People's Daily - May 26, 2025

Xi Jinping Sends Congratulatory Letter to the 20th Western China International Fair

Beijing, May 25th, Xinhua News Agency - On May 25th, Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory letter to the 20th China Western International Fair.

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that this year's Western China International Fair focuses on expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, deepening regional exchanges and cooperation, and boosting the construction of a modern industrial system. It has an important promoting effect on building a new development pattern and jointly building the "Belt and Road" with high quality, and also provides an effective platform for countries around the world to share the development opportunities of western China.

Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that unity leads to win-win results, and working together leads to progress. We are willing to take this expo as an opportunity to further deepen understanding, enhance friendship, and deepen cooperation with friends from all countries, jointly maintain the multilateral trading system and the stable and smooth global industrial chain supply chain, and inject new impetus into promoting the prosperity and development of the world economy.

The 20th China Western International Fair opened on the same day in Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), with the theme of "Deepening Reform to Increase Momentum, Expanding Opening-up to Promote Development," and was hosted by the People's Government of Sichuan Province (四川省人民政府).

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Achievements and Experiences in Thoroughly Implementing the Central Eight-Point Regulation Spirit Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

By: 中央党的建设工作领导小组

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has remained true to its original aspiration and kept its mission firmly in mind. With a strong sense of historical responsibility and unwavering will, it has confronted the major risks and tests facing the Party and the prominent problems existing within the Party. Summarizing and applying the historical experience of the Party's century-long struggle, it has started by formulating and implementing the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, adhering to strictness and self-revolution, and rectifying the "Four Winds" with the spirit of nailing down. The intensity of the rectification, the strictness of the implementation of the system, and the length of the duration are unprecedented. It has curbed some unhealthy tendencies that had not been curbed for a long time, rectified some stubborn maladies that had not been eliminated for many years, and brought about a new atmosphere in Party conduct, government administration, and social customs. The Party's heart, the military's heart, and the people's heart are highly united, promoting the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to develop in depth, opening up a new realm of leading the great social revolution with the great self-revolution, and having important milestone significance in the history of Party building.

1. Holding high the banner, setting the direction, and steering the course, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee vividly demonstrate the powerful truth and personality of our Party.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), standing at the strategic height concerning the future and destiny of the Party and the country, has made a series of important expositions on why to formulate, how to view, and how to implement the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, providing important guidelines for thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee and promoting the Party's work style construction in the new era.

(1) It is clearly proposed that the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is an act of **徙木立信** (xǐ mù lì xìn - "move a tree to establish trust," to establish credibility through a small act) by the Party in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the Party's work style is related to the Party's image, the people's support, and the Party's survival, determining the success or failure of the Party and the country's cause. The greater the risks, the more challenges, and the heavier the tasks, the more important it is to strengthen the Party's work style construction. If the ruling party does not pay attention to work style construction and allows unhealthy tendencies to erode the Party's body, it will be in danger of losing the people's support and losing power. Our implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee looks like a small matter, but it reflects a spirit. After doing one thing well, do the second thing, so that everyone feels that we can do things and that we are doing things seriously. Only in this way can we gain the trust of the people and the trust of the whole Party.

(2) It is clearly proposed that the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee should start from the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and promote it from top to bottom. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that leading cadres at all levels should set an example and take the lead, doing what they say and fulfilling what they promise. The comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee should start with myself. As long as the comrades of our Political Bureau of the Central Committee set an example at all times and in all places, it will have a powerful demonstration effect from top to bottom, and the whole Party will be very powerful and will not be afraid of any difficulties and obstacles. The comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee should strictly align themselves with the implementation rules of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, one by one, and implement them without compromise.

(3) It is clearly proposed that the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is an entry point and mobilization order for improving work style. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that work style problems are essentially problems of Party spirit. To grasp work style construction, we must return to simplicity and strengthen the foundation. The Eight-Point Regulation is neither the highest standard nor the ultimate goal, but only the first step in improving our work style and the basic requirement that we, as communists, should meet. After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when the Party Central Committee discussed how to strengthen Party building, it thought about solving the problem of "**老虎吃天不知从哪儿下口**" (lǎo hǔ chī tiān bù zhī cóng nǎr xià kǒu - "a tiger trying to eat the sky doesn't know where to start," facing a daunting task with no clear starting point). Later, it was decided to focus on the Eight-Point Regulation. With the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation, the overall situation of work style construction is revitalized.

(4) It is clearly proposed that the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee should adhere to strict requirements. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that rules are for restraint, so they should be tighter. The regulations are regulations, and the words "for trial implementation" are not added, which is to show a firm attitude and that this regulation is rigid. Since we are making regulations, we must strive for a stricter standard, we must be serious, and we must never take it lightly.

(5) It is clearly proposed that the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee should focus on outstanding problems and respond to the expectations of the masses. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the core of work style problems is the relationship between the Party and the people. The formulation of this regulation is not only in line with our requirements for strengthening the construction of the ruling party, but also in line with the expectations of the masses for us. We must resolutely correct formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance, resolutely eliminate privilege thinking and privilege behavior, and resolutely rectify corruption and unhealthy tendencies around the masses, so that the people can continue to see tangible results and changes.

(6) It is clearly proposed that the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is a long-term effective iron rule and hard constraint. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is an arduous battle and a protracted war, which must be grasped constantly and persevered for a long time. If ten years are not enough, then twenty years, and if twenty years are not enough, then thirty years, until it truly becomes a custom. The Eight-Point Regulation dam is hard-won, and we must cherish it, constantly patrol and repair it, and consolidate it. We must take out perseverance and tenacity, and continue to work hard on constancy and length, strictness and reality, depth and detail, manage habits, and achieve results.

2. The Party Central Committee takes the lead, and the whole Party takes action, vigorously and orderly implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has strengthened self-restraint and self-regulation, unremittingly grasping the implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, and promoting all regions, departments, and units to take effective measures in light of their actual conditions, correcting one problem at a time, breaking through one problem at a time, adhering to it year after year, and fulfilling the solemn commitment.

(1) General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) takes the lead, and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee strictly implements the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) personally plans, personally deploys, and personally promotes. He presided over the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to review and approve the "Eight-Point Regulation of the 18th Central Political Bureau on Improving Work Style and Closely Connecting with the Masses" and its implementation rules. The first meetings of the 19th and 20th Central Political Bureau successively revised the implementation rules twice. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee listens to reports on the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee every year and holds democratic life meetings to carry out criticism and self-criticism.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) embodies the improvement of work style and close contact with the masses in all aspects of governing the country, consistently starting from himself, setting an example for the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and setting a brilliant example for the whole Party. Upholding firm belief. Not long after the closing of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he led the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to visit the "Road to Rejuvenation" exhibition, and for the first time proposed and elaborated on the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Only one week after the closing of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he visited the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai and the Red Boat on Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, emphasizing that we should never forget our original aspiration and shoulder the Party's lofty mission. After the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, his first activity outside Beijing was to visit the revolutionary holy land of Yan'an, calling on all comrades of the Party to inherit and carry forward the Party's glorious tradition and fine work style. Adhering to diligence and pragmatism. He went deep into local areas to conduct inspections and research, from the white mountains and black waters to the coast of the South China Sea, from the plains and water towns to the deserts and Gobi, from rural communities to border outposts, without avoiding the cold and heat, and without being afraid of hard work, his footprints spread all over the land of China. He personally checked the inspection and research plan, requiring the arrangement to be compact, pragmatic, and efficient. He did not clear the road or close the road when traveling, and directly contacted and cordially communicated with the masses. He adhered to traveling light and simplifying reception, living in temporary prefabricated houses in earthquake-stricken areas, boarding the 171 warship and eating with the soldiers, and eating oil buns and hemp soup with the villagers in Liangjiahe, Shaanxi. He took the lead in implementing the "short, real, and new" writing style, and his speeches were down-to-earth and heartwarming. Full of the heart of a child. He required the five-level secretaries to grasp together and make a military order, went deep into 14 concentrated and contiguous poverty-stricken areas across the country, commanded and won the largest and most powerful poverty alleviation battle in human history, and created a miracle in human poverty reduction history. Adhering to the people first and life first, he united and led the people of the whole country to fight against the COVID-19 epidemic with one heart, and led the efficient coordination of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development. He continued to deepen the battle to defend the blue sky, clear water, and pure land, and focused on tackling the outstanding ecological and environmental problems around the people.

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee regards work style construction as an important foundation for strengthening its own construction, and implements the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee and its implementation rules item by item with the spirit of "speaking seriously" and the action of "tenacity," so as to strictly restrain itself and take real action, and resolutely implement it without omission. In improving investigation and research, it focuses on carrying out research around the implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments and related major issues, pays attention to studying and proposing new ideas and measures to solve problems with the spirit of reform and innovation, and strives for practical results. In streamlining meetings and activities, it strengthens the overall coordination of major meetings and activities, strictly controls the number and scale of meetings and activities, and adopts more video methods to convene or hold meetings. In streamlining documents and briefings, it strengthens the overall planning of document issuance and strictly controls the number, length, and specifications of documents. In improving news reports, it strictly controls the number of words and duration of reports on the activities of central leaders, strictly controls the number of news reports on national meetings, and strictly checks the theme, broadcast time, length, and duration of the reports, leaving more space, time, and shots to the people. In practicing diligence and thrift, it strictly implements the regulations on working and living treatment such as office space, housing, and vehicles. In standardizing foreign visits, improving security work, and strictly publishing manuscripts, it strictly implements relevant regulations.

(2) Strengthening theoretical arming and consolidating the ideological foundation for implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee. We must unswervingly use Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to condense the soul, solve the problem of the "total switch," and remove ideological obstacles and inject spiritual impetus for changing the work style. The Party's mass line education practice activities, the "Three Stricts and Three Realities" special education, the "Two Studies, One Action" learning education, the "Don't Forget the Original Intention, Keep the Mission in Mind" theme education, the Party history learning education, the study and implementation of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era theme education, the Party discipline learning education, and the ongoing in-depth implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee spirit learning education, all take work style construction as an important content, educating and guiding the vast number of Party members and cadres to deeply study and understand the Party's innovative theories, conduct inspection, analysis, and reflection in ideology and politics, conduct comparison, investigation, and rectification of work style problems, blush and sweat, touch the soul, and constantly remove impurities, eliminate viruses, and prevent pollution, laying a solid ideological foundation for the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee spirit to take root.

(3) Focusing on the outstanding problems of the "Four Winds" and taking step-by-step in-depth targeted treatment. We must adhere to starting from reality, grasping the main contradictions, focusing on solving whatever problems are prominent, and solving whatever problems are urgent, finding the target, shooting at the target, grasping early and grasping small, and preventing problems before they occur. After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, focusing on the "Four Winds" problems that the masses strongly reflect, we carried out centralized rectification of problems such as using public funds to purchase and give moon cakes and New Year cards, eating and drinking and giving gifts with public funds, traveling with public funds, using public cars for private purposes, building buildings, halls, and pavilions in violation of regulations, holding extravagant weddings and funerals, indiscriminately distributing money and goods, unhealthy trends in clubs, and playing golf in violation of regulations. After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, focusing on hedonism and extravagance, we deeply rectified outstanding problems such as receiving gifts and gift money in violation of regulations, eating and drinking in violation of regulations, deeply investigated and strictly investigated hidden and mutated problems such as receiving electronic red envelopes and using public cars for private maintenance, and carried out special rectification of problems such as seeking personal gain by using valuable local products and special resources. We resolutely rectified formalism and bureaucracy, focused on correcting problems such as making choices, engaging in flexibility, discounting, expressing more attitudes, raising the tone, acting less, and implementing poorly, and preventing "low-level red" and "high-level black." We established a special working mechanism at the central level to rectify formalism and reduce the burden on the grassroots, and rectified problems such as the proliferation of documents and meetings, excessive and frequent supervision, inspection, and assessment, and excessive retention of traces. Since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have placed the correction of formalism and bureaucracy in a more prominent position, formulated and implemented several regulations on rectifying formalism and reducing the burden on the grassroots, proposed a series of important measures, solved the outstanding problem of "small horses pulling big carts" in grassroots governance, prevented "formalism on the fingertips," streamlined and optimized grassroots assessment, strictly controlled the borrowing of staff from the grassroots, and promoted the comprehensive establishment of a list of matters for townships (streets) to perform their duties. Focusing on the distortion of the view of power and the misplacement of the view of performance, we continued to deepen the rectification and rectification of "half-finished projects," "image projects," "face projects," statistical fraud, and bad phenomena in grassroots governance. We relentlessly curbed hedonism and extravagance, continued to deepen the rectification of problems such as eating and drinking in violation of regulations, receiving and sending gifts and gift money in violation of regulations, and receiving public officials in violation of regulations, and strictly corrected phenomena such as using training and inspection opportunities to travel with public funds and luxuriously decorate buildings, halls, and pavilions.

(4) Strengthening supervision and discipline and maintaining a high-pressure situation. We must take supervising the implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee as a regular key task for improving the Party's work style, improve the supervision system for work style construction, promote the coordination and coordination of various types of supervision such as internal Party supervision, public opinion supervision, and mass supervision, use big data technology to expand supervision methods, continuously extend the tentacles of supervision, improve the ability to discover "Four Winds" problems in a timely manner, and form a supervisory pressure to punish unhealthy tendencies. Focusing on important nodes such as New Year's Day, Spring Festival, "May Day," Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day, we strengthened supervision and reminders, conducted unannounced visits and inspections, and carried out notification and exposure and warning education. We continued to increase the efforts to investigate and deal with violations of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, focusing on investigating and dealing with top-notch violations of discipline such as not restraining or knowing when to stop, and strengthening the deterrent effect. As of the end of 2024, a total of 1.076 million cases of violations of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee have been investigated and dealt with nationwide, and 1.523 million people have been criticized, educated, and dealt with, including 995,000 people who have been given Party discipline and government sanctions. We established a monthly reporting system for the implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, and as of March 2025, we have continuously announced data on the investigation and handling of violations of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee for 138 consecutive months, and established a case verification and notification mechanism for rectifying formalism and reducing the burden on the grassroots, continuously releasing the signal that the later it is, the stricter it will be.

(5) Deepening both the symptoms and root causes, and investigating and treating both the work style and corruption at the same time. We must pay attention to governing the Party, managing power, and governing officials with the system, focus on blocking loopholes in the system and mechanism, strengthen the construction of Party internal regulations and systems, and weave a dense cage of the system. We formulated and revised Party internal regulations such as the norms of political life within the Party under the new situation, the code of integrity and self-discipline, and the disciplinary regulations, and incorporated the requirements of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee into them. We deeply promoted the investigation and treatment of both the work style and corruption at the same time, both "investigating corruption by the work style" to prevent "covering up corruption by the work style," deeply investigating corruption problems such as asking for help and transferring benefits behind the unhealthy tendencies, and "correcting the work style by corruption" to thoroughly investigate the work style problems such as hedonism and extravagance behind corruption, and resolutely eradicate the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption. We continued to deepen the correction of the "Four Winds" and the establishment of a new style, promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, carry out education on the Party's glorious tradition and fine work style, strengthen the construction of a clean culture in the new era, and cultivate a new style of seeking truth and being pragmatic, being clean and honest.

3. With the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, the overall situation is revitalized, and the trust and support of the people are won with the new achievements of work style construction.

The formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, as the "first move" of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in the new era, affects the whole body, and the small incision leverages the big change, promoting the Party's political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organization, and social appeal to be significantly enhanced, promoting the century-old Party to be reborn in the revolutionary forging, and to radiate new vitality and new vitality, promoting the Party's appearance, the country's appearance, the people's appearance, the army's appearance, and the Chinese nation's appearance to undergo profound changes that are obvious to all.
(1) The "Two Establishments" are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the "Two Safeguards" are deeply ingrained in people's minds. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) profound feelings of "I will devote myself, and live up to the people," his noble demeanor of working diligently day and night and being strictly self-disciplined, and his sense of mission to dedicate himself to the Party and the country and repay the Party and the country, have allowed the entire Party, the entire army, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to see the firm determination of the Party Central Committee to implement the Central Eight-Point Regulation and unremittingly grasp the construction of work style, greatly enhancing their heartfelt support, trust, and love for the core, the leader, and the commander. People generally reflect that "what the General Secretary (总书记) thinks is what the people hope for, and what the Party Central Committee (党中央) does is what the people praise." It is precisely the consistent, powerful, and effective in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation that fully demonstrates the authority of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) as the core to have the final say and be the ultimate authority, greatly enhancing the entire Party's political, ideological, theoretical, and emotional recognition of the Party's innovative theories, and greatly enhancing the entire Party's political, ideological, and action consciousness to listen to General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平总书记) command, align with the Party Central Committee (党中央), and move forward in unison, laying an important foundation for the entire Party to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," and promoting the Party's unity and unification to reach a new historical height.

(2) Intra-Party political life is stricter, and the intra-Party political ecology is constantly purified. Through the persistent implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, the state of lax discipline and floating work style has been significantly changed, the atmosphere of truly managing and strictly managing, daring to manage and strictly managing, and managing for a long time and strictly managing has been basically formed, and the Party's ability to self-purify, self-improve, self-innovate, and self-enhance has been significantly enhanced. Resolutely prevent and investigate the "Seven Do Nots" problems, the political, contemporary, principled, and combative nature of intra-Party political life has been significantly enhanced, and the unhealthy trends such as "hidden rules" that once prevailed are losing the soil for survival, and a clean and refreshing relationship between comrades and a regular relationship between superiors and subordinates are increasingly forming, and a clean and upright intra-Party political ecology is constantly forming and developing.

(3) Hedonism and extravagance have been effectively curbed, and formalism and bureaucracy have been given key rectification. Focusing on the old problems and new trends of the "Four Winds" to carry out centralized rectification, a number of common work style problems have been overcome, the extravagant and hedonistic evil winds have been basically stopped, and the phenomena of being high above and divorced from the masses have been significantly changed. Practicing thrift and opposing waste, Party and government organs take the lead in living a tight life, and the national "three public" expenditures have been greatly reduced, decreasing by 68.4% in 2023 compared to 2012. The entire Party has formed an ideological consensus on vigorously avoiding formalism and bureaucracy, and the rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots has achieved obvious substantive progress. The malpractices of infringing on the interests of enterprises and interfering with their operations have been corrected, the business environment and development environment have been optimized, a new type of government-business relationship that is both intimate and clean has been further constructed, and the efficiency of the government has been further improved. The inertia of the "Four Winds" has been effectively reversed, the living space for unhealthy trends and evil practices has been continuously compressed, and the Party's work style has achieved an overall improvement.

(4) The Party's flesh-and-blood ties with the people have become closer, and the foundation for the Party's long-term governance has become more solid. Learning and promoting the "Four Down to the Grassroots" system, adhering to and developing the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, deepening Party building to lead grassroots governance, widely carrying out Party member volunteer services, and solving the urgent, difficult, and worrying problems of the masses with heart and soul, Party members and cadres have enhanced their awareness of living, suffering, and working together with the masses. Vigorously correcting the unhealthy trends and corruption problems that damage the interests of the masses, investigating and managing the "micro-corruption" in the field of people's livelihood and the "stumbling blocks" that hinder the implementation of policies benefiting the people, the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security has become more substantial, more guaranteed, and more sustainable. Party members, cadres, and the masses reflect that the Central Eight-Point Regulation is the "Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention" in the new era, which has further strengthened their belief and confidence in believing in the Party, relying on the Party, and following the Party. The 2024 public opinion survey by the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) showed that 97.4% and 94.9% of respondents expressed satisfaction with the Party Central Committee (党中央) taking the lead in implementing the Central Eight-Point Regulation and affirmed the overall effectiveness, respectively.

(5) The work state and mental state of Party members and cadres are more positive, and the spirit of making contributions to the new era has been boosted. Implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation has curbed unhealthy trends, enabling the vast number of Party members and cadres to free themselves from reception and entertainment, devote more thoughts and energy to their work, further enhance their sense of responsibility, correct deviations in their performance evaluation, and stimulate their enthusiasm for starting businesses. In major tasks and major tests such as winning the battle against poverty, promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, strengthening ecological civilization construction, responding to emergencies, and fighting natural disasters, Party organizations at all levels have organized effectively and fulfilled their responsibilities, and the vast number of Party members and cadres have strived to be the first and bravely taken on responsibilities, further demonstrating the political and organizational functions of Party organizations, and gathering an indestructible and powerful force for serving the overall work of the Party and the country and promoting high-quality economic and social development. The "China Governance" is in sharp contrast to the "Western Chaos," and looking at the world, "the scenery is unique here." People generally reflect that the Central Eight-Point Regulation is both a "tightening spell" and a "protective talisman," creating a good environment for uniting hearts and minds and starting businesses, and the atmosphere of truly grasping and implementing hard work is becoming increasingly strong.

(6) Excellent Party conduct drives the social atmosphere and public morals to improve, and solid steps have been taken to transform customs. Strengthening the construction of work style is combined with cultivating and practicing socialist core values, the construction of civic morality in the new era, and the construction of family education and family style, Party members and cadres consciously resist the erosion of various bad ideas, take the lead in practicing new trends and righteousness, and drive the entire society to improve customs. Breaking feudal superstition and outdated customs, the concept of practicing thrift and opposing waste is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, phenomena such as high bride prices and lavish funerals and meager support for the elderly are gradually decreasing, bad habits such as paying attention to ostentation and comparing wealth are gradually eliminated, and irrational and uncivilized consumption habits are gradually eliminated, "Operation Empty Plate," garbage classification, and green and low-carbon lifestyles have become new social trends, and the social atmosphere and public morals have changed significantly.

The Central Eight-Point Regulation has profoundly changed China and will continue to change China. The changes brought about by the Central Eight-Point Regulation are comprehensive and profound changes, far-reaching changes, and inspiring changes, shaping the relationship between the Party and the masses and between cadres and the masses who are united and united in the face of difficulties, forging today's highly united and strong Chinese Communist Party, and enhancing our Party's confidence in maintaining strategic focus and grasping historical initiative in the face of changing international situations. Practice has fully proved that resolutely implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation has enriched the effective ways of self-revolution, found the second answer to jumping out of the historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise, and fall, and opened up a new realm of self-revolution for the century-old Party. Practice has fully proved that the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党) has a thorough spirit of self-revolution, is able to face up to and solve its own problems, and will always be worthy of the people's trust.

While fully affirming the achievements, we must also see that the "Four Tests" and "Four Dangers" faced by the Party will exist for a long time, and the outstanding problems such as impure ideology, impure organization, and impure work style within the Party have not been fundamentally resolved. Work style problems are stubborn and repetitive, and problems of Party members and cadres violating the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules still occur frequently, the phenomenon of formalism and bureaucracy is still prominent, hedonism and extravagance sometimes raise their heads, and hidden and mutated behaviors are growing, especially the lack of responsibility and inaction, buck-passing, deviations in performance evaluation, engaging in "face-saving projects," implementing policies with a "**一刀切**" (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," applying a single standard to all situations regardless of individual circumstances) approach and adding layers of burden, unrealistic and improper writing styles and meeting styles, engaging in literary mountains and meeting seas, gaps in rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, ignoring the masses, being divorced from the masses, infringing on the interests of the masses, violating regulations on eating and drinking, violating regulations on receiving and sending gifts and gift money, using the names of research and training to travel at public expense, violating regulations on the construction and luxurious decoration of buildings and pavilions, carrying out general overseas (border) activities and domestic inspection and research activities with care and no substantive content, and other prominent problems are still strongly reflected by cadres and the masses. There is only an ongoing process and no completion time for grasping the construction of work style, and it is necessary to know the difficulties and move forward, meet the difficulties and go up, and persevere for a long time and grasp it unremittingly to deeply implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation.

4. Summarizing in practice and improving from the summary, the accumulated experience is invaluable.

The fundamental reason why the in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大) has been able to achieve remarkable results is that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) has been at the helm and has provided scientific guidance with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想). The entire Party has a deeper understanding that the "Two Establishments" are the most important political achievements, the most valuable historical experience, and the most objective practical conclusions in the new era, and are the greatest certainty, the greatest confidence, and the greatest guarantee for the Party and the people to cope with all uncertainties. After more than ten years of vivid practice, the Central Eight-Point Regulation has become a landmark measure to change the political ecology and social outlook, explored effective methods, and accumulated valuable experience, which should be cherished and adhered to for a long time.

(1) We must adhere to leading by example and demonstrating leadership. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) has played a decisive role in the formulation and implementation of the Central Eight-Point Regulation by setting an example and taking the lead. "Without the General Secretary (总书记), this matter would not be accomplished," which is the high consensus of the vast number of Party members, cadres, and the masses. Leading cadres at all levels are strict with themselves, strictly responsible for their duties, and strictly manage their subordinates, forming a powerful momentum for grasping the construction of work style from top to bottom. In the new era and new journey, we must adhere to understanding and treating work style problems from a political perspective, take the in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation as a major and serious political task, adhere to leaders taking the lead in doing and grasping, demonstrate the "key few" to drive the "vast majority," enhance determination, develop habits, and unswervingly implement the various requirements of work style construction.

(2) We must adhere to consolidating the foundation and cultivating the vitality, and promoting the upright and eliminating the turbid. Strong Party spirit and strict Party discipline will make the implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation more firm and effective. In the successive centralized education within the Party in the new era, ideological education has been the first priority, finding gaps by benchmarking Party style requirements, tracing the roots by benchmarking Party spirit requirements, and clarifying measures by comparing Party discipline requirements. In the new era and new journey, we must adhere to the combination of regular education and centralized education, use learning to cast the soul, use learning to increase wisdom, use learning to correct the style, and use learning to promote work, educate and guide the vast number of Party members and cadres to deeply understand Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thoughts on Party building and important thoughts on Party's self-revolution, consolidate the foundation and cultivate the vitality with a strong Party spirit, promote the upright and eliminate the turbid with an excellent Party style, rectify the work style with strict Party discipline, and consciously abide by the rules and regulations and boldly start businesses.

(3) We must adhere to caring for the masses and caring for the people. Deeply implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation has won the heartfelt support of the people by listening to their opinions, accepting their supervision, and responding to their expectations. In the new era and new journey, we must follow the Party's mass line in the new era, "**把屁股端端地坐在老百姓的这一面**" (bǎ pì gǔ duān duān de zuò zài lǎo bǎi xìng de zhè yī miàn - "sit firmly on the side of the common people," to be firmly on the side of the people), adhere to believing in the masses and relying on the masses, actively solicit opinions and suggestions from the masses by combining online and offline methods, seriously and earnestly treat all problems strongly reflected by the masses, resolutely correct all behaviors that damage the interests of the masses, make the masses feel accessible, and unite the vast number of people closely around the Party with an excellent work style.

(4) We must adhere to governing the Party with the system and governing the Party according to the regulations. The Central Eight-Point Regulation focuses on the macro level and focuses on the micro level, directly hits the key points, is pragmatic and effective, and has become a successful model of governing the Party with the system and governing the Party according to the regulations. In the new era and new journey, we must adhere to managing and governing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, further deepen the reform of the Party building system, run the system construction through the entire process of work style construction, grasp the establishment of rules and regulations with one hand and grasp the implementation with the other, let the iron rules exert their power, let the prohibitions generate awe, and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction.

(5) We must adhere to being serious and tough and persevering for a long time. Our Party has seriously investigated and dealt with problems that violate the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation with the strength and momentum of "**踏石留印**、**抓铁有痕**" (tà shí liú yìn, zhuā tiě yǒu hén - "leave footprints on stone, grab iron leave mark," to make solid and lasting efforts), truly achieving that orders must be obeyed and prohibitions must be stopped. In the new era and new journey, we must dare to struggle and be good at struggling, keep a close eye on it and not give an inch, be vigilant at all times against new trends of hidden mutations, resolutely fight against unhealthy trends that affect the Party's progressiveness and purity, connect the rectification of style and discipline with anti-corruption, adhere to the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere for a long time, and ensure that the Party does not change its nature, does not change its color, and does not change its taste.

(6) We must adhere to clarifying responsibilities and consolidating responsibilities. Deeply implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation relies on tightly grasping the "bull nose" of the responsibility system, and relies on Party organizations and Party member leading cadres at all levels to effectively assume their responsibilities. In the new era and new journey, we must keep in mind that strengthening the construction of work style is the common responsibility of the entire Party, connect the situation and tasks of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, accurately grasp the regional, industrial, and phased characteristics of work style construction, lead one level at a time and implement level by level, and promote the responsibility subject to be in place, the responsibility requirements to be in place, and the assessment and accountability to be in place.

The construction of work style is always on the road, comprehensively and strictly governing the Party is always on the road, and the Party's self-revolution is always on the road. At present, the entire Party is carrying out in-depth study and education on the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, and Party organizations at all levels should carefully organize and implement it, promote Party members and cadres to earnestly study General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平总书记) important expositions on strengthening the Party's work style construction and the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules, study and use the effectiveness and experience of deeply implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, and promote learning, inspection, and reform in an integrated manner to ensure that learning is of high quality, inspection is powerful, and reform is effective, and use an excellent work style to unite hearts and minds, start businesses, and continuously win the trust and support of the people, so as to provide a strong guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 25) (新华社北京5月25日电)

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Let the torch of the Young Pioneers shine brighter in the new era.

By: 本报记者  杨  昊

The shining stars and torches illuminate the dream-chasing journey of generations of Young Pioneers.

With red scarves fluttering, hundreds of millions of Young Pioneers thrive under the sunshine of the Party.

"Unite, educate, and guide the vast number of Young Pioneers to be successors to the cause of communism, and be ready at all times to adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) deep expectations for children and young people point the direction for the work of the Young Pioneers in the new era.

The Young Pioneers keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment, guide children and young people to practice socialist core values, and strive to grow into new people of the era who can shoulder the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation.

Fasten the First Button of Life

Cultivate a love for the Party, the motherland, and the people from an early age.

"At that time, there will be active creation everywhere, and there will be rapid progress every day..."

This year, during the Qingming Festival, more than 100 Young Pioneers in the Fang Zhimin (方志敏) Martyrs Memorial Park in Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi (江西) Province, recited "Lovely China" in unison to commemorate the revolutionary martyr Fang Zhimin. Visiting the Fang Zhimin Martyrs' Deeds Exhibition Hall and listening to the "Red Scarf Narrator" tell the story of that bloody and fiery era, the seeds of the red gene took root and sprouted in the hearts of the children.

"As Young Pioneers in the new era, we must remember history, cherish the good life we have now, and inherit the spirit of the heroes with practical actions," said Li Ruiqi (李睿琪), a Young Pioneer from Changbei No. 2 Primary School in Nanchang.

Enlightening the mind, nourishing the heart, and cultivating the soul, red education guides children and young people to fasten the first button of life. In recent years, Young Pioneer organizations in various places have widely carried out the theme activity of "Qingming Festival Sacrificing Revolutionary Martyrs," which is a vivid microcosm of guiding Young Pioneers to inherit the red gene and cultivate patriotic feelings.

"The Young Pioneers must hold high the team flag and follow the Party," "From an early age, firmly determine to listen to the Party and follow the Party," "Today, be a good child of the motherland, and tomorrow, be a builder of the motherland"... General Secretary Xi Jinping's deep concern and earnest expectations for the Young Pioneers and children and young people set goals and directions for the growth and success of good children in the new era.

In 2021, the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Comprehensively Strengthening the Work of the Young Pioneers in the New Era" was issued. This is the first Young Pioneer work document issued in the name of the Party Central Committee in the history of the Party, and it is the action program for the work of the Young Pioneers in the new era. A new era Young Pioneer work system and mechanism of Party committee leadership, government support, Communist Youth League (共青团) leadership, League-education collaboration, and social coordination has gradually formed.

The National Work Committee of the Young Pioneers produced and launched the "Red Scarf Loves Learning" series of online theme team lessons, covering millions of Young Pioneer squadrons across the country; theme activities such as "Striving to Be a Good Team Member in the New Era" and "Remembering the General Secretary's Teachings in Mind" have been widely carried out in Young Pioneer organizations at all levels... The vast number of children and young people firmly establish their ideals and beliefs, and use practical actions to pass on the red gene from generation to generation.

On Dachen Island (大陈岛) in Taizhou (台州), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, the sea breeze caresses the face, and the sound of the waves roars. The Young Pioneers of Baiyun Primary School in Taizhou witnessed the slow rise of a five-star red flag that had traveled through space, and vowed to contribute to the construction of a strong aerospace country.

On the eve of the 2024 National Day, the "Red Scarf Loves the Motherland - The Five-Star Red Flag in My Heart" national flag relay activity, jointly organized by the National Work Committee of the Young Pioneers and the News and Publicity Office of the China Manned Space Engineering Project, was held on Dachen Island.

This national flag once entered the China Space Station with the Shenzhou XVIII manned spacecraft, and returned to the ground with the Shenzhou XVII manned spacecraft, and was relayed by nearly 100,000 Young Pioneers and members of the Communist Youth League.

Inspiring patriotic feelings and encouraging the ambition to serve the country.

In more than 10 cities along the South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project, Young Pioneers listened to theme team lessons on water conservation, water protection, and water saving, and vowed to contribute to the construction of a beautiful China;

Young Pioneers in Tianjin (天津) learned the production of New Year pictures and clay figure colored sculptures in the theme team lesson of "Red Scarf Loves the Motherland - Cultural Inheritance and Development," and felt the breadth and depth of Chinese culture;

Young Pioneers in Wensu County (温宿县), Xinjiang (新疆), traveled thousands of miles to Jinhua City (金华市), Zhejiang, where Young Pioneers from the two places ate, lived, and studied together, and jointly forged a deep friendship of national unity;

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In the university school of the Young Pioneers, the vast number of Young Pioneers are determined to set goals, cultivate morality, and practice skills, cultivate a love for the Party, the motherland, and the people from an early age, and show a vibrant spirit.

Improve the Young Pioneer System

The Young Pioneers' sense of honor and organizational belonging has been significantly enhanced.

On the eve of May Fourth, the "May Flower Sea" 2025 South China Normal University (华南师范大学) college, middle school, and primary school students' centralized oath-taking ceremony for joining the Party, the League, and the team was held on the Guangzhou (广州) campus.

Li Zhiyu (黎芷妤), a first-grade student at Huashi Affiliated Primary School, was both nervous and proud. She carefully read the Young Pioneer Charter, listened to the story of the Young Pioneers, and often practiced saluting the team flag in front of the mirror, making full preparations for the joining ceremony.

During the oath-taking ceremony, representatives of the Communist Youth League awarded red scarves to representatives of the newly joined team members. Li Zhiyu saluted the team flag and solemnly swore: "Be prepared: to contribute to the cause of communism!"

At the event site, performances such as situational dramas told the origin of the red scarf, the story of the League song, and the initial intention of joining the Party, showing the growth stories and struggles of young people joining the team, the League, and the Party in different periods, and giving the students a vivid "big ideological and political lesson."

A red scarf connects the present and the past; a "big ideological and political lesson" inspires confidence and strength.

Joining the team, the League, and the Party is the "three-step process of life" for young people to pursue political progress. In recent years, the connection between the Party, the League, and the team's educational chain has become closer, the Young Pioneers' organizational education, autonomous education, and practical education have been continuously deepened, and the Young Pioneers' sense of honor and organizational belonging has been significantly enhanced.

Ceremonial education is an important carrier for the Young Pioneers to organize education. The construction of the Young Pioneers' logo etiquette has been continuously strengthened, the national standards for red scarves, team flags, and other items have been revised and improved, the "Standard for the Process of Joining the Young Pioneers of China (Trial Implementation)" and demonstration videos of the joining ceremony have been launched one after another, and the standardization, solemnity, and appeal of the Young Pioneer ceremony have been continuously improved.

"We are successors to the cause of communism, inheriting the glorious tradition of revolutionary predecessors, loving the motherland, and loving the people..." The singing accompanied by the powerful melody reverberated for a long time.

Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) is the birthplace of the song of the Young Pioneers of China. In the 1950s, amid the smoke of war, 13 students from He厝 Primary School in Xiamen bravely supported the front, and were known as the "Heroic Little Eight Route Army." Today, the joining ceremony of the Young Pioneers of He厝 Primary School is held in the "Heroic Little Eight Route Army" Memorial Hall.

"We deeply explore the connotation of the team song, and take the Young Pioneer theme team meeting and practical activities as carriers to lead the children to strive to be good team members in the new era," said Cai Yini (蔡伊妮), the Young Pioneer Brigade Instructor of He厝 Primary School.

The Young Pioneer instructor is the Party's ideological and political worker for children and young people, and is the guide for the healthy growth of children and young people.

In recent years, the National Work Committee of the Young Pioneers has continued to strengthen the construction of the Young Pioneer instructor team, put political standards first, optimize the team structure, innovate evaluation and incentive mechanisms, vigorously improve political quality and performance capabilities, and the sense of honor and responsibility of the Young Pioneer instructors has been significantly enhanced.

In 2024, the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance), the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education, and the National Work Committee of the Young Pioneers jointly held the first national training class for Young Pioneer instructors, and high-quality training courses were transmitted to the grassroots through the Internet, achieving equal quality and effectiveness of instructor training.

Guangdong (广东) promoted the inclusion of the Young Pioneer instructor skills competition into the province's employee skills competition for the first time; Sichuan (四川) promoted the separate listing of the "Young Pioneer Activities" subject in the evaluation of professional titles for primary and secondary school teachers... A high-quality and professional Young Pioneer work team is accelerating its construction.

Optimize the Growth Environment

The atmosphere of the whole society caring for and supporting the Young Pioneers is even stronger.

"Now, the work of the Young Pioneers has become an important project of the school, and the guarantee in all aspects is better, and our motivation to work is also stronger!" said Tian Li (田丽), the Young Pioneer Brigade Instructor of Shuangwan Campus, Jinchan City No.3 Primary School (金昌市第三小学), Gansu (甘肃) Province. The school has included the construction of the Young Pioneer team room in the annual key projects, and not only arranged the team flag and team emblem according to the standard specifications, but also specially equipped with multimedia equipment.

"There is also an activity fund every year. Last year, we used this fund to carry out the 'Rural Little Maker' Science and Technology Festival activity, and invited off-campus Young Pioneer instructors to come to the school for guidance, and many students won awards." Facing the future, Tian Li is full of energy.

"The whole Party and the whole society should attach importance to the work of the Young Pioneers. Party committees and governments at all levels should strengthen leadership and guarantee, and create conditions for the healthy growth of Young Pioneers and the development of the Young Pioneer cause."

"Party committees at all levels should strengthen their leadership over the work of the Young Pioneers, and governments at all levels and the whole society should strengthen their support for the work of the Young Pioneers, so as to provide favorable conditions for the healthy growth of children and young people in the new era."

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In recent years, the work of the Young Pioneers has been included in national plans such as the "China Children's Development Program (2021-2030)" and the "Education Power Construction Planning Outline (2024-2035)," and has been included in laws and regulations in related fields such as the protection of minors and national defense education. The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the National Work Committee of the Young Pioneers have strengthened linkage and strengthened support with more than 20 central ministries and commissions and relevant units.

Today, the growth environment of the Young Pioneers continues to be optimized, and the atmosphere of the whole society caring for and supporting the Young Pioneers is even stronger. More and more Young Pioneers are walking out of the campus and learning about national conditions and gaining growth in the vast social world:

In Hubei (湖北), Jinanling Community (金安岭社区) in Xiling District (西陵区), Yichang City (宜昌市) took the lead in establishing a community Young Pioneer Work Committee, creating a "Young Pioneer team at the doorstep," which has become an important starting point for grassroots governance. Young Pioneers actively participate in activities such as garbage sorting, environmental protection publicity, and volunteer services, and strive to be "little masters" of the community.

In Jiangsu (江苏), Young Pioneers walked into smart pastoral areas, visited agricultural science and technology achievements such as drone fertilization and soilless green leafy vegetable planting in greenhouses, and felt the achievements of the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.

In Shanghai (上海), the "15-minute Community Young Pioneer Happiness Circle" allows children to participate in a variety of Young Pioneer activities at their doorsteps, and become "little forest chiefs," "little river chiefs," "little building chiefs," and "little intangible cultural heritage inheritors."

In Yunnan (云南), Zhang Guimei (张桂梅), Du Fuguo (杜富国), Zhu Youyong (朱有勇) and other pioneer models serve as off-campus instructors of the Provincial Young Pioneer Team, regularly participate in Young Pioneer activities, and face-to-face with Young Pioneers, using the power of role models to guide children to grow.

In coordination with the implementation of the "Double Reduction" policy, various places have coordinated social forces to launch loving care classes to provide services for children and young people after school, on holidays, and during winter and summer vacations.

In order to help children in difficulty, migrant children, and left-behind children, various places have launched "Red Scarf Public Welfare Fund" care actions, "Red Scarf Hand-in-Hand" care activities, mobile youth palaces, etc., so that children can feel the warmth of the Party.

Children and young people are the hope of the motherland and the future of the nation. Standing at a new historical starting point, the Young Pioneers will better unite, educate, and guide children and young people in the new era to listen to the Party and follow the Party, and strive to grow into builders and successors of socialism, so that the stars and torches will shine even brighter in the new era.

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Li Qiang Holds Talks with Indonesian President Prabowo

Jakarta, May 25th (People's Daily reporter Wang Di (王迪), Cao Shiyun (曹师韵)) On the morning of May 25th, local time, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) held talks with Indonesian President Prabowo (普拉博沃) at the Presidential Palace in Indonesia.

Li Qiang (李强) first conveyed President Xi Jinping's (习近平) cordial greetings to President Prabowo (普拉博沃). Li Qiang (李强) said that China and Indonesia are good neighbors and good partners. Over the 75 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two sides have supported each other and helped each other, and the traditional friendship has become more solid and new with time. During President Prabowo's (普拉博沃) visit to China last November, the two heads of state reached an important consensus on building a China-Indonesia community with a shared future with regional and global influence, leading the relations between the two countries to a new historical height and opening up broad prospects for bilateral cooperation. China is willing to work with Indonesia to adhere to the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations, carry forward the tradition of friendship, strengthen unity and cooperation, consolidate the "five pillars" of cooperation, promote political mutual trust and strategic coordination between the two countries to a higher level, jointly respond to risks and challenges, and better promote common development.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China is willing to strengthen the alignment of development strategies with Indonesia, deepen high-quality cooperation in jointly building the "Belt and Road," especially to optimize and strengthen landmark projects, further enhance the "golden brand" of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (雅万高铁), and promote the construction of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Corridor" and "Two Countries, Twin Parks." The two sides should strengthen market connectivity and industrial collaboration, improve the level of trade and investment facilitation, and expand cooperation in finance, new energy, digital economy, artificial intelligence, aerospace, marine and other fields. China is willing to expand cultural and people-to-people exchanges with Indonesia, promote the facilitation of personnel exchanges, and deepen cooperation in people's livelihood fields such as food and agriculture, poverty reduction, and health, so as to better benefit the people of the two countries.

Li Qiang (李强) said that the current global unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, seriously impacting the international economic and trade order. Facing risks and challenges, unity and cooperation are the right way out. China is willing to work with Indonesia and other developing countries to jointly promote the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the Bandung Spirit (万隆精神), actively implement the three major global initiatives, adhere to multilateralism and free trade, promote an equal and orderly world multipolarization and inclusive economic globalization, firmly safeguard their common interests, and jointly promote regional and world peace, stability and development.

Prabowo (普拉博沃) asked Li Qiang (李强) to convey his cordial greetings and best wishes to President Xi Jinping (习近平), saying that Indonesia and China have a long history of friendly exchanges and the people of the two countries have a deep friendship. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference (万隆会议). Indonesia is willing to take this as an opportunity to deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, promote the construction of the China-Indonesia community with a shared future, and promote peace and development in Asia and the world. Indonesia highly appreciates the progress of bilateral cooperation and is willing to learn from China's beneficial experience in poverty reduction and rural development, deepen cooperation in agriculture, finance, infrastructure, green economy, artificial intelligence, education and other fields, and improve the level of industrial cooperation. Chinese companies are welcome to invest and do business in Indonesia. Indonesia is willing to work with China to implement the consensus on joint maritime development, promote the acceleration of consultations on the "Code of Conduct in the South China Sea," and jointly maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea. Indonesia looks forward to close communication and cooperation with China on multilateral platforms such as ASEAN and BRICS, firmly supports multilateralism, opposes protectionism, safeguards the common interests of developing countries, and jointly addresses global challenges.

After the talks, the two sides jointly witnessed the signing of cooperation documents in the fields of economic development policy, production and supply chains, and finance.

Prior to the talks, Prabowo (普拉博沃) held a grand welcoming ceremony for Li Qiang (李强) at the Presidential Palace Square.

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How to Build a Unified National Market (Policy Q&A)

By: 本报记者 林丽鹂  齐志明

Building a unified national market is the foundational support and intrinsic requirement for constructing a new development pattern. The Central Economic Work Conference proposed, "Carry out special actions to regulate law enforcement involving enterprises. Formulate guidelines for building a unified national market." This year's "Government Work Report" proposed, "Promote the construction of a unified national market in depth." How can we further highlight problem orientation and goal orientation, establish various institutional rules conducive to the construction of a unified market, and remove various obstacles that are not conducive to the construction of a unified market?

Currently, the construction of a unified national market has made positive progress, but local protectionism and market segmentation behaviors still occur from time to time, and unfair competition is still relatively prominent in some fields. Relevant负责人 of the Competition Policy Coordination Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) stated that the market supervision department will further improve the system of fair competition rules, resolutely correct various improper interventions in market competition, and promote the smooth circulation of the national economy. Accelerate the implementation of the "Implementation Measures of the Fair Competition Review Regulations" and further refine the overall requirements, review standards, review mechanisms, and supervision and guarantee measures for fair competition review.

In response to the abuse of administrative power to exclude or restrict competition, the market supervision department will focus on areas where business entities have strong reactions, continue to strengthen supervision and law enforcement, resolutely correct behaviors such as restricting the relocation of enterprises, hindering the free flow of commodities and factors, and engaging in self-"small cycles," and promote the efficient and smooth circulation of the national economy.

In response to the situation where "similar cases are punished differently" in some places, the relevant负责人 of the Law Enforcement Inspection Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) introduced that after the "Guiding Opinions on Firmly Establishing the Concept of Supervision for the People and Promoting Service-Oriented Law Enforcement" and the "Market Supervision and Law Enforcement Behavior Norms" were issued, the market supervision system focused on building a service-oriented law enforcement model of "prevention first, exemption from punishment for minor violations, severe punishment for serious violations, proportionate penalties, and post-event return visits," and strived to allow business entities and the people to see a clean and upright atmosphere in every law enforcement action and feel fairness and justice from every law enforcement decision.

Building a unified national market is inseparable from a smooth urban-rural circulation system. "Connecting urban and rural areas and activating circulation is the main business of supply and marketing cooperatives. Accelerating integration and actively serving the construction of a unified national market is the inherent meaning of high-quality development of supply and marketing cooperatives," said Ma Jihong (马继红), Minister of Economic Development and Reform Department of the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (中华全国供销合作总社).

In recent years, the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (中华全国供销合作总社) has closely focused on the construction of a modern circulation network system, given full play to the advantages of the entire system in connecting urban and rural areas and connecting production and sales, and accelerated the improvement of the modernization level of circulation. In the next step, the entire system will rely on the "six horizontal, seven vertical, and two coastal" national agricultural material circulation corridors to do a good job in the construction of the agricultural material circulation network system; accelerate the promotion of the construction of a modern agricultural product circulation network, improve the three-level logistics and distribution system of counties, townships, and villages, and continuously improve the level of smooth flow of agricultural products; and drive agricultural and sideline products out of the mountains and into the market.

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Photo Story

At approximately 10:00 AM on May 25th, with the final bridge deck hoisted into place, the Chaibuxi Extra-Large Bridge on the Yilai Expressway was successfully closed.

The Yilai Expressway starts in Yidu City (宜都市), Hubei Province (湖北省), and ends in Laifeng County (来凤县), Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (恩施土家族苗族自治州). As a key controlling project of the entire Yichang section of the Yilai Expressway, the Chaibuxi Extra-Large Bridge spans the Chaibuxi Grand Canyon (柴埠溪大峡谷), with a main bridge length of 904 meters, a main span of 480 meters, a bridge deck width of 44.5 meters, and a bridge deck nearly 300 meters from the valley floor. It is a double-sided I-beam composite beam cable-stayed bridge. The builders used 152 stay cables, 819 bridge deck panels, and 455,000 connecting components to create the engineering beauty of a long bridge spanning the sky.

Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫) and Li Wei (李魏) of this newspaper wrote and photographed (People's Vision).

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Li Qiang Meets with Indonesian Parliament Speaker Puan Maharani

This newspaper reported from Jakarta on May 25th (Reporter Wang Di (王迪), Cao Shiyun (曹师韵)) On the afternoon of May 25th, local time, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) met with Speaker of the Indonesian Parliament Puan Maharani (布安) at the Indonesian Parliament Building.

Li Qiang (李强) stated that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Prabowo Subianto (普拉博沃), China-Indonesia relations have continued to develop strongly. Facing the current volatile international situation, the two countries should unite and cooperate more closely. This is not only a practical need to advance their respective modernization endeavors, but also conducive to promoting peace and development in the region and the world. China adheres to prioritizing Indonesia in its neighborhood diplomacy and is willing to work with Indonesia to promote traditional friendship, deepen all-round strategic cooperation, firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, consolidate the "five pillars" of cooperation, and bring more benefits to the people of both countries.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China is willing to strengthen friendly exchanges and inter-party cooperation with Indonesia's legislative bodies, strengthen policy communication and exchanges of experience in governance, and promote the China-Indonesia friendship to bear more fruit. The two sides should focus on cooperation in landmark and major projects such as the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (雅万高铁), promote the facilitation of bilateral trade and investment, jointly create a fair and friendly business environment, and expand cooperation in emerging fields such as the digital economy, green development, and artificial intelligence to achieve a higher level of mutual benefit and win-win results. China is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with Indonesia in multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, jointly safeguard the basic norms of international relations, maintain the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as its core, oppose unilateralism, protectionism, and power politics, promote the Bandung Spirit of unity, friendship, and cooperation, and inject stability and certainty into the global cause of peace and development.

Puan Maharani (布安) said that exchanges between legislative bodies are of great significance to the relations between the two countries and the friendship between the two peoples. The Indonesian Parliament firmly adheres to the one-China principle and looks forward to taking the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference as an opportunity to 继往开来 (jì wǎng kāi lái - "inherit the past and usher in the future," to learn from the past and open up the future), strengthen exchanges between the legislative bodies of the two countries, expand mutually beneficial cooperation in bilateral economy and trade, education, tourism and other fields, promote the relations between the two countries to a higher level, and better benefit the two peoples. Indonesia appreciates China's support for ASEAN's central position and is willing to strengthen regional cooperation to promote regional peace and prosperity. Indonesia has always advocated abiding by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, resolving differences peacefully, and is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with China on multilateral affairs, work together to cope with the uncertainty of the international situation, maintain the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as its core, and safeguard the common interests of developing countries.

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Li Qiang Attends Symposium with Chinese-Funded Enterprises in Indonesia

This newspaper reported from Jakarta on May 25th (Reporter Wang Di (王迪), Cao Shiyun (曹师韵)) On the afternoon of May 25th, local time, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) attended a symposium with Chinese-funded enterprises in Indonesia in Jakarta. Companies such as the China Energy Investment Corporation (国家能源集团), Huawei (华为公司), SAIC Motor (上汽集团), New Hope Group (新希望集团), Tsingshan Holding Group (青山控股集团), and TCL Technology (TCL科技集团) participated.

After listening to the speeches of the company representatives, Li Qiang (李强) said that the current international economic and trade order is suffering severe shocks, the fragmentation of industrial and supply chains is deepening, and trade barriers are increasing, which has had a great impact on the economic development of all countries. Facing risks and challenges, China has increased the intensity of counter-cyclical adjustments in macroeconomic policies, implemented more proactive fiscal policies and moderately loose monetary policies. Since the beginning of this year, the economy has continued to pick up and improve, and in particular, foreign trade has maintained strong resilience. We have made full preparations for external shocks and are gradually introducing relevant measures to stabilize employment and the economy. At the same time, we are also studying and reserving new policy tools, including some unconventional measures, which will be introduced in a timely manner according to changes in the situation. We have the confidence and ability to promote the continuous improvement of economic operation.

Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that it is not easy for Chinese-funded enterprises to work hard overseas. We will continue to strengthen economic and trade cooperation with more countries, create a good environment for the overseas operation and development of Chinese-funded enterprises, create more conditions and opportunities, and at the same time provide greater policy support for enterprises. In recent years, Chinese-funded enterprises in Indonesia have developed well, playing a positive role in promoting economic cooperation between the two countries and promoting exchanges between the two peoples. I hope that everyone will 再接再厉 (zài jiē zài lì - "make persistent efforts," to continue to put in more effort), base themselves in Indonesia (印度尼西亚), radiate to ASEAN, make full use of their own advantages to develop incremental markets, enhance the quality and efficiency of development, and drive Chinese products and services to the world better. It is necessary to earnestly fulfill social responsibilities, adhere to compliant operations, better integrate into and actively promote local economic development, act as friendly envoys for Chinese and foreign exchanges, and show greater achievements and achieve better development on the international stage.

The participating company representatives stated that in the face of the uncertainty of the current international economic and trade environment, Chinese-funded enterprises, based on their own advantages and characteristics, carry forward the spirit of entrepreneurs, actively respond to challenges, and continue to develop overseas markets. The comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Indonesia (中印尼) continues to develop. Chinese-funded enterprises operating in Indonesia (印尼) are willing to seize opportunities, strengthen investment and cooperation in areas such as green economy, interconnectivity, and production and supply chains, and strive to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

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Grasp Study and Education Strictly and Solidly, Focus on Promoting the Resolution of Prominent Problems

Lanzhou, May 25th (People's Daily) From May 23rd to 24th, Shi Taifeng (石泰峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, emphasized during his research in Zhouqu (舟曲) County, Gansu (甘肃) that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on strengthening the Party's conduct, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishes," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," highlight problem orientation, adhere to strict standards, strengthen classified guidance, and comprehensively promote learning, investigation, rectification, and reform. We must strictly and practically grasp the implementation of various tasks in studying and educating on the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, and create a new situation in high-quality development with new achievements in conduct construction.

Shi Taifeng (石泰峰) came to Zhouqu (舟曲) County, went deep into Dachuan (大川) Town and Tuqiaozi (土桥子) Village, entered the Party-Masses Service Center and villagers' homes, visited grassroots cadres and the masses, and learned about grassroots Party building and the production and life of the masses. In the county party committee office, he visited the special class for learning and education, learned about the progress of the work, and held a symposium to listen to opinions and suggestions.

Shi Taifeng (石泰峰) pointed out that carrying out learning and education is the key task of Party building this year. We must adhere to putting learning throughout the entire process, deeply study and comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on strengthening the Party's conduct and the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee and its implementation rules, learn with problems in mind, learn in connection with reality, and continuously consolidate the ideological and political foundation. We must specifically, deeply, and comprehensively investigate and identify problems. Leading groups and leading cadres must take the lead in actively examining and analyzing themselves and deeply explore the root causes, so as to see people, see things, and see thoughts. We must earnestly and forcefully grasp centralized rectification, adhere to solving whatever problems there are and focusing on rectifying whatever problems are prominent. We must strictly deal with and hold accountable prominent problems such as violations of regulations on eating and drinking, violations of regulations on receiving and giving gifts and gift money, infringement of the interests of the masses, and failure to take responsibility and act. We must strengthen graded and classified guidance, and carry out learning and education in accordance with local conditions, combining the actual conditions of different levels, regions, fields, and industries, and focus on grasping the learning and education of key objects such as leading cadres, newly promoted cadres, young cadres, and cadres in key positions. In carrying out learning and education at the rural grassroots level, we must pay attention to combining it with consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation, and promote the correction of the "**四风**" (sìfēng - "four undesirable work styles," formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance) and the establishment of new styles to extend to the grassroots level. We must carry out guidance and supervision in a powerful and effective manner, adhere to answering the same questions and working in the same direction, and promote the implementation of rectification and remediation.

Shi Taifeng (石泰峰) emphasized that we must take learning and education as an opportunity to continuously promote grasping Party building to promote rural revitalization, Party building to lead grassroots governance, and rectifying formalism to reduce burdens for the grassroots, deepen and expand the work achievements of solving the problem of "**小马拉大车**" (xiǎo mǎ lā dà chē - "a small horse pulling a large cart," a situation where limited resources are used for a large task), grasp Party building in emerging fields with greater efforts, build and strengthen village (community) Party organizations, enhance the political and organizational functions of grassroots Party organizations, and promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside with organizational revitalization.

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Compliance Guidelines for Fee Charging by Online Trading Platforms Open for Public Comment

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 25th (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)): The reporter learned on May 25th from the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局): In order to regulate the charging behavior of online trading platforms towards operators within the platform, including commissions, deductions, membership fees, technical service fees, information service fees, and marketing promotion fees, to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of operators within the platform, and to promote the healthy and orderly development of the platform economy, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) has recently drafted the "Compliance Guidelines for Charging Behavior of Online Trading Platforms (Draft for Solicitation of Comments)" and is soliciting public opinions.

The guidelines consist of 28 articles, mainly including five aspects: First, it clarifies the principles to be followed for platform charging. Platform charging should follow the principles of fairness, legality, and good faith, and comprehensively consider operating costs and the operating conditions of operators within the platform based on service agreements, transaction rules, and transaction habits. Second, it advocates reducing the burden on operators within the platform. Platforms are encouraged to adopt flexible and diverse pricing strategies within the scope of legality, reasonableness, and mutual benefit, provide profit sharing or reduction and exemption support to operators within the platform, especially small and medium-sized merchants, actively undertake social responsibility, and reduce the operating burden on operators within the platform. Third, it strengthens platform compliance and self-discipline. Platforms are required to implement the main responsibility for compliance management in accordance with relevant regulations, improve the compliance management organization, equip compliance management personnel, establish mechanisms for identifying and assessing unreasonable charging risks, and conduct prior compliance review of preventing charging risks, so as to enhance the platform's charging compliance management capabilities. Fourth, it regulates platform charging behavior. It clarifies that platforms should reasonably formulate charging standards, improve charging rules, charging publicity and other systems and mechanisms, strictly fulfill commitments to reduce and exempt fees, prudently assess the necessity of collecting security deposits, carry out promotion services in accordance with the principle of equality and voluntariness, and protect the right to know and the right to choose of operators within the platform. At the same time, it clarifies eight types of unreasonable charging behaviors, such as repeated charging, only charging without providing services, and shifting the costs that should be borne by the platform itself. Fifth, it strengthens supervision and implementation. It requires platforms to promptly respond to the charging concerns of operators within the platform, actively cooperate with supervision and inspection, strengthen industry self-discipline, and participate in market competition fairly.

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Regulating the Commission Fees and Other Practices Charged to Businesses by Online Trading Platforms (Policy Interpretation)

By: ​本报记者 林丽鹂

On May 25th, the "Compliance Guidelines for Charging Behavior of Online Trading Platforms (Draft for Comment)" was released. Relevant officials from the Price Supervision and Anti-monopoly Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) answered questions from reporters regarding the draft for comment.

Q: Why formulate guidelines specifically for platform charging?

A: In recent years, China's platform economy has developed rapidly, involving tens of millions of online business entities, numerous flexible employment personnel, and over 900 million online consumers, empowering thousands of industries. The healthy development of the platform economy is related to the continued prosperity of the entire ecosystem. In the process of carrying out business services, platform enterprises charge platform operators commissions, percentages, membership fees, technical service fees, information service fees, marketing promotion fees, etc., which constitute the basic source of platform revenue. At the same time, platform operators also reflect that platforms have problems such as numerous charging items, complex calculation methods, and opaque charging. Many platform enterprises' internal charging compliance management systems are not perfect enough, resulting in insufficient charging risk prevention and control.

Article 7 of the "Price Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国价格法)" stipulates that operators should follow the principles of fairness, legality, and good faith when pricing; Article 35 of the "E-Commerce Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国电子商务法)" stipulates that platforms shall not charge unreasonable fees to platform operators. In order to guide platform enterprises to strengthen compliance management of charging behavior and further promote fair, legal, and honest platform charging, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) drafted the guidelines, pointing out that platforms should formulate reasonable charging standards in accordance with relevant laws, regulations, and rules, and provide basic guidance for regulating platform charging behavior.

Q: What requirements does the guideline put forward for platform enterprises to establish a charging compliance system?

A: After the guidelines are issued, platforms must implement the main responsibility for compliance management, and incorporate platform charging compliance into internal compliance organization construction, management systems, risk control, training, etc. First, improve the compliance management organization and equip it with compliance management personnel. Second, promptly transform the requirements of relevant laws, regulations, and regulatory provisions on platform charging into internal compliance systems of the platform, and establish a dynamic update mechanism to ensure the adaptability and effectiveness of the compliance management system. Third, establish an unreasonable charging risk identification and assessment mechanism to identify and handle charging compliance risks in a timely manner. Fourth, strengthen the construction of a compliance pre-review mechanism to prevent unreasonable charging risks. Before the promulgation and modification of platform charging rules or the organization and implementation of business activities involving platform charging, the compliance management organization or personnel within the platform shall review the compliance of platform charging. Fifth, establish a compliance training mechanism to prevent unreasonable charging risks, and conduct training for relevant personnel, especially relevant persons in charge of platform enterprises, to enhance compliance awareness and capabilities. Sixth, create a charging compliance culture atmosphere and enhance the self-discipline awareness of relevant personnel, especially relevant persons in charge of platform enterprises, in abiding by laws and regulations on charging.

Q: What requirements does the guideline put forward for strengthening the openness and transparency of platform charging?

A: First, clarify the obligation to publicize platform charging rules. The platform shall continuously publicize the platform charging items, rules, standards, and other agreement contents, rule information, or link identifiers to platform operators or other charging objects in a prominent position on the homepage. When charging marketing promotion fees, the platform shall clearly publicize the items, rules, and standards to ensure that platform operators can accurately verify the fees.

Second, clarify that opinions must be solicited publicly in accordance with the law when modifying rules. When the platform modifies the platform service agreement content or transaction rules such as charging items, rules, and standards, it shall publicly solicit opinions in a prominent position on the homepage, and the publicity period shall not be less than 7 days. The platform shall study and evaluate the problems reflected by platform operators, and modify and improve unreasonable charging rules in a timely manner.

Third, clarify the historical version retention time of charging rules. When the platform modifies the platform service agreement content involving charging items, rules, standards, etc., it shall completely save all historical versions of the modified version for three years before it takes effect to ensure that platform operators or other charging objects can conveniently and completely read and download them.

Q: What unreasonable fees does the guideline clearly stipulate that platforms shall not charge to platform operators?

A: According to the hot public opinion on platform charging and the problems that platform operators have reported more frequently, the guidelines refine unreasonable platform charging into various specific situations, and clearly stipulate that: platforms shall not charge platform operators repeatedly, only charge fees without providing services or providing few services, shift the fees that should be borne by the platform itself, charge platform operators fees for providing their basic operating data, force or disguisedly force platform operators to purchase services or participate in promotion and marketing activities and charge fees, use unreasonable security deposits or other forms to disguisedly charge fees or increase charging standards, and implement price discrimination against platform operators with the same transaction conditions for providing the same goods or services. Overall, to determine whether platform charging is reasonable, it can be comprehensively judged in combination with relevant factors such as cost, market supply and demand, industry attributes, and charging conditions of similar platforms.

Q: What positive impact will the issuance of the guidelines have on the platform economy?

A: Overall, the issuance of the guidelines marks a further improvement in China's platform economic regulatory policy system. The guidelines are problem-oriented and put forward specific requirements for correcting problems such as opaque and unreasonable platform charging. At the same time, it also emphasizes the self-regulation and self-supervision of platform enterprises, improves the initiative of platform enterprises to implement the main responsibility for compliance management, and promotes the formation of a governance pattern combining government supervision and enterprise self-discipline. It makes clear provisions for safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of platform operators, such as the right to know and the right to choose, encourages platforms to take various measures to reduce the burden on operators, provide profit sharing or reduction and exemption support, and also provide timely feedback on the concerns of platform operators regarding charging issues. In the future, the implementation of the guidelines will help platform enterprises optimize charging compliance construction, promote the healthy development of the industry, and build a good ecosystem of harmonious coexistence between platforms and platform operators.

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Establish and improve channels for integrated financing and connection between large, medium, and small enterprises.

This newspaper reported from Beijing on May 25th (Reporters Wang Zheng (王政) and Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委), the National Intellectual Property Administration (国家知识产权局), and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联) recently jointly issued a notice to deploy and carry out the "Hundred Events, Ten Thousand Enterprises" large, medium, and small enterprise integration and docking activities in 2025.

The relevant person in charge of the Bureau of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部中小企业局) introduced that the activity aims to establish and improve the integration and docking channels for large, medium, and small enterprises, gather resources from all parties such as intellectual property service agencies, universities, scientific research institutes, and financial institutions, build a platform for communication, display, service, and docking between small and medium-sized enterprises and large enterprises, promote more small and medium-sized enterprises to integrate into the innovation chain, industrial chain, and supply chain of large enterprises, jointly actively respond to external risks and challenges, and work together to improve the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain.

The activities include organizing special docking activities for the industrial chain, organizing special docking sessions between central enterprises (中央企业), private enterprises, and small and medium-sized enterprises, and organizing diverse docking activities at different levels and in different fields in various regions.

The person in charge stated that relevant departments in various regions should formulate work plans for carrying out large, medium, and small enterprise integration and docking activities locally; conduct advance research on the needs of large enterprises, widely mobilize small and medium-sized enterprises and related institutions to participate, and improve the accuracy and success rate of docking; give full play to the industrial agglomeration advantages of national high-tech industrial development zones (国家高新技术产业开发区), national advanced manufacturing clusters (国家先进制造业集群), and small and medium-sized enterprise characteristic industrial clusters, and do a good job in supporting and guaranteeing docking activities.

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Rational borrowing, beware of false advertising and misleading information (Information Service Desk)

By: 本报记者 屈信明

In recent years, diverse personal loan services have developed rapidly, covering an increasing number of scenario needs, alleviating financial pressure for consumers purchasing large durable goods and bringing more convenience. At the same time, some consumers have also reported that some loan products have issues such as opaque interest and fees, excessively high actual borrowing costs, and leakage of personal information, which damage consumer rights. What "rhetoric" may contain marketing misleading risks, and how should consumers prevent them? Recently, reporters interviewed financial regulatory authorities, experts, and industry insiders.

Q: What advertising slogans may hide "traps," and how can consumers "avoid the pit"?

A: Some loans cite untrue and inaccurate data, engage in false or exaggerated marketing, and attract consumers with fraudulent or misleading rhetoric such as "interest-free," "low interest," and "high credit line," while blurring or concealing actual interest expenses, inducing consumers to over-borrow.

Commercial banks and internet loan assistance business cooperation institutions should standardize marketing and publicity behaviors and comply with national regulations on online marketing management. When handling loan business, consumers should carefully read the contract terms, fully understand important information such as the loan entity, credit enhancement service institution, credit enhancement service rate, and possible increased interest and fee costs after loan default, and pay special attention to comprehensive financing costs and true interest and fee levels.

Q: Some consumers have reported encountering illegal loan intermediaries. How should consumers identify loan channels?

A: Illegal loan intermediaries may impersonate banks, claiming to be "Certain Bank (某某银行)" or "Certain Bank Loan Center (某某银行贷款中心)," and use telephone, text messages, and other methods, under the guise of "no collateral," "no guarantee," "high credit," and "low rates," to induce consumers to apply for loans, and consumers face risks such as being charged high fees and leakage of personal information.

Consumers should consult or handle loan business through formal financial institutions and formal channels, and be wary of unlicensed and unqualified illegal intermediary institutions. At the end of last year, several commercial banks publicly stated that they do not cooperate with any intermediaries, will not entrust any intermediaries to collect loan materials or handle loan procedures on their behalf, and the loan application process will not charge any intermediary fees, while the loan amount should be comprehensively assessed based on the actual situation of the borrower. Be wary of intermediaries that use banners such as "quickly handle consumer loans," "help you get large loans," and "increase loan amount." If your legitimate rights and interests are infringed, report the case to the public security organs in a timely manner.

In addition, you can verify the qualifications of financial institutions through official websites of financial regulatory authorities and other channels, and query relevant license information of banking and insurance institutions through the Financial License Information System of the National Administration of Financial Regulation (金融监管总局). Microfinance companies, etc., should also have a business license issued by local financial management agencies or recognized business qualifications.

Q: Some consumers say that when they have difficulty in capital turnover and pressure to repay, they easily fall into the trap of "borrowing new to repay old" and "debt optimization." What risks are hidden behind this?

A: Illegal intermediaries may use the banner of "debt restructuring" and "debt optimization" on social platforms to induce consumers to "borrow new to repay old" or apply for high-interest "bridge" funding. This so-called "restructuring" and "optimization" may hide high fee traps, and illegal intermediaries may even induce consumers to fraudulently obtain loans, and consumers who participate in it may be held accountable for relevant legal responsibilities. In December 2024, the National Administration of Financial Regulation (金融监管总局) issued a "Risk Warning on Guarding Against Illegal Loan Intermediaries Inducing Consumers to 'Debt Restructuring'," reminding consumers to be vigilant against illegal intermediary inducement and prevent infringement of their legitimate rights and interests.

Consumers should be wary of false publicity and inducement by illegal loan intermediaries, fully realize the risks and harms of illegal "loan reversal," and never blindly believe in "debt optimization" and other information pushed through unfamiliar calls, text messages, advertising leaflets, social platforms, and other channels. Consumers should reasonably assess their income level and consumption ability, make good plans for income and expenditure, and use loans in accordance with the agreed purpose, avoid using them for other purposes, generate breach of contract liability, affect personal credit, and even bear criminal responsibility. If you have any questions about relevant business, you can consult and verify through the hotline published on the official website of the financial institution.

In addition, consumers should also pay attention to protecting personal information security. Properly keep personal ID documents, bank cards, financial accounts, etc., do not easily entrust others to handle relevant procedures on their behalf, and avoid personal information leakage or being illegally used or bought and sold, to prevent personal property from being lost. If you find that your legitimate rights and interests have been infringed, pay attention to preserving relevant evidence and report the case to the public security organs in a timely manner. Consumers should also combine their economic situation and risk tolerance to choose appropriate financial products or services. For example, when using credit cards or loan products, they should consider borrowing costs and repayment ability, and when investing in wealth management products, they should conform to their risk preferences and risk tolerance.

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Lithium-Sodium Hybrid Grid-Forming Energy Storage Station Put into Operation in Yunnan

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 25th (Reporter Ding Yiting (丁怡婷))—The National New Energy Storage Pilot Demonstration Project—the Southern Power Grid Baochi Energy Storage Power Station (南方电网宝池储能电站) was put into operation on the 25th in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (文山壮族苗族自治州), Yunnan (云南). This lithium-sodium hybrid energy storage power station applies the world's first grid-forming sodium-ion energy storage system.

The Baochi Energy Storage Power Station covers an area of approximately 50 mu and has an investment of over 460 million yuan. Calculated based on two charges and two discharges per day, it can regulate 1.6 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per day, of which green electricity accounts for 98%. The 200-megawatt capacity will be shared with more than 30 wind and photovoltaic power stations for efficient utilization.

Grid-forming energy storage is equipped with algorithm modules that can intelligently sense the fluctuation changes brought about by new energy access to the grid and adjust the output voltage and frequency in real time.

The Baochi Energy Storage Power Station can operate in various modes such as slow charge and slow discharge, fast charge and slow discharge, and fast charge and fast discharge. The maximum power and response speed are 3 times and 6 times that of existing sodium-ion batteries, respectively. Compared with lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries have a higher cycle life, reaching more than 20,000 times, can withstand greater environmental temperature differences, and have a wider distribution and richer reserves of raw materials, but the cost is relatively high. Among the new energy storage projects that have been built and put into operation in China (中国), lithium-ion batteries account for more than 97%, and sodium-ion batteries account for a relatively small proportion.

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"Believe Chinese private enterprises will show greater vitality in the global market"

The "People's Republic of China Private Economy Promotion Law" officially came into effect on May 20th. This is a milestone event in the history of China's private economy development and has received high attention from the international community. International figures interviewed by this newspaper believe that the private economy is an indispensable and important force supporting China's development. The promulgation and implementation of this law demonstrates China's firm determination to promote the development and growth of the private economy, which will further stimulate the vitality and creativity of private enterprises and inject impetus into promoting China's high-quality development and deepening global economic cooperation.

"An Important Measure for China to Further Promote High-Quality Economic Development"

The Private Economy Promotion Law is China's first fundamental law specifically on the development of the private economy. It establishes and improves relevant institutional mechanisms around fair competition, investment and financing promotion, technological innovation, standardized operation, service guarantees, and rights protection, aiming to continuously optimize a stable, fair, transparent, and predictable environment for the development of the private economy.

"This is an important measure for China to further promote high-quality economic development," said Praveen Jain, a banker at Abu Dhabi Bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Bernd van Linder, CEO of Commercial Bank of Dubai in the UAE, believes that China encourages fairer competition by implementing the Private Economy Promotion Law. Currently, the relationship between the UAE and China is becoming increasingly close, and the development and growth of Chinese private enterprises will bring huge opportunities for further pragmatic cooperation between the two sides.

Diaa Helmy, Secretary-General of the Egyptian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, believes that the implementation of this law will further guide technological innovation in private enterprises. "The vigorous development of the private economy is also a reflection of the successful advancement of Chinese-style modernization. The Private Economy Promotion Law will further optimize the development environment of the private economy and promote its continuous, healthy, and high-quality development," Helmy said.

Agustin Garcia, the incoming representative of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) in Mexico, believes that China's implementation of the Private Economy Promotion Law is of great significance. In the current complex and volatile global situation, as China's economy is moving towards high-quality development, this law embodies the Chinese government's commitment to firmly promoting market-oriented reforms and building an open economic system. It also sends a clear signal to domestic and foreign investors to create a rule-of-law business environment. Garcia said that a more resilient, more competitive, and better integrated business ecosystem will help attract investment, activate the driving force for sustained economic growth, and enhance the position of Chinese private enterprises in the global industrial chain.

"This law encourages and supports private enterprises to actively play a role in promoting technological innovation, cultivating new quality productive forces, and building a modern industrial system, and is expected to create more high-quality employment opportunities," said Sizo Nkala, a researcher at the Africa-China Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. The Private Economy Promotion Law will open up channels for Chinese private enterprises to use funds, technology, data, land and other factors of production equally and in accordance with the law, reflecting the principles of equal treatment, fair competition, and common development.

"Provides Strong Support for the Accelerated Development of the Private Economy"

Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China's private economy has grown from small to large and from weak to strong, achieving considerable development. At present, the proportion of private enterprises in the total number of enterprises in China has increased to more than 92%, the number of private enterprises entering the world's top 500 has increased significantly, and their competitiveness in the international market has continued to increase. Among the national high-tech enterprises, there are more than 420,000 private enterprises, accounting for more than 92%; in the "new three items" with strong exports, private enterprises contribute more than half.

Park Seung-chan, professor at Yongin University in South Korea and president of the Korea-China United Association, said that the private economy plays an indispensable role in China's economic growth, tax and job creation, and export promotion. China's introduction of the Private Economy Promotion Law will help boost the development confidence of Chinese private enterprises and play an indispensable role in China's economic development.

"Since the reform and opening up, the development achievements of China's private economy cannot be underestimated," Garcia said. The Chinese government's strategic guidance, improved infrastructure construction, mature industrial system, high-quality human resources, and continuously optimized business environment have jointly promoted Chinese private enterprises to emerge and develop vigorously in key areas such as technological innovation, international trade, and manufacturing, and gradually form enterprise clusters with global influence.

Xia Huasheng, an economist at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil, said that in recent years, China's private economy has not only played an important role in expanding employment, promoting innovation, and optimizing the industrial structure, but also made positive contributions to enhancing the resilience of China's economy. "At present, Chinese private enterprises are increasing investment in technological innovation and are constantly making breakthroughs in key areas such as high technology, which will help China's high-quality economic development." Xia Huasheng believes that the promulgation of the Private Economy Promotion Law is an important measure for China to further optimize the business environment and strengthen the rule of law guarantee.

"With the reform and opening up, China's private economy has flourished, forming a considerable scale and achieving remarkable achievements." Nkala noted that in China, private enterprises are constantly rising to the middle and high end of the global value chain in the service industry, high-tech industries, and other fields. He said: "China has advantages such as complete infrastructure, a huge market size, and high-quality human resources, which provide strong support for the accelerated development of the private economy. China's private economy has broad prospects and great potential."

"Looking Forward to Further Deepening Cooperation with Chinese Enterprises to Achieve Mutual Benefit and Win-Win Results"

In recent years, high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) and high-quality implementation of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) have promoted cross-border trade facilitation and opened up broad space for the external development of private enterprises. More and more Chinese private enterprises are actively expanding diversified markets and participating in international competition and cooperation with excellent technology and innovative ideas, "riding the waves" in the ocean of the global market.

Data shows that private enterprises have maintained their position as China's largest foreign trade operator for six consecutive years. In 2024, private enterprises became the largest import and export entity of China's high-tech products for the first time. Xia Huasheng said that Chinese private enterprises actively participate in the construction of the global industrial chain and supply chain, sharing manufacturing experience and optimizing production processes with enterprises from other countries, which not only improves the quality of products and services, but also effectively reduces production costs, injecting new impetus into the global economic recovery and development. "Looking to the future, I believe that Chinese private enterprises will show greater vitality in the global market," Xia Huasheng said.

In Egypt, more than 95% of the products produced by Jushi Egypt Fiberglass Co., Ltd. (巨石埃及玻璃纤维股份有限公司), a Chinese-invested enterprise, are exported to Europe, the Americas, and other places, and Egypt is at the forefront of global fiberglass exporters. Helmy said that economic and trade exchanges between Egypt and China are constantly deepening, and more and more Chinese private enterprises are investing and starting businesses in Egypt, bringing advanced technology, creating a large number of employment opportunities, and training skilled technical workers, making great contributions to local development. Helmy said: "We welcome more Chinese enterprises to enter the Egyptian market and look forward to further deepening cooperation with Chinese enterprises to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results."

Garcia believes that Chinese private enterprises are developing rapidly in emerging fields such as digitalization, automation, energy transition, and artificial intelligence, which not only enhances their international competitiveness but also opens up new space for Latin America-China cooperation. In Mexico, Chinese private enterprises such as Huawei (华为), BYD (比亚迪), and LONGi Green Energy (隆基绿能) are actively laying out digital infrastructure, new energy vehicles, clean energy, e-commerce, and other fields. Garcia said: "The international development of Chinese private enterprises brings long-term opportunities to Latin American countries and will promote more equal, mutually beneficial, and sustainable Latin America-China cooperation."

"In the context of a world economy full of uncertainties, Chinese private enterprises are expected to play a more important role in industrial cooperation in the Global South," Park Seung-chan said. Chinese private enterprises can carry out more subdivided and in-depth cooperation with South Korean enterprises, such as expanding cooperation in fields such as hydrogen energy, to promote mutual benefit between South Korea and China.

Alessandro Bianchi, vice chairman of the Italian BRICS Research Association, once visited the Haikou National High-tech Industrial Development Zone (海口国家高新技术产业开发区) in Hainan and visited many local private enterprises. "China's private economy is full of vitality and has played an important role in the development and growth of China's economy. The Chinese government has also created many favorable conditions for the development of the private economy." Bianchi said that he looks forward to Italian-Chinese and European-Chinese enterprises further strengthening cooperation to achieve complementary advantages.

(This newspaper Beijing (北京), Dubai (迪拜), Cairo (开罗), Mexico City (墨西哥城), Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡), Seoul (首尔), Rio de Janeiro (里约热内卢), Rome (罗马) May 25th dispatch Reporter Gong Ming (龚鸣), Guan Kejiang (管克江), Shen Xiaoxiao (沈小晓), Xie Jianing (谢佳宁), Zheng Xiang (郑翔), Mang Jiuchen (莽九晨), Song Yiran (宋亦然), Xie Yahong (谢亚宏), Gerard Al-Fares of the Middle East Center Branch of this newspaper participated in the writing)

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China's proposals inject impetus into global development (International Forum: Understanding China, Understanding Chinese-style Modernization)

By: 让·保罗·瓦加斯

In the process of promoting Chinese-style modernization, China responds to the demands of the times, adheres to the concept of openness and inclusiveness, continuously injects new impetus into the world's development with its own development, and demonstrates its responsibility as a major country.

Currently, China is promoting comprehensive development with greater efforts, actively sharing modernization experiences with developing countries, and injecting more impetus into the common development of mankind. In the process of promoting Chinese-style modernization, China responds to the demands of the times, adheres to the concept of openness and inclusiveness, continuously injects new impetus into the world's development with its own development, and demonstrates its responsibility as a major country.

The process of Chinese-style modernization is like a surging river, full of vitality and moving forward. In 2024, China's gross domestic product increased by 5.0%, the total economic volume reached a new level of 130 trillion yuan (人民币) , the annual production of new energy vehicles exceeded 10 million, the ranking of the Global Innovation Index rose to eleventh, and the per capita disposable income of residents actually increased by 5.1% year-on-year... Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the Chinese people, based on thousands of years of profound civilization, adhere to unity and cooperation, and move forward towards the goal of development and revitalization.

I have visited China many times and marveled at the vitality of Chinese society and the ever-changing development achievements of Chinese-style modernization. Especially in recent years, China's innovation momentum has been strong, and scientific and technological innovation achievements have emerged one after another. Whether it is the artificial intelligence large model DeepSeek, or the continuously upgraded "China Intelligent Manufacturing," technological progress and innovation continue to empower industrial development and inject surging power into the Chinese economy.

The international situation is complex and volatile, and the world is facing critical choices. China always practices true multilateralism and actively promotes the development of the global governance system in a more just and reasonable direction. China insists on sharing opportunities with the world, especially selflessly sharing development experiences with other countries. From the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" Initiative (一带一路) to the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, China promotes common development and prosperity with practical actions. China advocates an equal and orderly world multipolarization and an inclusive economic globalization, and actively participates in the reform and construction of the global governance system. The Chinese solution adds impetus to global development, demonstrating strong vitality and leadership.

The pursuit of a happy life is the common aspiration of people all over the world. For human society to continue to progress, countries should adhere to openness, cooperation, and win-win results. China's development concepts and practices provide a continuous stream of positive energy for global development and provide valuable experience for the Global South.

(The author is the Director of the Innovation and Sustainable Development Laboratory of the Central American Institute of Public Administration)

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This cultural exchange has the power to touch people's hearts directly.

By: 本报记者  尚凯元

The distant chimes of the Bianzhong bells echoed, and the curtain slowly rose. The Mogador Theatre in Paris (巴黎) was filled to capacity, with the audience deeply engrossed in the wonderful performance by the Chinese artists. The newly composed large-scale musical dance epic "Chime Music and Dance" (《编钟乐舞》), created and performed by the Hubei Opera and Dance Drama Theatre (湖北省歌剧舞剧院), simultaneously played replicas of dozens of ancient musical instruments, including the Marquis Yi of Zeng's Bianzhong bells (曾侯乙编钟), Bianqing chimes (编磬), Jian鼓 drums (建鼓), and Paixiao panpipes (排箫), presenting a magnificent scene of the harmonious sounds of the "eight tones" of "metal, stone, silk, bamboo, gourd, earth, leather, and wood."

"This is truly a rare and novel experience. It's the first time I've heard the sounds of the Bianzhong bells and panpipes, it's so beautiful." After the performance, French audience member Michel (米歇尔) was still savoring the experience.

"Chime Music and Dance" uses a combination of song, music, and dance to fully display the ancient Chu culture, art, and customs. Its creative inspiration comes from the musical relics of the Marquis Yi of Zeng's tomb (曾侯乙墓) from the Warring States period, unearthed in Suixian County (随县), Hubei Province (湖北省) in 1978. Since its premiere in 1983, the play has been performed more than a thousand times at home and abroad, becoming a classic that has endured for a long time. This performance is the first time that the newly arranged "Chime Music and Dance" has appeared in France, and it will then go to Germany to continue its tour.

"We were deeply moved the first time we saw the video of this work, and immediately realized its cultural value and stage charm." French producer and co-producer of the Paris (巴黎) leg of "Chime Music and Dance," André Semmlian (安德烈·塞姆利安), told our reporter that it is incredible that these bronze instruments could achieve twelve-tone equal temperament in the 5th century BC, which is a major contribution to the history of human music. "We don't want it to be simply regarded as an art performance, it is a deep integration of art, history and archeology," Semmlian (塞姆利安) said.

In order to help French audiences better understand the plot and the cultural significance behind it, a QR code was placed at the entrance of the theater for this performance. After scanning the code, the audience can obtain a multimedia electronic manual of more than 50 pages, including instrument illustrations and plot introductions.

"For the theater, this is an opportunity to expand the audience and strengthen cultural exchanges." Rachel Goussot (拉谢尔·古索), head of event planning at the Mogador Theatre in Paris (巴黎莫加多剧院), told reporters that performances like "Chime Music and Dance," which combine aesthetics and historical depth, are in line with the aesthetic expectations of French audiences. "We very much welcome excellent works, and we also look forward to continued exchanges between France and China in stage art," Goussot (古索) said.

French art history expert Annie Lette (安妮·莱特) has visited China (华) for exchanges many times. She said: "Although I have been exposed to traditional Chinese music before, this performance has expanded my understanding of Chinese civilization and related archaeological history in the pre-Qin period, and the artistic expression contained in it reflects the profound humanistic connotation of Chinese culture. Even in the chapters about war, there is a profound meaning of ‘以武止戈’ (yǐ wǔ zhǐ gē - "stopping war with war," using force to end conflict and achieve peace), which reflects the Chinese people's pursuit of peace."

"The overseas performances of 'Chime Music and Dance' have been very enthusiastic. This kind of original drama with Chinese history, culture and national characteristics as its core has a unique appeal." Gao Yunjie (高云杰), head of China Arts and Entertainment Group (中国对外演出有限公司), told reporters that "Chime Music and Dance" belongs to the annual project of the "Image China" brand of China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd. (中国对外文化集团有限公司). Since its establishment in 2009, the brand has successively selected more than 40 high-quality dramas from more than 30 Chinese art troupes, which have been performed more than 600 times in Europe, America and other regions, and have been warmly welcomed by local audiences.

"Music is a universal language that helps break down cultural barriers." Semmlian (塞姆利安) said, "'Chime Music and Dance' conveys an ancient but lasting cultural emotion through the comprehensive presentation of music, dance and visuals. This kind of cultural exchange has the power to reach people's hearts directly."

(Reported from Paris (巴黎) by this newspaper)

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Hu Chunhua Visits Vietnamese Embassy in China to Mourn the Passing of Former Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong

Hu Chunhua (胡春华), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, went to the Vietnamese Embassy in China on the afternoon of May 25 on behalf of the Chinese side to offer condolences on the death of former Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong (陈德良).

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Any attempt to tamper with the history of World War II is unforgivable. (Great Victory, Historical Contribution)

By: 本报记者 朱玥颖

"In that era of suffering, the Chinese people defeated Japanese militarism, achieved national independence and liberation, and made significant contributions to the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War." Fujita Takakage (藤田高景), chairman of the "Association for Inheriting and Developing the Murayama Statement" in Japan, recently stated in an interview with this reporter that in order to seize China's territory and resources, Japan launched a war of aggression against China and committed serious crimes. "As a Japanese, I feel very ashamed. As long as I am alive, I will tell the world the truth about the war."

On August 15, 1995, the 50th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II, then-Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (村山富市) issued the "Murayama Statement," acknowledging that Japan had pursued erroneous national policies in the past and embarked on the path of war, and expressing the need to deeply reflect on history and learn from historical lessons. The spirit of reflection and repentance embodied in the "Murayama Statement" is the cornerstone for Japan to achieve reconciliation with countries victimized by the war of aggression. In 2013, in the face of political currents in Japan that denied the "Murayama Statement," Japanese politicians and academics established the "Association for Inheriting and Developing the Murayama Statement" in Tokyo (东京) to express their firm stance in maintaining the "Murayama Statement."

Fujita Takakage (藤田高景) stated that the "Association for Inheriting and Developing the Murayama Statement" has always advocated and called for "learning from history to face the future" (以史为鉴才能面向未来 (yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn cái néng miàn xiàng wèi lái - "take history as a mirror to face the future," learn from past mistakes to avoid repeating them)), and that Japan should sincerely repent for the crimes of launching a war of aggression and abide by its promise of "never waging war again." Only in this way can it live in peace with its neighbors for a long time. "The Japanese invading army carried out a large-scale invasion of China, killing a large number of Chinese soldiers and civilians. The historical evidence of Japan's launch of a war of aggression is irrefutable, and Japan must face up to history and reflect on its crimes," said Fujita Takakage (藤田高景). "Any attempt to tamper with the history of World War II cannot be forgiven."

From the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Japan looted a large number of cultural relics from China. Over the years, enlightened people in Japan have continuously called on the Japanese government to return the relevant cultural relics to China. In December last year, Fujita Takakage (藤田高景) and Japanese historians held a symposium in Tokyo (东京), once again urging the Japanese side to return the looted cultural relics to China as soon as possible. "Looting valuable Chinese cultural relics to Japan is a historical 'negative asset' that should be corrected. Returning these cultural relics to China is also of great significance to Japan-China friendship in the long run," said Fujita Takakage (藤田高景).

Fujita Takakage (藤田高景) believes that in the 80 years since the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China has undergone earth-shattering changes, which are obvious to all in the international community. Since the founding of New China, especially in the 40 years since the reform and opening up, China has transformed from a populous, poor, and backward traditional agricultural country into the world's largest manufacturing country with the most complete range of industrial categories. "China is unswervingly promoting reform and opening up, injecting positive energy into world peace and development," said Fujita Takakage (藤田高景).

Regarding the current international situation intertwined with changes and chaos, Fujita Takakage (藤田高景) said: "Compared with the naked egoistic diplomacy of some countries, China always stands on the right side of history and on the side of human civilization and progress, which has won widespread praise from the international community. China's proposal to build a community with a shared future for mankind has pointed the way forward for human civilization. As President Xi Jinping (习近平) said, human beings live in the same global village and in the same time and space where history and reality intersect, and are increasingly becoming a community with a shared future in which we are all interconnected."

Fujita Takakage (藤田高景) said: "As the international influence of Asian countries such as China continues to increase, 'the 21st century is the Asian century' is becoming a reality. Japan and China are neighboring countries separated only by a strip of water. For the sake of peace and prosperity in Asia, Japan must coexist peacefully with China. Asian countries such as Japan should strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China, which is a wise choice to promote Asian prosperity and even world prosperity."

(Reported from Tokyo (东京) on May 25 by this newspaper)

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Xi Jinping's Special Envoy and Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng Attends Inauguration Ceremony of Ecuadorian President

Xinhua News Agency, Quito, May 24th (Reporter) On May 24th, local time, at the invitation of President Daniel Noboa of the Republic of Ecuador, Xi Jinping (习近平), Special Envoy of the President of the People's Republic of China and Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng (怀进鹏), attended the inauguration ceremony of President Noboa in Quito (基多), the capital of Ecuador. On the 23rd, Noboa met with Huai Jinpeng (怀进鹏) at the Presidential Palace.

Huai Jinpeng (怀进鹏) conveyed President Xi Jinping's (习近平) cordial greetings and best wishes to Noboa. Huai Jinpeng (怀进鹏) stated that China and Ecuador are good friends and good partners. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations 45 years ago, the relations between the two countries have developed steadily, and fruitful results have been achieved in cooperation in various fields. China always views the development of China-Ecuador relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, and is willing to work with Ecuador to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, promote greater achievements in the China-Ecuador comprehensive strategic partnership, and better benefit the people of both countries.

Noboa asked Huai Jinpeng (怀进鹏) to convey his sincere greetings and best wishes to President Xi Jinping (习近平), and thanked President Xi Jinping (习近平) for sending a special envoy to attend his inauguration ceremony. Noboa stated that Ecuador has always firmly adhered to the One China principle, and the new government eagerly looks forward to strengthening practical cooperation with China in more fields and continuously deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

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Liu Jianchao Meets with Secretary-General of Indonesia's Great Indonesia Movement Party and Chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly, Muzani

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 25th (Reporter) Liu Jianchao (刘建超), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, met with Muzani (穆扎尼), Secretary-General of the Great Indonesia Movement Party and Chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia, in Beijing (北京) on the 25th. Both sides expressed their willingness to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen inter-party political dialogue, deepen the exchange of experience in governance, promote pragmatic cooperation in various fields, and further promote the development of China-Indonesia relations.

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2025 China-ASEAN Media Cooperation Forum Held

This newspaper reported from Luoyang on May 25th (Reporter Pei Guangjiang (裴广江)) The 2025 China-ASEAN Media Cooperation Forum, themed "Jointly Promote ‘Intelligent’ and ‘Quality’ Communication, ‘Digital’ Writing a New Chapter of Cooperation," was held in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南) on the 25th. More than 150 government officials, experts, scholars, and media representatives from China and the 10 ASEAN countries attended.

Participants discussed the opportunities and challenges brought by artificial intelligence technology to media ecological governance, focusing on the topics of "Collaboration and Co-governance: Building a Defense Line Against False Information" and "Opportunity and Reshaping: Media Transformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." They believed that Chinese and ASEAN media should strengthen exchanges and cooperation, become partners in the governance of the media ecology in the digital age, and contribute to building a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future.

The forum was hosted by the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局) and the China-ASEAN Center (中国—东盟中心). The forum released the "Joint Initiative on China-ASEAN Application of Artificial Intelligence Technology to Promote Media Ecological Governance" and launched the "China-ASEAN New Media Sharing Program."

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China-aided N'Djamena Stadium in Chad Inaugurated

Xinhua News Agency, Yaoundé, May 24th (Reporter Wang Ze (王泽)) N'Djamena dispatch: The inauguration ceremony of the China-aided N'Djamena (恩贾梅纳) Stadium in Chad (乍得) was held on the 23rd in N'Djamena (恩贾梅纳), the capital of Chad (乍得). The President of Chad (乍得), Mahamat Déby (穆罕默德·代比), kicked the first ball on the stadium's football field, symbolizing the stadium's official entry into use.

At the ceremony, the Chadian (乍得) side officially named the stadium "Marshal Idriss Déby Itno (伊德里斯·代比·伊特诺) Olympic Stadium" after the former president.

Mahamat (穆罕默德) expressed his gratitude to China (中国) and his confidence in Chad-China (乍中) cooperation in his speech at the ceremony. "This stadium is an outstanding work and another tangible result of the fruitful cooperation between Chad (乍得) and China (中国)." He said that this is also the result of the mutually beneficial, mutually respectful, and goal-oriented partnership between Chad (乍得) and China (中国).

The Chinese Ambassador to Chad (乍得), Wang Xining (王晰宁), attended the ceremony on behalf of the Chinese government. He said that the stadium is a symbol of the friendship between the people of China (中国) and Chad (乍得), and another symbol of the fruitful cooperation between the two countries. "I hope that the brothers and sisters of Chad (乍得) will like this gift."

According to reports, the China-aided N'Djamena (恩贾梅纳) Stadium in Chad (乍得) is a landmark project for the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative between China (中国) and Chad (乍得). It was built by Shaanxi Construction Engineering Group (陕西建工集团) and officially handed over to Chad (乍得) on the 12th of this month. The stadium has a total construction area of 33,000 square meters and can accommodate 30,000 spectators. It is equipped with professional venues and modern facilities for football, basketball, handball, and other sports. It is the first comprehensive stadium in Chad (乍得) that can host the Africa Cup of Nations.

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Service quality improvement, management efficiency enhancement (In-depth reading)

By: 本报记者  窦  皓  游  仪  潘俊强

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) is very concerned about new employment groups such as delivery drivers, online car-hailing drivers, and e-commerce practitioners, emphasizing that "management and services must keep up to fill this gap. There must be both management and service."

Focusing on new employment groups, various regions have introduced measures to continuously improve the level of management and services, helping with skills training, protecting rights and interests, and achieving career development.

Convenient Measures Enhance Delivery Riders' Sense of Belonging

Wearing work clothes and a helmet, Lu Qi (鲁祺), born in the 1980s, rides his electric bike through the streets and alleys of Gongshu District (拱墅区), Hangzhou (杭州) City, Zhejiang Province (浙江省). Accompanied by the dinging sound of his mobile phone, Lu Qi has been a delivery rider for nine years.

In the past, some shopping malls did not allow entry or elevator access, and there was no place to park electric bikes. Now, dedicated parking spaces and lanes are becoming increasingly complete. In the past, delivery riders often experienced the "annoyance of being stopped" when entering residential areas. Now, by scanning a "little brother code," they can enter residential areas without registering, saving several minutes per order. The subtle changes on the road reflect the city's warmth and demonstrate the precision of governance.

During breaks from delivering meals, Lu Qi comes to the rider station in the Xinheping Business Community (新和平商务社区), Wenhui Street (文晖街道), Gongshu District (拱墅区) to take a rest. The photo wall in the station features family portraits, which were specially taken by the street for riders and their families who stayed in Hangzhou (杭州) during this year's Spring Festival. Lu Qi (鲁祺), his wife, and daughter also have one. A rider symposium is also held here once a month, where everyone sits together and talks about their feelings.

Separated from the station by a wall is the Xinheping Business Community (新和平商务社区) Rider Party-Masses Service Center, a space of more than 500 square meters with various service projects such as leisure and sports, psychological counseling, and childcare, all of which riders can enjoy.

"The work of delivery riders is highly mobile. Integrating into the city and finding an organization is very important." As the secretary of the mobile party branch for delivery riders, Lu Qi (鲁祺) said that as work and life are guaranteed, everyone also wants to unite and play a greater role.

No sooner said than done, with the support of the street, a "Knight Association" team composed of delivery riders actively participates in urban governance. Delivery riders run on the road every day and are familiar with the situation of residential areas, buildings, industrial parks, etc., and can report and rescue in the first time when encountering emergencies. The local area also coordinates resources and customizes practical skills courses according to the needs of the riders, covering everything from fire safety knowledge to daily English spoken language that needs to be mastered for delivering takeaways. At the same time, riders can propose what they want to learn. "We hope to form a virtuous interaction and feedback with the new employment group, so that everyone can find a sense of gain in their own profession." Tian Hongwei (田红卫), secretary of the Party Committee of Xinheping Business Community (新和平商务社区), said.

"Now, our sense of belonging and happiness is getting stronger and stronger," said Lu Qi (鲁祺).

"Green Channel" Prevents Online Car-Hailing Drivers from Panicking in Case of Accidents

Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), 4 p.m. Master Zeng's (曾师傅) car was suddenly accompanied by a harsh braking sound, and with a "bang," his car door was dented by a private car, with glass shards all over the ground - this was a recent troublesome thing that Master Zeng (曾师傅) encountered: "It is the peak season for running orders, and the repair time is long, which is too delayed."

After the accident, he sent the damaged vehicle to the repair shop, but unexpectedly, it was during the holidays, and the repair workers were on vacation, which would make him miss the peak of the small holiday operation.

"The car will be repaired for nearly a month. What should I do about the losses caused to me during this gap period?" In a hurry, Master Zeng (曾师傅) came to the "Hua Zi Red Steering Wheel" (华仔红色方向盘) online car-hailing driver's home located at Chengdu East Railway Station (成都东站) to seek help from the Chengdu Online Car-Hailing Association (成都市网约车协会).

Hearing Master Zeng's (曾师傅) demands, Li Ming (李明), secretary of the Party Branch of the Chengdu Online Car-Hailing Association (成都市网约车协会), quickly contacted Zhao Benzheng (赵本正), a public welfare lawyer at Beijing Yingke (Chengdu) Law Firm (北京盈科（成都）律师事务所). After learning about the situation, Zhao Benzheng (赵本正) gave a suggestion: The operating income of online car-hailing is an important source for drivers to maintain their livelihoods. The suspension of operations caused by the accident caused them to lose this part of their expected income, and they need to fight for compensation for the loss of suspension.

After repeated communication and mediation with the parties concerned, the Chengdu Online Car-Hailing Association (成都市网约车协会) and the lawyer won a sum of compensation for the loss of suspension for Master Zeng (曾师傅), and Master Zeng's (曾师傅) hanging heart also fell to the ground.

According to reports, the Party Branch of the Chengdu Online Car-Hailing Association (成都市网约车协会) and the Party Committee of the Chengdu Lawyers Association (成都市律师行业党委) have established 8 volunteer service teams to open a "green channel" for legal aid for online car-hailing drivers to protect their rights, and continue to carry out public welfare legal lectures and volunteer service activities. The "Hua Zi Red Steering Wheel" (华仔红色方向盘) online car-hailing driver's home provides 12 free services such as dispute mediation and legal consultation for online car-hailing drivers, receiving an average of more than 200 drivers per day.

More Intimate Service at Your Doorstep

Liu Dan (刘丹), a resident of Bajiao Street (八角街道), Shijingshan District (石景山区), Beijing (北京市), is an e-commerce live broadcast practitioner. In more than a year, she has become accustomed to talking eloquently in the live broadcast room, and the amount of goods she brings has also been rising.

In May last year, the Shijingshan District (石景山区) Human Resources and Social Security Department piloted the construction of a zero-work station in Bajiao Street (八角街道). Liu Dan (刘丹), who lives nearby, came to the station to find odd jobs and found that there were skills training classes here, so she signed up for e-commerce live broadcast training.

"Combining the market employment situation and the needs of job seekers, the station offers skills training such as e-commerce live broadcasting and video editing for community personnel, so that more workers have skills and help them with employment and career development." Ming Changhong (明常红), a second-level researcher at the Bajiao Street Office (八角街道办事处), introduced.

After two rounds of short video training, Liu Dan (刘丹) signed a live broadcast business with a company. "I can work at my doorstep, go to and from work, and take care of my family." Liu Dan (刘丹) said.

Relying on the "Employment Express" online employment service platform built by the District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the Bajiao Street (八角街道) Zero-Work Station has created a street-level platform of "Joint Governance for All Industries," providing job seekers with one-stop services such as employment and entrepreneurship guidance, policy consultation, on-site docking, and same-day job posting nearby. As of now, the offline employment assistance team has made telephone return visits to approximately 2,800 job seekers, closely tracking their employment progress and needs, and has successfully helped 562 people achieve employment, including 386 long-term fixed workers who have signed labor contracts.

"Through training and other measures, many people have successfully applied for formal employees of enterprises." Liu Feng (刘峰), deputy director of the Shijingshan District (石景山区) Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, said that this year, the zero-work station will integrate services such as social security policy introduction and enterprise insurance participation services, strengthen supply and demand docking, and provide public employment services that are "at the doorstep" and "zero distance" for efficient services.

This issue is coordinated by: Zhang Xueyan (张雪妍)

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Achievements and Experiences in Thoroughly Implementing the Central Eight-Point Regulation Spirit Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

By: 中央党的建设工作领导小组

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has remained true to its original aspiration and kept its mission firmly in mind. With a strong sense of historical responsibility and unwavering willpower, it has confronted the major risks and tests facing the Party and the prominent problems existing within the Party. Summarizing and applying the historical experience of the Party's century-long struggle, it has started by formulating and implementing the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, adhering to strict standards and turning the blade inward. With the spirit of nailing down, it has rectified the "**四风**" (sì fēng - "four winds," undesirable work styles: formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance), with unprecedented intensity, strict enforcement of regulations, and long duration. It has curbed some unhealthy tendencies that had not been curbed for a long time and corrected some stubborn maladies that had not been eliminated for many years. The Party's conduct, the government's conduct, and social conduct have been renewed. The Party's heart, the military's heart, and the people's heart have been highly united, promoting the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to develop in depth, opening up a new realm of leading the great social revolution with the great self-revolution, and having important milestone significance in the history of Party building.

1. Holding High the Banner, Steering the Course, General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Exposition on Deeply Implementing the Spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee Vividly Demonstrates the Powerful Truth Power and Powerful Personality Power of Our Party

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), standing at the strategic height concerning the future and destiny of the Party and the country, has made a series of important expositions on why the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee should be formulated, how to view it, and how to implement it, providing important guidelines for deeply implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee and promoting the Party's work style construction in the new era.

(1) Clearly put forward that the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is an act of **徙木立信** (xǐ mù lì xìn - "move a tree to establish trust," to establish credibility through a small act) of the Party in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the Party's work style is related to the Party's image, the people's hearts, and the Party's survival, and determines the success or failure of the Party and the country's cause. The greater the risks, the more challenges, and the heavier the tasks, the more important it is to strengthen the Party's work style construction. If the ruling party does not pay attention to work style construction and allows unhealthy tendencies to erode the Party's body, it will be in danger of losing the people's hearts and losing power. Our grasp of the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee seems to be a small matter, but it reflects a spirit. After doing one thing well, do the second thing, so that everyone feels that we can do things and that we are doing things seriously. Only in this way can we gain the trust of the people and the trust of the whole Party.

(2) Clearly put forward that the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee should start from the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and promote it from top to bottom. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that leading cadres at all levels should set an example and take the lead, do what they say, and fulfill their promises. The comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee should start with me. As long as the comrades of our Political Bureau of the Central Committee set an example at all times and in all places, it will have a powerful demonstration effect from top to bottom, and the whole Party will be very powerful and will not be afraid of any difficulties and obstacles. The comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee should strictly benchmark against the implementation rules of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, one by one, and implement them without compromise.

(3) Clearly put forward that the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is an entry point and mobilization order for improving work style. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that work style problems are essentially Party spirit problems. To grasp work style construction, we must return to simplicity and strengthen the foundation. The Eight-Point Regulation is neither the highest standard nor the ultimate goal, but only the first step in improving our work style and the basic requirement that we should achieve as Communists. After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when the Party Central Committee discussed how to grasp the strengthening of Party building, it thought about solving the problem of "tigers eating the sky without knowing where to start." Later, it was decided to grasp the Eight-Point Regulation. Once the Eight-Point Regulation is implemented, the entire game of work style construction becomes active.

(4) Clearly put forward that the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee should adhere to strict requirements. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that rules are for restraint, so they should be tighter. The regulation is a regulation, and the words "for trial implementation" are not added, which is to show a firm attitude and that this regulation is rigid. Since we are making regulations, we must strive for a stricter standard, we must be serious, and we must never take it lightly.

(5) Clearly put forward that the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee should focus on outstanding problems and respond to the expectations of the masses. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the core of work style problems is the relationship between the Party and the people. The formulation of this regulation is not only in line with our requirements for strengthening the construction of the ruling party, but also in line with the expectations of the masses for us. We must resolutely correct formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance, resolutely eliminate privilege thinking and privilege behavior, and resolutely rectify corruption and unhealthy tendencies around the masses, so that the people can continuously see tangible results and changes.

(6) Clearly put forward that the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is a long-term effective iron rule and hard constraint. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is an arduous battle and a protracted war, which must be grasped constantly and achieved over a long period of time. If ten years are not enough, then twenty years, and if twenty years are not enough, then thirty years, until it truly becomes a custom. The Eight-Point Regulation dam was built with great difficulty, and we must cherish it, constantly inspect and repair it, and strengthen it. We must take out perseverance and tenacity, and continue to work hard on constancy and length, strictness and reality, depth and detail, manage habits, and achieve results.

2. The Party Central Committee Takes the Lead, the Whole Party Takes Action, and the Spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is Implemented Vigorously, Orderly, and In-Depth

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has strengthened self-restraint and self-regulation, unremittingly grasped the implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, and promoted various regions, departments, and units to take effective measures in light of their actual conditions, correcting one problem after another, breaking through one problem after another, and adhering to it year after year, fulfilling the solemn commitment.

(1) General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) takes the lead, and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee strictly implements the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) personally plans, personally deploys, and personally promotes. He presided over the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to review and approve the "Eight-Point Regulation of the 18th Central Political Bureau on Improving Work Style and Maintaining Close Ties with the Masses" and its implementation rules. The first meeting of the 19th and 20th Central Political Bureau successively revised the implementation rules twice. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee listens to the report on the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee every year and holds democratic life meetings to carry out criticism and self-criticism.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) embodies the improvement of work style and close ties with the masses in all aspects of governing the country, and consistently starts from himself, setting an example for the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and setting a brilliant example for the whole Party. Uphold firm beliefs. Not long after the closing of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he led the members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to visit the "Road to Rejuvenation" exhibition, and for the first time proposed and expounded the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Only one week after the closing of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he paid homage to the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai and the Red Boat on Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, emphasizing that he should never forget his original intention and shoulder the Party's lofty mission. After the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, his first off-site activity in Beijing was to visit the revolutionary holy land in Yan'an, calling on all Party comrades to inherit and carry forward the Party's glorious traditions and fine work style. Adhere to diligence and pragmatism. He conducted in-depth investigations and research in various places, from the white mountains and black waters to the coast of the South China Sea, from the plains and waterside villages to the deserts and Gobi, from rural communities to border outposts, regardless of the cold and heat, and tirelessly, his footprints spread all over China. He personally checked the investigation and research plan, requiring the arrangement to be compact, pragmatic, and efficient. He did not clear the road or close the road when traveling, and had direct contact and cordial exchanges with the masses. He insisted on traveling light and simplifying reception, living in temporary prefabricated houses in earthquake-stricken areas, boarding the 171 ship and eating with the soldiers, and eating oil steamed buns and hemp soup with the villagers in Liangjiahe, northern Shaanxi. He took the lead in implementing the "short, real, and new" writing style, and his speeches were down-to-earth and heartwarming. Full of the heart of a child. He asked the five-level secretaries to grasp together and make a military order, went deep into 14 concentrated and contiguous poverty-stricken areas across the country, commanded the winning of the largest and most powerful poverty alleviation battle in human history, and created a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction. Adhering to the people first and life first, he united and led the people of the whole country to fight against the COVID-19 epidemic with one heart, and led the efficient coordination of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development. He continued to deepen the battle to defend the blue sky, clear water, and pure land, and focused on tackling the outstanding ecological and environmental problems around the people.

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee regards work style construction as an important foundation for strengthening its own construction, and implements the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee and its implementation rules item by item with the spirit of "speaking seriously" and the action of "having tenacity," so as to achieve strict self-restraint and serious action, and resolutely implement it without omission. In terms of improving investigation and research, it conducts research around the implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments and related major issues, pays attention to studying and proposing new ideas and new measures to solve problems with the spirit of reform and innovation, and strives for practical results. In terms of streamlining meetings and activities, it strengthens the overall coordination of major meetings and activities, strictly controls the number and scale of meetings and activities, and uses more video methods to convene or hold them. In terms of streamlining documents and briefings, it strengthens the overall planning of document issuance and strictly controls the number, length, and specifications of documents. In terms of improving news reports, it strictly controls the number of words and duration of reports on the activities of central leaders, strictly controls the number of news reports on national meetings, and strictly checks the theme, broadcast time, length, and duration of the reports, leaving more space, time, and shots to the people. In terms of practicing diligence and thrift, it strictly implements the regulations on work and life treatment such as office space, housing, and vehicles. In terms of standardizing foreign visits, improving security work, and strictly publishing manuscripts, it strictly implements relevant regulations.

(2) Strengthen theoretical arming and consolidate the ideological foundation for implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee. Persistently use Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to condense the soul, solve the problem of the "total switch," and remove ideological obstacles and inject spiritual power for changing the work style. The Party's mass line education practice activities, the "Three Stricts and Three Realities" special education, the "Two Studies and One Doing" learning education, the "Don't Forget the Original Intention, Keep the Mission in Mind" theme education, the Party history learning education, the study and implementation of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era theme education, the Party discipline learning education, and the ongoing in-depth implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee spirit learning education, all take work style construction as an important content, educating and guiding the vast number of Party members and cadres to deeply study and understand the Party's innovative theories, conduct inspection, analysis, and reflection in ideology and politics, conduct comparison, investigation, and rectification of work style problems, blush and sweat, and touch the soul, constantly remove impurities, eliminate viruses, and prevent pollution, laying a solid ideological foundation for the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee spirit to take root.

(3) Focus on outstanding problems of the "**四风**" (sì fēng - "four winds," undesirable work styles: formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance) and implement targeted treatment step by step. Adhere to starting from reality, grasping the main contradictions, focusing on solving whatever problems are prominent, and grasping and solving whatever problems are urgent, finding the target, shooting with a purpose, grasping early and grasping small, and preventing problems before they occur. After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, focusing on the "**四风**" (sì fēng - "four winds," undesirable work styles: formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance) problems that the masses strongly reflected, we carried out centralized rectification of problems such as using public funds to purchase and give moon cakes and New Year cards, eating and drinking and giving gifts with public funds, traveling with public funds, using public vehicles for private purposes, building buildings, halls, and pavilions in violation of regulations, holding extravagant weddings and funerals, indiscriminately issuing money and goods, unhealthy trends in clubs, and playing golf in violation of regulations. After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we focused on hedonism and extravagance, deeply rectified outstanding problems such as accepting gifts and gift money in violation of regulations, eating and drinking in violation of regulations, deeply investigated and carefully investigated hidden and disguised problems such as receiving electronic red envelopes and using public vehicles for private maintenance, and carried out special rectification of problems such as seeking personal gain by using valuable local products and special resources. Resolutely rectify formalism and bureaucracy, focus on correcting problems such as making choices and engaging in flexible implementation, expressing opinions with high tones, and taking little action and poor implementation, and prevent "low-level red" and "high-level black." Establish a special work mechanism at the central level to rectify formalism and reduce the burden on the grassroots, and rectify problems such as excessive and frequent paperwork and meetings, inspections and assessments, and excessive retention of traces. Since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have placed the correction of formalism and bureaucracy in a more prominent position, formulated and implemented several regulations on rectifying formalism and reducing the burden on the grassroots, proposed a series of important measures, solved the outstanding problem of "small horses pulling big carts" in grassroots governance, prevented "formalism on the fingertips," streamlined and optimized grassroots assessments, strictly controlled the borrowing of staff from the grassroots, and promoted the comprehensive establishment of a list of matters for townships (streets) to perform their duties. Closely focus on the distortion of the concept of power and the misplacement of the concept of performance, and continue to deepen the rectification and rectification of "half-finished projects," "image projects," "face projects," statistical fraud, and bad phenomena in grassroots governance. Unremittingly curb hedonism and extravagance, continue to deepen the rectification of problems such as eating and drinking in violation of regulations, giving and receiving gifts and gift money in violation of regulations, and public receptions in violation of regulations, and seriously correct phenomena such as traveling with public funds under the guise of training and inspection and luxurious decoration of buildings, halls, and pavilions.

(4) Strengthen supervision and discipline enforcement and maintain a high-pressure posture. Take supervising the implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee as a regular key task for improving the Party's work style, improve the supervision system for work style construction, promote the coordination and coordination of various types of supervision such as internal Party supervision, public opinion supervision, and mass supervision, use big data technology to expand supervision methods, continuously extend the tentacles of supervision, improve the ability to discover "**四风**" (sì fēng - "four winds," undesirable work styles: formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance) problems in a timely manner, and form a supervisory pressure to punish unhealthy tendencies. Closely focus on important nodes such as New Year's Day, Spring Festival, "May Day," Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day, strengthen supervision and reminders, conduct unannounced visits and inspections, and carry out notification and exposure and warning education. Continue to increase the investigation and punishment of violations of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, focusing on investigating and punishing top-notch violations of discipline such as those who do not restrain themselves or know when to stop, and strengthen the deterrent effect. As of the end of 2024, a total of 1.076 million cases of violations of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee have been investigated and dealt with nationwide, with 1.523 million people being criticized, educated, and dealt with, including 995,000 people being given Party disciplinary and administrative sanctions. Establish a monthly reporting system for the implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, and as of March 2025, the data on the investigation and handling of violations of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee nationwide have been released for 138 consecutive months, and a case verification and notification mechanism for rectifying formalism and reducing the burden on the grassroots has been established, continuously releasing the signal that the further back, the stricter.

(5) Deepen the treatment of both the symptoms and root causes, and investigate and treat both the work style and corruption at the same time. Pay attention to governing the Party, managing power, and governing officials with the system, focus on blocking loopholes in the system and mechanism, strengthen the construction of Party internal regulations and systems, and weave a dense cage of the system. Formulate and revise Party internal regulations such as the norms of political life within the Party under the new situation, the code of integrity and self-discipline, and the regulations on disciplinary sanctions, and incorporate the requirements of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee into them. Deeply promote the investigation and treatment of both the work style and corruption at the same time, both "investigating corruption through work style" to prevent "covering up corruption with work style," deeply investigate corruption problems such as asking for help and transferring benefits behind unhealthy tendencies, and "correcting work style through corruption," carefully investigate work style problems such as hedonism and extravagance behind corruption, and resolutely eliminate the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption. Continue to deepen the correction of "**四风**" (sì fēng - "four winds," undesirable work styles: formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance) and the establishment of a new style, promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, carry out education on the Party's glorious traditions and fine work style, strengthen the construction of a clean culture in the new era, and cultivate a new style of seeking truth from facts, being honest and clean.

3. One Move Sets the Whole Game in Motion, Winning the People's Trust and Support with New Achievements in Work Style Construction

The formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, as the "pioneer" of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in the new era, affects the whole body with one move, and a small cut opens up a big change, promoting the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal to be significantly enhanced, promoting the century-old Party to be reborn in revolutionary forging, rejuvenating new vitality and new vitality, and promoting the Party's face, the country's face, the people's face, the army's face, and the Chinese nation's face to undergo profound changes that are obvious to all.
(1) The "Two Establishes" are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the "Two Safeguards" are deeply ingrained in people's minds. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) profound feelings of "devoting myself and living up to the people," his noble demeanor of working diligently day and night and practicing strict self-discipline, and his sense of mission to dedicate himself to the Party and the country and repay the Party and the country, have enabled the entire Party, the entire army, and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to see the firm determination of the Party Central Committee to implement the Central Eight-Point Regulation and unremittingly grasp the construction of work style, greatly enhancing their heartfelt support, trust, and love for the core, the leader, and the commander. Everyone generally reflects that "what the General Secretary (总书记) thinks is what the people hope for, and what the Party Central Committee (党中央) does is what the people praise." It is precisely the consistent, powerful, and effective in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation that fully demonstrates the authority of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) at its core to have the final say and be the sole decision-maker, greatly enhancing the entire Party's political, ideological, theoretical, and emotional identification with the Party's innovative theories, and greatly enhancing the entire Party's political, ideological, and action consciousness to listen to General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平总书记) command, align with the Party Central Committee (党中央), and move forward in unison, laying an important foundation for the entire Party to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishes" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," and promoting the Party's unity and unification to reach a new historical height.

(2) Intra-Party political life is more rigorous, and the intra-Party political ecology is constantly purified. Through the persistent implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, the situation of lax discipline and floating work style has been significantly changed, the atmosphere of truly managing and strictly managing, daring to manage and strictly managing, and managing for a long time and strictly managing has been basically formed, and the Party's ability of self-purification, self-perfection, self-renewal, and self-improvement has been significantly enhanced. Resolutely prevent and investigate the "seven things to guard against" problems, the political nature, timeliness, principled nature, and combat effectiveness of intra-Party political life have been significantly enhanced, and the unhealthy trends such as "hidden rules" that were once prevalent are losing the soil for survival, and clean and refreshing comrade relationships and standardized superior-subordinate relationships are increasingly forming, and a clean and upright intra-Party political ecology is constantly forming and developing.

(3) Hedonism and extravagance have been effectively curbed, and formalism and bureaucracy have been key rectified. Focusing on the old problems and new trends of the "Four Winds" to carry out centralized rectification, a number of common work style stubborn diseases have been overcome, the extravagant and hedonistic evil winds have been basically stopped, and phenomena such as being high above and detached from the masses have been significantly changed. Practicing thrift and opposing waste, Party and government organs take the lead in living a tight life, and the national "three public expenses" have been greatly reduced, decreasing by 68.4% in 2023 compared to 2012. The entire Party has formed a consensus on resolutely opposing formalism and bureaucracy, and the rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots has achieved obvious substantive progress. The malpractices of infringing on the interests of enterprises and interfering with their operations have been corrected, the business environment and development environment have been optimized, a new type of government-business relationship that is both intimate and clean has been further constructed, and government efficiency has been further improved. The inertia of the "Four Winds" has been effectively reversed, the living space for evil winds and unhealthy trends has been continuously compressed, and the Party's work style has achieved an overall improvement.

(4) The Party's flesh-and-blood ties with the people have become closer, and the foundation for the Party's long-term governance has become more solid. Learning and promoting the "Four Down to the Grassroots" system, adhering to and developing the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era, deepening Party building to lead grassroots governance, extensively carrying out Party member volunteer services, and wholeheartedly solving the urgent, difficult, and worrying problems of the masses, Party members and cadres have enhanced their awareness of living, suffering, and working together with the masses. Vigorously correcting unhealthy trends and corruption problems that damage the interests of the masses, investigating and managing "micro-corruption" in the field of people's livelihood and "stumbling blocks" that hinder the implementation of policies benefiting the people, the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security has become more substantial, more guaranteed, and more sustainable. Party members, cadres, and the masses reflect that the Central Eight-Point Regulation is the "Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention" in the new era, which has further strengthened their belief and confidence in believing in the Party, relying on the Party, and following the Party. The 2024 National Bureau of Statistics' public opinion survey shows that 97.4% and 94.9% of respondents expressed satisfaction with the Party Central Committee's (党中央) leading implementation of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and affirmed the overall effectiveness, respectively.

(5) Party members' and cadres' work status and mental state are more positive, and the spirit of making contributions to the new era has been boosted. Implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation has curbed unhealthy trends, enabling the vast number of Party members and cadres to free themselves from receptions and entertainment, devote more thoughts and energy to their work, further enhancing their sense of responsibility, correcting deviations in their performance evaluation, and stimulating their enthusiasm for starting businesses. In major tasks and major tests such as winning the battle against poverty, promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, strengthening ecological civilization construction, responding to emergencies, and fighting natural disasters, Party organizations at all levels have organized effectively and fulfilled their responsibilities, and the vast number of Party members and cadres have strived to be the first and take on responsibilities, further demonstrating the political and organizational functions of Party organizations, and gathering an indestructible powerful force for serving the overall work of the Party and the country and promoting high-quality economic and social development. The "China Governance" is in sharp contrast with the "Western Chaos," and looking around the world, "the scenery here is unique." Everyone generally reflects that the Central Eight-Point Regulation is both a "golden hoop" and a "protective talisman," creating a good environment for uniting hearts and minds and starting businesses, and the atmosphere of truly grasping and implementing things is getting stronger and stronger.

(6) Excellent Party conduct drives the upward and virtuous trend of social conduct and folk customs, and solid steps have been taken to transform customs. Strengthening the construction of work style is combined with cultivating and practicing the core socialist values, the construction of civic morality in the new era, and the construction of family education and family style, Party members and cadres consciously resist the erosion of various bad ideas, take the lead in practicing new trends and righteousness, and drive the whole society to improve customs. Breaking feudal superstition and outdated customs, the concept of practicing thrift and opposing waste is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, phenomena such as high bride prices and lavish funerals and meager support for the elderly are gradually decreasing, bad habits such as paying attention to ostentation and comparing wealth are gradually eliminated, and irrational and uncivilized consumption habits are gradually eliminated, and "CD-ROM actions," garbage classification, and green and low-carbon lifestyles have become new social trends, and social conduct and folk customs have changed significantly.

The Central Eight-Point Regulation has profoundly changed China and will continue to change China. The changes brought about by the Central Eight-Point Regulation are comprehensive and profound changes, far-reaching changes, and inspiring changes, shaping the relationship between the Party and the masses and between cadres and the masses who are united and united in the face of difficulties, forging today's highly united, strong, and powerful Communist Party of China (中国共产党), and enhancing our Party's confidence in maintaining strategic focus and grasping historical initiative in the face of changing international situations. Practice has fully proved that resolutely implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation has enriched the effective ways of self-revolution, found the second answer to jumping out of the historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise, and fall, and opened up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old Party. Practice has fully proved that the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has a thorough spirit of self-revolution, is able to face up to and solve its own problems, and will always be worthy of the people's trust.

While fully affirming the achievements, we must also see that the "four major tests" and "four major dangers" facing the Party will exist for a long time, and the outstanding problems such as impurity of thought, impurity of organization, and impurity of work style within the Party have not been fundamentally resolved. Work style problems are stubborn and repetitive, problems of Party members and cadres violating the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules still occur frequently, formalism and bureaucracy are still prominent, hedonism and extravagance are rising from time to time, and invisible and mutated behaviors are growing secretly, especially the lack of responsibility and inaction, buck-passing, deviations in performance evaluation, engaging in "face-saving projects," implementing policies with a "**一刀切**" (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," a one-size-fits-all approach) and adding layers of restrictions, unrealistic and improper writing styles and meeting styles, engaging in paperwork and meetings, gaps in rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, ignoring the masses, being detached from the masses, infringing on the interests of the masses, violating regulations on eating and drinking, violating regulations on receiving and sending gifts and gift money, using public funds for tourism in the name of research and training, violating regulations on construction and luxurious decoration of buildings, halls, and pavilions, carrying out general overseas (border) activities and domestic inspection and research activities with care and no substantive content, and other outstanding problems are still strongly reflected by cadres and the masses. There is only an ongoing process and no completion time for grasping the construction of work style, and it is necessary to know the difficulties and move forward, meet the difficulties and go up, and persevere for a long time and grasp it unremittingly to deeply implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation.

IV. Summarizing in practice, improving from the summary, and accumulating valuable experience

The fundamental reason why the in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大) has been able to achieve remarkable results is that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) is at the helm and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) provides scientific guidance. The entire Party has a deeper understanding that the "Two Establishes" are the most important political achievements, the most valuable historical experience, and the most objective practical conclusions in the new era, and are the greatest certainty, the greatest confidence, and the greatest guarantee for the Party and the people to cope with all uncertainties. After more than ten years of vivid practice, the Central Eight-Point Regulation has become a landmark measure to change the political ecology and social outlook, explored effective methods, and accumulated valuable experience, which should be cherished and adhered to for a long time.

(1) We must adhere to leading by example and demonstrating and driving. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) has played a decisive role in the formulation and implementation of the Central Eight-Point Regulation by setting an example and taking the lead. "Without the General Secretary (总书记), this matter would not be accomplished," which is the high consensus of the vast number of Party members, cadres, and the masses. Leading cadres at all levels are strict with themselves, strictly responsible for their duties, and strictly manage their subordinates, forming a strong momentum of grasping the construction of work style from top to bottom. In the new era and new journey, we must adhere to understanding and treating work style problems from a political perspective, take the in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation as a major and serious political task, adhere to leading by example and grasping by example, demonstrate and drive the "vast majority" with the "key few," enhance determination, develop habits, and unswervingly implement the various requirements of work style construction.

(2) We must adhere to consolidating the foundation and cultivating the vitality, and promoting the upright and eliminating the turbid. Strong Party spirit and strict Party discipline will make the implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation more firm and effective. All the centralized education within the Party carried out in the new era has started with ideological education, found gaps by benchmarking Party conduct requirements, traced the roots by referring to Party spirit requirements, and clarified measures by comparing with Party discipline requirements. In the new era and new journey, we must adhere to the combination of regular education and centralized education, use learning to cast the soul, use learning to increase wisdom, use learning to correct work style, and use learning to promote work, educate and guide the vast number of Party members and cadres to deeply study and thoroughly understand General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平总书记) important thoughts on Party building and important thoughts on Party self-revolution, consolidate the foundation and cultivate the vitality with a strong Party spirit, promote the upright and eliminate the turbid with an excellent Party conduct, and rectify work style with strict Party discipline, and consciously abide by rules and discipline and boldly start businesses.

(3) We must adhere to caring for the masses and cherishing the people. Deeply implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation has won the heartfelt support of the people by listening to the opinions of the masses, accepting the supervision of the masses, and responding to the expectations of the masses. In the new era and new journey, we must follow the Party's mass line in the new era, "**把屁股端端地坐在老百姓的这一面**" (bǎ pì gu duān duān de zuò zài lǎo bǎi xìng de zhè yī miàn - "sit squarely on the side of the common people," stand firmly with the people), adhere to believing in the masses and relying on the masses, actively solicit opinions and suggestions from the masses by combining online and offline methods, seriously and earnestly treat all problems strongly reflected by the masses, resolutely correct all behaviors that damage the interests of the masses, make the masses feel accessible and tangible, and closely unite the broad masses of the people around the Party with an excellent work style.

(4) We must adhere to governing the Party with the system and governing the Party according to regulations. The Central Eight-Point Regulation focuses on the macro level and focuses on the micro level, hits the key points, is pragmatic and effective, and has become a successful model of governing the Party with the system and governing the Party according to regulations. In the new era and new journey, we must adhere to governing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, further deepen the reform of the Party building system, run the system construction through the entire process of work style construction, grasp both the establishment of rules and regulations and the implementation, let the iron rules exert their power, let the prohibitions generate awe, and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction.

(5) We must adhere to being serious and tough, and persevering for a long time. Our Party has seriously investigated and dealt with problems that violate the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation with the strength and momentum of "**踏石留印、抓铁有痕**" (tà shí liú yìn, zhuā tiě yǒu hén - "leaving footprints on stone and scratches on iron," to make solid and lasting efforts), truly achieving that orders must be obeyed and prohibitions must be stopped. In the new era and new journey, we must dare to struggle and be good at struggling, keep a close eye on it and not give an inch, be vigilant at all times against new trends of invisibility and mutation, resolutely fight against unhealthy trends that affect the Party's progressiveness and purity, connect the rectification of work style and discipline with anti-corruption, adhere to the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere for a long time, and ensure that the Party does not change its nature, does not change its color, and does not change its taste.

(6) We must adhere to clarifying responsibilities and consolidating responsibilities. Deeply implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation relies on tightly grasping the "bull nose" of the responsibility system, and relies on Party organizations and Party member leading cadres at all levels to effectively assume their responsibilities. In the new era and new journey, we must keep in mind that strengthening the construction of work style is the common responsibility of the entire Party, connect the situation and tasks of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, accurately grasp the regional, industry, and stage characteristics of work style construction, lead one level by one level, implement level by level, and promote the responsibility subject to be in place, the responsibility requirements to be in place, and the assessment and accountability to be in place.

The construction of work style is always on the road, comprehensively and strictly governing the Party is always on the road, and the Party's self-revolution is always on the road. At present, the entire Party is carrying out in-depth study and education on implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, and Party organizations at all levels should carefully organize and implement it, promote Party members and cadres to conscientiously study General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平总书记) important expositions on strengthening the Party's work style construction and the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules, study and use the effectiveness and experience of deeply implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, and promote learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner to ensure that learning is of high quality, investigation is powerful, and rectification is effective, and unite hearts and minds and start businesses with an excellent work style, and constantly win the trust and support of the people, so as to provide a strong guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 25)

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Recently, various regions have held diverse folk activities to welcome the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival.

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Page 1 Editors: Xu Nuo, Zhao Zheng, Yin Le; Page 2 Editors: Jiang Xuejie, Guo Xueyan, Sun Haitian; Page 3 Editors: Wu Gang, Zhou Zhou, Chen Xirui; Page 4 Editors: Hu Anqi, Yang Shuobi, Chen Zhen

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Adhering to Perseverance: Fortifying the Central Eight-Point Regulation Bulwark (People's Viewpoint)

By: 本报评论部

Respond to changes with constancy. This "constancy" means relentlessly focusing on issues of conduct, not yielding an inch, and pursuing them to the end.

By adhering to the interconnectedness of rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption, and by improving the working mechanism of investigating conduct and corruption together, deeply excavating and thoroughly investigating problems that originate from or are integrated with both conduct and corruption, and by allowing the system to "grow teeth" and discipline to "carry electricity," we can eradicate the "diseased plants" intertwined by conduct and corruption at their roots.

Promoting the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee to be both internalized and externalized, and stimulating the self-discipline and consciousness of Party members and cadres to serve the people practically and with integrity, will surely continuously renew the Party's conduct and the government's conduct, and drive the social atmosphere and public customs to improve and become more virtuous.

Not long ago, the special working group at the central level for studying and educating on the thorough implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, together with the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, issued a notice on the problem of Li Xianlin (李献林), the former member of the Standing Committee of the Luoshan County (罗山县) Party Committee and former secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Xinyang City (信阳市), Henan Province (河南省), and others violating regulations by engaging in gatherings and drinking, resulting in one death. As the construction of conduct continues to deepen, the trend of extravagant eating and drinking in violation of regulations has been effectively curbed, but problems of eating and drinking against the wind still occur from time to time, and hidden and mutated phenomena such as "eating official letters," "eating in canteens," "eating bosses," and "eating subordinates" still grow secretly, which the masses deeply resent.

The constantly innovative "crooked wind on the tip of the tongue" also illustrates from one side that problems of conduct have stubbornness and repetitiveness. To strengthen the construction of conduct, we must have a sense of tenacity and perseverance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "The formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is an act of establishing credibility in the new era by moving a tree, which must be grasped constantly and persistently, ten years is not enough, then twenty years, twenty years is not enough, then thirty years." These sonorous words demonstrate courage, perseverance, and tenacity, giving people confidence and strength.

A report released by the National Supervisory Commission at the end of 2024 showed that since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, national supervisory organs have investigated and dealt with 768,000 cases of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, and punished 628,000 people. We are gratified by the effectiveness of rectifying conduct and combating corruption, but also alerted by the chaos and problems that "grow again after being cut down." To prevent rebound and resurgence, we must also prevent hidden mutations. Some places, in the name of "innovative implementation," package formalism as "work highlights"; some transfer illegal eating and drinking to internal canteens or move them to farmhouse backyards, engaging in having policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom; some use electronic red envelopes, express logistics, and other methods to "send gifts remotely"... Unhealthy tendencies change their appearance, put on "invisibility cloaks," and hide in "green gauze tents," making them more concealed, deceptive, and harmful.

Respond to changes with constancy. This "constancy" means relentlessly focusing on issues of conduct, not yielding an inch, and pursuing them to the end. Strengthening supervision and discipline enforcement, maintaining a high-pressure posture, and adhering to the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere for a long time, repeatedly grasping and grasping repeatedly, any form of unhealthy tendency will have nowhere to hide.

Unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems are mutually related, just like two sides of a coin, and we must adhere to a systematic view, treating both sides and grasping them simultaneously.

Li (李), the former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大常委会), required private business owners to transform his company's office space into a private club, equipped with restaurants, karaoke rooms, etc. for his use, going there two or three times a week on average, until the night before he was placed under detention, he was still eating and drinking extravagantly in the club. A small club is a place of extravagant enjoyment and a breeding ground for corruption.

An "80s" young cadre in Ya'an City (雅安市), Sichuan Province (四川省), due to his enthusiasm for high-end electronic products, luxury cars, and other luxury consumption, successively took out 199 loans from 67 financial institutions and online platforms, totaling as much as 7.81 million yuan. In order to repay the huge principal and interest, he turned his attention to the power in his hands, colluded with illegal businessmen, and embarked on a path of corruption from which there was no return. Vanity is at play, and once the door to enjoyment is opened, it will engulf leading cadres and plunge them into the abyss of corruption.

If Party spirit is not strong, conduct will not be correct; if conduct is not correct, corruption will easily occur. Taking stock of the trajectory of fallen officials, the phenomenon of corruption arising from conduct is everywhere. By adhering to the interconnectedness of rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption, and by improving the working mechanism of investigating conduct and corruption together, deeply excavating and thoroughly investigating problems that originate from or are integrated with both conduct and corruption, and by allowing the system to "grow teeth" and discipline to "carry electricity," we can eradicate the "diseased plants" intertwined by conduct and corruption at their roots, ensuring that the Party's body is always healthy and maintains its vitality.

Looking to the long term, to achieve lasting peace and stability, we must adhere to addressing both the symptoms and the root causes, focusing on eradicating the soil and conditions that breed corruption, and transforming the institutional power of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee into spiritual power and belief power.

From carrying out centralized education within the Party, strengthening theoretical arming, removing ideological obstacles and injecting spiritual motivation for changing conduct, to strengthening the construction of a clean culture in the new era, cultivating a new atmosphere of seeking truth, being pragmatic, honest, and upright, and then to promoting innovation in the methods of discipline education, combining positive guidance and negative warnings, selecting and establishing models of diligence and integrity, strengthening the demonstration effect, so that Party members and cadres have role models to learn from and warnings to act on, and constantly consolidating the ideological foundation of not wanting to be corrupt... Promoting the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee to be both internalized and externalized, and stimulating the self-discipline and consciousness of Party members and cadres to serve the people practically and with integrity, will surely continuously renew the Party's conduct and the government's conduct, and drive the social atmosphere and public customs to improve and become more virtuous, until it transforms conduct into custom.

In June 2021, on the eve of the centenary of the founding of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the Exhibition Hall of the History of the Communist Party of China and stopped and carefully examined the exhibition board of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee: "Now these eight items, streamlining meetings and activities, improving security work, improving news reports, and practicing diligence and thrift, are all done well, and we still need to talk about them repeatedly and grasp them repeatedly..."

"The Eight-Point Regulation must be consistent." The General Secretary said firmly.

A sentence of "consistent" demonstrates the determination and character of Communists. The construction of conduct is always on the road. Persistently consolidating the dam of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee and promoting the continuous achievement of new results in comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, we will have no fear of any unhealthy tendencies and evil influences, and no fear of any difficulties and obstacles on the road ahead.

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Expanding high school degrees is a good opportunity for reform (New Knowledge)

By: 丁雅诵

High school enrollment expansion adheres to the principle of prioritizing both new construction and tapping into existing potential, increasing quantity while also optimizing supply, which helps balance supply and demand and alleviate pressure on enrollment.

[Phenomenon] Responding to the expectations of the masses, this year's "Government Work Report" clearly states "expand the supply of high school education places." Chongqing (重庆) plans to implement the "New Excellence" general high school construction project, steadily increasing the supply of general high school resources and building 100 high schools with science, humanities, foreign languages, sports, arts, and other characteristics. Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东) has proposed measures such as building a new batch, renovating and expanding a batch, expanding a batch, and piloting a batch, striving to add more than 10,000 general high school places this year. Various regions are taking multiple measures to promote the construction of high school places, taking exploratory steps in improving quality and expanding capacity.

[Commentary]

High school education is connected to compulsory education at one end and higher education at the other, and is regarded as the "waist" of the national education system. Expanding the supply of high school education places involves comprehensive considerations in response to changes in population structure and population quality.

Looking at the trend, this is a preemptive move to "decompress" the future. The period from 2016 to 2017 was a peak period for births in China, and children born during this period will enter high school around 2032, and the pressure on the supply of high school places will continue to increase for some time to come. As an educational resource allocation measure adapted to population changes, high school enrollment expansion adheres to the principle of prioritizing both new construction and tapping into existing potential, increasing quantity while also optimizing supply, which helps balance supply and demand and alleviate pressure on enrollment.

Promoting the expansion and quality improvement of high school places is a "foundation-strengthening" move to enhance the "talent dividend" and build a strong country with talent. The gross enrollment rate can be used to assess the popularity of a certain level of education. In 2024, China's (中国) gross enrollment rate for high school education was 92.0%. By better meeting the demand for "good schooling" through the expansion of places and further increasing the gross enrollment rate in high school education, the average years of education of the new labor force and the average years of education of the working-age population can be correspondingly increased, helping to improve the quality of the people and consolidate the foundation for high-quality population development.

"Expansion" is a systematic project that requires overall layout and coordinated planning.

Adjust the structure to meet diverse needs. Education should be guiding and tailored to individual aptitudes, rather than simple replication and mechanical indoctrination. For some time, the problem of single models and lack of characteristics has been prominent in China's high school education. The "Outline for Building a Strong Education Country (2024-2035)" proposes "coordinating and promoting the diversified development of high school schools within the city" and "exploring the establishment of a number of general high schools with scientific education as their characteristics, and running comprehensive high schools well," which points to classified development and characteristic school management. Creating a rich and diverse way of educating people can better meet the personalized growth needs of students.

Optimize allocation and promote overall improvement. Expansion is not a simple expansion of scale, but also includes an improvement in quality. Taking county-level middle schools as an example, currently nearly 60% of general high school students are studying in county middle schools. Whether county middle schools are run well affects the education level of the majority of students and is related to the overall quality of high school education. In-depth implementation of the county middle school revitalization action plan, optimizing school layout, strengthening teacher allocation, and deepening curriculum and teaching reform will help improve the level of running county middle schools by reforming the way of educating people. Expansion is a good opportunity to promote education reform, and exploring the establishment and improvement of a more reasonable and efficient education resource allocation mechanism will allow the fruits of education reform and development to benefit more students more fairly.

In this process, adapting to local conditions is very important. Each student has different individual endowments, and the talent needs of all walks of life are different, which determines that expansion should not only increase the supply of general high school places, but also attach importance to vocational high schools, and encourage the development of comprehensive high schools and high schools with sports, arts, science and technology and other characteristics. The actual situation in different places varies greatly. Only by going to the problem and being targeted can we amplify the positive effects of relevant policies and accurately respond to the concerns of parents and teachers and students.

Only with a strong backbone can one stand firm, and so is education. We look forward to continuous innovation by all parties in various regions, adhering to the principle of giving equal importance to quantity and quality and classified development, implementing the "expansion of the supply of high school education places" in a detailed and practical manner, adding impetus to the growth and success of more children, and building a foundation for the construction of a strong country with talent.

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Push back against "involution" when it's time to act (People's Daily Commentary)

By: 林丽鹂

Improve the normalized regulatory mechanism, promptly stop and effectively prevent "**内卷**" (nèi juǎn - "involution," excessive internal competition), and ensure the industry operates on a regulated track.

Since JD.com (京东) entered the food delivery arena this year, the industry changes have attracted much market attention. Recently, JD.com's (京东) "10 Billion Yuan Subsidy" and Meituan Waimai's (美团外卖) "100 Billion Yuan Assistance Fund" have engaged in fierce price wars. Taobao's (淘宝) "Xiaoshi Da" ("Hour Reached") has been upgraded to "Flash Sale," with Ele.me (饿了么) guaranteeing food delivery services, also offering large-scale subsidies. Such "**卷**" (juǎn - "rolling," intense competition), while providing short-term benefits to consumers, is not conducive to the industry's long-term growth.

Not long ago, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) and other five departments held talks with platform enterprises such as JD.com (京东), Meituan (美团), and Ele.me (饿了么), requiring fair and orderly competition, jointly creating a good market environment, and earnestly safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, platform operators, and food delivery riders. Clearly conveying an anti-"**内卷**" (nèi juǎn - "involution," excessive internal competition) signal is precisely to promote the regulated, healthy, and orderly development of the platform economy.

Achieving survival of the fittest requires market competition. Reasonable competition helps improve total factor productivity, both benefiting consumers and ensuring that companies obtain sufficient profits to continue innovating. Low-level "**内卷式**" (nèi juǎn shì - "involution-style," excessively competitive) competition, on the other hand, leads to multiple losses. Vicious price reductions and local protectionism have led to a surge in sales but a sharp drop in profits for some new energy vehicles, and the breaking of the capital chain for some projects, leaving car owners in difficult maintenance situations. The "refund only" policy of e-commerce platforms squeezes the survival space of merchants and fosters a bad atmosphere of low quality and low prices. For a period of time, similar cases have been common. Some entrepreneurs have frankly stated that some industries engage in bottomless "**卷价格**" (juǎn jià gé - "price rolling," competing on price), follow-the-trend "**卷赛道**" (juǎn sài dào - "track rolling," competing on the same track), and encirclement-style "**卷人才**" (juǎn rén cái - "talent rolling," competing for talent), squeezing corporate profit margins, disrupting the stability of the industrial chain and market environment, and hindering the high-quality development of the industry.

"**内卷式**" (nèi juǎn shì - "involution-style," excessively competitive) competition wastes social resources and is unsustainable. It is worth remembering that at the beginning of the rise of online ride-hailing, Didi (滴滴) and Kuaidi (快的) launched a "subsidy war," resulting in both sides losing up to 40 million yuan per day. Obviously, such competition was destined to be unsustainable, and eventually ended with the announcement of a merger between the two companies.

Timely regulatory intervention is crucial to rectifying "**内卷式**" (nèi juǎn shì - "involution-style," excessively competitive) competition. A few years ago, the community group buying track also saw a situation where multiple platform companies were "seizing territory." In 2020, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) and other departments held an administrative guidance meeting to regulate the order of community group buying, pointing out that community group buying had problems such as dumping at low prices, and should strictly abide by the "nine prohibitions." By strengthening the supervision of community group buying price behavior and anti-unfair competition in accordance with the law, a fair and competitive market environment has been effectively maintained.

To coordinate the relationship between an effective market and an active government, the "visible hand" needs to take action when it should. From the Central Political Bureau meeting on July 30 last year proposing to "prevent '**内卷式**' (nèi juǎn shì - "involution-style," excessively competitive) vicious competition," to the Central Economic Work Conference in 2024 proposing to "comprehensively rectify '**内卷式**' (nèi juǎn shì - "involution-style," excessively competitive) competition, and regulate the behavior of local governments and enterprises," to this year's "Government Work Report" making specific deployments for comprehensively rectifying "**内卷式**" (nèi juǎn shì - "involution-style," excessively competitive) competition, relevant measures are being implemented in detail, and real action is being taken against "**内卷**" (nèi juǎn - "involution," excessive internal competition).

It is also necessary to make the "visible hand" a "empowering hand." Competition is the soul of a market economy, which can promote enterprises to improve the quality of products and services, promote the optimal allocation of resources, and increase consumer welfare. It should be seen that the competition among multiple platforms for the food delivery and instant delivery market reflects the expectations of consumers for more favorable prices and better service experiences. Relevant departments promptly regulate the order of competition, not to stop competition, but to guide platform enterprises to abandon this "**内卷式**" (nèi juǎn shì - "involution-style," excessively competitive) competition of fighting price wars, open up their thinking, shift from competing for existing stock to creating incremental growth, strengthen technological innovation, attach importance to differentiated development, and return to the right path of benign competition. In this way, we can jointly promote the high-quality development of the industry.

As an important carrier of deep integration between the digital and real economies, the platform economy contains new momentum and new opportunities for development. Improve the normalized regulatory mechanism, promptly stop and effectively prevent "**内卷**" (nèi juǎn - "involution," excessive internal competition), and ensure the industry operates on a regulated track, the platform economy will surely open up new space and create new possibilities.

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This year marks the fifth year since the launch of the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River. Data shows that in 2024, the unit resource quantity of monitoring points in the main stream of the Yangtze River increased by 9.5% year-on-year; from 2021 to 2024, a total of 344 species of native fish were monitored in the Yangtze River basin, an increase of 36 species compared to the period before the fishing ban from 2017 to 2020... Under the support of ecological protection throughout the basin, the beautiful picture of clear waters and leaping fish is increasingly appearing in people's vision, and the Yangtze River is gradually restoring the vibrant vitality of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

This is precisely:

Strict rules generate power to protect the long river,

All kinds of creatures flourish and leap in the clear waves.

Don't say that fishing songs have nowhere to rise,

Children's rhymes are sung in harmony with the green mountains.

Xu Zhiwen (徐  之文)

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Technology should "do good" rather than "create obstacles" (Horizons)

By: 王玉宝

Recently, two news items have attracted attention. One is that a blind person was applying for a mobile phone card at a certain operator's business hall. Because they could not complete the "open eyes" requirement during the facial recognition verification, they could only open the mobile phone card in the name of a relative; the other is that some college students sent their original papers to a certain paper detection system, and the results showed that the "AI rate" was too high. Some netizens took literary works such as "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" (《滕王阁序》) to the system for testing, and the results were also unqualified.

Combining these two news items related to new technologies, the former reflects that the improper use of new technologies has caused trouble for the people involved, while the latter reflects that some new technologies are not perfect enough and there are "inaccurate measurement" problems in the process of use.

The rapid advancement of new technologies is worth cheering for, and it also inspires reflection. If there are imperfections in the new technology itself or in the process of using it, two situations should be avoided when promoting its use. One is the "hindrance effect." We should be wary of the use of certain new technologies causing inconvenience instead. Without facial recognition technology, it was easy for blind people to apply for mobile phone cards; with facial recognition technology, some blind people cannot apply for cards. According to relevant laws and regulations, facial recognition must obtain the other party's separate consent, and facial recognition should not be used as a prerequisite for providing services. The concept advocated by the law is clear, but the improper use of new technologies has caused trouble for some people. Equally typical is artificial intelligence customer service. Many people who have used it say that it is difficult to solve problems with intelligent customer service alone, and sometimes they are the problem themselves. With the goal of improving user experience and facilitating people's work, and preventing "using for the sake of using," new technologies can become a useful assistant in work.

The second is blind worship. Technology is not omnipotent, but some people in their work and life have the problem of over-reliance on new technologies. For example, some people write articles and make summaries, entrusting everything to generative large models; some people think that artificial intelligence prescriptions are also reliable; some people even let go of the steering wheel of their cars and hand it over to assisted driving, becoming "hands-off managers"... It must be seen that new technology is essentially still a production tool created by humans. Appropriate use can help humans, while blind worship or even "deification" inevitably breeds risks.

Currently, many new technologies are still in their early stages. Whether they are easy to use and whether they can be used well largely depends on how they are used and the degree of in-depth development. For example, for the same artificial intelligence product, the same problem, inputting different instructions, the quality of the results obtained is completely different. For another example, whether an artificial intelligence large model can be implemented in a certain industry depends on whether it can be combined with specific scenarios for deep learning and training, and then optimize the algorithm. It can be seen that in the process of popularizing new technologies, human factors still occupy a dominant position. Forgetting this point and letting immature new technologies take over completely may ruin things and 砸锅 (zá guō - "smash the pot," to botch things up). For the service industry, new technologies should be used to facilitate the masses, not just to save themselves trouble.

(Excerpted from *Zhejiang Daily* (《浙江日报》), original title: *Use Technology Well to Promote Technology for Good* (《善用技术，促技术向善》))

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Car door handles should be aesthetically pleasing, but more importantly, safe and practical (Commentary)

By: 天津河西区 陈梓正

Recently, while taking ride-hailing services, I've noticed that many cars have very concealed door handle designs, with a wide variety of push-type, touch-type, and induction-type handles. However, behind the beauty of hidden door handles lie some hidden problems, such as being easily pinched if the operation is unfamiliar, and being unable to open in extremely low temperatures, which is distressing and worrying.

Although small, the car door handle is related to the convenient experience of getting in and out of the car, and even more closely related to car safety. It must not be merely superficial and 华而不实 (huá ér bù shí - "flowery but not substantial," showy but without substance). Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) publicly solicited opinions on the mandatory national standard revision project plan for the "Safety Technical Requirements for Automobile Door Handles," which includes installation requirements, marking requirements, anti-pinch requirements, and test methods. This is conducive to making up for the shortcomings of insufficient norms for hidden door handles and guiding product design to always adhere to "people-oriented" principles.

When pursuing differentiated selling points, car companies need to be clearly aware that safety and practicality are not concurrent items, but a bottom line that must be adhered to. Innovation in subdivided fields should leave enough safety redundancy and ensure convenient use, and polish "invisible responsibilities" in "visible details." For example, some cars are compatible with three opening methods: touch, capacitance, and mechanical handles. Whether pressing a button, sensing the inside, or pulling the door handle, the door can be opened. More similar explorations may be worthwhile.

The warmth of innovation lies in the understanding and concern for user needs, rather than the blind pursuit of complex forms. Finding the right balance between aesthetics, safety, and practicality will allow every car to have both "inner substance" and "outer appearance."

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Helping young people grow and succeed, contributing to the advancement of Chinese-style modernization.

By: 中国宋庆龄基金会

Developing youth work is a strategic task for advancing Chinese-style modernization and a project of hope for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In 1982, when the Soong Ching Ling Foundation of China (中国宋庆龄基金会) was established, it was entrusted with the glorious mission and important responsibility of "focusing on the future of the nation and developing children's work." In May 2022, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Soong Ching Ling Foundation of China (中国宋庆龄基金会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) sent an important congratulatory letter, fully affirming the important role played by the Soong Ching Ling Foundation of China (中国宋庆龄基金会) in youth work, and requiring the Foundation to "help young people grow and succeed." The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee pointed out that it is necessary to "improve the system for the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor," and put forward clear requirements and made major deployments for doing a good job in youth work in the new era. We must fully implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important congratulatory letter, inherit and carry forward Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) concept of "creating the future," and make due contributions to cultivating young people who can shoulder the great responsibility of national rejuvenation and advancing Chinese-style modernization.

1. Deeply Study and Comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) Important Exposition on Developing Youth Work

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has delivered a series of important expositions on developing youth work, profoundly expounding the major theoretical and practical issues of developing youth work under the new situation, and profoundly answering fundamental questions such as what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate them, and for whom to cultivate them, pointing out the direction and providing fundamental guidance for doing a good job in youth work in the new era.

Deeply grasp the strategic thinking of developing youth work in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the most important aspiration of young people "should be linked to the motherland and the people," "listen to the Party and follow the Party from an early age," and "revolutionary tradition education should start from childhood." These important expositions closely link youth work with the cause of the motherland and the people, entrusting the Party's strategic consideration for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and the inheritance of the red regime from generation to generation, highlighting the political and historical height of the Party's strategic arrangement for youth work, and providing scientific guidance for strengthening the ideological and value guidance of young people.

Deeply grasp the requirements of the times for developing youth work in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "doing a good job in caring for the next generation is related to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," emphasizing "let every young person add strong youth energy to the realization of the Chinese dream," and "educate and guide hundreds of millions of children to be ready to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation at all times." These important expositions are full of the Party leader's earnest expectations for young people to create the future, clearly reflecting the strategic, overall, and contemporary nature of youth work in the new era, and profoundly clarifying the direction of youth work.

Deeply grasp the eternal theme of developing youth work in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "promoting the spirit of patriotism should start from children," "take patriotism education as an eternal theme," "let the spirit of patriotism take root in the hearts of students, and never forget that they are Chinese," and fully utilize the major cooperation platform of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao (粤港澳) "to promote extensive exchanges, comprehensive communication, and deep integration among young people in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, and enhance their sense of belonging to the motherland," and "hope that young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will learn from each other, accompany each other, and work together." These important expositions clearly point out that patriotism education is the historical positioning of the eternal theme of youth cultivation, profoundly clarifying the important role of patriotism education in enhancing young people's national consciousness and national spirit and realizing the reunification of the motherland, and providing scientific methods and practical paths for cultivating young people with "four self-confidences."

Deeply grasp the important tasks of developing youth work in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that it is necessary to promote the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor among young people, "put moral education in a more important position," "drive more young people to talk about science, love science, learn science, and use science," "children should pay attention to strengthening physical exercise," "actively cultivate labor awareness and labor ability," and "do a good job in exchanges between Chinese and foreign youth, and cultivate successors to the cause of people's friendship." These important expositions are full of the Party's cordial care for young people, clarifying the rich connotation and practical requirements of developing youth work in the new era, and making strategic deployments to help young people grow up healthily and develop in an all-round way.

Deeply grasp the comprehensive deployment of developing youth work in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "we must always care about children of all ethnic groups and strive to create better conditions for them to study and grow up," "give special care to young children from rural poor families, especially left-behind children," and "the whole society should care for and care about children." These important expositions profoundly clarify that the development of youth work should build an all-round education pattern led by the Party committee, coordinated by departments, responsible by families, and participated by society, and vigorously create a good atmosphere in which the whole society cares for, supports, and cooperatively educates people.

2. Continuously Deepen the Regular Understanding of the Foundation's Development of Youth Work in the New Era

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on the development of youth work provides a guide for action for carrying out youth work. We must thoroughly implement it and promote youth work to continuously reflect the characteristics of the times, grasp the regularity, and be full of creativity.

Strengthen the Party's leadership and take Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) firm belief of "always being with the Party" as the basic requirement for youth work. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in his important congratulatory letter that it is necessary to "adhere to Mr. Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) belief of 'always being with the Party'." This is a high praise for Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) noble spirit and an important requirement for the Foundation to carry out youth work. We must always adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, carry forward Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) noble spirit, adhere to educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, guide young people to listen to the Party, follow the Party, and love the people from an early age, and ensure that the development of youth work always advances along the correct political direction. In recent years, we have given full play to the role of Soong Ching Ling's Former Residence (宋庆龄故居) as a red education base, vigorously strengthened revolutionary tradition education for young people; opened youth education projects such as "Future Lecture Hall," told stories of outstanding Communist Party members, and published youth reading materials on revolutionary tradition education, helping young people grow into qualified successors to the cause of the Party.

Grasp the theme of the times and take concentrating efforts to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as the mission and task of youth work. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "we must firmly grasp the theme of the times of striving to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation since modern times, and it requires the continuous struggle of generations. We must take realizing the Chinese dream as the theme of the times for developing youth work, guide the vast number of young people to actively practice Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) lifelong pursuit of "rejuvenating China," strive to add youthful strength to the realization of the Chinese dream, and write a youthful song and a wonderful life worthy of the times. In recent years, we have highlighted the theme of patriotism and national spirit education, held the "I Grow Up with the Motherland" June 1st theme performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院) every year, with young people from the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan exchanging and performing on the same stage; held the "I Love Beijing Tiananmen" (我爱北京天安门) patriotism theme summer camp, etc., to inspire the vast number of young people to cultivate patriotic feelings, strengthen their ambition to build a strong country, and practice the act of serving the country.

Adhere to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and take practicing Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) earnest expectation of "creating the future" as the unremitting pursuit of youth work. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "**守正创新**" (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - "upholding the right and innovating," adhering to fundamental principles while promoting innovation) is a major principle that must be firmly grasped and always adhered to in further comprehensively deepening reform. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground is even more a key move in developing youth work. It is necessary to give Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) concept of "creating the future" the characteristics of the times, break and establish simultaneously, establish first and then break, and continuously expand the broad stage for the Foundation to play its role in developing youth work. In recent years, we have carried forward the innovative spirit of Soong Ching Ling (宋庆龄) in doing "pioneering work" and running "first-of-its-kind undertakings," and continuously improved the youth education functions of the China Soong Ching Ling Science & Culture Center for Young People (中国宋庆龄青少年科技文化交流中心), which integrates ideological guidance, cultural education, scientific and technological training, artistic edification, sports, labor experience, and Chinese and foreign exchanges, and effectively played the "experimental and demonstrative" role advocated by Soong Ching Ling (宋庆龄), and strived to build a national-level youth practical education base and an international platform for exchanges between Chinese and foreign youth, making positive contributions to promoting the all-round development of the vast number of young people.

Expand international horizons and take carrying forward Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) clear stance of safeguarding world peace as an important part of youth work. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "our education should be good at drawing on excellent things from the 5,000-year-old Chinese traditional culture, while not abandoning the achievements of Western civilization, and truly cultivate young people into children with 'four self-confidences'." In people-to-people diplomacy, we should actively carry forward Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) noble style of enhancing friendship among countries and safeguarding world peace, promote people-to-people affinity starting from young people, combine "inviting in" and "going out," continuously expand young people's global vision, enhance their ability to exchange and communicate with foreign countries, and cultivate and develop a broad mind, great responsibility, and great commitment in "looking at the world equally." In recent years, we have continued to carry out the China-Africa Youth Gala, implement the "Silk Road Future Youth Action," and hold the Soong Ching Ling International Youth Camp, etc., to expand exchanges and friendship with young people from various countries, and promote the voice of Chinese youth on the international stage and showcase the style of Chinese youth.

Pay attention to system integration and take giving play to characteristic advantages as the method and path of youth work. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that planning and promoting reform should "pay more attention to system integration." The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee runs through the concept of system integration throughout, and the statements such as "education, science and technology, and talent are the basic and strategic support for Chinese-style modernization" clearly reflect the characteristics of system integration. Youth work is a systematic project composed of multiple elements, multiple aspects, and multiple fields interconnected. Adhering to the thinking of system integration is the inevitable logic of developing youth work. We must pay attention to the unity of all-round development and highlighting key points, and the combination of explicit education and implicit education. In recent years, we have coordinated helping young people's cultivation with carrying out public welfare and charity, implemented the "Three-Year Action Plan to Help Young People Grow and Succeed," established the "Soong Ching Ling Future Scholarship" to provide financial assistance to students from families with economic difficulties; coordinated with Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges, carried out the "Cultural Little Ambassador" activity, etc., to promote young people to step onto the stage of people-to-people diplomacy; coordinated with exchanges between Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, held the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Public Welfare Annual Meeting, etc., and held the Dunhuang Culture and Art Exhibition to enter Taiwan universities for巡展 (xún zhǎn - "touring exhibition," exhibition that travels to different locations), effectively enhancing the sense of belonging, identity, and honor of the Chinese nation, and forging a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation.

3. Further Comprehensively Deepen Reform and Consciously Shoulder the Mission and Responsibility of Developing Youth Work

As a mass organization under the leadership of the Party, the Soong Ching Ling Foundation of China (中国宋庆龄基金会) has the unshirkable mission and task of helping young people fasten the first button of their lives and helping them grow and succeed. It is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, practice Soong Ching Ling's (宋庆龄) educational concept of "creating the future," and strive to promote the high-quality development of youth work.

Adhere to casting the soul and educating people, and strengthen the ideological and value guidance for young people. Thoroughly implement the requirements of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on "improving the mechanism of establishing morality and cultivating people," strengthen the ideological guidance for young people during the "jointing and ear-raising period," give play to the role of red education bases such as Soong Ching Ling's Former Residence (宋庆龄故居), tell revolutionary tradition stories well, and guide young people to listen to the Party and follow the Party. Build platforms such as the "Future Lecture Hall" into vivid classrooms for ideological and political education, and let the core socialist values take root and sprout in the hearts of young people. Highlight the theme of patriotism education, build the "I Grow Up with the Motherland" June 1st Children's Day theme performance into a national youth art event including young people from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and run brand activities such as the patriotism education theme youth summer camp to promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of patriotism education.

Adhere to the five educations simultaneously and cultivate young people who can shoulder the great responsibility of national rejuvenation. Thoroughly implement the requirements of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on "improving the system for the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor," adhere to the integration of the "five educations," and run through the whole process of helping young people grow and succeed in all aspects of establishing morality, enlightening intelligence, strengthening physique, advocating beauty, and enjoying labor. Give play to the Foundation's characteristic advantages, take the "Soong Ching Ling Children's Future Science Day" as the lead, expand the influence of awards such as the "Soong Ching Ling Children's Invention Award," build the "Master Lecture Hall for Children" into a science and technology network classroom that inspires young people's scientific dreams; hold youth art performances, art exhibitions, etc., to cultivate people with culture and aesthetics; expand the popularity of the "Beibei Cup" Youth Football Tournament, enhance the authority of the China Youth Life Education Forum, and promote young people to enhance their fitness awareness and strengthen physical exercise; build a labor education platform to help young people develop in an all-round way.

Adhere to public welfare assistance and promote the common progress of the vast number of young people. Thoroughly implement the requirements of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, increase the care and love for young people, and do a good job in public welfare assistance for young people. Promote health and medical assistance, give play to the role of the "Soong Ching Ling Pediatric Medical Award" in promoting the development of pediatric medicine, increase the donation of medical equipment to grassroots children's hospitals, provide medical assistance to families with children in difficulty, expand the youth vision care action, train grassroots pediatric medical staff, and care for the healthy growth of the vast number of young people. Promote education assistance, continue to do a good job in scholarship projects such as the "Soong Ching Ling Scholarship" and the "Soong Ching Ling Future Scholarship," commend outstanding middle and primary school students with good moral character and academic performance, help college students from families with difficulties complete their studies, build education facilities and donate teaching equipment to middle and primary schools in underdeveloped areas, actively build care homes for left-behind children, and strive to "pave the way and build bridges" for the healthy growth of young people.

Adhere to integrated development and cultivate the blood ties between young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in Hong Kong and Macao. Thoroughly implement the requirements of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on "continuing to advance Hong Kong and Macao work and Taiwan work," "deepening cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area," and "deepening the integrated development of both sides of the Taiwan Strait," strengthen exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macao, adhere to the exchange objects focusing more on young people in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, the exchange direction going more into Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan campuses, and the exchange carriers making better use of excellent Chinese traditional culture, and continuously strengthen the spiritual bond of Chinese culture with "the same roots and the same veins." Highlight the themes of cultural root-seeking, historical tracing, and national soul-seeking, hold activities such as the special exhibition of Tang Dynasty mural culture entering Taiwan universities for touring exhibitions, and hold activities such as the Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching Ling Seminar and the Cross-Strait Public Welfare Forum, and strive to build channels full of youthful atmosphere and local flavor, carry out activities that leave marks and retain people's hearts, and cultivate the emotional foundation of "one family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait" for young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Taking serving the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as a starting point, continue to hold the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Public Welfare Annual Meeting, etc., to promote young people in Hong Kong and Macao to strengthen their national identity, ethnic identity, and cultural identity.

Adhere to foreign exchanges and cultivate successors to the cause of people's friendship. Thoroughly implement the requirements of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on "promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and practicing the common values of all mankind," promote people's friendship starting from children, cultivate new forces in people-to-people diplomacy, organize more young people to go to the world, and be good "little ambassadors" for spreading excellent Chinese culture and promoting the cause of Chinese and foreign friendship. Taking cultural exchanges as a link, create foreign exchange brands such as the "Silk Road Future Youth Action," the China-Africa Youth Gala, and the Soong Ching Ling International Youth Camp, promote excellent Chinese traditional culture to the outside world, take culture as a bridge and connect with hearts, and sow the seeds of friendship in the hearts of young people from various countries. Give full play to the special consultative status enjoyed by the Soong Ching Ling Foundation of China (中国宋庆龄基金会) in the United Nations Economic and Social Council, expand contacts and cooperation with United Nations agencies and international non-governmental organizations, promote the setting of youth issues in meetings of the United Nations Human Rights Council, put forward Chinese youth's views, spread Chinese youth's voices, and continuously promote Chinese youth to look at the world, improve their ability to engage in foreign affairs, and be new-era successors who enhance friendship with people from all countries and safeguard world peace.

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The 20th Western China International Fair Opens

Xinhua News Agency, Chengdu, May 25th. The 20th China Western International Expo (中国西部国际博览会) opened in Chengdu (成都) on the 25th. Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, read President Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory letter and delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony.

Peng Qinghua (彭清华) pointed out that President Xi Jinping (习近平) is always concerned about the development of the western region and has high hopes for the Western China International Fair. Over the past 25 years since its inception, the Western China International Fair has increasingly become an important link for the world to understand western China and for the western region to integrate into global development.

Peng Qinghua (彭清华) stated that we will conscientiously implement the requirements of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory letter, promote the implementation of various policies and measures to form a new pattern of large-scale development in the western region in the new era, accelerate the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the western region, build a number of important economic corridors facing ASEAN, Central Asia, and Europe, accelerate the construction of a western science and technology innovation center, create a first-class business environment, build an effective platform for countries around the world to share the development opportunities in western China, and inject new impetus into promoting the prosperity and development of the world economy.

On the afternoon of the 24th, Peng Qinghua (彭清华) met with foreign dignitaries who came to participate in the conference.

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Six Departments Announce the "National Network Identity Authentication Public Service Management Measures"

This newspaper reported from Beijing on May 25th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) Recently, the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), the State Internet Information Office (国家互联网信息办公室), the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委员会), and the National Radio and Television Administration (国家广播电视总局) jointly announced the "National Network Identity Authentication Public Service Management Measures," which will be implemented starting July 15, 2025.

The management measures clarify the principle of voluntary use of network accounts and network certificates, encourage relevant competent departments, key industries, and internet platforms to promote the application of network accounts and network certificates according to the principle of user voluntariness, but at the same time, retain and provide existing or other legitimate methods for registering and verifying identities; encourage internet platforms to access the national network identity authentication public service, but should ensure that users who do not use network accounts and network certificates enjoy the same services as users who use network accounts and network certificates; strictly in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Law and other regulations, fully protect the personal information rights and interests of citizens.

Currently, the National Network Identity Authentication Public Service Platform has been launched and is in operation. Users can apply for and use network accounts and network certificates through the National Network Identity Authentication APP, in order to reduce the collection and retention of personal information in some internet service links and protect the security of citizens' identity information.

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The 21st "Thorampa" Advanced Degree Conferral Ceremony of Tibetan Buddhism Held in Beijing

This newspaper reported from Beijing on May 25th (Reporter Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫)) On May 23rd, the 21st "Torampa" Advanced Academic Degree Awarding Ceremony of Tibetan Buddhism was held at the China Tibetan Buddhism College in Beijing (北京). Thirty-six students from the Gelug, Nyingma, and Bon sects of Tibetan Buddhism, after three years of diligent study, successfully completed their studies and obtained graduation certificates from the Advanced Academic Degree Class of the China Tibetan Buddhism College. After strict qualification review, debate examination, thesis defense, and evaluation voting, all 36 students were approved to be awarded the "Torampa" Advanced Academic Degree of Tibetan Buddhism.

Vice President of the Buddhist Association of China, Director of the Tibetan Buddhist Academic Degree Steering Committee, and President of the China Tibetan Buddhism College, Living Buddha Gyamuyang (嘉木样活佛), presented academic degree certificates to the recipients of the "Torampa" Advanced Academic Degree. Vice President of the Buddhist Association of China and Deputy Director of the Tibetan Buddhist Academic Degree Steering Committee, Living Buddha Zhukang Tudeng Kezhu (珠康·土登克珠活佛), congratulated the recipients of the "Torampa" Advanced Academic Degree.

Since the implementation of the new academic degree system for Tibetan Buddhism in 2004, the China Tibetan Buddhism College has awarded the "Torampa" Advanced Academic Degree to a total of 399 students, covering all sects of Tibetan Buddhism. They have become a key force in the healthy inheritance of Tibetan Buddhism, playing an active role in forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, promoting the Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism, and guiding Tibetan Buddhism to adapt to socialist society.

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"Educator Spirit Journey" Campaign Launched

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) May 25th dispatch (Reporter Ding Yasong (丁雅诵)) To vigorously promote the spirit of educators and strengthen the teaching profession with the spirit of educators, the General Office of the Ministry of Education (教育部) issued the "Notice on Carrying out the 'Ten Thousand Miles of the Spirit of Educators' Activity," deploying activities across the country. The launch of the activity was recently held in Beijing (北京).

According to the activity arrangements, the Ministry of Education (教育部) will launch in-depth reporting activities on grassroots teachers, form professional reporting teams, and go to various parts of the country to excavate and report on advanced models of practicing the spirit of educators. The "Tell My Story of Nurturing People" activity will be carried out, mobilizing various regions and schools to actively organize front-line teachers to tell their stories of nurturing people, and showcase the dedication and moral character of teachers. The new book "Vigorously Promoting the Spirit of Educators" will be released to strengthen the research and interpretation of the spirit of educators, for the majority of education workers to learn from. A special column "Ten Thousand Miles of the Spirit of Educators" will be opened to publish reports on the deeds of outstanding teachers and typical local experiences and practices, release micro-videos of outstanding teachers, and disseminate the voices of outstanding teachers in the new era.

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Photo Story

On May 25th, at the Lighthouse Shipyard in Kanmen Subdistrict (坎门街道), Yuhuan City (玉环市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), workers were carrying out inspection and maintenance work on fishing boats, including rust removal, painting, and repairs. The picture shows workers painting.

Photo by Duan Junli (段俊利) (China Photo)

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Let the torch of the Young Pioneers shine brighter in the new era.

By: 本报记者  杨  昊

The shining stars and torches illuminate the dream-chasing journey of generations of Young Pioneers.

Wearing red scarves, hundreds of millions of Young Pioneers thrive under the sunshine of the Party.

"Unite, educate, and guide the vast number of Young Pioneers to be successors to the cause of communism, and be ready at all times to adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) deep expectations for children and young people point the direction for the work of the Young Pioneers in the new era.

The Young Pioneers keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment, guide children and young people to practice socialist core values, and strive to grow into new people of the era who can shoulder the important task of national rejuvenation.

Fasten the first button of life

Cultivate a love for the Party, the motherland, and the people from an early age

"At that time, there will be active creation everywhere, and there will be rapid progress everywhere..."

This year's Qingming Festival, at the Fang Zhimin (方志敏) Martyrs Memorial Park in Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi (江西) Province, more than 100 Young Pioneers recited "Lovely China" in unison to commemorate the revolutionary martyr Fang Zhimin (方志敏). Visiting the Fang Zhimin (方志敏) Martyrs Deeds Exhibition Hall and listening to the "Red Scarf Narrator" tell the story of that bloody and fiery era, the seeds of the red gene took root and sprouted in the hearts of the children.

"As Young Pioneers in the new era, we must remember history, cherish the good life we have now, and inherit the spirit of the heroes with practical actions," said Li Ruiqi (李睿琪), a Young Pioneer from Changbei No. 2 Primary School in Nanchang (南昌).

Enlightening the mind and nourishing the heart, cultivating the foundation and casting the soul, using red education to guide children and young people to fasten the first button of life. In recent years, Young Pioneer organizations in various places have widely carried out the theme activity of "Qingming Festival Sacrificing Heroes," which is a vivid microcosm of guiding Young Pioneers to inherit the red gene and cultivate patriotic feelings.

"The Young Pioneers must hold high the team flag and follow the Party," "From an early age, firmly determine to listen to the Party and follow the Party," "Today, be a good child of the motherland, and tomorrow, be a builder of the motherland"... General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) deep concern and earnest expectations for the Young Pioneers and children and young people set goals and directions for the growth and success of good children in the new era.

In 2021, the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Comprehensively Strengthening the Work of the Young Pioneers in the New Era" was issued. This is the first Young Pioneer work document issued in the name of the CPC Central Committee in the history of the Party, and it is the action program for the work of the Young Pioneers in the new era. A new era Young Pioneer work system and mechanism of Party committee leadership, government support, Communist Youth League (共青团) leadership, League-education collaboration, and social coordination has gradually formed.

The National Working Committee of the Young Pioneers produced and launched the "Red Scarf Loves Learning" series of online theme team lessons, covering millions of Young Pioneer squadrons across the country; theme activities such as "Striving to Be a Good Team Member in the New Era" and "Remembering General Secretary's Teachings" have been widely carried out in Young Pioneer organizations at all levels... The vast number of children and young people firmly establish their ideals and beliefs, and use practical actions to pass on the red gene from generation to generation.

On Dachen Island (大陈岛) in Taizhou (台州), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, the sea breeze caresses the face and the waves roar. The Young Pioneers of Baiyun Primary School in Taizhou (台州) witnessed a five-star red flag that had traveled through space slowly rising, and vowed to contribute to the construction of a space power.

Before the National Day in 2024, the "Red Scarf Loves the Motherland - The Five-Star Red Flag in My Heart" national flag relay activity, jointly organized by the National Working Committee of the Young Pioneers and the News and Publicity Office of the China Manned Space Engineering Project, was held on Dachen Island (大陈岛).

This national flag once entered the China Space Station with the Shenzhou XVIII manned spacecraft and returned to the ground with the Shenzhou XVII manned spacecraft, and was relayed by nearly 100,000 Young Pioneers and Communist Youth League members.

Inspire patriotic feelings and encourage the ambition to serve the country.

In more than 10 cities along the South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project, Young Pioneers listened to team lessons on the theme of water conservation and protection, and vowed to contribute to the construction of a beautiful China;

Young Pioneers in Tianjin (天津) learned the production of New Year pictures and clay figure colored sculptures in the theme team lesson of "Red Scarf Loves the Motherland - Cultural Inheritance and Development," and felt the breadth and depth of Chinese culture;

Young Pioneers in Wensu County (温宿县), Xinjiang (新疆) traveled thousands of miles to Jinhua City (金华市), Zhejiang (浙江) Province. Young Pioneers from the two places ate, lived, and studied together, and jointly forged a deep friendship of national unity;

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In the Young Pioneers, a big school, the vast number of Young Pioneers are determined to have aspirations, cultivate morality, and practice skills, cultivate a love for the Party, the motherland, and the people from an early age, and show a vibrant spirit.

Improve the Young Pioneer system

The Young Pioneers' sense of honor and organizational belonging has been significantly enhanced

Before the May Fourth Youth Day, the "May Flower Sea" 2025 South China Normal University's centralized oath-taking activity for college, middle school, and primary school students to join the Party, the League, and the team was held on the Guangzhou (广州) campus.

Li Zhiyu (黎芷妤), a first-grade student at Huashi Affiliated Primary School, was both nervous and proud. She carefully read the Young Pioneer Charter, listened to the story of the Young Pioneers, and often practiced saluting the team flag in the mirror, making full preparations for the joining ceremony.

During the oath-taking ceremony, representatives of the Communist Youth League members awarded red scarves to the representatives of the newly joined team members. Li Zhiyu (黎芷妤) saluted the team flag and solemnly swore: "Be prepared: to contribute to the cause of communism!"

At the event site, performances such as situational dramas told the origin of the red scarf, the story of the League song, and the initial intention of joining the Party, showing the growth stories and struggles of young people joining the team, the League, and the Party in different periods, and giving students a vivid "big ideological and political lesson."

A red scarf connects the present with the past; a "big ideological and political lesson" inspires confidence and strength.

Joining the team, the League, and the Party is the "three-step life journey" for young people to pursue political progress. In recent years, the connection between the Party, the League, and the team's educational chain has become closer, the Young Pioneers' organizational education, autonomous education, and practical education have been continuously deepened, and the Young Pioneers' sense of honor and organizational belonging has been significantly enhanced.

Ceremonial education is an important carrier for the Young Pioneers to organize education. The construction of the Young Pioneers' logo etiquette has been continuously strengthened, the national standards for red scarves, team flags, and other items have been revised and improved, the "Standard for the Process of Joining the Young Pioneers of China (Trial Implementation)" and demonstration videos of the joining ceremony have been launched one after another, and the standardization, solemnity, and appeal of the Young Pioneer ceremony have been continuously improved.

"We are successors to the cause of communism, inheriting the glorious tradition of revolutionary predecessors, loving the motherland, and loving the people..." The singing accompanied by the powerful melody has been echoing for a long time.

Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) is the birthplace of the song of the Young Pioneers of China. In the 1950s, amid the smoke of war, 13 students from He厝 Primary School in Xiamen (厦门) bravely supported the front lines and were known as the "Heroic Little Eight Route Army." Today, the joining ceremony of the Young Pioneers of He厝 Primary School is held in the "Heroic Little Eight Route Army" Memorial Hall.

"We deeply explore the connotation of the team song, and take the Young Pioneers' theme team meeting and practical activities as carriers to lead the children to strive to be good team members in the new era," said Cai Yini (蔡伊妮), the Young Pioneer Brigade Instructor of He厝 Primary School.

The Young Pioneer instructors are ideological and political workers for children and young people of the Party, and they are guides for the healthy growth of children and young people.

In recent years, the National Working Committee of the Young Pioneers has continued to strengthen the construction of the Young Pioneer instructor team, put political standards first, optimize the team structure, innovate evaluation and incentive mechanisms, vigorously improve political quality and performance capabilities, and the sense of honor and responsibility of the Young Pioneer instructors has been significantly enhanced.

In 2024, the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance), the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education, and the National Working Committee of the Young Pioneers jointly held the first national Young Pioneer instructor training class, and high-quality training courses were transmitted to the grassroots through the Internet, achieving the same quality and effectiveness of instructor training.

Guangdong (广东) promoted the inclusion of the Young Pioneer instructor skills competition into the province's employee skills competition for the first time; Sichuan (四川) promoted the separate listing of the "Young Pioneer Activities" subject in the evaluation of professional titles for primary and secondary school teachers... A high-quality and professional Young Pioneer work team is accelerating its construction.

Optimize the growth environment

The atmosphere of the whole society caring for and supporting the Young Pioneers is even stronger

"Now, the work of the Young Pioneers has become an important project of the school, and the guarantee in all aspects is better, and our motivation to work is also stronger!" Tian Li (田丽), the Young Pioneer Brigade Instructor of Shuangwan Campus of Jinchang (金昌) No. 3 Primary School in Gansu (甘肃) Province, said that the school has included the construction of the Young Pioneer team room in the annual key project, and not only arranged the team flag and team emblem according to the standard specifications, but also specially equipped with multimedia equipment.

"There is also an activity fund every year. Last year, we used this fund to carry out the 'Rural Little Maker' Science and Technology Festival activity, and invited off-campus Young Pioneer instructors to come to the school for guidance. Many students won awards." Facing the future, Tian Li (田丽) is full of energy.

"The whole Party and the whole society should attach importance to the work of the Young Pioneers. Party committees and governments at all levels should strengthen leadership and guarantee, and create conditions for the healthy growth of Young Pioneers and the development of the Young Pioneer cause."

"Party committees at all levels should strengthen their leadership over the work of the Young Pioneers, and governments at all levels and the whole society should strengthen their support for the work of the Young Pioneers, so as to provide favorable conditions for the healthy growth of children and young people in the new era."

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In recent years, the work of the Young Pioneers has been included in national plans such as the "Outline for the Development of Chinese Children (2021-2030)" and the "Outline for Building a Strong Education Nation (2024-2035)," and has been included in laws and regulations in related fields such as the protection of minors and national defense education. The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the National Working Committee of the Young Pioneers have strengthened linkage and strengthened support with more than 20 central ministries and commissions and relevant units.

Today, the growth environment of the Young Pioneers continues to be optimized, and the atmosphere of the whole society caring for and supporting the Young Pioneers is even stronger. More and more Young Pioneers are leaving the campus and learning about national conditions and gaining growth in the vast social world:

In Hubei (湖北), the Jin'anling Community (金安岭社区) in Xiling District (西陵区), Yichang City (宜昌市) took the lead in establishing a community working committee of the Young Pioneers, creating a "Young Pioneer team at the doorstep," which has become an important starting point for grassroots governance. Young Pioneers actively participate in activities such as garbage sorting, environmental protection publicity, and volunteer services, and strive to be "little masters" of the community.

In Jiangsu (江苏), Young Pioneers walked into smart pastoral areas, visited agricultural science and technology achievements such as drone fertilization and soilless leafy vegetable planting in greenhouses, and felt the achievements of the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.

In Shanghai (上海), the "15-minute Community Young Pioneer Happiness Circle" allows children to participate in a variety of Young Pioneer activities at their doorstep and become "little forest chiefs," "little river chiefs," "little building chiefs," and "little intangible cultural heritage inheritors."

In Yunnan (云南), Zhang Guimei (张桂梅), Du Fuguo (杜富国), Zhu Youyong (朱有勇) and other pioneer models serve as off-campus instructors of the provincial Young Pioneers, regularly participate in Young Pioneer activities, and face-to-face with Young Pioneers, using the power of role models to guide children to grow.

In coordination with the implementation of the "Double Reduction" policy, various places have coordinated social forces to launch loving care classes to provide services for children and young people after school, on holidays, and during winter and summer vacations.

In order to help children in difficulty, migrant children, and left-behind children, various places have launched the "Red Scarf Public Welfare Fund" care action, the "Red Scarf Hand-in-Hand" care activity, mobile youth palaces, etc., so that children can feel the warmth of the Party.

Children and young people are the hope of the motherland and the future of the nation. Standing at a new historical starting point, the Young Pioneers will better unite, educate, and guide children and young people in the new era to listen to the Party and follow the Party, and strive to grow into builders and successors of socialism, so that the stars and torches will shine even brighter in the new era.

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Editor in Charge for this Edition: Song Yu, Kang Yan, Liu Juanxi

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The Chaos of On-Site Repair Services Must Be Rectified (Letter Investigation)

By: 本报记者 史一棋

Dear Editor,

Last month, my mixing valve broke, and I used my phone to search for a discounted mixing valve repair service, quoted at 35 yuan. After making an appointment by phone, the repairman came quickly and finished the repair, but when it came time to pay, he told me, "The 35 yuan is just a discount coupon, you have to pay extra," and asked me to pay 220 yuan. Helpless, I had to pay, but thinking about this experience, I felt very unfair. I hope the media will pay attention to this kind of phenomenon and promote relevant departments to rectify the market chaos.

Lei Hong (雷弘), Jiangbei District, Chongqing (重庆江北区)

In daily life, on-site maintenance is a convenient way to solve household repair problems, bringing convenience to residents' lives. However, some readers and netizens have said that there are some non-standard problems with on-site maintenance. As this reader's letter says, the repair quotes are inconsistent before and after, and some consumers encounter problems such as inferior repair materials, difficulty in after-sales service, and difficulty in safeguarding their rights. The reporter interviewed relevant people on this matter and put forward opinions and suggestions on rectifying the chaos in the maintenance market.

Using inferior materials, asking exorbitant prices after repairs, "turning minor problems into major problems"

Reader Lei Hong's (雷弘) experience is not an isolated case. Many on-site maintenance businesses attract customers on platforms with low prices, but after the repair is completed, the actual price may double. Before the repair, merchants give vague quotes on the grounds of "let's see the situation first" and "charge as much as the materials cost," and then find various reasons to increase the price after the repair. Repairs in areas such as circuits, pipelines, and home appliances are relatively professional, and ordinary consumers find it difficult to determine the specific cause of the fault, and it is also difficult to identify whether the repair price is reasonable.

Chen Kai (陈凯) (pseudonym), a reader from Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), encountered a repairman who "asked for an exorbitant price" by relying on the consumer's lack of knowledge. Because the corner of his house was damp, he booked Hangzhou Yihang Waterproof Company (杭州忆航防水公司) on January 13 this year to repair the corner of the wall for waterproofing.

The company sent two workers who determined that the outer wall of the house was leaking without doing any leak detection, and informed that the waterproof glue was 90 yuan per kilogram.

Chen Kai (陈凯) felt that 90 yuan per kilogram was too expensive, but the worker claimed that the material was an imported high-tech nano-polymer material, "the cost is high, and it won't take a few kilograms." Chen Kai (陈凯) believed it and agreed to the repair. However, the entire project used a total of 44 kilograms of glue, quoted at 3,960 yuan.

Chen Kai (陈凯) had previously heard that some illegal merchants used "three-no" glue that cost 2 yuan per kilogram and was not suitable for use in residential buildings, posing as high-quality materials. Therefore, he asked the company to provide the quality inspection report of the glue. The quality inspection report sent by the company was obviously retouched, and the company refused to show the purchase voucher for the glue.

In the field of on-site maintenance, some home appliance repairmen use inferior accessories as original factory accessories. It is difficult for ordinary consumers to distinguish the authenticity and quality of the materials, resulting in the situation that they break down again soon after being repaired and fall into repeated repairs.

"Not only was the original problem not solved, but the minor problem was turned into a major problem." Liu Xin (柳鑫) (pseudonym), a reader from Zhongshan (中山), Guangdong (广东), ordered a water purifier repair service. On the evening of January 3 this year, the repairman came to repair it. Unexpectedly, the repaired water purifier leaked again in the early hours of the next day. When Liu Xin (柳鑫) woke up in the morning, he found that his home was "a sea of water."

He cleaned up for a whole morning and finally contacted the repairman, but the repairman said that the repair shop was short of staff and could not send someone over until 3 pm. When it came to 3 pm, the shop claimed that there were still not enough people and said that they would have to wait until the evening.

"There was really no way, so I had to ask the property management to re-construct." Liu Xin (柳鑫) then asked a decoration company to evaluate the damage. Not counting the damage to home appliances, the home decoration loss caused by the leak was as high as 40,000 to 50,000 yuan.

Consumers have difficulty in safeguarding their rights, it is difficult to fix evidence, and they often encounter "passing the buck"

"Many household repair problems occur suddenly and need to be resolved quickly. Consumers choose services in a hurry and often do not have time to compare prices or verify qualifications." Liu Peng (刘鹏), a professor at the School of Public Administration of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学公共管理学院), said, "Moreover, repair projects vary greatly. For example, for a faucet leak, a simple replacement of the faucet is enough, and a complex one may even require re-laying the water pipes. Each situation is different, and consumers find it difficult to distinguish whether the repairman is 'quoting prices based on the person' or providing honest service." In this case, many consumers, even if they suspect that they have been "ripped off," will pay because they have no evidence and are anxious to get the repair done. Illegal merchants also take advantage of this psychology of consumers to falsely report prices.

Many consumers report that once they encounter problems such as price fraud, inferior materials, or repairs that get worse and worse, "repairs are difficult, and safeguarding rights is even more difficult."

On the one hand, consumers face the problem of difficulty in providing evidence when safeguarding their rights. Some service providers use the gimmick of providing discounts to induce consumers to leave the platform for transactions, resulting in no after-sales records on the platform and no way to safeguard their rights; some consumers find repairmen from small advertisements, and when they want to safeguard their rights, they cannot find anyone and have to swallow their anger.

The reporter found that the mailboxes and door seams of many residential communities are stuffed with small repair advertisements, and some small advertisements even use the name of the community property management or service center.

"These small advertisements cannot be believed. Even if the property management does publicity, it will not use this method." Master Zhang (张师傅) is a repairman in the Bali Zhuang (八里庄) Street of Chaoyang District (朝阳区), Beijing (北京). His work comes from the property management of the community. "The property management cannot run away. If there is a problem with the repair, residents can find the property management and find me. Based on my experience, most of the repair services in small advertisements are quoted at higher prices. Many also write fake addresses that cannot be found at all. If there is a problem after the repair, you cannot find anyone."

On the other hand, even if the facts are clear and the evidence is complete, consumers will encounter multiple parties "passing the buck." Liu Xin (柳鑫) had a similar experience. When he took the phone recording, payment certificate, and on-site repair video to the repair shop to claim compensation, the shop refused on the grounds that the worker was neither a platform employee nor a certified worker, "If it is not a platform certification, why was he sent to my home for repairs? The head office and the subcontracting company pushed each other back and forth, saying that the problem was not caused during the repair period, and the insurance company would not compensate; then they said that it was the problem of the shop, which confused me."

Helpless, Liu Xin (柳鑫) complained to 12315. After more than two months of difficult rights protection, the service provider's headquarters finally compensated him 10,000 yuan, and the shop compensated him with a water purifier without a production date or certificate of conformity. After investigation, this water purifier was still a substandard product named by the Jiangsu Provincial Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision (江苏省质监局).

Liu Xin (柳鑫) had consulted a lawyer, and the lawyer's reply was: he could help him win the lawsuit, but the financial and time costs of the lawsuit would not be low. In addition to lawyer fees, the appraisal fee is also not low, and it is necessary to find a professional institution in a first-tier city. "Although the final compensation amount is far lower than my actual loss, there is no way, I can only accept it. The other party has a special legal department to handle complaints, and I still have to go to work, and I can't afford it." Liu Xin (柳鑫) expressed the helplessness of most consumers when facing similar problems.

It is recommended that relevant departments announce a "white list" of home appliance repairs to the public, and platforms introduce "one-price" services and other measures to regulate on-site repair services

As early as August 2012, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) promulgated and implemented the "Administrative Measures for the Home Appliance Repair Service Industry," which clearly prohibits home appliance repair operators and practitioners from engaging in the following behaviors: falsely listing, exaggerating, or fabricating repair service items or content; concealing or covering up the fact that the user's product was damaged due to repair services; falsely reporting faulty parts and deliberately replacing normally functioning parts; falsely using the trademark of the home appliance manufacturer or the special repair logo. However, various problems still exist today, which not only damage the interests of consumers, but also disrupt market order.

"On-site repairs seem to be trivial matters, but they are related to the happiness of every resident's life." Wang Yan (王岩), Secretary-General of the China Household Electrical Appliance Service and Maintenance Association (中国家用电器服务维修协会), said.

Most of the mainstream on-site repair platforms on the market currently adopt a model of attracting users online and serving users offline. In this process, what role does the platform party, as an intermediary, play? What responsibilities should it assume?

"The reason why consumers repeatedly encounter buck-passing when safeguarding their rights is that the platform party under this model does not directly provide services to consumers. They only play the role of an information distribution center. Once a problem occurs, they feel that the fault lies with the offline store rather than themselves." Xu Zewei (许泽玮), President of the Beijing Internet Finance Industry Association (北京市互联网金融行业协会), believes that the platform party is not a simple information sharing platform. They should work hard on the standardization of service processes and run through the standardization of the entire process of ordering, on-site service, and after-sales service. "The platform uses digital means to establish standardized service processes by category, so that every link of the service has rules to follow, and there should also be corresponding management and monitoring indicators."

In the standardization of service processes, price standardization is directly related to the vital interests of consumers. Xu Zewei (许泽玮) said that first, the price should be transparent and visible to consumers, and pricing information should be published on official channels for easy access at any time; second, the standard pricing system should be continuously refined so that consumers can clearly know what processes are involved in this repair, how much each item in the process should cost, and the labor hours, materials, etc. that affect the pricing; third, price evaluations should be carried out for repair projects with complex processes and non-standard systems, and a one-price quote should be presented in advance, and repairs should be carried out after full communication with consumers to avoid disputes afterwards.

In addition to platform standardized management, Liu Peng (刘鹏) believes that market supervision and other departments should also increase daily supervision, build a service provider credit evaluation system, and implement platform bans on non-compliant merchants whose complaint volume exceeds the standard; and impose fines and revoke business licenses on some repair companies and repair personnel suspected of false advertising, fraud, and forced transactions in accordance with the law.

According to the "Administrative Measures for the Home Appliance Repair Service Industry," the competent department may give a warning to home appliance repair operators who violate these measures, order them to make corrections, and impose a fine of less than 30,000 yuan if the circumstances are serious. "Relevant departments should improve complaint and reporting channels so that consumers have access to rights protection. Not only should they be able to protect their rights, but they should also make it easier for consumers to protect their rights." Liu Peng (刘鹏) said.

Consumer associations can also play a greater role. For example, the Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Commission (上海市消保委) has announced a "white list" of home appliance repairs to the public in recent years, calling on consumers to choose service companies on the list as much as possible when needed.

In addition, the on-site repair industry should also strengthen self-discipline and come up with practical measures to address market chaos. "A co-governance system involving consumers, platforms, stores, and regulatory departments can be established." Wang Yan (王岩) cited an example, saying that platforms can establish a mechanism for independent third parties to intervene in evaluations when disputes occur; stores can explain the repair process to consumers to make the entire process more transparent. "All parties should work together to do a solid and good job of the on-site repair 'small things' that are related to thousands of households."

(Gao Guoyan (高国妍) participated in the writing)

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Aging pipes leak, basement flooded (Around Town)

My residence at No. 73 Jiefang Road (解放路), Xinghualing District (杏花岭区), Taiyuan City (太原市), Shanxi (山西) is in an old residential community, where most residents are in their seventies or eighties. In recent years, the exterior of the community has been beautified, and the environment is pleasant. However, the underground water pipes in the community are severely aging and leak frequently, causing residents great concern. For example, the basement of Unit 3, Building 6, where I live, has been submerged in water due to leaks since last winter (see picture). Basements in Building 9 and other buildings are also flooded due to aging and leaking water pipes.

In addition to the inconvenience caused by repeated basement leaks to residents' lives, we are even more concerned that long-term soaking will erode the foundation of the entire building. Previously, we also paid for someone to pump water and dredge the area, but before long, the aging water pipes leaked again, and the basement was flooded again. The renovation of old residential communities should not only focus on the "face" but also on the "inside." We hope that relevant departments will pay attention to and solve this problem.

Guo (郭) from Taiyuan City (太原市), Shanxi (山西)

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Suggestion.

Be vigilant about "pseudo-science classes" targeting the elderly in rural areas.

Recently, while visiting my rural hometown, I noticed that the organizers of "pseudo-science classes" previously targeting the elderly in cities are gradually shifting their focus to rural areas.

I observed that these classes use small favors as bait, such as giving away a few eggs, providing free use of massage chairs, or offering other small gifts to attract elderly people to participate. The class organizers are particularly enthusiastic, treating the elderly like family members. Some salespeople even proactively visit sick elderly people to establish emotional connections, with the main purpose of inducing them to buy unknown health products at high prices.

Rural elderly people lack the ability to identify false advertising, and because their children mostly work away from home, they are easily moved by these small gifts and warm sales tactics. These false advertising groups usually adopt a "guerrilla-style" teaching approach to evade law enforcement. I suggest increasing anti-fraud publicity in rural areas. At the same time, it is recommended that township medical institutions organize some health science activities in rural areas. In addition, various measures should be taken to care for the elderly and enrich their spiritual lives.

Lin Shangjun (林上军), Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省)

Rectify the chaos in pet medical care.

Not long ago, my pet dog got sick, and I rushed to a pet hospital near my home for treatment. At this pet hospital, the cost of various tests alone was more than 1,000 yuan. Later, I transferred to another pet hospital for diagnosis and treatment, and they told me that it was not a serious illness. After observing and investigating at home, I confirmed that it was just a bee sting.

In recent years, with the vigorous development of the pet economy, the number of pet diagnosis and treatment institutions has also increased. At the same time, some chaotic phenomena in pet medical care have also emerged one after another. For example, some pet hospitals lack animal diagnosis and treatment qualifications and professional knowledge, and some pet doctors are employed without licenses; some charge fees that are not public or transparent, arbitrarily increase prices, and deliberately obscure drug information by not providing outer packaging or hiding approval numbers; some pet hospitals single-mindedly pursue economic benefits, artificially create anxiety, and deliberately induce consumption and excessive examinations. These phenomena not only directly affect the life and health of pets, but also infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

It is recommended to further strengthen industry supervision and governance, formulate strict standards, and raise the threshold for industry access. At the same time, further clarify the service process, diagnosis and treatment guidelines, operating specifications, and project prices of pet hospitals, and strengthen the supervision and inspection of the public disclosure of medical prices.

Liang Xiuming (梁修明), Shenzhen City (深圳市), Guangdong Province (广东省)

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<b style="color:red">[Generation Error]</b>

By: 本报记者 刘军国

"Who cut off the road to the Martyrs' Memorial?" In March of this year, our newspaper received a letter from villagers in Shadi Village (沙地村), Qiushan Township (湫山乡), Xianju County (仙居县), Taizhou City (台州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), reflecting that the road leading to the Cao Jinku (曹金库) Martyr's Memorial had been openly cut off due to the construction of a private residence. The villagers had reported this to relevant departments multiple times, but no one paid attention.

The reporter recently went to Xianju County (仙居县) to investigate based on the clues. In Hengxi Town (横溪镇), Xianju County (仙居县), the reporter met Cao Zhenfu (曹真富), the grandson of Cao Jinku (曹金库). He introduced, "My grandfather heroically sacrificed during the Land Revolution War in 1935 and was recognized as a revolutionary martyr by the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部) in 1988. He is well-known in Xianju (仙居)."

In a park in Hengxi Town (横溪镇), the reporter saw an introduction to the local revolutionary history, which included information about Cao Jinku (曹金库): On September 8, 1930, the CPC Xianju County Committee (中共仙居县委员会) was established in Xikou Village (溪口村) (now Caoxi Village (曹溪村)) in the Hengxi area. At that time, Cao Jinku (曹金库) was one of the persons in charge, and Cao Jinku's (曹金库) home was the location of the county committee's office.

After Cao Jinku's (曹金库) sacrifice, his remains were buried in his hometown, and many people went to mourn and commemorate him every Qingming Festival. Around 2015, relevant departments in Xianju County (仙居县) built a Martyrs' Memorial (烈士纪念碑) (see Figure 1) at the foot of Qingshan Mountain (青山) in Shadi Village (沙地村), the site of Cao Jinku's (曹金库) sacrifice, to make it more convenient for everyone to pay tribute to the martyr. However, a few years ago, someone building a private residence cut off and occupied the road leading to the Martyrs' Memorial.

"Originally, the memorial was two to three hundred meters away from the main road, and you could reach it by turning off the main road, but that road was blocked, and now you have to go a long way around to get there." On May 15, the reporter followed Cao Zhenfu (曹真富) to Shadi Village (沙地村) and saw that after this cement road was cut off, there was no trace of a road left. After detouring for about 1 kilometer, they arrived at the location of the Martyrs' Memorial. However, the Martyrs' Memorial was gone (see Figure 2)!

Cao Zhenfu (曹真富) said that the memorial was still there when he swept the tomb before Qingming Festival this year. He pointed to a platform made of stone and cement and told the reporter, "The memorial was originally built here, engraved with 'Cao Jinku (曹金库) Martyrs' Memorial (曹金库烈士纪念碑)'. Where has the monument been moved to now? When was it moved? We don't know." He said angrily.

In Shadi Village (沙地村), several villagers told the reporter, "The day before Qingming Festival, some people came and took the Martyrs' Memorial away."

During the interview in the village, the reporter received many text messages and phone calls from villagers, expressing their anger at the local relevant departments' ineffective protection of the Martyrs' Memorial, hoping that effective measures would be taken to restore the martyr's memorial facilities, and that those responsible for the destructive behavior would be held accountable according to law.

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Deeply Understanding the Theoretical Connotation and Innovative Contributions of Building a New Development Pattern (In-depth Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era: A Comprehensive Discussion on Original and Iconic Concepts)

By: 张 燕 王 琛

In 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed at the seventh meeting of the 19th Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs the establishment of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the mainstay and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other. Since then, he has repeatedly elaborated on this concept, which has become an important part of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, providing fundamental guidance for consolidating the foundation of China's economic development and enhancing the security and stability of development. On April 30 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized when he chaired a symposium on economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period in some provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities: "We must unswervingly manage our own affairs well, unswervingly expand high-level opening up to the outside world, and take multiple measures to stabilize employment, stabilize enterprises, stabilize the market, and stabilize expectations, effectively stabilize the fundamentals of the economy, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and comprehensively promote high-quality development." This provides scientific guidance for us to scientifically plan the economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

As an original and iconic concept in Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, the construction of a new development pattern achieves an organic unity of strategic, theoretical, and practical aspects. From a strategic perspective, the construction of a new development pattern is a major decision and deployment made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, based on changes in China's development stage, environment, and conditions, focusing on achieving the second centenary goal and grasping the initiative in future development. It is a strategic choice to reshape China's new advantages in international cooperation and competition, and a major strategic task related to China's overall development. From a theoretical perspective, the construction of a new development pattern inherits and develops the theoretical analysis framework of Marxist political economy on economic cycles and social reproduction. In scientifically answering the questions of the times regarding China's economic development in the new era, it deepens our Party's understanding of the laws of economic development with Chinese characteristics and achieves innovative development of Marxist political economy. From a practical perspective, the construction of a new development pattern clarifies the path choice for China's economic modernization, and can guide us on how to enhance the endogenous power and reliability of the domestic cycle, how to improve the quality and level of the international cycle in promoting the healthy development of economic globalization, and how to better coordinate the domestic and international cycles, providing a scientific path for China to transform from a large economic country to a strong economic country.

Deeply understanding and accurately grasping the theoretical connotation, innovative contributions, and practical requirements of the original and iconic concept of building a new development pattern is conducive to enhancing our political awareness, strengthening strategic thinking, improving professional capabilities, and doing a good job in economic work, maintaining strategic focus and firm development confidence in the current complex and volatile international situation, and responding to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development.

Deepening the Understanding of Marxist Political Economy on the Laws of Economic Circulation

Economic operation is a cyclical and spiraling dynamic cycle. Economic circulation is an important content of Marxist political economy research. Marxism believes that economic operation is a cyclical movement process of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption, with production as the starting point, consumption as the ending point, and distribution and exchange as the intermediate links. In this cyclical movement process, production determines distribution, exchange, and consumption, while distribution, exchange, and consumption in turn affect production, forming a relationship of mutual connection, mutual dependence, and mutual promotion between the various links. Generally speaking, if the economic cycle is smooth, material products and social wealth continue to increase, and effective balance between supply and demand is achieved, the operation of the national economy will form a spiraling and benign development process; if the various links are not smooth and the cycle is blocked, it will affect the quality and efficiency of economic operation.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The advantage of a large country's economy is that it can circulate internally," "We must coordinate the relationship between total supply and total demand and smooth the national economic cycle," "The smoother the domestic cycle, the more it can form an attraction field for global resource elements, the more conducive it is to building a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the mainstay and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other, and the more conducive it is to forming new advantages in participating in international competition and cooperation." At present, China is in a critical period of economic structural transformation, industrial optimization and upgrading, and consumption expansion and quality improvement. At the same time, there are still many blockages and bottlenecks in the construction of a unified national market. This puts forward higher requirements for promoting the smooth flow of the economic cycle and achieving a dynamic balance and benign interaction between the supply and demand sides. From the perspective of China's super-large market size and the still existing problems of unbalanced and insufficient development, smoothing the economic cycle cannot only start from a single link, but requires simultaneous efforts for each link of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption, so that the combination of various production factors is organically connected and circulated in each link, and the quality and efficiency of the national economic operation are continuously improved.

The construction of a new development pattern further enriches and expands the connotation and extension of each link in the economic cycle analysis framework of Marxist political economy, emphasizing the need to clear the blockages and breakpoints in the economic cycle process, promote the organic connection of various production factors and their combinations in the links of production, distribution, circulation, and consumption, and make simultaneous efforts and coordinated cooperation between the supply and demand sides to achieve a benign cycle of the national economy. This transcends the limitations of Western economics in analyzing the capitalist economy by ignoring the inherent connection between supply and demand, and more profoundly answers major propositions such as how to smooth the economic cycle and how to better coordinate the relationship between supply and demand under the conditions of a socialist market economy. First, it not only emphasizes the balance between supply and demand, but also pays more attention to enhancing the adaptability and flexibility of the supply structure to changes in demand under the conditions of technological progress. This will fully stimulate the role of "production" as the starting point and "consumption" as the ending point in the national economic cycle, forming a higher level of dynamic balance in which demand drives supply and supply creates demand. To this end, we must adhere to the coordinated efforts and dynamic balance between the supply and demand sides, organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening supply-side structural reform, and achieve total balance, structural optimization, and internal and external balance between supply and demand. Second, it emphasizes optimizing and improving the distribution system, dividing the "cake" well while making the "cake" bigger, and taking improving the people's quality of life as the starting point and foothold for smoothing the domestic cycle and the key link for promoting the mutual promotion of domestic and international dual cycles. This is not only a vivid embodiment of the fundamental purpose of socialist production, but also conducive to enhancing the endogenous power of high-quality development. To this end, we must establish and improve a long-term mechanism for expanding residents' consumption, effectively protect the treatment and rights of workers, continuously expand the scale of the middle-income group, seek more benefits for the people and solve more problems for the people, and activate the potential of the "distribution" link to promote economic circulation. Third, it highlights the basic role of the circulation system in the national economy, expanding the "exchange" link to cover the construction of a unified national market, including commerce, logistics, transportation, finance, credit, and other aspects, enriching the spatial scenes and related fields of the "exchange" link.

In general, the construction of a new development pattern scientifically answers major questions such as why domestic demand should be the basic foothold and how to establish a strong and complete domestic demand market system, providing a logical basis and driving force for us to strengthen our confidence and rely on releasing the potential of the huge domestic market to stabilize the fundamentals of the economy.

Forming a New Interpretation of Marxist Political Economy on the World Market

Marxist political economy has always been concerned about the world market, global economic development, and other issues. Marx and Engels pointed out: "The more the original isolation of national communities is destroyed by the developed mode of production, by intercourse and by the division of labour between various nations naturally brought forth by intercourse, the more history becomes world history." "The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image." Engels pointed out in "Principles of Communism": "In this way, large-scale industry has brought all the people of the world into contact with each other, has merged all local markets into one world market, has everywhere paved the way for civilization and progress, and has made everything that happens in civilized countries necessarily affect all other countries." Marxist political economy explains the process of economic globalization from the perspective of the development of social productive forces, pointing out that economic globalization is the objective requirement of the development of social productive forces and the inevitable result of technological progress, and is the inevitable trend of human social development, profoundly revealing the essence, logic, and process of economic globalization. Marx and Engels' prediction has now become a reality, and history and reality increasingly prove the scientific value of this prediction.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The new development pattern is not a closed domestic cycle, but an open domestic and international dual cycle," "China does not seek to stand out alone, does not engage in a win-lose situation, and will not close its doors and operate in isolation. It will gradually form a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the mainstay and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other, opening up space for China's economic development and adding impetus to the world's economic recovery and growth." Today, the globality of human interaction is more profound and extensive than ever before, and the interdependence and mutual dependence of countries are more frequent and closer than ever before. Economic globalization has become an irreversible trend of the times. China has long been deeply integrated with the world economic system, becoming the main trading partner of more than 150 countries and regions, maintaining its position as the second largest foreign investment destination in the world for a long time, and the domestic cycle has a strong attraction and influence on countries around the world. In 2023, while global foreign direct investment decreased by 2% and the scale of cross-border mergers and acquisitions was the lowest in the past few years, China's outward direct investment increased by 8.7%, and the flow of outward direct investment accounted for 11.4% of the global share in the same period. In 2024, China's outward direct investment in all industries increased by 11.3% year-on-year, continuously improving the quality and level of the international cycle. Although economic globalization has encountered headwinds in recent years, especially with the rise of hegemonism, power politics, and trade protectionism, the momentum of the international economic cycle has been significantly weakened, but the trend of economic globalization is unstoppable, and deepening international economic cooperation is the common choice of most countries. China adheres to the policy of opening up wider to the outside world, injecting rare stability and certainty into world economic growth, and continuously commits to promoting the healthy development of economic globalization.

The construction of a new development pattern innovatively applies the Marxist political economy's analysis framework on economic globalization, firmly conforms to the general trend of economic globalization, emphasizes that domestic and foreign demand markets are interdependent and mutually reinforcing, and that taking the domestic cycle as the mainstay is by no means closing the door and operating in isolation, but actively and proactively integrating into the world economic system and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results with countries around the world, transcending the logical limitations of Western economics in studying international economic cooperation from the perspective of pursuing profit maximization. First, it emphasizes the need to have a strong domestic economic cycle system and a solid foundation, so as to form a strong attraction to global factor resources, and to improve the efficiency and level of the domestic cycle with the international cycle, explaining the internal mechanism of interaction and mutual promotion between domestic economic operation and economic globalization. Second, it emphasizes promoting high-level opening up to the outside world, continuously deepening the flow-based opening up of goods, services, capital, talent, and other factors, and steadily expanding the institutional opening up of rules, regulations, management, standards, etc. At the same time, it optimizes the regional opening layout, accelerates the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the western region, accelerates the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port, implements the strategy of upgrading free trade pilot zones, and forms growth points for participating in the international cycle, providing an effective path for actively shaping a good international economic and trade cooperation environment and improving the quality and level of the international economic cycle in the process of transforming from a large economic country to a strong economic country. Third, it promotes the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," actively participates in international economic and trade rule negotiations, promotes the formation of an open, diversified, and stable world economic order, and enhances its voice in the international cycle, creating conditions for the coordinated circulation of the domestic and international markets and the two types of resources. Fourth, it advocates building an open world economy, continuously promoting economic globalization towards a more open, inclusive, universally beneficial, balanced, and win-win direction, promoting the formation of an open, diversified, and stable world economic order, and pointing out the direction for promoting the healthy development of economic globalization.

In general, the construction of a new development pattern profoundly answers major propositions such as how to promote the linkage of domestic and foreign markets and how to promote the healthy development of economic globalization, which will better connect the domestic market with the international market by leveraging the potential of domestic demand, better utilize the two markets and the two types of resources, and achieve more robust and sustainable development.

Developing Marxist Political Economy on the Theory of Social Reproduction

In "Capital," Marx profoundly analyzed the general laws of social reproduction movement, created the theory of social reproduction, and divided reproduction into two aspects: simple reproduction and expanded reproduction. Simple reproduction refers to the production process repeated on the original path and scale, which is the basis and premise of expanded reproduction; expanded reproduction refers to adding new means of production to the production process, including extensive expanded reproduction by increasing the input of production factors, intensive expanded reproduction by improving the output efficiency of production factors, and reproduction achieved by combining the two. In this process, Marx also revealed the internal mechanism of social productive force development, pointing out that "The productiveness of labour is determined by various circumstances, amongst others, by the average amount of skill of the workman, the state of science, and the degree to which it is capable of practical application, the social organisation of production, the extent and capabilities of the means of production, and by physical conditions," providing guidance for liberating and developing social productive forces.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must accelerate scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening. This is the key to ensuring the smooth flow of the domestic cycle and shaping China's new advantages in the international cycle," "To promote the domestic cycle, we must adhere to the main line of supply-side structural reform, improve the quality and level of the supply system, and create new demand with new supply. Scientific and technological innovation is the key. Smooth domestic and international dual cycles also require scientific and technological strength to ensure the security and stability of the industrial chain and supply chain." At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and the role of scientific and technological innovation in the development of social productive forces is unprecedentedly enhanced. Major countries in the world have increased the proportion of new production factors such as technology and data in social reproduction. Historical experience fully proves that the comprehensive competitiveness of a large country is not only reflected in the population size and economic volume, but more in the quality and efficiency of the development of social productive forces, and whether it can innovate and optimize the input structure of factors and continuously inject new vitality into the development of social productive forces. As China's economy shifts from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development, the relative advantages of production factors have changed, labor costs and resource and environmental constraints continue to rise, and the original combination of production functions is difficult to sustain. Objectively, it requires promoting the transformation of economic development from factor-driven to innovation-driven, and from scale-speed type to quality-efficiency type. At the same time, it should be seen that the situation in which China's key core technologies in some fields are subject to others has not fundamentally changed. Focusing on the goals of building a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and grasping the strategic initiative in increasingly fierce international competition, requires that the factor input structure of China's social reproduction must be optimized and upgraded to a more high-end direction, and high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening must be achieved through innovation-driven endogenous growth.
Constructing a new development pattern, based on the evolution of the times and development needs, places independent innovation at an unprecedented height concerning survival and development. It clarifies that achieving a high level of self-reliance and self-strengthening is the most essential characteristic of constructing a new development pattern. It profoundly answers major propositions such as how to improve resource allocation efficiency and enhance the level of social reproduction during the transition from a large economic country to a strong economic power. First, it deepens the understanding of science and technology as the primary productive force, emphasizing that science and technology are the primary productive force and the primary competitiveness. It is necessary to give full play to the significant advantages of China's socialist system, which can concentrate efforts to accomplish great things, fight well in the battle of tackling key core technologies, accelerate the pace of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, and accelerate the tackling of "bottleneck" technologies in important fields. Second, it enriches and expands the types of production factors, emphasizing that on the basis of rationally utilizing traditional production factors such as labor, capital, and land, it is necessary to increase the investment and use of new production factors such as knowledge, technology, management, and data, improve total factor productivity, and optimize and innovate the production function combination methods for expanding social reproduction under new technological conditions. Third, it emphasizes that the new development pattern is based on a modern industrial system, and smooth economic circulation requires orderly connection and efficient flow of various industries. It is necessary to rely on China's super-large-scale market, complete industrial system, and strong production capacity to enhance the ability to gather global factors, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological innovation achievements and factor inputs into real productive forces, and coordinate industrial upgrading and industrial transfer from both spatial and temporal perspectives, promote the deep integration of domestic and foreign industries, and create an independent, controllable, safe, reliable, and competitive modern industrial system.

In general, constructing a new development pattern points out the path for China to expand social reproduction. By vigorously promoting scientific and technological innovation and other aspects of innovation, it points out the direction for forming more new growth points and growth poles, and focusing on opening up all links of production, distribution, circulation, and consumption.

Improved Understanding and Grasp of the Contradictions in the Operation of Capitalist Economies by Marxist Political Economy

Marxism believes that capital has a profit-seeking nature, and when capitalism develops to a certain stage, economic crises characterized by overproduction will inevitably occur. The periodic economic crises in the capitalist world are a concentrated manifestation of this law. Marx pointed out clearly in "Das Kapital": "The real limit of capitalist production is capital itself," "to develop the productive forces absolutely, while this development constantly conflicts with the unique production conditions in which capital moves and can only move." The inherent contradiction between the socialization of production and the private ownership of the means of production in capitalism has long existed, but the forms of expression and characteristics of existence are different in different stages. According to this framework, Marxist political economy analyzes the fundamental contradiction of the capitalist mode of production and reveals the root of the capitalist economic crisis. At the same time, Marx does not deny the positive role of capital in the development of productive forces, pointing out that capital "is conducive to the development of productive forces, conducive to the development of social relations, and conducive to the creation of various elements of a higher new form."

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Developing a socialist market economy is a great creation of our Party. Since it is a socialist market economy, various forms of capital will inevitably be generated." "We must base ourselves on the new development stage, implement the new development concept, construct a new development pattern, promote high-quality development, and correctly handle the relationship between different forms of capital." It should be seen that capital is all about pursuing profits. From the world economic crisis in the 1920s and 1930s to the world economic crisis triggered by stagflation in capitalist countries in the 1970s, and then to the unprecedented severe challenges to world economic development caused by the 2008 international financial crisis, and the increasingly intensified trend of major capitalist countries' economies shifting from the real to the virtual, all fully reflect the profit-seeking nature of capital. We must fully recognize the basic reality that the inherent internal contradictions of capitalism still exist, fully recognize that there are many differences between the capital of capitalist societies and the capital of socialist societies, actively explore how to give play to the positive role of capital under the conditions of a socialist market economy, while effectively controlling the negative role of capital, and effectively give play to the institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics, so that neither "capital crocodiles" can act arbitrarily, nor can the function of capital as a factor of production be brought into play, and be prepared at all times to deal with a series of new risks and challenges, so as to achieve a virtuous interaction between high-quality development and high-level security.

Constructing a new development pattern transcends the cognitive limitations of Western economics in avoiding the inherent contradictions in the operation of capitalist economies. Based on insights into the profit-seeking nature of capital, the laws of operation of capitalist economies, and the inevitability of capitalist economic crises, it emphasizes that if capital is not regulated and constrained, it will bring immeasurable harm to economic and social development. It is necessary to firmly hold the bottom line of safe development, while giving play to the positive role of capital in promoting the development of social productive forces, and profoundly answers major propositions such as how to effectively respond to the impact of capitalist economic crises and coordinate development and security. First, it distinguishes between "capital" and "capitalism." While revealing the inherent internal contradictions of capitalism, it clarifies that under the socialist market economy system, capital is an important link to drive the concentration and allocation of various production factors, and is an important force to promote the development of social productive forces. It requires correctly handling the relationship between different forms of capital, distinguishing them in nature, clarifying them in positioning, and at the same time strengthening effective supervision of capital in accordance with the law, curbing the disorderly expansion of capital, and improving the basic systems of the market economy such as the property rights protection system, the market access system, and the fair competition system. It is necessary to improve the functions of the capital market, regulate and guide the healthy development of capital in accordance with the law, and provide a plan for giving play to the positive role of capital under the conditions of a socialist market economy. Second, it requires focusing on promoting high-level opening up of finance. This is an inevitable choice to enhance the international competitiveness of China's financial system, shape new advantages, and play a greater role in global economic and financial governance. To this end, it is necessary to adhere to the equal emphasis on "bringing in" and "going out," steadily expand the institutional opening up of the financial sector, improve the level of cross-border investment and financing facilitation, increase financial support for jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), enhance China's international hub position in the industrial chain and supply chain, and attract more foreign-funded financial institutions and long-term capital to come to China to develop their businesses. Third, it emphasizes the need to grasp the relationship between opening up and security, weave a tight and solid safety net for opening up, and enhance the ability to dynamically maintain national financial security in an open environment. It is necessary to prevent the risks brought about by opening up itself, and also to prevent the risks deliberately created by game opponents, providing a solution for us to actively respond to and prevent the impact of capitalist economic crises.

Constructing a new development pattern, while inheriting the theory and analytical framework of Marxist political economy, adheres to the innovative application of the Marxist scientific worldview and methodology as the "master key" for studying and solving problems, reveals the objective laws and inevitable trends of economic powers developing into economic powerhouses, and is both theoretical and practical. We must profoundly understand and accurately grasp the strategic connotation and great significance of constructing a new development pattern from the dimensions of historical inevitability, long-term development, and the overall situation of modernization construction, adhere to placing the development of the country and the nation on the basis of our own strength, and continuously enhance our country's survival, competitiveness, development, and sustainability, firmly grasp the initiative of development, and ensure the smooth realization of the goal of building a strong socialist modern country in an all-round way.

(Author's unit: Xi Jinping Economic Thought Research Center (习近平经济思想研究中心))

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More "getting off the horse to walk around," don't stay on the "horse" and never come down (Ideological Perspective)

By: 唐剑锋

There is a saying, "The donkey rider doesn't know the hardship of the donkey driver," which is used to describe those who enjoy the fruits of labor without knowing the hard work of the laborers. The "donkey rider" only knows that the donkey is slow, but doesn't know that the donkey is very tired, and the donkey driver is also exhausted. If you don't let the donkey rider lead the donkey and follow the donkey for a while, how can you know the "hardship of the donkey driver"? By the same token, as leading cadres, if you don't go deep into reality, deep into the masses, and deep into the front line, and don't empathize with the suffering of the masses, how can you correctly understand yourself and others, and truly understand the situation and problems? General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly requires: "All comrades in the Party must firmly stand on the people's position, practice the Party's purpose, implement the Party's mass line, and maintain the Party's flesh-and-blood ties with the people." No matter when and where, Party members and cadres must correct their position, recognize their role, and always be public servants and diligent servants of the people.

Looking horizontally, it is a ridge; viewed from the side, it is a peak; from different distances and heights, it looks different. The same problem will lead to different conclusions when viewed on horseback and standing on the ground. The Yan'an (延安) period was one of the most difficult periods in terms of material conditions for the Chinese revolution. Yan'an (延安) is located on the Loess Plateau, and the terrain is mainly mountainous. At that time, Yan'an (延安) didn't even have asphalt roads, and the roads were mainly mountain roads. In order to facilitate fighting and work, some leading cadres rode horses. If you think that you are not the same as before after riding a horse, and not only regard riding a horse as a work need, but also regard it as a symbol of "identity", thinking that only "leaders" are "qualified" to ride a horse, then you have deviated from the original intention of a Communist Party member. In fact, riding a horse and walking are just different divisions of labor in revolutionary work. If you ride a horse and put on airs, speak loudly, and have a bad temper in front of grassroots officers, soldiers, and the people, it is absolutely unacceptable.

On October 27, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) led the new Standing Committee members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to visit the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Site. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "During the Yan'an (延安) period, the Party proposed the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly and wrote it into the Party Constitution, emphasizing that the Communist Party 'this team is entirely for the liberation of the people, and is thoroughly working for the interests of the people,' and requiring Party cadres to 'sit firmly on the side of the common people,' forming a vivid situation of 'only seeing public servants and not officials.'" Since its birth, our Party has always taken serving the people wholeheartedly as its fundamental purpose. Party cadres are all public servants of the people, and they should seek political achievements in their positions, be both honest and diligent, both clean and capable, and constantly remind themselves not to become detached from reality and the masses after riding a horse.

At present, carrying out in-depth study and education on implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation in the entire Party is also to let the majority of Party members and cadres remember that whether "on horseback" or "off horseback," they are ordinary members of the people. As a Party member, especially a leading cadre of the Party, one cannot have the idea of being superior to others, let alone any privileged behavior. Showing off one's official position is a remnant of feudal ideology, and the root cause is the serious concept of official standard, the distorted view of power, and it is not the image and style that a Communist Party cadre should have. We must always correct our thinking, correct our position, stand firmly on the position of the masses, enhance our feelings with the masses, and overcome all selfish thoughts and distractions that separate us from the masses, violate the wishes of the masses, and harm the interests of the masses.

Leading cadres "riding on horseback" should "get off their horses and walk around" more. Walk with the soldiers, walk with the folks, walk with the workers, walk with the students, walk with the researchers, walk with the business operators... See more of the lives of the masses, listen more to the opinions of the masses, and understand more of the feelings of the masses. "Getting off the horse and walking around" can go deep into the front line and understand the real situation, "getting off the horse and walking around" can integrate into the masses and enhance feelings, "getting off the horse and walking around" can inspire ideas and improve methods, "getting off the horse and walking around" can correctly understand oneself and truly get rid of "officialdom." Don't stay "on horseback" without getting off, often "get off the horse and walk around" so that you can not forget where you came from, so that you can know where you are going, so that you can better be a public servant of the people, and better serve the people.

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Building a Better Home Together, Creating a Prosperous Future Together

By: 本报记者  张晓东  李欣怡

On May 23rd, the 2025 SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) Countries Media Cooperation Forum, themed "Building a Better Home, Creating a Prosperous Future," was held in Urumqi (乌鲁木齐市), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区). More than 300 representatives from mainstream media, relevant department officials, experts, scholars, and business representatives from 26 countries, including SCO member states, observer states, and dialogue partners, gathered to discuss cooperation.

The participating guests stated that media, as an important channel for information dissemination, plays a significant role in enhancing mutual understanding, promoting cultural exchange, and advancing practical cooperation. All parties should actively promote the "Shanghai Spirit" and continuously deepen cooperation in various fields to contribute media strength to maintaining regional peace, stability, and prosperity, and jointly promoting the building of a community with a shared future for the SCO.

Deepening Regional Cooperation, Promoting People-to-People Exchanges

The forum was jointly organized by the People's Daily (人民日报社) and the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区人民政府), featuring an opening ceremony, media dialogue, and the launch ceremony of a youth cultural exchange camp. The participating guests believed that the forum aligned with the SCO's contemporary mission of deepening regional cooperation and promoting people-to-people exchanges, providing an important platform for SCO countries' media to conduct dialogue, exchange ideas, and enhance mutual understanding.

Ma Xingrui (马兴瑞), Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee (新疆维吾尔自治区党委), stated that after 24 years of development, the SCO has built the world's largest regional international organization in terms of geographical area and population, fully demonstrating the strong vitality, cohesiveness, and attractiveness of the "Shanghai Spirit." Holding this forum is of great significance for telling the SCO story, disseminating SCO experience, and building a closer SCO community with a shared future.

Yu Shaoliang (于绍良), President of the People's Daily (人民日报社), stated that the SCO has always adhered to the "Shanghai Spirit," becoming not only a "stabilizing anchor" for the Eurasian continent but also contributing a "SCO solution" to improving the global governance system. The People's Daily has always attached great importance to practical cooperation with SCO countries' media and is willing to work with media from all countries to conduct in-depth dialogue and exchange, actively promote mutual understanding among the people of all countries, and contribute more to the high-quality development of the SCO.

Sohail Khan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织), stated that media cooperation plays an important role in enhancing mutual understanding among SCO countries and promoting people-to-people connectivity. Through mechanisms such as the media cooperation forum, SCO countries' media will establish closer cooperative relationships and continuously elevate mutual learning among civilizations to new heights.

"I sincerely thank you for providing a platform for open dialogue for SCO countries' media at this forum. I hope that this event can be held regularly, allowing media professionals to engage in in-depth exchanges, speak freely, and obtain cutting-edge information," said Aisultan Kulishmanov, Editor-in-Chief of Tengri News Agency of Kazakhstan, in an interview with this reporter.

Osama Saeed, Editor-in-Chief of Egypt's Al-Akhbar (《消息报》), stated that the forum broadens the path for media cooperation among SCO countries, and all parties should strengthen cooperation, use this forum to enhance exchanges, and provide objective and truthful reports on the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Telling the SCO Story, Gathering Rational Voices

Currently, media technology is developing rapidly, and communication forms are constantly innovating. The participating guests believe that SCO countries' media should deeply grasp the changing trends in the media industry, seize the opportunities for integrated development, and jointly shoulder media responsibilities with practical actions to create a favorable public opinion environment for the development of the SCO.

Cui Shixin (崔士鑫), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Daily (人民日报社), stated that this forum is the first media cooperation forum focusing on the SCO held by the People's Daily, and he hopes that the mainstream media of all participating countries will jointly tell the SCO story and build the SCO countries' media cooperation forum into a "golden brand" for SCO countries' media cooperation.

Mejerbek Shermetaliev, Director General of the Kabar National News Agency of Kyrgyzstan, believes that in response to false information in reports such as the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, mainstream media in SCO countries need to strengthen cooperation, improve big data and media data analysis methods and technologies, and help the public enhance their ability to identify false information.

"Media cooperation between Uzbekistan and China has a good foundation and great potential. We have signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese media, committed to content sharing and jointly training young journalists," said Ruslan Kenzhayev, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Uzbekistan's Narodnoye Slovo (《人民言论报》). Chinese publications are very popular in Central Asia, and Central Asian countries' media hope to carry out broader cooperation with Chinese media.

Yu Yunquan (于运全), Deputy Director of China International Communications Group (中国外文局), stated that more young journalists, content creators, and short video platforms should be encouraged to participate in the creative practice of people-to-people exchanges among SCO countries, so that the "SCO story" becomes more vivid, three-dimensional, and lively, crossing cultural barriers and truly entering people's hearts.

Mohammad Saffi, Editor-in-Chief of Iran's Tehran Times (《德黑兰时报》), believes that SCO countries' media need to strengthen interconnection, build a regional media network, promote direct exchanges and cooperation between SCO countries' media organizations and personnel, and establish a regular dialogue mechanism to overcome language communication barriers through artificial intelligence and translation technologies.

Erdenebileg Baatar, Executive Chairman of the Mongolian Journalists' Union, expressed the hope to continue to deepen practical cooperation with other SCO countries' media in various aspects such as joint production and broadcasting, content exchange, technology application, and media industry, so as to gather SCO strength through media cooperation.

Promoting the "Shanghai Spirit," Building Development Consensus

At the opening ceremony of the forum, the "Common Home - Public Opinion Survey Report on the Development Vision of SCO Member States" was also released. The report shows that the people of member states widely recognize the "Shanghai Spirit" and are full of expectations for deepening cooperation in various fields between countries. The participating guests stated that they should promote the "Shanghai Spirit," build development consensus, and enhance mutual understanding and affinity among the people of SCO countries through truthful, objective, and fair reporting.

Xi Yanchun (袭艳春), Deputy Director of Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社), stated that the more turbulent the world is, the more the SCO needs to play a constructive role and contribute stable strength to global governance. The SCO framework has yielded fruitful results in regional security, economic and trade investment, technological innovation, and other fields, opening up broad reporting space for the media.

"At a time when profound changes unseen in a century are accelerating and the international situation is turbulent and changing, the world today especially needs to vigorously promote the 'Shanghai Spirit'," said Qi Zhuquan (齐竹泉), Deputy Director of China Media Group (中央广播电视总台). People-to-people exchanges and media cooperation in various forms should be used to jointly create "SCO discourse," jointly issue "SCO voices," and jointly tell the story of building "five common homes."

"SCO countries have broad cooperation space in economy and trade, technology, culture, security, and mechanism construction," said Muhammad Asadi, China News Editor of Pakistan International News Agency. Media professionals should use truthful, objective, and fair reporting to explain the purpose of SCO countries' cooperation and its important role in maintaining multilateralism and promoting an open world economy.

Yao Huan (姚焕), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of China Power Construction Group Co., Ltd. (中国电力建设集团有限公司), stated that China Power Construction will actively participate in the global energy green and low-carbon transition and infrastructure interconnection, practice the concept of green development with practical actions, and continuously contribute strength and wisdom to building a better SCO home.

Wang Mingyuan (王明远), Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and General Manager of China National Aviation Holding Corporation (中国航空集团有限公司), introduced that in recent years, China National Aviation Holding Corporation has continued to expand routes to countries in Central Asia, West Asia, and Russia, and increased cooperation with market partners in Central Asia, the Middle East, and other regions. This year, it will also successively open routes to Tashkent and Almaty, building more air bridges between China and SCO countries.

Cui Guojie (崔国杰), Counselor of the Department of European-Central Asian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部欧亚司), stated that since taking over as the rotating presidency of the SCO in July last year, China has planned more than 100 activities in the political, security, economic and trade, cultural, and other fields around the theme of "SCO Year of Sustainable Development." Facing new situations and new challenges, it is hoped that SCO countries' media will continue to strengthen exchanges, close cooperation, and contribute to building a closer SCO community with a shared future.

(Reporters Zhang Kaifeng (章凯风) and Li Ming (李明) of this newspaper participated in the writing)

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Injecting Strong Positive Energy into World Peace and Prosperity

By: 彭 飞

In May, Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), Xinjiang (新疆), was filled with friends, and the 2025 SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) (上合组织) National Media Cooperation Forum was grandly held here. "Not all distances require trekking, as long as we build a bridge between hearts," "Enhance international communication capabilities and enhance the voice of the Global South" ... More than 300 representatives of mainstream media from 26 countries, responsible comrades from relevant departments, experts, scholars, and business representatives gathered in the "Heart of Asia" (亚心之都) to stimulate wisdom and gather strength in exchanges and interactions.

The media is like a bridge. Media cooperation plays an irreplaceable role in cross-civilizational exchanges, mutual learning, and building consensus in the international community. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The media cannot be absent in promoting people-to-people connectivity."

A Belarusian reporter, through participating in the forum, "wants to bring the development story of Xinjiang (新疆), China back to his country, and also let Chinese friends see the new changes in Belarus"; an Egyptian media person walked into innovative enterprises in Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东), lamenting that every time he comes to China, he "can feel different things"; Chinese and Kazakh journalists jointly interviewed projects such as the Kazakhstan Luban Workshop (哈萨克斯坦鲁班工坊), witnessing the "sunshine road" paved by the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路)... Media reporters from various countries practice the duties and missions of promoters of the "Shanghai Spirit" (上海精神), pioneers of pragmatic cooperation, and disseminators of people's friendship, using pen and ink to write and lenses to record, presenting the fruitful achievements of building a common home for the SCO (上合组织) truthfully and comprehensively to the world. These vivid stories help eliminate misunderstandings, inherit friendship, and build a strong emotional bond for strengthening cooperation.

"Walking at the forefront of the times," President Xi Jinping (习近平) evaluated the SCO's (上合组织) positioning and responsibility in promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. Since its establishment 24 years ago, the SCO (上合组织) has grown from the initial 6 member states to a "big family" composed of 26 countries, becoming the largest regional international organization in the world in terms of area and population, and has embarked on a fruitful path of peaceful development. In 2024, China's trade with SCO (上合组织) member states, observer states, and dialogue partners reached a record 890 billion US dollars, accounting for approximately 14.4% of China's total foreign trade. Against the background of the resurgence of protectionism and anti-globalization, such achievements are invaluable, demonstrating the vigorous vitality of the SCO (上合组织), providing a model for regional cooperation, and injecting confidence into global economic stability and growth.

Why can so many countries with different historical cultures, social systems, economic sizes, and stages of development always maintain unity and cooperation? Forum guests generally believe that the "Shanghai Spirit" (上海精神), which emphasizes "mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations, and pursuit of common development," is the key to cohesion. The "Common Home - Public Opinion Survey Report on the Development Vision of SCO (上合组织) Member States" released at the opening ceremony of the forum showed that the people of member states widely recognize the "Shanghai Spirit" (上海精神) and highly recognize the "SCO (上合组织) power" in global governance. In today's world, where changes and chaos are intertwined, and instability and uncertainty are more prominent, the contemporary value of the "Shanghai Spirit" (上海精神) is even more prominent. Practice has repeatedly proven that opening up, cooperation, and mutual benefit are the aspirations of the people, and such a trend and general trend cannot be stopped by anyone or any force.

Since July 2024, the SCO (上合组织) has entered "China Time." China has actively promoted various tasks of the SCO (上合组织) presidency, and is committed to hosting a friendly, united, and fruitful SCO (上合组织) summit. Vigorously promoting the "Shanghai Spirit" (上海精神), uniting and cooperating, and forging ahead with determination, we will not fear any difficulties and obstacles, and will surely inject surging positive energy into world peace and prosperity and make new and greater contributions.

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"Shanghai Spirit" Widely Recognized, Desire to Deepen Cooperation Strong

This is a report from our Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) correspondent (Bai Yang (白阳) and Qiang Wei (强薇)). On May 23rd, at the 2025 SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) (上合组织) Countries Media Cooperation Forum, the International Department of the People's Daily (人民日报社) and the Global Times Research Institute (环球时报研究院) jointly released the "Common Home - Public Opinion Survey Report on the Development Vision of SCO Member States." The report shows that the people of the member states widely recognize the "Shanghai Spirit" and are full of expectations for deepening cooperation in various fields between countries.

The report shows that more than 80% of respondents affirmed the positive role of the SCO (上海合作组织) in global governance, nearly 70% of respondents believed that their country has gained more opportunities to participate in global governance through the SCO (上海合作组织) platform, more than 60% of respondents recognized that the SCO (上海合作组织) has promoted their country's sustainable development and modernization process, more than 90% of respondents believed that China's (中国) development experience is worth learning from their own countries, and more than 90% of the people are optimistic about the development dividends brought by cooperation with China (对华合作). The survey results confirm the enduring and powerful cohesion of the "Shanghai Spirit" and reflect the eager expectations of the people of the SCO (上海合作组织) countries for deepening regional cooperation.

This year is the "China Year" of the SCO (上海合作组织). As an important founding member of the SCO (上海合作组织), China (中国) actively carries out extensive and in-depth practical cooperation with other SCO (上海合作组织) member states, shares China's (中国) development concepts and governance plans with an open attitude, shares China's (中国) development opportunities and practical achievements, and promotes the common development of member states.

This public opinion poll was conducted in the 10 official member states of the SCO (上海合作组织). From March 31st to May 8th, a total of more than 5,700 valid questionnaires in 11 languages, including Chinese, English, Russian, Persian, Urdu, and Kazakh, were collected. The report comprehensively reflects the spectrum of public opinion under diverse cultural backgrounds and provides a solid public opinion coordinate system for promoting the construction of a closer SCO (上海合作组织) community with a shared future. In the current turbulent international context, the high expectations of the SCO (上海合作组织) countries for multilateral cooperation are particularly valuable.

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Promote cultural exchange and advance practical cooperation

Media Cooperation Benefits the People of All Countries

Sohail Khan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织)

Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) is a meeting point of Eastern and Western civilizations. The Silk Road passed through here, and historically, countries exchanged ideas, goods, and conducted trade here. The spirit of openness and cooperation that permeates this place is in harmony with the theme of this forum, "Building a Better Home and Creating a Prosperous Future," and is also consistent with the spirit of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations, and pursuit of common development advocated by the SCO.

Since its establishment in 2001, the SCO has become an authoritative and widely influential regional cooperation platform. In the SCO family, the media plays a crucial role. The media is not only a mirror of social development but also a bridge of mutual understanding between people. Strengthening cooperation between media outlets is one of the key tasks of the SCO and is conducive to the well-being of the people of all countries.

To promote media exchange and cooperation, it is necessary to carry out regular information exchange and create a platform for content exchange between mainstream media and platforms in various countries to report various news objectively, truthfully, and in a balanced manner. In addition, it is also necessary to attach importance to the training of talents, especially young talents, and create space for them to broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge.

Today, the common challenges facing the world require us to coordinate our actions and strengthen mutual trust and understanding through dialogue. The SCO National Media Cooperation Forum should form a mechanism to strengthen the coordination of positions and actions and jointly discuss the direction of media cooperation in depth. I believe that the mainstream media of the SCO countries can fulfill this mission.

Xinjiang Embraces the World with an Open and Confident Stance

Erkin Tuniyaz (艾尔肯·吐尼亚孜), Deputy Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Government of the Autonomous Region

Xinjiang (新疆) is an important node of the ancient Silk Road and a core area of the "Belt and Road" initiative. Xinjiang's (新疆) high-quality economic and social development has a more solid foundation of "stability," a continuously enhanced momentum of "progress," and a significantly improved quality and efficiency of "innovation." A more mature, convenient, and friendly large market is accelerating its formation. Today's Xinjiang (新疆) has a thriving foreign trade, and its door to opening up is opening wider and wider. As a witness, participant, and beneficiary of the prosperous scene of the Silk Road, Xinjiang (新疆) actively implements the "Belt and Road" initiative and unswervingly expands high-level opening up to the outside world.

We further innovate the open economic system, and the construction of the China (Xinjiang) Free Trade Pilot Zone (中国（新疆）自由贸易试验区) has delivered a satisfactory answer sheet for its first anniversary. We continue to upgrade the level of opening up to the outside world, successfully holding the 8th China-Eurasia Expo (中国—亚欧博览会) with a total contracted amount of 610 billion yuan. We continue to expand our "circle of friends" in foreign trade, conducting trade with 213 countries and regions around the world. In 2024, 16,400 China-Europe (Asia) freight trains passed through Xinjiang (新疆), an increase of 14% year-on-year, and the total value of foreign trade import and export reached 435.11 billion yuan, with a growth rate ranking among the top in the country.

Xinjiang's (新疆) high-quality development and high-level opening up cannot be separated from the participation and support of the media, and cannot be separated from sincere communication and pragmatic cooperation with each other. In recent years, Xinjiang (新疆) has actively promoted exchanges and cooperation with various media outlets, inviting media organizations from home and abroad to come to Xinjiang (新疆) for exchanges, discussions, visits, and interviews. Last year, we successfully hosted the 6th World Media Summit. Xinjiang (新疆) is embracing the world with an open and confident stance.

The SCO National Media Cooperation Forum is an important platform for dialogue, communication, and the collision of ideas among media outlets from various countries, and it is also a broad stage for cultural integration and deepening cooperation. We warmly welcome everyone to come to Xinjiang (新疆) to take a walk and have a look. We hope that everyone will introduce the real Xinjiang (新疆) that they have seen with their own eyes, heard with their own ears, and felt personally to more people, so that the international community can have a more comprehensive, objective, and fair understanding of Xinjiang (新疆).

Strengthen Cultural Exchanges Among SCO Countries

Alisher Mukazhanov, Vice Chairman of the Information Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦文化和信息部)

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) is a highly prestigious international organization, and Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) has made great contributions to the development of the SCO. Media cooperation is one of the important contents of SCO cooperation. In recent years, Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) has promoted media reforms, introduced a series of laws and regulations, resisted the spread of false information, and continuously deepened cooperation with foreign media.

Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) is willing to share its true information with all countries. The Kazakhstan National News Agency (哈萨克斯坦国家通讯社) publishes news in six languages, including Chinese and Turkish. Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) has a dedicated news media that reports on news in Central Asia and operates many projects to promote cultural integration in Central Asia. Our cooperation with international mainstream media and regional media is also in full swing. Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) often holds media summits in Central Asia, inviting journalists from China, Russia, and the five Central Asian countries to participate.

An important direction of media cooperation is to strengthen cultural exchanges among SCO countries and sign relevant cooperation memorandums. Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) is willing to cooperate with all SCO member states, observer states, and dialogue partners. Last year, Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) signed cooperation memorandums with some mainstream media in China, as well as similar documents with mainstream media in Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦), Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦), and other countries.

Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) is open to SCO countries in the media field and is willing to cooperate in a safe, fair, and equal media space, discuss more international initiatives, and is also willing to explore more cooperation projects with all parties. We believe that positive exchanges and interactions in the media space will benefit the people of all countries.

Media Responsibility at the Forefront of the Times

Xi Yanchun (袭艳春), Deputy Director of Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社)

"At the forefront of the times" is President Xi Jinping's (习近平) evaluation of the SCO at the 23rd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO member states.

The more turbulent the world is, the more the SCO needs to play a constructive role; the more complex and noisy public opinion is, the more the SCO media needs to gather rational voices.

The "Shanghai Spirit" and the concept of "harmony and cooperation" both emphasize seeking common ground while reserving differences and win-win cooperation. The SCO has expanded from the initial 6 founding members to a "big family" covering 26 countries today. Every step forward has been transformed into vivid and lively SCO stories and "harmony and cooperation" stories through the joint dissemination of the SCO media. Let us continue to vigorously promote the "Shanghai Spirit," tell the "harmony and cooperation" story well, let the SCO voice form momentum in the international public opinion field, and let the SCO proposition become more and more resounding on the world stage.

The fruitful cooperation results in various fields such as regional security, economic and trade investment, and technological innovation under the SCO framework have opened up broad reporting space for the media. We should continue to explore vivid cases, record the eager steps of merchants from various countries shuttling through the exhibition with our pens, capture the inspiring scenes of project construction growing vigorously with our lenses, and convey the moving voices of those who benefit from cooperation with our microphones, so that audiences from various countries can see that "cooperation" is not just an abstract concept in documents, but also a solid pursuit of a prosperous life.

Each country in the SCO is a unique classic, waiting to be read and understood by the world, and the media needs to build communication channels across national borders. Actively promote exchanges and cooperation between media outlets, capture the warm moments in cultural exchanges among SCO countries and the wonderful sparks in cultural collisions, and promote the in-depth development of cultural cooperation through friendly media interactions, which will surely promote emotional closeness among the people of various countries and generate resonance in their hearts, consolidating the public opinion foundation for the development of national relations in the SCO.

Deepen Media Cooperation and Convey True Information

Mejerbek Shermetaliev (梅杰尔别克·舍尔梅塔利耶夫), Director of the Kabar National News Agency of Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦卡巴尔国家通讯社)

This forum has created an excellent platform for SCO countries to deepen cooperation and strengthen exchanges. Media cooperation, especially cooperation between national-level media, has created a common space for the coordinated development of the Asia-Europe-Africa region. We need to establish an effective media cooperation mechanism to share the true situation of the world with readers.

In July 2024, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organisation +" Astana Summit, proposing to build "five common homes" of unity and mutual trust, peace and security, prosperity and development, good-neighborliness and friendship, and fairness and justice. This initiative is committed to realizing world peace and development and promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable international order, and has been warmly responded to by all parties.

In recent years, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative has brought us "steel camel teams." The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway (中吉乌铁路) under construction is an important part of it, building a transportation and logistics channel connecting Asia and Europe. Under this initiative, China has provided financial support to Kyrgyzstan to build new energy infrastructure and hydropower stations, helping us improve our industrial level and ensure food security, which is very important for regional development.

For this reason, media practitioners are actively taking action to report to the world the great benefits that the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative has brought to the co-construction countries. In particular, the media of the SCO countries needs to truthfully and objectively tell the world about the great benefits that this initiative has brought to the people of the region. But we still face challenges, one of which is the spread of false information. We can regularly exchange technologies such as big data analysis and improve the public's ability to identify information through the media. We also need to establish multilingual information centers to convey true information and fight against false information and bad reports.

In the above-mentioned areas, the Kabar National News Agency of Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦卡巴尔国家通讯社) very much hopes to strengthen cooperation with the media of the SCO countries, especially the mainstream media, to build a public space for media cooperation facing the future.

Gather SCO Strength with Media Power

Qi Zhizhuquan (齐竹泉), Deputy Director of China Media Group (中央广播电视总台)

In the 24 years since its establishment, the SCO has brought together countries with different social systems, different civilizational traditions, and different development models, creating an SCO model of new international relations and demonstrating the vivid practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind.

From the SCO to the BRICS countries to the Global South, from the "Shanghai Spirit" to building a community with a shared future for mankind, to the three major global initiatives, under the leadership of President Xi Jinping (习近平), China in the new era has always been committed to enhancing the common well-being of the people of all countries and promoting the correct historical choices of human society. We should take this forum as an opportunity to hold high the banner of the "Shanghai Spirit," focus on building "five common homes," and work together to create a brighter development prospect for the SCO.

Media cooperation is particularly important in today's era. The media disseminates information, conveys emotions, and inherits culture. It is an important link to realize mutual appreciation and mutual learning between countries and mutual understanding and affinity between people. The encouraging achievements and moving stories that have occurred since the establishment of the SCO are waiting for the media of the SCO countries to further explore, tell, and disseminate. We should work together to create "SCO discourse" and jointly issue "SCO voices" through various forms of cultural exchanges and media cooperation, and jointly tell the moving story of building "five common homes."

As a new type of mainstream media with important international influence, China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) has always actively contributed to building a better SCO home. We are willing to deepen pragmatic cooperation with the media of the SCO countries in all aspects such as joint production and broadcasting, content exchange, joint events, personnel exchanges, technology application, film and television exchanges, and media industry, so as to gather SCO strength with media power and help the SCO play an important role in the evolution of the world pattern.

Gather Media Strength to Promote the "Shanghai Spirit"

Cui Guojie (崔国杰), Counselor of the Department of European-Central Asian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部欧亚司)

This year marks the 24th anniversary of the establishment of the SCO. Over the years, the SCO has always adhered to the "Shanghai Spirit," continuously consolidated political mutual trust among member states, vigorously promoted pragmatic cooperation in various fields, and successfully explored a development path for a new type of international organization, making irreplaceable contributions to promoting world peace and development and safeguarding international fairness and justice. Against the backdrop of the accelerated evolution of the century-old changes, the strategic value of the SCO as an important platform for practicing true multilateralism is becoming increasingly prominent.

China is a firm participant and promoter of the development of the SCO. Since taking over as the rotating presidency of the SCO in July last year, China has proposed the slogan "Promoting the 'Shanghai Spirit': The SCO in Action," focusing on the theme of "SCO Year of Sustainable Development," and aiming at the "five common homes" of unity and mutual trust, peace and security, prosperity and development, good-neighborliness and friendship, and fairness and justice proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), it has planned more than 100 activities in the fields of politics, security, economy and trade, and culture, and dozens of activities have been successfully carried out. Today's grand meeting of media representatives from various countries is an important part of China's presidency activities.

Media cooperation is an important part of SCO cooperation, which has played a positive role in promoting the development of relations between countries, communicating public opinion, deepening understanding and mutual trust, and promoting cultural exchanges. Facing new situations and new challenges, we hope that the media will continue to strengthen exchanges, close cooperation, bravely shoulder responsibilities, and unite efforts to contribute to building a closer SCO community with a shared future, be promoters of the "Shanghai Spirit," storytellers of "SCO stories," and guardians of fairness and justice, so as to reach more consensus on promoting the "Shanghai Spirit" and gathering media strength, contribute positive energy to the successful holding of the Tianjin (天津) Summit, and let the concept of the SCO community with a shared future become increasingly popular.

Give Play to the Role of the Media in Building "Five Common Homes"

Yu Yunquan (于运全), Deputy Director of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局)

In July 2024, at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organisation +" Astana Summit, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed to build the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation into a community with a shared future of unity and mutual trust, peace and security, prosperity and development, good-neighborliness and friendship, and fairness and justice, which pointed out the direction for the development of the SCO under the new situation. With the blessing of new technologies and the empowerment of culture, the media is playing an increasingly important role in promoting the mutual understanding of the people of all countries.

The "Shanghai Spirit" has always run through the development process of the SCO and is the unique wisdom that the SCO has contributed to world peace and development. The media of the SCO countries should unswervingly uphold and promote the "Shanghai Spirit," strengthen dialogue, enhance mutual trust, and build consensus. In particular, in response to the untrue perceptions of countries outside the region, we should strengthen independent narratives and join hands with more media colleagues and think tank research institutions who agree with the "Shanghai Spirit" to demonstrate the "SCO strength" of unity and cooperation.

The SCO countries span three continents, Asia, Europe, and Africa, and have nurtured wonderful "SCO stories." In the process of mutual learning and mutual appreciation among different civilizations, the media plays an irreplaceable and important role. More young journalists, content creators, and short video platforms should be encouraged to participate in the creation and practice of cultural exchanges among SCO countries, so that "SCO stories" can be more vivid, three-dimensional, and lively, and truly enter people's hearts and cross cultural barriers.

The SCO has embarked on an effective path of peaceful development and has set an example for building a new type of international relations. We should further deepen pragmatic cooperation among the media in the region, strengthen content co-production, platform co-construction, and data co-research; in terms of narrative strategies, we should pay more attention to interactive communication, emotional resonance, and youth language. At the same time, we should use emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence to promote the innovative experiment of "Digital SCO + Media Cooperation," build a multilingual intelligent content platform, and help the SCO voice accurately reach a wider international audience.

(The text on this page was compiled and organized by reporters Yu Yang (于洋), Aldak (阿尔达克), Zhang Xiaodong (张晓东), Song Jingsi (宋静思), Li Xinyi (李欣怡), Bai Yang (白阳), and Qiang Wei (强薇) of this newspaper)

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Jiangsu Abolishes Tolls on 101 Ship Locks (Economic Focus: Lowering Logistics Costs in Action)

By: 本报记者  白光迪

The Central Economic Work Conference proposed implementing a special action to reduce overall social logistics costs.

Water transport has advantages such as large capacity and low cost, which supports and guarantees the reduction of overall social logistics costs and is also a prominent advantage of Jiangsu Province's development.

In 2024, the proportion of waterway freight volume in Jiangsu Province accounted for 38% of the total freight volume, about 22 percentage points higher than the national average. The freight volume of inland waterways in Jiangsu reached 740 million tons, and the port cargo throughput of inland river ports and seaports in the province was 3.61 billion tons, ranking first in the country.

On February 24 this year, the Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission (江苏省发展改革委), the Provincial Department of Finance (省财政厅), and other departments jointly issued a document, deciding to cancel the toll collection of 101 ship locks in Jiangsu from May 1 this year, and no new ship locks will be charged. Recently, reporters visited Huaian (淮安), Lianyungang (连云港), Nantong (南通), and other places to see the gains of all parties after the cancellation of ship lock tolls.

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It is estimated that the annual fee reduction will be 200 million yuan

The night is deep, and the sea breeze pushes the waves to the wharf of Lvsi Fishing Port (吕四渔港) in Nantong City (南通市), and the water splashes on the stone slabs with a "crashing" sound. Although May is the fishing moratorium season, the fishermen are not idle, repairing fishing nets, adding equipment, and managing ship affairs. Everyone is preparing for the opening of the sea more than three months later.

Lvsi Fishing Port Ship Lock (吕四渔港船闸) is the only fishing port ship lock among the 101 ship locks whose tolls have been cancelled this time, and the fishermen of the fresh-catching boats connecting seafood have become the biggest beneficiaries after the cancellation of the ship lock tolls. According to statistics, in 2024, the number of ships entering and leaving Lvsi Fishing Port throughout the year reached 41,100, and the annual lockage fee was 13,868,300 yuan.

Wang Hansheng (王汉生) is 59 years old this year and is engaged in the business of receiving fresh seafood. At sea, the fresh-catching boats travel between fishing boats and fishing ports, and pull the caught fish back to the fishing port for sale. Don't look at just connecting seafood, the operating cost is not low.

"A trip involves fuel costs, labor wages, water and ice costs, basic living expenses on the boat, and ship lock fees. The total annual cost is about 1.5 million yuan," Wang Hansheng said. "This year, the cancellation of tolls at Lvsi Fishing Port Ship Lock is a particularly good thing for us."

Retrieving the background data of the ship lock shows that Wang Hansheng's fresh-catching boat has a tonnage of 188 tons, and each round trip through the ship lock (that is, a round trip) requires a lockage fee of 612 yuan. "Each year, a fresh-catching boat has to pay about 32,000 yuan in lockage fees, accounting for 2% to 3% of the overall operating cost." Wang Hansheng said that he plans to use the saved money to update and upgrade equipment and increase workers' wages.

Also transporting goods, Wang Hansheng transports live seafood, while Huayu Shipping transports bulk goods. This year is the thirty-first year that Hua Yu (花玉) has been running ships. Before each departure, he will negotiate the transportation cost with the employer, which is charged according to the weight, category, and mileage of the goods. Brother Hua (花大哥) bluntly said that he will reduce the transportation cost accordingly based on the policy of cancelling ship lock tolls. "Some time ago, I ran ships from Jiangsu (江苏) along the canal to inland provinces, often going fully loaded and returning half-loaded." Hua Yu introduced that the policy of cancelling ship lock tolls has reduced the no-load rate of his cargo ships a lot.

According to statistics, after the implementation of the policy, it is estimated that the fee reduction can be reduced by 200 million yuan per year. Liu Huaiyu (刘怀玉), a researcher at the China Grand Canal Research Institute of Yangzhou University (扬州大学中国大运河研究院), believes that the cancellation of ship lock tolls in Jiangsu will lead to an upward trend in orders for shipowners or individual transportation units, which is expected to increase the profit margin of ship transportation.

Water conservancy departments formulate and improve ship lock operation plans

Hua Yu's cargo ship is currently berthed next to the Banpu Baotie Inland River Port (板浦宝铁内河港码头) near the Shannan Ship Lock (善南船闸) in Lianyungang (连云港). The small cabin is decorated very warmly. For Hua Yu, the ship is home, and home is the ship. "The ship uses the connected shore power, and the conditions are much better than before. The supporting services on the shore of the ship lock are also very complete."

Intelligent shore power connection, domestic sewage treatment, solid waste recycling... In recent years, Jiangsu (江苏) has upgraded facilities, empowered technology, and transformed greenly the ship locks on the shipping trunk lines. Today, although some ship locks have cancelled tolls, the service quality and operation management level have only increased but not decreased.

"In addition to improving infrastructure, Jiangsu (江苏) also provides shipowners with real-time water levels, channel conditions, and anti-collision warnings in a timely manner," said Zhang Aihua (张爱华), deputy director of the Port and Shipping Development Center of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation (江苏省交通运输厅港航事业发展中心).

About 20 kilometers southeast of Shannan Ship Lock (善南船闸), there is a Jiewei Ship Lock (界圩船闸), which is the only way for Sixu Port (四圩港) to reach the Yanhe Canal (盐河运河). Unlike Shannan Ship Lock (善南船闸), Jiewei Ship Lock (界圩船闸) was built primarily for flood control, drainage, and water resource supply, with navigation function as a supplement. "Water conservancy ship locks are mainly distributed on branch channels. As a necessary supplement to the trunk line transportation of traffic ship locks, they play an important role in smoothing branch line transportation, improving water transportation capacity, and giving full play to the network advantages of water transportation," said Peng Chong (彭冲), director of the Jiewei Sluice Management Office (界圩闸管理所).

At Jiewei Ship Lock (界圩船闸), it takes 4 hours to adjust the water level by 40 centimeters. "If the water is released only when the ship arrives at the lock gate, it will increase the waiting time for the ship. Sometimes, after arriving, the hydrological conditions do not meet the needs of passing the lock, which greatly reduces the traffic efficiency," Peng Chong (彭冲) introduced. Now Jiewei Ship Lock (界圩船闸) has formed a WeChat group. As long as the ship departs from the seaport terminal, it can contact the staff in the group, and the ship lock will release water in advance to welcome the ship to pass.

"During the flood season or dry season, the daily traffic conditions of the ship lock will be broadcast in the group, which provides great convenience for the passing ships," Hua Yu (花玉) told reporters that although the way of passing the lock is different from that of the traffic ship lock, the water conservancy ship lock has also done a lot of work for the passage of ships.

Zheng Fushou (郑福寿), deputy director of the Engineering Operation Management Office of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Water Resources (江苏省水利厅工程运行管理处), said that the water conservancy department will strengthen the management and maintenance of ship locks on the basis of the original services, formulate and improve ship lock operation plans and various emergency plans, coordinate the relationship between ship lock passage and flood control and drought resistance, and water resource scheduling, and optimize the navigation operation period on the basis of not affecting the core functions, and jointly maintain the order of water traffic safety.

Further enhance the attractiveness of waterway transportation

Next to Hua Yu's (花玉) cargo ship, there are two large trailer-type freighters docked, which are fully loaded with imported iron ore. These two trailer freighters belong to Shagang Logistics Transportation Management Co., Ltd. (沙钢物流运输管理有限公司), and the final destination is Jiangsu Shagang Group Huaigang Special Steel Co., Ltd. (江苏沙钢集团淮钢特钢股份有限公司) located in the Southwest Industrial Zone of Huaian City (淮安市).

Following the transportation fleet, the reporter came to the Huaigang plant area, and in front of him was a hot production scene. These days, Zhou Bing (周兵), director of the Storage and Transportation Department of Huaigang (淮钢储运处), is recalculating the waterway transportation report of raw materials, preparing to further adjust the transportation allocation plan and reduce transportation logistics costs. "The reduction in transportation costs due to the cancellation of tolls at some ship locks this time is considerable, and in the long run, it may have a positive impact on the company's logistics structure," Zhou Bing (周兵) said.

It is understood that Huaigang (淮钢) imports 4.5 million tons of iron ore raw materials every year, of which 2.1 million tons of iron ore will pass through the Lianyungang Xinyuntai Wharf (连云港新云台码头) to Huaigang (淮钢). "There are 7 ship locks on this line, and each ship lock will charge a lockage fee according to the tonnage of the cargo ship," Zhou Bing (周兵) said that in the past, 2.1 million tons of iron ore were transported by waterway from Lianyungang (连云港) every year, and the total freight was about 32.9 million yuan. Now, the Shannan Ship Lock (善南船闸), Yibei Ship Lock (沂北船闸), Yinan Ship Lock (沂南船闸), and Zhuma Ship Lock (朱码船闸) on the route have cancelled tolls, which can reduce the lockage fee by 2.2 million yuan per year.

"At present, the company still has a large proportion of iron ore that chooses railway transportation. The cancellation of tolls at some ship locks this time has reduced water transportation costs, and the company may increase the proportion of water transportation of raw materials in the future," Zhou Bing (周兵) said.

The cancellation of tolls at some ship locks is affecting the regional transportation pattern. Xinyuntai Wharf (新云台码头) is only 10 kilometers away from the main port area of Lianyungang (连云港). Goods are unloaded from the seaport of Lianyungang (连云港), transported to Xinyuntai Wharf (新云台码头) by road, and then transferred to inland river transportation, and then reach the Yanhe River (盐河), Guanhe River (灌河), Tongyu Canal (通榆运河), Huaihe River (淮河), Beijing-Hangzhou Canal (京杭运河), and Yangtze River (长江). "After the cancellation of tolls at some ship locks, the orders for loading and unloading bulk cargo at the wharf have increased significantly," said Zhu Libo (朱立波), general manager of Lianyungang Xinyuntai Wharf Co., Ltd. (连云港新云台码头有限公司).

"The cancellation of ship lock tolls can better give play to the advantages of large transportation volume, low energy consumption, and low freight rates of waterway transportation, further enhance the attractiveness of waterway transportation, promote the formation of a safer, smoother, more convenient, and efficient 'Water Transport Jiangsu (水运江苏)' system, and promote the integrated development of the province's channel network," said Shen Jianrong (沈剑荣), director of the Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission (江苏省发展和改革委员会). The policy will help optimize and adjust the transportation structure, and effectively play the role of water transportation in promoting the reduction of transportation and logistics costs and efficiency, supporting the construction of a modern industrial system, and serving to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern.

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Deepen economic and trade cooperation for mutual benefit and win-win results.

By: 本报记者  顾  春  欧阳洁  刘军国

From May 22nd to 25th, the 4th China-Central and Eastern European Countries Expo & International Consumer Goods Fair, themed "Towards New, Towards Practical, Towards the Future," was held in Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江) Province. The trade exhibition area of this year's Expo reached 80,000 square meters, with record highs in exhibition area, number of exhibitors, and number of exhibits.

Slovenia and Slovakia jointly served as the guest countries of honor at this year's Expo. Slovenia organized 17 companies from industries such as light aircraft and cosmetics to participate in the exhibition; the Slovak National Pavilion focused on three major sections: "Smart Travel, Fine Wines and Delicacies, and Crystal Art," and set up areas for cultural crafts, wine and food, and smart travel.

The celadon from Longquan (龙泉), with porcelain surface patterns featuring the scenery of Slovenia and Slovakia, perfectly integrates Chinese and Western cultures; Inlyhua Technology Co., Ltd. (英洛华科技股份有限公司) from Jinhua (金华) brought lightweight electric wheelchairs, attracting many Central and Eastern European customers to experience them; Boling Brain-Computer Technology Co., Ltd. (博灵脑机科技有限公司) from Hangzhou (杭州) showcased wearable brain-computer interface devices, which were praised by customers. The Zhejiang (浙江) Pavilion, themed "Surging Zhejiang," carefully selected 24 leading enterprises to present the cultivation achievements of new quality productive forces in three dimensions.

In the export consumer goods exhibition area, the high-quality foreign trade product docking and exchange activities attracted more than 1,000 domestic exhibitors, and buyers from 120 countries and regions participated.

In 2024, the total trade volume between Zhejiang (浙江) and Central and Eastern European countries reached 182.7 billion yuan, of which imports from Central and Eastern European countries reached 19.75 billion yuan, an increase of 64% compared with 2021. In the first quarter of this year, Zhejiang (浙江) achieved imports and exports of 46.84 billion yuan with Central and Eastern European countries, a year-on-year increase of 15.7%, of which imports were 5.06 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.5%.

On one side are Hangzhou (杭州) Osmanthus Glutinous Rice Root, Ningbo (宁波) Drunken Crabs, and Wenzhou (温州) Beef Rouyan, and on the other side are Serbian traditional burgers, Hungarian beef soup, and Balkan meat sausages... During the Expo, the "A Meeting on the Tip of the Tongue - Central and Eastern European Cuisine and 'Delicious Zhejiang, Hundreds of Counties and Thousands of Dishes' Cultural Exchange Activity" was held in Ningbo Jiangbei Old Bund (宁波江北老外滩), attracting more than 250,000 domestic and foreign tourists to participate in the experience.

On May 22nd, as a major cultural exchange activity of this Expo, the "Printing the East and West" art exhibition and the launching ceremony of the Ningbo-Central and Eastern European International Culture and Art Exchange Center (宁波—中东欧国际文化与艺术交流中心) were held. "I never thought that my works could be exhibited together with Chinese seal engraving art." European artist Zoltan brought nearly 60 of his most representative works from his creative career.

Cultural exchanges, each is beautiful in its own way, sharing the beauty together, and connecting hearts.

During the Expo, the 2025 China-Central and Eastern European Countries Youth Science and Technology Talent Exchange Activity with the theme of "Science and Technology Youth, Win-Win Future" was also held. "It is hoped that through the collaborative innovation cooperation network, the research institutions of both parties can find suitable partners," said Wang Bo (王波), Executive Director of the China-Central and Eastern European Countries Innovation Cooperation Research Center (中国—中东欧国家创新合作研究中心).

China's in-depth cooperation with Central and Eastern European countries is creating new development advantages. Hungary has attracted Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (宁德时代) to invest 7.3 billion euros to build a battery factory, driving the formation of a complete industrial chain from lithium mining to battery recycling in the local area; Sanhua Holding Group (三花集团) invested in automobile parts and home appliance parts companies in Poland, achieving sales revenue of 150 million euros in 2024 and providing more than 700 jobs for the local area.

You have me in you, and I have you in me. Both sides have achieved two-way engagement and mutual benefit and win-win results in industrial collaboration. As of the end of 2024, EU companies have cumulatively invested more than 150 billion US dollars in China, and China has cumulatively invested nearly 110 billion US dollars directly in Europe.

On May 22nd, at the 7th China-Central and Eastern European Countries Customs Inspection and Quarantine Cooperation Dialogue held in Ningbo (宁波), the protocol on the access of Bulgarian saffron and Croatian tuna was officially signed.

With the continuous optimization of the access assessment system and the significant improvement of customs clearance efficiency, more and more Central and Eastern European products such as Polish amber beer, Latvian canned fish, and Serbian plum dried plums have entered the Chinese market.

During this Expo, more than 80 unique activities such as Central and Eastern European commodity procurement signing and the "Empowering Exports, Connecting the World" series of trade promotion activities were held, achieving import procurement orders of 10.98 billion yuan during the exhibition period.

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"Hoping my cheese will soon find a market in China"

By: 本报记者  欧阳洁  顾  春  刘军国

"Come and taste the delicious goat cheese, it's really delicious!"

During the 4th China-Central and Eastern European Countries Expo & International Consumer Goods Fair, at the Ningbo International Convention and Exhibition Center (宁波国际会展中心), Albanian youth Gjaqjo Meçi (贾乔·梅奇) enthusiastically introduced his products.

In Albania (阿尔巴尼亚), Gjaqjo Meçi (贾乔·梅奇) runs a small business of about 10 people, mainly engaged in raising sheep and producing goat milk products, with products exclusively for the Albanian domestic market. In recent years, Gjaqjo Meçi (贾乔·梅奇) has noticed the opportunities in the Chinese consumer market and has been looking forward to selling his own goat cheese to China (中国).

A few months ago, Gjaqjo Meçi (贾乔·梅奇) heard that a special expo for Central and Eastern European countries would be held in China (中国), and immediately signed up to participate and prepared the relevant procedures.

"The Chinese people are very enthusiastic, Chinese food is delicious, and the Chinese market is also very large." Gjaqjo Meçi (贾乔·梅奇) told reporters in newly learned Chinese.

"Learning Chinese is very important for me to sell goat cheese to China (中国)." Gjaqjo Meçi (贾乔·梅奇) said with a smile, looking at the decreasing number of goat cheese samples in the plate, "Many people asked for contact information after eating, and I hope my cheese will soon open up sales in China (中国)."

Festim (费斯蒂姆), from the next booth, watched the growing number of visitors in front of Gjaqjo Meçi's (贾乔·梅奇) booth, and also enthusiastically greeted passing visitors to try bread dipped in his own olive oil.

Albania (阿尔巴尼亚) is an important olive producing area in the world, and Festim's (费斯蒂姆) family is mainly engaged in planting olive trees and pressing olive oil. "My family has many centuries-old olive trees, and the quality of olive oil is very high." Festim (费斯蒂姆) said, hoping that his high-quality olive oil can be sold at a good price in China (中国).

"Thank you to the China-Central and Eastern European Countries Expo for giving our products the opportunity to be exhibited in China (中国), and for Chinese customers to taste and understand them. We look forward to Albanian high-quality agricultural and food products being placed on the tables of Chinese consumers." Gjaqjo Meçi (贾乔·梅奇) said.

Agricultural and food product trade has become an important area of trade cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries. As of now, 126 kinds of agricultural and food products from 14 Central and Eastern European countries have been granted access, and a total of 3,430 overseas agricultural product companies have been registered. More and more agricultural and food products from Central and Eastern Europe are entering the Chinese market, bringing more opportunities to Central and Eastern European companies and providing Chinese consumers with more diverse choices.

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Drawing a New Blueprint for Open Cooperation

By: 本报记者  李增辉  常碧罗

At the Thailand Pavilion, sample Monthong durian chips with tropical fruit aromas; at the Chongqing Liangjiang New Area (重庆两江新区) Pavilion, interact with intelligent robots; in the China National Petroleum Corporation (中国石油) exhibition area, experience the "drilling for oil" firsthand in the 12,000-meter ultra-deep well automated drilling rig simulation space... Stepping into the 7th China Western International Fair for Investment and Trade (第七届中国西部国际投资贸易洽谈会) (hereinafter referred to as "WCIFIT") venue, a dazzling array of global goods and cutting-edge technologies weave together a vivid picture of open cooperation.

From May 22nd to 25th, the 7th WCIFIT was held in Chongqing (重庆). This economic and trade event, themed "New West, New Manufacturing, New Services," invited Thailand (泰国) as the Guest of Honor, Sichuan Province (四川省) as the Permanent Guest Province, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区) as the newly established Guest City. Focusing on cultivating and strengthening new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development, more than 1,300 enterprises (institutions) from 39 countries and regions participated in the exhibition.

Leveraging high-level economic and trade cooperation platforms, Western China is engaging in dialogue with the world with a broader vision—

As the Guest of Honor, the Thai delegation showcased the WCIFIT with a "traditional + innovative" dual main line, not only featuring classic elements such as cosmetics, tropical fruits, and tourist destinations, but also involving new fields such as medical tourism and financial services.

Not long ago, Changan Automobile's (长安汽车) first overseas new energy vehicle base was built and put into operation in Rayong Province (罗勇府), Thailand, with an annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles, and future plans to expand production to 200,000 vehicles.

This WCIFIT featured a variety of international elements. Enterprises from more than 30 countries and regions, including the United Kingdom, Russia, Poland, Ghana, France, and Pakistan, brought featured products such as daily chemicals, cosmetics, handicrafts, coffee, and wine.

"China's Foreign Trade Excellent Products Tour—Chongqing Station" was launched at this WCIFIT, with more than 100 foreign trade excellent products from more than 30 enterprises making a concentrated appearance. During the exhibition, e-commerce full-hosting platforms, financial institutions, and standard certification institutions simultaneously conducted policy briefings for participating foreign trade enterprises, providing enterprises with "one-stop" market expansion services covering the entire process of product listing and live broadcast planning.

Focusing on high-quality development and pragmatic action, modern industrial clusters in the western region are booming—

In the Sichuan Province (四川省) Pavilion, the Permanent Guest Province, exhibits such as intelligent robots and 3D medical printers attracted attention; at the Chongqing Fuling District (重庆涪陵区) booth, leading enterprises in the field of advanced materials, such as Chongqing Huafeng (重庆华峰) and Chongqing Wanda Thin Plate (重庆万达薄板), showcased their latest products...

During this WCIFIT, activities such as the "Multinational Corporations Chongqing Tour" and the "Investment in the West Tour" key industrial project roadshow matchmaking were held, with a total of 247 major projects signed. Among them, nearly 170 key industrial chain supplementation, strengthening, and extension projects in intelligent connected new energy vehicles, a new generation of electronic information manufacturing, and advanced materials were signed, with a formal contract value of nearly 160 billion yuan.

Continuously expanding high-level opening up, the western region is moving from an inland hinterland to the forefront of opening up—

Over the past 7 years, the WCIFIT has resonated with the western region, becoming an important platform for jointly building the "Belt and Road" and promoting the large-scale development of the western region in the new era.

Today, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) has reached 563 ports in 127 countries and regions, transporting more than 1,250 types of goods, driving the central and western regions to further release their foreign trade potential. In the first quarter of this year, the total value of imports and exports through the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor by the "13+2" provinces and regions along the corridor exceeded 200 billion yuan, an increase of more than 10% year-on-year, a record high. At this WCIFIT, Chongqing (重庆) and other provinces along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, such as Guangxi (广西), Sichuan (四川), Guizhou (贵州), and Shaanxi (陕西), further strengthened the joint construction and sharing of industrial chains, signing a total of 46 industrial cooperation projects with a formal contract value of nearly 40 billion yuan.

To escort enterprises in going overseas, the Chongqing Municipal Financial Service Office (重庆市委金融办) released 5 financial service tools during the WCIFIT—integrating the financial institution database, product collection, case collection, policy access, and supply and demand bridge of the "13+2" provinces and regions along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, expanding the reach of channel financial services, and enabling more enterprises to efficiently and conveniently obtain high-quality financial services.

Jointly drawing a new picture of open cooperation and composing a new chapter of mutual benefit and win-win results. The WCIFIT, which has been successfully held for 7 sessions, is helping the western region achieve high-quality development in high-level opening up.

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"Create Youth" China Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week Opens in Changsha

This newspaper Changsha (长沙), May 25th (Reporter Shen Zhilin (申智林)) On the 25th, the "Innovation China" China Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week, jointly organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央), the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委员会), the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局), and the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共湖南省委), opened in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南). More than 1,300 people, including representatives of young scientists, young entrepreneurs, heads of well-known national venture capital institutions, and outstanding young entrepreneurs, participated, focusing on the theme of "Youth Taking the Lead in Chinese-style Modernization" to jointly discuss the great plan for youth innovation and entrepreneurship development.

The 2025 China Youth Science and Technology Innovation "Unveiling Bidding" list was released at the event, covering 122 technical problem-solving topics in 8 fields, including a new generation of information technology, artificial intelligence, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, robots, biomedicine, and seed industry technology.

During the China Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week, 16 supporting activities such as entrepreneurship project investment and financing matchmaking meetings, and the China Youth (University Student) Entrepreneurial Talent Training Camp will be held successively. It is expected that 35 innovation and entrepreneurship lecture halls, more than 50 entrepreneurship mentor matchmaking meetings, more than 10 university student venture capital fund campus visits, and more than 40 innovation and entrepreneurship competition activities will be carried out simultaneously in various cities and universities in Hunan Province (湖南省).

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2025 Global Intelligent Robot Development Conference to be Held in Guangzhou

Guangzhou, May 25th (Reporter Luo Aihua (罗艾桦)) The 2025 Global Intelligent Robot Development Conference was recently held at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Convention Center (广州白云国际会议中心) in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东) Province. Nearly 20 intelligent robots embodying the latest technology were unveiled. At the same time, industry representatives from nearly 30 countries and regions, including China (中国), the United States (美国), Japan (日本), Singapore (新加坡), and Finland (芬兰), gathered to focus on cutting-edge technology, industrial empowerment, and international cooperation, and enthusiastically discussed the application potential of humanoid robots, the progress of artificial intelligence applications, intelligent manufacturing, robotized intelligent manufacturing technology, and the biomimetic mechanisms and innovative applications of humanoid robots.

Participants also discussed hot topics such as "How can artificial intelligence and robotics help aspiring young professionals?", "The human and intelligent machine interconnected workforce," and "How can mature workers respond to emerging technologies?".

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Quanzhou, Fujian Upgrades Grain Storage Modernization

This newspaper Quanzhou (泉州) May 25th report (Reporter Zhong Ziwei (钟自炜)) Stepping into the intelligent grain depot in Quanzhou (泉州), Fujian, sensors are like sensitive "doctors," monitoring indicators such as grain temperature, humidity, and pests 24 hours a day. The intelligent control system screen displays various data in real time. Unlike traditional granaries that rely on the experience of custodians, this place uses blockchain traceability technology to achieve full-process data traceability from grain storage to delivery, completing the transition from traditional "extensive grain storage" to "intelligent grain guarding."

Quanzhou (泉州) is building Fujian's first grain intelligent interconnection industrial park, promoting the establishment of a county-level experimental base by the China Grain Reserves Chengdu Storage Research Institute (中储粮成都储藏研究院) in Shishi City (石狮市), Quanzhou (泉州); using big data models to provide early warnings for potential risks such as grain depot fires and changes in grain quality; constructing low-temperature finished grain depots and promoting the application of green storage technology for renovation and upgrading, thereby improving the modernization level of grain storage facilities within its jurisdiction.

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Carrying Gasoline: Burning the Cipher Book First in a Crisis (Dialogue Across Time and Space)

By: 本报记者 杨颜菲

Sunlight streamed through the gauze curtains into the recuperation ward of Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital (江西省人民医院). Jiao Keming (焦克明), 98, tremblingly stroked the commemorative medals and old photographs on the table, as if pulling time back to the fiery years of more than 80 years ago.

"This is my first photo in military uniform..." he said, pointing to the photo, his voice suddenly clear.

Jiao Keming (焦克明) was born in 1927 in Lijia'an Village (李家安村), Hejian (河间), Hebei (河北) Province. This village was located at the intersection of major highway transportation lines such as Pingda (平大) and Cangbao (沧保), and during the Anti-Japanese War, it was an important stronghold for the Japanese army to penetrate deep into the hinterland of central Hebei. In 1944, Jiao Keming (焦克明) joined the revolution and engaged in telegram translation and confidential work in the Jizhong Military Region (冀中军区).

How important is a cipher clerk?

"We are the 'eyes' of the leaders. If we translate a single word incorrectly, the battle could be lost."

Jiao Keming's (焦克明) memories of childhood are of the village's underground tunnels that extended in all directions.

"When the Japanese devils entered the village to 'sweep,' we would hide in the tunnels. My family's tunnel had four entrances, some under baskets, some under firewood," Jiao Keming (焦克明) recalled. These tunnels could lead to the fields outside the village.

In 1944, at the age of only 17, he joined the Eighth Route Army and was assigned by the organization to work in an anti-Japanese school in Hebei (河北) as a primary school principal.

"I taught the children that first, they must protect themselves. As for these robbers from outside, when they grow up, they must resist and eliminate them," Jiao Keming (焦克明) said. In 1945, in order to adapt to the changing situation of the Anti-Japanese War, he was assigned to the Cipher Section of the Ninth Military Sub-district of the Jizhong Military Region (冀中军区第九军分区机要科) and plunged into the intense work of cipher telegram translation.

The Jizhong Military Region (冀中军区), where Jiao Keming (焦克明) was located, was mainly responsible for anti-Japanese activities in central Hebei (河北). As an important part of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region (晋察冀边区), the Jizhong Military Region (冀中军区) played an important role in the anti-"sweeping" struggle and guerrilla warfare.

"After joining the army, I followed the troops to fight guerrilla warfare!" Jiao Keming (焦克明) said, tapping his fingers unconsciously when talking about the past. At that time, the Jizhong Military Region's (冀中军区) Eighth Route Army's "grid network" tactic of breaking up into smaller units exhausted the Japanese army.

"At that time, the Jizhong Military Region (冀中军区) was implementing the requirement of 'preserving the living forces and preparing for a counter-offensive,' and there was an urgent need for a reserve of cipher personnel." Jiao Keming (焦克明), who had a certain cultural foundation, was particularly rare. "You had to be literate, react quickly, and couldn't be careless."

Every day, Jiao Keming (焦克明) faced stacks of encrypted telegrams and alarm bells that could ring at any time. On the earthen wall of the Cipher Section, the eight characters "保密机密，慎之又慎" (bǎo mì jī mì, shèn zhī yòu shèn - "Keep secrets, be extremely cautious") were always brightly illuminated by the kerosene lamp. "The cipher clerk is responsible for translating coded telegrams and transmitting intelligence," Jiao Keming (焦克明) said calmly. "When a telegram is received, it must be processed immediately, without delay."

Years of cipher work have cultivated Jiao Keming's (焦克明) calm and composed, emotionally stable personality. His children all say that he is a person who "doesn't like to talk and doesn't show his emotions."

The cipher clerk's battlefield has no smoke, but it concerns thousands of troops. "We are the 'eyes' of the leaders. If we translate a single word incorrectly, the battle could be lost," Jiao Keming (焦克明) recalled. In the cipher room, he processed hundreds of telegrams every day, his fingertips rubbed with blood blisters, and he only dozed off on the table when he was extremely sleepy.

Jiao Keming (焦克明) always carried two things on his waist: a pistol and a gasoline bottle. "Carry gasoline with you, and in a crisis, burn the codebook first, and then keep the last bullet for yourself." In the eyes of the cipher clerk, the codebook is more important than his own life. Even if an accident occurs in the war, the first thing to protect is still the codebook. This is the iron rule of the cipher clerk. The old man said in a normal tone: "We have long tied our lives to the codebook."

Were you afraid in the war?

"Compared to the comrades on the front line, we were considered safe."

The green gauze tents of the Jizhong Plain (冀中平原) were not only a natural barrier for guerrilla warfare, but also the mobile office of the cipher clerk. Jiao Keming (焦克明) often hid the transmitter in the sorghum bushes, using tarpaulins to cover the faint "tick-tock" sound. The scorching sun of midsummer baked his back, and the ice shards of winter cracked his fingers, but the pencil in his hand never stopped.

"Intelligence is too important, there can be no mistakes." The work of the Cipher Section is destined to be hidden behind the scenes, and even after sacrifice, no monument can be erected to leave a name. Jiao Keming (焦克明) has personally seen too many such unsung heroes: the surrounded telegraphers "died together" with the codebook, and the female comrades diverted the pursuers to protect the radio station... "For us in this line of work, survival is a medal," Jiao Keming (焦克明) pondered for a long time.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders and puppet troops often "swept" the base areas. The command organs were the focus of the "sweep" and were often in dangerous situations.

What Jiao Keming (焦克明) remembers deeply is that once, the headquarters was attacked by the enemy. Jiao Keming (焦克明) clutched the codebook tightly and traveled with the division political commissar and a female telegraph operator in the artillery fire of the Japanese army's pursuit.

Bullets "whooshed" past his ears, and the sorghum beside him fell in response. Jiao Keming's (焦克明) back was already soaked with sweat. "Boom!" A shell exploded at his feet, and the air wave wrapped in mud overturned him. He struggled to get up, shook off the dust, but saw the female telegraph operator lying in a pool of blood.

Every morning after the battle, the bodies of martyrs were always placed in front of the command post. Jiao Keming (焦克明) silently wiped the blood from the faces of his comrades and collected their party membership cards. Speaking of this, Jiao Keming (焦克明) said somewhat absentmindedly: "Most of them were only teenagers."

"Compared to the comrades on the front line, we were considered safe. The soldiers would place us in a relatively safe place and protect us relatively well." In 1945, when the telegram of Japan's surrender came, the Cipher Section burst into long-suppressed cheers. Jiao Keming (焦克明) walked alone to the courtyard and bowed deeply to the north - where the forever young comrades were sleeping. "They didn't wait for this day," Jiao Keming (焦克明) said.

What is the "password" of the peaceful era?

"During the Anti-Japanese War, we deciphered the enemy's secret telegrams. During the construction period, we had to decipher the development password."

In 1953, Jiao Keming (焦克明) wrote the four characters "密码逻辑" (mìmǎ luóji - "cipher logic") on the blackboard in the classroom of the Jiangxi Provincial Party School (江西省委党校). The students below were puzzled: Why should we study these?

"We cannot forget history." When the deciphered telegram became the charge of the front line, Jiao Keming (焦克明) understood that the password was not only a "number game," but also a spark that penetrated the darkness.

"I told them that during the Anti-Japanese War, we deciphered the enemy's secret telegrams. During the construction period, we had to decipher the development password," Jiao Keming (焦克明) said.

"I have been engaged in party member training for more than 20 years, and I often remind myself that I must do my job well," Jiao Keming (焦克明) said. Under the baptism of the years, Jiao Keming's (焦克明) belief, which had experienced the baptism of war, became more firm. He devoted his life to loving the country and supporting the army, and set an example for future generations through words and deeds.

Jiao Keming's (焦克明) son, Jiao Fang (焦放), was also a soldier and is now employed by the Nanchang Municipal Market Supervision Bureau (南昌市市场监督管理局). Although he and his father are in different eras, they have the same feelings and beliefs.

In Jiao Fang's (焦放) home, the slogan "退役不褪色" (tuìyì bù tuìsè - "Retire but not fade," meaning to maintain one's original character and spirit even after retirement) is posted on the wall, echoing his father's writing of "慎之又慎" (shèn zhī yòu shèn - "be extremely cautious"). "I look at my father's medals from time to time to remind myself that I can't lose the face of a soldier," Jiao Fang (焦放) said.

After the interview, Jiao Keming (焦克明) looked at the green trees and sunny scenery outside the window. "I am a witness to the Anti-Japanese War, and it is my duty to make the younger generation remember this history." Jiao Keming (焦克明) repeatedly said, "We must always remember those warriors who sacrificed to defeat the Japanese invaders."

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Promoting Pro-Business Policies and Ensuring Direct and Swift Access to Funds (New Observations on Cadre Conduct: Building a Healthy and Clean Relationship Between Government and Business)

By: 本报记者  窦瀚洋

"Jiaqi (嘉祺), the company next door has applied for talent subsidies for its employees. Can we apply?" In the Smart Health Valley Science and Technology Innovation Community in Wuchang Street (五常街道), Yuhang District (余杭区), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺), an economic specialist from the street, received a WeChat message from Zhou Xueqi (周雪琦), an employee of Hangzhou Lingzhi Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州领挚科技有限公司) in the park, just after finishing a business visit.

"I'll sort out the latest policies and send them to you when I have time," Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺) replied earnestly, stopping in her tracks.

As a technology-based company, Lingzhi Technology (领挚科技) invests heavily in research and development. In recent years, it has attracted many talents and paid close attention to relevant government subsidy policies. The city has introduced many policies benefiting enterprises, but the types are diverse and the details are complicated, so enterprises often encounter problems when applying. Zhou Xueqi (周雪琦) always thinks of asking Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺) first: "She is enthusiastic, works conscientiously, and is basically 有求必应 (yǒu qiú bì yìng - "if you ask, you shall receive," always responsive to requests)."

As an economic specialist, Xu Jiaqi's (许嘉祺) job is to do a good job of serving enterprises in the "last mile." "I want to ensure that the benefits are brought to enterprises in a timely manner, and that enterprises can enjoy good policies in a timely manner." Facing the other party's praise, she waved her hand and said.

A few days later, Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺) brought the materials and knocked on the door of Lingzhi Technology (领挚科技). "Have you read the policy package that was sent to the company before?" Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺) asked directly as soon as she sat down. "The employees have already obtained the Hangzhou (杭州) E-level talent certification, but I still need to consult you on how to apply for the rental subsidy and what materials need to be prepared," Zhou Xueqi (周雪琦) said.

Subsequently, Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺) patiently explained to her the materials required for applying for the rental subsidy and the details of preparing the materials. "After the materials are prepared, you only need to log in to the 'Qingqin Online' (亲清在线) platform to apply for the subsidy." After saying that, she demonstrated it on the spot: log in to the platform homepage, select the Yuhang (余杭) sub-platform "Yu Shengxin (余省心)", search for "high-level talents" under the "policy service" category, then select "talent policy" to find the corresponding talent subsidy application entrance, and after that, upload the required materials one by one and wait.

"If you encounter any urgent, difficult, or worrisome problems in the future, you can report them through the 'Yu Shengxin (余省心)' sub-platform of the 'Qingqin Online' (亲清在线) platform, and we will respond as soon as possible." Before leaving, Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺) specially introduced, "After the problem is submitted, it will be transferred to the relevant district-level departments according to the content, and a dedicated person will be responsible for replying in a timely manner."

Not long after, Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺) received feedback from Zhou Xueqi (周雪琦) - "Thank you, Jiaqi (嘉祺), the employees received the high-level talent rental subsidy in just two weeks."

Don't think that Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺) is now working with ease. When she first visited enterprises, it was not smooth sailing. "When I first came, even if I took out my work permit, some companies would not believe that I could help." In order to break down trust barriers, she gradually explored a set of "enterprise portrait" work methods - understanding the enterprise's business in advance through big data and the street's Economic Development Office's (街道经济发展办公室) self-use system, sorting out relevant supporting policies through the policy library and the "policy supermarket" of the "Qingqin Online" (亲清在线) platform, and then pushing them to the enterprise in a targeted manner.

"If the other party is still unsure about what I said, I will recommend that they use the 'Qingqin Online' (亲清在线) platform. Whether it is policy declaration or subsidy collection, it is completed through the platform. The process is open and transparent, reducing worries." In her opinion, thanks to the promotion and use of the "Qingqin Online" (亲清在线) platform, the daily work of assisting enterprises, such as policy consultation and resource docking, has achieved immediate response and precise reach, improving the efficiency of government services.

Now in Hangzhou (杭州), enterprises use the "Qingqin Online" (亲清在线) platform to apply for subsidies. This is a new type of digital platform for government-business relations built by Hangzhou (杭州) in 2020, building a model of "zero materials for declaration, zero manual approval, and fast payment," effectively promoting the direct and rapid enjoyment of policies benefiting enterprises. The platform has now been upgraded to the "Qingqin Online (亲清在线)·Policy Supermarket" 2.0 version, with a cumulative total of more than 8,600 policies benefiting enterprises online, online payment of policy funds of 106.9 billion yuan, and precise service to 620,000 enterprises and 2.34 million employees.

After a year and a half, Xu Jiaqi (许嘉祺) has added the WeChat accounts of about 700 enterprises in her jurisdiction, and more and more matters can be handled through the "Qingqin Online" (亲清在线) platform. "With the help of the platform, it is now more convenient and smoother to serve enterprises," she said.

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Collaboration between Government and Enterprises for Common Development

By: 高 燕

In the Smart Health Valley of Wuchang Subdistrict (五常街道), Yuhang District (余杭区), Hangzhou (杭州), the economic specialists bustling between industrial parks are a microcosm of the continuously optimizing business environment. Government services have shifted from "waiting passively" to "proactively knocking on doors," and policy dividends have upgraded from "layered transmission" to "precise drip irrigation." From enterprises running around to policies being delivered to their doorsteps, from searching for policies in piles of documents to instant matching on the data cloud, a profound transformation concerning government-enterprise collaboration and common development is taking place.

In Zhejiang (浙江), the subdistrict's "policy couriers" use the "enterprise portrait" big data system to transform policy clauses into "customized gift packages" tailored to the needs of enterprises. The construction of the "Qinqing Online" platform allows government services to break through the boundaries of time and space and transform into efficient and convenient fingertip services. The innovation of the talent service mechanism demonstrates the deep logic of urban development. When good policies precisely reach their targets through digital channels, the sense of belonging of talent is better transformed into innovative momentum.

(The author is the Deputy Dean of the Zhejiang Provincial State-owned Assets and State-owned Enterprises Research Institute, interviewed and compiled by Dou Hanyang (窦瀚洋), a reporter from this newspaper.)

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Water Rescue

On the morning of May 23rd, around 7:00 AM, the Zhou Tan Police Station of the Suburban Branch of the Tongling Public Security Bureau (铜陵市公安局) in Anhui Province (安徽省) received an emergency police report. The public reported that an elderly mobility scooter was surrounded by rapid currents, with one adult and two children on board, in a critical situation. After receiving the report, police officer Dong Wenjie (董文杰) immediately took rescue equipment to the scene.

Due to continuous heavy rain, the water level at the location of the trapped vehicle was still rising, with the risk of being washed away at any time. Dong Wenjie (董文杰) quickly put on a life jacket and walked towards the trapped vehicle. With the help of the surrounding people, the two students and the driver in the car were rescued one after another. Facing the continuous thanks from the students' families, Dong Wenjie (董文杰) said, "This is my job, I must be the first to go when encountering danger!"

The picture shows police officer Dong Wenjie (董文杰) rescuing the trapped people.

Tian Xianjin (田先进) and Hong Wei (洪伟) reported with photographs.

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Nimu County, Tibet Implements Revisit Mechanism for Disciplined Cadres

This newspaper reported from Lhasa on May 25th (Reporter Qiongda Zhuoga (琼达卓嘎)): "The organization did not abandon me. This return visit has completely relieved me of my ideological burden." A certain cadre in Nyemo County (尼木县), Lhasa (拉萨) City, Tibet (西藏), after receiving return visit education from the County Discipline Inspection Commission (县纪委监委), has returned to the forefront of comprehensive rural revitalization. The Nyemo County Discipline Inspection Commission (尼木县纪委监委) implements a return visit mechanism for cadres who have been disciplined, classifying them into three categories based on the nature of the violation, the type of punishment, and individual performance. "Monthly visits" are conducted for disciplined cadres involving the vital interests of the masses, "quarterly tracking" is implemented for disciplined cadres with ideological fluctuations, and "annual assessments" are conducted for disciplined cadres with good performance.

In specific practice, the Nyemo County Discipline Inspection Commission (尼木县纪委监委) conducts psychological counseling simultaneously when the punishment decision is announced, formulates an exclusive assistance plan after the case is closed, conducts regular home visits to understand ideological dynamics, arranges business backbones to provide paired assistance, and implements "second post" assessments for important positions.

"We regard return visit education as an important part of cadre reshaping." Luan Tian (栾天), Secretary of the Nyemo County Discipline Inspection Commission (尼木县纪委) and Director of the Supervisory Commission (监委主任), introduced that the local area has established a tripartite joint evaluation mechanism of "organization department + work unit + discipline inspection commission and supervisory commission" (组织部门+所在单位+纪委监委), dynamically recording indicators such as cadres' ideological transformation and work performance, and linking the results of return visits with cadre selection and appointment, giving disciplined cadres the opportunity to 改过自新 (gǎi guò zì xīn - "correct mistakes renew oneself," to turn over a new leaf; to correct one's errors and make a fresh start).

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Make efforts to let rural talents "emerge".

By: 本报记者 高 炳

In the potato planting base in Weijiamao Village (魏家峁村), Yuyang District (榆阳区), Yulin City (榆林市), Shaanxi Province (陕西), Si Yaoguo (思耀国), a leader in returning home to start a business and become wealthy, is leading villagers in aerial spraying operations using drones.

"In the past, farming relied on experience and manual labor, but now it relies on science and drones, which has greatly increased the yield per mu," Si Yaoguo (思耀国) said with emotion. This village, which once suffered from population outflow, has now been revitalized due to the return of talent.

Since 2022, Yulin (榆林) has begun creating and selecting 100 demonstration sites for talent-led comprehensive rural revitalization, building a number of industrial entities with good development benefits, significant demonstration effects, and strong driving effects, and driving a group of "new farmers," "field experts," and "rural entrepreneurs" to take root at the grassroots level and cultivate the fertile fields.

One of the focuses is to "bring in" and "retain" high-end talent.

At the Yulin Mountain Apple Experimental Demonstration Station (榆林山地苹果试验示范站) located in Mizhi County (米脂县), Professor Ma Fengwang's (马锋旺) team from Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (西北农林科技大学) is conducting variety selection and breeding research at the base. The demonstration station was established in 2020, introducing a 7-person expert team, accumulating the screening of 3 new varieties, introducing and demonstrating the promotion of dozens of new varieties, training 50 grassroots technicians, training more than 2,000 fruit farmers, and driving Mizhi County (米脂县) to promote the planting of 230,000 mu of mountain apples. "In the past, we farmers couldn't even see experts. Now that we have the experimental demonstration station, we can directly ask them any questions we have," a fruit farmer busy in the orchard told reporters.

"Yulin (榆林) is located on the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi (陕北高原), and its conditions in terms of transportation, environment, and treatment are all different from those of developed coastal cities. One of the original intentions of carrying out the creation and selection of talent-led comprehensive rural revitalization demonstration sites is to give high-level talents better support," said a relevant person in charge of the Organization Department of the Yulin Municipal Party Committee (榆林市委组织部). The talent-led comprehensive rural revitalization demonstration sites cover various types such as enterprises, cooperatives, family farms, and scientific research workstations. For those selected as demonstration sites, the municipal finance will provide a one-time support of 200,000 yuan for working funds. If the assessment is qualified in the next 3 years, another 100,000 yuan will be awarded each year. Talents (teams) introduced and cultivated with key scientific research projects will be given project funding support of 100,000 to 500,000 yuan based on merit.

Every year, Yulin (榆林) selects and dispatches more than 100 agricultural science and technology commissioners to go deep into the front line of rural areas, relying on various demonstration sites to carry out technical guidance services. "In the past, farming depended on the weather. Now, with experts teaching techniques hand-in-hand, the harvest is much better." Wang Ping (王平), a farmer in Mugua Town (木瓜镇), Fugu County (府谷县), invested in the Mugua Town Economic Joint General Cooperative (木瓜镇经济联合总社). Under the guidance of municipal and county agricultural experts, he leveled more than 35,000 mu of land, transferred more than 17,000 mu of land, and vigorously developed millet planting industry. Through intensive farming with agricultural mechanization, the production efficiency has been significantly improved.

At the same time, Yulin (榆林) strengthens the construction of local talent teams, and strives to make local talents "emerge" and "become popular." Li Linjun (李林军), a villager in Xianfeng Village (先锋村), Bainiijing Town (白泥井镇), Dingbian County (定边县), is one of the "local experts" and "field experts." In previous years, he founded a company and adopted the development model of "company + cooperative + base + farmer" to vigorously promote order agriculture, driving 4,018 cooperative farmers to produce more than 300,000 tons of various fruits and vegetables annually.

How to make good use of these "local experts" and "field experts"? The Yulin Municipal industry authorities actively recommend relevant demonstration sites to declare national, provincial, and municipal farmer professional cooperatives, leading agricultural industrialization enterprises, family farms, and other projects; the selection of municipal experts with outstanding contributions is tilted towards experts and talents in the front line of rural areas, guiding local talents to take root in their hometowns, start businesses in their hometowns, and serve their hometowns.

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Editors of this page: Ji Jianming, Zhao Xiaoxi, Li Kaixuan

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Cultural treasures usher in systematic protection (Promoting cultural confidence and strength)

On May 19, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), during his inspection of the Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟) in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan Province (河南省), emphasized, "We must protect, inherit, and promote these treasures of Chinese culture." The No. 8 issue of *Qiushi* magazine, published on April 16, featured an important article by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) titled "Accelerating the Construction of a Strong Socialist Culture in China," which emphasized "upholding a sense of awe for history and love for culture, adhering to the principles of prioritizing protection, rational utilization, and minimal intervention, and promoting the systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage."

How can we better protect, inherit, and promote the treasures of Chinese culture? This year's National People's Congress (全国两会) included "promoting the systematic protection of cultural heritage" in the *Government Work Report*. The newly revised Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics, which came into effect on March 1, also focuses on comprehensively strengthening the systematic protection of cultural heritage. What is the profound significance of the shift in concept from protection to systematic protection? How can we better implement the systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage? This edition invites experts, scholars, and frontline practitioners to discuss these issues.

-- Editor

Host:

Chen Yuanyuan (陈圆圆), Reporter of this newspaper

Guests:

Lü Zhou (吕舟), Director of the National Heritage Center of Tsinghua University (清华大学) and Head of the Beijing Central Axis application for World Heritage protection text team.

He Yunao (贺云翱), Professor of the School of History at Nanjing University (南京大学) and Director of the Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage.

Yu Jie (余杰), Party Secretary and Research Librarian of the Longmen Grottoes Research Institute (龙门石窟研究院).

Jiang Siwei (蒋思维), Dean and Research Librarian of the Dazu Rock Carvings Research Institute (大足石刻研究院).

Why should cultural heritage protection emphasize "systematicness"?

Lü Zhou (吕舟): Cultural heritage includes immovable cultural relics, movable cultural relics, agricultural heritage, irrigation heritage, historical buildings, intangible cultural heritage, etc. However, the vast number of heritage sites mostly exist in a fragmented state, and it is necessary to establish interrelationships of value and form a systematic refinement of value. The *Opinions on Strengthening the Protection and Inheritance of Historical and Cultural Heritage in Urban and Rural Development*, issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中办) and the General Office of the State Council (国办) in 2021, proposed establishing a system for the protection and inheritance of historical and cultural heritage in urban and rural areas, with an initial framework to be built by 2025 and fully completed by 2035. In fact, holistic and systematic protection has become one of the keys to improving the level of cultural heritage protection in China.

He Yunao (贺云翱): Cultural heritage generally includes different types such as material forms, intangible forms, documentary forms, and cultural landscape forms. For a city, a region, or a country, cultural heritage constitutes the spiritual life of the people and society, scientific research and educational resources, cultural identity and cohesion, cultural creativity, and cultural tourism integration resources, becoming an organic component of modernization. The systematic protection of cultural heritage is to ensure that these various types of heritage, which are managed by different departments, can be systematically and comprehensively effectively protected. At the same time, it is also necessary to unify supervision, strengthen coordination, form a joint protection force, and promote rational utilization.

Yu Jie (余杰): Cultural heritage is closely related to its historical, cultural, and natural background, forming a large cultural landscape system. The Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟) are a typical representative of Chinese grotto temple heritage. In addition to the grotto cultural heritage, the colorful humanistic ecology formed around Longmen (龙门), involving statues, temples, sightseeing, and literature, constitutes a profound cultural landscape. Systematic protection and unified supervision are beneficial to the overall coordination of all aspects.

Jiang Siwei (蒋思维): Systematic protection should not only focus on the maintenance of the cultural relics themselves but also consider the overall environment in which they are located, including the carrier of the cultural relics, the surrounding natural environment such as mountains and rivers, and the lifestyles and cultural customs of the local residents. Systematic protection requires comprehensive consideration from multiple disciplines and the entire process, using professional knowledge from various fields such as history, art, and natural science and technology.

Why are different protection methods used for different forms of cultural heritage?

Lü Zhou (吕舟): Taking the Beijing Central Axis (北京中轴线) as an example, the Beijing Central Axis (北京中轴线) includes 3 projects already listed in the *World Heritage List* and 11 national key cultural relics protection units, including ancient palace buildings, gardens, urban management buildings, as well as modern commemorative buildings and public buildings. During the application process, various departments and social organizations highly coordinated, society widely participated, and the surrounding living environment was improved through the improvement of the heritage environment, realizing the mutual promotion of heritage protection and sustainable social development, and making cultural heritage come alive in people's hearts.

He Yunao (贺云翱): Heritage types such as ancient ruins, ancient stone carvings, and ancient buildings are static, while heritage types such as the Grand Canal (大运河), intangible cultural heritage, and famous historical and cultural cities, towns, and villages are dynamic, and the two have different protection methods. Although it is a national key cultural relics protection unit, the Grand Canal (大运河) still needs to continue to sail and transport water; heritage parks can be managed in a relatively closed manner, but historical streets must remain open; many agricultural heritages and time-honored brands are also in production and operation.

Yu Jie (余杰): In 2023, the Longmen Grottoes Research Institute (龙门石窟研究院) was adjusted to a provincial-level public institution and entrusted to the Luoyang Municipal Government (洛阳市政府) for management, with responsibilities including protection, research, inheritance, and cultural tourism integration. Since then, unified management of the core protection area of the Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟) has been achieved. The Research Institute has multiple business departments, responsible for the protection of the grottoes, history and humanities, art research, digital Longmen (数字龙门), tourism research, and cultural and creative industry work. The Longmen Grottoes Research Institute (龙门石窟研究院) has also established a coordination mechanism for cultural relics protection and tourism development with relevant units and departments. Research is the foundation, protection is the support, and cultural tourism integration and technological empowerment reflect communication and utilization, forming a complete chain of cultural heritage protection.

Jiang Siwei (蒋思维): The Dazu Rock Carvings (大足石刻) have long been plagued by fissure seepage caused by high temperature and high humidity. To meet the challenge, we established a detailed hydrogeological structure model in the "Dazu Rock Carvings Baodingshan Dafowan Water Damage Management Project" (大足石刻宝顶山大佛湾水害治理工程) and constructed a three-dimensional seepage prevention and drainage system combining dredging and blocking. This scheme, which organically integrates the initial investigation, technical plan formulation, implementation process, and post-monitoring, has systematic and holistic protection thinking and explores new ways for the protection of grotto temples and stone carvings.

What new trends are emerging in heritage protection and development?

Lü Zhou (吕舟): In recent years, it has become a trend for multiple countries to jointly apply for a large-scale heritage consisting of multiple heritage elements with a common theme. Such projects not only enhance people's understanding of the integrity of heritage but also promote cultural dialogue and international cooperation based on heritage protection.

From protection to promoting sustainable development is another development trend in world cultural heritage protection. Social participation and benefit sharing, benefiting heritage communities through heritage protection, has become an important context for world heritage protection today. In addition, emphasizing regional balance, the use of new technologies, and the significance of heritage protection in response to climate change are all global governance trends in heritage protection.

Jiang Siwei (蒋思维): Strengthening international cooperation and exchanges is an important trend in cultural heritage protection. Our cooperation with Italy to carry out the project to protect the Shucheng Rock (舒成岩) cliff statues of the Dazu Rock Carvings (大足石刻) has promoted exchanges between the two countries in the field of stone cultural relics protection and restoration, and has also gradually made China's cultural relics protection methods and successful experiences accepted by the international community. Learning from advanced international experience and combining it with local realities can provide stronger support for the sustainable protection of cultural heritage.

Yu Jie (余杰): Technological empowerment is an important means of preventive protection of cultural relics. The "Digital Longmen" (数字龙门) project launched by the Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟) more than 20 years ago. The primary task of digitization is to use 3D laser scanning, close-range photography, and other technologies to collect high-precision data on grotto statues and establish permanent digital archives. For example, the compilation of the Guyang Cave (古阳洞) archaeological report, which is currently being carried out by the Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟), has been listed as the first batch of digital archaeological work pilot projects in the *Medium and Long-Term Plan for Archaeological Research of Chinese Grotto Temples (2021-2035)* by the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局). We apply three-dimensional digital technology throughout the entire process of in-situ exploration, confirmation, return, restoration, repositioning, and display of scattered cultural relics, opening up a new path for "data sharing" of scattered cultural relics, and realizing the "body and head reunion" of more than 10 scattered cultural relics. Based on the above scientific research results, a special exhibition on the repositioning achievements of scattered cultural relics from the Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟) has been planned and held in many places.

How can cultural heritage promote contemporary civilization dialogue?

He Yunao (贺云翱): The practice of the World Heritage cause has provided experience and models for the protection and utilization of various types of cultural heritage in our country. For projects that have been successfully declared, we must strictly abide by the World Heritage Convention and relevant laws and regulations of our country to ensure their perpetual, safe, and healthy survival. For projects that have been included in the World Heritage Tentative List, we must do a good job in protection and utilization in accordance with the requirements of World Heritage. Continuously strengthen capacity building for protection, including talent cultivation, scientific research, technology and funding investment, display and interpretation, digital communication, service facility construction, and international cooperation in cultural heritage protection.

To promote unified supervision, competent departments at all levels need to attach great importance to the cultural heritage cause, earnestly grasp and implement it, mobilize all positive forces to solve existing problems, and promote the cultural heritage protection cause to play a greater role in the process of Chinese-style modernization. In addition, China's cultural heritage protection still needs to be improved in terms of technological investment, engineering construction time length, and detail requirements, and phenomena such as demolishing old buildings and imitating new ones and destroying underground cultural relics must be eliminated.

Lü Zhou (吕舟): Cultural heritage protection needs to respond to the real needs of social development in terms of management system, value interpretation, and the exertion of contemporary functions. China's cultural heritage protection implements a territorial management system, and it is necessary to establish local main responsibilities so that cultural heritage protection is integrated into economic and social development. It is necessary to adjust the method of constructing a system based on project construction or spatial and morphological protection planning as the main measures, construct a cultural heritage value interpretation system with integrity and systematicness, and promote demonstrative experiences. Give play to the contemporary value of cultural heritage, innovate in terms of systems and management, and form more demonstrative cases.

How to give play to the role of these heritage sites in contemporary civilization dialogue and international communication is a challenge facing China's World Heritage. Through the practice of protecting World Heritage, China has accumulated rich experience, and whether it is the identification of heritage or the expression and monitoring of heritage value, it has provided China's experience to the world. As a State Party to the World Heritage Convention, it is China's international responsibility to protect its own World Heritage and support the World Heritage protection of other States Parties. Participating in international assistance and cooperation in World Heritage, promoting cultural exchange and cooperation, and promoting the construction of a human community with a shared future, China's World Heritage protection cause can play an important role.

Jiang Siwei (蒋思维): Adhering to the new era's cultural relics work policy of "prioritizing protection, strengthening management, exploring value, effectively utilizing, and bringing cultural relics to life" requires us to refine and implement it in combination with the new work reality. First, the relationship between protection and utilization urgently needs to be re-examined. More innovative utilization models should be explored, such as digital display and virtual experience, to reduce interference with cultural relics entities and enhance public participation and educational effects. Second, international exchanges and cooperation need to be deepened. Grotto temples are a witness to cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, and it is necessary to further strengthen cooperation with world cultural heritage protection organizations to improve the professionalism and internationalization of protection work. Finally, the utilization of cultural heritage should benefit local residents, and cultural value should be transformed into economic benefits through scientific activation and utilization and cultural and creative promotion. Developing community-oriented tourism services and characteristic industries around grotto temples can not only increase employment but also improve the living standards of residents.

(Reporters Shi Fang (施芳), Zhang Wenhao (张文豪), and Wang Xinyue (王欣悦) of this newspaper participated in the writing)

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How Did a Private Troupe Pluck the First "Plum Blossom"?

By: 本报记者  顾  春

On the stage, narrow tables are stacked with high chairs, and the male and female actors kick the chairs and leap down, without the slightest error. For a time, cheers and applause resounded through the theater. Bao Chenre (鲍陈热), an actress from the Taizhou Luantan Opera Troupe (浙江台州乱弹剧团), performed excerpts, appearing on the final stage of the 32nd China Theatre Plum Blossom Awards. Ultimately, she successfully won the Plum Blossom Award with her excerpt performance, becoming the first actor from a private opera troupe in the country to receive this honor after the award reform.

This year's Plum Blossom Award opened the application channel for private opera troupes for the first time. "This is not only an honor for the troupe and me, but also an honor for private opera troupes," Bao Chenre (鲍陈热) said, unable to hide her excitement.

The wonderful performance of just a few minutes is inseparable from repeated polishing. "Our troupe has more than 350 performances every year, most of which are at the grassroots level. The eyes of the villagers are discerning, and they will applaud if they like it. This special performance prepared for the 'Plum Blossom Competition' has been performed in the grassroots for no less than 30 shows," Bao Chenre (鲍陈热) said.

In 2005, Taizhou Luantan (台州乱弹), which had been suspended for nearly 30 years, was reorganized into a troupe in the form of "private management with public assistance." "That year, I just graduated from art school and joined the Taizhou Luantan Opera Troupe (台州乱弹剧团)," Bao Chenre (鲍陈热) recalled. "I came from Wuju Opera (婺剧), and then turned to learning to sing Taizhou Mandarin, spending a lot of time practicing word by word." In the past 20 years, she has starred in almost all of the troupe's major plays and more than 30 excerpts.

The Taizhou Luantan Opera Troupe (台州乱弹剧团) has experienced life-and-death tests. One night in 2010, the troupe had a car accident on the way to a performance in the countryside. The bus overturned into a lake, and all 41 members of the troupe were injured and hospitalized. In the following 27 days, Shang Wenbo (尚文波), the head of the troupe, led the members to overcome difficulties and re-staged 7 major plays, completing the scheduled performances with a spirit of not admitting defeat. "After the first show of the resumption of performances, everyone cried in each other's arms backstage, and the whole troupe formed a strong cohesion," Bao Chenre (鲍陈热) said.

The inability to attract and retain outstanding talents, and the difficulty in finding high-quality original scripts, are the development dilemmas faced by private opera troupes in recent years. Of the 30 classmates who joined the troupe with Bao Chenre (鲍陈热), only 4 are left today. Bao Chenre (鲍陈热) declined many invitations and persevered with her love for opera.

In recent years, the troupe has created the original major play "Qi Jiguang (戚继光)", and launched realistic works such as "My Dachen Island (我的大陈岛)", "My Fanglin Village (我的芳林村)", and "The Stargazer (追星者)". From an endangered opera genre on the verge of being lost to entering the National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院) four times and winning national awards repeatedly, the 400-year-old Taizhou Luantan (台州乱弹) has blazed a trail of transformation for a local opera genre, 破茧之路 (pò jiǎn zhī lù - "path of breaking out of the cocoon," a path of transformation and rebirth after overcoming difficulties).

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Emphasize the Importance of Scripts, Highlight the Focus on Performance

By: 本报记者 王  珏 曹玲娟

"The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. This honor belongs to everyone who follows the call of their heart in difficult times."

Recently, the 10th China Drama Award · Plum Blossom Performance Award (the 32nd China Drama Plum Blossom Award) and the Cao Yu Script Award (the 26th Cao Yu Drama Literature Award) were announced in Shanghai (上海). At the awards gala, the speech by Zhu Jiejing (朱洁静), an actress from the Shanghai Dance Theatre (上海歌舞团) and winner of this year's Plum Blossom Award, was deeply moving.

The China Drama Plum Blossom Award (中国戏剧梅花奖) is known as the highest award in the field of Chinese drama performance. After rigorous selection, 17 actors stood out and entered the final evaluation of this year's Plum Blossom Award. They came from 13 provinces and covered 11 opera genres, including Peking Opera (京剧), Kunqu Opera (昆剧), Hebei Bangzi (河北梆子), Qin腔 (秦腔), Pu Opera (蒲剧), Quju Opera (曲剧), Wu Opera (婺剧), Xiju Opera (锡剧), Xiang Opera (湘剧), Liuzixi Opera (柳子戏), and Taizhou Luantan (台州乱弹), as well as drama, dance drama and other drama performance art categories. The youngest was only 31 years old. From May 8th to 21st, 17 actors participated in the final evaluation activities of the Plum Blossom Award in the form of live performances, resulting in 15 Plum Blossom Award winners.

This year's Plum Blossom Award was held in Shanghai (上海) for the first time since its establishment in 1983, and the audience responded with great enthusiasm. *Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy* (智取威虎山) by the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre (上海京剧院) opened the curtain for the final evaluation of the Plum Blossom Award. "Traversing the forest sea, crossing the snowfield, with soaring spirit." When Lan Tian (蓝天), an actor from the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre (上海京剧院), sang the classic passage, applause and cheers erupted from the audience. Seventeen performances and media conferences, more than 30 pre-show introductions and 3 city flash mobs, and performances at the grassroots level... The half-month-long final evaluation activities of the Plum Blossom Award made Shanghai (上海) "a city full of drama."

This year's Plum Blossom Award opened up the application channel for private theater troupes for the first time. Bao Chenre (鲍陈热), an actor from the Zhejiang Taizhou Luantan Troupe (浙江台州乱弹剧团), entered the final evaluation and eventually "won the plum." The Plum Blossom Award also encourages actors from regions and genres that have never won awards to participate in the evaluation.

Opening a personal application channel is a major reform measure of this year's Cao Yu Script Award. This year, a total of 7 personal submissions were received. In this year's selection, for the first time, works from Macau won awards, and works from Taiwan (in cooperation with mainland authors) were nominated for the first time.

Wang Chunmei (王春梅), Deputy Secretary-General of the China Theatre Association (中国剧协), said that the selection of this year's Plum Blossom Award continued to deepen the reform of the award mechanism, firmly established a people-centered creative orientation, attached importance to the development of "new" drama workers, and attached importance to the diversity of drama categories, the breadth of regions, the diversity of genres, and the richness of roles. During the final evaluation activities, repertoire exhibitions, pre-show introductions, thematic seminars, and benefit performances were also launched, realizing the two-way rush between art and the city.

"Literary and art workers should attach importance to the script of a play and highlight the center of performance." Chen Yongquan (陈涌泉), Secretary of the Party Group and Resident Vice Chairman of the China Theatre Association (中国剧协), said that he hopes to use award evaluation and festival organization as the leader, and use rich and colorful drama activities and fair and just evaluation mechanisms to promote the emergence of talents and plays, and build a healthy and good drama ecology.

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"Four Seasons Children's Reading: A Campaign to Promote a Family Culture of Reading Launched"

This newspaper's Nanjing (南京) May 25th dispatch (Reporter Wang Weijian (王伟健)) Recently, the "Four Seasons Children's Reading · Scholarly Family Tradition Action Plan" project was launched at the Suzhou Library (苏州图书馆) in Jiangsu Province (江苏省). This project is jointly initiated by the National Library of China (国家图书馆) and the All-China Women's Federation's (全国妇联) Department of Family and Children's Work (家庭和儿童工作部). It aims to rely on the National Library's "Four Seasons Children's Reading" brand and activities, through multi-party cooperation and practice, to explore a replicable "library + women's federation" collaborative service model, promote the deep integration and development of resources between public libraries and children's activity centers, further enhance the quality of parent-child reading, and promote the construction of family civilization.

As one of the organizers of this event, Suzhou Library (苏州图书馆) has, in recent years, carried out a series of effective reading promotion activities such as the "Happy Reading Baby Plan," deeply cultivated research in the field of reading promotion for minors, and made beneficial explorations in parent-child reading promotion.

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Editors of this page: Zhi Chunli, Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Yingxue

Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)

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Guangdong's Zhao Bo Visits Lanshan, Hunan for Birdwatching for the Third Time This Year (Frontline of People's Livelihood: Silver Economy Promotes Consumption)

By: 本报记者  杨  迅

"Here it comes!" With a whisper, a figure with a deep blue sheen swept past the treetops, and the "click, click" of camera shutters rose and fell. On May 11, after "staking out" three times, 61-year-old Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) finally captured the fairy-like bird with tail feathers like flowing ribbons in the dense forest of Lanshan County (蓝山县), Yongzhou (永州), Hunan (湖南) – the paradise flycatcher he had been longing for.

Lanshan County (蓝山县) is located on the "Millennial Bird Path" of the Luoxiao Mountains (罗霄山脉), an important transit station for migratory birds. More than 120 species of migratory birds pass through here every year, totaling more than 3.5 million, making it an ideal place for bird watching and bird photography, attracting many silver-haired enthusiasts.

Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) is one of them. Having retired last year, this is his third trip to Lanshan (蓝山) from Lianzhou (连州), Guangdong (广东).

At the Sihai Ping (四海坪) bird watching spot in the Yunbingshan Scenic Area (云冰山景区) of Lanshan County (蓝山县), Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) skillfully took out his equipment from the trunk: binoculars, digital camera, telephoto lens, tripod, and so on. "This whole set of equipment cost about seventy to eighty thousand yuan, and a lot of it was bought online. Although the expense is not small, paying for a hobby can add a touch of brilliance to my later years, which is very worthwhile!" he said while adjusting the camera parameters.

The Yunbingshan Scenic Area (云冰山景区) is located in the Nanling Mountains (南岭山脉), and the sounds of birds chirping rise and fall. Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) focused on guarding the "big gun" lens: "Lanshan (蓝山) has a good ecology and many birds, including many rare species. The goal this time is to photograph the paradise flycatcher. I didn't get it the first two times, and I couldn't sleep well at night when I went back."

In addition to bird watching, Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) also fully enjoys the fun of traveling. "It costs 30 yuan to take this conveyor belt, and you can reach the top of the mountain in a few minutes, which is very convenient for us elderly people." In the Yunbingshan Scenic Area (云冰山景区), Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) is very satisfied with the mountain climbing "magic carpet." In order to allow silver-haired tourists to "walk and see clearly," the scenic spot invested 6 million yuan to carry out age-appropriate facility renovations, further enhancing the travel experience for elderly tourists.

Tang Haizhu (唐海珠), a staff member of the Yunbingshan Scenic Area (云冰山景区), introduced: "We provide a variety of accommodation options such as villas, homestays, and star-gazing rooms, with prices ranging from 400 yuan to 1,000 yuan per night. Bird watching activities not only enrich the scenic area's business formats, but also drove the scenic area's direct revenue to increase by 3 million yuan last year, and indirect revenue by about 12 million yuan."

Lanshan (蓝山) also connects characteristic bird watching travel routes by holding activities such as the "Four Provinces Joint Bird Watching Festival" and bird watching photography competitions, driving silver-haired groups like Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) to shift from simple bird watching to diversified consumption experiences such as travel, dining, accommodation, and shopping.

In addition to Lanshan (蓝山), Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) also has a "favorite" place, which is Baihualing (百花岭) in Yunnan (云南). "The bird ponds built by local villagers can accommodate many bird photography enthusiasts at the same time. With 30 yuan box lunches and 100 yuan accommodation, we don't have to worry about food and accommodation when taking pictures of birds," said Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉).

Driven by bird watching activities, industries such as residential inns, transportation, catering services, and ecological fruit planting in Baihualing Village (百花岭村) have developed like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, and bird watching tourism has become one of the main sources of income for villagers.

Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) also had a special bird watching experience in Daqing (大庆), Heilongjiang (黑龙江). That time, in order to photograph the rare great bustard, he spent 1,000 yuan to sign up for a local bird watching tour. During the trip, everyone took an extra-long convertible bird watching vehicle pulled by a tractor to search for the great bustard in the vast grassland.

The great bustard is a national first-class protected wild animal. During that trip, he not only fulfilled his wish to capture the elegant posture of the great bustard, but also deeply experienced the folk culture of Northeast China and tasted local specialties.

"Bird watching cannot be separated from 'bird guides'. Some rare birds can only be photographed with their guidance," said Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉). Bird guides who are familiar with the terrain and bird habits are "living maps" for bird photography enthusiasts to find local birds. In Pingjingguan Village (平靖关村), Guangshui City (广水市), Hubei (湖北), Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) hired a local senior bird guide for 100 yuan to photograph the rare crested goshawk. Following the bird guide's guidance, he set up his equipment next to a pig pen and waited quietly for 9 hours, finally capturing the precious image of the crested goshawk with his lens. Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) said that in Pingjingguan Village (平靖关村), some villagers not only work as bird guides, but also open farmhouses and homestays.

"I have a thick stack of scenic spot tickets and gas tickets from bird watching in various places," said Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉). In his 15-year bird photography career, his "bird chasing map" has continued to expand. From south to north, he chases birds with his lens, and his footprints have been left in most of China.

In Zhao Chenghui's (赵承辉) view, the uncertainty of bird watching is the most attractive. The joy of photographing a new bird species, or the excitement of making up for the previous regret, is addictive. "Reuniting with familiar birds in the same season is like meeting old friends, which is also very happy."

"The average age of the people in this car today is 62 years old, and the oldest is 68 years old." Driving an off-road vehicle, inviting three or five old friends, experiencing local customs and tasting delicacies on the way to bird watching. Zhao Chenghui (赵承辉) and his old buddies' lives not only make themselves happy and comfortable, but also bring business to restaurants and hotels along the way, adding popularity and increasing income to the local area.

This issue is coordinated by: Xu Yang (徐阳)

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Birdwatching: How to be Safe and Civilized (Link)

By: 本报记者  杨 迅

With the continued rise in birdwatching among senior citizens, Tang Shengli (唐盛利), head of the Xiangjiangyuan Migratory Bird Protection Station (湘江源候鸟守护站) in Lanshan County (蓝山县), Yongzhou (永州), Hunan (湖南), offers the following safety and etiquette tips for elderly birdwatchers, tailored to their specific needs:

　　Time your birdwatching. The best times of day are the birds' active periods, from 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Throughout the year, pay attention to migratory bird patterns. Winter migratory birds typically migrate south from September to November, and return north in spring from March to May. Transit birds make brief stops during the spring and autumn migrations to and from their breeding grounds.

　　Dress appropriately. Choose loose-fitting, easy-to-remove dark-colored long-sleeved shirts and pants, and wear a wide-brimmed sun hat. Select waterproof, non-slip, high-top shoes with cushioning and easy-on/easy-off design. Also, prepare reading glasses and commonly used medications. It is recommended to carry a foldable portable chair to rest at any time during long periods of observation, reducing the burden on the waist and legs.

　　Choose equipment wisely. Beginners should equip themselves with basic binoculars. Cameras and tripods can be selected based on financial conditions. While high-quality equipment can enhance the experience, improving birdwatching skills relies more on continuous learning of bird knowledge and accumulation of field experience.

　　Uphold ethical guidelines. When birdwatching, maintain a safe distance from birds and refrain from loud noises, chasing, or using flash photography to disturb bird activity. Choose compliant birdwatching locations and strictly abide by the management regulations of protected areas and parks. It is strictly forbidden to damage vegetation. If you discover illegal activities such as bird trapping or habitat destruction, you should immediately report them to the wildlife protection department or the forest public security.

　　Strengthen safety awareness. Avoid birdwatching alone, slow down to prevent falls, and carry an emergency contact card and basic medical history information. Understand the weather and terrain of the birdwatching site in advance. Avoid rainy or high-temperature periods when traveling, choose mature and clearly marked birdwatching routes, pay attention to personal and property safety, and respect local customs.

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Taking photos for social media: Atmosphere should not come at the expense of safety (People's Livelihood Perspective)

By: 陆凡冰

On the path of pursuing beauty and expressing individuality, we must always remember that nothing is more important than life safety.

The Shanghai Xinhua Road Tunnel (上海新华路隧道) clearly prohibits pedestrians and non-motorized vehicles from entering, but it has become an internet-famous photo hotspot. Some bloggers enter the tunnel at night just to take photos with an atmospheric feel. In response to this traffic violation, the traffic management department has launched a special rectification campaign. However, searching for "cinematic tunnel photography" on social media platforms still yields many "guide tutorials."

The Road Traffic Safety Law clearly stipulates that without permission, no unit or individual may occupy roads for non-traffic activities. The emergency pedestrian通道 (tōng dào - "passageway," here referring to the emergency pedestrian walkway) inside the tunnel is for accident avoidance and prevention of secondary accidents. Taking photos here not only affects traffic order and threatens the safety of others, but also disregards one's own safety.

Some people, in order to gain attention, deliberately conceal the fact that pedestrians are prohibited from entering the tunnel in their online posts, and even provide "photo shoot" services, treating the life safety of others as a bargaining chip for monetizing traffic. Platforms only label "dangerous behavior, do not imitate," but do not take truly effective measures to block the chain of dissemination; some netizens take chances and ignore the law... These factors together contribute to the occurrence of such illegal behavior.

Climbing bridge railings, sitting on railway tracks, climbing train carriages... There are many cases of ignoring safety in pursuit of "good photos" and gaining traffic, and some people have paid a heavy price for it. A man entered Nanjing West Railway Station (南京西站) according to the method introduced in the so-called "internet-famous hotspot guide" and was burned by a high-voltage arc while climbing a train; on National Highway 315 (315国道), pedestrians taking photos in the road have also caused many traffic accidents.

These cases remind us: we cannot let the sense of atmosphere encroach on the sense of security, and the respect for life needs to be awakened. Safety and "good photos," which is more important? The public should have a clear judgment in their minds. Some high-click "internet-famous hotspot" photos may come at the cost of irreparable pain and regret in reality. There is nothing wrong with the idea of taking "photos of a lifetime," but we must raise risk awareness and not "bet our lives" for it.

Platforms should earnestly fulfill their responsibilities, strengthen content review mechanisms, and not only label content that may cause dangerous behavior, but also limit traffic and block content that induces illegal behavior in a timely manner to reduce the occurrence of imitative behavior. Law enforcement departments must investigate and deal with illegal behavior in a timely manner to form a strong deterrent.

On the path of pursuing beauty and expressing individuality, we must always remember that nothing is more important than life safety.

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How to Lose Weight Scientifically in Summer? (Service Window)

By: 本报记者  吴  君

Many people find, after changing into summer clothes, that their fat can no longer be hidden, their clothes have become smaller, and weight loss is imminent. How can one lose weight quickly? What should one eat during weight loss? A reporter interviewed Xiong Fei (熊非), Deputy Chief Physician of the Obesity and Metabolic Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center at the Eighth Hospital of Wuhan (武汉市第八医院) in Hubei (湖北) Province.

First, it is necessary to determine whether you are obese. Xiong Fei (熊非) introduced that a person's obesity can be measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI). The Body Mass Index (BMI) = weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of height (in meters). If the BMI is between 24 and 28, it is considered overweight; if the BMI exceeds 28, it reaches the standard for obesity.

Xiong Fei (熊非) reminded that if a person's BMI exceeds 24, they need weight management, adjusting bad habits and dietary structure; if the BMI exceeds 28, they need medical weight loss, seeking a doctor at the hospital to provide a scientific weight loss plan and dietary management methods.

For overweight and obese people, how can they lose weight quickly and not rebound? Xiong Fei (熊非) said that during weight loss, diet is more important than exercise. "Scientific weight loss requires reducing weight to a normal value and maintaining it long-term." Xiong Fei (熊非) said that good dietary management is the foundation of weight loss, and the saying "three parts exercise, seven parts diet" has some truth to it.

How should one eat during weight loss? Staple foods should be chosen that provide energy slowly, such as purple sweet potatoes, potatoes, and mixed grains. These foods break down more slowly in the body, thus consuming more of the body's energy and providing fewer calories. Rice, noodles, and steamed buns, on the other hand, quickly break down into glucose and convert into calories, so they need to be eaten less during weight loss. "During weight loss, you cannot skip staple foods, otherwise it will affect brain function, leading to slow thinking, memory decline, irritability, anxiety, and depression, and it can also cause metabolic disorders and damage the digestive system," said Xiong Fei (熊非).

For scientific weight loss, you need to consume not only carbohydrates every day, but also foods rich in protein such as fish, shrimp, beef, beans, and eggs, and supplement with high-fiber vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, lettuce, and cucumbers. "During weight loss, it is best to eat these foods in combination. Being able to eat different ingredients every day makes it easier to stick to weight loss," said Xiong Fei (熊非).

Can you consume fat during weight loss? What are the dietary restrictions? Fat can promote the absorption of vitamins, and a small amount of fat can be consumed during weight loss. For example, adding some olive oil, sesame paste, or vegetable oil to the ingredients. However, you cannot eat pure fat foods such as butter during weight loss, as they contain a lot of saturated fat, are very high in calories, and can easily lead to weight gain.

In addition, you need to give up sugary drinks and drink more water during weight loss. "An adult weighing 60 kilograms and 1.7 meters tall should drink 2000 to 2500 milliliters of water every day in the summer, which can increase the basal metabolic rate," said Xiong Fei (熊非).

For adolescents and children, good exercise habits are more important than controlling diet. Good exercise habits also help with height development, so the BMI can also decrease. "For weight loss in adolescents and children, the first thing to ensure is their normal growth and development, timely supplementation of nutrients and trace elements, and the second is to control calorie intake," said Xiong Fei (熊非).

Sleep is also crucial. "Adults need at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep a day, and the sleep time does not have to be continuous, but the quantity must be guaranteed," said Xiong Fei (熊非). Adolescents and children need to sleep at least 8 hours a day.

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Photo Story

On May 24th, the Sanmenxia Vocational and Technical College (三门峡职业技术学院) in Henan (河南) held the 2025 College Student Employment Fair, precisely connecting employers with graduate needs. The employment fair attracted 147 companies, providing 6,350 job positions, covering multiple industries such as education, food, and commerce.

The picture shows college students seeking jobs consulting at the employment fair.

Sun Meng (孙猛) photographed (Image China (影像中国)).

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Chinese Team Wins Four Championships

This newspaper reported from Doha on May 25th (Reporter Sun Longfei (孙龙飞)) The 2025 World Table Tennis Championships, lasting 9 days, concluded in Doha (多哈), Qatar (卡塔尔) on local time May 25th. The Chinese Table Tennis Team won 4 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze medals in the men's singles, women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles events.

On the same day, the Chinese team participated in the finals of 3 events. In the women's singles final, Chinese player Sun Yingsha (孙颖莎) defeated teammate Wang Manyu (王曼昱) 4-3, winning the women's singles championship again after the 2023 Durban World Table Tennis Championships, and Wang Manyu (王曼昱) won the silver medal. The Chinese Table Tennis Team achieved its 16th consecutive victory in the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles event.

"We are the best opponents and have been in a positive competition." Sun Yingsha (孙颖莎) said in a post-match interview that she had made full preparations for difficulties before the match, and experienced several comebacks during the match but persevered. "There are no losers in today's game, Manyu (曼昱) and I are both winners," she said.

In the men's singles final, Chinese player Wang Chuqin (王楚钦) defeated Brazilian player Hugo Calderano (雨果·卡尔德拉诺) 4-1, winning the World Table Tennis Championships men's singles championship for the first time, and Hugo (雨果) won the silver medal. The Chinese team achieved its 11th consecutive victory in the World Table Tennis Championships men's singles event, and Hugo (雨果) created the best result for Brazilian players in the World Table Tennis Championships.

In April of this year, Hugo (雨果) won his first world championship title in the International Table Tennis Federation Men's World Cup. At that time, Wang Chuqin (王楚钦) lost to him in the semi-finals. In this match, Wang Chuqin (王楚钦) faced the competition with the mentality of a challenger. He said: "I have been holding my breath in my heart, and I am very happy to prove myself in the World Table Tennis Championships, and I am very proud to win glory for the country."

In the women's doubles final, the Chinese team combination Wang Manyu (王曼昱)/Kuai Man (蒯曼) defeated the cross-association combination Polcanova (波尔卡诺娃) (Austria (奥地利))/Szocs (斯佐科斯) (Romania (罗马尼亚)) 3-0 to win the championship. The Chinese team achieved its 19th consecutive victory in the World Table Tennis Championships women's doubles event.

In the match held on the 24th, the Chinese team's Paris (巴黎) Olympic champion combination Wang Chuqin (王楚钦)/Sun Yingsha (孙颖莎) defeated the Japanese team combination Yoshimura Maharu (吉村真晴)/Oto Satsuki (大藤沙月) 3-1, winning the World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles championship for the third time after 2021 and 2023. Chinese players Liang Jingkun (梁靖崑) and Chen Xingtong (陈幸同) lost to their opponents in the men's singles and women's singles semi-finals respectively, and won bronze medals.

In this World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese team combination Lin Gaoyuan (林高远)/Lin Shidong (林诗栋) lost to the Chinese Taipei (中国台北) team combination Kao Cheng-Jui (高承睿)/Lin Yun-Ju (林昀儒) 1-3 and stopped in the top eight. This is the first time that the Chinese team has missed the World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles medal since 1975.

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60 Test Results Mutually Recognized by 1,118 Medical Institutions in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, and Shandong

This newspaper reported from Beijing on May 25th (Reporters Pan Junqiang (潘俊强) and Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) It was recently learned from the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision Bureau (北京市市场监管局): After years of exploration and research, the market supervision and management departments of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), together with the health and health departments of the three places, have formed the "Quality and Technical Requirements for Medical Laboratories" Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional collaborative local standard, and it has been officially implemented recently. As of now, the number of medical institutions in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Shandong (京津冀鲁) region that mutually recognize inspection results has reached 1118, and the number of mutually recognized inspection items has reached 60.

According to reports, in 2016, the pilot work of mutual recognition of inspection results in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region was officially launched, and Shandong Province (山东省) joined the mutual recognition queue in 2019. The standard regulates the general requirements for medical laboratories, clinical specimen management, inspection equipment management, and inspection reagent and consumable management requirements.

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Advance the Supervision of Medical Insurance Funds to an Earlier Stage

This newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on May 25th (Reporter Sun Xiuyan (孙秀艳)) The National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) publicly released the first batch of intelligent supervision rules and knowledge points for healthcare security funds. Due to the complexity of healthcare security policies, making it difficult to grasp them all accurately, the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) has embedded clearly defined rules and requirements from some healthcare security policies, as well as issues that designated medical institutions are prone to encounter in practice, into the pre-warning module of the intelligent supervision subsystem. When medical personnel write prescriptions, the system will issue a warning once it detects any violations, resolving the problem in its nascent stage. Pre-screening and self-inspection can also be conducted before transmitting settlement documents to the handling agency.

The relevant负责人 (fù zé rén - "person in charge") of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) introduced that intelligent supervision has become an important method for healthcare security fund supervision. Relying on the construction of a pre-warning module on the healthcare security information platform, all designated medical institutions are allowed to access and call it for free. For large medical institutions with large business scale, high complexity, and strong information technology capabilities, the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局), through the opening and sharing of the intelligent supervision rule base and knowledge base (hereinafter referred to as the "two bases"), allows them to directly deploy the "two bases" locally and embed them into the hospital information system, further improving the efficiency and accuracy of pre-warning.

The first batch of intelligent supervision "two bases" released this time includes more than 10,000 detailed knowledge points in 5 categories of rules, such as drug use differentiated by gender, medical service item use differentiated by gender, drugs for children only, drugs limited to children's use, and medical service items for children only. In the application process of these rules and knowledge points, the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) will continuously track, evaluate, and improve them, and constantly improve the scientificity and accuracy of the "two bases."

The National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) requires healthcare security departments at all provincial levels to dynamically update the "two bases" of the intelligent supervision subsystem of the provincial healthcare security information platform in a timely manner according to the latest detailed knowledge points and codes. It encourages designated medical institutions to place the intelligent supervision "two bases" in their own intelligent warning and other information systems, or to connect to the pre-warning function module of the intelligent supervision system of the healthcare security department, so as to eliminate non-compliant behaviors in the "nascent" stage, nipping them in the bud, or 消除在“萌芽”阶段.

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Editor in Charge for This Section: Lü Li, Bai Zhenzhi, Xu Yang

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Green Transformation from a Drop of Brine (Beautiful China)

By: 本报记者  乔  栋

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Salt lakes are one of the most important resources in Qinghai (青海). In recent years, at the Qarhan Salt Lake (察尔汗盐湖), potash fertilizer production processes have been optimized, key technologies for lithium extraction from salt lakes have achieved breakthroughs, the level of green and efficient mining has been continuously improved, and the concepts of energy conservation, carbon reduction, and green development have taken root.

A gentle breeze stirs up ripples on the wide lake surface. 1.8 meters beneath the water, fine, ivory-white potash ore has formed "salt beds" through long-term evaporation. Amidst the roar of the "water harvesting boats" on the lake, potash ore is continuously sent into storage cylinders, and then "pumped" to the potash fertilizer plant area 10 kilometers away. A glance at the map reveals that the seemingly "boundless" salt lake is actually just one of the 30 salt ponds in the Qarhan Salt Lake (察尔汗盐湖).

This is Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co., Ltd. (青海盐湖工业股份有限公司), located in Golmud (格尔木市), Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (海西蒙古族藏族自治州), Qinghai (青海). Its potash fertilizer production accounts for 2/3 of the national total. In recent years, the Qarhan Salt Lake (察尔汗盐湖) has promoted green and efficient mining and accelerated the construction of a world-class salt lake industrial base.

Optimizing Potash Fertilizer Production Processes and Breaking Through Key Technologies for Lithium Extraction from Salt Lakes

At the central wharf of the Qarhan Salt Lake (察尔汗盐湖), the surrounding area is filled with carnallite salt ponds. This is the "raw material warehouse" of the potash fertilizer branch of Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co., Ltd. (青海盐湖工业股份有限公司). The potash "slurry" extracted from the salt ponds by the "water harvesting boats" is continuously transported to the workshop through pipelines. On the conveyor belt in the workshop, the snow-white potash raw material undergoes "dehalogenation." Shi Tao (石涛), deputy director of the workshop, said: "The slurry transported from the pipelines needs to be 'sieved' here because the concentration of the slurry sent by each 'water harvesting boat' varies, and it needs to be processed before being sent to the next step."

Walking more than 10 meters, outside the workshop are three huge tank-like objects, with white potash material floating and rotating on top. "This is called a thickener, which is used to increase the potassium content of potash fertilizer products," said Shi Tao (石涛). "The potassium content of the potash fertilizer that has just been 'pumped' over is not high. Through a series of steps, we can increase the potassium content to 95%." Potassium chloride products with a potassium content of 95% are now the main products of the potash fertilizer branch, accounting for more than 90% of the overall production capacity.

Despite having mature production processes, the potash fertilizer branch has not stopped continuously tapping potential for increased efficiency. Li Cunfu (李存福), general manager of the potash fertilizer branch, introduced that in order to continuously ensure stable quality and achieve efficient mining, they have adopted a "rotational mining" method. "Just like farming, crop rotation is also used to maintain soil fertility. We now have 30 production salt ponds, and we will keep a few as emergency reserves, which also means that the evaporation time is extended, so as to better 'nourish the ore'."

Potash fertilizer production is just one link in the Qarhan Salt Lake (察尔汗盐湖) area. The decomposition liquid produced by the potash fertilizer branch will be transferred to the lithium ore production workshop and enter the next stage. Lanke Lithium Industry Co., Ltd. (蓝科锂业股份有限公司), which is responsible for this stage, is only 5 kilometers away from the potash fertilizer branch. "In recent years, our key technologies for lithium extraction from salt lakes have achieved breakthroughs, and the success rate of 'capturing' lithium has been greatly improved," said Zhang Chengsheng (张成胜), general manager of the company.

Water Conservation, Energy Saving, Carbon Reduction, and Green Mining

Emerging from the "mother ore" in the west, the "brine" mixed with sodium, potassium, magnesium, and lithium flows for hundreds of kilometers and is injected into 30 salt ponds. After multiple processes such as sodium removal, potassium extraction, and lithium extraction, the "tail water" returns to the "mother ore" for solid-liquid conversion. In this production plant area, an efficient mining pattern of recycling has been formed.

"In the entire salt lake production process, energy consumption is mainly 'water' and 'electricity', accompanied by a small amount of air pollutant emissions. Our green mining is to save water, save energy, and reduce carbon through control measures in various links," said Zhang Chengsheng (张成胜).

Looking at Lanke Lithium Industry (蓝科锂业) from a distance, there is a large-scale solar energy "matrix" to the left of the main entrance – composed of reflective panels below, with pipes above responsible for absorbing reflected light. Technician Zhang Junxian (张君贤) said: "The pipes contain water, and the water heated by solar energy enters the production workshop to dry the magnesium-lithium brine at high temperatures. In the past, coal-fired boilers were used for heating, which consumed more energy. By using solar heating, energy consumption can be reduced by nearly half."

"The electricity consumption of the lithium industry company alone is as high as 150 million kilowatt-hours per year. In addition to replacing high-efficiency motors and other measures, we also 'make full use' of clean energy to reduce carbon emissions," introduced Zhang Chengsheng (张成胜).

The production process is also vigorously "saving water." In the freshwater recovery workshop, the reporter saw tanks and pipes arranged in an orderly manner. "We have added a membrane treatment process in the entire process. The tail brine undergoes physical separation inside, realizing the recovery of some reclaimed water, and the produced water can be directly used as industrial water again," said Zhang Junxian (张君贤). In the past, the treatment method was a "one-pot" approach, and the tail brine generated in each link was directly returned to the "mother ore" through pipelines. Through the new method, the water consumption for producing each ton of lithium carbonate has decreased from 6 million tons to 4.5 million tons.

In the potash fertilizer branch, the concept of "saving water is saving ore" has also taken root. "The water consumption for producing each ton of potassium chloride product is 6 to 8 tons. Through process optimization in the production process, we recycle the mixed tail brine, and the current water consumption has decreased to 4.5 tons," introduced Li Cunfu (李存福). The potash fertilizer branch also centrally treats the sewage in the living area, which can additionally obtain 400 tons of production water per day.

Significant progress has also been made in the control of air pollutant emissions. Standing on the periphery of the drying workshop, one can see a row of cylindrical objects. "This is the modular bag filter device that we have started using in recent years. Inside are removable large 'bags' used to 'capture' potassium particles, which can be used for recycling production on the one hand, and effectively reduce dust pollution on the other hand," said Shi Tao (石涛).

Developing Industrial Tourism and Expanding New Salt Lake Business Forms

Starting from the central wharf of the Qarhan Salt Lake (察尔汗盐湖) and continuing northwest along the salt dike, one quickly enters the "hundred-mile water landscape line."

"Speaking of salt lakes, people used to feel that the colors were beautiful, but they could only be viewed from a distance and not 'played' with up close," introduced Wang Yue (王越), chairman of Salt Lake Co., Ltd. (盐湖股份旅游公司) Tourism Company. Ten years ago, the company focused on improving the ecological environment of the mining area, while developing industrial tourism, and specially developed sodium salt ponds to create the "Dream Salt Lake" scenic spot and build the "Qarhan Salt Lake (察尔汗盐湖)" tourist destination.

The further in you go, the richer and brighter the colors of the salt lake become. The appearance of the sodium salt ponds is completely different from the carnallite salt ponds rich in potassium and lithium. Carnallite salt ponds are mostly yellow-green, while sodium salt ponds are light green "green apple color", attracting tourists from all over the country to "check in."

Industrial tourism has increased the popularity of the salt lake and expanded new salt lake business forms. "When there are many people in summer, the daily tourist volume is nearly 10,000 people. A diversified development pattern is becoming increasingly clear – the five major industrial clusters of potassium salt, sodium salt, magnesium salt, lithium salt, and chlor-alkali are developed in a tiered manner, horizontally coupling the salt lake chemical industry with new materials and new energy industries, while developing new business forms such as industrial tourism, continuously injecting new connotations into the creation of a world-class salt lake industrial base," said Wang Yue (王越).

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Southern China to Experience the Strongest Rainfall of the Year So Far

This newspaper reported from Beijing on May 25th (Reporter Li Hongmei (李红梅)): Since May, strong rainfall processes have frequently occurred in southern China. Since May 13th, Jiangnan, South China, and Guizhou (贵州) and other places have experienced three consecutive strong rainfall processes. The Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) predicts that from May 27th to 29th, southern China will usher in the strongest rainfall process this year. Guizhou (贵州), Jiangnan (江南), South China (华南) and other places will have heavy to torrential rain. Some areas in southern Jiangnan (江南) and northern South China (华南) will have extremely heavy rain, and some areas will have exceptionally heavy rain. The above-mentioned areas will have short-term heavy rainfall, and some areas will be accompanied by severe convective weather such as thunderstorms, strong winds, and hail.

On May 27th, the main heavy rain areas are in Guizhou (贵州), Guangxi (广西), and Hunan (湖南). The rainfall will be strongest on the 28th, and the heavy rain areas will expand eastward to Jiangxi (江西), Fujian (福建), Guangdong (广东) and other places. On the 29th, the rain belt will rapidly move southward and out of South China (华南).

During this rainfall process, the strong rainfall areas are concentrated and highly overlap with the period from the 21st to the 24th. The meteorological risk of mountain floods, geological disasters, small and medium-sized river floods, urban rainstorm waterlogging, and farmland waterlogging is high in some areas of western and southern Hunan (湖南), southern Jiangxi (江西), southern Fujian (福建), northern Guangxi (广西), central and northern Guangdong (广东), eastern and southern Guizhou (贵州), and western Yunnan (云南).

Meteorological experts suggest that the public in the above-mentioned areas should take precautions against secondary disasters caused by heavy rain, pay close attention to the latest weather forecasts and early warning information released by local meteorological departments, and avoid going to disaster-prone areas during periods of concentrated rainfall. At the same time, it is necessary to be alert to the adverse effects of short-term heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, strong winds, or hail and other severe convective weather on transportation, outdoor activities, etc. After the rainfall, drainage and waterlogging reduction in farmland should be carried out in a timely manner, and early rice water and fertilizer management should be done well.

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Beijing Releases White Paper on Biodiversity Conservation

This newspaper reported from Beijing on May 25th (Reporter: Pan Junqiang (潘俊强)) Recently, Beijing (北京) released its first white paper, "Biodiversity Conservation in Beijing (北京的生物多样性保护)," which systematically showcases Beijing's (北京) concepts, measures, and achievements in biodiversity conservation, providing "Beijing (北京) Practice" for biodiversity conservation in megacities and promoting a new process of biodiversity conservation.

In recent years, Beijing (北京) has systematically and comprehensively conducted baseline surveys and assessments of biodiversity, basically clarifying the city's (全市) biodiversity baseline. A preliminary biodiversity monitoring system has been established, and survey results are incorporated into the annual ecological environment quality assessment to objectively reflect the status of the ecological environment. Bird observations are carried out throughout the city (全市), mammal observations are carried out in ecological conservation areas, and butterfly and dragonfly observations are carried out in the central urban area. At present, a relatively systematic monitoring system of indicative biological groups that takes into account both land and water and covers the entire city (全市) has been initially formed.

The white paper statistics show that after field surveys from 2020 to 2024, in terms of ecosystem diversity, Beijing (北京) recorded a total of 151 types of natural and semi-natural ecosystems, including forests, shrubs, grasslands, swamps, and aquatic vegetation. In terms of species diversity, a total of 7,121 species were recorded, including algae, higher plants, vertebrates, insects, large fungi, and large benthic invertebrates. These include *Vitis amurensis* (百花山葡萄), a national first-class protected wild plant; 14 species of national second-class protected wild plants, such as *Ranunculus pekinensis* (北京水毛茛), *Clematis acerifolia* (槭叶铁线莲), and *Cypripedium macranthos* (大花杓兰); as well as 11 species of national first-class protected wild animals, including the Père David's deer (麋鹿) and 10 species of birds such as the black stork (黑鹳); 56 species of national second-class protected wild animals, including 5 species of mammals such as the leopard cat (豹猫) and red fox (赤狐), 50 species of birds such as the long-eared owl (长耳鸮) and whooper swan (大天鹅), and the *Gloydius ussuriensis* (团花锦蛇), a reptile.

In terms of genetic diversity, Beijing (北京) has collected and preserved 56,000 copies of crop germplasm resources and 15,000 copies of livestock and poultry genetic materials. Beijing (北京) focuses on protecting 47 species of natural forest germplasm resources, and has 14 geographical indication agricultural products such as Jingxi Rice (京西稻), Beijing Duck (北京鸭), and Beijing Oil Chicken (北京油鸡), and has more than 41,000 ancient and famous trees.

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Crafting Green Charm with Ingenuity, Showcasing Skills with Flair

On May 25th, the first Garden and Horticulture Industry Vocational Skills Competition of Lai'an County (来安县), Chuzhou City (滁州市), Anhui Province (安徽省) kicked off. 89 gardeners and 36 bonsai artists gathered at the competition venue to compete with their exquisite skills.

The competition includes several practical projects such as garden landscape design, plant pruning and shaping, and bonsai making, comprehensively testing the contestants' professional skills and innovation capabilities. At the competition venue, the gardeners held professional tools and focused on pruning green plants; the bonsai artists carefully conceived, and through pruning, bending, and layout, made each work unique.

This competition not only provides a platform for garden and horticulture practitioners to showcase their skills and exchange learning experiences, but also helps to further stimulate the innovation vitality of the garden and horticulture industry.

The picture shows the competition scene.

Photo by Lü Hua (吕华) (Image China).

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Chongqing comprehensively establishes a basin-wide horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism.

(People's Daily, Chongqing (重庆) May 25th) (Reporter Liu Xinwu (刘新吾)) The reporter learned from the press conference on the comprehensive establishment of a river basin horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism in Chongqing (重庆): Chongqing (重庆) has comprehensively established a river basin horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism, realizing full coverage of the main stream of the Yangtze River (长江), and comprehensive coverage of important tributaries such as the Jialing River (嘉陵江) and the Wu River (乌江). Relevant parties have cumulatively paid 770 million yuan in compensation funds.

Horizontal ecological protection compensation is an institutional arrangement in which ecologically related regions without subordinate relationships allow ecological protectors to receive compensation or ecological destroyers to pay compensation through economic means. River basin horizontal ecological protection compensation aims to promote "joint efforts for major protection" among regions within the river basin.

According to reports, in the field of river basin horizontal ecological protection compensation reform, Chongqing (重庆) achieved full coverage of the intra-city compensation mechanism in 2018; Chongqing (重庆) and Sichuan (四川) established a cross-provincial compensation mechanism for the main stream of the Yangtze River (长江) in 2021; in 2024, Chongqing (重庆), Hubei (鄂), Guizhou (黔), and Sichuan (川) comprehensively signed compensation agreements, achieving "full coverage of compensation mechanisms" between Chongqing (重庆) and upstream and downstream provinces.

Relevant officials from the Chongqing Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau (重庆市生态环境局) introduced that the river basin horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism effectively promotes cross-border river basin governance. Taking Sichuan (川) and Chongqing (渝) as an example, the two sides jointly strengthen joint prevention and control, enhance the systematic nature of river basin pollution control, and jointly deploy and carry out scientific and technological research to improve water quality and restore water ecology in cross-border river basins between Sichuan (川) and Chongqing (渝).

Data shows that the proportion of Yangtze River (长江), Jialing River (嘉陵江), and Wu River (乌江) sections in Chongqing (重庆) that reach Class II water quality has been increasing year by year, and the proportion of excellent water quality in the 74 national assessment water environment quality monitoring sections in Chongqing (重庆) has remained stable at 100% for two consecutive years.

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Gansu to Implement 63 Key Ecological Protection Projects This Year

(Reporter Zhao Shuaijie (赵帅杰)) Lanzhou, May 25th – This reporter learned from a press conference held recently by the Gansu Provincial Government Information Office (甘肃省政府新闻办) that in 2025, Gansu (甘肃) plans to implement 63 projects to consolidate the national western ecological security barrier, including six major categories: ecological protection and restoration projects, environmental quality improvement projects, nuclear and radiation safety system construction projects, environmental risk system prevention and control projects, and major green, low-carbon, and circular development projects.

Gansu (甘肃) is located at the intersection of the Loess Plateau, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the Inner Mongolia Plateau. It is an important water conservation area in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and also a barrier to prevent the Tengger, Badain Jaran, and Kumtag deserts from converging and encroaching southward. Its ecological location and strategic position are very important. Not long ago, the "Gansu Province Action Plan for Consolidating the National Western Ecological Security Barrier" was introduced, proposing 7 special actions and 27 specific tasks to comprehensively improve the quality of the national western ecological security barrier.

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In Shrimp Ponds, Protecting the Baer's Pochard (Guardians of Green Waters and Lush Mountains)

By: 本报记者  吴  君

Early in the morning, after sending his children to school, Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) always takes a walk around his shrimp fields. Not to check on the shrimp, but to observe the birds.

"Look! That's a Baer's pochard, its feathers are chestnut-colored." By the shrimp field, Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) pointed to a few birds on the artificial island in the distance, trying to keep his voice down, "They're flying again, the feathers under their tails and wings are white, so beautiful!"

Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) is a shrimp pond contractor and farmer in Baoxie Lake (豹澥湖), East Lake High-tech Development Zone (东湖新技术开发区), Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北) Province. The Baer's pochard he is talking about is a national first-class protected wild animal.

Zhu Xiangneng's (朱祥能) first encounter with the Baer's pochard can be traced back to 2016. "From that time on, I changed from raising fish to raising crayfish. The water in the shrimp fields was shallow, and aquatic plants such as lotus, reeds, and wild water chestnuts slowly grew, and some wild ducks that I had never seen before came here." Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) recalled that he did not recognize the Baer's pochard at that time.

Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) does not feed or medicate in the shrimp fields, and the water in the shrimp fields remains clear. Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) never drives away the wild ducks that come to the shrimp fields to forage. "These wild ducks are small in number and can't eat much crayfish, so it doesn't affect the yield," Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) said.

In this way, the "wild ducks" in Zhu Xiangneng's (朱祥能) words, except for leaving for a period of time due to migration during the hottest months of each year, live in his shrimp fields at other times.

In the spring of 2022, Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能), who was harvesting shrimp in the shrimp fields, met a group of strangers. "When I went over to ask, I learned that they were members of the Wuhan Bird Watching Association (武汉市观鸟协会) and were looking for Baer's pochards." Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) asked about the basic situation of the Baer's pochard and looked at the photos provided by the members of the Bird Watching Association (观鸟协会) before he realized that the "guests" in his shrimp fields were Baer's pochards.

"These wild ducks have been in my shrimp fields for four or five years." After Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) introduced the situation, the Bird Watching Association (观鸟协会) asked him to look for the breeding nests of the Baer's pochard.

Soon, Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) found the breeding nest of the Baer's pochard in the grass of the shrimp pond, with 13 duck eggs neatly arranged inside. After the members of the Bird Watching Association (观鸟协会) went to the site to check, they confirmed that what Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) said was indeed the Baer's pochard. They then searched repeatedly and found multiple Baer's pochard breeding nests. "At that time, they also asked me if they could install surveillance cameras and infrared cameras in the shrimp pond to record the growth process of the Baer's pochard. I agreed without much thought," Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) said, adding that the Bird Watching Association (观鸟协会) also invited him to join and become a volunteer.

From a farmer to a bird protection volunteer, Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能), in addition to raising shrimp, also has to regularly sort out the videos in the infrared camera to record the survival status of the Baer's pochard. He also strengthens publicity and guidance to prevent people around him and people who come to play from harming the Baer's pochard.

"Now I go to the shrimp pond every morning and evening to check the environment and check on the Baer's pochard," Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) said, adding that under his protection, more than 70% of the Baer's pochard breeding nests can be successfully bred.

Spending more time in the wild has also enhanced Zhu Xiangneng's (朱祥能) ability to identify birds. "I didn't know many birds before, but now I can identify more than 50 kinds of birds," Zhu Xiangneng (朱祥能) said, adding that the more he knows, the more he likes these birds, and the more motivated he is to protect them.

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Editor(s) for this page: Zhang Ye, Yang Xiaoyu, He Yuche

Layout design: Wang Zheping (汪哲平)

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Dancing in the Cherry Orchard

By: 陈熙芮

On April 25th, at the Drama Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (中国国家大剧院) in China, 72-year-old French actress Isabelle Huppert remarked that the play *The Cherry Orchard*, with the same cast and crew, was no different from the performance at the Avignon Theatre Festival in France four years ago. "I am still me."

While many actresses of her generation have retired or gradually faded from the spotlight, Huppert continues to maintain a vigorous artistic creativity. From April 11th to 27th, she starred in the French-language play *The Cherry Orchard*, touring Shanghai (上海), Nanjing (南京), and Beijing (北京) for eight performances. In 2001, the documentary *Isabelle Huppert: A Life Dedicated to Performance* recorded her "superhuman" work intensity. Over her 54-year career, Huppert has participated in more than 120 films and nearly 30 plays, winning numerous awards, including Best Actress at the three major European film festivals. Today, she remains highly productive and passionate about acting. A life dedicated to art is largely like this.

Twice in China for Performances in Four Months

On the big screen, Huppert's face is often calm, even somewhat cold and distant. However, through subtle and precise micro-movements, a fleeting glance, a blossoming smile, she allows the audience to immediately feel the subtle changes in the character's emotions and state. This precise and restrained acting style has earned Huppert much praise, with film critics calling her "one of the finest actors of this era." In 2020, *The New York Times* selected the "25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century," and Huppert ranked second.

On April 25th, the French version of *The Cherry Orchard* premiered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院), with Huppert playing the lead role of Lyubov. *The Cherry Orchard* is the last work of Russian writer Chekhov before his death and is also his most performed play, with numerous versions. The French version of *The Cherry Orchard* was created in 2021, directed by Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues, and the plot faithfully restores the original work. The story revolves around a noble family, with the female owner, Lyubov, returning to her homeland after living in Paris (巴黎) for many years, only to face the dilemma of her ancestral cherry orchard being auctioned off to pay debts. Although the businessman Lopakhin proposes a solution, Lyubov's family does nothing and ultimately loses their home, forced to leave. During the three days of performances in Beijing (北京), the venue was packed, and the audience responded enthusiastically.

Only four months have passed since Huppert's last performance in China. Last December, she performed three consecutive shows of American playwright Tennessee Williams' autobiographical play *The Glass Menagerie* at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院). Huppert said, "I am very happy to come to China to perform again. This trip came about largely because *The Glass Menagerie* was very popular with the audience!" This time, she once again felt the enthusiasm and friendliness of the Chinese audience. At the pre-performance talk for *The Cherry Orchard*, a young audience member excitedly told Huppert that she had watched three performances of *The Glass Menagerie* last year and would watch all three performances of *The Cherry Orchard* in Beijing (北京) this time!

In Huppert's view, the screen and stage are important creative spaces. Making a film is like entering a house, sometimes in the living room, sometimes in the bedroom, freely moving between them. "But theater is different, it's more difficult." Huppert said, "Rehearsing and performing is a long journey, like climbing a peak." In each climb, she firmly believes that the stage of the theater contains vitality and creativity. This is also the reason she came to China to perform—to share the charm of theatrical art with the Chinese audience.

Everyone Has a "Cherry Orchard"

On the theater stage, Huppert's petite body bursts with enormous energy. She sometimes screams, sometimes sobs softly, jumps and dances on thin high heels, and waves her hands like a playing child.

Huppert's performance seems incredibly light. This lightness stems from her ability to effortlessly control complex characters on stage and become one with them, and also from her ability to switch freely between strong or calm emotional fluctuations. In *The Glass Menagerie*, Huppert plays the strong and obsessive single mother Amanda in this way; in *The Cherry Orchard*, she plays Lyubov in the same way. In her view, interpreting these complex characters is not difficult; it is a process of naturally "feeling them, becoming them, and leaving them" each time.

Different from the emotional outbursts and tragic treatment of Lyubov in past versions, Huppert's Lyubov is restrained and indifferent. She casually changes the subject during conversations and dances in the cherry orchard while waiting for the auction results. Wrapped in a strong sense of alienation, Lyubov welcomes the result already written in fate through avoidance and evasion.

At the end of the third act, Lyubov's brother and Lopakhin return from the auction, informing everyone that the cherry orchard has been auctioned off. Huppert delivers the most moving 10-minute performance of the entire play: Amidst the noisy music, Lopakhin excitedly announces to everyone that he has bought the cherry orchard, which symbolizes glory. Hearing this news, Lyubov is incredulous. She collapses under the giant chandelier in the center of the stage, her lips trembling slightly, and disappointment is written on her face. Then, she cries silently, closes her eyes tightly, and cannot say a word. Different from Lopakhin's extroversion, Lyubov's emotions are introverted and restrained—she is silent, sad, and powerless, and the noisy music is like a chaotic state of mind. Huppert hopes that the audience can capture the subtle changes in the character's emotions and state through her performance. Therefore, she follows the play's setting and tries to leave room for imagination for the audience when shaping Lyubov, allowing them to feel it themselves and resonate with the character.

Rodrigues directs *The Cherry Orchard* using a non-naturalistic approach, without gorgeous sets and exquisite aristocratic costumes, adopting a minimalist stage aesthetic to provide the audience with an open viewing experience—everyone can interpret Lyubov in their own mind and build their own "cherry orchard."

Using a Common Artistic Language to Engage in Dialogue

In film, Huppert encountered China (中国). Since the late 1980s, Chinese films have emerged on the international stage, and Huppert first became acquainted with Chinese cinema through the works of Zhang Yimou (张艺谋) and Chen Kaige (陈凯歌).

"China (中国) has many excellent films, many of which are deeply loved by European audiences." Speaking of Chinese films that have received international attention in recent years, Huppert lists them like a family treasure—*Black Coal, Thin Ice*, *Kaili Blues*, and others are films she admires. These works have won important awards at major international film festivals, opening windows of light and shadow for Western audiences to understand China (中国).

Huppert said that she recently watched the film *Nice View*, which is "quite interesting." Now, the film has met with audiences in Paris (巴黎), and Huppert's eldest son, Lorenzo, participated in the film's distribution in France (法国). "The commonality between French and Chinese films lies in their ability to express themselves in personalized and unconventional narrative styles." On April 23rd, Huppert was invited to participate in the 15th Beijing International Film Festival (北京国际电影节) Master Class, engaging in a dialogue with young director Bi Gan (毕赣). She likes Bi Gan's (毕赣) *Kaili Blues* very much, praising the film for using intense poetry to bring the audience into a new artistic conception, and "when poetry and philosophical thinking enter the screen, the film has a power that transcends time and space and can touch people's hearts more."

For Huppert, film is a language, and so is theater. "No matter where the creators come from, when we watch a film or a play, we communicate through this language, get to know others, and understand each other." The essence of film and theater art is how people establish connections with each other. Huppert hopes to engage in dialogue and create emotional connections with Chinese audiences through film and theater works.

Huppert's long film resume is woven from rich and diverse international collaborations: four collaborations with Austrian director Michael Haneke, starring in the famous work of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, and voicing the American director Wes Anderson's animated film *Fantastic Mr. Fox*... She also looks forward to collaborating with Chinese directors such as Jia Zhangke (贾樟柯) and Bi Gan (毕赣). When asked if she would consider developing in China (中国) in the future, Huppert frankly stated, "I think it's very possible. If I have the opportunity to work in China (中国) or play a Chinese role, the first thing I need to do is learn Chinese and strive to be able to say a few more sentences."

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Berlin Museum: Day and Night (A Traveler's Musings)

By: 郝  妍

If a global selection were held for the city that best knows how to utilize museums, the German capital, Berlin (柏林), would certainly be on the list. The "Long Night of Museums" event, which began in 1997, is one of Berlin's (柏林) proudest cultural tourism calling cards. Every year on the last Saturday of August, the closing time of museums is extended from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. the next day, and visitors can travel between more than 70 museums in Berlin (柏林) by special public transportation lines. From opening to nightfall, the city's museums prepare a rich variety of activities, waiting for visitors to arrive.

At 10 a.m., the five major museums on Berlin's (柏林) Museum Island (博物馆岛) open on time to welcome global visitors. Museum Island (博物馆岛) was born two centuries ago, and it is the only place in the world that can be included in the World Heritage List under the name "Museum." For museum enthusiasts, this is the best starting point for a museum tour of Berlin (柏林).

The Old Museum (旧博物馆), located next to the Berlin Cathedral (柏林大教堂), is the core building of Museum Island (博物馆岛) and the first public museum in the history of Berlin (柏林). The Etruscan art collection in the museum records the first highly developed civilization on the Italian peninsula. The New Museum (新博物馆) features the bust of the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti (纳芙蒂蒂) as its treasure. Even with a missing eye, this queen is still graceful. The Old National Gallery (老国家艺术画廊) is across the street from the New Museum (新博物馆) and is a striking presence in many popular film and television works: in the Norwegian painter Munch's (蒙克) biographical film of the same name, "Munch" walked through the Old National Gallery (老国家艺术画廊), where the painter had actually stood in reality. Continuing forward is the Pergamon Museum (佩加蒙博物馆), whose reputation can overshadow Nefertiti (纳芙蒂蒂). Although the exquisite Pergamon Altar (佩加蒙祭坛) is under renovation, the nearby "temporary pavilion" with digital technology replacing the restoration still makes the visit worthwhile. The Bode Museum (博德博物馆), at the northernmost end of Museum Island (博物馆岛), stands like a bridgehead castle on the banks of the Spree River (施普雷河) (see photo, taken by Sylvian Sonnet). Like other museums on the island, it constantly stimulates the audience's freshness through immersive exhibitions and interactive installations.

Strolling through Museum Island (博物馆岛), it is almost dusk before you know it. As the sun sets in the west, the Spree River (施普雷河) ripples with light, and the East German Museum (东德博物馆) and the German Historical Museum (德国历史博物馆) are located on either side of the riverbank, telling the story of this city and this country in their own ways. The East German Museum (东德博物馆) is the "traffic king" of Berlin (柏林) outside of Museum Island (博物馆岛) and is also the signature show of the annual Berlin (柏林) Festival of Lights. The new building of the German Historical Museum (德国历史博物馆) was designed by the master architect I.M. Pei (贝聿铭), and the arc-shaped corridor made of glass and steel integrates Baroque and modern architectural styles.

The most technologically advanced is the German Museum of Technology (德国科技博物馆), which displays a large number of historical technological products and provides a wealth of interactive installations, making it a favorite among children along with the Berlin Museum of Natural History (柏林自然历史博物馆). However, both old and young alike love the special buses of the Berlin Public Transportation Museum (柏林公共交通博物馆). Originally, these retro buses shuttled between designated museums for visitors to ride, but now they have long been "retired" and only operate during the "Long Night of Museums" as "re-hired" employees.

As the sky darkens, the museum's nighttime activities kick off. Many tourists choose to go to the Humboldt Forum Museum (洪堡论坛博物馆) and join the crowd dancing disco in the hall. The Humboldt Forum Museum (洪堡论坛博物馆), which usually has a strong academic atmosphere, has planned a disco party, which sounds quite contrasting. As part of the Berlin National Museums (柏林国家博物馆) cluster, it is gradually exuding youth and vitality—since the Rijksmuseum (荷兰国立博物馆) can invite audiences to stay overnight in front of Rembrandt's (伦勃朗) masterpiece "The Night Watch," the Humboldt Forum Museum (洪堡论坛博物馆) can of course arrange for DJs to play records and let people dance to their heart's content.

Museums are the epitome of a city's development history, reflecting the temperament of a city. In today's era of constant technological updates, Berlin's (柏林) "maverick" nature is actually highly consistent with its own urban temperament. Through careful curation and novel presentation, Berlin (柏林) has turned visiting museums into a fun and worthwhile experience, quietly planting the seeds of attention and love in people's hearts.

The recently concluded International Museum Day was themed "The Future of Museums in a Rapidly Changing Society," and its dynamic theme poster used constantly changing lines to express this concept: the future is like a seed, like a flower, like an embracing figure, constantly changing in flow. Even if the midnight bell rings and the event temporarily comes to an end, the seed of knowledge will not disappear. It continues to grow in an open posture, spreading its branches and leaves towards the future, and blooming flowers.

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From Objects of Mutual Learning to Civilizational Dialogue

By: 刘悦笛

Languages may differ, and artifacts may possess their own unique beauty, but with attentive listening, one discovers that different civilizations are not strangers to each other. The cultural program "Encountering Civilizations" (Season 2), produced by China Media Group (中央广播电视总台), embarks on a journey through the waters where cultures converge, allowing silent cultural relics to speak and past wisdom to illuminate the present.

A jade ink bottle from India carved with Chinese cloud patterns, Picasso's "Bullfighting Series" prints full of Chinese ink painting style, and a commode with the theme of "Spring Morning in the Han Palace" collected in the Louvre Museum in France (法国卢浮宫)... Each episode of this season of "Encountering Civilizations" starts with an "object of mutual learning" that witnesses the exchange and integration of civilizations, outlining the cultural path of "Chinese style" blowing to the world and "Chinese beauty" transforming into "world beauty."

Taking the silver-gilt nautilus ewer as an example, it was created in the mid-16th century and circulated from Guangzhou (广州) in China to France. The nautilus shell was carefully inlaid by Chinese craftsmen, the painted stories on the body of the pot are adapted from the "Farewell at the Pavilion" scene in the Yuan Dynasty Zaju play "Romance of the West Chamber" (《西厢记》), and the base is engraved with the marks of French craftsmen. According to the trade and craft practices between China and foreign countries at that time, the main body of the silver pot was made in China, and then Western craftsmen added handles, brackets, and metal decorations, giving it both European classical styles. The exquisite silver pot embodies the deep mutual appreciation and seamless cooperation between Chinese and foreign aesthetics.

The first season of "Encountering Civilizations" focused on the horizontal comparison of different civilizations. The second season goes a step further, allowing viewers to see the similarities and differences, and the differences within the similarities, of civilizations through cultural dialogues between Chinese and foreign guests.

This season's program invites a total of 65 Chinese and foreign guests, including Fan Di'an (范迪安), Chairman of the China Artists Association (中国美术家协会), Yin Xiuyun (殷秀云), a Chinese arts and crafts master (中国工艺美术大师), sinologists with international influence such as American scholar Robert Bagley (包华石) and Tami Amanda Jacoby (邰谧侠), as well as "China hands" who have been in China for a long time, such as Julien Chiasson from France and Andy Boreham (安大陆) from the UK. Fan Di'an introduced the blank space in Chinese painting in a simple way, believing that the blank space is where the painter's brush has limited strokes but infinite connotation, which well reflects Oriental aesthetics. Robert Bagley expressed his sincere respect for Tao Yuanming (陶渊明), saying that his greatest wish was to share a drink with this great poet. Using the scene of Tao Yuanming and his wife playing the qin and listening quietly in "The Return of Yuanming," he analyzed the common beauty of "lingering sound" in Chinese and Western music art. Australian scholar Shige Len researched tea culture for many years. He said that tea is not only a popular drink in the world, but also carries the spiritual ideal of tea and people, and tea and the world. Foreign scholars frankly expressed their understanding and thinking about Chinese culture, providing a more perceptual perspective for interpreting Chinese culture.

At a time when anti-globalization sentiment is rising, the open and inclusive nature of Chinese civilization is particularly valuable. This is also the original intention of telling the story of Chinese civilization sailing to the world with objects as carriers: to break down prejudices through civilizational dialogue, to resolve estrangement through cultural resonance, and to allow the oriental boat carrying more than 5,000 years of wisdom to continue to sail in the galaxy of civilizations.

(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院哲学所))

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A Symphony of Resilience and Hope

By: 刘益玎

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War. In humanity's darkest hour, music resonated with a heart-stirring echo. More than 80 years ago, Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich's (德米特里·肖斯塔科维奇) Symphony No. 7 (also known as the "Leningrad Symphony") recorded the tenacious resistance of a city, demonstrating the common spirit of struggle of all mankind.

As one of the most representative anti-war symphonies of the 20th century, Symphony No. 7 not only records the suffering and resilience of a nation, but also inspires contemporary society to deeply reflect on the trauma of war, the value of peace, and human dignity with its grand structure, profound emotions, and clear themes.

Since February of this year, many well-known orchestras around the world have once again played Symphony No. 7. The Civic Orchestra of Chicago (美国芝加哥市民交响乐团) and the Lakeview Orchestra (湖景交响乐团) combined multimedia to reproduce the war-torn Leningrad (列宁格勒) (now Saint Petersburg (圣彼得堡), Russia). In June, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (德国莱比锡格万特豪斯乐团) and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (波士顿交响乐团) will bring a joint performance version. This work transcends national borders and media, showing the unique charm of musical art in historical echoes.

Time goes back to June 22, 1941. The shadow of war loomed over the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany launched the "Operation Barbarossa" (巴巴罗萨) invasion. The million-strong city of Leningrad (列宁格勒) was besieged, and artillery fire and hunger tore apart this cultural city. At this time, Symphony No. 7, which meant perseverance and hope, was born.

At that time, 35-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich (德米特里·肖斯塔科维奇) was on the front line. He was not only a composer, but also a soldier building fortifications. Later, he moved to a safe area and actively devoted himself to anti-fascist literary and artistic propaganda. Shostakovich (肖斯塔科维奇) adhered to the composer's vocation and wrote this masterpiece for the world.

On March 5, 1942, Symphony No. 7 premiered in Kuibyshev (古比雪夫). Since then, the work has been performed at the Bolshoi Theatre (莫斯科大剧院) and broadcast and toured nationwide, with its influence spreading abroad. In July, Shostakovich's (肖斯塔科维奇) image wearing a firefighter's helmet appeared on the cover of the American magazine *Time*. At the same time, the final score of Symphony No. 7 was made into microfilm and performed by local orchestras in the United Kingdom and the United States.

On August 9, 1942, Symphony No. 7 was preparing for its public performance in Leningrad (列宁格勒), and the orchestra had only 15 musicians left. For this grand performance, the musicians heard the radio call and rushed to the radio station with their instruments to rehearse. The front-line headquarters specially transferred performers from the combat troops to join the orchestra, and the score was sent to Leningrad (列宁格勒) by a warplane carrying medicines. Led by conductor Karl Eliasberg (伊利亚斯博格), the orchestra played the music in the siege. Symphony No. 7 condensed the confidence of the people, shocked the entire Soviet Union, and spread to the world through radio waves, inspiring people around the world to fight against fascism.

Symphony No. 7 is an epic created by Shostakovich (肖斯塔科维奇) for his suffering motherland. It has 4 movements, each with profound musical significance.

The first movement adopts the traditional sonata form structure, using simple string melodies and gentle woodwind accompaniment to show a peaceful and tranquil life scene. The subsequent "invasion theme" gradually increases and expands with the famous 11-bar melody. Through the use of counterpoint and repeated tones, it renders an extremely compassionate sound effect. Shostakovich (肖斯塔科维奇) said that this chapter expresses "the tears of mothers" - countless young soldiers died, and what the mothers waited for were tombstones.

The second movement is in the style of a scherzo, with the misalignment of rhythm and the dark tones of the wind orchestration full of irony, suggesting the distortion and destruction of human dignity by war. Shostakovich (肖斯塔科维奇) skillfully uses modulation and timbre contrast in this movement to further deepen the expressiveness of the work.

The third movement, as a dirge-like slow movement, takes the sad string melody and woodwind solo as the core, and depicts the deep pain caused by the war and the inner sorrow and struggle of the people through delicate counterpoint writing and rich harmonic colors. The appearance of the violin solo is even more strongly lyrical and mournful, containing Shostakovich's (肖斯塔科维奇) painful reflection on suffering.

The fourth movement expresses the glory of heroism in the form of a magnificent finale. The calling theme of the brass and the strong rhythm of the string group form a huge emotional tension. The composer uses dramatic dynamic changes, polyphonic superposition, and the highly difficult orchestration techniques of orchestration to bring the music's resistance and sense of victory to a climax, highlighting the surging power of music in the anti-fascist struggle.

Revisiting Symphony No. 7 today is not only to remember history, but also to warn the future. Shostakovich (肖斯塔科维奇) tells us with music that although mankind has suffered from the pain of war, the ideals of freedom and peace will eventually overcome violence and fear.

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Building Bridges and畅通 Channels for Private Enterprise Financing (Financial Perspective: Boosting the Private Economy)

By: 本报记者 张丹华

In a split second, it can rotate 360 degrees! At Xi'an Zhongke Lide Infrared Technology Co., Ltd. (西安中科立德红外科技有限公司) in Xi'an High-tech Zone (西安高新区), the newly launched "Xuanwu" series anti-drone optical radar is rapidly rotating for simulated testing.

"This equipment uses multi-band optical composite detection, omnidirectional search, intelligent identification and tracking technologies, which can automatically search and track aerial objects such as drones, birds, kites, and balloons, with an identification accuracy of over 90%," said Liu Wei (刘伟), chairman of the company.

Optical technology can also be applied to daily life. "Look, our infrared night vision camera can image clearly in complete darkness. When combined with AI algorithms and applied to vehicle-mounted auxiliary driving systems, it can present drivers with bright and clear road conditions at night, in foggy weather, and under strong glare," Liu Wei (刘伟) introduced.

As a private enterprise incubated by the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院西安光机所), this year marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of Zhongke Lide (中科立德). "From the initial stage to the growth stage, in recent years, we have clearly felt that the demand for funds is becoming faster, more frequent, and more urgent," said Zhang Qinmeng (张秦猛), the company's financial director.

At the end of last year, Zhongke Lide (中科立德) encountered a financial "hurdle" – a 30 million yuan loan was about to expire, but due to the extended repayment cycle of customers, the company faced the risk of a broken capital chain.

"After learning about our difficulties, multiple banks such as SPD Bank (浦发银行) and Industrial Bank (兴业银行) provided non-principal renewal loan services, which helped the company alleviate the difficulties in capital turnover and avoid the generation of adverse credit records," said Zhang Qinmeng (张秦猛). It turns out that last year, the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) optimized the non-principal renewal loan policy for small and micro enterprises, expanding the renewal loan targets from some small and micro enterprises to all small and micro enterprises, and adjusted the risk classification standards to enhance the willingness of commercial banks to carry out non-principal renewal loan business. The optimization of the policy helped Zhongke Lide (中科立德) overcome the financial difficulties.

This year, new challenges followed. "The price of raw materials has risen, and multiple model projects have entered the mass production stage, which has greatly increased the financial pressure," said Zhang Qinmeng (张秦猛).

Financial institutions keenly "captured" the needs of enterprises. "We immediately formed a professional service team," said Yang Zehui (杨泽惠), head of the Science and Technology Inclusive Finance Service Center of the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) Shaanxi Free Trade Pilot Zone Xi'an High-tech Branch (陕西自贸试验区西安高新分行). Previously, they had established contact with enterprises during the "Thousands of Enterprises and Households Visit" (千企万户大走访) activity, and then formed a regular visit to keep track of the development of enterprises at any time.

The "Thousands of Enterprises and Households Visit" (千企万户大走访) comes from the establishment of a coordination mechanism. In October last year, after the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) and the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) jointly held a video conference to mobilize and deploy the coordination mechanism to support the financing of small and micro enterprises, Shaanxi Province (陕西省) quickly established a three-level coordination mechanism at the provincial, municipal, and county levels to support the financing of small and micro enterprises, and deployed the "Thousands of Enterprises and Households Visit" (千企万户大走访) activity.

"The main venue of the coordination mechanism to support the financing of small and micro enterprises is in districts and counties. Through visits, we comprehensively identify the financing needs of enterprises, financial institutions actively connect with financing, and coordinate to solve the financing difficulties of small and micro enterprises, so as to promote the financial policies that benefit enterprises and people to reach the 'last mile'," said Chang Xiaoyan (畅小艳), head of the Inclusive Finance Department of the Shaanxi Financial Regulatory Bureau (陕西金融监管局).

The bridge has been built, the channels have been unblocked, and financial "living water" flows better into small and micro enterprises. After the professional team of the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) Xi'an High-tech Branch (西安高新分行) strictly reviewed the materials submitted by Zhongke Lide (中科立德) and went to the site for inspection, it provided a total of 20 million yuan of short-term working capital loans to Zhongke Lide (中科立德) and its subsidiaries, and completed the loan approval and disbursement within one week.

"In order to better serve private technology-based enterprises, the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) has innovatively launched a special credit service system work plan," said Yang Zehui (杨泽惠). The special credit service system for technology-based enterprises revolves around the technological attributes of enterprises, no longer "staring" at traditional collateral such as fixed assets, but evaluating the sustainable innovation capabilities of technology-based enterprises from multiple dimensions such as technology transformation capabilities, research and development strength, and patent qualifications, and transforming innovation strength into corporate credit.

"From submitting materials to receiving funds, it only took 5 working days. This money helped us stabilize the supply chain," said Zhang Qinmeng (张秦猛).

Not only Zhongke Lide (中科立德), since the establishment of the Shaanxi Province (陕西省) support for small and micro enterprise financing coordination mechanism, a total of 2.21 million small and micro enterprises, individual industrial and commercial households and other business entities have been visited throughout the province, of which small and micro foreign trade enterprises have achieved full coverage of visits, and banks have newly issued loans of 153.891 billion yuan to business entities in the "recommendation list", with a loan approval rate of over 90%.

In addition to more convenient financing, Zhang Qinmeng (张秦猛) also clearly felt the reduction in financing costs. "In order to support small and micro science and technology enterprises, the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) Xi'an High-tech Branch (西安高新分行) also gave us preferential interest rates. The interest rate on this loan is 1.5 percentage points lower than the market level, and the annual capital cost can be reduced by 300,000 yuan," said Zhang Qinmeng (张秦猛), which makes the company more confident to increase investment in research and development.

Recently, a package of financial policies has been introduced, which is expected to further promote the reduction of corporate financing costs. "The simultaneous implementation of RRR cuts and interest rate cuts will drive down the loan market quotation rate (LPR), which will help drive down the actual loan interest rate. At the same time, we will actively use structural monetary policy tools such as technology innovation and technology transformation re-lending and agricultural support and small business re-lending to further reduce financing costs for enterprises," said Yang Zehui (杨泽惠). The Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) Xi'an High-tech Branch (西安高新分行) is planning to increase credit to the enterprise.

"From the initial revenue of just over 6 million yuan to the realization of revenue of 180 million yuan last year, the development of the enterprise is inseparable from financial support," said Liu Wei (刘伟). The next focus of the enterprise's climb is to combine infrared thermal imaging technology with the Internet and artificial intelligence, and to deepen infrared products into smart cities, intelligent buildings, vehicle-mounted assistance, and medical fields, which requires more financial support for technological breakthroughs and integration.

Financial institutions and enterprises "resonate at the same frequency." "We will continue to track the progress of the transformation and application of the company's scientific research achievements, and carry out investment and loan linkage with Agricultural Bank of China Investment (农银投资) and other subsidiaries of the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行), and provide sufficient nourishment for the company's integration and innovation through equity investment and other services," said Yang Zehui (杨泽惠).

"Private enterprises in China account for more than 90% of small and micro enterprises. Supporting small and micro enterprises is supporting private enterprises. Doing a good job in coordinating the financing of small and micro enterprises is not only a powerful starting point for promoting the high-quality development of the private economy, but also an important measure to stabilize growth, stabilize employment, and stabilize expectations. Next, we will focus on identifying the financing needs of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, foreign trade enterprises, and agricultural cooperatives, and transmit policy dividends to business entities faster and more accurately," said Chen Mingzhe (陈明喆), head of the Finance Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission (陕西省发展改革委).

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Addressing the "First Loan Difficulty" is an Important Starting Point for Supporting Micro and Small Enterprises (Expert Discussion)

By: 本报记者 赵展慧

The private sector is a vital force in advancing Chinese-style modernization and an important foundation for high-quality development. The private enterprise symposium held on February 17 emphasized the need to continue to make great efforts to solve the difficulties and high costs of financing for private enterprises. Since the private enterprise symposium, relevant departments have accelerated the implementation of this deployment, guiding financial institutions to increase credit to private and small and micro enterprises. Recently, a package of financial policies has been implemented, and private enterprises are also a key focus of support.

How will the policy package exert its power? In which areas of private enterprise financing do policies still need to be continuously strengthened? The reporter interviewed Dong Ximiao (董希淼), chief researcher of China United Finance and deputy director of the Shanghai Finance and Development Laboratory (上海金融与发展实验室).

Reporter: What role will the recent package of financial policies play in solving the difficulties and high costs of financing for private enterprises?

Dong Ximiao (董希淼): From the perspective of monetary policy, a comprehensive reduction of the reserve requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage points will release approximately 1 trillion yuan of long-term liquidity, providing banks with more "ammunition" to increase credit. At the same time, a comprehensive reduction in the reserve requirement ratio, as well as lower policy interest rates and structural monetary policy tool interest rates, will also reduce banks' funding costs, guide the downward trend of the loan prime rate (LPR), and promote a sustained decline in the financing costs of private enterprises. In addition, the reduction in the reserve requirement ratio will also weaken banks' motivation to attract high-interest deposits, compress the arbitrage space for non-bank institutions' capital idling, and promote the flow of more financial resources to private and small and micro enterprises.

From the perspective of credit policy, deepening and substantiating the coordination mechanism for supporting the financing of small and micro enterprises will help strengthen central-local coordination, exert efforts from both the supply and demand sides, further break the information asymmetry between enterprises and banks, and achieve goals such as direct access to the grassroots, rapid and convenient service, and appropriate interest rates. At the same time, the formulation and implementation of a series of policy measures to escort the development of foreign trade will provide precise services to private enterprises that are significantly affected by tariffs, helping them expand markets and stabilize operations.

In short, the recent package of financial policies conveys a clear policy signal, which will help further stabilize the confidence and expectations of private enterprises, promote the high-quality development of private enterprises, and create better conditions for solving the difficulties and high costs of financing for private enterprises.

Reporter: In which areas do policy measures need to be further strengthened to solve the problem of difficult financing for private enterprises?

Dong Ximiao (董希淼): China has a large number of private enterprises, widely distributed across various industries, and their financing needs vary at different stages of development. Attention should be paid to combining the actual situations of various types of private enterprises to meet their financing needs. Specifically, attention should be paid to the following aspects.

First, break the "first loan difficulty." A first loan refers to the first time an enterprise with no loan record in its credit report obtains a loan from a banking financial institution. Breaking the "first loan difficulty" should be taken as an important starting point for supporting the reform and development of private small and micro enterprises, and great efforts should be made to take targeted measures from aspects such as systems and mechanisms, infrastructure, product services, and assessment incentives. For example, banks can formulate clearer first loan placement plans and make special arrangements in terms of credit scale and internal fund transfer prices.

Second, solve the financing difficulties of technology-based private enterprises. Private enterprises are important players in technological innovation. Technology-based private enterprises should be the focus of service, and customized financial products and services should be matched to their different characteristics and needs to accurately "infuse blood" and help "create blood." At the same time, innovate and deepen service models such as investment-loan linkage to provide enterprises with both equity financing and debt financing, and broaden the financing methods and channels for technology-based private enterprises. In addition, it is also necessary to continuously optimize the institutional environment for financial services for technology-based private enterprises, such as improving credit enhancement measures and guarantee systems for technology-based enterprise financing.

Third, pay attention to the financing problems of medium-sized private enterprises. In recent years, the financing difficulties of private enterprises have been further alleviated, but there are still some structural problems. For example, many medium-sized private enterprises have weaker access to financing because they do not meet the inclusive finance standards. Regulatory authorities can study and establish a financial service mechanism that adapts to the risk characteristics and needs of medium-sized enterprises, and guide financial institutions to continuously increase financial support for medium-sized private enterprises. Financial institutions should deeply understand the economic status, growth characteristics, and financing difficulties of medium-sized enterprises, and work hard to establish a credit support path that can cover the entire life cycle of enterprises to ensure that credit support for enterprise development is uninterrupted.

Reporter: How can the problem of high financing costs for private enterprises be further alleviated on the basis of reasonable pricing?

Dong Ximiao (董希淼): From the current perspective, reducing the comprehensive financing costs of private enterprises can focus on the following three aspects. First, control costs well. Financial institutions should accelerate the pace of digital transformation, strengthen digital operation and management, optimize business processes, make full use of digital means to improve operating efficiency and refined management capabilities, reduce operating costs, and strive to enable private enterprises to obtain more benefits. Second, prevent and control risks well. Financial institutions should vigorously develop digital micro and small finance, innovate products and services, innovate credit evaluation methods, apply financial technology to enhance risk management and control capabilities and risk pricing capabilities, control risk costs well, and lay the foundation for medium- and long-term sustainable development. Third, control pricing well. Financial institutions should abandon their obsession with scale and speed, not pursue simple scale growth and market share, maintain loan interest rates at reasonable levels, and enhance commercial sustainability.

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Using Financial "Living Water" to Nurture Flourishing Technological Innovation (Economic Viewpoint: Reform Discourse)

By: 葛孟超

To provide full life-cycle and full-chain financial services for scientific and technological innovation, and promote the formation of a diversified, multi-level, and multi-channel pattern of scientific and technological investment.

"The intellectual property pledge loan for patent-intensive enterprises arrived in time, allowing the enterprise to fully engage in research and development and put it on the production line." In April of this year, Shanghai Anbang Semiconductor Equipment Co., Ltd. obtained a loan of 10 million yuan from Industrial Bank (兴业银行) by virtue of its 22 core patent clusters such as "wafer transfer equipment and transfer method." The funds will be used for the mass production of a new generation of intelligent transfer equipment, and it is expected that its market share will increase to 15% this year.

Financial "living water" arrives continuously, nourishing more high-tech "golden seeds" to break ground and grow vigorously.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must focus on the shortcomings and weaknesses of financial services for scientific and technological innovation, improve the financial support innovation system, and promote the financial system to better adapt to the needs of scientific and technological innovation in the new era."

At present, a new round of global technological revolution and industrial transformation is surging, and cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biomedicine are accelerating. Strong scientific and technological investment is a necessary condition for supporting cutting-edge technological fields and future industrial development. Judging from domestic and international practices, developing science and technology finance is the only way to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Finance is an important and indispensable force for supporting high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology.

Not long ago, the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) and other seven departments jointly released the "Several Policy Measures to Accelerate the Construction of a Science and Technology Finance System and Vigorously Support High-Level Self-Reliance and Self-Improvement in Science and Technology" (hereinafter referred to as the "Policy Measures"), which made clear arrangements for coordinating and promoting venture capital, bank credit, capital markets, science and technology insurance, bond issuance and other policy tools to support scientific and technological innovation, aiming to provide full life-cycle and full-chain financial services for scientific and technological innovation, and promote the formation of a diversified, multi-level, and multi-channel pattern of scientific and technological investment. The "Policy Measures" have three outstanding highlights.

Accurate focus—In recent years, China's financial and technological departments have worked together to strengthen the construction of systems and market systems, and have made considerable progress in debt, equity, insurance, and other aspects. The diversity and support intensity of science and technology financial services have been significantly improved. However, scientific and technological innovation still faces "shortages" and "weaknesses" in financing, such as more "restrictions" on direct financing channels and insufficient supply of long-term capital and patient capital. According to the requirements of the "Policy Measures," various science and technology financial policy tools will be used in a coordinated manner in the future, including the National Venture Capital Guidance Fund (国家创业投资引导基金), the "Science and Technology Board" (科技板) of the bond market, and "new varieties" such as major technology breakthroughs, pilot tests, and network security risk diversification pilots, to strengthen the supply of financial resources, accurately match the financial needs of science and technology enterprises at different stages of development, and guide finance to invest more in early-stage, small-scale, long-term, and hard technology, highlighting key support for important links and major tasks of scientific and technological innovation.

System integration—Scientific and technological innovation covers the entire process from research and development to production. Different types of innovation activities have different scales of capital demand and financing methods at different stages. According to the "Policy Measures," from venture capital to technological transformation, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and listing financing, qualified science and technology innovation enterprises will have a "green light" all the way on the road to financing. Behind this is the combined effort of various financial instruments, the orderly connection of financial markets, and the coordinated cooperation of fiscal, tax, monetary, and industrial policies. Science and technology finance provides full-process and multi-dimensional support for scientific and technological innovation activities, avoiding the restriction of capital "breakpoints" on technology transformation, supporting the continuous strengthening of the foundation of scientific and technological innovation, continuously strengthening new quality productive forces, and promoting more development leaps.

Reform-driven—"Building a science and technology finance system compatible with scientific and technological innovation" and "actively developing science and technology finance" are important contents of deepening the reform of the science and technology system and deepening the reform of the financial system. From "promoting the 'innovation points system' nationwide" to "improving venture capital exit channels," from "optimizing the assessment and evaluation mechanism for state-owned venture capital" to "improving product and service innovation mechanisms and regulatory incentive guarantee policies," this policy arrangement fully reflects the driving role of reform, taking improving the system and mechanism as the starting point, further clarifying the boundaries between the government and the market, effectively removing the blockages in the operation chain of venture capital funds' "fundraising, investment, management, and exit," and promoting banking institutions to dare to lend and be willing to lend, which will continuously enhance the endogenous power of financial institutions and capital markets to support scientific and technological innovation.

The debut of the "Policy Measures" cheers for scientific and technological innovation and also gives broad space for improving the science and technology finance system and expanding the science and technology finance market. China has a complete industrial system, a broad financial market, and a strong scientific and technological innovation force. The implementation of the "Policy Measures" will effectively promote the formation of a virtuous cycle of "science and technology—industry—finance," promote the deep integration of the capital chain, innovation chain, industrial chain, and talent chain, enable the "flowers of science and technology" to bear more "industrial fruits," and inject surging momentum into achieving high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology.

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What is Departure Tax Refund? (Financial Literacy)

By: 本报记者  王 观

On April 26th, six departments, including the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), issued a notice to further optimize the departure tax refund policy, which has attracted widespread attention. So, what kind of tax is refunded with the departure tax refund?

Generally speaking, the prices of goods in most countries include value-added tax (增值税). The so-called departure tax refund refers to the refund of value-added tax to overseas travelers on tax-refundable goods purchased at tax refund stores when they leave the country at departure ports. Overseas travelers refer to foreigners and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who have resided in China for no more than 183 consecutive days.

Departure tax refund is an important tax incentive measure introduced by China to follow the international trend and facilitate overseas travelers. It is conducive to enhancing the consumption demand of foreign tourists for Chinese goods and releasing the consumption potential of overseas travelers. Data shows that in 2024, the number of overseas travelers who processed departure tax refunds, the sales of tax-refundable goods, and the amount of tax refunds increased by 2.3 times, 1.2 times, and 1.3 times year-on-year, respectively.

"Immediate refund upon purchase" (即买即退) is an upgraded optimization of the departure tax refund policy as a convenient service measure, aiming to provide overseas travelers with more convenient and diversified tax refund options. In April of this year, the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局) promoted the "immediate refund upon purchase" of departure tax refunds from pilot programs in multiple locations to the whole country.

Compared with the traditional departure tax refund processing procedure, the biggest feature and highlight of "immediate refund upon purchase" is that it brings the tax refund link forward. Overseas travelers can get the tax refund at the shopping link, and more intuitively feel the benefits brought by the tax refund, which is conducive to travelers receiving the tax refund on the spot for re-consumption.

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Why is Xianghu Lake in Hangzhou Radiating a New Glow? (Financial Story)

By: 本报记者 赵展慧 刘军国

"This used to be a brick kiln factory, now we've transformed it into a ceramic art museum," Cao Kai (曹凯), Deputy General Manager of Xianglu Group (湘旅集团), told reporters, pointing to a chimney by Xiang Lake (湘湖) in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江).

In early summer, Xiang Lake's 6.1 square kilometers of gourd-shaped water surface unfolds amidst a sea of green, attracting many tourists. This area once suffered from declining water quality and shrinking lake surface due to the rapid development of surrounding villages and the brick and tile manufacturing industry. It has gradually recovered its vitality after years of continuous remediation.

Although years of remediation have yielded significant results, problems such as insufficient investment in ecological and environmental protection and limited sustainable development capabilities still constrain the green development of the Xiang Lake area.

The Ecological-Oriented Development (EOD) model brings new ideas for Xiang Lake's governance. "With the support of medium and long-term loan funds from the China Development Bank (国家开发银行), we are implementing ecological environment governance projects and green industry development projects in an integrated manner, using the income from industrial development to feed back into the investment in ecological environment governance, and enhance our own hematopoietic capacity," said Xu Bin (徐斌), Director of the Xiang Lake National Tourist Resort Management Committee (湘湖国家旅游度假区管委会).

"Innovation in ecological environment governance models requires innovation in financing models as well," said Li Ying (李颖), Deputy Director of the First Customer Department of the Zhejiang Branch of the China Development Bank (国开行浙江分行). She introduced that the China Development Bank's headquarters and branches are working together to provide "financing + intelligence" services and participate in the formulation of integrated implementation plans. The Zhejiang Branch, through in-depth communication with the Management Committee, comprehensively considers resource accounts, capital accounts, and asset accounts, focusing on Xiang Lake's ecological protection, development planning, and industrial layout, and promotes the construction of a cooperation mechanism led by the government, supported by finance, and participated by social resources, which strongly supports the project's implementation. As of the end of 2024, the loan balance of the China Development Bank's Zhejiang Branch for related projects reached 6.23 billion yuan.

After the project is implemented, a virtuous cycle of green development is forming. On the one hand, it accelerates "replacing old industries with new ones," with high-energy-consuming and low-output industries withdrawing, and a number of leading enterprises such as UNISOC Future Factory (紫光未来工厂), Shining 3D (先临三维), and Cloudpoint Information Technology (云尖信息技术) being introduced, and emerging industries are rapidly gathering; on the other hand, the governance of Xiang Lake's water area and water environment is accelerating, and the continuously improving natural environment has attracted the research and development departments of high-end frontier industries such as intelligent vision, digital economy, and biomedicine, as well as a group of high-level talents to settle here, further accelerating the pace of green transformation in this area.

Today's Xiang Lake not only has picturesque natural scenery, but also a scientific and technological innovation landscape that is accelerating its unfolding. On Xiang Lake Academician Island (湘湖院士岛), buildings such as studios, lecture halls, and comprehensive office buildings stand in rows, and scientific research expert teams and local technology companies are conducting resource and project docking here to jointly promote the transformation of achievements.

Not only in Zhejiang, but also policy-based finance is increasing its support for green finance, while continuously exploring and innovating green financial products and services to improve the quality and efficiency of serving green development.

In Gansu (甘肃), the Gansu Branch of the China Development Bank (国开行甘肃分行) recently issued the first sustainable development-linked loan to support the construction of 78,700 mu of high-standard farmland in Guazhou County (瓜州县), Jiuquan City (酒泉市). This loan links farmland water-saving rates with loan interest rate concessions to promote the development of water-saving irrigation, which is expected to achieve annual water savings of no less than 6.9 million tons.

In Xinjiang (新疆), the Xinjiang Branch of the China Development Bank (国开行新疆分行) used a "preliminary loan + medium and long-term loan" product combination to support the steady advancement of the China Huadian Mulei Carbon Dioxide Compressed Air Energy Storage Comprehensive Energy Demonstration Project (华电木垒二氧化碳压缩空气储能综合能源示范项目). The project is the world's largest carbon dioxide energy storage power station, and after completion, it will help the local area further improve its ability to absorb new energy and alleviate the pressure on grid peak regulation.

From January to April this year, the China Development Bank issued more than 250 billion yuan in green loans, focusing on supporting green infrastructure, clean energy, ecological protection, and pollution prevention. "In recent years, the proportion of green loans in our total credit assets has been continuously increasing," said the relevant person in charge of the China Development Bank (国家开发银行有关负责人). In the next step, the China Development Bank will base itself on its functional positioning, make good use of policies such as carbon emission reduction support tools, and strive to provide stable medium and long-term financial support for green development, and help build a beautiful China.

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The stage here is just as vast (Technology Perspective: The Youth Force on the Road to a Strong Nation in Science and Technology)

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) recently pointed out during an inspection in Henan (河南): "Talent is hope. Only by promoting the integration of industry, academia, and research and cultivating a large number of high-quality talents can Chinese-style modernization be truly realized."

In recent years, an increasing number of doctoral graduates have left the ivory tower and chosen to work in private enterprises, becoming a new force driving technological innovation in these companies.

According to data from the Ministry of Education (教育部), as of the end of August 2024, less than 40% of the 83,000 doctoral graduates that year were employed in universities and research institutions; more than one-fifth were employed in enterprises, a proportion higher than the same period last year.

Why do doctoral graduates choose to join companies? And how do companies create conditions to stimulate the innovation potential of these doctors? On the occasion of the ninth National Science and Technology Workers' Day, we interviewed several of these doctors, asking them to talk about their original intentions when choosing a career and their innovative experiences at work.

-- Editor

Dr. Nie Longyu (聂龙宇) --

"Pharmaceutical companies also have national-level scientific research platforms"

By Yang Yuanfan (杨远帆), reporter of this newspaper

Two hours before the interview began, Nie Longyu had just finished attending an academic conference in Shenzhen (深圳). "The company has arranged six such conferences for me this year, this is the second one, and I have gained a lot."

"From undergraduate studies in biotechnology to master's and doctoral studies in microbiology, the school provided us with diverse learning platforms." Recalling his academic past, Nie Longyu felt deeply. "I am researching microbiology, and my research experience during my master's and doctoral studies has made me more convinced that I should apply what I have learned."

In 2023, Nie Longyu graduated with a doctorate from the School of Life Sciences at Wuhan University (武汉大学). Unlike most of his classmates, he submitted resumes to seven biopharmaceutical companies and finally joined the National Key Laboratory for Anti-Infective New Drug Research and Development at HEC Pharm Co., Ltd. (东阳光药业).

"The fact that pharmaceutical companies also have national-level scientific research platforms is what attracted me the most." Participating in the feasibility assessment of new projects, evaluating the antiviral activity of drugs, coordinating upstream and downstream teams in drug development, and conducting translational medicine research... In this arena, newcomers like Nie Longyu have a broad stage to display their talents.

Experience is the best teacher. Shortly after joining the company, Nie Longyu received a research assignment. "I still followed my previous research methods, checking literature, building models, and doing analysis." Before long, the research report was returned, along with another research report from a colleague with decades of experience. "I was shocked at the time. My colleague's research report covered market analysis, clinical needs, drug design, and patent summaries, and was very detailed and comprehensive."

Since then, Nie Longyu has not missed any opportunity to learn from others' research reports on-site, and has even started learning pharmacology monographs from scratch. "The skills the school taught me should be put into more industry-academia-research interaction, so that 'research results' can be turned into hope in medicine boxes."

Facing project challenges, leading the team to rely on its own efforts without seeking external assistance, and winning the "Quarterly Star" award; in order to better improve his abilities and participate in project development, he actively participated in assessments and became one of the department's project leaders with excellent results... Today, Nie Longyu has several new drug projects progressing simultaneously. Fighting against common pathogens around bacteria and viruses has become his "main battlefield." In project meetings and research reports, the goals of him and his colleagues are becoming clearer, "We can't always chase after others. If even one of the projects we are doing now succeeds, it will be a step forward."

"Understand the entire process of preclinical drug development in 3 years, and have at least one project enter clinical trials in 5 years." A yellow sticky note on the computer in front of his desk is particularly eye-catching. This is Nie Longyu's career plan for himself, and it is also a striking footnote he hopes to write for his scientific research career. "There is still a lot of room for improvement in domestic innovative drug research and development." In his words, he has a firm belief: "Innovative drug research and development cannot only follow in the footsteps of European and American countries, we cannot just imitate, we must make our own innovative drugs in China and leave our own mark in the history of innovative drugs."

After sorting out the materials from the weekend academic conference, a new week of scientific research tasks will begin. In the laboratory, countless figures like Nie Longyu are gathering strength. "I used to hear that Chinese pharmaceutical companies couldn't make excellent innovative drugs," Nie Longyu gently tapped the sticky note on the table, "Someday, that sentence will become 'used to be'."

Dr. Guo Shuai (郭帅) --

"A relaxed working atmosphere is more conducive to innovation"

By Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), reporter of this newspaper

In 2023, Guo Shuai joined MinoSpace (微纳星空), a private commercial satellite company, after "leaving" his postdoctoral workstation, contributing to satellite services for environmental governance, disaster reduction, and relief.

In Guo Shuai's view, choosing to join commercial aerospace is not only because his postdoctoral research direction is in line with the development needs of MinoSpace, but also because he values the innovative advantages of private commercial aerospace enterprises more. "Private commercial aerospace enterprises are more flexible in decision-making mechanisms and project implementation, and can quickly respond to market demands and technological changes. A relaxed working atmosphere is more conducive to innovation," Guo Shuai said.

Guo Shuai devoted himself to research and made rapid progress, quickly becoming a general engineer for satellite synthetic aperture radar payloads, undertaking important scientific research tasks such as payload-related index demonstration, system design, mission planning, and signal processing.

Once, Taijing-4 01 satellite (泰景四号01星), a synthetic aperture radar satellite independently developed by MinoSpace, encountered the problem of "active interference" from the surrounding environment. Just like the high beams of oncoming vehicles at night, "active interference" can cause the driver to be temporarily blinded and unable to see the road ahead. If a similar situation occurs in space, interference signals will form many "bright lines" on the synthetic aperture radar image, covering important information in the image and seriously affecting the performance of the payload in obtaining information. The most troublesome thing is that the interference signal and the normal echo signal of the synthetic aperture radar overlap in the time domain, frequency domain, and spatial domain, making it difficult to effectively suppress and distinguish them using traditional filter methods.

Researchers racked their brains but could not find a breakthrough. At a critical moment, Guo Shuai took a different approach and developed an interference suppression algorithm suitable for synthetic aperture radar payloads. "My doctoral research direction was signal processing for external radiation source radar. External radiation source radar and synthetic aperture radar are different types of radar, and the application scenarios they face are completely different. By drawing on the idea of direct wave cancellation in external radiation source radar, I was given a lot of inspiration to propose a new algorithm to solve the problem."

The team quickly carried out demonstration experiments and fully verified that this algorithm can greatly improve the anti-interference performance of the satellite and ensure the safe and stable operation of the satellite.

This incident greatly inspired Guo Shuai: "On the road of scientific research, sometimes we not only need to jump out of the problem to see the problem, but even need to jump out of the field to see the problem."

In the two years since joining the company, Guo Shuai has encountered batches of young talents joining the company. Facing fierce market competition, MinoSpace actively encourages innovation, dares to invest in technology research and development, and is willing to tolerate failure, providing strong support for high-level talents to shine on the stage of private enterprises.

Every time he looks up at the stars, Guo Shuai is full of concern. "I will unswervingly follow the path of independent innovation, develop better payload equipment, and help satellites see more clearly and more widely."

Dr. Hu Sujuan (胡素娟) --

"I value solving practical problems in production the most"

By Gu Yekai (谷业凯), reporter of this newspaper

Hu Sujuan came to TCL CSOT (TCL华星) because of a scientific research Vlog (video log) competition. "Our video showed how to integrate a backplane and an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) into a device to emit light, which is equivalent to recording the process of a sample being born in the laboratory." At that time, Hu Sujuan, who was studying for a doctorate in Electronic and Information Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学), became deeply interested in the display industry through this competition.

The organizer of this scientific research Vlog competition was TCL CSOT. As one of the leading companies in semiconductor display technology, they hoped to attract more talents through this form. During the competition, TCL CSOT also specially invited senior R&D engineers as mentors, which not only allowed Hu Sujuan to learn production experience, but also felt the private enterprise's thirst for scientific research talents.

"At that time, I became friends with many colleagues at TCL CSOT," she said. Focusing on the field of display technology, doing scientific research in universities may focus on the layout of cutting-edge technologies 5 or 10 years later; while enterprises pay more attention to the market. "I value solving practical problems in production the most, and I especially want to challenge myself."

And TCL CSOT's professional direction is very consistent with Hu Sujuan's. "I majored in optoelectronic information display as an undergraduate, and my doctoral research direction is the integration of thin-film transistors and colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diodes." Hu Sujuan introduced that the company gives employees higher technical leadership, and they have the opportunity to lead technical projects throughout the entire process from research and development to mass production.

Shortly after joining the company, Hu Sujuan and her colleagues came to Wuhan (武汉) from Shenzhen (深圳) to carry out the research and development and mass production of the first printed OLED special display product, which is the first time that a Chinese company has led a brand-new display technology into the commercialization stage.

As a senior engineer in the TCL CSOT Printing OLED Center, Hu Sujuan quickly took on the relevant research and development and debugging work. "Technology research and development and process optimization are carried out almost simultaneously." She often uses "multi-threading" to describe her work, backplane structure optimization, electrical debugging, key problem analysis, and cross-field collaboration, "none of them can be missed."

In November last year, the company's first printed OLED special display product, a 21.6-inch 4K medical display, officially entered the mass production stage. Hu Sujuan said: "The display industry is very 'dependent' on experience. We can quickly trial and error in the process of actually bringing products, and enterprises can better integrate research and development and engineering thinking. I can also come into contact with the needs of different fields such as automotive, mobile phones, notebooks, displays, and televisions, which deepens my understanding of the commercialization logic of technology."

In the past, the problem of "lack of cores and screens" once restricted the development of China's electronic information industry. In recent years, with the joint efforts of the academic and industrial circles, key core technologies have been accelerated, a number of companies have grown rapidly, and China has become an important growth pole in the global display industry. Hu Sujuan said: "We must apply what we have learned, accumulate and grow, overcome the difficulties of key equipment, devices and raw materials, and master more technical leadership."

Dr. Feng Sheng (丰胜) --

"I hope to go deep into the front line of the industry to hone my skills"

By Wang Weijian (王伟健), reporter of this newspaper

Walking into Wujiang Transformer Co., Ltd. (吴江变压器有限公司) located in Wujiang District (吴江区), Suzhou (苏州市), Feng Sheng, a 32-year-old R&D personnel, is drawing engineering drawings in front of the computer. On the screen, dense graphics and data are arranged in an orderly manner, and he occasionally clicks the mouse to carefully verify each parameter.

In 2023, Feng Sheng graduated with a doctorate from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学). As a high-end talent in electrical engineering, many scientific research institutes sent him invitations, but he finally decided to work at Wujiang Transformer Co., Ltd., a private enterprise. "I hope to go deep into the front line of the industry to hone my skills, so that professional knowledge and research results can be truly implemented and transformed," Feng Sheng said.

Shortly after joining the company, Feng Sheng was responsible for hosting an experimental research project: transforming a large transformer into a real-type experimental platform for carrying out a number of transformer internal defect fault experimental research, comprehensively sorting out the results and forming a special database.

During his doctoral studies, Feng Sheng's major was new energy batteries. Although they are both studying electricity, the difference between the two is not small, which made Feng Sheng feel a lot of pressure.

What impressed Feng Sheng the most was installing a viewing window on the transformer. It sounds like the process is not complicated, but because there has never been a precedent, the engineering technology faces one problem after another. For example, the glass must have high light transmittance, strong compressive resistance, and must not have too strong attenuation effect on electromagnetic signals, so what material to choose and how thick is the most suitable must be repeatedly simulated and verified by experiments.

This is also the first time that Feng Sheng has hosted an engineering project. Compared with doing academic projects in school, there are more details to consider. When designing the drawings, Feng Sheng almost forgot to install a sealing ring for the glass window. "In the past, at school, I only needed to do my part of the work well, but now I have to consider the overall situation, and no detail can be sloppy."

Finally, after overcoming a series of technical difficulties, Feng Sheng led the team to complete the task excellently. Today, Feng Sheng has taken on the heavy responsibility and participated in several important projects of the company. The "Research on Fault Characteristics and Diagnosis Technology of Inter-turn Short Circuit of Power Transformers" project led by him was also selected as the 2024 Jiangsu Provincial Excellent Postdoctoral Program (江苏省卓越博士后计划).

In order to help newcomers grow quickly, Wujiang Transformer Co., Ltd. has implemented a "mentor system." An Zhen (安振), the chief engineer with decades of work experience, is Feng Sheng's mentor, teaching him experience and skills hand-in-hand. An Zhen saw the demeanor of a new era doctor from Feng Sheng. He said that Feng Sheng and his generation have caught up with the outbreak period of China's scientific and technological achievements. With more high-end talents joining the front line of production, China's electrical industry is full of hope.

At present, Feng Sheng hopes to make new breakthroughs in the simulation research of products, concentrate talents to jointly establish a simulation team, and strengthen the application development of new products.

In the past year or so, Feng Sheng has not only gained a lot at work, but also enjoyed the meticulous talent services in the local area. According to Suzhou's relevant talent policies, Feng Sheng can receive corresponding subsidies for renting and buying a house. "I plan to settle down in Wujiang after leaving the postdoctoral station. The stage here is very suitable for me!" Feng Sheng said with a smile.

Dr. Shen Zhenhua (沈振华) --

"Here, I can also lead national projects"

By Yu Sinan (喻思南), reporter of this newspaper

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most effective non-invasive medical imaging methods currently available. Developing high-field MRI equipment is the direction of efforts by all parties in the industry.

The whole-body clinical ultra-high field 5T MRI is a unique product of Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd. (上海联影医疗科技股份有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "United Imaging Healthcare"). Developing high-field MRI equipment, radio frequency field uniformity and radio frequency safety are two important key difficulties. After graduating with a doctorate from the School of Physics and Astronomy of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), Shen Zhenhua joined the company because he valued the development platform of United Imaging Healthcare. After joining the 5T project, he and his team are tackling these two problems.

As the main magnetic field strength increases, the wavelength of the radio frequency transmission field gradually shortens. At a field strength of 5T, the radio frequency wavelength is only 16 centimeters, which will affect the image quality. To this end, Shen Zhenhua and his team used an 8-channel independently transmitted volume transmission coil to obtain a more uniform radio frequency transmission field through radio frequency uniformity correction technology. At the same time, they focused on overcoming the black band problem in body images, laying the foundation for ultra-high field whole-body imaging.

Higher magnetic field strength means higher radio frequency frequency, which brings more power absorption and requires more attention to radio frequency safety during the scanning process. Shen Zhenhua and his team members started from hardware and software to build a comprehensive radio frequency safety solution.

"These innovations have not been done by anyone. Solving these problems has allowed us to be at the forefront of the world in the field of whole-body clinical ultra-high field magnetic resonance," Shen Zhenhua said.
Exploring the "no man's land," Shen Zhenhua (沈振华) faced considerable challenges. "In the early stages of research and development, the hardware was unstable, the algorithms were immature, and the project timeline was very tight, making the difficulty far beyond our expectations," Shen Zhenhua (沈振华) recalled. Taking abdominal imaging as an example, there had been no complete abdominal solution under a field strength of 3T or more before this. Because they could not obtain the ideal image, the team once wanted to give up.

"We can't give up easily, we must try even if there is a glimmer of hope," Shen Zhenhua (沈振华) encouraged himself. 功夫不负有心人 (gōng fū bù fù yǒu xīn rén - "efforts will not fail those who try," perseverance leads to success). After repeated explorations and attempts, he led the team to create the first complete set of abdominal images, and continued to optimize the solution, gradually achieving the desired results. Today, the 5T magnetic resonance has completed industrialization and entered the top three hospitals and universities in China, serving not only clinical patients, but also important scientific research.

"Innovative breakthroughs are inseparable from the platform provided by the enterprise." Shen Zhenhua (沈振华) said that United Imaging Healthcare (联影医疗) has accumulated profound experience in the field of medical equipment, and has also built a joint industry-university-research innovation platform with rich innovation resources from top external hospitals and university research institutes to promote clinical and scientific research through collaborative innovation. "Here, we can also take the lead in doing national projects." For example, the research and development of ultra-high field 5T magnetic resonance has been supported by the National Key R&D Program for Digital Diagnosis and Treatment Equipment R&D Key Special Project. "The company also encourages us to innovate. As long as we have good ideas, we can apply for projects and funding."

After years of experience, Shen Zhenhua (沈振华) has become a leader in the field of magnetic resonance development. More and more young people are joining his team, and nearly 1/3 of the approximately 40-member team have doctoral degrees.

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A Two-Way Commitment, A Win-Win Choice (Editor's Note)

By: 吴月辉

In recent years, an increasing number of doctoral graduates are choosing to develop their careers in enterprises. The emergence of this trend is closely related to multiple factors such as changes in industry demand, transformation of employment concepts, and policy guidance.

Currently, cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, and new energy are flourishing, and enterprises' demand for high-end scientific research personnel is increasing. With their profound scientific research background, doctoral graduates can find challenging positions in enterprises. For example, in the field of artificial intelligence, many doctors choose to join artificial intelligence companies to participate in algorithm research and development, data analysis, and other work. These positions are not only well-paid but also provide opportunities to directly participate in cutting-edge industry research. At the same time, the employment concepts of the younger generation of doctoral graduates are also changing. With the insufficient supply of positions in universities and scientific research institutes and the extremely fierce competition in academic paths, some doctoral graduates are turning to enterprises, seeking a clearer career development path as a new choice.

Doctoral graduates choosing to work in enterprises is a win-win choice, which is conducive to both personal development and the development and innovation of enterprises. In the future, with the increasingly deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, this trend will be further strengthened. On the one hand, the education department needs to continuously optimize the training structure, expand the proportion of professional doctorates, and focus on cultivating the ability to solve practical problems, so as to better meet the needs of enterprises. On the other hand, enterprises also need to optimize talent utilization strategies and fully stimulate the scientific research potential of doctors. It is hoped that all sectors will work together to broaden the stage for doctoral graduates and play a greater role in promoting enterprise innovation and technological development.

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Going to Sihong (Me and a City)

By: 徐则臣

I knew about Sihong (泗洪) 30 years ago, started to understand Sihong 20 years ago, and went to Sihong two years ago. 30 years ago, I was in college, and some of my classmates came from Sihong (泗洪), so I knew there was such a place in the world, hundreds of miles away from my hometown, but the dialect was very close to ours. We communicated in our respective hometown dialects without any obstacles. Later, when I wrote novels, I always used the Grand Canal as the background of the story, from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (京杭大运河) flowing by my side to the Sui and Tang Grand Canal. It wasn't that I used the Sui and Tang Grand Canal as the background, but as desk work. From the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, I naturally arrived at the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, which is a series. From this, I began to understand a little about Sihong (泗洪). Because a section of the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, namely the Bian River (汴水), passes through Sihong (泗洪), and now the people of Sihong (泗洪) still call it the Ancient Bian River (古汴河). This word "ancient" is not simple. Since King Fucha of Wu (吴王夫差) opened the Hangou Canal (邗沟), for various reasons, various canals have been diverted one after another, often "this canal" is not "that canal," but this section of Sihong (泗洪) has always adhered to it, which is really rare, and it is justified to add an "ancient" character. As for finally coming to Sihong (泗洪), it was at the invitation of a friend to come to the county to "talk about literature." When I came, I found it was really good, so I came again in the name of "talking about literature."

What's so good about it? First, the dialect, customs, and habits are very similar to my hometown, and I feel like Sihong (泗洪) is my hometown. Second, it is still the Ancient Bian River (古汴河). It has been 20 years since I knew the relationship between Sihong (泗洪) and the Sui and Tang Grand Canal. I am also considered a veteran of writing about the Grand Canal, and I have some experience with the Grand Canal. The Ancient Bian River is not only an interest for me, but also a respect in my heart. A big river has been flowing on the same land for more than 1,000 years, passing through grain boats and official boats, sailing through civilian boats and merchant ships, and countless fishing boats, small boats, and bamboo rafts that broke through the water. Now, those boats have disappeared. Between the appearance, transformation, and disappearance of various ships, the vast time flows like the water of the Grand Canal. What is 白驹过隙 (bái jū guò xì - "white horse pass crack," time flies quickly)? What is 世易时移 (shì yì shí yí - "world changes times shift," times change)? What is 沧海桑田 (cāng hǎi sāng tián - "blue sea mulberry field," great changes over time)? This is it. Time passes, but the water still flows, which makes people feel awe. I came to Sihong (泗洪) in the height of summer, with clear blue water sandwiched between the lush willows on both sides. Some people were swimming in the river, ducks were playing in the water, and in the noisy cicada sounds, there were also fishermen dozing off under the shade of the trees. Fishing can kill the long day and is also a good excuse to pass the long summer. Third is to talk about literature. I thought it was just a simple talk, and I would leave after the talk, but I didn't expect to enter a vast rural literary education project. Saying "enter" is because this matter is of great importance, and the feat like James Yen (晏阳初) makes me admire. Now, this project is named "Liushan Rural Grand Lecture Hall (柳山乡村大讲堂)." In the countryside, in the middle of the vast wilderness, there is a grand lecture hall that invites well-known figures in the Chinese literary world to give lectures here. There are not many in China, right? As of now, it is reported that there have been more than a dozen winners of the Mao Dun Literature Prize (茅盾文学奖), the Lu Xun Literature Prize (鲁迅文学奖), and university professors who have lectured in Liushan (柳山).

I have stood on this podium. For many lecturers, this may be the most basic podium they have ever climbed in their lives. The lecture hall faces the high bank and the river, and behind the lecture hall are the fields and crops. The audience should also be the most complex group of people, with elementary school graduates, junior high school graduates, high school graduates, and a few college graduates, mostly students returning to their hometowns and young cadres going to the grassroots level. There are farmers, self-employed individuals, migrant workers, and rural tourists from the city. The time I "talked about literature," a local middle-aged migrant worker made a special trip from Shanghai (上海), and a literature lover from a neighboring city drove to attend the lecture. They listened even more attentively than the graduate students in the university classroom.

The harvest about water is not only the Ancient Bian River (古汴河). Today, probably more than half of the people in Sihong (泗洪) care more about the Hongze Lake Wetland (洪泽湖湿地) than the quiet Ancient Grand Canal. The Sui and Tang Dynasties are far away, and the grain boats have also disappeared. Since the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (京杭大运河) was straightened on the basis of the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, the Bian River (汴水) was gradually abolished due to cutting. The people of Sihong (泗洪) probably cannot imagine the grand scene of sails on the river in those years, but the wetland has been growing wildly in their daily lives. I have visited Hongze Lake (洪泽湖) on the opposite side of the wetland. The Hongze Lake there is under the jurisdiction of another county. The lake water is vast and the waves are blue. The fishermen on the houseboat raise wisps of smoke. In the adjacent dedicated waterway, strings of cargo ships sailed majestically. On this side of Hongze Lake (洪泽湖), the Hongze Lake water under the jurisdiction of Sihong (泗洪) receded in invisible time, leaving 50,000 hectares of wetland. I have no concept of how big 50,000 hectares is, I just feel it is big, big, really big. What tourists can enter is the wetland that has been built into the core area of a 5A-level scenic spot. This core area alone covers nearly 8,000 mu. I also have no concept of how big 8,000 mu is. Sometimes I take a boat, sometimes I take a car, and after a while I switch to cycling and walking. I just feel that I have been traveling in the vast reed bushes, cedar forests, and the quiet fragrance of lotus ponds. The wind blows the reeds, as if hiding hundreds of thousands of soldiers; the cedars stand tall, like rows of guards guarding the wetland; the fragrance of lotus follows all the way, the wind sends it for ten miles, and the lotus leaves are as big as buckets. Some are tall and beautiful, teasingly extending their bodies to the sidewalk. It is said that the guerrillas fought against the Japanese in the wetland in those years, making the Japanese unable to distinguish east from west and confused about life and death. I believe this. Walking through the reed bushes is like 九曲回肠 (jiǔ qǔ huí cháng - "nine bends return intestines," intricate and circuitous), which is a completely different kind of tunnel warfare.

This is all outside the city. Entering the city, I feel even more that I have come to the right place. I said that I feel like Sihong (泗洪) is my hometown, and it really is. There is an Ancient Xu Pavilion (古徐阁) in the south of Sihong County (泗洪县). I am really ignorant. I didn't even know that Sihong (泗洪) is the old site of the ancient Xu State (古徐国), the birthplace of the Xu surname. According to historical records, 4,000 years ago, Xia Qi (夏启) enfeoffed Ruomu (若木), the second son of Boyi (伯益), in Xu (徐) and established the Xu State (徐国). The main territory was in today's Shandong Province (山东省), and the capital is said to be near Qufu (曲阜). Later, Boqin (伯禽), the son of the Duke of Zhou (周公), went to Lu State (鲁国) to be enfeoffed. Since Qufu (曲阜) was the political center of the Xu State (徐国), Boqin (伯禽)'s arrival, as an intruder, naturally provoked resistance. Resistance must be suppressed. With the support of the Zhou royal family, Boqin (伯禽) led his army to attack the Xu State (徐国). The poor Xu State (徐国) was forced to move south to today's Sihong County (泗洪县). Until the demise of the Xu State (徐国) in 512 BC, except for Xu Yanwang's (徐偃王) son once using Wuyuan (武原) (today's Suining (睢宁) and Pizhou (邳州) areas of Xuzhou (徐州)) as a secondary capital, Sihong (泗洪), Jiangsu (江苏) has always been the capital of the Xu State (徐国).

Originally, I came to see the river, visit friends, and talk about literature, but suddenly I became a root-seeking ancestor. The main building of the Ancient Xu Pavilion (古徐阁) has 7 floors and is 61.649 meters high, which is intended to symbolize the historical span of the ancient Xu State (古徐国) of 1649 years. The pavilion is ink black and looks very majestic and upright from a distance. In the height of summer, the scorching sun hangs high, and people can be roasted with oil. I still respectfully climbed the long steps step by step. My shadow also flashed and moved on the steps, as if two people were climbing at the same time. I feel like there is another self, a self from the ancient Xu State (古徐国), or a certain ancestor from that time. We meet in ancient and modern times, seek each other's voices, and work together to climb to the top of the pavilion.

Even the biggest sun can't stop the wind at the top. Sweat dripped, and the cool wind was like a flood, refreshing my body and mind. In the Sihong County (泗洪县) city of the 2020s, 61 meters is not considered high, but it is enough to help me broaden my horizons and think about thousands of years. In the burning, ethereal hot air, I saw tall buildings, lush vegetation, magnificent rivers, vast land, people running on the roads, and crops growing in the wilderness. I see a world called Sihong (泗洪), and my shadow is watching me. That is also an ancestor 2,000 years ago watching his descendants see the world.

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Ru Taisu Didn't Lose Out From the Caning (Jin Tai Random Thoughts)

By: 李向伟

In the ninth year of the Hongwu reign of the Ming Dynasty (1376 AD), Emperor Taizu of Ming, Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋), was furious in the court and ordered that Ru Taisu (茹太素), a secretary of the Ministry of Justice, be punished with caning. Caning is beating with a board. For a court official who was well-read in poetry and books to be stripped and beaten in front of many colleagues was truly damaging to both his face and his "insides."

Why did Ru Taisu anger the "dragon's face"? The *History of Ming* says that Ru Taisu's memorial "contained many offensive words." But looking closely, there are also records of "presenting current affairs in tens of thousands of words" and "too much writing, which led to confusion." *The Collected Works of Emperor Taizu of Ming* is even more detailed: "Ru Taisu, a secretary of the Ministry of Justice, submitted a memorial on five matters, with his writing totaling 17,000 words." He submitted a memorial discussing five matters and wrote 17,000 words! That's almost the capacity of a Ming Dynasty vernacular story. Was this a memorial or a script?

"Many offensive words" is one reason, and "too much writing, which led to confusion" also made Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋) very angry. Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋) was still diligent: "The next evening, he had people continue to read it in the palace and found four of the matters to be feasible." The emperor's final conclusion was: "Ru Taisu's presentation could have been exhausted in more than five hundred words." 500 words were enough! The remaining 16,500 words were mostly nonsense.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, it became a trend for officials to submit memorials that were complicated and lengthy. Memorials often piled up rhetoric and cited classics, seeming profound but actually being empty and meaningless. Even worse, some officials deliberately used obscure allusions and words to show off their knowledge, making them difficult to understand. Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋) was very annoyed by this and determined to rectify it. As early as the sixth year of Hongwu, he issued an edict: "I have always disliked their embellishments, which are very different from ancient styles, and also cause facts to be obscured by superficial writing... All memorials should not use parallel prose, but should follow classical elegance." Three years later, Ru Taisu (茹太素) still went his own way, and this beating was well-deserved.

Not long after Ru Taisu (茹太素) was beaten, the Ming court promulgated the *Memorial Format*, stipulating that "real matters are allowed to be presented, but verbose writing is not allowed, and those who exceed the format will be questioned." In the twelfth year of Hongwu, the *Document Reduction Format* was promulgated, requiring official documents to be plain and simple. Since then, the long-standing problem of lengthy and flowery official documents has been corrected to some extent.

The main function of writing and language is communication and dissemination, with an emphasis on clarity and efficiency. Speaking or writing at length and in a confusing manner will make people sleepy and unable to understand. In terms of concise writing, the ancient sages actually did very well. *Spring and Autumn Annals* (春秋), one of the most important classics of the pre-Qin period, contains only more than 16,000 words, recording more than 240 years of historical events, averaging less than 70 words per year, but it can outline the key points and clearly show the historical context. This style of writing is worth learning and promoting.

The *Juyan New Bamboo Slips: Wan Sui Marquis Zhang Xian's Memorial in July of the Third Year of Jianwu*, unearthed at the Juyan Jiaqu Post Office site in 1974, contains no more than a hundred words in its entirety. Among them is: "On Dingyou, the first day of the seventh month of the third year of Jianwu, Marquis Zhang Xian of Wansui dares to say that he was transferred to the office, and on Guisi he took office and inspected that many of the military supplies were incomplete." A mere 30 or so words completely cover the time (Dingyou in July of the third year of Jianwu), the reporter and his identity (Marquis Dou Xian of Wansui), the event description (inspection of military equipment on Guisi day), and the problems found (shortage of weapons). Concise and clear, it is a model of official documents.

Limited by historical conditions, the ancients had to be economical with ink, and our language and writing were thus forged and honed, forming an efficient and concise writing style of "concise words with rich meaning, and near events with distant metaphors." This tradition still needs to be inherited and promoted today.

Things that can be clearly explained in three or two sentences must be preceded by three points and followed by four points, layered on top of each other, and said in a big pile; things that can be clearly written on one page must be dressed up with boots and hats, and inner and outer robes, making them a thick pile; work that can be arranged without issuing documents or holding meetings must be done by issuing documents and holding meetings, or even issuing long documents and holding long meetings. It seems that only in this way can "awareness be in place," can "great importance" be reflected, and can "solid work" be displayed. This kind of formalism that only values form and not content, only values traces and not actual results, is an extremely harmful formalism. It causes a large amount of public resources to be wasted in a sea of documents and meetings, and it often makes the grassroots overwhelmed. It seems that the work is solid, but in reality, the work style is floating.

The value of official documents does not lie in the length of the document, but in whether it can accurately convey information. The role of meetings is not in how much the leaders speak, but in whether the work arrangements are thorough and feasible. Overcoming the harm of bureaucratic formalities in documents and promoting a practical and honest style of writing and meeting are inevitable requirements for implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and improving work style. Rules and red lines must be established, and once the line is crossed, the board of discipline must also be applied.

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Carrying that bundle of hay down.

By: 凸 凹

This is a childhood memory.

Back then, going to school required walking more than 10 *li* of mountain road. The school's facilities were extremely rudimentary, with desks and chairs made of stone. There were no accommodation facilities, so we had to travel 20 *li* of mountain road every day. Often setting off under the morning stars and returning by the light of the evening moon, it was a difficult thing for sleepy teenagers!

However, my father said to me, "Mountain life, which day isn't difficult?"

No matter how difficult, we still had to go to school.

This road to school was easier to walk in the summer: the sky was bright early in the morning and late in the evening. Walking through the mountains and rivers in the summer heat was a good way to enjoy the coolness of the mountain breeze. But once winter arrived, it was a torment: the mountain wind was biting, cold and dark, and the chilblains on my hands and feet were secretly bleeding. I was really gritting my teeth and hurrying forward – there was only this one road anyway, crying wouldn't help.

That day, after finishing my duty, I walked out of the school gate and glanced at the sky: there were no stars in the sky, only a layer of haze, black, like coal ash spilled all the way by a coal-pulling cart. Walking to the mouth of the river, a gust of dark wind hit my face. I couldn't hear a sound, but it was so cold that I didn't dare to open my mouth. After taking two more steps, the thick cotton clothes on my body suddenly became as thin as paper, as if the wind was blowing on a naked body. Before long, my flesh and bones began to ache. At this time, the wind was like a tongue covered with thorns, silently licking my body, and then suddenly whipping and rolling, tearing the skin and flesh painfully.

I felt like countless such tongues were tearing at me.

Suddenly, a deeper layer of fear arose in my heart. My father had said that people whose limbs were frozen couldn't fall down. Once they fell down, they would never be able to get up again. Don't fall! Although I was desperate in my heart, I didn't dare to cry, because tears would blur my vision and cause me to fall and never get up again.

Walking forward tremblingly, with only one thought: don't fall, no, don't fall!

This thought brought a great deal of pressure to me as a teenager. In the face of this pressure, I felt so weak, lonely, and helpless. Parents, why don't you come and help me? There was a faint cry in my heart. At this moment, I hoped for an embrace, not to escape the cold, but to find some support so as not to fall.

Thinking of an embrace, my heart trembled.

My limbs were already numb, but I could still walk mechanically, because as long as my heart was still warm, my heart would still beat. From the time I could remember, I knew that a person's heart was the least likely to be frozen, just like the heart of a scallion in winter. In my thick cotton clothes, my mother sewed a thick cotton bellyband for me. In previous winters, no matter how hard the old north wind was, I never felt cold in my arms, but today, this silent wind that secretly attacked had made my heart feel a burst of stinging pain. How terrible, if my heart was also frozen numb, everything would be over.

Indeed, I needed a heart! To warm my heart with a heart!

But at this moment, my chest felt like it was growing a row of needles, and I felt a kind of pain radiating from the inside out. Unwillingly, I glanced desperately at the side of the road, and that faint heart suddenly jumped up –

Could that be a bundle of dry grass on the slope by the road?

It must be a bundle of dry grass!

It really was a bundle of dry grass!

The moment I held the grass in my arms, I cried out:

"I will definitely be able to go home alive!"

I hugged the dry grass tightly, afraid that it would be ruthlessly blown away by the silent wind. My feet also seemed to be firmly planted, and I was able to walk forward step by step with strength. In my ears, the grass leaves rustled, as if I heard the complicated whispers of my companions, and I no longer felt lonely. Continuing to walk, my chest actually became slightly warm. In a daze, it seemed that my father had wrapped me in his chest wearing a wool vest. I twitched my nose and smelled a fishy smell. It was also like arching in my mother's warm embrace. I sniffed and smelled a milky fragrance.

Holding that bundle of dry grass and walking on, the teenager saved himself...

From then on, I had a very strong dry grass complex. When I saw mountain grass swaying, I was inexplicably excited; when I saw wheat grass swaying, I couldn't help but shed tears. Moreover, as long as someone despised the grass, I was instinctively angry and unwilling to associate with them.

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Photo Report

Watercolor painting "Longsheng Rice Terraces," by Zhou Lingzhao (周令钊), collection of the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).

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Dandelions and Irises

By: 沈书枝

Going downstairs to pick up the child from kindergarten, the sounds of children playing and calling out echoed in the small open space outside the residential area. The tall elm trees on the small hillside were still lush green with elm seeds covering every branch, showing no signs of fatigue, although some whitish elm seeds had begun to fall under the trees. A light-vented bulbul stood high up, singing a rather melodious song in the thick green foliage. It sang for a long time.

The child picked a dandelion from the open space and asked me to tie it on his hand as a dandelion ring. This is a popular game among his friends this year. It started when one of them accidentally picked a dandelion and had his mother tie it on his finger. Soon, several children followed suit, disregarding their previous agreement not to pick dandelions. The dandelion stems have grown very long and can easily be wrapped around a finger once or twice. Unlike early spring, when the air was still cold, the dandelion stems were mostly very short. To tie a dandelion on their hand like their friends, they had to search for a long time to find a suitable one, and the children sometimes cried about it. Now they are everywhere, with slender and strong stems that can be easily tied around the middle finger, forming a soft, golden ring.

They played together, and for a moment, one of their friends got angry. After a while, he picked a dandelion to apologize to his friend. The angry friend calmed down a bit, but said, "I don't want to pick the dandelion flower, I want it to turn into a fluff ball and then blow it." So they all said, "Our kindergarten has now become a dandelion base!" "Mom, I blew all the dandelion fluff balls in the kindergarten open space!"

I stood not far away watching, enjoying the contagious interest in nature that bursts forth from the children's lives.

This year's first iris flower also bloomed, which the child discovered on the way to kindergarten this morning. A small patch is planted in the open space downstairs. Throughout the winter, the irises, with their withered leaves cut off, were just clumps of dry stubble left on the bare ground. Sprouting seems to have only happened in the last few days. We were in a hurry, rushing down from the elevator, with two other children going to kindergarten. As we turned past the iris clumps, the child suddenly said, "The flower is blooming!" I caught a glimpse of two or three pale purple, slender flowers blooming in the thin green clumps. Not having time to take a closer look, I took his hand and said as we walked, "Indeed, the iris is blooming!"

At this moment, a voice sounded behind us: "Iris flower, do you recognize it?" Looking back, it was the grandfather and the child he was holding hands with. I only heard him say intermittently, "It's that *Malan* (马兰), not *Malian* (马莲)—"

"Iris flower, after its leaves grow, you can use them to make that—tie zongzi, you know—"

"Dragon Boat Festival (端午节), wrap zongzi... zongzi leaves, that is, reed leaves—use them to wrap glutinous rice, and iris leaves as rope—"

"...*Malan* flowers bloom on the twenty-first, two eight two five six, two eight two five seven, two eight two nine thirty-one—have you heard of it?"

The voice gradually revealed a hint of self-recollection. He spoke slowly, in a calm and unhurried tone, which seemed to be a common way of speaking for elderly people in the north. Listening from the front, I felt very gentle. *Malan* is what people in the north call iris, a native northern plant. Because iris flowers are beautiful, they are now also commonly cultivated plants in northern gardens. Iris leaves are slender and flexible, and were commonly used as ropes for wrapping zongzi in the north during the Dragon Boat Festival in the past. Even now, before the Dragon Boat Festival, they can sometimes be seen for sale in larger vegetable markets nearby. The dried iris leaves are tied into bundles and sold. Reed leaves are also the zongzi leaves used for wrapping zongzi in the north during the Dragon Boat Festival, different from the memory of using *Ruozhu* (箬竹) leaves in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although I am a southerner, such customs, as well as the nursery rhymes that northern children sang when playing hopscotch in the past, being told to his child by an elder on the roadside where *Malan* flowers bloom, also feel like something very precious. The emotional and interesting parts of past traditions and children's lives can be passed on in this way, and children's feelings for nature and folk customs are also gained in such play and dialogue.

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The Man Who Makes Wood Sing

By: 李佩红

In May, Altay's (阿勒泰) spring has just awakened from a long winter dream, the snow on its cheeks has just faded, and it is dressing up in front of the mirror, still retaining a bit of charming laziness. At this time, following the Irtysh River (额尔齐斯河) scenic belt downstream, you can see snow-capped mountains, lakes, deserts, grasslands, wetlands, rock paintings, and historical sites, and you can also enjoy the poetic scene of "snow-capped mountains across the northern village, green water surrounding the small garden." Strolling along the riverbank, you can see large swaths of pink and white watercolors arching up from the earth, like meticulously embroidered Kazakh (哈萨克族) felt rugs, floating between the green water and white mountains. Looking closer, the apple blossoms are delicate and charming, fresh and elegant. This place is Sarbulak Town (萨尔布拉克镇), Habahe County (哈巴河县).

　　Midalihan Aixiken's (米达力汗·艾希肯) home is located by the river. Outside the house, the apple blossoms are blooming, and the most important piece of woodwork in Midalihan Aixiken's (米达力汗·艾希肯) life has also emerged.

　　What kind of woodwork is this?

　　On a round table decorated with cloud patterns, a dozen wooden bowls and plates of various sizes are arranged at different heights, connected to the central bearing of the round table. At the top is a shallow plate with a diameter of forty to fifty centimeters, on which lies a carved wooden fish. The fish opens its mouth and spreads its tail, eager to jump. Its body is densely engraved with regular black dots, which are the cold-water black-spotted salmon unique to the Irtysh River (额尔齐斯河). If you pour water from above, large waterfalls connect to small waterfalls, and large and small beads jingle and fall onto the wooden plate. Midalihan Aixiken (米达力汗·艾希肯) and his son carried this piece of woodwork into their woodwork display room and placed it in the center, like a glorious king, looking around at the carved wooden basins, milk buckets, wooden bowls, baby cradles, dombra... Nearly a thousand wooden household items and decorations fill the room, filled with the fragrance of wood and artistic atmosphere.

　　In the long years without electricity, the herdsmen invented the wooden wheel-driven dining table, which is easy to disassemble and suitable for nomadic life. It can hold various delicacies such as hand-grabbed meat and naren, as well as various dried fruits. The top layer of large trays is stacked with golden fried sanzi, like a dazzling mountain of treasures. Guests gently turn it by hand, and the upper and lower layers of plates and bowls rotate in opposite directions, which is dazzling.

　　Making such a complex wooden dining table involves many processes, and it took Midalihan Aixiken (米达力汗·艾希肯) more than a year to complete. The first step is to go into the mountains in winter to find dead birch, elm, pine, or poplar trees. These common Altay (阿勒泰) woods are hard in texture, and the woodwork made from them is light, durable, and has beautiful grain. After finding suitable wood, Midalihan Aixiken (米达力汗·艾希肯) drives a snow sled to pull the wood home, soaks it in clean water for 3 months, and then takes it out to dry naturally to prevent the wood from cracking. After that, he is not in a hurry to start. Like a cheetah, he circles around a tree or a piece of wood, repeatedly and carefully observing, pondering the hardness and softness of the wood, where scars are left, and where branches emerge, understanding the wood to the extent that he is familiar with his own palm. This is the most difficult and crucial step in woodwork making. Next, he enters the production stage, where he must turn the imagination in his mind into reality with an axe and a knife.

　　The tool for making woodwork was passed down to him by his grandfather. The handle is similar to the shape of a crutch and has been polished to a shine by sweat and oil stains. Holding the axe is like holding his grandfather's rough and warm hand, giving him strength. He uses the axe to cut out the rough shape of the woodwork, then hollows out, rough carves, fine carves, polishes, colors, and installs it, and finally a new life is born.

　　In the life of nomadic people, woodwork once occupied an important position. Midalihan Aixiken (米达力汗·艾希肯) learned from his grandfather and father, and surpassed them. As long as customers put forward ideas, he can turn them into reality. In his eyes, woodwork is not woodwork, but a living organism.

　　When Midalihan Aixiken (米达力汗·艾希肯) makes woodwork, he never draws drafts or blueprints. His brain is a treasure chest, and he can take out whatever he wants at will. The edges of the wooden bowls are carved with patterns of grassland wildflowers, the outer walls of the wooden buckets are painted with tree grain decorations, and the wooden basins are carved with argali heads... Growing up on the grassland since childhood, constantly migrating nomadically, the mountains, rivers, forests, grasses, birds, and animals of Habahe (哈巴河) are imprinted in his mind. Whatever exists in nature, he can depict vividly. The people of Habahe County (哈巴河县) praise him as a person who makes wood sing.

　　Swallows fly away and come again, flowers wither and bloom again.

　　From a 17-year-old boy who took up an axe and saw, to a sexagenarian with silver hair, woodwork has consumed his years, and he has also experienced the beauty and joy of wood singing from the process of finding, using, and creating, and thus achieved his fame.

　　For decades, Midalihan Aixiken (米达力汗·艾希肯) has adhered to traditional craftsmanship and taught woodwork making skills to young people. His grandson, Yerhulan Huati (叶尔胡兰·华提), has been influenced by him since childhood and often learns from his grandfather after school. At the age of 13, although he has not yet reached the level of his grandfather's unity with wood, he can also make simple wooden utensils such as wooden bowls and wooden spoons in a decent manner.

　　The annual apple picking season is like Habahe (哈巴河) overturning a palette, with intense colors splashing on the earth. After the TV series "My Altay (我的阿勒泰)" was broadcast, Habahe (哈巴河), the actual filming location, became a new internet sensation. Batches of tourists came to Habahe (哈巴河), entered "Rainbow Bulak (彩虹布拉克)", ate sweet apples, and strolled around Midalihan Aixiken's (米达力汗·艾希肯) woodwork display room, leaving with their favorite woodwork. Midalihan Aixiken (米达力汗·艾希肯) stands among the many woodworks, smiling brightly. At this moment, he feels that the wind sent from outside is the smell of apples, so fragrant and so sweet.

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Visiting Qu Yuan's Temple

By: 谭仲池

In the green shade by the riverbank,

My restless heart

Travels through the vastness of time,

Entering the thatched cottage

Where you once lived.

The wind blows through the grass and trees like the sound of a zither,

The sunlight shines on the mountain rocks, blossoming with green light.

White clouds drift leisurely like rainbow skirts,

A line of geese forms the shape of a Chinese character 人 (rén - "person"),

Flying over the picturesque clear river.

Mountain pavilions and temples,

Ancient cypresses and tall bamboos,

Before my eyes,

Quiet shadows sink into silence,

Only the resounding echo of a sword dance in the clear wind remains.

Dragon boats, mugwort, cattails, zongzi (sticky rice dumplings),

Filled to overflowing

With the endless longing of the villagers.

The mottled sunlight

Makes the sky even clearer.

I raise my wine glass

And devoutly walk towards the river,

To retrieve a river of purity,

Embracing the eternally living poetic soul

And the immortal beautiful verses of culture.

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Editor in Charge for This Section: Zhang Shanshan

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