Analyzing the transportation infrastructure-rural industry integration relationship in China

Transportation infrastructure is crucial to China’s economic growth because it substantially contributes to the holistic development of rural primary,secondary,and tertiary industries.This study innovatively examines transportation infrastructure and urbanization levels to explore,both theoretically and empirically,their relationship with the holistic development of primary,secondary,and tertiary industries in rural China,and the mediating role of urbanization on this relationship.We employed fixed-effects models,the entropy weight approach,mixed regression,and generalized method of moments to analyze the data of 30 provinces across China from 2013 to 2020.The results indicate that the construction of transportation infrastructure directly fosters the collective advancement of such industries in rural areas and that urbanization partially mediates the transportation infrastructure-rural industry integration relationship.However,the western region shows disparities in the integrated development of these sectors.Further analysis reveals that foreign investments amplify the positive influence of transportation infrastructure on rural industry integration.Essentially,the enhancement of rural transportation infrastructure,promotion of urbanization,implementation of strategic planning,and strengthening of support mechanisms are crucial aspects in the comprehensive development of rural industries and the achievement of rural revitalization in China.

Layer construction of topological crystalline insulator LaSbTe

Topological crystalline insulator(TCI)is one of the symmetry-protected topological states.Any TCI can be deformed into a simple product state of several decoupled two-dimensional(2 D)topologically nontrivial layers in its lattice respecting its crystalline symmetries called the layer construction(LC)limit.In this work,based on first-principles calculations we have revealed that both tetragonal LaSbTe(t-LaSbTe)and orthorhombic LaSbTe(o-LaSbTe)can be interpreted as stacking of 2 D topological insulators in each lattice space.The structural phase transition from t-LaSbTe to o-LaSbTe due to soft phonon modes demonstrates how the real space change can lead to the modification of topological states.Their symmetry-based indicators and topological invariants have been analyzed based on LC.We propose that LaSbTe is an ideal example demonstrating the LC paradigm,which bridges the crystal structures in real space to the band topology in momentum space.