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In the 4th Industrial Revolution era, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to promote global economic development. Thus, in order to promote the AI industry, each countries are not only establishing many policies and strategic plans for the promotion of AI, but also investing in huge research funds. According to many recent reports, China is moving ahead of the United States in many AI related-indices. Additionally, China is competent to take a leap into becoming an AI leading country within ten years. How can China, the last mover to suggested its AI industry development policy recently, to outrun the US, the strongest of competitor in advanced technology, and become a leading country in AI? Moreover what characteristics does it possess in the AI industry development policy process? This study was conducted to answer these research questions and to analyze the policy process for the “Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting Development of a New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry(2018-2020),” a representative policy to promote the AI industry of China, from the perspective of policy studies. China, a socialist state, has implemented collaborative governance to promote the AI industry. It is made through the participation of numerous private companies and expert groups in the policy process, which was monopolized by the central government and state leaders. This governance, where the policy process is discussed through interactions between the public sector and private sector, could be explained in the perspective of policy network. Therefore, this study used the policy network model to examine the analysis frame, which consists of three variables: policy actor, interaction, and network structure, to review the policy characteristics of the AI industry promotion policy of China, and thereby, identified the success factors in the AI industry. The success factors of the Chinese AI industry were the participation of numerous private firms and expert groups in the policy process, collaborative interaction of official and unofficial actors through a various mediums, and the establishment of a fairly horizontal network structure of institutions through free access to the policy process. The study verified that the network model of the Chinese AI industry promotion policy has some characteristics of the policy community model and issue network model. It is not a sub-governmental model that is generally considered to be the characteristic of a socialist system. Policy network researchers argued that the policy community model and issue network model are applied to pluralist states where many actors participate in a policy process. The analysis result of this study, however, revealed that both models can be applied to socialist states as well. Thus, this study contributes in widening the scope of policy network analysis. However, this study could not analyze all the actors participating in the policy process. Furthermore, it could not utilize the quantitative research method to analyze the frequency of interactions between the actors. In addition, it focused only on the policy “Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting Development of a New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry (2018-2020).” To overcome these limitations, it is necessary to use various methodologies, such as the qualitative method of in-depth interview and the use of quantitative data, and to analyze representative AI industry policies. Therefore, conducting follow-up research on the AI industry of China is expected.

Thanks to the reform and opening-up, China has achieved high-speed economic growth for more than 30 years. However, the country has been facing a transition and economic downward pressure since 2010. To realise long-term economic growth and sustainable development, the Chinese government proposed a “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” strategy. The objective of this study is to conduct targeted research on the relationship between digital finance development and regional entrepreneurship through theoretical analysis and empirical analysis using quantitative models to explore the effect of digital finance development on regional entrepreneurship. Based on the empirical results, the study tries to propose recommendations that can effectively promote China’s digital finance development and regional entrepreneurship. The study collected panel data of China’s 290 cities from 2011 to 2019 employing cointegration tests to estimate the long-run equilibrium relationship between study variables. After the F-test and Hausman test, the study chose the fixed-effects model for the regression analysis. The study further employed the Granger-causality test to estimate the direction of causality. Evidence shows a long-run equilibrium relationship running from coverage breadth of digital finance, usage depth of digital finance and the digitisation level of digital finance to regional entrepreneurship in China. The fixed-effects model indicated that a 1% increase in coverage breadth of digital finance will increase regional entrepreneurship in China by 0.12% and a 1% increase in usage depth of digital finance will increase it by 0.18%. However, the digitisation level of digital finance has no significant effect on regional entrepreneurship in China. Different from the existing literature, this study mainly focuses on digital financial development’s effect on regional entrepreneurship, thus contributing to the literature in the field of financial functions. This research also has practical significance by proposing effective policy recommendations to the government. As policy recommendations, the Chinese government should strengthen the construction of digital financial infrastructure by increasing investment in digital finance and improving IT architecture systems. The government should improve the financial supervision mechanism at the same time, thus building a sound financial ecological environment for regional entrepreneurship development in China.

Zhu Xi is a great educator and philosopher in the Southern Song Dynasty. In addition, as a master of neo-Confucianism, he made great contributions to its development. Up to now, the academic researches on him are still very active, but most of them are purely philosophical. And almost all the practical researches on Zhu Xi are based on solving specific social problems, and there is no systematic study of solutions put forward by Zhu Xi for the official education in the Southern Song Dynasty. The education problems of the Southern Song Dynasty were mainly as follows: first, the decline of the central and local official education was caused by frequent wars and the incompetence of the government. In addition, scholars' pursuit of imperial examination fame distorted the purpose of learning and led to the utilitarian. Furthermore, there were deficiencies in official textbooks, lacking authoritative and systematic teaching materials. In view of these problems, Zhu Xi first actively revitalized the academy education and made such academies become important supplements to the official schools. In the next place, Zhu Xi defined the purpose of learning for all scholars. It meant that educational purpose was to improve personal cultivation, manage the family, govern the country, appease the common people through "clarifying human relations", and finally become the "saints". Thirdly, Zhu Xi devoted his lifetime to the study of Confucianism, made new explanatory notes to the Confucian classics of the Pre-Qin Dynasty in line with the requirements of the Southern Song Dynasty, which systematized the teaching materials of neo-Confucianism as the official teaching materials of later generations. In conclusion, Zhu Xi not only made great contributions to the education in the Southern Song Dynasty, but also had a far-reaching influence in the following dynasty. The educational problems in the Southern Song Dynasty still exist in the current society of China. For example, the public education fails to meet all learning needs, entering a higher school and employment are seen as learning purposes producing utilitarianism, people do not pay enough attention to traditional culture and education. By investigating the educational problems in the Southern Song Dynasty and the solutions put forward by Zhu Xi, this paper discusses the enlightenments of Zhu Xi's educational countermeasures for the improvement of school education methods s nowadays, the reconstruction of educational purposes and the inheritance of traditional culture, so as to explore a new direction.

The view of nature in Chinese traditional times can be divided into heaven and earth. Among them, the earth system is more appropriate to human real life, so its worship is particularly prominent. This passage arranges and discusses the concept of mountain worship in the territorial system. For prehistoric humans, mountains and rivers were the places to obtain necessities of life, so they were indispensable for survival. This inseparable relationship, combined with the primitive witchcraft belief, formed the concept of mountain worship. The early Mountain God was related to the ancestors, that is, the heroes who made significant contributions to the blood tribe became the mountain god after death. In the farming society, people connect mountains and rivers with the weather, so mountains and rivers have become gods praying for a good harvest, and their religious importance is further strengthened. After the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the state held large-scale mountain and river sacrifices for political purposes, but such national sacrifices had little significance as a real religion. In contrast, folk mountain and river beliefs still have a strong religious color. The object of mountain worship is gradually personified from the early image of half man and half beast, and its image is the same as that of man. Moreover, under the influence of traditional religious thoughts such as Yin-Yang and five elements theory and Taoism, mountains and rivers have gradually become immortals and incorporated into the traditional religious system.

Based on the high-quality literature in the CNKI database such as the Peking University core, and SCI, EI, CSSCI, and CSCD source journals, a total of 1,535 valid studies were retrieved for this study. "Incubator" was used as the theme term and non-directly relevant literature was filtered to explore the characteristics of China's incubator research and help scholars understand the current research situation so as to effectively promote China's incubator research. This study conducts a visualization analysis of the existing research status, hotspots, and development trends in this field with the help of the "Citespace" visualization tool. Through a visualization analysis of the time distribution of publications, it is clear that research on incubators in China is divided into three stages: the exploration, development, and maturity stages. Moreover, according to the visualization analysis of high-impact institutions, the distribution of incubator research institutions in China is relatively loose, mainly limited to resource-concentrated areas, and has not formed a certain scale of cooperation. Analysis of research hotspots shows that the incubator research hotspots in China mainly focus on three aspects: research on the category of the incubation platform and object, capital input and technology research, and innovation and entrepreneurship research. Analysis of the incubator research trend in China shows that the recent incubator research trend distribution includes research on the essence of incubators, and research on the evaluation and direction of incubator development. Furthermore, incubator research in China is evolving from research on the essence to research on high-quality development. Thus, this study proposes the future development direction of incubator research in China. It is necessary to strengthen research on improving the quality and efficiency of incubators, establish and improve the incubator development evaluation system, and enhance inter-institutional cooperation and co-construction. This study further explores the limitations of previous studies and presents several subsequent research directions: the in-depth study of improving the quality and efficiency of incubators; the comparative study of incubators in resource-rich and resource-deficient areas; the study of the capital introduction and utilization of incubators with different subjects; and the study of the operational mode of incubators jointly built by universities, governments, and enterprises.

Due to the nature of modern organizations where tasks are becoming more interdependent and team-based work is increasing, today's organizational members are working closely together and experiencing high levels of social interaction. In this background, organizations are increasingly interested in impression management behaviors that intentionally manage and control their impressions that others see in their favor. This study explores the effects of peers' use of impression management tactics on employee impression management motives in Chinese public organizations. For this purpose, this study hypothesized that impression management tactics such as ingratiation, self-promotion, and exemplification used by a peer of the employee, who is a rival of this employee, have a positive effect on this employee’s motives to use the same tactics. In addition, this study attempted to empirically investigate the moderating effects of performance prove goal orientation (prove orientation) in these relationships. The results of the main effects analyzed with a sample of 260 Chinese public employees show that these hypotheses were supported for all three types of impression management tactics. As for the moderating effects, results confirmed that prove orientation further strengthened the positive effects of peers’ use of ingratiation and self-promotion on employees’ motives to use the same tactic. However, the moderating effect of the prove orientation was not significant in the relationship between the peer's use of exemplification and the employee's motive to use this tactic. As an impression management research, this study contributes to extending the understanding of the antecedents of the motives for impression management. The results of this study provide practical implications showing that, in addition to the impression management tactics used by individual members, managers need to pay attention to the influence of peer relationships on impression management motives.

Numerous studies have investigated the influence of CFO characteristics on the quality of information disclosure from the perspective of CFO demographic characteristics like gender, age, tenure, education, and title. However, few studies have focused on the influence of CFO professional background characteristics like legal, financial, or audit backgrounds on information disclosure quality. Taking Chinese A-share listed firms in Shenzhen Stock Exchange between 2016 and 2020 as the research samples and building the ordered logistic regression model, this paper empirically examines the influence of CFO professional background characteristics on information disclosure quality from the three aspects of CFO legal, financial, and audit background based on the upper echelon theory. In addition, the role of audit quality is also explored and explored that might have a moderating effect on the relationship between CFO professional background characteristics and information disclosure quality. The empirical results indicate that CFO audit background is conducive to improving information disclosure quality while CFO legal background and financial background negatively affect it. Meanwhile, it is found that the audit quality of Chinese listed firms only moderates the influence of CFO financial and audit background characteristics on information disclosure quality. With the improvement of audit quality, the negative impact of CFO financial background on information disclosure quality will be further curbed, and the positive impact of CFO audit background on information disclosure quality will be further weakened. These findings continue to hold when tested with a battery of robustness checks. Overall, the research results of this paper indicate that CFO professional background characteristics impose an essential impact on the information disclosure quality of Chinese listed firms. Moreover, audit quality moderates the relationship between CFO professional background characteristics and information disclosure quality. These findings will provide evidence for the importance of recognizing CFO professional background characteristics and audit quality in improving the quality of information disclosure.