All of the articles in this proceedings volume have been presented at the 2026 4th International Conference on Digital Economy and Management Science (CDEMS 2026) during April 17 to 19, 2025 in Tianjin, China. These articles have been peer reviewed by the members of the Scientific Committees and reviewers...

The rise of smart technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and algorithms (STARA) signifies a systemic shift in the nature of work, skill requirements, and human-technology collaboration, exerting a profound impact on individuals’ career trajectories and sense of security. In this context, how...

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing recruitment, with 83% of employers using automated screening systems [14]. While boosting efficiency, AI introduces algorithmic bias and transparency issues, as seen in cases involving Amazon and HireVue [14]. Through case studies of Harver, Eightfold AI, HireVue,...

Against the backdrop of the widespread application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the workplace, employees’ cognition and attitudes toward AI—namely AI awareness—have increasingly become a key factor affecting their work adaptability. Based on the cognitive appraisal theory of stress,...

This study examines the impact of new quality productive forces (NPRO) on corporate value and its underlying mechanisms using a sample of all A-share listed companies from 2015 to 2024. The results show that NPRO significantly and positively influences corporate value, a conclusion that remains robust...

This study takes 13 listed port enterprises in China as the research sample. Based on the TOE framework, six driving factors are constructed, namely digital R&D investment, technological application capability, strategic flexibility, investment allocation capability, policy support intensity, and...

As the digital economy enters a period of deepening applications, artificial intelligence has become an important tool for reshaping the economic structure. Based on the Web of Science core collection database, this paper conducts a systematic scientiometric analysis of 494 papers in the field of artificial...

In 2025, a deeper phase of low-carbon transition was witnessed in global automotive industry. Relevant policies in major economies worldwide have been intensively put into practice with differentiated optimization, focusing on the core objective of carbon emission reduction in combination while integrating...

Primary school students aged 7–12 are in a critical stage of spinal and musculoskeletal development, yet most commercially available schoolbags still adopt standardized sizes that cannot adequately accommodate children’s substantial body-type differences. This mismatch often leads to concentrated pressure...

The in-depth application of a new generation of information technologies has driven digital governance to become a core driving force for the modernization of national governance systems and capacities. Local governments, as the cornerstone of national governance, are experiencing a profound transformation...

Under the push of the dual-carbon goals and the broader shift toward green development, the new energy vehicle industry has moved to the center of China’s path to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. The New Energy Demonstration City Pilot Policy, introduced in 2014, changed how cities used energy,...

This paper examines how shareholder relationship networks affect corporate investment efficiency in emerging markets. Based on from 2009 to 2023, we construct shareholder networks using common ownership ties among the top ten shareholders, and employ betweenness centrality to capture firms’ network positions....

Parallel imports, where genuine products are sold through unauthorized channels at lower prices, create significant channel conflicts in modern supply chains. This study develops a game-theoretic model to examine how equity-based coordination mechanisms—specifically forward, backward, and cross-shareholding...

Since China’s real estate industry entered a stage of deep adjustment in 2021, the real estate market in Guangzhou has shown a continuous downward trend, even under the stimulus of multiple rounds of policies, housing prices in the far suburbs have still depreciated sharply, and the number of foreclosure...

Using data on Chinese A-share listed firms from 2009 to 2022, this paper examines whether digital technology innovation affects labor cost stickiness. To do so, it constructs a firm-level measure of digital technology innovation based on patent applications matched to official digital-economy industry...

The aviation carbon tax is a critical policy instrument for emission reductions, yet its impact on airline operations remains under explored. This study investigates the optimal capacity and abatement investment decisions of a monopolistic airline under a dynamic aviation carbon tax. By constructing...

Activating rural aging human resources is crucial for addressing labor shortages in rural areas and supporting rural revitalization. Under the digital-intelligent transformation context, developing this demographic faces structural challenges such as organizational fragmentation and supply-demand mismatches....

Digital technology is reshaping rural economic development and unlocking rural domestic demand for rural revitalization. Using China’s provincial panel data (2016–2021), this paper examines how digital technology affects the rural domestic demand market. Results show digital technology significantly...

Working capital management is central to corporate finance, directly affecting cash flow stability and market competitiveness. Taking S Company, a cosmetics and personal care enterprise, as the research subject, this paper analyzes its working capital management from 2019 to 2023 based on value chain...

Smart cities are the core vehicle of the digital China strategy and a key pathway to modernizing urban governance and achieving high-quality development. This paper systematically reviews the development trajectory, policy framework, and technological systems of China’s smart cities, analyzes current...

Against intensifying extreme climate events, China’s catastrophe insurance system faces a structural dilemma of “high losses yet low coverage”. Traditional catastrophe risk securitization helps diversify risks but is hindered by high issuance thresholds, long cycles, and slow claims, failing to cover...

Against the backdrop of ICAO’s long-term goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions in international aviation by 2050, mandatory sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blending policies and carbon trading mechanisms serve as vital tools for airlines’ low-carbon transformation. This paper establishes a duopoly...

Green technological innovation is crucial for urban green transition, but evidence at the city level regarding the role of digital inclusive finance remains limited. Using panel data from 276 Chinese cities spanning 2014 to 2024, this study employs a two-way fixed-effects model to examine the impact...

Amid global economic volatility, fresh produce dual-channel supply chains face challenges from consumers’ strategic stockpiling and return behaviors, alongside suppliers’ freshness-keeping and retailers’ service efforts. Existing studies rarely integrate all factors. This paper constructs a game-theoretic...

As artificial intelligence technology continues to penetrate and integrate with the banking industry, intelligent service terminals have become a crucial means for banks to achieve digital and intelligent transformation. At the same time, however, a significant “adoption gap” persists between rapid technological...

Having emerged from personal purchasing services, evolved from overseas shopping, and matured through cross-border e-commerce, China’s cross-border import industry has undergone four stages—initial exploration, rapid expansion, model adjustment, and upgrading—and has become a new driver of economic growth....

This study investigates the unintended consequences of China’s reform shifting from environmental pollution fees to an environmental protection tax. Utilizing a difference-in-differences model with A-share listed companies as a quasi-natural experiment, we analyze the policy’s impact on corporate tax...

As the digital economy continues to evolve alongside China’s “dual-carbon” agenda, digital transformation has gradually emerged as a fundamental catalyst for enhancing firms’ green innovation activities. Based on Chinese A-share listed firms over 2010–2023, this study constructs a regional digitalization...

The realization of ecological product value represents an important theoretical and practical development in China’s ecological civilization agenda. In the context of the transition from the digital economy to the intelligent economy, digital technology is reshaping the technical and institutional foundations...

Driven by China’s “dual carbon” strategy, leveraging digital technology to foster sustainable behaviors is vital for civil aviation’s high-quality development. Grounded in self-perception, self-identity, and green behavior spillover theories, this study develops a dual-mediation framework to elucidate...

As a solid bridge spanning the globe, air transport serves as an indispensable key component in the development of modern society. However, behind the growing ease of transportation, airlines are facing the dual pressures of imbalanced capacity supply and demand and fierce price competition. This paper...

This paper examines the impact of extreme climate risks on provincial economic performance in China using panel data for 31 provinces over the period 2004–2023. It employs a two-way fixed-effects model to estimate the relationship between the Climate Physical Risk Index (CPRI) and provincial GDP. The...

With the continuous deepening of the concept of sustainable development and responsible investment practices, the impact mechanism of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance on corporate financial performance has become an important topic in corporate finance and capital market research....

Digital governance in rural ethnic minority regions often runs into what practitioners call “technological suspension”-a disconnect between externally introduced technologies and the social structures they are meant to serve. Drawing on years of targeted assistance experience in Aba Prefecture, this...

This study uses panel data for Chinese A-share listed firms from 2012 to 2023 to examine how digital inclusive finance is related to corporate innovation. Patent-based measures are employed to distinguish overall innovation output from breakthrough innovation, and financing constraints are introduced...

This paper studies a low-carbon supply chain with a capital-constrained manufacturer and a retailer. Under a carbon cap, we examine how credit and product subsidies affect emission reduction and financing decisions. Four game models are constructed and solved using KKT conditions for green credit and...

This paper examines the feasibility of deep learning for Conditional Value at Risk forecasting in international stock markets. Using daily data for the stock markets of China, the United States, Japan, Germany, and Brazil from 1 July 2010 to 1 July 2025, the study develops a CNN-Transformer quantile...

Amid growing global environmental and market uncertainties, and at a critical juncture where China is striving to become a powerhouse of innovation and advancing its “dual carbon” goals and high-quality development, ESG initiatives have been integrated into the nation’s overarching strategic framework....

Taking China v. US anti-dumping cases as an example, this study explores the role of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism in regulating international trade frictions and its reform path. The WTO dispute settlement mechanism provides institutional guarantee for resolving Sino-US anti-dumping disputes,...

Against the backdrop of intelligent transformation in the global shipping industry, traditional education and training systems have become increasingly inadequate in meeting the dual demands of rapid technological iteration and continuous professional competency development. Grounded in lifelong learning...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has significantly reshaped the global trade landscape. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the changing macroeconomic factors that drive bilateral trade flows. This study focuses on identifying the main determinants of trade flows between China and its major BRI...

For over nine decades, international tax law has adhered to exclusive residence-based taxation for international transport income, a principle established by the League of Nations in 1928 and endorsed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). However, between 2023 and 2025, the UN Committee...

The logistics industry is being significantly transformed by the sustained growth of the low-altitude economy; however, how the government can effectively strengthen its regulatory role in the low-altitude logistics market remains a pressing issue. This paper investigates the interaction mechanisms among...

With the rapid expansion of e-commerce, the furniture industry has moved increasingly online. Yet furniture purchasing remains a high-involvement process due to experiential expectations, high prices, limited tactile feedback, and complex logistics, making interface design issues more likely to increase...

The effectiveness of university emergency management relies on the scientific construction of a multi-stakeholder collaborative decision-making mechanism. Based on stakeholder theory and deliberative democracy theory, this study constructs a three-layer collaborative decision-making model of “stakeholder...

In this new phase of development, where the digital economy and uncertainty intertwine, enterprise innovation resilience (EIR) has become a key strategic asset for weathering external shocks and sustaining its capacity for continuous innovation. Based on data from A-share listed companies from 2011 to...

This paper focuses on the five provinces in Northwest China and employs the entropy-based weighting technique to quantify digitalization and decarbonization indicators spanning the years 2011 through 2023. By establishing a coupling coordination model, the study identifies trends in the interplay between...

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI) is reshaping the power structure of modern education. Its development and widespread application foreground two central issues: first, the decentralization of epistemic authority—the traditional monopoly of knowledge held by teachers and...

This paper takes the innovation ecosystem of high-tech industries as the research object, and explores the impact of new quality productive forces on its resilience. Ridge regression is used for empirical analysis. The results show three points. First, new quality productive forces as a whole have a...

In a global context, the relationship between air transport and regional development is complex. Given that a large number of small and medium-sized airports in China suffer from insufficient passenger traffic and rely on subsidies, the question of whether air transport can effectively promote regional...

This paper develops an integrated framework for industry rotation in China’s A-share market by combining industry-level factor construction, deep-factor extraction, market-regime prediction, directional classification, and regime-dependent risk parity. Industry signals are first formed from Alpha-style...

Amid the profound restructuring of the global industrial landscape, the deep integration of air logistics and advanced manufacturing has emerged as a pivotal driver of high-quality economic development. This research adopts a systematic tripartite perspective, encompassing supply chain, industrial chain,...

Against the backdrop of rising global uncertainty, supply chain resilience has become a core competitive capability for sustainable enterprise operations. Traditional efficiency-oriented supply chains often exhibit significant vulnerability to external shocks. In contrast, digital transformation—driven...

With the widespread application of technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, coupled with increasing policy support, digital transformation has permeated the entire business operation process, emerging as a pivotal force in reshaping the commercial credit ecosystem. This study therefore...

In response to the practical dilemma faced by farmers in agricultural supply chains—where high adoption costs and spillover benefits from adoption hinder their willingness to adopt new technologies—the government subsidy has emerged as a crucial policy instrument for alleviating their adoption pressures....

Using China’s Comprehensive Cross-Border E-Commerce Pilot Zones (CCBEPZs) as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper draws on panel data from Chinese A-share listed companies (2011–2022) and employs a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) model to examine how CBEC platform ecosystems shape supply...

Drawing on provincial panel data from 30 mainland provinces over 2013–2022, this study constructs an analytical framework spanning digital infrastructure investment, public service accessibility, and household income distribution, employing a Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) to examine how data infrastructure...

Against the backdrop of high-quality development, new quality productive forces are becoming a key driving force for urban-rural integrated development. As an important carrier connecting urban and rural resources, sports events lack a systematic explanation of their deep-seated mechanism in promoting...

Based on data from Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2012 to 2023, this paper empirically examines the impact of FinTech on innovation efficiency. The findings are as follows: (1) The development of FinTech significantly improves corporate innovation efficiency, a conclusion that remains...

This study examines the effect of carbon disclosure intensity on corporate financing constraints using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2010 to 2024. While prior research focuses on ESG disclosure as a whole, limited evidence exists on the independent role of carbon disclosure. Using the...

Based on the practical issues of the coordinated development of safety and efficiency in the civil aviation industry, this paper introduces the new quality productivity into the analytical framework and deeply explores its influence mechanism on the safety investment and financial performance of civil...

The policy of removing townships and merging towns is an important administrative means for China to cope with the population contraction of counties, but its impact on the welfare of residents still lacks a systematic assessment. This study takes the contracted county area where the evacuation of townships...