Urban land-use change is affected by urban planning and government decision-making. Previous simulation methods focused only on constraints that prevent growth from developing in specific regions. However, regional produces policies drive development, such as traffic development zones, which have rarely been considered previous studies. This study aims to design two mechanisms based a cellular automata-based future model integrate different drivers into simulations. The first update...

Although regional policy experimentation has become a global trend, the distinct features of experimentalist governance in given country, such as China, remains to be investigated. This article extends process theory by proposing framework with interactive central–local relations or Chinese‐style governance, which combines three features. First, goals and instruments are formed separately interactively central local governments. Second, government is burdened its own concerns about...

The existing literature finds that finance has a significant impact on carbon emissions, but there is lack of theoretical explanation whether and how digital finance, an important new financial form, affects emissions. This paper uses balanced panel data at the provincial level in China from 2011 to 2018 as sample empirically test relationship between emissions introduces three exogenous events policy shocks. results show inhibitory effect emissions; implementation policies ‘G20 High-Level...

This article explores the complicated triangular architecture among innovation diffusion, fiscal recentralization, and authoritarian welfare regimes. We argue that local governments' adoption of innovative policies attracts attention central authorities who tend to recognize spontaneous by releasing administrative signals. During era recentralization starting from Chinese Tax‐Sharing System Reform in 1994, cities with higher dependency are more likely behave innovatively adopting a new...

China's unprecedented measures to mobilize its diverse surveillance apparatus played a key part in the country's successful containment of ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Critics worldwide believe these invasive technologies, hands an authoritarian regime, could trample right privacy and curb fundamental civil human rights. However, there is little domestic public resistance China about technology-related risks during Drawing on academic research semantic network analysis media frames, we...

Rapid urbanization has tremendously changed the global landscape with profound impacts on our society. Nighttime light (NTL) data can provide valuable information about human activities and socioeconomic conditions thus become an effective proxy to measure urban development. By using NTL-derived measures from 1992 2018, we analyzed spatiotemporal patterns of development country region city scales, which presented a distinct North-South divergence characterized by rising declining patterns. A...

This paper provides one of the first studies on role social media in articulating individuals' experiences and memories (re-)shaping collective memory contemporary China. It investigates how enable facilitate participation ordinary citizens distributing accumulating alternative narratives past against authoritarian version by taking debate over China's Great Famine – a topic long considered political taboo Sina Weibo, country's most popular sites, as case study. study demonstrates that weibo...

The prescriptive approach to crisis communication strategy (CCS) selection has long been criticized for lack of flexibility and adaptability. To address this issue, study proposes an emergent formulation by focusing on contextual impacts social media crises their implications CCS. An online discussion Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging platform, about high-profile homicide in McDonald's restaurant, is taken as the case. Based multidisciplinary theoretical framework that consists theory...

Universal access to China's social welfare system involves a process of diffusion from localities the whole country on basis policy innovations in which intergovernmental relations play key role as facilitator. The rapid establishment urban subsistence allowance more than 200 cities throughout seven years (1993-1999) serves case for our empirical analysis mechanism at different levels government. Our findings show, firstly, that adopting new policy, city governments have respond desire local...

The current study provides a social constructionist approach to crisis communication in the Chinese context. Crisis is viewed as form of strategic communication, involving multiple stakeholders situations that are dependent on context, space and time. This much-needed path for investigating understanding practices contemporary China. distinct context with both an authoritarian government structure digital transformation society, challenges theories originally developed Western countries. To...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the Chinese government generates authority during a crisis through discursive practices expressed in social media. Design/methodology/approach Using theoretical framework and method genre analysis, study examined top 100 forwarded posts on Weibo about high-profile murder determine mechanisms involved generating authority. Findings This provides empirical support that building maintaining distinguishes governments from other actors...

Abstract: This paper argues that despite the considerable resilience demonstrated by Chinese authoritarian regime, its power experiences continuous atrophy. With weakening of totalitarian control imposed on society, current stability maintenance system has been decreasing in effectiveness. Meanwhile, contentious activities within civil society gain momentum, and grow both frequency complexity. Movements such as human rights advocacy political pluralism are traversing down a path towards...

The purpose of this study is to explore how nationalism shapes the public perception multinational corporations’ crises on Chinese social media. Using qualitative content analysis, examines 1000 comments from top 10 hashtag posts and explores interaction between nationalist expression (i.e., sentiment nationalism) public’s United Airlines crisis in 2017. findings demonstrate impinged upon interpretation Airlines’ misconduct. Six concrete emotions (anger, hared, amusement, pride,...

Drawing on insights from both rhetorical arena theory and contingency of conflict management, this study examines the role political factors in shaping stakeholder groups’ perceptions organizational responses stances a scansis multinational corporation. This combined qualitative content analysis semantic network to analyze responses, news coverage, social media posts regarding National Basketball Association (NBA)–China crisis 2019, triggered by an online comment team executive supporting...

This study examines the influences of national contexts on crisis attribution to address recent appeal for a more contextually sensitive perspective in communication research. Specifically, this revisits situational theory (SCCT) Chinese context by taking an online discussion Weibo about high-profile homicide McDonald’s restaurant as case. Built framing and categorization contexts, inductive analysis 100 top forwarded posts demonstrates complex negotiation process context-embedded frames its...

China has become the biggest mobile communication carrier in world since 2001. Advanced technologies create a revolution, and individual, through advent of media, an active participant this process. This study investigates phone's impact upon developments public participation, social inclusion citizenship case Xiamen PX demonstration. In terms local environmental activism, residents shared information with help wireless about alleged misdeeds party officials took various civic actions again...

This study aims to theoretically advance the context-oriented tradition in crisis communication by highlighting political and technological contexts for understanding organisational crises. Using China as a case, proposes broader analytical framework that investigates societal contexts’ impact on from domains. The includes, first, examination of authoritarian regime with divided power structure context China. Assessing ideology, structure, history allows more comprehensive temporally...

Given the huge demand for food created by China's large population and high cost of transporting across such a nation, security strategy based on local self-sufficiency seems vital. To encourage agricultural production, subsidies have therefore been implemented since 1997. Although to support production in China arose from desire combat poverty hunger, they may instead led adverse health impacts, insecurity, environmental degradation because complexity socioeconomic systems prevented...

Through a questionnaire survey, this question in-depth understanding of the views and needs college students in Longzihu District Bengbu on light food stalls, so as to clarify their preferences intentions for dietary choices. This paper will collect descriptively analyze perceptions expectations stalls canteens, further explore market demand development advantages LIGHTFOOD customized provide suggestions references sustainable canteens.