The Shaping of Environmental Rights Oriented Toward the “Needs for a Better Life”

With the continuous improvement in the protection of environmental rights in China,the demand for a“more beautiful environment”in the“needs for a better life”should serve as the basis for the formation of environmental rights.Environmental rights oriented toward the“needs for a better life”reflect the legal response to ensure that the environment meets people’s spiritual needs to a certain extent after the environment meets their health needs.Based on the provisions of the general personality rights in China’s Civil Code and related judicial practice,a legal normative interpretation of environmental rights oriented toward the“needs for a better life”can be established.At the theoretical level,the boundary of environmental rights should be determined by taking the obligation to tolerate as the bottom line.In the identification and protection of environmental rights in relevant judicial practices,factors such as the protection of reasonable expectations and the inertia of people’s perceptions of the environment should be fully considered with judicial discretion to render the positioning of judicial protection reasonable based on taking the obligation to tolerate as the bottom line.

Chinese People’s Pursuit for Better Life Unstoppable

COME rain or shine, the eforts of Chinese people in pursuing a better life are unstoppable, according to a Chinese language commentary which was published under the byline “Xuanyan” in the People＇s Daily on August 8. The 4,700-character article, titled “Create a Better Life, Come Rain or Shine,” summarized China’s development and reform since 1949, as well as its attitudes towards the challenges facing the country.

Blooming Gardens: Live a Green and Better Life

With flowers in full bloom, the International Horticultural Exhibition 2019 Beijing (Expo 2019) kicked off in the capital’s Yanqing District last April. The Expo 2019, as indicated by its theme “Live Green, Live Better,” aims to “show the vision of green development, highlight the achievements of ecological progress, and promote the development of horticulture and green industries.”

Smarter lndustry,Better Life

Intelligent technologies help China upgrade its traditional manufacturingindustry while bringing convenience to people＇s lifeLIKE the countless white-collar workers in China＇s many state-owned enterprises based in Beijing,Zhou Yun is busy from sunrise to sunset,with little time to devote to housework and cooking.But thanks to a China-developed intelligent technology,she now has the comfort of knowing that at the end of her long work day, a full bowl of hotsteamy rice is waiting for her back home.

People With HIV Now Live a Better Life

As a UN Volunteer, working with UNAIDS China, I have the opportunity to get involved in a wide range of areas. From working with community-based organizations, set up by people living with HIV to interacting with the media on topics related to HIV/AIDS to sup- porting campaigns to fight HIV/AIDS- related discrimination in the workplace, I get to do it all.

The Art of a Better Life

XIAO Yanqing, a farmer over 40 years old, could never have imagined that his life could take a different turn when he started painting tigers in the late 1980s.

2005: Better Protection of Right to Life

The right to life is the essential and most important of all human rights. For an individual, it constitutes the prerequisite for the enjoyment of all other rights to which he or she is entitled. In 2005, the Chinese authorities planned a series of legal measures to provide still more effective protection of the right to life.

City Walk:美好生活视域下的体文旅融合发展研究

City Walk是一种以漫步为主要途径来体验城市风景和文化氛围的新型“微旅游”方式。本文在分析City Walk的内在机理及价值的基础上,对以美好生活视域下City Walk中体文旅融合所面临的现实困境与纾困路径进行分析。研究发现,City Walk中体文旅融合的现实困境为缺乏相应科学健身知识储备、影响旅游目的地居民生活、过度商业化与文化原貌冲突、过于集中的City Walk路线。据此提出纾困路径:在人才支持方面要培育体文旅复合人才,组建专业队伍;在政策支持方面要完善法律法规,建立奖惩机制;在创新支持方面要持续探索新区域,助力体文旅高质量发展;在宣传支持方面要打造City Walk中的城市IP属性,扩大知名度。

Transformation in the Form of a Better Life in the New Era and Its Value Guidance

A"better life in the new era,"a proposition unique to 21 st century Marxism,is based on the historical originality of socialism with Chinese characteristics.Along with the transformation of the main contradictions in Chinese society,"a better life in the new era"has become a new life-form.Of course,the new life-form and new development ideas are complementary.On the one hand,the proposition of the new development ideas is based on the transformation of the new life-forms,so the inherent purport of the two is closely related;on the other,the proposition of such ideas will further promote the construction of"a better life in the new era"at the level of practice,and will play a key leading role in the resolution of major social contradictions.Therefore,to comprehensively understand the revolutionary significance of a"better life in the new era"under the guidance of the new development principles,we must gain an intrinsic grasp of the many forms of a"better life in the new era,"including its actors,forms of occurrence,forms of realization and external forms.They have as their theoretical support such concepts as"the people as themain force,the ruling Party as the guide,""transformation of contradictions,integration of supply and demand,""labor orientation,co-creation and sharing,"and"homogeneous ideals extended worldwide."Together,these constitute a unique Chinese style.In the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics,or modernization,only the sublation of"objective[sachlicher]dependence"and adherence to the practical intention of"free individuality"can fulfill the"return"of a"better life in the new era"toward"man himself,"and achieve value guidance for the Chinese road.

Learning from China

OVER the past four decades,China has lifted more than 740 million people out of poverty with its poverty headcount ratio dropping to 3.1 percent by the end of 2017 from 97.5 percent in 1978.People’s lives have remarkably improved with easy access to transportation infrastructure,electricity,running water,and telecommunication networks.As China ratchets up its efforts to reduce poverty with a raft of targeted measures being introduced,those still trapped in poverty in the country are gradually finding their way out of it.All this has undoubtedly inspired the African countries that are still mired in destitution.

Development Imbalances in China:An Integrated Analysis with the Tsinghua China Balanced Development Index

The principal contradiction facing the Chinese society has evolved to be that between imbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life.Given China’s vision for achieving moderate prosperity,it is relevant to conduct theoretical and empirical studies on the nation’s development imbalances.As a quantitative index,the Tsinghua China Balanced Development Index measures the extent to which development is uneven and insuf ficient across regions,re flecting the progress and shortfalls in China’s efforts to promote balanced development.Our findings provide implications for how policymakers may help people’s expectations for a better life materialize by spurring balanced economic,social,environmental and livelihood development across regions.

From Achilles to Childe Harold:the Transience of the Fate Outlook

Fate is always an eternal subject that many scholars, artists, critics and writers utilizing this vast and specific subject in their compositions. Therefore, in this text, people's views of fate will be analyzed from two typical characters:Achilles and Childe Harold, who are heroes in their times. Through their life tracks, this text will explore the ideal model of one's destiny in the specif-ic era, and from the economic development, social condition and cultural background, the reason or cause of these views will be traced and offer some enlightenment for what people should compose today.

美好生活:城市数字化治理的实践逻辑——基于成都市的经验观察

城市治理逐渐向智能化、智慧化和敏捷性方向发展,同时不断融合绿色、宜居、包容等新理念。已有成果探究了美好生活的内涵、特征和建设路径,相对忽视了数字治理的生活维度,少有研究将美好生活置于城市数字化治理转型进程中予以详细分析。研究提出城市数字治理美好生活逻辑的新命题,重点揭示城市数字化治理转型过程中美好生活逻辑的实现机制。城市数字治理嵌入居民微观生活实践中,并通过改变居民个体进而改善群体生活模式和生活经验。成都市数字化治理转型过程中呈现出美好生活的逻辑转向,并通过五种机制逐步推动居民美好生活的实现,即通过政策设计机制实现高品质宜居引领市民生活方式变革、通过数字助推机制实现全链条的居民幸福美好生活、通过共建共治共享机制完善全领域的居民幸福美好生活、通过服务进阶机制健全全周期的居民幸福美好生活、通过托底与提升机制实现全覆盖的居民幸福美好生活。城市数字化治理折射出居民生活方式的全面变革,通过技术和社会的高度融合实现美好生活的建设,进而促进国家现代化。研究探索出一种具有中国特色和时代特征的城市生活治理新模式,拓展了城市治理中的生活维度,同时为相关部门建设高品质居民生活方式提供了重要启发。

Power Hearing Better Tech and Funding Fuel Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

这是一篇有关外星智能探索的最新报道。Are we alone in thegalaxy?从早期的无线电信号到现代的大型望远镜阵,人类对地外文明探索的脚步从未停止过。科技空前发展、资金相对充足,笑容不仅洋溢在科学家的脸上,希望也会在每一个相信地外文明存在的人心中升起。

新时代美好生活的发展脉络、价值取向和实践路径

美好生活自古以来就是人们热切追求和持续探索的目标。从发展脉络来看,中华民族实现从站起来、富起来到强起来伟大飞跃的同时,人民的美好生活需要也不断得到满足。从价值取向来看,美好生活以促进人的全面发展为价值基石,以推动社会稳定发展为价值导向,以构建人类命运共同体为价值愿景,展现出中国共产党为人民谋幸福、为民族谋复兴、为世界谋大同的责任担当。从实践路径来看,中国共产党始终坚持以人民为中心,彰显根本立场;坚持“四个伟大”,把握总抓手;坚持“两个大局”,传递世界情怀,推动我国美好生活建设的同时携手各国建设更加美好的世界。

马克思主义视域下美好生活研究范式的转换——以方法论为中心

40年来的中国社会变迁可以分别用“生产型社会”与“生活型社会”加以概括。不同社会发展阶段的生产方式和生活方式是有差异的,评估方法也有所不同。新常态发展阶段的社会建设处于从生产型社会转向生活型社会的过程中,物质需求和精神需求成为双螺旋,形塑着生产方式和生活方式。当前的生活方式研究应从马克思社会理论、美好生活论和中国新发展现实相结合的视域,宏观上将“生产-生活”整体论和“中国为方法”作为美好生活论的基本面向,中观上将“生活者为方法”转换为“家作为方法”和“己作为方法”,从而实现生活方式研究范式的突破和创新。

对美好生活的价值追问——读江畅教授的新著《好生活如何成为可能》

江畅教授的新著《好生活如何成为可能》从价值论的角度,对习近平总书记所提出的“美好生活”问题进行了全方位、整体性的学理研究,建构了以“好生活”为核心范畴的价值理论。与以往价值论中纯粹强调价值的客观性或价值的主观性不同,它从价值主体及其生活场景的交互关系中把握“好生活”的学理意蕴。好生活不是单纯道德意义上的善生活,而是一系列主客观因素动态交织的系统整体。在分析价值主体与自然、社会的理想生存场景之间的客观要素中,彰显出客观环境对主体价值需要满足的统一。当人类个体普遍具备良好品质和健全人格时,人才能构建一个优越的社会和世界。在一定意义上,它对伦理学中国自主知识体系作出了崭新的探索。

世界·国家·人民:习近平文化思想的三重“美好”向度

习近平文化思想内涵丰富、立意高远、博大精深,既有对不同文明交流互鉴与擘画美好世界愿景的展望,有激发全民族文化创新创造活力与建设更加美好中国蓝图的构想,还有对增强人民群众幸福感与提供多样化精神文化生活的行动。习近平文化思想从整个人类文明持续发展繁荣的国际视野、社会主义文化强国建设的战略视野、美好生活文化需求的民生视野三重向度,为当今世界文化发展和创造人类文明新形态提供了中国智慧和中国方案。

对人工智能的目的反思

人工智能是一柄双刃剑,反思其技术问题、引导其积极效能是哲学研究的基本任务。无论是人工智能的现状还是未来,人类真正需要并能够控制的对象,与其说是智能机器,不如说是人类自身,因此人工智能技术的真正问题在于人对待世界的问题。突破传统人工智能“技术漏洞—制度补强”的修补式思辨路径,以人工智能作为反观人类自身得失、促成美好生活实现的窗口,基于“人之主宰地位”及“人之本质定义”的视角重申敬畏之心、德性挺立之于人类生命及世界秩序的重要价值,可得到人工智能于美好生活的新的哲学向度。就此而言,人工智能作为一种人类发明的技术逻辑,终究是需要回归社会实践的,把握人工智能的安全性,以确保负责任的技术创新,是人工智能技术运用于生活的基本底线。而在美好生活的向度层面,首先就必须正视和接纳人工智能为人类之秩序与安宁带来的系列福利,其次要反思人类社会既有制度以及人性取向既有缺陷。在此基础上,反省现代社会人的价值追求、增进其对于他者的同情、对于世界的包容,既需要积极利用智能技术来提升生产效率与生活品质,也必须完善与之相应的人文及伦理与法律制度建设,从而最终实现美好生活所要求的,效率与公平、技术与思想、物质与精神的双向并进。

新时代中国共产党加强生态治理的实践理路与经验启示

生态治理是国家治理的题中之义,也是一个政党治国理政不可或缺的方面。中国共产党始终坚持生态即民生的理念,着力解决群众所急所需所忧所盼问题,其中就包括生态治理。考察新时代中国共产党加强生态治理的实践,分析生态治理的“主体:多元主体的协同”“客体:统一的自然系统”“范围:整个国家”“手段:多措并举”“目标:美好生活需要的满足”,对总结经验既必要又重要。通过考察与分析,可以得出新时代中国共产党加强生态治理的基本经验主要有,习近平生态文明思想是生态治理的总指引,坚持党的领导是我国进行生态治理的根本保障,恪守人民至上是党坚持生态治理的初心和使命,提升生态治理能力是解决生态困境的关键所在,深化生态治理体制改革是实现生态良好的必由之路。