Based on an empirical analysis of panel data from 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province between 2015 and 2023, employing panel data models, GMM estimation, and instrumental variables, this study elucidates the mechanisms by which the financial ecosystem shapes financial innovation. The analysis reveals several key insights: (i) A well-developed financial ecosystem drives regional financial innovation, with the economic foundation index, social foundation index, financial development index, and government behavior index exerting differential impacts on financial innovation. Among these, the economic foundation index exerts the strongest positive effect on financial innovation; (ii) The financial ecosystem enhances financial innovation capabilities by optimizing industrial structure and business environment; (iii) The driving effects are more pronounced in the Pearl River Delta region, areas outside Eastern Guangdong, areas with more advanced financial ecosystem, and areas with lower levels of financial innovation.

The heterogeneity of resource endowments and industrial foundations determines the differences in the integrated development of culture and tourism. For old revolutionary base areas, leveraging their unique resource and industrial endowments to explore development pathways that align with their distinct characteristics is the core strategic choice for achieving high-quality development in cultural and tourism integration. Based on statistical data and OTA tourism flow data from 108 county-level administrative units in the Former Central Soviet Area from 2018 to 2022, this study employs the K-means clustering analysis method and the longitudinal and horizontal comparison method to classify the types of cultural and tourism integration development and identify the advantages and shortcomings of each type. The results show that: The Former Central Soviet Area can be divided into four types of cultural and tourism integration development zones. In terms of quantity, they rank as: Environmental Priority Type > Efficiency Prominent Type > Industrial Advantage Type > Cultural & Tourism Leading Type, and some areas transform among these types. The advantages and shortcomings of these types are complex; the Cultural & Tourism Leading Type and the Industrial Advantage Type exhibit multiple coexisting advantages, while the Efficiency Prominent Type and the Environmental Priority Type are characterized by concentrated advantages. Based on the principles of "adapting to local conditions" and "foster strengths and circumvent weaknesses" different types of zones should adopt differentiated development strategies: The Cultural & Tourism leading Zones should promote the upgrading of cultural and tourism formats and foster collaborative industrial innovation; Industrial Advantage Zones should leverage their foundational industrial strengths to drive cross-sector integration; Efficiency Prominent Zones should capitalize on their efficiency advantages to advance industrial transformation and specialized development; Environmental Priority Zones should innovate mechanisms for realizing the value of ecological products, transforming ecological advantages into economic strengths.

In the new era, real estate continues to function as a pillar industry of the national economy, closely intertwined with people's lives. As economic and urbanization processes advance, real estate plays an increasingly important and diverse role in urban construction, serving as a stable enabler that supports urban renewal, livelihood security, resource optimization, industrial upgrading, and quality improvement. However, the real estate industry is facing such issues as fluctuations in housing prices, financial risks, and waste of land resources, making it difficult to achieve high-quality development. Thus, exploring high-quality development in real estate has become an urgent priority. High-quality real estate development requires consideration of such factors as construction quality, service systems, sustainable development concepts, and innovation-driven models. It necessitates evaluation based on its value in promoting economic growth and enhancing residents' quality of life. Analysis must address imbalances between housing supply and demand, as well as land resource constraints. Essential to this endeavor is a thorough investigation of specific mechanisms for advancing high-quality development, including policy guidance, technological integration, quality enhancement, and management innovation.

The patterns of urban expansion and their driving factors provide crucial guidance for urban development planning. This study employs PANDA nighttime light data as its primary dataset, utilizing the reference comparison method to extract urban expansion data. It examines Zhuhai's urban expansion process from 2000 to 2020, and applies the grey correlation method to analyze the relationship between economic indicators and built-up areas in Zhuhai City, Xiangzhou District, and Xiqu District from 2011 to 2020. The findings reveal: (i) Zhuhai has developed following a polycentric expansion model, fostering the formation and refinement of its dual-city structure spanning east and west. (ii) Expansion demonstrates temporal and phased characteristics, with Zhuhai's built-up area undergoing three stages: high-speed expansion, slow expansion, and stable expansion. (iii) Once new urban cores enter the concentric-ring expansion phase, their growth exhibits distinct spatial orientation. (iv) Among expansion drivers, population density showed the strongest correlation across regions, followed by industrial output value, while GDP from services and construction sectors demonstrated insignificant influence on urban expansion. It is suggested that emerging cities should vigorously develop physical industries to absorb employment, gather population, and promote urban spatial development. Urban development scale should align with the population absorption capacity of local industries. New urban area planning should leverage established central districts, with new growth poles capable of receiving spillover effects from the core urban area.

The practical experience, real-world challenges, and the demands of active aging in China's senior education call for a standardized, efficient, and scientifically developed university system for the elderly. Based on the concept of active aging and the theory of standardized public services, this study employs methods such as literature review and field investigations to systematically analyze the current state of China's senior university education service system. The research identifies such problems as imbalanced resource allocation, inconsistent service quality, a prominent digital divide, faculty shortages, and conflicts between homogeneous curricula and diverse learner needs. These issues stem from inadequate institutional frameworks, weak theoretical foundations, and poor technological adaptability. Accordingly, from a four-dimensional perspective, i.e., policy, technology, service, and evaluation, and adhering to fundamental principles of standardization, the study constructs a content framework across 11 aspects spanning four key domains: basic operational conditions, teaching management, learner services, and digital infrastructure. The analysis concludes that standardizing the education service system for senior universities has become critical for resolving supply-demand conflicts and enhancing service quality. Thus, the study proposes implementation pathways from five dimensions: holistic thinking, technological empowerment, hierarchical management, systematic configuration, and categorized evaluation, to further strengthen and refine senior university development, thereby better serving national strategic priorities.

The improvement of urban spatial justice is the essence of building a "people-centered city". Based on the construction of an evaluation index system for urban spatial justice, this study has made a breakthrough in the traditional paradigm for qualitative analysis of urban spatial justice by utilizing urban data from 31 provinces in China from 2015 to 2023, and comprehensively applying CRITIC entropy method, comprehensive evaluation method, K-Means++clustering algorithm, gradient boosting algorithm, etc. to evaluate and predict urban spatial justice. Research has found that: (i) Overall, China's urban spatial justice level remains relatively low but shows an upward trend, albeit with a slow improvement rate. (ii) The urban spatial justice levels, ranked from highest to lowest, are as follows: the eastern region, the western region, the central region, and the northeastern region. The city with the highest urban spatial justice level is Beijing, followed by Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Tibet, Shanghai, and Fujian. The province with the lowest urban spatial justice level is Heilongjiang. (iii) Intergenerational justice in urban space is superior to attribute justice, and attribute justice outperforms distributive justice. (iv) The CatBoost algorithm performs the best in predicting the level of urban spatial justice. The study thus proposes three policy recommendations: establishing a regionally coordinated mechanism featuring classified guidance and targeted policies, building a synergistic improvement mechanism for attribute justice, distributive justice, and intergenerational justice, and developing a data-driven dynamic optimization mechanism for urban spatial justice. These recommendations provide a new theoretical basis and critical references for enhancing urban spatial justice in China.

This paper constructs an "attention allocation-grassroots response" analytical framework and compares the low-carbon policy implementation practices in two communities, B and Z, in Wuhan City, to explore the differences in strategies and effectiveness adopted by grassroots governance entities in response to superior attention allocation. The results indicate that superior attention is transmitted through political momentum, resource support, and incentive mechanisms, while the grassroots actors respond via signal detection, execution drive, and operation maintenance. Community B, having received sustained high-level attention, abundant resources, and positive incentives, successfully mobilized social actors to participate, resulting in significant policy effectiveness. In contrast, Community Z, due to diminished attention, scarce resources, and negative incentives, suffered from insufficient societal engagement and policy failure. The research suggests that superior governments need to focus on the stability of attention allocation and positive incentives to achieve precise resource matching. Meanwhile, grassroots governance entities should strive to cultivate policy recognition and action capabilities among social actors to facilitate the long-term and effective implementation of policies.

The renewal and transformation of university campuses constitute a vital component of urban renewal and have been a key initiative promoted by local governments in recent years. To explore how aging traditional university campuses open up to the city while being renovated is one of the key issues in urban renewal today. This study takes Xiangtan University as its research subject based on an urban renewal perspective and the concept of openness and sharing. It examines the intrinsic connections between university campuses and cities by reconstructing internal campus order and establishing external relationships. Targeted renewal strategies are proposed across functional layout, traffic organization, landscape sequences, boundary forms, and campus-city interactions. Those findings aim to provide practical references for university campus renewal, urban spatial optimization, and revitalizing urban vitality.

The layout and development of metropolitan innovation and entrepreneurship space have attracted much attention from academia and government. This paper uses the methods of kernel density, spatial autocorrelation, and geographic detectors to analyze the layout evolution characteristics and formation mechanism of innovation and entrepreneurship space in three metropolitan areas (Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou) from 2010 to 2022, taking various enterprise incubation spaces above the municipal level as the main representation of innovation and entrepreneurship space. The results show: the overall structure of innovation and entrepreneurship space in Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou is a "center-periphery" structure. Shanghai has changed from a polycentric pattern to a block-like configuration, Hangzhou has changed from a dual-core to a multi-corridor layout, and Nanjing has shifted from a multi-core to a multi-center cluster layout. The evolution of the spatial layout of metropolitan innovation and entrepreneurship space has experienced three stages: discrete layout in the initial stage, multi-core agglomeration in the middle stage, and multi-cluster in the later stage. Interactions among government, enterprises, landscape, and talent factors drive the formation and evolution of metropolitan innovation and entrepreneurship spatial layouts. Different factors, including policies from the government, finance of high-tech firms, industrial structure of the enterprise, leisure and medical amenities under the landscape factor, as well as universities, talent concentration, and patents, exert a comparatively stronger influence on the spatial organization of innovation and entrepreneurship. This paper thus puts forward suggestions such as promoting the complementarity of regional innovation resources and location advantages, giving full play to the "adhesive" and "development axes" role of transportation lines and landscape belts, integrating the characteristics of cities and regional functions, and strengthening the flexible guidance of policy and urban planning.

China's tourism economy is experiencing rapid growth, with the tourism industry gradually maturing into a vital pillar of the national economy. Identifying the spatial structure of Hunan Province's tourism industry, studying its mismatch with tourism development conditions, and proposing targeted optimization strategies are of great significance for promoting the high-quality tourism development in Hunan Province. Using methods such as ArcGIS spatial analysis and spatial misalignment analysis, this study analyzes the spatial differentiation and spatial patterns of tourism and tourism development conditions in the region. The results indicate that: (i) the spatial differentiation characteristics of tourism in Hunan Province exhibit a multi-core agglomeration pattern, with prominent high-density core areas, overall showing a "strong spots—weak areas" feature; (ii) the spatial differentiation characteristics of tourism development conditions in the province's cities and prefectures display a pattern of "one dominant, many strong, clearly hierarchical, yet poorly complementary", overall showing a trend of "high in the east—low in the west"; (iii) there is a significant misalignment between tourism activity and development conditions in Hunan Province, with certain regions showing poor coordination between the two. The coordination of regional tourism development can be improved by optimizing resource integration and promoting the upgrading of factor allocation. Strategic tourism route planning and enhanced cooperative development can promote complementary advantages among different regional tourism resources. Acknowledging regional heterogeneity, deepening innovation in tourism policy, and implementing tailored, location-specific support measures under a "one city, one policy" framework are critical for optimizing the overall structure of the tourism sector.

China is an indispensable keyword in Chinese-American autobiographical literature. Native-born Chinese American writers in the United States lack firsthand experience of growing up and living in China. Memory inheritance between families and generations connects the traditions of Chinese Americans and their ancestors. The imagination of Chinese American writers based on the cramped living space in Chinatown is mostly constructed on the basis of family storytelling, known as "imaginative imagination". The presentation of Chinese culture and the telling of Chinese stories in autobiographical literature are expressions of the ethnic experience of Chinese American writers. They express their discourse of "others' gaze" and "counter-gaze" as marginalized groups in cross-cultural contexts, as well as their lack of understanding of Chinese culture.

As the most representative folk art form in the Yiyang region, "Yiyang Tanci" embodies the profound cultural memory of the Yiyang people for their hometown. As urbanization progresses, the performance spaces of "Yiyang Tanci" have shifted markedly from itinerant streets and alleys, teahouses to modern theaters and virtual platforms. As urbanization deepens, decontextualized performances have weakened the role of "Yiyang Tanci" as an embodied cultural memory. Research indicates that genuine preservation of cultural memory does not prioritize recreating the spatial forms of specific historical periods, but rather maintain the close connection between spaces and people's daily lives. Therefore, this paper proposes strategies including spatial planning and policy support, participatory engagement and living transmission, and digital preservation with cross-media narrative practices. It explores the creative integration of traditional art with modern urban settings, aiming to revitalize "Yiyang Tanci" with new artistic vitality amid the city's modernization.