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25 May 2025, Volume 43 Issue 3

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The Experience Implications of Promoting Balanced Regional Development for Chinese-Style Modernization

CHEN Yi, HUA Rui

2025, 43(3):  3-14. 

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The eastern，central，and western regions of China exhibit a tiered geographical distribution，addressing the multiple tensions inherent in promoting balanced regional development require exploration，such as the dialectical unity between objective constraints and subjective construction，external integration and internal driving forces，as well as balance and imbalance，requires in-depth exploration. Based on a historical review of regional balanced development，the experience of advancing China’s modernization through regional balance can be summarized from three dimensions of subject，space，and time. In terms of the subject，it is essential to leverage the Party and state’s strengths in overall planning and high-level promotion，break the rigid constraints of administrative boundaries，and improve conditions shaped by objective limitations. In the spatial dimension，underdeveloped regions should be encouraged to shift their mindsets，and absorb high-quality external resources. This approach helps form a neo-endogenous development model characterized by exogenous driving forces and endogenous，benign interactions. From the time dimension，regional imbalance demonstrates relative stability over long historical periods；however，in shorter historical periods，national regional policies have played an effective regulatory role.

Building Consensus Through Orderly Interests Expression：Analysis of the Advantages of the CPPCC System——Based on the Examination of History，System，and Process

HAN Qi

2025, 43(3):  15-26. 

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Fully leveraging the role of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference（CPPCC） is of great value to promoting the construction of national democratic politics and enhancing the level of national governance. From a micro perspective，the CPPCC plays a unique role in orderly expression of interests within the political system. This function was formed in the historical practice of the  Communist Party of China （CPC） leading the revolution，and was consolidated through the unique composition of the CPPCC. In the policy process，the orderly expression of interests by the CPPCC plays an important role in promoting the formation of policy agendas，policy decision-making，and policy feedback. In a comparative sense，the orderly expression of interests by the CPPCC has the advantages of authority，representativeness，and effectiveness. Better utilizing the orderly expression of interests function of the CPPCC has a positive effect on enhancing the institutional efficiency of the CPPCC and building consensus.

Temporal Evolution，Spatial Differences，and Driving Factors Analysis of Regional New Infrastructure Development——Based on the Sample of City Clusters Including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei，Yangtze River Delta，and Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle

HE Jixin, LEIP Junjie, HOU Yu

2025, 43(3):  27-43. 

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New infrastructure has become an important support for China’s economic transformation and a cornerstone for comprehensive improvement and upgrading of regional production，living，and ecological aspects. In order to examine the development level，temporal evolution，spatial differences and driving factors of new infrastructure，this research constructs a comprehensive evaluation index of new infrastructure development level based on the relevant data of the three major city clusters of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei，Yangtze River Delta and Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle from 2013 to 2022，uses the TOPSIS-entropy method and multiple linear regression model to analyze the comprehensive measurement and driving factors. The research findings three conclusions.（1）Over the past decade，the overall level of new infrastructure development in the three city clusters has shown an increasing trend，while the gap in development level has gradually narrowed.（2）There is spatial heterogeneity within and between regions，with the development level of the three city clusters being significantly higher than other provinces and cities. The development focus is mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta and Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle，particularly in Jiangsu and Sichuan provinces.（3）The level of new infrastructure development is influenced by various driving factors，including the level of urban economic development，the level of highly integrated industrial structure，the level of industrial agglomeration，the level of urban financial development，the level of urbanization，and the size of population，which are key driving factors. Path planning can be carried out from the aspects of economic stimulation，industrial adaptation，urban-rural integration，tailored approaches，and responsibility adaptation，construct a comprehensive and coordinated regional governance mechanism，continuously optimize and improve the hierarchical construction types，narrow the gap between regions，and achieve regional common prosperity guided by new infrastructure.

Research on Strategies for High-Quality Development of Public Services Empowered by New Infrastructure

SUN Yu, ZHU Mingyue, YAO Peng

2025, 43(3):  44-58. 

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The new infrastructure，as a key driving force for the digital transformation of China’s infrastructure construction system，is continuously injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of public services. To explore the development trends of new infrastructure and public service levels，a comprehensive evaluation index system for new infrastructure and public service levels was constructed based on provincial data from 2011 to 2022. The entropy method and regression models were used for comprehensive measurement and analysis. The study found：（1）Beijing，Shanghai，and Tianjin have relatively high levels of new infrastructure，while Yunnan and Guizhou have lower levels，with significant differences in new infrastructure levels among different provinces，particularly in innovative infrastructure；（2）the new infrastructure  and  public service indicating an upward development trend for both new infrastructure and public service levels；（3）there is a significant positive correlation between new infrastructure and public service levels，and information infrastructure，integrated infrastructure，and innovative infrastructure can all enhance public service levels. Under the influence of factors such as foreign direct investment and industrial structure，new infrastructure can still effectively empower public services to develop towards high quality. Based on the research conclusions，it is recommended to improve the hardware and software of new infrastructure，optimize resource allocation，innovate public service supply models，and enhance public service levels according to local conditions to promote the high-quality development of regional public services.

A Study on the “Returning from the Market to the Road” Phenomenon of Urban Street Vendors and Its Governance Strategies

HAN Jiangfeng, ZHAI Yue

2025, 43(3):  59-69. 

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The employment of street vendors，as a low threshold，low cost，and fast monetization informal employment method，provides flexible income acquisition opportunities for mobile populations，but also brings many challenges to urban governance. After reviewing the experience of managing street vendors in various regions and the current situation of managing mobile vendors in X Street，Z City，it was found that the current management method mainly combines “unblocking”，with the core being to guide street vendors to “moving from the road to the market” by setting up a diversion field. However，some vendors temporarily comply by moving to the market only to later revert to their previous roadside operations，thus establishing a pattern of “returning from the market to the road”. From the perspective of Push-Pull Theory，the high rent，unequal access rights，strong homogenization competition and other “driving forces” of the traffic field，as well as the high spatiotemporal flexibility，flexible management strategies，more matching consumer groups and other pulling forces of the road field，as well as individual factors such as profit seeking tendencies，family care needs，and expectations rooted in the city，all contribute to the emergence of “returning from the market to the road”. Further efforts should be made to eliminate the driving force of the diversion field，weaken the pulling force of the road field，and take into account the individual needs of street vendors as much as possible to reduce the phenomenon of “returning from the market to the road”，achieving a harmonious unity between urban development and meeting the living needs of mobile populations.

Grid-based Management Empowers Grassroots Emergency Governance：Effectiveness，Dilemmas and Strategies

FU Meijia

2025, 43(3):  70-80. 

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Enhancing grassroots emergency governance capacity is a key link to further promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity，and grid-based management，as a grassroots social governance innovation model，has an empowering role in grassroots emergency governance. The efficacy of grid-based management empowering grassroots emergency governance mainly focuses on the aspects of people-oriented peddling，multi-party linkage，fine service，institutional advantages，data submission，etc，and also exposes the reality of dilemmas in the dimensions of subject，mechanism，rules，and technology，etc. In order to crack the multi-dimensional dilemmas，it should be remodeled into four paths：at the subject level，build up a firm pattern of linkage and closed-loop pattern；at the mechanism level，optimize the multi-dimensional guarantee and overall process；at the rule level，cultivate the legal concept and humanistic consciousness；at the technology level，break the technology supremacy and the “information chimney”.

Impact of Performance Shortfall on Firms Social Security Contributions

GUO Lei, XU Peiqi

2025, 43(3):  81-94. 

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 The behavior theory of firm hypothesizes that firms with their performance below their expectations will improve the probability of deviant behavior such as fraud and bribery，but less attention is paid to evading social security contributions. This paper argues that firm swith small performance shortfall prefer to evade social security contributions while firms with big performance shortfall prefer high-risk deviant behavior，and firms with performance surplus pay no attention to the social security contribution. Taking A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2018 as samples，this paper examines the impact of performance shortfall on firms social security contributions. The results show that when performance is lower than expected，performance shortfall is positively correlated with social security contributions, market valuation and industry competition strengthen this relationship；when performance is higher than expected，and performance surplus has nothing to do with social security contributions.