This paper deconstructs and reviews the virtual place of "Canal Towns" from three aspects: virtual space, virtual society and virtual interaction: In terms of virtual space, the game symbolises a series of local cultural landscapes, recreating the Jiangnan of the historical imagination through a filter similar to that of a Wu School landscape painting, and employing bamboo and silk music to enhance the place atmosphere. In terms of the virtual society, the game lays out a macroscopic backdrop to bring the player into the setting, and expands the social story and reinforces the impression of the city through "adventure" missions in each city. At the same time, the virtual social network is enriched by the use of two types of NPCs, special characters and normal characters, with different roles. In terms of virtual interaction, as a single-player game, the core interaction between the player and the virtual space lies in the management, production and landscape design of the city. The interaction between players is realised through the game's official channeling in the Weibo chat "community". The shortcomings of this virtual placemaking are the instability of the virtual space, the fragility of the social relationship, and the limitations of the audience and influence. Finally, the paper argues that it is the 'inhabitation' and emotional flow of players within the virtual space that makes it a virtual place. The conclusions of this paper help to expand the field of research on place and sense of place, and provide a way of thinking about deconstructing virtual places, and provide some reference value for the development and design of future virtual games.

The regional geographical concept of "Guangdong Nan-lu", which was frequently used in modern historical documents of Guangdong, roughly emerged during the time when Cen Chunxuan, the viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi, reorganized and recruited soldiers in the 29th year of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1903). It was ultimately established when the Guangzhou KMT Government established the position of "Administrative Commissioner of Guangdong Nan-lu" in 1925. During the period of the Republic of China, the use of the term "Nan-lu" gradually increased, with both broad and narrow connotations: in a broad sense, it referred to Gaozhou Prefecture, Leizhou Prefecture, Lianzhou Prefecture, Qinzhou, counties such as Enping, Kaiping, Xinhui, Xinxing, Yangchun, and Yangjiang in Zhaoqing Prefecture, Luoding Prefecture, and the Qiongya region; in a narrow sense, it specifically referred to Gaozhou Prefecture, Leizhou Prefecture, Lianzhou Prefecture, Qinzhou, and the two counties of Yangjiang and Yangchun. The ever-changing connotations of "Guangdong Nan-lu" were not only a result of the continuous disintegration and reorganization of regional political forces in modern Guangdong but also driven by the misalignment between the area's socioeconomic development disparities and its strategic position. After 1949, with the adjustment of the provincial boundaries and administrative divisions between Guangdong and Guangxi, the term "Guangdong Nan-lu" gradually faded away.

Green spaces in a large highly-dense city are typically very scarce. Clarifying residents' visit preferences for urban green spaces (UGSs) and associated socio-demographic variations help inform targeted decision-making of UGSs and promote their usage, as well as further enhance their multiple benefits including health. However, studies focus on only a few aspects of the use preferences and socio-demographic characteristics, and thus fail to comprehensively reveal the use preferences and relevant variations. And relevant studies largely concentrate in developed countries in USA and Europe. After extending the use preferences and socio-demographic characteristics, the present study comprehensively probed residents' use preferences for UGSs and relevant variations across diverse social groups in Guangzhou, China. 539 complete questionnaires were obtained through in-person surveys at 24 green sites across the city with systematic sampling used. Descriptive statistics depicted the sample profile and the general visit preferences for UGSs, while factor analysis and MANOVA revealed the socio-demographic differences. The results indicated: (1) the general visit preference for good greening and naturalness, various recreational facilities and accessibility. UGSs near homes and workplaces with good vegetation design and diverse recreational facilities, therefore, should be prioritized in the planning and provision. (2) Marital status and age most significantly affected the visit preferences, and sex, occupation, education level, and the walking time had the relatively weak effects. Decision-making of UGSs should seriously consider the socio-demographic differences in the use preferences for UGSs, particularly those in relation to marital status and age. Further research should also include characteristics of UGSs besides the socio-demographic factors.

Social trust, social network, social participation and reciprocal support reflect the impact of social environment on individual self-rated health as well as the connections and interactions between individuals and spaces and places, and are important perspectives for studying health inequalities. Based on the data of older residents aged 60 years. Above from 2017 Chinese General Social Survey, multilevel ordered logistic regression models were utilized to explore how demographical conditions, social capital, and environmental factors influence health status of the older people. Results showed: (1) higher social trust level, positive social participation attitudes, higher frequency of social participation and close interpersonal networks have positive effects on older people's health. (2) Elderly's health condition varies greatly in different regions. We advocate that public policy making related to promoting older people's health should take regional socioeconomic discrepancies into account. Moreover, both social care and family care should be encouraged in order to create an age-friendly social environment.

On the historical new starting point of consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization effectively, the sustainable development of rural tourism is an important path to comprehensively promote rural economic development. Based on the panel data of 71 counties in the Wuling Mountain Area from 2010 to 2019, this paper constructs a rural economic development evaluation index system containing four dimensions, namely, agricultural economy, rural employment, rural facilities, and rural investment, portrays the spatial distribution characteristics of rural tourism and rural economic development from a spatial perspective, and employs a spatial Durbin model to empirically demonstrate the spatial spillover effect of rural tourism on rural economic development and spatial Heterogeneity. The study found that: (1) In the past ten years, rural tourism and rural economic development in Wuling Mountain Area showed the spatial distribution characteristics of "strong in the north and weak in the south, with localized agglomeration". (2) Rural tourism in Wuling Mountain Area has a positive direct effect and spatial spillover effect on the three dimensions of rural economic development, namely, agricultural economy, rural employment, and rural facilities, and is not yet significant for rural investment. (3) The spatial spillover effect of rural tourism on rural economic development gradually weakened among Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei and Chongqing regions and showed spatial heterogeneity in different dimensions. This study helps us to reveal the influence mechanism of rural tourism on rural economic development, and provides important insights for county-level regional rural tourism to promote the sustainable and stable development of rural economy.

Ethnic minority characteristic villages have significant differences in resources and complex location conditions. Therefore, the construction and development path needs to be tailored to local conditions and targeted measures. Combining land and space elements with ethnic regional characteristics, based on the four target layers of urban-rural coordination, cultural and tourism resources, agricultural conditions, and ecological protection, this study establishes a classification indicator system for the construction of ethnic characteristic villages and proposes a classification method of "comprehensive evaluation - graded valuation - comprehensive classification". Taking the "one state and two counties" in Hubei Province as a case, the study divides the construction types of ethnic villages. The research found that most of the villages in "one state and two counties" have rich human resources, insufficient radiation capacity of urban elements, limited land resources, and fragile ecological environment. In terms of construction types, there are many villages with excellent cultural and tourism resources and agricultural resources but with ecological sensitivity, and it is necessary to fully utilize resource advantages while paying attention to ecological protection, improve the level of urban-rural element coordination, actively integrate into the radiation range of urban industries, and cooperate with core villages in the region to form regional linkage. This study fills the gap in the research on ethnic minority villages in existing rural classification studies and aims to provide policy inspiration for the development of ethnic minority village construction.

Since 2020, waves of COVID-19 have dramatically changed community life. Delivery points in the form of Community-Group-Buying (CGB) have developed in China, challenging the traditional retail industry. Earlier research focused on economics and management, while there was a relative lack of research on the spatial perspective of geography. This paper explored relying targets, operation model, multi-scale spatial distributions, and influencing factors of Community-Group-Buying from the perspective of logistics geography and Community-Life-Circle planning based on 8580 point of interest (POI) data in Wuhan City. Text analysis, spatial analysis, and Geodetector were applied in the study. The results indicated that: the primary relying target of the Community-Group-Buying was community commercial outlets, and multiple types co-existed, with large differences in the operating conditions. The spatial distribution was uneven, with a central-peripheral structure of central concentration and external balance, and a symmetrical distribution in the direction of "northeast-southwest"; in the middle view, it showed "L+O" belt-like clustering; in the micro view, it was as close as possible to the entrances and exits of the community, and basically could be achieved within 5-minute walking distance. The percentage of regional primary industry, gross agricultural output value, road network density, and population density were key influencing factors of the density of CGB self-pickup points, and the explanatory power of regional GDP and population density increased significantly after interacting with other socio-economic factors, over 90%. Finally, suggestions were proposed for the development optimization of Community-Group-Buying in the future and an outlook on further research was provided.

The governance of Hehuang in the Ming and Qing dynasties both showed the characteristics of governing according to customs, which has a high reference value for the implementation of policies in ethnic areas today. In the Ming Dynasty, under the idea of "more seals for public construction and more monks for use", Hehuang Tibetan Buddhist monasteries were given political and economic privileges, which had a great impact on the spatial distribution order of Hehuang Buddhist monasteries and was dominated by the state power. Although the Qing Dynasty advocated the promotion of Huangjiao, in fact, the various privileges of most monasteries were transferred to the local government after the conversion of Hehuang to Inner Mongolia during the Yongzheng period, so the distribution and development of Buddhist monasteries mainly depended on their own strength, which was intrinsic. By restoring the spatial distribution of different types of monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism in Hehuang in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the corresponding dynamic process of reshaping the distribution order of Buddhist monasteries is constructed, so as to have a more systematically understanding of the thought of border control embodied in the continuous exchange and interaction between the Central Plains Dynasty and Tibetan Buddhism.