Summary: Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter on May 26th to Fudan University on its 120th anniversary, extending greetings to faculty, staff, and alumni. Xi noted Fudan's patriotic tradition and contributions to national development. He expressed hope that Fudan would continue to educate and cultivate talent using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. He further emphasized the need for innovation in science, technology, philosophy, and social sciences, aiming to bolster national strategic goals and modernization. The letter does not reference the U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During the 2025 Two Sessions, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of education starting from a young age, stating that primary schools, middle schools, and even kindergartens play a crucial role in a person's life. He encouraged children to align their aspirations with the country and its people, fostering love for the Party and the nation. Xi has consistently stressed the need for comprehensive development—moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education—and to instill socialist values in the younger generation to ensure the Party's continued success. Xi Jinping also encouraged children to learn about the history of China, promoting patriotism. The article also mentions Xi Jinping visiting schools and interacting with students.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang met with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar in Kuala Lumpur, emphasizing the importance of realizing the outcomes of Xi Jinping's recent state visit and building a high-level China-Malaysia community with a shared future. Li highlighted expanding cooperation in digital, green, and AI economies, as well as advancing key projects like "Two Countries, Twin Parks" and the East Coast Rail Link. He stressed the need for China and ASEAN nations to uphold multilateralism and open regionalism amid rising unilateralism and protectionism. Anwar affirmed Malaysia's support for multilateralism and China's accession to the CPTPP, and expressed willingness to work together for a successful ASEAN-China-GCC summit.
Summary: On the occasion of International Children's Day, the Ninth National Congress of the Young Pioneers of China was inaugurated in Beijing. The congress emphasized the importance of cultivating the next generation of builders and successors to socialism and communism, aligning with Xi Jinping's directives on youth and Young Pioneers work. It highlighted the need for children to follow the Party, establish lofty aspirations, and develop in all aspects to become pillars of society. The congress stressed strengthening the Party's leadership over the Young Pioneers and fostering collaboration between various sectors to support children's growth. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The State Council and the Central Military Commission have jointly issued the "Regulations on the Protection of Important Military Industrial Facilities," set to take effect on September 15, 2025. The regulations outline measures to safeguard these facilities, including defining their scope, establishing protection zones, and implementing security protocols. Key provisions include clearly delineating responsibilities for various government departments, local authorities, military organs, and facility management units. The regulations also emphasize security management, emergency response planning, and risk assessment to ensure the facilities' operational effectiveness. The regulations aims to modernize national defense.
Summary: The document outlines guidelines for perfecting the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, emphasizing the Party's leadership and promoting high-quality development. It calls for strengthening Party leadership in both state-owned and private enterprises, improving corporate governance structures, and enhancing scientific management. The document stresses the importance of innovation, social responsibility, and a robust regulatory framework. The goal is to build world-class enterprises that contribute to China's modernization.
Summary: The article reports on the transformation of the former Banshan steel base in Hangzhou's Gongshu district into the Grand Canal Hanggang Park. The park, which retains industrial remnants, has become a popular leisure destination for residents and tourists. The article emphasizes the urban renewal efforts in the area. There is no mention of Chinese officials nor any discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang met with Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sabah, the rotating chair of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), in Kuala Lumpur. Li affirmed the strong bilateral relationship under the guidance of both countries' leaders and expressed China's commitment to deepening cooperation in various sectors, including energy, investment, and digital economy, aligning the Belt and Road Initiative with Kuwait's "2035 National Vision." Li also highlighted China's willingness to work with Kuwait on multilateral platforms such as the UN, SCO and CICA. Sabah reaffirmed Kuwait's adherence to the one-China principle and support for China's position on issues concerning its core interests. Both sides expressed a commitment to strengthening cooperation between the GCC and China.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang arrived in Kuala Lumpur on May 26th to attend the ASEAN-China-GCC summit, following an official visit to Indonesia, at the invitation of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Malaysian Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook and Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing were present to welcome him at the airport. He was seen off in Jakarta by Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Agus and Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Wang Lutong. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The document outlines the guidelines for establishing and improving "modern enterprise systems with Chinese characteristics." It emphasizes strengthening the Party's leadership in both state-owned and private enterprises, improving corporate governance structures, and enhancing scientific management. The document also focuses on incentivizing innovation, establishing social responsibility frameworks, and optimizing oversight and service systems for enterprises. A key goal is to build world-class enterprises by 2035. The document aims to guide enterprises towards high-quality development and contribute to China's modernization.
Summary: A recent joint directive from the CCP Central Committee and the State Council outlines strategies for improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, emphasizing adherence to Party leadership and innovation. Representatives from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) addressed related questions. The CSRC discussed strengthening corporate governance rules for listed companies, including independent director roles and delisting standards. SASAC highlighted incorporating Party leadership into state-owned enterprise governance. The NDRC emphasized removing market access barriers for private firms and solving the problem of payments overdue to them.
Summary: The "AL RAHBA" No. 2 large LNG carrier, built by Jiangnan Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. and China Shipbuilding Trading Co., Ltd. under China Shipbuilding Group, was delivered. The construction cycle was shorter than Jiangnan Shipbuilding's first vessel delivered in November, indicating Jiangnan Shipbuilding's capability for mass delivery of large LNG carriers.
Summary: A delegation of Vietnamese youth visited China as part of the "Red Study Tour," co-organized by the Communist Youth League of China and the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam, to deepen understanding of the two countries' friendship. Participants visited historical sites related to Ho Chi Minh and sites showcasing China's technological advancements, including AI and high-speed rail. Vietnamese delegates expressed admiration for China's development and a desire to strengthen cooperation, particularly in areas like e-commerce and digital economy. One participant, Nguyễn Văn Phúc, mentioned studying China's digital economy and "大国工匠" spirit. The tour, part of ongoing exchanges following Xi Jinping's announcement to invite Vietnamese youth to China, aimed to foster a China-Vietnam community with a shared future.
Summary: Marking the 50th anniversary of China-EU diplomatic relations, the article emphasizes the mutually beneficial nature of their partnership despite evolving cooperation methods and areas. It highlights the absence of fundamental conflicts of interest between China and the EU, advocating for them to be partners in mutual achievement. The article points to growing bilateral trade and investment, as well as cooperation on global issues like climate change, as evidence of a healthy and stable relationship. It stresses the need for both sides to maintain strategic communication, mutual trust, and a focus on cooperation amid a turbulent international landscape and protectionist sentiments while also highlighting the importance of upholding multilateralism. The article alludes to U.S. influence by stating that the China-EU relationship does not target, rely on, or is subject to any third party.
Summary: Wang Yi told Turkmenistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Meredov that China values its traditional friendship with Turkmenistan and is willing to continue to firmly support Turkmenistan on issues involving core interests. Wang stated China is willing to actively promote cooperation in various fields, including natural gas, to help Turkmenistan accelerate its economic diversification. Wang also stated that China supports Turkmenistan in playing a greater role in international and regional affairs and is willing to jointly promote the second China-Central Asia Summit. Meredov affirmed Turkmenistan views China as a reliable partner and is committed to expanding cooperation in various fields, including natural gas trade.
Summary: Politburo Member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with over 50 African ambassadors and representatives in Beijing to celebrate "Africa Day." Wang stated that under Xi Jinping, China has elevated bilateral relations with all African countries to a strategic level, defining the relationship as an "all-weather strategic partnership." He affirmed China's commitment to the "Belt and Road" initiative and the Global Development Initiative in Africa. Wang emphasized the importance of Sino-African solidarity in opposing power politics and promoting multilateralism. African envoys expressed support for China's global initiatives and reaffirmed their commitment to the One China principle.
Summary: NPC Standing Committee Vice Chairman Shohrat Zakir met with Hungarian National Assembly Chief of Staff Szucs in Beijing on May 26th. They exchanged views on actively developing China-Hungary relations and strengthening exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies. The meeting focused on bilateral ties and inter-parliamentary cooperation. The article makes no mention of the United States.
Summary: A dialogue between the Chinese Communist Party and political parties from neighboring countries was held in Beijing, focusing on building a community of shared destiny in the region. Liu Jianchao, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, stated that China prioritizes its relations with neighboring countries and seeks to collaborate in building a stable regional environment. Leaders from Malaysia, Pakistan, and Thailand sent congratulatory messages. Party representatives from Northeast, Southeast, South, and Central Asia, as well as Russia, praised Xi Jinping's vision for a shared future and the Belt and Road Initiative. The conference included over 200 attendees, including political leaders, diplomats, think tank representatives, business leaders, and Chinese officials.
Summary: A China-ASEAN trade and economic forum and promotion for the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ren Hongbin, Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), stated that China-ASEAN trade and economic cooperation has continuously improved in recent years. Ren expressed CCPIT's desire to work with ASEAN business communities to promote bilateral cooperation, strengthen supply chain coordination, and deepen multilateral cooperation. Approximately 200 representatives from trade and investment promotion agencies, business associations, and enterprises from China and ASEAN countries participated. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) held its eighth health ministers meeting in Xi'an, Shaanxi, focusing on sustainable health development and cooperation. China's National Health Commission Director Lei Hai Chao highlighted the SCO's achievements in areas like infectious disease control and traditional medicine. SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming stressed the importance of resilient and inclusive healthcare systems for sustainable development. China, as the rotating chair, promoted practical cooperation, including providing cataract surgeries and establishing exchange platforms. Shaanxi Province has also trained medical students and established a traditional medicine center serving multiple countries.
Summary: The Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund's Mongolia climate change adaptation project was launched in Ulaanbaatar, marking the fund's first such project in Northeast Asia. Chinese Ambassador to Mongolia Shen Minjuan stated the fund has partnered with over 20 international organizations to implement over 160 projects in more than 60 developing countries. Implemented by China's International Development Cooperation Agency, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the Mongolian Red Cross, the two-year project focuses on enhancing early warning systems and climate change adaptation capacity for Mongolian herders, while also providing policy recommendations to the Mongolian government. There is no information on the United States in the article.
Summary: Li Shulei, a member of the Politburo and head of the Propaganda Department, delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the 2025 Cultural Powerhouse Construction Forum in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Huang Kunming, also a Politburo member and Guangdong Party Secretary, delivered a speech as well. Attendees emphasized the importance of deepening cultural system reforms to build a strong cultural power, referencing Xi Jinping's guidance and the upcoming Third Plenum's reform agenda. Discussions focused on problem-oriented reform, technological integration, and implementing the global civilization initiative through openness and exchange. The forum, hosted by the Propaganda Department, was attended by officials from various central and local departments, cultural enterprises, and think tanks.
Summary: During the 2025 National People's Congress, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of childhood education, stating that "primary schools, middle schools, and even kindergartens play a very important role in one's life, and it is necessary to start with children." He encouraged children to align their aspirations with the nation and the people. Xi has also stressed the importance of instilling patriotism from a young age and ensuring children have access to quality education and a supportive environment. The article highlights Xi's interactions with students, including his encouragement of their dreams and his emphasis on all-round development (德智体美劳). It also mentions improvements to education for children in minority regions.
Summary: The 21st China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) concluded on May 26th, showcasing over 120,000 cultural products and 4,000 investment projects with a focus on innovation and trade. The fair featured an AI exhibition area highlighting the integration of technology and culture, including AI-powered translation services and robotics, with Shenzhen official Liu Lei noting its effectiveness. The event attracted nearly 300 leading cultural enterprises, including over 60 new participants, expanding its international reach with attendees from 110 countries and regions, and promoted international cooperation, particularly with Belt and Road countries. The fair emphasized trade, with 41 projects signed at the investment conference and Guangdong Province releasing 87 policy measures to support cultural industry development. The ICIF aims to transition from a leading domestic event to a prominent international cultural industry exhibition.
Summary: The Guangming Daily and Economic Daily jointly released the "2025 National Cultural Enterprises Top 30" and "2025 National Growing Cultural Enterprises Top 30" lists. The "Top 30" included companies like China Publishing Group, China Film Co., Tencent Technology, and iFlytek, with combined 2024 net assets of 695.2 billion yuan and main business revenue exceeding 600 billion yuan. The "Growing Top 30" experienced average growth rates exceeding 15% in main business revenue, net assets, net profit, and R&D expenses. The list includes companies in media, technology and entertainment. The article did not contain any discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang met with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar in Kuala Lumpur, following Xi Jinping's visit, to solidify the high-level strategic China-Malaysia community with a shared future. Li emphasized deepening cooperation in trade, digital economy, green economy and AI, as well as infrastructure projects while promoting cultural exchanges. Li stressed the importance of China, ASEAN, and GCC countries coordinating to uphold open regionalism and multilateralism in the face of rising unilateralism and protectionism. Anwar affirmed Malaysia's commitment to multilateralism and support for China's accession to the CPTPP. The leaders discussed the upcoming ASEAN-China-GCC summit and sought to strengthen economic cooperation.
Summary: China plans to launch its Tianwen-2 mission on May 29th, according to the National Space Administration. Preparations are underway at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, including fueling the Long March 3B Y110 carrier rocket. The Tianwen-2 probe has completed assembly, testing, and transfer, while the rocket has undergone connection and testing procedures. All relevant control centers and measurement stations have completed joint drills in preparation for the launch. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 330kV Yushu double-circuit line project in Qinghai Province, a significant livelihood project, is expected to be completed on the 28th. Once operational, the project will improve living conditions for farmers and herdsmen in the Sanjiangyuan area and boost local economic and social development. The State Grid Qinghai Yushu Electric Power Company workers are shown working on the project in Shangzhuang Village, Chenduo County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article emphasizes the continued importance of the "Eight-Point Regulation" (中央八项规定) in China, focusing on its role in strengthening Party discipline and promoting good governance. It highlights examples of local governments opening facilities to the public and addressing bureaucratic inefficiencies to better serve the people. The article stresses that the regulations aim to cultivate a pragmatic, honest, and clean work style among officials, fostering a positive image and winning public support. By tackling formalism and promoting integrity, the Party seeks to create a favorable environment for economic development and address the people's urgent needs. The article argues that a strong work ethic is essential for navigating domestic challenges and external risks.
Summary: The article emphasizes China's need to become a leader in key technologies and emerging fields by strengthening innovation and standard-setting capabilities. It highlights examples of Chinese companies achieving breakthroughs in areas like QR code technology and IGBT chips, which were previously dominated by foreign entities. The piece stresses the importance of balancing basic research with application, self-reliance with open cooperation, and proactive innovation to maintain a strategic advantage amid rapid technological changes. The author claims that China is increasingly contributing to international standards across multiple fields, reflecting its growing innovation strength and enhancing its global influence. The article closes by noting some foreign experts believe that China will continue to be a pole of innovation.
Summary: The 2025 edition of the "Land and Space Planning City Physical Examination and Evaluation Regulations" has been officially released, emphasizing the development of "rice bag" and "vegetable basket" projects in urban suburbs. The assessment of "15-minute community life circles" will become a mandatory task for all cities. Starting this year, urban physical examinations will be gradually linked to land supply plans. This initiative aims to ensure comprehensive urban development, covering food security, cultural and sports facilities, medical care, and elderly care within easy reach of residents. The regulations seek to foster a sense of community and well-being in urban environments.
Summary: China's "trade-in" (以旧换新) policies for consumer goods, particularly automobiles and appliances, are proving successful in stimulating domestic demand. Over 10 million automobile subsidies have been applied for since the policy's implementation last year. The policy boosted total retail sales by 1.6 percentage points in the first quarter. The "trade-in" initiative also promotes industrial upgrading and resource recycling, contributing to a greener economy.
Summary: The first article discusses the importance of eradicating "minor corruption" at the grassroots level, exemplified by a case of vendors being forced to provide cigarettes to city management officials. It argues that a zero-tolerance approach is necessary to foster a better business environment, which is crucial for attracting capital and talent. The author emphasizes establishing efficient supervision mechanisms to ensure fairness and justice for all market participants. The second article advocates for a realistic approach to governance, urging officials to avoid "filtering" problems and achievements with superficial enhancements. It stresses the importance of facing issues directly, understanding their root causes, and actively seeking solutions to drive progress and maintain credibility with the public.
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Summary: Wang Binwen, director of the China Aeroplane Strength Research Institute, has dedicated himself to aeronautical strength research, contributing to projects like the J-20, Y-20, C919, and AG600. He and his team overcame global challenges in lightweight structure impact resistance and climate adaptability, supporting the development of China's aviation technology. He led the team to create the world's largest climate environment laboratory, capable of precisely replicating 12 types of climate, which has supported testing for the C919. Wang emphasizes combining national needs with personal aspirations, using this to drive innovation and overcome technical bottlenecks, particularly in areas where foreign technology had a monopoly. His work has been crucial in ensuring the operational readiness of advanced aircraft in extreme conditions.
Summary: A recent press conference highlighted five model representatives from China's public security system, emphasizing their dedication and sacrifice in safeguarding the nation. These representatives included a criminal investigator involved in a major case concerning criminal activity in northern Myanmar, a cyber police officer combating online crime, a police chief stationed on Yongxing Island in the South China Sea, a police instructor who worked in East Timor, and a female motorcycle police officer in Shenzhen. The representatives spoke on a range of subjects, including cracking down on crime, safeguarding the country's borders, and guaranteeing public safety.
Summary: The "Curtain Action" initiative in Taiyuan's Xinghualing district, Shanxi province, provides support to elderly residents living alone. Volunteers like Liang Jianhua monitor whether residents open and close their curtains each day to ensure their well-being, responding to emergencies and providing assistance with household tasks. The initiative has been upgraded to include one-key emergency call devices and smart cloud companionship devices in 498 homes, supported by the district's Party committee and government. Zhang Jianzhong, head of the Xinghua Red Volunteer Service Center, noted volunteers respond to all emergency calls. Over the past four years, the initiative has expanded to cover over 1,000 elderly residents with a growing volunteer base.
Summary: Southwest University's School of Pharmaceutical Sciences held a science education event for approximately 200 elementary school students. The students, dressed in lab coats, participated in 12 experiments designed to teach them about traditional Chinese medicine and pharmaceutical preparation techniques. The children conducted experiments in the university laboratory under the guidance of university students. The event sought to foster interest in pharmaceutical sciences.
Summary: The Xiong'an-Xinzhou high-speed railway's underground section in Xiong'an has completed tunnel construction with the final section of Tunnel 1 successfully finished. This 19.98 km underground section, part of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network, faced significant construction challenges due to its depth and complex geological conditions. The 7.5 km Tunnel 1, a single-bore double-track tunnel, includes a 520-meter section under the Baigou Diversion River. The project incorporated BIM and big data technologies.
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Summary: President Xi Jinping encouraged the China Danish Chamber of Commerce to contribute to China-Denmark and China-Europe relations. The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) held the 2025 Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit. AmCham China President Michael Hart stated that U.S. companies still see China as a positive market and want to continue trade, despite increasing U.S.-China tensions being a top challenge for American businesses in China. However, many still consider China one of their top three global investment destinations.
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Summary: Shanghai aims to establish at least 100 "smart" elderly care facilities by 2025, with over 70 already operational, integrating technologies like smart mattresses and AI-driven medication systems to improve safety and efficiency. These technologies aim to reduce the burden on caregivers, allowing them to provide more personalized care. While these technologies are designed to improve patient care, some staff have reported that they do not offer the flexibility or human touch of a human caregiver. One official from the Shanghai Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau stated that the city will promote the application of science and technology to elderly care facilities to improve the efficiency and quality of the services provided.
Summary: This article profiles Li Rong, a 23-year-old nurse working in a rural clinic in Ningxia province, highlighting her dedication to serving the local community. Through the "三支一扶" program, Li provides essential healthcare services, including regular check-ups for elderly patients and home visits for those with limited mobility. The article emphasizes her patience, commitment to improving her skills, and proactive approach to addressing patients' needs, especially for vulnerable populations. It showcases the importance of young professionals in bolstering healthcare in underserved rural areas. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reports that as of May 26th, approximately 70.05 million mu of summer grain wheat has been harvested, signaling the full-scale commencement of the "Sanxia" (Three Summers) wheat harvest. Over 17 million sets of agricultural machinery are being deployed nationwide to facilitate mechanized summer harvesting, planting, and management. The Ministry, in conjunction with various departments, is providing logistical support, including establishing service stations and green channels for agricultural machinery, ensuring fuel supply, and enhancing emergency response capabilities to mitigate the impact of adverse weather.
Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce and seven other departments jointly issued an "Action Plan to Accelerate the Development of Digital and Intelligent Supply Chains," aiming to establish secure and efficient systems in key industries by 2030. The plan focuses on developing approximately 100 leading digital supply chain enterprises. According to an official from the Ministry of Commerce, the initiative targets five key sectors including agriculture, manufacturing, and wholesale in order to enhance supply chain resilience. The Ministry and other departments will foster leading enterprises and supply chain hubs and promote best practices nationwide. The initiative seeks to modernize trade, reduce logistics costs, and improve consumer supply levels.
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Summary: This article discusses Xi Jinping's legal thought and its contribution to the development of the rule of law in China. It argues that Xi's legal thought, rooted in Marxism and adapted to Chinese context, surpasses Western legal theories by emphasizing the political nature, the people-centered approach, and the social functions of the rule of law. The article highlights Xi's focus on fairness and justice as the lifeline of the rule of law, integrating socialist core values into legal construction, and advocating for international rule of law based on shared human values. It concludes that Xi's legal thought is guiding the development of a socialist rule-of-law system with Chinese characteristics, offering a new path for countries seeking both legal development and independence, and contributing Chinese wisdom to international fairness and justice. The article does not discuss the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: According to the article, Xi Jinping's concept of "Chinese-style modernization" represents a new form of human civilization, distinct from Western models, rooted in Chinese culture, and embodying socialist principles. It emphasizes the importance of cultural self-awareness and confidence, achieved through the "two integrations" – combining Marxism with China's specific realities and traditional culture. The author argues that this approach allows China to avoid the pitfalls of Western modernization, such as spiritual alienation, and offers an alternative development path for developing countries, challenging the notion that modernization equals Westernization. The article highlights China's contributions to global governance through initiatives like the Global Development Initiative, contrasting them with perceived Western cultural hegemony. The author concludes that understanding this unique civilization is crucial for propelling China's modernization.
Summary: The article discusses efforts in Xining, Qinghai province to reduce burdens on local officials and prevent the phenomenon of "layer-by-layer intensification" (层层加码) in task implementation. Xining is clarifying task lists and standardizing law enforcement to ease burdens on local officials, citing examples such as managing street vendors. Officials emphasize the importance of understanding local needs and incorporating feedback from residents through initiatives like "urban management entering communities." The city is also using digital platforms to improve communication and address issues raised by the public regarding law enforcement practices.
Summary: An article in People's Daily warns against the practice of "layering on" (层层加码), where each level of government adds requirements and shortens deadlines for tasks assigned to lower levels, creating unsustainable pressure on local cadres and encouraging formalism. This phenomenon stems from a results-oriented, top-down mentality where cadres prioritize pleasing superiors over serving the public interest. The author argues that authorities must base their expectations on realistic conditions and respect objective realities when assigning tasks. They emphasized a need to reduce burdens on local cadres and ensure alignment of responsibilities, authorities, and capabilities across all levels of government. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A white paper titled "China's National Security in the New Era" was released by the State Council Information Office, outlining China's national security concepts and achievements. The document emphasizes balancing development and security, including high-quality development with high-level security, high-level opening-up with high-level security, and global development with global security. It advocates for a global community of development and security, promoting both initiatives on the world stage. The white paper positions high-level security as a prerequisite for high-quality development and stresses the importance of opposing protectionism to promote inclusive globalization. It also addresses the relationship between development and security, and aims to provide stability in a turbulent international environment.
Summary: A joint regulation from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Health Commission, titled "Measures for the Administration of Work Ability Assessment," standardizes the process for assessing work ability for both injured workers and those disabled due to illness or non-work-related causes. The regulation clarifies the application process for initial and subsequent assessments, with the latter being the final conclusion, and outlines procedures for re-evaluations. It emphasizes improving convenience for applicants by reducing required materials and shortening the conclusion delivery timeframe. The regulation also mandates strengthened risk control through technical measures, institutional frameworks, legal accountability, and expert management. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A "Youth Cultivates China" livestream event, sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Hunan Provincial Committee of the CCP, was held in Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, on May 26th. Forty-six youth teams participated in the livestream to promote Hunan agricultural products and contribute to rural revitalization. The event aimed to facilitate the distribution of "Hunan products out of Hunan" through online sales.
Summary: A special task force in Yichang's Xiling District, Hubei Province, has been launched by the local Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission to address issues with rural water supply infrastructure. The task force, composed of members from multiple departments, will focus on upgrading facilities and addressing risks in construction, funding, management, and regulation. Xiling District has allocated 4.775 million yuan to upgrade water supply facilities and address 32 potential risks. The effort includes analysis of public feedback, resulting in a decrease in water-related complaints.
Summary: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is expanding its system of chambers of commerce mediation organizations to resolve disputes in the private sector. There are now 594 such organizations with 1,960 mediators in the region, with 199 added last year. These organizations offer an alternative to litigation, leveraging their close ties with businesses and familiarity with industry practices. In the past year, these mediation groups resolved 422 enterprise-related disputes, with six cases being recognized nationally.
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Summary: Several speakers at the SCO Media Cooperation Forum emphasized the importance of media in fostering mutual understanding and dispelling misinformation, particularly regarding Xinjiang. Speakers such as Vasily Shurov from Russia's *Trud* and Mohammad Saffi of Iran's *Tehran Times* highlighted the need to counter biased Western narratives and promote accurate, balanced reporting within the SCO framework. Shi Feng from *Xinjiang Daily* described efforts to counter negative portrayals of Xinjiang by Western media through video interviews with foreigners who visited the region. Wang Mingyuan from China Aviation Group discussed expanding air routes to SCO countries, while Liu Xiang from China Communications Construction Company focused on infrastructure projects contributing to connectivity and sustainable development.
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Summary: At a recent product launch, Si Te Jiu (四特酒), a leading producer of "Te Xiang" baijiu, showcased its "Tian Gong Shi Er" product line, drawing inspiration from the ancient book *Tian Gong Kai Wu* to emphasize its commitment to craftsmanship. The company focuses on quality through internal comfort testing, advanced equipment, and digitalization, aiming to integrate data across its production, marketing, and supply chains. Si Te Jiu is also investing in green development and social responsibility initiatives, including ecological preservation and charitable contributions. The company aims to promote digitalization across the industry and improve production quality. There was no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: Qingdao has constructed a "real-scene 3D Qingdao platform," creating a 3D "city map" covering the city's 11,000 square kilometers of land, over 800 kilometers of coastline, 49 bays, and 7 inhabited islands. This platform provides spatial information support for refined urban management, aiding in areas like disaster prevention and mitigation, urban planning, and social governance. The platform achieves full coverage and integrated land-sea management, sharing data with over 60 departments and supporting over 70 digital application scenarios. Qingdao is also establishing local standards for real-scene 3D construction to enhance the supply of geographic information resources. The project aims to support Qingdao's high-quality development by objectively recording urban development and changes.
Summary: The fourth round of the third cycle of central environmental inspections has commenced, dispatching eight teams to Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Shaanxi, and Ningxia, as well as China Huaneng, China Datang, and State Power Investment Corporation, for approximately one month. These inspections, the first following the implementation of the *Regulations on Ecological and Environmental Protection Supervision*, will focus on key issues with a problem-oriented and stringent approach. The inspection teams will also be tasked with overseeing the Yellow River Basin in conjunction with their respective provincial inspections. The Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Work Leadership Group Office has instructed those being inspected to avoid blanket policies and simplify reception arrangements to ease burdens at the grassroots level.
Summary: China Meteorological Administration has issued a Level III emergency response for heavy rain, forecasting the strongest rainfall event of the year in southern China from May 27-29. The Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Natural Resources, in conjunction with the China Meteorological Administration, also jointly issued yellow warnings for mountain torrents and geological disasters. Guizhou, Jiangnan, and most of South China are expected to experience heavy to torrential rain, with potential for localized hourly rainfall exceeding 80mm. Li Sen, deputy director of the National Meteorological Center's Ecology and Agricultural Meteorology Office, recommended water storage and drainage measures for southern regions, alongside water and fertilizer management for early rice in Jiangnan and South China.
Summary: Chengdu's expanding subway system, with over 670km of track, is driving urban development by connecting residential, commercial, and industrial zones and facilitating a "commuter city" model. The subway carries over 6 million passengers daily and accounts for 63% of public transport, stimulating station-based commercial development, including a \$30 million investment from Hong Kong Railway Corporation, and a station commercial platform, radiating nationally. Chengdu's focus on integrating transportation with residential areas includes building 28,000 units of subsidized housing near subway stops. The city's rail industry has become a cluster of over 570 companies, and is now a strategic emerging industrial cluster within China.
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Summary: Swimmer Pan Zhanle won nine gold medals at the National Swimming Championships. Despite the wins, Pan expressed dissatisfaction with his individual performances, particularly in the 100m freestyle, his most competitive event. Pan's coach emphasizes a training approach that combines short and long-distance swimming. Veteran swimmer Wang Shun congratulated Pan on his performance.
Summary: This article focuses on the successes of Chinese athletes, particularly swimmer Pan Zhanle, highlighting his dedication and achievements in recent competitions. It emphasizes the hard work and perseverance required to reach the top levels of competition, exemplified by Pan's rigorous training regime. The article also mentions the Chinese table tennis team's success at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships and the Wuhan women's football team's victory in the AFC Champions League, underscoring a broader narrative of Chinese athletic achievement. These sporting victories are presented as a reflection of China's progress and a source of national pride. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2025 China International Sporting Goods Show (体博会) in Nanchang showcased AI-driven technologies in sports equipment and training, featuring personalized workout plans and skill enhancement systems. Weight management solutions and new materials like carbon fiber were also highlighted, expanding the boundaries of sports equipment. Yang Xuesong from the State Sports General Administration noted the increasing R&D investment in the sports goods sector, aiming for advancements in the global supply chain. The event attracted over 4,000 overseas buyers and \$90 million in intended purchases from VIP international buyers, demonstrating China's progress toward intelligent sports manufacturing.
Summary: At the 2025 National Gymnastics Championships, Chinese national team deputy leader Lu Bin assessed that the competition demonstrated the effectiveness of winter training and the potential of athletes. The championships saw veterans like Liu Yang and Zou Jingyuan excelling, while new talents like Qin Xinyi emerged. Lu Bin noted improvements in the women's team, particularly in the previously weak vault event, attributing it to innovative training methods. He also acknowledged that some athletes had issues, such as injuries, which affected their performance.
Summary: The article reports on the development of youth football in Pu'an County, Guizhou Province, highlighting the efforts of Xiao Xuan, a sports teacher who established a football team at Lazishu Primary School. Xiao's team, including player Yang Qilong, achieved success in local competitions, offering the children opportunities to travel and broaden their horizons. Pu'an County has been actively promoting campus football, improving training facilities and achieving success in various competitions. Now, Guizhou Province has established a four-level campus football league mechanism and more than one million students have participated in campus football competitions at all levels. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2025 China-Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) International Sailing Regatta and Ningbo International Sailing Regatta concluded in Ningbo, Zhejiang, with 36 teams from 15 countries participating. The Chinese team, Nansheng Sailing Team, secured third place in the regatta. The event, a cultural exchange activity of the 4th China-CEEC Expo, combined course racing and island racing. During the regatta, the Asian Sailing Federation High-Level Training Base was inaugurated, making the Ningbo Xiangshan Asian Sailing Center the only venue in China to receive this honor.
Summary: The 2025 National Skateboarding Championships concluded in Hubei, with Zhu Yuanling from Guangdong winning the women's street style final. Zhan He (Hubei), Cao Yihuan (Shanghai), and Wu Bowen (Fujian) won gold in men's street, women's bowl, and men's bowl, respectively. This event also served as the first qualifying round for the 15th National Games skateboarding competition. According to referee Tian Jun, China's skateboarding street style has improved significantly and he was pleased with the performance of the young athletes.
Summary: A 100km cross-country race was held in Dalian on May 24th and 25th, featuring 2,926 athletes from 12 countries. The race, organized by the Dalian Sports Bureau, the Dalian Culture and Tourism Bureau, and Lei Yueye (Beijing) Sports Development Co., Ltd., was the largest ever held. Participants traversed a course incorporating mountains, coastlines, and urban areas. The race included optimized course design that focused on the southern coastal tourism belt, complete with local scenic spots and Dalian delicacies at aid stations.
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Summary: Village doctor Wu Guangchao in Zhejiang province has been practicing medicine in the same village for 59 years, charging villagers only one yuan for treatment since 1983. Despite his fame and the availability of modern facilities like remote consultation systems, Wu worries about finding a successor to continue his work in the village clinic. The local government provides subsidies to the clinic, and Wu also receives a pension. Wu was accompanied by villagers seeking his medical advice during the reporting of the article. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the necessity and urgency of improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, in light of the reshaping of the international economic and trade landscape. It highlights the importance of strengthening risk management capabilities, promoting innovation, and fulfilling social responsibilities for these enterprises. The article emphasizes the need to consolidate the foundation of the Chinese economy and enhance its resilience, particularly in the face of rising unilateralism and protectionism. It also touches on the role of enterprises in supporting high-quality employment and talent development to boost the economy. The article suggests that building stronger national brands can help China navigate the evolving international economic order.
Summary: Auxiliary police officer Wang Liang from Baiquan County, Heilongjiang Province, was awarded a third-class merit for saving an eight-year-old boy from an out-of-control motorcycle. Wang, off-duty at the time, pulled the boy to safety, sustaining minor injuries to his daughter when the motorcycle crashed nearby. The motorcycle's owner attributed the incident to a sudden malfunction of the handbrake. The rescued boy's parents visited Wang's workplace to express their gratitude. Wang is also being considered for the "Longjiang Good Person" award.
Summary: Beijing held its selection competition for the 2025 National Cultural Relics Industry Vocational Skills Competition in Miyun District on May 26th. Over 200 participants from 44 organizations competed in six categories including metal, ceramic, paper/calligraphy, woodwork, brick/tile, and archaeological excavation. The top two finishers in each category will represent Beijing at the national competition. The competition aims to improve the professional skills of cultural relic restorers. There was no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The "Technology Empowers Rural Development: 2025 Rural Revitalization Her Power Dialogue" was held in Hunan, focusing on how technological advancements offer new opportunities for rural women. Participants discussed the impact of digital transformation and technological innovation on women's economic empowerment and social participation. The event highlighted China's poverty alleviation efforts and its contribution to gender-sensitive rural development. Commemorating the UN's 80th anniversary and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration, the dialogue promoted knowledge sharing and cooperation among developing countries. The dialogue sought to foster consensus on advancing rural women's development through technology and promoting gender equality.
Summary: According to the National Healthcare Security Administration, as of May 6th, 300 unified regions across the country, accounting for 77% of all such regions, have launched real-time basic medical insurance fund settlement, exceeding expectations. These regions cover 361,800 designated medical institutions and pharmacies, and the reform aims to shorten the settlement cycle between medical insurance and designated institutions. 180 unified regions have increased the frequency of payments, while 223 have compressed the monthly settlement cycle. Since the start of the year, 300.1 billion yuan has been disbursed and 76.3 billion has been prepaid.
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Summary: The U.S. government, after a federal judge halted its ban on international student recruitment at Harvard University, requested the university to provide the names and nationalities of all its international students. This move is seen as the latest in a series of actions targeting universities, which critics say will diminish the U.S.'s appeal to global talent. The government's actions, including freezing funding and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status, are framed as combating antisemitism but also target diversity initiatives. Critics argue these policies undermine academic freedom and damage the U.S.'s reputation as a global academic center, potentially leading to a "talent exodus." American media outlets are reporting that these measures are considered political maneuvers intended to bring elite universities like Harvard in line with the White House's political agenda.
Summary: The Gulf Information Security Expo in Dubai highlighted the increasing cybersecurity threats facing the Middle East, with 69% of companies experiencing cyberattacks in the past year. UAE cybersecurity head Mohammed al-Kuwaiti emphasized the need for international cooperation to combat evolving cybercrime, particularly the misuse of AI, noting the UAE faces approximately 200,000 cyberattacks daily. Huawei and multiple Chinese cybersecurity firms presented solutions, including AI-driven security measures and hardware-level protection. Ghana's Minister for Communications, Digital Technology, and Innovation, Samuel George, expressed a desire for increased collaboration with China, given its significant role in Ghana's IT infrastructure, to address shared cybersecurity challenges. The United States was not mentioned in the article.
Summary: Germany's new coalition government, composed of the CDU/CSU and SPD, aims to revitalize the German economy through infrastructure investment, tax reform, and energy policy changes. The government plans to invest heavily in infrastructure and digitalization, including transportation, 5G networks, and AI. Tax cuts for low- and middle-income earners and streamlined administrative processes are also planned to boost economic activity. In the energy sector, the government will pursue both short-term stability through traditional energy sources and long-term transition to renewables, including a hydrogen fund. These reforms are intended to address Germany's structural economic challenges and reshape its European leadership role.
Summary: The village of Mae Salong in Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand, leverages its high altitude to cultivate oolong tea on a large scale. This tea is then exported to Europe, the United States, and China, contributing significantly to the local economy. The article was reported by Zhang Niansheng and Bai Yuanqi.
Summary: Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema commemorated Africa Day in Lusaka, honoring the pioneers of African liberation. He emphasized the importance of pan-African unity for achieving peace, security, and sustainable prosperity on the continent, urging against division through conflict. Hichilema made the statements while accompanied by government officials, military representatives, and foreign diplomats. The statement was made during the formal ceremony that included laying a wreath at the freedom statue.
Summary: The UK government nationalized Southwestern Railway, a key regional operator serving routes between London and southern England. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander marked the occasion, stating it was a turning point away from inefficient, fragmented operations of the last three decades. The move signals a significant step in Labour's railway reforms, initiating a new phase of "de-privatization." All railways currently operating under contract with the Department of Transportation are planned to return to state ownership by the end of 2027. The future Great British Railway Company will manage train operations and infrastructure.
Summary: Reports indicate Israeli forces bombed two locations in northern Gaza on May 26th, resulting in the deaths of at least 49 Palestinians. The strikes targeted a school in Gaza City housing displaced persons and a residential building in Jabalia. Palestinian sources claim the school bombing resulted in at least 30 deaths and dozens of injuries, while the Jabalia strike killed at least 19, including women and children. The Israeli military stated it targeted a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command and control center within a school in the Gaza City area. Since March 18, Israeli attacks on Gaza have reportedly caused at least 3785 deaths and 10756 injuries.
Summary: A high-level forum on mining cooperation between China and ASEAN was held in Nanning, Guangxi, focusing on green transformation and deepening collaboration. Participants, including officials from China, East Timor, and Indonesia, discussed opportunities and challenges in mining transformation, legal frameworks for development, resource evaluation methods, and Indonesian investment policies. Speakers emphasized the importance of high-quality mining development for China and globally, highlighting the complementary nature of resources between China and ASEAN. The forum advocated for strengthened policy dialogue, technical cooperation, and market linkages to promote green, low-carbon, and intelligent mining. The meeting did not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article highlights the experiences of foreign residents in three Chinese cities, showcasing efforts to integrate them into local communities. In Yiwu, Nepali businessman Kumar mediates disputes in the "United Nations community" as an "International Old Uncle" (老娘舅). In Shenzhen, Belarusian Tatiana volunteers in the Shekou International Volunteer Service Team. In Xiamen, Spanish restaurant owner Manu credits the Guanren community for helping him establish his business. All three individuals emphasize the welcoming atmosphere and supportive services provided, facilitating their integration and a sense of belonging.
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Summary: Qinghai Province is focused on developing itself as an international eco-tourism destination by integrating ecological preservation with cultural promotion and tourism initiatives. The province is leveraging its unique geographic location and cultural heritage to promote ethnic unity and build a shared national identity. Qinghai is also working to protect cultural heritage, develop new tourism products, and strengthen cooperation and exchange. Officials are leading delegations to countries such as Saudi Arabia and Spain to promote cultural tourism resources. These initiatives aim to boost the tourism industry and drive high-quality development in Qinghai.
Summary: The recent China Theatre Awards, including the Plum Performance Award, emphasized the importance of artistic merit and popular appeal in selecting winners, signaling a reform to promote the art form. The awards stressed adherence to traditional theatrical forms, moving away from excessive spectacle and prioritizing works that resonate with audiences. This year's awards opened submissions to private theatre companies, which was a shift intended to create a more diverse and balanced theatrical ecosystem. The reform aims to encourage innovation that respects artistic traditions and serves the people. There was no mention of any other country, like the United States, in the provided article.
Summary: The article discusses the phenomenon of "internet catchy songs" (网络神曲) in China, born from new technologies and production methods, particularly short-video platforms like Douyin. While acknowledging the accessibility and popularity of these songs reflecting public sentiment, the article also critiques their potential for being low quality, homogenized, and driven by algorithms over artistic merit. It argues that technology and cultural aesthetics can coexist, but the industry needs to respect artistic principles, prioritize social benefit, and guide creators to view internet traffic rationally. Ultimately, the author suggests that time and the public will ultimately decide the true value of these songs.
Summary: The Shandong Province Drama Theatre's original play, "July in Maihe Village," tells the story of Lin Qiyue, a 26-year-old acting principal unexpectedly elected to lead the village's relocation effort in a village by the Yellow River. Lin Qiyue earns the villagers' trust and helps Maihe Village achieve a beautiful transformation by seizing the historical opportunity to build the Yellow River Ecological Corridor. The play focuses on her efforts and those of Xiao Lang, an expert initially perceived as an outsider, who integrates into the community and supports its revitalization. The play emphasizes the villagers' changing attitudes and emotional development in the face of comprehensive rural revitalization. The director uses a 360-degree rotating stage to present the story in a fluid and dynamic way.
Summary: The article discusses the popularity and potential pitfalls of short-form video content derived from films on platforms like Douyin. While these videos, especially plot summaries, cater to fragmented viewing habits, they often oversimplify narratives and can misrepresent the artistic integrity of the original works. The article argues that these derivative videos cannot replace the immersive experience of watching the films themselves. It notes that detailed analytical videos gain traction when audiences are motivated to watch films in theaters.
Summary: A popular Chinese reality TV show, "Ride the Wind 2025," is facing criticism for a perceived decline in the singing and dancing abilities of its contestants compared to earlier seasons. Critics argue that the show is compensating for this lack of talent by focusing on manufactured drama and spectacle. Some argue that the show has lost its inspiring core, which used to be the contestants' genuine dedication and resilience. The program's move to outdoor stages has not compensated for the perceived lack of talent. The article suggests that the show needs to return to a focus on genuine talent and sincere storytelling to regain its appeal.
Summary: A Sino-foreign co-produced documentary captures the vibrant "Village BA" basketball culture in Guizhou, where the sport is deeply embedded in local customs and community life. The film showcases the raw energy and cultural pride surrounding the games, highlighting the sport's role in fostering unity. The participation of a former international university basketball team captain aims to give overseas audiences insight into Chinese rural life and enthusiasm for sport. While praised for its portrayal of grassroots passion, the documentary is criticized for lacking depth and feeling somewhat staged.
Summary: This article provides contact information for submissions to the literary and art criticism section of the People's Daily. The email address and designer responsible for the page layout are listed. The content appears to be related to submissions of art and literary criticism, therefore no discussion of Chinese politics, U.S.-China relations, or specific official statements are present.
Congratulatory Letter
On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the founding of Fudan University (复旦大学), I extend warm congratulations to all faculty, students, staff, and alumni!
For 120 years, Fudan University (复旦大学) has kept pace with the times, forming a glorious patriotic tradition and an excellent school spirit, cultivating a large number of outstanding talents, and producing many original achievements, playing a positive role in national construction and national progress.
At a new starting point, I hope that Fudan University (复旦大学) will unremittingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to cultivate people with soul, deepen educational and scientific research reforms, promote the benign interaction between independent innovation in science and technology and independent talent cultivation, promote knowledge innovation, theoretical innovation, and methodological innovation in philosophy and social sciences, continuously enhance its ability to serve major national strategies and regional economic and social development, and continuously make new contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Xi Jinping (习近平)
May 26, 2025
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社) Beijing (北京), May 26)
Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), May 26. Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), President of the People's Republic of China (国家主席), and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), sent a letter on the 26th to congratulate Fudan University (复旦大学) on its 120th anniversary, extending warm congratulations to all faculty, students, staff, and alumni.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in his congratulatory letter that for 120 years, Fudan University (复旦大学) has kept pace with the times, forming a glorious patriotic tradition and an excellent school spirit, cultivating a large number of outstanding talents, and producing many original achievements, playing a positive role in national construction and national progress.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that at a new starting point, he hopes that Fudan University (复旦大学) will unremittingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to cultivate people with soul, deepen educational and scientific research reforms, promote the benign interaction between independent innovation in science and technology and independent talent cultivation, promote knowledge innovation, theoretical innovation, and methodological innovation in philosophy and social sciences, continuously enhance its ability to serve major national strategies and regional economic and social development, and continuously make new contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. (The full text of the congratulatory letter will be issued separately.)
Fudan University (复旦大学) was founded in 1905. For 120 years, the school has adhered to the motto of "extensive learning and firm determination, questioning earnestly and thinking closely," pursuing excellence and pioneering innovation, and cultivating a large number of outstanding talents for the country.
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"Elementary schools, middle schools, and even kindergartens play a very important role in a person's life, so we must start with the children."
During the 2025 National People's Congress (全国两会) session, when Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, visited members of the China Democratic League (民盟), China Association for Promoting Democracy (民进), and the education sector attending the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (政协会议) and participated in a joint group meeting, he once again focused the topic on "the future of the motherland" and "the hope of the Chinese nation."
If the youth are strong, then China is strong; if the youth prosper, then China prospers.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has stood at the strategic height of ensuring that the red country will have successors and that the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics will be passed on from generation to generation. It cares about the growth and development of children and adolescents, points out the direction for the work of the Young Pioneers (少先队), and leads the cause of children and adolescents in the new era to draw a new chapter with rich and heavy colors.
As the red sun rises, its path is bright. The vast number of children and adolescents grow towards the sun and move forward in pursuit of their dreams. They will surely take over the relay baton of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, and head towards a more brilliant tomorrow.
"The most important aspiration in life should be linked to the motherland and the people."
In early summer, all things are beautiful and full of vitality. The sound of reading fills the campus of Zhijiang Primary School (之江小学) in Jialing District (嘉陵区), Nanchong (南充), Sichuan (四川).
Just one year ago, in May, on the eve of the "June 1st" International Children's Day, the children of this school received a special holiday gift - a reply letter from General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
"I hope the students will establish lofty aspirations and cherish the good times," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) encouraged everyone in his reply, "Strive to be good young people of the new era who love the Party and the country, are self-reliant and self-improving, and work hard to grow into pillars capable of shouldering the great task of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation."
In General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) mind, childhood is the most precious period in a person's life, and it is necessary to "pay attention to establishing correct life goals during this period" and fasten the first button of life correctly.
"When I was four or five years old, my mother bought me picture books and told me the story of 'Serving the country with utmost loyalty, Yue Fei's mother tattooing characters on his back.' I said, 'Doesn't tattooing hurt?' My mother said that although it hurts, Yue Fei (岳飞) will always remember it in his heart. I still remember it now." Recalling his childhood, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said affectionately, "Serving the country with utmost loyalty is my lifelong goal."
Teaching by example, with earnest words and earnest wishes.
"A person can have many aspirations, but the most important aspiration in life should be linked to the motherland and the people. This is the foundation of people's various specific aspirations and the backbone of life."
On May 31, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Beijing Yuying School (北京育英学校) for inspection, and the first stop was the school history museum.
Founded in Xibaipo (西柏坡), Hebei (河北) in 1948, and moved to Beijing (北京) with the Party Central Committee in 1949, Yuying School (育英学校) carries a glorious revolutionary tradition and a distinct red gene.
"Let every student of Yuying School (育英学校) firmly remember the school's glorious history, remember the Party's care, continue the red tradition, inherit the red gene, listen to the Party and follow the Party from an early age, and aspire to become talents for the Party and contribute to the country." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest teachings permeated the hearts.
Put patriotism education in a more prominent position and bury the seeds of loving China in the depths of every child's heart.
In the early morning, facing the bright sunshine, students from the Macau Haojiang Middle School Affiliated Yingcai School (澳门濠江中学附属英才学校) lined up in neat rows, stood up straight, and paid attention to the rising five-star red flag.
Many students still have vivid memories of the scene more than 5 years ago.
In 2019, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the school for inspection, he used an anecdote about the old principal to educate the children: "On the day of the founding of the People's Republic of China, when Macau (澳门) was still under Portuguese rule, the old principal Du Lan (杜岚) resolutely raised the five-star red flag. This strong patriotism and courage is a landmark manifestation of patriotism, and it also reflects the deep patriotic feelings of the vast number of compatriots in Macau (澳门)."
"We start cultivating patriotism from an early age," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) encouraged everyone to "often go to the mainland to walk around and see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. Learn history well, learn the history of China well."
Establish the aspirations of young people, build the foundation of faith, and take the first step in life well.
On May 30, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) participated in the admission ceremony of the Young Pioneers (少先队员) of Minzu Primary School (民族小学) in Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京市), and recalled the scene when he joined the team:
"I remember my heart pounding when I joined the team, I was very excited." "Why is that? Because it is an honor."
On the journey to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is the vanguard, the Communist Youth League (共青团) is the shock force, and the Young Pioneers (少先队) is the reserve force. "Joining the team, joining the League, and joining the Party are the 'three-step process of life' for young people to pursue political progress."
On July 23, 2020, the Eighth National Congress of the Chinese Young Pioneers (中国少年先锋队第八次全国代表大会) was held in the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂), Beijing (北京).
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory letter, emphasizing that "In the new era, the Young Pioneers (少先队) must hold high the team flag and follow the Party, inherit the red gene, cultivate new people of the era, and unite, educate, and lead the vast number of Young Pioneers (少先队员) to be successors to the cause of communism."
Personally care, personally guide, and personally promote.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Young Pioneers (中国少年先锋队), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly required that "The whole Party and the whole society should attach importance to the work of the Young Pioneers (少先队). Party committees and governments at all levels should strengthen leadership and guarantee, and create conditions for the healthy growth of Young Pioneers (少先队员) and the development of the Young Pioneers (少先队) cause."
In 2021, the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Comprehensively Strengthening the Work of the Young Pioneers in the New Era" (《中共中央关于全面加强新时代少先队工作的意见》) was formulated and issued, which is the first document in the history of New China issued in the name of the Party Central Committee specifically to strengthen the work of the Young Pioneers (少先队). Since the new era, a new era Young Pioneers (少先队) work system and mechanism of Party committee leadership, government support, Communist Youth League (共青团) leadership, League-education collaboration, and social coordination is gradually taking shape.
When young people bear great aspirations, they will naturally have the time to strive.
On May 30, 2024, under the gaze of more than 400 Young Pioneers (少先队员) from 56 ethnic groups across the country, a five-star red flag that had "traveled" in space was slowly raised at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center (中国航天员科研训练中心).
The bright red flag and the starry river of hope shine with the light of faith of hundreds of millions of young people.
"Care for children and create favorable conditions for their healthy growth."
As spring returns to the earth, the banks of the Yongding River (永定河) in Beijing (北京) are full of greenery.
On April 3, 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came here and, together with the Young Pioneers (少先队员), shoveled soil to create pits, cultivated soil to build embankments, and lifted water to irrigate, planting green hope in the season of growth of all things.
This is the 13th consecutive year since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大) that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has participated in the capital's voluntary tree planting activities with children.
"Straighten it from a young age," "Pay attention to strengthening physical exercise," "We jointly water the saplings, and in fact we are also watering you"... Every kind word expresses the deep hope that the "saplings" will become pillars of talent as soon as possible.
The healthy growth of children is related to the harmony and happiness of hundreds of millions of families, and to the great plan for the development of the country and the nation.
"Adhere to moral education first," "Learn knowledge like a sponge absorbs water," "Let the children run," "Adhere to cultivating people with beauty and culture," "Cultivate labor awareness, environmental awareness, and conservation awareness from an early age"...
From holiday greetings and blessings to careful teachings during local inspections, and then to earnest expectations conveyed through letters, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to the physical and mental health of children and adolescents, emphasizing that "all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art, and labor is worth its weight in gold."
In General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) mind, every child is a hope that cannot be disappointed.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the Hohhot Children's Welfare Institute (呼和浩特市儿童福利院) and entered the most difficult and vulnerable group of children.
"Grandpa Xi (习爷爷) is here to see us!" The children who were rehearsing for the Spring Festival program came up to him. The General Secretary squatted down and lovingly picked up a child.
Seeing the children learning and living carefree, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said that the whole society should have compassion and care for children, especially orphans and disabled children, and work together to enable them to grow up healthily and feel the warmth of the socialist family.
"Where the sun does not reach, youth comes naturally. The moss flower is as small as rice, but it also learns to bloom like a peony." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed to focus the eyes of education "more on the inconspicuous moss flowers in the corners."
Zhongyi Township (中益乡) in Shizhu County (石柱县) is located in the Wuling Mountains (武陵山区), with high mountains and deep valleys, and barren land. It was once one of the 18 deeply impoverished townships in Chongqing (重庆市). In April 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) traveled for more than 3 hours to reach Zhongyi Township Primary School (中益乡小学).
"'No worries about food and clothing, and three guarantees,' one of the most important is that compulsory education must be guaranteed. No matter how hard it is, we cannot make the children suffer; no matter how poor we are, we cannot be poor in education. We must ensure that children in poor mountainous areas go to school and receive education, and have a happy and joyful childhood."
The growth and development of children requires both fair opportunities and a good environment.
In the 1980s, shortly after Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) took office in Zhengding (正定), Hebei (河北), he conducted a general survey of dilapidated school buildings in the county. In a subsequent field investigation, he found that Beijia Village (北贾村), which was considered relatively wealthy, had very dilapidated primary school buildings.
"Given the conditions in your village, you shouldn't have the primary school in this state. You have every condition to improve the school." Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) ordered the village cadres to repair it within a time limit, and emphasized before leaving, "The best house in the whole village must be the school."
The needs of the children are deeply in General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) heart.
On June 18, 2024, during his inspection in Qinghai Province (青海省), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) first came to Guoluo Xining Nationalities Middle School (果洛西宁民族中学).
The General Secretary successively entered the cafeteria, dormitory, and classroom to inquire about the students' diet, accommodation, and study. Seeing that the dormitory washroom was fully equipped with washing machines and hair dryers, the General Secretary asked with concern, "Is there hot water in winter?" and emphasized that "hot water should be supplied around the clock to ensure the children's washing."
"It is our greatest wish for the children to grow up better," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said affectionately.
He made important instructions on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the China National Committee for the Well-being of the Next Generation (中国关心下一代工作委员会), emphasizing that "Party committees and governments at all levels should strengthen leadership over the work of caring for the next generation";
He sent a congratulatory letter on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the China National Children's Center (中国儿童中心), encouraging the vast number of children's workers to "be guides for children's growth, guardians of children's rights, and dream builders for children's future, and wholeheartedly promote children's healthy growth and all-round development";
He sent affectionate messages on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the implementation of the Hope Project (希望工程), requiring the Communist Youth League (共青团) to "run this cause better and strive to provide new assistance and sow new hope for young people."
Formulate the "China Children's Development Program (2021-2030)" (《中国儿童发展纲要（2021—2030年）》) to ensure the healthy growth of children from the top-level design; revise the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors" (《中华人民共和国未成年人保护法》) to hold up the "protective umbrella" for children; issue the "Outline for Building a Strong Education Country (2024-2035)" (《教育强国建设规划纲要（2024—2035年）》) to build a more inclusive and higher-quality education ecology for children...
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the constantly improving policies and institutional guarantees comprehensively protect the healthy growth of children.
"A good life belongs to you, and the beautiful Chinese dream belongs to you."
Puba Lhamo (普巴拉姆) and Purbu Tsering (普布次仁), siblings living in Gala Village (嘎拉村), Bayi District (巴宜区), Nyingchi City (林芝市), Tibet (西藏), cherish a group photo with Grandpa Xi (习爷爷).
On July 21, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) entered the home of the siblings, sat around and chatted with everyone, and cordially asked about the children's dreams.
"I want to go to college and become a doctor when I grow up," said her sister Puba Lhamo (普巴拉姆). Her brother Purbu Tsering (普布次仁) wants to become an athlete.
With the General Secretary's earnest encouragement, the siblings bravely pursued their dreams and realized their dreams.
In 2023, Puba Lhamo (普巴拉姆) was admitted to the First Middle School of Nyingchi City (林芝市第一中学), steadily moving towards her "doctor dream." Purbu Tsering (普布次仁) was admitted to the Tibet Autonomous Region Sports and Technical School (西藏自治区体育运动技术学校), moving towards the goal of "professional athlete."
Dreams are ahead, and the road is under your feet.
On September 9, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) entered the science popularization laboratory of Beijing Bayi School (北京市八一学校). Learning that the students were developing China's first middle school science popularization small satellite, the General Secretary was very happy and told the children: "Don't forget to notify me when your small satellite is launched."
Three months later, the children wrote to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) to report before launching the science popularization small satellite they designed and developed.
"Cultivate scientific spirit, study hard, work hard, and lead more young people to talk about science, love science, learn science, and use science," the General Secretary encouraged everyone in his reply.
With dreams as pens, young people paint a beautiful future.
Forgetting the meeting with Grandpa Xi (习爷爷) at the Hohhot Children's Welfare Institute (呼和浩特市儿童福利院), deaf and mute girl Wang Yani (王雅妮) remembered the General Secretary's exhortation to "study hard and achieve academic success," and bloomed her youth on the three-foot platform of special education, helping more disabled children realize their dreams;
Still remembering the experience of reporting to Grandpa Xi (习爷爷) about participating in tennis competitions when studying at Minzu Primary School (民族小学) in Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京市), Mi Zenghao (米增昊), who loves sports, kept in mind the General Secretary's encouragement to "use your limited energy in the aspects where you can best play your role and strive to do your best," and joined the tennis team during college, maintaining this love to this day;
Jihau Youguo (吉好有果), a girl from Daliangshan (大凉山) who was praised by Grandpa Xi (习爷爷) for a song "The National Flag is Really Beautiful," walked out of the mountains singing and stepped onto the opening ceremony stage of the Chengdu Universiade, hoping to lead more children to see a bigger world;
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The dream of young people is also the dream of China.
"When I see you, I think of the future of our nation."
On the occasion of the "June 1st" International Children's Day in 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) met with representatives of the Seventh National Congress of the Chinese Young Pioneers (中国少年先锋队第七次全国代表大会), and cordially shook hands and took group photos with Young Pioneers (少先队员) and veteran Young Pioneers (少先队) workers of all ethnic groups.
Facing the children's eager eyes, the General Secretary's words were warm and powerful -
"Today, be good children of the motherland, and tomorrow, be builders of the motherland. A good life belongs to you, and the beautiful Chinese dream belongs to you."
The cause of the Party has successors, and the red country will never change color.
On June 29, 2021, the golden hall of the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) was brightly lit.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) awarded the "July 1st Medal" (七一勋章) to the recipients, paying tribute to the meritorious models with the highest honor within the Party. Young Pioneers (少先队员) presented beautiful flowers to the medal recipients, paying the highest respect.
Two days later, on July 1, at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), representatives of the Young Pioneers (少先队员) and the Communist Youth League (共青团) faced Tiananmen (天安门) and offered deep blessings and made solemn promises for the Party's centenary.
"Struggle is youth! Dedicate youth to the Party! Please rest assured, the Party, we will make the country strong! Please rest assured, the Party, we will make the country strong!"
Ready at all times to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the children of the new era are full of spirit and stride forward.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), May 26)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Kuala Lumpur on May 26th (Reporter Zhang Niansheng (章念生), Wang Di (王迪)) On the evening of May 26th, local time, State Council Premier Li Qiang (李强) met with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar (安瓦尔) at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
Li Qiang (李强) stated that last month, President Xi Jinping (习近平) paid a state visit to Malaysia, and both sides unanimously agreed to build a high-level strategic China-Malaysia community with a shared future, planning the strategic direction for the development of bilateral relations. China is willing to work with Malaysia to implement the important achievements of this historic visit, adhere to mutual respect and mutual trust, equal treatment, and mutual benefit and win-win results, promote the continuous deepening and solidifying of exchanges and cooperation in various fields, and jointly usher in a new "golden 50 years" of China-Malaysia relations.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China is willing to maintain close high-level exchanges with Malaysia, strengthen strategic communication, and consolidate the political foundation of the China-Malaysia community with a shared future. The two sides should continue to expand the scale of trade, investment and other cooperation, focus on cutting-edge fields such as the digital economy, green economy, and artificial intelligence, promote the integrated development of production, supply and value chains, and steadily advance the construction of key projects such as "Two Countries, Twin Parks" and the East Coast Rail Link, to strengthen the economic growth engine of the China-Malaysia community with a shared future. China is willing to work with Malaysia to implement the mutual visa exemption agreement, deepen cultural, educational, health, sports and other people-to-people exchanges and cooperation, and tighten the bonds of public sentiment in the China-Malaysia community with a shared future. The two sides should also organize activities such as the "Confucian-Islamic Civilization Dialogue" to jointly build a platform for civilization exchanges between the two countries and even the region.
Li Qiang (李强) said that the current rise of unilateralism and protectionism, and the weak growth of the world economy, China, ASEAN, and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, as participants and beneficiaries of economic globalization, should strengthen coordination and cooperation, and jointly adhere to open regionalism and genuine multilateralism. The holding of this ASEAN-China-Gulf Cooperation Council summit is of particular importance. Malaysia is the rotating chair of ASEAN and the host country of the tripartite summit. China is willing to work closely with Malaysia to take this summit as an opportunity to promote closer economic cooperation among the three parties, create a model of global cooperation and development, jointly safeguard free trade and the multilateral trading system, work together to address global challenges, and inject more stability, certainty and positive energy into a turbulent world.
Anwar (安瓦尔) said that China is a good neighbor and good partner of Malaysia. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) historic visit to Malaysia last month was very successful. Malaysia is willing to work with China to fully implement the important achievements of the visit, continue to expand trade and investment cooperation, strengthen key projects such as "Two Countries, Twin Parks" and the East Coast Rail Link (东海岸铁路), and expand cooperation in new energy, finance, resources, artificial intelligence, people's livelihood and other fields. Malaysia firmly supports multilateralism, supports China's accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, and is willing to work with China to promote the first ASEAN-China-Gulf Cooperation Council summit to achieve fruitful results.
Return to TopOn the occasion of the "June 1st" International Children's Day, the Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Young Pioneers (中国少年先锋队) grandly opens in Beijing (北京) today. We extend our warm congratulations on the opening of the congress and our sincere greetings to the Young Pioneers, Young Pioneer instructors, and Young Pioneer workers of all ethnic groups across the country!
If the youth are strong, the country is strong. Children are the future of the motherland and the hope of the Chinese nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has stood at the strategic height of ensuring that the cause of the Party will be carried on and that the red regime will never change its color. He has cared about the growth and development of children, attached importance to the work of children and the Young Pioneers, and made a series of important instructions and approvals, guiding the cause of the Party's children in the new era to achieve great achievements. In particular, since the Eighth National Congress of the Young Pioneers, the Young Pioneers have focused on the fundamental task of cultivating communist successors, vigorously strengthened ideological and political guidance, and widely carried out Young Pioneer characteristic activities. The effectiveness of cultivating people for the Party and the country has been remarkable, and the Young Pioneers have shown an inspiring spirit of loving the Party and the country, being self-reliant and self-improving, and striving for progress.
Growing up in a great era and bathed in the warm sunshine of the Party, the Young Pioneers are a happy generation and a generation that shoulders important responsibilities. At present, Chinese-style modernization presents an incomparably bright and splendid prospect. With the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) and the significant advantages of the socialist system, children of all ethnic groups living in the big family of the Chinese nation will surely become happier and have a better future. Today's children are the successors and future main force in building a strong country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the nation. To realize glorious dreams and advance the great cause, the future depends on the continued struggle of children. Only by listening to the Party and following the Party from an early age, establishing lofty aspirations and cherishing the good times from an early age, and becoming good children who develop in an all-round way morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and practically, can they grow up to become pillars of talent capable of shouldering great responsibilities.
As a mass organization of Chinese children founded and led by the Party, the Young Pioneers are a reserve force for building socialism and communism, and shoulder the important responsibility of cultivating builders and successors in the new era. On the new journey, it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on children and the work of the Young Pioneers, hold high the team flag and follow the Party, practice the original aspiration and mission, adhere to integrity and innovation, and constantly rejuvenate the new vitality of the Red Scarf cause. Comprehensively strengthen the Party's leadership over the work of the Young Pioneers, improve the working mechanism of the Young Pioneers with the Party committee leading, the government supporting, the Communist Youth League (共青团) taking the lead, the League and education cooperating, and the society collaborating, the Communist Youth League (共青团) should earnestly fulfill its political responsibility of leading the whole League, and the Young Pioneer instructors should be good guides for the healthy growth of children, which will surely provide favorable conditions and gather strong synergy for the healthy growth of children in the new era.
When the youth have aspirations, the country has hope; when the youth are upward, the country moves forward. Great dreams call on you to work hard, and the Party and the people earnestly expect you to grow up healthily. Unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, be ready at all times to continue the struggle for building a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation, and the children will surely live up to expectations and live up to their youth, and add new era glory to the Red Scarf.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 26th (Xinhua) - The State Council and the Central Military Commission (中央军委) recently announced the "Regulations on the Protection of Important Military Industrial Facilities" (《重要军工设施保护条例》, hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which will come into effect on September 15, 2025. The "Regulations" aim to protect the safety of important military industrial facilities, ensure the effectiveness of the use of important military industrial facilities and the normal progress of military scientific research, production and other activities, and strengthen the modernization of national defense. The "Regulations" consist of 7 chapters and 51 articles, and mainly stipulate the following contents.
First, clarify the scope of important military industrial facilities and the responsibilities of all parties. It stipulates the scope of important military industrial facilities protected by law, and clarifies the responsibilities of relevant departments of the State Council (国务院), local people's governments, relevant military organs, and management units of important military industrial facilities.
Second, standardize the demarcation of protection zones for important military industrial facilities. It clarifies that important military industrial facilities are protected by demarcating protection zones for important military industrial facilities, and stipulates the procedures and requirements for the demarcation and adjustment of the scope of protection zones for important military industrial facilities.
Third, clarify the protection measures for important military industrial facilities. It stipulates that safety protection measures such as controlling access should be taken in the protection zones of important military industrial facilities, clarifies the relevant protection requirements for the safety control range outside the protection zones of important military industrial facilities, and makes provisions for the protection of special circumstances such as carrying out major scientific research and experimental activities using important military industrial facilities.
Fourth, strengthen the responsibilities and obligations of management units of important military industrial facilities. It clarifies the responsibilities of establishing and improving the protection responsibility system, implementing the whole-process safety management, formulating emergency plans, and carrying out safety protection risk assessment, and clarifies the requirements for internal security and defense.
Fifth, strengthen the guarantee and supervision of all aspects. It clarifies that the preparation of national economic and social development plans should take into account the needs of important military industrial facilities protection, and strengthens the supervision and inspection and comprehensive management responsibilities of industry authorities and local people's governments.
Return to TopThe modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics is an important component of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. To implement the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee on improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, with the consent of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the following opinions are now put forward.
I. Overall Requirements
Guided by Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, adhere to and improve the basic socialist economic system, adhere to the direction of socialist market economic reform, coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, take adhering to and strengthening the Party's leadership as the fundamental principle, take clear property rights, clear responsibilities, separation of government and enterprise, and scientific management as the foundation, take improving corporate governance as the focus, take reform and innovation as the driving force, promote entrepreneurship, accelerate the construction of more world-class enterprises, and provide strong support for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
In our work, we must: adhere to the Party's overall leadership, unswervingly implement the Party's line, principles, and policies, promote the effective coverage of Party organizations and work, and improve the institutional mechanisms for Party organizations to play their role. Adhere to and implement the "two unswervinglys," promote the complementary advantages and common development of various ownership economies, and fully stimulate the endogenous动力 and innovative vitality of various enterprises. Adhere to promoting development through institutional construction, breaking down institutional barriers, promoting innovation in corporate governance structures and organizational forms, improving enterprise systems, and supporting and guiding various enterprises to improve the efficiency of resource and factor utilization and management. Adhere to classified guidance and overall advancement, implement policies according to enterprise size, stage of development, ownership nature, etc., and cultivate more dynamic, resilient, and competitive modern enterprises.
The main goals are: After about 5 years, promote enterprises with the conditions to generally establish a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics that is suitable for national conditions, in line with reality, and meets development needs; comprehensively strengthen Party building in enterprises; improve the governance structure; improve the market-oriented operation mechanism; further improve the level of scientific management; and give full play to the role of promoting independent innovation, supporting industrial upgrading, and fulfilling social responsibilities. By 2035, the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics will be more complete, the international competitiveness of enterprises will be comprehensively improved, and a solid foundation will be laid for accelerating the construction of world-class enterprises.
II. Adhere to and Strengthen the Party's Leadership
(I) Improve the institutional mechanism for the Party to lead state-owned enterprises. Clarify the boundaries of the Party committee (leading party group) to discuss and decide on major issues, and improve the quality and efficiency of preliminary research and discussion. Explore effective models that combine adhering to the principle of the Party managing cadres and talents with giving play to the role of the market mechanism.
(II) Strengthen and improve Party building in non-public enterprises. Guide and supervise enterprises to abide by laws and regulations, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of all parties, and promote the healthy development of enterprises. Establish and improve working mechanisms such as joint learning, communication, consultation, and symposiums between Party organizations and enterprise management in light of actual conditions. Guide private enterprises to strengthen the construction of the Party member team.
III. Improve the Corporate Governance Structure
(III) Improve the enterprise property rights structure. Respect the independent legal person property rights of enterprises, and form an enterprise property rights system with clear attribution, reasonable structure, and smooth transfer. State-owned enterprises should gradually adjust and optimize the equity structure according to their functional positioning, and form an operating mechanism with diversified equity structure, standardized shareholder behavior, effective internal constraints, and efficient and flexible operation. Encourage private enterprises to build a simple, clear, and transparent equity structure.
(IV) Improve the corporate governance of state-owned enterprises. Accelerate the establishment and improvement of a corporate governance mechanism with legally defined powers and responsibilities, transparent powers and responsibilities, coordinated operation, and effective checks and balances, and strengthen the basic role of the articles of association in corporate governance. The Party committee (leading party group) plays a leading role in setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation. The shareholders' meeting is the company's power institution, and shareholders exercise voting rights in accordance with the proportion of their capital contribution and the articles of association, and shall not interfere in the company's daily operations beyond the provisions of the articles of association. The board of directors plays a role in setting strategies, making decisions, and preventing risks, and promotes the organic connection between the authorization and decentralization of the group headquarters and the implementation of the powers of the board of directors of subsidiaries in batches and categories, and standardizes the implementation of the authorization system of the board of directors to the management. Improve the evaluation and incentive and restraint mechanism for external directors, and implement the right of external directors to know, vote, supervise, and advise. The management plays a role in planning operations, implementing them, and strengthening management, and comprehensively promotes the term system and contract management. Encourage state-owned enterprises to implement the operating management responsibilities of management personnel on a larger scale, in layers and categories, with reference to the term system and contract management of members of the management.
(V) Support private enterprises in optimizing their corporate governance structure. Encourage private enterprises to adopt various organizational forms such as partnership and company systems according to their actual conditions, improve internal governance rules, formulate standardized articles of association, maintain the consistency of the articles of association and the capital contribution agreement, and standardize the behavior of controlling shareholders and actual controllers. Support and guide private enterprises to improve their governance structure and management system, and encourage qualified private enterprises to standardize the establishment of shareholders' meetings, boards of directors, and management. Encourage family businesses to innovate management models, organizational structures, and corporate culture, and gradually establish a modern enterprise system.
(VI) Give play to the role of the capital market in promoting the improvement of corporate governance. Strengthen the integrity obligations of controlling shareholders to the company, and support listed companies in introducing institutional investors with a shareholding ratio of more than 5% as active shareholders. Strictly implement the independent director system of listed companies, and set up an audit committee with a majority of independent directors and a special meeting mechanism for independent directors. Improve the information disclosure system in the field of corporate governance of listed companies, and promote the improvement of the scientific nature of decision-making and management.
IV. Improve the Level of Scientific Management of Enterprises
(VII) Strengthen strategic management. Guide enterprises to scientifically formulate development strategies and plans that integrate into the new development pattern, and enhance resource allocation capabilities. Strengthen the linkage between strategic planning and annual plans, investment plans, financial budgets, term performance assessments, and annual performance assessments. Guide enterprises to clarify their primary responsibilities and businesses based on strategic guidance, and promote the concentration of various elements such as technology, talent, and capital on the primary business, and prevent blind diversification and disorderly expansion.
(VIII) Strengthen internal management. Promote the group headquarters to guide its affiliated enterprises to strengthen the construction of management systems and the management of related transactions. Encourage enterprises to establish independent internal control and legal affairs institutions to improve management efficiency. Guide private enterprises to improve internal anti-corruption systems and establish strict audit and supervision systems and financial and accounting systems.
(IX) Strengthen risk management. State-owned enterprise groups should establish and improve a multi-level risk early warning and prevention and disposal mechanism to prevent domestic and foreign investment and operating risks. Encourage private enterprises to establish internal risk prevention and control and risk early warning mechanisms, and embed various risk prevention and control requirements into all aspects of operation and management.
(X) Strengthen scientific and democratic management. Encourage enterprises to implement comprehensive budget management and full employee performance appraisal, reasonably control management levels and legal person levels, and promote the deep integration of digital technology and enterprise production, operation, and management. On the premise of ensuring safety, strengthen enterprise data governance and data circulation and application capabilities, and promote the development and utilization of data resources. Improve the enterprise democratic management system with the workers' congress as the basic form, and adhere to and improve the worker director system. Pay attention to giving play to the role of trade unions and other mass organizations, actively promote the wage collective bargaining system, and establish a collective bargaining mechanism that is in line with the actual situation of the enterprise and has operability.
V. Improve the Enterprise Incentive Innovation System
(XI) Create innovative enterprise organizational forms. Promote enterprises to introduce or jointly build a number of new R&D institutions and technology transfer service institutions, and implement collaborative innovation cooperation. Promote large enterprises to optimize procurement standards, improve technical standards, and achieve supply chain interoperability, and open up innovation resources to small and medium-sized micro enterprises and provide technical guidance and transformation support. Encourage enterprises to innovate and start businesses and enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises.
(XII) Improve the efficient allocation mechanism of innovation factors. Improve the open enterprise talent system and improve the two-way flow mechanism of scientific research personnel between enterprises and universities and scientific research institutions. Improve the enterprise technology transformation management system, and support industry-leading enterprises to provide technical services such as concept verification, pilot testing, and testing and certification for small and medium-sized micro enterprises. Accelerate the reform of state-owned enterprise-restructured scientific research institutes, and carry out pilot reforms of empowering rights to job-related scientific and technological achievements in accordance with regulations. Encourage various financial institutions to give play to their unique advantages and develop financial products suitable for the characteristics of technology-based enterprises with light assets.
(XIII) Improve the innovation-oriented incentive mechanism. Encourage enterprises to focus on medium- and long-term value creation, give project teams full autonomy, and effectively use various methods to strengthen incentives. Promote qualified enterprises to establish intellectual property operation institutions.
VI. Establish and Improve the Enterprise Social Responsibility and Enterprise Culture System
(XIV) Improve the enterprise social responsibility system. Promote the integration of the concept of enterprise social responsibility into the entire process of production and operation, and guide enterprises to operate in accordance with the law and be honest and trustworthy. Support enterprises in actively contributing to the cause of green development, comprehensive rural revitalization, social welfare, and cultural inheritance.
(XV) Improve the enterprise income distribution system. Promote enterprises to improve the reasonable wage growth mechanism, establish a scientific salary and performance appraisal system for senior management of enterprises, and reasonably determine the salary level of senior management of enterprises. Deepen the reform of the wage distribution system of state-owned enterprises, and promote the management of the total wage budget cycle in qualified state-owned enterprises. Consolidate the achievements of the salary system reform for the heads of state-owned enterprises, and reasonably determine and strictly standardize the salaries, allowances, and subsidies of the heads of state-owned enterprises at all levels. Promote listed companies to carry out medium- and long-term incentives and formulate stable and long-term cash dividend policies.
(XVI) Cultivate excellent enterprise culture. Encourage enterprises to apply the excellent traditional Chinese cultural concepts such as honesty and trustworthiness, taking righteousness for profit, and upholding integrity and innovation to enterprise management practices and integrate them into corporate governance. Guide enterprises to strive to be models of patriotism and dedication, law-abiding operation, entrepreneurial innovation, and giving back to society. Support enterprises in integrating cultural construction into the entire process of strategic management, production and operation, employee training, and assessment and evaluation. Support enterprises, industry associations, and chambers of commerce to jointly promote the improvement of modern enterprise management theory with universities and scientific research institutions. Shape the image of Chinese enterprises and strengthen and expand national brands.
VII. Optimize the Enterprise Comprehensive Supervision and Service System
(XVII) Improve the enterprise comprehensive supervision system. Strengthen cross-departmental joint supervision of enterprise operations, enhance the stability and predictability of regulatory systems and policies, and improve the level of regulatory informatization. Improve the enterprise credit commitment system and promote the implementation of classified supervision based on credit status. Improve financial supervision, build a "firewall" between industrial capital and financial capital, strengthen capital adequacy management and corporate governance supervision, strictly control liquidity risks, promote the overall consolidated management of financial holding companies, and strengthen the standardization and restraint of shareholder behavior. Strictly prevent and manage enterprise financial fraud.
(XVIII) Improve the state-owned asset supervision system. Improve state-owned asset supervision with capital management as the main focus and realize the preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets. Improve the functional definition and classification guidance of state-owned enterprises, deepen the classification of authorization and decentralization, optimize classification supervision and classification assessment, and guide state-owned enterprises to focus on intrinsic value and long-term value. Strengthen the awareness of responsibility and responsibility constraints for the operation and investment of state-owned enterprises.
(XIX) Improve the enterprise service system. Promote the reform of business licenses involving enterprises by category. Improve the market access system, optimize market exit mechanisms such as cancellation, and promote the coordinated unification of policies, standards, and rules involving enterprises in regions and industries. Improve the mechanism for direct access and rapid enjoyment of enterprise support policies and "exemption from application and immediate enjoyment." Support enterprises in improving the education and training system for senior management personnel.
VIII. Safeguard Measures
All regions and departments should combine their actual conditions to implement these opinions. Enterprises should deeply understand the important significance of improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, implement the main responsibility, and promote high-quality development with enterprise system innovation. Improve relevant laws and regulations, promote the revision of the Enterprise State-owned Assets Law, etc., and promote enterprises to operate in accordance with the law and manage enterprises in accordance with the law. Standardize the practice of accounting, consulting, legal, credit rating, and other professional institutions, strengthen the supervision of the practice of professional institutions, give play to their role in professional supervision and professional services, and maintain a good market environment of fair competition, integrity, and standardization. Strengthen the publicity of the practical exploration and successful experience of the modern enterprise system, summarize a number of typical experiences in Party building in enterprises, and promote a number of typical practical cases of corporate governance.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 26)
(Related reports are on pages 2 and 15)
Return to TopOn May 25th, in the Grand Canal Hanggang Park (大运河杭钢公园) in Gongshu District (拱墅区), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, citizens and tourists enjoyed outdoor time.
The site of the Grand Canal Hanggang Park (大运河杭钢公园) was once the Banshan Iron and Steel Base (半山钢铁基地). In recent years, the local government has carried out urban renewal on the basis of preserving industrial heritage. The Grand Canal Hanggang Park (大运河杭钢公园), which has been transformed and constructed, has become a "check-in place" for citizens and tourists to relax and travel.
Photo by Xu Hui (徐晖) (Image China (影像中国))
Return to TopThis is a report from Kuala Lumpur on May 26th by our correspondents Wang Di (王迪) and Liu Hui (刘慧). On the afternoon of May 26th, local time, State Council Premier Li Qiang (李强) met with Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sabah (萨巴赫), whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Gulf Cooperation Council (海合会), during the ASEAN-China-GCC summit in Kuala Lumpur.
Li Qiang (李强) stated that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Kuwait more than half a century ago, the relationship between the two countries has always moved forward steadily. Especially in recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Emir Mishal (米沙勒), bilateral relations have developed rapidly, and pragmatic cooperation has achieved fruitful results. China is willing to work with Kuwait to continue to consolidate political mutual trust, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, and promote the continuous deepening and solidifying of relations between the two countries.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China and Kuwait have strong economic complementarity, and the prospects for cooperation between the two countries are broad. China is willing to strengthen the alignment of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative with Kuwait's "2035 National Vision," continuously broaden cooperation areas, accelerate the construction of major cooperation projects, deepen cooperation in energy, investment, green economy, digital economy, artificial intelligence, and other fields, open up more new spaces for win-win cooperation, and achieve each other on the road of development and revitalization. The two sides should strengthen educational, tourism, and other cultural exchange and cooperation, further facilitate personnel exchanges, and promote deeper friendship between the two countries. The current international situation is intertwined with changes and chaos, and unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise. China is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with Kuwait on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, China-GCC, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上合组织), and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (亚信会议), promote global governance towards a more just and reasonable direction, and promote world harmony, stability, development, and prosperity.
Sabah (萨巴赫) said that the traditional friendship between Kuwait and China is profound. Under the strategic guidance of the heads of state of the two countries, Kuwait-China relations have shown a good momentum of development. Kuwait appreciates China's support for Kuwait's safeguarding of sovereignty and territorial integrity, firmly adheres to the one-China principle, and supports China's position on issues involving its core interests. Kuwait attaches great importance to developing relations with China and is willing to work with China to actively implement the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, explore cooperation potential, expand cooperation areas, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen cultural exchanges, promote cooperation between the GCC and China, strengthen communication and coordination on regional and multilateral affairs, and promote relations between the two countries to a higher level.
Return to TopThis newspaper Kuala Lumpur May 26th (Reporter Wang Di (王迪)) Local time, May 26th, at noon, at the invitation of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar (安瓦尔), the rotating chair of ASEAN, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (吉隆坡国际机场) by chartered plane to attend the ASEAN-China-GCC Summit.
Malaysian Minister of Transport Loke Siew Fook (陆兆福) and Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing (欧阳玉靖) greeted him at the airport.
Li Qiang (李强) traveled to Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡) after concluding his official visit to Indonesia. When leaving Jakarta (雅加达), Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Agus (阿古斯) and Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Wang Lutong (王鲁彤) saw him off at the airport.
Return to TopThe modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics is an important component of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. To implement the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee on improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, with the consent of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the following opinions are now put forward.
I. Overall Requirements
Guided by Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, adhere to and improve the basic socialist economic system, adhere to the direction of socialist market economy reform, coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, take upholding and strengthening the Party's leadership as the fundamental principle, take clear property rights, well-defined rights and responsibilities, separation of government and enterprise, and scientific management as the foundation, take improving corporate governance as the focus, take reform and innovation as the driving force, promote the spirit of entrepreneurs, accelerate the construction of more world-class enterprises, and provide strong support for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
In our work, we must: adhere to the Party's overall leadership, unswervingly implement the Party's line, principles, and policies, promote the effective coverage of the Party's organizations and work, and improve the institutional mechanisms for the Party organizations to play their role. Adhere to and implement the "two unswervingly's," promote the complementary advantages and common development of various ownership economies, and fully stimulate the endogenous动力 and innovative vitality of various enterprises. Adhere to promoting development through institutional construction, breaking down institutional barriers, promoting innovation in corporate governance structures and organizational forms, improving enterprise systems, and supporting and guiding various enterprises to improve the efficiency of resource and factor utilization and management. Adhere to classified guidance and coordinated advancement, implement policies according to enterprise size, stage of development, ownership nature, etc., and cultivate more dynamic, resilient, and competitive modern enterprises.
The main goals are: After about 5 years, promote enterprises with the conditions to generally establish a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics that suits the national conditions, conforms to reality, and meets the needs of development, comprehensively strengthen Party building in enterprises, improve the governance structure, improve the market-oriented operation mechanism, further improve the level of scientific management, and give full play to the role of promoting independent innovation, supporting industrial upgrading, and fulfilling social responsibilities. By 2035, the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics will be more complete, the international competitiveness of enterprises will be comprehensively improved, and a solid foundation will be laid for accelerating the construction of world-class enterprises.
II. Uphold and Strengthen the Party's Leadership
(I) Improve the institutional mechanism for the Party to lead state-owned enterprises. Clarify the boundaries of the Party committee (leading party group) in discussing and deciding on major issues, and improve the quality and efficiency of preliminary research and discussion. Explore effective models that combine adhering to the principle of the Party managing cadres and talent with giving play to the role of the market mechanism.
(II) Strengthen and improve Party building in non-public enterprises. Guide and supervise enterprises to abide by laws and regulations, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of all parties, and promote the healthy development of enterprises. Establish and improve working mechanisms such as joint learning, communication, consultation, and symposiums between Party organizations and enterprise management in light of actual conditions. Guide private enterprises to strengthen the construction of the Party member team.
III. Improve the Corporate Governance Structure
(III) Improve the enterprise property rights structure. Respect the independent legal person property rights of enterprises, and form an enterprise property rights system with clear ownership, reasonable structure, and smooth circulation. State-owned enterprises should gradually adjust and optimize the equity structure according to their functional positioning, and form an operating mechanism with diversified equity structure, standardized shareholder behavior, effective internal constraints, and efficient and flexible operation. Encourage private enterprises to build a simple, clear, and transparent equity structure.
(IV) Improve the corporate governance of state-owned enterprises. Accelerate the establishment and improvement of a corporate governance mechanism with legally defined powers and responsibilities, transparent powers and responsibilities, coordinated operation, and effective checks and balances, and strengthen the basic role of the articles of association in corporate governance. The Party committee (leading party group) plays a leading role in setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation. The shareholders' meeting is the company's authority, and shareholders exercise voting rights in accordance with the proportion of their capital contribution and the articles of association, and shall not interfere in the company's daily operations beyond the provisions of the articles of association. The board of directors plays a role in setting strategy, making decisions, and preventing risks, promoting the organic connection between the authorization and decentralization of the group headquarters and the implementation of the powers of the board of directors of subsidiaries in batches and categories, and standardizing the implementation of the board of directors' authorization system to the management. Improve the evaluation and incentive and restraint mechanism for external directors, and implement the right to know, the right to vote, the right to supervise, and the right to advise external directors. The management plays a role in planning operations, grasping implementation, and strengthening management, and comprehensively promotes term-based and contractual management. Encourage state-owned enterprises to implement the operating and management responsibilities of management personnel on a larger scale, in layers and categories, with reference to the term-based and contractual management methods of members of the management.
(V) Support private enterprises in optimizing their corporate governance structure. Encourage private enterprises to adopt various organizational forms such as partnership and company systems according to their actual conditions, improve internal governance rules, formulate standardized articles of association, maintain the consistency of the articles of association and the capital contribution agreement, and standardize the behavior of controlling shareholders and actual controllers. Support and guide private enterprises to improve their governance structure and management system, and encourage qualified private enterprises to standardize the establishment of shareholders' meetings, boards of directors, and management. Encourage family businesses to innovate management models, organizational structures, and corporate culture, and gradually establish a modern enterprise system.
(VI) Give play to the role of the capital market in promoting the improvement of corporate governance. Strengthen the integrity obligations of controlling shareholders to the company, and support listed companies in introducing institutional investors with a shareholding ratio of more than 5% as active shareholders. Strictly implement the independent director system of listed companies, and set up an audit committee with a majority of independent directors and a special meeting mechanism for independent directors. Improve the information disclosure system in the field of corporate governance of listed companies to promote the scientific nature of decision-making and management.
IV. Improve the Level of Scientific Management of Enterprises
(VII) Strengthen strategic management. Guide enterprises to scientifically formulate development strategies and plans that integrate into the new development pattern, and enhance resource allocation capabilities. Strengthen the linkage between strategic planning and annual plans, investment plans, financial budgets, term performance assessments, and annual performance assessments. Guide enterprises to clarify their primary responsibilities and businesses based on strategic guidance, and promote the concentration of various elements such as technology, talent, and capital to the main business, and prevent blind diversification and disorderly expansion.
(VIII) Strengthen internal management. Promote the group headquarters to guide affiliated enterprises to strengthen the construction of management systems and the management of related transactions. Encourage enterprises to set up independent internal control and legal affairs institutions to improve management efficiency. Guide private enterprises to improve internal anti-corruption systems and establish strict audit and supervision systems and financial and accounting systems.
(IX) Strengthen risk management. State-owned enterprise groups should establish and improve a multi-level risk early warning and prevention and disposal mechanism to prevent domestic and foreign investment and operating risks. Encourage private enterprises to establish internal risk prevention and control and risk early warning mechanisms, and embed various requirements for risk prevention and control into all aspects of operation and management.
(X) Strengthen scientific and democratic management. Encourage enterprises to implement comprehensive budget management and full performance appraisal, reasonably control management levels and legal person levels, and promote the deep integration of digital technology and enterprise production, operation, and management. While ensuring safety, strengthen enterprise data governance and data circulation and application capabilities, and promote the development and utilization of data resources. Improve the enterprise democratic management system with the workers' congress as the basic form, and adhere to and improve the worker director system. Pay attention to giving play to the role of trade unions and other mass organizations, actively promote the wage collective bargaining system, and establish a collective bargaining mechanism that is in line with the actual situation of the enterprise and is operable.
V. Improve the Enterprise Incentive Innovation System
(XI) Create innovative enterprise organizational forms. Promote enterprises to introduce or jointly build a number of new R&D institutions and technology transfer service institutions, and implement collaborative innovation cooperation. Promote large enterprises to optimize procurement standards, improve technical standards, and achieve supply chain interconnection, and open up innovation resources to small and medium-sized micro enterprises and provide technical guidance and transformation support. Encourage enterprises to innovate and start businesses and enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises.
(XII) Improve the efficient allocation mechanism of innovation elements. Improve the open enterprise talent system and improve the two-way flow mechanism of scientific researchers between enterprises and universities and scientific research institutes. Improve the enterprise technology transformation management system and support leading enterprises in the industry to provide small and medium-sized micro enterprises with technical services such as concept verification, pilot testing, testing, and certification. Accelerate the reform of state-owned enterprise-restructured scientific research institutes and carry out pilot reforms of the empowerment of job-related scientific and technological achievements in accordance with regulations. Encourage various financial institutions to give play to their unique advantages and develop financial products suitable for the characteristics of technology-based enterprises with light assets.
(XIII) Improve the innovation-oriented incentive mechanism. Encourage enterprises to focus on medium- and long-term value creation, give project teams full autonomy, and effectively use a variety of methods to strengthen incentives. Promote qualified enterprises to establish intellectual property operation institutions.
VI. Establish and Improve the Enterprise Social Responsibility and Enterprise Culture System
(XIV) Improve the enterprise social responsibility system. Promote the integration of the concept of enterprise social responsibility into the entire process of production and operation, and guide enterprises to operate in accordance with the law and be honest and trustworthy. Support enterprises in actively contributing to green development, comprehensive rural revitalization, social welfare, cultural inheritance, and other undertakings.
(XV) Improve the enterprise income distribution system. Promote enterprises to improve the reasonable wage growth mechanism, establish a scientific salary and performance appraisal system for senior management of enterprises, and reasonably determine the salary level of senior management of enterprises. Deepen the reform of the wage distribution system of state-owned enterprises and promote the periodic management of the total wage budget in qualified state-owned enterprises. Consolidate the achievements of the reform of the salary system for state-owned enterprise leaders, reasonably determine and strictly regulate the salaries, allowances, and subsidies of leaders at all levels of state-owned enterprises. Promote listed companies to carry out medium- and long-term incentives and formulate stable and long-term cash dividend policies.
(XVI) Cultivate excellent enterprise culture. Encourage enterprises to apply the excellent traditional Chinese cultural concepts such as honesty and trustworthiness, taking righteousness to obtain profit, and upholding integrity and innovation to enterprise management practices and integrate them into corporate governance. Guide enterprises to strive to be models of patriotism and dedication, law-abiding operation, entrepreneurial innovation, and giving back to society. Support enterprises in integrating cultural construction into the entire process of strategic management, production and operation, employee training, and assessment and evaluation. Support enterprises and industry associations and chambers of commerce to jointly promote the improvement of modern enterprise management theory by universities and scientific research institutes. Shape the image of Chinese enterprises and strengthen and expand national brands.
VII. Optimize the Enterprise Comprehensive Supervision and Service System
(XVII) Improve the enterprise comprehensive supervision system. Strengthen cross-departmental joint supervision of enterprise operations, enhance the stability and predictability of regulatory systems and policies, and improve the level of regulatory informatization. Improve the enterprise credit commitment system and promote the implementation of hierarchical and classified supervision based on credit status. Improve financial supervision, build a "firewall" between industrial capital and financial capital, strengthen capital adequacy management and corporate governance supervision, strictly control liquidity risks, promote the overall consolidated management of financial holding companies, and strengthen the standardization and restraint of shareholder behavior. Strictly prevent and manage enterprise financial fraud.
(XVIII) Improve the state-owned asset supervision system. Improve state-owned asset supervision with capital management as the main focus to realize the preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets. Improve the functional definition and classification guidance of state-owned enterprises, deepen the classification of authorization and decentralization, optimize classification supervision and classification assessment, and guide state-owned enterprises to focus on intrinsic value and long-term value. Strengthen the awareness of responsibility and responsibility constraints for the operation and investment of state-owned enterprises.
(XIX) Improve the enterprise service system. Promote the reform of business licenses involving enterprises by category. Improve the market access system, optimize market exit mechanisms such as cancellation, and promote the coordinated unification of policies, standards, and rules involving enterprises in regions and industries. Improve the mechanism for direct access to and rapid enjoyment of enterprise support policies and "enjoying without application." Support enterprises in improving the education and training system for senior management personnel.
VIII. Safeguard Measures
All regions and departments should combine their actual conditions to grasp the implementation of these opinions. Enterprises should deeply understand the important significance of improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, implement the main responsibility, and promote high-quality development with enterprise system innovation. Improve relevant laws and regulations, promote the revision of the Enterprise State-owned Assets Law, etc., and promote enterprises to operate in accordance with the law and govern enterprises in accordance with the law. Standardize the practice of accounting, consulting, legal, credit rating, and other professional institutions, strengthen the supervision of the practice of professional institutions, give play to their role in practice supervision and professional services, and maintain a good market environment of fair competition, integrity, and standardization. Strengthen the publicity of practical exploration and successful experience of the modern enterprise system, summarize a batch of typical experiences in Party building in enterprises, and promote a batch of typical practical cases of corporate governance.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), May 26)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘志强 李心萍
On May 26, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council publicly released the "Opinions on Improving the Modern Enterprise System with Chinese Characteristics" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions").
What are the connotations and characteristics of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics? How to improve it? Relevant responsible comrades from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委), the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会), and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联) answered questions from reporters on related issues.
The modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics has the common characteristics of modern enterprise systems in various countries, but it also has "Chinese characteristics."
Question: What is the background for the issuance of the "Opinions"?
Answer: In recent years, relevant parties have implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council (国务院), promoting the continuous innovation and development of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics. At the same time, it should also be noted that there are still many weak links in the construction of China's enterprise system. The boundaries of rights and responsibilities of some state-owned enterprise governance entities are unclear, the internal governance of some private enterprises needs to be standardized, and the governance and management levels of different enterprises are still uneven, which restricts the development and growth of enterprises. Currently, there is an urgent need to improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, further transform institutional advantages into real productivity and corporate governance effectiveness, and consolidate the micro-foundation for high-quality development.
Question: What are the connotations and characteristics of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics?
Answer: The "Opinions" put forward the specific connotations of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, that is, adhering to and strengthening the Party's leadership as the foundation, with clear property rights, clear rights and responsibilities, separation of government and enterprise, and scientific management as the basis, with improving corporate governance as the focus, with reform and innovation as the driving force, promoting the spirit of entrepreneurs, and a modern enterprise system that is suitable for national conditions, in line with reality, and meets development needs.
The modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics has the common characteristics of modern enterprise systems in various countries, but it also has "Chinese characteristics" based on China's market system, institutional environment, and social traditional culture. It is an enterprise system that can leverage the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics on the basis of the general theory and practice of modern enterprise systems.
Its characteristics are mainly reflected in: at the level of the leadership system, the Party's leadership is the fundamental characteristic and distinct feature; at the level of the property rights structure, it emphasizes adhering to and implementing the "two unwaverings" and respecting the independent legal person property rights of enterprises; at the level of corporate governance, it emphasizes accelerating the establishment and improvement of a state-owned enterprise corporate governance mechanism with legally defined rights and responsibilities, transparent rights and responsibilities, coordinated operation, and effective checks and balances, and supports private enterprises in optimizing their corporate governance structure and improving internal governance rules; at the level of enterprise innovation, it emphasizes reform and innovation as the driving force and improving the enterprise incentive innovation system.
Promote the transformation of enterprise development mode to quality and efficiency type
Question: The "Opinions" has a special chapter on "Improving the Enterprise Incentive Innovation System." What is the main consideration of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委)?
Answer: The key to Chinese-style modernization is scientific and technological modernization. Enterprises are an important force in the combination of science and technology and industry, and are an important subject for promoting the vigorous development of new quality productive forces. Improving the enterprise incentive innovation system and promoting the transformation of enterprise development mode from scale and speed type to quality and efficiency type are important means to release the vitality of enterprises as innovation subjects, and also an important content of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics.
To this end, the "Opinions" has a special chapter on "Improving the Enterprise Incentive Innovation System," which puts forward specific measures from three aspects: innovative organizational forms, efficiency of factor allocation, and incentive mechanism design.
Create innovative enterprise organizational forms. At present, scientific and technological innovation has entered a new stage of large-scale science with division of labor, collaboration, and overall advancement. The organizational form of enterprises should adapt to the needs of modern scientific and technological innovation and effectively solve the problems of scattered, duplicated, and inefficient innovation resources and forces.
Improve the efficient allocation mechanism of innovation factors. The innovative allocation of production factors is the core driving force of new quality productive forces. Enterprises are an important carrier for the innovative allocation of production factors. The "Opinions" points out the path for the flow and allocation of production factors such as talent, technology, and capital, and realizes the integrated connection of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain.
Improve the innovation-oriented incentive mechanism. Talent is the key engine of enterprise innovation. Designing an enterprise incentive mechanism oriented by innovation is the driving force for promoting enterprises to form sustainable innovation capabilities. The "Opinions" focuses on the medium and long-term value creation of enterprises, gives project teams full autonomy, and promotes enterprises to transform talent advantages into innovation momentum.
Question: The "Opinions" emphasizes the role of the capital market in promoting the improvement of corporate governance. What work has the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会) carried out in this regard? What are the next considerations?
Answer: Listed companies are an important micro-foundation for high-quality economic development and an important force in exploring and improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics. In recent years, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会) has carried out a two-year special action on corporate governance, focusing on rectifying deep-seated governance problems, promoting the implementation of independent director system reform, and giving full play to the supervisory role of independent directors; strictly enforcing delisting standards and including companies with major defects in standardized operation into the category of standardized delisting; issuing guidelines on market value management and revising rules on share repurchase and cash dividends. In 2024, the total market dividend reached 2.4 trillion yuan, and the implementation of share repurchase was nearly 150 billion yuan, both hitting record highs.
Next, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会) will implement the relevant requirements of the "Opinions," continuously improve the governance rules of listed companies, promote the promulgation of regulations on the supervision and management of listed companies, increase the crackdown on illegal activities such as organizing and instigating fraud and misappropriation of funds, further give play to the role of independent directors, encourage institutional investors to actively exercise their shareholder rights, and promote listed companies to improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics and continuously improve the level of corporate governance.
Promote the universal establishment of a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics for enterprises with conditions
Question: The "Opinions" proposes that, after about 5 years, enterprises with conditions should be promoted to generally establish a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics that is suitable for national conditions, in line with reality, and meets development needs. What should state-owned enterprises do to accelerate the construction of a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics?
Answer: In recent years, state-owned assets and central enterprises have resolutely implemented the "two unwaverings." On the one hand, adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership. Central enterprise groups have fully completed the "Party building into the articles of association," all have achieved the "one shoulder pick" of the secretary of the Party committee (Party group) and the chairman of the board, and all central enterprise groups and 12,600 important subsidiaries have formulated a list of major business management matters for the Party committee (Party group) to discuss in advance, ensuring the leading position of the Party committee (Party group) in the system, organization, and procedures. On the other hand, continuously improve the modern enterprise system. The company system reform has been fully completed, and the separation of enterprise-run social functions has been fully completed; the construction of the board of directors has been continuously strengthened, the board of directors has achieved full construction, and external directors account for the majority; important breakthroughs have been made in the reform of the three systems of labor, personnel, and distribution, the contractual management of the management of central enterprises has achieved full coverage of signing, the proportion of competitive employment of management personnel has exceeded 60%, and the expansion and quality improvement of medium and long-term incentives has accumulated to 368,000 person-times.
Next, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) will guide state-owned assets and central enterprises to take the issuance of the "Opinions" as an opportunity to better promote the transformation of the advantages of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics into the governance effectiveness of state-owned enterprises. Promote the integration of Party leadership into all aspects of corporate governance, and optimize the list of major business management matters for the Party committee (Party group) of state-owned enterprises to discuss in advance in a hierarchical and dynamic manner. Pay more attention to improving the corporate governance structure, select and equip a strong team of external directors, ensure that the board of directors plays a central role in decision-making, implement the board of directors' authorization system to the management, and establish a new type of business responsibility system. Promote the spirit of entrepreneurs and improve the mechanism for cultivating, selecting, appointing, evaluating, and evaluating outstanding entrepreneurs. Strengthen exchanges and mutual learning in corporate governance with a more open attitude, and strengthen exchanges between state-owned enterprises and other ownership enterprises in equity, operation, governance, talent, etc., to jointly build modern enterprises.
Question: How will the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联) guide qualified private enterprises to establish and improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics?
Answer: The private economy is a new force in promoting Chinese-style modernization and an important foundation for high-quality development. Guiding private enterprises to establish and improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics will help promote the sustained and healthy development of private enterprises.
At present, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联) is working with relevant parties to carry out a series of training and exchange activities on the modern enterprise system for entrepreneurs and corporate executives. At the same time, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联) is leading the research and formulation of the "Guidelines for the Establishment and Improvement of the Modern Enterprise System with Chinese Characteristics and the Promotion of Corporate Governance Modernization by Enterprises of the Executive Committee of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce," and is piloting the establishment and improvement of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics in the enterprises of the executive committee of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联), the enterprises of the executive committees of the provincial federations of industry and commerce, and some well-working prefectural and municipal federations of industry and commerce, and encourages qualified county-level federations of industry and commerce to carry out pilot work, providing a good demonstration for the majority of private enterprises and driving more private enterprises to actively improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics.
Question: The "Opinions" emphasizes improving the enterprise service system. What specific measures does the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) have in this regard?
Answer: The Law on Promoting the Private Economy officially came into effect on May 20. Next, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) will work with relevant parties to implement the Law on Promoting the Private Economy and the "Opinions" without compromise, and continuously optimize the service guarantee system for private enterprises.
Eliminate market access barriers and strengthen factor guarantees. Implement the new version of the negative list for market access, comprehensively carry out market access effectiveness assessment, and support private enterprises in investing and laying out in emerging industries and future industries. By encouraging private enterprises to participate in major national strategies and increasing the implementation of loan interest subsidies for equipment renewal, we will support private enterprises to actively participate in the construction of "two major projects" and "two new projects."
Make great efforts to solve the problem of arrears of payments to private enterprises. Promote local governments and other parties to fulfill their responsibilities, implement the newly revised "Regulations on Guaranteeing the Payment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Funds," make good use of new local government special bonds and other policies, establish a credit supervision mechanism in the field of arrears of enterprise payments, and strengthen punishment for dishonesty.
Protect the legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises and private entrepreneurs in accordance with the law. Deeply publicize and interpret the important significance and rich connotations of the Law on Promoting the Private Economy, accelerate the formation of a legal system based on the Law on Promoting the Private Economy and supported by relevant laws, regulations, and rules, and carry out special actions to standardize law enforcement involving enterprises.
Establish a normalized communication and exchange mechanism. Improve the normalized communication and exchange and problem-solving mechanism with private enterprises, make good use of the comprehensive service platform for the development of the private economy, and help private enterprises solve practical difficulties.
Return to TopThis report Beijing (北京) May 26th (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) On the 26th, the large liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier No. 2 ship "AL RAHBA" built by Jiangnan Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. (江南造船（集团）公司) and China Shipbuilding Trading Co., Ltd. (中国船舶工业贸易有限公司), both under China Shipbuilding Group (中国船舶集团), was delivered.
Compared with the first ship delivered by Jiangnan Shipbuilding (江南造船) in November last year, the construction cycle of this ship has been further shortened, marking that Jiangnan Shipbuilding (江南造船) has the ability to deliver large LNG carriers in batches.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李维俊 庞革平 洪秋婷
"This study tour has made me deeply appreciate the long-standing and profound friendship between the people of Vietnam and China. China's development in science and technology fields such as artificial intelligence has opened my eyes. I look forward to more interactions and cooperation between the youth of the two countries in the future." After visiting the Friendship Pass (友谊关) Exhibition Hall in Pingxiang (凭祥), Guangxi (广西), Wei Shi Yanqiong (韦氏燕琼), Secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of Pingjia County (平嘉县), Lang Son Province (谅山省), Vietnam, shared her feelings.
Recently, the first event of the "Red Study Tour" co-sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China (中国共青团中央) and the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam (中国驻越南大使馆), and the "Following Uncle Ho's Footsteps" study camp were held in Guangxi (广西) and Guangdong (广东). Youth representatives from China and Vietnam joined hands to explore the red genes of China-Vietnam friendship, experience the achievements of Chinese-style modernization, and gather the strength of youth to build a China-Vietnam community with a shared future of strategic significance.
"The friendly sentiments of 'comrades plus brothers' between Vietnam and China are touching."
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam and the "China-Vietnam People-to-People Exchange Year." On April 15, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of China, met with representatives of the China-Vietnam People's Grand Gathering in Hanoi (河内), the capital of Vietnam, together with Su Lin (苏林), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, and Liang Qiang (梁强), President of Vietnam, and announced that China will invite Vietnamese youth to China for "Red Study Tours" in the next three years.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, affected by the war, a number of Vietnamese schools moved to Guangxi (广西) to run schools, and thousands of Vietnamese students spent unforgettable youth in China. In Guilin (桂林), Guangxi (广西), entering the Memorial Hall of Vietnamese Schools of Guangxi Normal University (广西师范大学越南学校纪念馆), black and white photos reproduced the deep friendship between the leaders of China and Vietnam and between Chinese and Vietnamese teachers and students. Wei Shi Yanqiong (韦氏燕琼) said: "This is the first time I have deeply understood the historical origin of Ho Chi Minh (胡志明) and the Chinese revolution, and the cooperation between the two countries in talent training. The friendly sentiments of 'comrades plus brothers' between Vietnam and China are touching!"
In the History Exhibition Hall of Guilin Nanxi Mountain Hospital (桂林南溪山医院院史陈列馆), yellowed archives, mottled objects, and precious images tell the story of the Chinese and Vietnamese people sharing weal and woe in the stormy years.
Liu Honglin (柳宏林), Secretary of the hospital's Party Committee, introduced that in the 1960s, the hospital received a total of 119 batches of 5,432 Vietnamese wounded and sick soldiers, completed 2,576 operations, and donated as much as 779,000 milliliters of blood free of charge. "Here, we learned that the Chinese people firmly supported Vietnam even in difficult times," said Nguyen Thi Hien (阮氏贤), a member of the Secretariat of the Student Union of Hai Phong University of Medicine and Pharmacy (海防医药大学).
On Wenming Road (文明路) in Yuexiu District (越秀区), Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东), there is a two-story, three-story brick and wood arcade building. This is the site of the Vietnamese Youth Revolutionary Comrades Association (越南青年革命同志会旧址). The youth of the two countries visited the special exhibition "The Road of Revolution - Comrade Ho Chi Minh in China" together.
Pieces of physical exhibits and historical photos tell the unforgettable fragments of Ho Chi Minh's (胡志明) revolutionary activities in China.
"Participating in this 'Red Study Tour,' I realized that the heroic dedication of the older generation of revolutionaries was to seek peace and happiness for the next generation," said Nguyen Tuan Long (阮俊龙), a Vietnamese youth. "Vietnam-China friendship has deep historical roots. Young people should continue to pass on the friendship between the two countries through their own efforts."
Visiting the Ho Chi Minh Pavilion (胡志明亭) in Dongxing (东兴), Guangxi (广西), the old site of the "Viet Minh" Office (“越盟”办事处旧址) in Jingxi (靖西), and paying homage to the tomb of Vietnamese martyr Pham Hong Thai (范鸿泰) in the Cemetery of the Seventy-Two Martyrs at Huanghuagang (黄花岗七十二烈士墓园) in Guangzhou (广州)... The youth of the two countries jointly reviewed the years when the revolutionary pioneers of China and Vietnam fought side by side in the 20th century and explored the arduous years of saving the nation. "It is particularly meaningful to protect and publicize the history of friendly exchanges between Vietnam and China. We must remember this history, and we also have a responsibility to let more people know about this history," said Li Daozhong (黎道重), a Vietnamese student at Guangxi University for Nationalities (广西民族大学), after the visit.
"Personally felt the great achievements of Chinese-style modernization"
Bionic robots with realistic movements, artificial intelligence to help e-commerce live broadcasts more efficiently... From "Made in China" to "Intelligent Manufacturing in China," the rapid development of Chinese technology has impressed Vietnamese youth representatives.
"These robots can sing and dance, and can also shake hands with me. It's amazing!" Nguyen Thi Hong Ngoc (阮氏红玉), a student at Ha Long University (下龙大学) in Vietnam, was excited to see the artificial intelligence robots developed by students of Guangxi Normal University (广西师范大学) accurately complete various operations.
At the Pingxiang Cross-border E-commerce Live Broadcast Base (凭祥跨境电商直播基地) in Guangxi (广西), Bi Chunyuan (闭春远), the person in charge, introduced the operation of the base in detail: 6,000 square meters of warehousing area, more than 20 real-life live broadcast rooms, artificial intelligence technology to empower supply chain management... "We also have linked warehousing centers in Hanoi (河内) and other places, and we also run Vietnamese special classes of 'Chinese + E-commerce'." The members of the study camp listened carefully while checking in and taking pictures. "I hope that Vietnam can also build such a complete live shopping system in the future," said Li Shiqiuqiao (李氏秋乔), a student at Lang Son Normal College (谅山师范高等专科学校) in Vietnam.
During the event, the members of the study camp also visited the China-Vietnam Detian (Banyue) Waterfall Cross-border Tourism Cooperation Zone (中越德天（板约）瀑布跨境旅游合作区) to experience the vivid picture of a waterfall connecting the two countries and the booming trade; they took high-speed rail to experience the high-speed rail connecting all directions.
Nguyen Ngoc Thanh (阮玉青), Deputy Manager of the Ha Giang Branch of Viettel Construction Company (河江Viettel建设公司河江分公司) in Ha Giang Province (河江省), Vietnam, was impressed by taking the Chinese high-speed rail: "The high-speed rail is fast and runs smoothly. Vietnam is developing a railway system, and China's experience is very valuable for us."
In Guangzhou (广州), the members of the study camp visited the GAC Research Institute (广汽研究院), the Guangzhou Metro Line Network Emergency Command Center (广州地铁线网应急指挥中心), the Guangzhou Metro Museum (广州地铁博物馆), and the Centennial Power Exhibition Hall (百年电力展示馆), and other places. Through immersive study and exchange, they more deeply felt the achievements of Chinese-style modernization.
Arriving at the Guangzhou Metro Line Network Emergency Command Center (广州地铁线网应急指挥中心), a huge curved screen displays data from different modules, real-time display of Guangzhou Metro's emergency command, operation coordination, monitoring and early warning, data sharing and information sending and receiving. This intelligent system independently developed based on large models reflects the latest application results of the intelligent upgrade of Guangzhou's public transportation.
Vietnamese youth learned that Guangzhou Metro's independently developed passenger flow early warning system can not only display passenger flow in real time, but also predict passenger flow peaks through specific algorithms, providing strong technical support for alleviating passenger pressure in stations. "It's unbelievable that the highest passenger flow on the last day of last year in Guangzhou Metro reached more than 10 million passengers!" Nguyen Anh Duc (阮英德), a representative of Vietnamese young entrepreneurs, said that he had visited subway systems in many countries, and the Guangzhou subway system is very advanced. "This event made me personally feel the great achievements of Chinese-style modernization," said Nguyen Anh Duc (阮英德).
"I hope more Vietnamese youth can enter China in the future"
"I read in the book *Xi Jinping and His College Student Friends* (*习近平与大学生朋友们*) that President Xi Jinping (习近平) encouraged young people to 'have lofty aspirations and be down-to-earth'." At the "China-Vietnam College Student Book Sharing Meeting" held in Junwu Hall (君武馆) of Guangxi University (广西大学), Nguyen Van Phuc (阮文福), a Vietnamese master's student majoring in International Chinese Education at the School of Literature of Guangxi University (广西大学文学院), shared his learning experience and told about his experience of studying Chinese and Chinese culture hard. "I am deeply studying the development experience of China's digital economy and learning the spirit of 'Great Power Craftsmen'. I hope to bring these good experiences back to Vietnam," said Nguyen Van Phuc (阮文福).
In the "Red Ram Horn" Youth Study Room (“红色羊角”青年学习室) of Guangzhou Metro (广州地铁), Vietnamese youth listened to a wonderful lecture with theoretical essence and practical significance, themed "General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Thoughts on Youth Work." "This is the first time I have learned these theoretical knowledge completely. After listening to the lecture, I understand that only with an active and promising young generation can the nation have a bright future. As a young student, I need to work harder in the future," Huang Liming (黄黎明), a student majoring in Chinese at the Department of Foreign Languages of Hai Phong University (海防大学) in Vietnam, told reporters, "I like to watch Chinese TV dramas and Chinese Hanfu very much. I hope to have the opportunity to come to China again to feel more of the charm of Chinese culture."
Li Fangfang (李方方), Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of Guangzhou Metro Group (广州地铁集团团委), said: "The people of China and Vietnam have a special friendship of 'comrades plus brothers'. We will continue to be the vanguard and fresh force of China-Vietnam friendship, weave a close cooperation network, and sow the seeds of cooperation between the youth of the two countries."
On the cruise ship on the Li River (漓江), Vietnamese youth Dinh Thi Nguyet (丁氏月) put on her glasses and read Chinese word by word. When she encountered words she didn't know, she immediately asked the Chinese youth sitting opposite her.
"I studied Chinese in Hanoi (河内) for two years. I am very happy to have the opportunity to communicate with you this time. I can also sing many Chinese songs," Dinh Thi Nguyet (丁氏月) said, while asking the Chinese friend she just met to open the mobile phone music player and invite the Chinese and Vietnamese youth traveling together to have a Chinese song chorus.
In this journey of hand in hand, the seeds of friendship crossed the language barrier and took root in the hearts of young people.
"This 'Red Study Tour' has allowed me to meet more Vietnamese youth. During the study tour, we jointly explored the commonalities of Chinese and Vietnamese cultures, learned from each other, inspired each other, and appreciated the charm of outstanding Chinese traditional culture together," said Xu Min (许敏), a student at Guangxi University (广西大学). As a student majoring in journalism and communication, I hope to further explore the vivid stories of China-Vietnam friendship in the future. "I believe that if we young generation tell these stories with our hearts, the relay baton of China-Vietnam friendship will surely be passed on in our hands," said Xu Min (许敏).
Nguyen Hai Duong (阮海洋), Secretary of the Ha Giang Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League of Vietnam (越南河江团省委), said: "This study tour not only traces the footsteps of history, but also closely focuses on the development of cutting-edge technology, which is very valuable for Vietnamese youth. I hope that more Vietnamese youth can enter China in the future and personally feel the enduring Vietnam-China friendship."
Return to TopFor half a century, the methods and fields of China-Europe cooperation have been changing, but the essence of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation has remained unchanged. From history to the present, China and Europe have no fundamental conflicts of interest and should and can be partners in mutual achievement.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the European Union. China and the EU are two major forces driving multipolarity, two major markets supporting globalization, and two major civilizations advocating diversity. Facing the accelerated evolution of the world's century-old changes, how China and Europe get along is related to the global landscape and the future of mankind.
Not long ago, Volkswagen (德国大众汽车) and Xpeng Motors (中国小鹏汽车) signed a memorandum of understanding to open up their respective proprietary ultra-fast charging networks to each other. The cooperation between European traditional car giants and Chinese new energy vehicle companies has attracted widespread attention in the global automotive industry. In the 1980s, the first Shanghai Santana car produced in cooperation between Volkswagen and Shanghai Automotive Factory (上海汽车厂) rolled off the production line, opening the process of Volkswagen's deep cultivation of the Chinese market. More than 40 years have passed in a flash, and China's reform and opening up has made great strides. From importing European technology and management in the past to today's joint exploration of the industry frontier by both companies, the constantly upgraded cooperation trajectory once again confirms that China's development and progress has opened up greater space for mutually beneficial cooperation.
Just as Volkswagen's development history in China shows, for half a century, the methods and fields of China-Europe cooperation have been changing, but the essence of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation has remained unchanged. From history to the present, China and Europe have no fundamental conflicts of interest and should and can be partners in mutual achievement.
A healthy and stable China-Europe relationship brings development momentum to each other. The Chinese and European economies are highly complementary and their interests are closely integrated. The two sides are important trading partners to each other. Bilateral trade has increased from US$2.4 billion at the time of the establishment of diplomatic relations to US$785.8 billion in 2024, covering everything from traditional clothing and toys to mechanical equipment and photovoltaic products and other high-end manufacturing industries; two-way investment stock has increased from almost zero to US$260 billion, and has entered a "two-way fast lane," with great potential in the future. The China-Europe Railway Express has operated more than 100,000 trains, covering more than 200 cities, becoming a golden channel connecting the Eurasian continent. In the first quarter of this year, China's imports and exports to the EU amounted to 1.3 trillion yuan, which is equivalent to more than 10 million yuan in trade every minute.
A healthy and stable China-Europe relationship brings positive energy to illuminate the world. Recently, facing the intertwined international situation, senior officials from many European countries have visited China intensively, and China and Europe have released strong signals of deepening strategic communication and enhancing strategic mutual trust. China and Europe are jointly committed to promoting world multipolarity and economic globalization, and are working together in areas such as addressing climate change and upholding multilateralism, injecting positive forces of openness, inclusiveness, and focus on cooperation into the turbulent world. As two major forces with different historical cultures, social systems, and stages of development, China-Europe cooperation also shows the world that all parties should and can resolve differences through dialogue, transcend competition through cooperation, and jointly follow the path of human social development. "What ultimately unites China and the European Union is a shared vision of a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world." Zemir Awan, founding chairman of the Global Silk Road Research Alliance, believes that the China-Europe partnership can become a pillar of stability.
The 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations is a new starting point, and today's China-Europe relations carry more global expectations. Both sides should draw wisdom and inspiration from history, deepen strategic communication, enhance understanding and mutual trust, consolidate their partnership positioning, and demonstrate their responsibility and commitment to the people, the world, and history.
Calibrate the cognitive compass with strategic vision to ensure that the relationship between the two sides always moves in a direction that is conducive to world peace and development. China always believes that Europe is an important pole in a multipolar world. China-Europe relations are not targeted at, dependent on, or subject to third parties. China's advocacy of deepening China-Europe relations is not an expedient measure, but a strategic choice based on common interests and oriented towards long-term development. Europe should also adhere to independence and autonomy, view China's development correctly, establish a correct understanding of China, focus on cooperation, avoid confrontation, and ensure the healthy and stable development of China-Europe relations.
Draw a blueprint for development with an open mind, and gather consensus and strength for building an open world economy. China and Europe are both major economies in the world, and their combined economic volume exceeds 1/3 of the world's economy, and their trade volume exceeds 1/4 of global trade. At present, the rampant protectionism threatens the world economic recovery and impacts the foundation of global development. China and Europe should jointly oppose protectionism, work together to maintain the multilateral trading system, maintain the stability of industrial and supply chains, and continue to open up new spaces for mutually beneficial cooperation, so as to make greater contributions to the steady and long-term development of the world economy.
Defend fairness and justice with multilateral synergy, and play a greater role in improving global governance. At present, the world is facing a key choice between fairness and hegemony, and between rules and power. China and Europe should adhere to the right path in the world, jointly oppose unilateral bullying in a turbulent world, and defend rules and order. Since the beginning of this year, at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit held in France (法国), China has jointly advocated with Europe and all parties around the world to strengthen global artificial intelligence coordination and governance; on the 10th anniversary of the conclusion of the Paris Agreement (《巴黎协定》), China and France (中法) issued a joint statement, reaffirming their firm commitment to strengthening international cooperation on climate change... China and Europe jointly promote the improvement of global governance and inject positive energy into addressing common human challenges.
Water the flowers of harmony with an inclusive mind, and inject greater impetus into exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations. More than 300 years ago, the German philosopher Leibniz (德国哲学家莱布尼茨) wrote in "Novissima Sinica" (《中国近事》): "China and Europe represent two peaks of human culture. If China and the West strengthen cooperation and cultural exchanges, they can achieve a perfectly harmonious world." Today, standing at a historical crossroads, China and Europe have the ability to play a leading role in strengthening inclusiveness and mutual learning among different civilizations. Former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel (奥地利前总理沃尔夫冈·许塞尔) pointed out that Europe and China both inherit ancient traditions that have shaped human wisdom and morality, and both sides have common ideals in creating a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world. Thanks to policy conveniences in areas such as visas, the pace of China-Europe "two-way rush" has further accelerated, and people-to-people exchanges have become closer. The handshake between China and Europe across the vast Eurasian continent is constantly writing a beautiful story of harmonious coexistence of different civilizations.
A turbulent world requires particular responsibility. China and Europe working together to address global challenges and jointly promote an equal and orderly world multipolarity and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization will surely make greater contributions to world peace, stability, development, and prosperity.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 26th (Reporter). On May 26th, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, had a phone call with Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Meredov.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that the high-level exchanges between China and Turkmenistan have provided strategic guidance for the development of bilateral relations. As a responsible major country, China has always adhered to the principle that all countries, big or small, are equal and develops friendly relations with all countries. China's policy towards Turkmenistan maintains continuity and stability. We cherish the traditional friendship between China and Turkmenistan, always view China-Turkmenistan relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, and are willing to continue to firmly support each other with Turkmenistan on issues involving core interests, actively promote cooperation in various fields, including natural gas, take care of each other's reasonable needs, create more models of mutually beneficial cooperation, help Turkmenistan accelerate the realization of economic diversification, and provide assistance for promoting their respective modernization processes.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that China is pleased to see Turkmenistan play a greater role in international and regional affairs, supports the international initiatives proposed by Turkmenistan, and is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with Turkmenistan to jointly promote the second China-Central Asia Summit to achieve positive results and make greater contributions to regional peace, stability and development and prosperity.
Meredov said that the friendship between Turkmenistan and China has a long history. Thanks to the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, Turkmenistan and China have established a comprehensive strategic partnership and carried out all-round cooperation. Turkmenistan regards China as a reliable partner, is firmly committed to friendship with China, and is willing to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen high-level exchanges, expand cooperation in various fields such as economy, trade and investment, and discuss the promotion of flagship projects in natural gas trade. Turkmenistan supports a series of important global initiatives proposed by China and is willing to continue to maintain multilateral affairs coordination with China.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 26th. Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with envoys of African countries to China in Beijing on May 26th and jointly celebrated "Africa Day." Ambassadors or Charges d'affaires from more than 50 African countries to China, as well as representatives of the African Union to China, attended the event.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that since entering the new era, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has visited Africa five times, put forward the principles of sincerity, real results, amity and good faith towards Africa, the correct approach to justice and shared interests, and the spirit of China-Africa friendship and cooperation. He has elevated bilateral relations between China and all African countries to the level of strategic relations, and the overall positioning of China-Africa relations has also been elevated to a new era of an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future, bringing China-Africa relations into the best period in history.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that in September last year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed six major proposals for China and Africa to jointly promote modernization and the "Ten Partnership Programs" at the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. China is willing to take the upcoming Ministerial Conference of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Forum's Outcomes as an opportunity to implement the consensus of the leaders of both sides, establish a benchmark for high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," create a model for implementing the Global Development Initiative, and accelerate the joint modernization of China and Africa.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that the more turbulent and intertwined the international situation is, the more China and Africa must strengthen solidarity and cooperation, jointly oppose power politics, jointly advocate multilateralism, jointly safeguard the international system with the United Nations as its core, and jointly promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. We will, as always, firmly support the just position of African countries and firmly support Africa in playing a greater role on the international stage.
The African envoys stated that African countries are deeply encouraged by the series of global initiatives and the "Ten Partnership Programs" proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), are full of confidence in Africa-China cooperation, will firmly adhere to the one-China principle, jointly safeguard the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, and defend the common interests of the Global South countries.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 26th (Reporter). Xuekelaiti Zakier (雪克来提·扎克尔), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met with a delegation led by Szücs, Director-General of the Hungarian National Assembly, in Beijing on the 26th. The two sides exchanged views on actively developing China-Hungary relations and strengthening exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 26th (Reporters: Yu Yichun (俞懿春), Bai Ziwei (白紫微), Chen Xirui (陈熙芮)) From May 25th to 26th, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) Dialogue with Political Parties of Neighboring Countries, themed "Building a Community with a Shared Future in the Neighborhood - Political Parties in Action," was held in Beijing (北京). Anwar (安瓦尔), President of the People's Justice Party of Malaysia (马来西亚人民公正党) and Prime Minister of the Government, Shehbaz (夏巴兹), Leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (巴基斯坦穆盟（谢）) and Prime Minister of the Government, and Paetongtarn (佩通坦), Leader of the Pheu Thai Party of Thailand (泰国为泰党) and Prime Minister of the Government, sent congratulatory letters to the conference.
Liu Jianchao (刘建超), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部), stated in his keynote speech that the neighborhood is a priority direction for China's diplomacy, and China is willing to work with all parties on the basis of understanding and mutual trust, pooling efforts and moving in the same direction, to jointly build a common home that can 遮风避雨 (zhē fēng bì yǔ - "shelter from wind and rain," provide protection from hardships) in turbulent times.
The representatives of political parties from various countries attending the meeting highly praised the important propositions put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平), such as the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, the "Belt and Road" Initiative (一带一路) and the three major global initiatives, and stated that Asian countries should strengthen unity and cooperation, jointly maintain regional security and stability, and make Asian contributions to world peace and development.
More than 200 people, including leaders of political parties from neighboring countries such as Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Russia, some ambassadors to China, representatives of think tanks and media, business people, and Chinese representatives, attended the meeting.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Kuala Lumpur on May 26th (Reporters Zhang Niansheng (章念生) and Liu Hui (刘慧)) The China-ASEAN Economic and Trade Forum and the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) promotion event was held on the 26th in Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡), the capital of Malaysia (马来西亚). Nearly 200 representatives from trade and investment promotion agencies, business associations, and enterprises from China and ASEAN countries participated.
Ren Hongbin (任鸿斌), Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国贸促会), stated in his opening remarks that in recent years, economic and trade cooperation between China and ASEAN has been continuously improving and upgrading, achieving fruitful results. The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade is willing to work with the business communities of ASEAN countries to promote bilateral economic and trade cooperation, strengthen the coordinated development of industrial and supply chains, and deepen pragmatic cooperation in multilateral fields.
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The 8th Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Member States' Health Ministers was held recently in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province (陕西省) . With the theme of "Promoting Healthy and Sustainable Development and Sharing a Healthy Future," this meeting demonstrated the willingness and determination of all parties to strengthen cooperation in the field of health and improve the health and well-being of the people of the organization.
"Health is the common pursuit of mankind, and health cooperation is an important area of cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation," said Lei Haichao (雷海潮), Director of the National Health Commission of China. In recent years, SCO member states have achieved pragmatic cooperation results in areas such as infectious disease prevention and control, health emergency response, traditional medicine, blindness prevention, and maternal and child health, fully demonstrating the solidarity of the "Shanghai Spirit" and the vitality of health cooperation.
"In the context of the 'SCO Year of Sustainable Development,' health issues highlight the significance of the times. Only by strengthening cooperation and building a resilient, inclusive, and universally beneficial healthcare system can we jointly address the challenges of today, which is the only way to achieve sustainable development," said Zhang Ming (张明), Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Since taking over as the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, China has actively promoted pragmatic cooperation in the field of health. China has continued to carry out the "Healthy Express International Brightness Trip" to Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries, achieving the Chinese commitment to "provide free cataract surgery for 2,000 people in the countries of the organization in the next three years" ahead of schedule. The first China-Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Emergency Medicine International Forum and others have built platforms for health exchange and cooperation. Zhao Yide (赵一德), Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, introduced that Shaanxi has trained nearly 2,000 medical students from Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries in the past three years, and the China-Kazakhstan Traditional Medicine Center jointly built by Shaanxi and relevant units in Kazakhstan has provided diagnosis and treatment services to nearly 30,000 patients in more than 10 countries.
Participants shared exchanges on topics such as emergency medicine, primary health care, digital health, and traditional medicine, and signed the "Minutes of the 8th Meeting of the Health Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Member States."
Return to TopUlaanbaatar, May 26th (Reporter Zhang Penghui (张朋辉)) On May 26th, the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund's Mongolia Climate Change Adaptation Support Project was officially launched in Ulaanbaatar (乌兰巴托), the capital of Mongolia (蒙古国). This project is the first climate change adaptation project of the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund in the Northeast Asia region.
Chinese Ambassador to Mongolia, Shen Minjuan (沈敏娟), stated that the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, established by China, has already cooperated with more than 20 international organizations and implemented more than 160 projects in over 60 developing countries.
It is reported that the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund's Mongolia Climate Change Adaptation Support Project is implemented in cooperation with the China International Development Cooperation Agency (中国国家国际发展合作署), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the Mongolian Red Cross Society (蒙古国红十字会). The project focuses on enhancing Mongolia's early warning capabilities, herders' climate change adaptation capabilities, and providing policy recommendations to the Mongolian government. The project implementation cycle is two years.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Shenzhen, May 26th (Xinhua) On May 26th, the 2025 Summit Forum on Building a Strong Cultural Country opened in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东). Li Shulei (李书磊), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), attended and delivered a keynote speech. Huang Kunming (黄坤明), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, attended and delivered a speech.
Participating guests believe that General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech during the 17th collective study session of the 20th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau profoundly elucidated a series of major issues concerning building a strong cultural country and promoting cultural reform and development. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made comprehensive arrangements for further comprehensively deepening reform, and clearly proposed the major task of deepening the reform of the cultural system and mechanism. It is necessary to anchor the goal of building a strong cultural country, enhance the sense of responsibility and urgency, promote the reform of the cultural system and mechanism with greater courage, further liberate and develop cultural productivity, and solidly promote cultural prosperity.
Participating guests stated that reform should adhere to a problem-oriented approach, systematically plan, make key breakthroughs, implement comprehensive policies, focus on eliminating malpractices and promoting benefits, and solve the difficulties in cultural development. It is necessary to promote the integration of culture and technology, deeply implement the national cultural digitization strategy, make good use of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, and accelerate the digital empowerment and information transformation of cultural construction. It is necessary to uphold an open and inclusive attitude, deeply implement the Global Civilization Initiative, promote opening-up and cooperation in the cultural field, and deepen exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations.
The theme of this forum is "Deepening the Reform of the Cultural System and Mechanism and Stimulating Cultural Innovation and Creativity," and it is hosted by the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部). Relevant responsible comrades from central propaganda and cultural units, propaganda departments of party committees of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, relevant ministries and commissions of the central government, some cultural enterprises and institutions, and relevant think tank experts and scholars attended the forum.
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"Elementary schools, middle schools, and even kindergartens play a very important role in a person's life, so we must start with the children."
During the 2025 National People's Congress (全国两会) session, when Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, visited members of the China Democratic League (民盟), China Association for Promoting Democracy (民进), and the education sector attending the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (政协会议) and participated in a joint group meeting, he once again focused the topic on "the future of the motherland" and "the hope of the Chinese nation."
If the youth are strong, then China is strong; if the youth prosper, then China prospers.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has stood at the strategic height of ensuring that the red regime has successors and that the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics is passed on from generation to generation. It cares about the growth and development of children and adolescents, points out the direction for the work of the Young Pioneers, and leads the cause of children and adolescents in the new era to create a new and colorful chapter.
As the red sun rises, its path is bright. The vast number of children and adolescents grow up towards the sun and move forward in pursuit of their dreams. They will surely take over the relay baton of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, and head towards a more brilliant tomorrow.
"The most important aspiration in life should be linked to the motherland and the people."
In early summer, all things flourish and are full of vitality. The sound of reading fills the campus of Zhijiang Elementary School (之江小学) in Jialing District (嘉陵区), Nanchong (南充), Sichuan (四川).
Just one year ago, in May, on the eve of the "June 1st" International Children's Day, the children of this school received a special holiday gift - a reply letter from General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
"I hope the students will establish lofty aspirations and cherish the good times," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) encouraged everyone in his reply, "strive to be good young people of the new era who love the Party and the country, are self-reliant and self-improving, and work hard to grow into pillars capable of shouldering the great task of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation."
In General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) mind, childhood is the most precious period in a person's life, and it is necessary to "pay attention to establishing correct life goals during this period" and fasten the first button of life correctly.
"When I was four or five years old, my mother bought me picture books and told me the story of 'Serving the Country with Utmost Loyalty, Mother Yue Tattooing Characters on Yue Fei's Back.' I asked, 'Doesn't it hurt to get tattooed?' My mother said that although it hurts, Yue Fei will always remember it in his heart. I still remember it now." Recalling his childhood, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said affectionately, "Serving the country with utmost loyalty is my lifelong goal."
Leading by example, with earnest words and sincere advice.
"A person can have many aspirations, but the most important aspiration in life should be linked to the motherland and the people. This is the foundation of all specific aspirations and the backbone of life."
On May 31, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Beijing Yuying School (北京育英学校) for inspection, and the first stop was the school history museum.
Founded in Xibaipo (西柏坡), Hebei (河北) in 1948 and moved to Beijing (北京) with the Party Central Committee (党中央) in 1949, Yuying School (育英学校) carries a glorious revolutionary tradition and a distinct red gene.
"Let every student of Yuying School (育英学校) firmly remember the school's glorious history, remember the Party's care, continue the red tradition, inherit the red gene, listen to the Party's words and follow the Party from an early age, and aspire to become talents for the Party and dedicate themselves to the country." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest teachings permeated their hearts.
Putting patriotic education in a more prominent position and planting the seeds of loving China in the depths of every child's heart.
In the early morning, facing the bright sunshine, students from the Macau Haojiang Middle School Affiliated Yingcai School (澳门濠江中学附属英才学校) lined up in neat rows, straightened their chests, and paid attention to the rising five-star red flag.
Many students still vividly remember the scene more than five years ago.
In 2019, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the school for inspection, he used an anecdote about the old principal to educate the children: "On the day the new China was founded, when Macau (澳门) was still under Portuguese rule, old Principal Du Lan (杜岚) resolutely raised the five-star red flag. This strong patriotism and courage is a landmark manifestation of patriotism, and it also reflects the deep patriotic feelings of the vast number of compatriots in Macau (澳门)."
"We start cultivating patriotism from a young age," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) encouraged everyone to "often go to the mainland to walk around and see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. Learn history well, learn the history of China well."
Establish the aspirations of young people, build the foundation of faith, and take the first step in life well.
On May 30, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) participated in the admission ceremony of the Young Pioneers of the Haidian Ethnic Primary School (海淀区民族小学) in Beijing (北京市), recalling his own experience of joining the team:
"I remember my heart pounding when I joined the team, I was very excited." "Why is that? Because it is an honor."
On the journey to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is the vanguard, the Communist Youth League (共青团) is the shock force, and the Young Pioneers (少先队) is the reserve force. "Joining the team, joining the League, and joining the Party are the 'three-step process of life' for young people to pursue political progress."
On July 23, 2020, the Eighth National Congress of the Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队第八次全国代表大会) was held in the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) in Beijing (北京).
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory letter, emphasizing that "in the new era, the Young Pioneers must hold high the team flag and follow the Party, inherit the red gene, cultivate new people of the era, and unite, educate, and lead the vast number of Young Pioneers to be successors to the cause of communism."
Personally caring, personally guiding, and personally promoting.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly required that "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 Pioneers cause."
In 2021, the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Comprehensively Strengthening the Work of the Young Pioneers in the New Era" (《中共中央关于全面加强新时代少先队工作的意见》) was formulated and issued, which is the first document in the history of New China issued by the Party Central Committee specifically to strengthen the work of the Young Pioneers. Since the new era, a new era Young Pioneers work system and mechanism of Party committee leadership, government support, Communist Youth League leadership, League-education collaboration, and social coordination is gradually taking shape.
When young people bear great aspirations, they will naturally have the time to strive.
On May 30, 2024, under the gaze of more than 400 Young Pioneers from 56 ethnic groups across the country, a five-star red flag that had "traveled" in space was slowly raised at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center (中国航天员科研训练中心).
The bright red flag, the starry sky of hope, shines with the light of faith of hundreds of millions of young people.
"Caring for children and creating favorable conditions for their healthy growth."
As spring returns to the earth, the banks of the Yongding River (永定河) in Beijing (北京) are full of greenery.
On April 3, 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came here and, together with the Young Pioneers, shoveled soil to create pits, cultivated soil to build embankments, and carried water to irrigate, planting the green hope in the season of growth of all things.
This is the 13th consecutive year since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大) that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has participated in the capital's voluntary tree planting activities with children.
"Straighten it from a young age," "Pay attention to strengthening physical exercise," "We are jointly watering the saplings, and in fact we are also watering you"... Every kind word and earnest expectation deeply hopes that the "saplings" will become pillars of talent as soon as possible.
The healthy growth of children and adolescents is related to the harmony and happiness of hundreds of millions of families, and to the great plan for the development of the country and the nation.
"Adhere to moral education first," "Learn knowledge like a sponge absorbs water," "Let the children run," "Adhere to aesthetic education and cultural education," "Cultivate labor awareness, environmental awareness, and conservation awareness from an early age"...
From holiday greetings and blessings, to careful teachings during local inspections, to earnest expectations conveyed through letters, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to the physical and mental health of children and adolescents, and emphasizes that "all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor is worth its weight in gold."
In General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) mind, every child is a hope that cannot be disappointed.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the Hohhot Children's Welfare Institute (呼和浩特市儿童福利院), entering the most difficult and vulnerable group of children.
"Grandpa Xi is here to see us!" The children who were rehearsing for the Spring Festival program surrounded him. The General Secretary squatted down and lovingly picked up a child.
Seeing the children learning and living carefree, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said that the whole society should have compassion and care for children, especially orphans and disabled children, and work together to enable them to grow up healthily and feel the warmth of the socialist family.
"Where the sun does not reach, youth comes naturally. The moss flower is as small as rice, but it also learns to bloom like a peony." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed to turn the eyes of education "more towards the inconspicuous moss flowers in the corner."
Zhongyi Township (中益乡) in Shizhu County (石柱县) is located in the Wuling Mountains (武陵山区), with high mountains and deep valleys and barren land. It was once one of the 18 deeply impoverished townships in Chongqing (重庆市). In April 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) traveled for more than 3 hours to reach Zhongyi Township Primary School (中益乡小学).
"'Two no worries and three guarantees,' an important point is that compulsory education must be guaranteed. We cannot make children suffer any more, and we cannot make education any poorer. We must ensure that children in poor mountainous areas go to school and receive education, and have a happy and joyful childhood."
The growth and development of children and adolescents requires both fair opportunities and a good environment.
In the 1980s, shortly after Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) took office in Zhengding (正定), Hebei (河北), he conducted a general survey of dilapidated school buildings in the county. In a subsequent field investigation, he found that Beijia Village (北贾村), which was considered relatively wealthy, had very dilapidated primary school buildings.
"Given the conditions in your village, you shouldn't have built the primary school like this. You have every condition to improve the school well." Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) ordered the village cadres to repair it within a time limit, and emphasized before leaving, "The best house in the whole village must be the school."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) deeply cares about the needs of children.
On June 18, 2024, during his inspection in Qinghai Province (青海省), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) first came to Guoluo Xining National Middle School (果洛西宁民族中学).
The General Secretary successively entered the canteen, dormitory, and classroom, caring about the students' diet, accommodation, and study. Seeing the washing machines and hair dryers in the dormitory washroom, the General Secretary asked with concern, "Is there hot water in winter?" and emphasized that "hot water should be supplied around the clock to ensure the children's washing."
"Our greatest wish is for the children to grow up better," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said affectionately.
He made important instructions on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the China National Committee for the Well-being of the Next Generation (中国关心下一代工作委员会), emphasizing that "Party committees and governments at all levels should strengthen leadership over the work of caring for the next generation";
He sent a congratulatory letter on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the China National Children's Center (中国儿童中心), encouraging the vast number of children and adolescents workers to "be guides for children's growth, guardians of children's rights, and dream builders for children's future, and wholeheartedly promote children's healthy growth and all-round development";
He sent a heartfelt message on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the implementation of the Hope Project (希望工程), requiring the Communist Youth League (共青团) to "run this cause better and strive to provide new assistance and sow new hope for young people."
Formulating the "China Children's Development Program (2021-2030)" (《中国儿童发展纲要（2021—2030年）》) to ensure the healthy growth of children from the top-level design; revising the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors" (《中华人民共和国未成年人保护法》) to hold up the "protective umbrella" for children; issuing the "Outline of the Plan for Building a Strong Education Country (2024-2035)" (《教育强国建设规划纲要（2024—2035年）》) to build a more inclusive and higher-quality education ecology for children and adolescents...
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, constantly improving policies and institutional guarantees comprehensively protect the healthy growth of children and adolescents.
"A good life belongs to you, and the beautiful Chinese dream belongs to you."
Pubalaam (普巴拉姆) and Pubutsering (普布次仁), siblings living in Gala Village (嘎拉村), Bayi District (巴宜区), Nyingchi City (林芝市), Tibet (西藏), cherish a group photo with Grandpa Xi (习爷爷).
On July 21, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) entered the siblings' home, sat down with everyone to chat, and cordially asked about the children's dreams.
"I want to go to college and become a doctor when I grow up," said sister Pubalaam (普巴拉姆). Brother Pubutsering (普布次仁) wants to become an athlete.
Under the General Secretary's earnest encouragement, the siblings bravely pursued their dreams and realized their dreams.
In 2023, Pubalaam (普巴拉姆) was admitted to the First Middle School of Nyingchi City (林芝市第一中学), steadily moving towards her "doctor dream." Pubutsering (普布次仁) was admitted to the Tibet Autonomous Region Sports Technology School (西藏自治区体育运动技术学校), moving towards the goal of "professional athlete."
Dreams are ahead, and the road is under your feet.
On September 9, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) entered the science popularization laboratory of Beijing Bayi School (北京市八一学校). Learning that the students were developing China's first middle school science popularization satellite, the General Secretary was very happy and told the children: "Don't forget to notify me when your small satellite is launched."
Three months later, the children wrote to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) to report before launching the science popularization satellite they designed and developed.
"Cultivate scientific spirit, study hard, practice hard, and lead more young people to talk about science, love science, learn science, and use science," the General Secretary encouraged everyone in his reply.
With dreams as pens, young people paint a beautiful future.
Forgetting the meeting with Grandpa Xi (习爷爷) at the Hohhot Children's Welfare Institute (呼和浩特市儿童福利院), deaf and mute girl Wang Yani (王雅妮) remembered the General Secretary's exhortation to "study hard and achieve academic success," and bloomed her youth on the three-foot platform of special education, helping more disabled children realize their dreams;
Still remembering reporting to Grandpa Xi (习爷爷) about participating in tennis competitions when he was studying at the Haidian Ethnic Primary School (海淀区民族小学) in Beijing (北京市), Mi Zenghao (米增昊), who loves sports, kept in mind the General Secretary's encouragement to "use your limited energy in the areas where you can best发挥 (fā huī - "bring into play," to give full play to one's talent) and strive to do your best," joined the tennis team during college and has maintained this love to this day;
Jihau Youguo (吉好有果), a girl from the Liangshan Mountains (大凉山) who was praised by Grandpa Xi (习爷爷) for a song "The National Flag is Really Beautiful," walked out of the mountains singing and appeared on the opening ceremony stage of the Chengdu Universiade, hoping to lead more children to see a bigger world;
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The dream of young people is also the dream of China.
"When I see you, I think of the future of our nation."
On the occasion of the "June 1st" International Children's Day in 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) met with representatives of the Seventh National Congress of the Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队第七次全国代表大会), cordially shook hands with Young Pioneers and old Young Pioneers workers of all ethnic groups, and took a group photo.
Facing the children's eager eyes, the General Secretary's words were warm and powerful -
"Today, be good children of the motherland, and tomorrow, be builders of the motherland. A good life belongs to you, and the beautiful Chinese dream belongs to you."
The cause of the Party has successors, and the red regime will never change color.
On June 29, 2021, the golden hall of the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) was brightly lit.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) awarded the "July 1st Medal" (七一勋章) to the recipients, paying tribute to the meritorious models with the highest honor in the Party. Young Pioneers presented beautiful flowers to the medal recipients, paying the highest respect.
Two days later, on July 1, at the ceremony celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), representatives of the Young Pioneers and the Communist Youth League (共青团员) faced Tiananmen (天安门), offering deep blessings and making solemn promises for the Party's centenary.
"Struggle is youth! Dedicate youth to the Party! Please rest assured, the Party, we will build a strong country! Please rest assured, the Party, we will build a strong country!"
Ready at all times to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the new era children and adolescents are high-spirited and stride forward.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), May 26)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 胡 健 贺林平 李 纵
The 21st China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (hereinafter referred to as "ICIF"), which lasted for 5 days, concluded in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) on May 26. With the theme of "Innovation Leads the Trend, Creativity Lights up Life," this ICIF focused on highlighting the functions of exhibition and trade, and continuously improved its internationalization, marketization, specialization, and digitalization levels.
A total of 6,280 government delegations, cultural institutions, and enterprises participated in the online and offline exhibitions of this ICIF, an increase of 265 compared to the previous session. 305 overseas exhibitors from 65 countries and regions participated online and offline. More than 120,000 cultural products were exhibited at the exhibition site, and more than 4,000 cultural industry investment and financing projects were displayed and traded.
Technology Empowers Culture, AI Helps New Business Forms
Robots developed by two Shenzhen (深圳) technology innovation companies, Leju (乐聚) and Gongjiangshe (工匠社), jointly performed Wing Chun (咏春) Kung Fu; Tencent's (腾讯) one-stop AI creation platform "AI Creation Blind Box" transformed visitors' inspiration into printable and shareable three-dimensional works, realizing a creative leap from "brain hole" to "physical object"; an "AI Robot Coffee Pavilion" delivered a latte with delicate latte art... Entering the artificial intelligence exhibition area, which was set up for the first time at this ICIF, the latest products allowed the audience to directly feel the charm and prospects of artificial intelligence technology.
"The first establishment of an artificial intelligence exhibition area around exploring effective mechanisms for the integration of culture and technology has further amplified the effectiveness of the exhibition," said Liu Lei (刘蕾), Director of the Office of the ICIF Organizing Committee and Director of the Shenzhen (深圳) Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports. Through AI full application scenario presentation, AI technology performances, and other methods, AI has become an innovative highlight and important attraction of this ICIF.
At this ICIF, during guest speeches, a screen next to them displayed real-time bilingual subtitles. These real-time bilingual subtitles were generated by the AI simultaneous interpretation equipment developed by Shenzhen (深圳) Shihkongh Technology Co., Ltd. (深圳时空壶技术有限公司) - it is reported that the equipment supports 40 languages and 93 accents, with a translation accuracy rate of 95%. Many exhibitors said that this technology-filled service detail is pragmatic and efficient.
Shihkongh (时空壶) Company, which participated in the exhibition for the first time this year, has gained many cooperation opportunities. "Many exhibitors in the tourism industry have expressed their intention to cooperate. The ICIF has helped us further expand the market," said Li Feng (李峰), head of the company's domestic market.
Attracting "Top-Tier" New Friends, Expanding the "Circle of Friends"
This ICIF attracted nearly 300 well-known cultural enterprises, including the top 30 national cultural enterprises, as well as leading domestic and international brand enterprises, of which more than 60 were "new friends" participating for the first time. "Top-tier" cultural industry enterprises gathered at the ICIF to hold more than 120 new product launches.
The latest technology made a brilliant debut here. At the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural Industry Innovation Exhibition, a "full-size humanoid height" humanoid robot demonstrated the cutting-edge technology of artificial intelligence and humanoid robots.
Cultural exchanges are gradually deepening here. As a city connected to Hong Kong and Macao by a land bridge, Zhuhai (珠海) is using the ICIF platform to deepen cooperation in performing arts, exhibitions, intangible cultural heritage, and other fields through co-creation and two-way curation.
The internationalization level of this ICIF has been further improved. A total of more than 35,000 overseas professional visitors from 110 countries and regions participated online and offline. At the same time, the number of participating countries in the "Belt and Road" initiative, global cooperation institutions, and the variety of participating products have all reached new highs, and the exhibition's "circle of friends" is constantly expanding.
Upgrading Transaction Functions, Stimulating Industrial Momentum
This ICIF has optimized and strengthened the transaction function, and actively created a super service platform for cultural industry investment and financing. At the cultural industry investment promotion conference and cooperation signing ceremony, government delegations and some leading enterprises from home and abroad showcased good projects, signed large orders, and connected with good resources.
The on-site signing of projects at the two-day investment promotion conference reached 41, and the total transaction volume reached a new high.
"Last year, we successfully connected with resources through the ICIF and set up a research and development center in Shenzhen (深圳). At this year's exhibition, we have gained a lot again," said Hu Shihui (胡世辉), chairman of Shanghai (上海) Immersive Opportunity Technology Development Co., Ltd. (上海沉浸机遇科技开发有限公司). The company signed contracts with the Dunhuang (敦煌) Municipal Government of Gansu (甘肃) Province, Ctrip Group (携程集团), and others on related projects.
Fang Shiyu (方石玉), general manager of Shenzhen (深圳) International Cultural Industry Fair Co., Ltd. (深圳国际文化产业博览交易会有限公司), introduced that this exhibition specially planned 22 transaction promotion measures to connect the "cultural deep-water port" with the "new economic blue ocean" to achieve comprehensive expansion, full-chain empowerment, and worry-free throughout the entire transaction process.
At this ICIF, Guangdong (广东) officially released relevant policy documents, proposing 87 policy measures to focus on promoting the high-quality development of six key areas of the cultural industry, such as film and television, performing arts market, and animation film and television.
Stimulating cultural vitality and promoting industrial development. Over the past 21 years, the ICIF has grown into the exhibition with the highest specifications, largest scale, most practical results, and greatest influence in China's cultural industry field, and is striving to move from the "First Exhibition of China's Cultural Industry" to the "Leading Exhibition of the International Cultural Industry."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Shenzhen, May 26th. On May 26th, Guangming Daily and Economic Daily jointly released the "Top 30 National Cultural Enterprises 2025" (hereinafter referred to as "Top 30") and the "Top 30 National Growth-oriented Cultural Enterprises 2025" (hereinafter referred to as "Growth-oriented Top 30") list to the public.
China Publishing Group Corporation (中国出版集团有限公司), China Film Co., Ltd. (中国电影股份有限公司), Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (腾讯科技（深圳）有限公司), iFlytek Co., Ltd. (科大讯飞股份有限公司) and other 30 enterprises entered this year's "Top 30" list. The "Top 30" enterprises in this session adhere to putting social benefits first and unifying social and economic benefits. In 2024, the total net assets were 695.2 billion yuan; the total main business income was 639.8 billion yuan, exceeding the 600 billion yuan mark for the first time.
China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd. (中国东方演艺集团有限公司), Hangzhou Yoko Interactive Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州游科互动科技有限公司), Chengdu Cocodream Animation Film Co., Ltd. (成都可可豆动画影视有限公司) and other 30 enterprises entered this year's "Growth-oriented Top 30" list. The average growth rate of main business income, net assets, net profit, and R&D expenses of the "Growth-oriented Top 30" enterprises in 2024 all exceeded 15%, among which the average growth rate of R&D expenses exceeded 40%, which better reflects the good trend of rapid and healthy development of new formats and new models in the cultural field.
"Top 30 National Cultural Enterprises 2025" List
(30 in total, listed in no particular order)
China Publishing Group Corporation (中国出版集团有限公司)
China Education Publishing & Media Group Co., Ltd. (中国教育出版传媒集团有限公司)
China Film Co., Ltd. (中国电影股份有限公司)
Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd. (华夏电影发行有限责任公司)
China International Television Corporation (中国国际电视总公司)
Beijing Kuaishou Technology Co., Ltd. (北京快手科技有限公司)
Beijing iQIYI Technology Co., Ltd. (北京爱奇艺科技有限公司)
Beijing Weimeng Chuangke Network Technology Co., Ltd. (北京微梦创科网络技术有限公司)
Hebei Publishing & Media Group Co., Ltd. (河北出版传媒集团有限责任公司)
Shanghai Film Group Corporation (上海电影（集团）有限公司)
Oriental Pearl New Media Co., Ltd. (东方明珠新媒体股份有限公司)
Shanghai Himalaya Technology Co., Ltd. (上海喜马拉雅科技有限公司)
Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing & Media Group Co., Ltd. (江苏凤凰出版传媒集团有限公司)
Jiangsu Broadcasting Cable Information Network Co., Ltd. (江苏省广电有线信息网络股份有限公司)
Zhejiang Publishing United Group Co., Ltd. (浙江出版联合集团有限公司)
Wasu Digital TV Media Group Co., Ltd. (华数数字电视传媒集团有限公司)
Songcheng Performance Development Co., Ltd. (宋城演艺发展股份有限公司)
Zhejiang Huace Film & TV Co., Ltd. (浙江华策影视股份有限公司)
Anhui Xinhua Distribution (Group) Holding Co., Ltd. (安徽新华发行（集团）控股有限公司)
iFlytek Co., Ltd. (科大讯飞股份有限公司)
Jiangxi Publishing Media Group Co., Ltd. (江西省出版传媒集团有限公司)
Shandong Publishing Group Co., Ltd. (山东出版集团有限公司)
Zhongyuan Publishing & Media Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. (中原出版传媒投资控股集团有限公司)
Changjiang Publishing & Media Co., Ltd. (长江出版传媒股份有限公司)
Mango Excellent Media Co., Ltd. (芒果超媒股份有限公司)
Hunan Publishing Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. (湖南出版投资控股集团有限公司)
Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (腾讯科技（深圳）有限公司)
Guangdong Radio and Television Network Co., Ltd. (广东省广播电视网络股份有限公司)
Guangdong Publishing Group Co., Ltd. (广东省出版集团有限公司)
Xinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. (新华文轩出版传媒股份有限公司)
"Top 30 National Growth-oriented Cultural Enterprises 2025" List
(30 in total, listed in no particular order)
China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd. (中国东方演艺集团有限公司)
Beijing Poly Theatre Management Co., Ltd. (北京保利剧院管理有限公司)
Tianjin Jinyun New Media Group Co., Ltd. (天津津云新媒体集团股份有限公司)
Hebei Broadcasting and Wireless Media Co., Ltd. (河北广电无线传媒股份有限公司)
Shanxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage Surveying, Mapping and Protection Co., Ltd. (山西省文化遗产勘测与保护研究院有限责任公司)
Inner Mongolia Publishing Group Co., Ltd. (内蒙古出版集团有限责任公司)
Dalian Cultural Industry Group Co., Ltd. (大连文化产业集团有限公司)
Jilin Ningyu Animation Co., Ltd. (吉林省凝羽动画有限公司)
Harbin Modern Hotel Cultural Tourism Investment Group Co., Ltd. (哈尔滨马迭尔文化旅游投资集团有限公司)
Shanghai Light Chaser Animation Studios (上海追光影业有限公司)
Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Investment Management Group Co., Ltd. (江苏省文化投资管理集团有限公司)
Hangzhou Yoko Interactive Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州游科互动科技有限公司)
BabyBus Co., Ltd. (宝宝巴士股份有限公司)
Migu New Kong Culture Technology (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. (咪咕新空文化科技（厦门）有限公司)
Jiangxi Culture Performing Arts Development Group Co., Ltd. (江西文化演艺发展集团有限责任公司)
HaiKan Network Technology (Shandong) Co., Ltd. (海看网络科技（山东）股份有限公司)
Henan Daxiang Rong Media Group Co., Ltd. (河南大象融媒体集团有限公司)
Wuhan University of Technology Digital Communication Engineering Co., Ltd. (武汉理工数字传播工程有限公司)
Unicom WoMusic Culture Co., Ltd. (联通沃音乐文化有限公司)
Jieli Publishing House Co., Ltd. (接力出版社有限公司)
Hainan Publishing House Co., Ltd. (海南出版社有限公司)
Chongqing Maiya Media Co., Ltd. (重庆麦芽传媒有限公司)
Chongqing Haohan Network Technology Co., Ltd. (重庆灏瀚网络科技有限公司)
Chengdu Cocodream Animation Film Co., Ltd. (成都可可豆动画影视有限公司)
Guizhou Colorful New Media Co., Ltd. (贵州多彩新媒体股份有限公司)
Lijiang Yulong Snow Mountain Impression Tourism Culture Industry Co., Ltd. (丽江玉龙雪山印象旅游文化产业有限公司)
Yushang Hemei Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd. (域上和美文化旅游股份有限公司)
Shaanxi Song of Everlasting Sorrow Performing Arts Culture Co., Ltd. (陕西长恨歌演艺文化有限公司)
Ledong Dunhuang (Dunhuang) Cultural Tourism Industry Development Co., Ltd. (乐动敦煌（敦煌）文化旅游产业发展有限公司)
Xinjiang Xinhua Bookstore Distribution Co., Ltd. (新疆新华书店发行有限责任公司)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Kuala Lumpur on May 26th (Reporter Zhang Niansheng (章念生), Wang Di (王迪)) On the evening of May 26th, local time, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) met with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar (安瓦尔) at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
Li Qiang (李强) stated that last month, President Xi Jinping (习近平) paid a state visit to Malaysia, and both sides agreed to build a high-level strategic China-Malaysia community with a shared future, planning the strategic direction for the development of bilateral relations. China is willing to work with Malaysia to implement the important achievements of this historic visit, adhere to mutual respect and mutual trust, equal treatment, and mutual benefit and win-win results, promote the continuous deepening and solidifying of exchanges and cooperation in various fields, and jointly usher in a new "golden 50 years" of China-Malaysia relations.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China is willing to maintain close high-level exchanges with Malaysia, strengthen strategic communication, and consolidate the political foundation of the China-Malaysia community with a shared future. The two sides should continue to expand the scale of cooperation in trade, investment, and other areas, focus on cutting-edge fields such as the digital economy, green economy, and artificial intelligence, promote the integrated development of production, supply, and value chains, and steadily advance the construction of key projects such as "Two Countries, Twin Parks" and the East Coast Rail Link, strengthening the economic growth engine of the China-Malaysia community with a shared future. China is willing to work with Malaysia to implement the mutual visa exemption agreement, deepen cultural, educational, health, sports, and other people-to-people exchanges and cooperation, and tighten the emotional bonds of the China-Malaysia community with a shared future. The two sides should also organize activities such as the "Confucian-Islamic Civilization Dialogue" to jointly build a platform for civilization exchanges between the two countries and even the region.
Li Qiang (李强) stated that at present, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and global economic growth is weak. As participants and beneficiaries of economic globalization, China, ASEAN, and the GCC countries should strengthen coordination and cooperation, jointly adhere to open regionalism and genuine multilateralism. The holding of this ASEAN-China-GCC summit is of particular importance. Malaysia is the rotating chair of ASEAN and the host country of the trilateral summit. China is willing to work closely with Malaysia to take this summit as an opportunity to promote closer economic cooperation among the three parties, create a model of global cooperation and development, jointly safeguard free trade and the multilateral trading system, work together to address global challenges, and inject more stability, certainty, and positive energy into a turbulent world.
Anwar (安瓦尔) stated that China is a good neighbor and good partner of Malaysia. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) historic visit to Malaysia last month was very successful. Malaysia is willing to work with China to fully implement the important achievements of the visit, continue to expand trade and investment cooperation, strengthen key projects such as "Two Countries, Twin Parks" and the East Coast Rail Link, and expand cooperation in new energy, finance, resources, artificial intelligence, and people's livelihood. Malaysia firmly supports multilateralism, supports China's accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and is willing to work with China to promote the first ASEAN-China-GCC summit to achieve fruitful results.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Xichang (西昌) on May 26th (Yu Sinan (喻思南), Zhang Wei (张未)) On the 26th, it was learned from the National Space Administration (国家航天局): After comprehensive judgment and decision-making by the Engineering Task Headquarters, the Tianwen-2 mission of the planetary exploration project is planned to be launched on May 29th.
Currently, at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (西昌卫星发射中心), all preparation work for the mission is progressing steadily. The Long March 3B Y110 carrier rocket, which will carry out this launch, is about to be loaded with propellant.
Previously, the Tianwen-2 probe completed general assembly, testing, fueling, transfer, functional inspection, and joint testing in the technical area as planned. The carrier rocket completed transfer, hoisting, probe-rocket docking, fairing integration, and general inspection and testing. The launch site completed pre-launch system drills. The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (西昌卫星发射中心), Beijing Aerospace Control Center (北京飞控中心), Xi'an Satellite Control Center (西安卫星测控中心), Yuanwang (远望号) series tracking ships, and various mission control stations implemented joint debugging and control.
Return to TopAs an important livelihood project in Qinghai Province, the 330 kV Yushu second-circuit line project is expected to be completed on the 28th. After the project is put into operation, it will be of great significance for improving the living conditions of farmers and herdsmen in the Sanjiangyuan area (三江源地区) and helping the local economic and social development. The picture shows workers from State Grid Qinghai Yushu Electric Power Company (国网青海玉树供电公司) working in Shangzhuang Village (上庄村), Chengduo County (称多县), Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (玉树藏族自治州) recently.
He Yong (贺勇), reporter of this newspaper.
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The Central Eight-Point Regulation continues to change China, and the most fundamental aspect lies in leveraging the political leadership and guarantee role of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, invigorating the spirit, inspiring fighting spirit, establishing an image, and winning the hearts of the people with a good work style.
Enabling the vast number of cadres to work cleanly and boldly, allowing various business entities to innovate and start businesses with peace of mind, and ensuring that the urgent and difficult problems of the people are resolved in a timely manner are all necessary to achieve "creating new great achievements with a good work style and a good image."
A good work style is not only combat effectiveness but also a driving force and, even more so, a cohesive force.
The standard meal at the Quzhou (衢州) Municipal Government canteen in Zhejiang (浙江) costs 18 yuan per serving. The Rongchang (荣昌) District Government canteen in Chongqing (重庆) consumes more than 500 kilograms each of meat and rice on a single day. More than 300 internal parking lots of government agencies and enterprises in Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), are open for free... During this year's "May Day" holiday, many cities opened the gates of Party and government agencies and opened canteens and parking lots to cope with the peak of tourists, winning praise from citizens and tourists.
In the process of implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, our Party has adhered to both establishing and abolishing, supporting the upright and eliminating evil, vigorously promoting the glorious traditions of modesty and prudence, hard work and struggle, cultivating a new atmosphere of seeking truth and being pragmatic, being honest and upright, and continuously stimulating the enthusiasm of Party members and cadres to start businesses and gather the creative vitality and development momentum of the entire society.
Letting the new atmosphere stay and letting righteousness fill the air is the expectation of the people and the important task of the times. At this year's National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) encouraged the vast number of Party members and cadres to "unite and lead the people to continuously create new prospects for economic and social development with a style of seeking truth and being pragmatic, doing practical work, and complying with rules and discipline, and with an image of being honest and upright." The Central Eight-Point Regulation continues to change China, and the most fundamental aspect lies in leveraging the political leadership and guarantee role of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, invigorating the spirit, inspiring fighting spirit, establishing an image, and winning the hearts of the people with a good work style.
The Party's discipline and the undertaking of business are consistent, complementary, and intrinsically unified. The Central Eight-Point Regulation is not only a "golden hoop" but also a "protective talisman," creating a good environment for undertaking business. In-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation is both "strengthening the body" by extending from solving the "four winds" problem and striving to improve the style of thinking, work style, leadership style, and the lifestyle of cadres, and also "empowering and improving efficiency" by guiding the vast number of Party members and cadres to anchor their goals, work hard and practically, work cleanly, and work boldly, so as to gather the positive energy to promote reform and development with new achievements in work style construction.
Being pragmatic is the method of planning things, the foundation of success, and also the way to gain trust. 文山会海 (wén shān huì hǎi - "mountains of documents and seas of meetings," excessive paperwork and meetings that waste time and energy), excessive and abusive inspections and assessments, and investigations that are formalistic and perfunctory... Starting with the specific problems that cadres and the masses strongly reflect, rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots not only significantly changed the situation of lax discipline and floating work style but also corrected deviations in the concept of performance and stimulated the enthusiasm for starting businesses. Further promoting the pragmatic work style and making the atmosphere of doing practical work and vigorously implementing it stronger and stronger, we can do our own things well, respond to the uncertainty of the external environment with the certainty of our own work, and better gain the trust of the people.
Integrity is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation and also the distinct value orientation of our Party. Curbing "waste on the tip of the tongue," stopping "corruption on wheels," and rectifying "the unhealthy trends in clubs"... Persistently correcting outstanding problems of the "four winds" allows the vast number of Party members and cadres to free themselves from welcoming and sending off, and from receptions and entertainment, consciously resist extravagance and luxury, and continuously brighten the political character of being honest and upright. In-depth promotion of the joint investigation and treatment of wind and corruption, cutting off the transmission chain from wind to corruption, and guiding Party members and cadres to internalize "other-discipline" into "self-discipline" and continuously consolidate the ideological consciousness of "not wanting to be corrupt" will surely make the new era's culture of integrity a common practice.
The essence of work style is Party spirit, and the purpose of work style is to serve the people. From the poverty alleviation of "building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, leaving no one behind" to the anti-epidemic struggle of "going to the mission with life and protecting the common people with love," from "doing one thing efficiently" to benefit enterprises and people to focusing on overcoming the outstanding ecological and environmental problems around the people, the vast number of Party members and cadres have used practical actions to make the people feel that the new atmosphere of righteousness is around them. Today, the people's new expectations for education, medical care, employment, and other fields are becoming more and more urgent. Cultivating a new atmosphere of seeking truth and being pragmatic, being honest and upright is the need for "responding to what the people call for" and the need to protect the happy lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Work style is the guarantee of development, and development is the test of work style. At the beginning of 2025, Quanzhou (泉州), Fujian (福建), promoted leading cadres at the municipal and county levels to take the initiative to provide services and come up with practical and hard measures to help enterprises solve development problems. One entrepreneur lamented, "Just after the start of work after the holiday, the cadres in charge came to the workshop to pay New Year's greetings with a 'point-to-point' service package. Such service warms people's hearts and strengthens confidence!" The steady and long-term progress of reform and the steady and positive development are inseparable from the escort of a good work style. Enabling the vast number of cadres to work cleanly and boldly, allowing various business entities to innovate and start businesses with peace of mind, and ensuring that the urgent and difficult problems of the people are resolved in a timely manner are all necessary to achieve "creating new great achievements with a good work style and a good image."
The more we overcome difficulties, the more we need to temper our work style. At present, the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五规划) is coming to an end, and the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) is being planned and prepared. The phased deployment of Chinese-style modernization is continuing in an orderly manner. The key period requires courage and responsibility. Whether it is to promote domestic economic and social development or to effectively respond to external risks and challenges, it is inseparable from the strong leadership of the Party and from a team of Party member cadres with a strong work style.
"Continuously leading the construction of work style to a deeper level" is the absorption of historical wisdom, the necessity to respond to reality, and the declaration for the future. If we unremittingly implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, promote a vigorous and resolute work style, and inspire the perseverance to move forward bravely, we will surely create a new world and create new advantages.
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Possessing both strong technological innovation capabilities and participating in the formulation of standards that lead the progress of the times, today's China, facing fierce international competition, should bravely be a leader in important technological fields and a pioneer in emerging frontier fields.
Coordinating the relationship between basic research and application development, concentrated breakthroughs and collaborative research, self-reliance and opening up for cooperation, and always maintaining a sense of urgency, starting from realistic needs and development needs, we must 快马加鞭 (kuài mǎ jiā biān - "fast horse whip," to speed up; to go full speed ahead) to innovate, innovate, and innovate again.
Not long ago, I took my child to the supermarket and used a QR code for payment at checkout. Hearing a "beep" sound, the child said, "The QR code 'spoke'." This childlike remark makes one think: Can a small QR code really "speak"?
In the era of the digital economy, various types of barcodes, including QR codes, have become indispensable "cross-media intermediaries." Especially as mobile payment becomes the norm, scanning codes is used daily without notice, often making people overlook the technological support behind it.
Barcode technology originated in Europe and the United States and "speaks" a "foreign language." Looking at the appearance, some barcodes are composed of several black lines, some are several squares, and some contain a string of numbers... No matter what type of barcode, the scanner recognizes it in an instant. Therefore, the key to a barcode is not the "code," but the decoding; the focus is on the recognition algorithm.
If barcodes always "speak foreign languages," wouldn't Chinese people need to "translate" when using them? To allow barcodes to "speak Chinese," a "Chinese core" for recognition and decoding must be installed. Fujian Newland Computer Technology Co., Ltd. (福建新大陆科技集团) began researching decoding technology around 2000, experiencing "burning money until their hands were soft," and finally overcame the difficulties, independently developing a QR code decoding chip. Some say that at the entrance to the Internet of Things era, Chinese companies are no longer subject to others. This also shows that only through innovation can we have the right to speak and take the initiative.
The driving force of development lies in innovation and creation. The more advanced the key core technologies are, the more confident and advantageous the development will be. High-speed rail and wind power grid connection cannot be separated from the palm-sized IGBT chip, which controls the "heartbeat" of trillion-level power equipment. Previously, this technology was completely controlled by others. To better break the situation, CRRC Zhuzhou Institute Co., Ltd. (中车株洲所) first "borrowed a boat to go to sea," acquiring the British semiconductor company Dynex Semiconductor Ltd. (丹尼克斯), and then integrated resources and devoted itself to research and development. Today, the 8-inch IGBT production line has become one of the world's leading teams. The former CEO of Dynex Semiconductor Ltd. (丹尼克斯) lamented, "17 years ago, we exported technology to Hunan (湖南); 17 years later, we are importing technology from Hunan (湖南)." The "reverse feeding" of technology precisely illustrates where innovation originates, where vitality is released, and where the commanding heights of development shift.
People often say, "First-class companies sell standards, second-class companies sell technology, and third-class companies sell products." As independent innovation capabilities continue to increase, special attention must be paid to the right to formulate general standards. Optical communication active devices, elderly care robots, civilian multi-rotor drones, cold chain logistics contactless delivery... Today, the "Chinese weight" in many fields in the international standard system is becoming increasingly heavy. These international standards led or dominated by China are a testament to China's innovation strength, as well as a demonstration of facilitating economic and trade exchanges, promoting scientific and technological progress, and improving institutional discourse power. Possessing both strong technological innovation capabilities and participating in the formulation of standards that lead the progress of the times, today's China, facing fierce international competition, should bravely be a leader in important technological fields and a pioneer in emerging frontier fields.
Innovation is a process of constantly finding gaps, meeting difficulties, and climbing peaks. Whoever sees things early, acts quickly, has high quality, and is sustainable can always maintain strategic initiative. More importantly, as the technology replacement cycle becomes shorter and shorter, today's advanced technology may soon become obsolete. Coordinating the relationship between basic research and application development, concentrated breakthroughs and collaborative research, self-reliance and opening up for cooperation, and always maintaining a sense of urgency, starting from realistic needs and development needs, we must 快马加鞭 (kuài mǎ jiā biān - "fast horse whip," to speed up; to go full speed ahead) to innovate, innovate, and innovate again, so as to win advantages and win the future in striving for transcendence and pursuing excellence.
Practice has proven that we have approached or reached the world's advanced level in some fields, and we have the ability and confidence to achieve greater leaps from a new starting point. Some foreign experts also believe that in the future, China will continue to be a pole of innovation. Seizing opportunities, grasping the initiative, selecting the right breakthrough points, and bravely seizing the commanding heights, the increasingly accumulated innovation power will inevitably be transformed into development power.
Return to TopGuiding the strengthening of "rice bag" and "vegetable basket" construction in the city's suburbs, and upgrading the "15-minute community life circle" assessment to a mandatory action for all cities... Recently, the 2025 edition of the "Land and Space Planning City Physical Examination and Evaluation Regulations" was officially released. Starting this year, urban physical examinations will be gradually linked to land supply plans and other factors.
This is precisely:
Rice granaries and vegetable plots surround the city in peace,
Cultural, sports, medical, and elderly care are all comprehensive.
Constantly reviewing and planning for the benefit of the people,
How is the city not like our old home?
By Gewen (歌文)
Return to TopBy: 王 珂
Replacing old consumer goods not only meets residents' consumption demands for a high-quality life but also opens up incremental space on the supply side, achieving a virtuous cycle of "policy leverage - consumption boost - market expansion."
Exceeding 10 million, this is the cumulative number of subsidy applications since the implementation of the car trade-in policy last year.
Over 100 million, this is the cumulative number of replaced home appliances by consumers since the intensified implementation of the home appliance trade-in policy in August last year.
During the "May Day" holiday, the number of subsidy applications for car trade-ins alone exceeded 70,000, vividly reflecting the booming holiday consumption.
These impressive figures confirm that driven by the dual engines of policy intensification and field expansion, consumer goods trade-ins are becoming an important lever to stimulate domestic demand, bringing tangible benefits to consumers and releasing multiplier effects in the overall economic development.
Bulk consumption items such as automobiles and home appliances are the key to driving consumption and expanding domestic demand. The trade-in policy is like a "golden key," accurately opening up new space for market growth. Data shows that in the first quarter of this year, consumer goods trade-ins boosted the growth rate of total retail sales of consumer goods by 1.6 percentage points, effectively promoting the sustained economic recovery. In April, the retail sales of household appliances and audio-visual equipment, as well as cultural and office supplies, by units above the designated size increased by 38.8% and 33.5% year-on-year, respectively, both significantly faster than the growth rate of retail sales of goods, strongly supporting market sales growth. It should be said that replacing old consumer goods not only meets residents' consumption demands for a high-quality life but also opens up incremental space on the supply side, achieving a virtuous cycle of "policy leverage - consumption boost - market expansion."
Consumption "renewal" is also a major event promoting industrial chain upgrades. In the first four months of this year, China's production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 4.429 million and 4.3 million units, respectively, an increase of 48.3% and 46.2% year-on-year, respectively. New energy vehicle sales accounted for 42.7% of total new car sales, becoming a vivid illustration of the manufacturing industry's transformation towards high-end, intelligent, and green development. In the home appliance market, energy-saving and efficient products have also become the mainstream choice. Synergizing efforts from both the supply and demand sides, and accurately identifying the combination of expanding domestic demand and deepening supply-side structural reform, is conducive to forming a higher level of dynamic balance where demand drives supply and supply creates demand.
The deep value of consumer goods trade-ins also lies in smoothing resource utilization and helping the development of a circular economy. Shanghai (上海) has incorporated renewable resource recycling facilities into the city's infrastructure guarantee; Hunan (湖南) has improved the recycling system for renewable resources such as discarded home appliances and furniture, with the recycling volume of discarded home appliances reaching 7.5 million units last year, an increase of 14.3% year-on-year. Last year, more than 11,000 new intelligent community waste material recycling facilities were added nationwide, and the national recycling volume of scrapped motor vehicles reached 8.46 million, an increase of 64% year-on-year. By using trade-ins to clear the bottlenecks in resource recycling, we can promote the formation of a "green closed loop" of "production - consumption - recycling - reuse" and continuously expand the green circular economy.
The convenience of trade-ins is related to the policy's effectiveness. Continuously optimizing the trade-in process and developing new models such as "Internet + Secondhand" can make the trade-in chain shorter, lower in cost, and provide a better experience. For example, the Jiangsu (江苏) consumer goods trade-in platform has opened 10 application channels for home appliance purchase subsidy qualifications and achieved full-channel payment, allowing consumers to fully enjoy a convenient and efficient trade-in experience. Looking at the long term from the present, further identifying gaps and addressing shortcomings in the implementation of the trade-in policy, and creating more new scenarios for expanding domestic demand, can stimulate greater potential for investment and consumption and inject a continuous stream of power into high-quality economic development.
Return to TopRectifying "Petty Corruption" is Also "Optimizing the Environment"
By Bao Nan (鲍南)
Not long ago, street vendors in a certain place were required to hand over a pack of cigarettes every month, and were told that it was "uniformly handed over to the urban management." After this matter was exposed, relevant departments quickly intervened, suspended the personnel involved for investigation, and dealt with them strictly and quickly in accordance with laws and regulations.
Zero tolerance is a necessary attitude for rectifying "petty corruption." At the grassroots level, similar "petty corruption" is prone to occur frequently. An important reason is that some cadres believe that eating a little, drinking a little, and taking a little is nothing. However, misfortunes often accumulate from small things. The corruption and degeneration of many cadres started from a cigarette, a meal, a bottle of wine, and a card.
Zero tolerance is also a proper measure to create a good business environment. Entering the stage of high-quality development, the business environment is an important indicator for evaluating the economic development level, potential, and vitality of a region, and affects the flow of capital, talent, and technology. In this regard, rectifying "petty corruption" is also "optimizing the environment." From the bureaucracy of "nice face, difficult to handle things" to the unhealthy tendencies of "eating, taking, demanding," to the rent-seeking behavior of illegally interfering in and meddling in various administrative licensing matters, these willful acts all damage the business environment and must be dealt with seriously and severely punished. To optimize the business environment, while grasping the handling of typical cases, it is also necessary to improve the system and mechanism. For example, establish an efficient supervision mechanism for rapid acceptance, response, tracking, handling, and feedback of public complaints, so that the probe of supervision extends to the side of the stall and the entrance of the market. Only by making every market participant see fairness and feel justice can we attract and retain the "golden phoenix."
The rule of law is the best business environment. Only when every hand that abuses power is caught can the political ecology be clear and upright, and the business environment can be continuously optimized.
(Excerpted and compiled from *Beijing Daily* (北京日报), originally titled *“A Cigarette” Must Also Be Strictly Investigated*)
Dare to Expose Shortcomings, Be Good at Making Up for Shortcomings
By Lei Xiao (雷枭)
Beauty filters can make photos radiant, but they can also blur the real face. In work, some party members and cadres are keen to add "filters" to problems and achievements, which seems to beautify the work results, but in fact conceals the contradictions. Only by removing the "filter" and facing the problems with a pragmatic attitude can we promote the steady and long-term development of the cause.
We must not only face up to the achievements, but also face up to the problems. Problems are the voice of the times, and achievements are the witness of struggle. Both are important parts of the work. If we use "filters" to blur problems, turn a blind eye to "mid-level blockages," and turn a deaf ear to urgent difficulties and anxieties, problems will snowball and become bigger and bigger, evolving into "roadblocks" hindering development; and if we use "filters" to beautify achievements, only report good news and not bad news, it will not only make people lose their way, but also damage the credibility of the Party and the government.
We must not only see the appearance, but also understand the essence. Some places have eye-catching economic data, but at the cost of high energy consumption and high pollution; some projects seem to be progressing smoothly, but in fact there are hidden dangers. This warns us that we must see the essence through the phenomenon when looking at problems. We must go deep into the grassroots, deep into the masses, listen to the truth and observe the real situation, not be confused by carefully modified materials, and not be blinded by the appearance of false prosperity. Only by accurately identifying the crux of the problem can we prescribe the right medicine and solve the problem fundamentally.
We must not only dare to expose shortcomings, but also be good at making up for shortcomings. Daring to expose shortcomings is courage, and being good at making up for shortcomings is ability. Being keen to use "filters" to embellish work is, in the final analysis, a lack of a sense of responsibility. However, problems will not disappear because of concealment, and contradictions will not be resolved because of embellishment. After discovering problems, we must actively find solutions, constantly improve working methods, so that every exposure of shortcomings becomes an opportunity for progress, and every making up for shortcomings becomes a driving force for development.
(Excerpted and compiled from *Yunnan Daily* (云南日报), originally titled *Don't Add "Filters" When Looking at Problems*)
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Person Profile
Wang Binwen (王彬文), born in October 1974, is from Fufeng (扶风), Shaanxi (陕西). He is the chief technology expert of China Aviation Industry Corporation (中国航空工业集团), director of the National Key Laboratory of Strength and Structural Integrity, and director of the China Aeroplane Strength Research Institute (中国飞机强度研究所). He has long been committed to basic technology research, core capability breakthroughs, and major model development in the field of aircraft strength. He participated in the completion of strength engineering development tasks for several major national aviation equipment such as the J-20 (歼—20), Y-20 (运—20), C919, and the large amphibious aircraft AG600 (大型水陆两栖飞机AG600). He has won honors such as the National Innovation Competition Award, the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the special prize of the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award.
A civil airliner whose landing gear cannot be released slides across the runway with its belly touching the ground amidst a huge friction sound. A spaceplane entering the atmosphere at high speed burns violently like a "fireball." A large transport aircraft takes off with difficulty in an extremely strong blizzard. An advanced fighter jet is riddled with missile fragments in a complex air combat environment...
These thrilling scenes that can only be seen in movies are actually routine subjects that need to be repeatedly analyzed and experimented with in the process of aircraft development. Landing impact, emergency crash landing, bird strike, full aircraft drop test... These special states test the safety limits and performance levels of aircraft. Scientific and technological workers in the field of aircraft strength explore theories, tackle key technologies, develop tools, and conduct thorough experiments, working silently for a long time to forge cutting-edge equipment. Wang Binwen (王彬文), director of the China Aeroplane Strength Research Institute (中国飞机强度研究所), is one of them.
Over the years, Wang Binwen (王彬文) has led his team to overcome several global problems such as lightweight structure impact, harsh condition survival, and climate environment adaptation, and has achieved systematic and creative results, making significant contributions to the development of aerospace science and technology and advanced aircraft development in China.
Persevering to Overcome Bottlenecks and Shortcomings
"Combine national needs, career development, and life pursuits"
"Traditional aircraft strength refers to the narrow ability to resist destructive deformation, while modern aircraft strength has developed into the broad ability to maintain target characteristics. To achieve the expansion of connotation from narrow to broad, we must go through challenges from passive to active and from mechanical to natural," Wang Binwen (王彬文) said, introducing his research work.
Wang Binwen (王彬文) had an aviation dream since he was a child. At the end of the last century, after graduating from the aircraft design major of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (南京航空航天大学), he successively completed his master's and doctoral degrees in engineering mechanics at Northwestern Polytechnical University (西北工业大学) and aerospace science and technology at Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学). He gave up some better job opportunities and joined the then relatively difficult China Aeroplane Strength Research Institute (中国飞机强度研究所), choosing basic research and scientific experiment work on aircraft strength, and plunged into the development of the J-10 (歼—10) aircraft and other major national weapons.
A series of advanced aircraft, with a large number of new materials, new processes, new structures, and new layouts, complex service environments, harsh extreme loads, and excellent combat performance bring a large number of strength problems. "Combine national needs, career development, and life pursuits." This life belief inspires Wang Binwen (王彬文) to meet difficulties head-on and support the development of major equipment with excellent technology.
Since the beginning of the new century, China has launched a major science and technology project for the development of large aircraft, but large aircraft may suffer severe impact loads of 0-300 meters/second during heavy landing, emergency crash landing, and bird strike. How to deal with these potential risks is China's bottleneck and shortcoming. A complete lightweight structure impact resistance technology system and identification capability are key core technologies that must be broken through in the development of large aircraft.
"We must use a 锲而不舍 (qiè ér bù shě - "to carve without stopping," to work with perseverance) spirit to overcome bottlenecks and shortcomings." Wang Binwen (王彬文) led his team to start with basic principles, create calculation models, propose optimization methods, develop experimental devices, break through a series of key technologies, break multiple foreign monopolies, and build a complete lightweight structure impact resistance technology capability system. Finally, through calculation analysis, structural optimization, and full verification, they supported the soaring of the motherland's large aircraft with "China Strength."
Exceeding Limits to Forge Major National Instruments
"Hold on to the most difficult period, and you will usher in a new dawn"
Advanced aircraft are major national instruments related to national defense security. During hypersonic flight, the aerodynamic heating effect is prominent, with a peak temperature of up to 2000 degrees Celsius, which has the characteristics of high speed and ultra-complexity. How to accurately simulate the harsh flight environment in the air on the ground for scientific evaluation is another "stumbling block" facing Wang Binwen's (王彬文) team.
"We must forge major national instruments with an attitude of exceeding limits." The more difficulties he encounters, the more motivated Wang Binwen (王彬文) becomes.
With tight schedules and demanding requirements, the team faced tremendous pressure. Wang Binwen (王彬文) led his team to decisively abandon the traditional quartz lamp heating method and proposed a technical idea based on graphite heating.
Starting from the exploration of the heat generation mechanism, they conducted tens of thousands of experimental studies on graphite units with different parameters, discovered the multi-parameter heat generation law of graphite, created a synchronous control method for temperature, space, and time, and invented a new experimental evaluation technology for extreme high-temperature heat resistance, which can simultaneously achieve a peak temperature of 2000 degrees Celsius and a heating rate of more than 50 degrees Celsius/second, making China reach the international leading level in this technical field.
A few months later, the new aircraft experiment was a complete success, and the experimental data strongly supported the innovative development of equipment. This is an important breakthrough in extreme high-temperature heat resistance technology in major equipment.
"There is no progress for dozens of days, and this is the most difficult time." During the most difficult period of the project, Wang Binwen (王彬文) ran 10 kilometers every day to relieve stress through exercise.
"When enemies meet on a narrow road, the brave win. Scientific research is like combat. You can't retreat. If you hold on to the most difficult period, you will usher in a new dawn." Facing the advanced aircraft strength development needs, he led his team to persevere and successively broke through key technologies of extreme strength such as severe vibration durability and combat damage tolerance, and successfully supported a large number of "trump card" weapons such as the J-20 (歼—20) to protect the motherland's territory.
Taking International Leadership as the Fundamental Goal
"National major scientific installations must withstand actual combat tests"
Climate environment adaptability is the fundamental guarantee for the all-territory deployment and all-weather combat of weapons and equipment, and it is a cutting-edge technical problem that needs to be overcome urgently. Due to the lack of laboratory conditions, China's equipment climate experiments have long been transferred to the north and south of the country to "rely on the sky for food."
When the reporter visited the laboratory, the high temperature of more than 30 degrees Celsius scorched the earth. The climate environment laboratory, separated by a wall, was a different scene. The cold wind was howling and the snow was flying. Researchers were busy measuring experimental data in cold-proof clothing.
The climate environment is an important cause of aircraft failure. Natural environment verification has limitations such as difficulty in capturing the environment, long experimental cycle, many evaluation blind spots, and high process risks. Large climate environment laboratories can adjust the environment as needed and conduct full verification at any time, but the core technology was previously monopolized by other countries. "Large climate environment laboratories are important major scientific installations in the field of mechanical transportation. We must systematically study, comprehensively tackle key problems, and ensure their completion," Wang Binwen (王彬文) secretly decided.
He led his team to start from the source of the climate environment formation mechanism and groped forward step by step from scratch.
"The core of the design theory is the dynamic mapping function of water, gas, energy, and climate environment parameters. If the large climate environment laboratory is a difficult problem, then the climate environment design theory is the most difficult problem," Wang Binwen (王彬文) introduced.
He led his team to create climate design theory, invent cabin construction technology, create environmental regulation methods, overcome adaptation evaluation technology, and realize one-stop accurate generation of 12 types of climate environments in a 130,000-cubic-meter space. It took 15 years to build the world's largest, most simulated environment, and best-performing large climate environment laboratory.
In 2020, the laboratory construction acceptance was put on the agenda. According to the usual practice, the team originally planned to use simple experimental fake parts for indicator assessment, but Wang Binwen (王彬文) said: "National major scientific installations must withstand actual combat tests. Conduct full-state assessment with real aircraft!" He took the technical plan to major aircraft factories in the aviation industry and strived to conduct experiments with two full-state aircraft. The ability acceptance was carried out with real weapons and equipment, and encouraging conclusions were obtained: accurately reproduce 12 climate environments, and the core indicators exceeded foreign countries by more than 20%, achieving a double leap of filling gaps and international leadership.
Under the leadership of Wang Binwen (王彬文), the team has not only surpassed foreign technology in theory, technology, and methods, but also made breakthroughs in adaptability assessment.
In 2024, the laboratory completed the airworthiness compliance experiment of the auxiliary power system of the large aircraft C919 (C919) for snow and ice conditions. This was the first full-aircraft state experiment. Foreign experts highly praised the experimental technology and fully affirmed the evaluation conclusions. "The experimental conclusions provide a scientific basis for the snow operation of the C919 (C919) aircraft and will strongly support global airworthiness certification," Wang Binwen (王彬文) said.
In 2017, a new model of full-aircraft strength virtual experiment based on digital twins was created in the development of large aircraft; in 2022, independently controllable large-scale structural analysis software was developed to solve the bottleneck problem of structural analysis software; in 2024, the research on digital intelligence strength system engineering was combined with the new trend of artificial intelligence development... "All past is prologue, and all future must be magnificent." This is what Wang Binwen (王彬文) often uses to encourage the team, and it is also a true portrayal of his leadership of the team for many years, striving for progress with a zero-based mentality.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
Splendid mountains and rivers, the country is prosperous and the people are safe. China is one of the safest countries in the world, and this is inseparable from the hard work and dedication of the people's police. With their loyalty, dedication, and heroic spirit, they are writing a contemporary answer to the question of "the people's public security for the people."
On May 26, the State Council Information Office held a meeting between Chinese and foreign journalists on "Strivers on the New Journey." Five advanced representatives from the public security system met with Chinese and foreign journalists to exchange ideas on "Promoting the Spirit of Public Security Heroes and Models and Being Loyal Guards of the Party and the People." Among them, some fought on the front lines of combating illegal and criminal activities, being brave and fearless, and not afraid of sacrifice; some silently stuck to their posts, guarding the peace of one area; and some shuttled through the streets and alleys, wholeheartedly solving the urgent and difficult problems of the masses.
Braving thorns and brambles, charging forward—
"My dream since I was a child was to be a policeman, to eliminate violence and bring peace, and to uphold justice. After becoming a criminal police officer, I had a deeper understanding of the meaning of the police profession." Yang Guoqiang (杨国强), deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Wenzhou Public Security Bureau (温州市公安局) in Zhejiang Province, participated in the investigation of the Ming family crime case in northern Myanmar, which was a landmark achievement in China's international law enforcement cooperation.
Yang Guoqiang once conducted undercover investigations in the dens of criminal groups, and also squatted overnight in cemeteries in remote wilderness areas. While working abroad, he had a face-to-face encounter with armed personnel with guns and received death threats from criminal groups.
"I never thought about retreating or giving up. As long as the people need it, we must step forward." Whenever a case is solved, evil is punished, and justice is manifested, Yang Guoqiang feels extremely proud in his heart.
Zhang Zhiheng (张智恒), deputy head of the Sixth Brigade of the Cybersecurity Detachment of the Lianyungang Public Security Bureau (连云港市公安局) in Jiangsu Province, is a young cyber police officer born in the 1990s.
Behind each victory is the day and night perseverance and research in front of the computer screen, and countless games and duels in the network battlefield. Zhang Zhiheng described dealing with network security emergencies as needing to be like a bomb disposal expert defusing a bomb, finding the "line," decisively making a "cut," and preventing risks; and also like a sniper, aiming at the "point," firing a "shot" like thunder, and sniping at crime.
"I remember once when we were arresting a suspect involved in online crime, my comrades and I encountered fierce resistance, and the behind-the-scenes gang sent threatening messages, trying to remotely destroy evidence." Zhang Zhiheng recalled that this only strengthened everyone's determination to catch the criminal suspect. In the end, they traveled to many places and captured the core members behind the case in one fell swoop. "At that moment, I felt particularly proud." Zhang Zhiheng said, "Even if we work day and night and fight continuously, we will be 'online' 24 hours a day on the network battlefield, using wisdom and passion to interpret 'fearless of risks, with light in our hearts.'"
Rooted in the front line, serving the people—
The southernmost police station in the motherland—Yongxing Coast Police Station (永兴海岸派出所) is stationed on Yongxing Island (永兴岛) in Sansha City (三沙市), Hainan Province (海南省), which is less than 3 square kilometers.
He Sheng (贺胜), director of the Yongxing Coast Police Station of the Eighth Detachment of the Anti-Smuggling and Coast Management Corps of the Hainan Provincial Public Security Department (海南省公安厅反走私和海岸管理总队), took the initiative to apply to be stationed on Yongxing Island in 2014, taking the island as his home and guarding the peace of the island.
Stationed on the island all year round, He Sheng faces not only the test of harsh natural environments such as high temperature, high salt, high humidity, and many typhoons, but also the tempering of his body and mind. How do He Sheng and his comrades overcome these difficulties? He Sheng said that the answer is just one word, "love." "As Sansha people, when we go to sea, we are going to war, and when we settle down, we are defending the country. As island and reef police, we also shoulder the sacred mission of defending national territorial integrity and maritime rights." He Sheng said that generations of island and reef police "love the country and the island, and are happy to guard the horizon," practicing the purpose of serving the people and loving the people with the most ordinary island guarding actions.
As the first Chinese police officer to be an instructor in East Timor, Chen Qiang (陈强), political commissar of the Special Patrol Police Detachment of the Weihai Public Security Bureau (威海市公安局) in Shandong Province, wears a special "Unity Medal." This medal is used to commend individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the independence and peace of East Timor. This is the first time that East Timor has awarded this medal to a Chinese police officer.
During overseas peacekeeping, the law enforcement environment is complex, the patrol environment is harsh, and sudden dangers can be encountered at any time. At that time, the mountain roads for patrols were muddy and difficult to walk, and there were cliffs underfoot. Occasionally, there would be landslides and mudslides, and sometimes life and death were just a moment away. "Choosing to be a policeman means choosing to dedicate." When encountering difficulties and dangers, Chen Qiang never retreated, gave up, or regretted his original choice.
Every day, Shi Chunxia (时春霞), instructor of the First Squadron of the Mobile Training Brigade of the Traffic Police Detachment of the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau (深圳市公安局) in Guangdong Province, and her teammates have to wear more than 10 kilograms of equipment and patrol the roads on motorcycles.
Shi Chunxia is the first captain of the country's first female iron cavalry team. Since joining the public security work in 2009, she has always been rooted in the grassroots front line.
Shenzhen's summers are very hot and long. When patrolling, Shi Chunxia's sweat is always drying and then coming out again. The motorcycle seat is hot, and her legs are scorched red by the engine; when encountering typhoon weather, pushing the car, the rain floods her calves, and her shoes are filled with mud and sand. But Shi Chunxia never complains, "Traffic police iron cavalry are 'embroiderers in the traffic flow.' They must quickly and accurately find the crux of congestion and 'embroider' safety into every texture of urban traffic."
Pushing cars, changing tires, sending candidates, transferring patients... Iron cavalry like Shi Chunxia go on duty every day to make the people feel that "when the police are there, safety is there, and when the iron cavalry are there, smooth traffic is there." "I deeply know the meaning of flashing police lights in the hearts of the people, and the recognition of the masses is my motivation," Shi Chunxia said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 付明丽
Around 7 a.m., Xie Shuying (谢淑英), a 93-year-old resident of Yingchun Community (迎春小区) in Xinghualing District (杏花岭区), Taiyuan City (太原市), Shanxi Province (山西省), woke up and the first thing she did was draw back the curtains. After taking her medicine after breakfast, she estimated it was almost time and went to wait at the door...
"Auntie, have you eaten?" Before long, Liang Jianhua (梁建华), a volunteer from the Xinghua Red Volunteer Service Center (杏花红志愿服务中心), arrived. "We'll help you sell these cardboard boxes at the door later."
"You're always troubling yourselves, come in and sit down," Xie Shuying (谢淑英) said with a smile. After entering the house, Liang Jianhua (梁建华) picked up the broom behind the door and, while cleaning, instructed, "When the weather is nice, we'll help you air out your quilt, wash your sheets, and disinfect the floor..."
In 2021, the Xinghua Red Volunteer Service Center (杏花红志愿服务中心) launched the "Curtain Action" targeting elderly people living alone: opening the curtains in the morning indicates they are awake; closing the curtains at night represents they are safe and sound all day. Xie Shuying (谢淑英) was among the first beneficiaries of the "Curtain Action." She has lived alone for many years and suffers from heart disease, making her a key focus for Liang Jianhua (梁建华).
One morning, Xie Shuying (谢淑英) suddenly felt unwell with her heart, standing at the door waving but unable to speak. Liang Jianhua (梁建华) noticed and quickly called for emergency help, while also notifying the community and her family. A dozen minutes later, Xie Shuying (谢淑英) was taken to the hospital. Fortunately, she received timely treatment and was fine.
"This time it was fortunate to be discovered in time, but what if she gets sick at night? Moreover, some elderly people live on high floors, what if volunteers can't see the curtains clearly?" Now, with the support of the Xinghualing District (杏花岭区) Party Committee and District Government, the "Curtain Action" has been upgraded. 498 elderly people living alone have had one-button call devices and smart cloud companionship equipment installed in their homes. In case of an emergency, the elderly can call for help with one button, and the signal will be sent to the volunteers' and family members' mobile phones simultaneously.
One night at 11 p.m., Zhang Jianzhong (张建中), head of the Xinghua Red Volunteer Service Center (杏花红志愿服务中心), received an emergency help message from Xie Shuying (谢淑英). He immediately rushed to Xie Shuying's (谢淑英) home, only to find out that the elderly woman had placed the one-button call device next to her pillow and accidentally pressed the button when she turned over. "In the beginning, elderly people often accidentally touched it, but as long as we receive an emergency help signal, we have to go to the scene to check, no matter how late it is," Zhang Jianzhong (张建中) said.
Xie Shuying (谢淑英) cannot exert strength with her right hand, making it inconvenient for her to hold things. Liang Jianhua (梁建华) and the volunteers regularly come to help her wipe the glass, cut her hair, and trim her nails. During festivals, they also come to the elderly woman's home to make dumplings.
"You are like my family, I really don't know how to thank you," Xie Shuying (谢淑英) said. "We are happy when you are healthy." Before leaving, Liang Jianhua (梁建华) repeatedly urged, "It's getting hotter and hotter these days, please take care of yourself!"
Over the past 4 years, the "Curtain Action" has covered more than 1,000 elderly people in 89 communities across 11 streets and 1 township in Xinghualing District (杏花岭区), and the number of volunteers has increased from 500 to more than 2,000. "'Curtain Action' is like a warm agreement between us and the elderly. We will work harder and take care of the elderly carefully so that they can enjoy their later years," Zhang Jianzhong (张建中) said.
Return to TopOn May 25th, the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Southwest University (西南大学) conducted a popular science activity called "Little Pharmacist: Pursuing Dreams," in which approximately 200 primary school students donned lab coats and entered university laboratories. Through 12 popular science experiments, they learned about common Chinese herbal medicines in daily life and gained an understanding of pharmaceutical preparation technology.
The picture shows children experiencing scientific experiments under the guidance of university students.
Photo by Qin Tingfu (秦廷富) (Image China (影像中国))
Return to TopThis newspaper's Xiong'an (雄安) dispatch on May 26th (Reporter Zhang Zhifeng (张志锋)) - Recently, with the successful pouring of the last arch roof of the No. 1 tunnel under the Baigou Diversion River section of the Xiong'an-Xinzhou High-speed Railway's Xiong'an underground section, the tunnel of the project has been fully connected.
The total length of the railway interval tunnel in the Xiong'an (雄安) underground section of the Xiong'an-Xinzhou High-speed Railway is 19.98 kilometers. The No. 1 tunnel is 7.5 kilometers long and is a single-hole double-track tunnel. Among them, 520 meters pass under the Baigou Diversion River (白沟引河). The foundation pit has a large excavation depth and penetrates multiple layers of confined water. The construction is difficult and the geological conditions are complex. The project construction integrates building information models, big data and other digital intelligence technologies, which is a key control project and a difficult and key project.
The Xiong'an-Xinzhou High-speed Railway is an important part of the Beijing-Kunming corridor of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network. The main line is 342 kilometers long and has a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour. The Xiong'an (雄安) underground section of the Xiong'an-Xinzhou High-speed Railway is about 24.8 kilometers long, of which 23.08 kilometers are underground works. It is a rare comprehensive project in China that integrates underground high-speed railways and municipal supporting facilities.
Return to TopLayout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 罗珊珊
In recent days, President Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to a letter from the head of the China-Denmark Chamber of Commerce, encouraging the China-Denmark Chamber of Commerce and its member companies to make new contributions to enhancing China-Denmark and China-Europe friendship and deepening mutually beneficial cooperation. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "China was, is, and will inevitably be an ideal, safe, and promising investment destination for foreign businesses. Believing in China is believing in tomorrow, and investing in China is investing in the future."
May 22, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国贸促会) held the 2025 Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit in Beijing (北京). The theme of the summit was "Embracing the Digital Intelligence Era and Working Together for Common Development." More than 800 people attended the summit, including heads of foreign government departments, international organizations, foreign chambers of commerce and associations, global trade promotion agencies, and representatives of Chinese and foreign enterprises. We interviewed six heads of foreign chambers of commerce in China to hear their views on China's opportunities.
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Michael Hart, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China—
American Companies Still See China as an Active Market
On May 12, China and the United States issued the "Joint Statement of the China-U.S. Geneva Economic and Trade Talks." Michael Hart, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, said that the American Chamber of Commerce believes that the U.S. and China should continue to conduct trade and look forward to finding ways to cooperate.
"We have more than 800 member companies in China. American companies in China believe that the Chinese market has potential and hope to reach as many customers as possible in China. American companies still see China as an active market and look forward to continuing to conduct trade with China." Michael Hart said that in the United States, he has always emphasized that American companies should stay in China for two reasons: first, the Chinese market will continue to grow, and its scale cannot be ignored; second, China is continuously innovating, and he hopes to understand these innovations through companies in China and benefit from market development.
On April 25, the American Chamber of Commerce in China released its 27th "American Business in China White Paper" (hereinafter referred to as the "White Paper"). This year's "White Paper" was co-authored by more than 100 representatives from member companies of the Chamber of Commerce, reflecting the personal experiences of American-funded enterprises in China. The "White Paper" points out that increasingly tense U.S.-China relations have been the primary challenge facing American-funded enterprises in China for five consecutive years, surpassing compliance risks and competitive pressure from Chinese companies. However, on the other hand, nearly half of the companies still list China as one of their top three global investment destinations.
Michael Hart believes that there is broad space for U.S.-China cooperation. China has advantages in advanced manufacturing and supply chain infrastructure, while the United States has strong industrial strength and needs to continue to export to China, so both sides need each other. It is in the common interest of both governments to find appropriate ways to cooperate, so that companies can continue to benefit, and consumers can continue to benefit.
Regarding artificial intelligence, Michael Hart said that the field of artificial intelligence is a meeting point for innovation between the two countries, and both countries have said that they want to find ways to cooperate. In the field of artificial intelligence, the world urgently needs the U.S. and China to find a path to cooperation, because this technology may reshape almost all industries.
Michael Hart said that global supply chains are closely linked, not just between China and the United States, but also the whole world. "Cooperation is still very important to the world. I hope the U.S. and China can reach a consensus through negotiations. The American Chamber of Commerce advocates for lower tariffs. I still hope that both sides can reduce tariffs and expand opening up as much as possible," Michael Hart said frankly.
Fabrice Megarbane, President of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China—
We Focus on Long-Term Development in China
Since its establishment in 1992, the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China has always been committed to promoting Sino-French economic and trade cooperation. "Currently, we have offices in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Guangzhou (广州), and Shenzhen (深圳), and we have representatives stationed in many other places, including Dalian (大连) and Qingdao (青岛), with more than 1,700 member companies and Chinese partners, ranking second in the global network of French Chambers of Commerce and Industry," said Fabrice Megarbane, President of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China.
In 2024, China and France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, and China has been France's largest trading partner in Asia for many years, forming the cornerstone of the Sino-French strategic relationship. Fabrice Megarbane introduced that French companies have diversified investment fields in China, and member companies of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China cover many important fields such as aviation, energy, finance, medicine, and consumer goods, including both traditional manufacturing and modern service industries and high-tech industries. The layout is also more balanced, gradually expanding from developed coastal areas to the inland.
"It is worth mentioning that French companies operating in China focus on long-term development," Fabrice Megarbane said. Many member companies have been in the Chinese market for decades, not only achieving commercial success, but also deeply participating in China's economic and social development process, and their localization level has been continuously improved. They have established complete R&D, production, and sales systems in China. With changes in the global economic situation, more and more member companies are actively adjusting their strategies to seize new opportunities brought about by China's consumption upgrade, digital transformation, and green development. "This evolving development trend fully reflects the firm confidence of French companies in the Chinese market."
As a foreign chamber of commerce that has been deeply rooted in China for many years, the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China deeply agrees with the statement "Believing in China is believing in tomorrow, and investing in China is investing in the future." "This statement vividly interprets the huge potential of the Chinese market and the broad prospects of Sino-French economic and trade relations," Fabrice Megarbane said.
In the more than 60 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, companies from both countries have created many cooperation models in fields ranging from aviation and energy to consumer goods. The success of French companies in the Chinese market fully confirms the profound connotation of "investing in China is investing in the future."
Fabrice Megarbane emphasized that in the context of the current complex and volatile international situation, the importance of Sino-French economic and trade cooperation is even more prominent. China and France have always adhered to the spirit of open and inclusive cooperation, setting a model for international economic and trade cooperation.
"We noticed that the theme of the 2025 Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit is 'Embracing the Digital Intelligence Era and Working Together for Common Development,' which is highly consistent with the development strategies of French companies. Especially in traditional advantageous fields such as aviation manufacturing and high-end equipment, French companies are continuously improving the value of the industrial chain in China through digital upgrades," Fabrice Megarbane said. At the same time, French companies are actively investing in China's digital economy wave and carrying out in-depth cooperation in fields such as intelligent manufacturing and green and low-carbon development. These practices vividly interpret the win-win opportunities brought about by open cooperation.
Looking to the future, the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China expects China to continue to promote high-level opening up to the outside world, create a better business environment for foreign-funded enterprises, deepen innovation cooperation, jointly cultivate new industrial growth points, and strengthen policy coordination to create more favorable conditions for Sino-French enterprise cooperation. The French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China is willing to continue to play a bridging role, promote enterprises from both countries to deepen cooperation in new fields such as technological innovation and low-carbon development, and jointly write a new chapter in Sino-French economic and trade cooperation.
Jörg Wuttke, Chairman of the Board of the German Chamber of Commerce in China, North and Northeast China—
The Chinese Market is Crucial to Us
The German Chamber of Commerce in China has approximately 2,000 members in China, helping Sino-German business success through professional services and a strong network. "We regularly meet with relevant Chinese departments on matters related to German-Chinese trade and cooperation, and we also publish a number of surveys to understand the business sentiment of German companies in China," said Jörg Wuttke, Chairman of the Board of the German Chamber of Commerce in China, North and Northeast China.
"Many German companies have been operating in China for decades and are deeply rooted in the Chinese market," Jörg Wuttke introduced. Many German companies regard China as an important market due to its huge market size and strong innovation capabilities, but recently, the U.S.-China trade situation has affected the business sentiment of German companies in China. Despite this, more than half of the companies still plan to further invest in the Chinese market, especially focusing on research and development and innovation.
"Faced with dynamic market changes and geopolitical uncertainties, German companies are accelerating their localization process in China, thus forming a new and deeper integration pattern, which we call Localization 3.0," Jörg Wuttke pointed out. 75% of the member companies of the German Chamber of Commerce in China pay attention to localization development, and the degree of localization has reached 75% to 100%. This stage of localization is the establishment of a new intelligent supply chain system by enterprises, and in this supply chain system, artificial intelligence technology plays a decisive role.
Currently, breakthroughs have been made in the application of innovative fields such as artificial intelligence, big data, biotechnology, quantum computing, and electric vehicles, providing new opportunities for the global business community to discuss cooperation.
Jörg Wuttke is also the Executive Vice President and Board Member of Volkswagen Group (China) (大众汽车集团（中国）). He used automobiles as an example: "For German companies, especially in the automotive field, we need to forge partnerships. The direction of our cooperation is not only to cooperate in production, but more to improve our level of cooperation, such as using new technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, and unmanned driving in the process of rapid technological development. These are new blue oceans for German-Chinese cooperation."
"China is also a leader in innovation. Many member companies plan or have already cooperated with local companies to combine their high-quality products and solutions with China's innovation speed," Jörg Wuttke noted that China has millions of graduates in high-tech professional fields every year, which are the backbone of promoting development.
"China's emphasis on high-quality development, low-carbon transformation, and innovation provides valuable business opportunities for German companies. The Chinese market is crucial for German companies to improve their global competitiveness," Jörg Wuttke said. The German Chamber of Commerce in China will more resolutely strengthen the trade partnership between China and Europe and forge closer cooperative relationships.
Jens Eskelund, National Founding Chairman of the China-Denmark Chamber of Commerce—
Our Confidence in the Chinese Market Has Never Wavered
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Denmark. "President Xi Jinping's (习近平) reply to the China-Denmark Chamber of Commerce is not only a great honor for the Chamber of Commerce, but also for the Danish business community. Danish companies in China are full of confidence in deepening their roots in the Chinese market. The Chamber of Commerce will play a bridging role and actively offer suggestions to the Danish and Chinese governments," said Jens Eskelund, National Founding Chairman of the China-Denmark Chamber of Commerce.
Working and living in China for more than 30 years, Jens Eskelund has witnessed the earth-shaking changes brought about by reform and opening up to China. In recent years, China has focused on high-quality development, and the infrastructure construction, supply chain, automation, and talent fields in manufacturing have shown good development momentum. In his opinion, looking at the world, in most fields of manufacturing, whether it is efficiency, quality, or talent, it can be said that there is no place as advantageous as China. "China's manufacturing industry is very developed and ranks among the top in the world. Why should we transfer factories to other places? Not using China's manufacturing capabilities will be a loss of global value."
The continuous improvement of the commercial legal system, the continuous expansion of the manufacturing scale, and the continuous reduction of the negative list for market access... Jens Eskelund has also witnessed the continuous improvement of China's business environment. "The current international situation is complex and volatile. As a responsible major country, China actively plays the role of a stabilizing anchor, promotes cooperation between countries and regions, and encourages all countries to participate in cooperation."
Jens Eskelund and the China-Denmark Chamber of Commerce have always been committed to building a bridge to understand China. Jens Eskelund said, "What is the role of the Chamber of Commerce? That is to unite enterprises. We will bring Danish companies to China and bring Danish business delegations to China. Choosing China is choosing the future. Our confidence in the Chinese market has never wavered, but has increased day by day."
"Now, it is more necessary than ever to strongly advocate global trade," Jens Eskelund opposes anti-globalization behavior. He hopes that Danish-Chinese relations will get better and better. Only when countries work together can the world develop better. "I believe that mutual understanding and trust are the basis for mutually beneficial and friendly cooperation between Denmark and China. The China-Denmark Chamber of Commerce will continue to work hard, actively play a bridging role, and promote better cooperation between the two countries. China is the world's second largest economy. It is crucial for Europe as a whole to strengthen cooperation with China, and for European countries to strengthen cooperation with China individually, for the future of Europe."
Tetsuro Homma, President of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China—
China is the Most Important Strategic Market for Many Japanese Companies
The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China was established in October 1980 and was the first foreign chamber of commerce in China. Tetsuro Homma, President of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China, introduced that according to the Chamber of Commerce's latest questionnaire survey of member companies, 58% of the respondents said that they would significantly increase, increase, or maintain their investment scale in China in 2025. In addition, thanks to the Chinese government's continuous optimization of the domestic business environment, 64% of the respondents in this survey said that they were "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with the business environment, which was an increase compared to the same period last year.
Tetsuro Homma believes that this is mainly because China's door to opening up is opening wider and wider, the negative list for foreign investment access in the manufacturing field has been cleared, and the pilot program for opening up the service industry is also expanding in an orderly manner. The fair competition environment has been continuously optimized. In this survey, 79% of Japanese companies believe that they enjoy "equal or better" treatment than domestic-funded enterprises in China.
In addition, Tetsuro Homma pointed out that relevant Chinese government departments attach great importance to the development of foreign-funded enterprises in China. The Ministry of Commerce has held many symposiums for foreign-funded enterprises to inform them of the progress of relevant policies and listen to the development demands of foreign-funded enterprises.
The survey results also show that 53% of Japanese companies regard China as "the most important market" or "one of the three most important markets," which indicates that Japanese companies' strategic positioning of the Chinese market is more firm, and they will continue to attach importance to the Chinese market in the future.
"Now, for many Japanese companies, China has become the most important strategic market. Today's China is not only a manufacturing power, but also an innovation power and an engineer power," Tetsuro Homma said. China has the following four irreplaceable advantages.
The first is a highly complete industrial chain and supply chain. After years of deep cultivation, Japanese companies have been deeply integrated into China's production and supply chain system. For example, the number of suppliers of Panasonic Group (松下集团) in China exceeds 6,000. The second is an excellent innovation environment. In particular, China has made significant innovative achievements in artificial intelligence, new energy, and other fields in recent years. The third is a deep reserve of technical R&D talent. The fourth is a huge and extremely potential consumer market.
Recently, the China-Japan High-Level Economic Dialogue was restarted in Tokyo after a lapse of six years, reaching 20 important consensuses. The thirteenth item is: to hold a dialogue between Chinese government departments and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China. Tetsuro Homma said: "The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China will continue to play an active role and contribute to promoting economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchanges between the two countries."
Tetsuro Homma hopes that the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China can promote the investment and development of member companies in China in the following two aspects in the future.
The first is the field of energy conservation and environmental protection. Japan began to focus on the development of low-carbon, environmentally friendly, and green technologies in the 1970s, and hopes to strengthen cooperation between China and Japan in this field to contribute to China's "dual carbon" goals. The second is the field of health and elderly care. Japan has accumulated certain experience and technology in the governance of aging societies and the development of related industries. For example, Panasonic Group (松下集团) has currently promoted 40 health and elderly care projects in China, and hopes that Japanese companies will contribute to the development of China's silver economy in the future.
"I hope China will continue to promote high-level opening up to the outside world and continue to optimize the business environment," Tetsuro Homma said.
The China-Australia Chamber of Commerce (中国澳大利亚商会), founded in 1996, now has approximately 200 member companies and has developed into the largest non-governmental organization promoting Australian business development in China. Feng Bowen (冯栢文), President of the China-Australia Chamber of Commerce (中国澳大利亚商会), stated frankly that "Australian companies remain open to the Chinese market. Based on the China-Australia Chamber of Commerce's (中澳商会) 'Report on the Current Situation and Prospects of China-Australia Enterprise Economic and Trade Cooperation in 2025,' 70% of Australian companies regard China as a priority investment destination, and half of these companies plan to continue expanding production and investment in China."
In Feng Bowen's (冯栢文) view, Australia-China economic relations are entering a new stage driven by innovation, green and low-carbon development, and high added value. This not only consolidates the advantages of traditional trade but also opens up many emerging fields full of structural growth potential. For example, Australian and Chinese companies are continuously strengthening the depth and breadth of cooperation in the field of new energy vehicles, including the construction of charging infrastructure, battery recycling technology, and the development of circular economy solutions, thereby promoting the construction of a more resilient green industrial ecosystem. In addition, China is at the forefront in many aspects such as scientific and technological innovation and technological innovation, and e-commerce platforms are far ahead of Australia, providing Australian companies with a valuable reference model. He hopes to learn from China and carry out cooperation in this field.
In today's international trade situation, how to establish a safer and more stable supply chain? Feng Bowen (冯栢文) believes that "the continuous reshaping of the global supply chain provides a valuable opportunity for Australia and China to deepen cooperation, which strongly promotes the improvement of the economic resilience of the two countries. Australia's trade with China has long been mainly concentrated in commodities and the 'ship and export' model. Further promoting the development of resource processing and high value-added industrial chains is the key to enhancing economic resilience and achieving sustainable development. Investment in infrastructure, logistics, and other aspects is very important and will effectively strengthen supply chain resilience. Australia hopes to become a reliable partner for China, providing each other with safe, high-quality, and sustainable products. The future supply chain layout requires close collaboration between Australian and Chinese companies to achieve a 共赢 (gòng yíng - "win-win," mutually beneficial outcome)."
Although many Australian companies are considering diversification, 40% of the surveyed companies are still focusing on the Chinese market. Feng Bowen (冯栢文) quoted the statement of one surveyed company in the Chamber of Commerce (商会) survey: "We do face diversification pressure, but the opportunities in the Chinese market cannot be ignored. Australia warmly welcomes Chinese companies' investment in high-end manufacturing." Feng Bowen (冯栢文) said, "Looking to the future, I firmly believe that Australia-China cooperation in green supply chains and new energy fields will continue to expand, with greater investment and deeper cooperation."
(Text by Ding Qianqian (丁茜茜))
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄晓慧
Shanghai (上海) is one of the cities with the highest degree of aging in the country. The "Shanghai Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Construction of Smart Nursing Homes (2023-2025)" proposes that by the end of 2025, the city will have built at least 100 smart nursing homes. Currently, more than 70 have been built in the first two batches.
These smart nursing homes use new equipment such as smart mattresses and smart laundry rooms, and also participate in the research and development of medication dispensing systems and auxiliary transfer robots to ensure the safety of the elderly and improve operational efficiency; caregivers can also free up their hands to provide more attentive care for the elderly.
Equipment Adds Intelligence
Mattresses and ceiling lights can monitor emergencies
"Wang Mingxiang (王明香), bed 2 in room 324, has abnormal blood pressure, please go and take care of her immediately!"
Late at night, at the Jin Yang Nursing Home (金杨养老院) in Pudong New Area (浦东新区), Shanghai (上海), Zhao Zhanping (赵占萍), the on-duty caregiver, rushed to the elderly woman's bedside as soon as she received the alarm information on her mobile phone. The smart mattress under the elderly woman's body was the first to detect the abnormal blood pressure. At the same time, the elderly woman's family also received relevant information on their mobile phones.
That night, the elderly woman was rushed to the hospital. Under the care of the intelligent system, Wang Mingxiang (王明香), who had a history of cerebral infarction, received timely treatment.
In Jin Yang Nursing Home (金杨养老院), there are many other intelligent devices like smart mattresses. Walking into the nursing home, a huge electronic screen stands in the center of the lobby. This information system, called "Smart Elderly Care Cockpit," displays the monitoring status of the admitted elderly in real time, and can clearly mark the location, time, and disposal status of various risks.
Chen Xue (陈雪), director of Jin Yang Nursing Home (金杨养老院), introduced that if the "Smart Elderly Care Cockpit" is like the "brain" that controls the overall situation, then the intelligent equipment all over the place is like the "eyes" and "skin" that feedback various information and feelings to the nerve center. "Toilets and bathrooms are key areas where the elderly are prone to falls. This ceiling light installed on the ceiling can not only provide lighting, but also serve as an 'electronic radar' to monitor emergencies such as falls," said Chen Xue (陈雪).
At the Expo Garden Nursing Home (世博家园养老院), after the smart laundry room system was launched, clothes and bedding were automatically sorted. "The manpower required for the laundry worker position has been reduced, and it can be supplemented to other positions. This type of new technology helps the nursing home save costs and improve efficiency," said Yuan Xijie (袁熙婕), director of Expo Garden Nursing Home (世博家园养老院).
In the past, the medication situation of the elderly had to be recorded by caregivers with hands and pens, and then the family members were notified by phone to go to the hospital to get the medicine, which was cumbersome and prone to errors. In the past two years, Expo Garden Nursing Home (世博家园养老院) has independently developed a medication dispensing system that can monitor the medication situation of the elderly in real time and automatically send the medication information to the family members, which is convenient and also ensures the medication safety of the elderly.
"Improving the operational efficiency of elderly care institutions and optimizing the service supply of elderly care institutions through technological empowerment is the original intention of Shanghai (上海) to build smart nursing homes," said Li Sujin (李苏晋), deputy director of the Elderly Care Service Department of the Shanghai Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (上海市民政局养老服务处). Shanghai (上海) will strengthen the application and promotion of technological elderly care products in elderly care institutions, expand more smart service application scenarios, unblock data channels, enhance data value, and create a more professional, efficient, and rich integrated ecosystem of smart nursing homes, providing exploration experience for other cities.
Services are More Attentive
Age-appropriate products become good helpers for caregivers
After the nursing home carried out intelligent transformation, Chen Juxiu (陈菊秀), a caregiver at Jin Yang Nursing Home (金杨养老院), felt a lot easier.
When cleaning the body of 96-year-old Zhong Jianmei (钟健美), Chen Juxiu (陈菊秀) only needs to press a button, and the auxiliary transfer robot will automatically lower its "arms" and "foot supports" to lift the elderly woman from the wheelchair and transfer her to the bathroom.
This auxiliary transfer robot, jointly developed by Jin Yang Nursing Home (金杨养老院) and a technology company, is very popular among caregivers and the elderly. "It is not easy to help the elderly with weak lower limbs move their bodies. Once, an elderly man weighing 180 pounds grabbed the railing on the bed to borrow strength, and the railing broke but he still didn't get up. In the end, four caregivers worked together to lift the elderly man up," said Chen Juxiu (陈菊秀). Now, one person can move and clean the elderly, saving effort and reducing risks.
Shanghai Puhui Elderly Care Service (Group) Co., Ltd. (上海浦惠养老服务（集团）有限公司), to which Jin Yang Nursing Home (金杨养老院) belongs, currently manages 16 elderly care institutions. "Intelligentization of nursing homes is an inevitable requirement for management and services," said Gao Wanjie (高万杰), secretary of the company's party branch. Taking Jin Yang Nursing Home (金杨养老院) as an example, there are 238 elderly people living in the nursing home, and the average age of the 53 caregivers is around 50 years old.
"The shortage of manpower and the older age of caregivers are the problems we face. By using the power of technology to hand over tedious and repetitive work to intelligent equipment, caregivers can provide the elderly with more personalized and refined services and better care for the elderly's spiritual needs," said Gao Wanjie (高万杰). The company has started intelligent transformation with Jin Yang Nursing Home (金杨养老院) as a pilot, forming a set of intelligent and efficient management models.
He Junmian (何君勉), 95, is one of the first elderly people to be admitted to the smart nursing home. "Now caregivers have more time to chat with us, and the service is better," said He Junmian (何君勉). After the intelligent transformation, the bedside bell has become a visual call bell, making it more convenient to contact caregivers.
After inspecting the smart nursing home, Shen Yiying (沈毅英), who originally did not want to live in a nursing home, accompanied her wife to live in the nursing home. "My wife is paralyzed in her lower limbs, has had heart bypass surgery, and is a little confused. I also have high blood pressure and diabetes, and I can't afford to take care of her alone." After moving into the smart nursing home, her wife received professional care, and Shen Yiying (沈毅英) was more relaxed.
Intelligent obstacle avoidance wheelchairs, food delivery robots, chess robots... In smart nursing homes, all kinds of age-appropriate products bring convenience to the elderly and caregivers. "With the research and development and application of more smart elderly care products, nursing homes will develop in the direction of 'elderly care industry bases'," said Gao Wanjie (高万杰).
There is Room for Improvement
The temperature of service and operating costs need to be taken into account
Is it expensive to live in a smart nursing home?
Chen Xue (陈雪) introduced that the bed fee at Jin Yang Nursing Home (金杨养老院) is 1,500 yuan to 1,800 yuan per month, the food fee is 1,100 yuan per month, and the nursing fee ranges from 1,800 yuan to 2,800 yuan per month depending on the elderly's physical condition, with an average cost of about 5,000 yuan per month.
"This price is at a medium to low level in Shanghai (上海). We have not changed the price after upgrading to a smart nursing home," said Chen Xue (陈雪).
From solving a bed to meeting diversified needs such as cultural entertainment, elderly education, medical care and health care, developing smart nursing homes is one of the inevitable directions of supply-side reform in the industry. On the other hand, many admitted elderly and staff members reflect that the degree of intelligence of smart nursing homes needs to be improved.
"The intelligence level of existing equipment cannot fully meet the needs. For example, chat robots are usually question-and-answer type and cannot achieve emotional communication. The functions of nursing robots are also relatively simple and cannot become as versatile as caregivers," said Gao Wanjie (高万杰). The nursing home is willing to provide scenarios to help technology companies iterate on product technology, but there are still many difficulties in the actual process.
"The use of intelligent equipment must fully consider the feelings of the elderly," said Chen Xue (陈雪). The flexibility and warmth of human services are still irreplaceable in some aspects. Some elderly people and their families are unwilling to accept too much service from machines. Making elderly care services more flexible and warm should be an aspect that needs to be taken into account in the intelligentization of nursing homes.
The high cost of intelligent equipment in terms of research and development, purchase, and maintenance also hinders the intelligentization process of some nursing homes. It is understood that Expo Garden Nursing Home (世博家园养老院) once planned to jointly develop a fully automatic laundry room system with a company, but had to give up after calculating the research and development costs. "It can be achieved technically, but it will take at least 10 years to recover the costs, which is difficult for us to bear," Yuan Xijie (袁熙婕) admitted frankly.
According to reports, in Shanghai (上海), nursing homes that apply for and are selected for the "Three-Year Action Plan" can receive a one-time reward of up to 500,000 yuan from government departments after the intelligent construction meets the standards and is accepted.
"Considering the initial investment costs and later operation and maintenance costs, in addition to government encouragement, the construction of smart nursing homes also requires more technology companies and investment institutions to join in, stimulate diversified demands, and provide richer services, thereby driving the development of the entire industry," said Yuan Xijie (袁熙婕).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 文
At two o'clock in the morning, the Chonggang Town Central Health Center in Pingluo County (平罗县), Shizuishan City (石嘴山市), Ningxia (宁夏) is quiet. When it's time for the rounds, nurse Li Rong (李蓉) quietly enters the ward, checks the beds, tucks in the quilts for the sleeping patients, counts the various injection fluids in the medicine cabinet in the duty room, and then sits back at the computer to check the recently updated health records of the villagers page by page.
Two years ago, Li Rong (李蓉), a 21-year-old girl from Ningxia (宁夏), graduated from a nursing program and came to work at the Chonggang Town (崇岗镇) Central Health Center through the "Three Supports and One Assistance" program, rooted in the front line, and won the trust and recognition of everyone with her meticulous and sincere service.
Becoming a Young Force at the Grassroots Level
At noon, in the clinic on the second floor of the health center, 83-year-old Wang Guilan (王桂兰) asked Li Rong (李蓉) to help her measure her blood pressure. "Grandma Wang (王奶奶), don't worry, your blood pressure is stable." Li Rong (李蓉) recorded and reminded, "You must not stop taking the antihypertensive medicine prescribed by the doctor. Take one tablet after getting up in the morning." The old woman was hard of hearing, so she leaned close to her ear and repeated loudly.
"Okay, I remember, don't worry!" Wang Guilan (王桂兰) nodded with a smile, "Thanks to your constant reminders, I now take my medicine on time, and my blood pressure has not had any problems."
Li Rong (李蓉) did not hesitate to work at the grassroots level in the township. Before graduating, the school organized students to go to the townships for free clinics several times. Li Rong (李蓉), who participated in them, found that the medical care force in the townships was weak, and the public's medical knowledge was relatively lacking, requiring the addition of more young forces.
"Some villagers have high blood pressure, but often stop taking medicine at will; some villagers regard cold medicine as a panacea, and drink it whenever they feel uncomfortable; and some villagers already have very high blood sugar, but still do not pay attention to controlling their diet..." Li Rong (李蓉) patiently explained the reasons to the villagers again and again, reminding them to develop good medication and living habits.
In her work, Li Rong (李蓉) always reminds herself to "be patient and loving," and strives to do everything well and serve every person well.
"One, two, three, turn over!" In the ward, Li Rong (李蓉) and her colleagues supported the waist and legs of the patient paralyzed in bed, coordinated their efforts, and turned him over—turning over for patients with limited mobility on a regular basis is one of Li Rong's (李蓉) daily tasks.
"This work looks simple, but it's actually not easy." Li Rong (李蓉) said that you must be able to use skill and cooperate tacitly with colleagues. If the force is uneven or the turning is improper, it may damage the patient's muscles. After turning over for several patients, Li Rong's (李蓉) back was soaked with sweat.
Delivering Medicine to the Door and Providing Good Service
Upon learning that the health center's medical team was coming to the village, Luo Yuanping (骆元平), a 73-year-old villager in Chongfu Village (崇富村), opened the gate of his yard early. After Li Rong (李蓉) and her colleagues arrived at the old man's home, they skillfully took out instruments to measure his blood oxygen and other indicators: "Grandpa, how have you been feeling lately? Have you been sticking to the rehabilitation exercises I taught you before?" "I do them every day! With the medication, I cough less and breathe more smoothly." Luo Yuanping (骆元平) suffers from emphysema and has difficulty walking, making it very inconvenient to go to the town hospital. Li Rong (李蓉) and her colleagues regularly visit him to do health checkups.
In Chonggang Town (崇岗镇), many patients with chronic diseases cannot go to the health center or village clinic for regular physical examinations due to their advanced age and physical inconvenience. Therefore, the health center sends medical teams to provide door-to-door service. When delivering medicine to the door, Li Rong (李蓉) and her colleagues often miss meal times in order to save time. Several times, everyone had to rush on the road without taking time to eat, and the villagers insisted on stuffing the homemade pancakes and dried meat into the hands of the medical staff. "Everyone is so enthusiastic and treats us like family. I am very touched," said Li Rong (李蓉).
Li Rong (李蓉) and her colleagues pay special attention to the diagnosis and treatment needs of special groups. For the elderly, they explain the medication methods in detail and mark the medication times; for pregnant and lactating women, they repeatedly explain the effects of drugs on the fetus and infants to ensure their safe medication; for children, they carefully explain the dosage calculation methods and guide parents to use the medication correctly... If the patient's family has difficulties, Li Rong (李蓉) will promptly report to the county civil affairs department through the health center to apply for assistance for the patient in need to help them overcome their difficulties.
Lifelong Learning to Improve Literacy
Li Rong (李蓉) will never forget the situation when she first started working: basic nursing skills such as injections and blood draws, although she had practiced well at school, her hands still trembled severely due to nervousness after she officially took up her post at the health center. In order to skillfully use these skills, she followed the senior medical staff whenever she had time to learn how to give injections and draw blood to reduce the patient's pain.
"I didn't expect her to get started so quickly. She was basically proficient after only a month or so," said head nurse Cheng Ruining (程睿宁). Li Rong (李蓉) is particularly serious about learning. From intravenous puncture to emergency operations, she is often seen using her spare time to practice repeatedly.
Several knuckles on Li Rong's (李蓉) hands have grown thick calluses, and there are many cracks on the back of her hands. Li Rong (李蓉) said that these are all caused by holding medical equipment for a long time to practice. "Although I can apply hand cream, I really don't have time to apply it at work, and applying hand cream will affect my work," said Li Rong (李蓉).
Li Rong (李蓉) lives in the staff dormitory in the backyard of the health center. There are two thick stacks of nursing books on her desk. When you open one at random, there are underlines and annotations inside. Several thick notebooks are filled with clinical practice experience and nursing theories she recorded when participating in various medical training sessions.
"Learning medicine is 学无止境 (xué wú zhǐ jìng - "learning knows no end," there is no limit to learning). As a nurse, I must also constantly learn and improve, increase my knowledge reserves, so that I can calmly deal with new situations and new problems." Li Rong (李蓉) participated in the self-study undergraduate program in nursing, hoping to provide better and more efficient services to the public by improving her professional literacy.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 26th (Reporters Zhu Jun (朱隽) and Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部): As of 17:00 on May 26, various regions have harvested 70.05 million mu of summer grain wheat. The daily machine-harvested area has exceeded 4 million mu for three consecutive days, and the large-scale wheat machine harvest of "Sanxia" (三夏) has fully commenced nationwide. The current wheat harvest progress is nearly 20%, among which the wheat harvest in the southwest region and Hubei (湖北) is coming to an end, the progress in Henan (河南) exceeds 30%, and Anhui (安徽), Jiangsu (江苏) and other places have started harvesting.
According to dispatch, more than 17 million units (sets) of various agricultural machinery will be invested nationwide during this year's "Sanxia" (三夏) to promote mechanized operations for summer harvest, summer planting, and summer management in a staggered manner. Among them, there are more than 800,000 combine harvesters, and more than 200,000 units participating in cross-regional operations, which can meet the normal operation needs of the summer harvest. Combine harvesters with a large feeding capacity of 9-10 kg per second have become the mainstream models for cross-regional operations. Intelligent combine harvesters equipped with Beidou (北斗) positioning and operation monitoring functions are being put into the front line of production, which will provide strong support for the rapid and efficient advancement of machine harvesting.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) has jointly strengthened agricultural machinery operation service guarantees with the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部), the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), the China Meteorological Administration (气象局), China National Petroleum Corporation (石油石化) and other departments and units. At present, major wheat-producing provinces have established more than 3,400 reception service stations for cross-regional operations, opened more than 4,800 agricultural machinery green channels at highway toll stations, further simplified the verification procedures for cross-regional agricultural machinery, and provided rapid and free passage in all cases; organized the establishment of more than 5,800 agricultural machinery priority and preferential refueling channels, and intensified efforts to carry out "sending oil to the countryside" and "sending oil to the fields" services in all regions to fully guarantee the supply of oil for operations.
In order to effectively strengthen the emergency disaster relief capabilities of agricultural machinery and effectively respond to the adverse effects of heavy rainfall and continuous rain, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) has strengthened organization and mobilization, guided wheat-producing provinces to formulate agricultural machinery emergency work plans in advance, signed regional mutual assistance and cooperation agreements, and organized and carried out rush harvesting and drying operations in a timely manner. At present, major wheat-producing provinces have built more than 3,900 regional agricultural machinery socialization service centers, more than 2,020 regional agricultural emergency disaster relief centers, and more than 6,900 normalized agricultural machinery emergency operation service teams. On May 22, large-scale heavy rainfall occurred in Henan (河南), Hubei (湖北) and other places. The local agricultural and rural departments actively organized rush harvesting before the rain, and adopted methods such as "people rest but machines do not rest" to continuously operate, machine harvesting more than 8 million mu within 24 hours.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 26th (Reporter Wang Ke (王珂)) that recently, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), and other eight departments jointly issued the "Special Action Plan for Accelerating the Development of Digital and Intelligent Supply Chains," proposing that by 2030, a deeply embedded, intelligent, efficient, and independently controllable digital and intelligent supply chain system should be basically established in important industries and key areas. The plan also aims to cultivate approximately 100 national leading digital and intelligent supply chain enterprises, further enhancing the resilience and security level of China's (中国) industrial and supply chains.
The person in charge of the Department of Circulation Development of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部流通发展司) stated that the integration of digitalization and intelligence is the necessary path to promote the modernization of supply chains. The "Action Plan" focuses on five key areas, including agriculture, manufacturing, and wholesale, and adopts a "one policy per industry" approach to accelerate the development of digital and intelligent supply chains. Next, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) and other eight departments will cultivate a group of leading digital and intelligent supply chain enterprises and supply chain central cities, guide local areas to actively explore, and promptly summarize and promote good experiences and practices to promote the construction of a national digital and intelligent supply chain to achieve positive results, providing solid support for improving the modern commercial and trade circulation system, effectively reducing the logistics costs of the entire society, and optimizing the level of consumer supply.
Return to TopBy: 李 林
The rule of law is an important achievement of human political civilization and a lofty ideal pursued by people of all countries for a long time. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Doing a good job in reform, development, and stability cannot be separated from the rule of law, and the more in-depth the reform and opening up, the more we must emphasize the rule of law." In the new era, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law, the comprehensive rule of law has achieved historic achievements and undergone historic changes, and the construction of the rule of law in China has opened a new chapter. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law is rich in content, profound in exposition, rigorous in logic, and complete in system. It has a broad historical vision and a broad world perspective, and contains profound principles, thorough academic theories, profound philosophies, and broad legal theories. It has opened up a new realm of the Sinicization of Marxist rule of law theory, promoted the innovative development of the practice of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics, and made major original contributions to the development of human rule of law civilization from the combination of theory and practice. Focusing on deepening the systematization and academic interpretation, we can further grasp the principled achievements and original contributions of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law from the philosophical perspectives of legal ontology, legal axiology, and legal practice.
Deeply understand the essential attributes of the rule of law, and clarify what kind of rule of law China wants to pursue at the level of legal ontology.
Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law uses dialectical materialism and historical materialism to deeply explore and answer major issues at the level of legal ontology such as "What is the rule of law" and "What kind of rule of law does China want to pursue" from a comprehensive perspective of economic foundation, class attributes, social conditions, and historical culture. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law combines Marxist rule of law theory with the specific reality of China's rule of law construction and with China's excellent traditional legal culture, deeply explores the essence of legal phenomena, profoundly reveals the essential characteristics of the rule of law, and clarifies that "obeying the law and emphasizing procedures are the primary requirements of the rule of law." It scientifically grasps the essential attributes of the rule of law such as its political, popular, and social nature, transcends the class limitations and ideological biases of Western rule of law theory, and pushes Marxist rule of law theory, which takes the liberation of all mankind as its lofty pursuit, to a new ideological peak.
Distinct political nature. Marxist rule of law theory believes that law is the embodiment of the will of the ruling class expressed as the will of the state, and there has never been a rule of law that transcends class or is detached from politics. Lenin said: "Law is a political measure." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Behind every form of rule of law there is a set of political theories, in every rule of law model there is a political logic, and under every rule of law path there is a political stance." Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law profoundly reveals the inherent connection between the rule of law and politics, which are essentially the same, have consistent goals, and are functionally complementary, indicating that the rule of law has an inseparable political nature. The political nature of the rule of law is manifested in all aspects of scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding, and is reflected in all aspects of the rule of law path, rule of law theory, rule of law system, and rule of law culture. The relationship between the Party and the law is an extension of the relationship between politics and the rule of law. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law clarifies that "the Party and the law, the leadership of the Party and the rule of law are highly unified" and that "the socialist rule of law must adhere to the leadership of the Party, and the leadership of the Party must rely on the socialist rule of law," and further profoundly clarifies the political nature of the rule of law by clarifying the relationship between the Party and the law.
Significant popular nature. Whether the rule of law is for the majority or the minority, and whether the people are the subject or object of the rule of law, this is a fundamental issue of stance in the rule of law, and it is also a major difference between Marxist rule of law theory and non-Marxist rule of law theory in legal ontology. Marx and Engels pointed out in the "Communist Manifesto": "All previous movements were movements of minorities or in the interest of minorities. The proletarian movement is the independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority." As an important part of the proletarian movement, the socialist rule of law, from its birth, has been a rule of law of the "immense majority" that takes the people as the main body and seeks happiness for the people, and is implemented to realize the all-round development of people and the liberation of all mankind. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law adheres to the rule of law for the people, relying on the people, benefiting the people, and protecting the people, clarifying that the broadest and most profound foundation for comprehensively governing the country according to law is the people, and the fundamental purpose of promoting the comprehensive rule of law is to legally guarantee the rights and interests of the people, and to implement the embodiment of the people's interests, the reflection of the people's wishes, the protection of the people's rights and interests, and the enhancement of the people's well-being in all fields and throughout the entire process of comprehensively governing the country according to law. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law interprets the fundamental purpose of the rule of law from the "people" written in capital letters, transcends the limitations of Western rule of law theory that is detached from specific reality and context, deduces the principles of the rule of law from abstract individuals, and "only sees the trees but not the forest," and strives to make the rule of law better meet the people's growing needs for a better life.
Prominent social nature. Marxist rule of law theory believes that law is also a social norm, with social functions such as managing social affairs and maintaining social order. The rule of law maintains and realizes social fairness and justice by regulating the relationship between rights and obligations, provides an institutional cornerstone for maintaining social harmony and stability, and provides institutional incentives for stimulating social development vitality; by coordinating social forces, balancing social interests, regulating social relations, and standardizing social behavior, it forms and develops a good social environment, ensuring that society is both dynamic and orderly in profound changes. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law adheres to the unity of the political, popular, and social nature of the rule of law, expands and deepens the theoretical understanding of the social nature of the rule of law, affirms that the essence and gist of the rule of law have universal significance for national governance and social governance in various countries, and makes a scientific definition of the essential connotation of the rule of law from the perspective of social governance, that is, "using the yardstick of law to measure, regulate, and guide social life, this is the rule of law," and proposes that governing according to law is the most reliable and stable governance. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law further clarifies that a country under the rule of law, a government under the rule of law, and a society under the rule of law each have their own emphasis, complement each other, and must be built as a whole, in which a society under the rule of law is the foundation for building a country under the rule of law, promoting the construction of a socialist society under the rule of law that believes in the rule of law, is fair and just, guarantees rights, abides by the law and is trustworthy, is full of vitality, and is harmonious and orderly, and elevates the Marxist rule of law theory's understanding of the social nature of the rule of law to a new height.
Highly condense the essence of the value of the rule of law, and reveal the rich legal connotation of social fairness and justice at the level of legal axiology.
Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law proceeds from the specific reality of China's rule of law construction, firmly grasps the pursuit of social fairness and justice as the value of the rule of law, profoundly expounds the essence of the value of the rule of law, makes a scientific analysis of how to maintain social fairness and justice from both the domestic rule of law and the foreign-related rule of law, and enriches the Marxist rule of law theory's understanding of the value of the rule of law.
Adhering to fairness and justice is the lifeline of the rule of law. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law stands at the height of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, focuses on meeting the people's growing needs for a better life, affirms that fairness and justice are the inherent requirements of socialism with Chinese characteristics, is a very lofty value pursued by our Party, and the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly determines that we must pursue fairness and justice, protect the people's rights and interests, and uphold justice. We must adhere to the leadership of the Party, and we must adhere to the lofty value of fairness and justice pursued by the Party; our country is a socialist country, and we must take maintaining social fairness and justice as an important national function to reflect the inherent requirements of socialism with Chinese characteristics; to realize the people's status as masters of the country, we must constantly meet the people's growing new requirements and expectations for fairness and justice, and use the power of the rule of law to maintain justice and punish evil. Fairness and justice are both abstract and concrete. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law uses the Marxist worldview and methodology to concretize and objectify the philosophical concept of fairness and justice in the field of the rule of law, clarifying that comprehensively governing the country according to law must be closely centered on guaranteeing and promoting social fairness and justice, emphasizing striving to make the people feel fairness and justice in every legal system, every law enforcement decision, and every judicial case, taking adhering to legally guaranteeing human rights as an important measure to maintain social fairness and justice, promoting the improvement of the legal guarantee system for social fairness and justice, improving the guarantee mechanism for equality before the law, strengthening the law enforcement and judicial guarantee of human rights, and accelerating the improvement of the legal system for equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal rules, so that the abstract concept of fairness and justice can gain reality, have more specific and realistic institutional implications and legal connotations, and become a value pursuit supported, guaranteed, and maintained by the rule of law, and is perceptible, pursuable, and achievable.
Integrate socialist core values into the construction of the rule of law in an all-round way. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have established the socialist core values of prosperity, democracy, civility, and harmony; freedom, equality, justice, and the rule of law; patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendship. The socialist core values clarify the value goals, value orientations, and value standards at the three levels of the country, society, and citizens, and condense the essential requirements of socialism, China's excellent traditional culture, and the beneficial achievements of human civilization into one, reflecting the fundamental nature and basic characteristics of the socialist core value system. In 2018, we revised the Constitution and wrote "The state advocates socialist core values" into the general program of the Constitution, establishing the constitutional status of socialist core values. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law focuses on maintaining social fairness and justice, clarifying that in the process of promoting the rule of law, we must vigorously promote socialist core values, promote the comprehensive, systematic, specific, and profound integration of national value goals, social value orientations, and citizen value standards into the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, into all aspects of governing the country according to law, exercising state power according to law, and administering according to law, and into the entire process of building a country under the rule of law, a government under the rule of law, and a society under the rule of law. This can better play the guiding, evaluating, and correcting role of socialist core values in the construction of the rule of law, enhance the ability to use socialist core values to guide the solution of prominent problems in the field of the rule of law that the people strongly reflect, enhance the ability to use the thinking and methods of the rule of law to solve the deep-seated problems facing economic and social development, and better consolidate the value foundation of social fairness and justice.
Promote the common values of all mankind in promoting the rule of law in international relations. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We should vigorously promote the common values of all mankind of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom, and jointly provide correct ideological guidance for building a better world." The common values of all mankind not only condense and summarize the basic value consensus of all mankind, but also reflect the broad mind of Chinese civilization of "when the great way is followed, the world is for all," and realize the subjective expression of Chinese culture in the exchange and mutual learning of civilizations. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law adheres to the overall promotion of the domestic rule of law and the foreign-related rule of law, coordinates the promotion of domestic governance and international governance, not only integrates socialist core values into the domestic rule of law construction, but also promotes the rule of law in international relations in the foreign-related rule of law construction, and runs through the promotion of the common values of all mankind, both firmly maintaining the international order based on international law, and actively participating in the formulation of international rules, promoting global good governance with international good law, making whether it conforms to the common values of all mankind one of the important criteria for judging international good law and global good governance, promoting global governance to develop in a more just and reasonable direction, helping to build a community with a shared future for mankind, and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to safeguarding international fairness and justice. Promoting the common values of all mankind in promoting the rule of law in international relations not only gives the Marxist rule of law theory a broader world vision for the understanding of the value of the rule of law, but also reflects the original contribution of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law in providing correct value guidance for the development of human rule of law civilization, fully demonstrating the cultural characteristics and theoretical advantages of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law in the legal axiology level, which simultaneously has distinct cultural subjectivity and cultural inclusiveness.
Comprehensively grasp the essential meaning of the practice of the rule of law, and expand the practical field of the construction of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics at the level of legal practice.
The value of theory lies in guiding practice, and the life of the rule of law lies in implementation. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law scientifically summarizes the law of practice of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics, profoundly expounds the practical requirements for the construction of the rule of law in China, comprehensively grasps the essential meaning of the practice of comprehensively governing the country according to law, and forms a series of original and iconic achievements in many fields of legal practice such as the path of the rule of law, the legal system, and the culture of the rule of law, further expanding the connotation and extension of the practice of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics, and making Chinese contributions to leading the practice of human rule of law civilization.
Adhere to and expand the path of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. Choosing what kind of path of the rule of law to take is a major issue facing the Chinese people since modern times. Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law clarifies that the path of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics is the concentrated embodiment of the achievements and experience of the construction of the socialist rule of law, and is the only correct path for building a socialist country under the rule of law. Keeping up with the pace of the times and conforming to the expectations of the people, Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law deeply expounds the practical connotation of the path of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, and grasps the practical meaning of this path from three aspects. First, in terms of qualitative nature, it emphasizes the "socialist nature" of this path, and proposes adhering to the leadership of the Party, adhering to the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and implementing the socialist rule of law theory with Chinese characteristics. These three aspects are essentially the core meaning of the path of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, which determines that we will never take the path of the so-called Western "constitutionalism," "separation of powers," and "judicial independence," and we must never turn the reform of the rule of law into "benchmarking" the Western rule of law system and "praising" the Western rule of law practice. Second, in terms of characteristics, it reveals that this path has both the common characteristics of modernization in various countries and the Chinese characteristics based on its own national conditions, emphasizing that although we must learn from and draw on all the excellent achievements of human civilization, we must proceed from China's national conditions and reality, take the path of the rule of law that suits ourselves, and never copy the models and practices of other countries. For example, this path draws on China's excellent traditional legal culture such as "combining ritual and law" and "emphasizing morality and supplementing punishment," adheres to the combination of governing the country according to law and governing the country with morality, attaches importance to the normative role of law, and attaches importance to the educational role of morality, breaking out of the theoretical quagmire of Western rule of law theory that divides and opposes law and morality, and demonstrating the historical logic, theoretical logic, and practical logic of the unity of universality and particularity, nationality and worldliness in the development of the rule of law in our country. Third, in terms of models, it reveals that the development of the rule of law in our country is different from the social evolution model from the bottom up in some Western countries, and also different from the government-driven model from the top down in some East Asian countries, but must promote the rule of law from the top down and from the bottom up in a two-way interactive manner, vividly explaining the diversity of human rule of law civilization. On the fundamental issue of adhering to and expanding the path of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law guides us to continuously achieve new practical results, and continuously injects dynamic Chinese elements into the development of human rule of law civilization.
Construction and improvement of the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law clearly states that comprehensively advancing the rule of law in China has the overall goal of building a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and building a socialist country ruled by law. Building a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics is an original and contemporary concept and theory proposed by Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, which effectively guides the in-depth and solid development of the socialist rule of law practice with Chinese characteristics. The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee further proposed "improving the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics" and made specific arrangements from "deepening the reform in the field of legislation" and other aspects, constantly exploring the practical connotation of the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics. From the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposing "forming a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics by 2010" to the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee proposing "the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics," the difference of one word behind it is a major innovation in the theory and practice of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, and it is the inevitable result of the deep integration of the rule of law and Chinese-style modernization and better adaptation to the development reality of Chinese-style modernization. The practical requirement of building a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics scientifically grasps the whole and the overall situation of comprehensively governing the country according to law with systematic thinking, recognizes the core elements and key links of the operation of the rule of law from all fields and the whole process of system construction, and emphasizes accelerating the formation of a complete system of legal norms, an efficient system of law enforcement, a strict system of legal supervision, and a strong system of legal protection, forming a sound system of intra-Party regulations, and firmly establishing the "four beams and eight pillars" of socialist rule of law construction. This practical requirement reflects the Marxist position, viewpoint and method of observing and solving problems in the field of the rule of law in a developmental rather than static, comprehensive rather than one-sided, systematic rather than scattered, and connected rather than isolated manner, which not only points out the general starting point for promoting the comprehensive rule of law and grasps the "bull nose," but also creatively takes the formation of a sound system of intra-Party regulations as an important task for building a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics in light of its own reality, and through adhering to the organic unity of governing the country according to law and administering the Party according to regulations, forms a strong joint force of national governance in the mutual complementation, mutual promotion, and mutual guarantee of national laws and intra-Party regulations, and helps to comprehensively promote the legalization of all aspects of national work. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law guides us to build and improve the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, expands the path for developing countries to achieve the rule of law, and provides a new choice for countries and nations in the world that want to accelerate the development of the rule of law and maintain their independence.
Development and innovation of socialist rule of law culture. Culture is an important force for promoting economic and social development, and it is also an important force for promoting the construction of the rule of law in China. Building a socialist rule of law culture is of great significance for comprehensively governing the country according to law. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) stressed: "To build a socialist rule of law culture, we must establish the concept of the rule of law that the Constitution and laws are supreme and that everyone is equal before the law." Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law takes the construction of a socialist rule of law culture as a strategic and fundamental task for building a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and building a socialist country ruled by law, and as an important part of building a strong socialist culture, and has formed a series of important deployments around vigorously promoting the spirit of the Constitution, continuously improving citizens' legal literacy in the practice of the rule of law, prospering and developing socialist rule of law literature and art, and strengthening the construction of socialist rule of law cultural positions, so as to better play the unique role of socialist rule of law culture in promoting the spirit of the rule of law, condensing the belief in the rule of law, and safeguarding the authority of the rule of law, and promote the continuous expansion and extension of socialist rule of law practice to the field of cultural construction. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law adheres to the "two combinations," especially the "second combination," and promotes the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation in the construction of a socialist rule of law culture, affirms that the outstanding traditional Chinese legal culture contains rich thoughts on the rule of law and profound political wisdom, proposes to pay attention to the study of the ancient Chinese legal tradition and its successes and failures, advocates inheriting the governing strategies including "ruling the country with rites and punishing with laws" and "emphasizing rites and valuing laws," the people-oriented concept of "the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful," the value pursuit of "no litigation in the world, and harmony is the most valuable," the cautious punishment thought of "emphasizing morality and assisting punishment, and being prudent in punishment," the equal concept of "using the law to judge crimes and punishing crimes according to their guilt," and the compassionate punishment principle of "protecting widows, widowers, orphans, the elderly, the young, women and the disabled," and other essences of traditional Chinese legal culture, drawing on nutrition, choosing the good and using it, and actively promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding traditional Chinese legal culture, giving new contemporary connotations to Chinese rule of law civilization. Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law has a profound Chinese cultural foundation, inherits the unique genes of Chinese rule of law civilization, and is imbued with the bright cultural background of the Chinese legal system, guiding us to strengthen cultural confidence and enhance legal confidence in the construction of a socialist rule of law culture, so as to realize the innovation in the development and the development in the innovation of socialist rule of law culture, better adapt to the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, and open up a broader cultural space for expanding the socialist rule of law practice with Chinese characteristics, so that the long-standing Chinese rule of law civilization can bloom with new contemporary brilliance in the garden of human rule of law civilization.
The legal ontology, legal value theory, and legal practice theory contained in Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law constitute an internally related, mutually reinforcing, and organically unified whole. Among them, the legal ontology reveals the essential characteristics of the rule of law, the legal value theory points out the goal and direction of the rule of law, and the legal practice theory gives the rule of law life and strength, vividly demonstrating the very rich legal implications of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law at the level of legal philosophy. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the reform in the field of the rule of law has been further deepened, the construction of a socialist country ruled by law has been deeply promoted, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security in the rule of law has become more substantial, more guaranteed, and more sustainable, which is both a test and proof of the scientific, truthful, people-oriented, practical, open, and contemporary nature of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, and also demonstrates the vigorous vitality and exuberant vitality of Chinese rule of law civilization to the world with the successful practice of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. We must further deeply understand the truth power and practical power of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law by deeply understanding the rich legal principles of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law and the major original contributions made to the development of human rule of law civilization, and constantly enhance the political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness of deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, and constantly improve the ability to use Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law to guide practice and promote work, and strive to build a higher level of socialist country ruled by law and better serve the promotion of Chinese-style modernization on the new journey.
(The author is a specially invited researcher at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院).)
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Civilization is a sign of the development of human society. The history of human social development is also a history of human civilization development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization is deeply rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, embodies the advanced essence of scientific socialism, draws on all outstanding achievements of human civilization, represents the direction of human civilization progress, and presents a new picture different from the Western modernization model. It is a brand-new form of human civilization." This important thesis holds up the telescope of historical law, observes Chinese-style modernization from the perspective of a grand history and a grand civilization, and answers the questions of why Chinese-style modernization is Chinese, why it is modern, and why it has created a new form of human civilization.
As a non-Western country with a civilization history of more than 5,000 years, but which has experienced the heavy historical suffering of national humiliation, people's suffering, and the dust of civilization, some people were once unclear about how China's modernization path should be taken. On the one hand, since the world's modernization process began in Western capitalist countries, the developed countries in the world today are mainly European and American countries and capitalist countries deeply influenced by Western civilization. This gives some people the illusion that modernization is Westernization and Western civilization is modern civilization. On the other hand, some people lack confidence in their own national culture and lack awareness and respect for the diversity of human civilization. In fact, after the end of World War II, some developing countries copied the Western model to promote modernization, and as a result, they fell into the development predicament of being unable to adapt. While catching up with the world trend, late-developing countries unconsciously fall into the contradiction between Westernization and nationalization, and between accelerating development and maintaining their own independence. Practice has shown that the path of modernization and development is diverse, and the Western path of modernization is not the inevitable path to modernization for all countries.
Cultural subjectivity is the foundation for the creation of Chinese civilization and the source of power for Chinese culture to stand firm and go far. Chinese-style modernization is a modernization that is for us and by us, and it is a modernization that adheres to and promotes the cultural subjectivity of China. In the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) creatively put forward the important thought of "two combinations," especially the "second combination," with the theoretical courage of "another ideological liberation," safeguarding and consolidating the cultural subjectivity of China, and profoundly revealing that the excellent traditional Chinese culture is the blood gene that maintains the national background in the process of our modernization, and scientifically expounding the cultural foundation and unique advantages of the Chinese path. It is precisely because of this that we adhere to the "two combinations" and promote the autonomy and initiative of Chinese-style modernization more firmly than at any time in history.
The "two combinations" are a theoretical requirement and a practical path at the same time. The combination contains the inevitable requirement of embodying the spirit of the times and responding to the issues of the times. The "two combinations" promote each other and complement each other. Through the combination with China's specific reality, Marxism has been continuously modernized, solving the practical problems of China in different stages of development, laying a scientific theoretical foundation for Chinese-style modernization and pointing out the direction of practice; through the combination with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, Marxism activates the genes of Chinese civilization with the light of truth, and embodies its scientific nature, people-centered nature, practicality, and openness in the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, realizing the organic connection between tradition and modernity, endowing Chinese-style modernization with profound cultural heritage and spiritual motivation, shaping its unique character, and making it gain wider cultural recognition and mass base. This enables the Chinese nation to get rid of the simple "shock-response" model in the face of the impact of modernization, and realize the modern expression of cultural genes through the consolidation and demonstration of subjectivity. Chinese-style modernization thus realizes the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization, avoiding the predicament of spiritual alienation and value nihilism in Western modernization. The "two combinations" make Chinese-style modernization a new road of modernization that conforms to China's national conditions, has Chinese characteristics, and embodies Chinese civilization, and promotes Chinese-style modernization to move steadily forward on the road of coordinated development of material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization, and ecological civilization.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The unique worldview, values, historical view, civilization view, democracy view, and ecological view contained in Chinese-style modernization, as well as its great practice, are major innovations in the theory and practice of world modernization." Chinese-style modernization is not only the only way to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, but also a great cause to seek progress for mankind and great harmony for the world, demonstrating the high theoretical consciousness, historical consciousness, and cultural consciousness of the Chinese Communists. Western-style modernization is rooted in its cultural traditions. Some Western countries use the first-mover advantage of modernization to carry out value output to countries around the world, promote cultural hegemony, and practice cultural imperialism, and the conflicts caused have plunged the world into an unprecedented predicament.
At present, with the in-depth development of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the global governance system is being profoundly reshaped, and the international landscape is accelerating its evolution. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) examines the current world development trend and the major challenges facing it from the height of world history, and has successively proposed the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese strength to cope with the endless global challenges, and injecting valuable stability and positive energy into the world intertwined with chaos. The successful advancement of Chinese-style modernization has broken the myth of "modernization = Westernization," provided new non-dependent development options for countries in the Global South, and made major contributions to the theoretical and practical innovation of world modernization. In this sense, the new form of civilization created by Chinese-style modernization is a new form of Chinese civilization, a new form of socialist modernization, a new form of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, and a new form of human civilization.
The best inheritance of history is to create new history, and the greatest respect for human civilization is to create a new form of human civilization. Chinese-style modernization, as a creative practice of a new form of human civilization, is the inevitable result of the Chinese Communist Party uniting and leading the Chinese people to adhere to the "two combinations." It breaks through the cognitive shackles that Western civilization is modern civilization, forms a new type of civilization narrative based on the people-centered nature and aimed at the all-round development of people, and highlights the Chinese Communist Party's deep concern for the Chinese nation and the future of all mankind in the dimension of civilization evolution. Only by fully recognizing this can we fundamentally understand and grasp Chinese-style modernization, and then gather the mighty force to promote Chinese-style modernization.
(The author is a researcher at the National Governance Research Institute of Shandong University (山东大学))
(This article was organized by People's Daily Online (人民网) and edited by the Theory Department of People's Daily (人民日报))
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must earnestly rectify formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, and we cannot take on the good things and the things that add luster, while pushing the difficult things and the things that offend people to the grassroots." "Support grassroots cadres to be bold in their work and establish prestige."
The working state and ability of grassroots cadres are closely related to the immediate interests of the masses. However, in some places and units, problems such as the increasing of work tasks at each level, the lack of precision in assessment methods, and the mismatch between grassroots powers and responsibilities bring distress to grassroots cadres. Focusing on the above issues, this edition will launch a series of reports starting today, focusing on the pragmatic measures introduced in various places, with the real effect of reducing burdens, to stimulate the spirit of grassroots cadres and create a good environment for starting businesses.
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One-tenth of the plan, nine-tenths of the implementation. Facing the tasks assigned by the higher authorities, it is the responsibility of all units to implement them at each level. However, for some time, some places and units have made unnecessary "rigid requirements" on the completion time, task scope, and degree of execution, and level-by-level implementation has been distorted into level-by-level escalation.
In response to the situation of level-by-level escalation that is prone to occur in the field of urban management and law enforcement, Xining (西宁) City, Qinghai (青海) Province, has reduced the burden on the grassroots and standardized law enforcement behavior by clarifying task lists, promoting flexible law enforcement, and making urban management more humane.
Hearing the news of the national civilized city review, Liu Xuan (刘璇), deputy director of the Urban Management Bureau of the Chengdong (城东) District of Xining (西宁) City, Qinghai (青海) Province, suddenly became nervous. But after seeing the specific work implementation standards and rules, Liu Xuan (刘璇) felt relieved. "The higher-level departments have broken down the tasks very specifically, helping us 'unload the burden', so we have a bottom line when we implement them."
Taking the rectification of mobile vendors as an example, this is a "long-standing and difficult" problem for urban management. In the past, in the process of urban appearance management, these rectifications often easily triggered negative comments. "The requirements of the local government and the higher-level urban management are different, and the requirements are generally macro, and the assessment often starts from the results, which makes it easy to produce errors at the implementation level," said Liu Xuan (刘璇).
One aspect of the "error" is the level-by-level escalation. A few years ago, urban management in various districts of Xining (西宁) City always encountered such troubles when enforcing the law. Liu Xuan (刘璇) said: "In fashionable terms, it is called 'involution'. Taking the grassroots urban management department as an example, the municipal level puts forward the requirement of 'rectifying mobile vendors, strictly prohibiting main roads and strictly controlling secondary roads', but when it comes to the district, secondary roads are also easily required to be strictly prohibited, and when it comes to the street office, even back streets and alleys may be included in the rectification scope."
"In addition to the advance of time nodes and the acceleration of work rhythm, level-by-level escalation is also manifested in the increase of workload, the increase of work scope, and the change of work scale to 'one-size-fits-all' in the process of downward transmission." Li Weiqing (李卫青), a supervisor of the Qinghai (青海) Provincial Party Committee Supervision Office, believes that "behind it, there are both issues of performance appraisal, as well as the escalation impulse generated by the intermediate links of task transmission to avoid responsibility, and it is also closely related to whether the top-level framework design and task arrangement and decomposition are accurate and reasonable." The criteria for determining level-by-level escalation is whether it creates unnecessary burdens, whether it considers the implementation effect, and whether it combines the actual situation.
Level-by-level escalation is not uncommon in some jobs. Previously, under the premise that there was no clear requirement at the municipal level, Huzhu Tu Autonomous County (互助土族自治县) in Haidong (海东) City "took the initiative" and required positioning check-in and uploading logs to track and manage village-based cadres in a formalistic manner, resulting in village-based cadres being exhausted from positioning check-in, "having to deal with errands in a few words in order to complete the task"; a district in Xining (西宁) City required each township to report at least 2 problem clues in the air pollution prevention and control problem clues, but in the process of dismantling the task, the township assigned an excessive task to each village.
Liu Xuan's (刘璇) initial worry was that she was afraid of "rolling" out new problems again. "But this time it is completely different. First of all, it is reflected in the task arrangement, which is more clear and precise. Not only lists the different management standards for 124 main roads, 180 secondary roads, and 353 back streets and alleys in the city, but also lists the checklist of inspection items and the consolidated sampling plan of each level, and also clearly proposes that it is not allowed to expand the scope or increase the frequency of inspections without authorization, reducing the disturbance to grassroots vendors."
More accurate task arrangement will reduce the space for escalation at all levels. "The arrangement of work tasks is a 'technical job', the purpose is to coordinate and promote the work, and the higher-level departments grasp the progress and nodes of the specific work. If a task is not combined with the actual situation, such as a place does not have so much to talk about, but is forced to submit materials, it will inevitably lead to formalism and other problems," said Li Weiqing (李卫青).
How to judge whether the work goal is reasonable? "Down-to-earth" is the key. "We call ourselves 'looking, smelling, asking, and feeling', which is to go down to understand the needs, listen more, ask more, and listen to the opinions of the masses," said Song Qiaojiao (宋侨娇), deputy director of the Xining (西宁) City Urban Management Bureau.
The urban management department of Xining (西宁) City has carried out the "urban management into the community" action. The leaders of the municipal urban management department must lead the team to go deep into the grassroots to listen to the demands of vendors. At the same time, it has built a service closed loop of "residents ordering, community dispatching, urban management receiving orders, and the masses evaluating orders", and created service positions such as "urban management community studio" and "urban management living room". A series of "combined punches" have made the work goals clearer. "For example, mobile vendors cannot simply be required to be banned, but advocate service measures such as tidal stalls and temporary settings, which not only maintain the appearance of the city, but also enrich the business format, reflecting the temperature of management," said Song Qiaojiao (宋侨娇).
The higher authorities do a good job of "framework construction" to ensure level-by-level implementation. Song Qiaojiao (宋侨娇) introduced: "We have learned from the previous lessons of escalation, repeatedly discussed with the grassroots in the process of determining the goal level, and added prohibition items to prevent additional burdens in the process of implementation. In terms of law enforcement guidance, in the content of 'free discretion', we have added the distinguishing elements of 'general', 'slight', and 'serious', which is more conducive to law enforcement by grassroots departments." The Xining (西宁) City Urban Management Bureau has issued "pocket books" such as the list of comprehensive law enforcement powers of urban management and the compilation of laws, regulations, and rules of comprehensive law enforcement of urban management to ensure that law enforcement at all levels has laws to abide by and evidence to rely on.
Dynamic communication up and down and timely "braking" can effectively avoid the escalation of work in the process of landing. The Xining (西宁) City Urban Management Bureau uses digital means to open up internal communication channels for feedback from the bottom up, and at the same time uses platforms such as the Xining (西宁) City's "Must Respond Immediately" 12345 hotline and the "Code to Reduce Burden" online problem clue reflection QR code to discover problems in a timely manner. Previously, some people reported that the urban management department had different requirements for merchants to display their stalls outside the store, and the municipal urban management bureau promptly corrected the behavior of the grassroots departments.
It is necessary to keep an eye on the escalation at the task level, and also to correct the escalation at the law enforcement level. "The urban management department has always advocated the '721' work method, 70% of the problems are solved by service means, 20% of the problems are solved by management means, and 10% of the problems are solved by law enforcement means," said Ma Yongqing (马永青), deputy director of the Xining (西宁) City Urban Management Bureau. However, in the past, the grassroots used more management and law enforcement means in the implementation process. Originally, they could use "free discretion" to exempt or flexibly punish, but they were also mechanically implemented and punished in a one-size-fits-all manner.
Grasp one problem and focus on solving a class of problems. Not long ago, Liu Xuan (刘璇) just participated in business backbone training. The focus of the training was "flexible law enforcement" and the correct view of performance. "Through multiple case analyses, I realized that the position I am in is a key link to avoid the escalation. The purpose of our management and law enforcement is to serve the masses. In the process of downward decomposition of work, we must always start from the perspective of the demands of the masses to eliminate the escalation," said Liu Xuan (刘璇).
Since the in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定) study and education has been carried out, Xining (西宁) City has issued a list of key work tasks to continuously promote the rectification of formalism and reduce the burden on the grassroots, and strictly standardize administrative law enforcement behaviors. "We pay attention to strengthening classified guidance, learning, checking, and changing in an integrated manner, combining the key work and matter lists of the municipal party committee's 'overcoming difficulties' and 'breaking the ice', and including relevant issues of concern to the masses such as standardizing administrative law enforcement into the list of problems found in the study and education and the centralized rectification ledger, promoting the transformation of supervision, inspection, and assessment, strictly preventing level-by-level implementation from being distorted into level-by-level escalation, and transforming the results of study and education into practical and good things that the masses can feel and touch," said Leng Wenyong (冷文勇), deputy director of the Xining (西宁) Municipal Party Committee's in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定) study and education work special team.
Return to TopBy: 徐晓明
Tasks are assigned in the morning, and summary materials must be reported before getting off work; work originally scheduled to be completed in a week becomes feedback on the same day at the grassroots level... Blindly increasing the number of tasks, increasing the speed of tasks, expanding the content of tasks, shortening time limits, and raising task standards—these layers of added pressure have greatly increased the pressure on many grassroots cadres, and have also spawned adverse trends such as data fraud, formalism, and repeated back-and-forth.
Reasonably setting goals is helpful in promoting the implementation of tasks. However, if we do not adhere to seeking truth from facts and do not respect objective laws, and every level wants to compress time limits and raise standards, there will be formalism problems of "sowing today and demanding harvest tomorrow."
Inquiring into the reasons, the root cause of the layering of added pressure lies in "subjectivism and utilitarianism." Its essence is the utilitarian tendency of the view of political achievements. Some cadres place "leadership satisfaction" above "mass benefit," severing the original intention of policies from the effect of implementation.
When carrying out work, each level has its own tasks, and each level has its own responsibilities. We cannot push everything to the grassroots level. When breaking down tasks, think more about the actual situation at the grassroots level, learn more about the real difficulties, and leave room for grassroots cadres; when promoting work, listen more to the opinions of the grassroots level and provide more guidance and assistance.
To be wary of unrealistic impulses to add pressure, the key lies in "reality" and "responsibility." Proceed from reality, act according to the laws, the burdens that should be shouldered must be shouldered, and the burdens that should be reduced must be reduced; clarify the responsibilities, achieve consistency between responsibility and power, and consistency between responsibility and ability, and prevent the transfer of responsibility at each level.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Central Research Office of the Scientific Research Department of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National Academy of Governance) (中共中央党校（国家行政学院）)
Return to TopBy: 杨明杰
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of deepening and solidifying national security education for all, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) released the white paper "China's National Security in the New Era" on May 12, comprehensively expounding the innovative concepts, vivid practices, and construction achievements of China's national security work in the new era, which is of great significance. This is the first white paper on national security released by the Chinese government to the outside world, and it has milestone value. Through proactive publicity and answering questions, it demonstrates the responsibility of a major country. The white paper is launched against the background of the current international situation being intertwined with changes and turmoil, injecting certainty and stability into global security with China's security that combines internal and external factors and is open and inclusive. The white paper is rich in content and full of highlights, especially in addressing the world problem of how to handle the relationship between development and security, giving a dialectical and up-to-date "Chinese answer," that is, on the basis of coordinating development and security, further coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, coordinate high-level opening-up and high-level security, and coordinate global development and global security.
Coordinating high-quality development and high-level security. Development is the foundation and security is the prerequisite. Development and security are two wings of a body and two wheels of a drive. It is necessary to adhere to enhancing national security strength through development and promoting high-level security with high-quality development; it is also necessary to continuously improve security guarantee capabilities, clarify security boundaries, and guard the bottom line of security, so as to guarantee high-quality development with high-level security. Entering the new era, China has clearly defined "coordinating development and security" as one of the major principles of governing the country, establishing the concept that "development is an undeniable principle, and security is also an undeniable principle," not only consistently grasping high-quality development as the "primary task," but also handling the "top priority" of ensuring national security, unifying development and security, planning together, deploying as a whole, promoting each other, and striving to achieve a virtuous cycle of high-quality development and high-level security. The white paper emphasizes that "high-quality development is the primary task, and not developing is the greatest insecurity," taking high-quality development as the undeniable principle of the new era, seeking security on the basis of continuously strengthening material and technological foundations, clarifying that China's national security is security that serves and promotes high-quality development, and clarifying the relationship between the "primary task" and the "top priority." The white paper also emphasizes that "high-level security is the prerequisite for development, and without high-level security, there is no high-quality development," and systematically elaborates on how high-level security supports and guarantees the achievements of high-quality development from aspects such as creating a good external security environment, resolutely maintaining overall social stability, resolving various risks and challenges in high-quality development, and promoting the safe development of new technologies, new business forms, and new models.
Coordinating high-level opening-up and high-level security. One of the highlights of the white paper is the enrichment and development of the major principle of governing the country of coordinating development and security from theory to practice. Whether it is the special chapter "Consolidating Security in Development and Seeking Development in Security" or other parts of the full text, an important concept runs through it, that is, on the basis of coordinating development and security, it is further proposed to coordinate the relationship between development, opening-up, and security, especially to coordinate high-level opening-up and high-level security. It emphasizes that high-level security is the foundation of high-level opening-up. China adheres to the path of peaceful development, striving to create a good security environment for reform and opening-up and modernization, and national security in the new era provides solid security support for further expanding high-level opening-up. It emphasizes that high-level opening-up will consolidate and strengthen the foundation of national security. Practice has repeatedly proven that stagnation in development and reform and opening-up will not only make it difficult to achieve security, but also weaken the foundation of security. Only by unswervingly promoting high-level opening-up, through more active autonomous opening-up and unilateral opening-up, and steadily expanding institutional opening-up and other measures, can we achieve a dynamic balance between high-quality development and high-level security. It emphasizes promoting the formation of a virtuous cycle of opening-up and security, and striving for mutual promotion and coordinated improvement between the two. The white paper declares that China will continue to develop and grow stronger in coordinating opening-up and security, the door to opening-up will only become wider and wider, it will always stand on the right side of history, resolutely oppose the perverse actions of individual countries, and is committed to building an open world economy and promoting inclusive economic globalization. At the same time, China will continue to improve its security level in expanding opening-up, and firmly safeguard its rights to open security and open development through strong measures.
Coordinating global development and global security. At present, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, traditional and non-traditional security challenges are deeply intertwined, and the peace deficit, development deficit, security deficit, and governance deficit have increased rather than decreased. The deep-seated contradiction of global security chaos lies to a large extent in treating development and security separately—security mismanagement is prone to lead to a lack of trust and cycles of conflict, while development irregularities exacerbate the Matthew effect and vicious competition. Global development issues are highly related to security issues, and their disconnection brings severe challenges to human society. The white paper proposes that humanity is a whole, the earth is a homeland, and global challenges require global responses. China deeply grasps the dialectic that development is the master key to solving all problems and security is the basic condition for survival and development. On the basis of coordinating its own development and security, it promotes the realization of a virtuous cycle of development and security at the global level. The Global Development Initiative proposed by China aims to accelerate the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, advocate that all countries adhere to development first, promote the realization of stronger, greener, and healthier global development, and promote the building of a global development community. The Global Security Initiative proposed by China is not only the "security chapter" of the community of human destiny, but also the "world chapter" of the overall national security concept, advocating that all countries adhere to a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, and adhere to giving equal importance to development and security to achieve lasting security. China not only practices what it advocates, but also vigorously promotes the implementation of the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, playing a key role in driving regional prosperity, promoting global poverty reduction, responding to climate change, developing emerging fields, and participating in peacekeeping operations. China's concept of "consolidating security in development and seeking development in security" provides important enlightenment for other countries in the world to balance security and development in complex environments, and provides strong assistance for promoting the building of a community of human destiny.
Since the new era, China has adhered to coordinating the "two major events" of development and security, and successfully continued to write the "two major miracles" of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. On the new journey, China will advance with the times, coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, coordinate high-level opening-up and high-level security, coordinate global development and global security, and fully promote the steady and long-term progress of Chinese-style modernization.
(The author is the President of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (中国现代国际关系研究院))
Return to TopAccording to a report from the People's Daily, Beijing (北京) on May 26th (Reporter: Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) announced: Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) and the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) jointly issued the "Administrative Measures for Labor Capacity Assessment" (《劳动能力鉴定管理办法》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), which comprehensively regulates the labor capacity assessment of employees injured at work and those disabled due to illness or non-work-related causes.
The "Measures" clarifies that these measures apply to employees injured at work and those applying for disability allowances due to illness or non-work-related causes. Labor capacity assessment is divided into initial assessment and re-assessment. Dissatisfaction with the initial assessment allows for application for a re-assessment, and the re-assessment is the final conclusion. The "Measures" also clarifies the procedures and requirements for re-examination and assessment of employees injured at work, and for re-application for assessment by those applying for disability allowances due to illness or non-work-related causes.
The "Measures" require strengthening convenient services, reducing unnecessary materials, and prohibiting applicants from repeatedly submitting application materials that can be obtained through information sharing. The time limit for assessment should be compressed, reducing the time limit for delivering conclusions from 20 days to 15 days. The construction of a barrier-free environment should be strengthened, and barrier-free service facilities and equipment should be improved. Risk prevention and control should be further strengthened through technical prevention and control, institutional prevention and control, clear legal responsibilities, and strengthened expert management.
Return to TopOn May 26th, the Hunan special event of the "Youth Cultivates China" live broadcast to help farmers, sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央) and the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共湖南省委), and organized by the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团湖南省委) and the Yongzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共永州市委), was held at Dongsheng Farm (东升农场) in Xintian County (新田县), Yongzhou City (永州市). 46 youth farmer assistance teams promoted "Hunan products out of Hunan" through "cloud assistance to agriculture" to serve the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
The above pictures are all taken by Zhong Weifeng (钟伟锋).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Wuhan on May 26th (Reporter: Qiang Yuwen) The Xiling District (西陵区) Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Yichang City (宜昌市), Hubei Province (湖北省), in conjunction with relevant departments such as Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Water Resources, and Finance, have formed a special working group to address issues such as outdated water supply equipment and inadequate pipeline network construction in rural areas. They have launched a special supervision initiative, focusing on key aspects such as project construction, fund allocation, management and operation, and industry supervision, to systematically screen and rectify existing problems. In response to the shortcomings in rural water supply infrastructure construction, Xiling District (西陵区) has integrated 4.775 million yuan to upgrade water plant water supply facilities and pipeline networks, and has investigated and rectified 32 potential risks.
The Xiling District (西陵区) Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission have built a mass appeal analysis platform, collecting 12 types of information, including the 12345 hotline, mass letters and visits, public opinion monitoring, and enterprise services, to identify problems such as officials not taking responsibility, being inactive, or being slow to act in serving the people. They are making good use of special supervision to urge functional departments to earnestly perform their duties. Currently, the Xiling District (西陵区) Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission have issued 3 disciplinary inspection and supervision recommendations, promoted the establishment of 12 systems, and the number of water-related complaints from the public has decreased by 78.5% year-on-year.
Return to TopNanning, May 26th (People's Daily reporter Zhang Yunhe (张云河)) – This reporter learned from the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Party Committee (广西壮族自治区党委政法委): Guangxi is actively developing chambers of commerce mediation organizations, giving full play to their advantages and roles in resolving conflicts and disputes in the private economy, and resolving enterprise-related conflicts and disputes in a timely and efficient manner. At present, the number of chambers of commerce mediation organizations in the region has reached 594, with 1,960 mediators. 199 new chambers of commerce mediation organizations were added last year.
In the past, when enterprises encountered conflicts and disputes, they often resolved them through lawsuits, but going to court easily left knots in their hearts. Chambers of commerce have natural advantages of being close to enterprises, familiar with industries, and knowing commercial rules and practices. Last year, Guangxi chambers of commerce mediation organizations mediated 422 enterprise-related disputes, and 6 chambers of commerce mediation cases were selected as national "Top 100 Chambers of Commerce Mediation Cases."
Return to TopBuilding a More Objective and Just Information Space
Umed Babakhanov, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the "Asia-Plus" Media Group of Tajikistan
The media is a bridge for information exchange and cultural communication. In today's international environment, the professional ethics, moral standards, and credibility of media workers are facing challenges. As media workers, professional ethics and moral standards require us to adhere to the principles of accuracy and truthfulness, respecting both the truth and the audience.
For the past 10 years, regional media forums like today's have continuously provided a platform for dialogue and exchange for media workers. Media workers gather together to work towards common goals, strengthen media exchange and cooperation, and build a more objective and just information space.
To this day, achieving these goals still requires our continued efforts. Those of you present come from all directions, with different cultural backgrounds and significant differences between each other. However, we shoulder a common mission and responsibility, which is to help the audience understand the real world, enable them to remain rational in the ocean of mixed information, and jointly resist false information.
I listened carefully to the "Common Home - Public Opinion Survey Report on the Development Vision of SCO Member States" just now. I very much agree with the "five common home" initiative of building a united and mutually trusting, peaceful and secure, prosperous and developing, good-neighborly and friendly, and fair and just community proposed by China. Tajikistan has always maintained good-neighborly friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation with China, and I hope that we can continue to maintain and elevate the friendly relations between the two countries to a new height.
Taking the Sky as a Link, Flights as Messengers, and Cooperation as the Driving Force
Wang Mingyuan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of China National Aviation Holding Corporation
In the historical process of accelerating global connectivity, the air transportation industry, with the sky as a link, flights as messengers, and cooperation as the driving force, contributes to building a better home and creating a prosperous future.
Building a global route network to create an "Air Silk Road." Relying on a route network covering six continents, China National Aviation Holding Corporation actively builds a route network for jointly building the "Belt and Road" countries, facing the "one circle, six corridors, and five channels." In recent years, China National Aviation Holding Corporation has continued to expand routes to countries in Central Asia, West Asia, Russia, and other regions, opening 68 routes for jointly building the "Belt and Road," covering 29 countries. Among them, 10 SCO country routes, such as the newly opened Beijing (北京) to Astana and Minsk, and routes to Tashkent and Almaty will be opened successively this year, building an air bridge for exchanges between China and SCO countries.
Actively integrating into regional development to create a new fulcrum for opening to the west. China National Aviation Holding Corporation regards Xinjiang (新疆) as an important market, continues to increase capacity investment, and builds a route network of "networking within Xinjiang, fanning out east and west, combining trunk and branch lines, and focusing on both passenger and cargo," to enhance service capabilities for Central Asia and Europe. China National Aviation Holding Corporation deepens strategic cooperation with Xinjiang Airport Group, and helps build the Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) international hub and serves Xinjiang's opening to the west by promoting route network layout, infrastructure construction, and service quality improvement.
Continuously improving service levels to create a better air travel experience. China National Aviation Holding Corporation is committed to creating safer, more efficient, and higher-quality aviation services, taking ensuring aviation safety as the cornerstone, ensuring passengers' travel and cargo owners' transportation are safe and secure; taking aviation travel as a cultural carrier, integrating rich Chinese cultural elements into cabin interiors, in-flight entertainment, etc., to tell Chinese stories well.
The Media Bears the Important Task of Promoting People-to-People Connectivity
Abdusaid Kuchimov, Director General of the National News Agency of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan regards the SCO as an open and mutually beneficial cooperation mechanism and an important multilateral cooperation platform. The SCO's influence is expanding day by day, winning a good reputation in the international community, and achieving a series of results, among which media workers have made indelible contributions.
Under the strategic guidance of the heads of state of the two countries, Uzbekistan and China have a high degree of mutual trust and unswervingly develop bilateral relations. We regard China as one of the most important partners. Uzbekistan and China have achieved fruitful results in cooperation in various fields, especially in logistics and infrastructure construction. China has brought great changes to Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan and China have also achieved fruitful results in cultural exchanges. Chinese culture is widely welcomed in Uzbekistan. Today, primary and secondary school students in Uzbekistan show a strong interest in understanding Chinese culture and learning Chinese. Confucius Institutes have been opened in Tashkent (塔什干) and Samarkand (撒马尔罕), and some universities in Uzbekistan have established Chinese language centers. Many young people study at Chinese universities. At the same time, China has also opened Uzbek language courses in some universities. The mutual visa exemption agreement between Uzbekistan and China will take effect on June 1 this year, which will surely promote closer ties between the people of the two countries.
Public media plays an important role in multilateral cooperation, providing a broad information space for SCO member states. Media colleagues, you shoulder the important task of promoting people-to-people connectivity, which is our common mission. Our increasingly strengthened cooperative relations, especially the cooperation of mainstream media, will surely make outstanding contributions to the development of the SCO.
Let Roads and Bridges Become a Link for Common Development
Liu Xiang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of China Communications Construction Group Co., Ltd.
As an integrated infrastructure service provider, China Communications Construction Group has carried out substantial business cooperation with 158 countries and regions. China Communications Construction Group practices the "Belt and Road" initiative, deeply integrates into the SCO development process, focuses on interconnection and intercommunication, adheres to green development, and promotes cultural integration.
Sharing the world's development opportunities. China Communications Construction Group has invested in and constructed more than 3,000 projects in countries jointly building the "Belt and Road," built more than 13,000 kilometers of highways, more than 200 bridges, and more than 150 key ports, becoming an important force in promoting global interconnection and intercommunication.
Jointly guarding the earth's life home. China Communications Construction Group always adheres to integrating ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) concepts into its development strategy. In the Turgusun Hydropower Station project in Kazakhstan, the Jinport Expressway project in Cambodia, the Red Sea Development project in Saudi Arabia, and the Tianshan Victory Tunnel project in Xinjiang, green development is integrated into the entire process of project planning, design, construction, and operation.
Jointly drawing a picture of mutual understanding and affinity. China Communications Construction Group carries out the "CCCC Dream Assistance" responsibility action globally, carries out cultural exchanges such as "China Bookshelf" and "Chinese Workshop" in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and other places, carries out activities such as the "Beautiful Expressway Leads to Happiness" open day on the Jinport Expressway in Cambodia, and expands the local primary school into a primary and secondary school integration school in Pakistan, continuously enhancing people's well-being.
In the future, China Communications Construction Group will continue to uphold the Silk Road spirit, coordinate and promote infrastructure "hard connectivity," rules and standards "soft connectivity," and people-to-people "heart connectivity" with countries jointly building the "Belt and Road," so that every road and every bridge built will become a link to promote common development.
I Hope Everyone Can Contribute to the Common Home
Vasily Shurov, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Russian newspaper "Trud"
I very much appreciate the saying "Comparison reveals the truth." I have had the privilege of witnessing different stages of China's modernization construction and being able to make longitudinal comparisons.
I first came to China in 1990. At that time, reporters from our "Trud" newspaper visited industrial and agricultural enterprises in Hebei (河北) and Jiangsu (江苏), and also visited the two cities of Beijing (北京) and Shanghai (上海). The diligence and perseverance of the Chinese people left a deep impression on me. In the early 1990s, China's automobile transportation was not developed enough, and I will never forget the scene of bicycles flowing endlessly in the morning.
I reconnected with China in 2018. I came to Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), which is a completely different look. The city is full of high-rise buildings and has modern airports, ports, fast highways, high-speed railways, and convenient air transportation. All of this was created by the Chinese people with their own hands, which fully shows that the Chinese people can not only absorb foreign excellent experience, but also develop and improve these experiences.
Participating in this SCO National Media Cooperation Forum is my third visit to China. The establishment and development of the SCO itself shows that China has become a creator of ideas and can unite countries in cooperation projects with development potential, which is especially important in today's world.
At the 2024 "Shanghai Cooperation Organization+" Astana Summit, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed building a united and mutually trusting, peaceful and secure, prosperous and developing, good-neighborly and friendly, and fair and just common home. I hope that each of us can make our own contribution to building such a common home.
Continuously Contribute to the Transformation of Global Energy Governance
Yao Huan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of China Power Construction Corporation
China Power Construction actively leverages the synergistic advantages of the entire industry chain to contribute wisdom and strength to building a better SCO home.
Jointly build a sustainable ecological home. China Power Construction actively participates in the global energy green and low-carbon transformation and infrastructure interconnection construction. It has executed more than 3,700 project contracts in 118 countries jointly building the "Belt and Road," and has undertaken power energy projects in more than 10 SCO countries, with a total installed capacity of more than 10 gigawatts and a new energy installed capacity of more than 1 million kilowatts. It practices the concept of green development with practical actions and continues to contribute Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese strength to the transformation of global energy governance.
Create a cooperative home for common prosperity. China Power Construction is committed to promoting the continuous development of new energy development and utilization technologies in SCO countries. It led the establishment of the "International New Energy Solutions Platform INES," and is responsible for carrying out more than 10 energy technology cooperation projects such as China-Kazakhstan. It led or participated in the compilation of more than 1,200 renewable energy industry standards, forming a series of research products, and continuously consolidating and deepening energy partnerships with various countries.
Build a harmonious and beautiful cultural home together. China Power Construction unswervingly promotes localized operation, employing local employees in Uzbekistan accounting for more than 70%, training a large number of engineering and technical professionals for Tajikistan, and providing nearly 10,000 jobs; it pays attention to integrating into and serving the local economic and social development, donating 3 schools to Tajikistan, and signing a memorandum of cooperation between schools and enterprises with local universities in Uzbekistan, promoting the "concentric circle" of cultural exchanges to become larger and larger, and the "circle of friends" of people-to-people connectivity to become wider and wider.
The Media is a Mirror, a Window, and a Bridge
Mohammad Saffi, Editor-in-Chief of the Iranian newspaper "Tehran Times"
The connections between SCO countries have a long history, but we once relied on Western media reports to understand each other. Influenced by ideology, Western media often report on non-Western countries from a skeptical or even hostile perspective. Their reports ignore objective facts and are full of stereotypes. This is not conducive to our mutual understanding and cooperation.
The media is a mirror, a window, and a bridge. The media should not only let readers know what happened, but also let readers empathize. The media should narrow the distance between each other and promote mutual empathy and care among the people of all countries. Media that distort facts build high walls between people's hearts and keep vulnerable groups silent. On many international issues, some mainstream Western media adopt reporting methods that divert attention or distort facts.
Large infrastructure gaps, language communication barriers, relatively limited media cooperation, and the long-term dominance of Western soft power are the main reasons for this phenomenon. To eliminate this phenomenon, the media of SCO countries need to continue to cooperate and strengthen interconnection. First, we can build a strong regional media network to promote direct exchanges and cooperation between media organizations and workers in SCO countries, and establish a regular dialogue mechanism. Second, we can overcome language communication barriers by using artificial intelligence and translation technology. Finally, we need to follow the same media ethics, emphasize the accuracy and balance of reporting, and jointly resist false information. This will help deepen political mutual trust, economic cooperation, and cultural exchanges within the SCO members.
To Do a Good Job in International Communication, We Must Pursue Truth and Spread Beauty
Shi Feng, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Editor-in-Chief of Xinjiang Daily
In the era of media integration and innovation, we innovate methods, produce more integrated media products, and strive to tell the story of Xinjiang, China well.
We firmly believe that no matter how the times change, how technology iterates, or where we are, as journalists, to do a good job in international communication, we must pursue truth and spread beauty.
In the past period, some Western countries and media with ulterior motives have disregarded the facts and fabricated rumors to smear Xinjiang, completely violating the principle of journalistic truthfulness. To this end, our "InXinjiang" video column interviewed nearly 100 foreigners from more than 40 countries. For example, Paul Courtney, the mayor of Barstow, California, USA, said frankly after coming to Xinjiang that he had been deceived by some reports, "Xinjiang is not what we thought it was." Another example is Husam Hussein, the Jordanian ambassador to China, who called on everyone to come here and see it for themselves after visiting Xinjiang...
These "reversals" repeatedly illustrate how important it is to adhere to the truth and strive for objectivity, which should be the moral and responsibility of our media workers in the current international public opinion field.
Regarding spreading beauty, there are endless stories to tell. In February this year, we launched the "Internet Celebrity Xinjiang Four Seasons Tour" event and accidentally met Marina, a Russian ski instructor who was deeply attracted by the powder snow in Altay (阿勒泰), Xinjiang. "I share photos with students from all over the world every day, calling on them to experience this pure snow area," Marina said.
In Xinjiang, beauty happens all the time. Recording these real moments and spreading these beautiful stories is the mission and pursuit of our media workers.
Build a Bridge Between Hearts and Draw a New Picture of Civilization Exchanges
Shi Lei, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Xinjiang Radio and Television Station
We are willing to work with the media of SCO member states to conduct more active exploration and cooperation in empowering international communication with advanced technology and promoting dialogue and exchange between civilizations.
First, strengthen content co-creation to eliminate misunderstandings and prejudices. In the international public opinion field, some people are trying to label Xinjiang with "conflict" and "oppression." Simple factual clarification is difficult to break the inherent cognitive barriers, and the narrative logic must be reconstructed with technology. We hope to strengthen remote collaboration with various countries, complete topic planning, material sharing, and editing and synthesis through the Internet, and realize the entire process of traceability of reporting materials.
Second, strengthen content sharing to promote cultural exchanges. We planned and launched the music variety show "Who is in the Recording Studio Today," inviting singers from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to participate in the recording, and the dance program "New National Dance Conference" invited dancers from Russia and Japan to compete on the same stage. We hope to strengthen program exchanges with the media of various countries and promote people-to-people connectivity through cultural exchanges.
Third, strengthen technical cooperation to improve communication quality and efficiency. New technologies and applications such as generative artificial intelligence, 5G, and 4K ultra-high-definition production are profoundly promoting media changes. Since last year, Xinjiang Radio and Television Station's 4K·5G ultra-high-definition OB van and other equipment have been officially put into use, achieving key breakthroughs in the field of 4K ultra-high-definition program production and broadcasting. We hope to work with the media of various countries to jointly explore the effective transformation of advanced technology in news reporting and program production.
Xinjiang has a proverb: "Not all distant places require trekking; you only need to build a bridge between hearts." Media are not only transmitters of information but should also become shapers of values. Let us use technology as our pen and sincerity as our ink to draw a new picture of mutual learning among civilizations.
(Reporters Li Ming (李明), Guo Yue (郭玥), Zhang Kaifeng (章凯风), He Zhaoyu (何昭宇), Zhang Xiaodong (张晓东), Zheng Qi (郑琪), and Li Bowen (李博文) of this newspaper compiled this report.)
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Return to TopTe-flavor Baijiu is one of the twelve major flavor types of Chinese Baijiu. Jiangxi Si特酒有限责任公司 (Si Te Jiu You Xian Ze Ren Gong Si, Si Te Liquor Co., Ltd., referred to as "Si Te Jiu (四特酒)") as the pioneer of Te-flavor Baijiu, is simultaneously focusing on intangible cultural heritage inheritance and promoting the transformation of scientific research achievements, using profound and solid traditional brewing skills and advanced cutting-edge Baijiu technology innovation to create high-quality Baijiu products.
Deeply Cultivating Cultural Heritage and Promoting Product Renewal
On May 26th, Si Te Jiu (四特酒) held a new product launch event for "Tiangong Shier (天工·拾贰)" with the theme of "Being a Friend of Time" at the Shangri-La Hotel in Honggutan District, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province (江西省南昌市红谷滩区香格里拉大酒店). At this launch event, Si Te Jiu (四特酒) was inspired by the ancient book *Tiangong Kaiwu (天工开物)*, and explained Si Te Jiu's (四特酒) adherence to and inheritance of the spirit of craftsmanship through cultural performances such as the *Tiangong Kaiwu (天工开物)* stage play, Tiangong (天工) cultural decoding, and immersive fashion show. The brewing process of Si Te Jiu (四特酒) originated from the "Qingjiang Tushao (清江土烧)" in *Tiangong Kaiwu (天工开物)* written by the Ming Dynasty scientist Song Yingxing (宋应星) (Jiangxi native), and after continuous refinement and innovation by several generations of winemakers, it finally took shape as "whole grain rice as raw material, Daqu (大曲) flour bran plus distiller's grains, red sandstone cellars, and three types (sauce-flavor, strong-flavor, and light-flavor Baijiu) are all available but not relying on any of them" Te-flavor Baijiu.
The "Tiangong (天工)" in the name "Tiangong Shier (天工·拾贰)" contains a tribute to *Tiangong Kaiwu (天工开物)*, and "Shier (拾贰)" is taken from the traditional culture's "12 Shichen (12时辰)" (12 two-hour periods of the day), strengthening from the perspective of time that this series of products is "old wine brewed by time." As a high-end product carefully crafted by Si Te Jiu (四特酒), the "Tiangong Shier (天工·拾贰)" new product continues the design concept of the "Tiangong (天工)" series of products, while promoting the renewal and upgrading of the Te-flavor old wine category. From the strict screening of raw materials to the careful brewing of the "Brewing Master Handmade Class" to the strict standard of less than 30% of the wine yield, the quality of the "Tiangong Shier (天工·拾贰)" new product has been greatly improved.
Focus on Design and Development to Improve Product Quality
Polishing product quality is the original driving force for Si Te Jiu (四特酒) to maintain high-quality development. Si Te Jiu (四特酒) carried out internal comfort experience activities, sorted out the process, quantified the experience results, and clarified the judgment criteria. Standardized and transparent operations from process initiation, wine preparation, personnel composition and requirements, item-by-item scoring and evaluation, result sorting and judgment, and full supervision. The activity aims to simulate consumption scenarios, measure wine defects, and promote wine optimization and improvement. The wine body comfort experience activity includes employees from various departments of Si Te Jiu (四特酒), collects feedback data through indicators such as "aroma comfort" and "taste", and establishes a 24-hour somatosensory monitoring database, summarizes and analyzes and issues an evaluation report. The production department then continuously optimizes and refines the wine body based on the wine body test evaluation report to improve the product taste and quality.
Si Te Jiu (四特酒) also continues to focus on quality, safety, and environmental protection work and increase investment, introduce a large number of advanced testing and testing instruments and equipment, and the product quality control level continues to improve. The overall hardware and software equipment system of the Si Te Jiu (四特酒) Testing Center Laboratory has been upgraded and successfully passed the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) accreditation. In addition, freezing filtration equipment is also introduced, and the molecular arrangement density of the liquor is precisely controlled through rapid freezing at 30°C technology, accelerating the association reaction of ester substances, maximizing the retention of various flavor substances in the liquor, and greatly reducing the content of substances that are unfavorable to the taste.
In recent years, Si Te Jiu (四特酒) has won the first prize of Jiangxi Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2023, the third prize of China Food Industry Association Science and Technology Award in 2023, and the "Qingzhuo Award (青酌奖)" for new Chinese liquor products in 2024 through a series of R&D upgrades.
Implement Digital Management to Create Quality Benchmarks
The digitalization of Si Te Jiu (四特酒) begins with inheritance and is loyal to innovation. Facing the wave of consumption upgrades and technological changes, Si Te Jiu (四特酒) takes digital transformation as a strategic fulcrum, empowers the entire industry chain through data, both guarding the traditional brewing skills of "**慢工出细活**" (màn gōng chū xì huó - "slow work yields fine products," meticulous work produces high-quality results) and embracing the "precision and efficiency" of the digital age.
The digital transformation strategy of Si Te Jiu (四特酒) is carried out in stages and steps. At the organizational innovation level, the digital management architecture is reconstructed according to the principle of "breaking down hierarchical barriers, reshaping efficient collaboration, and agilely driving the future", and the "data-driven + agile collaboration" model is implemented. The digital transformation of Si Te Jiu (四特酒) mainly has the following seven tasks: strengthening cross-departmental collaboration, establishing a digital mid-stage, opening up data silos in production, marketing, and supply chain, and realizing integrated decision-making of "research-production-sales"; promoting talent upgrades, forming a digital innovation team, introducing business project experts, data analysts, and cultivating compound talents; adhering to cultural renewal, replacing traditional hierarchical approval with "trial and error iteration" thinking, so that innovation becomes a consensus of all employees; strengthening marketing network construction, taking "digital marketing, reaching consumers' hearts" as the guiding direction, taking digital marketing as the starting point, and establishing a dialogue between Te-flavor Baijiu culture and young consumers; precise data insight, realizing product customization and scene refinement through big data analysis of consumer preferences; lean channel operation, building an F2B2b2C marketing channel system through digital means, truly achieving online channel collaboration, online verification, and online profit sharing; building a membership system, carrying out private domain operation, and realizing repurchase prediction and personalized services through small programs and communities, and enhancing customer stickiness.
On the production quality chain, the digital transformation of Si Te Jiu (四特酒) takes "quality intelligent control, guarding the bottom line of craftsmanship" as the principle, and uses digital technologies such as the Internet of Things, blockchain, and AI quality inspection to build a quality "moat", do a good job in production traceability, and consumers can trace back in the raw material selection, brewing, circulation and other links by scanning the code.
Adhere to Green Development and Practice Social Responsibility
While achieving its own high-quality development, Si Te Jiu (四特酒) adheres to the corporate philosophy of "contributing to society and giving back to the people", actively fulfills its social responsibilities, helps local economic development, promotes employment, improves the ecological environment, and devotes itself to public welfare.
Si Te Jiu (四特酒) always adheres to the concept of green development. In 2011, Si Te Jiu (四特酒) prospectively planned the Chengyan Garden project, systematically planned the reservoir and the original ecological shrub forest, built a ring road around the lake, optimized the garden landscape, and added wine culture sketches, and is committed to building a Si Te (四特) ecological wine culture park integrating ecological protection, cultural experience, and industrial tourism. This measure not only enhances the consumer's winery visit experience, but also highlights the profound heritage of Chinese Baijiu culture while protecting the ecological environment. It directly creates more than 1,000 jobs, providing a stable source of income for local residents and effectively driving the development of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain. Today, the annual production capacity of Si Te Jiu (四特酒) base wine has reached 60,000 tons, and the energy storage scale has increased to 110,000 tons. A good production environment has laid a solid foundation for the steady improvement of product quality. This series of investments and constructions not only enhances the company's own competitiveness, but also injects strong impetus into local economic development, achieving a win-win situation for economic and social benefits.
Si Te Jiu (四特酒) believes that enterprises are not only participants in the market economy, but also practitioners of social responsibility. Si Te Jiu (四特酒) has established the "Si Te (四特) Charity Fund", which is specifically used for supporting education, helping the poor, and other social assistance activities, making public welfare a normalized practice of enterprise development.
Facing the future, Si Te Jiu (四特酒) will actively assume social responsibility, help local economic development, and continue to shoulder the important mission of promoting the long-term development of Te-flavor Baijiu. Based on the advantages of Jiangxi (江西) as a producing area, it will meet the personalized, diversified, and high-quality needs of consumers with more exquisite craftsmanship and high-quality products, and strive to build a leading enterprise in the wine industry that focuses on professionalism and innovation, and make new and greater contributions to promoting the high-quality development of the local economy.
Data source: Si Te Jiu有限责任公司 (Si Te Jiu You Xian Ze Ren Gong Si, Si Te Liquor Co., Ltd.)
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Promoting the construction of a real-scene 3D China and the application of spatiotemporal information empowerment is an important aspect of accelerating the coordinated transformation and development of digitalization and greening.
In recent years, Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东) has built a real-scene 3D Qingdao platform, forming a three-dimensional "city map" covering 11,000 square kilometers of land area, more than 800 kilometers of coastline, 49 bays, and 7 inhabited islands in the city, providing spatial information support for refined urban management.
Sliding the mouse wheel, the points on the screen are gradually enlarged, and the buildings become clearer and clearer... Hu Zhenbiao (胡振彪), the system architecture director of Qingdao Municipal Surveying and Mapping Research Institute (青岛市勘察测绘研究院), opened the real-scene 3D Qingdao platform, and a three-dimensional panoramic view of Qingdao city gradually appeared in front of the reporter.
The 1:1 real restoration of the digital city scene, every river and every road in the entire area of Qingdao City (青岛市) are presented in three dimensions on the map, and geographic information is also clearly marked.
How to build it?
Achieve full coverage and adhere to land-sea coordination
Real-scene 3D is an important strategic data resource and production factor for digital cities and the digital economy, which can truly, three-dimensionally, and sequentially reflect the spatiotemporal information of people's production, life, and ecological space. As early as July 2020, Qingdao City (青岛市) issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Qingdao City Cloud Brain (青岛市城市云脑建设)", which determined the goal of "building a three-dimensional spatial benchmark, constructing a real-scene three-dimensional model base map, and promoting the construction of real-scene 3D Qingdao." In March 2021, the real-scene 3D Qingdao construction project was officially launched and undertaken by Qingdao Municipal Surveying and Mapping Research Institute (青岛市勘察测绘研究院).
To restore the three-dimensional panoramic view of a city, the first step is to collect complete three-dimensional scene aerial photography of the entire city. "Behind the construction of real-scene 3D Qingdao is more than half a year of aerial photography collection, storage and processing of millions of photos, and physical modeling of hundreds of thousands of buildings," Hu Zhenbiao (胡振彪) introduced. "Combining Qingdao's (青岛) hilly terrain and large undulations in the surface, we finally decided to use oblique aerial photography to obtain original images and produce real-scene three-dimensional models."
After the aerial photography collection started, the project team dispatched a fixed-wing manned aircraft equipped with a single-lens 150 million-pixel five-lens oblique aerial camera to conduct oblique photography of the entire area of Qingdao City (青岛市) with an image ground resolution of 15 centimeters, and the coverage area between every two shooting interval points reached more than 70% overlap. During the aerial photography collection process, Qingdao Municipal Surveying and Mapping Research Institute (青岛市勘察测绘研究院) also separately divided 1,290 square kilometers of key areas in the urban center and township resident areas of Qingdao (青岛), and used helicopters and drones for high-precision aerial photography.
"After the aerial photography collection is completed, it is also necessary to conduct supplementary shooting on-site," Hu Zhenbiao (胡振彪) introduced. Because the angle of three-dimensional scene aerial photography collection is limited, the eaves or bottom textures of many buildings are not fully obtained, and it is necessary to take supplementary photos on-site, and completely restore the original appearance of the buildings through fusion repair and physical modeling. He moved the positioning on the screen to Qingdao International Convention Center (青岛国际会议中心), "Its complete eaves now are made by modeling."
In March 2022, the construction of the real-scene 3D Qingdao project passed the expert group's acceptance and officially provided services to the city. The city-wide terrain three-dimensional base map covers 11,000 square kilometers of land area, more than 800 kilometers of coastline, 49 bays, and 7 inhabited islands in Qingdao City (青岛市), achieving full coverage and land-sea coordination.
How to use it?
Help prevent and reduce disasters, and empower urban management
"There is a fire on the mountain on the east side, please put it out as soon as possible." In the emergency command center of Qingdao West Coast New Area (青岛西海岸新区), Qi Degang (齐德刚), deputy director of the District Emergency Management Bureau, is directing through communication equipment, "The nearest fire-fighting water source is in Lingshanwei (灵山卫) No. 37 reservoir, which is more than 700 meters away."
This is a forest fire prevention exercise on Xiaozhushan (小珠山) Mountain in Qingdao West Coast New Area (青岛西海岸新区). In the district emergency command center, relevant personnel are conducting real-time scheduling of the exercise through the "Forest Fire Prevention Real-Scene Three-Dimensional One Map Platform."
On the large screen of the command center, the fire point, fire area, and smoke direction are displayed in real time in the three-dimensional real-scene image in the platform. "The fire scene images taken in real time by on-site drones are returned and connected to the real-scene three-dimensional," introduced Mu Kun (慕坤), head of the Fire Prevention and Fire Extinguishing Section of the District Emergency Management Bureau. During the construction of the "Forest Fire Prevention Real-Scene Three-Dimensional One Map Platform," the West Coast New Area (西海岸新区) connected to the real-scene 3D Qingdao platform to build a visualized and precise graphic combat command system.
"We encountered a fork in the road ahead, which route is the fastest?" A request for help came from the communication equipment again.
"The mountain road on the right leads to the fire point." Mu Kun (慕坤) zoomed in on the point on the screen, clicked on the mountain road, and also clicked on the fire point and the location of the rescuers, and drew a route, "The mountain road is 1 meter wide and can only be walked up, with a height difference of 200 meters."
"The help of real-scene 3D has won us valuable time." Qi Degang (齐德刚) introduced that by applying real-scene 3D Qingdao to forest fire prevention, information such as mountain roads and fire areas can be quickly retrieved.
Up to now, the results of real-scene 3D Qingdao have been shared with more than 60 departments in the city, providing a unified spatial positioning framework and analysis basis for more than 100 key tasks such as disaster prevention and mitigation, territorial space planning, social governance, and urban renewal, and providing rich and efficient online government services for more than 70 digital application scenarios in the city, with nearly 100 million applications per year.
"Compared with the traditional two-dimensional base map, real-scene 3D has the significant advantages of strong reality, multi-dimensionality, and high precision, establishing a holographic mapping of the real world, and providing spatial information support for refined urban management," said Xue Hongli (薛洪利), member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning (青岛市自然资源和规划局).
How to manage it?
Continue to improve and update, and establish local standards
Open the real-scene three-dimensional image of the mine, select the slope protection, pull the mouse, and the slope value pops up... Walking into Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning (青岛市自然资源和规划局), staff are comparing the two phases of real-scene three-dimensional models of a historical legacy mine in Qingdao West Coast New Area (青岛西海岸新区).
"Through the comparison of real-scene three-dimensional, the vegetation area of the mine has increased, the slope has slowed down, and the treatment has achieved certain results," said Tang Wenliang (唐文亮), director of the Geological and Mineral Restoration Department of Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning (青岛市自然资源和规划局).
There are 898 historical legacy mine plots in Qingdao City (青岛市). In the past, it took 1 month to complete all on-site inspections. Now, through real-scene 3D Qingdao, it only takes 5 days to complete the comparative analysis of the changes in all historical legacy mine plots in the city, and to verify and supervise the discovered suspected problems such as "boundary changes and vegetation damage" in a timely manner.
The efficient comparison is due to the sequential update of real-scene 3D Qingdao. "For example, by comparing the real-scene three-dimensional scene in 2023 with the scene in 2021, the change data such as the vegetation coverage area, slope, and filling and excavation volume of a mine can be quickly calculated and compared in a timely manner, and we can see at a glance what changes have occurred in the mine," said Tang Wenliang (唐文亮).
"The city is changing every day. To objectively and truly reflect the current situation of the city, real-scene 3D must keep up with the speed of urban renewal," said Xue Hongli (薛洪利).
Since 2023, Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning (青岛市自然资源和规划局) has insisted on organizing and carrying out the sequential update of real-scene 3D Qingdao every year. The sequential data update can accurately and intuitively discover the changes in the city and form analysis data. The sequential construction of real-scene 3D will objectively record the development and changes of the city in a digital space manner, and has high research and utilization value.
While promoting the update of real-scene 3D Qingdao, Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning (青岛市自然资源和规划局) also pays attention to the establishment of local standards. In 2023, Qingdao Municipal Market Supervision Bureau (青岛市市场监督管理局) released the "Technical Specifications for the Construction of Real-Scene 3D Qingdao (实景三维青岛建设技术规范)", which covers the overall requirements for the construction of real-scene 3D, three-dimensional model data collection and processing, three-dimensional model data quality inspection and acceptance, three-dimensional model data update, basic geographic entity data production, and application service system 6 sub-item standards, filling the standard gap in this field in Qingdao City (青岛市).
"By establishing local standards, enhancing the supply capacity of geographic information resources, providing strong support services for the construction of digital cities and the digital economy in Qingdao City (青岛市), and continuously helping Qingdao (青岛) achieve high-quality development," said Lü Hengliang (吕恒良), Secretary of the Party Group and Director of Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning (青岛市自然资源和规划局).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 26th (Reporter Kou Jiangze (寇江泽)) According to the provisions of the "Regulations on Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Work," with the approval of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the fourth batch of the third round of central ecological and environmental protection inspections has been fully launched. Eight central ecological and environmental protection inspection teams (hereinafter referred to as "inspection teams") have been formed to conduct inspections in Shanxi (山西), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Shandong (山东), Shaanxi (陕西), and Ningxia (宁夏) provinces (autonomous regions), comprehensively carrying out inspections of the Yellow River Basin and provincial-level inspections. Simultaneously, inspections will be conducted on three central enterprises: China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd. (中国华能集团有限公司), China Datang Corporation Ltd. (中国大唐集团有限公司), and State Power Investment Corporation Limited (国家电力投资集团有限公司), with an on-site duration of approximately one month.
This is the first batch of inspections after the promulgation and implementation of the "Regulations on Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Work." The inspection teams closely focus on the overall situation of economic and social development, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, adhere to a people-centered approach, adhere to a problem-oriented and strict tone, adhere to precision, science, and the rule of law, highlight key points, be serious and uncompromising, and promote inspection work in an orderly and effective manner. They will thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation details, resolutely implement the Party Central Committee's requirements for rectifying formalism and reducing burdens at the grassroots level, and effectively improve the effectiveness of inspections. During the on-site period, each inspection team will set up contact telephone numbers and postal mailboxes to accept letters and telephone reports from the inspected entities regarding ecological and environmental protection.
In order to coordinate economic development, people's livelihood保障 (bǎo zhàng - "guarantee," to ensure) and ecological and environmental protection, the Office of the Leading Group for Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Work has specifically sent letters to the inspected entities, requiring them to resolutely implement the central government's decisions and deployments, promote rectification while inspecting in a precise, scientific, and lawful manner, prohibit the practice of “一刀切” (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," applying a single, uniform standard to all situations regardless of individual circumstances), simplify inspection reception arrangements, and effectively reduce the burden on the grassroots level.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 26th (Reporter Li Hongmei (李红梅)) - The Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) predicts that from May 27th to 29th, southern China will experience the strongest rainfall process this year. At 18:00 on the 26th, after comprehensive analysis and emergency consultation, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) initiated a Level III emergency response for major meteorological disasters (rainstorms). The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) jointly issued yellow meteorological warnings for mountain torrent disasters and geological disaster risk warnings with the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局), respectively.
The Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) predicts that from May 27th to 29th, Guizhou (贵州), Jiangnan (江南), and most parts of South China (华南) will experience heavy to torrential rain successively. Some areas in eastern Guizhou (贵州东部), central and southern Hunan (湖南中南部), southern Jiangxi (江西南部), central and northern Fujian (福建中北部), northern Guangxi (广西北部), and central and northern Guangdong (广东中北部) will experience heavy torrential rain, accompanied by short-term heavy precipitation or severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and strong winds.
It is reported that this process is characterized by a wide range of rainfall, high intensity in some areas, and large cumulative precipitation. Rainfall will last for a long time in parts of Guizhou (贵州) and Jiangnan (江南). The maximum hourly precipitation in some areas will be 30 to 50 millimeters. Convective characteristics are obvious in central and southern South China (华南中南部), and the local hourly precipitation may exceed 80 millimeters.
Li Sen (李森), Deputy Director of the Ecological and Agricultural Meteorology Office of the National Meteorological Center (国家气象中心生态和农业气象室), suggested that southern regions should do a good job in reservoir water storage. Before and after heavy rainfall, drainage ditches should be cleared in a timely manner to drain water and reduce waterlogging. Jiangnan (江南) and South China (华南) regions should do a good job in the water and fertilizer management of early rice. Areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River (长江) should pay attention to avoiding rain and harvesting mature winter wheat and rapeseed, and do a good job in ventilation, drying, and storage.
Return to TopCity development prioritizes transportation. In recent years, Chengdu Rail Transit Group (成都轨道集团) has accelerated the construction of urban rail transit and suburban (suburban) railways, opening 16 rail transit lines, connecting the metropolitan area on rails, and ranking among the top in the country in terms of network scale. Efficient and convenient rail transit not only improves travel efficiency, but also helps the city's high-quality development and enhances people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Rail Transit Enhances City Functions
The symbiosis and integration of rail transit and the city are further deepening. In recent years, Chengdu has adhered to the concept of "building the city when building rail transit, and connecting life when connecting rail transit," and has fully implemented an urban development model guided by rail transit. Relying on the rail network, it drives high-intensity development of surrounding plots and the construction of supporting municipal facilities, forming a "commercial center - residential center - production center" layered distribution of building complexes and urban clusters. These urban regional centers integrating office, residential, commercial, cultural and other diverse functions, with production, life, and ecology intertwined, promote the integrated development of "people, city, and industry," and build convenient, comfortable, and diverse scenarios, effectively meeting the citizens' yearning for a better life.
In order to accelerate the promotion of "four-network integration," Chengdu Rail Transit Group (成都轨道集团) actively serves the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle and the integrated development of Chengdu (成都), Deyang (德阳), Meishan (眉山), and Ziyang (资阳). In 2024, it officially opened the Ziyang Line (资阳线), the first cross-city rail transit line in Sichuan Province. As of the end of 2024, the operating mileage of rail transit in the Chengdu metropolitan area exceeded 670 kilometers, with 423 stations, realizing full coverage of urban main functional areas, key administrative areas, and industrial parks by rail transit.
The "2024 China Major City Commuting Monitoring Report" shows that in recent years, Chengdu's commuting efficiency has significantly improved, with rail transit covering 800 meters accounting for 34% of commuting, ranking second in the country among megacities, and the average commuting time for citizens has been shortened to 38 minutes. Chengdu Rail Transit Group (成都轨道集团) adheres to the concept of passenger priority and pre-operation, and expands the "rail + bus + slow travel" green network, allowing more and more citizens to achieve efficient and low-carbon travel.
Industry-City Integration Stimulates Urban Vitality
Rail transit not only provides citizens with a convenient and fast way to travel, but also connects the city's industrial belts, becoming a "development line" that stimulates urban economic vitality. At present, Chengdu Metro (成都地铁) has a daily passenger volume of more than 6 million passengers, and rail transit accounts for 63% of the public transportation share. Under the surging momentum of large passenger flow commercial value, Chengdu Rail Transit (成都轨道交通) reasonably coordinates station commercial development, innovatively lays out retail commerce, boutique hotels, urban health and wellness and other commercial formats, and promotes the transformation of "first store economy" and "famous store economy" to promote consumption at a high level. The construction area of commercial projects has reached 3.76 million square meters, with an average annual construction volume of nearly 1 million square meters, and is striving to promote rail transit to become the backbone of urban commercial economic development.
At the end of 2024, Hong Kong Railway Corporation (香港铁路有限公司) decided to invest 30 million US dollars in Chengdu (成都), jointly with Chengdu Rail Transit Group (成都轨道集团) to build a MTR station commercial platform radiating across the country, forming a new model of station commercial development. Chengdu Rail Transit Group (成都轨道集团) will deeply participate in the operation of rail commercial resources, promote the interconnection of the urban rail commercial market, maximize the release of rail economic potential and commercial added value, and realize "all spaces can be stopped, can be communicated, and can be effective."
In addition, the rapidly developing rail transit industry itself also provides hard-core impetus for urban industrial upgrading. As one of the key billion-level industrial clusters developed in Chengdu (成都), at present, Chengdu rail transit-related industrial parks have gathered more than 570 upstream and downstream enterprises in the rail transit industry, building a "one school, one headquarters, three bases" spatial development pattern. At present, the scale of the entire industry has exceeded 200 billion yuan, and the degree of industrial agglomeration ranks among the top in the country and the first in the western region, and has been included in the first batch of national strategic emerging industrial clusters.
Diversified Services Create Happy Scenarios
Rail transit is like the city's artery, connecting economic development on one end and people's livelihood and well-being on the other. High and low subway station customer service centers, elderly service areas, child-friendly stations, stations equipped with barrier-free toilets and ramps... Chengdu Rail Transit Group (成都轨道集团) adheres to the principle of "people-centered," creating full life cycle quality services, from compressing the minimum train interval to 2 minutes during peak hours and 99.99% punctuality rate to escort passengers safely, to convenient services such as coffee shops on passengers' commuting routes and exhibitions at subway corners, and then to happy spaces where the three major spaces of "residential life, business office, and leisure and recreation" are organically integrated. The business format pattern of the "transportation circle, business circle, and life circle" is gradually taking shape.
Relying on the accessibility and convenience of rail transit, Chengdu (成都) has laid out and built 28,000 sets (rooms) of guaranteed rental housing on plots near rail transit stations. In 2024, Chengdu's (成都) first rail station integrated development guaranteed rental housing project "Rail City · Yujian (轨道城市·寓见)" officially began operation; Chengdu's (成都) first future community life center "Next Door · Future Community Life Center (隔壁子·未来社区生活中心)" was unveiled; the first batch of "Subway Stations (地铁驿站)" were warmly launched, helping new urban residents and young talents to stay, live in peace, make friends widely, and easily start businesses by creating a community life ecosystem.
With the rail station as the center, high-quality guaranteed rental housing, office buildings, large commercial complexes, and ecological parks are scattered in a well-organized manner. The new scene of organic integration of production, life, and ecology created by rail transit is making the background color of urban development brighter and more colorful.
Data source: Chengdu Rail Transit Group Co., Ltd. (成都轨道交通集团有限公司)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙龙飞
9 Golds in 8 Days!
Nine gold medals stacked together, heavy and gleaming.
Pan Zhanle (潘展乐), not yet 21 years old, held the gold medal high above his head, his youth radiating in his smile.
On May 24th, the 2025 National Swimming Championships concluded in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东). Zhejiang (浙江) team athlete Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) was "on duty" for all 8 days of the competition, participating in 9 events and collecting a "tic-tac-toe" grid of gold medals, earning him the nickname "gold medal harvester" from netizens.
However, the "sober-minded" Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) is still not satisfied.
"My performance in the 4 individual events was just average." Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) seriously reviewed after the competition, "My most competitive event is the 100-meter freestyle. I haven't found the right pace for the 200-meter freestyle, I'm using the 400-meter freestyle as training to improve, and the 50-meter is just an experiment."
Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) excels in short-distance freestyle, often displaying excellent late-race sprinting ability in competitions. "This is precisely due to the 'long-distance promotes short-distance' training method." Coach Zheng Kunliang (郑坤良) explained that Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) doesn't just train for short distances, he trains for everything from 50-meter to 1500-meter freestyle, "We even had him try a 10-kilometer open water competition."
This time, due to illness and continuous competition, Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) did not swim at his best level. Looking at the winning results, the 50-meter freestyle was 22.19 seconds, failing to reach the A standard of 22.05 seconds for this year's Singapore (新加坡) World Aquatics Championships; the 100-meter freestyle was 47.77 seconds, which is also a certain distance away from the world record of 46.40 seconds he set at the Paris (巴黎) Olympics.
"Now there is a relatively high level of attention on me from the outside world, and sometimes when the results are not good, people will help me find excuses. But in reality, every athlete only has one chance in a competition," Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) said frankly.
At the end of 2024, Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) resumed systematic training. "The training during this period has been very smooth. He can complete every lesson with high quality, train very hard, and is very solid. His endurance and cardiopulmonary function have been improved," said Wang Wei (王伟), director of the Zhejiang (浙江) Provincial Swimming Sports Management Center.
In Pan Zhanle's (潘展乐) eyes, the time scale of each training session is accurate to one decimal place.
"The time it takes for a human to blink once is 0.2 to 0.4 seconds. My goal is to shorten the time between two blinks," said Pan Zhanle (潘展乐).
In the history museum of the Zhejiang (浙江) swimming team, the winning results of each event at each Olympic Games are particularly eye-catching. The men's 100-meter freestyle is divided into 4 segments: the first 15 meters, the turn 15 meters, the middle swim, and the sprint, with the time spent in each segment marked separately.
The fastest time for these 4 segments adds up to 46.16 seconds, which is the limit that humans can currently reach.
"I can see this set of numbers every day." In Pan Zhanle's (潘展乐) heart, every progress of his opponents is tightening his "spring," reminding him not to slow down, "My middle swim result is the fastest in the world, but my start time is 0.4 seconds behind the best in the world, the turn is 0.2 seconds behind, and the finish is 0.1 seconds behind."
There is room for improvement everywhere. This also means that there are opportunities everywhere.
At this National Swimming Championships, many Olympic champions competed in the same arena, adding highlights to the swimming pool competition.
After the men's 200-meter freestyle final, Tokyo (东京) Olympic champion Wang Shun (汪顺) did not get out of the water for a long time, but waited for his teammate Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) to swim to the shore and high-five him to celebrate. The veteran and the rising star supported each other in healthy competition, a scene that was touching.
"The seniors are always my idols and guides on my growth path," Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) said after winning the championship. With the help of the team and coaches, he is steadily moving towards his goal.
This year, the Singapore (新加坡) World Aquatics Championships and the 15th National Games of China (中华人民共和国全国运动会) are coming one after another, and the test of the new Olympic cycle has just begun. "As long as we persist in training and do every link well, the dream will get closer and closer," said Pan Zhanle (潘展乐).
Return to TopBy: 唐天奕
Nine gold medals neatly stacked reflect the confident glow on Pan Zhanle's (潘展乐) young face, once again becoming a "highlight moment" in the eyes of netizens. From riding the waves at the Paris Olympics to forging ahead in the National Swimming Championships, Pan Zhanle is tirelessly stroking towards the distance in the blue waves.
How is a "highlight moment" forged? It comes from Pan Zhanle's daily persistence in swimming 15,000 meters, his tenacity in keeping his eyes on the finish line during competitions, and his clear-headedness in keeping "starting from zero" on his lips when stepping off the podium. In the fiercely competitive world of sports, maintaining composure and working tirelessly, even if you encounter setbacks at the moment, you will one day inscribe a new height of 百尺竿头，更进一步 (bǎi chǐ gān tóu, gèng jìn yī bù - "hundred-foot pole, further step," to make still further progress; strive for further improvement).
Outside the swimming pool, on the broader stage, Chinese athletes are reporting frequent successes, writing an inspiring chapter of the times with their striving footsteps. The Chinese Table Tennis Team won 4 gold medals at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships. We will never forget Wang Chuqin's (王楚钦) brilliant smile when he lifted the trophy, nor Sun Yingsha's (孙颖莎) tears of joy after her victory. The Wuhan Women's Football Team won the AFC Champions League. We remember Wang Shuang's (王霜) roar when she equalized the score, and the firm gaze of goalkeeper Chen Chen (陈晨) when she saved the penalty kick. These "highlight moments" that everyone enjoys talking about are forged in calmness and hard work, and are a vivid footnote to the development of Chinese sports. In these vivid stories, we draw strength and forge ahead.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨颜菲 范佳元
The 2025 China International Sporting Goods Show (hereinafter referred to as "China Sport Show") concluded on May 25th in Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi (江西), with an exhibition area of 163,700 square meters, attracting more than 1,800 exhibitors.
Artificial intelligence was a key word at this year's China Sport Show.
In the Shuhua Sports exhibition area on the first floor of the China Sport Show, there was a trainer equipped with an artificial intelligence system. After the experiencer filled in body parameters in sequence according to the prompts, completed the test and answered relevant questions, they could get a freshly baked exercise prescription. "The integration of sports with artificial intelligence and medical treatment is becoming more and more in-depth, forming technological health preservation, and driving the rapid development of 'exercise prescription' services," said Luo Jie (罗杰), Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the China Sporting Goods Federation.
It is reported that the new products promoted by Shuhua Sports at this year's China Sport Show all use artificial intelligence technology. For example, the variable-sensing treadmill that can monitor running posture data in real time, such as impact force, step frequency, and ground contact time, can not only intelligently adjust the hardness of the treadmill, but also provide simulated running modes such as rubber track, highway, and plank road. Lian Xin'an (连新安), General Manager of the Marketing Center of Shuhua Sports Co., Ltd. (舒华体育股份有限公司), said: "Integrating artificial intelligence technology into fitness equipment products is like having a built-in 'personal fitness coach', which can make fitness more scientific, intelligent and interesting."
In addition to tailoring differentiated exercise programs for exercisers, artificial intelligence can also become a "professional coach" to improve sports skills. In front of the artificial intelligence basketball system booth in the Sanboson exhibition area, when the experiencer shoots the ball, the camera captures the motion trajectory frame by frame, and the system then generates a number of data such as shooting angle and knee flexion, scores the action, and can also improve the experiencer's shooting accuracy through highly automated equipment and personalized training programs.
At this China Sport Show, weight management became one of the hot words. A 3D intelligent body measurement mirror exhibited by Weishape Technology (西安维塑科技) in Xi'an (西安) uses artificial intelligence vision technology to generate a three-dimensional human body model, intuitively showing body shape problems and helping users manage their weight. In addition, it can also detect static body shape indicators such as knee joint and pelvic anterior/posterior movement. The staff introduced that, combined with professional-level body composition analysis and instantaneous high-precision human body scanning technology, the equipment can provide personalized body shape improvement solutions.
At the same time, the application of new materials and cross-border technologies has further expanded the boundaries of sports equipment. Tianjin Dongyidong Technology's (天津冻一动科技) minus 110 degrees Celsius ultra-low temperature cryotherapy chamber uses electric refrigeration technology to quickly relieve muscle soreness after exercise; the Xifei Carbon Fiber Sports Equipment Alliance (希飞碳纤维体育装备联盟), composed of 15 companies, focused on displaying more than 10 types of carbon fiber products such as skis, rackets, and bicycles, expanding the application scenarios of lightweight materials in the sports field; the modular air-supported membrane structure stadium independently developed by Beijing Yoddon Air Dome Co. (北京约顿气膜公司) only takes 30 days to build, and its energy consumption is reduced by 2/3 compared with traditional stadiums. Its intelligent system can adjust the temperature and humidity in real time, providing new ideas for solving the construction problems of traditional stadiums...
"The application of new technologies and new technologies in the field of sports goods manufacturing continues to promote sports goods companies to increase investment in research and development and technological transformation, improve the level of intelligent manufacturing, and accelerate the realization of extending and expanding to the high-end of the global industrial chain and supply chain," said Yang Xuedong (杨雪鸫), Director of the Sports Economy Department of the State General Administration of Sport (国家体育总局).
According to statistics, the cumulative number of overseas buyers at this China Sport Show exceeded 4,000, the cumulative number of merchants and visitors was 50,000, and the intended purchase amount of overseas VIP buyers exceeded 90 million US dollars. This exhibition is not only a stage to showcase technology, but also a witness to the leap of China's sports manufacturing to "intelligent manufacturing," and technology is making sports more scientific and inclusive.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陶相安 庞革平
The 2025 National Gymnastics Championships (hereinafter referred to as the "National Championships") recently concluded in Nanning, Guangxi (广西南宁). As the first national gymnastics event under the new cycle and new rules, many athletes demonstrated good competitive form. According to Lu Bin (陆斌), deputy leader of the Chinese gymnastics team, this National Championships effectively tested the winter training results of the athletes and reflected their talent potential.
After entering the new Olympic cycle, the International Gymnastics Federation introduced new rules, in which the number of routines for each men's event was reduced from the original 10 to 8. If a movement with difficulty value is used in the dismount, it will have an important impact on the starting score of the routine. To better adapt to the changes, the Chinese gymnastics team put a lot of effort into improving the difficulty of movements during the winter training. In the men's individual all-around final held on the 19th, Zhang Boheng (张博恒) won the championship with a total score of 82.965 points, with the highest score in the floor exercise and vault events. "During the winter training, Zhang Boheng (张博恒) developed new difficult movements in the rings, horizontal bar, and floor exercise events. This competition showed the results of the training," said Lu Bin (陆斌).
The men's individual events also had outstanding performances. After adjustments following the Olympic Games, several veterans still showed strong competitiveness in this competition. In the men's rings final, Liu Yang (刘洋), a two-time Olympic champion, won the championship with 14.966 points with the highest difficulty movement in the competition. Zou Jingyuan (邹敬园) performed well in the parallel bars final, winning the gold medal with 15.233 points. "After the Paris Olympics, I chose conservative treatment for my shoulder injury. Although the process was challenging, it was completed very smoothly," said Zou Jingyuan (邹敬园).
On the women's team, the talent pool has been improved since the team was formed last year. Lu Bin (陆斌) introduced: "The women's individual all-around final in this National Championships showed a variety of talents. Du Siyu (杜思雨), Zhou Yaqin (周雅琴), and Zhang Yihan (张怡涵), several experienced athletes, were ranked high, and the young athlete Qin Xinyi (秦心怡) made significant progress, winning the silver medal. In addition, a group of young athletes such as Yu Wenjing (俞雯静), Ke Qinqin (柯沁沁), and Huang Ziyi (黄紫艺) showed good levels in individual events. In our advantageous event, the balance beam, six or seven athletes scored above 14 points, which is very competitive worldwide."
It is worth mentioning that in the women's team's weak event, the vault, many athletes who can complete movements with a difficulty score of 5.0 or higher emerged in this National Championships. Lu Bin (陆斌) introduced that the team innovated in improving the vault training level during the previous winter training. "On the one hand, we invited He Youdi (何幼棣), a well-known triple jump coach, to provide teaching guidance on the athletes' run-ups; on the other hand, the team cooperated with Tianjin University of Sport (天津体育学院) to establish a vault tackling team and sent physical fitness coaches to improve the athletes' vaulting ability." Lu Bin (陆斌) said that through this competition, it can be seen that the team has made some achievements in vault training, and with the continued deepening of training, the team will cultivate more high-level vaulting talents.
While many gratifying changes were presented in the competition, some problems are also worth noting. In the men's individual all-around final, many athletes made mistakes. In Lu Bin's (陆斌) view, this is related to high-difficulty movements, the impact of injuries, and physical exertion. He said: "For example, Zhang Boheng's (张博恒) mistake in the pommel horse event was affected by a neck sprain before the competition. This event requires a high degree of balance in the neck. Therefore, athletes and coaches need to continue to work hard in controlling injuries and ensuring the stability of high-difficulty movements."
With the end of the National Championships, the athletes will devote themselves to a new round of training to prepare for the World Championships and National Games to be held in the second half of the year. Qin Xinyi (秦心怡), who made her first appearance on the podium of the National Championships individual event, said: "I feel much more mature. I was not so nervous in the competition. I hope to continue to improve the difficulty of the movements while maintaining stability."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 程 焕
Just as the boy dribbled the ball past the midfield line, he took a shot before the opposing goalkeeper was ready, and the soccer ball drew a parabola in the air, landing steadily in the goal... In Pu'an County (普安县), Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (黔西南布依族苗族自治州), Guizhou Province (贵州省), during the final of the fourth campus football league at the junior high school level, Yang Qilong (杨启龙), a second-year student from Siyuan Experimental School (思源实验学校) in Pu'an County (普安县), not only scored a wonderful long shot but also joined hands with his teammates to win the championship.
Outside the field, a young man watched with great enthusiasm, and he was always particularly excited when Yang Qilong (杨启龙) scored. The young man's name is Xiao Xuan (肖选), and he is a physical education teacher at the elementary school of this school.
In September 2020, Xiao Xuan (肖选) graduated from the Physical Education major of Guizhou Minzu University (贵州民族大学) and became a special-post teacher at Lazishu Primary School (辣子树小学) in Xingzhong Town (兴中镇), Pu'an County (普安县). "Most of the children in the mountains have only been to the town at most. Most of their spare time is spent playing traditional games such as playing marbles and playing with paper cards." Xiao Xuan (肖选), who had just arrived, wanted to help the children broaden their horizons.
Xiao Xuan (肖选) is responsible for the physical education classes of all six classes in the school. Because he majored in soccer, he decided to let the children try it out. He bought soccer balls and other equipment out of his own pocket, plus old goals sent by friends, and started soccer classes on the basketball court. This new activity was quickly welcomed by the students, and many children developed a strong interest in playing soccer.
After observing for two months, Xiao Xuan (肖选) selected some students with good foundations and formed a campus soccer team to carry out training during the big breaks, physical education classes, and after school.
Yang Qilong (杨启龙) was one of the first players when Xiao Xuan (肖选) formed the soccer team. At that time, Yang Qilong (杨启龙) was in the fourth grade at Lazishu Primary School (辣子树小学). His parents worked outside, and his grandparents lived with him and his sister in their hometown. Yang Qilong (杨启龙) recalled that since joining the team, his life has become fulfilling by playing soccer and studying at the same time.
Although the conditions were difficult, the children's soccer skills improved rapidly under Xiao Xuan's (肖选) careful guidance. In 2021, Pu'an County (普安县) began to promote the development of campus soccer and held the first county-wide campus soccer league. The Lazishu Primary School (辣子树小学) soccer team ushered in an opportunity to show their skills. In this competition, the children were very competitive and won the primary school men's A group championship in one fell swoop.
After the Lazishu Primary School (辣子树小学) soccer team became famous in one battle, its reputation gradually spread, and it received more and more competition invitations. Every winter and summer vacation, Xiao Xuan (肖选) always takes the team out to participate in competitions, and soccer has become a window for the children to see the world outside. "Not only have I been to the county seat, but I have also been to big cities such as Beijing (北京) and Hangzhou (杭州). The outside world is wonderful, which has inspired us to study hard," said Yang Qilong (杨启龙).
In recent years, with Pu'an County (普安县) continuing to promote campus soccer, Lazishu Primary School (辣子树小学) has built a new soccer field, the children's training environment has been improved, and they have achieved good results in various competitions.
Last year, Xiao Xuan (肖选) was transferred to Siyuan Experimental School (思源实验学校) in Pu'an County (普安县), and Lazishu Primary School (辣子树小学) welcomed another special-post teacher majoring in physical education. Seeing that the school soccer team had a new coach, Xiao Xuan (肖选) was finally relieved. At the new school, he replicated his previous experience, training children to play soccer from scratch, and striving to make more students fall in love with soccer.
Today, Guizhou (贵州) has established a four-level league mechanism for campus soccer that is "vertically connected and horizontally connected" at the school, county, city, and provincial levels, and at the primary school, junior high school, high school, and university levels. A total of 1,143 characteristic campus soccer schools have been built in the province, more than 1,200 soccer teachers have been trained, and more than 1 million students have participated in campus soccer competitions at all levels, forming a development pattern of "school participation, layer-by-layer selection, and provincial league."
Return to TopThis report from Ningbo on May 26th (Reporter Zheng Yi (郑轶)) The 2025 China-Central and Eastern European International Sailing Regatta and Ningbo International Sailing Regatta concluded on the 25th at the Asian Sailing Center in Xiangshan, Ningbo (宁波象山), Zhejiang (浙江). A total of 36 teams from 15 countries and regions, including China, Croatia, Germany, and Greece, participated in the competition. After three days of intense competition, the Nansheng Sailing Team from China won the third place.
As one of the cultural exchange activities of the 4th China-Central and Eastern European Countries Expo, this sailing regatta adopted a competition format combining route races and island races. Equipped with a race tracking system to capture real-time competition data, it is the highest-level and largest-scale keelboat (single boat type) event in China this year. Athletes from all over the world used sailing as a link to build a bridge of communication.
During the event, with the unveiling of the Asian Sailing Federation's high-level training base, the Ningbo Xiangshan (宁波象山) Asian Sailing Center became the only venue in China to receive this honor, which will help build a world-class sailing event destination.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Wuhan on May 26th (Reporter Liu Shuoyang (刘硕阳)): The 2025 National Skateboarding Championships recently concluded at the Hubei Provincial Olympic Sports Center (湖北省奥体中心). In the highly anticipated women's street style final, Guangdong (广东) team athlete Zhu Yuanling (朱沅铃) won the championship with a score of 207.06 points. Hubei (湖北) team athlete Zhan He (詹何), Shanghai (上海) team's Cao Yihuan (曹艺桓), and Fujian (福建) team's Wu Bowen (吴博文) won the gold medals in the men's street style, women's bowl, and men's bowl events, respectively.
This event also served as the first leg of the 15th National Games skateboarding qualification series. According to the regulations, the 15th National Games skateboarding qualification series will consist of two legs. Athletes will be ranked according to the sum of their scores from both legs, with the top 15 participants qualifying for the 15th National Games skateboarding competition held in Huizhou (惠州), Guangdong (广东) in November this year. If the scores are the same, the athlete with the higher ranking in the second qualification leg will obtain the qualification for the main competition of the 15th National Games.
Tian Jun (田军), the head referee for the street style event, introduced, "Overall, with the increasing emphasis on the sport in various regions, the level of Chinese skateboarding street style has made significant progress. In particular, the 'youth' whirlwind sweeping the competition is encouraging, and the difficulty and maturity of the children's movements are surprising." 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 26th (Reporter: Zeng Huafeng (曾华锋)) On May 24th and 25th, the Dalian 100km Trail Race was held. 2,926 athletes from 12 countries set off from Fujiazhuang Park (傅家庄公园) in Dalian (大连市) and challenged themselves on a course that crossed mountains, traversed the sea, and passed through the city.
It is reported that the scale of this event is the largest ever, jointly hosted by the Dalian Municipal Bureau of Sports (大连市体育局), the Dalian Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism (大连市文化和旅游局), and Lei Yueye (Beijing) Sports Development Co., Ltd. (雷越野（北京）体育发展有限公司). It was divided into four groups: 100km, 73km, 53km, and 29km, with three waves of starts.
This year, the track design has been further optimized, focusing on the southern coastal tourism belt, integrating the local mountain and sea scenery and popular tourist spots. Ten supply points were also set up along the way, with special arrangements for Dalian (大连) specialties such as seafood porridge and seaweed buns. More than 50 signposts and more than 6,000 road signs were set up along the race to ensure that athletes clearly understand the track information.
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"Your high blood pressure is stable, but remember to take your medicine on time and get some rest..." In the clinic of Meitang Village (梅塘村), Qiantan Town (乾潭镇), Jiande City (建德市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), village doctor Wu Guangchao (吴光潮) patiently instructed villager Wu Linxing (吴林星) after reviewing his medical examination report.
Wu Linxing (吴林星), who usually lives in the city taking care of his grandson, had recently completed a medical examination. This time, he made a special trip back to the village to see Wu Guangchao (吴光潮) with his report. "I've been seeing him for over 10 years, he knows my situation best."
Wu Guangchao (吴光潮) has been a village doctor in Meitang Village (梅塘村) for 59 years. Everyone seeks him out for minor ailments. "He's been helping me with medical care since I was a child," said villager Wu Liuxian (吴六仙), who came to have her blood pressure checked. "When I had a stomachache in the middle of the night as a child, my parents would knock on Uncle Wu's (吴大伯) door, and he would definitely come with his medicine kit." In everyone's eyes, Wu Guangchao (吴光潮) is trustworthy and very kind.
In the lower left drawer of Wu Guangchao's (吴光潮) desk is a rusty iron box filled with coins. Since 1983, he has adhered to his promise of "one yuan for medical treatment" for the villagers, charging only one yuan for each consultation, injection, or dressing.
"Measuring blood pressure and taking pulses for the villagers are free. Only when medicine and treatment are needed, I charge one yuan for the consultation fee," he said. Many villagers do not use electronic payments, and they are used to using cash, so this iron box has been preserved to this day.
In addition to the iron box, there is also a notebook in the drawer, densely filled with the medical records of the villagers. "When people come to see me, I record it in this notebook. Now, the medical records of the entire village are in my heart."
Today, Meitang Natural Village (梅塘自然村) has been merged into Lingshang New Village (陵上新村) in Qiantan Town (乾潭镇), but the clinic has been preserved. Xu Hongwei (徐红卫), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Village Committee of Lingshang New Village (陵上新村), said: "We specially retained the clinic in Meitang Village (梅塘村) so that Doctor Wu (吴医生) can continue to serve the villagers."
Wu Guangchao (吴光潮) told reporters that Meitang Village (梅塘村) currently has about 450 permanent residents, mostly elderly people. For them, the clinic is also a base for daily activities. "Many young people have gone out, and the elderly like to chat and reminisce here, so we have to leave them a place to relieve boredom."
For more than half a century, Wu Guangchao (吴光潮) has witnessed the changes in the village clinic, from adobe houses to ancestral halls, and then from ancestral halls to concrete houses. Now it has a new look: aluminum alloy windows have been installed in the infusion room, a caring enterprise has donated infusion chairs, air conditioners, and air purifiers, and a new set of remote medical systems has been added, so villagers can directly make online appointments with contracted doctors at the town central hospital...
How can he sustain charging one yuan for medical treatment? He told reporters that since 2014, the town government has provided the village clinic with a subsidy of 40,000 yuan per year for medical expenses other than villagers' consultation fees. The medical expenses for people from this village and other villages add up to 40,000 to 50,000 yuan a year, which is basically break-even. Not only that, local public welfare organizations and enterprises also regularly donate some supplies and medical equipment to the clinic. "I now have a pension of 3,200 yuan per month, which is enough for the two of us to live on," said Wu Guangchao (吴光潮).
In recent years, Wu Guangchao's (吴光潮) deeds have spread from the village and he has been successively named National Excellent Village Doctor, Good Man of China, and "Integrity Star" of 2020. His story has also become popular on short video platforms, and many people have come from other places especially to see him.
The sudden popularity has made Wu Guangchao (吴光潮), who is nearly eighty years old, a little overwhelmed. "I am a doctor, and I certainly can't refuse anyone who comes for a consultation, but it's really a bit too busy." He said that during this period, he has had hundreds of friend requests on WeChat, and his mobile phone rings from time to time, with people consulting about their conditions or making appointments.
"Some people call me 'miracle doctor' as soon as they open their mouths. I am just an ordinary village doctor, not as miraculous as everyone says." Wu Guangchao (吴光潮) is somewhat at a loss about this.
However, more than these things, Wu Guangchao (吴光潮) is more worried about the future of the village clinic. "Now it is not easy to recruit a village doctor in the village. Young people have ideals and ambitions, and it is understandable to choose to go to a big hospital. But it would be better if someone could take over my job."
At the entrance of the clinic in Meitang Village (梅塘村), there is an introduction sign for Wu Guangchao (吴光潮), which says: Since you choose to be a doctor, you choose to dedicate yourself. "As long as you trust me, I will keep doing it," said Wu Guangchao (吴光潮).
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Currently, against the backdrop of the reshaping of the international economic and trade landscape and industrial division of labor system, accelerating the improvement of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics is quite necessary and urgent. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, promoting the spirit of entrepreneurs, and accelerating the construction of world-class enterprises." The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee deployed "improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, promoting the spirit of entrepreneurs, supporting and guiding all types of enterprises to improve the efficiency of resource and factor utilization and management level, fulfilling social responsibilities, and accelerating the construction of more world-class enterprises."
The "Opinions on Improving the Modern Enterprise System with Chinese Characteristics" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") is a landmark reform measure to implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. It is conducive to stimulating the innovation vitality of various enterprises through reform, and enhancing the ability of enterprises to cope with external risks through optimizing governance, thereby enhancing the resilience of the Chinese economy and new advantages in international cooperation and competition.
Accelerating the Improvement of the Modern Enterprise System with Chinese Characteristics is of Great Significance
At present, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace, the momentum of world economic growth is insufficient, and unilateralism and protectionism are intensifying. To achieve "effective improvement in quality" and "reasonable growth in quantity" in the macro economy, it is inseparable from enterprises as the micro foundation.
Accelerating the improvement of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics is conducive to consolidating and enhancing the momentum of China's economy towards new and better development. The "Opinions" pointed out that "adhering to and implementing the 'two unswervingly', promoting the complementary advantages and common development of various ownership economies, and fully stimulating the endogenous power and innovation vitality of various enterprises." This is precisely the key support for consolidating and enhancing the current economic momentum. To promote the accelerated transformation of old and new kinetic energy in China's economy, it is necessary to further improve the enterprise incentive innovation system, improve the efficient allocation mechanism of innovation factors, optimize the industrial organization form, and promote the integrated innovation and development of large, medium and small enterprises.
Accelerating the improvement of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics is conducive to promoting high-quality economic development through enterprise system innovation. Deepening enterprise system innovation is conducive to promoting scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, industrial transformation and upgrading, and providing strong support for the comprehensive green transformation of the economy and society. At the same time, guiding all types of enterprises to better fulfill their social responsibilities, enhance the guarantee of people's livelihood and the quality of population development through high-quality solutions to employment, increase the training of new types of talents, thereby enhancing the stamina and momentum of high-quality economic development.
Accelerating the improvement of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics is conducive to strengthening the awareness and ability of modern enterprises to cope with risks. With the intensification of unilateralism and protectionism, some of China's export-oriented enterprises are facing greater pressure. In response, it is urgent to shape the image of Chinese enterprises, strengthen and expand national brands, enhance the resilience and reliability of the domestic cycle, and provide a solid foundation for actively participating in reshaping the international economic and trade landscape.
The Modern Enterprise System with Chinese Characteristics has Distinct Characteristics
The leadership of the Party is the fundamental feature and distinct characteristic of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics. Unswervingly implementing the Party's line, principles and policies is the key to ensuring that the development and governance of modern enterprises advance in the right direction and achieve their goals. Improving the institutional mechanism for the Party to lead state-owned enterprises and strengthening and improving Party building in non-public enterprises can play a guiding role in condensing the soul and focusing on the main business.
Systematically strengthening institutional supporting guarantees to enhance the ability of Chinese enterprises to break through to new heights. The "Opinions" proposed "improving the incentive mechanism oriented to innovation" and "encouraging various financial institutions to give play to their unique advantages and develop financial products suitable for the characteristics of technology-based enterprises with light assets." These are all related measures to implement the relevant deployments of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on "strengthening the institutional supply in new fields and new tracks, and establishing a growth mechanism for future industrial investment," which is conducive to boosting corporate confidence and willingness to innovate independently.
Improving fair and unified market supervision and accelerating the formation of a good order of "letting go" and "managing well." In the process of deepening the reform of the modern enterprise system, it is necessary to dialectically handle the relationship between the "visible hand" and the "invisible hand" to create a good market environment. In addition to supervising in accordance with regulations, the government should also provide services, including improving the access system, improving access efficiency, providing factor guarantees, and optimizing the market exit mechanism.
Protecting property rights and interests in accordance with the law and improving the basic system of the market economy. The "Opinions" clearly stated that "respecting the independent legal person property rights of enterprises and forming an enterprise property rights system with clear ownership, reasonable structure, and smooth circulation." Specific to equity, taking problems as the orientation, emphasizing classification and implementation of policies, state-owned enterprises form an operating mechanism with diversified equity structure, standardized behavior, effective constraints, and efficient operation according to their functional positioning, and encourage private enterprises to build a simple, clear, and transparent equity structure.
Guiding All Types of Enterprises to Focus on Intrinsic Value and Long-term Value
To comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of more world-class enterprises with excellent products, outstanding brands, leading innovation, and modern governance.
The "Opinions" emphasized the need to "cultivate more dynamic, resilient, and competitive modern enterprises," aiming to guide all types of enterprises to focus on intrinsic value and long-term value, adhere to long-termism, avoid 急功近利 (jí gōng jìn lì - "eager for quick success and instant benefit," seeking instant results and short-term gains), and win by high standards and high quality. It can be said that the more such "modern enterprises" there are and the larger the scale, the stronger the resilience of the Chinese economy and the higher the internal stability.
Modern enterprises should strive to improve the level of scientific management, especially to strengthen risk management capabilities. The "Opinions" clearly stated that state-owned enterprise groups should establish and improve a multi-level risk early warning and prevention and disposal mechanism to prevent domestic and foreign investment and operation risks. Encourage private enterprises to establish internal risk prevention and control and risk early warning mechanisms, and embed various risk prevention and control requirements into all aspects of operation and management.
Modern enterprises should strengthen their sense of mission and responsibility, better fulfill their social responsibilities, and better promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Improving the enterprise income distribution system is one of the main ways to promote the increase of household income. While the "Opinions" proposed "promoting enterprises to improve the mechanism for reasonable growth of wages," it also proposed "promoting listed companies to carry out medium and long-term incentives and formulate stable and long-term cash dividend policies," which reflects the systematic thinking of promoting modern enterprises to achieve social value.
On the journey of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, modern enterprises should better reflect social responsibility and responsibility. For example, some platform enterprises have recently actively provided channels for the export of foreign trade commodities to domestic sales, and voluntarily paid social insurance premiums for flexible employment groups. These are all vivid practices of excellent traditional Chinese cultural concepts such as "honesty and trustworthiness, taking righteousness for profit, and adhering to integrity and innovation" at the enterprise management level, which are worthy of praise and promotion.
(The author is the Deputy Director and Researcher of the Institute of Economics of the National Development and Reform Commission, compiled by Li Xinping (李心萍), a reporter of this newspaper)
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Not long ago, Wang Liang (王亮), an auxiliary police officer from the Baiquan County Public Security Bureau Detention Center (拜泉县公安局看守所) in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), received a personal third-class merit medal; his unit is also preparing to nominate him for the third quarter's "Good Person of Longjiang" title... all stemming from his heroic "three-second life-or-death rescue."
The timeline goes back to the evening of April 30th. In a local residential area, the piercing roar of a motorcycle engine shattered the original tranquility. A motorcycle suddenly lost control due to a malfunctioning handbrake, rushing like a wild horse directly towards an 8-year-old boy playing not far away. The boy was facing away from the motorcycle, completely unaware of the rapidly approaching danger.
At that time, Wang Liang, off duty, was playing with his 6-year-old daughter and the boy in the residential area. At that critical moment, he didn't have time to think. While shouting "Get out of the way!", he darted towards the boy. His right hand quickly reached under the boy's armpits, pulling him back abruptly, and then tightly embraced him. "Another half-second, and the little boy might have been hit by the motorcycle." A resident who witnessed the scene recalled with lingering fear.
The out-of-control motorcycle grazed their clothes and whizzed past, crashing heavily beside Wang Liang's daughter. The sound of the impact and her scream occurred almost simultaneously. After confirming the boy was safe, Wang Liang quickly ran to his daughter.
The motorcycle owner, Li (李), recalled that he was preparing to drive to a repair shop. Although he had applied the handbrake, a sudden failure in the handbrake device caused the vehicle to lose control. "Fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable!" Li said.
After examination, the rescued boy and Wang Liang were uninjured. Wang Liang's daughter suffered minor abrasions, which were treated simply at the hospital and were no longer a concern. The emotional distress caused by the shock had also subsided.
"He is our family's savior!" On the morning of May 6th, the rescued boy's parents brought their child to Wang Liang's unit, presenting him with a silk banner. The boy's mother choked up several times, "You gave our child a second life." Facing the family's gratitude, he repeatedly waved his hand, "Anyone would have done the same."
On-site surveillance video showed that it took Wang Liang less than 3 seconds from discovering the danger to successfully carrying out the rescue. Netizens commented: "These 3 seconds are a perfect combination of professional instinct and the brilliance of humanity." 千钧一发 (qiān jūn yī fà - "thousand jun one hair," a hair's breadth; imminent peril).
Return to TopOn May 26, the 2025 Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Industry Vocational Skills Competition and the National Cultural Relics Industry Vocational Skills Competition Beijing Selection Competition were held in Miyun District (密云区).
More than 200 contestants from 44 units participated in the selection competition, competing in six projects: Metal Cultural Relics Restorer, Ceramic Cultural Relics Restorer, Paper Painting and Calligraphy Cultural Relics Restorer, Wooden Structure Cultural Relics Restorer, Brick and Tile Structure Cultural Relics Restorer, and Archaeological Excavation Worker. The top two in each project will participate in the 2025 National Cultural Relics Industry Vocational Skills Competition as Beijing (北京) contestants. The picture shows the Paper Painting and Calligraphy Cultural Relics Restorer in the competition.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zhonghao (陈钟昊) photographed.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 26th (Reporter Yang Hao (杨昊)) The "Science and Technology Empowering Rural Development: 2025 Rural Revitalization Her Power Dialogue" was recently held in Fenghuang County (凤凰县), Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (湘西土家族苗族自治州), Hunan Province. With the theme of "Technological Progress Brings New Opportunities for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment," the event focused on exploring how technological progress can provide new development opportunities for rural women, focusing on the impact of digital transformation and technological innovation on women's economic empowerment, social participation, and power enhancement. The event not only showcased China's innovative path in eliminating poverty and promoting balanced regional development but also contributed Chinese wisdom to promoting gender-sensitive rural development and digital transformation globally.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the "Beijing Declaration" and the "Platform for Action." Through various forms such as dialogue and exchange, case presentations, and visualization of excellent cases, the event summarized the latest practices and trends of women in China and around the world using technological innovation to drive development, explored rural development from the perspective of gender equality and women's empowerment, promoted knowledge sharing and cooperation among developing countries, and reached important consensus on jointly promoting science and technology to empower rural women's development and promote gender equality and other issues.
Return to TopThis reporter learned from the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) that since the launch of the basic medical insurance fund real-time settlement in January this year, the reform has exceeded expectations in speed and demonstrated significant results. This reform empowers pharmaceutical institutions by minimizing the settlement cycle between medical insurance and designated medical institutions.
As of May 6, the number of unified planning areas nationwide that have launched real-time settlement reached 300, accounting for 77% of the unified planning areas nationwide, an increase of 130 from the beginning of April. It covers 361,800 designated medical institutions, an increase of 223,800 from the beginning of April, including 154,800 designated medical institutions, an increase of 80,800 from the beginning of April; and 207,000 designated pharmacies, an increase of 143,000 from the beginning of April.
Currently, 60% of the unified planning areas that have launched the program have chosen to increase the frequency of payments. In order to implement measures tailored to local conditions and classified policies, each unified planning area can choose one or more methods to promote reform based on the local medical insurance fund operation and the reform willingness of designated medical institutions. According to statistics, 180 unified planning areas nationwide have chosen a settlement method that increases the frequency of payments, with a settlement time limit of 1-7 working days after the medical expenses are incurred. 223 unified planning areas have chosen to compress the monthly settlement cycle, with a settlement time limit of within 20 working days after the deadline for designated medical institutions to declare. 19 unified planning areas have chosen the method of monthly advance payments, in which a certain amount of funds is pre-allocated to designated medical institutions on a monthly basis before medical expenses are incurred.
Since the beginning of this year, 300 unified planning areas nationwide that have launched real-time settlement have cumulatively allocated 300.1 billion yuan of medical insurance funds. At the same time, 284 unified planning areas in 29 provinces have prepaid 76.3 billion yuan of medical insurance funds. The two reform policies are working in the same direction, synergistically empowering the development of designated medical institutions and reducing the medical burden on insured people.
Beijing (北京), May 26th. (Reporter Sun Xiuyan (孙秀艳))
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According to US media reports, the White House (白宫) on May 25th requested Harvard University (哈佛大学) to submit the "names and nationalities" of all international students. Previously, a federal judge had just halted the government's executive order prohibiting Harvard University from enrolling international students. US media believes that the US federal government's "international recruitment ban" on Harvard University (哈佛大学) is the latest move in its recent strong crackdown on multiple universities, which will further reduce the attractiveness of the United States and exacerbate the "brain drain."
"This retaliatory action could cause serious damage to the Harvard community and the United States"
In recent days, the US federal government's policy of prohibiting Harvard University (哈佛大学) from enrolling international students has continued to spark heated discussions. On May 22nd, the US Department of Homeland Security (美国国土安全部) announced the revocation of Harvard University's (哈佛大学) student and exchange visitor program certification, prohibiting the school from enrolling international students and requiring current foreign students to transfer schools, otherwise they will lose their legal status. US Secretary of Homeland Security, Norm (诺姆), stated that "enrolling international students is a privilege, not a right," and because Harvard University (哈佛大学) has repeatedly violated federal laws, this privilege has been revoked. The decision to revoke the certification will take effect from the 2025-2026 academic year. Harvard University's (哈佛大学) Class of 2025 will graduate soon, and international students completing their studies this semester can graduate normally; international students who have not yet completed their studies need to transfer to other universities, otherwise they will lose their legal residency permit in the United States.
This move by the US federal government has sparked strong opposition from Harvard University (哈佛大学), and Harvard University (哈佛大学) filed another lawsuit against the federal government on the 23rd. Harvard University (哈佛大学) issued a statement criticizing the US federal government for "blatantly violating" the US Constitution and federal laws. The statement said that Harvard University's (哈佛大学) international students and scholars bring tremendous wealth to Harvard University (哈佛大学) and the entire country, "This retaliatory action could cause serious damage to the Harvard community and the United States, and damage Harvard's academic and research mission." The school is acting quickly to provide guidance and support to affected students. Harvard University (哈佛大学) President Alan M. Garber (艾伦·M·加伯) wrote in a letter to members of the Harvard community: "We condemn this illegal and improper action. This action jeopardizes the future of thousands of students and scholars at Harvard University (哈佛大学), and also sounds the alarm for many students from universities across the United States who come to the United States to study and pursue their dreams."
On May 23rd, a judge in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts (马萨诸塞州联邦地区法院) issued a temporary restraining order against the US federal government's policy prohibiting Harvard University (哈佛大学) from enrolling international students, requiring that the "status quo" be maintained until a hearing is held. Judge Allison Burroughs (艾莉森·伯勒斯) said in a ruling that Harvard University's (哈佛大学) motion for a temporary restraining order pointed out that it would suffer "immediate and irreparable harm" if it failed to hear from all parties in a timely manner. Therefore, the court ordered that the status quo be maintained until the hearing is held, that the issuance of a temporary restraining order is justified, and that the plaintiff's motion is approved. Information on the court's website shows that the hearing is scheduled to be held at the court at 10:30 am local time on May 29th.
According to Harvard University (哈佛大学) data, as of the fall semester of 2023, international students accounted for more than 27% of the total number of Harvard students. Currently, Harvard University (哈佛大学) enrolls nearly 6,800 international students and scholars from more than 140 countries and regions, most of whom are pursuing graduate programs. The Associated Press reported that the conflict between the US federal government and Harvard University (哈佛大学), the oldest and wealthiest university in the United States, is escalating. The New York Times (《纽约时报》) commented that this marks a "significant escalation of pressure tactics" by the US government to force this elite institution to comply with the White House's (白宫) political agenda. This latest move will directly weaken the ability of top US universities to attract outstanding students from around the world, further advancing the US government's attempt to undermine the country's higher education culture. For a long time, gathering global talent has been one of the main sources of academic, economic, and technological strength in the United States.
"International students are being used as bargaining chips, which is too inhumane"
Canceling the qualification to enroll international students is the latest move by the US federal government to suppress Harvard University (哈佛大学). In April of this year, after Harvard University (哈佛大学) rejected the US federal government's request to reform its management structure, recruitment, and enrollment policies, the federal government froze a multi-year grant of $2.2 billion to the school, as well as a multi-year contract of $60 million. In addition, the US federal government has also threatened to consider stripping Harvard University (哈佛大学) of its tax-exempt status.
Harvard University (哈佛大学) filed a lawsuit against the federal government on April 21st, accusing the government of attempting to manipulate Harvard University's (哈佛大学) academic decisions by freezing federal funds. The Association of American Colleges and Universities recently issued an open letter saying: "As leaders of American colleges, universities, and academic organizations, we unanimously oppose the current unprecedented government overreach and political interference that endangers American higher education." As of April 29th, this open letter has been signed by 562 leaders of American colleges, universities, and academic organizations.
In fact, since January of this year, the US federal government has issued threats to multiple US universities, saying that if the schools do not adjust their policies, they will face the consequences of funding cuts. In March, Columbia University's (哥伦比亚大学) $400 million federal grant was revoked, and federal grants to universities such as Cornell University (康奈尔大学) and Northwestern University (西北大学) were also frozen and faced investigation. The New York Times (《纽约时报》) said that the federal government is touting its actions as a fight against anti-Semitism, but is also targeting programs and teaching content related to racial diversity and gender issues. The government claims that Harvard University (哈佛大学) and other schools are turning a blind eye to anti-Semitic speech and harassment on campus.
Leo Gerden (里奥·格尔登), a Swedish student at Harvard University (哈佛大学), said, "International students are being used as bargaining chips, which is too inhumane," and "Without international students, Harvard is no longer Harvard." Matthew Morrison (马修·莫里森), who just graduated from the University of North Carolina Asheville (北卡罗来纳大学阿什维尔分校), said that politics should not interfere with education. "I think it's absurd, I don't see any legitimate reason. I think international students, like everyone else, have a lot to contribute, and it's ridiculous to ban people from coming here to study, it's simply outrageous... It's about the integrity of the United States," Morrison (莫里森) said.
"Undermining the foundation of academic freedom in the United States"
A series of policies by the US federal government have made US scientific research talents feel worried. At the end of March, approximately 1,900 members of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (美国国家科学、工程和医学学院) released an open letter calling on the federal government to "stop the comprehensive attack on the US scientific enterprise." The open letter said, "The government is cutting research funding, laying off thousands of scientists, revoking public access to scientific data, and forcing researchers to change or abandon their work for ideological reasons." For this reason, members of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (美国国家科学、工程和医学学院) had to unite to send a "distress signal" to the public.
Fanta Aw (范塔·阿乌), CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators (美国国际教育工作者协会), said that the recent actions by the White House (白宫) to expel some international students have further reduced people's enthusiasm for US schools. The website of The Hill (《国会山报》) commented that, like the revocation of research funding, attempts to expel international students may actually cause the United States to lose future innovators and entrepreneurs. The Washington Post (《华盛顿邮报》) said in an editorial that the government's administrative intervention in university admissions is "politicizing education," which seriously deviates from the traditional principle of independence in American higher education, and is "**正在破坏美国学术自由的根基**" (zhèngzài pòhuài měiguó xuéshù zìyóu de gēnjī - "is destroying the foundation of academic freedom in the United States," fundamentally harming the principles of free inquiry and expression in American academia) and damaging the reputation of the United States as a global academic center.
The Economist (《经济学人》) magazine stated that the US federal government has taken a series of tough measures in the field of education, resulting in sharp reductions in research funding, erratic visa policies, and increasing academic intervention, which are gradually destroying the attractiveness of US universities and research institutions to global talent. According to statistics from the British website "Find a PhD," in April of this year, searches for US doctoral degrees decreased by 40% year-on-year, and European students' interest in US doctoral degrees decreased by half. An article on the Nikkei (《日本经济新闻》) website believes that outstanding talents from around the world once supported the prosperity of the United States, but the US government is trying to cut off this cycle.
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In the past year, as many as 69% of Middle Eastern companies have experienced cyberattacks, 41% of Middle Eastern organizations have recorded distributed denial-of-service attacks, and another 39% of Middle Eastern companies have experienced internal threats or credential theft... A set of data released during the 14th Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference held in Dubai (迪拜), United Arab Emirates (阿联酋) recently shows that the Middle East is increasingly becoming a target for high-tech crime. Faced with the severe cybersecurity situation, how emerging market countries can strengthen cybersecurity has become the core issue of this year's Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference.
The Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference this year was themed "Protecting the AI-driven Future," attracting approximately 25,000 representatives from 160 countries and regions. Mohammed al-Kuwaiti (穆罕默德·科威提), head of cybersecurity for the UAE government, said that maintaining cybersecurity is a common challenge facing all parties. The UAE experiences approximately 200,000 cyberattacks every day, including hacking, phishing, and ransomware attacks. He said that some criminals are abusing artificial intelligence technology, thereby changing the form of cybercrime. Government agencies, private companies, medical and educational institutions, and even ordinary people's laptops and smartphones, may become targets of attack.
Mohammed (穆罕默德) called on all parties to strengthen bilateral cooperation to combat cybercrime and strengthen the cultivation of artificial intelligence and related talents. He said that talent investment is a major pillar to ensure the UAE's cybersecurity environment. Currently, the Higher Colleges of Technology (阿联酋高等技术学院) in the UAE has designed a cybersecurity master's degree program. Previously, the UAE government also announced that starting from the next academic year, public schools of all ages in the UAE will establish compulsory artificial intelligence courses.
During the conference, a number of seminars were also held to build consensus on addressing cybersecurity challenges. Eugene Kaspersky (尤金·卡巴斯基), founder and CEO of cybersecurity company Kaspersky (卡巴斯基), said that artificial intelligence is a "double-edged sword," and all parties need to make greater efforts to maintain cybersecurity. Faisal (费萨尔), technical head of Huawei (华为) in the Middle East and Central Asia, introduced measures to use artificial intelligence technology for email security screening. "For example, suspicious emails received at night are usually not discovered until the morning. We analyze their source, IP address, and whether these emails are regular, so as to judge their security."
A number of Chinese cybersecurity companies introduced relevant solutions at the conference. For example, a company in Beijing (北京) demonstrated network protection technology directly embedded in the hardware layer, thereby greatly improving network security. Many participants said in interviews that they are willing to strengthen cooperation with China (中国) in maintaining cybersecurity. Samuel George (塞缪尔·乔治), Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation of Ghana (加纳), said that a large amount of IT infrastructure used in Ghana comes from China, and China is an important participant in the field of high-tech cooperation. "独行快，众行远 (dú xíng kuài, zhòng xíng yuǎn - "walk alone fast, walk together far," it is faster to travel alone, but one can travel farther with company). We look forward to China playing a more critical role in leading cooperation among regulatory agencies and private companies to jointly address cybersecurity challenges," George (乔治) said.
(Reported from Dubai (迪拜) by Gerard Al-Fares (杰勒德·阿勒费尔) of the Middle East Central Branch of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐 馨
The new German federal government was recently sworn in. The ruling coalition, composed of the CDU/CSU (联盟党) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) (社会民主党（社民党）), has set the revitalization of the German economy as its core objective. It has proposed a series of reform measures in areas such as infrastructure, taxation, and energy, aiming to stimulate industrial innovation and reshape Germany's leading position in the European economy.
In recent years, the German economy has fallen into structural difficulties. In 2023 and 2024, Germany's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 0.3% and 0.2% respectively. The growth forecast for 2025 has been lowered from 0.3% at the beginning of the year to zero, facing the risk of economic stagnation for three consecutive years. As an economy with an export dependence of up to 50%, the energy crisis triggered by geopolitical conflicts has become a major shock factor—the Ukraine crisis has led to soaring natural gas prices, and high energy costs have further weakened the international competitiveness of pillar industries such as automobiles, chemicals, and machinery manufacturing. Some companies have been forced to reduce domestic production capacity or transfer it overseas. At the same time, domestic labor shortages and lagging digital transformation have also suppressed economic vitality.
In order to reverse the predicament, the new German government has launched an economic revitalization plan covering six major areas, with a €500 billion infrastructure and climate protection fund as the core focus. Digitalization and infrastructure upgrades are key directions. Of the €500 billion fund, €200 billion will be used for intelligent transportation infrastructure, such as the expansion of the high-speed rail network and the upgrading of the Rhine River waterway; €150 billion will be invested in 5G network and smart grid construction; €100 billion will be used to support the green transformation of traditional industrial areas; and €50 billion will be used for artificial intelligence and semiconductor research and development. The German government will continue to advance the "Industry 4.0" strategy, planning to invest €5 billion over the next three years to support 30,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in digital transformation, with the goal of building 10 intelligent factory clusters by 2030, promoting the digital transformation and development of the German economy, and enhancing German industrial competitiveness.
In terms of tax and administrative reform, the German government will reduce income tax for low- and middle-income earners within two years, implement a 30% declining balance depreciation method for corporate equipment investment (2025-2027), and plans to gradually reduce the corporate income tax rate from 2028. It will further reduce corporate administrative costs, shortening the project construction approval cycle from an average of more than 5 years to within 18 months.
In the energy sector, a policy of "short-term stable supply" and "long-term transformation" is being implemented. In the short term, the use of traditional energy sources such as natural gas will be extended to stabilize energy prices. In the long term, the accelerated development of renewable energy will be promoted, increasing the 2030 wind power installed capacity target from 65 gigawatts to 100 gigawatts, and establishing a €20 billion hydrogen energy industry fund to promote the application of green hydrogen in the industrial sector.
Labor market reform adopts an "internal and external tapping potential" strategy, attracting highly skilled immigrants from abroad by simplifying visa procedures and international talent recruitment policies to fill technical job vacancies. Domestically, it promotes "flexible retirement" reform, increasing the female labor participation rate from 73% to 80% through tax incentives and other measures, and encouraging companies to hire employees over 55 years of age.
Analysts point out that the German government's economic revitalization reform measures have injected new hope into the German economy. In the future, whether Germany can reshape its economic competitiveness will mainly depend on the efficiency of policy implementation and the impact of the external environment. In the short term, fiscal stimulus and tax cuts are expected to boost business confidence and stimulate investment and consumption. The German government's previously released spring economic forecast report believes that the German economy may grow by 1% in 2026. In the long term, the structural transformation of the German economy is crucial, and reforms in digitalization, green energy, and the labor market require sustained investment and cross-party cooperation.
(Reported from Berlin (柏林) on May 26th by this newspaper)
Return to TopMei Salong (美斯乐) in Chiang Rai Province (清莱府), Northern Thailand, is located at an altitude of approximately 1350 meters. Local villagers take advantage of this favorable geographical condition to cultivate oolong tea on a large scale, exporting it to Europe, the United States, China (中国), and other places, boosting local economic development.
(People's Daily reporters Zhang Niansheng (章念生) and Bai Yuanqi (白元琪))
Return to TopLusaka, May 25th (Xinhua) -- (Reporter Peng Lijun (彭立军)) A grand event was held in Lusaka (卢萨卡), the capital of Zambia (赞比亚), on May 25th to commemorate "Africa Day" and remember the predecessors who contributed to the cause of African national liberation. Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema (希奇莱马), government officials, military representatives, and ambassadors from various countries to Zambia (赞比亚) attended the event and laid wreaths at the Freedom Statue, which symbolizes Zambia's (赞比亚) independence.
In a statement issued that day, Hichilema (希奇莱马) commemorated the pioneers who contributed to the liberation of the African continent, saying that their vision and heroic struggle paved the way for African independence and unity. He called on African countries to reaffirm their commitment to the spirit of Pan-African unity and work together to promote peace, security and sustainable prosperity in Africa. "Africa must not be divided by conflict at a time when the dream of unity and prosperity is within reach."
On May 25, 1963, the predecessor of the African Union, the "Organization of African Unity," was established, and May 25 was designated as "Africa Day."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, London, May 26 (Reporter Zhao Xiaona (赵小娜)) The British government officially nationalized the Southwest Railway Company (西南铁路公司) on the 25th, marking a key step in the Labour government's railway reform and opening a new stage of "de-privatization" of British railways.
The Southwest Railway Company (西南铁路公司) is one of the main regional railway operators in the UK, responsible for operating lines from London (伦敦) to several important cities and towns in southern England, including Reading (雷丁), Portsmouth (朴次茅斯), Bournemouth (伯恩茅斯) and Exeter (埃克塞特).
British Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander (海迪·亚历山大) said at the departure ceremony of the first state-owned train at Waterloo Station (滑铁卢车站) in London (伦敦) that day that this move is a turning point for British railways to "get out of 30 years of fragmented operation, inefficiency and passenger disappointment."
According to the government's plan, all railway services currently contracted with the Department for Transport will return to state ownership by the end of 2027, and will be managed by the future Great British Railways (大不列颠铁路公司), which will uniformly manage train operations and railway infrastructure.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Gaza, May 26th (Reporter Huang Zemin (黄泽民)) - According to the Palestinian News Agency on the 26th, Israeli forces bombed two locations in the northern Gaza Strip on the same day, killing at least 49 Palestinians.
The report stated that Israeli forces bombed a school in Gaza City that was housing displaced people, killing at least 30 people and injuring dozens more. Israeli forces also bombed a house in the Jabalia area, killing at least 19 people, including women and children.
The Israel Defense Forces (以色列国防军) issued a statement on the 26th, saying that from the night of the 25th to the early morning of the 26th, the Israeli army attacked a command and control center of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) (巴勒斯坦伊斯兰抵抗运动（哈马斯）) and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Organization (杰哈德) in a school in the Gaza City area.
According to data released by the Gaza Strip Health Department on the 25th, since March 18, Israeli attacks on various parts of the Gaza Strip have caused at least 3,785 deaths and 10,756 injuries.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Nanning (南宁) May 26th dispatch (Reporter Pang Geping (庞革平)) Recently, the 2025 China (Guangxi (广西)) - ASEAN Mining Cooperation Conference Mining High-Quality Development Seminar was held in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西). The seminar focused on the green transformation path of the mining industry and deepening China-ASEAN mining cooperation, bringing together government officials, experts, scholars, and business representatives from China and ASEAN countries to jointly explore new paths for high-quality mining development and safeguarding national resource and energy security.
At the seminar, Zhang Hongtao (张洪涛), former Counselor of the State Council of China, Rafael M. de Araújo, President of the National Minerals Authority of Timor-Leste, Liu Dawen (刘大文), Deputy Director of the Testing Center of the China Geological Survey, Azharia Indrawardhana, representative of the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, and other guest representatives delivered speeches successively, focusing on topics such as "Opportunities and Challenges of Mining Transformation," "Using a Legal Framework to Ensure the Quality of Mining Development in Timor-Leste," "Rapid Evaluation and Exploration Methods for Mineral Resources," and "Indonesian Mining Development Trends and Foreign Investment Policies." While paying attention to the development and utilization of mineral resources in Guangxi (广西), they also offered suggestions for safeguarding national resource and energy security and combating illegal resource mining.
The participating experts and scholars believe that high-quality mining development is an important support for building a beautiful China and also the direction of global mining development. China and ASEAN have strong complementarity in mineral resources, and all parties should strengthen policy dialogue, technical cooperation, and market linkage to jointly promote the green, low-carbon, and intelligent development of the mining industry.
Return to TopCommunities are the basic units of urban governance. Although small, communities are connected to thousands of households. Nowadays, many foreign friends come to China to work and live, taking root in cities and settling in communities. Their lives in China demonstrate the inclusiveness of China in the new era and write stories of cultural exchange between China and foreign countries.
Kumar (库玛尔), a Nepalese resident of Jimingshan Community (鸡鸣山社区), Yiwu City (义乌市), Zhejiang Province:
Finding satisfaction in being a "Mediator"
By Dou Hanyang (窦瀚洋), reporter of this newspaper
"I want compensation!" Not long ago, at the "International Mediator" studio in Jimingshan Community (鸡鸣山社区), Jiangdong Subdistrict (江东街道), Yiwu City (义乌市), Zhejiang Province, a Turkish businessman angrily came to seek help because a merchant had delayed delivery twice. The mediator was also a "foreigner" – Raj Kumar (拉吉·库玛尔), a Nepalese businessman. Kumar (库玛尔) comforted the Turkish businessman while patiently persuading the merchant, "You still have to take responsibility for the delay." After some back and forth, the two sides finally shook hands and made peace.
Yiwu (义乌) is known as the "World Supermarket." The Yiwu International Trade City (义乌国际商贸城) has approximately 75,000 merchants, and its goods are sold worldwide. Jimingshan Community (鸡鸣山社区), adjacent to the International Trade City (义乌国际商贸城), has nearly 1,400 foreign residents from 74 countries and regions, and is known as the "United Nations Community." Wang Xiaoxiao (王校校), Secretary of the Party Committee of Jimingshan Community (鸡鸣山社区), introduced that "Mediator" usually refers to enthusiastic community mediators. Jimingshan Community (鸡鸣山社区) innovatively launched the "International Mediator" studio. Most of the mediators are foreigners who are familiar with languages and cultures, making it easier to establish trust with foreign parties.
"I feel very fulfilled when I can help everyone resolve conflicts." Kumar (库玛尔) said with a smile that since joining the mediation team in 2017, he has participated in handling more than 150 disputes. "As a member of the community, I have enjoyed many resources here, and I also want to do something to give back to everyone."
Kumar (库玛尔) came to Yiwu (义乌) in 2011 to do business. Due to language barriers, life was inconvenient. "At that time, I couldn't speak any Chinese. It was difficult to ask for directions and buy things." Kumar (库玛尔) said that the community opened free Chinese training classes in 2014, and he signed up immediately. Now he can communicate fluently in Mandarin. It is reported that the Chinese training classes in Jimingshan Community (鸡鸣山社区) have served more than 120,000 foreign residents from 57 countries and regions. To meet diverse language needs, the community also offers English corners, Spanish corners, and Arabic corners. Kumar (库玛尔) also "guest stars" as an English corner teacher in his spare time.
In recent years, Yiwu (义乌) has continuously optimized foreign-related services and continuously improved the business environment. In May 2024, Zhejiang's (浙江) first online platform for foreign immigration affairs, "Yi Jing" (义境), was launched in Yiwu (义乌), providing foreign nationals with comprehensive services covering all aspects of life and business. Jimingshan Community (鸡鸣山社区) has a dedicated service window for foreign residents, where both residence registration and legal consultation can be resolved in a "one-stop" manner. Kumar (库玛尔) has deep feelings about these changes: "When I first came, I had to go to several departments and prepare a lot of materials to apply for a work residence permit. Now I can submit it with a few clicks on my phone and get it done by going to the community once."
Kumar (库玛尔) is not only a mediator in the "International Mediator" studio, but also a foreign member of the Jimingshan Community (鸡鸣山社区). He participates in the community's Chinese and foreign residents' opinion meetings every month. At the meeting, resident representatives from different countries and industries gather to offer suggestions for community governance. Their opinions and suggestions are recorded and responded to by relevant departments. "I really like Yiwu's (义乌) open atmosphere, and I very much agree with the community's service concept of 'allowing foreign residents to stay and integrate.' This is my second hometown." Kumar (库玛尔) said.
Tatyana (塔季亚娜) (Chinese name: Li Danya (李檀雅)), a Belarusian resident of Shekou Subdistrict (蛇口街道), Shenzhen City (深圳市), Guangdong Province (广东省):
Becoming "One of Us" by Volunteering
By Cheng Yuanzhou (程远州), reporter of this newspaper
"This is my hometown-flavored potato pancake, which can be served with sour cream or cucumber sauce. Please try it." At the elderly university classroom in Shekou Subdistrict (蛇口街道), Nanshan District (南山区), Shenzhen City (深圳市), Guangdong Province (广东省), Tatyana (塔季亚娜) (Chinese name: Li Danya (李檀雅)) from Belarus smiled as she saw her potato pancakes being well-received. She is working as a volunteer for the Shekou International Volunteer Service Team, communicating and sharing with the students of the elderly university. "Participating in the subdistrict's volunteer activities makes me feel very fulfilled," she said.
The Shekou International Volunteer Service Team was officially registered in 2020 and now has nearly 400 registered volunteers, more than half of whom are foreign friends. "Subdistrict communities are living spaces and places where people build connections. We hope to turn 'outsiders' into 'one of us' and make foreign residents feel a sense of belonging." Yang Yan (杨燕), head of the Shekou Overseas Personnel Management Service Center (蛇口境外人员管理服务中心), introduced that the International Volunteer Service Team has its own logo and team uniform. It not only frequently provides foreign language translation for foreign-related activities and guidance for foreign tourists at entry and exit ports, but also widely participates in the construction of internationalized blocks and environmental protection. "We are planning to organize international volunteers to carry out activities to care for vulnerable groups," Yang Yan (杨燕) said.
Currently, there are more than 3,000 foreign residents in Shekou Subdistrict (蛇口街道). The Shekou Overseas Personnel Management Service Center (蛇口境外人员管理服务中心) was established in 2017 to make foreign residents feel that "once you come, you are a Shenzhener (深圳人)." The center provides a variety of convenient services such as temporary accommodation registration, legal consultation, dispute mediation, and cultural exchange. In response to common problems encountered by foreign residents such as bank card processing and tax declaration, the center also compiled a bilingual Chinese-English "Convenience Manual" and launched a "Foreign-related Service Kit" with real-time updated content. Li Danya's (李檀雅) first stop after arriving in Shenzhen (深圳) was the Shekou Overseas Personnel Management Service Center (蛇口境外人员管理服务中心). "I registered my accommodation information at the service center, and it was from here that I really started to understand Shenzhen (深圳)," she said.
In the activity space on the second floor of the service center, cultural exchange activities are constantly taking place throughout the year. "I wrap zongzi (粽子) very quickly. I learned it here from a Chinese master," Li Danya (李檀雅) said. She likes the "See Shenzhen (深圳)" themed activities organized by the center the most. During the activities, Li Danya (李檀雅) and other foreign residents visited companies such as Tencent (腾讯) and Appotronics (光峰科技), watched artificial intelligence Go matches, and learned about cutting-edge technologies such as "AI + medical imaging"... "Shenzhen (深圳) has a strong sense of technology. There are application scenarios for driverless buses, drone delivery, and humanoid robots. There are new things that surprise people every day," Li Danya (李檀雅) said.
"Originally, I thought I would only stay for a short time, but now I like living here more and more." Li Danya (李檀雅) said that this year is her fourth year in Shenzhen (深圳). She not only gave herself a Chinese name, but also completely integrated into the local life. In her spare time, she likes to ride shared bicycles or take the subway to wander around. "Shenzhen's (深圳) urban construction is very good, and parks and green spaces are everywhere. The full coverage of 5G networks and convenient mobile payment allow me to go anywhere without worrying as long as I have my mobile phone." Li Danya (李檀雅) said with a smile that if friends ask her what Shenzhen (深圳) is like, she will tell them: "Come on, it's worth staying here."
(Zhang Wenya (张文雅) participated in the writing)
Manu (马努), a Spanish resident of Guanren Community (官任社区), Xiamen City (厦门市), Fujian Province (福建省):
Feeling Warmth by Opening a Western Restaurant
By Shi Jue (施珏), reporter of this newspaper
"7:30 in the evening, for two people? We just received a very good Spanish red wine, I recommend you try it." Answering the reservation call, Manu (马努) communicated with the customer in fluent Chinese. After hanging up the phone, he went into the kitchen to check the prepared dishes, and then returned to the restaurant to carefully arrange the plates, preparing to welcome guests.
Manu's (马努) Western restaurant is located on Guanren Street (官任街) in Guanren Community (官任社区), Xiamen City (厦门市), Fujian Province (福建省). This is a small street full of international flavor, with a beautiful environment and many tourists from various countries. 13 years ago, Manu (马努) came to Xiamen (厦门), initially just to get better job opportunities, but the sense of belonging in living in Xiamen (厦门) made him finally decide to stay for a long time. "I don't think I'm an outsider, I'm almost half a local." Manu (马努) said that the coastal scenery of Xiamen (厦门) is similar to the natural scenery of the northern coast of his hometown, Spain, and living in Guanren Community (官任社区) makes him feel at home.
"After working in Xiamen (厦门) for a few years, I had the idea of opening a store, but as a foreigner, starting a business is not easy." Manu (马努) said that with the help of the community, all difficulties were solved. When he was worried about not being able to find a shop, the community staff provided him with resources; when he was troubled by not being able to raise enough funds, the community business circle association helped him connect... "I feel very at ease doing business here, and I have also formed an indissoluble bond with this place." On the shelf in the restaurant, there are many photos of Manu (马努) and his community friends. "If someone in the community needs help, I will definitely be happy to support them. When I need help, they will all lend me a helping hand." He said.
Guanren Community (官任社区) is one of the communities in Xiamen (厦门) with the highest concentration of foreign friends. In order to help them better integrate into local life, the community continues to improve its service system, not only establishing a foreign talent service station, but also launching a 400-page "Guidebook for Foreign Talents Working and Living in Xiamen (厦门)" that is detailed to "what to do in the first week of arrival." The community also actively creates a livable environment, opens service hotlines, and establishes international schools, providing one-stop caring services around housing, schooling, medical care, language, etc., so that foreign residents can feel the warmth of "home" in the community.
Freddy (弗雷迪) from Ghana is a student at the Guanren Community (官任社区) International School. He gave himself the Chinese name Yuan Xi (袁曦), which means light and hope. When he first arrived in Xiamen (厦门), the community staff helped him rent a house, obtain certificates, and encouraged him to sign up for language classes. Gradually, Freddy (弗雷迪) began to actively participate in community activities, writing couplets and sharing food with his neighbors during festivals. Slowly, he changed from a newcomer to a familiar face in the community. "We hope that foreign residents will integrate into all aspects of urban life," said Huang Zhongdong (黄种东), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Guanren Community (官任社区).
Not long ago, Xiamen (厦门) held an international stone exhibition, and Manu's (马努) restaurant received many Spanish businessmen who came to Xiamen (厦门) to negotiate business. "I introduced them to the customs and culture of Xiamen (厦门), wanting them to feel the friendliness, prosperity and vitality of this city," Manu (马努) said.
Return to TopLayout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)
Return to TopQinghai is located in the northeastern part of the "Roof of the World" Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, connecting the east and west, linking Xinjiang and Tibet, and connecting Gansu and Sichuan. It is known as the "mountain source and road hub." The province covers an area of 720,000 square kilometers, with more than 5,000 large and small lakes and a glacier area of more than 4,000 square kilometers. It is the source of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the Lancang River, and is known as the "China Water Tower" and the "Source of Rivers." The province has a permanent population of 5.93 million, with 2.93 million people from ethnic minorities. All ethnic groups are united and harmonious, and society is prosperous and progressive, jointly writing a chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Qinghai.
In recent years, Qinghai Province, based on the "three greatest" provincial conditions and the "three more important" strategic position, has adhered to ecological priority and green development. Taking the creation of the Qinghai Lake (青海湖) demonstration area as an international ecological tourism destination as a breakthrough, it has promoted the deep integration and innovative development of ecology, culture, and tourism, and has continuously consolidated the good situation of superimposed advantages and win-win results, showing the effectiveness of building an international ecological tourism destination.
Adhering to Planning Guidance
Fully Build an International Ecological Tourism Destination
Qinghai profoundly grasps, promotes, and practices the major mission of "protecting the 'China Water Tower'," continuously focusing on the "ecology + culture + tourism" theme. It shapes tourism quality with ecology and highlights ecological value with tourism, exploring a new path for the development of the ecological tourism industry guided by ecological priority and green development. A provincial ecological tourism development leading group, headed by the main leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government as dual leaders, was established. Two provincial tourism development conferences were held, and a working mechanism of "government-led, departmental coordination, and social participation" was established to promote the implementation of various tasks. The "Overall Plan for Building an International Ecological Tourism Destination in Qinghai" was compiled, integrating the province's ecological tourism resources and optimizing the introduction of multiple ecological and cultural tourism belts, focusing on building a new pattern of "one core, one ring, and multiple belts" for ecological tourism development. Correctly handle the relationship between protection and development, development and security, and development and people's livelihood. Adhering to the principles of internationalization, standardization, and demonstration, steadily advance the creation of the Qinghai Lake (青海湖) demonstration area as an international ecological tourism destination, and promote the sparkling Qinghai Lake (青海湖) to become the "sapphire on the plateau." At the same time, develop ecological tourism routes and products such as plateau health preservation, ecological research, and natural education, and simultaneously improve infrastructure, product formats, and reception services, promoting the deep integration of ecology, culture, and tourism.
Promoting Ethnic Unity
Promote the Construction of a Shared Spiritual Home for the Chinese Nation
Qinghai profoundly grasps and promotes the important requirement of "focusing on building a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation," focusing on the main line of strengthening the awareness of the Chinese national community, vigorously implementing the inheritance and development project of outstanding traditional Chinese culture, and promoting the construction of a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation with high-quality cultural and tourism development. Relying on the favorable opportunity of creating a demonstration province for ethnic unity and progress, taking the four seasons of "Village Evenings," village song competitions, intangible cultural heritage fairs, "Village BA" (village basketball association), ethnic characteristic song and dance dramas, and "Qing Embroidery" as carriers, further enhance the brand of integrated development of "agriculture, sports, culture, tourism, and commerce" in ethnic areas. Strengthen the revitalization and utilization of cultural heritage, protect and utilize historical ancient buildings such as Hongjue Temple (宏觉寺) and Qutan Temple (瞿昙寺), help promote the construction of the Chinese national community, and promote extensive exchanges, comprehensive communication, and deep integration among all ethnic groups. Adhere to strengthening the foundation, emphasizing characteristics, and promoting advantages, and promote well-known scenic spots and traditional villages such as the Mutual Tu Homeland Garden (互助土族故土园) in Haidong City (海东市), Qinghai Province, the Baoan Ancient City (保安古城) in Tongren City (同仁市), Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (黄南藏族自治州), and the Arou Tribe (阿柔部落) in Qilian County (祁连县), Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (海北藏族自治州) to be more attractive, more convenient, and more inspiring, telling the story of ethnic unity in the new era. Deeply explore, research, and interpret the cultural connotations and contemporary values of intangible cultural heritage projects of various ethnic groups, give full play to the positive role of the tourism industry in driving employment, increasing income for the people, and uniting people's hearts, actively expand the practical carriers for the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage such as "Regong Art," "Hua'er," and "Tibetan Carpets," promote the achievements of tourism development to benefit the people of all ethnic groups more and better, and effectively promote the construction of a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation in a tangible, perceptible, and effective manner.
Strengthening Cultural Empowerment
Form New Highlights in the Tourism Industry
Qinghai adheres to the policy of "protection first, rescue first, rational utilization, and strengthened management (inheritance and development)," strengthens the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, and enriches the historical and cultural nourishment of the entire society. Systematically promote the protection, inheritance, research, and dissemination of intangible cultural heritage, deepen "intangible cultural heritage + tourism," so that intangible cultural heritage can better integrate into modern life, and tourism can become a process for people to understand Chinese culture and enhance cultural confidence. Regularly hold activities such as "Intangible Cultural Heritage Celebrates the New Year, My Qinghai Year," Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, and Intangible Cultural Heritage Fairs. 127 intangible cultural heritage and "Qing Embroidery" workshops have driven the surrounding people to achieve increased income and prosperity, with the annual income of the workshops approaching 100 million yuan. Vigorously promote the revitalization and utilization of cultural relics, strive for 560 million yuan in special funds for cultural protection, and implement 136 various cultural protection projects. Create excellent stage art works such as "Asking Kunlun," "Source of the Great River," and "Youth Forging Swords 221," and successfully build high-quality red projects such as the Qinghai Atomic City Memorial Hall (青海原子城纪念馆) and the Qinghai Two Bombs and One Satellite Cadre College (青海两弹一星干部学院). Always practice cultural benefits for the people. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," an average annual investment of 20 million yuan has been made to equip 400 villages (communities) with cultural equipment. In 2024, 252 performances of "Opera Enters the Countryside" and "Beautiful Qinghai Literary and Art Light Cavalry" were organized, benefiting more than 800,000 people, and the public's satisfaction with public cultural services has continued to increase. Continue to carry out literary and artistic performances, intangible cultural heritage, books, and cultural creations into scenic spots, integrate cultural resources such as cultural venues, intangible cultural heritage workshops, and cultural relic protection units into high-quality ecological tourism routes, and fully demonstrate the new highlights of the ecological tourism industry of co-construction, co-integration, and sharing.
Enriching Product Formats
Consolidate New Advantages in Tourism Development
Qinghai has deeply carried out the "1050" project to upgrade scenic spots (points), actively promoted the creation of national 5A-level tourist attractions such as Jin Yintan (金银滩) - Atomic City (原子城) and Chaka Salt Lake (茶卡盐湖), and continued to consolidate the foundation for high-quality ecological tourism development. At present, there are 225 A-level tourist attractions and 2 national-level industrial tourism demonstration bases in the province. Deepen the integrated development of "agriculture, sports, culture, tourism, commerce, and health," integrate ecological tourism with rural tourism, sports events, performances, and other aspects. Leopard Street (豹街) · Xihai Road Food Street (西海路美食街), Xia Nanguan Street (下南关街), and other places have become popular, and Gangshika Snow Peak (岗什卡雪峰), known by mountaineering enthusiasts as "the first snow mountain in life," has boosted winter tourism. The sports economy, ice and snow economy, and performing arts economy have become new hotspots for plateau tourism. Open Qinghai-Gansu-Tibet tourism special trains and "Silk Road Dream Enjoy" tourism trains, develop tourism products such as agricultural experience, pastoral sightseeing, and folk experience. The province has cumulatively built 7 national-level key towns for rural tourism, 39 national-level key villages for rural tourism, and 879 star-rated rural tourism reception points, radiating and driving nearly 20,000 households to find employment and increase income nearby. Create high-quality routes, and 9 routes such as "Heavenly Qilian" and "Hehuang Folk Culture" were selected into the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Good Scenery in the Four Seasons of the Countryside" national rural tourism boutique routes. Relying on characteristic resources to develop hot springs, skiing, mountaineering, and other projects, promote the transformation of ice and snow "cold resources" into "hot power" for economic development.
Conducting Cooperation and Exchanges
Stimulate New Vitality in Tourism Consumption
Qinghai, focusing on "plateau culture that demonstrates the spirit of the times," adheres to upholding integrity and innovation, integrated development, makes full use of mechanisms such as joint construction by the Ministry and the province and counterpart assistance to Qinghai, and successfully held the 2025 Qinghai Culture and Tourism Festival and the 21st Northwest Five Provinces (Regions) "Hua'er" Concert. Deeply carry out the cultural and tourism brand promotion action. The main leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government and relevant leaders led delegations to Saudi Arabia, Spain, and other countries and Hong Kong and Macao in China to promote cultural and tourism resources. Jointly produce and release cultural and tourism image films and experience films with mainstream media, with the number of views on the entire network exceeding 10 million times. Qinghai's cultural and tourism resources and key scenic spots have received widespread attention. Integrate the strength of the province, cities (prefectures), and counties (districts) to carry out "group-style" publicity and promotion in counterpart assistance provinces and cities, and hold more than 5,000 various activities such as the "Happy New Year" series of activities and the Global Co-shooting Chinese New Year International Tourism Promotion Activity. "Mountain Source, Beautiful Qinghai" is accelerating its journey out of Qinghai and towards the world.
Standing on the new journey of high-quality development, Qinghai will adhere to ecological priority and green development, adhere to shaping tourism with culture and highlighting culture with tourism, adhere to upholding integrity and innovation, integrated development, continue to expand the boundaries of "ecology + culture + tourism," promote the mutual integration and coordinated progress of "agriculture, sports, culture, tourism, commerce, and health," accelerate the building of an international ecological tourism destination, and promote the high-quality development of the tourism industry.
Data source: Qinghai Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism
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The national-level drama awards are carrying out reforms with the courage of turning the blade inward, reiterating the people-oriented and artistic nature of drama, and striving to promote the drama art to radiate the glory of the times.
The 10th China Drama Award·Plum Blossom Performance Award (the 32nd China Drama Plum Blossom Award) recently concluded successfully in Shanghai (上海). This final evaluation activity, which brought together 17 actors and 13 drama categories, emphasized respecting the essence of drama art, valued popular repertoire loved by audiences, embraced private drama troupes, rejected utilitarian works that are "sealed after winning awards," and sent a strong signal to the industry: the national-level drama awards are carrying out reforms with the courage of turning the blade inward, reiterating the people-oriented and artistic nature of drama, and striving to promote the drama art to radiate the glory of the times.
The unique charm of opera art stems from its core characteristics that have been accumulated over thousands of years—taking singing, recitation, acting, and acrobatics as the core, vocal music and rhythm as the soul, and freehand aesthetics as the foundation. However, for some time, problems such as blindly pursuing large-scale stage art production, piling up sound, light, and electricity, pan-genreization, and operatic singing have emerged in the industry, leading to aesthetic disorientation and detachment from the audience. In view of this, this year's Plum Blossom Award clearly regarded "adhering to the essence of drama" as a guideline in the review of plays. Therefore, the reorganized and adapted traditional plays that can best demonstrate the actors' artistic skills and stage attainments accounted for the largest proportion in the final evaluation of this year's Plum Blossom Award.
These plays adhere to the principle of "preserving the essence without being old-fashioned, respecting the past without restoring it," showing the charming charm of opera art. For example, Qinqiang Opera "Burning Incense" (《焚香记》) endows traditional opera with an ethereal and poetic contemporary expression, creating a beautiful artistic conception that combines classical charm and modern aesthetics; Kunqu Opera "Rotten Ke Mountain" (《烂柯山》), Hebei Bangzi Opera "Beating the Gods and Suing at the Temple" (《打神告庙》), "Dou E's Injustice·Execution Ground" (《窦娥冤·法场》), Qinqiang Opera "Zhao Wuniang" (《赵五娘》) and other works have added performance techniques that fit the character's situation, and interpret the character's psychology from a contemporary perspective; Taizhou Lantan Opera excerpt performance, based on the traditional opera's "one table and two chairs," not only has the pioneering stunt performance of "kicking the bench on the table," but also transforms the space of tables and chairs through spatial movement, different combinations and placements, or becomes a psychological mirror of the characters, or becomes a variety of performance fulcrums, integrating the virtuality of traditional opera with the contemporary minimalist art concept, vividly interpreting the new era of traditional aesthetics. These works prove with different artistic paths that the innovation of opera does not have to be at the expense of subverting tradition, but should realize the creative transformation and innovative development of the traditional aesthetic spirit and contemporary values on the basis of respecting artistic laws, so that the ancient art can radiate new vitality in responding to the propositions of the times.
Drama originated from the folk, and its rise and fall are closely related to the aesthetic choices of the people. In order to reverse the utilitarian tendency of "creating for the sake of awards" and avoid works being shelved and unattended after winning awards, this year's Plum Blossom Award has run the "people-oriented" throughout the entire review process, clarifying that the award-winning plays must have both artistic value and market vitality, and can truly be "popular, spreadable, and retained." This rule change encourages actors to actively submit popular, frequently performed, and constantly renewed repertoire. Among the selected actors' works, the dance drama "Zhu鹮" (《朱鹮》) has been performed more than 400 times in 11 years, with footprints all over the world; the drama "Four Generations Under One Roof" (《四世同堂》) has been performed more than 400 times in 15 years, touring more than 70 cities, and tickets are still hard to come by; and Peking Opera "Lin Chong Runs at Night" (《林冲夜奔》), "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" (《智取威虎山》), Wuju Opera "The Legend of the White Snake·Water Fight, Broken Bridge" (《白蛇传·水斗、断桥》) and other works are all works that the audience never tires of watching. The award-winning actors' works are deeply in line with the public's choice, interpreting the simple truth that "art originates from the people and serves the people."
The reconstruction significance of this year's Plum Blossom Award to the industry ecology is equally profound. For a long time, private drama troupes have been difficult to find in national-level awards, and mechanism barriers and resource tilting have led to an unbalanced state of opera ecology. Another breakthrough measure of this award is to open the application channel for private drama troupes for the first time, allowing Zhejiang Taizhou Lantan Troupe (浙江台州乱弹剧团) to stand out. Taizhou Lantan (台州乱弹) once suspended performances for nearly 30 years due to operating difficulties. The newly established troupe has taken root in the market and innovated under the "private-run public assistance" model, and continues to prove with excellent works and excellent talents that as long as it adheres to the essence of art and respects the audience's aesthetics, private art forces can also shine on the stage of national-level awards. The selection of Zhejiang Taizhou Lantan Troupe is an affirmation of the grassroots troupes' adherence to art and taking root in the people, demonstrating the activation of the diversity of opera ecology by the Plum Blossom Award reform, and vigorously promoting private art institutions and rare opera genres from the edge of the industry to the public's vision, injecting fresh and vigorous social forces into the inheritance and innovation of traditional opera.
Literary and artistic awards play the role of a weather vane in establishing guidance and leading the trend by selecting artistic masterpieces and outstanding talents. The 32nd China Drama Plum Blossom Award review and reform once again clearly reiterated: drama was born from the folk soil, and its highest value lies in serving the people. Only by respecting the law and correcting the source, innovating in the right direction for the audience, and only by adhering to the craftsman spirit of "ten years of grinding a play," can the "plum blossom" not only bloom on the award stage, but also bloom in the hearts of the audience.
(The author is the editor-in-chief of "Chinese Drama" magazine)
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Artistic value and traffic attributes are not contradictory, and technological innovation and cultural aesthetics can also coexist. People expect that while new technologies and new media spawn a huge industry, they can also stimulate cultural potential.
Recently, a popular music variety show sparked heated discussions because the song list released contained many "internet earworms." Some netizens questioned why professional singers and program teams would choose "bubblegum pop," believing that having star singers cover "internet earworms" is tantamount to "having a star chef make instant noodles." Others believe that "internet earworms" are the result of the public's choice based on play counts, and that being catchy is the most important thing, with each person having their own preferences. For a long time, it seems that we go everywhere and there are "earworms" playing on repeat. In stark contrast to the popularity of this kind of music is the fierce debate about "earworms" in the public opinion arena, especially the widespread disparagement and criticism from professionals. How should we view "internet earworms"? This is an important proposition thrown out by popular culture in the internet age.
The so-called "internet earworms" are things born in new technological conditions and new production methods. Before the internet age, the traditional recording industry was dominated by record companies and professionals, with a complete set of production processes and mature circulation links such as copyright, promotion, and sales. In the past 20 years, in addition to traditional record companies, a number of online music companies have emerged that are more flexible in their mechanisms and more adapted to the internet age than traditional record companies, as well as ordinary creators who are not affiliated with any music production companies. The simplification of various music production software, especially the application of artificial intelligence technology, has greatly reduced the threshold for music production. Whether it is composing, arranging, or mixing, one person can even complete it with a mobile phone. The links of song release and music circulation have also become simpler, which significantly improves music production capacity.
In this process, more and more people are incorporating their own aesthetics and needs into their creations. Music works are closer to the lives of the masses and closer to the tastes of ordinary people who have not received professional music education or training, which gives popular music the opportunity to continue the long tradition of folk songs. Ordinary people write songs for ordinary people, becoming a form of new popular culture. From the song "Northeast People Are All Living Lei Fengs" (《东北人都是活雷锋》) becoming popular on the internet with the help of Flash more than 20 years ago, to the ringtone era when "Two Butterflies" (《两只蝴蝶》) and "Mice Love Rice" (《老鼠爱大米》) resounded through the streets, to the popularity of square dance music such as "The Most Dazzling Ethnic Trend" (《最炫民族风》) and "Little Apple" (《小苹果》), and to the exponential explosion of "traffic earworms" on short video platforms today, through these works, we can see huge music market demand, and also see the interaction between popular music and social emotions and public psychology. One music critic commented that "what can most infect the general public in a song is not its form, but its spirit." The essence of the explosive popularity of some "earworms" is "a rough and strong folk emotional vitality."
On the one hand, we certainly cannot underestimate the innovative and creative vitality released by "everyone can make music," but on the other hand, we cannot overestimate the current level of online music creation. Due to the internet's logic of "traffic is king," coupled with the lack of music education and insufficient guidance of music aesthetics, under the influence of the profit-seeking nature of the music industry, some "internet earworms" exhibit characteristics of being juvenile, bubblegum pop, vulgar, and crudely made.
Nowadays, music from short video platforms represented by Douyin (抖音) has become the main force of "internet earworms." In terms of production mode, it is often "imitation production" aimed at popular music types, including processing, modifying, and writing lyrics using the rhythm and melody of existing songs. Targeting the usual length restrictions of short videos, these music will pay special attention to the chorus part of the song, focusing on "catchy rhythm" and "earworm melody." As long as one of the songs released in the same period becomes a "hit," the input cost of a large number of songs can be recovered, so mass production becomes an inevitable choice. The daily output of leading music companies can reach 500 to 1000 songs... All of this accelerates the industrialization process of the music industry and intensifies the market competition of popular music. At the same time, it inevitably allows music to be deeply bound to algorithm traffic, and even abandon artistry to pursue traffic and capital.
Artistic value and traffic attributes are not contradictory, and technological innovation and cultural aesthetics can also coexist. People expect that while new technologies and new media spawn a huge industry, they can also stimulate cultural potential, so that the people can be infected by more truth, goodness, and beauty, and have more spiritual fulfillment and sense of gain. The key to this is to respect public aesthetics, follow the laws of art, and not only fully mobilize the participation of the people, but also make good use of the power of technology and the power of media to guide creators and producers to rationally view traffic and always adhere to putting social benefits first. To borrow the words of a music critic: "The masses and time are two forces of fierce fire and true gold, and no counterfeit can resist the joint test of the two."
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On the theatrical stage in the past, there have been many works with the theme of rural revitalization. To stand out from similar works, creators need to have the courage to innovate, break away from narrative routines, and pursue the combination of ideological, artistic, and contemporary values at a new height. The original drama "July in Maihe Village" (《买河村的七月》), produced by Shandong Province Drama Theatre (山东省话剧院) and with Zhai Xiaofei (翟晓蜚) as the core creative and director, gives people a refreshing feeling.
The story takes place in a village called Maihe Village (买河村) by the Yellow River (黄河). Lin Qiyue (林七月), the 26-year-old acting principal of the village central primary school, is "accidentally" elected by the villagers as the leader of the village relocation team. Facing the relocation problems that follow, Lin Qiyue, who is 赶鸭子上架 (gǎn yā zi shàng jià - "driving ducks onto a perch," forced to do something beyond one's ability), wins the trust and support of the villagers with her inner frankness and integrity, and finally seizes the once-in-a-lifetime historical opportunity of the country's vigorous construction of the Yellow River ecological corridor, helping Maihe Village complete its beautiful transformation.
It is not difficult to see from the title of the play that Lin Qiyue is the main character of the play. The director integrates his own thoughts on rural revitalization, ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin, and high-quality development into Lin Qiyue's dramatic language, and structures it in Lin Qiyue's dramatic behavior, so as to achieve the artistic effect of "seeing the person is seeing the play."
Why is it Lin Qiyue, this "young girl," who was elected as the leader of the relocation team, instead of the village chief who is "not afraid of anyone," the village party secretary who "never offends anyone," or the highly respected Fourth Uncle? The answer is in the play. As the principal, Lin Qiyue frequently comes into contact with the children in the village. With a kind and sensitive heart, she sees that the eyes of the children in Maihe Village are not as "bright" as those of the children in the city. In order to let the children in the village go out to see the outside world, and to make their eyes shine, the change of Maihe Village is imperative. Change leads to progress, while stagnation leads to obstruction. Lin Qiyue's "wanting to change" stems from her unwillingness to accept the status quo of her hometown Maihe Village, and from a communist party member's belief in serving the people; Lin Qiyue's "daring to change" is because of the strong support of the Party and the country; Lin Qiyue's "being able to change" is based on the historical experience from ancient times to the present - the Maihe villagers settled down and multiplied on a piece of land washed out by the Yellow River changing its course, and its vigorous vitality continues to this day. By shaping such an image of Lin Qiyue who "wants to change, dares to change, and is able to change," the work actually pays a deep tribute to the spirit of reform and innovation.
The portrayal of another main character in the play, Xiao Lang (肖朗), is also remarkable. As an external expert of the "County Relocation Project Headquarters Environmental Planning Expert Group," Xiao Lang, who came to Maihe Village for the first time, seemed a little unreasonable in his interactions with the villagers and in issues such as land surveying. Lin Qiyue took Xiao Lang to her home to eat steamed buns, guiding Xiao Lang into the inner world of the Maihe villagers - the lack of enthusiasm for relocation is not to confront the government, but the villagers' lack of confidence in the unknown life. Under the influence of Lin Qiyue, Xiao Lang added more warm undertones to his character. Whether it is volunteering as a barista in the newly opened "161" coffee shop in Maihe Village, or being able to eat six green bean and pork rib buns in one meal, these vivid details are enough to show that Xiao Lang has transformed from an "outsider" who was initially incompatible with this village and this land, into a "villager" who bends down and helps the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside with practical actions.
Intensive planting benefits everyone, and the green economy drives industrial revitalization. The brighter development prospects of Maihe Village ultimately prompt the villagers to give up their dependence on and nostalgia for the old life, and attract them to try and venture out. And the grand narrative of comprehensive rural revitalization is ultimately presented to the audience in a visible, understandable, and down-to-earth way through the ideological transformation and emotional sublimation of a group of villagers. "Without dramatic plot twists and turns, without intense conflicts, I want to turn the story of Maihe Village into a series of pictures in a kaleidoscope, honestly and sincerely expressing their desire to live their lives with heart and to live a good life..." As the director said, "July in Maihe Village" is not a drama that is known for its intense dramatic conflicts and complex contradictions. It is like a lyrical poem with a slow rhythm but full of wit and humor, which is filled with a strong poetic flavor of life from beginning to end.
In terms of stage presentation, the director breaks away from the traditional drama stage, which is mostly based on "large paragraph curtain calls" and "horizontal scheduling." Using a 360-degree rotating stage, he adopts a combination of fully open and multi-directional scheduling, without cutting lights or scenes, and uses subjective perspectives and cinematic expressions to present smooth and dynamic dramatic characters and plots like a "kaleidoscope." The design of the ancient river sacrifice scene in the "prologue" and "ending" closely connects the Yellow River with the Yellow River people, history and the present. The powerful and slightly desolate "Suspended Drum Tune" seems to come from the depths of history, which not only shows the spiritual bloodline of the Maihe villagers who always adhere to tradition and cherish their homeland, but also conveys their determination and belief to always move forward like the surging Yellow River water.
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Dismantling, commentary, remixing, and secondary creation... film and television derivative content has always been quite popular on short video platforms. It has been estimated that film and television derivative content contributes 34.7% of the traffic on short video platforms, bringing considerable clicks, but also raising some concerns.
From a content perspective, film and television derivative short videos are mainly divided into two categories: one is synopsis-type short videos, which focus on extracting plot points, often extracting the main characters and main story lines to quickly explain the plot; the other is appreciation-type short videos, which mostly select several specific perspectives, combined with the context of film history and market performance, to analyze the film's theme, style techniques, and philosophical thinking.
In today's fast-paced society, the difficulty of filtering information and selecting films is constantly increasing. Short, fast synopsis-type short videos compress a two-hour movie into a few minutes, allowing viewers to understand the main plot in a very short time, which is in line with the characteristics of small-screen mobile viewing and meets the fragmented viewing needs. Many people are accustomed to watching the corresponding synopsis-type short videos first, and then deciding whether to watch the complete work; there are also many people who equate watching the synopsis with watching a movie, and are satisfied with the experience of watching a film in just a few minutes.
However, due to the limitation of video length and the pursuit of traffic and popularity, synopsis-type short videos, in order to be fast and simple, will use fixed story templates to forcibly apply to various film and television dramas, and use labels to frame characters, such as simply classifying characters as "good guys" and "bad guys," and generally renaming the heroine "Xiao Mei (小美)" and referring to the hero as "Xiao Shuai (小帅)." In order to attract attention, they also tend to highlight controversial plots in the film and interpret them out of context.
Film is a comprehensive art, and the release of its appeal requires a high degree of coordination of various audio-visual means. The effects of rendering the environment, shaping characters, and sublimating themes can only be achieved through the performance means of film and television dramas. The audience's feeling of the bravery and fearlessness of the volunteer soldiers in "The Volunteers: Fight for Survival (志愿军：存亡之战)" comes from scene after scene of magnificent and arduous war scenes; "Hi, Mom (你好，李焕英)" is touching, not because of the complex plot or sharp conflicts, but because of many real, life-filled details; "Article 20 (第二十条)" shows the strength and warmth of law and justice, inseparable from the prosecutor's resounding statement and superb performance at the end. No matter how wonderful a synopsis-type short video is, it cannot replace the high-quality aesthetic experience brought by the audio-visual effects, camera language, performing arts, and narrative details of film and television dramas.
Facts show that when audiences flock to cinemas to watch good works, the attention and clicks of appreciation-type videos about the film, as well as documentary-type videos such as production documentaries, behind-the-scenes stories, and interviews with the main creators, will continue to rise, while synopsis-type short videos will be met with a cold reception. This means that the artistic characteristics and aesthetic value of movies will not be replaced in the short video era, and the in-depth experience brought by watching movies in theaters is even more scarce and precious.
Return to Top"Before, watching 'Ride the Wind', my eyes were full of charm and strength, but now I'm a bit disappointed." This is a comment from a viewer in the comment section of the music competition variety show "Ride the Wind 2025" (《乘风2025》). As a phenomenal variety show IP, the first season of "Sisters Who Make Waves" (《乘风破浪的姐姐》) won praise for its outstanding stage performances. However, the sixth season has exposed a series of problems since its premiere, which is regrettable and makes people think about how "Variety Show Nth Generation" should innovate.
The main problem is the insufficient singing and dancing skills of the contestants. Many contestants lack professional skills, and their stage performances frequently "crash": their singing and dancing are weak, their practice drags them down, and their "forced singing" of lyrical songs is harshly criticized by netizens as a "large-scale KTV out-of-tune scene"... Even if a few contestants do their best, it is difficult to hide the overall decline in level.
If strength is not enough, forms and topics are used to make up for it. For the first time, the program moved the stage outdoors, and the blue sea and sky added color to the program, but if the "main course" is not good, even the best "ingredients" will become a pile of forms. In addition, the "palace fight drama" on hot search topics, the magnified clips of contestants questioning each other, and the labeled "ex-boyfriend golden songs" of the songs sung... The contestants' training routines and performances are cut and pieced together into a "traffic platter," and the self-transformation that once moved the audience seems difficult to find.
The deeper contradiction is that the decline in strength weakens the inspirational core. Perhaps, the ripples that "Ride the Wind 2025" stirs in the hearts of the audience are that some contestants challenge the singing and dancing stage at the age of 62, and some contestants accompany and support their teammates like big sisters. What touches the audience is not only the childhood memories they evoke, but also the "Ride the Wind" original intention of excellent contestants who have gone through all kinds of hardships but are still sincere, tenacious, humble, and dedicated. Their attitude may be able to answer the puzzle of how "Variety Show Nth Generation" can get out of the predicament: only by breaking away from the routine of traffic gimmicks and formal packaging, returning to a sincere creative position, and focusing on the contestants' strength foundation can we present a real and brilliant vitality on the screen.
Beijing (北京市), Xicheng District (西城区), Fan Yuchen (范语晨)
Return to TopThe rural basketball stories in the documentary "This Station, Guizhou: Spicy 'Village BA'" overflow with an enthusiastic spirit of sportsmanship and a strong sense of cultural confidence. In Taijiang (台江) County, Guizhou (贵州) Province, a land where basketball culture has been passed down for more than 80 years, basketball has long transcended a mere sport, integrating into festivals, folk customs, and daily life, becoming a vivid carrier of villagers' emotional cohesion and cultural identity. What the documentary's lens captures is precisely this unadorned simplicity, carrying the fragrance of the soil—exuberant players, deafening cheers, and fully engaged villagers, each scene displaying vigorous vitality. The spontaneous, grassroots power of the people is not only a bond for neighborhood interaction in villages, but also a window to showcase the new era's rural landscape.
It is worth noting that in this Sino-foreign co-produced documentary, the participation and exploration of the former captain of a renowned international university basketball team opens a window for overseas audiences, allowing the world to feel the Chinese people's enthusiasm for sports and see the real Chinese countryside. The presence of international sports friends enables the documentary to transcend simple on-the-ground recording, using sports as a medium to build a platform for cultural dialogue and achieve exchange and mutual learning of sports cultures.
However, the film's depth of content mining is somewhat superficial, failing to extend the thinking brought by the external perspective deeper and further. At the same time, the presentation of some segments is also slightly deliberate, weakening the sense of documentary realism. We look forward to more works that, while capturing vivid stories from the grassroots, use solid documentary techniques and in-depth thinking to tell these moving chapters originating from the land of China more thoroughly and touchingly.
Jian Yiqing (简艺青), Changsha (长沙) City, Hunan (湖南) Province.
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