As an ecosystem composed of natural and human elements, a watershed is a geographical area that maintains the balance within its ecosystem. It is also an area of highly sensitive relationship between anthropogenic impacts and the associated environment. A healthy watershed ecosystem is the basis for the survival and sustainable livelihoods of rural residents in the watershed. It can also provide ecological services that meet the requirements of nature and people. The eco-compensation of a watershed and sustainable livelihoods of its rural residents, is an organic whole that is interconnected and infiltrated. Only through the effective interaction of the two, can the ecosystem service function of the basin improve, and the sustainable economic and social development of the basin be promoted. This study systematically organizes and displays the development context of research results on the interaction between watershed eco-compensation and sustainable livelihoods of rural residents. The results of the study showed that: (1) Research on the interaction between watershed eco-compensation and sustainable livelihoods of rural residents is becoming increasingly abundant. Additionally, existing research focuses mainly on time or space cross-section,while the analyses on the process, characteristic and mechanism of the interaction between the two are rarely carried out from a time series perspective. It is urgent to study the interaction between them. (2) Considering both ecological civilization strategy and rural revitalization strategy proposed by Chinese Government, the overall system concept and the collaborative "win-win" idea should be used to understand the logic, process, effect and mechanism of the interaction between watershed eco-compensation and sustainable livelihoods of rural residents. It is necessary to explore an approach to a sustainable livelihood of rural residents within the spatial context of the basin, which can improve their self-development ability and achieve their self-sustainable livelihood outputs. (3) In response to new problems from the interaction between watershed eco-compensation and the sustainable livelihoods of rural residents, it has become necessary to strengthen "socio-economicalization" research on watershed eco-compensation, as well as "geographicalization" research on the sustainable livelihoods of residents in the watershed. The cross-integration of geography, economics, environmental science, ecology, sociology, demographics, catchment management and other disciplines factors, are inevitable in the interactive research of the two. The research results provide a scientific basis for alleviating the contradiction between the economic and social development of the watershed, and the ecological protection of the environment, and thereafter improving the function of the watershed ecosystem and promoting sustainable development of the watershed.

Adhering to the principle of shaping tourism through culture and highlighting culture through tourism, we will promote the deep integration development of culture and tourism, providing clear direction for this development in the New Era. This study involved a systematic review of research on the integration of culture and tourism, and we summarized the conceptual connotations and research hotspots of this integration. The study findings revealed that: (1) Chinese-style modernization served as the value guide for promoting the deep integration of culture and tourism, which was an important path toward achieving Chinese-style modernization. The deep integration of culture and tourism leveraged and boosted Chinese-style modernization. A close internal logical relationship existed between them. (2) The deep integration of culture and tourism refered to the mutual intersection, integration, and optimization of cultural undertakings, cultural industries, and tourism at the resource, product, organizational, and technological levels. It involved innovating different types of tourism destination carriers in the common market. Through the process of resource integration to product integration, and product integration to industry integration, it continuously derived new formats, expanded the industrial scope, extended the industry chain, and shaped the value chain. This was a process of "1+1>2" wherein culture and tourism achieved broader, deeper, and higher levels of integrated development. The deep integration of culture and tourism was not a simple resource integration or "resource-product" integration but a comprehensive and deep "resource-product-industry" integration characterized by typical self-organization, adaptability, nonlinearity, and emergence. (3) In the context of Chinese-style modernization, focusing on research regarding the internal logic, evaluation, paths, mechanisms, and institutional supply of the deep integration of culture and tourism was important. By continuously deepening research content and innovating research themes, we could unleash the huge potential and strong vitality of the deep integration of culture and tourism, better promote the steady and long-term development of the tourism industry, and contribute to the realization of Chinese-style modernization through the power of culture and tourism.

The property rights system for water resource assets is a crucial institutional safeguard for optimizing resource allocation and realizing the value of water-related ecological products. Based on county-level panel data from Zhejiang province (2010-2022) and using the river rights to households reform initiated in Lishui city in 2014 as a quasi-natural experiment for the reform of the property rights system for water resource assets, this paper empirically examines the impact mechanisms of this reform on farmers' income through Difference-in-Differences (DID) and mediating effect models. The findings revealed that: (1) Baseline regression results demonstrate that the river rights to households reform significantly promotes farmers' income. Compared to non-pilot areas, this policy increased rural per capita disposable income in pilot areas by 9.4%. This conclusion remains robust after undergoing a series of tests, including placebo tests, consideration of policy spillover effects, and exclusion of interference from other concurrent policies. (2) Mechanism analysis indicates that the reform primarily boosts farmers' income through promoting the development of advantageous industries, strengthening the rural collective economy, and attracting firm entry. Specifically, it develops competitive industries via ecological advantages, optimizes the benefit-linking mechanism of the rural collective economy to release dividends, and attracts firms to create employment opportunities for farmers and promote green county-level economic development. (3) Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the reform exerts significantly heterogeneous impacts on farmers' income. The income-boosting effect is more pronounced in regions characterized by lower terrain relief, gentler slopes, longer highway mileage, and better tourism public-service conditions. First, lower terrain relief facilitates tourism development, enabling the reform to more fully exert its income-enhancing effect. Second, better transportation in areas with longer highway mileage attracts visitor flow and promotes economies of scale. Finally, superior tourism public-service conditions are crucial for converting ecological resources into consumption. These research results provide empirical evidence for water resource asset property rights system reforms and offer policy insights for ecologically advantaged regions seeking to achieve common prosperity through ecological resource value transformation.