China's Silk Road Originates from Nanchong and Develops across the Whole World

The following views regarding the Southern Silk Road are presented and discussed. First, primitive wild mulberry trees were transplanted from Nanchong to the world. Second, primitive wild silkworms immigrated from Nanchong to the world. Third, the ancient silk of China originated in Nanchong and spread across the world. Fourth, Sichuan silk arrived in Afghanistan and ancient Egypt one thousand years earlier than Zhang Qian's arrival. Fifth, the appearance of the Southern Silk Road precedes the appearance of the Northern Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road by hundreds of years. This article supports the belief that as the headstream of the Southern and Northern Silk Road, Nanchong is the intersection of "the Belt and Road"as well as the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

A Brief Introduction of Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences

Can Culture Lead to Export? Empirical Data on the Belt and Road Initiative

The B&R Initiative is a modernized and specific manifestation of China's"going global"development strategy. It undertakes the historic mission of promoting communication and exchange between cultures and nations, but also has a positive role in the development of international economy and trade relations. As a messenger of the essence of Chinese culture, Confucius Institutes have a positive impact on the development of Asian and world civilizations. Using Difference-in-Difference estimation methods to study the statistical data from the countries along the B&R routes, this paper examines the relationship between cultural and commodity outputs and comes to the following conclusions: Cultural output is an important factor in increasing commodity exports; Confucius Institutes help increase China's exports to the countries along the B&R routes; and the growth in cultural exports shows regional differences, hysteresis, and fluctuations. As China's cultural outputs are still at an immature stage, their promotional effects on exports are unstable. In the future, China should further standardize its management and operational systems and accelerate the Confucius Institutes' content-based development to enhance the effects of cultural outputs in increasing exports, boosting China's soft power.

The Significance and Measures of Building the China—Mongolia—Russia Economic Corridor

A Study on the Belt and Road Initiative and the Promotion of International Competitiveness of China's Culture Industry

China's pioneering the Belt and Road initiative not only provides a broad space for China's culture industry to enhance international competitiveness, but also puts forward a major project. It includes: optimize and integrate strategic resources through connectivity, cultivate export-oriented cultural enterprises to promote the main body of the industry, optimize the structure of cultural trade by expanding cultural services exports, and build win-win cooperation networks through the connections between Silk Road Cities. This will both contribute to the global distribution and resource allocation of China's culture industry, and benefit the construction of mutually beneficial and cooperative international culture industry communities, so the countries and people of the Belt and Road regions can share their cultural wealth.

Studies on the Belt and Road Initiative and the China—Mongolia—Russia Culture Industry Corridor

Culture is the concentrated reflection of national spirit and civilization, and is an important part of foreign exchanges since ancient times. Under the guidance of the Belt and Road Initiative, with the goal of reviving the Prairie Silk Road and Culture Industry Corridor suited to the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, in accordance with the requirements in the China, Mongolia and Russia Tripartite Cooperation Medium-term Road Map approved by the three countries, government organs, enterprises and social organizations should make appropriate plans to develop cultural tourism in advance, highlight its characteristics, build the brand, build investment and financing platforms, new media platforms and carry out large-project-driving strategies, so that the value of cultural resources along the Prairie Silk Road can be fully tapped and resources can be integrated for industrial and economic advantages. The interconnection of China's Belt and Road Initiative, Mongolia's Prairie Road and Russia's Eurasian Economic Union will help establish closer cooperation between the three countries and form an arena of culture competition in Northeast Asia. This is of great practical significance and has promising prospects.

Development of Chinese Cultural Governance since the Reform and Opening-up

Contemporary Chinese cultural governance is an important part of the national governance system and the modernization of national governance capacity. It must combine international experience and local method together and run through the whole process of cultural system reform. The good governance of culture is the goal pursued by Chinese cultural governance, which displays the management process of maximizing cultural public interest. In the new era, cultural governance reform has experienced governance subject centralized to pluralism, governance space from inside to outside, governance method from ruling by man to the rule of law, governance path from control-oriented government to service-oriented government. To further improve Chinese cultural governance in the new era, relationships between top-level design and grass-root innovation, cultural democracy and cultural concentration, national cultural interests, social cultural interests and cultural interests of the citizens, domestic cultural governance and global culture must be dialectically dealt with. In the government-market-social governance structure, mutual assistance of multiple missions and win-win of multiple subjects can be achieved, thus promoting harmony of multiple interests.

The Three Kingdoms Culture and the City of Chengdu

The Three Kingdoms Culture is regarded as the most influential part in the colorful traditional cultures of Chengdu. In this paper, the relationship between the Three Kingdoms Culture and the City of Chengdu is discussed in three respects based on the definition of Three Kingdoms:(1) Chengdu is the core of the original culture of the Three Kingdoms;(2) it is the center for inheritance of the Culture;(3) it is the research center of the Culture. The research of the Three Kingdoms Culture is a topic worth considering in the process of Chengdu's growing into an International metropolis.

On the Core Categories of Pedagogy

This article starts from the perspective of great education, lifetime suzhi education,(suzhi translates directly as quality) and puts forward nine core categories of pedagogy at three different levels. At the macro level, it locates the holistic perspectives including education, suzhi and development. The middle level focuses on the collective activities of pedagogy, basically including teaching, curriculum and examination. At the micro level, individuality of pedagogy is emphasized, covering learning, knowledge and thinking. Pedagogy is an independent subject and hence has core categories of its own. To discuss the meanings of each category, the author employs the scientific methodology of dialectics and systems, as well as puts forward specific methods for each of them. That other disciplines should be applied to pedagogy by no means implies the marginalization of pedagogy. Along with the development of pedagogy, the number of core categories may increase or decrease, meanwhile, the structures and meanings of the categories may change correspondingly. The selection of core categories is not the only option. Consequently, the theory of pedagogy cannot possibly be exclusive.

Comparison and Choice of Cultural Patterns of the Chinese Cultural Renaissance

Cultural differences suggest the existence of a variety of cultural patterns. In the context of globalization, conscious choice and construction of cultural patterns are of great necessity. Choice is related to comparison and involves evaluation comparisons of nature and function and recognition comparisons of content and structure regarding cultural patterns. This paper holds that cultural values can be established based on the foundations of basic cultural value functions, namely if they satisfy people's need for transcendence and enhancement, appreciation of the beauty, social survival and progress. Also, different situations should be combined with specific existence situations within a specific culture. Accordingly, life-vitality orientation should be regarded as a criterion in cultural evaluation and choice.

Dualistic Perspective of Legislative Background Data

The charm of the legislative background data lies in its duality of being able to build a bridge between the practical field of legislation and judicature and the theoretical field of academic research. Proper application of legislative background data is an important criterion to distinguish between professionals and the public. On the application of legislative background data, from the legislative point of view, legislators need to use the conclusions and reasons of the value judgments formed around the opinions of the proponents as the basis for criticism and argumentation, reaching a minimal consensus through power; from the perspective of interpretivism, the judge needs to focus on the legislator's existing law text and legislative background information to give explanation as the basis for future amendments, reaching maximum consensus through power. On searching the legislative background data, different searching paths and methods could be exploited in the distinction between the text data recorded by the recorder and the audio-visual data recorded by the expositor. The enlightenment obtained from legislative background data should be used for the construction and perfection of the wisdom and intelligence of the court. The judges should be the ideological assistants of the legislators. The search for enlightenment from legislative background data can be conducted from three perspectives, namely cognition, arrangement, and disclosure. Therefore, legislative background data should be standardized by law.

Reflection on the Route of Rural Modernization in China—— Comments on the Concept of “New Earthbound China” Proposed by Xu Jieshun and He Xuefeng

During the exploration of rural modernization in China, the route of rural urbanization proposed by Chinese scholars mirrors the general path of development in western countries. Starting from the concept of "new earthbound China," put forward by Xu Jieshun and He Xuefeng, and based on the reflection of the disadvantages of industrialization, this paper probes the nature and significance of "village" by examining the development process of human civilizations so that another possible route may be created to achieve rural modernization in China.

Research on the Applicability of Garbage Classification to Carbon Trading Market

Climate warming is one of the important environmental issues with global concern. The Bloomberg News has recorded temperature changes in the recent 135 years. As the hottest year, in 2014 the global surface temperature was as high as 1.39 degrees Fahrenheit, 0.68 degrees Celsius higher than the average in long-term. The severity of this issue has been proved with the refresh of the highest record~([1]) and the increasing temperature as well as people's personal experience. There is a demand of in-depth discussion about comprehensive and efficient reduction of carbon and greenhouse gas emission and the development of low carbon economy, with garbage classification as the most efficient breach but also most easily to be neglected by people. This article attempts to find a feasible method of carbon emission reduction from the perspective of garbage classification and resource recycling and make quantitative estimation of its value combined with local practice and data in Chengdu.

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