With socioeconomic development and population growth, demand rises steadily. Against the backdrop of global collaborative and intelligent supply chain development, issues like frequent bullwhip effect, low automated operation efficiency and scattered warehouse goods restrict overall supply chain performance and corporate core competitiveness, calling for targeted optimization. This study focuses on the field of supply chain management, aiming to mitigate the bullwhip effect, improve the efficiency of automated operations and enhance the density of goods storage. This study adopts the literature research method and case analysis method to verify the feasibility of optimization strategies. The study shows that promoting multi-enterprise cooperation can mitigate the bullwhip effect and reduce manual workload; constructing a three-dimensional best-selling index model with the entropy method to formulate storage location scheduling can enhance storage density. This study can provide references for supply chain management practices and help enterprises boost their core competitiveness in the supply chain.

China is faced with both challenges of global climate shifts and population aging, so energy consumption structure transformation towards cleanliness has become the first key issue if our country wants to achieve sustainable development. The paper utilizes a decade of provincial data (2012-2021) to explore how an aging populace reconfigures energy usage under different levels of environmental governance. Based on fixed effect and threshold estimations, the following results can be obtained: 1) The emergence of a large elderly population acts as an inhibitor of coal reliance and can expedite the adjustment to green energy; 2) Environmental regulation has one threshold in the impact on the energy consumption structure of population aging, and with the continuous improvement of the environmental regulation level, the positive effects of population aging are enhanced; 3) There is a clear spatial divide: The promoting effect in the eastern region is the largest. This study offers reference for promoting the development of sustainable development and differentiated environmental regulation policies in the context of aging and promoting the low-carbon transformation of the energy structure.

In the current era where global industrial expansion has exacerbated the adverse impacts of the greenhouse effect, the transformation of traditional corporate structures toward green finance has gradually emerged as a core objective for China's economic development both now and in the future. This paper adopts the SWOT analysis method to comprehensively examine China's economic development from a carbon tax perspective across four distinct dimensions. It concludes that China's economic development based on the carbon tax system boasts the advantages of a complete supply chain and robust green technology support, while it faces the weaknesses of regional disparities in industrial structures. Meanwhile, it is presented with opportunities including fiscal subsidies and accumulated institutional experience, and confronted with threats pertaining to distributional and affordability issues, as well as challenges in statistical accounting and information asymmetry.

Forests are ecologically and economically indispensable, yet global forestry faces severe tensions between short-term resource exploitation and long-term ecological conservation, making the eco-economic balance a research imperative. The Changbai Mountain forest area is a representative and successful case of the shift to strong - sustainability. Its experience can be a useful reference for similar forest regions. This paper uses an integrated qualitative analysis with a mix of case studies and literature review to investigate the coordination of SDGs 8 and 15 by means of policy execution, ecological compensation mechanisms, and industrial restructuring. By means of the NFPP and ECR, Changbai Mountain shifted from overexploitation to resilient sustainability. The region has changed from depending on timber to turning ecosystem services into a business. Reconciling economic growth, which is marked by means of SDG 8, and environmental sustainability, marked by means of SDG 15, proves the workability of strong sustainability in forestry development. The research results offer context - adaptable strategies for global forest areas and emphasize the importance and feasibility of balancing ecological conservation with sustainable economic growth.

The rapid development of the digital economy is reconstructing the logic of the labor market, which brings new opportunities for female employment. At the same time, it also has a profound impact on the employment rules of the labor market's gender structure. Digital economy from six dimensions, this paper analyzes the mechanism of action of female employment and labour markets and realistic effects. The study finds that the digital economy broadens the employment channels and alleviates the labour market for women and gender inequality, but also some problems such as the digital divide and inadequate protection of the rights and interests. Based on this, this paper puts forward targeted suggestions from the aspects of skills training, institutional guarantee and platform governance to promote the deep integration of digital economy and female employment, and achieve gender equality and high-quality development of the labor market.

This paper studies carefully how economic cycles and the uncertainty of monetary policy influence firms' attention to macroeconomic situations. We build a cross-level analysis structure that includes the intensity of economic cycle fluctuations, the monetary policy uncertainty index and the way firms allocate their attention, and the study shows the dynamic mutual connections among these three things in a systematic way. It is found that economic cycle fluctuations do two main things for firms: they directly change firms' ability to get resources and the actual market needs they face, and they also shape the environment for firms to make decisions in an indirect way by influencing the changes of monetary policy. The uncertainty of monetary policy will raise the cost of dealing with information for firms and make them form wrong expectations about their future earnings, and this situation makes firms pay much more attention to the signals of the macroeconomic situation. Also, the basic features of firms like their business scale and the years they have been running have a clear regulating influence on the changes of firms' attention, and large firms with a long running history show a much stronger reaction in their attention to macroeconomic situations. This paper makes the theory about how firms make their decisions more complete in an important way: it breaks the old assumption of the "completely rational economic man" and builds a new decision-making model based on limited rationality for firms. At the same time, the paper also gives a practical reference system for the people who make national policies to make macroeconomic management more scientific and better. What's more, the research results of this paper help to improve the exactness of policy design and the actual effect of macroeconomic expectation management, and they also have real and practical guiding value for the work of stopping systemic financial risks from appearing in the market.

Being one of the most important environmental regulation tools designed to incentivize operations, the carbon emission trading policy is an essential tool toward corporate sustainable development. Realizing the research sample using Chinese A-share listed companies between 2009 and 2022, this paper uses a multi-period difference-in-differences (DID) model to examine the the effects and mechanism of the carbon emissions trading policy on the listed firms ESG performance in the context of the goal of the carbon emissions trading policy known as the Dual Carbon. The findings indicate that the involvement in the carbon emissions trading scheme generates a considerable enhancement in the ESG performance of firms, and digital transformation participates in this relationship partially. Analysis of heterogeneity demonstrates that state-owned businesses and non-heavy-polluting businesses benefit more from the policy's ESG performance. Moreover, firms in less marketized areas and eastern regions are more responsive to the policy. This study contributes to promoting listed firms to enhance their ESG performance and provides actionable references for further improving the creation of the national carbon emissions trading market.

Amid the global push for the Sustainable Development Goals, urban green transition stands as a critical pathway toward achieving sustainable economic development. This paper reviews the literature from 2020 to 2026, focusing on the drivers, economic effects, and policy practices associated with urban green transition, with particular emphasis on its synergies with sustainable economic growth. The study clarifies the core concepts of urban green transition and sustainable economic development, summarizes the synergistic driving roles of policy, technological, and social factors, analyzes the economic growth, employment, and spatial equity effects brought about by green transition, and examines representative urban practices and policy effectiveness. The study employs comparative analysis and exemplary case studies to systematically examine the inherent relationship between urban green transition and sustainable economic development. Through comprehensive analysis, this study identifies that urban green transition serves as the pivotal pathway toward achieving sustainable economic development, while the latter constitutes the primary objective of the former.

Against the backdrop of the global green transition, this study examines how regional development strategies influence corporate green innovation. Using the establishment of National Industrial Transfer Demonstration Zones (NIRDZs) between 2010 and 2014 as a quasi-natural experiment, this study employs a multi-period difference-in-differences (DID) model to investigate the impact of industrial transfer policies on green innovation among firms in pollution-intensive industries, along with their underlying mechanisms and heterogeneity. The results show that the policy significantly promotes green innovation among firms in host-regions. Mechanism analysis indicates that the policy promotes green innovation through facilitating the cross-regional mobility of advanced production factors and improving firm specialization. Heterogeneity analysis further reveals that the policy effect is stronger in labor-intensive and technology-intensive firms and in competitive industries, while it is insignificant for capital-intensive firms constrained by high-carbon lock-in. Overall, upgrading industrial transfer from "capacity relocation" to "factor and capability relocation," while promoting firm specialization and differentiated policy support, can better align industrial transfer with green innovation and support coordinated regional green development.

Against the backdrop of economic development, international studies focus on the correlations between tobacco and alcohol use and health behaviors across different populations, as well as pathways for science popularization and education. While domestic research confirms significant associations between tobacco and alcohol addiction and human health indicators, while pointing out gaps between China's tobacco and alcohol control efforts and those of the United States, highlighting the urgent need to learn from mature regulatory models. This study analyzes macroeconomic data, health statistics, and employs econometric models, revealing that economic development raises household incomes, which in turn drives up tobacco and alcohol consumption. Excessive consumption of these substances causes irreversible damage to multiple human systems, elevates the incidence of chronic diseases and cancers, increases maternal and child health risks, and extends harm to non-consumers through secondhand smoke and alcohol-related risks. Health issues stemming from tobacco and alcohol consumption drive up social medical expenses, exacerbate payment pressures and operational risks for medical insurance funds, and increase difficulties in insurance product pricing and risk control. Although the tobacco industry contributes to short-term economic growth and tax revenues, its long-term and widespread health hazards create a striking contradiction. This study clarifies the close links among tobacco and alcohol consumption, public health, and the medical insurance system, and proposes policy interventions to guide tobacco and alcohol consumption, providing references for the sustainable development of related undertakings.