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  • Frontier Exploration
    WEI Ye, MA Yuwei
    PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 44(5): 869-879. https://doi.org/10.18306/dlkxjz.2025.05.001

    At present, global and regional security issues are complicated and volatile, and as a frontier field of strategic games between major powers, geopolitical competition in the Asia-Pacific region has shown a multidimensional trend, and the construction of a new security pattern has become a strategic cornerstone of China's modernization and development. As the core carrying area of the "five major securities" (national defense, food, ecological, energy, and industrial securities), the Northeast region's strategic barrier function and geopolitical pivot role are irreplaceable for the country's overall security. However, there are three limitations in the existing research on the spatial practice of security governance: first, the cross-scale transmission mechanism of security elements has not yet been deconstructed, resulting in the disconnection of the governance chain of "national strategy-regional function-local practice"; second, the analysis of the coupling effect of multiple security elements is insufficient, and there is a lack of spatial interaction models based on geographic embeddedness; third, the lack of spatial and temporal refinements in risk simulation makes it difficult to support the dynamic optimization of the resilience system. In view of these, this study attempted to break through the obstacles and address deficiencies of existing studies from a geospatial perspective based on the disciplinary characteristics of geography and the geographic embeddedness of the "five major securities". On the basis of summarizing and analyzing the existing studies, this study constructed an exploratory analysis framework mainly based on core structure identification-regional dominant security function division-multiscenario and security risk simulation, and suggested that the Northeast region should comprehensively evaluate the security function system and leading role of each regional unit based on the core structure of "one side, one corridor, one network, one zone, three belts, three bases, and four channels", and simulate the security geographic spatial pattern of the Northeast region under different development scenarios and security risks from a dynamic perspective, in order to discover the dynamic changes in security service value. Finally, this study proposed optimized governance strategies focusing on the three aspects of giving full play to the regional advantages, coordinating regional development, and integrating policy objectives, so as to provide useful references for the concrete implementation of the "five major securities" in the Northeast region.

  • Frontier Exploration
    WANG Kun, LONG Hualou, ZHANG Yingnan
    PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 44(5): 880-895. https://doi.org/10.18306/dlkxjz.2025.05.002

    Land capitalization is a central issue in China's rural development and reform. Exploring the logical relationship between land capitalization and rural restructuring as well as the corresponding control strategies is of great significance for deepening the theoretical knowledge and developing practical paths of land use transformation and rural revitalization in the new era. Based on the theory of spatial-temporal fix and spatial production, this study elucidated the mechanism of rural restructuring from the perspective of land capitalization with the analytical framework of motivation-actor structure-specific construction-multidimensional restructuring, and elaborated on the potential dangers arising from the game of different actors and the corresponding coping strategies after examining the actor relationships. The study found that: 1) The capitalization of rural land is a process of increasing the value of rural land and restructuring land property relations through the transfer of corresponding property between different actors with various trading means, which is based on the clear definition of land property rights and permitted access to the circulation market. 2) Driven by the dual drivers of changes in supply and demand and guided by the logic of spatial-temporal fix, the process of land capitalization is triggered by bringing capital to the countryside and the interaction of multiple actors; this process causes the change of the elements-structure-function of the rural territorial system through the spatial production of triadic integration that centers on the creation and acquisition of rural land, and thus promotes the multidimensional restructuring of rural areas. 3) There are both interest-goal links and conflicts between different actors, which imply complex game relations and give rise to various forms of alliances and divisions, leading to problems such as the damage of rural residents' land rights and interests, the crowding out of rural development space, the loss of local history and culture, and the intensification of social conflicts on the countryside. 4) In order to balance the conflicting relationships, innovate the path of land development and its capital realization with the joint participation of multiple key actors, build a coordinated and symbiotic collective action system and a fair distribution system, and enhance the fairness and justice in the restructuring process, control strategies should be developed based on the four dimensions of law, planning, market, and governance.