorial space planning in dealing with extreme flood events, such as lagging response, incomplete control systems, and insufficient land guarantee for disaster prevention, this paper aims to explore the optimization path of comprehensive disaster prevention planning. Taking the Hetao Area in Shenzhen as the object, by sorting out the transmission relationship of disaster prevention planning at all levels of territorial space, it is proposed to integrate the “high-risk disaster avoidance zone” into the “three zones and three lines” control system. The study utilized the data from the first national comprehensive risk census of natural disasters to assess the flood risk in the Hetao area. The study precisely identified the high-risk points within the Hetao area and constructed an optimized disaster prevention design plan from four dimensions: spatial resilience, infrastructure fortification, land composite utilization, and multi-level sponge systems. Specifically, this multi-dimensional approach effectively tackles the scarcity of disaster-prevention land by transforming rigid, single-use urban spaces into flexible safety buffers. It shifts the traditional passive response model into a proactive spatial intervention.This optimization strategy achieves a deep coupling of disaster risk control and the spatial planning base map, significantly enhancing the comprehensive resilience of high-density urban areas in response to super-standard floods, providing a scientific empirical reference for disaster prevention and mitigation planning in similar regions in China.

Based on county-level data in China from 2000 to 2020, this study employs the coupling coordination degree model to measure the level of coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction and examines its regional differences and spatiotemporal evolution. Using the STIRPAT model, panel quantile regression is further applied to quantify the differentiated and dynamic impacts of socioeconomic and natural factors on the coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction at the county level. The results show that during the study period, the level of coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in Chinese counties exhibited a continuous decline, and regional disparities expanded over time. The coordination level shows significant spatial autocorrelation across counties. High-high spatial agglomerations display a contiguous distribution pattern, whereas low-low spatial agglomerations are relatively few in number and exhibit a scattered distribution pattern. Population size, per capita GDP, and industrial value added exert inhibitory effects on the coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, whereas fiscal revenue, patent applications, and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) exert significant positive effects on the coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction. The coordination level exhibits a U-shaped nonlinear relationship with economic development. Fiscal revenue in counties with low and medium coordination levels improves the coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction. The effects of the influencing factors on the coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction exhibit spatial heterogeneity. Population size shows a negative correlation with the coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in most counties. Vegetation coverage plays a significant role in promoting the coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in north China and east China. Regions with higher ventilation coefficient (VC) facilitate the diffusion of pollutants; however, the effect remains limited in northwestern China.

Based on firm-level and industrial chain perspectives, this study employs methods such as standard deviational ellipse and QAP regression analysis to examine the spatiotemporal patterns, industry structure, and influencing factors of global shipping company mergers and acquisitions from 1997 to 2024. The results indicate that: 1) Global shipping M&A events are concentrated in Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Central America, and North America, with significant yearly fluctuations in their number. 2) Both acquirers and targets exhibit a clear “northwest-southeast” orientation in their standard deviational ellipses, with their centers of distribution shifting continuously southeastward, though the spatial pattern of targets changes more gradually. 3) The industrial structure of global shipping M&A continues to adjust, showing an extension and integration trend along the shipping industrial chain. Freight and passenger shipping segments display distinct structural characteristics in M&A activities. 4) M&As are more likely to occur between countries and regions that are geographically proximate, linguistically similar, economically close, and have comparable shipping network connectivity, yet exhibit significant disparities in shipping scale and external dependence. Furthermore, the shipping M&A network demonstrates notable investment inertia and path dependence.

As China advances its path toward Chinese modernization, population and resource issues serve as foundational, overarching, and strategic topics that span economic and social development. The structural transformation of the population presents new challenges to the logic of resource allocation, the mechanisms driving development, and the effectiveness of governance. At present, population decline, rapid aging, and low fertility rates are converging, marking a shift in population development from "quantity-driven" phase to "structural restructuring" phase. This paper, centered on the theme of "high-quality development of population and resources", draws on insights from scholars across relevant disciplines to examine key issues such as the transition of demographic structure and migration patterns, resource adaptation and optimization, and technology-enabled governance. Based on their viewpoints, three core strategies are summarized: (1) establishing a systematic response framework to coordinate demographic optimization with resource allocation; (2) leveraging big data and artificial intelligence to enhance the intelligence level of population and resource monitoring and governance; and (3) advancing institutional innovation to overcome barriers related to household registration, social welfare, and regional disparities, thereby building an inclusive system serving for the general resident population. Experts broadly agree that a systems-thinking approach integrating diverse policy tools is essential. A paradigm shift in population governance, from passive regulation to proactive adaptation, should be driven by both technological support and institutional innovation. Building a sustainable, equitable, and efficient system for coordinated development of population and resources is key to address the challenges of population structure transformation and achieve high-quality development.