Summary: Xi Jinping met with the 11th Panchen Lama, Qoigyijabu, in Beijing, accompanied by Wang Huning and Cai Qi. Xi encouraged the Panchen Lama to emulate the 10th Panchen Lama, deepen his Buddhist studies, and contribute to ethnic unity, religious harmony, and Tibetan development. Xi also urged him to uphold the patriotic traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and safeguard national unity. The Panchen Lama pledged his support for the CCP and vowed to contribute to ethnic unity, the Sinicization of religion, and the modernization of Tibet. Li Ganjie also participated in the event.
Summary: Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Karol Nawrocki on his election as President of Poland. Xi highlighted the traditional friendship between China and Poland, noting that Poland was among the first countries to recognize the PRC. He emphasized the importance of deepening political trust and strategic communication amid a complex international landscape. Xi expressed his desire to work with Nawrocki to promote the continued stable development of the China-Poland comprehensive strategic partnership.
Summary: A Party-wide study and education campaign is underway to deeply implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation. Party organizations at all levels are focusing on specific themes, promoting learning, self-examination, and rectification to ensure quality and effectiveness. Various regions are tailoring educational programs to different groups of cadres, such as young officials, newly promoted officials, and those in key positions, to improve learning outcomes and address specific challenges. Local authorities are actively identifying and rectifying problems in areas such as misuse of funds and bureaucratic inefficiencies, translating the results of the study into tangible actions to benefit the people by solving their urgent problems. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that China views Canada as an opportunity, not a threat, and that relations had experienced "unnecessary interference." Li expressed China's willingness to work with Canada to improve relations, deepen cooperation in traditional and emerging sectors like clean energy, and expand exchanges. He called for both countries to safeguard multilateralism and free trade amid rising unilateralism and protectionism. Trudeau stated Canada wishes to re-engage with China, resume high-level exchanges, and strengthen cooperation in areas such as trade and energy. He also indicated Canada's willingness to strengthen communication and coordination with China to maintain the international financial and trade system.
Summary: The article highlights Anhui province's efforts to promote technological innovation, focusing on building high-level platforms like the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, as emphasized by Xi Jinping during his October 2024 inspection. Anhui is constructing large-scale scientific facilities and fostering collaboration between research institutions and enterprises to accelerate the transformation of scientific achievements into industrial applications. The province is also creating mechanisms for integrating innovation, industry, academia, finance, and application to support emerging industries. Liang Yanshun, Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, stated that Anhui aims to create an optimal environment for technological and industrial innovation. There is no discussion of U.S. China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Yuncheng, Shanxi Province's Linyi County continuing to advance the construction of high-standard farmland. This is being accomplished through land improvement and irrigation projects, aimed at increasing land quality and agricultural output. These efforts are intended to boost agricultural efficiency and rural incomes. The article posits that this effort will contribute to comprehensive rural revitalization.
Summary: Re Di, former Vice Chairman of the 10th National People's Congress Standing Committee, died in Beijing on June 6, 2025, at the age of 87. The Xinhua article lauds Re Di as an exemplary member of the CCP, a loyal communist fighter, and an outstanding leader in ethnic affairs and socialist legal construction. He is also described as an outstanding son of the Tibetan people. The article provides no information about the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Ministry of Commerce reports China has established "Silk Road e-commerce" partnerships with 35 countries, creating cooperation brands and building online and offline national pavilions. China has also constructed direct procurement bases in 19 countries and held e-commerce training programs. The Ministry of Commerce launched the "E-commerce Benefits the World" campaign in 2025, organizing cooperation on policy communication, industrial connection, and capacity building. Future plans include expanding imports, supporting industrial digitization, and deepening e-commerce supply chain cooperation.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) announced the approval of 468 new national standard materials in the first five months of the year, marking a 65.9% year-on-year increase. First-grade and second-grade standard materials increased by 47.6% and 60.7% respectively. SAMR has approved a total of 18,926 national standard materials, and its international metrological mutual recognition capabilities remain in the top tier globally. SAMR aims to further develop public-interest standard materials to support the development of new productive forces.
Summary: The article reports on China's domestically developed manned submersible exploring depths of 10,000 meters. The piece focuses on the technological achievement of the submersible. The article does not mention any official statements, accompanying individuals, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A meeting on the implementation of the "Eight-Point Regulation" was held in Beijing, attended by Shi Taifeng, a member of the Politburo, and Liu Jinguo, Secretary of the Central Secretariat. Shi emphasized the need for thorough study, problem identification, and rectification, particularly regarding violations such as lavish banquets and dereliction of duty. The meeting stressed the importance of establishing regulations, promoting reform through cases, and ensuring the implementation of systems. Jiang Xinzhi also attended the meeting. The meeting does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 9th China-South Asia Expo will be held in Kunming from June 19-24, co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and Yunnan Province, with Sri Lanka as the theme country and Thailand as the guest of honor. Vice Minister of Commerce Yan Dong stated that the expo is an important economic and trade exchange between China and South Asian countries. According to Yunnan Province Vice Governor Liu Yong, Yunnan leverages its location to serve national development strategies, expanding the breadth and depth of its opening-up. Trade between China and South Asia reached almost $200 billion in 2024 and China has established working groups to promote trade with Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. China also gives zero-tariff treatment to the least developed countries, including Nepal, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, for all taxable items exported to China.
Summary: At a national meeting on combating organized crime, Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong stressed the importance of thoroughly implementing Xi Jinping's directives and Party Central's decisions. Wang emphasized the need for sustained efforts by public security organs to eliminate both organized crime and related corruption, focusing on precision strikes and preventing resurgence. He called for a comprehensive approach, combining proactive prevention with targeted crackdowns to eliminate the conditions that allow organized crime to flourish. Wang also urged enhanced organizational efforts, responsibility, and team building to achieve new victories in combating organized crime.
Summary: China's Ministry of Finance and other departments jointly issued opinions and implementation plans to further improve the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism, aiming for a comprehensive, equitable, and mutually beneficial model by 2035. The initiative builds upon successful examples like the Xin'an River, where Anhui and Zhejiang provinces established a "water quality bet" agreement. The new plans emphasize local implementation with central support, market-based compensation, and stricter supervision, including potential fund reductions for provinces failing to meet protection responsibilities or experiencing major environmental events. The goal is to incentivize ecological protection and promote high-quality development.
Summary: The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) has issued a call to end the "price war" among domestic car companies, a sentiment echoed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Industry experts and executives, including chairmen from Changan Automobile, Seres Group, and GAC Group, support the initiative, emphasizing the need for fair competition, innovation, and quality over unsustainable price cuts. They are pushing for adherence to quality standards, legal compliance, and long-term sustainable development. These companies will focus on technology innovation, management, and better service, rather than harmful price competition.
Summary: The 2024 Railway Statistical Bulletin released by the National Railway Administration indicates significant growth in China's railway sector. Passenger traffic reached 4.312 billion, an 11.9% increase year-on-year, while freight volume reached 5.175 billion tons, a 2.8% increase. Fixed asset investment in railways totaled 850.6 billion yuan, adding 3,113 km of new lines, including 2,457 km of high-speed rail. By the end of 2024, the total operating mileage of China's railways reached 162,000 km, including 48,000 km of high-speed rail, and the total emissions of chemical and harmful gases decreased compared to the previous year.
Summary: The laying of tracks for the Inner Mongolia section of the Baotou-Yinchuan (Baoyin) high-speed railway was completed on June 6th, setting the stage for its opening within the year. The Baoyin high-speed railway is an important part of the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network and the Beijing-Lanzhou corridor. Once fully operational, the railway will reduce travel time between Baotou and Yinchuan from approximately six hours to two hours. The railway's total length is 519 kilometers.
Summary: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has launched a nationwide inspection of crop seed production bases to safeguard agricultural seed safety, focusing on key stages and regions of seed breeding. The inspection, aimed at protecting seed intellectual property and improving seed quality, will target major seed-producing counties and regional breeding bases, focusing on key crops like corn, soybeans, rice, and potatoes. The inspection will focus on seed production record-keeping, variety rights, parentage, quarantine pests, and will crack down on illegal activities such as unauthorized breeding, parent theft, unlicensed production, and failure to register as required. Six working groups from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will conduct on-site inspections and law enforcement in key seed-producing regions such as Gansu, Xinjiang, and Sichuan, starting in mid-June.
Summary: A delegation of over 20 youth representatives from Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries participated in the "Perceive the Common Prosperity Road" event in Zhejiang, exploring Chinese-style modernization. Representatives learned about Zhejiang's common prosperity initiatives, including economic development, education, and healthcare, and visited sites like Alibaba's Xixi campus and the village of Yucun, known for its ecological transformation. Participants expressed interest in China's innovation, sustainable development, and grassroots governance models, including the "Fengqiao Experience." The delegates showed interests in collaborating with China in e-commerce and other areas.
Summary: President Xi Jinping and President Trump held a phone call, the first between the two leaders since the current U.S. administration took office, agreeing to continue implementing the Geneva consensus and hold a new round of talks soon. Xi emphasized the need to steer the U.S.-China relationship clear of interference, particularly on the Taiwan issue, which he described as the most important and insurmountable red line. Xi also called on the U.S. to honor the One China Policy. Trump stated that the United States would welcome Chinese students and would continue to honor agreements that emerged from the Geneva trade talks. Both sides expressed the importance of the U.S.-China relationship and the potential for cooperation.
Summary: Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné, emphasizing the importance of strategic trust and respect for core interests, especially regarding Taiwan as an internal matter distinct from Ukraine and China's appreciation for France's commitment to the One China Policy. Wang invited France to send a high-level delegation to the Shanghai 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, and stressed the need to uphold multilateralism and oppose unilateral bullying, while Séjourné affirmed France's commitment to the One China Policy and opposition to trade and tariff wars. Both parties also discussed Ukraine, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the Iranian nuclear issue. Wang Yi also stated that he hoped France would oppose NATO intervention in Asia-Pacific affairs.
Summary: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced that Politburo Member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Coordinators' Meeting on the Implementation of Outcomes and the opening ceremony of the 4th China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in Changsha, Hunan, from June 10th to 12th.
Summary: A Sichuan Province delegation, led by Vice Governor Yang Xingping, recently held a "Healthy Silk Road" event in Johannesburg, South Africa, showcasing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and offering consultations. Yang Xingping emphasized the growing recognition of TCM in South Africa and its role in cultural exchange. The event highlighted the increasing popularity of TCM, including acupuncture, with local universities like the University of Johannesburg now offering comprehensive TCM programs and seeing a high demand for treatment. Local practitioners who graduated from the programs also expressed how TCM treatments are becoming better known and well-received in South Africa. No U.S. or U.S. - China relations were mentioned in the article.
Summary: Politburo member and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission Chen Wenqing met with Vietnamese Supreme People's Court Chief Justice Le Minh Tri in Beijing. Chen emphasized the importance of implementing the consensus reached by Xi Jinping and To Lam on deepening the China-Vietnam comprehensive strategic partnership, and called for strengthened cooperation in judicial assistance, combating transnational crimes like drug trafficking and online fraud, and resolving cross-border disputes. Le expressed Vietnam's willingness to deepen judicial exchanges and cooperation with China. Zhang Jun was also present at the meeting.
Summary: NPC Standing Committee Vice Chairperson Tie Ning led a delegation to Brazil from June 3-5, attending the 11th BRICS Parliamentary Forum. Tie Ning met with Brazilian Senate President Alcolumbre and House Speaker Motta, stating that under the strategic guidance of both heads of state, China-Brazil relations have been elevated to a China-Brazil community with a shared future dedicated to a more just world and sustainable planet. Tie Ning also expressed China's desire to deepen cooperation with the Brazilian Congress. In her keynote speech at the forum, Tie Ning highlighted the importance of BRICS nations upholding multilateral trade and deepening economic cooperation among the Global South.
Summary: The 10th "Ulaanbaatar Dialogue" international conference concluded in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with over 230 participants from more than 40 countries and regions. Chinese Ambassador to Mongolia, Shen Minjuan, stated that China is willing to work with regional countries to maintain peace and stability in Northeast Asia, emphasizing the 80th anniversaries of both the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the UN. Shen called for an Asian security model based on shared security, dialogue, and an Asian value system emphasizing peace, cooperation, openness, and inclusiveness. The conference, proposed in 2013, was co-hosted by the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Strategic Research Institute of the National Security Council of Mongolia.
Summary: The "Stena Foreteller," a roll-on/roll-off ship retrofitted for Sweden by China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Weihai), has begun operations, arriving at Yantai Port in Shandong to load vehicles. The modifications, including the addition of cargo decks, improved propulsion, and shore power systems, increased the ship's capacity by 30% and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The photograph shows the ship docking at Shandong Port, Yantai to load export vehicles. The article does not allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A Guangxi-Japan economic and trade cooperation exchange was held in Nanning, Guangxi, co-hosted by the Guangxi Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the Japan Association for the Promotion of International Trade (JAPIT). During the event, the Guangxi CCPIT and JAPIT signed a memorandum of understanding focused on promoting economic and trade cooperation. Yang Yanyan, head of the Guangxi CCPIT, highlighted the complementary nature and deep economic integration of the Chinese and Japanese economies. The event included business opportunity presentations, group discussions, and product displays by Chinese and Japanese companies.
Summary: A State Council press conference highlighted the contributions of five veterans and veteran affairs workers to China's modernization. Speakers included程平, a welding expert; 龙吉克·卡德尔, a border guard from Xinjiang; 黄恒礼, a village party secretary; 程星, a memorial park interpreter; and 李尚宣, a veteran affairs worker. The speakers emphasized their continued dedication to serving the country and preserving revolutionary history after leaving the military. They highlighted contributions to technology, border security, rural development, and historical preservation. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A training session for newly appointed members of leading Party groups (党委) from central and state organs was held in Beijing on June 5-6, focusing on implementing "one post, two responsibilities" (一岗双责). The training emphasized the importance of adhering to Xi Jinping's directives on Party building and translating high-quality Party building into high-quality development. Participants discussed fulfilling their responsibilities in areas such as organizational leadership, ideological education, management oversight, and promoting integration. Over 130 individuals, including members of the Central and State Organs Work Committee leadership, attended the session. The training aimed to ensure these officials fulfill their duties and contribute to the advancement of Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: Several Chinese companies, including Huawei, Alibaba, and JD.com, are expanding recruitment efforts, particularly for graduates and those with skills in emerging technologies like AI. Huawei plans to increase graduate hiring by double digits, focusing on areas like AI large models and high-performance computing. Alibaba is also focusing on AI talent, with nearly half of its spring internship openings related to AI. JD.com is expanding its workforce through initiatives like recruiting 100,000 cleaners and expanding its full-time delivery rider program, aiming to create more jobs in new economy sectors.
Summary: The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) issued new regulations establishing a three-tiered planning system for centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This system comprises an overall development plan, key task plans, and individual enterprise plans, aiming to optimize industrial layout and structural adjustments. The regulations emphasize concentrating state capital in strategic sectors related to national security, key industries, public services, and emerging strategic industries. The new rules establish a closed-loop management mechanism for planning, execution, assessment, and adjustment at both the SASAC and SOE levels. Non-compliance will result in accountability measures.
Summary: The 2025 National College Entrance Examination (gaokao) commenced on June 7th across China. Local authorities implemented various measures to ensure services and support for test-takers.
Summary: The Ministry of Education issued a notice urging universities and local governments to intensify efforts to promote employment for 2025 graduates during the critical period before their departure from campuses, launching a "100-day sprint" lasting until August. The notice emphasizes expanding market-based employment opportunities through policy promotion, enterprise visits, campus recruitment events, and public employment services. It also calls for accelerating the recruitment for policy-related positions such as teachers, civil servants, and state-owned enterprise jobs. Furthermore, the Ministry stressed strengthening employment guidance and assistance, including skills training, support for disadvantaged graduates, and measures to ensure employment safety.
Summary: China's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Water Resources have allocated 580 million yuan in disaster relief funds for water conservancy projects. These funds will support 29 provinces, including Henan and Hubei, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The funding is intended to facilitate thorough inspections of flood control infrastructure like dams and reservoirs. The goal is to repair damaged water conservancy projects and ensure safety during the main flood season.
Summary: A Party-wide study and education campaign is underway to deeply implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation. Party organizations at all levels are focusing on studying, investigating, and rectifying problems related to bureaucracy and undesirable work styles. Various localities are tailoring education programs to different groups, such as young cadres and leading officials, to improve learning effectiveness. Measures include using typical cases as teaching material, conducting "work style check-ups," and soliciting public feedback through social supervisors. The campaign emphasizes solving practical problems for the people, such as simplifying social security procedures and resolving property registration issues.
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Summary: The article reports on Chongqing's efforts to improve conditions for delivery drivers and other "new employment groups" by creating "rider-friendly" districts. These initiatives include providing designated parking, optimized delivery routes, friendly merchants, community support centers, and access to amenities like community kitchens and rest areas. Over 1300 delivery drivers in Shapingba district have joined volunteer service teams to help with social governance, reporting issues like broken infrastructure or blocked fire lanes. Chongqing has also incorporated over 33,000 members of the new employment groups as part-time grid members, and is offering them opportunities for skills training, and grassroots governance practices. The city aims to integrate these groups into urban governance, turning them into "partners" in city management.
Summary: The 16th Cross-Strait, Hong Kong, and Macao Economic and Trade Cooperation Symposium was held in Hong Kong, focusing on digital economy opportunities under the theme "Promoting the Digital Economy, Jointly Creating a New Situation for Win-Win Cooperation." National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman Gao Yunlong stated that the regions should collaborate to build a digital future, focusing on digital technology and industrial cooperation. The symposium, co-hosted by several business federations, included keynote speeches and discussions on digital economy trends and intelligent technology. The event sought to promote cooperation between the mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau in the digital economy. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The National Film Administration held a press conference in Beijing to release the 2025 summer film slate, showcasing over 60 domestic and foreign films. Domestic films will span various genres, including historical dramas like "Chang'an's Lychee" and animated features such as "Langlang Mountain Little Monster." International releases include titles like "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Jurassic World: Reborn." The conference also launched the "China Film Consumption Year" initiative, featuring promotional activities to boost moviegoing. The "Film Blooms in China" national film week was also launched. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2025 Smart Economy Forum, co-hosted by People's Daily and Baidu, was held in Beijing, focusing on the theme of "Vigorously Developing the Smart Economy and Accelerating the Construction of Digital China." The forum aimed to promote the high-quality development of China's smart economy and accelerate the construction of a digital China. Over 300 guests from government departments, research institutions, and enterprises attended the event, including People's Daily Deputy Editor-in-Chief Fang Jiangshan. Participants emphasized the need to integrate AI into various industries to stimulate digital vitality and promote high-quality economic and social development. The forum did not appear to address U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Hubei Province has issued a notice promoting "Mama Jobs" to boost employment for women with childcare responsibilities for children under 12. The initiative encourages companies to offer flexible work arrangements to accommodate both work and childcare. A unified directory of employers offering "Mama Jobs" will be created, with listed companies eligible for subsidies related to unemployment insurance and social insurance. Participating businesses, especially in the real economy and micro-enterprises, will also receive financial, tax, and fiscal support.
Summary: During China's 30th annual "Love Your Eyes Day," reports highlighted progress in eye health services during the 14th Five-Year Plan, including increased access to eye care in counties and cities. 94.9% of counties can provide eye care services, and 99.7% of cities have at least one Level 2 hospital that has independently set up an ophthalmology department. Looking ahead to the 15th Five-Year Plan, the focus will be on addressing key eye diseases like myopia and cataracts, particularly among children and the elderly. The stated goal is to achieve full cataract surgery coverage in all counties nationwide by the end of 2027. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights Anhui province's commitment to technological innovation, following Xi Jinping's October 2024 directives to accelerate technological advancements and industrial transformation. Anhui is focusing on building high-level national laboratories and science centers, fostering original innovation, and connecting research with enterprise needs. The province is developing major scientific infrastructure, such as the Hefei Advanced Light Source, and has increased the number of key national laboratories. Anhui is also promoting the commercialization of research findings through the establishment of research institutes and technology innovation platforms, with the goal of advancing strategic industries like quantum information and fusion energy.
Summary: Hong Lihe, former Deputy Party Secretary and Deputy Director of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party following a Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) investigation. The investigation revealed Hong's severe violations of political, organizational, integrity, mass, work, and life disciplines, including forming cliques within the Party, criticizing central policies, and engaging in corruption, abuse of power, and seeking personal gain. He is accused of accepting bribes, engaging in illicit relationships, and causing significant losses to the state. His case has been handed over to the procuratorate for investigation and prosecution. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has investigated and punished Kou Wei, former Deputy Party Secretary and General Manager of China Datang Corporation, for severe violations of discipline and law. Kou is accused of betraying his ideals, resisting investigation, engaging in superstitious activities, violating regulations on accepting gifts and banquets, seeking personal gain in promotions for others, engaging in commercial activities, and engaging in sexual relationships for personal and financial gain. He is also accused of corruption, abuse of power for personal enrichment, and causing significant losses to national interests. Consequently, Kou has been expelled from the Party and will face prosecution for alleged crimes.
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Summary: Chinese scientists are utilizing domestically developed manned submersibles like the "Fendouzhe" (Striver) and "Shenhai Yongshi" (Deep Sea Warrior) to explore the deep sea for resource exploration, archaeological research, and biological studies. These submersibles, equipped with advanced technologies such as high-pressure resistant hulls, manipulator arms, and acoustic communication systems, enable scientists to collect samples, survey underwater sites, and conduct real-time communication with the surface. The "Fendouzhe" submersible was used to collect amphipod samples from the Mariana and Yap trenches, with findings published in *Cell*. The "Shenhai Yongshi" is slated to conduct deep sea archaeology in the South China Sea.
Summary: The article describes the dangerous but essential role of "frogmen" in deploying and retrieving submersible vehicles like the *Fendouzhe*. These divers assist on the surface during deployment and retrieval, attaching and detaching cables in rough sea conditions, sometimes facing waves, and even sharks. Their work demands precise timing and coordination with the ship's crew.
Summary: The article discusses China's development of "DNA movable-type storage" as a novel solution to the growing global demand for data storage, addressing the limitations of traditional silicon-based media. This new method, inspired by ancient Chinese movable-type printing, utilizes pre-made DNA fragments ("DNA movable type") that can be repeatedly assembled and printed via an automated "Bisheng-1" machine. The technology aims to improve cost-effectiveness and efficiency compared to existing DNA storage methods which are single-use. It does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A Chinese Academy of Sciences-led international team discovered Kepler-725c, a "super-Earth" within the habitable zone of a Sun-like star, Kepler-725. This marks the first time Transit Timing Variation (TTV) inversion technology has been used to discover such a planet in the habitable zone of a solar analog. The planet, estimated to be 10 times the mass of Earth, was detected by observing slight variations in the orbit of another planet in the Kepler-725 system. Researchers noted that this discovery opens a new avenue for Chinese research teams to search for "Earth 2.0." The research will provide observational targets and technical support for future Chinese space astronomy missions.
Summary: The Anhui Province Quantum Computing Chip Key Laboratory announced that the fully domestically developed quantum chip design industrial software Q-EDA "Benyuan Kunyuan" by Benyuan Quantum (Chengdu) has completed its fifth technical iteration, breaking through technical bottlenecks in large-scale quantum chip design. This iteration enables automated, one-stop fast layout generation, completing a 72-bit chip layout in under 7 minutes. General Manager Li Shuxiao highlighted the software's enhanced wiring flexibility, allowing for automatic wiring in extreme spatial scenarios and providing semi-automatic tools, balancing design efficiency and operational freedom. The development of indigenous Q-EDA software is considered crucial for seizing industry advantages in quantum computing. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: An international research team, including Israeli researchers, published a paper in *Nature Communications* detailing a new method for manipulating skyrmions, nanoscale magnetic vortex structures. The study found that applying current to Fe3Sn2 can excite two resonance modes in skyrmions: a "breathing mode" and a rotational mode. The research also identified spin-polarized current in the material. These findings could potentially be applied to data storage and sensor technology.
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Summary: The article discusses the Xixia imperial tombs located west of Yinchuan, highlighting their historical significance as the largest and most complete existing Xixia cultural relics. The tombs' layout, construction, and artifacts, including unique architectural components like glazed ornaments and stone statues, reveal a blend of Tang-Song and Xixia characteristics. Inscriptions found at the site, written in both Xixia and Han Chinese, highlight the dual importance of the cultures. Artifacts found at the site also suggest the importance of the region for trade. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the John Magee camera, a national-level cultural relic documenting the Nanjing Massacre, and its significance in preserving and disseminating the historical truth. John Magee, an American missionary, filmed the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing in December 1937. These films were smuggled out of Nanjing and shown internationally, becoming key evidence in the Tokyo and Nanjing trials. The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall uses the camera's story to promote a correct view of WWII history internationally, including exhibitions and educational programs. Magee's grandson has continued the family's connection to Nanjing, highlighting the importance of remembering history for the sake of peace.
Summary: The article mourns the passing of scholar Qiu Xigui, highlighting his dedication to rigorous scholarship, his significant contributions to the study of unearthed texts and ancient writing, including involvement in projects like the Mawangdui silk texts, and his profound influence on academic standards. Qiu was known for his integrity, aversion to academic misconduct, and commitment to nurturing young talent, exemplified by his support for Cai Wei, a former rickshaw driver who became a Fudan University doctoral student. The author, who worked closely with Qiu for nearly 20 years, emphasizes Qiu's insistence on modesty and factual accuracy in academic pursuits. Qiu's emphasis on "seeking truth from facts" is presented as a model for future scholars.
Summary: The author, the chairman of the Sichuan Writers Association, reflects on traveling routes once traversed by Du Fu and Su Shi, noting the importance of understanding the cultural and historical context when restoring historical sites. He argues that many reconstructed sites lack the depth of understanding of the original literature and cultural significance, making them indistinguishable from newly built structures. The author emphasizes the need to integrate social science research to better inform cultural heritage preservation and tourism development, avoiding homogenized or overly commercialized presentations. He argues that cultural heritage is inherently tied to the political, economic, aesthetic, and social aspects of its time. Furthermore, he also cautions against embracing diversity for its own sake, and not adhering to the principle that Chinese culture is a unified whole with various components.
Summary: This article is a reflection from a journalist from the Rongchang district of Chongqing on the history and enduring legacy of Rongchang pottery. It recounts the origins of Rongchang pottery, tracing its roots back to the Eastern Han dynasty and highlighting its peak during the Tang and Northern Song dynasties. The article emphasizes the intricate 24-step process involved in crafting the pottery and the dedication of artisans like Liang Xiancai, a national-level inheritor of the craft. The author concludes with optimism about the future of Rongchang pottery due to the continued dedication to its legacy. The piece does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Archaeological finds in Xiong'an New Area, Hebei, have yielded two rare, relatively well-preserved Tang Dynasty dragon heads (9 and 10). These artifacts were transferred to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences University for analysis and restoration. Researchers analyzed the dragon heads' materials and construction, determining their firing temperature and pigment composition, finding the dragon heads contained straw and pottery shards, and even a potter's fingerprint. Teams from various institutions, including the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Palace Museum, conducted analyses of the elements and internal structure, and a virtual splicing process was completed with help from Beijing Institute of Technology. After six months of work, the dragon heads were successfully restored, providing valuable insight into ancient Chinese craftsmanship and the historical heritage of Xiong'an.
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Summary: An 85-year-old letter from a 13-year-old laborer named Gao Yuchen details the hardships faced by Chinese people under foreign occupation in Northeast China, including forced labor and national humiliation. The author contrasts this with China's present-day strength, security, and prosperity, emphasizing the importance of a strong nation for its citizens' well-being. The author also highlights that the current environment of peace and security is not enjoyed by everyone on the planet. The author is a cultural worker who intends to create art in honor of this history. The author notes that the letter is a reminder of the path China has taken.
Summary: The article discusses historical examples in China of officials who either diligently fulfilled their duties with thorough investigation or superficially complied with orders through falsification. It contrasts officials like Wang Sicheng in the Yuan Dynasty, who insisted on personally investigating a difficult river project, with those who preferred to provide unsubstantiated reports. The piece also highlights Xia Yuanji, who diligently managed a critical water diversion project, as an example of responsible governance. The author argues against laziness and superficiality in governance, advocating instead for dedication and a commitment to public service. The author contends that only through this may the nation be properly governed and the people's trust be earned.
Summary: The article describes the author's observations of wildlife in the Erguna region, including encounters with demoiselle cranes and marmots. It recounts the story of Zhao Hongsong, a herdsman who rescued and raised a young eagle, forming a bond that lasted even after the bird was released. It also mentions border patrol officers stationed in Erguna and a cultural park dedicated to them.
Summary: The article discusses the Chinese painting "Shared Bicycles" by Ma Xin, held in the National Art Museum of China. The painting thematizes the shared bicycle phenomenon. No information is provided regarding official statements, actions, or US-China relations.
Summary: The author recounts their experience of recovering from a personal low point in Shantou, highlighting the city's therapeutic effects through its food, scenery, and calming environment. They describe how simple pleasures like local cuisine, exploring the city by electric scooter, and driving along the coast at dawn helped restore their mental well-being. The author emphasizes the comforting routine and the sense of peace found in Shantou, leading them to consider it a second home. While acknowledging the city's economic limitations for their career, they value its restorative impact and express a reluctance to leave. The United States and U.S.-China relations are not mentioned.
Summary: This article is a poetic reflection on the nature and symbolism of the Chinese writing brush and ink. It explores the brush as a tool to capture the essence of all things and give form to time. The poem highlights the contrast between the brush's firm exterior and its ability to express softness, and the ink's transformation from burning passion to artistic permanence. It emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between ink and water in creating meaning. Ultimately, the poem suggests the enduring presence of "ink" and its connection to ancestral heritage, even for those who may not directly use it.
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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 6th. Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, met with the Panchen Erdeni Qoigyijabu (班禅额尔德尼·确吉杰布) at Zhongnanhai (中南海) on June 6th. Xi Jinping (习近平) encouraged him to take the 10th Panchen Lama as a model, strive to become a Tibetan Buddhist Living Buddha with profound Buddhist knowledge and loved by monks and lay believers, and make greater contributions to promoting ethnic unity, religious harmony, and the stable development and progress of Tibet (西藏).
Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Cai Qi (蔡奇), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, accompanied the meeting.
The Panchen (班禅) presented a Hada to Xi Jinping (习近平) and introduced his learning and work in recent years. Xi Jinping (习近平) congratulated him on his progress in all aspects.
Xi Jinping (习近平) expressed his hope that the Panchen (班禅) would inherit the glorious tradition of Tibetan Buddhism of loving the country and religion, and resolutely safeguard the unity of the motherland and ethnic unity. He should concentrate on academic studies, continuously deepen religious studies and improve religious attainments, and strengthen the learning and mastery of knowledge in all aspects. He should be active and promising in his work, and play a better role in promoting the forging of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, systematically promoting the Sinicization of religion in China, and promoting the modernization of Tibet (西藏). He should be prudent and self-disciplined in his self-cultivation, take the lead in abiding by the law and observing precepts, and cultivate good morals and noble sentiments.
The Panchen (班禅) said that he will definitely keep in mind the earnest teachings of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), take the 10th Panchen Lama as an example, firmly support the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and resolutely safeguard the unity of the motherland and ethnic unity. He will continue to diligently study and practice, continuously improve his religious knowledge and comprehensive quality, and contribute to promoting ethnic unity and progress, systematically promoting the Sinicization of religion in China, and promoting the modernization of Tibet (西藏).
Li Ganjie (李干杰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, participated in the event.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 6th (Xinhua) – On June 6, 2025, Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory message to Karol Nawrocki (卡罗尔·纳夫罗茨基), congratulating him on his election as President of the Republic of Poland.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that Poland was one of the first countries to recognize and establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. China and Poland enjoy a traditional friendship and are comprehensive strategic partners. Over the 76 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties, the two countries have adhered to mutual respect and equal treatment, and have achieved fruitful results in mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields. Facing the international situation characterized by intertwined changes and chaos, China and Poland, as friendly partners, should further deepen political mutual trust and strengthen strategic communication. I attach great importance to the development of China-Poland relations and am willing to work with President-elect Nawrocki (纳夫罗茨基) to promote the continuous and stable development of the China-Poland comprehensive strategic partnership, benefit the two peoples, and inject more stability and certainty into the world.
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Currently, the in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee is being carried out in an orderly manner throughout the Party. Party organizations at all levels focus on the theme, exert precise efforts, and promote learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, focusing on the word "practical" to ensure quality learning, effective investigation, and successful rectification, and to continuously deepen and solidify learning and education.
Layered and Classified
Improving the Quality and Effectiveness of Learning
"The former director of a community cultural activity center in a certain street illegally issued bonuses, subsidies, and overtime pay, and was given a serious warning within the Party... Everyone should take this as a warning." Recently, in Youyi Road Street, Baoshan District (宝山区), Shanghai (上海), the District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision's "Youth Talk" lecturer group "delivered lessons to the door" for community Party members and cadres, using typical cases handled as "living teaching materials" to interpret the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules.
According to the characteristics of different groups such as "top leaders" of Party and government organs, young cadres, newly promoted cadres, key post cadres, and Party members in emerging fields, Baoshan District (宝山区) customized education programs, held reading classes, expert lectures, and theoretical publicity activities, and organized visits to anti-corruption education bases and warning education activities such as observing court trials to guide Party members and cadres to build a solid ideological foundation.
One key opens one lock. In view of the actual work and ideological dynamics of various groups of Party members and cadres, various places classify them by level and category, teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and strive to make learning and education accurate and effective.
Focusing on the young cadre group, the Hinggan League (兴安盟) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) organized young cadres to participate in reading classes, centralized training, theme Party days, and special Party lectures by secretaries, according to the idea of "by region, by level"; demonstrating and driving all levels and departments to carry out centralized learning based on youth theory learning groups, youth learning alliances, etc., to achieve full coverage of young cadres' learning and discussion.
"Through classroom tutoring, I have a deeper understanding that I must discipline myself and cultivate my morality in small matters and details, and prevent problems before they occur." Not long ago, a "style construction class" for young cadres was held in Buzi Town (埠子镇), Sucheng District (宿城区), Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省). Vivid cases warned everyone to fasten the "first button" of honest administration.
For some time, Sucheng District (宿城区) has focused on key groups such as newly promoted cadres, young cadres, and village (community) cadres, and included the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules into the teaching content of "small class" training courses for young cadres and training courses for village (community) Party branch secretaries. Sucheng District (宿城区) also actively gives play to the exemplary leading role of the regional Party member service center in outflow areas, and explores the "paired assistance learning, regional joint learning, and online delivery learning" mechanism to effectively grasp the learning and education of mobile Party members.
Truly Investigate and Rectify
Pinpointing the Root Cause of Problems
"Please show me your ledger for issuing allowances and subsidies..." A few days ago, the style supervision team of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Working Committee of the Wanli Management Bureau (湾里管理局) in Nanchang City (南昌市), Jiangxi Province (江西省) went to Meiling Town (梅岭镇) to check the records of issuing allowances and subsidies on the spot.
Focusing on seven aspects including document meeting activities, office space and vehicles, and the use of funds, the Wanli Management Bureau (湾里管理局) organized organs, institutions, and township streets to carry out "style physical examinations," and comprehensively used discipline inspection and supervision, inspection and supervision, audit supervision, and investigation and research to investigate and identify problems.
Since the launch of learning and education, all localities have adhered to solving whatever problems exist, focusing on rectifying whatever problems are prominent, and immediately investigating and rectifying, immediately knowing and rectifying, and truly investigating and rectifying.
Shuozhou City (朔州市) in Shanxi Province (山西省) took "rectifying the problem of using public funds for tourism in the name of research and training" as a city-level centralized rectification project, formulated specific rectification measures, and at the same time urged Party committees (Party groups) at all levels to improve systems such as public vehicle management and official reception, and turn hard requirements for style into hard measures.
Combined with the actual work and characteristics of Party member teams in different fields, Qionghai City (琼海市) in Hainan Province (海南省) issued the "Categorized Guidance Opinions on Carrying out Learning and Education in Grassroots Fields," formulated five common guiding opinions; focusing on eight grassroots fields such as organs, rural areas, communities, state-owned enterprises, and hospitals, formulated 64 personalized guiding opinions for specific content such as learning and discussion themes and methods, problem investigation categories and lists, clarified the reference list of characteristic problems, and constructed a three-dimensional categorized guidance system of "commonality + personality."
Haidong City (海东市) in Qinghai Province (青海省) consciously and actively opened its doors to carry out education, with the city Party committee's learning and education work special class as a whole coordinating, hiring 70 Party members as social supervisors, undertaking responsibilities such as policy publicity, style observation, public opinion surveys, and situation feedback; establishing an information collection database, summarizing the opinions and suggestions submitted by social supervisors, ensuring comprehensive information, timely feedback, effective supervision, and strong implementation.
Taking Responsibility and Making Achievements
Doing Practical Things for the People's Livelihood
Not long ago, in the courtyard of the Fifth Society Village of Youyi Village (友谊村), Tujing Township (涂井乡), Zhongxian County (忠县), Chongqing (重庆), a courtyard meeting was very lively. The villagers held the brand-new "big red book" and smiled from ear to ear - "The real estate certificate we have been waiting for for many years is finally in our hands!"
Housing is an important issue for people's livelihood. In response to historical legacy issues such as imperfect land use procedures and inconsistent real estate information, the Zhongxian County (忠县) Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, natural resources, township streets and other departments and units cooperated to comprehensively investigate the "difficulty in registration" of real estate strongly reflected by the masses, and steadily and orderly promoted the confirmation and registration of houses.
Since the launch of learning and education, all localities have adhered to problem orientation, highlighted key rectifications, and continued to transform the results of learning and education into the effectiveness of taking responsibility and making achievements.
Hefei City (合肥市) in Anhui Province (安徽省) adhered to the mass line, and through the city's four sets of leading bodies, the leading bodies of city-level departments, and the linkage of counties and districts, solidly carried out activities to listen to opinions, solve problems, and promote development, and deeply understood what the masses expected, what enterprises were困 (kùn - "困," troubled), and what cadres were thinking. At the same time, it established a closed-loop working mechanism for "collection-research and judgment-solution-feedback" of opinions and suggestions. For those that can be solved immediately, on-site office work will solve them on the spot; for those that cannot be solved on the spot, timely explanations and explanations will be given, and solutions will be promoted through departmental coordination, upper and lower linkage, etc., so that cadres and the masses can truly feel the new atmosphere and new changes brought about by learning and education.
Qiaoxi District (桥西区) in Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), Hebei Province (河北省) adhered to open education, and deepened the interaction between cadres and the masses by holding symposiums and discussion meetings; implemented the leadership cadre contracting and visiting and receiving mechanism to promote the resolution of accumulated petition cases; focused on education, medical care, elderly care, childcare and other aspects to make up for shortcomings and strengthen the foundation, and wholeheartedly and earnestly solved the urgent and difficult problems of the masses.
"It used to take running to several places to handle social security, but now it is quickly done in the community, which is really too convenient!" In the Huarong Community (华融社区) service hall in Xuanhan County (宣汉县), Dazhou City (达州市), Sichuan Province (四川省), Wang Yingmei (王应梅), a citizen who had just obtained a social security certificate, said happily.
Dazhou City (达州市) in Sichuan Province (四川省) thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules, took responsibility and made achievements, and worked hard for the people. In Xuanhan County (宣汉县), 37 high-frequency convenient service items have been sunk to the community, and the masses can handle things at their doorstep. In Dachuan District (达川区), various resources and forces continue to sink, and high-quality services such as health care consultations and handling (accepting) government affairs are delivered to the doorsteps of the masses; in the High-tech Zone, the "one-time comprehensive inspection" law enforcement mechanism jointly constructed by multiple departments creates a good environment for enterprise development.
(Reporters He Zhaoyu (何昭宇), Shen Tongrui (沈童睿), Li Linwei (李林蔚), Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), Li Junjie (李俊杰), Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), Ma Ruishan (马睿姗), Dong Zeyang (董泽扬), Zhao Jingfeng (赵景锋), Cao Jiwei (曹继炜) of this newspaper)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 6th. Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) held a phone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (卡尼) on the morning of June 6th, at his request.
Li Qiang (李强) stated that Canada was one of the first Western countries to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, and Sino-Canadian relations were once at the forefront of China's relations with Western countries. However, in recent years, Sino-Canadian relations have been subjected to unnecessary interference and have encountered serious difficulties. China is willing to work with Canada, with a forward-looking attitude, to promote the continuous improvement of bilateral relations, move onto a healthy and stable development track, and better achieve win-win cooperation.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that the development of China and Canada presents opportunities for each other, not threats. The two countries have no fundamental conflicts of interest, but rather traditional friendship and mutual benefit. He expressed hope that Canada would meet China halfway, view China's development objectively and rationally, and achieve mutual success to jointly promote prosperity. Looking to the future, the potential for Sino-Canadian cooperation is enormous. The economies of the two countries are highly complementary, and both sides should deepen cooperation in traditional areas, expand cooperation in emerging fields such as clean energy, climate change, and technological innovation, and expand people-to-people exchanges and economic and trade exchanges. The governments of the two countries should listen to and respond to the voices of the people, and do more to deepen friendly cooperation and enhance mutual understanding and trust. China is willing to, on the basis of equality and respect, seek common ground while reserving differences, 求同存异 (qiú tóng cún yì - "seek common ground preserve differences," to seek common ground while accepting existing differences), and expand communication and dialogue in various fields to find appropriate solutions to each other's concerns. The current international situation is intertwined with turmoil and change, and unilateralism and protectionism are intensifying. China is willing to work with Canada to jointly safeguard multilateralism and free trade, promote economic globalization and the multilateral trading system in the right direction, and inject more stability into world peace and development.
Trudeau (卡尼) stated that Canada and China have a deep traditional friendship. China is Canada's second-largest trading partner. Canada-China relations have experienced twists and turns in the past few years, and Canada is willing to restart Canada-China relations, and looks forward to resuming high-level exchanges and dialogue mechanisms in the fields of diplomacy, economy and trade with China, and strengthening practical cooperation in trade, agriculture, energy, environmental protection and other fields. Facing the current international situation, Canada is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with China, jointly safeguard the international financial and trade system, and contribute to promoting global sustainable development.
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The "artificial sun" created a new world record of "100 million degrees for thousands of seconds," China's fourth-generation independent quantum computing measurement and control system "Origin Tianji 4.0 (本源天机4.0)" was officially released, and more than 4,000 scientific and technological achievements were unveiled at the 3rd China (Anhui) Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Transformation Fair... To win the battle of the "14th Five-Year Plan," Anhui has continued to promote scientific and technological innovation since the beginning of this year.
In October 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Anhui, "We must accelerate scientific and technological innovation and industrial transformation and upgrading. We should build national laboratories and the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (合肥综合性国家科学中心) at a high level and effectively leverage the role of high-level science and technology innovation platforms."
How can original innovation achievements be better shared? How can scientific research supply meet the needs of enterprises? By clearing obstacles and solving difficulties, Anhui's determination and path to take the lead with science and technology and help the high-quality development of industries are becoming increasingly clear.
Consolidating the "foundation" and stimulating the innovative fission of "from 0 to 1"—
In the northwest corner of Hefei Binhu Science City (合肥滨湖科学城), the once barren land is rising to become a concentration area for major scientific facilities—eight projects, including the "Hefei Advanced Light Source (合肥先进光源)" synchrotron radiation device, are accelerating construction. In the future, this will become one of the most densely populated areas of major scientific facilities in China and even the world.
Major scientific facilities and high-level platforms will overcome more "no-man's-land" in basic research and seize more "commanding heights" of key core technologies. Anhui has 13 major scientific facilities built, under construction, and in pre-research. In 2024, Anhui added 15 national key laboratories, bringing the total to 23, and the regional innovation capacity has been continuously improved for years.
"By reshaping and upgrading the innovation platform system and improving mechanisms such as 'laying eggs along the way,' we will support and lead the development of new quality productive forces in Anhui," introduced Zhong Haibin (钟海斌), Director of the Science and Technology Innovation Platform Construction Division of the Anhui Provincial Department of Science and Technology (安徽省科技厅). Major scientific facilities have derived more than 1,000 technology patents and incubated nearly 50 enterprises, consolidating the "technical foundation" for Anhui to build science and technology innovation highlands for quantum information, fusion energy, and deep space exploration.
Optimizing the environment and accelerating the achievement derivation of "from 1 to 10"—
High-end network testers can simulate extreme network environments and verify the performance of various devices and protocols in the network. At the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (合肥综合性国家科学中心人工智能研究院), Liang Xinping (梁新平), Chairman of Hefei Wangyi Technology Co., Ltd. (合肥网仪科技有限公司), is leading his team to intensify efforts to tackle this major national science and technology project.
"The high-quality verification platform and industrial environment have attracted a large number of researchers to join, providing great support for product development." Here, Liang Xinping's team completed the first set of deliveries, realizing the domestic independent control of the high-end network tester field.
The high investment in pilot platforms and experimental equipment often deters start-up technology companies. How can scientific and technological achievements move more smoothly from the "laboratory" to the "application field"?
In recent years, Anhui has accelerated the establishment and operation of six research institutes in areas such as big health and artificial intelligence, and has laid out more than 200 scientific research projects and public application scenarios, attracting more than 200 "national-level" innovation platforms to settle in Anhui, and has built more than 4,400 provincial-level and above technology innovation platforms and technology transfer centers.
"We have initially built an innovation system that runs through the entire chain of applied research, technological innovation, achievement transformation, and industrialization," introduced Hu Xianfeng (胡先锋), Director of the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center Work Division of the Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission (安徽省发展改革委). Currently, Anhui has 23,000 national-level high-tech enterprises and 35,000 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. In the first quarter of this year, the added value of the province's high-tech manufacturing industry increased by 20.1%.
Promoting integration and helping the industrial qualitative change of "from 10 to 100"—
The new intelligent sensor of the Anhui Provincial Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Technology Innovation Research Institute (安徽省微机电系统（MEMS）技术产业创新研究院) took only half a year from product release to occupying more than 80% of the domestic market share.
The industry-research institute is a product of integration, with the participation of not only multiple universities and research institutes, but also more than 10 upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain. "Rapid design iteration and rapid application verification greatly shorten the product development cycle and market testing," said Yu Lei (喻磊), a key member of the product development team. Since its establishment last year, the industry-research institute has obtained more than 400 invention patents, which has strongly promoted the development of the Bengbu (蚌埠) intelligent sensor industry cluster.
To promote the efficient and seamless connection of the innovation chain and the industrial chain, Anhui is building a closely integrated development mechanism of "government, industry, academia, research, finance, service, and application" (政产学研金服用). Currently, 106 units in Anhui are piloting the "empowerment + transfer + agreed income" model for job-related scientific and technological achievements, the proportion of undergraduate and junior college majors serving emerging industries has reached 72%, and the loan balance of technology-based enterprises has nearly tripled in four years.
At present, Anhui is actively planning the substantive reform of Hefei Binhu Science City (合肥滨湖科学城). "We will keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) instructions and create the best ecology for technological innovation and industrial innovation. Innovation has enabled Anhui to achieve leapfrog development in the '14th Five-Year Plan.' Moving towards the '15th Five-Year Plan,' we must further enhance this golden brand," said Liang Yanshun (梁言顺), Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee (安徽省委书记).
Return to TopIn recent years, Linyi County (临猗县), Yuncheng City (运城市), Shanxi Province (山西省) has continuously promoted the construction of high-standard farmland. By implementing land consolidation, irrigation supporting and other project works, the quality and output capacity of the land have been improved, promoting agricultural efficiency, increasing farmers' income, and helping the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. The picture shows the modern agricultural demonstration belt along the Sishui River (涑水河) in Linyi County (临猗县).
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Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 6th (Xinhua) -- Comrade Raidi (热地), an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a loyal communist fighter, an outstanding leader in China's ethnic work and socialist legal system construction, an excellent son of the Tibetan people, and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress, passed away in Beijing at 2:15 AM on June 6, 2025, due to illness, at the age of 87.
Return to TopAccording to reports from the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) recently, as of now, China's Silk Road e-commerce partner countries have reached 35, creating a series of cooperation brands, building 120 online and offline national pavilions, constructing 65 direct procurement bases in 19 countries, and holding more than 100 e-commerce "Cloud Grand Lecture Hall" business training sessions, effectively promoting global e-commerce cooperation.
In 2025, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) launched the "E-commerce Benefits the World" theme activity, organizing 18 regions and 8 major e-commerce platforms, focusing on policy communication, industrial docking, capacity building, and local cooperation, forming 40 list-style cooperation contents, inviting partner countries to "self-service" ordering, and intensively and efficiently carrying out pragmatic cooperation in the field of e-commerce.
In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) will continue to expand the import of high-quality and characteristic products, help the digital transformation of industries, deepen e-commerce production and supply chain cooperation, promote the achievement of practical results in various activities, and jointly build and share a global e-commerce market.
Return to TopAccording to data released on June 6th by the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), in the first five months of this year, China newly approved and released 468 national standard reference materials, an increase of 65.9% year-on-year. Among them, 31 were national first-class standard reference materials, accounting for 6.6%, an increase of 47.6% year-on-year; 437 were national second-class standard reference materials, accounting for 93.4%, an increase of 60.7% year-on-year. To date, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) has cumulatively approved and released 18,926 national standard reference materials, and its international metrological mutual recognition capability for standard reference materials remains firmly in the first echelon internationally.
Standard reference materials are indispensable "rulers" and "weights" for carrying out chemical, biological and other testing activities, and are a key element in the construction of national metrological capabilities. There has been a significant increase in the number of approved standard reference materials in various fields, with the manufacturing and petrochemical industries seeing the largest increase, and the environmental monitoring field having the largest number of approved standard reference materials.
Next, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) will vigorously organize the research, development and production of public-interest standard reference materials, optimize the business environment, and 筑牢根基 (zhù láo gēn jī - "build a solid foundation," to establish a firm foundation for something) for the development of new quality productive forces.
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Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 6th (Xinhua) -- A work symposium for the Central Steering Group on Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee was held in Beijing on the 6th. Shi Taifeng (石泰峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and deputy leader of the Central Party Building Work Leading Group, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Liu Jinguo (刘金国), Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, presided over the meeting.
The meeting emphasized that each steering group should thoroughly implement the Party Central Committee's deployment requirements for study and education, implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speeches and instructions, deepen and solidify guidance and supervision work, promote the resolution of prominent problems, and ensure that study and education achieve more solid and obvious results. It is necessary to focus on deepening learning, guide and urge local areas and units to keep up with learning in a timely manner, learn in connection with reality, and learn with integration, guiding party members and cadres to correct deviations from the source ideologically. It is necessary to focus on accurately identifying problems, conduct a "look back" on the investigation of problems, urge leading bodies and leading cadres to take the lead in investigating problems, pay attention to soliciting public opinions, and strengthen the review and control of problem lists. It is necessary to focus on centralized rectification, urge the improvement of centralized rectification ledgers, track and understand progress and effectiveness, and urge local areas and units to focus their efforts on rectifying outstanding problems such as violations of regulations on eating and drinking, violations of regulations on receiving gifts and gift money, infringement of the interests of the masses, and failure to act with responsibility, and to take serious action against those who violate discipline against the wind, catch them in the act, seize typical cases, and issue circulars to form a strong deterrent and promote the resolute curbing of hidden and variant forms of the "Four Winds." It is necessary to focus on establishing and improving systems, urge the patching up of institutional shortcomings, deepen promoting changes through cases, and vigorously grasp the implementation of systems. It is necessary to focus on consolidating responsibilities, promote the implementation of the main responsibilities of local and unit party committees (party groups), resolutely eliminate the idea of passing the test and the idea of a gust of wind, strengthen coordination and linkage, and form a joint force for guidance and supervision work.
Jiang Xinzhi (姜信治) attended the meeting.
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The 9th China-South Asia Expo (hereinafter referred to as the "South Asia Expo") will be held in Kunming (昆明), Yunnan (云南) from June 19th to 24th. On June 6th, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation.
Yan Dong (鄢东), Vice Minister of Commerce (商务部), said that this expo is one of the important economic and trade exchange activities between China and South Asian countries this year. It will continue the theme of "Unity and Cooperation, Jointly Seeking Development" and will be co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) and the People's Government of Yunnan Province (云南省人民政府).
Li Chaowei (李朝伟), Director of the Department of Commerce of Yunnan Province (云南省商务厅), said that this South Asia Expo has seen significant improvements in scale and content. Starting this year, the South Asia Expo will be held annually in June for a period of 6 days. It adopts a "mainly offline, integrated offline and online" model. The first day of the exhibition hall is open to professional visitors, and the next 5 days are open to the public.
According to reports, Sri Lanka (斯里兰卡) is the theme country of this South Asia Expo, and Thailand (泰国), which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its diplomatic relations with China, is invited as a special partner country. This South Asia Expo has built a broader display platform for South Asian countries' commodities. The two South Asia pavilions set up include nearly 800 booths, with India (印度) and Pakistan (巴基斯坦) having the largest number of booths, both with 140. Southeast Asia (东南亚) and overseas pavilions have been set up, and companies from 54 countries and regions have actively participated in the exhibition, covering all South Asian and Southeast Asian countries. Among the more than 1,400 domestic and foreign exhibitors who have registered, more than 120 well-known companies and leading companies in the industry, such as Fortune 500 companies and China 500 companies, have participated, an increase of 36% compared with the previous session.
Deepening the "comprehensive exhibition, professional organization" model, 11 professional pavilions such as the Manufacturing Pavilion, Green Energy Pavilion, Coffee Industry Pavilion, and Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry Pavilion have been set up. Professional pavilions account for nearly 70%, focusing on displaying advanced manufacturing, clean energy, modern agriculture and other fields in which China and South Asian and Southeast Asian countries have potential for economic and trade cooperation. This South Asia Expo has attracted nearly a thousand professional buyers from home and abroad to register, covering 31 countries and regions in South Asia, RCEP member states, Europe, America, and Africa.
In recent years, China and South Asian countries have deepened practical cooperation in various fields, and economic and trade exchanges have maintained a good momentum of development.
Trade cooperation has been stable and progressive. In 2024, the trade volume between China and South Asian countries will be close to 200 billion US dollars, doubling in 10 years, with an average annual growth rate of about 6.3%. China has been the largest trading partner of Pakistan (巴基斯坦), Bangladesh (孟加拉国) and other countries for many years. In order to improve the trade structure and expand South Asian countries' exports to China, China is promoting trade cooperation between the two sides, carrying out joint research with Pakistan (巴基斯坦) to enhance export capacity, implementing the Maldives (马尔代夫) seafood export promotion project, and recently established trade facilitation working groups with Bangladesh (孟加拉国) and Sri Lanka (斯里兰卡), which have achieved positive results.
Investment cooperation has been full of highlights. In recent years, the construction of the "upgraded version" of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (中巴经济走廊) has been steadily advancing. Investment cooperation projects such as the Hambantota Port (汉班托塔港) in Sri Lanka (斯里兰卡), the Payra Power Station (帕亚拉电站) in Bangladesh (孟加拉国), and the Sanjinkhola Hydropower Station (三金考拉水电站) in Nepal (尼泊尔) have been launched one after another, injecting strong momentum into regional economic growth. A large number of Chinese-funded enterprises are deepening industrial cooperation in textiles, electronics and other industries in accordance with local conditions, realizing their own development and also promoting the development of local export-oriented industries.
Open cooperation is gradually expanding. The China-Maldives Free Trade Agreement (中国—马尔代夫自贸协定) officially came into effect at the beginning of this year, and China and Bangladesh (孟加拉国) are launching negotiations to upgrade the investment agreement, providing institutional guarantees for the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment between the two sides. China grants 100% tariff lines zero-tariff treatment to Chinese exports from the least developed countries in South Asia, including Nepal (尼泊尔), Bangladesh (孟加拉国) and Afghanistan (阿富汗), helping South Asian countries expand their exports to China and share the opportunities of the Chinese market.
Liu Yong (刘勇), Vice Governor of Yunnan Province (云南省副省长), introduced that Yunnan (云南) is based on its regional advantages, actively serving and integrating into the national development strategy, and the breadth and depth of opening up to the outside world are constantly expanding. International freight trains such as "Yue Dian - Lancang-Mekong Line" ("粤滇·澜湄线") and "Jing Dian - Lancang-Mekong Line" ("京滇·澜湄线") and the Kunming (昆明) to Laem Chabang (拉廊) multimodal transport train in Thailand (泰国) have been launched. China's first cross-border tourism train has been opened. The China-Laos Railway (中老铁路) transportation network covers 31 provinces in China and 19 countries and regions including Laos (老挝), Vietnam (越南), Thailand (泰国), and Singapore (新加坡), with more than 3,000 types of commodities. The China-Laos Railway (中老铁路) has cumulatively transported more than 53 million passengers and more than 60 million tons of goods, promoting regional connectivity.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on June 6th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) - Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Public Security, emphasized at the national public security organs' promotion meeting on the regularized fight against organized crime, held on the 6th, that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee, firmly uphold the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," give full play to the role of public security organs as the main force in the fight against organized crime, adhere to the principle of 有黑必扫 (yǒu hēi bì sǎo - "if there is black, it must be swept away," resolutely eliminating any form of organized crime), 有恶必除 (yǒu è bì chú - "if there is evil, it must be eliminated," resolutely eradicating any form of evil), 有伞必打 (yǒu sǎn bì dǎ - "if there is an umbrella, it must be struck," resolutely cracking down on protective umbrellas), 有腐必反 (yǒu fǔ bì fǎn - "if there is corruption, it must be opposed," resolutely opposing any form of corruption), and 有乱必治 (yǒu luàn bì zhì - "if there is chaos, it must be governed," resolutely governing any form of chaos), concentrate resources and strength, unite internal and external forces, improve mechanisms and measures, innovate methods and means, and promote the regularization of the fight against organized crime to go deeper and more solid, so as to create a safer and more stable political and social environment for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) demanded that further strengthening precise strikes, maintaining "zero tolerance," highlighting "fast, accurate, and ruthless," strengthening the verification of clues, striking early and small, focusing on tackling key problems, and "striking umbrellas and breaking networks," resolutely not giving organized crime any chance to breathe. Further realize long-term governance and lasting effectiveness, adhere to the combination of combating and preventing, addressing both symptoms and root causes, strengthening systematic governance and source governance, improving the long-term mechanism for the prevention and governance of organized crime, and resolutely eradicating the breeding ground for organized crime. Further strengthen organizational promotion, coordinate and grasp the implementation of responsibilities, handling cases in accordance with the law, publicity and guidance, and team building, and constantly win new victories in the fight against organized crime.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曲哲涵
In recent days, the Ministry of Finance (财政部), the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部), the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部), and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) jointly issued the "Opinions on Further Improving the Horizontal Ecological Protection Compensation Mechanism" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") and the "Implementation Plan on Deeply Promoting the Construction of Horizontal Ecological Protection Compensation Mechanism for Major River Trunk Streams" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Plan"). Relevant officials from the Ministry of Finance (财政部) interpreted the "Opinions" and the "Implementation Plan."
The ecological, economic, and social benefits of the compensation mechanism are continuously expanding.
What is the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism? Simply put, it is a mechanism established between ecological environment protection areas and beneficiary areas to share costs, share benefits, and jointly govern.
Take the Xin'an River (新安江) governance as an example. This river originates from Liugujian (六股尖) in Xiuning County (休宁县), Huangshan City (黄山市), Anhui Province (安徽省). The total length of the main stream is 359 kilometers, of which 2/3 is within Anhui Province (安徽省). It enters Chun'an County (淳安县), Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) through She County (歙县), Huangshan City (黄山市), and flows into Qiandao Lake (千岛湖), Fuchun River (富春江) downstream, and converges into the Qiantang River (钱塘江).
At the beginning of this century, Huangshan (黄山) entered a stage of accelerated industrialization and urbanization. Sewage and garbage entered Qiandao Lake (千岛湖) through the Xin'an River (新安江), and the ecological security of the basin faced severe challenges. In 2012, Anhui (皖) and Zhejiang (浙) reached a "water quality bet" agreement on the Xin'an River (新安江) governance: The first round lasted for 3 years, with Anhui (皖) and Zhejiang (浙) each contributing 100 million yuan annually to establish a compensation fund to assess the water quality of cross-border sections; if it meets the standard, Zhejiang's (浙江) 100 million yuan will be given to Anhui (安徽); if it fails to meet the standard, Anhui's (安徽) 100 million yuan will be given to Zhejiang (浙江).
This agreement has achieved significant incentive effects. Since 2012, the cross-provincial section water quality of the Xin'an River (新安江) has reached the Class II standard of surface water environmental quality for 12 consecutive years, and approximately 7 billion cubic meters of high-quality water are transported to Qiandao Lake (千岛湖) every year.
Relevant departments have continued to exert efforts, and the in-depth promotion of the construction of the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism has achieved good results. "The construction of the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism in key river basins has been steadily promoted." Relevant officials from the Ministry of Finance (财政部) stated that, as of now, through policy and financial guidance, 30 cross-provincial river basin horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanisms have been established in 24 provinces, and provinces such as Jiangsu (江苏), Fujian (福建), Sichuan (四川), and Yunnan (云南) have achieved full coverage of compensation mechanisms in key river basins within the province, and the joint prevention and control mechanism for river basins has been continuously improved.
Relevant policies and measures have been gradually improved. In 2016, the Ministry of Finance (财政部) took the lead in issuing the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of Horizontal Ecological Protection Compensation Mechanism for Upstream and Downstream River Basins," which clarified major issues such as the benchmark, method, and standard of river basin ecological compensation. Subsequently, policy documents supporting the establishment of horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanisms in the entire Yangtze River (长江) and Yellow River (黄河) basins were successively issued.
"From a practical perspective, the ecological environment quality of river basins where mechanism construction has been carried out has continued to improve, the concentration of key pollutants has decreased significantly, the water quality of cross-border sections has improved significantly, and the ecological, economic, and social benefits of the compensation mechanism have continued to expand," the official said.
Further improve the mechanism, clear up difficulties and blockages, and clarify the "timetable" and "roadmap."
To make the mountains greener and the water clearer, the institutional "care" must continue to be strengthened.
"Currently, horizontal compensation between some regions still faces difficulties and blockages, and further standardization is needed in links such as the signing and implementation of compensation agreements." The aforementioned official stated that the joint issuance of the "Opinions" and the "Implementation Plan" by the five departments clarified the work goals, key tasks, and specific measures of the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism in the new era, and clarified that local governments should take the lead, with central support and guidance, adhere to the parallel model of "combining unification and decentralization," adhere to the principle of "whoever pollutes, governs; whoever protects, benefits," accelerate the establishment of a comprehensive, equitable, and shared horizontal ecological protection compensation model, promote benign interaction and high-quality development between regions, and build a modern society where humans and nature coexist harmoniously.
The "Opinions," as a top-level design institutional document for the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism in the new stage, mainly makes systematic deployments for the work goals, key tasks, and specific measures of the compensation mechanism; the "Implementation Plan" mainly clarifies that the central level organizes and coordinates the establishment of a unified horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism in the main streams of key river basins such as the Yangtze River (长江) and the Yellow River (黄河).
According to the "Implementation Plan," the central government will actively play a coordinating and guiding role, uniformly organize the establishment of mechanisms in the main streams of the Yangtze River (长江) and the Yellow River (黄河), and gradually promote them to other key river basins; policy evaluation and adjustment will be carried out every three years to reasonably determine compensation indicators and funding scale. In terms of fund allocation, the amount of funds contributed or received by each province will be uniformly calculated first, and the contributing provinces will pay the funds into the central treasury, and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) will then allocate the funds to the receiving provinces; the central government will continue to arrange funds for rewards, etc., for river basin provinces to independently expand and deepen the establishment of horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanisms through bilateral consultations.
The two documents clarify the phased goals for the near and long term: By 2027, a unified horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism for the main streams of the Yangtze River (长江) and the Yellow River (黄河) will be established, and all localities will basically establish cross-regional river basin horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanisms covering key rivers within their jurisdictions. The construction of horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanisms for major cross-river basin water diversion projects will be steadily promoted, and beneficial explorations will be made in the construction of horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanisms for ecological environment elements such as forests, grasslands, atmosphere, wetlands, deserts, oceans, water flows, and cultivated land. By 2035, the construction of river basin horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanisms will be deeply promoted, fully covering the main streams and important tributaries of key river basins such as the Yangtze River (长江) and the Yellow River (黄河), and expanding to a wider range, deeper connotation, and richer forms. The quality of the ecological environment will continue to improve, the service functions of the ecosystem will be continuously enhanced, the urban and rural living environment will be significantly improved, national ecological security will be effectively guaranteed, the ecological environment governance system will be more sound, and the construction of a beautiful China will achieve remarkable results.
The official emphasized that the new mechanism does not change the existing division of responsibilities and is still mainly based on local governments. On the basis of the unified central mechanism, local governments will independently expand and deepen bilateral consultation mechanisms, gradually expand to important tributaries and all river basins within administrative regions, and actively explore diversified and market-oriented ecological compensation methods. In order to continue to encourage the continuous operation of the mechanisms previously established through bilateral consultations in the main streams of the Yangtze River (长江) and the Yellow River (黄河), it is planned to further improve the central reward method and reward inter-provincial establishment of mechanisms through water pollution prevention and control funds.
Strengthen "blood production," strictly supervise, and promote the establishment of a market-oriented and diversified ecological protection compensation mechanism.
Let protectors and contributors benefit. The Ministry of Finance (财政部) will work with relevant parties to actively promote the establishment of a market-oriented and diversified horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism to achieve benign interaction between ecological product supply areas and beneficiary areas.
The main measures include: accelerating the cultivation of resource element trading markets such as carbon emission rights, pollution discharge rights, and water use rights, reasonably defining and allocating ecological environment rights and interests, and guiding ecological beneficiaries to compensate ecological protectors; actively and steadily developing ecological industries, and establishing a sustainable development benefit-sharing mechanism; giving full play to the leverage role of government investment funds, and guiding social capital to actively participate in ecological protection and governance. At the same time, local governments are encouraged to take the lead in piloting, and on the basis of river basin horizontal ecological protection compensation, explore and expand diversified compensation approaches for forests, grasslands, atmosphere, wetlands, deserts, oceans, water flows, cultivated land, and other areas in accordance with local conditions; promote the transformation of ecological protection compensation from single government funding compensation to multiple compensation methods, from collaborative governance to common development, and from "blood transfusion" to "blood production."
Enhance departmental coordination, carry out performance evaluation, and strengthen capacity building. According to the "Implementation Plan," the Ministry of Finance (财政部) will work with relevant departments to establish a joint performance evaluation team, organize performance evaluation of compensation funds, promote the disclosure of compensation fund performance evaluation results, and improve the transparency of compensation fund use. For those who fail to effectively implement protection and governance responsibilities and have major environmental emergencies that affect downstream provinces, the central government may take measures such as deducting funds.
"Strengthen the construction of water resource, water environment, and water ecology monitoring support capabilities, and improve the investigation system and long-term monitoring mechanism. At the same time, it is necessary to encourage the carrying out of relevant research on tracing the sources of atmospheric pollution and marine pollution to provide strong support for improving the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism," the official said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 政
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers recently issued the "Initiative on Maintaining Fair Competition Order and Promoting the Healthy Development of the Industry," explicitly opposing the disorderly "price war" among car companies. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) also clearly stated that there are no winners and no future in a "price war," and it will increase efforts to rectify the "involutionary" competition in the automotive industry.
At the 2025 China Automotive Chongqing Forum, which opened on June 6, several heads of automotive companies and industry experts said in interviews with this reporter that they agreed with the initiative issued by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (中国汽车工业协会). An endless "price war" would harm the healthy and sustainable development of the industry. Automotive companies should operate in accordance with the law, compete in an orderly manner, adhere to integrity and innovation, prioritize quality, strengthen technological innovation, continuously improve product quality and service quality, practice social responsibility, and create a good brand image.
"Moderate price reductions and orderly competition are normal phenomena in a market economy, but a bottomless 'price war' will inevitably squeeze the reasonable profit margins of enterprises, which in turn will affect product and service quality. In the long run, it is detrimental to both enterprises and consumers," said Wang Xia (王侠), Chairman of the Automotive Industry Branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Chairman of the Automotive Industry Chamber of Commerce of the China International Chamber of Commerce.
According to incomplete statistics, there were more than 200 models with price reductions in the domestic auto market in 2024, and more than 60 models with price reductions in the first four months of 2025. The situation further intensified in May. Driven by large-scale and substantial price reductions by leading car companies, many car companies followed suit, with more than 100 models with price reductions, and the maximum price reduction exceeded 50,000 yuan, and even a car price of 30,000 yuan appeared. Although price reductions have brought sales growth, they have also led to a decline in industry profits to a low level of less than 4%.
Wang Xia (王侠) believes that no matter how market competition evolves, companies should adhere to three bottom lines: First, adhere to quality and safety standards without wavering, and adhere to the bottom line of laws and regulations; second, adhere to honest operation and the spirit of contract, maintain a win-win industrial chain relationship, do not engage in exaggerated publicity, do not engage in pulling and stepping marketing, and adhere to the bottom line of commercial ethics; third, adhere to long-termism, build value highlands with technological innovation and differentiation, refuse to sell below cost, and adhere to the bottom line of sustainable development.
"Changan Automobile (长安汽车) firmly opposes vicious competition without moral or legal bottom lines." Zhu Huarong (朱华荣), Chairman of Changan Automobile, solemnly promised that no matter how fierce the competition is, Changan Automobile will adhere to the following principles: First, ensure the safety, quality, and service of products, and never participate in competition in a way that harms the interests of users; second, adhere to achieving scaled cost reduction through technological progress and management innovation, and improve efficiency through group operation and common platform development, and create more value for users with better products and services; third, adhere to participating in global market competition in accordance with laws and regulations, and achieve long-term healthy development of the enterprise and promote industry progress through high-quality products, reliable quality, and considerate services.
Zhang Xinghai (张兴海), Chairman of Seres Group (赛力斯集团), said: "Seres actively responds to the association's initiative and will continue to increase investment in talent, research and development, production, testing, etc., and adhere to the development path of technology, product, and service innovation."
"Industry competition is inevitable, and the forms of competition are also diverse, but the ultimate goal is to create value for the country and consumers," said Huang Yongqiang (黄永强), Executive Committee Member and Head of Brand Marketing at GAC Group (广汽集团). GAC actively responds to the association's initiative, adheres to value innovation, and provides more intelligent and safer products and more thoughtful and comprehensive services to consumers.
"Competition in the automotive industry has never been a 100-meter sprint, but a marathon." Duan Jianjun (段建军), President and CEO of Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales Service Co., Ltd. (北京梅赛德斯—奔驰销售服务有限公司), said that if companies want to go far and steadily, they must adhere to the bottom line of value, adhere to long-term investment, and continuously improve technology, experience, and value.
"We believe that with the promotion of relevant departments, the self-discipline of the industry, and the exemplary efforts of major automobile companies, China's automobile industry will develop better and better," said Zhu Huarong (朱华荣).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) June 6th dispatch (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)) Recently, the National Railway Administration (国家铁路局) released the "2024 Railway Statistical Bulletin." The bulletin shows that in 2024, the national railway passenger traffic volume reached 4.312 billion people, an increase of 11.9% over the previous year; the total national railway freight volume reached 5.175 billion tons, an increase of 2.8% over the previous year.
In 2024, the national railway fixed asset investment completed 850.6 billion yuan, and 3,113 kilometers of new lines were put into operation, including 2,457 kilometers of high-speed railways. As of the end of 2024, the national railway operating mileage reached 162,000 kilometers, including 48,000 kilometers of high-speed railways.
In 2024, the chemical oxygen demand emissions of national railways were 1,337 tons, a decrease of 130 tons compared with the previous year; sulfur dioxide emissions were 456 tons, a decrease of 196 tons compared with the previous year.
Return to TopHohhot, June 6th (Reporter Zhang Cheng (张枨)) On the 6th, the track laying project of the Baotou-Yinchuan (Inner Mongolia Baotou to Ningxia Yinchuan) High-speed Railway Inner Mongolia section was successfully completed, laying a solid foundation for opening and operation within the year. The Baotou-Yinchuan High-speed Railway is an important part of the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network Beijing-Lanzhou corridor, with a total length of 519 kilometers. After the full line of the Baotou-Yinchuan High-speed Railway is opened to traffic, the fastest travel time of trains from Baotou (包头) to Yinchuan (银川) will be shortened from the current approximately 6 hours to 2 hours.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 6th (Reporter Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)) that recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) has deployed a nationwide supervision and inspection of crop seed bases, focusing on key links and key areas of seed breeding and production, strictly controlling the source of seed production, and effectively ensuring the safety of seeds used in agricultural production.
The inspection aims to protect intellectual property rights in the seed industry and improve seed quality. For the first time, it combines the supervision of seed production bases with seed quarantine inspections, focusing on key crops such as corn, soybeans, rice, and potatoes, and targeting national-level seed production counties and regional breeding bases. The inspection will cover seed production registration, variety ownership, parental source, quarantine pests, and other aspects. It will severely crack down on illegal activities such as unauthorized breeding, theft of parental lines, unlicensed production, and failure to register as required.
Starting in mid-June, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) will send six working groups to key seed production areas such as Gansu (甘肃), Xinjiang (新疆), and Sichuan (四川) to conduct on-site spot checks, inspections, and regulatory enforcement. At the same time, it will strengthen coordination and linkage with public security and other departments, increase the investigation and handling of major cross-regional cases, continuously improve the quality and efficiency of打击 (dǎ jī - "strike," to crack down on), continuously expose major cases to form a strong deterrent, and ensure good order in seed production bases and seed quality levels, so as to 夯实种源 (hāng shí zhǒng yuán - "consolidate seed source," to strengthen the foundation of seed resources) support for large-scale yield improvement of grain and oil crops.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李安琪
From June 2nd to 6th, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Youth "Perceive the Common Prosperity Road" event, sponsored by the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs (中国人民外交学会) and organized by the Foreign Affairs Office of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province (浙江省人民政府外事办公室), was held in Zhejiang (浙江). More than 20 youth representatives from SCO countries visited Hangzhou (杭州), Huzhou (湖州), Shaoxing (绍兴) and other places to feel the surging momentum of Chinese-style modernization.
Moving towards "new," high-quality development has sufficient momentum.
"What experiences can Zhejiang Province provide for reference in solving the problem of unbalanced development?" "Can you further introduce the implementation of pairing urban and rural schools?" "Why could DeepSeek be born in Hangzhou?" On the morning of the 3rd, relevant负责人 from the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission (浙江省发展和改革委员会) introduced the construction of the Zhejiang Common Prosperity Demonstration Zone to the youth representatives of SCO countries from multiple perspectives such as economy, trade, education, and medical care. The youth representatives actively asked questions based on their own work, and the two sides interacted positively.
Automated guided transport robots shuttle back and forth, picking and moving goods in designated areas of the shelves according to instructions; goods are automatically put into and out of the warehouse, and the automated立体 warehouse operates in an orderly manner... At the Alibaba Xixi Park (阿里巴巴西溪园区), Abdulaziz Nasser Al Haddad, an engineer from the Industrial Development Department of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Qatar (卡塔尔商工部), took photos with his mobile phone while watching the real-time monitoring screen in the Cainiao Wuxi Smart Warehouse. Al Haddad said that China's Internet economy is mature, which has not only spawned new business forms in trade, entertainment and other fields, but also deeply integrated into and changed people's daily lives. "Qatar has the foundation to develop related industries, and looks forward to carrying out more in-depth cooperation between Qatar and China in cross-border e-commerce and other fields."
"Hangzhou is a city full of innovation and vitality." At Dream Town (梦想小镇) in Yuhang District (余杭区), Hangzhou Xigu Video Technology Co., Ltd. founder and CEO Nick Mitchell shared his entrepreneurial story in Hangzhou with the youth representatives, introduced Hangzhou's entrepreneurial support policies and international talent introduction measures, and looked forward to more and more "foreign entrepreneurs" coming to Hangzhou for development.
"This is a 'dream incubator' for young entrepreneurs." After listening to Mitchell's experience, Maldivian parliamentarian and Trade Union President Maloof Zageer said that Hangzhou is a youth-friendly city, and relevant policies allow young entrepreneurs to have no worries.
Learning about the application of intelligent IoT solutions in various fields at Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江大华技术股份有限公司); having a dialogue with Alibaba Entertainment's hyper-realistic digital human Lili (厘里); investigating the complete entrepreneurial chain of "talent + capital + incubation"... Sharif Zaimati, an independent music producer from Egypt, gained a lot from his trip to Hangzhou. He said: "This is a journey of innovation, a journey of discovery, and a journey of realizing dreams. I came to China 10 years ago. In the past 10 years, China's high-quality development achievements have become more significant. The current China is completely different from what I remember, which makes me even more looking forward to China's future development."
Moving towards "green," sustainable development is beautiful.
Green waters meander away, and green mountains face each other. After the rain, Yucun (余村) in Anji (安吉), Huzhou (湖州) is lush.
"Green! It's all green here!" As soon as she got off the car, Yasmeen Mufeed, Public Relations and Marketing Director of the Bahrain Traditional Sports Committee, couldn't stop taking photos. Today's Yucun is a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, clean villages and households, harmonious people and scenery, and prosperous industries and rich people. Mufeed said with emotion: "I heard Chinese friends say that the countryside in Zhejiang is very beautiful. At that time, I wondered, how beautiful can the countryside be? When I really came here, everything far exceeded my imagination." Rural libraries transformed from old factories, camping parks transformed from old mines... Mufeed posted the scenery of Yucun she photographed on social media, with the caption - "A beautiful Chinese rural painting."
**绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains," lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets). Over the past 20 years, under the guidance of this concept, Yucun has strengthened environmental governance and infrastructure construction, and promoted ecological restoration through water and soil conservation, reclamation and improvement, and reshaped the landscape and culture.
After listening to the story of Yucun's great efforts to整治 the ecological environment, Annus Kairos, Vice President of the Indian Students' Federation and Chairman of the Kerala Branch, asked: "The factories are closed, the mines are closed, how can the villagers' income be guaranteed?" Kairos' hometown - Kerala, India, is about to get rid of extreme poverty, and learning from China's poverty reduction experience is the most important purpose of her trip.
In the Yucun Cinema, a documentary about Yucun's transformation answered Kairos' doubts. From relying on the mountains to eat the mountains to raising the mountains to enrich the mountains, the people of Yucun re-formulated development plans, implemented green environmental improvement projects such as village greening,沿线 lighting, and courtyard beautification, and built ecological landscapes such as colorful rice fields and sunflower fields, and took the lead in exploring rural "three land" reforms, bamboo forest carbon sink reforms and other integrated reforms to strengthen villages and enrich the people. "These are valuable experiences worth learning from. I want to bring the good practices I learned here back to my country and explore practical methods suitable for my hometown," Kairos said.
In the Dayucun Youth Talent Community (大余村青年人才社区), Mikhail Grinchko, Deputy Head of the Youth Work Department of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, exchanged contact information with relevant负责人 of the community. "The Youth Talent Community has realized the two-way flow of youth and rural value. This model is worth referring to in Belarus," Grinchko said. "The community provides a broad platform for young talents to innovate and start businesses. I have just completed my registration and become a 'cloud villager' of Yucun. I look forward to seeing more possibilities in 'Cloud Yucun'."
Moving towards "heart," grassroots governance is full of warmth.
As the "last mile" of national governance, grassroots governance is connected to the central government's major policies and guidelines on one end, and the people's basic needs on the other. Over the past 60 years, the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) has been continuously enriched and developed in practice, forming a distinctive new era "Fengqiao Experience."
In the Fengqiao Experience Exhibition Hall (枫桥经验陈列馆) in Fengqiao Town (枫桥镇), Zhuji (诸暨), Shaoxing (绍兴), the wax figure of "Drafting the 'Fengqiao Experience' at the Stove" attracted Israfil Abdullayev, Chief Advisor of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Office of Azerbaijan, to stop for a long time. "Various places flexibly apply the 'Fengqiao Experience' according to their actual situation, truly focusing on problems and being people-oriented." Abdullayev learned that Yiwu (义乌) has hired foreign mediators to be specifically responsible for mediating disputes between foreigners, in addition to resolving the most common commercial and economic disputes, it also helps resolve conflicts caused by differences in culture and habits.
Walking into the Fengyuan Village Convenience Service Station (枫源村便民服务站) in Fengqiao Town, Gulbahar Ozturk, Secretary General of the Youth Department of the Turkish Justice and Development Party, was curious about the multi-functional government self-service machine and medical insurance self-service terminal in a corner of the service station. After learning that villagers can use this to independently inquire about policy information and handle related businesses, Ozturk gave a thumbs up: "Without cumbersome procedures, villagers can handle businesses in a 'one-stop' manner without leaving the village. This kind of intelligence and efficiency is admirable!"
Today's Fengyuan Village, if there are small conflicts between neighbors, they can find the neighborhood dispute mediation committee to talk about their feelings, and if they encounter major problems, they can also ask the乡贤参事议事会 for ideas. Various议事协商 social organizations have fully participated in village-level construction and conflict mediation affairs. "The new era 'Fengqiao Experience' makes grassroots governance more humane," said Ang To, Director of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Affairs Division of the International Cooperation Department of the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Strolling on the bluestone road of Fengqiao Ancient Town, between the white walls and black tiles, the copper bells on the eaves make a ding-dong sound in the wind. In the old grocery store on the street, silver-haired old people sit around chatting; in the coffee shop opened by young people, coconut green Americano is selling well in the summer. "The governance model with temperature has shaped a city with temperature and people with temperature. China's grassroots governance model contains oriental wisdom and is inspiring," Ozturk said.
Return to TopOn the evening of June 5th, President Xi Jinping (习近平) spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on the phone at the latter's request. This was the first phone call between the two heads of state since the establishment of the current U.S. government. The two heads of state agreed that their respective teams should continue to implement the Geneva consensus and hold a new round of talks as soon as possible. Amid multiple difficulties in China-U.S. relations, the strategic communication between the two heads of state has provided important guidance for both sides to eliminate interference and sabotage, overcome difficulties and challenges, and has also added positive factors to a turbulent world.
President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly pointed out that to correct the course of the giant ship of China-U.S. relations, we need to steer it well and set the direction, especially to eliminate various interferences and even sabotage. This is an important conclusion drawn from the history of the development of China-U.S. relations. It is of great significance for the two sides to properly handle differences and strengthen cooperation at present, and fully demonstrates China's consistent sense of responsibility in handling China-U.S. relations. All sectors of the two countries and the international community have paid close attention to this phone call between the Chinese and U.S. heads of state, believing that the call released a positive signal of strengthening communication and dialogue between China and the United States, and hoping that the two sides will implement the relevant consensus and take practical actions to promote the improvement and development of China-U.S. relations, and inject stability and positive energy into the world.
China-U.S. economic and trade relations are not only of great significance to both countries, but also have an important impact on the stability and development of the world economy. At the suggestion of the U.S. side, the economic and trade leaders of the two countries held talks in Geneva, taking an important step in resolving economic and trade issues through dialogue and consultation, which was generally welcomed by all sectors of the two countries and the international community, and also proved that dialogue and cooperation are the only correct choices. China has always 言必行、行必果 (yán bì xíng, xíng bì guǒ - "always match words with deeds," always keep one's promises), and has always taken a responsible attitude, seriously treating, strictly implementing, and actively maintaining the consensus of the Geneva economic and trade talks. On the other hand, after the Geneva economic and trade talks, the U.S. side has successively introduced a number of discriminatory restrictive measures against China, which seriously undermine the existing consensus of the Geneva economic and trade talks, seriously damage China's legitimate rights and interests, and will inevitably damage the credibility of the U.S. side. China is sincere and principled in resolving economic and trade issues with the U.S. side through dialogue and consultation. Since a consensus has been reached, both sides should abide by it, adhere to an equal attitude, respect each other's concerns, and strive for a win-win result. The U.S. side should view the progress made in a realistic manner and withdraw the negative measures implemented against China.
The Taiwan issue concerns China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity, is the most important of China's core interests, and is the first red line that cannot be crossed in China-U.S. relations. China's determination to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity is unwavering. The United States should handle the Taiwan issue with caution and avoid a situation where a very small number of "Taiwan independence" separatists drag China and the United States into a dangerous situation of conflict and confrontation. The U.S. side should abide by the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. joint communiqués, stop sending any wrong signals to "Taiwan independence" separatists, and stop creating factors that exacerbate tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
History and reality have repeatedly shown that China and the United States benefit from cooperation and are harmed by confrontation. China has always viewed and handled its relations with the United States in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation, and is committed to strengthening dialogue and communication with the U.S. side, properly managing differences, and expanding mutually beneficial cooperation. After the two countries adjusted tariff measures in accordance with the relevant consensus of the Geneva talks, the China-U.S. shipping market experienced a situation where "one ship is hard to find" (一船难求 - yī chuán nán qiú - "one ship is hard to find," describes a situation of high demand and short supply, especially in shipping), which fully demonstrates the cooperative needs of enterprises in both countries and once again confirms that mutual benefit and win-win are the essence of economic and trade relations between the two sides. Whether it is to promote their respective development, promote world economic recovery, or solve international and regional hotspot issues, China and the United States need to coordinate and cooperate. The two sides should increase exchanges in various fields such as diplomacy, economy and trade, military, and law enforcement, enhance consensus, reduce misunderstandings, and strengthen cooperation.
President Trump said during the phone call that U.S.-China relations are very important. The U.S. is pleased to see China's economy maintain strong growth. U.S.-China cooperation can accomplish many good things. The U.S. will continue to adhere to the one-China policy, is willing to work with China to implement the agreement reached at the Geneva economic and trade talks, and welcomes Chinese students to study in the U.S. It is hoped that the U.S. side will translate these commitments into concrete actions.
Correcting the course and finding the anchor point are the only ways to jointly allow the giant ship of China-U.S. relations to avoid reefs and shoals and navigate through storms. China and the United States should make good use of the established economic and trade consultation mechanism, continue to implement the Geneva consensus, and hold a new round of talks as soon as possible. The people of the two countries and the people of all countries in the world expect China-U.S. relations to develop in a stable, healthy, and sustainable manner, and to play a major role in world peace and development.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 6th. On June 6th, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, had a phone call with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna at her request.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Macron (马克龙) recently held a phone conversation and reached important consensus on strengthening strategic cooperation between China and France. Both sides should prepare for the next stage of exchanges at all levels and welcome the French side to send high-level representatives to attend the Shanghai 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The two sides have reached a consensus on resolving economic and trade issues through dialogue and consultation, and should also strengthen cultural and educational exchanges to promote the healthy development of the China-France comprehensive strategic partnership and China-Europe relations.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that China and France both have a tradition of independence and autonomy, and should enhance strategic mutual trust and respect each other's core interests. The Taiwan issue is China's internal affair, concerning China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and is essentially different from the Ukraine issue. China attaches importance to France's commitment to the one-China policy and believes that France will put this commitment into practice. He hopes that France will adhere to the correct position and oppose NATO's interference in Asia-Pacific affairs.
Wang Yi (王毅) also emphasized that China and France should jointly uphold multilateralism, safeguard free trade, and oppose unilateral bullying practices.
Colonna welcomed Vice President Han Zheng's (韩正) visit to France to attend the United Nations Ocean Conference, and said that the increasing uncertainties in today's world highlight the importance of French-Chinese relations. France has always regarded China as a friend and partner, firmly adheres to the one-China policy, and looks forward to maintaining high-level exchanges and close strategic communication with China. Strengthening cultural exchanges between the two sides will send a strong signal of openness, which is of great significance at present. France opposes trade wars and tariff wars, and is willing to continue to properly resolve economic and trade friction issues through consultation.
The two sides also exchanged views on issues such as Ukraine, Palestine-Israel, and the Iranian nuclear issue.
Return to TopThe People's Daily, Beijing, June 6th (Reporter Han Xiaoming (韩晓明)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 6th: Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will attend the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and the opening ceremony of the 4th China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) from June 10th to 12th.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 戴楷然
Pulse diagnosis, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product exhibition, exchange of TCM diagnosis and treatment methods... The "Healthy Silk Road · Tianfu Rendezvous - 2025 Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Trip to South Africa" event, sponsored by the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was recently held at the Doornfontein campus of the University of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡大学) in South Africa, attracting hundreds of Chinese and South African people to participate.
Five years ago, Shute (舒特), a resident of South Africa, suffered a spinal fracture in a car accident, which left him with back pain after sitting for long periods of time. "The treatment with Western medicine drugs had limited effect on relieving back pain, so I tried TCM acupuncture." Shute (舒特) said, "After acupuncture treatment, my back pain was relieved. This time, I came specifically to participate in the TCM consultation event, hoping to further communicate with TCM experts from China."
After the TCM consultation, Shute (舒特) received some plasters at the event. Zhang Huiwu (张挥武), an orthopedic doctor at Sichuan Provincial Orthopedic Hospital (四川省骨科医院), said that he would keep in touch with Shute (舒特) and teach him the key points of rehabilitation exercises so that Shute (舒特) could exercise at home on his own. "I am very satisfied with this consultation." Shute (舒特) said happily after the consultation.
"Traditional Chinese medicine has a profound cultural heritage and excellent health value." Yang Xingping (杨兴平), Deputy Governor of the People's Government of Sichuan Province (四川省人民政府), said in his speech at the event, "In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has been recognized by more and more South African people, which not only brings health and well-being to the South African people, but also becomes an important link for cultural exchange and mutual learning between the two countries."
The University of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡大学) opened an acupuncture course in 2020, which is one of the earliest universities in Africa to offer TCM acupuncture courses. Acupuncture is currently a popular major at the University of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡大学). Hu Zijing (胡紫景), doctoral supervisor of the School of Health Sciences at the University of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡大学) and president of the African Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, introduced that after five years of development, the acupuncture major at the University of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡大学) has formed a complete undergraduate education system and has become a doctoral degree granting point, and is training more and more local South African TCM doctors.
"On the basis of completing teaching courses to train TCM doctors, we receive an average of hundreds of patients every month." Tebogo Tsele-Tebakang (特博戈·采莱—特巴康), Director of the Department of Complementary Medicine at the University of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡大学), told reporters that many patients regularly come to the TCM acupuncture center for acupuncture treatment and have achieved good results. "TCM diagnosis and treatment provides patients with more diverse choices." Tebakang (特巴康) said, "In the past, South African people mostly learned about TCM diagnosis and treatment from film and television works. Regularly carrying out free clinic activities and actively promoting TCM knowledge to the local people will help deepen the South African people's understanding of TCM."
Tasneem Patel (塔斯尼姆·帕特尔) opened her own TCM clinic after graduating from the acupuncture major at the University of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡大学), providing TCM diagnosis and treatment services to the local people. "Acupuncture has significant effects on relieving diseases such as frozen shoulder and cervical spondylosis. Many of my patients have greatly reduced symptoms after receiving treatment, which makes me feel very accomplished." Patel (帕特尔) told reporters, "The diagnostic and therapeutic effects of TCM are being recognized by more and more South African people. I look forward to more South African people understanding and falling in love with TCM."
(Reported from Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡) by this newspaper)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 6th. Chen Wenqing (陈文清), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, met with Le Minh Tri (黎明智), Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam, in Beijing on the 6th.
Chen Wenqing (陈文清) pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and General Secretary To Lam (苏林) have reached important consensus on deepening the China-Vietnam comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, which has pointed out the direction for the development of China-Vietnam relations. It is hoped that the two sides will implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and countries, improve the exchange mechanism, broaden cooperation channels, strengthen judicial assistance, improve the quality and efficiency of combating transnational crimes such as drug trafficking and online fraud, promote the efficient resolution of cross-border disputes, and contribute the power of the rule of law to the peace and development of the two countries and the region.
Le Minh Tri (黎明智) said that he is willing to deepen exchanges and cooperation between Vietnam and China in the judicial field.
Zhang Jun (张军) attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Brasilia, June 5th (Reporters Zhao Yan (赵焱) and Wang Tiancong (王天聪)) From June 3rd to 5th, Tie Ning (铁凝), Vice Chairperson of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, led a delegation to Brazil and attended the 11th BRICS Parliamentary Forum.
Tie Ning (铁凝) met with Brazilian Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Arthur Lira, respectively. Tie Ning (铁凝) stated that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Brazil relations have been elevated to a China-Brazil community with a shared future, working together to build a more just world and a more sustainable planet. The National People's Congress of China is willing to deepen cooperation with the Brazilian Congress and continuously enrich the connotation of the China-Brazil community with a shared future. The Brazilian side reiterated its adherence to the one-China principle and expressed its willingness to continuously strengthen exchanges between the legislative bodies of the two countries and promote the stable development of Brazil-China relations.
In her keynote speech at the forum, Tie Ning (铁凝) stated that as the first echelon of the Global South, the BRICS countries have always stood on the side of unity, cooperation, and common development, practicing the concept of openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation. It is necessary to firmly safeguard the multilateral trading system, continuously deepen economic and trade cooperation in the Global South, provide assistance for the development of new industries, and create a new chapter in the high-quality development of "Greater BRICS Cooperation".
Return to TopUlaanbaatar, June 6 (Reporter Zhang Penghui (张朋辉)) The two-day 10th "Ulaanbaatar Dialogue" International Conference closed on June 6 in Ulaanbaatar (乌兰巴托), the capital of Mongolia. More than 230 diplomats, experts, scholars, and representatives from relevant Mongolian institutions from more than 40 countries and regions, including China, Russia, Japan, and South Korea, and international organizations attended the conference.
Shen Minjuan (沈敏娟), the Chinese Ambassador to Mongolia, said that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. A harmonious, mutually trusting, united, and stable Northeast Asia is in line with the interests of all countries in the region and the expectations of the international community. China is willing to work with countries in the region to take the Asian security model of shared security, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and dialogue and consultation as a strategic support, and the Asian values of peace, cooperation, openness, and inclusiveness as the basic principles, and is committed to maintaining peace, stability, and 长治久安 (cháng zhì jiǔ ān - "long-term peace and stability," lasting peace and order) in Northeast Asia.
The "Ulaanbaatar Dialogue" mechanism was proposed in 2013. The conference was co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and the Strategic Research Institute of the National Security Council of Mongolia.
Return to TopOn June 5th, the "Stena Foreteller," a Ro-Ro vessel renovated for Sweden by China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Weihai) Co., Ltd. (招商局金陵船舶（威海）有限公司), arrived at Shandong Port Yantai Port (山东港口烟台港) from the shipyard to load vehicles, officially commencing operations. The ship underwent modifications in China, including the addition of cargo decks, improved propeller performance, and the installation of an onshore power supply system, increasing its carrying capacity by 30% and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The picture shows the ship docking at Shandong Port Yantai Port (山东港口烟台港) on the same day to load export vehicles.
Photo by Tang Ke (唐克) (Image China)
Return to TopNanning, June 6th (People's Daily reporter Pang Ge Ping (庞革平)) The "Guizhou Connects Five Continents (Asia Station)" Guangxi-Japan Economic and Trade Cooperation and Exchange Conference, co-sponsored by the Guangxi Council for the Promotion of International Trade (广西贸促会) and the Japan International Trade Promotion Association (日本国际贸易促进协会), was held in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西) on the 5th. At the meeting, the Guangxi Council for the Promotion of International Trade (广西贸促会) and the Japan International Trade Promotion Association (日本国际贸易促进协会) signed a memorandum of cooperation. Representatives from Chinese and Japanese enterprises made presentations on economic and trade cooperation opportunities, conducted group exchanges and matchmaking, and showcased featured products.
Yang Yanyan (杨雁雁), President of the Guangxi Council for the Promotion of International Trade (广西贸促会) and President of the Guangxi International Chamber of Commerce (广西国际商会), stated that as major world economies, China and Japan have highly complementary industrial chains and deeply integrated economic interests, with vast cooperation space and potential. She expressed hope that both sides would promote industrial cooperation, deepen exchanges between the business communities, and continuously inject new momentum into China-Japan economic and trade cooperation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘博通
Retired soldiers are a valuable asset to the Party and the country, and an important force in advancing Chinese-style modernization. Work related to retired soldiers concerns reform, development, stability, and the strengthening of the military. On June 6th, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) held a meeting with Chinese and foreign journalists on the theme of "Strivers on a New Journey," where five representatives of retired soldiers and workers in the field of retired soldiers affairs met with Chinese and foreign journalists to exchange ideas on "Remaining True to Our Colors After Retirement and Making Contributions in the New Era."
"Every honor and every step of my growth, from being a retired soldier to becoming a skilled welding technician, is inseparable from the solid foundation laid in the military," proudly introduced Cheng Ping (程平), the leader of the boiler team in the maintenance department of Huaneng International Power Co., Ltd. (华能国际电力股份有限公司) Dezhou Power Plant (德州电厂). He mentioned that after retiring, he engaged in power welding work, completing more than 30 welding technology breakthroughs and training more than 50 welding technicians at all levels over the years.
In March 2021, Cheng Ping (程平) received a task to repair a wind turbine, which required repairing a cast iron base at a height of 110 meters in the nacelle. Braving the severe cold, he worked continuously, hammering the cast iron base more than 10,000 times, and finally completed the task.
"This year is my thirty-first year of retirement, which is enough to turn black hair into white, but it cannot erase the loyalty of an old soldier," said Cheng Ping (程平). "In the future, I will continue to be rooted in the front line of power welding and contribute to the welding cause of the motherland."
Taking off the military uniform changes the identity, but what remains unchanged is the responsibility.
"Hello everyone, my name is Longjike Kader (龙吉克·卡德尔), and I am a retired soldier..." Longjike Kader (龙吉克·卡德尔), an voluntary border guard in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County (塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), shared the story of four generations of his family who have been dedicated to guarding the Pamir Plateau (帕米尔高原): His grandfather served as a guide for the People's Liberation Army (解放军), becoming the first generation of border guards in his family. After retiring, his father chose to guard the border in the high-altitude and cold regions. In 2008, after retiring, Longjike Kader (龙吉克·卡德尔) followed in the footsteps of his ancestors and chose to become a voluntary border guard. Later, his children took over the baton once again and continued to guard the border on the Pamir Plateau (帕米尔高原).
"We must always be loyal guards on the border line and defend every inch of our motherland's territory," said Longjike Kader (龙吉克·卡德尔).
Whether in the military camp or rooted in the countryside, retirement is just a change of venue, and the bugle call is always loud and clear.
"My military career has strengthened my physique and cultivated a spirit of not fearing hardship or fatigue, allowing me to always devote myself to my work with full enthusiasm," said Huang Hengli (黄恒礼), the Party Branch Secretary and Director of the Village Committee of Huangheying Village (黄鹤营村), Maoying Town (猫营镇), Ziyun Miao and Buyi Autonomous County (紫云苗族布依族自治县), Guizhou Province (贵州省).
After being transferred to civilian work, Huang Hengli (黄恒礼) returned to his hometown to build it, starting with changing the ideological concepts of the villagers and improving the rural living environment, and working with the villagers to change the face of his hometown. "Our Huangheying Village (黄鹤营村) has attracted 9 enterprises to settle in, and has also opened 8 farmhouses and more than 10 homestays, driving more than 360 villagers to find employment and start businesses," said Huang Hengli (黄恒礼).
Every tribute to the heroes is a spiritual baptism.
"After graduating from university, I chose to return to my hometown to work as a tour guide, and I have been working for 16 years," said Cheng Xing (程星), a tour guide at the Huangma Uprising and the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Revolutionary Base Area Memorial Garden (黄麻起义和鄂豫皖苏区纪念园). In her opinion, every explanation is a dialogue with the revolutionary martyrs across time and space. Seeing the sincere emotions revealed in the eyes of the visitors, she truly feels the power of the inheritance of the red gene.
As a representative of the National People's Congress (全国人大代表), Cheng Xing (程星) collects public opinions and promotes related work, focusing on the commendation of heroes and the renovation of martyr memorial facilities. As a tour guide, she innovatively uses the letters, diaries, and life materials of the heroes to show "greatness in the ordinary." "In the future, I will continue to tell the stories of the heroes with true feelings and show my responsibility in spreading the red fire in the new era," said Cheng Xing (程星).
"It is our bounden duty to inherit and promote the spirit of the heroes," said Li Shangxuan (李尚宣), from the Retired Soldiers Service Station of Xianshuigu Town (咸水沽镇), Jinnan District (津南区), Tianjin (天津市), who is a retired soldier affairs worker. She and her colleagues have deeply explored the red resources of the township, organized the filming of a series of micro-videos of veterans' oral history, and preserved vivid memories through oral archives, video recordings, and other methods, and constantly innovated methods to strengthen red education.
How to do a good job as a retired soldier affairs worker? "Get close in thought, get close in emotion, and improve in business," Li Shangxuan (李尚宣) gave her answer. Visiting and comforting retired soldiers, establishing digital archives for veterans, and handling preferential treatment certificates for more than 200 elderly veterans with mobility difficulties... Along the way, Li Shangxuan (李尚宣) has used her footsteps and sincerity to shorten the distance with retired soldiers and become a "good daughter" in the mouths of many retired soldiers.
"The longer I work, the more I love this profession, and the more retired soldiers I serve, the deeper my feelings for retired soldiers become. I will always keep in mind my duties and mission, constantly improve my business capabilities, and provide caring and warm services to retired soldiers," said Li Shangxuan (李尚宣).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 6th (Reporter Geng Lei (耿磊)) From June 5th to 6th, the training class for newly appointed members of the Party Leadership Group (Party Committee) of departments of the Central and State Organs to implement "One Post, Two Responsibilities" was held in Beijing (北京). Relevant responsible comrades from the Organization Department of the Central Committee (中央组织部), the Work Committee of the Central and State Organs (中央和国家机关工委), and the Party School of the Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）) attended the opening and closing ceremonies and delivered speeches.
The training class focused closely on thoroughly studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and instructions on Party building in organs, conscientiously implementing the opinions of the Party Leadership Group (Party Committee) of departments on implementing the main responsibility for Party building in organs, and further promoting members of the Party Leadership Group (Party Committee) of departments to strictly implement "One Post, Two Responsibilities" according to the standards of the first echelon, and to demonstrate new responsibilities and new actions in promoting high-quality development with high-quality Party building.
The training class invited responsible comrades from relevant departments of the Central and State Organs to give lectures, organized group discussions, and exchanges of speeches by student representatives. The students said that it is necessary to further improve their political stance, deeply understand that fulfilling "One Post, Two Responsibilities" is a necessary requirement for the Central and State Organs to be in the first echelon and be good pioneers, a necessary requirement for comprehensively improving the quality of Party building in organs and promoting high-quality development with high-quality Party building, and a necessary requirement for better fulfilling the responsibilities entrusted by the Party Central Committee and promoting Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to firmly grasp the responsibility connotation and practical requirements of fulfilling "One Post, Two Responsibilities," conscientiously fulfill the specific responsibilities of organizational leadership, ideological education, management and supervision, promotion of integration, exemplary role, and reporting of responsibilities, and promote the deepening and solid implementation of promoting high-quality development with high-quality Party building through the implementation of "One Post, Two Responsibilities."
More than 130 people, including newly appointed members of the Party Leadership Group (Party Committee) of departments of the Central and State Organs, and members of the leadership team of the Work Committee of the Central and State Organs, participated.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云杉 邱超奕
Huawei has opened up more than 60 types of positions, and plans to recruit more than 10,000 fresh graduates this year, with a year-on-year increase expected to be in double digits; JD.com (京东) will provide more than 18,000 positions for 2025 graduates, based on the cumulative provision of more than 50,000 positions to students in the past three years... Currently, local governments and departments are increasing their support for enterprises, optimizing recruitment services for enterprises, and strengthening employment security. The majority of enterprises are giving play to their enthusiasm and initiative in absorbing employment, and are taking multiple measures to stabilize and expand employment.
Developing new technologies and recruiting new talents.
"I joined Alibaba's Taotian Group (淘天集团) through the 'Top Talent T-Star Program'. I am currently working on a video generation large model and responsible for the training of the 'Image-to-Video Large Model'." Wen Dao (文道), a doctoral graduate from the School of Computer Science of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (北京航空航天大学), said that the company has a good scientific research environment, and employees can aim at one direction for long-term research and development, so as to promote breakthroughs and applications in related algorithm technologies.
This year, Alibaba's spring 2026 internship recruitment opened more than 3,000 positions, of which nearly 50% are related to artificial intelligence. "As a technology company, Alibaba is increasing its efforts to introduce and cultivate talents in the field of artificial intelligence. We hope to provide more outstanding talents with broad development space and jointly promote innovative development," said Jiang Fang (蒋芳), Chief Talent Officer of Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴集团).
As a high-tech enterprise, Huawei (华为) builds a diversified talent introduction system, deepens the introduction of "high-precision and cutting-edge" talents around key areas such as artificial intelligence large models and high-performance computing, and continuously injects new impetus into the human resources market and promotes high-quality employment through innovative talent cultivation mechanisms and open ecological cooperation systems.
Expanding new business forms and expanding new occupations.
"Currently, our team's e-commerce department has 19 people, shipping about 100 tons a day, and requires 150 to 200 workers every day, which drives a large number of jobs in a quarter." Yan Linying (晏林英) from Binchuan County (宾川县), Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture (大理白族自治州), Yunnan (云南) Province, was born in the 1990s. After graduating from university, she used the Kuaishou (快手) e-commerce platform to become a live broadcast e-commerce entrepreneur, helping her hometown to make a name for its purple-skinned single-bulb garlic and helping the villagers increase their income and become rich.
New business forms provide fertile ground for the development of new occupations. Among the new occupations and new types of work released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) last year, online anchors, live broadcast recruiters, and user growth operators are all related to the "live broadcast track". A report released by the China Employment and People's Livelihood Research Institute of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) shows that the Kuaishou platform has driven a large number of employment opportunities and created a lot of employment increments.
Since the beginning of this year, JD.com (京东) has launched the "Hundred Counties and Ten Thousand People Recruitment Plan" to recruit 100,000 cleaners in hundreds of counties and thousands of towns across the country, with business scope covering daily cleaning, home appliance cleaning, etc. Since March 1, JD.com has gradually paid five social insurances and one housing fund for full-time takeaway riders, and will expand the number of full-time riders to 150,000. JD Logistics (京东物流) is also constantly expanding the scale of logistics stations and distribution networks, creating employment opportunities.
The platform economy is creating more digital, personalized, and professional new occupations, providing workers with diverse employment choices. As of April 30, the total number of people in the JD.com system has exceeded 720,000. Relevant负责人 of JD.com Group (京东集团) said that JD.com has always adhered to the business philosophy of "people first, enterprise second" and "employees are JD.com's most valuable asset", and will actively fulfill its corporate social responsibility and continue to contribute to stabilizing employment.
Adapting to new needs and training new skills.
In Fuqing (福清), Fujian (福建), an investment project with an annual output of 4 million sets of intelligent automotive safety glass drives about 3,000 jobs; in Jiading (嘉定), Shanghai (上海), a high-end manufacturing project targeting automotive aluminum trim parts will provide 1,200 technical positions such as mold development and precision processing... "In the face of the structural changes in talent demand brought about by the expansion of business scale and the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing, Fuyao Group (福耀集团) is exploring a path of 'technological innovation driving job expansion, and industry-education integration promoting employment quality'," said Zhang Xingping (张星萍), Vice President of Fuyao Group. At the vocational education level, Fuyao has in-depth cooperation with a number of vocational colleges to open special classes such as "Fuyao Industry Class" and "Order Class" to help students connect with production practice at "zero distance"; in terms of higher education, Fuyao has carried out integrated cooperation of "production, education, research and application" with a number of universities, and jointly carried out technical research such as vehicle-mounted communication and new material research to realize the two-way empowerment of talent cultivation and technological innovation. "This stepped talent supply chain not only meets the company's new project capacity expansion needs, but also reserves strength for the company's continuous innovation."
Holding multiple sessions of youth talent growth camps and leading talent strengthening camps; carrying out management trainee recruitment work to reserve 100 high-level professional basic talents; building a centralized and unified, physically operated training base and a professional, diversified, and industry-education integrated training base... In order to adapt to the development needs of new companies, new projects, and new technologies, Anhui Energy Group (安徽省能源集团) is constantly improving the top-level design of talent cultivation, and actively cultivating strategic management talents, innovative technical talents, and practical skilled talents.
"Since 2023, Anhui Energy Group has absorbed and cultivated more than 1,000 talents at all levels. We will vigorously implement the strategy of strengthening the enterprise with talents, innovate work measures, establish a talent introduction and cultivation mechanism, consolidate the talent foundation, and continuously consolidate and enrich the talent pool, expand and optimize the talent growth path, and promote the two-way rush and mutual achievement of talent growth and enterprise development," said Wang Pengfei (王鹏飞), head of the group's human resources department.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 6th (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)) The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) recently issued the "Central Enterprise Development Plan Management Measures," which for the first time clarifies in the form of a system that state-owned central enterprises should establish a three-level planning system of "Central Enterprise Overall Development Plan + Key Task Plan + Enterprise Plan," improving the closed-loop management mechanism for planning, preparation, implementation, evaluation, adjustment, and evaluation.
A development plan refers to the directional and overall deployment made by central enterprises for enterprise development within a certain period in the future, based on the analysis of the macro environment and the current internal development situation and its changing trends, highlighting the strategic and holistic arrangements for optimizing the industrial layout and adjusting the structure.
The measures are divided into 6 chapters and 39 articles, including general rules, the establishment of a development plan management mechanism, development plan preparation, development plan implementation, development plan evaluation and adjustment, and supplementary provisions.
The measures take industrial optimization and adjustment as the key content of the three-level plan, promoting the concentration of state-owned capital in important industries and key areas related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy, in public services, emergency capabilities, and public welfare fields related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and in forward-looking strategic emerging industries.
The measures improve the closed-loop management mechanism for planning, preparation, implementation, evaluation, adjustment, and evaluation at the two levels of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) and central enterprises, realizing full-chain, full-process, and full-level supervision of planning. For example, in the preparation stage, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) will review enterprise plans with a "**一企一策**" (yī qǐ yī cè - "one enterprise, one policy," tailor-made policy for each enterprise) approach, guide enterprises to connect and undertake national, industry, and state-owned central enterprise planning indicators and key tasks, clarify strategic positioning, development goals, and implementation paths, and form a joint force of the planning system. In the implementation stage, central enterprises should build a "long-term strategy - development plan - annual plan" promotion mechanism, and refine and decompose planning goals and tasks on an annual basis and promote their implementation.
The measures strengthen the hard constraints of system implementation, and take the development plan as an important basis for central enterprises' investment supervision, financial budget, capital operation budget, professional integration, assessment and distribution, and supervision and accountability. For the clues of problems found in the implementation of the plan, such as obvious deviations in the direction of development, serious delays in the progress of implementation, and low quality of development, accountability will be pursued in accordance with relevant regulations.
Return to TopThe 2025 National Summer College Entrance Examination kicked off on June 7th. Various regions have taken multiple measures to provide service guarantees for examinees.
Return to TopThe People's Daily, Beijing (北京) June 6th (Reporter Wu Yue (吴月)) Recently, the Ministry of Education (教育部) issued a notice, deploying various regions and universities to seize the critical sprint period before graduation to promote employment, and to deeply carry out the "Hundred-Day Sprint" action for the employment of the 2025 college graduates. This action will continue until August.
The notice requires that various regions and universities should increase efforts to expand market-oriented employment positions. Organize and carry out the "Policy Publicity Month" activity for employment and entrepreneurship to promote the accelerated implementation and effectiveness of various policies and measures. Conduct targeted visits to enterprises to expand employment opportunities, and increase the efforts of the leadership teams at both the university and college levels to visit enterprises to expand employment opportunities. Increase efforts to organize campus recruitment activities, and maintain the popularity of campus recruitment and student participation. Vigorously promote public employment services into campuses, and support universities to jointly establish campus employment public service stations in cooperation with local human resources and social security departments. Organize brand activities such as the "State Employment Action," "National Hundred-Day Recruitment for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises," and the "Hundred Cities, Thousand Schools, Ten Thousand Enterprises" employment promotion action. Give full play to the role of social organizations such as industry associations and chambers of commerce, and gather corporate job resources from various parties. Promote the implementation of the "Co-construction and Sharing of Selected Job Plan" and increase the collection and sharing of employment positions.
The notice emphasizes that various regions and universities should accelerate the organization of policy-oriented job recruitment. Seize the time to promote the recruitment of upgrading from junior college to bachelor's degree, the second bachelor's degree, the recruitment of primary and secondary school and kindergarten teachers, as well as the recruitment of civil servants and public institutions, state-owned enterprises, and research assistant positions, and ensure that all are completed before the end of August. Continue to do a good job in organizing and mobilizing national grassroots service projects such as the "Special Post Plan," "Three Supports and One Assistance," "Western Plan," and "College Student Village Doctor Special Plan," and encourage various regions to increase the scale of local grassroots project recruitment. Increase the recruitment of full-time community workers for college graduates.
The notice requires that various regions and universities should increase the efforts of employment guidance and assistance. Deeply implement the "Double Thousand" plan to enhance employment capabilities, and accelerate the construction of "micro-major" and vocational skills training courses. Implement the "Hundred Counties to Hundred Schools to Promote Employment Action," focusing on exploring high-quality enterprise job resources in counties such as the top 100 counties. Establish a real-name assistance ledger for graduates from disadvantaged groups. Accelerate the implementation of the annual "Hongzhi Navigation Plan" to continuously provide "uninterrupted" employment services for graduates who have not yet found employment after leaving school. Strengthen employment safety education for graduates, deeply carry out special actions to clean up and rectify the order of the human resources market, and severely crack down on various illegal and irregular employment behaviors.
Return to TopBeijing, June 6th (People's Daily reporter Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵)) Recently, the Ministry of Finance (财政部), together with the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部), researched and issued 580 million yuan in water conservancy disaster relief funds to support and guide 29 provinces, including Henan (河南) and Hubei (湖北), as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), to promptly conduct in-depth hidden danger investigations of water conservancy project facilities and key projects involving flood control safety, such as river and lake dikes, reservoirs, and important sea dikes. They will also make every effort to repair water-damaged and disaster-damaged water conservancy projects and other flood prevention preparations to help ensure a safe flood season.
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Currently, in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation study and education is being carried out in an orderly manner throughout the Party. Party organizations at all levels focus on the theme, exert precise efforts, and promote learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, focusing on the word "practical" to ensure quality learning, effective investigation, and tangible results, and to continuously deepen and solidify learning and education.
Layered and Classified
Improving the Quality and Effectiveness of Learning
"The former director of a community cultural activity center in a certain street was given a serious warning within the Party for illegally issuing bonuses, subsidies, and overtime pay... Everyone should take this as a warning." Recently, in Youyi Road Street, Baoshan District (宝山区), Shanghai (上海), the District Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission's "Youth Talk" lecturer group "delivered lessons to the door" for community party members and cadres, using typical cases handled as "living teaching materials" to interpret the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules.
According to the characteristics of different groups such as "top leaders" of party and government organs, young cadres, newly promoted cadres, cadres in key positions, and party members in emerging fields, Baoshan District (宝山区) customized education programs, held reading classes, expert lectures, and theoretical publicity activities, and organized visits to anti-corruption education bases and warning education activities such as attending court trials to guide party members and cadres to build a solid ideological foundation.
One key opens one lock. In view of the actual work and ideological dynamics of various groups of party members and cadres, various localities have adopted layered and classified approaches, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, and striving for precise and effective learning and education.
Focusing on the young cadre group, the Xing'an League (兴安盟) of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) organized young cadres to participate in reading classes, centralized training, theme party days, and special party lessons by secretaries, according to the idea of "by region, by level"; demonstrating and driving all levels and departments to carry out centralized learning based on youth theory study groups and youth study alliances, achieving full coverage of learning and discussion for young cadres.
"Through classroom tutoring, I have a deeper understanding that I must discipline myself and cultivate my morality in small matters and details, and prevent problems before they occur." Not long ago, a "style construction class" for young cadres was held in Buzi Town (埠子镇), Sucheng District (宿城区), Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省). Vivid cases warned everyone to fasten the "first button" of integrity in government.
For a period of time, Sucheng District (宿城区) has focused on key groups such as newly promoted cadres, young cadres, and village (community) cadres, and included the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules into the teaching content of classes such as the "small class" training class for young cadres and the training class for village (community) party branch secretaries. Sucheng District (宿城区) also actively gives play to the demonstration and leading role of the regional party member service center in outflow areas, and explores the "paired assistance learning, regional joint learning, and online delivery learning" mechanism to effectively grasp the learning and education of mobile party members.
Truly Investigate and Rectify
Pinpointing the Root Cause of Problems
"Please show me your ledger for issuing allowances and subsidies..." A few days ago, the style supervision team of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Working Committee of Wanli Administration (湾里管理局) in Nanchang City (南昌市), Jiangxi Province (江西省) went to Meiling Town (梅岭镇) to check the records of issuing allowances and subsidies on the spot.
Focusing on seven aspects, including documents, meetings and activities, office space and vehicles, and the use of funds, Wanli Administration (湾里管理局) organized organs, institutions, and townships and streets to carry out "style physical examinations," and comprehensively used discipline inspection and supervision, inspection and supervision, audit supervision, and investigation and research to investigate problems.
Since the launch of learning and education, all localities have adhered to solving whatever problems exist, focusing on rectifying whatever problems are prominent, and immediately investigating and rectifying, immediately knowing and rectifying, and truly investigating and rectifying.
Shuozhou City (朔州市), Shanxi Province (山西省) took "rectifying the problem of using public funds for tourism in the name of research and training" as a city-level centralized rectification project, formulated specific rectification measures, and at the same time urged party committees (party groups) at all levels to improve systems such as public vehicle management and official reception, and turn the hard requirements of style into hard measures.
Combined with the actual work and characteristics of party member teams in different fields, Qionghai City (琼海市), Hainan Province (海南省) issued the "Categorized Guidance Opinions on Carrying out Learning and Education in Grassroots Fields," formulated 5 common guiding opinions; focusing on 8 grassroots fields such as organs, rural areas, communities, state-owned enterprises, and hospitals, formulated 64 personalized guiding opinions for specific content such as learning and discussion themes and methods, problem investigation categories and lists, and clarified the reference list of characteristic problems, and constructed a three-dimensional classified guidance system of "commonality + personality."
Haidong City (海东市), Qinghai Province (青海省) consciously and actively opened its doors to carry out education, with the special class for learning and education of the municipal party committee as a whole coordinating, and hired 70 party members as social supervisors to undertake responsibilities such as policy publicity, style observation, public opinion surveys, and situation feedback; established an information collection database, summarized the opinions and suggestions submitted by social supervisors, and ensured that the information is comprehensive, the feedback is timely, the supervision is effective, and the implementation is strong.
Taking Responsibility and Making Achievements
Doing Practical Things for the People's Livelihood
Not long ago, in the courtyard of the Fifth Society Village of Youyi Village (友谊村), T井乡 (Tujing Township), Zhongxian County (忠县), Chongqing (重庆), a courtyard meeting was very lively. The villagers held the brand-new "Big Red Book" and smiled from ear to ear - "The real estate certificate that I have been looking forward to for many years is finally in my hands!"
Housing is an important issue for people's livelihood. In response to historical legacy issues such as imperfect land use procedures and inconsistent real estate information, the Zhongxian County (忠县) Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission, natural resources, township streets and other departments and units cooperated to comprehensively investigate the "difficulty in registration" of real estate strongly reflected by the masses, and steadily and orderly promoted the confirmation and registration of houses.
Since the launch of learning and education, all localities have adhered to problem orientation, highlighted key rectifications, and continued to transform the results of learning and education into the effectiveness of taking responsibility and making achievements.
Hefei City (合肥市), Anhui Province (安徽省) adhered to the mass line, and through the four sets of leading bodies of the city, the leading bodies of municipal departments, and the linkage of counties and districts, solidly carried out activities to listen to opinions, solve problems, and promote development, and deeply understood what the masses expected, what enterprises were troubled by, and what cadres thought. At the same time, it established a closed-loop working mechanism for "collection-research and judgment-solution-feedback" of opinions and suggestions. For those that can be solved immediately, on-site office work will be solved on the spot; for those that cannot be solved on the spot, timely explanations and explanations will be given, and solutions will be promoted through departmental coordination and upper and lower linkage, so that cadres and the masses can truly feel the new atmosphere and new changes brought about by learning and education.
Qiaoxi District (桥西区), Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), Hebei Province (河北省) adhered to open education, and deepened the interaction between cadres and the masses by holding symposiums and forums; implemented the leadership cadre contracting and visiting and receiving mechanism to promote the resolution of accumulated petitions; focused on education, medical care, elderly care, childcare and other aspects to make up for shortcomings and strengthen the foundation, and wholeheartedly and forcefully solved the urgent and difficult problems of the masses.
"It used to take several places to handle social security, but now it is quickly done in the community, which is really too convenient!" In the Huarong Community (华融社区) Service Hall in Xuanhan County (宣汉县), Dazhou City (达州市), Sichuan Province (四川省), Wang Yingmei (王应梅), a citizen who had just obtained a social security certificate, said happily.
Dazhou City (达州市), Sichuan Province (四川省) thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules, took responsibility and made achievements, and worked hard for the people. In Xuanhan County (宣汉县), 37 high-frequency convenient service items have been sunk to the community, and the masses can handle things at their doorstep. In Dachuan District (达川区), various resources and forces continue to sink, and high-quality services such as health care consultations and handling (accepting) government affairs are delivered to the doorsteps of the masses; in the High-tech Zone (高新区), the "one-time comprehensive inspection" law enforcement mechanism jointly built by multiple departments creates a good environment for enterprise development.
(Reporters He Zhaoyu (何昭宇), Shen Tongrui (沈童睿), Li Linwei (李林蔚), Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), Li Junjie (李俊杰), Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), Ma Ruishan (马睿姗), Dong Zeyang (董泽扬), Zhao Jingfeng (赵景锋), Cao Jiwei (曹继炜) of this newspaper)
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Around noon, delivery driver Gong Xisong arrived at the Jinsha Times residential area in Tuwan Street, Shapingba District, Chongqing (重庆市沙坪坝区), parked his electric bicycle in the designated temporary parking area for delivery drivers, and then selected the optimal delivery route according to the "Rider-Friendly Map" at the entrance of the residential area.
"I won't argue with the street-front merchants over parking issues anymore! The 'Rider-Friendly Map' can also help me find the delivery buildings faster," said Gong Xisong (龚希松).
In 3 hours, he completed 14 orders. At 2 p.m., Gong Xisong (龚希松) came to a mutton rice noodle restaurant that provides extended dining services and ate. The restaurant entrance was marked with a "Rider-Friendly Merchant" sign. "Let the riders take a break and have a drink of water, and we can also get a few more orders," said Tang Hao (唐浩), the owner of the restaurant.
Gong Xisong's (龚希松) smoother delivery experience is a microcosm of Shapingba District's (沙坪坝区) creation of a "Rider-Friendly Block." In recent years, Chongqing (重庆) has focused on the needs of new employment groups such as delivery drivers and couriers, improved supporting services, and promoted diversified co-governance, and has built 22,000 friendly scenarios for new employment groups.
Providing convenience, the concept of friendliness extends to more scenarios.
Gong Xisong (龚希松) is from Qianjiang District (黔江区) and has been a delivery rider for 5 years. He often delivers meals in Shapingba District (沙坪坝区). "Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) has a permanent population of 1.49 million, with nearly 130,000 takeout orders a day, and new employment groups such as online ride-hailing delivery personnel number 120,000," introduced Li Cong (李聪), Deputy Minister of the Social Work Department of the Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) Party Committee.
In order to solve the urgent needs and concerns of new employment groups, the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Social Work Department (重庆市委社会工作部) and 15 other departments issued 15 measures to care for new employment groups, clarifying the creation of facility-friendly, interpersonal-friendly, and governance-friendly scenarios in areas such as residential areas, parks, and business districts, and promoting the construction of "friendly towns and streets" for new employment groups throughout the region; the "Little Brother is Here" application was launched to realize one-click registration and orderly management for couriers and delivery drivers entering residential areas, improving traffic efficiency.
Difficulty in parking, difficulty in entering doors, difficulty in finding roads, difficulty in dining, difficulty in resting, difficulty in charging and changing batteries... In Shapingba District (沙坪坝区), more than 20 symposiums collected more than 100 problems reflected by riders. "We have successively linked 18 departments, 22 towns and streets, and 115 communities to jointly solve the pain points," said Li Cong (李聪). The Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) Housing and Construction Committee mobilized property companies to launch measures such as setting up temporary parking areas, simplifying access procedures, and deploying "Rider-Friendly Maps"; each street mobilized more than 400 street shops to be listed as "Rider-Friendly Merchants" to provide convenient services for riders.
The concept of friendly service is extending to more scenarios - community canteens are open to riders, benefiting more than 3,000 people; community health service centers post "Rider-Friendly Hospital" announcements, launching 8 projects such as trauma dressing changes; small stations next to battery exchange cabinets provide facilities such as drinking fountains, microwave ovens, and lounge chairs for riders to rest. Sun Ping (孙平), Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Shapingba Street (沙坪坝街道), introduced that Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) has opened 34 community canteens, 29 friendly hospitals, and 230 stations like these.
Warm-hearted service supports new employment groups to better integrate.
Peng Longkui (彭龙魁), a delivery rider from Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County (彭水苗族土家族自治县), has now bought a house and settled in the main urban area of Chongqing (重庆). Not long ago, he took his family and colleagues to the cinema, "We watched *Ne Zha*, and the kids were so happy!"
The social work organization stationed in the Chongqing (Shapingba) New Employment Group Party-Mass Service Center (重庆（沙坪坝）新就业群体党群服务中心) organized this family movie-watching activity for delivery riders. The service center integrates party-mass activities, deliberative consultation, skills training, legal consultation, and psychological counseling, and is jointly built and maintained by the government and platform enterprises.
In the multifunctional activity room, there are people who specialize in training cardiopulmonary resuscitation, "Don't use your hands hard, you have to use your body to exert force, high frequency, great strength..." Peng Longkui (彭龙魁) said and gestured, looking quite professional. There are also actors who do special stand-up comedy shows to enrich their cultural life. Peng Longkui (彭龙魁) admitted: "I have been a rider for many years, and I feel that the social environment is becoming more and more friendly to us!"
This year, the Party Branch of Chongqing Expressway Driver Home (重庆高速司机之家党支部) collected demands and found that truck drivers, especially "husband and wife teams," are more willing to bring their own meals to cook, so it piloted the creation of "shared kitchens" in 5 service areas such as Daguan (大观) and Jiangjin (江津), equipped with small appliances such as induction cookers, rice cookers, and air fryers. Truck drivers passing by can bring their own ingredients for processing without any charge.
At the Chongmian Bus Station (重棉公交站场) managed by Chongqing Bus Group Bayi Station Company (重庆市公交集团巴驿站场公司), the site that was previously only used for buses is now open to the public. "There are 20 fast-charging parking spaces, and more than 200 online ride-hailing cars come to charge every day," said Chen Tao (陈涛), Secretary of the Yuxi Branch Party Branch of the company. Pushing open the door of the driver's home next to it, several online ride-hailing drivers are resting on lounge chairs. "It's much more comfortable to take a break while charging the car than to huddle in the car," said one driver.
More heartwarming services and more practical guarantee measures allow new employment groups to better integrate into social life. Chongqing (重庆) multiple departments conducted visits and verifications of 370 national key online ride-hailing and online distribution platform enterprises' cooperative enterprises in Chongqing (渝) and key express enterprises' franchise enterprises in Chongqing (渝), contacted and connected 1,465 party organizations and 32,500 party members; gave play to the advantages of mass organizations in contacting and serving, established 857 new employment form trade union organizations, developed 365,900 members, and maximized the inclusion of new employment groups into various organizational management services.
"Two-way rush," enriching urban governance forces.
Now, Gong Xisong (龚希松) always wears a badge on the left chest, with the words "Hongyan Rider" (红岩骑手) printed on it. Like him, more than 1,300 delivery drivers, couriers, and online ride-hailing drivers in Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) have spontaneously joined the "Hongyan Rider" (红岩骑手) volunteer service team to play a role in improving social governance effectiveness.
"'The well grate on the underpass of Longhu Paradise Walk (龙湖天街) is broken,' 'The fire passage is blocked by vehicles'..." Whether it is environmental sanitation problems or safety hazards, volunteer service team members will report them in a timely manner after discovering them. "Participating in social governance makes the city better, and it also gives me a sense of belonging and accomplishment," said Gong Xisong (龚希松).
New employment groups are not only the "fresh troops" in urban construction, but also an important force in social governance. Jiangbei District (江北区) created the "City Guardian" governance brand, guiding new employment groups to become fire hazard sentinels, community grid managers, etc.; Shapingba District (沙坪坝区) gave play to the characteristics of riders walking through streets and alleys and being familiar with the situation, absorbing more than 700 riders to become part-time grid members in the community, and established industry party organizations such as takeout, express delivery, truck, and online ride-hailing, gathering 405 party members from new employment groups; Beibei District (北碚区) established the city's first new employment group training platform - "Bei You Xin Cai" (碚有新才) Training Center, customizing training plans for new employment groups, providing skills improvement courses, grassroots governance practice courses, etc. As of now, Chongqing (重庆) has absorbed a total of 33,000 new employment groups to serve as grid members, and formed 164 volunteer service teams such as "Hongyan Riders" (红岩骑手), extending service tentacles to the "capillaries" of the city.
"From 'one-way service' to 'two-way rush,' new employment groups are becoming 'partners' in urban governance." Liu Changjiang (刘长江), Director of the "Two Enterprises and Three New" Party Building Division of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Social Work Department (重庆市委社会工作部), said that the next step will be to continue to deepen and expand the construction of friendly scenarios, enhance the sense of professional gain and social integration of new employment groups, and promote them to contribute more to urban governance.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, June 6th (Xi Tianqi (奚天麒)) The 16th Cross-Strait, Hong Kong and Macao Economic and Trade Cooperation Seminar was held in Hong Kong (香港) on the 6th. With the theme of "Promoting the Digital Economy, Jointly Creating New Opportunities and Win-Win Results," this conference focused on close cooperation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门), and jointly explored opportunities under the digital economy.
Gao Yunlong (高云龙), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, said in his opening speech that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) share the same roots and should work together to grasp the pulse of the times and build a digital future together. Enterprises from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) should leverage their respective advantages, focus on strengthening collaborative research in cutting-edge digital technology fields, promote industrial co-chaining, market co-expansion, scenario sharing, and talent co-cultivation, and jointly help China (中国) take the initiative in the global digital economy competition.
The seminar was co-sponsored by the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (中华全国工商业联合会), the Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong (香港中华厂商联合会), the Taiwan Federation of Industry and Commerce (台湾工商企业联合会), and the Macao Chamber of Commerce (澳门中华总商会). The seminar also included keynote speeches and thematic discussion sessions, with participants discussing topics such as "Development Trends and Opportunities of the Digital Economy" and "Intelligent Technology and Industrial Upgrading."
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on June 6th (Reporters Liu Yang (刘阳) and Ren Shanshan (任姗姗)) The 2025 Summer Film Slate Release Conference, hosted by the National Film Administration (国家电影局), was held in Beijing (北京) on the 6th. Principal creators from some of the films to be released this summer gathered to promote the highlights of their movies.
As the longest film season of the year, the summer film season is highly anticipated by the film industry and audiences alike. To date, more than 60 Chinese and foreign films have been scheduled for the 2025 summer season.
In terms of domestic films, the summer season includes films covering various genres such as history, suspense, action, comedy, and animation, meeting the diverse viewing needs of audiences. The film "Dongji Island (东极岛)" tells the story of Dongji Island (东极岛) fishermen participating in a maritime international rescue operation. The film "Lychee of Chang'an (长安的荔枝)" focuses on the legend of the minor characters behind the transportation of lychees, telling the story of a Tang Dynasty (唐代) minor official embarking on a journey to complete the "Lychee Envoy" mission. Several animated films, including "Mount Lànglàng Little Monster (浪浪山小妖怪)" and "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Lan Ruo Temple (聊斋：兰若寺)," will also be launched in the summer film market, providing young audiences with a rich selection of summer films.
In terms of imported films, films such as "How to Train Your Dragon: The New World" and "Jurassic World: Rebirth" will be released to audiences during the summer season.
At the press conference, the "China Film Consumption Year" series of activities was announced, which will launch a series of film consumption benefits for the people during the summer. The "Film and Light Blooming in China" National Film Week event was also launched simultaneously at the press conference.
Return to TopThe People's Daily, Beijing, June 6th (Reporter Wang Yunshan (王云杉)) On June 6th, the 2025 Intelligent Economy Forum, jointly hosted by People's Daily Cultural Media Co., Ltd. and Baidu (百度) Company, was held in Beijing (北京). With the theme of "Vigorously Developing the Intelligent Economy and Accelerating the Construction of a Digital China," this forum aims to provide suggestions and gather consensus to better promote the high-quality development of China's intelligent economy and accelerate the construction of a digital China. Fang Jiangshan (方江山), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Daily (人民日报社), attended.
More than 300 guests from departments and units such as the Ministry of Science and Technology (科学技术部) and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会), as well as regions such as Huangpu District (黄浦区) of Shanghai (上海), research institutions such as the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信息通信研究院), and enterprises such as State Grid (国家电网), China Southern Power Grid (中国南方电网), CRRC (中国中车), Bank of Communications (交通银行), Shandong Port Group (山东省港口集团), Shandong Heavy Industry Group (山东重工集团), Guangdong Provincial Expressway Development Co., Ltd. (广东交通集团), and Baidu (百度) Company attended the forum.
The participating guests believe that the deep integration of the intelligent economy and the real economy has achieved remarkable results. It is necessary to persist in promoting the integration of artificial intelligence into all walks of life, stimulate digital vitality, deepen industrial integration, and share innovative achievements to empower the high-quality development of the economy and society.
Return to TopThis report Wuhan (武汉), June 6 (Reporter Tian Doudou (田豆豆)) - Recently, the Hubei Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security (湖北省人力资源和社会保障厅) and other departments jointly issued the "Notice on Promoting the 'Mama Post' Employment Model to Promote Women's Employment," encouraging enterprises to establish "Mama Posts" to attract women within the legal working age who have custody obligations for children under 12 years old, providing relatively flexible working hours and management models to facilitate balancing work and childcare.
Hubei Province (湖北省) will establish a unified directory of "Mama Post" employers. For employers included in the directory, various enterprise-benefiting subsidy policies such as unemployment insurance stabilization return and social insurance subsidies will be implemented through models such as exemption from application and immediate enjoyment, and direct subsidy and quick processing. Physical economy and micro and small enterprises included in the unified directory of "Mama Post" employers will also enjoy policy support such as financial support, tax incentives, and financial subsidies.
Return to TopBeijing, June 6th (Reporter Bai Jianfeng (白剑峰)) Today, June 6th, marks the 30th National "Eye Care Day." The reporter learned from the main event of "Eye Care Day" held in Beijing (北京) that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's eye health services have made significant progress.
According to reports, 94.9% of counties can now provide ophthalmological medical services, and 99.7% of prefecture-level cities have at least one secondary or higher-level general hospital with an independently established ophthalmology department. 3,756 county-level medical institutions across the country are capable of performing cataract surgery, covering 69.9% of counties. Currently, the annual eye care and vision screening coverage rate for children aged 0-6 years has reached 95.4%.
In the next step, China will focus on key eye diseases such as myopia and cataracts, as well as key populations of "the elderly and the young" (一老一小), to plan the "15th Five-Year Plan," ensuring that the goal of full coverage of cataract surgery capabilities in all counties nationwide is achieved by the end of 2027.
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The "artificial sun" created a new world record of "100 million degrees for thousands of seconds," China's fourth-generation independent quantum computing measurement and control system "Origin Tianji 4.0" (本源天机4.0) was officially released, and more than 4,000 scientific and technological achievements were unveiled at the 3rd China (Anhui) Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Transformation Fair... To win the battle of the "14th Five-Year Plan," Anhui has continued to promote scientific and technological innovation since the beginning of this year.
In October 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Anhui, "We must accelerate scientific and technological innovation and industrial transformation and upgrading. We must build national laboratories and the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (合肥综合性国家科学中心) to a high standard and effectively leverage the role of high-level science and technology innovation platforms."
How can original innovation achievements be better shared? How can scientific research supply meet the needs of enterprises? By clearing obstacles and solving difficulties, Anhui's determination and path to take the lead with science and technology and help the high-quality development of industries are becoming increasingly clear.
Consolidating the "foundation" and stimulating the innovative fission of "from 0 to 1"—
In the northwest corner of Hefei Binhu Science City (合肥滨湖科学城), the once barren land is rising to become a concentration area of large scientific installations—eight projects, including the "Hefei Advanced Light Source" (合肥先进光源) synchrotron radiation device, are accelerating construction. In the future, this will become one of the most densely populated areas of large scientific installations in China and even the world.
Large scientific installations and high-level platforms will overcome more "no-man's land" in basic research and seize more "commanding heights" of key core technologies. Anhui has 13 large scientific installations built, under construction, and in pre-research. In 2024, Anhui added 15 national key laboratories, bringing the total to 23, and its regional innovation capacity has been improving year after year.
"By reshaping and upgrading the innovation platform system and improving mechanisms such as 'laying eggs along the way,' we will support and lead the development of new quality productive forces in Anhui," said Zhong Haibin (钟海斌), Director of the Science and Technology Innovation Platform Construction Division of the Anhui Provincial Department of Science and Technology (安徽省科技厅). Large scientific installations have derived more than 1,000 technology patents and incubated nearly 50 enterprises, consolidating the "technical foundation" for Anhui to build science and technology innovation highlands for quantum information, fusion energy, and deep space exploration.
Optimizing the environment and accelerating the derivative evolution of achievements "from 1 to 10"—
High-end network testers can simulate extreme network environments and verify the performance of various devices and protocols in the network. At the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (合肥综合性国家科学中心人工智能研究院), Liang Xinping (梁新平), Chairman of Hefei Wangyi Technology Co., Ltd. (合肥网仪科技有限公司), is leading his team to intensify efforts to tackle this major national science and technology project.
"The high-quality verification platform and industrial environment have attracted a large number of researchers to join, providing great support for product development." Here, Liang Xinping's team completed the first set of deliveries, realizing the localization and independent control of the high-end network tester field.
The high investment in pilot test platforms and experimental equipment often deters start-up technology companies. How can scientific and technological achievements move more smoothly from "laboratory" to "application field"?
In recent years, Anhui has accelerated the establishment and operation of six research institutes, including big health and artificial intelligence, and has laid out more than 200 scientific research projects and public application scenarios, attracting more than 200 "national-level" innovation platforms to settle in Anhui, and building more than 4,400 provincial-level and above technology innovation platforms and technology transfer centers.
"We have initially built an innovation system that runs through the entire chain of applied research, technological innovation, achievement transformation, and industrialization," said Hu Xianfeng (胡先锋), Director of the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center Work Division of the Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission (安徽省发展改革委). At present, Anhui has 23,000 national-level high-tech enterprises and 35,000 science and technology-based SMEs. In the first quarter of this year, the added value of the province's high-tech manufacturing industry increased by 20.1%.
Promoting integration and helping the industrial qualitative change "from 10 to 100"—
The new intelligent sensor of the Anhui Provincial Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Technology Innovation Research Institute (安徽省微机电系统（MEMS）技术产业创新研究院) took only half a year from product release to occupying more than 80% of the domestic market share.
The industrial research institute is the product of integration, with the participation of not only many universities and research institutes, but also more than 10 upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain. "Rapid design iteration and rapid application verification greatly shorten the product development cycle and market testing." Yu Lei (喻磊), a key member of the product development team, said that since its establishment last year, the industrial research institute has obtained more than 400 invention patents, which has strongly promoted the development of the Bengbu (蚌埠) intelligent sensor industry cluster.
To promote the efficient and seamless connection of the innovation chain and the industrial chain, Anhui has created a closely integrated development mechanism of "government, industry, academia, research, finance, service, and application." At present, 106 units in Anhui are piloting the "empowerment + transfer + agreed income" model for job-related scientific and technological achievements, the proportion of undergraduate and junior college majors serving emerging industries has reached 72%, and the loan balance of technology-based enterprises has nearly tripled in four years.
At present, Anhui is actively planning the substantive reform of Hefei Binhu Science City (合肥滨湖科学城). "We will keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) instructions and create the best ecology for scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Innovation has enabled Anhui to achieve leapfrog development in the '14th Five-Year Plan.' Moving towards the '15th Five-Year Plan,' we must further enhance this golden brand," said Liang Yanshun (梁言顺), Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee (安徽省委书记).
Return to TopBeijing, June 6th (People's Daily) With the approval of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission have filed a case for investigation into the serious violations of discipline and law by Hong Lihe (洪礼和), former Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress.
The investigation found that Hong Lihe (洪礼和) had lost his ideals and beliefs, betrayed his original aspiration and mission, engaged in forming cliques and factions within the Party for a long time, made reckless comments on the major policies of the Party Central Committee, privately read books with serious political problems, and resisted organizational review. He violated the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee by organizing public-funded tourism in violation of regulations; violated organizational principles by failing to report personal matters as required, failing to truthfully explain problems during organizational inquiries, and seeking benefits for others in cadre selection and appointment and accepting property; lost the bottom line of integrity, accepted gifts in violation of regulations, possessed shares in non-listed companies, and engaged in power-for-sex and money-for-sex transactions; had a bad attitude towards the masses, causing adverse effects; interfered in disciplinary and law enforcement activities; and transformed the public power entrusted to him by the Party and the people into a tool for seeking personal gain, massively accepting money and accumulating wealth, using his position to seek benefits for others in business operations and promotion, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property; practiced favoritism and abused his power, causing particularly serious losses to the interests of the state and the people.
Hong Lihe (洪礼和) seriously violated the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, mass discipline, work discipline, and life discipline, constituted serious violations of duty and was suspected of crimes such as bribery and abuse of power. Moreover, he did not restrain himself or **不收敛、不收手** (bù shōu liǎn, bù shōu shǒu - "not restrain, not stop," continuing misconduct despite warnings) after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. His actions were serious in nature and had a bad impact, and he should be severely dealt with. In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Sanctions of the Communist Party of China," the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Law on Administrative Disciplinary Actions for Public Officials of the People's Republic of China," and other relevant regulations, after research by the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and approved by the CPC Central Committee, it was decided to give Hong Lihe (洪礼和) a punishment of expulsion from the Party; cancel the benefits he enjoyed as stipulated; confiscate his illegal gains from violations of discipline and law; and transfer his suspected criminal problems to the procuratorial organ for investigation and prosecution in accordance with the law, and transfer the property involved together.
Return to TopBeijing, June 6 (People's Daily) -- With the approval of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission have filed a case for investigation into the serious violations of discipline and law by Kou Wei, former Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and General Manager of China Datang Corporation Ltd. (中国大唐集团有限公司).
Upon investigation, Kou Wei lost his ideals and beliefs, abandoned his original aspiration and mission, **处心积虑** (chǔ xīn jī lǜ - "rack one's brains," to deliberately plot and scheme), resisted organizational review, and engaged in superstitious activities; violated the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, illegally accepted gifts, accepted banquets that may have affected the fair execution of official duties, and illegally entered and exited private clubs; violated organizational principles, failed to truthfully explain problems during organizational talks, and sought benefits for others in terms of job promotion; illegally engaged in business activities, engaged in power-for-sex and money-for-sex transactions; was morally corrupt; had no bottom line of discipline and law, wantonly embezzled huge amounts of public property; was greedy and corrupt, retired but did not stop, "ate energy by relying on energy," transformed public power into a tool for seeking personal gain, engaged in power-money transactions, used his position to seek benefits for others in project contracting and business operations, and illegally accepted huge amounts of property; made arbitrary decisions, abused his power, and caused particularly heavy losses to national interests.
Kou Wei seriously violated the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, and life discipline, constituted a serious violation of duty and was suspected of embezzlement, bribery, using influence to accept bribes, and abuse of power by personnel of state-owned companies. Moreover, he did not restrain himself or **不收敛、不收手** (bù shōu liǎn、bù shōu shǒu - "not restrain, not stop," refusing to cease wrongdoing despite warnings) after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, his nature was serious, and his impact was vile, and he should be severely punished. In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Sanctions of the Communist Party of China," the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Law on Administrative Disciplinary Actions for Public Officials of the People's Republic of China" and other relevant regulations, after deliberation by the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and with the approval of the CPC Central Committee, it was decided to give Kou Wei (寇伟) a punishment of expulsion from the Party; cancel the treatment he enjoyed as stipulated; confiscate his illegal gains from violations of discipline and law; and transfer his suspected criminal problems to the procuratorial organs for investigation and prosecution in accordance with the law, and transfer the property involved along with him.
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Hainan Sanya (海南三亚), Luhuitou Peninsula (鹿回头半岛). The Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (中国科学院深海科学与工程研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) is located here, where scientists use scientific research as their boat to explore the deep sea.
New Zealand, Puysegur Trench (普伊斯哥海沟). Earlier this year, China's independently developed manned submersible "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) surfaced fully loaded with a batch of valuable biological samples. Recently, Chinese scientists have studied abyssal amphipod samples obtained from scientific expeditions to the Mariana Trench (马里亚纳海沟), the Yap Trench (雅浦海沟), and other locations, and the related results were published in the international journal *Cell*.
From domestic independent research and development to international scientific research cooperation, manned submersibles such as "Deep Sea Warrior" (深海勇士号) and "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号), carried by the "Exploration" series of scientific research vessels, are advancing to deeper and more distant seas. Let us learn about the unique skills of manned submersibles in traversing the deep sea through conversations with aquanauts and scientists.
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Venturing into the Deep Sea: What Unique Skills Do Manned Submersibles Possess?
The ocean not only contains abundant resources but also holds clues to the Earth's evolution and the origin of life. As a means of transportation for humans to dive into the deep sea, manned submersibles need to cope with multiple challenges such as darkness, high pressure, and low temperature.
From the "Jiaolong" (蛟龙号) 7000-meter manned submersible entering the sea, to the successful research and development of the "Deep Sea Warrior" (深海勇士号) 4500-meter manned submersible with a localization rate of 95%, and then to the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) full-sea-depth manned submersible achieving extreme deep diving... Gradually "leaping" towards the 10,000-meter deep sea, manned submersibles can be said to possess "unique skills": in addition to "sinking" and "floating," they can also "see clearly" and "communicate," listening to sounds to identify locations between sinking and floating, completing tasks such as collecting rocks, cultural relics, and biological samples, and bringing back first-hand information for deep-sea research.
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Wang Shuo (王硕), Senior Engineer at the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (中国科学院深海科学与工程研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院):
How deep is considered "deep sea"? In the field of marine biology, the area below the photic zone is defined as the deep sea, generally below 200 meters; for marine engineering and resource exploration and development, the area below 1000 meters of water depth is generally regarded as the deep sea. At the 10,000-meter seabed, the pressure is extremely high, with each square meter bearing about 11,000 tons of pressure, which requires manned submersibles to evolve high-strength capabilities.
Compared with unmanned submersibles, the biggest feature of manned submersibles is that they have a life support system. Taking the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) as an example, developing a high-pressure-resistant manned sphere is a major technical challenge. After repeated experiments, scientists chose a new type of titanium alloy material with a balance of strength and toughness, relative lightness, and corrosion resistance, and finally made a manned sphere that can cope with the huge water pressure of the deep sea and carry 3 aquanauts.
How does the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) achieve "sinking" and "floating"? In addition to the application of solid buoyancy materials, the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) is also equipped with two sets of ballast iron. By carrying and jettisoning, the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) can control the relationship between its buoyancy and gravity, achieving unpowered descent and ascent. In addition, manned submersibles also have their own "swim bladder" - a buoyancy adjustment system. When working on the seabed, small-scale buoyancy adjustments are made through seawater pumps, allowing the submersible to easily complete navigation within a certain depth range. The neural network optimization algorithm designed by scientists allows the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) to cruise, navigate to fixed points, and hover and position in complex seabed terrain, and its horizontal and vertical plane navigation control performance indicators have reached the international advanced level.
Not only that, but on the seabed, the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) can also "see clearly" and "communicate." The "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) is equipped with a video lighting system that can illuminate the seabed scene within a dozen meters around and record and store images in real time; the underwater acoustic communication system, which has both timed and real-time information interaction functions, exchanges data information with the scientific research mothership every 100 seconds, and can send voice messages at any time to achieve underwater communication.
Exploring Relics: The "Deep Sea Warrior" (深海勇士号) Shows Its Skills
In the second half of this year, the "Deep Sea Warrior" (深海勇士号) manned submersible is expected to be carried by the "Exploration" series of scientific research vessels to carry out deep-sea archaeology and other work in the South China Sea (南海). Previously, the "Deep Sea Warrior" (深海勇士号) has "made contributions" in the archaeological investigation of the No. 1 and No. 2 shipwreck sites on the northwest continental slope of the South China Sea (南海西北陆坡一号、二号沉船遗址). Relying on the "Deep Sea Warrior" (深海勇士号), three stages of deep-sea archaeological investigation have confirmed that the number of relics from the No. 1 shipwreck exceeds 100,000 pieces, and a total of more than 900 sets of cultural relics have been extracted.
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Chen Chuanxu (陈传绪), Researcher at the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (中国科学院深海科学与工程研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院):
In the vast sea, how do we determine the location of shipwrecks and cultural relics? Although we occasionally gain something "by luck," we mainly determine the approximate range through documentary data, then use unmanned submersibles for scanning, and finally, the "Deep Sea Warrior" (深海勇士号) and other manned submersibles show their skills to carry out investigation and cultural relic extraction work.
Taking an 8-hour dive as an example, it includes site investigation and cultural relic extraction. Before diving, the aquanauts will communicate with the archaeological expert team on the number of cultural relics to be extracted, the scope of the dive investigation, etc., to determine the plan. After diving, the "Deep Sea Warrior" (深海勇士号) navigates through the long baseline positioning system to ensure that it moves to the intended location. In addition, three-dimensional laser scanners and high-definition cameras also come in handy, recording real-time panoramic views of the shipwreck site and the corresponding locations of cultural relics, avoiding the loss of relevant location information after the cultural relics are extracted. Three glass observation windows facilitate on-site recording by archaeologists.
The "Deep Sea Warrior" (深海勇士号) carries out archaeology in the deep sea, which is inseparable from its dexterous "hands": the modified flexible material robotic arm is resistant to high pressure, has a high degree of freedom, and its joints can move flexibly. The load capacity of the farthest end reaches 65 kilograms, which can collect cultural relics into the submersible without damaging the surface decoration of the cultural relics. In the future, the application of artificial intelligence will also help identify, count, and extract underwater cultural relics, improving the efficiency of deep-sea archaeology.
Entering the Abyss: The "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) Acts as a "Catcher"
Under the support of the "Global Deep-sea Deep-diving Exploration Program" led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), scientists have conducted manned deep-diving scientific expeditions to the world's major trench abysses, focusing on major scientific issues such as the origin of life and geological evolution in the abyss, creating a number of world manned deep-diving operation records and achieving a series of original scientific discoveries. Among them, Chinese scientists used the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) manned submersible and other equipment to study abyssal amphipod samples obtained from scientific expeditions to the Mariana Trench (马里亚纳海沟), the Yap Trench (雅浦海沟), and other locations, and the related results were recently published in the international academic journal *Cell*.
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Zhang Haibin (张海滨), Director and Researcher of the Deep-sea Biology Research Office at the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (中国科学院深海科学与工程研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院):
The abyss refers to the deep-sea area with a water depth of more than 6000 meters, which has characteristics such as ultra-high hydrostatic pressure, darkness, low temperature, and lack of nutrient sources, and is the most extreme marine environment on Earth. However, abyssal amphipods enjoy themselves and exhibit significant dominant population characteristics, with biomass dominating. In the abyssal ecosystem, abyssal amphipods have a dual role: they are both decomposers - using marine animal carcasses and other humus as their main food source, and energy transmitters - they are the main prey of abyssal lionfish and other predators. Conducting research on the abyssal amphipod species can provide new insights into how life adapts to the abyssal environment.
To study abyssal amphipods, you must first "catch" them. One method is to use an abyssal lander with a cage-like or bucket-like trapping device, which is placed on the seabed for more than ten hours to obtain a large number of abyssal amphipod samples; another method is for the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者号) to act as a "catcher," using a robotic arm to deploy the trapping device. Although the number of samples collected is relatively small, it takes less time.
Like cultural relics, the extraction and preservation of biological samples also have certain requirements. Net cages, acrylic buckets, water sampling bottles... As the devices are continuously upgraded, the quality of the collected abyssal amphipods is also continuously improved. In the future, we will manufacture deep-sea animal authentic collection and culture devices to transfer live organisms from the seabed to the laboratory under the premise of heat preservation and pressure preservation, so as to better assist deep-sea biological research.
The obtained abyssal amphipod genome is the "deepest" animal genome that has been published globally, providing valuable data resources for exploring the abyssal ecosystem.
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What is a "frogman"?
"Frogmen" are not people with special abilities as seen in movies. When manned submersibles such as the *Fendouzhe* (奋斗者) ("Striver") are deployed and recovered, specially trained divers without diving missions are needed to assist with operations on the sea surface; these are the "frogmen."
The A-frame gantry (hereinafter referred to as "A-frame") on the deck of the research mother ship is used to deploy or recover the submersible. When the submersible is ready to perform a dive operation, the A-frame will lift the submersible to the sea surface. At this time, the "frogman," wearing a diving suit and helmet, will take a small boat to the side of the submersible.
In the rocking waves, the "frogman" needs to seize the opportunity to jump from the small boat onto the submersible, grab the handrail on the submersible, and untie the main lifting cable as quickly as possible. Then, they crawl to the front of the submersible to untie the towing cable, and finally jump back onto the small boat. This is one deployment.
When the submersible finishes its work on the seabed and needs to return to the mother ship, the "frogman" reappears, using a hook to catch the towing cable lowered from the mother ship and finding an opportunity to attach it to the submersible. After the mother ship tows the submersible to below the A-frame via the towing cable, the "frogman" jumps onto the submersible again and attaches the main lifting cable. Subsequently, the main lifting cable will lift the submersible back onto the deck. This is one recovery.
The work sounds simple, but it is actually full of challenges. The sea surface is often turbulent. The deployment and recovery conditions for the *Shenhai Yongshi* (深海勇士) ("Deep Sea Warrior") and *Fendouzhe* (奋斗者) are sea states 4 and 5, respectively (sea state 4 has wave heights of 1.25-2.5 meters, and sea state 5 has wave heights of 2.5-4.0 meters). When the sea conditions are bad and the wind and waves are large, the small boat and the submersible shake violently on the sea surface. At this time, the "frogman" is often submerged below the surface of the water along with the submersible. Apart from holding tightly to the submersible's handrail, there are no other points of support for the body, and they can only hang in the water. If they don't hold on tight, they may be washed away by the waves. "Frogmen" submerged by waves during operations sometimes have to hold their breath underwater for as long as tens of seconds.
The challenges are not just the wind and waves. In December 2022, when the *Fendouzhe* (奋斗者) was diving and recovering in the Kermadec Trench area, it also encountered sharks swimming around several times.
During night dives, the lights from the research vessel's deck and the submersible illuminate a patch of seawater, attracting many phototactic marine organisms. Flying fish often leap into the air, and the "frogman's" work resembles a stage play under the spotlight.
The "frogman's" work requires coordination from multiple departments: the boat operators and the stern command personnel must cooperate with each other in the ship's heading, and the A-frame operators must collaborate with the "frogman" in choosing the timing for placing the main lifting cable and attaching the towing cable... It is precisely through unity and cooperation that the manned submersible can set off and return triumphantly time and time again.
(The author is a popular science publicity specialist at the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (深海科学与工程研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院). This article was compiled and edited by Dong Zeyang (董泽扬), a reporter for this newspaper.)
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Massive data is the foundation for building large artificial intelligence models, and the global data volume is currently growing exponentially. Silicon-based storage media such as hard drives, magnetic tapes, and USB drives have problems such as short lifespans, high energy consumption, and large space occupation, which cannot meet the ever-increasing data storage needs. What to do? This requires the development of new data storage technologies.
DNA is a natural data information encoding and storage material. It has high density, 107 times that of existing storage media; long life, stable storage for tens of millions of years at low temperatures; and low energy consumption, making it an "optimal solution" for solving the dilemma of big data storage.
Currently, the vast majority of DNA storage technologies adopt a design strategy similar to "woodblock printing." The main idea is "reading" (direct sequencing) and "writing" (sequential synthesis). Specifically, according to certain encoding and mapping principles, 0-1 binary computer data files are encoded and converted into A-T-C-G quaternary DNA codes, and further synthesized and written into DNA for storage. When needed, these DNA "folders" storing data can be decoded using high-throughput sequencing and other methods. However, like the use of "woodblock printing," this DNA storage is disposable, used once and synthesized once, resulting in high costs and long times.
Inspired by ancient China's "movable type printing," researchers proposed the design concept of "DNA movable type storage." "DNA movable type" consists of prefabricated DNA fragments that can encode 1 byte of information. According to the content of the file to be printed, we can freely call "DNA movable type," combine them as needed, and then form "DNA movable type blocks" through one-step multi-level connection, ultimately forming a complete DNA storage file.
How is the printing process achieved? Researchers have developed a "DNA movable type" inkjet printing and printing all-in-one machine called "Bisheng No. 1 (毕昇一号)," realizing the automation of the "DNA movable type" storage process. "Bisheng No. 1 (毕昇一号)" is equipped with hundreds of prefabricated "DNA movable type" solutions, which can automatically select the required "movable type" according to the file requirements of typesetting and printing according to computer program instructions, and automatically assemble and connect them into "DNA movable type blocks."
"DNA movable type storage" has the reusability and flexibility similar to movable type printing, showing obvious cost and efficiency advantages. Researchers estimate that a "DNA movable type" equipped on "Bisheng No. 1 (毕昇一号)" can be printed 10,000 times, greatly reducing storage costs. With the help of the wisdom of the ancients and the efforts of modern researchers, "DNA movable type storage" will also provide a new solution for the massive storage needs of the big data era.
(The author is a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Genomics (National Center for Bioinformation) (中国科学院北京基因组研究所（国家生物信息中心)) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院).)
Return to TopThis newspaper reports (Reporter Zhang Chi (张驰)) that recently, an international research team led by the Yunnan Observatories (云南天文台) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) has made an important breakthrough in exoplanet detection: Researchers have discovered a habitable-zone "super-Earth" Kepler-725c around a Sun-like star. This is also the first time internationally that the transit timing variation (TTV) inversion technique has been used to discover such a planet in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. The relevant results were published in the international journal *Nature Astronomy*.
The newly discovered "super-Earth" orbits a G9V-type host star named Kepler-725. The spectral type of this host star is similar to the Sun, but it is much "younger" than the Sun, only 1.6 billion years old, and the magnetic field activity on its surface is more intense. The mass of Kepler-725c is about 10 times the mass of the Earth. "The habitable zone where the 'super-Earth' is located is a region suitable for the existence of liquid water, which is considered a key condition for the birth of Earth-like life," said Gu Shenghong (顾盛宏), a researcher at the Yunnan Observatories (云南天文台) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院).
Gu Shenghong (顾盛宏) introduced that this planet was not initially discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope. The research team successfully inferred its existence by observing the slight deviations in the orbital period of another planet in the Kepler-725 planetary system as it passed across the surface of the host star, using the TTV inversion technique. Sun Leilei (孙磊磊), a member of the research team, introduced that this research opens a new channel for Chinese research teams to find "Earth 2.0" in the future.
The relevant research results will provide new observation targets and technical support for future Chinese space astronomy missions. The research team plans to apply the TTV inversion technique to more exoplanet systems in order to find exoplanets "hidden" in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs.
Return to TopAccording to a report from our newspaper (reporter Xu Jing (徐靖)), the reporter learned recently from the Anhui Province Quantum Computing Chip Key Laboratory that the Origin Quantum Computing Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. (本源科仪（成都）科技有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Origin Quantum Computing Technology (本源科仪)") has completed the fifth technical iteration of its completely independently developed domestic quantum chip design industrial software Q-EDA "Origin Kunyuan (本源坤元)".
This iteration has broken through the technical bottleneck of large-scale quantum chip design, injecting new impetus into China's independent research and development and industrialization process of quantum chips. Chip design is highly dependent on EDA software. As an important tool for quantum chip design, the independent research and development of Q-EDA has become the key to seizing the industrial opportunity. Taking the design of a 72-bit quantum chip as an example, the fifth iteration of "Origin Kunyuan (本源坤元)", with the support of the process design kit, has realized the automated one-stop rapid layout generation—it only takes 6 minutes and 50 seconds to complete the complete layout drawing of a 72-bit chip.
"Designing quantum chips is like building a house. We must not only carefully plan the spatial layout (quantum chip structure design), but also optimize the key 'water and electricity wiring' (quantum bit connection)," said Li Shuxiao (李舒啸), general manager of Origin Quantum Computing Technology (本源科仪). The important breakthrough of the fifth version of "Origin Kunyuan (本源坤元)" lies in the comprehensive upgrade of wiring flexibility—it innovatively realizes the fully automatic wiring function in the extreme space scenario, and flexibly provides a variety of semi-automatic repair tools, taking into account both design efficiency and operational freedom.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency (新华社) (Reporters Wang Zhuolun (王卓伦) and Feng Guorui (冯国芮)) An international team with the participation of Israeli researchers recently published a paper in the British journal "Nature Communications," reporting a new method for manipulating skyrmions, saying that this will help develop the next generation of smart devices.
According to reports, skyrmions are nano-scale magnetic vortex structures. Because only a small amount of energy is needed to manipulate skyrmions, they have become an important research object for developing next-generation low-power memory and computing systems in recent years.
The latest research found that by applying current to ditin triferrite material, two resonance modes of skyrmions can be excited: one is called the "breathing mode," which expands and contracts regularly like the lungs when breathing; the other is the rotation mode. In addition, the study also found that spin-polarized currents and other characteristics exist in the above materials.
These findings not only reveal some deep physical mechanisms related to skyrmions, but also have application potential in data storage, sensor technology and other fields.
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Located west of Yinchuan (银川市) and at the eastern foot of the Helan Mountains (贺兰山), the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) bear witness to the nearly two-century history of the Western Xia Dynasty (西夏王朝) in a unique way. They encapsulate information on culture, art, religion, and other aspects, showcasing the magnificent chapter of the diverse integration of Chinese civilization.
The Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) are the largest, highest-ranking, and most well-preserved Western Xia (西夏) cultural relics in existence. Between 1972 and 1977, archaeologists conducted the first systematic investigation and scientific excavation of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵), confirming that the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) were located east of the Helan Mountains (贺兰山), as recorded in the "Jiajing Ningxia New Records" (《嘉靖宁夏新志》). The confirmation and excavation of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) promoted the development of Western Xia (西夏) archaeology.
The overall orientation of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) is south-eastward, leaning against high mountains in the northwest, and overlooking Xingqing Prefecture (兴庆府) and the Yellow River (黄河) in the east. Backed by mountains and facing water, with high and open terrain, the spatial axis of each mausoleum is related to a mountain peak of the Helan Mountains (贺兰山), using the mountain势 to set off the majestic momentum of the mausoleum buildings. The site selection of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) makes full use of the characteristics of natural geography, choosing the alluvial fan highlands leaning against the Helan Mountains (贺兰山) in the west, and utilizing the dry and rainless climate conditions. There are 32 flood control project sites in the mausoleum area, which were continuously built along with the continuous expansion of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵). The flood control walls are mainly piled up with stones and filled with loess, and are generally built in areas with higher terrain. The drainage ditches are directly excavated downward from the ground, effectively avoiding and reducing the erosion and damage of mountain floods to the relevant facilities in the mausoleum area.
The composition of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) is divided into two parts: above ground and underground. The underground part is the tomb passage and tomb chamber. All the tomb chambers have been devastatingly destroyed, and only the underground part of Mausoleum No. 6 has been archaeologically excavated. The above-ground part is basically symmetrically distributed along the central axis, with mausoleum cities enclosed by three or four sides. The south side of the mausoleum city is the Moon City, and the plane of the mausoleum city is in the shape of an inverted "凸". Inside the mausoleum city, there are offering halls, tomb passages, tomb chambers, mausoleum pagodas, etc. On both sides of the central axis on the south side of the Moon City, there are stele pavilions, que towers, etc. Outside the mausoleum city and the Moon City, there are 4 corner platforms, which serve as markers to define the scope of each mausoleum.
The layout structure and mausoleum system of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) inherited the basic characteristics of the Tang (唐) and Song (宋) dynasties in terms of site selection concept, mausoleum layout, architectural form, and building materials, and re-created on this basis. For example, the structure of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) is simple, without lower palaces, rear mausoleums, etc.; the Moon City is added, the sacred path is shortened and shrunk into the Moon City, and the stone statues are arranged in multiple rows on both sides of the sacred path; buildings such as corner platforms and central platforms are not seen in imperial mausoleums in other periods.
The stele pavilion has been institutionalized in the layout of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵). Each mausoleum generally has two or three stele pavilions, and some large burial tombs also have stele pavilions. A large number of stele fragments, including Western Xia (西夏) and Chinese characters, have been unearthed from the ruins of many stele pavilions in the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵). The coexistence of stone tablets in two languages shows that the Dangxiang (党项) and Han (汉) cultures both had important positions in Western Xia (西夏). The surviving inscriptions provide rich historical information and supplement the deficiencies of historical documents. Through the inscriptions, we can learn about the Western Xia (西夏) monarchical lineage, political system, economic conditions, religious beliefs, and other aspects.
The architectural components unearthed from the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) include pottery, porcelain, glazed tiles, and stone components, with a rough and bold shape, such as chiwen, taoshou, kalavinka, makara, sea lion, pigeon, treasure bottle, and other ridge ornaments, pan tiles, barrel tiles, tile ends, drips and other roofing materials, bricks, column bases and other ground building materials, which collectively demonstrate the innovation made by Western Xia (西夏) on the basis of the building material shapes and materials of the Central Plains (中原) region. Its craftsmanship level can be compared with that of the Central Plains (中原). Among them, the glazed components are of superb firing level and have bright colors as new. The most typical is the green glazed chiwen unearthed from the south gate of Mausoleum No. 6 (now in the National Museum of China (中国国家博物馆)), which is 152 cm high and is the largest known glazed chiwen component in China, showing the spread of glazed firing technology in the Western Xia (西夏) region, and also reflecting the grand and majestic scale of Western Xia (西夏) architecture.
There are currently 11 stone bases with strongmen carrying steles unearthed from the stele pavilions of various mausoleums. The shapes of these strongmen stele bases are basically the same. The strongman statue on the front of the base sits kneeling with bent knees, with plump cheeks, bell-like eyes, thick and long eyebrows, upturned eyebrows, a collapsed and short nose, and fangs protruding from the corners of the lips. These stele bases are different from the common tortoise bases in the Central Plains (中原) culture. The image of the strongman carrying the stele shows a majestic momentum and is full of power. It is a style created by the Western Xia (西夏) people by integrating the stone carving art of Tang (唐), Song (宋) and Buddhist cultures.
The funerary objects such as coins, silks, beads, and gold and silver ornaments unearthed in the mausoleum area witnessed the active commercial and trade activities during the Western Xia (西夏) period, revealing the hub characteristics of Western Xia (西夏) in the cross-regional exchange activities in the "Silk Road" connecting Eurasia. The Dangxiang (党项) people originally engaged in animal husbandry and hunting, and later also engaged in agricultural production, and gradually learned to accept various handicraft industries, and absorbed Han (汉) craftsmen to participate in the production. The Western Xia (西夏) porcelain industry was developed, with a wide variety of types and shapes. It was not only deeply influenced by the Dingyao (定窑) system, Cizhou (磁州) kiln system and Yaozhou (耀州窑) kiln system of the Northern Song Dynasty (北宋), but also influenced by the living customs and nomadic traditions of the Dangxiang (党项) people. It is an important physical material for studying the material and cultural life of Western Xia (西夏). The white porcelain pan tiles and trough tiles unearthed from the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵), although the usage is unknown, have been scientifically tested and analyzed, and their craftsmanship is close to that of the Lingwu (灵武) kiln white porcelain of the same period.
The Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) provide special testimony to the already disappeared Western Xia (西夏) civilization, provide indispensable archaeological support for the formation and development of China's unified multi-ethnic country, and enrich the connotation of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation.
(Author's unit: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (宁夏回族自治区文物考古研究所))
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The "Exhibition of Historical Facts of the Nanjing Massacre" at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders displays photos of Nanjing Massacre survivors taken in December 1937, exposing the inhumane fascist atrocities and serving as a warning that history must not be forgotten. The carrier that recorded these photos—the John Magee camera and its film—are also on display in the exhibition hall. This national first-class cultural relic is a treasure of the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆) and has been selected for the Memory of the World Register.
John Magee (约翰·马吉), born in Pittsburgh, USA, in 1884, came to Nanjing (南京) in 1912 as a priest of the American Episcopal Church. On August 15, 1937, the invading Japanese army launched its first air raid on Nanjing. On November 22, the Chinese and foreign individuals remaining in Nanjing formed the International Committee for the Nanjing Safety Zone, and Magee became a member, repeatedly driving to transport the wounded. On December 13, Nanjing fell, and the Nanjing branch of the International Red Cross was established on the same day, with Magee serving as chairman. He sheltered and protected refugees in churches, residences, foreign firms, and other places, and also used his camera to film the atrocities of the Japanese army. Magee returned to the United States in 1940, and in 1946 he went to the Far East International Military Tribunal to testify in the Nanjing Massacre case. He died in Pittsburgh in 1953.
The circulation of the Magee camera and film is also the process of spreading the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre internationally. In January 1938, George Fitch (乔治·费奇), an American missionary who served as the general secretary of the International Committee for the Nanjing Safety Zone, took advantage of the opportunity to go to Shanghai (上海) to purchase food and medicine and sewed Magee's film into the lining of his coat, secretly taking it out of Nanjing. After Fitch arrived in Shanghai, he and British *Manchester Guardian* reporter H.J. Timperley (田伯烈) went to Kodak to make four copies, which were taken to the United States, Germany, Japan, and other places by international individuals for screening. The images in the film were also reproduced as photographs, ten of which were published in the May 1938 issue of the American *Life* magazine.
After World War II, the Magee camera faded from people's sight until the 1990s, when it was rediscovered through the unremitting efforts of Shao Ziping (邵子平) and others, the president of the U.S.-based "Association of Compatriots Victims of Nanjing Massacre" (南京大屠杀受难同胞联合会). In 2002, John Magee's son, David Magee (大卫·马吉), donated the camera and film to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. Subsequently, staff digitally transcribed the film.
The authentic footage of the Nanjing Massacre left by John Magee has significant historical significance. The film truthfully records the brutal acts of the invading Japanese army in carrying out the Nanjing Massacre. Li Xiuying (李秀英), a survivor who was stabbed more than 30 times and received treatment in the hospital; the scene after the murder of Xia Shuqin's (夏淑琴) family of seven; the scene of American doctor Robert Wilson (罗伯特·威尔逊) treating Chinese people at Gulou Hospital (鼓楼医院)... every frame is a historical reproduction. During the Tokyo Trial, John Magee testified about the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing. In 1947, the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal played the film *The War in China*, directed by Frank Capra, when trying Tani Hisao (谷寿夫), the principal culprit in the Nanjing Massacre case, and many of the shots were filmed by Magee. Magee's testimony and film show that the Nanjing Massacre is an ironclad case and became powerful evidence for the Tokyo and Nanjing trials. Since 2002, this cultural relic has quietly told that dark page in human history to more than 100 million visitors from more than 100 countries.
After more than half a century, the Magee camera and film still have unique contemporary value. The real scenes of the Nanjing Massacre presented in the film are the most powerful rebuttal to all denials and beautifications of the history of the Nanjing Massacre. In recent years, the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders has carried models of the Magee camera to hold exhibitions in Spain, Hungary, France, the Czech Republic, Belarus, and other countries, and has published books such as *Human Memory: Evidence of the Nanjing Massacre* in English and Japanese. The memorial hall has also launched the international peace education project "Nanjing Peace School" (紫金草国际和平学校), and more than 6,000 young people from more than 80 countries and regions have watched the Magee film; more than 470 young people from 47 countries have become "Nanjing Peace School International Volunteers" of the memorial hall, explaining the Magee camera to foreign audiences and using "Esperanto" to spread this "world memory."
The friendship between Nanjing and the Magee family has continued to the fourth generation. Chris Magee (克里斯·马吉), John Magee's grandson, participated in the Nanjing Massacre Victims National Memorial Day ceremony. He also followed in his grandfather's footsteps and held the "History, Peace, and Development: Nanjing Images of the Magee Grandfather and Grandson" exhibition in Nanjing, using the lens to create a sharp contrast between modern Nanjing and historical Nanjing.
Telling the story behind the Magee camera is to promote a correct view of World War II with accurate historical facts and to deeply root the concept of remembering history and cherishing peace in people's hearts. As John Magee wrote in the film's narration: "These scenes were not filmed to stir up revenge against Japan, but merely in the hope that all people, including the Japanese, will remember the terrible consequences of this war."
We can face the future only by **以史为鉴** (yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn - "take history as a mirror," learn from history) – the Magee camera and its film are not only historical evidence but also a symbol of peace.
(The author is the curator of the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, compiled by Yao Xueqing (姚雪青), a reporter from this newspaper)
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In the early morning of May 8th, Mr. Qiu Xigui's (裘锡圭) life, dedicated to scholarship, came to an abrupt end. Mr. Qiu (裘) pursued "establishing virtue, performing meritorious service, and creating lasting words" throughout his life. His academic style was renowned for its rigor, presenting evidence based on facts. He was strict with himself, revising his articles meticulously, correcting errors without hesitation, and daring to engage in self-criticism. He was always upright in his conduct and dealings, with clear boundaries, distinct likes and dislikes, showing no mercy towards poor academic practices, and deeply abhorring anything that damaged ethics. His passing has evoked remembrance in academic and social circles, related to his scholarship and character.
Mr. Qiu (裘) devoted his life to the collation and research of unearthed documents and ancient writing, achieving fruitful results. He participated in the collation of major unearthed documents, including the Mawangdui Silk Texts (马王堆帛书), Yinqueshan Han Bamboo Slips (银雀山汉简), and Shuihudi Qin Bamboo Slips (睡虎地秦简), which continue to benefit the academic community today. His "Summary of Writing Studies" has been printed more than 40 times and has been translated into English, Japanese, and other languages.
His role in establishing paradigms and rectifying academic conduct is particularly worth remembering. His academic research throughout his life relied entirely on his strength and spoke only through his articles. Whenever professional issues were involved, he would always think more deeply, express what others had not, and articulate what others had not, often leaving only the possibility for him to point out others' mistakes, but rarely leaving others the opportunity to point out his. Students and later scholars regarded receiving Mr. Qiu's (裘) affirmation as a high honor. He was able to gain such high prestige and reputation precisely because of his extraordinary obsession and love for his career, his "self-suffering" type of wholehearted dedication to scholarship, and his lifelong adherence.
Mr. Qiu (裘) advocated "seeking truth from facts" and opposed exaggeration, especially excessive publicity and false packaging. I worked by his side for nearly 20 years and showed him various project and award application forms, whether his own or collective ones. Almost every time, he asked for them to be revised to be more realistic and understated. In the eyes of some, Mr. Qiu's (裘) attitude towards scholarship and his style of conduct seemed somewhat "stubborn" or "out of touch with the times," but it is precisely because of this that the academic community and society's expectations for good academic conduct and approaches to conduct are highlighted.
Mr. Qiu (裘) cherished talent like his own life and was eager for capable individuals. The story of Cai Wei (蔡伟), a "rickshaw driver," studying for a doctorate at Fudan University (复旦大学) is almost universally known. It began when Cai Wei (蔡伟) successfully explained the reading of an unsolved word in Mr. Qiu's (裘) article. He greatly appreciated this and believed that he had a responsibility and obligation to provide Cai Wei (蔡伟) with a peaceful environment for studying and researching. To this end, Mr. Qiu (裘) ran around, finally facilitating a story of "rickshaw driver studying for a doctorate at Fudan University (复旦大学)," a tale of attracting talent without being constrained by convention.
He was strict with his students, cultivating in them a correct attitude towards scholarship, and nurturing a group of excellent academic successors. Many students, recalling Mr. Qiu's (裘) authority, felt that the former authority had invisibly transformed into intimacy. When students achieved success, he was happier than when he achieved success himself, and he did not hesitate to give praise. When his students wrote a high-quality paper, he often showed that rare joy and pride on his face when talking about it in front of others. Mr. Qiu (裘) cherished talent and supported younger generations so much, much like his teacher Mr. Zhu Dexi (朱德熙), demonstrating the inheritance of academic lineage.
At an Anyang (安阳) Yin Shang (殷商) culture conference in the late 1980s, an article I wrote on the interpretation of oracle bone inscriptions received Mr. Qiu's (裘) affirmation. In 1990, I won the "Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Young Linguist Award" with this article. Since 2007, I have served as the director of the Center for Unearthed Documents and Ancient Writing Research at Fudan University (复旦大学), and since then, I have served the center under the guidance of Mr. Qiu (裘) for nearly 20 years. We lived in the same unit, Mr. Qiu (裘) lived on the 8th floor, and I lived on the 10th floor, making it convenient to come and go. Therefore, I often went to Mr. Qiu's (裘) home to seek knowledge, which allowed me to improve academically and be tempered in character.
Mr. Qiu's (裘) treatises are admired by later scholars for their thoroughness of thought, detailed textual research, importance of discoveries, and accuracy of conclusions. His academic pursuit and personal setting of high standards are ahead, making us even more afraid to slack off.
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Following Du Fu (杜甫) and Lu You's (陆游) writings about Sichuan (四川), I traveled along the ancient Shu Road (古蜀道), and many places where they traveled, worked, and lived. Ten thousand miles of road and ten thousand volumes of books reflect and generate each other. Writers such as Du Fu (杜甫) and Lu You (陆游) left many vivid and true records for that era with a sincere attitude and superb art. These records are valuable resources for the current excavation of cultural heritage, the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and the integration of culture and tourism.
This year, I retraced the road that Su Dongpo (苏东坡) took in the last year of his life. From Danzhou, Hainan (海南儋州) to Changzhou, Jiangsu (江苏常州), passing through Hainan (海南), Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), Jiangxi (江西), and Jiangsu (江苏), this journey is so moving because of the brilliance of Dongpo's (东坡) poems and essays, and the cultural memories evoked by the mountains, rivers, people, and the earth. Along the way, I also observed and experienced how different places along the way cherish and protect the heritage he left behind, and express or present the scenes of the past that he once recorded with his heart.
On a well-preserved section of the Song Dynasty city wall in Ganzhou, Jiangxi (江西赣州), I overlooked the landscape described by Mr. Dongpo (东坡先生). Stepping down from the city wall, I saw that a city brick still retained the clear characters of the second year of Xining (熙宁二年) (1069 AD). Touching the raised strokes on the city brick, I suddenly burst into tears.
Such a situation is not common in my journey of Tang and Song poetry. More often, it raises questions: Is this historical site, this relic, written about by Du Fu (杜甫), Dongpo (东坡), or Lu You (陆游)? Have the people who rebuilt this historical site seriously read the words of the ancients? Even if they have read it, have they seriously reproduced it? For example, a certain place has rebuilt a pavilion. There was indeed this pavilion in the Tang or Song Dynasties. Now it is rebuilt, which is a great achievement. But the regret is that the builder is still one step away from searching in the classics, that is, our collective memory, and presenting the words of Du Fu (杜甫) when he looked into the distance or feasted. Without these words, this building is probably not more valuable than the new buildings just built in this city. Without excavating the culture in it, there is no atmosphere of life at that time. The reason why Chinese pavilions, such as the Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼) and Yueyang Tower (岳阳楼), are famous all over the world and fascinating is not just the buildings themselves, but also Li Bai's (李白) poems and Fan Zhongyan's (范仲淹) articles.
We have always emphasized the transformation of knowledge achievements, but most of them are limited to the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into industries. The transformation of achievements in social sciences is an issue that needs to be studied and resolved urgently. Today, how to explore the cultural resources of heritage in the process of cultural heritage inheritance and the protection and presentation of ancient cities and historical sites is also a problem that is worth paying attention to and studying in depth.
The inheritance of cultural heritage should be observed and presented in a larger cultural context. The formation, emergence, and spread of specific cultural phenomena are actually the result of broader cultural influences. Separated from the atmosphere of the era in which it was produced, without the coverage of a grand cultural view, these intangible cultural heritages are prone to become some isolated cultural fragments.
Good social science research results require a flexible mechanism to transform them, so that they can be reflected in cultural heritage inheritance, the protection of ancient cities and historical sites, and the development of cultural tourism. We can gather forces from all parties to form a joint force to explore, research, and sort out local culture. For example, the ancient transportation routes and the prosperity and decline of ancient towns, due to the rise of politics, military affairs, trade, and handicrafts, coupled with local cultural genes, should present different faces, rather than **千城一面** (qiān chéng yī miàn - "thousand cities one face," describing the lack of individuality and uniformity among cities). Not to mention, some projects are diverse for the sake of diversity, but ignore the basic purpose of the unity of Chinese culture in diversity.
All cultural heritage is related to that era, to the political economy and aesthetics of that era, and to the lifestyles and interests of the people of that era. Separated from the coverage of the grand cultural view, and separated from the understanding of the spirit of that era, protection cannot reflect greater value, and the development of cultural tourism will inevitably be fragmented. The result of fragmentation is naturally homogenization and urgent commercialization. Not only is there nothing real, but fake things are created. What's worse, the real things are made to look like fake ones.
(The author is the chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Writers Association (四川省作家协会主席).)
Return to TopBy: 刘友才
"Jinzhushan (金竹山), Wazitan (瓦子滩), ten miles of riverbed filled with pottery shards, the kiln workers' shouts echo far, the kiln fire illuminates half the sky..." This folk song, which has been circulating for hundreds of years, is still sung in my hometown, Anfu Ancient Town (安富古镇), Rongchang District (荣昌区), Chongqing (重庆市). The ancient folk song sings of the prosperity of ancient pottery production in my hometown, as if telling the story of the millennium kiln fire that never goes out.
When I was a child, my friends and I would pick up scattered pottery shards on the Wazitan (瓦子滩) riverbed, and we often heard the old people say that this was the mud left over from Nüwa (女娲) mending the sky. When I grew up, I realized that these pottery shards were like treasures. In 2014, the Chongqing Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (重庆市考古研究院) discovered several ancient kilns near the Liujia Arch Bridge (刘家拱桥) in my hometown. From the pottery figurines, pottery pots, pottery lamps and other pottery relics unearthed, they concluded that the origin of Rongchang (荣昌) pottery can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. From the Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, Rongchang (荣昌) pottery entered its heyday, and horseshoe kilns and mantou kilns were built, with the furnace fire reddening the sky.
"Front mountain wide ore, back mountain charcoal, middle mud to burn pots." The pottery clay of the Yayu Mountain (鸦屿山) range in Rongchang (荣昌) is delicate and highly plastic. I have seen the old potter Master Xiao (肖师傅) kneading the clay. The clay slowly loses its rawness in his palm, revealing a silk-like luster. The production of Rongchang (荣昌) pottery requires 24 processes such as clay selection, blank making, polishing, carving, glazing, and firing, and the craftsmen carefully carve each process. In 2011, the Rongchang Pottery Making Technique was included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
For thousands of years, generations of Rongchang (荣昌) pottery artists have continued their craftsmanship and passed on the torch in the tempering of mud and fire. Liang Xiancai (梁先才), who is over seventy years old, is a national representative inheritor of pottery firing techniques. On the first day of the new year, I followed Master Liang (梁师傅) to watch the opening of the "Old Liang Family Wood Kiln" (老梁家柴窑). Accompanied by a "Open the kiln!", the kiln door slowly opened, and exquisite pottery came into view. At the moment of opening the kiln, I suddenly understood that the millennium kiln fire never goes out because the inheritance of craftsmanship never stops. Master Liang (梁师傅) said: "The kiln fire of Rongchang (荣昌) pottery can only be burned more and more vigorously if it is passed down from generation to generation."
Now, I stroll on the ancient post road, and with every step I can see "rows of mud essence pots."
(The author is a reporter from the Rongchang District (荣昌区) Rong Media Center (融媒体中心) in Chongqing (重庆市).)
Return to TopBy: 刘 勇
On October 28, 2024, two Tang Dynasty dragon heads were unearthed at the ancient city site in Xiong'an (雄安), Hebei (河北), referred to as Dragon Head No. 9 and Dragon Head No. 10, respectively. Very few Tang Dynasty pottery dragon heads have survived. Currently, only sporadic discoveries have been made in Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Shandong (山东), Henan (河南), and other places. The relatively complete Tang Dynasty pottery dragon heads unearthed during this archaeological excavation in Xiong'an (雄安) are extremely rare.
On November 3, the two Tang Dynasty dragon heads were sent to the Archaeological Shelter of the "Key Laboratory of Scientific Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Protection" at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院大学). Research on the dragon heads' production techniques and conservation and restoration work officially began.
We placed the dragon heads in the emergency protection laboratory of the archaeological shelter to carry out indoor cleaning, information collection, and other work. During the cleaning phase, we used multi-angle three-dimensional imaging to record the current state of preservation and burial location information of the dragon head fragments. Then, we numbered the fragments one by one according to the three-dimensional location markers and carried out extraction, cleaning, desalination, drying, and other work.
Dr. Zhang Yun (张鋆) of the Ceramic and Glass Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院大学) took samples to test the firing temperature of the dragon heads. Tests revealed that the firing temperature of the dragon heads was approximately 686 degrees Celsius. After scanning and analyzing the pigment composition, it was found that the purplish-black pigment was a manganese-containing pigment, the red pigment was cinnabar, the green pigment was a copper-containing pigment, and the white pigment was a lead-containing pigment. Next, the dragon head fragments were observed using a three-dimensional video microscope, revealing that the dragon head body contained straw and broken pottery pieces. Fingerprints of the potter were even found on the teeth of Dragon Head No. 10.
The team of Associate Researcher Xu Qiong (许琼) from the Institute of High Energy Physics (高能物理研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) conducted tests and analyses on the elemental distribution on the surface of the dragon heads, discovering that the surface of the dragon heads contained a large area of lead, confirming that a layer of white paint had been applied to the surface of the dragon heads. It was also found that the black pigment in the eyeballs contained manganese, the green pigment in the eyeliner contained copper, and the red pigment at the junction of the eyebrows and eyeballs contained mercury.
The team of Associate Researcher Zhang Xueyan (张雪雁) from the Joint Laboratory of the Palace Museum (故宫博物院) for Cultural Heritage Conservation Technology "Belt and Road" (一带一路) conducted a CT scan of Dragon Head No. 9. Analysis revealed that the upper jaw and nose of Dragon Head No. 9 were sculpted first, and then the eyes and forehead were sculpted with this part as support.
It can be seen that Tang Dynasty craftsmen reached very high levels in pottery making, painting techniques, and sculpture skills. However, facing hundreds of dragon head fragments, how to piece them together was also a great challenge.
Previously, there was a research foundation for the virtual splicing of bivalve dragons unearthed at the Cai Tao Po (彩陶坡) site in Chifeng (赤峰市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古). We joined forces with the team of Professor Song Weitao (宋维涛) from the School of Optoelectronics at the Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学) to obtain data on the dragon head fragments through three-dimensional laser scanning. The data was then handed over to Dr. Liao Lingyu (廖聆宇) of the Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学) for data combination, and then virtual splicing work was carried out. Based on the virtual splicing, all members of the laboratory archaeological shelter participated, and students from Capital Normal University (首都师范大学), Beijing University of Science and Technology (北京科技大学), and the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院大学) participated in the matching of hundreds of dragon head fragments. Everyone was happy and proud every time they matched a piece. After the dragon head fragments were matched, there were still many missing parts. Li Cunxin (李存信) of the Institute of Archaeology (考古研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) used plaster to fill in the missing parts of Dragon Head No. 10.
After more than half a year, we finally successfully restored these two dragon heads. The restored dragon heads are powerful and majestic, adding a new category to the ancient Chinese dragon image, providing important materials for the study of Tang Dynasty dragon head architectural components, and also verifying the millennial historical and cultural heritage of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区).
(Author's affiliation: Key Laboratory of Scientific Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Protection, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院科技考古与文化遗产保护重点实验室))
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Return to TopBy: 王劲松
A family letter from 85 years ago, with yellowed paper and sincere emotion, records the simple yet heavy life of Chinese people in modern history. These are the years our parents experienced and the suffering and humiliation they endured.
In 1940, a 13-year-old child, in order to survive, traveled for many days from the land of North China to the Northeast to "chuǎng guān dōng (闯关东)," to make a living. "I couldn't understand how Chinese people suddenly became people of Manchukuo? I had no choice but to go along with it." Clearly in their own country, they had to helplessly obtain an "exit permit" halfway. The journey was difficult, and they had to watch the faces of the Japanese all the way, accept various inspections, do their best to sell their labor, and live in humiliation—and could only be the lowest class of people who were exploited and enslaved. Can you imagine? On the cold streets, under the gleaming bayonets of Japanese soldiers, Chinese people had to take off their hats and bow to the "band-aid flag," and in their arrogant and rude shouts, tremble as they received a bowl of cold vegetable soup and half a moldy multigrain cake.
The child who signed the letter "Jing Wei (经蔚)" was later Gao Yu-chen (高御臣), a survivor among the laborers. In 2005, Gao Yu-chen (高御臣), nearly eighty years old, came to the "Rescue Folk Family Letters" project office and brought this family letter he wrote to his grandparents. The words forged with blood and tears write of the dignity of life crushed by the wheels of war. A family letter recorded the misery and starvation of many families in China, which was poor and weak at that time, and also recorded the brutal plunder and inhuman exploitation of the invaders on the land of Northeast China.
Why did our parents have to endure such suffering? Why were life and dignity trampled upon so ruthlessly? Because a weak country has no diplomacy or sovereignty, the people of a weak country have no dignity, and every life in a weak country is just grass and ants in the eyes of the invaders.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, after arduous struggle, China has undergone earth-shaking changes. Whether in North China or Northeast China, every corner of the Chinese land is filled with a warm atmosphere of peace and tranquility.
I have also been to some countries and walked through many cities, and every time I sincerely feel that my motherland is good, our China is really good! The safe and prosperous peaceful life we have now, not to mention my parents and grandparents, was unimaginable even when I first started working. At that time, I was still dreaming of buying a new bicycle, owning a small house of my own, or waiting until I had savings to take a long trip to see the beautiful scenery... Is all this still a problem now? The pace and speed of reform and development over the past 40 years have far surpassed hundreds of years in history. China, once seen as backward and ignorant in the eyes of the great powers, has in the blink of an eye stood in the East of the world with a fully rising face, and all this has only taken a few decades!
What a stark contrast, what a profound perception! The tender green branches gently swaying outside the window, the dazzling array of goods on the shelves in the supermarket, the children running and laughing on the grass, the happy faces on the high-speed train during the "May Day" holiday, the live broadcast on TV of the Shenzhou XIX manned spacecraft return capsule successfully landing at the Dongfeng Landing Site (东风着陆场), Chinese aircraft carriers and 10,000-ton destroyers are sailing through the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, and the bright five-star red flag is flying in the wind over Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) in Beijing (北京)... Today's China, 13-year-old children are sitting in bright classrooms, enjoying carefree and happy times. Compared with the yellowed and brittle family letter written in tears by a 13-year-old child 85 years ago, history is not far away, history is right in front of us. Every word in the family letter pierces the heart like a knife, reminding us not to forget, this is the road the Chinese people have traveled.
Even now, on this earth, not everyone can enjoy such a peaceful environment as China. In local wars, many families are destroyed, and many children flee from the flames of war... In fact, we do not live on a peaceful planet. It is the motherland that uses its own strength to build a steel Great Wall in the jungle of the strong preying on the weak, sheltering every Chinese person from wind and rain. Without a strong motherland, there can be no peace and tranquility, no equality and freedom, and even less development and progress. Therefore, when I read this family letter, in addition to sighing at the experiences of my parents, I cherish our life today even more, thank my country, and express my deep respect to everyone who has contributed to the construction of the motherland!
This family letter from 85 years ago, that 13-year-old child and that long and sad "chuǎng guān dōng (闯关东)" journey, the hardship of the poor Chinese people seeking survival, and the sad blood and tears of the people flowing in the family letter, have been deeply engraved in my heart. I am a literary and art worker, and I want to use my works to leave a light and shadow memory for this era, and use my works to record the difficult journey our nation has gone through. If one day I have the opportunity, I hope to show this story on the screen. This is the memory of our nation, this is what we must tell future generations, the road we came from.
Return to TopBy: 张心阳
Facing the demands of superiors, truthful responses and implementation from subordinates are fundamental requirements in administrative management. However, looking back at history, there is no shortage of those who are perfunctory, negligent, and fraudulent.
In a certain year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Shaanxi Branch of the Imperial Censorate submitted a proposal to dredge and excavate the Sanmenxia Gorge on the Yellow River, establishing land and water post stations for direct access to the Guanzhong and Shaanxi regions. The court then transferred the official document to the supervising official Wang Sicheng (王思诚), instructing him to convene constitutional officials and county magistrates from Shaanxi and Henan provinces to inspect the situation there. As a result, some people "were all afraid of the dangers and wanted to reply with false words" (皆畏险阻，欲以虚辞复命). Wang Sicheng immediately became angry and said, "If we deceive ourselves, how can we blame others! How can we face the court!" He also said, "You stay here for a while, and I will go and see for myself." "Everyone was terrified" (众惶恐) and had to follow him. The shoals and sandstones in the Yellow River stretched for more than 100 *li*, with reefs protruding in a crisscross pattern. Since the road was impassable, they abandoned their horses and walked, climbing along vines. After walking for thirty *li*, Wang Sicheng "judged it to be impossible and wrote a poem describing its dangers" (度其不可，乃作诗历叙其险). The official in charge of political affairs adopted his opinion, and the proposal was shelved.
Today, people cannot know what those who wanted to use "false words" (虚辞) to report to their superiors said, but there are only two possibilities. One is to agree with the intentions of the superiors, saying that it is feasible whether it is or not; the other is to simply say that the terrain is dangerous and the dredging and excavation project cannot be done. However, both statements have problems, which is that they do not conduct any on-the-spot investigations and research, but "reply with false words" (以虚辞复命). As a result, either projects that should not be launched are launched, wasting money and manpower; or projects that should be launched are not launched, delaying development. Taking a step back, even if some people have some understanding of the situation on weekdays, when implementing the decisions and intentions of their superiors, they should also conduct serious and targeted investigations and research, report the situation truthfully, and provide more accurate and reliable materials and basis for feasibility studies and project implementation.
Replying with false words (以虚辞复命) is a typical act of laziness and negligence in government, fearing hardship and fatigue, being concerned about personal gains and losses, being unenterprising, and being perfunctory. They only move when pushed, or even cannot be moved even when pushed. In this regard, Su Shi (苏轼), a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, once pointed out its harm incisively: "Impatience leads to recklessness, and laziness leads to abandonment. Both recklessness and abandonment are the reasons why the world is not well governed, and it is not surprising." (躁则妄，惰则废。既妄且废，则天下之所以不治者，常出于此，而不足怪。)(《凤鸣驿记》) No undertaking in the world is not condensed with hard work and sweat. Lying flat, being perfunctory, coping, engaging in fraud, and deceiving superiors and subordinates will result in inaction, hindering construction and development, and even harming the country and the people.
Today's Huangpu River (黄浦江) is known as the mother river of Shanghai (上海). However, in the past, due to the siltation of the lower reaches of the Wusong River (吴淞江) and the overflow of Taihu Lake (太湖), floods occurred every now and then. From the Tang Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, "the officials in charge did not manage it effectively" (有司治不效). In the first year of Yongle (永乐), the court sent someone to be responsible for the management. This person was Xia Yuanji (夏原吉), the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. How did he do it? The *History of Ming* (*明史*) wrote: "Yuanji wore cloth clothes and walked on foot, planning day and night. He did not use an umbrella in the hot summer, saying, 'The people are working hard, how can I bear to be comfortable alone?' After the matter was completed, he returned to the capital and said that although the water entered the sea through the old channel, the tributaries were not completely dredged, which was not a long-term plan. In the first month of the following year, Yuanji went again and dredged Baimaotang (白茆塘), Liujia River (刘家河), and Dahuangpu (大黄浦)... The project was completed in September, and the water was discharged, which greatly benefited the farmers in Suzhou (苏) and Songjiang (松)."
This forms a sharp contrast with the group of officials Wang Sicheng (王思诚) encountered in the previous text. He not only "wore cloth clothes and walked on foot, planning day and night, and did not use an umbrella in the hot summer" (布衣徒步，日夜经画，盛暑不张盖), but also did everything himself, sharing weal and woe with the workers. Moreover, he did not leave any flaws in the project, and continued to work until it was done well, truly completing it as a long-term plan. It should be said that this is what it looks like to start a business.
What is commendable for officials and politicians is to have a spirit of dedication, ambition, and courage to take responsibility. They should take the world as their own responsibility, take the country as their own duty, have the people in mind, and seek benefits for the people, "wishing that all living beings are well-fed and warm, and not hesitating to work hard to leave the mountains and forests" (但愿苍生俱饱暖，不辞辛苦出山林). Facing responsibilities and tasks, they can work day and night and go all out, just as the *Book of Sui* (*隋书*) says: "**恪勤匪懈** (kè qín fěi xiè - "diligent and never lax," to be diligent and conscientious) and **夙夜在公** (sù yè zài gōng - "early and late in public service," to work diligently day and night)." Only in this way can they live up to the trust of the people, live up to the power in their hands, and achieve undertakings that benefit the country and the people.
Return to TopBy: 艾 平
The Ergune River meanders for nearly a thousand kilometers, nestled against the Greater Khingan Mountains (大兴安岭) and the Hulunbuir Grassland (呼伦贝尔草原). Walking through the Erguna (额尔古纳) land is like stepping into an ecological museum where all things live in harmony.
I remember at the Hulieyetu Wetland (胡列也吐湿地), I inadvertently saw a plant rising slowly from the water grass, resembling a bud with red stamens, swaying with two long, white petals. Suddenly, this plant took off and danced gracefully. It turned out to be a robust Demoiselle Crane! Its entire body was covered in gray and white feathers, with only the pair of red eyes, which I mistook for stamens, and the two tufts of long white feathers at the back of its eyes, becoming eye-catching highlights.
The Demoiselle Crane's dance became more flamboyant and enthusiastic. It suddenly spread its wings in the air, swooping down from the clouds towards me, then changed direction, flapping its wings, and then falling. After a moment, it struggled to dance again. I followed its footsteps until I had walked two or three hundred meters away before I realized that the Demoiselle Crane was luring me away from the spot with its dance.
I returned and peered at the starting point of the Demoiselle Crane through the camera—tiny ruby-like eyes flickered on the ground of the grass. At the slightest sound, these little eyes immediately disappeared. On closer inspection, it was a group of Demoiselle Crane chicks that had just hatched. They flattened their bodies, blending in with the ground. At this moment, the adult Demoiselle Crane returned bravely and shouted at me to demonstrate. I quickly retreated.
On another occasion, I was strolling through the mountains with some friends when we saw a row of marmots on the hillside. They were not tall, with brownish-yellow fur, standing upright on their hind legs, with their little hands clasped in front of their chests, baring their two large incisors, like a small choir singing loudly. As soon as they saw people, the line disappeared into the ground as if a string had been dropped. One of the photographers in our group decided to stay and wait. Later, he sent us a set of photos. In the photos, the marmots were no longer "singing" in unison, but acting individually, tearing at dry grass branches with their two large incisors. Some had already gathered a mouthful and were returning. Judging by their posture, they must have been running quite fast. The photographer said that the marmots were carrying grass to line their nests, which meant they were about to breed.
Sahuan Ranch (撒欢牧场) is a must-visit place for me on every trip to Erguna (额尔古纳). The owner of the ranch, Zhao Hongsong (赵红松), is a new herdsman who returned to his hometown with a university degree and an advanced tour guide certificate. His daily work is rich and varied, always weaving through various stories.
More than 10 years ago, Zhao Hongsong (赵红松) discovered that a neighbor's boy had caught a small bird. The bird's feathers had not yet grown, and it was already on its last breath. Hongsong (红松) quickly asked the boy to lead him to the eagle's nest in the birch forest. It turned out to be a chick of a Upland Buzzard. He climbed the tree and put the chick back into the eagle's nest. When the Upland Buzzard returned, it smelled that the chick's scent had changed, so it picked the chick out of the nest. Helpless, Hongsong (红松) had to take the chick home and feed it every day. The chick gradually grew up, becoming strong and fierce, and also became dependent on Hongsong (红松), following him wherever he went. Hongsong (红松) was worried that it would lose its nature over time, so he took it to the birch forest and released it, but it refused to leave. As soon as Hongsong (红松) moved, it would grab his trouser leg and not let go. On the third release, Hongsong (红松) drove his motorcycle while using one hand to throw it into the sky, then sped away.
At that time, Hongsong (红松) was studying elsewhere. Whenever he returned to the ranch, the chick, which had grown into a large Upland Buzzard, would appear and perch at his feet. Hongsong (红松) said, "Go away, I have nothing to give you to eat." It would circle over Hongsong's (红松) head again and again. Until Hongsong (红松) returned to his hometown to start a business, the Upland Buzzard still had not forgotten him. Once, Hongsong (红松) rode a horse over mountains and ridges for 20 miles, and the Upland Buzzard followed him back and forth, seemingly protecting its former savior. However, the Upland Buzzard seemed to have learned to keep its distance, maintaining a close yet distant relationship with Hongsong (红松). Later, one morning, Hongsong (红松) found that it had disappeared for good.
Hongsong (红松) came to the Upland Buzzard's nest and found that it was not this Upland Buzzard that was nesting inside, but its offspring, with almost identical eyes and fur.
Erguna (额尔古纳) is located in the northernmost part of China, and the Yimu River (伊木河) outpost is located in the distance of Erguna (额尔古纳). Border guards are stationed here, protecting the peace of the grassland and forest. There is a stone carving in the Erguna City (额尔古纳市) Border Defense Culture Park (戍边文化公园) that tells the following story:
In March 1979, Zhang Guochen (张国臣), the company commander of the Yimu River (伊木河) outpost, was visited by his wife and 4-year-old daughter, who traveled by train for three days and three nights. When they were 170 kilometers away from the outpost, the mother and daughter had to return the same way because the road was melting snow and freezing. The mother told her daughter that her father was ahead on duty. "Let's touch the ice on the river. When the ice melts into water, it will flow to Daddy's side." The obedient daughter placed her toy doll facing the direction of her father on the frozen river. Soon, the troops patrolled nearby, and Zhang Guochen (张国臣) spotted the toy doll with his binoculars. Upon closer inspection, it was the very one he had bought for his daughter during his family visit a year ago...
Erguna (额尔古纳), where humans and nature have created the artistic conception of the land.
Return to TopChinese Painting "Shared Bicycle," by Ma Xin (马鑫), collection of the National Art Museum of China.
Return to TopBy: 阿 菩
In my more than 40 years of life, the lowest point was spent in a strange county town not far from home, licking my wounds alone in a cheap small hotel. After hitting rock bottom, people slowly move upward, but the two years climbing out of the trough were actually not easy. The noisy big city was not suitable for recuperation, so I chose Shantou (汕头).
I rented a small apartment, where there was basically no traffic congestion nearby, and transportation was convenient. Opposite the apartment building was a chain supermarket, which was not doing very well at the time, but it could meet almost all of a person's needs in the city.
And so, I holed up in this city.
The city's treatment of me started with sleep. Shantou (汕头) was a strange city to me at the time, and because it was unfamiliar, there was less noise. In the beginning, when my life was not very stable, sleep was also elusive, and I couldn't be sure when I would wake up each day. But fortunately, no matter when I woke up, this city could give me corresponding tolerance—
If it was close to noon, I would wait until noon to order takeout. Shantou's (汕头) takeout options are not as abundant as Guangzhou's (广州), but the taste is comparable, and there are some unique local dishes, such as Guozhi (粿汁) and Guotiao (粿条). The takeout dishes available in major cities across the country are also available.
If I woke up early, most of the time I would order breakfast, and occasionally I would convince myself to go downstairs for a walk. On the other side of the apartment building is Huashan North Road (华山北路). On that side of the road, there are twenty or thirty eateries. Sweet soup is suitable for afternoon tasting, fried shellfish stalls are suitable for late-night snacks, Shenzhen Roasted Goose (深井烧鹅), Partridge Rice, Hakka Salted Noodles (客家腌面), Pig Trotter Rice, Pindao Hot Pot (品道火锅), and Fanyang Western Food (番洋西餐), which can make some Southeast Asian flavors, are only suitable for lunch and dinner, but there are still two Guozhi (粿汁) shops, two rice noodle roll shops, one Chaoyang Tajiao Dried Noodles (潮阳塔脚干面), one Hao Weidao Vegetable Noodles (濠味道蔬菜面), and Lao Ziniang Rice Noodle Shop (老姿娘米粉店), all of which are available for breakfast.
My favorite is still rice noodle rolls. Two months after moving in, I ate Huaiying Rice Noodle Rolls (怀英肠粉) in a small alley seven or eight minutes' drive from the apartment building. The beef and pork in this shop are very fresh, and the rice noodle rolls are cooked with excellent taste. Even the accompanying seafood soup is sweet. After I discovered this place, I never changed it. As long as I can go downstairs in the morning and want to eat rice noodle rolls, I will definitely come here.
When one day, I found myself getting up early and running far for a bite to eat, I knew that my mental state had unknowingly improved. Then the frequency of me going downstairs also increased, and the scope of my activities gradually expanded.
Shantou (汕头) has shared electric bikes. Scanning and unlocking a cute little electric bike is slower than a car but not afraid of traffic jams. Five yuan can run half the city. The houses in the north are relatively new, and the buildings in the old city center are mostly thirty or forty years old. When you get to the Xiaogongyuan (小公园) area in the south, it is in the style of the Republic of China, and there are even some late Qing Dynasty ruins.
Gradually, my mobility became better and better. Sometimes I could even set an alarm clock to wake up early and drive around at four or five o'clock, about 20 minutes to the East Coast Park (东海岸公园). This is the estuary of my mother river, the Rong River (榕江), where the land ends and the sea begins. I restarted from here and drove towards the stadium—this is the second-best coastal road I have ever seen, the most suitable for driving around.
At this point, the morning sun is about to rise, moving slowly at a speed of about 30 kilometers per hour, opening the car window, letting the sea breeze blow in, and at the same time, the reassuring, rhythmic sound of the sea waves rings in my ears. This is simply the best medicine for people who have suffered from insomnia for a long time. It can stabilize the spirit. Sometimes I drive all the way to the end of this road, and sometimes I stop to talk to the sea. My real predicament is that I don't even want to record it in writing. Saying too much to friends also turns into a Xianglin Sao (祥林嫂), but fortunately, the sound of the waves responds to me.
As dawn approaches, the sunlight on the sea will gradually shine through, and the islands in the sea can also be seen. Shantou's (汕头) air is humid, and there is always fog on the sea. Those islands are always shrouded in mist in the morning, appearing and disappearing indistinctly. The mythical fairy mountains are nothing more than this.
More than a year later, I gradually changed from often not waking up until after noon to having a roughly stable routine, and I was finally able to experience the joys of life again. Starting with food, traveling in the scenery. Day after day, repetitive and plain, the days of the trough passed unknowingly. Gradually, I picked up some social interactions again. In an old-fashioned tailor shop, I made myself a suit to wear, and I also changed from a self-proclaimed youth to a conscious middle-aged person. I met some Shantou (汕头) friends, and Guangzhou (广州) extended an olive branch again.
But I don't want to leave a little bit. The economic environment of this city is not suitable for me, but from the comfort of the taste to the immersion in the scenery to the response of the waves, it makes me feel that I can regard this place as my third hometown. I don't know how long I will stay here, and I don't think about this question. As long as it suits me at this moment, then I will embrace it and be grateful for it at this moment.
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Pen
Taking the heart and shadow of all living things
Giving form to time
Exhausting all actions and expressions
Within the square inch
One can travel the world
Movement and stillness can both 定乾坤 (dìng qián kūn - "settle heaven and earth," to have the power to control a situation).
The penholder—
Remembers the wind passing through the bamboo forest
The clear passion of the stream
Sheltering the misty rain of towering mountains
Guarding the vitality of thousands of years
No matter how hard
It must ultimately be expressed with softness
The meridians can contain the strength of steel and iron
Ink
The passion after burning
Some that have not disappeared become ink
No need to distinguish between past and present lives, as if
Day and night, who is whose true form
The ink stick is only briefly hard
Art is transformed into the invisible, or more eternal
Water lives in the ink, and the ink relies on water
To shape and express the meaning of all things
Ink that loses water
Comes to another world, endlessly flourishing
We may not have used ink in this lifetime
But we will surely encounter ink, encounter time like the silhouette of our ancestors
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My shoulders and neck had been aching for days, and my arms were difficult to extend freely. A friend recommended a blind massage parlor near my neighborhood.
The masseur's surname was Shi (施), in his early thirties, tall with large eyes, but unfortunately, with little light perception.
After waiting for half an hour, I finally lay face down on the massage bed. Xiao Shi (小施) pressed the countdown timer, and then calmly began his massage on my shoulders and neck, first left then right, from top to bottom, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. During this time, his phone kept chiming with WeChat notifications.
The other party must have sent a text message. Xiao Shi's (小施) WeChat was set to care mode, so a light touch on the text message would play the complete content. Thus, standard Mandarin came from the phone: "Is it convenient to come now?"
Xiao Shi (小施) turned and pressed the keys on his phone, using what seemed to be Pinyin input: "Now, now, just, busy." He relied on listening, constantly selecting words and constantly deleting. Every key on his phone had a sound, and there was also a sound after a character was formed.
The other party sent another message: "Then when can you come?"
Xiao Shi (小施) continued to press the keys, deleting the incorrect ones based on the voice prompts, and confirming the correct ones with a single tap. Until he felt the meaning was right, he pressed the voice prompt to send: "40, minutes, later, can."
I lay there, the massage interrupted time and again by WeChat messages. Xiao Shi (小施) was a little embarrassed and kept apologizing to me. Thinking that he was blind, and that he was contacting customers to take orders, although I felt a little disappointed, I was not annoyed. Instead, I was a little happy for him.
The WeChat sound rang again. The **好为人师** (hào wéi rén shī - "fond of lecturing others," to be fond of giving advice or instructions to others) in me finally couldn't help but raise my head and remind him: "Wouldn't it be more convenient for you to send a voice message?"
Xiao Shi's (小施) face was close to the phone screen, and without turning his head, he replied: "I'm used to it, I've always typed with double Pinyin."
I emphasized my tone and reminded him again: "You hold down the dialogue box, speak directly, and send with one tap. It's so convenient! It saves you from selecting words one by one, which is troublesome!"
Xiao Shi (小施) smiled and, in turn, seemed to remind me: "People send text, I reply with text; people send voice, I reply with voice."
His empathy suddenly aroused my desire to understand him. It turned out that a high fever when he was 4 years old caused Xiao Shi (小施) to be in a coma for more than 20 days in the county hospital. Later, he went to Shanghai (上海) for treatment and was diagnosed by doctors with optic nerve damage. Acupuncture treatment for 6 months failed to recover his vision. From then on, his eyes could only see blurry dim light. Running around seeking treatment, he missed the opportunity to study. However, at a blind training institution in Wuxi (无锡), he not only learned massage skills, but also began to learn Chinese Pinyin from scratch, exploring the use of mobile phones, software downloads...
Xiao Shi (小施) explained while massaging: "I can also send voice messages, but I'm afraid it's inconvenient for others, for example, if they are in a meeting, or if there are people next to them. If voice is converted to text, my Mandarin is not standard, and sometimes there will be mistakes, which can easily lead to misunderstandings and delay things instead."
Oh, he was thinking about the other person's inconvenience!
I sat up and carefully looked at Xiao Shi (小施) in front of me - he could definitely be described as "handsome."
I remembered the long-circulated story of the blind man carrying a lantern. According to legend, a blind man always carried a bright lantern when he traveled at night. A passerby was curious and asked: "You can't see yourself, why do you still carry a lantern?" The blind man replied: "I'm not trying to see the road, but to let people see that there is a blind man looking for the road ahead, so they won't easily bump into me..."
The story of the blind man carrying a lantern may be a fabrication by cultural figures. But Xiao Shi's (小施) preference for sending WeChat messages is something I have seen with my own eyes.
At this moment, I am even more curious, Xiao Shi (小施), who is visually impaired, has not been to school, and has not read many books, who taught him his user thinking and his altruistic awareness? Where does that deeply rooted cultivation and the kindness of thinking for others come from? Xiao Shi (小施) is busy and I don't want to disturb him. Of course, for me, there is also some understanding of this answer.
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