Top-level Design Research Articles

The Top-Level Design Strategy of “Curriculum Civics” in the New Era of Universities Based on Machine Learning under the Perspective of Communication Science

The application of this new teaching method in daily courses, as well as virtual practice teaching of ideological and political theory classes in colleges and universities, is conducive to improving the attractiveness, infectiousness, and effectiveness of ideological and political theory classes and breaking the new blueprint of ideological and political education teaching. This paper takes the research object of virtual practice teaching in college ideological and political theory classes, conducts a preliminary investigation of its research background, research purpose, and research significance, and develops a general understanding of virtual practice teaching’s application in ideological and political theory classes.

Building China’s National Carbon Market That Serves Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Goals

This paper summarizes the new progress in building China’s national carbon market since 2020, and analyzes the connotation of China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals (“dual carbon” goals) and its significance to socio-economic development in China. Through case analysis, this paper expounds the role of China’s recent carbon trading activities in promoting the transition toward green and low-carbon socio-economic development. On that basis, this paper conceives a top-level design for building the national carbon market that serves the “dual carbon” goals: building and improving the national carbon market that fundamentally serves as an emission reduction tool, developing the institutions and systems of the national carbon market with a focus on emission cap, creating a multilevel and diversified carbon trading scheme centered on the national carbon market, exploring a mechanism that takes carbon emission reduction as the core and promotes the synergistic effect of the carbon market with other environmental rights trading markets, and pursuing the healthy and orderly development of carbon finance that aims to serve carbon emission reduction.

Virtuous Cycle: An Idea of Water Resources Management and Top-Level Planning

Facing the conflict between human activities and the ecological environment, this study proposes a “Virtuous Cycle” concept of water resource management and top-level planning. By analyzing and summarizing typical experiences from both macro-policy and micro-practice, the characteristics and mechanisms of the Virtuous Cycle are discussed. According to the analysis method of “Problem-Attribution-Goal-Task-Measures” (PAGTM), taking the “Five Water Governance” water management project in Zhejiang Province of China as a case study, the specific measures and technical framework of the Virtuous Cycle are explored. This study hopes to provide a reference for the top-level planning and path design of harmonious and sustainable natural-social water resources management.

Does Distance Make Happiness? Geographic Proximity of Adult Children and the Well-being of Older Persons

ABSTRACT This study investigates the association between the intergenerational geographic proximity of adult children and the well-being of older persons in China. Data from the 2014 wave of the China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey was analyzed using probit analysis. Results reveal an inverted U-shaped relationship between the geographic proximity of adult children and the well-being of older people in urban but not rural areas. Older adults who live independently but with adult children living close by have significantly higher life satisfaction than those who live with or at a distance from their children. The findings suggest that more comprehensive top-level policy designs with respect to the allocation and management of affordable housing should be employed to encourage nearby-living and hence improve the system for supporting older adults.

Construction of Sci-Tech Financial Ecosystem Indicators and International Comparative Research

The development of science and technology (sci-tech) finance is conducive to improving the transformation quality of sci-tech achievements and optimizing the allocation of resources. However, the current sci-tech finance field in China is mainly promoted by the way of government work, and the theoretical research on the operation mechanism and system structure of sci-tech finance is relatively lagging. This article constructs the research framework of the sci-tech financial ecosystem from the perspective of ecology, uses the quantitative method of index design to deconstruct the gap between China and other major countries in the world, and analyzes the reasons and enlightenment. It is expected to provide decision-making support for relevant policies from the perspective of top-level design while promoting theoretical research.

Construction of a Digital Elderly Care Service System Based on Human-Computer Interaction from the Perspective of Smart Elderly Care.

Digital elderly care service is an innovative elderly care model, and its emergence has brought about a huge change in the field of elderly care services (ECSS). The current method is to make the elderly care service more precise and personalized, improve the ability and level, and improve the current ECSS. The defect is that the short of top-level design and overall planning is basically only in the state of trial operation. In order to solve these problems, this paper proposes to study how to intervene in social work in smart ECSS to enhance service capabilities and improve service quality on the original basis. Therefore, based on the use of human-computer interaction technology, this paper deepens the research on the current elderly care services. According to a survey of the elderly in a certain city, the digital elderly care system shows that 25.33% of the elderly prefer to use housekeeping services, and 63% of the elderly prefer healthcare services. The results show that the digital elderly care service system based on human-computer interaction technology is easier to be accepted by the elderly than the traditional elderly care service. The elderly care service system under human-computer interaction is more considerate than the traditional elderly care service system and can make the elderly's life more colorful.

Research on Agricultural Pollution Problems and Prevention Measures in Guangxi Wuxuan County

With the continuous advancement of agricultural modernization and rural revitalization, the problem of agricultural pollution has become increasingly prominent. Strengthening the control of agricultural pollution to make agriculture sustainable development, affects the development and destiny of a country's agriculture. By investigating the actual situation of agricultural pollution in Wuxuan County, Guangxi, the main problems of local agricultural pollution are put forward, in view of the existing problems, countermeasures and suggestions are put forward, such as improving the protection awareness of practitioners, improving infrastructure construction, accelerating agricultural transformation and upgrading, and strengthening top-level design.

Conceptualizing and contextualizing three-dimensional interaction model of internationalization: Evidence from China

This study explores to conceptualize and practicalize three-dimensional interaction model of internationalization from China’s higher education perspective. Applying documentary analysis, a qualitative method, and interviews, 15 international administrative staff and directors from eight sampled local universities were interviewed to present in-depth insights into the internationalization of the local higher education system in Beijing. The major findings are that strategic positioning in terms of the internationalization of local universities should be based on the following: top-level design of a national macro internationalization strategy; a focus on the internal need for internationalization at the regional level; and understanding the distinctive advantages of internationalization at the local level. The choices for the internationalization of local universities should focus on the absolute advantages of the ‘scale’ of resources and rationally expand the relative advantages concerning the ‘structure’ of resources. Implementation of the strategy for internationalization of local universities should actively build on the competitive advantage of ‘strategic resource integration’. In conclusion, the need to combine national needs with regional development, the importance of combining connotation and capacity building, and of adhering to a combination of a top-level layout or design and local practice are explored and summarized. Finally, both the theoretical contribution and practical implications of this study are discussed.

Research of Mining Area Ecological Compensation From the Perspective of Knowledge Innovation

Ecological compensation has been the favorite subject of ecological depletion caused in mining areas with the aim of sustainable development. So, an analytical model is presented to assess the knowledge innovation of ecological compensation. Later, the methods of factor analysis, resistance diagnosis, and multiple regressions are integrated to evaluate its satisfaction in the Huainan mining area. The study found that (1) the influence of factors related to work mechanism is identical, while the influence of factors related to strategic planning and action skills is heterogenous; and (2) in terms of the relative importance of the three dimensions of work mechanism (0.479), strategic planning (0.467), and action skills (0.351), their influence decreases in order. The results can provide reference materials for the effective governance of ecological compensation and its scientific management of ecological safety in the mining area. So, the findings can help for better improvement of ecological compensation, and then the following strategies are proposed to improve its knowledge innovation: First, the harmonious development of individual behavior and overall interests needs to be realized; Second, the coordinated development of top-level design and adherence to faith needs to be optimized; Third, the interactive development guided by competence and mass entrepreneurship and innovation needs to be achieved.

Research on System Construction and Strategy of Intelligent Sports in the Implementation of National Fitness

This paper studies the construction and development strategy of intelligent sports system in the context of Chinese National Fitness Program with methods of literature review and model construction. The research shows that there are four dilemmas in the implementation of intelligent sports in national fitness: data security, market monopoly, legal supervision, and product iteration. However, there are also three promoting factors in this regard, including policy guarantee, market demand, and industrial upgrading. Following the principles of scientificity, effectiveness, public welfare, and collaboration, this paper designs a system for intelligent sports in national fitness. The construction of the national fitness intelligent sports system mainly consists of four modules, including basic framework construction, function design, content design, and operation analysis. With the systematic analysis of the status quo of intelligent sports application in national fitness, this paper puts forward intelligent sports development strategies in the implementation of national fitness from four aspects: optimizing the top-level design of government, speeding up industrial transformation and upgrading, constructing market supervision mechanism, and establishing a talent training system.

Internal causes, difficulties and breakthrough paths of implementing classroom revolution in Applied Undergraduate Colleges and Universities

“Classroom revolution” is a comprehensive reform of the traditional classroom from the aspects of teaching methods, teaching contents, teaching means and teaching evaluation. It is the internal requirement of establishing a modern classroom teaching model and the inevitable trend of the development of modern educational technology. In practice, the implementation of the “classroom revolution” confronts difficulties and dilemmas in Applied Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. Starting from the exploration of the implementation background and practical significance of the “classroom revolution”, this study deeply analyzes the necessity of the “classroom revolution” in Colleges and universities, puts forward some methods and paths to break through the difficulties from the aspects of top-level design, teachers’ ability and consciousness, work incentive mechanism in view of the practical problems existing, and gives the specific methods of reform practice according to the practical requirement. Through this path, the goal of improving classroom value has been guaranteed.

Mechanism Optimization of Villagers' Contribution in Rural Revitalization

The key to rural revitalization is people". During the implementation of rural revitalization strategy, the mechanism of new villagers helping rural revitalization suffers from the lack of multiple synergistic mechanisms, imperfect guarantee mechanisms and supervision and accountability mechanisms to be strengthened. This is inseparable from the inadequate top-level design of rural talent synergy mechanism, the long-standing dual structure of urban-rural development, and the inertia of social governance of local acquaintances. Therefore, strengthening the leadership of the Party, coordinating the efforts of all parties, constructing the evaluation system, improving the supervision mechanism, perfecting the policy guarantee and establishing the incentive mechanism are of great significance, no matter it is to improve the mechanism of multiple subjects collaborating to build beautiful countryside or to promote the implementation of rural revitalization strategy.

Factors Influencing Agricultural Products Trade between China and Africa

Studies on the factors affecting agricultural trade between China and Africa are of practical significance to ensure the healthy and sustainable development of their agricultural cooperation and to strengthen the strategic outcome of China’s “one belt, one road” strategy. Firstly, this paper posits research hypotheses considering six aspects—economic scale, geographical and demographic factors, natural resource endowment, the level of agricultural science and technology, political factors, and exchange rate factors—and then performs an empirical analysis based on an extended gravity model by using data on China from the UN COMTRADE and other data on 58 Africa countries from 2010 to 2019. The results indicate that China’s GDP, African countries’ GDP, the years of education of the African population, the average arable land per capita of African countries and the renewable water resources per capita in Africa have positive effects on the trade flow of agricultural products between China and Africa. Geographical distance and China’s exchange rate have a negative impact on trade flow. The impact of the human capital index of China and the “one belt, one road” policy are not significant. Next, in order to analyze the impact of these factors on different regions of Africa, this paper uses sub samples to test the regional heterogeneity and discusses the relevant issues. Finally, some countermeasures are put forward: the top-level design and overall layout of bilateral cooperation should be consolidated, the stereoscopic traffic network construction of bilateral trade should be accelerated, and the upgrading of agricultural technology should also be accelerated.

Application Scenarios and Promotion Strategies of High-Quality Development of Sports Service Industry Empowered by Digital Technology

The new generation of digital technology brings new opportunities and new momentum to the development of sports service industry. Reviewing literature and case analysis were used in this study as the methods. Examine the important value and theoretical mechanism of high-quality development of sports service industry empowered by digital technology. Research analyzes the following practical application scenarios and typical cases systematically: The sports competition and performance industry enabled by 5G technology, the sports and health promotion industry empowered by blockchain technology, and the sports venue service industry empowered by Internet technology. And put forward the overall promotion strategy based on macro, medium, and micro levels. It is concluded that the rise and application of digital technology provide important technical support for the high-quality development of modern sports service industry. And it keeps great value to the optimization of sports service structure, the integration of formats, the matching of supply and demand, and the improvement of efficiency. Digital technology enables high-quality development of modern sports service industry. At the macro level, the top-level design led by the government is supposed to be strengthened. At the middle level, a multi-industry coordination mechanism is supposed to be established. At the micro level, we should perfect the professional talent cultivation system oriented by market demand.

Impact of Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution on River Water Quality: Evidence From China

Identifying the effect of agricultural non-point source pollutants on water quality is very important for water pollution management. This study used NH3N as an indicator to empirically study the influence of fertilizer application on river water quality based on panel data of 46 prefecture-level cities and 18 state-controlled water quality monitoring points through which the main streams of Yangtze River and Yellow River flow from 2004 to 2019. It is found that: (1) An increase in agricultural fertilizer application amount will exacerbate water pollution, and the worsening water quality in the upper watershed and the influence of precipitation will lead to transboundary water pollution in the lower watershed. (2) The amount of fertilizer application and fertilizer application intensity had a threshold effect on river water quality pollution. When the former exceeded the threshold value of 11.496 tons, and the latter exceeded the threshold value of 7.991 ton/km2, the positive effect of fertilizer application on pollutants in rivers was further enhanced. (3) The amount of fertilizer applied had a long-term effect on water quality through a lagged effect, and as the number of lags increased, the accumulative effect of the negative influence gradually rose. Based on the findings of the empirical study, it is proposed that the inter-basin and inter-regional synergy should be formed in the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution, and the overall top-level design of agricultural subsidies and agricultural environmental policies in the areas along the basin should be considered.

Study on the Coordinated Development of Economy, Tourism, and Eco-Environment in Sanjiangyuan

Sanjiangyuan region is located in the hinterland of Qinghai-Tibet plateau, covering an area of 30.25 square kilometers, with the total population of 556000 people, including Tibetans, constituting more than 90%. Since it is the source of the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Lancang River catchment area, biodiversity concentration, and a beautiful environment, known as the “Chinese water tower,” occupy an irreplaceable strategic position in national development. Although Sanjiangyuan region is blessed with unique natural landscape and rich tourism resources, its ecological environment has been seriously deteriorated due to long-term man-made destruction, backward economic development, and increasing poverty, which have seriously affected and restricted the survival and development of local ethnic groups. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that “Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.” China advocates harmonious coexistence between humans and nature and sticks to the path of green and sustainable development. At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the rural revitalization strategy was clearly proposed, which includes not only industrial revitalization but also ecological revitalization. In this paper, the area belonging to Sanjiangyuan National Park is taken as the main research object. By constructing economic, tourism, and ecological environment (TEE) evaluation indexes, the coupling degree and coupling coordination degree models are established, and the data from 2000 to 2019 are measured. The relationship of the three indicators is analyzed, and corresponding proposals for its development are put forward, such as implementing ecological compensation mechanism to improve the level of ecosystem management; blending into ethnic cultural elements to create a unique tourist resort; paying attention to economic development quality, building energy conservation and emissions reduction green engine; Doing a good job in the top-level design of ecological economy, and promoting the coordinated development of various indicators, etc. We will focus on quality control of economic development and build green engines for energy conservation and emission reduction. We will do a good job in top-level ecological and economic design and promote coordinated development of various indicators.

Research on the Dilemma and Breakthrough Path of Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities in the Era of Big Data

The era of big data has had a more accurate, timely, extensive and lasting impact on the way of thinking and behavior of college students, which puts forward the reform requirements of "sense of the times" and "attraction" for ideological and political education in colleges and universities. However, the dilemmas in the process of combining the two are objective, such as the problems of the traditional subject-object relationship between the ideological and political educators and college students and the top-level design of school administration. Therefore, a two-way transformation combining top-down and bottom-up is the era requirement for traditional ideological and political education in the era of big data.

Application of VR Technology in Brand IP Image Design

Virtual reality (VR) refers to the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image environment that can be interacted within a seemingly physical way by a person using special electronic equipment and making people interactive and immersive. VR technology is applied to communication activities, producing VR communication. VR technology is applied to news reports, giving birth to the emergence of VR news. The great significance of VR technology for news communication lies in the comprehensive intake and recording and transmission of news site materials so that news events can “reproduce” and “restore.” The most prominent feature of VR transmission is immersion. Immersivity is mainly reflected in the perceptual system and the behavioral system of the human body. The immersion of perception system includes visual immersion, auditory immersion, touch immersion, and other sensory immersion; behavioral system immersion includes the immersion of language system, direction system immersion, and expression system immersion. Immersive communication has experienced three development stages: interactive communication, invasive communication, infiltration, and audience experience. There are three hidden dangers in VR technology in the communication. One is the hidden danger of the technical operation level: the lack of security and stability of the production process may lead to the disappearance of the traditional reporter, the second is the ethical hidden danger: the degradation of “audience” to “mass,” and third is “body” weakening the authority of “addiction”: the emergence of “brain in the cylinder,” the emergence of snooping feast, and the formation of exposed carnival. There are three aspects to prevent VR hidden dangers, layout and top-level design, improve security, and communication efficiency, promote industrial application, enhance user stickiness, strengthen brand building, and create ace IP and quality content.

Top-level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China

ABSTRACT Xi Jinping has centralized foreign policymaking authorities by setting up new central coordination organizations with himself as the head to bypass entrenched interests and cut through bureaucratic roadblocks. Staking his claim to power on the party and demanding personal loyalty of Chinese bureaucrats to him in a way that none of his recent predecessors could; Xi has introduced a top-level design to develop strategic visions, conduct strategic planning, and make tough decisions. The top-level design has advanced the enlarged diplomacy far beyond the sphere of professional diplomats. But Xi’s personalization of Chinese foreign and security policymaking has increased the possibility of intended and unintended consequences of foreign adventure and actions.

Nothing New Under “Top-Level Design”? A Review of the Conceptual Literature on Local Policymaking in China

Scholarship on local governance in China in general and on the Chinese policy process in particular has expanded remarkably over the last four decades. Where earlier studies were mostly interested in grasping the dynamics of central-local relations, more specific features like performance evaluation systems or policy implementation processes have come under scholarly scrutiny over the course of time. New theoretical concepts have been introduced to explain phenomena pertaining to local governance, and this research has become ever more specialized. In this state-of-the art review, we trace the trajectories of research on the Chinese policy process in the reform era in two distinct periods before and after the inauguration of current CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. By drawing on prominent theoretical and conceptual approaches to understanding and assessing the Chinese policy process in these two periods, we highlight the changes and continuities in local policymaking under Xi’s “top-level design.” Although most recent studies indicate increasing top-down centralization in the local Chinese state, it seems that the basic institutional prerequisites of the policy process have hardly been altered. Therefore, most of the older conceptual characterizations of local policymaking still very much hold water. Still, we do conclude by pointing to some so far understudied aspects of local policymaking in China.