Industrial heritage has historical and cultural value and reuse potential. Urban industrialization has a significant social influence on place identity and emotional identity. Shougang Science Fiction Industrial Park (hereinafter referred to as “Shougang Park”) serves as one of the first pilot projects for the transformation of old industrial areas in China. This study examines Shougang Park through a spatial narrative lens, analyzing its industrial heritage via the “author-text-reader” framework. Research reveals the specific implications of the three dimensions and the connections behind them. The findings offer practical strategies for experiential tourism design and adaptive reuse planning, while establishing theoretical models applicable to global post-industrial heritage revitalization.

Against the backdrop of high-quality development in rural tourism, issues such as landscape homogenization and insufficient coordination among diverse stakeholders have become increasingly prominent, creating a marked disparity with the requirements for distinctive and differentiated development in rural revitalization. This paper aims to investigate how actor-networks drive the dynamic evolution of rural tourism landscapes through translation mechanisms, and to illuminate the agentic role of non-human elements in this process, thereby addressing the core question of why the same set of local resources generates distinct landscape forms across different developmental stages. To this end, this study takes the Mayangxi Ecotourism Area in Fujian as a case study and, drawing on actor-network theory, employs qualitative research methods including in-depth interviews, participant observation, and grounded theory to systematically analyze the phased evolutionary characteristics, actor-network translation logic, and underlying operational mechanisms of rural tourism landscape creation. The findings reveal that: (1) the creation of the Mayangxi rural tourism landscape has successively undergone three major developmental stages—landscape construction, landscape integration, and landscape optimization—during which human and non-human actors, through a complete translation mechanism, drive the continuous iteration of the actor-network, with non-human elements playing a significant agentic role throughout the landscape’s evolution; (2) the local landscape creation has formed a closed-loop operational mechanism of “base activation → network construction → network iteration → sustainable operation,” which effectively supports the sustainable development of rural tourism landscapes. This study addresses the analytical limitations of existing rural landscape research, which tends to focus on human-centered interactions while overlooking the value of non-human elements, expands the application boundaries of actor-network theory in the field of rural tourism, and provides practical guidance for differentiated landscape creation in China’s rural tourism development.