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    • Theory and Methodology Exploration
      LI Yurui
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      Rural construction, encompassing infrastructure, public services, and human settlement improvement, serves as a critical pathway to harmonize human-environment relationships in rural areas and a pivotal endeavor for advancing the comprehensive rural revitalization strategy. Integrated geographical research on rural construction offers a new opportunity for geography to serve national strategies. Despite substantial investments in rural construction in China, persistent gaps and underdeveloped regions remain, necessitating deeper theoretical and practical research to address these challenges. This study, based on a systematic review of the progress in rural construction research, elucidates the scientific connotations and practical requirements of rural construction from a geographical perspective. It further outlines the key areas for geographical research and innovative practical pathways to advance rural construction in the new era. Rural construction is a comprehensive, systematic undertaking that builds on current conditions while being geared toward the future. Against the backdrop of climate change, population mobility, and prominent sustainability challenges, it exhibits multidimensional, multilevel, and differentiated demands. In terms of the research, it is imperative to integrate interdisciplinary knowledge and construct a multi-objective, multilevel, and multi-stakeholder collaborative framework to distill differentiated regional models and optimization strategies based on comprehensive effects, implementation mechanisms, and problem diagnosis. From the perspective of practice, it is essential to actively explore more effective mechanisms for supply-demand matching, planning guidance, funding mobilization, subsequent operation and maintenance, and performance evaluation, thereby promoting a more inclusive, equitable, efficient, and sustainable approach to rural construction that effectively contributes to comprehensive rural revitalization.

    • Theory and Methodology Exploration
      TAN Lin, LONG Hualou
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      Based on the context of "goal-strategy-path", the logic and content framework system of the modernization transformation of rural China towards urban-rural integrated development were explored. The study reveals several findings: (1) There is an inherent logical connection of collaborative interaction between the modernization transformation of rural China and the integrated development of urban and rural areas. Guided by the logic of goal transmission, the modernization transformation of rural China is achieved through three compound mechanisms: the transition of land use morphologies, the reconstruction of industrial models, and the innovation of spatial governance. (2) The modernization transformation of rural China has compound values such as facilitating the flow of factors between urban and rural areas, promoting the upgrading of industrial structure, and improving the relationship between human and land in rural areas. By adjusting the operation status of the rural territorial system through the logic of supply matching, it responds to the demands of urban-rural integration. (3) In the system of rural modernization transformation in China, the optimization of the land system driven by the qualitative change in land use patterns has stabilized the development foundation and solved the practical problems such as the extensive utilization of rural space, the disorder of powers and functions, the imbalance of functions and the decline of efficiency. The reconstruction of industrial models has established a modern platform for the transformation of rural economies and their integration into the large-scale economic circulation pattern of urban and rural areas, with a focus on resolving the structural predicament caused by the lagging industrial system within rural areas. Innovation in spatial governance has bridged the inherent institutional gap between urban and rural areas. Through multiple mechanisms such as institutional optimization, policy support, and digital means, it has coordinated the integrated governance of urban and rural areas and guaranteed the interests of multiple subjects. (4) By leveraging land use transition regulation, multifunctional rural development, and synergistic governance combining institutional adaptation with technology enablement, China's rural modernization transformation constructed a pathway system designed to serve and advance urban-rural integration.This paper offers valuable insights in response to the contemporary proposition of Chinese modernization.

    • Theory and Methodology Exploration
      SUN Man, SONG Tao, LIU Weidong
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      Railways, as a major "engineering technology" emerging in the early 19th century, symbolize a significant milestone in human civilization. Beyond their technical essence, railways embody political, social, cultural, and military dimensions, and should therefore be regarded as geopolitical entities integrating material and immaterial carriers of power across multiple spatial scales. Building on an in-depth analysis of the geopolitical implications of railways, this paper constructs a triadic analytical framework of geography, technology, and power to explore railway geopolitics, and identifies three generative mechanisms through which railway geopolitics is constituted. Based on this framework, the paper traces the evolutionary trajectories of railway geopolitics across different historical stages and compares the mechanisms through which geopolitics has been generated in each period. The study finds that the geographical, technological, and power attributes form the internal logic of railway geopolitics. The co-construction of material, institutional, and discursive mechanisms reveals the generative logic and specific pathways of railway geopolitics. Across five historical stages—nationalism, imperialism, global turmoil, neoliberalism, and connectivity—railways have exhibited distinct geopolitical characteristics. In different historical periods, the geopolitical attributes of railways are different, and the mechanism of railway geopolitics is also different. Its evolution reflects a profound transformation of power forms: from territorial control to rule-making, and further to struggles over meaning. With the global expansion of railway networks, technological advancements, and diversification of power actors, the connotations and manifestations of railway geopolitics continue to evolve, intensifying contests over issues such as finance, debt, sovereignty, and labor. Conducting research on railway geopolitics amidst unprecedented global changes enriches domestic geographical studies on infrastructure and provides practical insights for major national strategies like the Belt and Road Initiative.

    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
      ZHANG Chaohui, WANG Yeqiang, LUO Yangfan
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      Clarifying the spatio-temporal development gap and the endogenous contributions of China's new quality productive forces provides a solid foundation for decision-making aimed at accelerating the formation and developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions. Drawing on the theoretical framework of the "Element-Structure-Function" of the new quality productive forces system, this study measured the cultivation and development degree of new quality productive forces across 282 cities in China from 2011 to 2021, utilizing multi-source data and double-improved coupling coordination degree model. Through machine learning regression prediction and SHAP visualization methods, this study analyzed the spatio-temporal dynamics and development gaps of new quality productive forces in Chinese cities, while identifying the contributions of various subsystems and variables. The findings of this study are as follows: (1) The absolute level of cultivation and development of new quality productive forces in Chinese cities has continued to rise, exhibiting a spatial distribution pattern of "cluster strengthening" and "hinterland improvement". Some cities have achieved breakthrough progress in "stage transition", though overall, the cities remained in a transitional phase from "cultivation and formation" to "coordinated improvement". (2) A clear "block segmentation" pattern has emerged in the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces across Chinese cities. The high-value areas in the north are concentrated in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Shandong Peninsula regions. The development momentum of the Central China Plains urban agglomeration is prominent, while the northeast region demonstrates a north-south differentiation pattern. The northwest region is predicted to exhibit a "hammer-shaped" low-value area. The high-value areas in the south are primarily distributed in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Guangdong-Fujian-Zhejiang coastal areas, and the Chengdu-Chongqing region. The Guangdong-Fujian-Zhejiang coastal areas, along with their adjacent regions, are predicted to show significant development momentum, while a "belt-shaped" low-value area will emerge from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to the Beibu Gulf region. (3) The development process of new quality productive forces in Chinese cities has shifted from being predominantly driven by "factor enhancement" to a more balanced model involving both "factor enhancement" and "structural optimization". The construction of digital new infrastructure has made the most substantial positive contribution to the new quality productive forces. Optimizing the policy support framework and productivity distribution structure represents an effective lever for promoting the advancement of new quality productive forces.

    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
      WANG Zhaofeng, PENG Wen
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      New quality productive forces contribute significantly to the effective development of tourism, and an understanding of the mechanism underlying the influence of new quality productive forces on tourism total factor productivity is important. However, the influence of new quality productive forces on the tourism industry has not yet been extended to tourism total factor productivity. In this study, panel data from 2009 to 2023 from 108 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt were analyzed to assess new quality productive forces and tourism total factor productivity, examining both spatial and temporal characteristics, to elucidate the mechanism underlying the effects of new quality productive forces in the Yangtze River Economic Belt on tourism total factor productivity. The results indicated that: (1) The level of new quality productive forces exhibited a steady upward trend, with a decreasing distribution pattern with Shanghai, Wuhan, and Chongqing at the core. (2) The total factor productivity of tourism showed an oblique 'N'-shaped trend, characterized by an initial increase and subsequent decrease and followed by a further increase, with a decreasing gradient of 'upstream-middlestream-downstream. (3) New quality productive forces had a positive impact on tourism total factor productivity, characterized as 'upstream > downstream > midstream', which was found to influence tourism total factor productivity through technological breakthroughs, innovative allocation of production factors, and the in-depth transformation and upgrading. A single threshold effect was observed, with the level of development of the digital economy representing the threshold, which showed an increasing marginal effect. In the future, to fully realize the potential of new quality productive forces in the tourism sector, it would be necessary to accelerate integrated development of new quality productive forces with the tourism industry, strengthen associations of tourism industry chains between regions, and promote the creation and development of the digital economy.

    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
      CHEN Xiaofei, ZHANG Wenlu, HU Yonggui, MIAO Changhong
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      The domestic and international dual-circulation strategy is not only an application and summary of China's participation in the global production network (GPN) for regional development, but also opens up new perspectives and practical opportunities for GPN research. This paper focuses on Huawei, a company most profoundly affected by the Sino-US geopolitical crisis. By using the data from global suppliers of key components of Huawei's typical models, the P30 Pro in 2020 and the Mate 60 Pro in 2023, it explores the reconstruction characteristics and driving mechanisms of the GPN of these suppliers. The findings are as follows: (1) Based on the classification of GPN 2.0 enterprise actor types, the GPN of Huawei mobile phones can be divided into high-value R&D, medium-value specialized, low-value standardized, and OEM assembly networks. These networks exhibit distinct hierarchical features and significant spatial differences. (2) Sino-US trade frictions have drastically altered the pattern of Huawei's global suppliers, which has shifted from being spread across East Asia, Western Europe, and North America to being highly concentrated in East Asia. The structure and organization of the global production network constructed by Huawei have also been profoundly reconfigured. (3) Under the GPN 2.0 framework, there are three main dynamic factors affecting the reconstruction of Huawei's global production network. The first is the cost-capacity ratio. Relying on local comparative advantages and increased R&D investment helps optimize production efficiency. The second is environmental risks. In the face of geopolitical risks, Huawei has made important strategic adjustments, establishing a new industrial ecosystem with more domestic enterprises. The third is market motivation. The plan for the domestic substitution of components, combined with local government incentives, provides vital support for Huawei to gain a leading position in the global market.

    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
      JIANG Haining, WANG Huiyi, MA Haitao, DUAN Jian
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      The new energy vehicle industry represents a significant direction in the global vehicle industry's transformation and upgrading, and its innovation network structural holes exert a profound influence on the efficiency of technology diffusion as well as industrial competitiveness. By constructing a "network-space" dual-dimensional analysis framework and integrating the incoPat global patent database, this study examined the pattern of structural holes and the spatial models of China's new energy vehicle industry innovation network during the period from 1985 to 2021. The results are as follows: (1) The number of structural holes has been on the rise. State-owned enterprises, private enterprises and scientific research institutions are the main entities, predominantly distributed in the southeastern part of China. Among them, state-owned enterprises have the broadest distribution. Private enterprises display a conspicuous tendency towards urban agglomerations, while scientific research institutions exhibit a more pronounced administrative orientation. The location preference of foreign-funded enterprises is concentrated and stable. (2) The structural hole innovation network is becoming looser, as its small-world characteristic gradually diminishes and its control over cross-domain information or resources weakens. The innovation connection has gradually shifted from being dominated mainly by the inner low-grade structural holes to the inner high-grade structural holes. (3) The innovation cooperation within the structural holes of state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises demonstrates a significant trend of internalization, while the structural holes of scientific research institutions always show a collaborative innovation paradigm mainly driven by external sources. (4) From the perspective of spatial model, state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, scientific research institutions and foreign-funded enterprises exhibit the hierarchical structure model, group structure model, radiation structure model and flat structure model, respectively. This study can provide research reference for the optimal allocation of innovation resources and collaborative innovation in China's new energy vehicle industry.

    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
      LI Yuanjun, CHEN Jiaxuan, CHEN Zhuo, WU Qitao, RUI Yang, SHEN Kanhai
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      The new energy mode for inter-city travel is crucial for promoting the comprehensive green transformation of the transport industry, among which the first issue to address is identifying the spatial patterns and influencing factors of electric vehicle (EV) inter-city travel. This study takes Guangdong province as a case study and utilizes big data from the expressway online toll collection (OTC) system for March 2024. By integrating complex network analysis, the random forest algorithm, and ridge regression, it explores the spatial patterns of EV inter-city travel and identifies the key influencing factors. The conclusions are as follows: (1) The EV inter-city travel is dominated by pure electric vehicles, which exhibit greater traffic flows and broader coverage compared to hybrid electric vehicles. The dominant flows within the EV networks break the geographical barrier of the Pearl River estuary, resulting in spatial structures that differ from the traditional "dual-core" model centered around Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Instead, a "three-pillar" structure emerges, comprising Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai. (2) The scale of EV inter-city travel is closely related to the distribution of transportation hubs. Based on the K-means clustering algorithm, the pure electric vehicle network can be divided into four subgroups, namely the airport county subgroup, the high-speed railway county subgroup, the Pearl River Delta subgroup, and the Guangdong peripheral county subgroup. (3) The differences in reciprocity and convenience of EV inter-city travel on both sides of the Pearl River estuary are minimal. Notably, Xiangzhou district, the Zhongshan City Center Group, Jinwan District, and other key nodes characterized by high reciprocity coefficients and triangle density have also emerged on the west coast. (4) The service industry workforce, permanent population, highway network density, and new energy enterprises are the main factors affecting the scale of EV inter-city travel. This study explores the spatial distribution pattern of electric vehicles from the perspective of inter-city travel, enhancing mobility theory by focusing on the novel traffic flows.

    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
      ZHU Hong, MENG Siqi, DONG Haoping, XIE Xiaoru
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      The study enriches the dimensions of social infrastructure research by introducing the concept of "marginalized social infrastructure", deepening the understanding and interpretation of the role of social infrastructure within the framework of urban governance. Taking the Jingle North and South Areas of Longhua district in Shenzhen as an example, the research focuses on the formation of marginalized groups driven by social infrastructure and the transformation of urban governance strategies. The study finds that the marginalized social infrastructure centered around the original Sanhe Talent Market and its surrounding low-cost living facilities not only provides a low-cost living space for the "Sanhe group" but also shapes its unique social ecology, lifestyle, and group identity, becoming a grassroots practice through which the group distances itself from mainstream social norms, while simultaneously reinforcing their self-marginalization. In urban governance practice, the government gradually regulates and improves these marginalized facilities through a multi-stakeholder collaborative model, promoting the enhancement of spatial quality and social order in the Sanhe area. The research points out that while acknowledging the positive functions of social infrastructure in serving the public, it is also essential to recognize the role of marginalized social infrastructure within the traditional urban governance system. The social infrastructure relied upon by marginalized groups can also become an important medium for pluralistic urban governance by reshaping the governance process in reverse.

    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
      WANG Wenyu, HE Canfei, LI Zhibin
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      As trade globalization rises, its impact on industrial upgrading in latecomer countries is uncertain, with coexisting low-end lock-in and upgrading phenomena. Using 6-digit BACI-CEPII trade data from 2001 to 2019, this paper explores how a country's trade network embeddedness affects export industry upgrading, considering technological and organizational coordination difficulties, measured by industrial technological complexity and chain length. Key findings: (1) High trade network embeddedness positively impacts export industry upgrading, with distinct paths; latecomers initially develop short-chain industries, shifting to long-chain as they reach middle/high-income stages, while developed countries focus on long-chain upgrading. (2) Trade network embedding facilitates upgrading by expanding niche markets and accessing high-quality intermediates. (3) China currently favors short-chain industry development, relying less on the global trade network than other developing countries. Based on the empirical results, this study concludes that the S-shaped meandering upgrading pattern further improves the theory of globalization and regional industrial upgrading, and at the same time proposes a development path strategy for China's high-quality development from the perspective of international industries.

    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
      WANG Li, LIU Zhichao
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      The traditional core-periphery theory emphasizes the proximity of local space, while it ignores the mechanism of network links to shape innovation space. Based on the data of high-tech enterprises and their patent cooperation in 2022, this study takes Chengdu and Chongqing as examples to investigate the innovation space. Through the application of ArcGIS clustering, social network analysis, and non-parametric testing, a total of 147 innovation units in Chengdu (76) and Chongqing (71) were identified. This study further explores the influence of the geography-network dual combination structure on innovation output and systematically analyzes the heterogeneity of the four combinations in terms of innovation output within the two cities. The results indicate that despite the circular structure and significant spatial similarity of the two cities, their innovation networks exhibit notable differences. Specifically, Chengdu has a larger network scale and higher connection intensity, forming a "star-ray" network, whereas Chongqing is a typical example of "zigzag" extension and heterogeneous network connection. By incorporating the characteristics of both spatial similarity and network difference, we identified a geography-network dual structure of innovation space in megacities, comprising four types of innovation units. Network core-geography core (C-C type) and network periphery-geography periphery (P-P type) are the advantages and disadvantages of urban innovation space, respectively. The innovation output of Chengdu network core-geography periphery (C-P type) (network advantage) and Chongqing network periphery-geography core (P-C type) (geography advantage) did not lag behind their respective C-C innovation units, indicating that the peripheral areas can also achieve efficient innovation output in the context of network embedding or geography agglomeration. This study applies the "core-periphery" theory in the urban context, and clarifies the similarities and differences between the dual combination structure of geography and network on the innovative development of different cities, which contributes to break the inherent perception of innovation in the urban periphery, and thus promotes the understanding of the interrelationship between the periphery and innovation in megacities and the types of innovation units.

    • New Quality Productive Forces and Regional Development
      SHENG Yinan, SHANG Jiajia, ZHANG Xianling, YANG Xuyu
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      The vast territory of China has nurtured a rich variety of unique cultural customs, resulting in substantial cultural distinctions between regions. This study attempts to reveal the impact of cultural differences on migrants' settlement intention from the interdisciplinary perspective of population and geography. Based on the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS 2017) data, this study constructs the concept of "Cultural Differences" according to food culture, dialect culture and family name culture. Results show that cultural differences between destination and origin has a significant negative impact on migrants' settlement intention, and the negative effects of cultural differences and geographic distance on settlement intention have a superimposed effect, with geographic distance further weakening settlement intention in areas where cultural differences is farther away, and cultural differences further decreasing settlement intention in areas where geographic distance is farther away. The sub-dimensional analysis shows that dietary cultural differences, dialectal cultural differences, and family name cultural differences exert a significant negative effect on migrants' settlement intention. Migrants who are elderly, lower-income, or rural-to-urban migrants, are more likely to leave the city due to cultural differences. Migrants living in eastern cities, provincial capitals, large cities, and economically developed cities are more likely to stay due to cultural inclusiveness advantages in these cities. Mechanism analysis shows that cultural differences reduces migrants' settlement intention by weakening their sense of identity as locals, reinforcing their custom attachment to hometown, widening their differences in hygiene habits from locals and inhibiting their social interaction with locals. Migrants' cultural coping strategies such as the participation of community and social activities at destination, as well as cultural governance initiatives such as enhancing urban cultural service levels and building civilized city could assist migrants in integrating into cities' mainstream culture, and mitigate the negative effect of cultural differences on migrants' settlement intention. The study provides an empirical basis for explaining migrants' settlement intention from the perspective of cultural adaptability, and also puts forward recommendations for cities to improve cultural governance and flesh out citizenization programs.

    • Transportation and Tourism Geography
    • Transportation and Tourism Geography
      QIN Yafeng, GUO Jianke, WANG Shaobo, SUN Zhuo
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      As an important channel for international trade, the ports and their shipping networks are directly related to national economic security and transportation safety, which is an important issue reflecting the sustainable development of the shipping industry. This study develops a theoretical framework and an identification model for assessing shipping network resilience, integrating static structural analysis with dynamic performance evaluation on interdisciplinary insights from geography and transportation engineering. By selecting liner transportation data from China's coastal ports in 2018, 2020, and 2022 to construct a shipping network, this study evaluates the dynamic resilience process of the shipping network under the impact of major emergencies and reveals its influencing factors. The results showed that: (1) The comprehensive resilience index of China's shipping network was 0.627, 0.582, and 0.593, respectively, with the Yangtze River Delta ranking first in terms of resilience value, followed by the Pearl River Delta, and the Bohai Rim having a lower resilience value. (2) The resilience of China's shipping network shows phased changes under different strategies. When the failure node reaches around 10%, the rate of decline in shipping network resilience under disturbance strategies is relatively large. Comparatively, in 2020, the resilience of the shipping network exhibited greater complexity and spatiotemporal volatility. The resilience showed a significant decline when nodes were disrupted, and the performance loss varied poorly. (3) Each indicator in different shipping networks exhibits dynamic changes and interactions, with significant differences in their correlation with shipping network resilience. The driving factors have notable temporal and sustained differences in their impact on network resilience. The findings provide theoretical and practical insights for understanding the resilience and influencing factors of domestic shipping networks, as well as for improving the safety of the shipping network.

    • Transportation and Tourism Geography
      HE Manli, LU Changbao
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      As an important mode of deceleration consumption, slow tourism is an effective means for individuals to counter the effects of societal acceleration. The construction of slow tourism industrial ecosystem serves a powerful traction to enhance destination well-being and promote high-quality regional development. Moreover, post-structuralism, with its emphasis on the deconstruction philosophy and the return of the subject, provides a unique theoretical perspective for understanding the value core and evolutionary characteristics of the slow tourism industrial ecosystem. Based on this, this study conducts a cross-case analysis of three different types of slow tourism destinations - Ancient Town of Anren in Chengdu, Gaochun International Cittaslow in Nanjing, and Ancient Town of Lijiang Shuhe - and employs grounded theory to construct an exploratory theoretical model of their industrial ecosystems. The study reveals that: (1) Slow tourism industrial ecosystem is a "human-society-nature" composite organism formed through the co-creation of "slow" values, resulting from the interaction between stakeholders and environmental factors. It exhibits post-structuralist characteristics, including an emphasis on subjectivity, multiple network, dynamic openness and systemic holism. (2) Destination government, enterprises, residents and tourists are the key participants in slow tourism industrial ecosystem. They play multiple ecological roles, and their synchronous participation contributes to the diachronic process of system construction. In this process, the slow tourism industrial ecosystem exhibits dynamic evolution and continuous optimization through an iterative process, and gradually forms four core drives of system, production, innovation and application subsystems. (3) There are three models of slow tourism industrial ecosystem: dissipative-creative, coupled-evolutionary and synergistic-symbiotic. Among them, the value recognition, resilience governance and cultural grafting are the key elements to distinguish the ecological development levels. The research findings offer theoretical implications for building slow tourism destination with Chinese characteristics.

    • Transportation and Tourism Geography
      HUA Yulian, XU Yan, LU Lin, KONG Xiangmei
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      The construction of multiple heterogeneous relationships among tourism destinations is considered from a relational space perspective, which emphasizes the dynamic generation of spaces. This spatial generation is considered to be the product of mutual relations reflecting the fluidity of emerging markets, which provides new philosophical theories and methods for human geography studies. An analytical framework for the evolution logic of "glocalization" in tourism destinations is constructed from a relational space perspective in this paper, which systematically explores the evolution logic of glocalization on Gulangyu Island in Xiamen city. The results show that, when considering the evolution logic, the relational space perspective provides a grand spatiotemporal scale for analyzing Gulangyu Island's glocalization. Spatially, Gulangyu Island has experienced the construction of a diversified and heterogeneous relationship between the global and the local scale, which has shaped a physical landscape with glocalization characteristics. Over time, Gulangyu Island has experienced several rounds of globalization with multiple pathways, including trade and production. These pathways followed an evolutionary logic in the construction of relationships among the historical international community, relationship deconstruction among scenic resorts, and relationship reconstructions among national scenic and world cultural heritage sites. In terms of their evolution mechanism, the struggle for power between global and local governments and the heterogeneous construction of multiple subjects produce the internal and external mechanisms for the glocalization of Gulangyu Island. As a world cultural heritage site, Gulangyu Island has followed a unique realistic path toward glocalization. Studying its evolution provides theoretical and empirical references for a broader study of tourist destinations from a relational space perspective.

    • Transportation and Tourism Geography
      MA Xuefeng, LIAO Yueying
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      The key to promoting high-quality rural development and building a prosperous, harmonious, and beautiful countryside lies in the synergistic and integrated development of tourism revitalization and people's well-being of traditional villages in poverty alleviation areas. This development should simultaneously advance the improvement of people's livelihoods and well-being. Drawing on the theory of the human-land relationship regional system and the core concepts of coordinated and integrated development, this paper constructs a theoretical framework. This framework is for analyzing the synergistic and integrated pathways and mechanisms from a human-land perspective. Taking Zhushan village in Fenghuang county as a case, we adopted an inductive case study. The study investigates the pathways and mechanisms through which traditional village tourism revitalization and the improvement of people's livelihood and well-being can be jointly promoted. The results show that: (1) From a human-land relationship perspective, the pathway to synergistic and integrated development is analyzed, whereby elements within both the "interest community" and the "ecological community" collaborate closely while performing their respective functions. (2) Through coordinated and integrated development in four dimensions, namely subjects, space, governance, and functions, this approach facilitates the revitalization of traditional village tourism and the improvement of people's livelihoods and well-being. These efforts promote systematic and synergistic development in four aspects: urban-rural integration, living environment, social governance, and rural structure. These findings provide a systematic and practical reference for advancing synergistic and integrated pathways and mechanisms for traditional village revitalization and livelihood enhancement.

    • Transportation and Tourism Geography
      CUI Zhe, ZHANG Xiaodong, WU Lanruo, HE Lianna
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      Online traffic-driven tourism activities, which diffuse from scenic spots to the entire urban area, serve as important objects intervening in the social space of life circles. Taking residents in the Old City of Beijing as the research object, this study empirically tests the nonlinear relationship, mediating mechanism, and spatiotemporal heterogeneity between online traffic, tourism activities, and residents' 15-minute life circle behavior. Using the average dwell time per capita in each subdivided grid within the 15-minute life circle to characterize residents' daily behavior as the dependent variable, a machine learning-based nonlinear regression model is constructed, incorporating explanatory variables including online traffic and tourism activities, as well as control variables including locational characteristics, resident attributes, and built environment. Interpretable machine learning algorithms are used for model analysis. The study finds that: (1) Online traffic and tourism activities have a higher explanatory power for residents' dwell time in 15-minute life circles than the quantity of public service facilities. (2) Online traffic exhibits a mutually exclusive relationship with outbound tourism, accompanied by a diminishing marginal effect, while the impact of local leisure tourism presents a peak effect that first increases and then decreases. (3) Online traffic constrains the positive effect of appropriately quantitated local leisure tourism, and its co-occurrence with high-value outbound tourism is a necessary condition for extremely low resident dwell time. (4) Online traffic indirectly constrains residents' dwell time by boosting outbound tourism and large-scale local leisure tourism. (5) The effect size of online traffic and tourism activities in historical and cultural blocks is smaller than that in other areas, and the effect size on weekends is larger than on weekdays. Collectively, it is determined that there is a certain degree of overtourism in the study area.