All of the articles in this proceedings volume have been presented at the 2026 5th International Conference on Public Service, Economic Management and Sustainable Development (PESD 2026) during September 11–13, 2026 in Dali, China. These articles have been peer reviewed by the members of the Scientific...

Global warming has led to frequent extreme weather events. As a typical example of an energy-vulnerable group, the rural elderly population is facing a new “energy poverty trap”—that is, actively or passively reducing the frequency of air-conditioning use during hot weather for various reasons, which...

China real estate industry is in a historic turning point. When the old model of “high leverage, high debt and high turnover” is unsustainable, head commercial real estate enterprises have sought strategic transformation. In this group action, China Resources Land took the lead in realizing the qualitative...

This paper looks at the difficulties faced by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) during the Syrian refugee crisis, under the influence of state sovereignty and problems in international cooperation. After the Syrian conflict began in 2011, large numbers of refugees moved to neighboring...

This paper examines the changing pattern of global shipping influence through a longitudinal reading of Lloyd’s List One Hundred People from 2011 to 2025. Rather than treating the list as a simple ranking of personalities, the paper uses it as a yearly observation window into the actors, institutions,...

As a high-density commercial, residential, and tourism center, Yau Tsim Mong (YTM), Hong Kong faces a parking problem that extends beyond an absolute shortage of spaces. This study investigates the spatial and temporal mismatch between parking supply and demand and examines user behavior and policy acceptance...

Based on panel data from 370 prefecture-level cities and 7 agricultural types during 2010-2022, this study systematically analyzes the temporal evolution, type-structure, driving factors, and regional comprehensive benefits of agrivoltaic projects. The innovations are: (1) constructing a four-dimensional...

Traditional transfer training evaluation in power enterprises suffers from single dimension and subjective weighting. This paper adopts two-round Delphi to screen indicators, builds a five-dimensional appraisal system with 17 sub-indexes, and constructs an AHP-entropy combined weighting model. Improved...

The growing proportion of young employees in grassroots power grid teams has caused unreasonable talent age structures and insufficient talent reserves, hindering team operation and talent inheritance. To achieve accurate quantitative evaluation of talent echelon construction quality, this paper constructs...

Under the constraints of the “dual carbon” goals, accurately predicting regional carbon emission trends and identifying key driving factors is the foundation for formulating differentiated emission reduction policies. Taking Heilongjiang Province, a typical old industrial base, as the research object,...

As a vital component of urban public safety management systems, the effectiveness of driving safety monitoring devices depends on accurate identification and real-time warning of traffic operation states. Based on the Smart Mobility Dataset, this study employs K-means clustering (optimal K=9, silhouette...

This paper examines the policy support system for the development of Shanghai’s non-public economy. It reorganises evidence from a bachelor’s thesis through a document-based assessment of 20 national and Shanghai policy documents, with emphasis on measures issued or updated from 2020 onward. The documents...

Using 2013-2024 provincial panel data from China, this study applies a fixed-effects model to investigate the impact of data elements on intelligent economy development and its transmission mechanisms. Results show that data elements significantly drive high-quality development through technological...

Engineering laboratories serve as vital venues for practical engineering education and scientific research innovation in universities. However, safety hazards in these settings are often highly concealed and difficult to detect in advance, characterized by the intersection of multiple risks. Currently,...

Based on the S-O-R framework, this study examines how perceived credibility of product recommendation content relates to purchase approach-avoidance conflict and post-purchase relationship maintenance among 414 Gen Z users on Xiaohongshu. Perceived credibility significantly predicted stronger purchase...

Young township civil servants are the backbone of grassroots governance, yet their occupational burnout is becoming increasingly prominent. Based on the challenge-hindrance stress model, this study explores how work stress affects burnout among 352 young township civil servants, and examines the mediating...

Given the mounting worldwide perils stemming from climatic changes, ecological sustainability has turned into an indispensable condition for enduring corporate operations. In this setting, acquisitions and mergers that are environmentally focused constitute a primary strategic avenue for advancing industrial...

This study examines whether provincial governments’ attention to green development is reflected in the credit-risk pricing of green bonds. The sample covers 2,658 Chinese green bonds issued from 2016 to 2024. Using provincial government work reports from the Chinese Research Data Services (CNRDS) database,...

Metropolitan freight policy often counts facilities, hotlines, and insurance products as service supply, although mobile drivers may be unable or unwilling to use them under operating constraints. This study develops an actual-use framework for diagnosing comprehensive service mismatch and applies it...

In the context of intensifying national “dual carbon” objectives and the rapid expansion of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment, the veracity of corporate environmental disclosures has attracted increasing scholarly and regulatory attention. Using A‑share listed firms in Shanghai,...

This paper asks whether monetary policy remains effective when physical cash largely disappears. Using a theory-driven IS-LM analysis, published money-demand estimates, and official indicators from the euro area, China, and the United States, it distinguishes a cashless society from a moneyless economy....

This paper examines whether Jeff Bezos became rich at the expense of Amazon’s customers and employees. It operationalises value-creating profit and economic rent through counterfactual indicators: persistent price or markup gaps after cost and quality controls, worker total compensation relative to feasible...

Artificial intelligence and behavioral data make personalized pricing increasingly scalable, but its welfare effects depend on more than predictive accuracy. This conceptual paper develops an integrated framework linking economic surplus, information asymmetry, algorithmic decision-making, and consumer...

Public debate about Jeff Bezos often treats innovation and exploitation as mutually exclusive explanations of extreme wealth. This study instead asks when entrepreneurial wealth remains connected to productive contribution and when it becomes partly sustained by market power. Amazon is examined as a...

Against the backdrop of a fragile global economic recovery, persistent structural employment imbalances, and mounting youth employment pressure, the digital economy has created new channels for flexible and platform-based work. This paper examines the effect of digital economy development on short-video...

Represented by large language models, artificial intelligence technology has entered a new stage characterized by rapid iteration and vertical deployment. As a strategic resource for enhancing model capabilities, the construction level of high-quality datasets directly determines the strength of national...

Companies have started incorporating AI into decisions concerning acquisitions, market entry, and resource allocation, yet less attention has been paid to how deeper AI involvement changes the firm’s risk profile. This conceptual study adopts an enterprise risk management perspective and draws on prior...

Manufacturing servitization is crucial for high-quality manufacturing development. Based on the TOE framework, this study uses dynamic QCA to identify configurations driving high servitization among service-oriented manufacturing enterprises. The results show that no single factor is necessary for high-level...

Against stock competition in the digital content industry, single-platform memberships face homogenization and slow user growth, pushing platforms to launch cross-industry bundled memberships based on mixed bundling theory. This paper takes Bilibili as a single case, adopts document analysis and theoretical...

As critical vehicles for public employee retirement benefits and state fiscal stability, equity-heavy public pension funds are frequently scrutinized for potentially amplifying systemic market volatility during economic drawdowns. Using a U.S. panel from 2000 to 2026, we triangulate plan-level implied...

As Chinese manufacturing shifts from scale-based growth towards technology and innovation-driven development, human capital has become increasingly important to firm competitiveness. Nevertheless, earlier research frequently treats human-capital investment as a single construct and evaluates competitiveness...

As urban populations continue to age, metro signage systems frequently exhibit poor readability, semantic ambiguity, and unfriendly interaction for elderly passengers. This study examines existing obstacles in signage design across information acquisition, semantic understanding, and physical interaction...

As a core carrier of China’s traditional culture, Chinese calligraphy has been systematically incorporated into the national curriculum system and the policy framework for aesthetic education in recent years. However, whether increasingly refined top-level policy design can necessarily achieve its intended...

Low-altitude logistics delivery links unmanned aerial vehicle operations with last-mile distribution, yet its diffusion ultimately depends on consumer acceptance. Drawing on UTAUT2, this study examines how performance expectancy and price value shape residents’ intentions to use such services and whether...

China started phasing in a higher statutory retirement age in January 2025. Whether that change actually reshapes the labor market turns on employers, since the new flexible rules give them the final say over which workers stay on. We surveyed 500 firms across seven industries to see how they view the...

The expansion of trade and production networks under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has strengthened economic cooperation while redistributing carbon emissions across national borders. This study quantifies embodied carbon flows among 60 BRI countries using environmentally extended multi-regional...

Against the backdrop of ESG frameworks increasingly becoming a core benchmark for corporate sustainability, how manufacturing firms implement effective incentive mechanisms to fulfil their internal social responsibilities has emerged as a critical issue. This study takes a small and medium-sized furniture...

This study aims to accurately identify and synergistically balance multi-stakeholder needs to enhance waste sorting efficiency and user engagement. Methodologically, an improved KJ method was adopted to construct a tripartite needs alignment framework, yielding a standardized requirement inventory. Based...

The transition from internal-combustion vehicles to new-energy vehicles has turned many automobile manufacturers into multi-business enterprises whose units differ in life cycle, growth and risk. A single valuation method may therefore conceal economically important differences. This paper develops a...

Osmanthus was the most recognizable ecological symbol and cultural gene in Xianning, with multiple functions such as carbon sequestration and oxygen release, soil and water conservation, biodiversity conservation, landscape aesthetics, and cultural services. However, its value had long been hidden and...

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s tax regime for new energy vehicles has undergone a systematic transformation—shifting from “isolated incentive mechanisms” to “end-to-end supply chain coordination” and from a “scale-oriented approach” to a “quality-driven approach”—and...

Extensive digital-intelligent collaboration often yields only modest gains in operational resilience, yet the mechanism underlying this gap remains poorly specified. This article examines the informational pathway through which digital-intelligent collaboration contributes to operational resilience and...

University-level research projects are a foundational component of the university research system, serving the important functions of incubating high-quality outcomes and cultivating the research capabilities of early-career faculty. However, the cultivation function of university-level research projects...

China operates the world’s largest carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS), while whether this market-based tool improves firms’ environmental performance needs more focuses. We use the staggered difference-in-differences design on 50,776 firm-year observations of A-share listed firms from 2008 to 2024....

Understanding how the market-oriented allocation efficiency of data factors influences green total factor productivity (GTFP) is essential for regional sustainable development. Using panel data of 14 prefecture-level cities in Hunan Province (2010–2023), this study measures data factor allocation efficiency...

By setting against China’s carbon neutrality goal, this paper examines if carbon emissions trading policy (ETS) promotes green technology innovation among regulated firms, and investigates underlying mechanisms. Using an unbalanced panel of 4,965 firms and 46,744 firm-year data points drawn from listed...

The understory economy, an eco-friendly form of compound management under forest canopy, has been expected to broaden farmers’ income channels and consolidate poverty-alleviation achievements in China. Using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces over 2013–2023, this paper takes understory-economy density...

Amidst the background of FinTech penetration and intensified industry competition, digital transformation has become a key path to reshape the operational management of commercial banks. Based on panel data from commercial banks, we employ two-way fixed effects regression models and Double Machine Learning...

The low-altitude economy has emerged as an important manifestation of new quality productive forces. This paper exploits the designation of 26 National Comprehensive Demonstration Zones for the General Aviation Industry in 2017 as a quasi-natural experiment. Annual observations for 289 Chinese cities...

The proliferation of user generated content (UGC) on social media platforms has fundamentally transformed tourist information search and destination decision making. This study investigates the impact of UGC perception on tourist travel intentions in Yunnan Province, China, with a focus on the mediating...

Against the backdrop of normalized centralized volume-based procurement (VBP) and tighter price and fulfillment constraints in pharmaceutical distribution, customer structure has become an important supply-chain determinant of long-term innovation. Using 2,653 firm-year observations from 324 Chinese...

Watermelon is a distinctive economic crop that combines both nutritional value as a fruit/vegetable and industrial processing potential. It has played a significant role in improving the agricultural industrial structure and increasing agricultural projects. In the face of increasingly severe water resource...

The assessment to teachers in Chinese universities is becoming increasingly strict, and such strict assessment has increased the survival pressure on teachers. This article deeply argues that strict assessment itself does not conform to justice. Administrative bureaucrats hold the power to evaluate the...

Against the backdrop of artificial-intelligence-driven financial digital transformation and improving industrial regulatory rules, the popular application of artificial intelligence in corporate financial accounting, risk-control decision-making and capital-market transactions has given rise to new-form...

Using Chinese listed firms from 2013 to 2023, this study examines the relationship between corporate cash-flow volatility and financial distress and investigates whether multiple large shareholders moderate this relationship. The regression results show that greater cash-flow volatility is associated...

Employment assistance for vulnerable groups involves basic living security and sustained income growth. This group dynamically transitions between unemployment, temporary employment, low-income employment, and high-income employment. The mechanisms and durations of these three types of assistance measures...

Centralized drug procurement has become an important policy instrument for controlling pharmaceutical expenditure and improving access to medicines, yet most existing evaluations of China’s National Centralized Drug Procurement programme have focused mainly on price reductions, large urban hospitals,...

As the core hub of domestic and international trade circulation, coastal cargo port enterprises undertake the important function of connecting inland economic regions and overseas markets, and their operating prosperity directly reflects the development vitality of the port logistics industry and the...

Sustainable development has emerged as a worldwide imperative and a central expression of China’s dual-carbon objectives. With escalating regulatory expectations concerning ESG disclosure by A-share listed firms, the influence of corporate ESG performance on green transition has become a subject meriting...