Human Rights Connotations and Its Legal Protection in the Harmonious Coexistence between Humans and Nature

Promoting the unity of human nature and sociality in practice is a fundamental path dependence for achieving people's well-rounded development.Within the context of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature,the practice of the unity of human nature and sociality is allowed to be truly implemented,and people's well-rounded development moves from possibility to reality.Strengthening the protection of human rights for people's well-rounded development in the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature not only requires the expansion of the connotations of environmental rights from“the right to a healthy environment”to“the right to a beautiful environment”,but also necessitates the formation of a collaborative framework between environmental rights and development rights.For legal responses to the expansion of the connotations of environmental rights,it is necessary to implement such expansions in environmental legislation,enhance the underlying principles,and make progress in the development of systematic environmental legislation simultaneously.Regarding the legal promotion of the synergy between environmental rights and development rights,it is essential to follow the guidance of the“Two Mountains Theory,”take the coordinated functions of environmental and traditional legal departments as the basis,and build a legal mechanism for the realization of the value of ecological products and services.

Collective Forms and Collective Spaces: A Discussion of Urban Design Thinking and Practice Based on Research in Chinese Cities

The paper examines how social projects,social spaces,and social realities define three contexts and shifts critical to understanding urban design in China,which are the transformations from collective forms to community building,from government to governance,and from urban versus rural development to urban-rural integration.The argument presented is that a unique unification of administration,production,and reproduction spaces into one institution,produced collective forms in China,whose collective spaces and collective subjectivities contrast with Western-centric explanations of urban design and urban sociology that depend on abstract notions of the public,public space,community,and place making.Instead,collective forms and collective spaces are defined by concrete activities,interests,and benefits that provide social networks of support and care to clearly identifiable constituencies.The collective and the community in China are thus always legibly spatialized and develop in parallel to a socialized model of governance that derives from a“differential mode of association.”This creates a spatialized governmentality,an instrumentalization of spatial design by government that brings spatial and social problems of governance closely together.A brief discussion of the historical formations of these changing contexts is the basis to outlining an interdisciplinary urban design approach that deals with spatial and social environments,practices,and policies.The paper brings together research conducted in Chinese cities including Wuhan,Beijing,and Shanghai.

The 9th China-U.S. Civil Peace Forum held in Beijing

From October 15 to 16,2019,the 9th China-U.S.Civil Peace Forum jointly organized by the Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament and the American Friends Service Committee was successfully held in Beijing.On November 15,the forum held a seminar on"40 years of China-U.S.Relations:Retrospect and Prospect".On June 16,the Forum held a dialogue on"Jointly Promoting the Comprehensive,Coordinated and Stable Development of China-U.S.Relations".Wang Yajun,CPAPD Adviser and Vice Minister of IDCPC,and Alan Beebe,President of the American Chamber of Commerce in the People’s Republic of China attended the forum and delivered a speech.