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Conservation and inheritance of cultural heritage in regeneration of urban villages: A tale of two villages in Guangzhou, China 城中村更新中的文化遗产保护与传承——广州两个村的故事

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103989

Zhonghua Gu , Ying Zhang , Shi Xian , Silin Pan , Lulu Wang

The conservation of cultural heritage amidst urban regeneration has become a focal point in academic discussions. Existing research mainly focuses on historic towns and rural villages in developed countries, with insufficient attention to the urban villages of developing nations, particularly those in China, which are situated within complex urban-rural contexts, characterized by a hybrid of historical and cultural heritage, and confronted with pronounced uncertainties. This paper develops a conceptual framework that integrates narrative space theory, urban village regeneration, and cultural heritage conservation to explore the context, processes, and outcomes of heritage conservation under diverse regeneration modes. Through an in-depth analysis of two cases in Guangzhou—Liede Village's comprehensive redevelopment and Whampoa Village's micro-regeneration—the study reveals how different regeneration modes reshape narrative spaces and influence cultural heritage conservation in distinct ways. The findings demonstrate that the priorities assigned to spatial value mining, mediated by the interplay between narrators, mediums, and readers, changed across different regeneration phases and strategies. Additionally, different regeneration modes of urban villages exerted varying influences on narrative representation and non-representation spaces, reflecting the inherent complexity of their cultural heritage conversation and underscoring the need for regeneration strategies that more effectively balance diverse roles and elements. This research could enrich the global discourse on heritage conservation by offering new insights into the conservation of rural culture in the context of rapid urbanization and regeneration.

城市更新中的文化遗产保护已成为学术界讨论的焦点。现有的研究主要集中在发达国家的历史城镇和乡村，对发展中国家的城中村，特别是中国的城中村的关注不足，因为它们处于复杂的城乡背景中，具有历史和文化遗产混合的特点，面临着明显的不确定性。本文构建了一个整合叙事空间理论、城中村再生与文化遗产保护的概念框架，探讨不同再生模式下遗产保护的语境、过程和结果。通过对广州列德村综合改造和黄埔村微再生两个案例的深入分析，揭示了不同的再生模式如何以不同的方式重塑叙事空间，影响文化遗产保护。研究结果表明，在叙述者、媒介和读者之间的相互作用下，空间价值挖掘的优先级在不同的再生阶段和策略中发生了变化。此外，城中村不同的再生模式对叙事再现和非再现空间产生了不同的影响，反映了其文化遗产对话的内在复杂性，强调了需要更有效地平衡不同角色和元素的再生策略。该研究为快速城市化和更新背景下的乡村文化保护提供了新的见解，从而丰富了全球遗产保护的论述。

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Financial and mental health challenges in agriculture: Key informants' perspectives on farmers’ ability and willingness to seek help 农业中的财务和心理健康挑战：关键信息提供者对农民寻求帮助的能力和意愿的看法

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103977

Sarah Ruszkowski , Florence A. Becot , Carrie Henning-Smith , Andrea Bjornestad

As mental health challenges in agriculture have become more visible in recent years, farm organizations, farm service providers, and government agencies have invested in programs and resources to alleviate these challenges. Yet, these investments have overall been made with limited understanding of farmers' ability and willingness to engage with mental health support. Even less is known about how farmers engage with financial support despite financial challenges being a major stressor. In this paper, we leverage data from 59 interviews with 64 key informants in three U.S. states to explore their perspectives on the following: 1) farmers' willingness and ability to seek help for financial and mental health challenges and 2) the factors shaping farmers' willingness and ability to seek help for these two sets of challenges. Key informants described farmers as more willing than they were able to seek help, that they were most willing to engage with financial support, and least able to engage with mental health support. Many of the factors explaining willingness and ability were the same for mental health and financial challenges. Our findings highlight the importance of helping farmers access programs and resources (instead of the prevailing approach framed around convincing farmers to seek help), focusing on addressing the major barriers that impede farmers’ ability to seek help, and systematically linking financial and mental health programs and resources. Productive avenues for future research include examining the interplay between ability and willingness from the perspective of farmers and in countries with stronger social policies.

近年来，随着农业中的心理健康挑战变得越来越明显，农场组织、农场服务提供商和政府机构已经投入了一些项目和资源来缓解这些挑战。然而，总的来说，这些投资是在对农民参与心理健康支持的能力和意愿了解有限的情况下进行的。尽管经济挑战是一个主要的压力源，但人们对农民如何获得财政支持所知甚少。在本文中，我们利用来自美国三个州的64位关键线人的59次访谈数据，探讨他们对以下方面的看法：1)农民在财务和心理健康挑战中寻求帮助的意愿和能力；2)影响农民在这两组挑战中寻求帮助的意愿和能力的因素。关键举报人描述说，农民更愿意寻求帮助，而不是能够寻求帮助，他们最愿意获得财政支持，而最不愿意获得心理健康支持。许多解释意愿和能力的因素与心理健康和经济挑战是一样的。我们的研究结果强调了帮助农民获得项目和资源的重要性（而不是围绕说服农民寻求帮助的主流方法），重点是解决阻碍农民寻求帮助能力的主要障碍，并系统地将财务和心理健康项目和资源联系起来。未来研究的有效途径包括从农民和社会政策较强的国家的角度考察能力和意愿之间的相互作用。

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The deviation between willingness and behavior of farmers to adopt diversified conservation practices: Unraveling the role of risk and time preferences in northeastern China 农民采取多样化保护措施的意愿与行为偏差：东北地区风险偏好和时间偏好的作用

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103974

Rui He , Jianjun Jin , Yuhang Dai , Jubo Yan , Dan Liu

To adapt to climate change and promote black soil preservation, it is crucial to bridge the deviation between willingness and behavior in Conservation Agriculture (CA) and to acknowledge the heterogeneous preferences of farmers. However, current research has not adequately addressed the influence of farmers’risk and time preferences on these deviations of diversified CA practices. This study investigates the deviations of adopting CA practices among farmers in the black soil region of northeastern China and examines how risk and time preferences affect these deviations. Field surveys and behavioral experiments show that 683 farmers adopted CA practices, while 56 showed interest but did not follow through on any. Specifically, 595, 677, and 721 expressed interest in adopting straw returning, no or reduced tillage, and subsoiling, respectively, but 199, 177, and 182 did not act. Farmers display risk aversion and loss aversion, along with a preference for present bias in the short term and impatience in the long term. Notably, risk aversion narrows the deviation for subsoiling, while loss aversion increases the deviations for overall CA, straw returning, and subsoiling. Most importantly, farmers’ present bias widens the deviations for all three practices, and discount rates increase the deviations for overall CA, no or reduced tillage, and subsoiling. Based on these findings, effective policy implications are proposed for the government to bridge the deviation between willingness and behavior and enhance the adoption of CA practices by farmers in the black soil regions, thereby contributing to global climate change adaptation.

为了适应气候变化，促进黑土保护，弥合保护性农业意愿与行为之间的偏差，认识农民的异质性偏好是至关重要的。然而，目前的研究尚未充分探讨农民的风险偏好和时间偏好对多样化农业实践的这些偏差的影响。本研究考察了东北黑土地区农民采用农业生产实践的偏差，并考察了风险偏好和时间偏好对这些偏差的影响。实地调查和行为实验表明，683名农民采用了CA实践，而56名农民表现出兴趣，但没有坚持下去。具体而言，595、677和721分别表示有兴趣采取秸秆还田、免耕或减耕和深耕，但199、177和182没有采取行动。农民表现出风险厌恶和损失厌恶，以及短期偏好当前偏见和长期不耐烦。值得注意的是，风险厌恶缩小了沉土的偏差，而损失厌恶增加了总体CA、秸秆还田和沉土的偏差。最重要的是，农民目前的偏差扩大了所有三种做法的偏差，贴现率增加了总体CA、免耕或少耕和深耕的偏差。在此基础上，本文提出了有效的政策建议，以帮助政府弥合意愿与行为之间的偏差，并促进黑土地区农民采用CA实践，从而为全球气候变化适应做出贡献。

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Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’ 基于地方的农村发展：能力建设、多方合作和理解当地“地方”

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103976

Claudia De Fuentes , David Doloreux , Stephen Quilley

This paper studies the modalities and processes of place-based development in rural economies. Through a case study of the wine industry in Nova Scotia (Canada), it examines why place-based development is important for rural industrial revitalization, and how new economic development is achieved through capacity building, multi-actor collaborations, and local sense-making. This case study highlights the ways in which interactions among multiple actors combined with deliberate interventions to attract exogenous knowledge and connect it to the specific local circumstances of a particular place were necessary to ignite and embed a new industry. The results are of broader relevance to the rural economic development literature and policy making, since they emphasize the potential to create new industries on greenfield sites in rural settings which initially lack the endogenous capacities for emergence and development.

本文研究了农村经济基于地发展的模式和过程。通过对加拿大新斯科舍省葡萄酒产业的案例研究，本文探讨了基于地方的发展对乡村工业振兴的重要性，以及如何通过能力建设、多方合作和地方意义制定来实现新的经济发展。本案例研究强调了多方参与者之间的互动与刻意干预相结合的方式，以吸引外部知识，并将其与特定地方的特定当地环境联系起来，这对于点燃和嵌入一个新产业是必要的。这些结果与农村经济发展文献和政策制定具有更广泛的相关性，因为它们强调了在农村环境中的绿地上创造新工业的潜力，这些新工业最初缺乏内生的出现和发展能力。

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Gendered labor mobility and terrace grain conservation: How female off-farm transfer reduces non-grain production in fragmented mountain agroecologies 性别劳动力流动与梯田粮食保护：女性非农转移如何减少破碎山区农业生态中的非粮食生产

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103973

Qianru Chen , Qian Wu , Hualin Xie

Grounded in feminist political ecology and utilizing a survey of 2085 rural households across diverse mountainous regions, this study deciphers the counterintuitive relationship between non-agricultural labor transfer (NALT) and terrace non-grain production (NGPT) through gendered labor divisions. Results reveal that NALT suppresses NGPT via dual pathways: remittance income reduces risk appetite for cash crops (income effect), while labor scarcity drives adoption of small-scale machinery favoring grain cultivation (substitution effect). Critically, gender reconfigures this dynamic—female labor transfer exerts significantly stronger inhibition on NGPT than male transfer, as women's exodus depletes essential labor for precision-intensive crops (e.g., vegetables, tea), triggering household exit from diversified farming, whereas terrain fragmentation constrains mechanization in male-dominated grain systems. This unintended conservation effect, where female off-farm mobility reinforces grain landscapes yet risks eroding women's agrobiodiversity knowledge, demands gender-responsive policy realignments: recognizing gendered crop heritage zones, subsidizing terrain-adapted machinery, and securing women's land rights to reconcile Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of food security (SDG 2) and gender equity (SDG 5) within rural revitalization frameworks.

本研究以女性主义政治生态学为基础，利用对不同山区2085户农户的调查，通过性别分工解读非农业劳动力转移（NALT）与梯田非粮食生产（NGPT）之间的反直觉关系。结果表明，NALT通过双重途径抑制NGPT：汇款收入降低了对经济作物的风险偏好（收入效应），而劳动力稀缺促使采用小型机械有利于粮食种植（替代效应）。至关重要的是，性别重新配置了这一动态——女性劳动力转移对NGPT的抑制作用明显强于男性劳动力转移，因为女性的外流耗尽了精密密集型作物（如蔬菜、茶叶）的必要劳动力，导致家庭退出多元化农业，而地形破碎化限制了男性主导的粮食系统的机械化。在这种意想不到的保护效应中，女性的非农流动强化了粮食景观，但也有可能削弱女性的农业生物多样性知识，因此需要对性别敏感的政策进行调整：承认性别作物遗产区，补贴适应地形的机械，并确保妇女的土地权利，以在乡村振兴框架内协调粮食安全（可持续发展目标2）和性别平等（可持续发展目标5）的可持续发展目标。

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Corrigendum to “China's agricultural upgrade: Digital inclusive finance driving high-quality development” [J. Rural Stud., Volume 121 (2026), 103927] “中国农业升级：数字普惠金融驱动高质量发展”勘误表[J]。农村学生。，第121卷（2026），103927]

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103942

Liangen Zeng , Yuandong Zou , Yisha Fu , Yanfeng Jiang , Xiaoyan Zhang , Linlin Dai , Yiqing Su

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Cultural and social capital in the rural revitalization: The production of public cultural space and power relationship in Dananpo Village 乡村振兴中的文化与社会资本：大南坡村公共文化空间的生产与权力关系

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103902

Jinyu Zhang , Yuqi Zheng , Yong Xiang

This study addresses a critical research gap concerning power dynamics inherent in top-down rural revitalization policies, which typically marginalize community agency. While existing literature predominantly privileges urban-centric development models or abstract spatial theories, we examine the understudied phenomenon of public space reproduction in rural China. Through ethnographic engagement with Dananpo Village, we analyze tensions between cultural authenticity and postmodern consumption demands in spatial practices, revealing how these negotiations generate economic rewards. Our research advances three key theoretical contributions: First, we extend Bourdieu's framework by theorizing how rural habitus mediates the conversion of public cultural space into cultural and economic capital, thereby exposing power asymmetries among key stakeholders. Second, we elucidate China's indigenous context of cultural capital conversion in the symbolic ownership of cultural production. Third, we propose an ideal revitalization model positioning rural residents as active agents in spatial transformation to ensure cultural continuity during industrial transitions. This ethnography uncovers structural power constraints shared by villages and offers practical implications for policymakers and practitioners.

本研究解决了自上而下的乡村振兴政策中固有的权力动力学的关键研究空白，这些政策通常将社区机构边缘化。在现有文献以城市为中心的发展模式或抽象的空间理论为主的背景下，我们考察了中国农村公共空间再生产这一未被充分研究的现象。通过与大南坡村的民族志接触，我们分析了空间实践中文化真实性与后现代消费需求之间的紧张关系，揭示了这些谈判如何产生经济回报。我们的研究提出了三个关键的理论贡献：首先，我们扩展了布迪厄的框架，通过理论化农村习惯如何中介公共文化空间向文化和经济资本的转化，从而揭示了关键利益相关者之间的权力不对称。其次，我们阐释了文化生产的象征性所有权中文化资本转换的中国本土语境。第三，我们提出了一种理想的振兴模式，将农村居民定位为空间转型的积极主体，以确保产业转型过程中的文化连续性。这种民族志揭示了村庄共有的结构性权力约束，并为政策制定者和实践者提供了实际意义。

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State politics and food alternatives in the post-socialist food regime in Czechia 捷克后社会主义食品制度中的国家政治和食品选择

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103972

Christina Plank , Michaela Pixová

The contemporary food regime, driven by the capitalist market and nation states, is not sustainable. Different alternative food initiatives counteract its unsustainable character. Yet, what kind of food alternatives thrive in this actual market-state nexus constellation defining the food regime has become a site of contestation and depends on state politics. This article explores the role of state politics in relation to food alternatives in the post-socialist food regime in Czechia. In line with food regime approaches and drawing on critical state theory understanding of the state as a contested terrain, we use qualitative expert interviews and document analyses to identify three different political projects that support different kinds of food alternatives. Both, a liberal project driving for an international market economy and a nationalist project with its own major capital, foster food alternatives as part of “food from nowhere” in the current food regime, i.e., industrial world agriculture, and “food from here”, i.e., regional food. The alternative project builds initiatives in the sense of “food from somewhere” following agroecological principles and fostering rural development. Major conflicts are centered around the issues of agricultural subsidies favoring large-scale agricultural enterprises and transnational retail chains offering consumers in Czechia cheap and convenient food. Support from state politics is needed to make agroecological food alternatives in the sense of “food from somewhere” thrive.

由资本主义市场和民族国家驱动的当代食品制度是不可持续的。不同的替代食品倡议抵消了其不可持续的特点。然而，什么样的食物替代品在这个实际的市场-国家关系星座中茁壮成长，定义了食品制度，已经成为争论的焦点，并取决于国家政治。本文探讨了国家政治在捷克后社会主义食品制度中与食品替代品有关的作用。根据食物制度方法和对国家作为一个有争议的地形的临界状态理论的理解，我们使用定性专家访谈和文件分析来确定支持不同种类食物替代品的三种不同的政治项目。一个推动国际市场经济的自由主义项目和一个拥有自己主要资本的民族主义项目，都在当前的粮食制度中，将食物替代品作为“来自任何地方的食物”的一部分，即工业化世界的农业，以及“来自这里的食物”，即地区食物。另一种方案是根据农业生态原则和促进农村发展，在“某处的食物”的意义上建立倡议。主要冲突集中在农业补贴问题上，农业补贴偏向大型农业企业和跨国零售连锁店，为捷克消费者提供廉价方便的食品。要使“来自某处的食物”的农业生态食品替代品蓬勃发展，需要国家政治的支持。

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‘They don't know what they're doing.’ epistemic divides and rural consciousness in Switzerland 他们不知道自己在做什么。瑞士的认知鸿沟与乡村意识

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103953

Maurits Heumann

Established frameworks of rural resentment help explain right-wing voting behavior and anti-establishment attitudes, but they struggle to account for the rural link to skepticism toward expert knowledge, anti-intellectualism, and resistance to policies in knowledge-intensive fields such as agriculture, climate regulation, and public health. Drawing on group discussions in six rural Swiss communities, this study addresses that gap by demonstrating how rural consciousness operates not merely as a moral system—rooted in traditional values and rural lifestyles—but also as a distinct epistemic framework. Through thematic analysis of seven group discussions, three core themes emerge—proximity to nature, hands-on (practical) work, and common sense—that legitimize traditional, experience-based rural knowledge while disqualifying scientific, expert-driven knowledge. Far from mere anti-intellectualism, these findings reveal a deeper epistemic divide between locally embedded forms of knowledge, closely associated with rural areas, and abstract, overtly academic expertise, typically linked to urban centers. Distinguishing the moral and epistemic dimensions of rural consciousness helps clarify how contrasting knowledge claims shape political and policy attitudes in contemporary knowledge societies, ultimately contributing both empirical insights and conceptual refinement to the literature on the urban–rural divide, rural consciousness, and place-based resentment.

农村怨恨的既定框架有助于解释右翼投票行为和反建制态度，但它们很难解释农村与对专家知识的怀疑、反智主义以及对农业、气候调节和公共卫生等知识密集型领域政策的抵制之间的联系。通过在瑞士六个农村社区的小组讨论，本研究通过展示农村意识如何不仅作为一种植根于传统价值观和农村生活方式的道德体系，而且作为一种独特的认知框架来解决这一差距。通过对七个小组讨论的专题分析，出现了三个核心主题——接近自然、动手（实际）工作和常识——它们使传统的、基于经验的农村知识合法化，同时使科学的、专家驱动的知识失去资格。这些发现远非单纯的反智主义，而是揭示了一种更深层次的认知鸿沟，即与农村地区密切相关的本地嵌入形式的知识，与通常与城市中心相关的抽象的、公开的学术专业知识。区分农村意识的道德和认知维度，有助于澄清在当代知识社会中，不同的知识主张是如何塑造政治和政策态度的，最终为城乡鸿沟、农村意识和基于地方的怨恨的文献提供经验见解和概念提炼。

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Reindeer husbandry is more than herding – Contemporary roles of women in reindeer husbandry in Finland 驯鹿饲养不仅仅是放牧——当代芬兰女性在驯鹿饲养中的角色

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103968

Minna Turunen , Sirpa Rasmus , Teresa Komu , Iida Melamies , Tuulia Väärälä , Vesa-Pekka Inget

Women's role in reindeer husbandry has received little attention and women have been largely excluded from the public image and management of the livelihood in Finland. We adopted a mixed-methods approach to examine the role of women in reindeer husbandry, focusing on the practices and agency of female herders from the 1980s to the present. Although women have historically been underrepresented in official roles and decision-making related to reindeer husbandry, this is changing. Changes in society and attitudes, herding traditions as well as increased gender equality and a higher educational level and technological development, among others, have affected the practices and agency of women in reindeer husbandry. In addition, challenges related to rapid land-use expansion and intensification as well as climate change require extra work from both men and women. Our study suggests that increased diversification in reindeer husbandry has created new opportunities and roles for women. In addition to physical work, such as gathering herds and round-ups, the contemporary tasks of women include office work, work in supplementary livelihoods and housekeeping round the year. In the 2020s, the proportion of women in reindeer husbandry, both as practitioners and in management roles, is still low. However, along with the changing role of women, the share of female reindeer owners and the number of reindeer they own is gradually increasing, as is the share of female trustees and herding district employees. A new trend of young and educated women entering the livelihood and having more active and diverse roles than earlier is clearly emerging.

妇女在驯鹿饲养中的作用很少受到重视，妇女在很大程度上被排除在芬兰的公共形象和生计管理之外。我们采用了一种混合方法来研究女性在驯鹿养殖中的作用，重点关注从20世纪80年代到现在女性牧民的做法和代理。尽管历史上女性在与驯鹿饲养有关的官方职位和决策中所占比例不足，但这种情况正在改变。社会和态度的变化、放牧传统以及性别平等程度的提高、教育水平的提高和技术的发展等因素影响了妇女在驯鹿养殖中的做法和作用。此外，与土地利用迅速扩大和集约化以及气候变化有关的挑战需要男性和女性付出额外的努力。我们的研究表明，驯鹿养殖多样化的增加为妇女创造了新的机会和角色。除了诸如放牧和围捕等体力劳动外，妇女的当代任务还包括办公室工作、辅助生计的工作以及全年的家务劳动。在本世纪20年代，女性在驯鹿畜牧业中的比例，无论是作为从业者还是管理角色，仍然很低。然而，随着女性角色的变化，女性驯鹿主人的比例和她们拥有的驯鹿数量正在逐渐增加，女性受托人和牧区雇员的比例也在逐渐增加。年轻和受过教育的妇女进入生计并发挥比以前更积极和更多样化的作用的新趋势正在明显出现。

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