Analysis of the Characteristics, Causes and Governance of the ‘Involutionary’ Competition in China’s Industrial Enterprises
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Currently, the intensification of ‘involutionary’ competition among Chinese industrial enterprises is starkly evidenced by declining corporate profit growth rates, lower industrial capacity utilization, and impaired macroeconomic growth engines. This escalation is inextricably linked to mounting downward pressure on the macroeconomy amid shifting internal and external environments. However, its root cause lies in the behavioral resonance of three key economic actors—households, enterprises and the government under transitional stress. The adaptive actions of these actors, constrained by their respective limitations, have trapped industries in low-level competition through a vicious cycle from ‘demand contraction to supply inefficacy and ultimately policy failure’. This paper proposes a coordinated three-pronged approach, that is boosting household income, optimizing corporate supply-side responses, and refining government policies, to holistically rebalance market supply-demand dynamics, foster a virtuous economic cycle, and ultimately break the intensifying ‘involutionary’ competition trap.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it