Summary: The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is focusing on developing its unique industries, including modern coal chemical, new materials, clean energy like wind and solar power, and specialty agriculture like wine and wolfberries, as instructed by Xi Jinping during his visit in June 2024. Ningxia aims to upgrade its industrial chains, bases, parks, and clusters to solidify its foundation for high-quality development, with Secretary of the Science and Technology Department Wang Wei mentioning plans for significant technological breakthroughs. The region is also committed to green development, promoting energy transition and building green electricity parks to convert resource advantages into competitive strengths, according to Director of the Development and Reform Commission Wang Hanwu. Ningxia aims to develop industrial clusters worth hundreds of billions of yuan, said Ningxia Party Secretary Li Yifei. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In a congratulatory letter to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Ministerial Meeting, President Xi Jinping, alongside Republic of the Congo President Sassou Nguesso, highlighted the forum's 25th anniversary and its role in promoting South-South cooperation. Xi emphasized the "six modernizations" and "ten partnership plans" agreed upon at the Beijing Summit, focusing on deepened collaboration in green industries, e-commerce, technology, AI, security, finance, and law, while also offering increased market access to African nations through tariff reductions and potential economic partnership agreements. He framed China-Africa cooperation as a force for global peace and development, opposing unilateralism and protectionism while promoting a multipolar world. Sassou echoed this sentiment, emphasizing the commitment to a shared future and collaboration within the Belt and Road Initiative.
Summary: Chinese customs authorities report that Sino-African trade has reached record levels, with China remaining Africa's largest trading partner for the 16th consecutive year. In 2024, trade exceeded 2 trillion yuan, reaching 2.1 trillion yuan, while the first five months of 2024 saw a 12.4% increase, reaching 963.21 billion yuan. The China-Africa trade index has surged since 2000, reflecting the rapid growth of trade between the two regions.
Summary: On June 11th, the State Council held a constitutional oath ceremony overseen by Premier Li Qiang. Forty-nine newly appointed officials from 42 departments and units of the State Council took the oath. Premier Li Qiang emphasized loyalty to Xi Jinping Thought, adherence to the law, and self-discipline, urging officials to take initiative and address challenges to promote development. He called for coordinated efforts on key tasks such as expanding domestic demand and optimizing the business environment. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Politburo Standing Committee member Ding Xuexiang, speaking at the opening of the second "Belt and Road" Science and Technology Exchange Conference in Chengdu, conveyed Xi Jinping's emphasis on international cooperation in science and technology. Ding called for strengthened collaboration to build an innovation-driven "Belt and Road" science and technology community and criticized "hegemonism, bullying" as obstacles to global development. He proposed increased open cooperation, wider sharing of scientific achievements, expanded humanistic exchanges, and improved global science and technology governance. Attendees at the opening ceremony included officials from Iran, Uzbekistan, and Serbia, as well as a video address from the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology.
Summary: The AG600, China's domestically developed amphibious aircraft, received a production license from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, marking the beginning of its mass production. This event signifies a key milestone in the construction of China's large-scale aviation emergency rescue equipment system. Subsequent AG600 aircraft development will concentrate on significant national emergency rescue needs, emphasizing innovation. The China Aviation Industry Group made this announcement on June 11th.
Summary: Lü Chengjun, a Yiwu-based electronic scale vendor, has remained calm despite recent order cancellations from international clients. He emphasizes innovation, quality, and integrity as key to his success, selling to over 60 countries and regions. Lü also highlighted the importance of both market forces and government support in Yiwu's success, noting Yiwu's "brand出海" plan. He also expressed confidence in Yiwu and the Chinese economy, noting that his daughter and other entrepreneurs' children are returning to Yiwu to develop their careers. There was no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: This article contains three brief summaries of different topics. The first discusses applying the concept of "people's city" to urban construction. The second focuses on how modern shopping centers are targeting youth consumption. Finally, the third examines whether gold medals are losing their significance. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in these summaries.
Summary: The 2025 China Internet Civilization Conference was held in Hefei, Anhui, focusing on promoting positive online content and a clear cyberspace through legal frameworks and technological innovation. Officials like Yang Jianwen from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) emphasized promoting Party ideology online through innovative methods. The conference also addressed challenges and ethical considerations arising from AI development, including data security and misinformation. Participants discussed the need for international cooperation and research in spreading mainstream cultural values online. The event highlighted efforts to improve digital literacy and create a safer online environment, particularly for minors.
Summary: Five immigration management police representatives met with reporters to discuss their work in safeguarding China's borders and facilitating opening up. The representatives, who work in various roles from border patrol to document management, highlighted improvements in border security, streamlined immigration processes, and technological advancements in document processing. Cai Baodi noted the significant increase in visa applications, reflecting China's growing openness. He Shouwei emphasized the use of technology like facial recognition to speed up border crossings and improve security. Peng Mingyou mentioned that his police station also served as a tourist attraction where visitors could learn about China's border regions.
Summary: The State Administration for Market Regulation issued a notice on improving the renovation of old residential elevators, emphasizing safety and cost-effectiveness. The notice calls for elevator manufacturers to ensure product quality and reasonable pricing, while maximizing the reuse of existing elevator components to save costs and shorten construction times. It also encourages long-term maintenance contracts and the use of technology such as electric bicycle smart blocking systems. Furthermore, the notice highlights the use of funds from the special ultra-long-term treasury bonds to support these renovations.
Summary: This article discusses the modernization of grain drying facilities in Taicang, Jiangsu province. Previously reliant on polluting and expensive diesel-powered equipment, the facilities are being upgraded to electric, clean energy systems, improving grain quality and reducing costs. Technological upgrades include sensors to monitor moisture content and automated shut-off systems. The upgrades are being financed through a combination of local government support, third-party investment, and utility company services. The goal is to have all grain drying facilities in Taicang operating on clean energy by 2026.
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Civil Affairs have jointly issued a notice to pilot paired research and application of intelligent elderly care service robots from 2025-2027. The initiative aims to improve robot safety, reliability, and usability in areas like care for the disabled and dementia patients, emotional support, health promotion, and daily life assistance. Pilot projects will focus on applying and verifying robot functions in homes, communities, and elderly care facilities to meet diverse elderly care needs. The effort also seeks to address labor shortages in elderly care and promote the silver economy.
Summary: China Huaneng's Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station in Cambodia, the largest clean energy project in the country and a model for China-Cambodia Belt and Road cooperation, provides a stable electricity supply, meeting the needs of approximately 2.6 million people annually. The project has improved the lives of local villagers through resettlement programs, infrastructure development, and new economic opportunities, shifting livelihoods from fishing to leisure. The hydropower station also implemented a fishway to minimize environmental impact and support local fish populations. The company is training Cambodian engineers through a 10-year program, fostering long-term, stable operations. A Cambodian official stated that the project has brought valuable experience in large-scale hydropower station development and operation to Cambodia, contributing to the country's green development.
Summary: Vice Premier He Lifeng, China's lead on economic and trade matters, met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Bersonte, Commerce Minister Lutenick, and Trade Representative Greer in London for the first meeting of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism. He Lifeng stated that U.S.-China trade relations should be mutually beneficial and warned that trade wars are unwinnable, while asserting that China is willing to engage in dialogue with sincerity and principle. Both sides agreed to implement the consensus reached during the presidents' June 5th call and to maintain communication, aiming to stabilize bilateral economic and trade relations. The U.S. side stated they would work with China to implement the consensus reached at the meeting.
Summary: The first meeting of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism was held in London, where both sides engaged in candid and in-depth discussions on trade issues of mutual concern. They reached principled agreement on implementing the consensus reached during the June 5th call between the two heads of state, as well as measures to consolidate the results of the Geneva trade talks, and made new progress in resolving each other's economic and trade concerns. Both sides acknowledged the importance of a stable China-U.S. economic and trade relationship for both countries' economies and the global economy. China emphasized that U.S. trade restrictions harm not only Chinese companies but also American businesses and consumers. China also stated its willingness to resolve trade issues with the U.S. through equal dialogue.
Summary: Representatives from China, 53 African nations, and the African Union Commission convened in Changsha to advance the consensus reached at the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Beijing Summit. The participants affirmed the importance of South-South cooperation and criticized unilateralism and economic bullying, implicitly directed towards the U.S., that impede development in Africa and other developing nations. They called on all countries, particularly the United States, to resolve trade disputes through equal and respectful consultation, and urged increased development assistance to Africa. China expressed its willingness to implement a 100% zero-tariff policy on products from 53 African countries (excluding Swaziland) and further deepen cooperation in areas like green industries, e-commerce, and technology. They expressed their commitment to an equitable international order and support for multilateralism, particularly within the UN and WTO frameworks.
Summary: At the Ministerial Conference of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) outcomes in Changsha, Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi read a congratulatory letter from Xi Jinping, outlining further opening and cooperation with Africa. Wang emphasized solidarity and mutual support between China and Africa amidst global turbulence, advocating for free trade and a fairer international order. Republic of the Congo Foreign Minister Gakosso, representing African nations, welcomed Xi's "Ten Partnership Plans" and opposed unilateral sanctions. The conference concluded with the release of the "Changsha Declaration on China-Africa Safeguarding the Unity and Cooperation of the Global South."
Summary: During the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinators of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Changsha, Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with multiple African foreign ministers, discussing bilateral relations and cooperation within the FOCAC framework. Wang emphasized China's commitment to mutual development and expanded market access for African goods, while several African ministers voiced support for multilateralism and opposition to unilateralism, particularly in the context of trade and tariffs, as well as support for China's role in global governance. Several ministers also specifically thanked China for zero-tariff treatment for African nations. Wang also discussed the U.S., stating that when facing the U.S.'s use of tariffs, Guinea-Bissau stood out for their use of equal measures.
Summary: Zhang Qingwei, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, visited Iceland from June 8-11 at the invitation of the Icelandic Parliament. He met with Icelandic President Halla Tómasdóttir and held talks with Icelandic Speaker of Parliament Birna Einarsdóttir. Zhang stated China's willingness to deepen practical cooperation with Iceland, emphasizing the positive development of bilateral relations and the fruitful cooperation in various fields. He also promoted China's whole-process people's democracy to the Icelandic side. The Icelandic side expressed its desire to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields, including trade, geothermal energy, and culture.
Summary: National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman Shen Yueyue attended and addressed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Day reception hosted by the SCO Secretariat. Shen exchanged views with SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming on deepening cooperation within the SCO across various fields. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A China-Spain trade and economic forum and a promotional event for the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo were held in Madrid, with Chinese and Spanish political and business representatives discussing ways to deepen bilateral economic and trade cooperation. Ren Hongbin, Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), stated that this year marks the 50th anniversary of China-EU diplomatic relations and the 20th anniversary of the China-Spain comprehensive strategic partnership. Ren emphasized the CCPIT's visit aimed to implement the consensus reached by the two countries' leaders and strengthen cooperation with Spanish counterparts. The goal is to upgrade bilateral economic and trade relations, deepen supply chain collaboration, and promote pragmatic cooperation under multilateral mechanisms. This contributes to building a more solid and dynamic China-Spain comprehensive strategic partnership.
Summary: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Board of Governors will be held in Beijing from June 24-26, according to Xinhua News Agency. China is the host country for this year's meeting. The news report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights the collaborative innovation efforts within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), focusing on technological advancements and industrial transformation. It details how Hong Kong's basic research combined with Shenzhen's manufacturing prowess has fostered robotics industry growth, exemplified by the development of dexterous robotic hands. The GBA leverages national-level scientific infrastructure like the China Spallation Neutron Source to facilitate breakthroughs for researchers from Hong Kong and Macau. The article emphasizes the integration of innovation and industrial chains, where Hong Kong attracts international talent and facilitates basic research while mainland cities offer robust manufacturing capabilities for commercialization. It also discusses talent initiatives and the establishment of joint educational institutions like the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) to cultivate innovative individuals.
Summary: This article discusses the importance of fostering a healthy environment for private enterprises in China, highlighting the recently passed law promoting the private economy. It emphasizes the need for a "clean and close" (亲清) relationship between government officials and business owners, characterized by government support without corruption. The article notes that some officials are hesitant to engage with private businesses due to fear of impropriety and suggests clear guidelines and performance evaluations to encourage proactive support. Examples from Anhui and Yunnan provinces demonstrate the use of "positive, negative and advocated" lists to ensure proper interactions between the government and private enterprises. The piece suggests that a focus on the public good and avoidance of personal gain is key to fostering a productive relationship.
Summary: The 500kV Xiangjian-Ludao power line project in Anhui province successfully completed its Huai River crossing. The 136.8 km power line will improve the grid structure and increase power supply reliability and renewable energy consumption in Bengbu and Chuzhou. The project involved workers climbing and working at heights of 100 meters. The article does not discuss U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The "2025 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Ancient Building Music Season" launched on June 10th in Beijing, featuring over 100 activities across more than 10 historical sites in the region. The music season, themed "Yan Zhao String Music," aims to promote cultural heritage resource sharing and integrated protection across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area. The event will showcase a variety of musical styles, blending traditional Chinese music with Western classical and world music, emphasizing the unique cultural characteristics of each region. The initiative seeks to raise public awareness of cultural heritage preservation. The music season is scheduled to run until early October.
Summary: Typhoon "Butterfly" formed in the South China Sea and is expected to make landfall on Hainan Island and then again in Guangdong before weakening. The Ministry of Water Resources has dispatched working groups to Hainan and Guangdong to assist in flood prevention and has initiated a Level IV emergency response for six provinces. The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management are coordinating efforts and have dispatched working groups to Guangdong and Hainan. Hainan province has ordered all fishing boats to return to port before the typhoon and is lowering reservoir water levels. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: The third National Skills Competition will be held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province in September, featuring 106 competition events. According to Wu Liruo, Director of the Vocational Capacity Building Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the competition includes both WorldSkills Competition selection events and nationally selected events. This year's competition will feature an increased emphasis on new industries, professions, and technologies, with events in intelligent manufacturing, high-end equipment, digital technology, and new energy accounting for over 50% of the total. At least 50% of the participants in the nationally selected events must be enterprise employees.
Summary: Since the beginning of the year, 70% of foreign tourists entering Liaoning have done so visa-free, an eightfold increase compared to last year. Following the implementation of visa-free policies for Japan and South Korea, air routes to Seoul and Tokyo have increased, and ferry services have been restored, leading to a record high of over 100,000 entries from these countries, a 64% increase year-on-year. To facilitate tourism, Liaoning border inspection has established fast-track processing zones for visa-free transit passengers, deployed self-service kiosks for completing arrival cards, and launched an information collection and filing system for nationwide use. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article discusses China's progress in artificial intelligence (AI), acknowledging both significant advancements and existing gaps compared to global leaders. It highlights China's strengths in data resources, a comprehensive industrial system, diverse application scenarios, and a large market space as key drivers for future AI development. The article emphasizes the need for continued policy support to encourage innovation and address shortcomings in core technologies. It argues that despite the challenges, China should maintain confidence and patience in its AI development, focusing on both current achievements and long-term potential. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A recent amateur soccer league in Jiangsu Province, dubbed "Su Super League," has gained unexpected popularity by emphasizing mass participation. The league features teams from 13 cities, with players ranging from former professionals to ordinary citizens. The games have fostered civic pride, cultural engagement through fan-created content, and boosted local tourism as cities offer incentives to visiting fans. The event showcases effective urban governance through the collaborative efforts of local businesses, volunteers, and government departments. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chinese exhibition and convention industry is booming, reflecting broader economic development trends. In 2024, 8916 offline exhibitions were held nationally, indicating increasing interest in the sector. These events foster expanded networks and industrial connections, driving high-quality development through new business deals. The article portrays these exhibitions as catalysts for collaboration and economic growth. The provided text makes no mention of the United States.
Summary: The article discusses the concept of "seeking truth from facts" (实事求是), tracing its origins from Han Dynasty texts and its later association with Yuelu Academy in Hunan, where Mao Zedong studied and Xi Jinping later emphasized its importance. It argues that this principle, central to Chinese thought, has been continuously reinterpreted and integrated into the Communist Party's ideology. The author contends that combining Marxism with traditional Chinese culture has been critical to China's modernization and cultural confidence. Ultimately, the article stresses that understanding the fluidity and adaptability of culture is key to national development and rejuvenation. The article did not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article from *Anhui Daily* discusses the increasing phenomenon of "digital amnesia" (数字失忆) among Chinese youth. It attributes this to factors like information overload, fragmented reading habits, unhealthy lifestyles, and over-reliance on technology. The article suggests solutions including cultivating critical thinking, scientific management of digital life, and establishing healthy habits to improve memory. Protecting the memory of young people is vital for cultivating their ability to explore the unknown and innovate.
Summary: The ongoing fourth national cultural relics census in China emphasizes material cultural heritage reflecting the history of the CCP, the PRC, reform and opening up, and socialist development. The census aims to comprehensively identify and register cultural relics to ensure their protection and utilization for education and cultural enrichment. It expands the scope of previous censuses to include industrial heritage, rural architecture, cultural landscapes, and other types of relics. By promoting public participation and awareness, the census aims to improve the protection and reasonable utilization of cultural relics, allowing them to benefit the people through public cultural services and economic development. This effort supports high-quality development of China's cultural heritage.
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Summary: A recent drought in Henan, a major agricultural province, raised concerns about grain production, but initial estimates suggest a stable summer grain yield overall. Henan's agricultural department head, Sun Weifeng, stated that while some areas experienced reduced output, most regions, particularly those with well-developed irrigation infrastructure, maintained or even increased production. Local governments implemented measures such as repairing wells, dredging ditches, and providing financial assistance to combat the drought's effects. To minimize losses, the province emphasized low-loss harvesting techniques and is upgrading high-standard farmland to improve irrigation and management.
Summary: Liu Ziqun, a Shanxi-based artisan of traditional colored clay sculptures and provincial-level inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, is dedicated to restoring ancient murals, improving techniques to showcase their beauty, and making them more vibrant. Liu has been working to restore murals that are now housed in international collections, such as the Cincinnati Art Museum, paying particular attention to details that may have been altered during previous restoration attempts. Liu also collaborates with researchers, including those at the Dunhuang Academy, to study the historical connections between Shanxi and Dunhuang mural art, potentially influencing debates on the dating of Mogao Grottoes murals.
Summary: Beijing will launch the world's first embodied intelligence robot "4S" shop in the Beijing Robot Industrial Park (Yizhuang) during the 2025 World Robot Conference. This shop will integrate robot sales, parts supply, after-sales service, and information feedback, aiming to create a comprehensive service system. Over 100 robot industry chain enterprises have expressed interest in joining, including 30 humanoid robot companies. Ten leading embodied intelligence robot companies, including the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center and UBTECH, have signed cooperation agreements. Yizhuang has gathered over 300 robotics and intelligent manufacturing companies.
Summary: This article describes the use of an "intelligent upward-moving formwork bridge-building machine" on the Shenzhen-Jiangmen Railway project in Dongguan, Guangdong. The machine features advanced "intelligent manufacturing" systems, including vibration and rain canopy control. It offers improved mechanization and stability compared to traditional downward-moving formwork, enabling continuous operation regardless of terrain. The article reports on bridge-pouring operations as of June 9th. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Xiong'an New Area held an opening ceremony for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Industrial Park, establishing platforms like the Xiong'an AI Industrial Research Institute, co-constructed with Tsinghua University. The Research Institute will establish a "1+6" public R&D platform. The park is focused on AI applications in transportation, meteorology, medicine, and brain science, attracting tech companies. Xiong'an is implementing measures, including two 10 billion RMB funds, to support AI development, talent acquisition, and commercialization within the park.
Summary: Gansu province plans to invest 610 million yuan to construct a "National Heritage Route" along the Hexi Corridor, focusing on cultural and natural heritage sites such as grotto temples, the Great Wall, ancient city ruins, and the Zhangye Danxia landform. The initiative aims to create a coordinated protection system for cultural and natural heritage and promote cultural tourism. The plan includes 52 representative cultural and natural heritage sites and 20 national intangible cultural heritage projects. By 2030, Gansu aims to establish a comprehensive system for heritage preservation, tourism, and international cultural exchange along the route. The initiative seeks to create a model for national heritage route construction.
Summary: Archaeologists in Liaoning province discovered 44 new Hongshan culture sites in the Daling River (Chaoyang) area. The discoveries, part of a broader "Archaeological China" project focused on understanding the development of Hongshan civilization, involved surveying 1,500 square kilometers in the Daling River basin. The survey, which commenced in February 2025, identified a total of 374 new sites among 570 sites surveyed. The findings aim to provide new material for studying the distribution and characteristics of Hongshan culture settlements.
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Summary: The article discusses the trend of innovative shopping malls in China designed to attract young consumers through unique experiences. One mall in Chengdu features a cycling theme, allowing customers to bike through the complex. Another mall in Changchun is designed to resemble a "mountain city," offering an immersive climbing and shopping experience. A third mall in Quzhou incorporates large grassy areas, hosting events and providing recreational space. These malls focus on creating community and offering diverse activities.
Summary: The article discusses the emergence of trendy shopping malls in China that cater to younger consumers by offering novel experiences and emotional value. These malls are breaking from traditional models by incorporating elements like "cycling friendliness," local "mountain city" features, and "micro-vacation" spaces like lawns. This diversification of business models enriches the shopping experience, optimizes supply, and creates differentiation to drive consumption among young people. This new trend is injecting vitality and dynamism into the consumer market.
Summary: The "Huayuanli" shikumen complex in Shanghai's Zhang Garden, consisting of three buildings weighing 7,500 tons, has been returned to its original location after being moved by small mobile robots to allow for the development of a 15-meter deep, three-story underground space. Shanghai Construction No. 2 Group utilized these robots to move the buildings, minimizing the impact of underground construction on the historic structures. The underground space will feature commercial, cultural, and parking facilities, connecting to nearby subway lines. This development aims to integrate the area's above-ground and underground spaces, creating an immersive urban renewal project.
Summary: According to the 2024 Qinghai Province Ecology and Environment Bulletin, all 35 national monitoring sections of surface water in Qinghai Province reached or exceeded Grade III quality. As the source of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Mekong Rivers, the water quality of the three rivers in Qinghai reached Grade II or above. Qinghai Province has been actively implementing water ecological environmental protection plans, addressing issues like pipe network leakage and sewage overflow, and investigating pollution outlets entering rivers and lakes. The province continues to monitor water quality trends, implement a daily water quality reporting system, and promote ecological restoration projects. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Guangxi has successfully registered two AI models with the State Internet Information Office: the "China-ASEAN Legal Large Model" and the "Quchi Communication Operations and Maintenance Large Model." The legal model aims to facilitate Belt and Road cooperation by providing legal intelligence services, policy interpretations, and risk assessments for cross-border business, particularly between China and ASEAN countries. The communication model will enhance operational efficiency and intelligence within the communications industry. These models are intended to strengthen China-ASEAN AI cooperation, and build a "digital bridge" between them.
Summary: A supply chain matchmaking event was held in Tianjin to promote collaboration between over 10 automakers and 400 parts suppliers in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Jingjinji) region. The event aimed to break down barriers, optimize resource allocation, and strengthen the automotive supply chain. During the event, the Jingjinji intelligent connected and new energy vehicle testing and certification public service platform was launched to standardize and internationalize the industry. Jingjinji is working to build a concentrated industrial space for intelligent connected and new energy vehicle parts, with the goal of jointly manufacturing a vehicle across the three regions. The region will continue to deepen industrial synergy to promote the high-quality development of the automotive industry.
Summary: The article depicts rows of automobiles at the Guangzhou Port Nansha Automotive Terminal, ready for export via ship. The location of the port at the mouth of the Pearl River suggests its importance in facilitating international trade. The image highlights China's continued role as a major exporter of vehicles.
Summary: The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology has launched "Qimeng," the world's first AI-driven system for fully automated processor chip hardware and software design. "Qimeng" utilizes large AI models to automate CPU design and configure corresponding operating systems and other foundational software. The system aims to reduce human involvement in chip design, improve efficiency, and enable rapid customization for diverse application scenarios. This development signifies a substantial step for China in AI-driven chip design, achieving performance levels comparable to human experts in key areas. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Several Chinese universities and companies are increasing their investment in talent acquisition and cultivation, particularly in AI and related fields. Huawei is building a multi-level training system and plans to recruit over 10,000 graduates in 2025, focusing on AI, high-performance computing, and ecosystem development. Similarly, Alibaba is expanding its AI talent pool, with nearly half of its 3,000 internship positions related to AI, and launching a global AI talent program. Other universities such as the China Academy of Social Sciences are focusing on guiding graduates to employment and entrepreneurship in grassroots units. These efforts aim to create a positive cycle of technology research and development, talent cultivation, and industrial growth.
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Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's concept of "people's city" (人民城市), highlighting that urban development must prioritize the people's needs and well-being. It details the historical context of China's urbanization and the evolution of the "people's city" concept since the 18th Party Congress. The article points out that the "people's city" concept requires balancing top-level design with grassroots exploration, modern development with historical preservation, concentrated growth with distributed development, and urban high-quality development with rural revitalization. The article further argues that a "people's city" must focus on ecological preservation and modernization to improve the lives of those who live in it. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of integrating historical and cultural preservation into China's urban renewal initiatives, as directed by the central government. It argues that preserving historical and cultural heritage is vital for sustainable urban development, providing both identity and economic opportunities. The article highlights successful examples of cities like Suzhou and Guangzhou, which have revitalized historical areas while promoting cultural tourism and economic growth. It advocates for measures such as surveying cultural resources, preventing the demolition of valuable old buildings, and involving residents in preservation efforts. The piece also encourages the adaptive reuse of historical sites for new industries and cultural facilities.
Summary: The article discusses the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta Ecology and Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone, highlighting increased convenience for residents and businesses. A Shanghai-based entrepreneur emphasized the improved transportation infrastructure connecting Shanghai Qingpu with neighboring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. A business owner in Jiangsu's Wujiang praised the new "1+N" service, enabling cross-provincial processing of business licenses and permits at a single window. Cross-provincial bus routes in Zhejiang's Jiashan County are also noted as boosting tourism by connecting scenic spots.
Summary: The article discusses the increasing role of technology in China's summer harvest ("Sanxia") season, highlighting advancements in weather monitoring, automated machinery, and digital platforms for farmers. It details how technologies like meteorological satellites, soil sensors, and 5G-enabled agricultural machinery are transforming traditional farming practices, shifting from relying on weather conditions to informed decision-making and from manual labor to intelligent agriculture. Farmers are now able to use mobile apps to manage planting, track progress, and schedule services like harvesting and storage. The piece emphasizes the transition towards a more digital and intelligent harvest, contributing to stable production and increased income.
Summary: Ran Kui, a 43-year-old former blacksmith from Guizhou Province, now works as a technical expert in a Zhejiang auto parts company, earning an annual salary of 200,000 yuan and managing three production lines. Approximately 200 villagers from Datanghe, a historically blacksmithing village, have transitioned into modern forging roles in the automotive industry. Ran credits his 27 years of forging experience for his success in modern manufacturing, emphasizing the need for skilled artisans to maintain precision in complex auto parts production despite increasing automation. The village has initiated a craftsman training program to preserve the traditional blacksmithing skills. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Here is a summary of the provided articles: A Kazakhstan-Xi'an port in Almaty was inaugurated, connecting the two cities and upgrading transportation from "point-to-point" to a "hub-to-hub" model, following the recent China-Central Asia Summit. A new drug, Onladeway, developed under the leadership of Zhong Nanshan, has been approved for the treatment of influenza A. China's first National Wine Industry Vocational Skills Competition was held in Ningxia. Guangxi has established a cultural archive for "Liu Sanjie," a legendary folk figure. One hundred and seven Beijing Swifts were examined as part of an annual procedure to track the species, which migrates between Beijing and South Africa.
Summary: The Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences' Vegetable Research Institute held a release event in Fushun for two new thin-skinned melon varieties, "Ganlu 16" and "Ganlu 20," highlighting their high sugar content, yield, and simplified cultivation methods. Zhang Jiawang, director of the institute's melon research office, promoted the melons' advantages, while farmer Yang Yong, the first to trial the varieties in the province, testified to their cost-effectiveness and quality. Institute Director Liu Aiqun noted that holding the event in a greenhouse aimed to provide seed companies, cooperatives, and farmers with a direct understanding of the new varieties. The event's emphasis on practical demonstration and farmer interaction suggests a focus on agricultural technology transfer and rural economic development within Liaoning province.
Summary: Aircraft maintenance engineers at Sichuan Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co., Ltd. are reinforcing an aircraft fuselage after its arrival for comprehensive inspection. The engineers conduct thorough checks on every component, from screws to the engine, adhering to a strict work plan to ensure the aircraft's airworthiness. Zhang Chi, Deputy General Manager, emphasized the company's rigorous standards as a vital aviation maintenance base in Southwest China, known as the "airplane hospital." Since 2010, the company has served over 20 global airlines, having repaired over 1500 aircraft. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: Li Haodong, the head of Tuoxi Health Center in Ningde, Fujian, is providing medical services to elderly villagers in remote mountain villages through a "backpack clinic" program. This initiative, supported by the local Party committee and government since October 2023, addresses the difficulty of accessing healthcare in remote rural areas. The program utilizes a "four lists" mechanism and village grid workers who identify residents in need of medical attention, triggering door-to-door visits by doctors. This "backpack clinic" service has extended to all 14 towns in Shounin county, and the service team has served over 2,600 people.
Summary: The Urumqi High-tech Industrial Development Zone (New Urban Area) Kashgar East Road Street Xinxing Community has converted its former community office hall into an activity center for senior citizens. This change followed resident complaints about noise from the previous activity center. Community Party Secretary Yan Lidong led the effort to relocate the community offices and renovate the space with new amenities for the elderly. The new center includes areas for chess, reading, and billiards.
Summary: This article discusses the popularity of medicinal cuisine (药膳), specifically medicinal bread (药膳面包), at a Traditional Chinese Medicine (中医) hospital in Yangzhou. The author, a deputy director at the hospital, developed the medicinal bread in response to young people's demand for convenient and palatable health foods. The bread incorporates traditional medicinal ingredients based on classic texts like the *Compendium of Materia Medica* (*本草纲目*). The hospital has since expanded its medicinal cuisine offerings to include pastries and teas, all of which are in high demand. The goal is to promote traditional Chinese medicine culture through accessible food products.
Summary: A showcase of 300 fine Hengshui inner paintings, a traditional Chinese folk art, is currently being held at the Hengshui Museum in Hebei province. The exhibition features a variety of traditional subjects, such as landscapes, figures, and birds, alongside modern elements and historical events painted inside snuff bottles. Hengshui inner painting, which involves reverse painting on the inside of snuff bottles using special hooks, was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006. The exhibition allows visitors to appreciate cultural art, social life, arts and crafts, and folk customs. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: According to the article, Hisense is targeting the high-end domestic appliance market with its "Stars" (璀璨) product line, which offers upgraded functionality, aesthetics, and smart features. Hisense China's marketing executive Li Long notes that Chinese consumers increasingly demand high-quality products with emotional connection, and will look to foreign brands if domestic firms cannot meet these demands. To meet these demands, Hisense is focusing on R&D, smart manufacturing, and consumer engagement through both online and offline channels. The "Old for New" (以旧换新) policy is helping drive sales. Hisense aims to build a domestic brand through quality products and services.
Summary: According to Hisense Group Chairman, Hisense aims to lead consumer upgrades by focusing on user needs and technological innovation. The company leverages data analysis and user research to understand consumer demands for higher quality, better experiences, and technological integration in home appliances. Hisense is focusing on its core technology to provide high-end experiences and value. Hisense plans to break down product boundaries and focus on building a whole ecosystem with interconnected devices to create a full-link high-end user experience.
Summary: The article discusses the trend of price reductions in the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) market due to factors like decreasing raw material costs and increased competition, arguing that excessive price cutting is not a sustainable "win-win" for consumers or manufacturers. It notes that consumers are increasingly valuing factors beyond price, such as design, performance, and after-sales service. The article suggests that Chinese EV companies should focus on creating value and developing long-term strategies instead of engaging in price wars. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers has advocated for prioritizing "value" over "price" competition. There is no mention of U.S. companies or U.S. - China relations.
Summary: Chinese railway authorities have operated 20 tourist trains into Tibet as of early June, a five-year high, serving over 8,000 tourists. Since 2020, over 170 tourist trains have transported over 50,000 tourists in the Tibet region, with 61 heading into Tibet and 109 departing. The "Great Qinghai, Happy Tibet" train, originating from Xining, Qinghai, and bound for Nyingchi, Tibet, has run 14 times since March, attracting domestic and international tourists. These trains utilize the Qinghai-Tibet and Lhasa-Nyingchi Railways, connecting various scenic spots and boosting regional development. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Recent reports indicate that several regions in China are experiencing high temperatures. In response, local authorities are providing cooling and heatstroke prevention services in public spaces for citizens and outdoor workers. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the provided article.
Summary: Haikou Customs has announced a new policy allowing foreign companies to conduct customs declaration business in the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) without establishing a legal entity in China. The initiative simplifies the registration process for foreign companies, requiring them only to register with market regulators as a foreign enterprise operating within China, with a registered business location inside the Hainan FTP. This measure removes previous restrictions and lowers operational costs for overseas customs brokers entering the Chinese market. Haikou Customs will collaborate with commerce and market regulation departments to promote the policy and attract more foreign entities to participate in the construction of the Hainan FTP. This is expected to improve the level of openness of service trade in the Hainan FTP.
Summary: The Guangdong Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Industry Alliance was recently established in Guangzhou, overseen by the Guangdong Federation of Industry and Commerce. Comprising various innovation entities, the alliance aims to accelerate the development of the AI and robotics industry in Guangdong through collaboration and integration. The alliance plans to establish a comprehensive ecosystem, including a 10 billion RMB industry fund (initial fundraising of 2 billion RMB) to support core technology research in AI large models, intelligent robots, and semiconductors. It will also promote applications in intelligent manufacturing and smart cities, facilitating the industrialization of these technologies.
Summary: In Sichuan's JinChuan county, snow pears are a significant source of income for 14 ethnic groups. These groups, including Tibetan, Han, Hui and Manchu, are increasing incomes through standardized cultivation techniques and government subsidies for sales to processing companies. Companies are extending the pear industrial chain through deep processing into products like pear paste. The county is promoting brand building, tourism and industrialization to achieve full integration of production, processing, sales, tourism, and entertainment. The county has 42,000 acres of snow pears, with annual output value exceeding 420 million yuan.
Summary: A company in Guangping County, Hebei Province, is using e-commerce to promote agricultural products like dandelion dumplings. The company has 14 livestreaming rooms, and in 2024 dumpling sales alone generated 70 million yuan on one platform. Guangping County is developing a three-tiered livestreaming system to boost sales of local products. The county is also improving logistics, with a daily shipment volume of nearly 10,000 orders.
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Summary: During "Protect Your Wallet and Happy Home" month, the Supreme People's Procuratorate released typical cases of illegal fundraising crimes, revealing common tactics like high-interest schemes disguised as legitimate online lending, eldercare scams offering "pre-paid cards" and "nursing homes," and fraudulent foreign exchange platforms. These schemes lure investors with promises of high returns and guaranteed principal, leading to significant financial losses. Prosecutors warn against trusting high-yield promises and advise investors to verify qualifications, project authenticity, and fund flows. In one case, a fugitive named Shen Moufeng raised 5.03 billion yuan through eldercare schemes.
Summary: This article discusses how Longsheng Township Party Secretary Wang Teng addressed villagers' concerns about the lack of cultural activities in Baisheng Village. Initially hesitant due to perceived prioritization of other tasks, Wang Teng organized discussions and eventually launched the "Village Voice" cultural events, including choir performances and other activities. By actively involving villagers and utilizing local talent, the initiative fostered community engagement and contributed to broader rural revitalization efforts. The article emphasizes the importance of listening to and respecting the opinions of the masses in order to identify shortcomings and implement effective measures.
Summary: On July 7, 1937, Japanese troops stationed near Lugou Bridge initiated provocative military exercises, leading to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. After the Chinese side refused the Japanese army's request to enter Wanping city to search for missing soldiers, the Japanese attacked, triggering a national outcry for resistance. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) called for a united front against Japanese aggression, emphasizing that national resistance was China's only path forward. Consequently, the second Kuomintang-CCP cooperation was officially formed. The CCP's efforts led to the establishment of a broad anti-Japanese national united front, uniting various groups to resist the Japanese invasion.
Summary: China's Ministry of Justice has released a newly revised set of "Measures for Handling Legal Aid Complaints," set to take effect on June 15, 2025. The new measures aim to facilitate public complaints by requiring judicial administrative organs to publicize contact information and provide accessible services for elderly and disabled individuals. The revision broadens the scope of complaints to include issues such as improper fee collection and substandard legal aid services. The measures also strengthen supervision over the legal aid complaints process and establish avenues for legal recourse against those abusing their power. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned in the article.
Summary: The city of Hailun in Heilongjiang province is expanding "Red Stations" within community centers to provide services for delivery drivers and other new employment groups. These stations offer rest areas and encourage participation in Party activities. Hailun is also encouraging new economic organizations to participate in urban governance, with over 170 workers becoming community supervisors. The city has established 34 Party organizations, recruiting over 270 party members, across 147 of these organizations.
Summary: A Party official in Fuyang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, namely Lu Shaojun, is reported to have improved his problem-solving abilities through grassroots visits and investigations. As part of Fuyang District's "Qingfeng Qiangji Action," over 1,800 cadres are conducting comprehensive surveys of local communities to address urgent public concerns. Lu Shaojun facilitated the enrollment of children of employees from Hangzhou Xinhai Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. into a local school after addressing their concerns about limited school places. Fuyang District has implemented innovative mechanisms, such as "leadership team contracting + special team sinking," and point system management to encourage cadres to connect with the masses and solve problems.
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Summary: Liu Yong'an, an 18th-generation inheritor of Shaoyang 布袋戏 (a traditional Chinese puppet show), has dedicated 50 years to preserving and promoting this intangible cultural heritage. He performs locally and participates in cultural exchanges and teaching programs organized by the Shaoyang County Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, which is taking measures to safeguard the art form through documentation, promotion in schools and communities, and performances at festivals. Liu has also embraced digital platforms, using live streaming to reach a wider audience and revitalize interest in the traditional art. The local government aims to further promote 布袋戏 to boost cultural tourism.
Summary: A 36-year-old off-duty soldier named Zhang Wei rescued five people who had fallen into a lake in Henan province. Despite his mother's pleas to stop due to exhaustion, Zhang insisted on saving the last person, a significantly larger individual, ultimately succeeding but collapsing and requiring hospitalization. The rescued individuals visited Zhang in the hospital with flowers and a banner of gratitude. Zhang stated that as a soldier, he felt compelled to help and that other soldiers would have done the same.
Summary: A symposium was held at Peking University on June 11th to discuss the book "Xiang Yu" and its themes of homesickness and familial love. Participants shared their perspectives on the book's spiritual meaning, value, and reception, exploring the creation of literary works on these themes in the new era. Author Wang Xuewu discussed the relationship between homesickness, familial love, and patriotism, as well as the connection between creation and writing in this genre. The event was hosted by Peking University Press and the Propaganda Department of the Chun'an County Committee of Zhejiang Province. The discussion did not involve any content regarding the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Following severe rain and landslides that cut off power and communication to Dulongjiang Township in Yunnan Province, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) dispatched a large team, including 17 Party member突击队 and 2 Party member服务队, to restore electricity. The response included deploying heavy-lift drones to deliver essential supplies, including generators and food, to remote villages. Party members led teams to assess damage and deliver generators to villages. The company restored power to all affected areas within days, emphasizing the role of Party leadership in overcoming logistical challenges.
Summary: The town of Wangtan in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, has established a network of elderly dining facilities including six central kitchens and 19 meal distribution points, covering all 25 of its villages and communities, to provide affordable and nutritious meals for its large elderly population. This initiative, designed to alleviate the burden on working children, serves approximately 1,000 meals daily. Meals cost 8 yuan, and residents over 80 receive them free of charge due to additional subsidies. The town has also arranged for volunteers to deliver meals to elderly residents who have difficulty leaving their homes.
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Summary: This article discusses China's evolving perspective on gold medals in international sports. While gold medals remain important as symbols of national strength and athletic achievement, Chinese society is shifting towards valuing sportsmanship, personal effort, and mass participation. The piece highlights the growth of grassroots sports, the expansion of the sports industry, and China's increasing role in hosting international sporting events. It emphasizes that while striving for victory remains crucial, the focus is broadening to encompass national pride, health, and international exchange. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article explains the physiological phenomenon of "hitting the wall" or the "first peak" (极点) during exercise, where the body experiences fatigue and difficulty due to the mismatch between oxygen supply and muscle demand. It describes how pushing through this "peak" allows the body to adapt and achieve a "second wind" or "second breath" (第二次呼吸), where performance improves. The author notes that physical fitness and preparation impact the intensity and duration of the initial peak. The article suggests applying this concept to life, encouraging perseverance through difficulties to achieve a breakthrough. There is no discussion of Chinese politics or the United States in the article.
Summary: Chinese shooters Wang Zifei and Hu Kai won gold medals in the women's 10m air rifle and men's 10m air pistol events, respectively, at the ISSF World Cup in Germany. Wang Zifei broke the world and world youth records in the qualification round of the women's 10m air rifle. Both athletes secured their third World Cup titles of the season in their respective events. Sun Yujie won gold in the women's 25m pistol on June 11th.
Summary: The article promotes Yunnan province as a destination for educational tourism, highlighting experiences such as exploring Cambrian fossils in Yuxi, observing dinosaur skeletons in Chuxiong, and stargazing on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Lijiang. Yunnan offers opportunities to learn about the origins of life, journey back to the Jurassic period, and appreciate the vastness of the universe. The province has facilities for astronomical observation, drawing astronomy enthusiasts. Yunnan aims to provide immersive experiences with nature and science.
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Summary: Southeast Asian nations are investing in and expanding port infrastructure to meet growing trade demands, with ports like Sihanoukville in Cambodia and Klang in Malaysia reporting increased container throughput. Singapore's port remains one of the busiest globally, handling 41.12 million TEUs in 2024. Several Southeast Asian countries are focused on green transitions for their ports, adopting policies and technologies to promote sustainability. China and Southeast Asian nations are increasing cooperation in port construction and operation, with Chinese companies investing in ports like Muara in Brunei. Southeast Asian countries express interest in learning from China's experience in developing smart and green ports to facilitate the region's port transformation.
Summary: Egypt is advancing its green hydrogen sector with the announcement of a \$17 billion green hydrogen plant in South Sinai and plans for a green hydrogen-powered skyscraper in the New Administrative Capital. Egypt has launched its national hydrogen energy strategy, aiming for significant production capacity by 2030 and 2040, attracting international investment. Chinese companies are participating in Egyptian hydrogen projects, including a collaboration to build a 250 MW electrolysis system and another to develop a green hydrogen-to-ammonia project. Egyptian experts highlight the importance of Chinese investment and technology in promoting Egypt's green economy.
Summary: The Land-Sea New Corridor International Cooperation Forum and China-Singapore (Chongqing) Financial Summit was held in Singapore, marking the 10th anniversary of the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity. Singapore's Senior Minister of State, Chee Hong Tat, emphasized the project's significance as a milestone in Singapore-China cooperation, highlighting the broad prospects of ASEAN-China trade. Chongqing Vice Mayor Xu Jian noted the Land-Sea New Corridor's role in connecting Western China with ASEAN and the world amid global economic changes. Deputy Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Ho Hern Shin, highlighted the importance of financial cooperation and the potential for deepening collaboration in green finance and digital connectivity.
Summary: The European Commission has stated that Bulgaria meets the criteria to join the Eurozone on January 1, 2026, making it the 21st member. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov hailed this as a milestone in European integration, despite domestic concerns about potential price increases and loss of fiscal autonomy. The EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised Bulgaria's progress and believes that the adoption of the Euro will greatly promote trade, attract foreign direct investment, expand financing channels, create high-quality jobs and increase people's actual income. Bulgaria will need to adhere to the ECB policies and strict fiscal rules.
Summary: The article discusses the shrinking Mesopotamian Marshes in Southern Iraq, a UNESCO World Heritage site, due to climate change, leading to population displacement. The Iraqi government has implemented conservation measures, encouraging some locals to return and engage in tourism and traditional industries. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Protests against U.S. federal immigration policy escalated in New York City on June 10th, with thousands demonstrating and calling for a halt to deportations and expressing solidarity with Los Angeles. The protests, organized by labor unions and immigration groups, specifically opposed the deployment of Marines and the National Guard to Los Angeles to assist in arresting undocumented immigrants. Clashes occurred between protesters and police, resulting in arrests, and mirroring similar demonstrations that have spread to dozens of cities, including Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco. The protesters claim that the deportation policies infringe upon their rights.
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Summary: The article reports on the bustling trade and cultural exchange occurring at border crossings between China and Nepal in the city of Shigatse (Rikaze), Tibet, specifically highlighting the reopened Zhangmu port and the Jilong port. Zhangmu, once Tibet's largest land port, is experiencing a surge in trade, including exports of Chinese-made electric vehicles to Nepal. Jilong is facilitating trade in goods like Nepalese silage and is seeing increased tourism, including motorcycle tours from Kathmandu with international tourists. Shigatse is becoming a hub for trade with South Asia, driven by convenient customs procedures and financial services.
Summary: The article discusses the rebuilt Resuo Bridge at the Gyirong port and the Friendship Bridge at the Zhangmu port, both connecting China and Nepal. These bridges, having undergone multiple reconstructions, symbolize the deepening trade and friendship between the two countries. The bridges facilitate the flow of goods, people, and culture, contributing to the prosperity of border trade and strengthening bilateral ties.
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Summary: The article summarizes proposals from National Committee members of the CPPCC and experts on improving elderly and childcare services ("一老一小"). They suggest optimizing resource allocation, establishing comprehensive service platforms, and tailoring services to meet specific needs through detailed need assessments. The recommendations include leveraging existing community resources, promoting "intergenerational care" models, and increasing investment in rural areas. Emphasis is placed on integrating medical and elderly care, improving the quality of healthcare services for seniors, and establishing robust regulatory frameworks. Furthermore, the importance of community-level initiatives and financial support for sustainable development of elderly and childcare services is highlighted.
Summary: Here's a summary of the provided texts: The first proposal from the China National Democratic Construction Association focuses on promoting high-quality development of the ecological and cultural tourism industry in the Yangtze River Basin. The proposal suggests creating a high-level development plan, strengthening digital empowerment, solidifying policy guarantees for low-carbon development, and establishing a coordinated regional development mechanism. The second proposal from the Communist Youth League of China emphasizes strengthening traditional Chinese culture education for youth. Recommendations include promoting reading, integrating traditional culture into the modern education system, and leveraging cultural tourism.
Summary: CPPCC member Zhang Ganlin, a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, is advocating for a nationwide census of small bodies of water (lakes, reservoirs, ponds) to understand their current state and implement protective measures. He emphasizes the importance of these often-overlooked water bodies for water security, climate regulation, and biodiversity. Zhang also suggests differentiated protection and restoration plans for the Yangtze River basin based on regional water quality assessments. He aims to provide practical solutions for ecological problems. His proposals have resulted in the Ministry of Water Resources pushing to create a list of rivers and lakes.
Summary: This article, based on an interview with academic and CPPCC member Chen Xiaohong, advocates for restructuring China's education system to better leverage AI for cultivating innovative talent. It proposes five key transformations, including shifting towards interdisciplinary and personalized education, and integrating AI into curriculum and pedagogy. The author also emphasizes the need for a balanced approach, strengthening ethical guidelines to prevent academic misconduct and technological misuse in AI-driven education. There is no direct mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the text.
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Summary: Residents in Guang'an, Sichuan, successfully petitioned for an administrative review to amend a restrictive "red-headed document" (红头文件) that hindered the installation of elevators in older buildings. The regulation, which originally restricted elevator construction on street-facing facades, was deemed out of touch with residents' needs, particularly for elderly residents. The Guang'an Municipal Bureau of Justice facilitated a resolution, leading to a revised regulation allowing exceptions where internal installations were infeasible. This case, which was selected as a typical case by the Ministry of Justice, highlights the role of administrative review in resolving administrative disputes. It promotes the optimization of the business environment by protecting the legitimate rights and interests of various business entities in accordance with the law.
Summary: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has launched a two-month campaign to crack down on "internet black mouths" targeting businesses, focusing on malicious attacks, extortion, and intellectual property violations. The CAC aims to create a better online business environment by addressing issues like spreading false information to coerce business deals, demanding fees to remove negative content, and disrupting operations through online harassment. The initiative underscores the government's commitment to protecting businesses, especially private enterprises, from online defamation and extortion, while also calling on platforms to establish mechanisms for reporting and redressing grievances. The campaign follows the recent passage of legislation that strengthens legal protections for private businesses against online defamation.
Summary: A resident, Mr. Huang, sued his property management company for 30,000 yuan in damages after they cleared the "garden" he had built on a shared rooftop platform outside his apartment. The court ruled in favor of the property management company, stating that Mr. Huang's use of the shared space was excessive and caused issues with a neighboring business owner, justifying the company's actions to maintain the property and protect the interests of all residents. The court stated that property management has a responsibility to maintain safe and clean spaces for residents and should be obeyed. It also noted that if the company had not acted in accordance with the law or had damaged the property carelessly, then it could have been liable.
Summary: The city of Zhuji is implementing innovative anti-fraud measures, combining local historical culture with public awareness campaigns, resulting in a reported 40% decrease in fraud cases in one district. Initiatives include a "Xi Shi Anti-Fraud" IP campaign featuring anti-fraud messages on milk tea packaging and public spaces, as well as a viral dialect rap music video by a group of senior citizens. Zhuji's Deputy Mayor and Public Security Bureau Director Shen Yuquan emphasized the importance of comprehensive and effective public awareness campaigns in combating telecom fraud. The city is mobilizing the public, including community leaders and online influencers, to participate in anti-fraud efforts. The article does not mention the United States.
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Summary: The article recounts the story of the song "On the Taihang Mountains" and its role in the resistance against Japan. Ruan Zhangjing, a student of composer Xian Xinghai, joined the Taihang Mountain Theater Troupe and taught the song, composed by Xian Xinghai and Gui Taosheng, to soldiers and civilians in the Taihang Mountains. The song became a symbol of the Communist-led resistance and was widely performed throughout the region, boosting morale. The author emphasizes the enduring significance of the song as a representation of the Chinese Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army's efforts during the war. The song's popularity even led to Xian Xinghai being asked to conduct it at various events in Yan'an after his arrival there.
Summary: A recent small theater drama festival, "Beijing Story," showcases 24 productions over three months, highlighting the experimental nature of small theaters as incubators for artistic innovation. While small theaters have fostered successful works and new talent, they are increasingly dominated by commercially driven immersive theater, like imported productions, and highly experimental performances influenced by Western avant-garde concepts. Some observers argue that the most promising avenue for future innovation involves reinterpreting Chinese traditions. The article implies a need to move away from Western influence in the theater scene.
Summary: The article discusses the creation of the CCTV animation series "New Big Head Son and Little Head Dad - Taking You to See China," which won the "Golden Monkey Award." Facing the challenge of revitalizing the classic "Big Head Son" IP, the creators decided to transform the family into "cultural tourism guides" for children, exploring China through a child's perspective. The production team used AI to assist in creating the animation, combining it with manual refinement to ensure cultural authenticity, and introduced a science fiction element with an alien character to balance education and entertainment. The show's popularity has led to real-world tourism mirroring the animated locations, creating a feedback loop between the screen and reality. The series aims to instill a sense of Chinese identity and appreciation for the country's beauty in young viewers through relatable family interactions.
Summary: This article discusses the challenges and adaptations of Huangmei Opera in modern China. The author, Dean of Huangmei Opera Art College of Anqing Normal University, emphasizes the importance of finding new themes rooted in local culture while preserving the core artistic value of the opera. The piece highlights the adaptation of narratives, like in the play "Six Foot Alley," to explore social and political themes from new perspectives. It also acknowledges the need to innovate in dissemination methods, leveraging new media while maintaining the irreplaceable experience of live theater. The author argues that Huangmei Opera must resonate with contemporary audiences to thrive and showcase Chinese culture.
Summary: The director of the documentary "Mr. Chuanshan" reflects on the challenges of portraying the life and complex philosophical works of Wang Fuzhi (Mr. Chuanshan). The director emphasizes Chuanshan's spirit of resistance and the enduring impact of his ideas on later generations, including figures like Zeng Guofan and Tan Sitong, who drew different inspirations from his teachings to shape China. The documentary explores Chuanshan's life in two parts: his life and the continuation of his thoughts. It is a tribute to sages, thinkers, and Chinese history.
Summary: The author reflects on their experience teaching high school when the TV adaptation of "Ordinary World" was popular 10 years ago. They discuss identifying with the character Sun Shaoping's pursuit of knowledge and appreciating the resilience of characters like Sun Yu Hou. The author notes the valuable qualities of the male characters, like sincerity and perseverance, and the inner beauty of the female characters. The author also acknowledges the characters' flaws, like selfishness. Finally, the author reflects on how both they and their students have matured and taken on responsibilities over the past decade.
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By: 本报记者 徐元锋 张 文 秦瑞杰
In the Ningdong Gobi Desert, a giant coal-to-oil plant stands tall, with pipelines and towers densely packed like an "industrial forest."
"To 'eat up and squeeze dry' coal, one ton of coal should generate seven times its value!" Li Dengtong, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Air Separation Plant of Ningxia Coal Industry of the National Energy Group (国家能源集团宁夏煤业), lightly taps the control screen, and a set of data flashes – this world's largest single coal indirect liquefaction project can convert 60,000 tons of coal into high value-added products such as aviation fuel and high-end lubricating oil every day.
Based on its unique geographical environment and resource endowment, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区) is anchoring itself to a path of characteristic and differentiated industrial development, vigorously cultivating characteristic and advantageous industrial clusters, and striving to build a modern industrial system that reflects its own advantages and has strong competitiveness.
In June 2024, during his inspection in Ningxia (宁夏), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Ningxia's (宁夏) modern coal chemical and new material industries, clean energy industries such as wind power, photovoltaic, and hydrogen energy, and characteristic industries such as wine and wolfberry, should be carefully cultivated and continuously developed."
Taking the development of characteristic and advantageous industries as the main direction, Ningxia (宁夏) has launched a three-year action plan for the high-quality development of characteristic and advantageous industries, and has deeply implemented the four major upgrade projects of the industrial chain, industrial base, industrial park, and industrial cluster, to further consolidate the foundation for high-quality development.
Careful cultivation, leading industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation.
At the Ningxia Academy of Agricultural Sciences (宁夏农林科学院), the small wolfberry undergoes "seventy-two transformations." "This is wolfberry seed oil, only 2.4 kilograms can be extracted from 1 ton of fresh wolfberry fruit, but its value has increased dozens of times." Cao Youlong, chief expert of the National Wolfberry Engineering Technology Research Center (国家枸杞工程技术研究中心), picked up a tube of liquid, "From oral liquid to facial masks, we have incubated more than 120 products, helping wolfberry to embark on the industrialization path of 'selling by the gram instead of by the kilogram'."
Focusing on the development needs of modern coal chemical industry, clean energy, characteristic agriculture and animal husbandry and other industries, Ningxia (宁夏) promotes the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial development. By exploring ways to strengthen East-West science and technology cooperation and promote the construction of science and technology innovation platforms, it strengthens the joint efforts of government, industry, academia, research and application. In the past three years, Ningxia's (宁夏) total social R&D expenditure has increased by an average of 12.8% annually, and the proportion of enterprise R&D expenditure has exceeded 80%.
Shenhua Ningmei Group (神华宁煤集团) has overcome the coal-to-oil catalyst technology, and the water consumption per ton of oil products has decreased by 30%; Tiandi Benniu Group (天地奔牛集团) has successfully developed the largest intelligent raise boring machine in China, realizing the localization of large-diameter deep well drilling equipment; the whole genome sequencing of wolfberry has been completed, and varieties such as rice and wheat have been updated... Striving to win the tough battle of upgrading characteristic and advantageous industries, Ningxia (宁夏) is transforming the "key variable" of scientific and technological innovation into the "maximum increment" of high-quality development.
"This year, Ningxia (宁夏) will carry out more than 100 important technological breakthroughs and transform more than 500 scientific and technological achievements, and strive to break through key technologies in coal-oil-gas chemical coupling, high-performance metal material deep and green processing, and high-value development and processing of wolfberry." Wang Wei, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区科技厅), said.
Continuous development, improving the "gold content" with more "green content."
At the eastern foot of the Helan Mountains (贺兰山), vineyards stretch endlessly.
More than 10 years ago, this was still a barren beach. Yuan Yuan, general manager of Zhihui Yuanshi Winery (志辉源石酒庄), has a deep understanding, "We moved away 5 million tons of large stones and planted 8,000 acres of grapes, and now the output value per acre exceeds 10,000 yuan."
In Ningxia (宁夏), 400,000 acres of abandoned mining areas and barren beaches have been transformed into grape planting bases, and the supporting drip irrigation technology saves 15 million tons of water annually, and the area of soil erosion is reduced by 60%.
This is a microcosm of Ningxia's (宁夏) adherence to the path of ecological priority and green development. To fully promote the characteristic and advantageous industries to move towards green development, Ningxia (宁夏) has deeply implemented the three-year action for the green and low-carbon transformation of energy, issued implementation opinions on accelerating the construction of a new energy system to promote green and low-carbon development, and issued a construction plan for green power parks for characteristic and advantageous industries, so as to transform resource and energy advantages into competitive and development advantages as soon as possible.
The Ningdong Base (宁东基地) recycles and utilizes wastewater to produce 24 million tons of recycled water annually, the proportion of clean energy used in modern coal chemical industry will increase to 50% this year, and the "one land for two uses" model of power generation on photovoltaic panels and sand control under the panels fixes more than 10,000 acres of sand annually... Wang Hanwu, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Development and Reform Commission of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区发展改革委), said: "We will unswervingly promote the deep integration of economic and ecological benefits, and firmly hold the development background of Ningxia's (宁夏) characteristic and advantageous industries."
With continuous efforts and sustained efforts, Ningxia's (宁夏) characteristic and advantageous industries are thriving. The entire autonomous region has built hundred-billion-level industrial chains such as advanced photovoltaic and high-end equipment, and thousand-billion-level industrial clusters such as new materials and modern chemical industry, and the ecological circle of enterprise agglomeration and industrial cluster development is accelerating.
"To deeply implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, Ningxia (宁夏) will accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, make the characteristic and advantageous industries bigger, stronger and better, create 'thousand-hundred-ten' billion-level parks, enterprises, and projects, and cultivate new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions." Li Yifei, Secretary of the CPC Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Committee (宁夏回族自治区党委书记), said.
Return to TopPresident Xi Jinping (习近平) of the People’s Republic of China sent a congratulatory letter to the Ministerial Conference of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) outcomes on June 11, together with President Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo (萨苏), expressing warm congratulations on the convening of the conference.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that over the 25 years since its establishment, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛) has vigorously promoted the vigorous development of China-Africa cooperation and has become a model of unity and cooperation among the Global South. Last September, I and African leaders unanimously agreed at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛) Beijing Summit to jointly promote the "Six Modernizations" and jointly implement the "Ten Partnership Programs," leading China-Africa relations into a new stage of building a high-level community of destiny for a new era. With the joint efforts of both sides, the implementation of the summit's outcomes has achieved a series of gratifying early harvests. China and Africa have also reached a consensus on preparing for the "China-Africa People-to-People and Cultural Exchange Year" in 2026, which I believe will inject new vitality into China-Africa friendship and cooperation.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the current international situation is intertwined with turbulence and change. China adheres to providing new opportunities for the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization, and providing new impetus for Africa and other Global South partners with the Chinese market. China is willing to sign agreements on economic partnership for common development, implement zero-tariff measures on 100% of tariff items for 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with China, and provide more convenience for exports from the least developed African countries to China. China is willing to work with Africa to further implement the "Ten Partnership Programs," strengthen cooperation in key areas such as green industry, e-commerce and payment, science and technology, and artificial intelligence, deepen cooperation in areas such as security, finance, and the rule of law, and promote high-quality development of China-Africa cooperation.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that opening up and cooperation is the right path for humanity, and mutual benefit and win-win results are what people desire. China and Africa working together to promote modernization will vigorously promote unity and cooperation among the Global South and open up a brighter prospect for world peace and development. It is hoped that China and Africa will continue to steadily promote the implementation of the summit's outcomes, carefully plan the future development of the forum, jointly build a high-level China-Africa community of destiny in the new era, and contribute China-Africa strength to building a community of human destiny.
Sassou Nguesso (萨苏) said in his congratulatory letter that since the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛) Beijing Summit, Africa-China strategic and pragmatic cooperation has achieved fruitful results. This Coordinators' Meeting coincides with the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛). I will go all out and unswervingly work with President Xi Jinping (习近平) to promote greater progress in building an Africa-China community of destiny and enhance the well-being of the people of both sides. The Republic of the Congo (刚果（布）), as the African co-chair of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛), is willing to work with China and other Global South countries to strengthen cooperation under the "Belt and Road" Initiative (一带一路) and jointly build a multipolar world away from unilateralism and protectionism, and usher in a new era of inclusive globalization.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 11th (Reporter Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)): A reporter learned from the General Administration of Customs (海关总署) that the scale of Sino-African trade has repeatedly reached new highs, and China has maintained its position as Africa's largest trading partner for 16 consecutive years. According to customs statistics, in 2024, the scale of Sino-African trade exceeded 2 trillion yuan for the first time, reaching 2.1 trillion yuan. In the first five months of this year, China's imports and exports to Africa totaled 963.21 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.4%, a record high for the same period in history. Among them, exports to Africa were 599.57 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.2%; imports from Africa were 363.64 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.6%.
According to reports, since the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛) in 2000, Sino-African relations have achieved leapfrog development, and economic and trade cooperation between the two sides has continued to expand to higher levels, deeper levels, and wider fields. The China-Africa Trade Index compiled by China Customs has rapidly climbed from the base period value of 100 points in 2000, exceeding 1000 points in 2023, and reaching 1056.53 points in 2024. This leap in numbers is a vivid portrayal of the vigorous development of Sino-African trade.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 11th. On June 11th, the State Council held a constitutional oath ceremony. Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) supervised the oath.
According to the "Constitution of the People's Republic of China" and the "Organizational Measures for Constitutional Oaths of National Staff Appointed by the State Council and its Departments," 49 heads of 42 departments and units appointed by the State Council took a constitutional oath in accordance with the law.
At 3 p.m., Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆), State Councilor and Secretary-General of the State Council, announced the start of the constitutional oath ceremony. All stood up and sang the National Anthem of the People's Republic of China. Subsequently, the oath leader placed his hand on the Constitution and led the oath, while other oath takers stood in formation and followed the oath.
After the oath, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) delivered a speech. He emphasized that everyone has reached their current position due to the trust given by the Party and the people, and it must be cherished all the more. The solemn oath must be kept in mind and conscientiously practiced. It is necessary to forge loyalty, deeply study and understand Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and be a resolute executor, an action faction that overcomes difficulties, and a pragmatic person who is good at achieving success. It is necessary to practice the rule of law, take the lead in respecting, studying, abiding by, and applying the law, earnestly safeguard social fairness and justice, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people. It is necessary to strictly discipline oneself, continuously improve work style, temper Party spirit, consciously accept supervision from all sides, and set an example in fighting corruption and promoting integrity.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that the current task of comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development is very arduous and heavy, and the external environment is even more complex and severe. The more difficulties and challenges there are, the more the spirit of responsibility and ability of cadres can be tested. It is necessary to promote the spirit of not avoiding difficulties and daring to take responsibility, strengthen the will to dare to fight and be good at fighting, temper the courage to advance in the face of difficulties and rise to the challenge, face contradictions and problems directly, take the initiative without waiting or relying on others, unswervingly do one's own thing well, and firmly grasp the initiative in development. It is necessary to forge the ability to respond to changes and create new situations, actively use one's brains, improve the ability to predict situations and implement precise policies, adapt to new requirements such as developing new quality productive forces and strengthening the domestic grand cycle, break down fixed mindsets, plan effective work approaches and carriers, and continuously open up new prospects for work. It is necessary to build synergy for implementation and development, focus on key tasks such as expanding domestic demand to boost consumption, building a unified national market, and optimizing the business environment, strengthen departmental coordination, pay attention to synergistic efforts, and enhance the driving force for development with policy synergy and work synergy. He emphasized that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, it is necessary to work diligently, forge ahead, and contribute to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
State Council leaders and responsible comrades from relevant departments of the State Council attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Chengdu, June 11th. Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony of the 2nd "Belt and Road" Science and Technology Exchange Conference in Chengdu (成都) on the morning of the 11th and delivered a keynote speech.
Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) stated that Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to "Belt and Road" scientific and technological exchange and cooperation, and has put forward a series of major initiatives and measures, providing important guidelines for promoting international scientific and technological innovation cooperation. China, together with all parties, has made joint efforts to continuously implement the "Belt and Road" Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Plan, build a science and technology "bridge of hearts," and weave an innovation cooperation network, injecting strong impetus into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road".
Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) emphasized that a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in depth, and technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence are comprehensively empowering economic and social development. However, the technology gap, the digital divide, and the intelligence gap are still widening, and some hegemonic, domineering, and bullying practices are causing huge obstacles to global development. We must strengthen unity and cooperation, deeply practice international science and technology cooperation initiatives, build an innovation-driven, open, inclusive, fair, just, common prosperity, and universally beneficial and sustainable "Belt and Road" science and technology innovation community, and promote scientific and technological innovation to better benefit all mankind.
Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) put forward four suggestions: First, further strengthen open cooperation in scientific and technological innovation, jointly explore new models of mutually beneficial and win-win global scientific and technological cooperation, support relevant scientific research institutions, universities, enterprises, and think tanks in various countries to establish cooperative networks, and work together to overcome major scientific and technological problems. Second, further promote the universal sharing of scientific and technological achievements, adhere to the principle of "science knows no borders, benefits all mankind," vigorously enhance the accessibility of science and technology, implement the "Belt and Road" science and technology poverty reduction special cooperation plan, and enable scientific and technological innovation achievements to better benefit all countries, especially the countries of the Global South. Third, further expand scientific, technological, and cultural exchanges, strengthen innovation partnerships, widely carry out exchanges in various forms such as mutual visits, exchange students, technical training, and academic conferences, and tighten the friendly ties of scientific and technological and educational cooperation. Fourth, further improve the global science and technology governance system, properly address the rule conflicts, social risks, and ethical challenges that technological development may bring, oppose the politicization and securitization of scientific and technological cooperation, and promote scientific and technological innovation to always develop in a direction that is conducive to the progress of human civilization.
Iranian Vice President Afshin (阿夫辛), First Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Ramatov (拉马托夫), and Deputy Speaker of the Serbian National Assembly Ragush (拉古什) attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, Gill (吉尔), delivered a video address.
The conference was co-sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部) and other departments, the People's Government of Sichuan Province (四川省人民政府), and the People's Government of Chongqing Municipality (重庆市人民政府). Approximately 1,500 people, including domestic and foreign scientific and technological personnel, business leaders, government officials, and representatives of international organizations, attended the opening ceremony.
Return to TopBeijing, June 11 (Reporters Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕) and Li Gang (李刚)) - Reporters learned from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (中国航空工业集团): On the 11th, the AG600 large amphibious aircraft independently developed by China was awarded a production license by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (中国民航局) in Zhuhai (珠海), Guangdong (广东). This marks the official entry of the AG600 aircraft into the mass production stage and is a key milestone in the construction of China's large-scale aviation emergency rescue equipment system. Subsequently, the entire AG600 aircraft development line will focus on major national emergency rescue needs and strengthen innovation-driven development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘军国
In the process of enterprise development, encountering some twists and turns from time to time is normal; wave-like development and tortuous progress are the rules. In the face of problems and difficulties, how to strengthen confidence, remain calm, and concentrate on doing one's own thing well is a test.
In Yiwu Small Commodity Market (义乌小商品市场), Zhejiang (浙江), Lü Chengjun (吕成均), like the name of his Chaolan Import and Export Co., Ltd. (超澜进出口有限公司), has always been calm and composed in the face of some international customers' "order cancellations" some time ago. "Surpassing the waves, it is especially important to remain calm when facing difficulties."
In District 2 of Yiwu International Trade City (义乌国际商贸城), stepping into Lü Chengjun's shop on the fifth floor is like entering an electronic scale exhibition hall: more than 2,000 electronic scales are neatly arranged in categories. This shop has more than 800 square meters. Another shop on the second floor is located in a prime location, with 28 square meters, and sold 1.5 million electronic scales in 2024. In the shop, domestic and foreign merchants come and go as usual.
Lü Chengjun is from Hutian Village (湖田村), Chenzhai Town (陈宅镇), Zhuji City (诸暨市). He started setting up a stall after graduating from junior high school at the age of 16, then sold vegetables in his hometown, sold children's cars in Hangzhou (杭州), sold clothes in Yunnan (云南), and came to Yiwu in 2002.
When he first arrived in Yiwu, it was not smooth sailing. Socks, light bulbs, badminton... Lü Chengjun sold many things until he accidentally heard a fellow villager say, "The day before yesterday, I shipped a container of electronic scales to a Turkish merchant," and since then, his business has never left scales.
"Who made me have the character 'Jun (均)' in my name? This can be considered 'destined by my name'!"
Selling scales for 23 years, growing into the largest weighing appliance shop in Yiwu International Trade City, what has Lü Chengjun, who likes to learn and review every night, weighed out?
——Weighed out the power of innovation.
"Many people say that Yiwu's small commodities have small profits but quick turnover. I sell scales with quick turnover, but the profit is not small," Lü Chengjun said mysteriously, "What do I rely on? Aiming at the pain points of the market and innovating. This is the primary driving force for leading development."
In Lü Chengjun's eyes, all customers are "market sensors." "Boss, this kind of scale is too expensive," "This kind of scale is too big and takes up space," "This kind of scale is not easy to sell in my area"... Every morning when he opens his mobile phone, Lü Chengjun can receive several similar messages. Launching four or five new products on average every month is his best response to these messages.
In the past, some scales in star-rated hotels had general quality and poor functionality, some had appearances that did not match the overall grade of the hotel, and some affected guests' use because the batteries were not replaced in time... After figuring out the pain points of the market, Lü Chengjun immediately started to develop a self-generating body scale - high appearance, high quality, no need to install batteries, and with self-generating function.
This self-generating body scale was put into the market in 2024, with sales exceeding 1 million yuan that year, and sales continue to improve this year. Lü Chengjun said: "Electronic scales are not daily necessities. There are seventy or eighty shops selling scales in Yiwu International Trade City alone. I have to sell scarcity, sell differences, sell what others don't have, sell what others have but I have better, sell a sense of technology, and it is best to sell emotions. For example, attracting customers to buy filial piety scales for the elderly will increase the value."
——Weighed out the weight of integrity.
"14192", since 2006, this string of numbers, together with the trademark, has been marked on every scale sold by Lü Chengjun.
"This is my shop's booth number, so that the quality can be traced. At that time, it was inconvenient to communicate with foreign businessmen, the language was not fluent, and there was no video chat. Marking the booth number made it easier for them to find me," Lü Chengjun said. Doing so is first, to have confidence in the quality, and second, to convey confidence to customers. "A person cannot stand without integrity. We adhere to long-termism, run a permanent business with perseverance, and do not do one-shot deals."
One pass ten, ten pass a hundred, Lü Chengjun's reputation is getting better and better, his circle of friends is getting bigger and bigger, his products are sold to more than 60 countries and regions, old customers stabilize the basic market, and new friends bring growth points, giving him the confidence to stand firm in the waves.
——Weighed out the energy of the coordinated efforts of "two hands."
It seems that he has returned to his youth, and Lü Chengjun has once again become a "traveling merchant" - the difference is that this time he is going abroad to explore emerging markets. He followed Yiwu's "brand going overseas" plan and went to Malaysia (马来西亚) and other countries to participate in exhibitions. Nowadays, traditional sales account for 50% of Lü Chengjun's sales, exhibition sales account for 30%, and e-commerce accounts for 20%. "E-commerce training in Yiwu International Trade City is commonplace for us," Lü Chengjun said. Yiwu trained 48,000 cross-border e-commerce talents in 2024.
In Lü Chengjun's view, the "invisible hand" of the effective market and the "visible hand" of the promising government are always working together - this is the secret to the long-term prosperity of the Yiwu market. Lü Chengjun said that Yiwu is doing business with the world, constantly opening up new markets and opening up new horizons. Currently, Lü Chengjun has established 7 overseas agents.
——Also weighed out the weight of confidence.
"My eldest daughter chose to return to Yiwu to develop after returning to China, and the children of many of my entrepreneur friends have also returned to Yiwu to take over," Lü Chengjun admitted, "If everyone didn't have confidence, they would never do this. This is confidence in Yiwu, and even more confidence in the Chinese economy."
Merchants are the most valuable resource in the Yiwu market. "Many people have been working hard in the market for twenty or thirty years, traveling all over the world, saying all kinds of things, trying all kinds of methods, enduring all kinds of hardships, and experiencing ups and downs. They have been tempered and are extremely resilient." Lü Chengjun heard and witnessed, "Everyone is calm and expects to see a rainbow after the storm."
Responding to the uncertainty of the external environment with one's own certainty. Strolling through Yiwu International Trade City, confidence is written on the faces of Lü Chengjun and 75,000 merchants - confidence is in the present, and even more in the future.
Return to TopTheory and Study: Experts Discuss Volume I of "Xi Jinping's Economic Anthology" (习近平经济文选)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲 徐 靖
From June 10th to 11th, the 2025 China Internet Civilization Conference was held in Hefei (合肥), Anhui Province (安徽省). With the theme of "Gathering Positive Energy Online and Leading the New Trend of the Times," the conference was co-sponsored by the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), the Central Spiritual Civilization Construction Office (中央精神文明建设办公室), the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共安徽省委), and the People's Government of Anhui Province (安徽省人民政府).
This year marks the fifth year of the China Internet Civilization Conference. The conference included an opening ceremony and main forum, 14 sub-forums, and a theme activity called "Technology Lights Up the Cyberspace of Civilization." At the conference, guests from all walks of life exchanged experiences in jointly building internet civilization and jointly planned a new chapter in the era of internet civilization, providing rich cultural nourishment and strong spiritual support for building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Creating More High-Quality Content
We must use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) to strengthen our minds and souls, and make every effort to promote the Party's innovative theories online.
"The Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) has always placed the online promotion of the Party's innovative theories in a prominent position, constantly innovating the discourse forms, methods, and means of theoretical communication, and planning and launching a series of distinctive theoretical communication brands such as 'Reasoning China' (理响中国), 'Reasoning Online' (理上网来), and 'Looking at the Main Peak from the Mountains' (万山磅礴看主峰), continuously promoting the Party's innovative theories to go deep into the grassroots, into the masses, and into the hearts of the people." Yang Jianwen (杨建文), Deputy Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) and Deputy Director of the State Internet Information Office (国家网信办), said that it is necessary to focus on the emotional and resonance points of netizens, highlight topic setting, strengthen interactive communication, innovate discourse expression, and vividly demonstrate the power of truth contained in the Party's innovative theories.
"Anhui (安徽) grasps the laws of internet communication, leverages the advantages of internet communication, vigorously strengthens the online communication of the Party's innovative theories, and promotes the Party's innovative theories to go deep into the hearts of the people. Adhering to value leadership, leveraging the advantages of the New Era Civilization Practice Center as a position, combining online theoretical communication with offline practical activities, and carrying out theme activities such as 'Practicing Core Values and Building a Good Anhui' (践行核心价值、打造好人安徽) and 'Our Festivals' (我们的节日), stirring up positive energy for civilization and goodness." Sun Hongmei (孙红梅), member of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee (安徽省委常委) and Minister of the Organization Department (组织部部长), said that Anhui (安徽) will deeply implement the Party's innovative theory communication project and continuously consolidate and expand the mainstream ideological public opinion online.
The online documentary "Warm China: Urban Public Welfare Stories" captures vivid images and fully showcases the power of social goodness, warming people's hearts with public welfare; the series of online variety shows "Growing Land" (种地吧) showcases the new look of agricultural and rural modernization development, encouraging more young people to devote themselves to the cause of rural revitalization... Dong Xin (董昕), member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the State Administration of Radio and Television (国家广播电视总局), said that the online audio-visual field is actively focusing on cultural education, public health, ecological civilization, and other fields, and striving to create and launch more high-quality works with ideological, artistic, and communicative power, making public welfare content closer to the times and closer to life.
"Solidly carry out research and contribute wisdom and strength to the international communication of mainstream culture in cyberspace." At the International Exchange and Mutual Learning Sub-Forum on Internet Civilization, Yu Yunquan (于运全), Deputy Director of the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局) and President of the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies (当代中国与世界研究院), said, "We leverage our own advantages in international public opinion research, focusing on themes such as Chinese cultural symbols, Chinese online literature IP (intellectual property), and Chinese digital culture going overseas, forming a series of continuous brand research results. Through digital communication effectiveness evaluation, we explore the construction of a value transmission evaluation system in cyberspace, and explore methods and paths for the international communication of mainstream values and high-quality cultural products driven by technology."
Creating a Clear Cyberspace
The rule of law is the cornerstone of internet civilization. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, managing and governing the internet according to law and regulations has been placed in a more prominent position. Relevant departments have given full play to the fundamental role of the rule of law in the construction of internet civilization, and used the rule of law to escort the construction of internet civilization to go steady and far. At the Internet Rule of Law Sub-Forum, participating guests exchanged views on topics such as "The Rule of Law Escorting the Construction of Internet Civilization" and "The Rule of Law Ecology of AI Governance," proposing to maintain order in cyberspace with the power of the rule of law, and strive to make civilization and the rule of law the distinct background colors of cyberspace.
"Whether in the comprehensive governance of the internet ecology, or in the fields of algorithm governance and platform governance, innovative and distinctive Chinese solutions have been formed, providing experience and wisdom for the rule of law in global cyberspace governance and internet civilization construction." Lin Wei (林维), Vice President of the China Law Society (中国法学会) and President of Southwest University of Political Science & Law (西南政法大学), said.
Internet rumor-refutation is an important aspect of comprehensive internet governance and an important part of internet civilization construction. At the Internet Rumor-Refutation Sub-Forum, the "Annual Internet Rumor-Refutation List in the Economic and Financial Fields" and the "Typical Cases of Rumor-Refutation Using AI-Generated Rumors" were released, and the list of pilot units for the first batch of "Direct Contact Points for Rumor-Refutation Work Involving Enterprises" was released.
"Artificial intelligence has also brought about security and ethical issues such as data security, privacy protection, intellectual property rights, and false information, and has raised a series of new topics and challenges in promoting positive energy online, building internet integrity, and developing internet public welfare." In response to the social responsibilities of internet companies under the new situation, Ren Xianliang (任贤良), Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference (世界互联网大会), said that it is necessary to adhere to a people-oriented approach, promote technology for good, properly address the rule conflicts, social risks, and ethical challenges brought about by the development of artificial intelligence technology to cyberspace, develop responsible artificial intelligence, and build a solid value foundation for the healthy and orderly development of cyberspace.
"Civilization evolution requires the sharpness of technology, and technological innovation requires the warmth of civilization." At the Smart Society Development and Governance Sub-Forum, Wu Shizhong (吴世忠), Chief Scientist of Zhongguancun Laboratory (中关村实验室), said that artificial intelligence is promoting the transformation of all aspects of society. At present, many regions have carried out very distinctive social governance practices around urban management, education, elderly care, community governance, environmental governance, and other fields, and have achieved rich results. In the future, the development and governance of smart society has great potential, and related issues need to be further studied in depth.
Maintaining a Good Internet Civilization Ecology
"We must promote the spirit of the rule of law and use the internet according to law—strictly abide by the legal bottom line, maintain internet security, and let the internet build a solid legal defense line." "We must actively and orderly participate and use the internet rationally—abide by ethical customs, regulate online words and deeds, and let the internet be filled with a clear and bright sky"... At the main forum of the conference, the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央) jointly planned and launched the "Youth Internet Civilization Initiative," guiding the vast number of young people to strive to be participants and maintainers of internet civilization, communicators and disseminators of internet culture, and innovators and pioneers of internet technology.
The initiators of the initiative stated that by issuing youth voices, establishing youth role models, widely gathering youth wisdom, and gathering youth strength, they will jointly promote civilized internet management, civilized internet use, and civilized internet access, shape and purify cyberspace with the new trends of the times, and jointly build a beautiful spiritual home online.
"We must adhere to technology for good, avoid harm, actively create internet civilization cultivation brands, widely carry out practical activities such as internet literacy education services, internet security protection, and internet civilization cultivation, improve people's digital literacy, and strive to create a safe internet environment." At the Internet Civilization Cultivation Sub-Forum, participating guests proposed that minors are the "natives" of the internet and also the objects that need to be jointly cared for in the internet ecology. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of intelligent algorithms, integrate the correct worldview, outlook on life, and values into the active internet scenarios of minors, and subtly shape their ideology and morality.
"Let technological innovation resonate with humanistic care. This is the responsibility of technology companies. In 2019, iFlytek (科大讯飞) joined hands with the China Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (中国聋人协会) and the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe (中国残疾人艺术团) to launch the 'Hear the Voice of AI' public welfare campaign, which has been going on for 6 years: a total of over 200 million minutes of free transcription services, covering thousands of people with hearing impairments; embedding voice transcription functions into the underlying mobile phone system and providing real-time subtitles in live broadcast scenarios, focusing on the real communication needs of people with hearing impairments, so that technology can truly 'understand and write accurately'..." Wang Wei (王玮), Vice President of iFlytek (科大讯飞) and General Manager of Tingjian Technology (听见科技), said that when technology companies take integrity as the foundation, platforms take responsibility as the guide, and users take trust as the link, barrier-free environments can move from "single-point breakthroughs" to "full coverage."
In the construction of internet civilization, what responsibilities and responsibilities should internet celebrities have? Qin Ming (秦明), a forensic doctor at the Anhui Provincial Public Security Department (安徽省公安厅), said that internet celebrities should be a "clear stream" that washes away "dust," adhere to their original intentions, and be unyielding, playing a role in helping the world and benefiting the people and promoting justice in the public opinion field, calibrating the coordinates of value orientation, using empathy to bridge cognitive gaps, building a communication bridge between the public, and ensuring that justice never gets lost in the public opinion field.
The internet space ecology is becoming increasingly clear, and we are gathering the strength of the masses to draw a "concentric circle of online and offline" for civilization construction. The main forum of the conference released the "Results of the Recommendation Activity of 100 Outstanding Accounts for Following the Online Mass Line." Representatives of outstanding accounts such as People's Daily Online's "People's Suggestions" (人民网“人民建议”) and Beijing 12345 (北京12345) told stories about how to listen to the opinions and suggestions of the people and all sectors of society through the internet, gather people's wisdom, promote the culture of making suggestions, and follow the online mass line, winning warm applause from the audience.
From the "Leadership Message Board" to "People's Suggestions," People's Daily Online (人民网) has facilitated the listening and responding to 5.4 million voices of enterprises and the masses. A villager's message lit up the street lights in 258 villages in the county, and netizens' messages recovered 5.98 million yuan in wages for their fellow workers... Through the "Leadership Message Board" and "People's Suggestions" columns, the concerns of the masses have been valued and resolved, and some good suggestions have been transformed into policies and measures, truly benefiting the vast number of people.
Participating guests said that they will take the holding of this conference as an opportunity to gather positive energy online, lead the new trend of the times, promote socialist core values to subtly and silently infiltrate cyberspace, form an internet civilization environment that respects morality, learns from the virtuous, and values learning and culture, and give the vast number of netizens more sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
In recent years, an open, inclusive, prosperous, stable, safe, and orderly China has gradually been perceived and recognized by the world. Behind this lies the hard work of the vast number of immigration management police, who are stationed on the front lines of national borders and at various immigration certificate processing windows, maintaining the security and stability of national borders and the order of immigration management, and contributing immigration management forces to China's high-level opening up and high-quality development. On June 11, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a meeting between Chinese and foreign journalists on "Strivers on the New Journey," where five representatives of the immigration management police met and exchanged views with Chinese and foreign journalists on the theme of "Guarding the National Border and Serving Open Development."
The Dakaihe Border Inspection Station (大开河边境检查站) of the Xishuangbanna Border Management Detachment (西双版纳边境管理支队) of the Yunnan Border Inspection Station (云南边检总站) is not only the "throat gateway" to and from Xishuangbanna (西双版纳), but also the forefront of combating cross-border crime. Li Binghui (李秉徽), instructor of the Dakaihe Border Inspection Station, and his comrades have to screen disguised and hidden drugs, smuggled goods, and other prohibited items in the traffic flow every day, and ambush and intercept criminals who evade inspection in the depths of the rainforest.
"Since joining the police force, whether enduring mosquito bites while ambushing in the jungle, or facing life-and-death struggles in the process of arresting drug traffickers, no matter how bitter, tired, dangerous, or difficult, I have always firmly believed that the more we persevere, the less harm the country will suffer from drugs; the more we give, the more happiness and tranquility the people will have," said Li Binghui (李秉徽). "I will work with my comrades to continue to use our passionate youth to safeguard the security and stability of the southwestern border of the motherland."
Cai Baodi (蔡宝弟), a second-level senior police officer of the Certificate Management Second Detachment of the Exit-Entry Administration Bureau of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (上海市公安局出入境管理总队证件管理二支队), introduced: "More than 30 years ago, when I first started working, only two or three thousand foreigners in Shanghai applied for visas in a year. Now, we handle two to three hundred thousand visa applications for foreigners every year. Behind the change in data is the achievement of the construction of 'Rule of Law China' and 'Safe China'."
In recent years, the legal and regulatory system for exit-entry administration has been continuously improved, covering various aspects of foreigners' entry, exit, stay, residence, work, and life. "During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, Shanghai explored the construction of an immigration service system to provide more choices for foreigners coming to China, and also to provide more convenience for foreigners residing in China, so that more and more foreign friends are willing to come to Shanghai to invest, start businesses, travel, and trade," said Cai Baodi (蔡宝弟).
Supported by information technology, the customs clearance time for Chinese and foreign entry-exit personnel has been greatly reduced, the cost for the people to obtain certificates and handle affairs has been continuously reduced, the business environment for enterprises has been continuously optimized, and the border control capabilities of ports have been continuously enhanced. At present, 20 cities including Beijing (北京) and Shanghai (上海) are piloting the full online handling of reissuing certificates, truly realizing "letting data run more and letting the people run less."
As a representative of the immigration management police in the information technology post, He Shouwei (何守卫), Deputy Director of the Certificate Management Division of the Information Technology Department of the National Immigration Administration (国家移民管理局信息科技司证件管理处), has a deep understanding of this: "Taking the handling of entry-exit documents as an example, the government service platform of the Immigration Bureau that we have built and used has strongly supported the convenient measures of 'national handling' and 'only one trip' for entry-exit documents. In terms of rapid customs clearance at border checkpoints, relying on advanced technologies such as facial recognition, fingerprint comparison, and big data analysis, we have piloted the opening of 'document-free channels' at Shenzhen Bay (深圳湾) and Gongbei (拱北) ports, reducing passenger clearance time to within 10 seconds. In the future, we will continue to apply artificial intelligence technology to document identification and new technology research and development, and continuously improve the security level of entry-exit documents."
Yu Tong (于童), a first-level police officer of the Baiyun Border Inspection Station (白云边检站) of the Guangzhou Border Inspection Station (广州边检总站), is an immigration management police officer from the front line of border inspection port duty. Baiyun Airport (白云机场) is one of the three major air transportation hubs in the country. Yu Tong's main job is to ensure the efficient and smooth customs clearance of entry-exit personnel and means of transport. At the same time, she also has to accurately identify and arrest criminals from the entry-exit crowd, and do her best to safeguard the security of the national border.
"As an immigration management police officer on the front line of border inspection, based on the characteristics and advantages of my position, I strive to strictly control port inspections and investigations, and I must verify any 'suspicion' and investigate any fraud, and resolutely block risks overseas," Yu Tong (于童) introduced. Since joining the police force 9 years ago, she has systematically studied the document samples of more than 200 countries and regions, gradually accumulated experience in identifying forgeries and investigating fraud, and accurately detected nearly 240 illegal individuals involved in smuggling and other activities in more than 100,000 entry-exit personnel inspections.
On the courtyard wall of the Paoyike Border Police Station (排依克边境派出所) of the Kashgar Border Management Detachment (喀什边境管理支队) of the Xinjiang Border Inspection Station (新疆边检总站), there is a slogan: "Do only one thing in my life, I guard the border for the motherland."
The Paoyike Border Police Station has a history of 75 years. The average altitude of the area under its jurisdiction is 4,300 meters, with high cold, lack of oxygen, and complex terrain. Peng Mingyou (彭明有), the director of the police station, and his comrades have passed on the red gene of defending the country and guarding the border, and strived to protect the 2,500 square kilometers of border area under their jurisdiction, protect the more than 200 herders and their cattle and sheep in the area, and ensure border security and stability, and the herders' peaceful and happy lives.
In recent years, more and more tourists have come to the Wakhan Corridor (瓦罕走廊) to travel and see the magnificent scenery. "In order to let more people appreciate the charm of the border, we have opened the police history museum to tourists for free, and my comrades and I use our spare time to serve as guides and provide free explanations for tourists," Peng Mingyou (彭明有) introduced. The police history museum has not only become a window for tourists to understand the border landscape of the Wakhan Corridor, but also a platform for everyone to learn about the stories of guarding the border and inspire patriotism. Today, more than 60,000 tourists have visited the police history museum, and more than 8,000 sticky notes on the message board record tourists' love for the border, and the most frequently left message is "Long live the motherland!" (祖国万岁).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on June 11th (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) - The General Office of the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) recently issued a notice on further improving the renewal of old residential elevators, requiring efforts to support the renewal of old residential elevators with funds from ultra-long-term special treasury bonds, and to fully ensure the safety and convenience of residents using elevators.
Coordinating safety and economy to effectively ensure the quality and safety performance of elevators. Local market supervision departments should urge elevator manufacturing units to effectively implement the main responsibility of production, and provide elevator products with excellent quality, reasonable prices, and high-quality after-sales service for the renewal of old residential elevators. It is necessary to reasonably save and reuse old parts. Before signing a contract, elevator manufacturing units should conduct on-site surveys of old residential elevators and formulate renewal plans. The original elevator's guide rails (including brackets), cast iron counterweights (including counterweight frames), car frames, landing doors (including door frames and sills), and other parts with high quality and safety performance, long service life, and continued utilization value should be retained as much as possible during the renewal process, saving costs and shortening the construction period. For those that are assessed by the manufacturing unit as not meeting safety performance requirements and cannot be retained, corresponding survey and certification materials should be retained. At the same time, strengthen quality assurance. If there are quality problems with the updated elevator within the quality guarantee period, the elevator manufacturing unit shall be responsible for free repair or free replacement. Elevator manufacturers are encouraged to provide after-sales service with a whole-machine warranty and long-term full-package maintenance for no less than 5 years.
Strengthen the implementation of responsibilities and effectively strengthen the safety management of elevator use. Local market supervision departments should, in conjunction with relevant departments, guide property owners to negotiate and determine matters such as elevator use management and maintenance units before the implementation of old residential elevator renewal projects. It is necessary to actively strive for the support of local governments, pilot the establishment of new models for elevator use management in the residential field, cultivate long-term responsible entities that include full-package services such as use management and maintenance, and promote professional and large-scale operation. It is necessary to actively use technical defense methods. Elevators that are encouraged to be renewed should be equipped with stable and reliable intelligent electric bicycle blocking systems to help prevent residential safety hazards.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王伟健
"Di, di, di..." On the morning of June 9th, a truck loaded with newly harvested wheat drove into the grain drying center of Fanshan Farm Professional Cooperative in Shaxi Town (沙溪镇), Taicang City (太仓市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省). After the vehicle came to a stop, the driver, Zheng Guoqun (郑国群), operated the handle, raised the truck bed, and golden grains of wheat poured from the funnel-shaped inlet, embarking on a "drying journey."
Stepping into this grain drying center, which stands in the rural fields, is like entering a "mechanical castle." Intersecting pipes and conveyor belts connect towering large-scale equipment, and sensors distributed in every corner of the drying room collect real-time data. Since late May, wheat harvested from more than 4,000 mu of surrounding farmland has been continuously transported here for drying.
12.5% is the "hard target" for the moisture content of wheat grains entering the warehouse. Too high, and they are prone to mold and germination; too low, and they are prone to cracking and breaking. A tiny difference determines the storage quality of the grains.
"It's been raining these past few days, and the air is humid. The moisture content of the harvested wheat is about 30%, which is about 10% higher than usual. We have to dry it quickly, or it may germinate," said Zhu Peihong (朱培红), a technician at the drying center. Without haste, he took out his mobile phone, clicked on the "command center" on the phone screen, entered the operation menu, set parameters such as temperature, humidity, and dust, and issued a "start-up" command to the drying unit.
Soon, the entire drying center roared to life, and the interconnected material transportation system "moved on command." The wheat was first transported by a "tall and thin" elevator to a height of nearly 10 meters in the air, and then poured along a pipe into a continuously rolling cylindrical screen. After this process, impurities were separated out.
Immediately afterward, the wheat grains were sent into the dryer via a conveyor belt. Below the dryer, a row of neatly arranged air source heat pumps lit up with green indicator lights, entering a working state, and continuously injecting hot air into the dryer.
Zhang Minming (张敏明), deputy director of the Fanshan Village (凡山村) Village Committee, told reporters that the sensors on the dryer would monitor the moisture content of the wheat in real time. When the value reaches 12.5%, the machine will automatically stop. "Everything is automated, so even during the busy farming season, we can sleep soundly," said Zhang Minming (张敏明).
Two years ago, drying grain was not an easy task. Zhang Minming (张敏明) said that in the past, the 10 dryers in the drying center all relied on diesel equipment for heating, which was not only a major carbon emitter but also not cost-effective. The purchase of diesel alone cost more than 600,000 yuan per year, and the drying center was in a state of long-term losses. In addition, with diesel combustion as the heat source, large oil tanks several meters high stood in the drying center, posing a significant safety hazard.
Large grain growers also had many troubles before. Tang Honghu (唐红虎), a large grower who has transferred more than 300 mu of farmland in Fanshan Village (凡山村), admitted frankly that when diesel equipment was used to dry grain in the past, the heat could not be precisely controlled, and the grain particles were unevenly heated, which easily produced transverse cracks, commonly known as "burst waist," affecting the quality of the grain and naturally not selling for a good price.
Automation, greening, informatization, and intelligence were all desired. Upgrading the drying center's diesel equipment to electric equipment became everyone's common wish.
"The biggest problem is the large one-time investment of funds." Jin Huiqiang (金惠强), director of the Taicang City (太仓市) Agricultural Machinery Technology Extension Station, calculated the costs. Purchasing new equipment, plus line renovation and other expenses, required an investment of more than 2 million yuan, and the village could not come up with such a large sum of money all at once.
How to break the deadlock? In 2024, in order to continuously promote the construction of Jiangsu Province (江苏省) agricultural production throughout the entire process of comprehensive mechanization demonstration county, the Fanshan Village (凡山村) drying center was included in the local grain drying equipment renovation list. The State Grid Taicang City (太仓市) Power Supply Company provided power connection services, and the Taicang City (太仓市) Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau helped the village find investors. The renovation costs were paid in advance by the third-party Suzhou Nongfa Group (苏州农发集团), and the village only needs to repay in installments on an annual basis, which can be paid off in 5 years. "Take this year as an example, Fanshan Village (凡山村) needs to pay 364,000 yuan, but the energy costs saved throughout the year are more than 500,000 yuan, which is very cost-effective," said Yu Xiaomao (余小毛), director of the Marketing Department of the State Grid Taicang City (太仓市) Power Supply Company.
In recent years, the local area has continued to promote the construction of clean energy drying centers and accelerate the clean energy renovation of the original diesel drying equipment. Jin Huiqiang (金惠强) introduced that as of now, Taicang (太仓) has built 30 drying centers and 354 dryers. The original 146 diesel dryers have completed the renovation of 94 units, and the overall proportion of clean energy dryers has reached 85.31%.
"This year's wheat drying work has come to an end. The drying equipment will not be turned on again until the rice harvest at the end of October. We must seize this time to speed up the renovation of the remaining equipment," said Jin Huiqiang (金惠强), striving to achieve full coverage of clean energy dryers in Taicang (太仓) by the end of 2026.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 11th (Reporter Wang Zheng (王政), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) and the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部) jointly issued a notice to deploy pilot work on pairing and tackling key problems in intelligent elderly care service robots and their application scenarios.
The pilot period is from 2025 to 2027, and a number of intelligent elderly care service robot key technology research and application pilot projects will be implemented in stages to promote pairing between research and application parties to carry out key technology research, promote product application verification and iterative upgrades in scenarios such as homes, communities, and elderly care institutions, and form a number of robot products that can meet multi-level and diversified elderly care service needs.
It is reported that the pilot content includes carrying out paired key technology research, focusing on application scenarios such as care for the disabled and those with cognitive impairment, emotional companionship, health promotion, smart environments, and daily life assistance, and gradually improving the safety, reliability, ease of use, and service capabilities of products; carrying out scenario application verification, completing product iterative upgrades during the application verification process, with an application verification cycle of no less than 6 months; and improving standards and evaluation systems, focusing on scenario needs and application safety to develop standards and specifications for intelligent elderly care service robot products and services.
The relevant person in charge of the First Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部装备工业一司) stated that the focus will be on improving the quality of life of the elderly, alleviating the pressure of family elderly care, filling the gap in human resources for institutional and community elderly care services, and promoting the improvement of the elderly care service system, accelerating the promotion of robot-enabled smart elderly care services and the development of the silver economy.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 程是颉
In the evening in Stung Treng (上丁), Cambodia, the rotating shift team of China Huaneng's (中国华能) Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station (桑河二级水电站) set off from the project camp to the hydropower station plant area to take over the night shift. On the Sesan River (桑河), a continuous stream of clean energy is transmitted from this hydropower station to Phnom Penh (金边), the capital of Cambodia, bringing light to thousands of households.
The Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station has the longest dam of any hydropower station in Asia and is currently Cambodia's largest clean energy project. It is also a model of high-quality green energy cooperation between China and Cambodia under the "Belt and Road" initiative.
Stable Power Supply Brings New Development Opportunities
In the control room of the hydropower station plant area, Deng Yulin (邓育林), Deputy General Manager of Lower Sesan II Hydropower Co., Ltd. (桑河二级水电有限公司), which is responsible for the operation of the hydropower station, said: "Our task is not only to generate electricity, but also to ensure the stable operation of the Cambodian power grid."
Cambodia has abundant water resources, but due to limited development capacity, it faces the problem of insufficient power supply all year round. The Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station officially started construction in 2013 and was completed in 2018, with all units put into operation for power generation. The hydropower station has an average annual power generation of 1.97 billion kilowatt-hours, which can meet the electricity needs of approximately 2.6 million people each year.
"After the hydropower station was built, the lives of residents in the surrounding area became more colorful." Jin Zilong (金子龙), a Cambodian tour guide who frequently travels between Phnom Penh and Stung Treng, said that in the past, there were few lights on the roadside after the car drove out of Phnom Penh, but now the night markets in the towns along the way are brightly lit and very lively. Every weekend, the town also holds night celebration activities.
In Kampong Cham Province (磅湛省) in central Cambodia, Heng Kivoan, a Cambodian entrepreneur and investor, is inspecting the construction of an agricultural product processing plant. "Clean and green electricity brings new opportunities for industrial development to Cambodia." Heng Kivoan said that through localized processing, the added value and competitiveness of Cambodian agricultural products will be further enhanced.
"Working here, we feel a heavy responsibility and a sense of accomplishment." Deng Yulin said that in the few years since the hydropower station was put into operation, new changes in local economic development can be seen everywhere.
Villagers Go from Fishing for a Living to Fishing for Fun
Srekor Thmey Village (斯雷格尔村) is the new home for immigrants from the reservoir area of the Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station. "After coming here, our lives have become better and better!" said Koen Pike, a villager in the village.
The former Srekor Thmey Village was almost isolated from the outside world, and people lived in poverty. During the construction of the Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station, many villagers found work on the project, and their income increased a lot. As the hydropower station's resettlement plan was carried out one after another, the villagers moved into brand-new stilt houses and were allocated land. After the hydropower station was completed, a new road led directly to Srekor Thmey Village, making it much easier for villagers to connect with the outside world. In the fields, there are more and more cash crops such as cashews, bananas, and mangoes.
"Everyone earns money and always adds some new home appliances." Koen Pike said that the newly built stilt houses have electricity, and many families have purchased refrigerators, color TVs, air conditioners, etc.
In the process of constructing the Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station, China Huaneng integrated Chinese-style assistance experience into the resettlement project, and successively completed the construction of 3 new resettlement villages. 840 households and 3,690 immigrants in the surrounding areas were relocated as a whole. The new villages were also equipped with schools, health clinics, temples, and police stations. The new houses are divided into two types: wooden houses and brick-concrete houses, fully respecting everyone's wishes and meeting the needs of life and production.
On the right bank of the dam crest of the hydropower station, along the auxiliary dam and down the steps, a clear stream meanders through the forest. This is the artificial fishway of the Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station. The fishway is about 2,900 meters long, with a maximum water level difference of 26.5 meters between the upstream and downstream, and a bottom width of 4 to 5 meters. Rest pools are also set up every 800 meters or so. It is the migration season, and schools of fish swim upstream from time to time, swimming in the fishway.
Li Guoqing (李国庆), director of the Engineering Department of Lower Sesan II Hydropower Co., Ltd., introduced that the company attaches great importance to the impact of project construction and operation on the local ecological environment. In the early stage of hydropower station construction, the company found through environmental impact assessment that there are 34 species of long-distance migratory fish in the project area. In order to meet the migration characteristics of these fish, the company took the initiative to communicate with the Cambodian side and added a fishway project.
"The water quality in the reservoir area is very good, and there are many fish and they are very plump." Local resident Su Yi (苏伊) said that in the past, his family relied on fishing for a living, but now that life is better, fishing in the reservoir area has become a leisure activity.
Talent Training Promotes Long-Term Stable Operation and Maintenance
In order to cultivate local talents, Lower Sesan II Hydropower Co., Ltd. has formulated a 10-year plan to train Cambodian power engineers, and arranged experienced Chinese engineers to sign apprenticeship agreements with Cambodian engineers to provide one-on-one guidance.
"The Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station has given us valuable learning opportunities." Huang Lifeng (黄立峰), a Cambodian power engineer in the operation and maintenance department of the hydropower station, said that his Chinese colleagues are friendly and enthusiastic, and impart work methods and experience meticulously. Currently, there are more than 20 Cambodian engineers in the hydropower station. They are all working hard to become qualified electrical engineers as soon as possible and contribute to the long-term stable operation and maintenance of the hydropower station.
In his spare time, Huang Lifeng often organizes gatherings, sports activities, and other activities with his colleagues. Deep friendships have been forged between Chinese and Cambodian colleagues. Huang Lifeng said: "The work at the hydropower station makes me feel proud, and my colleagues make me feel warm. This is my second home."
Bin Sovichea, Secretary of State and Spokesperson of the Cambodian Ministry of Commerce, said that stable and accessible electricity is the foundation of industrial development and has also brought significant improvements to people's daily lives, which is of great significance to Cambodia's development. The Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station is not only a key link in the Cambodian power grid, but also brings valuable experience in the development and operation of large-scale hydropower stations to Cambodia, providing assistance for Cambodia's green development.
(Reported from Stung Treng, Cambodia)
Return to TopThis newspaper's London (伦敦) dispatch on June 11th (Reporters Xu Liqun (许立群) and Han Shuo (韩硕)) – Local time, June 9th to 10th, the Chinese lead of the China-U.S. economic and trade affairs, Vice Premier of the State Council He Lifeng (何立峰), and the U.S. leads, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and Trade Representative Katherine Tai, held the first meeting of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism in London (伦敦), United Kingdom. The two sides conducted candid and in-depth dialogues, exchanged in-depth views on economic and trade issues of concern to each side, reached a consensus in principle on the framework of measures to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state in their phone call on June 5th and to consolidate the results of the Geneva (日内瓦) economic and trade talks, and made new progress in resolving each other's economic and trade concerns.
He Lifeng (何立峰) stated that this meeting was an important consultation conducted under the guidance of the strategic consensus reached by the two heads of state on June 5th of this year. China's attitude and position on China-U.S. economic and trade issues are clear and consistent. The essence of China-U.S. economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win; cooperation between China and the U.S. in the economic and trade field benefits both, while confrontation hurts both. There are no winners in a trade war. China is unwilling to fight, but is also not afraid to fight. The two sides should resolve economic and trade differences through equal dialogue and mutually beneficial cooperation. China is sincere in its economic and trade consultations and also has principles. In the next step, the two sides should further leverage the role of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism in accordance with the important consensus and requirements reached by the two heads of state in their phone call, and continuously enhance consensus, reduce misunderstandings, and strengthen cooperation. China reiterated that the two sides should **相向而行** (xiāng xiàng ér xíng - "meet each other halfway," to work together towards a common goal), **言必行、行必果** (yán bì xíng, xíng bì guǒ - "what one says must be done, and what one does must be carried out," one must be true in word and resolute in deed), demonstrate the spirit of integrity in adhering to commitments and the practical efforts to fulfill consensus, jointly maintain the hard-won results of the dialogue, continue to maintain communication and dialogue, promote the steady and long-term development of China-U.S. economic and trade relations, and inject more certainty and stability into the world economy.
The U.S. side stated that this meeting achieved positive results, further stabilized bilateral economic and trade relations, and will work with China **相向而行** (xiāng xiàng ér xíng - "meet each other halfway," to work together towards a common goal) in accordance with the requirements of the phone call between the two heads of state to jointly implement the consensus reached at this meeting.
Return to TopFrom June 9th to 10th local time, the first meeting of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism was held in London, UK. The two sides held candid and in-depth dialogues, exchanged in-depth views on economic and trade issues of mutual concern, reached a principled consensus on the framework of measures to implement the important consensus of the phone call between the two heads of state on June 5 and consolidate the achievements of the Geneva economic and trade talks, and made new progress in resolving each other's economic and trade concerns. This is a new step taken by both sides to resolve economic and trade issues through equal dialogue. Both China and the United States recognize the importance of a stable China-U.S. economic and trade relationship to the economies of both countries and the global economy. The constructive results of the meeting have also brought new "optimism" to the world.
The establishment of a China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism is an important achievement of the Geneva economic and trade talks, providing institutional guarantees for the two sides to bridge differences and deepen cooperation. The heads of state of China and the United States agreed in a recent phone call that the two teams should continue to implement the Geneva consensus and hold a new round of talks as soon as possible. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in the phone call that the two sides should make good use of the established economic and trade consultation mechanism. This meeting was an important consultation carried out under the guidance of the strategic consensus of the two heads of state. All sectors of the two countries and the international community have paid close attention to this meeting, generally believing that cooperation is better than friction and dialogue is better than confrontation between China and the United States as the world's two largest economies, and expect the two sides to adhere to resolving differences through equal dialogue and consultation, and inject more stability and certainty into the world economy.
Looking back at the history of China-U.S. relations, one experience is very clear: strengthening communication and dialogue through institutional arrangements is of great importance for both sides to properly handle differences and enhance cooperation. At this meeting, the two sides conducted candid and in-depth communication and made new progress in resolving each other's economic and trade concerns, which is precisely the role of the consultation mechanism. The healthy development of China-U.S. economic and trade relations requires joint care from both sides. Any achievement is hard-won and needs to be doubly cherished and maintained. In the next step, the two sides should further leverage the role of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism in accordance with the important consensus and requirements reached by the two heads of state in their phone call, and continuously enhance consensus, reduce misunderstandings, and strengthen cooperation.
After decades of development, China and the United States have formed a pattern of complementary advantages and mutual benefit in the economic and trade field. This is the result of the two-way efforts of enterprises and people of the two countries, and the result of market forces and international division of labor. A stable China-U.S. economic and trade relationship is of great significance to the economies of both countries and the world economy. China and the United States have a large scale of economic and trade exchanges, rich connotations, wide coverage, and diverse subjects involved. It is normal to have differences. Resolving differences will not happen overnight. It takes time and, more importantly, wisdom. Facts have proved that the trade restriction measures unilaterally taken by the United States not only harm the interests of Chinese enterprises, but also deeply harm U.S. domestic enterprises and consumers, and drag down the long-term stable growth of the world economy. Only by adhering to the correct direction of equal dialogue and mutually beneficial cooperation, maintaining patience, and accumulating achievements can we truly resolve differences and enhance cooperation.
China is sincere in its economic and trade consultations, but at the same time it also has principles. As a responsible major country, China takes seriously, strictly implements, and actively maintains the consensus of the Geneva economic and trade talks. At this meeting, China once again stated its clear position and attitude of implementing the consensus and requirements of the heads of state and jointly maintaining the hard-won achievements of the dialogue. The U.S. side also stated that it will work with China in the same direction in accordance with the requirements of the phone call between the two heads of state and jointly implement the "London Framework." It is hoped that the U.S. side will be as good as its word as China, show the spirit of integrity in adhering to its commitments and the practical actions in fulfilling the consensus, and resolve economic and trade issues between the two countries through equal dialogue.
Openness is a distinct symbol of Chinese-style modernization. No matter how the external environment changes, China always firmly believes that opening up and cooperation is the right choice to promote China's high-quality economic development and enlarge the pie of win-win results for all countries, and will continue to unswervingly expand high-level opening up to the outside world. The data released by the General Administration of Customs of China (中国海关总署) recently showed that in the first five months of this year, the total value of China's goods trade imports and exports was 17.94 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%, continuing the growth trend. Among them, the export growth rate reached 7.2%. This fully shows that China, which is constantly expanding its high-level opening up to the outside world, maintains strong resilience in goods trade and its economy continues to recover and improve. China welcomes enterprises from all countries, including U.S. companies, to continue to invest in China, cultivate China deeply, and win in China.
History and reality tell us that China and the United States will both benefit from cooperation and both suffer from confrontation. Dialogue and cooperation are the only correct choices for China and the United States. We believe that as long as the two sides work together in the same direction, adhere to the principle of equality and mutual benefit, make good use of the existing consultation mechanism, and jointly protect the hard-won achievements of the dialogue with practical actions, we will surely promote the steady and long-term development of China-U.S. economic and trade relations.
Return to TopWe, the representatives of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国), 53 African countries, and the African Union Commission, gathered in Changsha (长沙) in accordance with the consensus of the leaders at the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Beijing Summit, to comprehensively promote the implementation of the "Beijing Declaration on Building a High-Level China-Africa Community with a Shared Future."
1. We unanimously believe that the rise and growth of the Global South represents the trend of the times and the direction of development, and that China and Africa are important components and steadfast forces of the Global South. We call on all countries in the world, especially the countries of the Global South, to work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind, jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality, promote the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, and appreciate the positive significance of China and Africa jointly building a high-level community with a shared future for maintaining the unity and cooperation of the Global South and defending multilateralism.
2. We unanimously believe that the current rampant unilateralism, protectionism, and economic bullying have caused serious difficulties for the economic and social development and improvement of people's livelihoods in developing countries, including Africa, and are urgent challenges that the Global South countries, including China and Africa, must address.
3. In view of the fact that individual countries are attempting to use tariffs as a means to impact the existing international economic and trade order, which is detrimental to the common interests of the international community, we call on all countries, especially the United States, to return to the correct track of resolving trade disputes through consultation on the basis of equality, respect, and reciprocity. The international community should attach great importance to the economic difficulties and development challenges facing Africa, and substantially increase, rather than unilaterally reduce, development assistance to Africa, and continue to help African countries improve people's livelihoods, promote poverty reduction, and promote economic and social development.
4. The African side appreciates China's courage and determination to defend international fairness and justice and safeguard the international economic and trade order. The Chinese side highly appreciates African countries' adherence to the basic principles of sovereignty, fairness, and justice, and their adherence to a common position in the face of external pressure. Unilateral compromise cannot be exchanged for mutual respect. We firmly oppose any party reaching compromise deals at the expense of the interests of other countries.
5. We call on the international community to uphold the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, adhere to true multilateralism, jointly oppose all forms of unilateralism and protectionism, safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core, safeguard the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as the core, and promote economic globalization towards a more open, inclusive, universally beneficial, and balanced direction, and create a trade, investment, and financing environment that is more conducive to the Global South.
6. We will unite as one to consolidate the cornerstone of sovereign equality, adhere to the principle that all countries, regardless of size or strength, are equal members of the international community, and resolutely safeguard the international order of justice. We will continue to firmly defend each other's legitimate rights and interests, work together, understand each other, and support each other in the midst of chaos and changes, stabilize the uncertain world with the certainty of China-Africa relations, set a benchmark for sincere friendship and equal treatment among countries in the Global South, and advocate an equal and orderly multi-polar world.
7. We will unite as one to support the practice of open cooperation and mutually beneficial win-win concepts, adhere to the six major propositions of China and Africa working together to promote modernization, and solidly promote the implementation and effectiveness of the "Ten Partnership Programs" to help implement the second ten-year implementation plan of the African Union's "Agenda 2063." We will build a high-level China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era to create a model of unity, cooperation, self-reliance, and independent development for countries in the Global South, and advocate inclusive and universally beneficial economic globalization.
8. China is willing to implement a 100% tariff-free policy on products under 100% tariff items for the 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with China (excluding Eswatini) through the negotiation and signing of a common development economic partnership agreement, and welcomes high-quality African commodities to enter the Chinese market. On the basis of the announcement at the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Beijing Summit of 100% tariff-free treatment for products under 100% tariff items from the least developed African countries, China will launch measures to deepen market access for goods trade, inspection and quarantine, and customs clearance facilitation for the least developed African countries, and increase capacity and technical training and promotion of high-quality products.
9. China is willing to work with the African side to thoroughly implement the "Ten Partnership Programs," especially to strengthen cooperation in key areas such as green industries, e-commerce and payment, science and technology, and artificial intelligence, deepen cooperation in areas such as security, finance, and the rule of law, and promote the high-quality development of China-Africa cooperation.
10. The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has become a model of unity and cooperation in the Global South. The "List of Outcomes of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation" comprehensively, quantitatively, and concretely demonstrates the implementation of the outcomes of the Beijing Summit. The two sides will implement the planning of the "Concept Paper on the China-Africa Year of People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges in 2026" to help unite the Global South.
(Xinhua News Agency, Changsha (长沙), June 11)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Changsha, June 11th (Reporters Zhu Chao (朱超) and Xi Min (席敏)) The Ministerial Conference of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Outcomes was held in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) on June 11th. Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, attended the opening ceremony and read the congratulatory letter from President Xi Jinping (习近平). The Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Congo (布), Gakosso (加科索), the African co-chair of the forum, read the congratulatory letter from President Sassou (萨苏). More than 100 ministerial officials from FOCAC member states, representatives from the African Union Commission, and ambassadors to China from various African countries attended the meeting.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly expounded the important significance of China-Africa solidarity and cooperation, and announced important measures for China to further expand its opening-up and cooperation with Africa, providing important guidance for China and Africa to jointly promote modernization and build a new era of an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future. Last September, the FOCAC held the Beijing Summit, opening a new journey for China and Africa to jointly build a community with a shared future. China and Africa have anchored the summit consensus and actively implemented the "Ten Partnership Programs," achieving new and gratifying progress.
Wang Yi (王毅) emphasized that the more turbulent and intertwined the international situation is, the more China and Africa must unite and strengthen themselves. Both sides should adhere to mutual assistance and be maintainers of the unity of the Global South; adhere to opening up to the outside world and be advocates of international free trade; adhere to mutual benefit and win-win results and be fellow travelers in global development cooperation; adhere to fairness and justice and be defenders of the international just order; and adhere to exchanges and mutual learning and be promoters of the diversity of world civilizations.
Gakosso (加科索), representing African countries, expressed a warm welcome to the "Ten Partnership Programs" proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), supported the China-Africa Cooperation Vision 2035, and expressed willingness to implement the outcomes of the Beijing Summit. The African side opposes the abuse of tariffs and unilateral sanctions and will stand firmly with China to jointly address challenges. Long live Africa-China cooperation! Long live Africa-China solidarity!
The meeting issued the "Changsha Declaration on China-Africa Maintaining Global South Unity and Cooperation."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Changsha, June 11th (Reporters Zhu Chao and Zhang Yujie) Wang Yi (王毅), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with foreign ministers from various African countries attending the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛) Outcomes in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) on June 11th.
During the meeting with Congolese (Brazzaville) Foreign Minister Gakosso (加科索), Wang Yi (王毅) stated that China appreciates Congo's (布) contribution as the co-chair of the forum in successfully holding this coordinator's meeting, and is firmly committed to uniting and cooperating with Africa to seek common development. China will further expand its unilateral market opening to Africa, so that more African people can directly benefit.
Gakosso (加科索) said that Congo and China have close cooperation in promoting the implementation of the Beijing Summit (北京峰会) outcomes, injecting vitality and impetus into China-Africa cooperation. Faced with hegemonic acts such as the abuse of tariffs, sanctions, and pressure, Congo firmly stands with China to defend fair trade rules.
During the meeting with South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor (拉莫拉), Wang Yi (王毅) said that the more complex the situation and the sharper the challenges, the more the two countries should unite and cooperate, be self-reliant and self-strengthening. China supports South Africa in fulfilling its responsibilities as the chair of the G20, and is willing to work with South Africa to demonstrate the responsibility of major countries and safeguard the common interests of developing countries.
Naledi Pandor (拉莫拉) stated that South Africa highly appreciates China's granting of 100% zero-tariff treatment to African countries and looks forward to strengthening practical cooperation with China in various fields. She thanked China for its support for South Africa in fulfilling its responsibilities as the chair of the G20 and is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with China.
During the meeting with Djiboutian Foreign Minister Omar (奥马尔), Wang Yi (王毅) said that during the Beijing Summit (北京峰会) of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the heads of state of the two countries jointly decided to upgrade China-Djibouti relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership. China is willing to work with Djibouti to implement the outcomes of the Beijing Summit (北京峰会) and the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries to better benefit the people of both countries.
Omar (奥马尔) stated that Djibouti firmly supports multilateralism and opposes unilateralism, and will strengthen coordination with China to jointly address challenges. He thanked China for supporting Djibouti in fulfilling its duties as the rotating chair of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (伊加特) and is willing to jointly commit to maintaining regional peace.
During the meeting with Ghanaian Foreign Minister Ayorkor Botchwey (阿布拉夸), Wang Yi (王毅) stated that last year, the two countries established a strategic partnership, opening a new historical chapter in China-Ghana relations. China is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with Ghana, promote China-Africa friendship, oppose unilateralism with multilateralism, and counter "national priority" with openness and win-win cooperation.
Ayorkor Botchwey (阿布拉夸) stated that China has become Ghana's largest trading partner. Ghana highly appreciates China's equal treatment of small and medium-sized countries, admires China's firm and effective countermeasures against bullying, demonstrates leadership in South-South cooperation, and is willing to strengthen solidarity with China.
During the meeting with Congolese (Kinshasa) Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen' Apala (卡伊宽巴), Wang Yi (王毅) said that during the Beijing Summit (北京峰会), President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Félix Tshisekedi (齐塞克迪) reached an important consensus on deepening mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Congo in various fields. The two sides should implement the consensus of the two heads of state, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, and make the China-Congo comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership more dynamic and resilient.
Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen' Apala (卡伊宽巴) stated that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) announcement that China will implement a zero-tariff policy for 100% of tariff items from Africa will bring huge opportunities to Africa, and African countries are greatly encouraged. He thanked China for playing an important role in the United Nations in passing the resolution on the eastern Congo issue.
During the meeting with Nigerien Foreign Minister Bakary Yaou Sangaré (桑加雷), Wang Yi (王毅) said that China-Niger relations are a component of South-South cooperation. China is willing to respect and support each other with Niger, promote the tradition of friendship, and enhance mutual trust. He hopes that Niger will safeguard the safety and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises and citizens in Niger.
Bakary Yaou Sangaré (桑加雷) stated that Niger and China are friends and partners, and the two sides have a tradition of mutually beneficial cooperation. Niger firmly adheres to the One China policy and regards cooperation with China as a priority direction. It attaches great importance to security issues and is willing to enhance mutual trust and maintain dialogue in the spirit of mutual respect.
During the meeting with Guinea-Bissau Foreign Minister Carlos Pinto Pereira (佩雷拉), Wang Yi (王毅) stated that in the face of the US's abuse of tariffs, Guinea-Bissau stood up and took reciprocal measures, demonstrating African backbone. The Global South should unite closely, resist all unilateral protectionism, and defend international fairness and justice.
Carlos Pinto Pereira (佩雷拉) stated that he was very pleased to jointly attend the signing ceremony of the International Mediation Institute with China not long ago. He thanked China for its long-term assistance to Guinea-Bissau. Guinea-Bissau will continue to support each other with China, expand pragmatic cooperation, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
During the meeting with Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar (图加尔), Wang Yi (王毅) said that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (提努布), China-Nigeria relations have increasingly important global significance. China is willing to negotiate and sign a joint economic development partnership agreement with Nigeria, share development opportunities, and achieve common revitalization.
Yusuf Tuggar (图加尔) stated that Nigeria and China have highly compatible diplomatic philosophies, and Nigeria will continue to firmly defend multilateralism. Nigeria-China relations have yielded fruitful results, and Nigeria is willing to further deepen cooperation in various fields and promote greater development of the Nigeria-China comprehensive strategic partnership.
During the meeting with Burkinabè Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré (特拉奥雷), Wang Yi (王毅) said that facts have proved that the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and Burkina Faso fully conforms to the fundamental and long-term interests of Burkina Faso and its people. China is willing to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation with Burkina Faso, encourage Chinese enterprises to invest and develop businesses in Burkina Faso, and believes that Burkina Faso will safeguard the safety of Chinese enterprises and personnel in Burkina Faso.
Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré (特拉奥雷) stated that he was very pleased that Burkina Faso-China relations were upgraded to a strategic partnership last year. Burkina Faso highly appreciates China's demonstration of leadership and support for African development. He thanked China for its support to Burkina Faso since the resumption of diplomatic relations and is willing to deepen sincere and friendly cooperation with China.
During the meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Taye Atske Selassie Amde (格迪翁), Wang Yi (王毅) said that the two sides have worked together to promote the early harvest of the summit outcomes, bringing more benefits to the Ethiopian people. We are willing to strengthen strategic communication with Ethiopia, promote common development through mutually beneficial cooperation, and safeguard common interests through unity and cooperation.
Taye Atske Selassie Amde (格迪翁) stated that the "Ten Partnership Programs" proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) are crucial for Ethiopia and African countries to accelerate development, and Ethiopia is willing to promote their implementation with China. He congratulated China on successfully initiating and establishing the International Mediation Institute and is willing to strengthen cooperation with China in the peaceful settlement of disputes.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Helsinki, June 11th, Reykjavik Dispatch: At the invitation of the Icelandic Parliament, Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, led a delegation to visit Iceland from June 8th to 11th, meeting with Icelandic President Halla Tómasdóttir (托马斯多蒂尔) and holding talks with Icelandic Speaker of Parliament Birna Þórarinsdóttir (斯文比亚尔纳多蒂尔).
Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟) stated that the current Sino-Icelandic relationship is developing well, and cooperation in various fields has yielded fruitful results. China is willing to work with Iceland to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and further deepen practical cooperation in various fields. The National People's Congress of China is willing to strengthen friendly exchanges and exchanges of experience in governance with the Icelandic Parliament, contribute to the economic and social development of the two countries, and make greater contributions to the development of Sino-Icelandic relations. Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟) also introduced to the Icelandic side China's development of whole-process people's democracy and other related matters.
The Icelandic side highly praised the Iceland-China relationship, appreciated China's development achievements, and expressed its willingness to strengthen high-level exchanges and exchanges between legislative bodies with China, deepen cooperation in economic, trade, geothermal, cultural and other fields, and contribute to addressing global climate change and maintaining world peace.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 11th (Reporter Yuan Rui) National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Vice Chairperson and Chairperson of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Committee on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation, Shen Yueyue (沈跃跃), attended the reception hosted by the SCO Secretariat to celebrate "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Day" on June 11th and delivered a speech. She also exchanged views with SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming (张明) on deepening cooperation in various fields within the SCO framework.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Madrid, June 11th dispatch (Reporter Fan Jianqing (范剑青)) The China-Spain Economic and Trade Forum and the 3rd China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo Spain Promotion Conference was held in Madrid on the 10th. Chinese and Spanish political and business representatives conducted in-depth discussions on deepening bilateral economic and trade exchanges and cooperation and other topics.
Ren Hongbin (任鸿斌), Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国贸促会), said in his speech that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Europe and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of a comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Spain. High-level exchanges between the two countries are close, and economic and trade cooperation is steadily advancing. The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade's visit to Spain aims to thoroughly implement the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, further strengthen cooperation with Western counterparts, promote the upgrading of bilateral economic and trade relations, deepen industrial chain and supply chain collaboration, expand pragmatic cooperation between the business communities under multilateral mechanisms, and help build a more solid and dynamic China-Spain comprehensive strategic partnership.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 11 (Reporter Ren Jun (任军)) - This reporter learned on the 11th from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (亚投行) that the 10th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (亚投行) will be held in Beijing (北京) from June 24th to 26th. China (中国) is the host country for this year's annual meeting.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 富子梅 江 琳 贺林平 王云娜
How sensitive can a robot's "hand" be?
Before the reporter's eyes, a silver-gray humanoid robot slowly extended its five fingers and gently grasped—the balloon did not break, the potato chips did not crumble, and even tofu could be steadily "handled."
"Crossing the Shenzhen River (深圳河), Hong Kong's basic research has grown into a 'five-finger dexterous hand' robot industry in Shenzhen." Duan Jianghua, founder and CEO of Diamond (Shenzhen) Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (戴盟（深圳）机器人科技有限公司), felt a great sense of accomplishment.
With a high degree of openness and strong economic vitality, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) has been entrusted with the important task of "building an international science and technology innovation center." In the Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" science and technology cluster has ranked second in the world for five consecutive years.
In the face of profound changes unseen in a century, technological innovation is a key variable. How can Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao work together to maximize their respective advantages, unleash synergistic effects, and accelerate the construction of an internationally influential international science and technology innovation center? Recently, reporters went deep into the Greater Bay Area to explore the vivid practice of collaborative innovation between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao.
Breakthroughs "from 0 to 1"—
"National Heavyweights" Empower, Working Together for Original Innovation
Songshan Lake (松山湖) in Dongguan (东莞), Guangdong (广东). At the construction site of the second phase of the China Spallation Neutron Source (中国散裂中子源) project, tower cranes stand tall, and construction vehicles shuttle back and forth. Inside the spectrometer hall, several neutron spectrometers built in the first phase are operating 24 hours a day, with the "super microscope" deeply exploring the microscopic world.
The experimental schedule is densely packed on the project notebook. "About 1/5 of the users here are from Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. Recently, there have been 5 projects from Hong Kong and Macao universities." Zhang Junrong, deputy director of the Neutron Science Department of the China Spallation Neutron Source Science Center, introduced, "In the past, we had to apply to foreign countries, mail materials, and wait in line. Now, doing experiments at our 'doorstep' greatly improves scientific research efficiency."
Without leaving the Greater Bay Area to conduct experiments, Hong Kong and Macao research teams have continuously made new breakthroughs: The Hong Kong City University (香港城市大学) team discovered a new glass transition mechanism for metallic glass materials, and the University of Macau (澳门大学) team made breakthroughs in the magnetic structure of thermoelectric materials...
In global technological competition, large-scale, organized scientific research activities are becoming increasingly important, and the scientific research value of large scientific installations focusing on the forefront and solidifying the "foundation" is becoming increasingly prominent.
In the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong (广深港) and Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao (广珠澳) science and technology innovation corridors are spread out like the Chinese character "人": "National Heavyweights" such as the China Spallation Neutron Source, Advanced Attosecond Laser, and Cold Spring Ecosystem complement each other, and Pengcheng Laboratory (鹏城实验室), Guangzhou Laboratory (广州实验室), and others are successively established, helping Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao create more breakthroughs "from 0 to 1."
When arriving at the University of Macau's Collaborative Innovation Institute (澳门大学协同创新研究院), a human-computer interaction experiment was underway. Wearing a headset, the computer screen displayed the subject's emotional responses of "like" and "dislike" to the pictures, with green and gray colors changing with the flashing of the pictures.
This group of teachers and students is dedicated to basic research on "emotional artificial intelligence." "With the help of a dedicated line connection to the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou (国家超级计算广州中心) and relying on the powerful computing power of 'Tianhe-2' (天河二号), we have completed scientific research that was previously difficult to complete," said Xu Chengzhong, acting dean of the University of Macau's Collaborative Innovation Institute.
Just across the water from Macao in Hengqin (横琴), the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology (广东省智能科学与技术研究院) and the University of Macau jointly established the "Joint Laboratory (Research Center) for Cognition and Brain-like Intelligence." "Sharing scientific research resources, we strive to achieve breakthroughs in key core technologies," said Zhang Xu, president of the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology.
Behind the major original innovations in the Greater Bay Area is the scientific research strength of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. Currently, 34 joint laboratories of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao have been established and are operating, helping to promote regional collaborative innovation to a new level.
With the accelerated flow of scientific research elements and the empowerment of "National Heavyweights," the Greater Bay Area is constantly climbing to higher "heights": China's first independently developed ocean drilling vessel, "Dream" (梦想号), was officially commissioned in Nansha (南沙), Guangzhou; the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (香港科技大学) led the development of a multifunctional lunar surface operation robot and mobile charging station; the "Macau Science 1" (澳门科学一号) satellite has orbited the Earth more than 10,000 times, generating a large amount of high-precision scientific data... Each major breakthrough promotes the Greater Bay Area to continuously climb to new heights of technological innovation.
Transformation "from 1 to 100"—
Mutual Promotion of Innovation Chain and Industrial Chain
Chips are one of the industries in which China is most severely "encircled." Where the storm is most intense is the stage for "Nezha Conquering the Sea."
Seven years ago, Tan Zhangxi came to Qianhai (前海), Shenzhen (深圳) from California, USA, and led a research team to establish Resnic (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd. (睿思芯科（深圳）技术有限公司), dedicated to the independent research and development of high-performance RISC-V server chips.
Why choose the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area? Tan Zhangxi, the founder and chairman of the company, has in-depth thinking: "The most difficult thing about chips is not manufacturing them, but achieving sustainable iteration. The Greater Bay Area provides an ideal environment for chip technology iteration."
In Hong Kong, Resnic established a subsidiary, cooperated with research institutions, attracted talents, and carried out international exchanges. "Guangdong's electronic industry is complete, with many well-known terminal customers. Upstream and downstream collaboration forms an iterative ecosystem that 'runs' forward," said Tan Zhangxi.
"The laboratory is connected to the production line." The mutual promotion of the innovation chain and industrial chain is the key reason why many technology companies "favor" the Greater Bay Area—
Go to Hong Kong and Macao to strengthen international connections, attract global talent, expand financing channels, and strengthen basic research;
In the mainland, the industrial chain and supply chain are complete, the application scenarios are diverse, and industrial talents are gathered to accelerate the transformation of achievements "from 1 to 100."
This 56,000-square-kilometer land not only gives technology innovation faster speed but also opens up broad space for enterprises.
"Please press your fingerprint and look at the camera..." At the Hengqin Port (横琴口岸), vehicles can pass through customs in a matter of seconds.
Ao Ieong Hong Kei, a young man from Macao, works for Bowei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (博维智慧科技有限公司), which participated in the creation of this convenient vehicle inspection and release system.
"In the past, in Macao, the company had only a few dozen people, and the development space was limited." In 2014, Bowei established a subsidiary in Hengqin. Ao Ieong Hong Kei said, "Hengqin's talent policy has allowed us to recruit more high-end R&D personnel. Now the company's scale is close to 400 people, the office space is constantly expanding, and the company was listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2022."
"In the morning, I discuss cooperation in Hong Kong, in the afternoon, I handle business in Hengqin, and in the evening, I return to Macao." This is Ao Ieong Hong Kei's "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao one-day living circle." "The Greater Bay Area's technology innovation industry is clustered, and 'the sea is wide for fish to leap.' The company's business map has expanded to brain-computer interfaces."
Walking in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, you can see technology innovation enterprises such as artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, low-altitude economy, unmanned driving, and biomedicine everywhere. 77,000 national-level high-tech enterprises gather here, continuously bursting out the "Bay Area momentum" of new quality productivity, and promoting Bay Area technology innovation to move forward in acceleration.
Grasp Education, Technology, and Talent Together—
Jointly Build a High-Level Talent Highland
Nansha (南沙), Guangzhou (广州), No. 1 Duxue Road (笃学路), the Red Bird Sundial sculpture stands in the center of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (香港科技大学（广州）) campus square, symbolizing the innovative spirit inherited from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Tsai Ka-Man, a Hong Kong youth and the first graduate of the Red Bird Master's program, led her team to win the Silver Award of the "Hong Kong Smart Design Award 2025" with an upper limb rehabilitation device tailored for stroke patients. "The platform built by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) allows students to innovate boldly and grow continuously." She could not hide her excitement.
"'Red Bird' is the spiritual symbol of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's pursuit of innovation. From the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), innovation is a gene engraved in the bones," said Chen Min, vice president of the Future Technology College of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). "The Red Bird Master's program aims to cultivate 'compound innovative and entrepreneurial talents.'"
Adhere to grasping education, technology, and talent together. In recent years, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) (香港中文大学（深圳）), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and the City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) (香港城市大学（东莞）) have been established successively, and mainland universities such as Shenzhen University (深圳大学) and Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学) have extended their research institutions to Hong Kong and Macao.
Cultivate talent, share resources; gather strength to attract talent, Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao jointly build an "ecosystem"—
Guangdong attracts talent with talent and gathers talent with talent, gathering more than 1.58 million R&D personnel, and more than 150 full-time academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering working in Guangdong;
Since the end of 2022, Hong Kong has launched a number of talent attraction programs. As of the end of March this year, it has received more than 460,000 applications and approved more than 300,000;
Macao has taken measures such as implementing cross-border talent projects through Macao-Hengqin linkage, encouraging the return of Macao talents abroad, and vigorously attracting overseas "high-end, precise, and scarce" talents to create a high ground for the gathering of international high-end talents.
Jointly build a high-level talent highland. In May 2024, the "9+2" cities in the Greater Bay Area signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly carry out overseas talent recruitment activities. With the cross-border flow of talent as a link, mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are piloting the implementation of talent endorsement policies for traveling to and from Hong Kong and Macao, promoting more efficient flow of factors. A talent flow network built in the name of "Bay Area" is accelerating its formation.
The future has arrived. On the shores of the Lingdingyang (伶仃洋) Sea, the surging wave of technology innovation is beating against the ever-changing Greater Bay Area, and regional collaborative innovation is bursting with surging vitality. This land full of infinite possibilities is accelerating its rise to become a global technology innovation highland and an important source of emerging industries,孕育无尽机遇.
Return to TopBy: 邹 翔
In the evolution of history, there are always some meaningful details.
Only a few kilometers away from the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) in Beijing (北京), there is a Cuihua Hutong (翠花胡同). In the hutong is Yuebin Restaurant (悦宾饭馆), the first individually owned restaurant after China's reform and opening up. On September 30, 1980, Guo Hua's (郭华) grandparents founded the restaurant; nearly 45 years later, on April 30, the Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy was passed by vote. At that moment, Guo Hua was busy in the restaurant, hosting tourists from all over the country, "Finally, we've waited for it."
The healthy development of private enterprises cannot be separated from a good business environment. To create a good environment, it is necessary to handle the relationship between government and business well. The implementation of the Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy not only forges a "protective talisman" for private enterprises to participate in market competition, but also provides legal guidelines for Party members and cadres to serve the development of the private economy.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Construct a new type of government-business relationship that is both close and clean." Achieving the unity of closeness and cleanness is a matter of governance and a test of work style.
Three years ago, when Longsheng New Energy (隆盛新能源) settled in Wuxi (无锡), Jiangsu (江苏), Lihu Street (蠡湖街道) carefully organized a tea party for entrepreneurs, connecting it with Weihan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (蔚瀚智能科技有限公司). Half a year later, the two companies reached a cooperation agreement worth over 100 million yuan. The government's "matchmaking" brought tangible high-quality customer resources to private enterprises. In recent years, various tea parties and symposiums between government and enterprises have been widely held across the country. An important purpose is to form a virtuous interaction between government and enterprises, and between government and business, to form a concentric circle promoting the development of one side.
Constructing a close and clean government-business relationship is essentially about correctly handling the relationship between the government and the market. By clarifying the boundaries between the government and the market, the government can make good use of the "visible hand," act as a "caring person," and provide precise services; if enterprises make good use of the market's "invisible hand," relying on ability rather than connections, and efficiently allocate various resources, then a close and clean government-business relationship that is "**既亲而有度，又清而有为**" (jì qīn ér yǒu dù, yòu qīng ér yǒu wéi - "both close and measured, and clean and effective," maintaining a balance between closeness and integrity in government-business relations) is not difficult to achieve.
Some Party members and cadres are unwilling, dare not, or are not good at dealing with private entrepreneurs, and some even avoid them. An important reason is that they are afraid of not grasping the "degree," being criticized, or worrying about accidentally crossing the line and being punished by discipline and law. To dispel these concerns, it is necessary to adhere to both incentives and constraints, so that Party members and cadres can work cleanly and boldly.
In Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), the evaluation system for the development of the private economy continues to improve. The work of promoting the development of the private economy has been included in the scope of supervision and the performance evaluation of government goals, injecting momentum into the growth of private enterprises such as iFlytek (科大讯飞) and NIO (蔚来汽车). In Yunnan (云南), the release of three lists of "positive, negative, and advocated" aspects of government-business interactions sets the bottom line and adds confidence for government services to enterprises and for enterprises to deal with the government. A person in charge of a private enterprise exclaimed, "It is not only a rule, but also a guarantee for development."
The more specific the list, the clearer the standards, and the more detailed the rules, the more it can amplify the role of regulations as both a "**紧箍咒**" (jǐn gū zhòu - "tightening spell," a restrictive rule or regulation) and a "protective talisman," promoting Party members and cadres to dispel concerns and take responsibility in benefiting enterprises, and allowing private enterprises to unload their burdens and focus on development.
In fact, grasping the "degree" is key to using the fundamental measure of public and private interests. As long as one upholds a public heart, handles public affairs, and works for the public good, one can withstand scrutiny. "**以公共为心者，人必乐而从之**" (yǐ gōng gòng wéi xīn zhě, rén bì lè ér cóng zhī - "Those who have the public at heart will be happily followed by the people," those who prioritize public interests will naturally gain the support and approval of the people). Abandoning selfish thoughts and eliminating the exchange of interests, and wholeheartedly working to solve the difficulties of enterprises and increase the well-being of the masses, such Party members and cadres will be warmly welcomed by enterprises and sincerely praised by the masses, and will surely be able to gather a strong force to work together in the same direction with a good work style and image.
In the final analysis, establishing oneself and doing things with Party spirit, whether it is growing into talent or starting a business, will have broad freedom and space.
Return to TopOn June 11, after more than 10 consecutive days of climbing, erecting, and wiring at a height of 100 meters by Anhui power grid builders, the Anhui Xiangjian to Ludao 500 kV line project successfully completed the Huai River crossing. The Xiangjian to Ludao 500 kV line project is 136.8 kilometers long. After completion, it will further optimize and improve the power grid structure in parts of Bengbu (蚌埠) and Chuzhou (滁州) in Anhui (安徽), and improve the reliability of power supply and the capacity for new energy consumption.
The picture shows construction workers from Anhui Transmission & Substation Engineering Co., Ltd. (安徽送变电工程有限公司) performing the Huai River crossing operation at a height of 100 meters by the Huai River in Fengyang County (凤阳县), Chuzhou City (滁州市), Anhui Province (安徽省).
Photo by Zhao Xianfu (赵献富) (Xinhua News Agency) (新华社发)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 11th (Reporter Shi Fang (施芳)): On June 10th, the "2025 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Ancient Building Music Season" opened in Beijing (北京). With the theme of "Yan Zhao Strings and Songs · Three Walls Around the Beams," the music season will hold over 100 markets, salons, and other activities in more than 10 important ancient buildings, including the Beijing Imperial College (北京国子监), the Baoding Huai Army Office (保定淮军公所) in Hebei (河北), and the Anglican Church (安里甘教堂) in Tianjin (天津). The music season will last until early October.
According to reports, the Ancient Building Music Season, since its inception in Beijing (北京) in 2021, has broken through single regional boundaries to achieve deep linkage and sharing of cultural heritage resources in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北). It aims to create a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cultural relics-themed tourism route project connected by themed activities, promote the holistic and systematic protection of cultural relics in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), and raise public awareness of cultural relic protection.
Among them, ancient buildings in Beijing (北京) such as Zhihua Temple (智化寺), the Imperial College (国子监), Dajue Temple (大觉寺), and White Pagoda Temple (白塔寺), integrate national music, Western classical music, and world music, showcasing the inclusive power of the ancient capital's "**和而不同**" (hé ér bù tóng - "harmony but not uniformity," maintaining individuality while coexisting harmoniously). Tianjin (天津) takes the Anglican Church (安里甘教堂) and Guangdong Guild Hall (广东会馆) as its stage, using clapper talk to collide with jazz, activating the open gene of "Jin-style culture (津派文化)." Hebei (河北), in places such as the Yuhuang Pavilion (玉皇阁) in Yu County (蔚县), the釋迦寺 Shijia Temple (释迦寺), Nuanquan Ancient Fortress (暖泉古堡), as well as the Baoding Huai Army Office (保定淮军公所) and Dingzhou Kaiyuan Temple Tower (定州开元寺塔), uses the guqin to dialogue with intangible cultural heritage, revitalizing the contemporary vitality of the Yan Zhao (燕赵) cultural context.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京) June 11th (Reporter Li Hongmei (李红梅)) This year's No. 1 typhoon "Butterfly" formed on the west-central South China Sea at 8:00 on the 11th. The Central Meteorological Observatory predicts that "Butterfly" may make landfall on the southern coast of Hainan Island (海南岛) in the early morning to morning of the 13th.
At 18:00 on the 11th, the Central Meteorological Observatory issued a yellow typhoon warning.
It is expected that "Butterfly" will move west-northward at a speed of about 10 kilometers per hour, gradually increase in intensity, and approach the southern coast of Hainan Island (海南岛). It may make landfall along the coast from Lingshui (陵水) to Ledong (乐东) in Hainan (海南) in the early morning to morning of the 13th, with a strong tropical storm level at the time of landfall, with a maximum wind force of 10-11 near the center. It will make landfall again in western Guangdong (广东) to the coastal area of Guangxi (广西) on the 14th, and after landfall, it will turn to the northeast, and the intensity will gradually weaken.
Meteorological experts remind that after "Butterfly" lands on Hainan Island (海南岛), the impact range will be wide, the duration will be long, and the cumulative rainfall will be large. The public needs to pay close attention to the latest forecasts and warning information released by meteorological departments and avoid going to dangerous areas such as mountainous areas, islands, and coasts.
This newspaper Beijing (北京) June 11th (Reporter Wang Hao (王浩)) According to forecasts, affected by Typhoon "Butterfly", there will be a heavy rainfall process in central and eastern South China, and eastern and southern Jiangnan (江南) from the 12th to the 15th. Some areas will have heavy rain to torrential rain. The main rivers such as the Beijiang (北江), Dongjiang (东江), and Hanjiang (韩江) in Guangdong (广东), the main stream of the Xijiang (西江) River and its tributaries Guijiang (桂江) and Hejiang (贺江) in Guangxi (广西), and the Nandu River (南渡江) and Wanquan River (万泉河) in Hainan (海南) will experience significant rises in water levels. Some small and medium-sized rivers in the torrential rain area may experience floods exceeding the warning level. The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) has dispatched two working groups to Hainan (海南), Guangdong (广东) and other places to assist and guide the work of preventing torrential rain and floods caused by Typhoon "Butterfly".
In accordance with the "Emergency Response Work Procedures for Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention of the Ministry of Water Resources", the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) launched a Level IV emergency response for flood prevention for 6 provinces (autonomous regions) including Fujian (福建), Jiangxi (江西), Hunan (湖南), Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), and Hainan (海南) at 14:00 on the 11th, requiring relevant departments in the 6 provinces (autonomous regions) to pay close attention to the development and changes in typhoons, rainfall, water conditions, and flood conditions, strengthen monitoring, forecasting, early warning, and consultation and judgment, systematically, scientifically, safely, and accurately schedule the flood control project system, and do a good job in preventing floods in small and medium-sized rivers and mountain torrent disasters.
This newspaper Beijing (北京) June 11th (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总办公室) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) organized a joint consultation with meteorological departments on June 11 to study and judge the development trend of Typhoon "Butterfly" and arrange and deploy relevant work on flood and typhoon prevention.
The consultation pointed out that it is necessary to firmly establish the bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, adhere to "preventing wind and rain together", strengthen rolling consultation, analysis, and judgment, give full play to the overall coordination role of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总办公室), urge and guide relevant departments and localities to implement various responsibilities and measures for flood and typhoon prevention, and make preparations for emergency rescue based on extreme situations.
The State Flood Control Headquarters (国家防总) launched a Level IV emergency response for flood and typhoon prevention for Guangdong (广东) and Hainan (海南) at 12:00 on the 11th, and dispatched two working groups to Guangdong (广东) and Hainan (海南) to assist and guide. Relevant provinces followed the arrangements and deployments of the State Flood Control Headquarters (国家防总) to solidly carry out flood and typhoon prevention work. Hainan Province (海南省) organized all fishing boats to return to port to shelter from the wind before the 11th, pre-released and lowered the reservoir storage level, and arranged special personnel to guard against water accumulation on road sections and submerged bridges. Guangdong Province (广东省) deployed prevention and response in advance, and organized fishing boats operating in affected sea areas to return to port to shelter from the wind and personnel to go ashore to avoid danger.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), June 11th (Reporter Jiang Lin (姜琳)) - It was learned from the press conference held by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) on the 11th that the 3rd National Skills Competition will be held in Zhengzhou (郑州市), Henan Province (河南省) in September this year, with a total of 106 competition events. Judging from the preliminary registration, more than 3,500 contestants will participate in the competition.
Wu Ruduo (吴礼舵), Director of the Vocational Capacity Building Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部职业能力建设司), introduced that the National Skills Competition is currently the comprehensive national vocational skills event with the highest specifications, the most projects, the largest scale, the highest level, and the widest impact in China. The competition events include two categories: WorldSkills competition selection projects and National Skills Competition selected projects.
This year's competition sets up 66 WorldSkills competition selection projects. Compared with the previous two sessions, 6 new competition events have been added, including unmanned aerial vehicle systems, smart security technology, software testing, digital interactive media design, dental restoration technology, and retail. There are 40 National Skills Competition selected projects, covering more than 30 national economic industry categories, increasing the proportion of new business formats, new occupations, and new technologies. The proportion of intelligent manufacturing, high-end equipment, digital technology, new energy and other competition events exceeds 50%.
According to reports, contestants in the National Skills Competition selected projects should be practitioners in the corresponding occupations. In order to encourage and guide more enterprise employees to participate in the competition, this competition clearly requires that the proportion of enterprise employees in the National Skills Competition selected projects of each delegation shall not be less than 50%. At that time, more front-line employees of enterprises will appear on the competition field.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shenyang (沈阳) dispatch on June 11th (Reporter Liu Hongchao (刘洪超)): On June 11th, the reporter learned from the Liaoning Entry-Exit Border Inspection General Station (辽宁出入境边防检查总站): Since the beginning of this year, visa-free entry passengers through Liaoning (辽宁) ports accounted for 70% of foreign passengers entering the country, and the number of visa-free entries increased by 8 times compared with the same period last year. During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday alone, more than 900 inbound and outbound vehicles (ships, trains, vehicles) and 40,000 inbound and outbound personnel were inspected and released, an increase of 40% compared with the same period last year.
It is reported that since the implementation of the visa-free policy for Japan and South Korea, Liaoning (辽宁) airport ports have increased and opened 6 routes to Seoul (首尔), Tokyo (东京) and other places, and have successively restored the passenger liners "Dalian (大连) - Incheon (仁川)" and "Dandong (丹东) - Incheon (仁川)". The number of Japanese and Korean inbound passengers reached more than 100,000, an increase of 64% compared with the same period last year, hitting a record high.
In order to ensure efficient and smooth customs clearance for passengers and further facilitate foreigners to come to China for sightseeing and exchanges, the Liaoning Border Inspection General Station (辽宁边检总站) has set up a fast processing zone for transit visa-free passengers at the port site, launched a "Foreigner Entry Card Filling Self-service Terminal", opened multiple fast entry channels, and launched an information collection and filing system at the airport port to achieve "**一地办理，全国通用**" (yī dì bàn lǐ, quán guó tōng yòng - "one place handles, nationwide use," meaning a service or document is valid across the entire country after being processed in one location), making tourism to Liaoning (辽宁) more convenient and efficient.
Return to TopBy: 孟繁哲
Artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into all aspects of production and life, empowering various industries and benefiting millions of households. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence in our country in a beneficial, safe, and fair direction." Starting today, this edition will launch a series of commentaries to discuss with readers how to better grasp the initiative in the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
—Editor
How should we view the development momentum of artificial intelligence in China? There are two representative viewpoints.
One view is that China's artificial intelligence is continuously making breakthroughs and is leading the world trend. In particular, the emergence of DeepSeek has driven China's artificial intelligence to embark on a "low-cost, high-performance" development path, and has also set off a "China wave" in the global artificial intelligence industry. *The Economist* believes that "the scale of China's AI boom is astonishing, and Chinese technology companies are disrupting the entire industry."
Another view is that compared with the world's top level, there are still gaps in China's artificial intelligence. Previously, in the first humanoid robot half-marathon held in Yizhuang (亦庄), Beijing (北京), the participating robots constantly fell, and there were "human escorts" such as engineers and operators beside them.
The two views, when viewed dialectically in connection, will be more objective. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "artificial intelligence is a young undertaking." A young undertaking means both broad prospects and that it is still in a period of growth. In recent years, the comprehensive strength of China's artificial intelligence has achieved an overall and systematic leap, but there are still shortcomings and weaknesses in basic theory and key core technologies. For this reason, some people compare the development of artificial intelligence in China to "stumbling and running." It is the correct attitude to both see the achievements and strengthen confidence, and to face the gaps and redouble efforts.
Seeing the achievements is not being arrogant, and facing the gaps is not being self-deprecating, all for the purpose of enhancing determination and climbing upwards. For artificial intelligence, we must look at the present, but also at the long term and the potential. Where is the potential of China's artificial intelligence industry?
It lies in the rich data resources. Data is known as the "fuel" of artificial intelligence. Without the support of rich data, no matter how advanced the algorithm or how powerful the computing power, it is difficult to achieve the expected results. Data shows that as of December 2024, there are 1.108 billion Internet users in China, and the user scale of generative artificial intelligence products has reached 249 million. Such a large user base not only makes the data present the characteristic of "large quantity," but also has the characteristic of "diversity." This can provide a solid foundation for artificial intelligence training, optimization, and iteration.
It lies in the complete industrial system. Overall, the artificial intelligence industry can be divided into core industries and integrated application industries. From the perspective of core industries, multiple domestic large models have entered the download list of mainstream global open-source communities; as of April 9 this year, China's artificial intelligence patent application volume accounted for 38.58% of the global application volume, ranking first in the world. From the perspective of integrated application industries, artificial intelligence technology is comprehensively empowering agriculture, industry, and service industries, promoting the accelerated transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Focusing on key areas, fitting actual needs, and expanding the boundaries of technology application with innovative breakthroughs, and promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, can continuously transform technological dividends into surging momentum for high-quality development.
It lies in the broad application scenarios. A 30-meter-long synthetic leather product waiting to be shipped can automatically complete a full-body "physical examination" in just 60 seconds; rapid generation of character portraits, poster designs, etc., improves the efficiency of film and television production; artificial intelligence can serve as a clinical research assistant for difficult and rare diseases... From the demand for personalized services on the consumer side to the desire for intelligent solutions on the supply side, all provide sufficient development momentum for the artificial intelligence industry.
It lies in the huge market space. Intelligent detection beds monitor the elderly's physical abnormalities and vital signs 24 hours a day, sweeping robots automatically identify and pick up garbage, and large-model TVs, AI mobile phones, and smart homes are becoming more popular... Today, from exhibits to commodities, artificial intelligence technology is penetrating more life scenarios. In the future, artificial intelligence will accurately understand market demands and effectively improve the quality of life in more fields.
With current achievements and long-term potential, we may as well give "stumbling and running" more confidence and patience.
"As a new technology and new field, policy support is very important for artificial intelligence." From establishing special artificial intelligence industry funds to provide support for start-ups, to introducing tax incentives to encourage companies to increase investment in artificial intelligence research and development, to supporting the accelerated authorization of patent applications in the field of artificial intelligence that meet the conditions... Increasing policy support can encourage more entities to break into the "no-man's land" of innovation, concentrate on accumulating strength, and continue to explore, to accumulate more sufficient potential for the development of China's artificial intelligence industry.
Some people say that the best way to predict the future is to create the future. The artificial intelligence trend is unstoppable. The road of scientific and technological innovation is long, and our choice should be to never stop running, leading in innovation and pioneering in progress.
Return to TopBy: 姚雪青
Citizens "fight" for the city, without commercial hype, all out striving, simple and full of sportsmanship, inspiring national participation.
"I never cared about football before, but this time I'm paying special attention." The "football" mentioned by netizens is the Jiangsu Provincial City Football League, which has recently become popular and is jokingly called the "Su Super League" by netizens.
This is a provincial-level amateur football league. Each of the 13 prefecture-level cities forms a team to compete in turn. The competition is in full swing and gaining momentum. The popularity of an amateur football league is surprising.
Why is the "Su Super League" so popular? Some say it relies on "authenticity," with "passionate" players on the field and "tears" from the audience off the field. Others say it is inseparable from "movement," with online and offline interaction, and interaction between cities. These are all important factors. From a personal perspective, the author believes that the key to its popularity lies in "mass participation" - letting the masses play the leading role.
On the field, the masses are the main force in playing football. When the league cancels professional restrictions, former Chinese Super League players compete with individual business owners, and corporate white-collar workers fight alongside middle school students. The training ground after work and the green field on weekends eliminate the boundaries between "players" and "citizens," and football seamlessly integrates into the rhythm of daily life. Citizens "fight" for the city, without commercial hype, all out striving, simple and full of sportsmanship, inspiring national participation.
Off the field, the masses are the main characters in "playing with memes." Low-priced tickets transform the stadium into a city living room. On the field, they compete in football skills, and off the field, they compete in creativity. Citizens enjoy "playing with memes" to convey their love for life. When Wuxi (无锡) plays against Nanjing (南京), the slogan "Honey peaches, rush!" resounds throughout the stadium. The goalkeeper of Lianyungang (连云港) catching the ball in the air is called "Monkey King of Huaguo Mountain (花果山) picking peaches." The stadium stages a large-scale cultural "script killing," and ordinary citizens become city spokespersons, readily using local specialties and expressing regional culture in a youthful way. The enthusiasm for content creation makes the "opposition between winning and losing" no longer important. From self-deprecation to explosive memes, people greet each other, forming a community with cultural interdependence and emotional connection.
Off the field, the masses are the main consumers. The spillover effect of the event is emerging, greatly stimulating cultural and tourism consumption. In the game on May 31, although Changzhou (常州) lost to Yangzhou (扬州), many netizens said that "Changzhou won the hearts of the people." Why? Outside the stadium, Changzhou proposed that A-level scenic spots in its jurisdiction would be free for Yangzhou citizens. According to statistics, more than 60,000 tourists from Yangzhou came to Changzhou in a short period of time. Huaian (淮安) launched a "100 yuan foodie fan carnival package," Taizhou (泰州) customized "free scenic spot tickets + early tea special + 20% discount on hotels" benefits, and Nanjing (南京) clarified that "Su Super League" tickets can enjoy discounts in 200 scenic spots, museums, restaurants, shopping malls and hotels... Each city shows its abilities and responds accurately to the needs of the masses, designing and launching consumption policies. Everyone knows that by changing from "supply-led" to "demand-driven," and changing from "competing for resources" to "competing for benefiting the people," serving up "signature dishes" and doing a good job in the second half of the event can transform event traffic into economic growth.
The masses are also the masters of urban governance. Holding competitions and welcoming tourists are opportunities to showcase the city's image, but the flow of people and logistics gathered in a short period of time also bring challenges to urban governance. The Nanjing (南京) Wutaishan Stadium (五台山体育场) welcomed more than 10,000 fans. In order to ensure traffic for the event, surrounding buildings, streets, and communities temporarily provided shared parking spaces while ensuring their own normal operation. Yangzhou (扬州) citizens who came to Changzhou (常州) for tourism thanks to the event did not expect that "there are enthusiastic volunteers everywhere" in the city, and problems can be solved quickly. Enterprises, public institutions, citizen volunteers, small and micro businesses and competent authorities work together to form a vital force for joint construction and co-governance, and strive to transform the effectiveness of governance into the quality of service. This competition of urban governance is a competition of the city's strength and charm.
The 7-month league is still in full swing. The "Su Super League" allows us to see the passion for "fighting" for the city, the enthusiasm for cheering for what we love, and even more, the powerful mass participation, the flavorful cultural interaction, and the warm urban identity. Together, these constitute a unique "sports narrative" and are writing a vibrant "new chapter of development."
(The author is a reporter from the Jiangsu (江苏) branch of this newspaper)
Return to TopThe exhibition industry is known as the "barometer" of economic development, with characteristics such as a wide range of influence, a high degree of correlation, and great development potential. At present, China's exhibition industry is showing a vigorous development trend. Data shows that in 2024, a total of 8,916 offline exhibitions were held nationwide, and the popularity of exhibitions continued to rise. Each exhibition brings unlimited opportunities, and all parties use the exhibition's favorable trend to expand their "circle of friends" and "industrial circle," writing a new chapter of high-quality development with orders.
This is precisely:
All nations' attire gather in the jade hall,
Agreements and long talks soar like clouds.
Side by side, we navigate the commercial sea,
Harmony and co-existence benefit all directions.
Xu Zhiwen (徐之文)
Return to TopBy: 李 斌
"Seeking truth from facts," originating from the sparks of thought in the Han Dynasty, why does it still shine today? The author had the privilege of visiting the Yuelu Academy (岳麓书院) in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) with an interview group, where I gained inspiration for the inheritance and innovation of culture.
The term "seeking truth from facts" comes from the "Biography of Prince Xian of Hejian" (河间献王传) in the "Book of Han" (汉书). Liu De (刘德), Prince Xian of Hejian (河间献王) during the Western Han Dynasty, collected and organized ancient books from the pre-Qin period. Later generations praised him for "cultivating learning and loving antiquity, seeking truth from facts." Yan Shigu (颜师古), a scholar of the Tang Dynasty, annotated "seeking truth from facts" as "striving to obtain the facts and seeking the truth in everything." "If there is a principle, then there is a thing," "Knowing is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowing," "To investigate things is to exhaust their principles, and only by measuring their qualities can one obtain them"... Since the Han Dynasty, whether it is the Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties or the pragmatic learning of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the shadow of seeking truth from facts can be found.
Yuelu Academy (岳麓书院), a millennium-old institution of learning, was already famous at home and abroad during the Southern Song Dynasty due to the "Zhu Zhang Academic Debates" (朱张会讲). The pragmatic style of Xiang (湘) scholars was highly respected by insightful people in modern times. The young Mao Zedong (毛泽东) once resided in the Banxue Zhai (半学斋) of Yuelu Academy (岳麓书院), influenced by the school's spirit of "seeking truth from facts." Later, during the Yan'an period, he summarized the ideological line of the Communist Party of China as "seeking truth from facts." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized adhering to seeking truth from facts. In 2020, during his inspection in Hunan (湖南), looking at the plaque of "seeking truth from facts" at Yuelu Academy (岳麓书院), he emphasized that "seeking truth from facts originates from here." Relying on adhering to emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping pace with the times, and being pragmatic and realistic, the Communists have engaged in revolution, construction, reform, and rejuvenation, constantly engraving miracles and great achievements into history.
From the rigorous and truthful academic attitude to the way of self-cultivation of investigating things to acquire knowledge and integrating knowledge with action, to the school spirit and work style of emphasizing practice, studying practical learning, and devoting oneself to practical industries, and then to the basic ideological method, working method, and leadership method of the Communists, seeking truth from facts is constantly forming new connotations in inheritance, innovation, and integration. It is not difficult to find that flow is an important characteristic of culture, cultural inheritance is a vertical flow, and cultural integration is a horizontal flow. Grasping the laws of cultural flow, promoting the continuous inheritance, innovative development, and exchange and integration of culture, the cultural connotation will be more colorful, and the essence of civilization can continue to be unique.
The excellent traditional Chinese culture has not been sealed in history, but flows, either implicitly or explicitly, in every corner of life, waiting for discerning eyes to discover and leaving it to wise minds to create. The inheritance and development of "seeking truth from facts" is a vivid example, which clearly shows that the excellent traditional Chinese culture "accumulates the deepest spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, represents the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation, and provides rich nourishment for the continuous survival and development of the Chinese nation," and also powerfully confirms that "the excellent traditional Chinese culture enriches the cultural life of Marxism and promotes the continuous realization of new leaps in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism."
Flow must have a source, and the cultural roots must not be severed for a moment. However, consolidating cultural subjectivity and mastering ideological and cultural initiative also requires innovation and creation supported by a materialist stance, a dialectical viewpoint, and a scientific method. The resurgence of the brilliance of Chinese civilization and the excavation of a modern civilization with clear channels and smooth water occurred after the birth of the Communist Party of China guided by Marxism. Thanks to combining the basic principles of Marxism with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, the rich treasure house of excellent traditional Chinese culture is linked and integrated with the rich picture of Chinese-style modernization. This not only gives the ancient civilization a profound heritage, but also expands the historical depth of Chinese-style modernization, thereby greatly boosting the cultural confidence of the Chinese people.
Culture is fluid and inclusive. Without integration with the values of the times, it cannot bring forth new ideas and be endless; without connection with the trends of the world, it cannot be beautiful and share the great harmony. The fluidity of culture means that the legacy of the past can be a resource for the present; the appearance of the future can be found in the past. Brilliant achievements, profound heritage, and long-lasting cultural veins are our inexhaustible treasures and inexhaustible resources. Taking the "two combinations" as the guideline, letting culture flow and letting history be fragrant is the code to promote cultural prosperity and development, and also the journey to promote the construction of a strong country and the rejuvenation of the nation.
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Forgetting how to write characters, words failing you when you want to speak; forgetting things right after they happen, looking everywhere for glasses you're already wearing… These memory decline phenomena, once considered a result of aging, are now appearing among adolescents.
The brains of adolescents are still in the developmental stage and have high plasticity, making them extremely susceptible to external environmental influences. In a sense, the "digital amnesia" phenomenon in some adolescents is the result of the deep embedding of digital scenarios into social life, the accelerated pace of modern life, and the interaction of unhealthy lifestyles.
Information overload and fragmented reading are the primary causes. When the brain copes with massive amounts of online information in a short period of time, the continuous "attention bombardment" easily leads adolescents into the quagmire of "shallow reading and shallow thinking."
Unhealthy lifestyle habits are an important reason. Insufficient sleep, an unbalanced diet, lack of physical exercise and outdoor activities, these factors together weaken the brain's memory function from the physiological foundation level.
Over-reliance on technological tools is also a factor. The brain, like a muscle, needs to maintain its strength and efficiency through repeated calls and stimulation. For adolescents, over-reliance on technological tools to replace mental labor can easily lead them unknowingly into a cognitive wasteland.
Living in the digital age, how can we help children protect their memory? We can start with several aspects.
Reshape information mastery and cultivate the "root" of deep thinking. We should strengthen media literacy education, cultivate adolescents' ability to distinguish the authenticity and value of information, and reduce the interference of invalid information. Vigorously advocate and create conditions to support in-depth reading and systematic learning, and encourage in-depth exploration, rather than 浅尝辄止 (qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ - "taste and stop," to dabble; to not go into things deeply).
Scientifically manage digital life and explore the "way" of human-machine harmony. To adapt to the digital age, we must learn to wisely control technological tools and make them "boosters" for improving cognitive abilities. Pay attention to exercising adolescents' cognitive abilities and create more "brain-training" opportunities in daily life.
Consolidate the foundation of a healthy life and nourish the "source" of brain growth. High-quality sleep, a balanced diet, and regular physical exercise are the only ways to enhance memory. We must encourage adolescents to go outdoors and embrace nature, and stimulate the brain's potential with physical vitality.
If the youth are strong, the country is strong. Protecting the memory of adolescents is also protecting their ability to explore the unknown and be innovative. This is not only being responsible for the children, but also being responsible for our future.
(Excerpted from *Anhui Daily* (《安徽日报》))
Return to TopBy: 杨文明
Guizhou's Zunyi Conference Site (遵义会议旧址) tells of the great turning point of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党) in a moment of crisis; the mountain caves on the banks of the Wujiang River (乌江) in Chongqing's Fuling (涪陵) record the glorious past of the western Third Front construction; the Siziwang Banner (四子王旗) aerospace landing site in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) undertook the heavy responsibility of landing the Shenzhou spacecraft in 1999... Modern and contemporary relics and buildings are engraved with the glorious course of the Party and the people's arduous struggle, carrying the cultural code of where we come from and where we are going.
The ongoing fourth national cultural relics census pays special attention to this: increasing the census efforts on material cultural heritage that reflects the history of the Party, the history of the New China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development, as well as on important modern historical sites closely related to important events, important institutions, and important figures since modern times. This work guideline is conducive to doing a good job in cultural relics registration and protection, and better playing its role in providing information and educating people.
The cultural relics census belongs to a major national condition and national strength survey, and is an important foundational work for the development of the cultural relics cause, as well as a requirement of the times for undertaking new cultural missions. Only by adhering to "**应普尽普**" (yīng pǔ jìn pǔ - "survey everything that should be surveyed," meaning a comprehensive survey) and "**应查尽查**" (yīng chá jìn chá - "investigate everything that should be investigated," meaning a thorough investigation), and as soon as possible finding out the "family assets" of cultural relics and lighting up the "coordinates" of cultural relics, can more cultural relics be identified and protected, and achieve "**应保尽保**" (yīng bǎo jìn bǎo - "protect everything that should be protected," meaning comprehensive protection). Increasing the discovery of cultural relics will also help provide support for subsequent rescue repairs and preventive protection, and better safeguard the safety and health of cultural relics. From revolutionary sites to historical landmarks, from ancient villages and old cities to underwater remains, from mountain and water environments to cultural landscapes, the cultural relics census work will gather scattered fragments of civilization into a cultural relics "genealogy," connect historical latitudes and longitudes, and provide us with important references for drawing on civilization wisdom, inheriting cultural roots, and promoting national spirit and the spirit of the times.
Cultural relics protection is a race against time, and also goes hand in hand with cognition. The cultural relics census requires not only the hard work of professional cultural relics protection teams, but also the participation of the public and social investment, and the awareness of cultural relics protection is constantly growing in this process. Looking back at previous cultural relics censuses, the "Second Census" expanded the "revolutionary sites and revolutionary memorial buildings" in the classification of cultural relics to "important modern historical sites and representative buildings"; the "Third Census" included industrial heritage, vernacular architecture, linear heritage, cultural landscapes and other types into the scope of the census; and many places in the "Fourth Census" practice for the first time explicitly included cultural landscapes as census objects. The standards for the identification of cultural relics are constantly improving, the objects of cultural relics protection are constantly expanding, and the value and connotation of cultural relics are constantly enriched, which will further strengthen the protection of historical and cultural heritage and enhance the national cultural relics protection action.
If ancient buildings and other cultural relics are left idle for a long time, they will gradually decay naturally; if relics and sites are "circled up" and prohibited from being visited and studied, it is a waste of cultural resources. The cultural relics census meticulously depicts a "panoramic view" of cultural relics resources, and implements the working policy of "protection first, rescue first, rational utilization, and strengthened management." Xi Jinping (习近平) General Secretary emphasized: "We must put the protection of historical and cultural heritage first, and at the same time make rational use of it, so that it can fully play its role in providing public cultural services and meeting the people's spiritual and cultural needs." The protection and utilization of cultural relics are not simply opposing relationships. On the basis of effectively increasing the census and protection of cultural relics, promoting the rational and moderate utilization of cultural relics can form a feedback effect on the protection of cultural relics.
For example, using cultural relics to carry out public cultural services. In Yunnan (云南), Malipo County (麻栗坡县) built a fitness trail along the millennium rock paintings on the edge of the county seat, allowing the public to approach cultural relics in their daily lives. Another example is exploring the economic value of cultural relics. Zhiziluo (知子罗) in Nujiang (怒江), Yunnan (云南), completely preserves the old state government landscape of the late 1970s, and the local area has taken advantage of the trend to develop rural tourism, attracting many tourists. Shaanxi (陕西) has transformed the old Xi'an Film Studio (西安电影制片厂) into an art museum and commercial aggregation "Film Circle," realizing a transformation from an abandoned industrial area to a modern industrial park. From a practical point of view, in-depth exploration of cultural relics stories and interpretation of the cultural spirit contained in cultural relics will allow the fruits of cultural relics protection to benefit the masses more.
Protecting cultural relics benefits the present and benefits the future. Every cultural relics census promotes the leapfrog development of the cultural relics cause. Adhering to "**应普尽普**" (yīng pǔ jìn pǔ - "survey everything that should be surveyed," meaning a comprehensive survey) and "**应保尽保**" (yīng bǎo jìn bǎo - "protect everything that should be protected," meaning comprehensive protection), so that cultural relics can be better protected and inherited, will surely lay a solid foundation for promoting the high-quality development of the cultural relics cause.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王乐文 方 敏 毕京津
As a major agricultural province and a major grain-exporting province, Henan Province (河南省) undertakes the important task of ensuring national food security. Since this spring, Henan (河南) has experienced continuous high temperatures and little rainfall, and the drought has had a certain impact on grain production.
How stable is Henan's (河南) summer grain production? How are various regions responding to the continuous drought? What new measures are being taken in terms of mechanized harvesting and field management? As the wheat ripens, reporters conducted interviews in many parts of Henan (河南).
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How stable is the summer grain production?
Some areas have reduced production, but the vast majority of areas have achieved the same level or increased production.
Tanghe County (唐河县) in Nanyang City (南阳市) is located in southwestern Henan (河南), with both plains and low mountainous and hilly landforms. In Dajing Village (大井村), Chengjiao Township (城郊乡), more than 400 mu of wheat has been harvested.
Standing on the edge of the field, Qiao Zhenqun (乔振群), the head of Zhenqun Family Farm, gave reporters a detailed account of the "drought resistance": "For 3% of the land, it is not cost-effective to install irrigation equipment, and the amount of water is not enough, resulting in reduced production; 90% of the land was irrigated twice, which is basically the same as last year; 7% of the land was irrigated three times. The weather is dry, and the wheat is free from diseases and insect pests such as wheat scab. With sufficient irrigation, the yield has actually increased a lot."
Hebi City (鹤壁市) is located in northern Henan (河南) and is mainly composed of plains. In the seed production field of Henan Chunxiao Seed Industry Co., Ltd. (河南春晓种业有限公司), Dong Benbo (董本波), the head of the company, is busy: "My hundred mu of land has good seeds, sufficient irrigation, and careful management, so this year is another bumper year!"
"As long as there is enough water, we are not afraid of drought now!" In the interview, many farmers told reporters that, overall, this summer's grain output is basically the same as last year.
How is irrigation water guaranteed? In recent years, Henan (河南) has built a total of 88.08 million mu of high-standard farmland, accounting for 78% of the province's farmland. In mature high-standard farmland, there is an average of one motorized well for every 50 mu, with water and electricity. Villagers swipe their cards to get water and irrigate the land as needed. Although this year has been hit by a severe drought, it has objectively suppressed the probability of diseases and insect pests such as wheat scab and powdery mildew that affect wheat yield.
"The drought has had a certain impact, but it is relatively limited." Sun Weifeng (孙巍峰), Director of the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (河南省农业农村厅), introduced that the summer grain production reduction areas are mainly concentrated in the western Henan (豫西) mountainous and hilly areas with difficult irrigation conditions. Most of the major wheat-producing areas in the northern Henan (豫北), eastern Henan (豫东), and southern Henan (豫南) plains have built high-standard farmland, and the impact of the drought is not significant. Some places have even seen increased production.
"In the face of the drought, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government have made arrangements and deployments many times, leading the entire province to fully fight the disaster and protect grain. At present, large-scale mechanized harvesting in the province has basically ended, with an area of 84.64 million mu, accounting for about 99.4% of the province's planting area. According to preliminary estimates, Henan's (河南) summer grain output this year will remain generally stable," said Sun Weifeng (孙巍峰).
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How to deal with the drought?
Repairing motorized wells, dredging ditches, opening gates to divert water, and providing assistance.
Due to the severe drought, some hilly plots in Henan (河南) have experienced land cracking caused by drought, which has attracted attention.
"These farmlands are mainly slopes and wasteland. The people are reluctant to let the fields go barren. When they see open space, they sow some seeds, hoping for a harvest," explained Fang Ming (方明), Deputy County Chief of Tanghe County (唐河县).
Reporters visited some villages in Tanghe County (唐河县) and found that the cultivated area of these plots was very small, and due to geological conditions, they did not have the conditions to dig wells.
"If we organize irrigation by sending water trucks, opening water pumps, and hiring people to carry water, the cost is too high, and many villagers have stopped managing it," Fang Ming (方明) introduced. In order to minimize the impact of the drought on the harvest, Tanghe County (唐河县) allocated a certain amount of drought relief funds this summer to dig deep wells in areas with suitable well-digging conditions to make up for infrastructure shortcomings. At the same time, it organized a drought relief team to irrigate some areas where water is easily accessible. On May 31, according to the weather conditions, Tanghe County (唐河县) also organized and implemented an artificial rain enhancement operation.
What has Henan (河南) done for the major grain-producing areas in central Henan (豫中), eastern Henan (豫东), and northern Henan (豫北)?
In a farmland in Chengzhuang Town (程庄镇), Minquan County (民权县), Shangqiu City (商丘市), local villagers inserted the water suction pipe of a water pump into the farmland drainage ditch to continuously pump water for irrigation. "In the past two years, we have focused on carrying out the connection and renovation of farmland ditches. At present, more than 90% of the farmland ditches in the county have been connected. At the same time, we have connected the qualified farmland drainage ditches with the Yellow River irrigation water diversion ditches, so that the drainage ditches can also be used for irrigation," said Wang Jingxian (王静娴), Secretary of the Minquan County Party Committee (民权县委).
In response to the problem of easy blockage and poor flow of farmland drainage facilities, Henan (河南) launched a three-year action to connect and renovate rural ditches last year, planning to invest nearly 17 billion yuan to accelerate the creation of a complete, cyclically smooth, and controllable rural ditch network system.
In the Xixian County (息县) Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau in Xinyang City (信阳市), many cadres keep a shovel in their cars. "We often go to the villages to check the soil moisture. If the soil moisture is not enough, we have to assist the villagers in watering," explained Chen Zhigang (陈志刚), Director of the Xixian County (息县) Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau.
Looking at the high piles of grain in the warehouse, grain grower Liu Xueyou (柳学友) said with a smile: "Thanks to the close supervision of the cadres in the county and township! Good watering leads to more wheat!"
In the first half of this year, the Xixian County (息县) Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau sent 6 grain expert guidance teams and a total of 30 technicians to villages to implement classified policies and scientific irrigation in response to the early drought, guiding drought-resistant wheat irrigation. For plots with water irrigation conditions, we did our best to irrigate them. "It can be said that this year's bumper harvest was watered," many villagers said in the interview.
To ensure that water can be irrigated, irrigation motorized wells are the key. "In the first half of this year, we conducted a centralized inspection of more than 1.15 million irrigation motorized wells and repaired 56,000 in a timely manner, and drought-resistant wheat irrigation exceeded 114 million mu," said Xu Gaoli (徐高立), Director of the Farmland Construction Division of the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (河南省农业农村厅).
Starting in March, Henan (河南) organized 228 large and medium-sized irrigation areas to divert 1.976 billion cubic meters of water, comprehensively carried out the inspection and repair of farmland motorized wells, and invested 643,000 units of various drainage and irrigation machinery; organized Party members and cadres to form drought relief service teams to help people in need with drought-resistant irrigation... The Henan Provincial Finance Department urgently allocated 50 million yuan for drought relief funds, plus the 386 million yuan of "one spray three prevention" funds and 30 million yuan of wheat scab prevention and control funds that had been invested previously, the total drought relief and grain protection investment of the province's finance reached 466 million yuan, and at the same time, it strived for 107 million yuan of central agricultural production disaster relief funds to support drought-resistant irrigation in various places, providing strong support for a bumper summer grain harvest.
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How to reduce the loss rate?
Take measures to ensure that the mechanized harvesting loss rate does not exceed 1%, and improve water-saving irrigation and intelligent management levels.
Standing in Dajing Village (大井村), Chengjiao Township (城郊乡), Tanghe County (唐河县), as far as the eye can see, the wheat has been harvested, leaving only short stubble. Taking a closer look, the stubble is uniform, and almost no fallen wheat ears are seen. "This year, no villagers came to pick up wheat ears," said Cui Yong (崔勇), head of the Tanghe (唐河) region of Beidahuang Agricultural Service Group. In the past, the mechanized harvesting loss rate was relatively high, and villagers were accustomed to picking up wheat ears.
This summer, in order to reduce the grain loss rate, Henan (河南) emphasized "taking multiple measures to ensure that the mechanized harvesting loss rate does not exceed 1%."
Walking into Zhenqun Family Farm, Qiao Zhenqun (乔振群) is wiping the new harvester: "The new machine is different, the wheat is harvested neatly and abundantly."
Making good use of the national agricultural machinery scrapping and renewal subsidy policy, and accelerating the structural adjustment of agricultural machinery, Henan (河南) added 12 new types of agricultural machinery to the scope of scrapping and renewal subsidies this year on the basis of the original 13 types of scrapped and renewed subsidized machinery, and also increased the scrapping subsidy standards for some agricultural machinery.
Qiao Zhenqun (乔振群) also told reporters that in previous years, farmers were afraid of rain, and agricultural machinery operators always rushed to harvest, causing a lot of waste. This year is different. Under the guidance of experts, agricultural machinery operators participated in training in advance. "It is also good that it does not rain. Agricultural machinery operators can harvest at a uniform and low speed when driving agricultural machinery, and the loss rate is controlled very low," said Qiao Zhenqun (乔振群).
The summer harvest is over, and summer planting begins. "Normally, corn has only an 80% emergence rate, but this year, with drip irrigation equipment, the emergence rate has exceeded 95%," said Cui Yong (崔勇), pointing to the newly sown corn. "Looking at the whole year, it should still be a bumper year!"
It is understood that by the end of this year, Henan (河南) will also complete the upgrading of 15 million mu of high-standard farmland, further improving water-saving irrigation and intelligent management levels.
At present, Henan's (河南) summer planting and summer management work is being carried out in an orderly manner. As of June 9, Henan's (河南) summer planting area has reached 76.616 million mu, accounting for 85.1% of the expected area; among them, grain crops have been planted 57.52 million mu, accounting for 85% of the expected area.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 马睿姗
Spreading a layer of coarse mud, applying a layer of white clay, polishing until smooth, outlining with light ink… Liu Ziqun (刘子群), a craftsman of traditional painted sculptures in Jincheng (晋城) and a representative inheritor of Shanxi (山西) provincial intangible cultural heritage, is dedicated to restoring murals, improving techniques, showcasing the simple beauty of murals, and making them breathe and have warmth.
At 2 a.m., only the final step – "opening the face" – remained for the murals in the backyard of the Guandi Temple (关帝庙) in Linfen (临汾), Shanxi. This is a crucial step in traditional mural painting, outlining the facial features of the figures and giving them expressions. For the painter, this step is particularly sacred and must wait until the heart is completely calm. Liu Ziqun (刘子群) (pictured, photo by Wang Fan (王帆)) held his breath, picked up his brush, and outlined the features. Seeing the divine light in the figures' eyes, he breathed a slight sigh of relief. At that moment, Liu Ziqun (刘子群) seemed to return to the Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) in Dunhuang (敦煌), gazing at the flying Apsaras murals dancing gracefully...
Shanxi (山西) currently has more than 12,000 painted sculptures and over 50,000 square meters of murals dating back to the Tang Dynasty (唐代). Born into a family of traditional painted sculpture artisans in Jincheng (晋城), Liu Ziqun (刘子群) returned to his hometown after graduating with a master's degree to engage in mural and painted sculpture creation and research, dedicating himself to restoring murals lost overseas.
Reproducing the Current State to Bring Lost Overseas Murals "Home"
Liu Ziqun (刘子群) opened his computer, and the screen displayed an image of the mural "Manjusri at His Desk" currently housed in the Cincinnati Art Museum in the United States. "The original site of the mural was in Guangsheng Temple (广胜寺) in Hongdong (洪洞), but the image of the pageboy in this mural does not match the image of works from the same period in the Yuan Dynasty (元代), so it is likely to have been restored based on the Western art system," he analyzed.
In 2015, Liu Ziqun (刘子群), who was already working on murals, went to the Sculpture Department of the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (鲁迅美术学院) for further study. The foreign language picture albums in the school's museum contained patterns of murals currently housed overseas, which immediately aroused his interest. Over the years, Liu Ziqun (刘子群) searched the official websites of museums in various countries for images of Chinese murals and painted sculptures. During the collection process, he decided to restore the murals by reproducing their current state, making up for the flaws in the restoration by his overseas counterparts.
How to restore the missing parts of the picture became the first problem blocking his path. Restoration must have sufficient basis. Liu Ziqun (刘子群) plunged into temples and ancient books, referring to a massive amount of paper and silk works, grotto murals, rock paintings, and other materials from the same period, and even transformed small pottery figurines in museums into flat mural images, meticulously working on each part.
After hundreds of failures and summaries of experience, Liu Ziqun's (刘子群) restoration technology became increasingly skilled. Mural fragments scattered in various countries gradually revealed their true appearance under his brush, including the "Incense Burning Bodhisattva" which is still lost overseas. These murals returned to their homeland in another form. "They can move the physical objects of the murals, but they can never move our mural craftsmanship. Our craftsmen will continue to pass on the skills," said Liu Ziqun (刘子群).
Repeated Experiments to Restore the Texture and Color of Murals
Spreading a layer of coarse mud, applying a layer of white clay, polishing until smooth, outlining with light ink, coloring with mineral pigments, applying raised lines, applying gold leaf... Completing a mural involves more than a dozen interlocking processes, all relying on the craftsman's years of accumulated experience. One step of negligence leads to 满盘皆输 (mǎn pán jiē shū - "the whole game is lost," a single mistake ruins the entire effort).
How can the restored murals be preserved for thousands of years without cracking or fading?
Soil is the foundation of murals. Liu Ziqun (刘子群) discovered that the ancients added a layer of straw as a "ground layer" between the building wall and the mural, allowing air to circulate between the mural and the building. This may be the secret to the long-term preservation of thousand-year-old murals and painted sculptures.
However, when Liu Ziqun (刘子群) independently created his first mural, he failed three times just making the mud board. After cutting the wooden board, stretching the cloth, and applying the coarse mud, fine mud, and white clay layers, the mud board suddenly cracked and had to be thrown away and started again... After many failures, Liu Ziqun (刘子群) found the reason: the fine mud should not be applied after the coarse mud coating has completely dried. Scraping the fine mud while the coarse mud is half-dry is more conducive to the mutual penetration of the two, so that the mural can "breathe" and is not easy to crack and deform.
In addition to making the murals more breathable physically, Liu Ziqun (刘子群) also constantly improved the coloring process. Murals from the Ming Dynasty (明代) and earlier used pure mineral colors throughout. Because mineral colors are granular, dust penetrates the surface over time, reducing the purity of the color and revealing a simple texture. In order to restore the colors of ancient murals, Liu Ziqun (刘子群) studied under Professor Wang Xiongfei (王雄飞) of the China Academy of Art (中国美术学院) and summarized a set of mineral pigment production methods.
"Dong--" A hammer fell, and malachite scattered into fragments. He poured it into a bowl, ground it into a fine powder, and then poured in clean water to stir, allowing the pigment to automatically stratify and precipitate. After "water flying," a piece of mineral stone can be separated into five colors from light to dark. Finally, gelatin is added in proportion to obtain mineral pigments. Today, although the application of chemical pigments has become popular, Liu Ziqun (刘子群) has his own insistence: "The essence of restoration lies in replicating the original ancient techniques of murals, showing their material beauty, and making the murals breathe and have warmth."
Research and Sorting to Explore the Cultural Origins of Murals
One afternoon, on a several-meter-high scaffolding inside the Guandi Temple (关帝庙) hall, a handful of mud was relayed in the hands of father and son: Liu Ziqun (刘子群) stood on the upper level, smoothing the surface of the painted sculpture; Liu Huibin (刘惠斌) stood on the lower level, meticulously carving the folds of the clothes; outside the hall, the apprentices carried mud buckets and pigments, busy going in and out.
Liu Ziqun's (刘子群) father, Liu Huibin (刘惠斌), is a representative inheritor of traditional painted sculpture in Jincheng (晋城), and has been engaged in painted sculpture and mural creation for more than 40 years. Under the influence of his father, Liu Ziqun (刘子群) has always insisted on creating while researching, and has gradually developed an ability: by simply observing a 25-square-centimeter area, through details such as line strokes and coloring procedures, he can judge the age of the mural. Yang Fuxue (杨富学), director of the Humanities Department of the Dunhuang Research Academy (敦煌研究院), once conducted research on the statues in the late Dunhuang grottoes. He believes that there may be a connection between Dunhuang (敦煌) and Shanxi (山西) in mural and painted sculpture art. To this end, Yang Fuxue (杨富学) invited Liu Ziqun (刘子群) to serve as a research consultant and join his project research.
Cave 3 of the Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) is a late Dunhuang grotto, and the murals inside are extremely exquisite. For many years, there has been a debate in academic circles about the construction age of Cave 3 of the Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟), with "Yuan Dynasty (元代) theory" and "Western Xia (西夏) theory." In order to find the answer, Liu Ziqun (刘子群) and his father took the research team to Yongle Palace (永乐宫) in Shanxi (山西), Yungang Grottoes (云冈石窟) and other places for field investigations. Liu Ziqun (刘子群) and the research team repeatedly discussed and found that the paintings in Cave 3 of the Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) had more Taoist elements in the clothing of the gods and Buddhas, and there were many similarities with the Taoist and Buddhist murals in Yongle Palace (永乐宫) in Ruicheng (芮城), Shanxi (山西) and Lower Guangsheng Temple (广胜下寺) in Hongdong (洪洞), inferring that Cave 3 of the Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) was a Yuan Dynasty (元代) relic, not Western Xia (西夏).
"Intangible cultural heritage skills must keep up with the times in order to change from 'niche' to 'popular'. In the future, we must not only adhere to tradition and cultivate new talents, but also adhere to academic research and deeply explore the historical and cultural value of Shanxi (山西) traditional mural painted sculpture techniques, providing a scientific basis for cultural relic protection," said Liu Ziqun (刘子群).
Return to TopAccording to reports from our newspaper in Beijing (北京) on June 11th (Reporter Wang Haonan (王昊男)), the world's first embodied intelligence robot "4S" store will officially debut during the 2025 World Robot Conference and will be located in the Beijing (北京) Robot Industrial Park (Yizhuang (亦庄)).
It is reported that the "4S" store takes embodied intelligence robots as its core, innovatively integrating robot sales (Sale), spare parts supply (Sparepart), after-sales service (Service), and information feedback (Survey), aiming to build a service system covering the entire life cycle of robots and achieve efficient connection and value transformation between supply and demand.
Currently, more than 100 upstream and downstream enterprises in the robot industry chain have clearly expressed their intention to settle in, including 30 humanoid robot companies. Beijing (北京) Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, UBTECH and other 10 leading embodied intelligence robot companies have signed cooperation intention agreements with the robot "4S" store, and are expected to become the first batch of resident enterprises.
As an important gathering place for the robot industry in Beijing (北京) and the permanent venue for the World Robot Conference, Beijing (北京) Yizhuang (亦庄) has now gathered more than 300 robot and intelligent manufacturing ecological enterprises, with the scale of the industrial chain exceeding 10 billion yuan.
Return to TopThe intelligent upward-moving formwork bridge-building machine possesses "intelligent manufacturing" systems such as vibration control and intelligent canopy control. Compared to traditional downward-moving formwork, it has a higher degree of mechanization and greater stability. It can perform continuous cyclical operations and is not restricted by the terrain below. The photo shows the intelligent upward-moving formwork bridge-building machine of the Shenzhen-Jiangmen Railway Grand Bridge across the Yanjiang Expressway in Dongguan (东莞), Guangdong (广东) on June 9, carrying out bridge pouring operations.
Min Hui (闵辉) Photo (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper, Xiong'an (雄安) June 11th (Reporter Zhang Zhifeng (张志锋)) On June 10th, the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) Artificial Intelligence Industry Ecological Innovation and Development Activity opened, the Xiong'an (雄安) Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park officially opened, and platforms such as the Xiong'an (雄安) Artificial Intelligence Industry Research Institute were established.
The Xiong'an (雄安) Artificial Intelligence Industry Research Institute is jointly constructed by Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) and the Interdisciplinary Information Research Institute led by Academician Yao Qizhi (姚期智) of Tsinghua University (清华大学) and the Intelligent Industry Research Institute led by Academician Zhang Yaqin (张亚勤), creating a "1+6" public research and development platform, namely 1 talent training platform and laboratories in 6 directions such as intelligent driving and smart Internet of Things.
The Xiong'an (雄安) Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park focuses on fields such as AI + transportation, meteorology, medical care, and brain science, and has attracted a number of science and technology innovation-oriented enterprises such as Insight Technology (洞见科技) to settle in. In order to allow national-level high-level talents to innovate and start businesses in Xiong'an (雄安), the Xiong'an (雄安) Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park introduces expert talents through expert committee appointments, 揭榜挂帅 (jiē bǎng guà shuài - "accept the challenge," to publicly invite capable individuals to take on important tasks), and other methods, carries out industry-education integration, and jointly builds a talent training platform with Tsinghua University (清华大学) to cultivate application-oriented talents.
The Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) Reform and Development Bureau has introduced measures to support platform construction, enterprise cultivation, technology research and development, product promotion, and scenario creation, etc., relying on the 10 billion yuan Xiong'an (雄安) Industrial Investment Guidance Fund and the 10 billion yuan Xiong'an (雄安) Science and Technology Innovation Equity Investment Fund to form a fund management system to provide assistance to enterprises.
Return to TopAccording to a press conference held by the Gansu (甘肃) Provincial Government Information Office on June 11th, Lanzhou (兰州), this year, Gansu (甘肃) will focus on representative cultural and natural heritage sites such as grotto temples, the Great Wall, ancient city ruins, ancient buildings, and the Zhangye Danxia Landform (张掖彩丘) to accelerate the construction of the Hexi Corridor (河西走廊) National Heritage Route. An estimated investment of 610 million yuan will be used to promote the implementation of 120 specific tasks.
According to the "Implementation Plan for the Construction of the Hexi Corridor (河西走廊) National Heritage Route," Gansu (甘肃) has selected 52 representative cultural and natural heritage sites, including important grotto temples, the Great Wall, ancient city ruins, ancient buildings, famous cities and towns, and the Zhangye Danxia Landform (张掖彩丘), as well as 20 national-level intangible cultural heritage projects. It has also deployed 19 specific tasks, focusing on building a coordinated protection system for cultural and natural heritage and a deeply integrated development system for cultural tourism, to create a symbol of Chinese civilization.
By the end of 2030, Gansu (甘肃) will have fully established five major sections of the Hexi Corridor (河西走廊) National Heritage Route: cultural heritage protection, inheritance, and utilization; natural heritage protection, inheritance, and utilization; ethnic folk intangible cultural heritage protection, inheritance, and display; an international tourism belt; and international cultural exchange and cooperation. This will form a replicable, scalable, and promotable national heritage route construction system, standard specifications, and practical experience that can be used as a reference.
Return to TopThis newspaper Shenyang (沈阳) June 11th (Reporter Liu Hongchao (刘洪超)) reported: Reporters learned on the 11th from the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (辽宁省文物考古研究院) that archaeologists have newly discovered 44 Hongshan Culture (红山文化) sites in the middle reaches of the Daling River (大凌河) (Chaoyang (朝阳)) area during archaeological surveys of the Hongshan Culture, adding further evidence to the evolutionary process of Hongshan civilization.
The archaeological survey of the Hongshan Culture in the middle reaches of the Daling River (Chaoyang (朝阳)) area is an important field work within the "Archaeological China Major Project - Research on the Civilizational Process of Hongshan Society." This survey officially started in February 2025. The Daling River (大凌河) basin is an important distribution area of Hongshan Culture remains. This archaeological survey investigated a total area of 1,500 square kilometers in the Daling River (大凌河) main stream and its tributaries, including the Gudong River (顾洞河), Liangshui River (凉水河), and Mangniu River (牤牛河) basins. A total of 570 sites were investigated, including 374 newly discovered sites, including 44 newly discovered Hongshan Culture (红山文化) sites. This survey will help to comprehensively understand the distribution and settlement characteristics of Hongshan Culture remains in the middle reaches of the Daling River (大凌河) area, and provide new materials for the study of the civilizational process of Hongshan society.
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Malls where you can ride your bike, malls that bring a "mountain city" indoors, malls that "grow" on large lawns... New and trendy malls are opening in many places, featuring unique themes, scene designs, and social interactions, providing diverse formats for a variety of experiences, driving mass consumption, especially among young people, and gaining recognition and favor from the younger generation.
Riding a Bike Through the Mall
In Tianfu Fourth Street (天府四街), High-tech Zone (高新区), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), cycling enthusiast Feng Yang (冯杨) rode his bicycle into the "Here CyPARK" commercial park.
In the square and on the main roads, Feng Yang (冯杨) either rode or walked, enjoying himself. If he wanted to go upstairs, he could take his bike into the elevator or walk it up the stairs. The stairs have slides that can hold the wheels in place, making them easy to use.
Corridors connect the buildings, so you don't have to go up and down the stairs repeatedly or walk unnecessary routes. If you want to go into a store, you can park your bike at a nearby parking spot. "Bike-friendly malls give us a new experience," said Feng Yang (冯杨).
"Here CyPARK" is a new concept commercial park with cycling as its theme, which opened and began operations in June last year. The mall is directly connected to Chengdu's (成都) ring road cycling route and is connected to an 8.6-kilometer elevated cycling path, giving it a clear location advantage and making it a gathering place for cycling enthusiasts.
Inside the mall, cycling enthusiasts wearing professional sportswear, helmets, and goggles are accompanied by stylish and cool bicycles, in groups of three or five, which is very eye-catching. "Cycling has become a lifestyle with many participants," said Yang Rui (杨睿), general manager of Chengdu High-tech Leading Kai Commercial Operation Management Co., Ltd. (成都高新领开商业运营管理有限公司), the mall's operator. "The bike-friendly theme not only attracts cycling enthusiasts but also adds a unique landscape to the mall, allowing general customers to immerse themselves in it."
"Here CyPARK" is a semi-open space where cycling enthusiasts can ride at a speed of no more than 10 kilometers per hour along the designated routes. To ensure safety, security personnel patrol and check to stop speeding.
In terms of business formats, "Here CyPARK" chooses niche tracks, focusing on four directions: outdoor communities, fashion trends, social life, and cultural arts, and introduces related brands. At the same time, related stores also regularly hold cycling competitions, fashion exhibitions, art exchanges, and other community activities to enhance the stickiness between consumers and brands. "Thousands of people have joined our brand community," said Lan Haiyang (兰海洋), store manager of an off-road running brand.
Feng Yang (冯杨) joined a sports brand's community and often comes to participate in regular running training and hiking activities. "Everyone is a fitness 'fanatic,' so I've found like-minded people." Currently, the mall has 15 first stores in Southwest China and more than 20 community flagship stores, and has carried out more than 500 diverse community activities.
Climbing a "Mountain" to Shop
In the Hongqi Street (红旗街) business district of Changchun (长春), Jilin (吉林), there is a mall that "opens to a mountain."
Stepping into the mall is like entering a "mountain city." Looking up, you can see the mountain peaks at high places. Walking up the mountain road step by step, you can see elements such as caves, slopes, rocks, and trees, giving people a mountaineering experience comparable to reality. Cliffs, pavilions, streets, courtyards, plaques, and lanterns are organically integrated, staggered and quaint. The crowds are like weaving, mostly young faces, who wander around taking pictures, entering and exiting shops, and enjoying the novel experience of climbing a mountain while shopping.
This mall, called "This Mountain" (这有山), is also an indoor leisure resort cultural tourism town, which opened in 2019 and was selected as one of the first national-level night culture and tourism consumption gathering areas in 2021.
Why build the mall into a "mountain city"? "Changchun (长春) is located on a plain, and there are no mountains to climb in the city. We thought, why not 'move' the mountains to the city center, which can not only enrich the consumer experience but also create differentiated highlights," said Sun Yanjing (孙亚婧), head of the planning department of Changchun This Mountain Cultural Tourism Commercial Development Co., Ltd. (长春这有山文旅商业发展有限公司).
"This Mountain" targets young consumer groups, attracting young people with trendy consumption scenarios. Dining and food areas, cinema blocks, cultural and creative blocks, cafes, bookstores... In this "mountain city," you can not only gain an immersive travel experience but also enjoy the charm of historical culture.
In the "Mountain Academy" on the "mid-mountain," people are shoulder to shoulder, either reading books or participating in interactions. In the handmade printing experience area, college student Wang Yue (王月) is full of interest: "Printing and binding are very particular. I finally understand what the production process of a paper book is."
According to statistics, "This Mountain" had an average daily traffic of about 30,000 people last year, with annual sales of about 480 million yuan. "We will continue to do a good job in the deep excavation and integration of commercial, cultural, and tourism resources," said Sun Yanjing (孙亚婧).
Shopping on the Green Grass
In the Ancient City Cultural Tourism Area (古城文化旅游区) of Quzhou (衢州), Zhejiang (浙江), there is a mall that "grows" on a large lawn.
As Quzhou's (衢州) first park-style commercial complex, "Luming Island Yintai inPARK" (鹿鸣岛银泰inPARK) relies on a double lawn design to create a diverse leisure space, allowing customers to immerse themselves in the wonderful feeling of "micro-vacation in the city."
The natural lawn is full of vitality. "We have preserved the original appearance of the lawn, allowing the commercial complex to 'grow' in nature," said Zhu Weizhe (朱维哲), head of the Yintai (银泰) planning department. From parent-child sports meets to lakeside film festivals, the natural lawn meets the needs of all age groups, especially young people.
The natural lawn has also become a stage for urban cultural activities. The music festival on the lawn attracts thousands of music fans waving glow sticks; on weekdays, people come to the lawn to enjoy the lake view and watch the stars, and on weekends, they can come to the creative market here, where stalls, coffee cars, and camping tents together form a unique scenery.
The aerial lawn is full of comfort. In this green space laid on the roof of the mall, parents bring their children to picnic and fly kites, and young people come here to check in at the "lawn sunset cafe." Zhu Weizhe (朱维哲) introduced that the aerial lawn can not only host small weddings and corporate team building, but also recently launched activities such as "starry sky yoga classes" and "rooftop reading clubs."
Stepping from the lawn into the mall, the lakeside dining area is very popular. Tourist Zhou Ying (周莹) and her friends sat in an outdoor seat set up by a restaurant, taking pictures of the food and the distant grassland scenery with their mobile phones. "A casual shot is a blockbuster," said Zhou Ying (周莹).
It is reported that since its opening in October last year, the mall has held nearly 50 themed events. Through the "event diversion—scene consumption—word-of-mouth communication" model, the mall's member repurchase rate has increased to 45%. In the first five months of this year, the mall's sales exceeded 42 million yuan.
Watching the clouds rise and fall on the natural lawn, and watching the city sunset on the aerial lawn, the "poetry and distance" without the need for a long trip is bringing citizens and young people a wonderful consumption experience and life enjoyment.
(Correspondent Liu Fei (刘飞) participated in the writing of this report)
This issue is coordinated by: Shang Rongzheng (尚嵘峥)
Layout design: Zhang Fangman (张芳曼)
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What is a shopping mall like?
Inside an enclosed building, from the basement to the top floor, restaurants, jewelry stores, clothing stores, entertainment venues, and other shops are distributed in order—this is the inherent impression people have of traditional shopping malls.
With the development of the economy and society, young people today are more willing to go out and pay for their "favorite things," seeking fresh experiences and emotional value. Trendy shopping malls that target the needs of young people and break the traditional model have emerged as the times require.
Using "cycling friendliness" to attract emerging customer groups, integrating cultural tourism scenes with "mountain city" elements, and satisfying the "micro-vacation" needs of urbanites with lawn spaces... Diversified shopping mall formats focus on enriching scenes, optimizing supply, and forming differentiation, making consumers, especially young people, more willing to shop, shop, shop, thereby boosting consumption and enlivening the market.
Shopping malls are unique, and young people have a special liking for them. Trendy shopping malls and energetic young people go both ways and spark, adding momentum and bright colors to the consumer market, and also becoming a vivid footnote for people to be full of good yearning and pursue a better life.
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432 small, walking-type shifting robots "carried" a Shikumen (石库门) building complex weighing approximately 7,500 tons, "walking" over a hundred meters at an average speed of 10 meters per day, and then returning the building complex to its original location after the relevant construction was completed. On June 7, "Huayan Lane" (华严里), the largest group-style Shikumen building complex in China, was returned to its original location after being moved as a whole, and the deep development of the three-story underground space of Zhang Garden (张园) in Jing'an District (静安区), Shanghai (上海) officially started.
Zhang Garden (张园) has a history of more than 140 years and is the largest, most complete, and most diverse Shikumen (石库门) building complex in Shanghai (上海). Zhang Garden (张园) retains the "vertical, horizontal, oblique, and curved" characteristics of old-fashioned Shanghai (上海) alleyways. The internal space is narrow, and conventional large equipment is almost **束手无策** (shù shǒu wú cè - "hands tied no plan," to be at one's wit's end; helpless) in the event of construction and renovation.
The Shanghai Construction No. 2 Building Group Urban Renewal Construction Co., Ltd. is undertaking the underground space renovation project of Zhang Garden (张园). According to Zhang Yi (章谊), General Manager of the company, the project involves a total of 29 Shikumen (石库门) buildings. The Zhang Garden (张园) "Huayan Lane" (华严里) that was returned this time consists of 3 brick-and-wood structure buildings with a total construction area of 4,030 square meters and a weight of approximately 7,500 tons. The No. 2 Building Group used small, walking-type shifting robots to move the "Huayan Lane" (华严里) behemoth in a group-style manner, realizing temporary relocation, thereby reducing the impact of underground space development on old buildings.
The most difficult area to construct in the central area of Zhang Garden (张园) is the 7 old buildings that use the in-situ jacking and supporting technology, the most well-known of which is the "Zhang Garden Great Hall" (张园大客堂), which was built in 1928. In the 1940s, it was the "Shuqun Night School" (树群夜校) that carried out patriotic and revolutionary ideal education for many young people with lofty ideals. During the pile foundation stage, the No. 2 Building Group used the developed mini "tank" - self-propelled low-clearance drilling and grouting pile machine and self-propelled MJS jet grouting pile machine to show their skills in the old building. They are controlled by a wireless remote control to walk, fold, and steer, freely enter and exit the door openings, and drive rows of engineering piles in the house.
According to Zhang Yi (章谊), in order to meet the ultra-low clearance construction conditions, the team specially customized and produced small excavation robots, which adopt a folding mechanical arm and chassis integrated design, and integrate crawler-wheel compound drive technology, which can autonomously turn and move in Shikumen (石库门) alleyways with a width of less than 1.2 meters. Based on deep learning algorithms, the excavation robot can also accurately distinguish between clay and obstacles, realizing intelligent obstacle clearing and path planning.
Chen Rujian (陈汝俭), Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Jing'an Real Estate Group (上海静安置业集团), introduced that the three-story underground space development of Zhang Garden (张园) is 15 meters deep, which can release 53,000 square meters of space, which will comprehensively set up commercial, cultural, underground parking and other facilities, and realize the transfer within the Nanjing West Road Station (南京西路站) of Rail Transit Lines 2, 12, and 13. After Zhang Garden (张园) is fully opened, the connection between the above-ground and underground spaces of the entire block and the interconnection with the surrounding buildings, shopping malls, and blocks will be realized, forming an urban renewal case with a focus on historical culture and strong immersive experience.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Xining (西宁) June 11th dispatch (Reporter Qiao Dong (乔栋)): This reporter learned from the press conference of the "2024 Qinghai Province Ecological Environment Status Bulletin" held by the Qinghai Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment (青海省生态环境厅) recently: In 2024, the proportion of water quality at 35 national assessment and monitoring sections of surface water in Qinghai Province reaching or exceeding Class III was 100%. Qinghai (青海) is the location of the "Three Rivers Source" (三江源) of the Yangtze River (长江), Yellow River (黄河), and Lancang River (澜沧江). Water quality monitoring results show that the water quality of the main streams of the three rivers has reached Class II or above. At present, the total water resources in the Sanjiangyuan (三江源) area is 59.915 billion cubic meters.
Since last year, Qinghai Province (青海省) has carried out mid-term evaluations of key river basin water ecological environment protection plans and action plans for ecological protection and management of the Yellow River (黄河) and protection and restoration of the Yangtze River (长江), focusing on implementing various goals and tasks. It has promoted the investigation of pipeline network leakage points and mixing points, effectively responding to the problems of external water intrusion and sewage overflow. A comprehensive "investigation, testing, tracing, and treatment" of sewage outlets has been carried out, completing the province's key river basin river (lake) sewage outlet investigation, tracing, and annual rectification tasks.
In addition, Qinghai Province (青海省) continues to closely monitor the province's water environment quality, closely monitor the changing trends of national and provincial control sections, rigidly implement the water quality daily reporting system, and urge local governments to trace and rectify problems. Adhering to the governance policy of natural restoration as the main focus and artificial restoration as a supplement, focusing on the goals and tasks of the key river basin water ecological environment protection plan, projects such as drinking water source protection, river basin water environment management and water ecological restoration, groundwater ecological environment protection, and water pollution prevention and control supervision capacity building have been implemented to continuously promote ecological restoration and governance.
Return to TopAccording to the Big Data Development Bureau of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) , our reporter Zhang Yunhe (张云河) reports from Nanning (南宁) on June 11th: Recently, the "China-ASEAN Legal Large Model" and the "Quchi Communication Operation and Maintenance Large Model" declared by Guangxi (广西) have officially passed the record filing of the State Internet Information Office (国家互联网信息办公室). The two major models are now online and running, which will inject new impetus into deepening China-ASEAN artificial intelligence cooperation, and contribute Guangxi's (广西) strength to building a "digital bridge" and empowering the intelligent upgrading of the industry.
The "China-ASEAN Legal Large Model" is a legal intelligent service model built to serve the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative. The model strictly follows the current laws and regulations of China and ASEAN countries, integrates authoritative legal texts, judicial interpretations, and typical cases, and constructs a professional and reliable legal knowledge system. The model focuses on practical areas such as cross-border business operations, commercial dispute resolution, and intellectual property protection, providing professional services such as legal intelligent consultation, policy interpretation, and risk assessment. Through multilingual translation and clause traceability functions, it effectively promotes legal coordination and mutual recognition between China and ASEAN countries.
The "Quchi Communication Operation and Maintenance Large Model" is specially customized for the communication industry. By integrating natural language processing, structured knowledge graphs, and generative artificial intelligence technologies, it provides efficient, professional, and explainable intelligent assistance for communication operation and maintenance personnel, helping to improve the operation and maintenance efficiency and intelligence level of the communication industry.
Return to TopThis newspaper Tianjin (天津) June 11th dispatch (Reporter Gong Xiangjuan (龚相娟)) Recently, the 2025 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) Automotive Supply Chain Innovation Collaboration Conference was held in Tianjin (天津), with more than 10 vehicle enterprises and more than 400 parts enterprises participating. The conference aims to break down upstream and downstream collaboration barriers, promote efficient allocation of resources, promote collaborative cooperation and information sharing between enterprises, and build a safe, stable, and efficient automotive supply chain and industrial chain system.
At the conference, the Intelligent Connected New Energy Vehicle Testing and Certification Public Service Platform was inaugurated. The platform will provide the industry with an integrated "testing-certification-service" solution to accelerate industrial standardization and internationalization. According to reports, the in-depth advancement of the major national strategy of coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) has brought unprecedented development opportunities to the regional automotive industry. In recent years, the automotive industry, especially the new energy and intelligent connected vehicle industry, has become an important engine for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀). Last year, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) Intelligent Connected New Energy Vehicle Science and Technology Ecological Port, jointly built by the three regions, was officially launched, with the simultaneous construction of three parks located in Shunyi District (顺义区), Beijing (北京), Wuqing District (武清区), Tianjin (天津), and Anci District (安次区), Langfang (廊坊). Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) is committed to jointly building a concentrated carrying space for the intelligent connected new energy vehicle parts industry, realizing the "joint manufacturing of a car" in the three regions.
In the next step, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) will continue to deepen industrial collaboration, continuously strengthen industrial chain collaboration, deepen platform support, expand industrial alliances, optimize the industrial ecology, and continuously promote the high-quality development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) automotive industry.
Return to TopOn June 10th, at the Nansha Automobile Terminal of Guangzhou Port (广州港南沙汽车码头), located at the mouth of the Pearl River (珠江), various types of cars were neatly arranged, waiting to be loaded onto ships and exported.
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Return to TopAccording to a report from our newspaper in Beijing on June 11th (Reporter Gu Yekai (谷业凯)), the National Key Laboratory of Processor Chips at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), in conjunction with the Institute of Software, has recently launched the world's first processor chip software and hardware fully automated design system based on artificial intelligence technology - "Enlightenment." This system can realize the whole process of automatic design from chip hardware to basic software, and achieve the level of manual design by human experts in many key indicators, marking a solid step forward for China in the field of artificial intelligence automatic chip design.
The relevant team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) relies on advanced artificial intelligence technologies such as large models to develop the "Enlightenment" system, which can realize the automatic design of CPUs and automatically configure corresponding operating systems, translation programs, high-performance operator libraries and other basic software for chips. This research is expected to change the design paradigm of processor chip software and hardware, reduce manual participation in the chip design process, improve design efficiency, and achieve rapid customized design for specific application scenario requirements, flexibly meeting the increasingly diversified needs of chip design.
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Huawei Builds a Multi-Level Talent Training System
Promoting the Rapid Growth of Young Engineers
By Li Gang (李刚), Our Reporter
"Yuechen, would you like to participate in the platform verification work for the new chip?"
In July 2023, Li Yuechen (李悦辰), a graduate of Xidian University (西安电子科技大学), officially joined Huawei's Wireless Baseband Development and Chip Verification Department III. Unexpectedly, just after the onboarding adaptation period, the supervisor entrusted her with an important task.
In the first six months of her employment, the company arranged a dedicated mentor for Li Yuechen (李悦辰), who made a detailed career plan for her. The mentor also answered all her questions about work, aiming to help the newcomer grow quickly. Eventually, Li Yuechen (李悦辰) successfully completed the task.
For the 2025 graduation season, Huawei's 2025 "Brave New World" graduate recruitment program opened more than 60 types of positions, including AI engineers, software development engineers, hardware technology engineers, and artificial intelligence algorithm engineers, planning to recruit more than 10,000 outstanding graduates.
Around key areas such as AI large models, high-performance computing, and ecological development, Huawei is building a positive cycle of "technology research and development - talent cultivation - industrial driving." Huawei is deepening the introduction of high-end talents, launching internship programs covering development, testing, cutting-edge technology exploration, finance, and other fields, planning to train more than 5,000 future industry elites throughout the year; and by building a new internal talent empowerment ecosystem, creating a multi-level training system and customized growth paths. In 2024, nearly 10,000 Huawei employees achieved personal career development transformation through internal system training and skills conversion. Through HarmonyOS (鸿蒙), Kunpeng (鲲鹏), and Ascend (昇腾) ecological cooperation projects, Huawei has established in-depth cooperation with more than 100 domestic universities and many ecological enterprises, establishing an open talent ecosystem. At present, the developer community has accumulated more than 10 million developers, and the ecological chain has driven more than 10 million employment opportunities.
Alibaba Strengthens Talent Introduction and Cultivation in the AI Field
Providing Broad Development Space for Young People
By Qi Zhiming (齐志明), Our Reporter
On March 11, Luo Jiayi (罗加壹) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) received the first offer letter from Alibaba's 2026 intern recruitment. "Alibaba Cloud's (阿里云) interview efficiency is very high. I went through three rounds of interviews and received the admission notice in less than two weeks," said Luo Jiayi (罗加壹).
On February 27, Alibaba officially launched the spring 2026 intern recruitment, opening more than 3,000 positions, of which nearly 50% are related to AI.
Increasing the introduction and cultivation of talents in the AI field is a common direction for the recruitment of various business groups (companies) under Alibaba this year. On March 3, Taotian Group (淘天集团) officially launched the 2026 intern recruitment, which is expected to issue more than 1,000 admission notices, with algorithms and AI-related positions accounting for nearly 50%.
In Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group's (阿里国际商业集团) 2026 campus recruitment plan, 80% are AI positions. Alibaba International (阿里国际) launched a global top AI technology talent training program for the first time, breaking the traditional campus recruitment system. After passing the interview, candidates can reverse-select projects and teams, launching five major positions: algorithm engineer, data engineer, R&D engineer, large model algorithm engineer, and large model platform R&D engineer.
In this year's spring recruitment, the technical positions released by Ele.me (饿了么) accounted for more than 85% of the recruitment, of which AI algorithm-related positions accounted for more than 30%. The position directions are mainly concentrated in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and other aspects, and the platform's demand for AI algorithm talents is significant.
"Alibaba is increasing its efforts to introduce and cultivate talents in the AI field. We hope to provide broader development space for more outstanding young talents and jointly embrace the huge development opportunities of the AI era," said Jiang Fang (蒋芳), Chief Talent Officer of Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴集团).
Integration of Industry, Academia, and Research
University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Guides Students to Work and Start Businesses at the Grassroots Level
Enhancing the Ability to Take Root Downward and Grow Towards the Sun
By Huang Chao (黄超), Our Reporter
"I am now involved in the daily management, revitalization, leasing, and sales of state-owned assets in the street." Through the "Western China Volunteer Program (西部计划)," Qin Mei (秦梅), a 2023 graduate of the School of Applied Economics of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院大学), became a street worker in Rongchang District (荣昌区), Chongqing (重庆). During her two years of service, she honed her work skills while dedicating herself to volunteer service.
In recent years, the school has regularly organized training for employment guidance teachers and counselors to familiarize themselves with grassroots service projects and provide students with one-on-one policy consultation, registration guidance, interview coaching, and other services to improve students' professional skills.
Taking the School of Applied Economics as an example, since its establishment in 2022, nearly 20 graduates have gone to work at the grassroots level through the "Western China Volunteer Program (西部计划)," "Three Supports and One Assistance (三支一扶)," local selection of college graduates, and other forms.
"Guiding and supporting students to work and start businesses at the grassroots level requires strong professionalism," said Sun Xiaohui (孙晓晖), a teacher at the School of Applied Economics responsible for student employment. It is necessary to enable students to serve the front line with what they have learned and also to make them feel a sense of gain in their grassroots work. "This requires us to start from stimulating students' internal motivation and social value and enhance the ability of young people to take root downward and grow towards the sun."
In recent years, the school has cooperated with grassroots units to establish teaching practice bases, combining school education with the actual situation of employers, and providing a high-level supply and demand docking platform for students' career development, cutting-edge research, and field visits. For example, the School of Applied Economics and China Railway Construction Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (中铁建金融租赁有限公司) carry out industry-university-research collaborative education. The school selects outstanding students to intern at the company according to the professional teaching plan and the company's needs. The company coordinates internal resources, transforms the actual problems in business development into student research topics to help its own development, and at the same time, regularly provides feedback on students' internships, research, and other situations to promote a virtuous circle of high-quality talent cultivation between schools and enterprises.
Hangzhou Dianzi University Promotes Enterprise Cases into Curriculum Teaching
Schools and Enterprises Jointly Offer Courses, Combining Theory with Practice
By Wu Yue (吴月), Our Reporter
Two years ago, he was still sitting in the classroom listening to experts from Hikvision (海康威视) explain embedded development knowledge. Now he has become an engineer at Hikvision (海康威视)... Recently, the third phase of the embedded characteristic course class jointly opened by Hangzhou Dianzi University (杭州电子科技大学) and Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州海康威视数字技术股份有限公司) graduated. Huang Xiansheng (黄贤盛), who graduated last year, shared his job search experience with his younger students.
"In class, you can fully understand the overall framework and structured knowledge of embedded development. The course also attaches great importance to hands-on practical ability, helping us to apply theoretical knowledge to practical operations." Recalling his experience in participating in the first phase of the course class, Huang Xiansheng (黄贤盛) said that what he learned laid the foundation for his job search and work.
What to teach in class and who will teach it? Ying Na (应娜), deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of Hangzhou Dianzi University (杭州电子科技大学), introduced that the school has established a deep school-enterprise cooperation relationship with Hikvision (海康威视). From the revision of the curriculum outline, the development of course content to the trial production of practical equipment, both the school and the enterprise repeatedly discuss. The teaching venue is provided by the School of Communication Engineering of the school, while Hikvision (海康威视) brings expert teams, textbooks, practical equipment, etc., combined with real cases in the actual production of the enterprise, and adopts project-based teaching to cultivate students' practical ability, and strives to enable students to master the technology required by the enterprise during their school years.
Not only learn skills, but also help find a job - after participating in the third phase of the characteristic course class, Gao Yan (高岩), a graduate student, was rated as an excellent student and obtained the opportunity to enter Hikvision (海康威视) for internship without examination. Lu Feng (卢峰), deputy director of the Admissions and Employment Office of Hangzhou Dianzi University (杭州电子科技大学), introduced that in the past 4 years, more than 300 graduates of the school have become technical backbones of Hikvision (海康威视) through internship and regularization, and currently there are about 2,000 graduates working at Hikvision (海康威视).
School-Enterprise Collaboration
Beijing Sport University Enriches Talent Training School-Enterprise Cooperation Projects
Internship and Training Enhance Employment Competitiveness
By Huang Chao (黄超), Our Reporter
"Being able to apply what I have learned to product design, help athletes improve their performance, and win glory for the country, I am honored." Deng Cheng (邓成) is a 2025 master's graduate of the Department of Sports Human Science of Beijing Sport University (北京体育大学). During his graduate studies, he participated in the research and development of weightlifting shoes, providing support for the Chinese weightlifting team to achieve good results in major competitions.
During the autumn recruitment stage in 2024, Deng Cheng (邓成) received an offer from Anta Group (安踏集团). "The school-enterprise cooperation project not only helped me transform theoretical knowledge into practical ability, but also allowed me to understand the needs of enterprises earlier," said Deng Cheng (邓成).
In recent years, Beijing Sport University (北体大) has established a strategic partnership with Anta Group (安踏集团) to jointly build a sports technology research and development center, build a school-enterprise collaborative education mechanism, and promote graduates to find employment in the sports industry. Every year, dozens of scientific research teams with more than 100 students participate in research and internship training to enhance their practical ability and employment competitiveness.
The school also focuses on the deep integration of sports and education, science and technology, and culture. In addition to Anta (安踏), Li Ning (李宁) and other enterprises, it has also signed strategic agreements with enterprises such as JD.com (京东), on the one hand, to provide students with internship practice platforms, and on the other hand, to smooth employment channels for students. Since 2025, 6 graduates have joined Anta Group (安踏集团) and its sub-brands, and 13 graduates have gone to work at JD.com (京东).
"From jointly building student employment internship bases to jointly organizing sports events and jointly training post-doctoral fellows, we are constantly enriching talent training cooperation projects with enterprises and providing normalized on-campus and off-campus employment internship training opportunities," said the main person in charge of the Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Guidance Center of the school. The next step will be to deepen school-enterprise cooperation and deliver more high-quality new sports talents to the sports, education, and health industries.
Southwest Petroleum University Jointly Builds Talent Order Classes with Enterprises
Workshops Become Classrooms, Devices Become Teaching Aids
By Huang Chao (黄超), Our Reporter
"Every workshop practice and topic discussion is a gas station on my career path." Sun Yihong (孙毅宏), a 2025 graduate of Southwest Petroleum University (西南石油大学) who is engaged in the field of new energy, always shares his story of achieving a two-way rush between his major and his career through the school's photovoltaic industry talent order class when he meets with younger students to exchange job search experience.
When he first entered university, Sun Yihong (孙毅宏) once felt confused. "The subdivided professional fields of the new energy industry are too broad. I don't know where to start, and I don't understand what positions the industry urgently needs." Sun Yihong (孙毅宏) said that many students around him also faced the same problem.
The photovoltaic industry talent order class of the Sichuan Provincial Photovoltaic Industry-Education Integration Comprehensive Demonstration Base (四川省光伏产教融合综合示范基地) jointly established by the school and Tongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. (通威太阳能（成都）公司) has become the key to breaking the situation.
In the class, an exclusive "mentor team" composed of professional teachers, enterprise engineers, and industry experts guides students' learning, practice, and scientific research throughout the process to ensure that the teaching content is in sync with industrial upgrading; the school and the enterprise repeatedly polish the teaching plan, and first-hand industry information can be embedded in the curriculum in a timely manner... According to reports, the internship and employment conversion rate of order class students exceeds 90%, and more than 30% have become technical backbones of enterprises.
"Workshops become classrooms, and devices become teaching aids. Every summer vacation, students will go to Tongwei Shuangliu (通威双流) and other training bases to conduct internship assessments in the form of topics." Recalling the learning experience of the order class, Bai Lihong (白丽弘), a senior student majoring in new energy science and engineering, said.
Good reputation has led to a series of talent "orders". In recent years, the school and CNOOC (中海油), China Railway Eleventh Bureau (中铁十一局) and other enterprises have carried out collaborative education through jointly building order classes and internship practice bases. 80% of employed graduates go to important industries, key fields, and the grassroots level that are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, 70% take root in the central and western regions, and 45% are engaged in the energy industry.
Implementing Employment Guidance
Jimei University Builds a "3+1" School-Enterprise Deep Integration Model
Graduation is Employment, Employment is Competent
By Ding Yasong (丁雅诵), Our Reporter
Not long ago, Chen Jiaheng (陈嘉恒), a 2025 graduate of the Navigation Technology major of the School of Navigation of Jimei University (集美大学), successfully joined the Guangzhou Branch of COSCO SHIPPING Crew Management Co., Ltd. (中远海运船员管理有限公司广州分公司). Facing the upcoming voyage, Chen Jiaheng (陈嘉恒) is full of confidence because he has already interned on the company's ship for a year. "Recalling the first time I boarded the ship, that sense of tension is still vivid in my mind. My off-campus mentor, who is also the captain, gave me detailed guidance," said Chen Jiaheng (陈嘉恒).
Since 2018, the School of Navigation of Jimei University (集美大学) has carried out in-depth cooperation with many domestic shipping companies to implement the "Excellent Engineer 2.0" training program. The school and the enterprise jointly formulate training programs, jointly build curriculum systems and teaching content, jointly implement the training process, and jointly evaluate the training quality.
"In terms of talent training, we have built a '3+1' school-enterprise deep integration model, that is, students complete general education, professional theory, and school-enterprise co-construction courses in the school for the first 3 years, and the fourth year is led by the enterprise, arranging students to board the ship to complete 1 year of maritime apprenticeship," said Yang Shenhua (杨神化), Dean of the School of Navigation of Jimei University (集美大学). "Students have closer contact with employers, realizing 'graduation is employment, employment is competent'."
Some time ago, the college invited enterprise mentors from crew management companies to teach graduating students interview skills for shipping companies. "We also regularly hold captain forums, enterprise forums, etc., and carry out various quality development projects to enable students to establish a clearer career plan," said Yang Shenhua (杨神化).
Since the implementation of the "Excellent Engineer 2.0" training program, the School of Navigation of Jimei University (集美大学) has reached cooperation with 25 crew management companies and shipowner companies, and 779 students have achieved employment in the industry through this model.
Beijing Institute of Finance and Technology Holds a "Small, Precise, Specialized, and Excellent" Job Fair
Two-Way Rush Between Enterprise Needs and Student Abilities
By Wu Yue (吴月), Our Reporter
One job fair, 20 enterprises, 231 positions - looking at the scale, it is not large, but the participating students have gained a lot. At the end of May, Beijing Institute of Finance and Technology (北京金融科技学院) held a "small, precise, specialized, and excellent" campus internship and employment job fair, attracting students from various majors to apply for jobs.
"My major is visual communication design, which is very suitable for the design position of a digital creative company." Li Haoran (李浩然), a student of the School of Creative Arts, said that he had in-depth exchanges with recruiters at the job fair.
Wang Huan (王欢), a student of the School of Finance, also "came prepared": she participated in the career planning courses and mock interviews offered by the school, and had a clear understanding of her own positioning. She reached preliminary intentions with 2 enterprises on the same day.
Ma Haohui (马浩辉), director of the Employment Service and School-Enterprise Cooperation Center of Beijing Institute of Finance and Technology (北京金融科技学院), introduced that the school regularly holds job fairs, which are characterized by "small scale, precise matching, specialized fields, and excellent quality". The employers cover finance, information technology, art design, and other fields, and the position settings are closely aligned with the school's professional layout. "For example, technical positions such as software development and maintenance and data analysis are very suitable for graduates of the School of Information, while financial and tax positions are closely related to students of the International Business School. The precise matching of majors and positions helps to achieve a two-way rush between enterprise needs and student abilities," said Ma Haohui (马浩辉).
Among the participating units in this job fair, 70% are enterprises that have long-term cooperation with the school, and 30% are enterprises that are recruiting at the school for the first time. How to further broaden students' employment channels? Where does the precise matching of people and positions come from? Ma Haohui (马浩辉) introduced that school leaders regularly carry out "visiting enterprises to expand positions", leading teams to visit enterprises, understand the employment needs of enterprises, and expand new space for students' internships and employment. The school also holds special recruitment fairs for alumni enterprises, inviting alumni to return to the school to recruit talents.
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Cities are the centers of China's economic, political, cultural, social, and other activities, and hold a pivotal position in the overall work of the Party and the state. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has scientifically grasped the general trend of urban development, profoundly understood the laws of urban development, and made a series of important expositions on urban work, many of which are reflected in the first volume of "Xi Jinping's Economic Anthology." For example, "Speech at the Central Urbanization Work Conference" pointed out: "The level of urban construction is not only related to the quality of life of residents, but also the vitality of the city"; "Accelerating the Construction of a New Development Pattern and Focusing on Promoting High-Quality Development" pointed out: "Adhere to the principle that the people build the city and the city is for the people, improve the level of urban planning, construction, and governance, accelerate the transformation of the development mode of megacities and megacities, implement urban renewal actions, strengthen urban infrastructure construction, and build livable, resilient, and smart cities"; and so on. In the new era and new journey, the important role of cities in China's economic and social development and improvement of people's livelihoods is becoming increasingly prominent. We must thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on urban work, firmly grasp the laws of urban development, practice the concept of people's cities, and promote high-quality urban development in the process of Chinese-style modernization.
The concept of people's cities is the essence of the Chinese-style urban development path.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in his "Speech at the Central Urbanization Work Conference": "Urbanization is the inevitable path to modernization." Achieving urbanization in China, a developing country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, has no precedent in human history. China's large urban population and strong resource constraints determine that China cannot follow the old path of Western urban development and must take a Chinese-style urban development path. The Central Urban Work Conference held in 2015 clearly proposed "improving the level of new urbanization and taking a Chinese-style urban development path," and required "adhering to the principle that the people build the city and the city is for the people." The concept of people's cities profoundly answers the fundamental question of for whom and on whom urban construction and development rely, and is the essence of the Chinese-style urban development path.
Cities are landmarks of human civilization. Modern cities are the result of the development of productive forces and the division of labor in society. Since the Industrial Revolution, with the advancement of modernization, the status of cities in a country or society has continued to rise. According to a 2023 report by UN-Habitat, in 1800, the urban population accounted for only 2% of the global population; in 1900, this proportion reached 15%. In the 1950s, the urban population began to expand. In 1950, the urban population accounted for about 30% of the global population, exceeding 50% by 2007, and reaching 56% in 2023. Currently, cities contribute more than 80% of global GDP, and are not only engines for promoting world economic development, but also important carriers for creating a happy life, which is of great significance for promoting the all-round development of people. In the process of urban development, people have formed different ideas and different theoretical schools about what kind of city to build and how to build it.
China's modern urban construction started relatively late. At the end of 1949, China's population urbanization rate was only 10.64%. After the founding of New China, under the strong leadership of our Party, with the "One Transformation and Three Reforms" and the recovery and development of the national economy, a number of emerging industrial and mining cities were born, the population gathered in cities, and the number of urban residents continued to increase. After the reform and opening up, China experienced the largest and fastest urbanization process in world history, and urban development was magnificent. From 1978 to 2012, the number of cities in China increased from 193 to 657, and the number of established towns increased from 2,173 to 19,881; the urban population increased from 170 million to 710 million, and the urbanization rate increased from 17.9% to 52.6%, basically reaching the world average level. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and Pearl River Delta (珠三角) three major urban agglomerations have considerable strength, and the urban development landscape in the central and western regions and the northeastern region has undergone great changes, becoming the main battlefields for economic growth.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to strengthening the Party's leadership over urban work, deployed and implemented a series of major strategies and important measures, and promoted new urbanization with people as the core, embarking on a Chinese-style urban development path. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the Central Urbanization Work Conference in 2013 that "promoting China's urbanization along the correct direction" and "the correct direction is new urbanization," and summarized the basic principles of promoting new urbanization into four aspects: people-oriented, optimized layout, ecological civilization, and inheritance of culture; in 2015, he pointed out at the Central Urban Work Conference that "to do a good job in urban work, we must adapt to the new situation of urban work, the new requirements of reform and development, and the new expectations of the people, adhere to the people-centered development thought, and adhere to the principle that the people build the city and the city is for the people"; in 2019, he proposed during his inspection in Shanghai that "the people build the city and the city is for the people"; at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pudong's development and opening up in 2020, he emphasized that "we must adhere to the main position of the broad masses of the people in urban construction and development"; in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2022, he once again emphasized "adhering to the principle that the people build the city and the city is for the people"; and so on. A series of important expositions by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) consistently reflect that urban work must adhere to the people-centered approach. The concept of people's cities is a clear reflection of adhering to the people-centered approach in urban work. The concept of people's cities profoundly clarifies that the Party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee and greatest advantage for the construction of people's cities, and that to do a good job in urban work, we must strengthen and improve the Party's leadership; profoundly clarifies that we must adhere to the main position of the broad masses of the people in urban construction and development, and that urban construction must put making the people live and work in peace and contentment in the first place, leave the best resources to the people, and make the people's lives in the city more convenient, comfortable, and beautiful; profoundly clarifies the need to coordinate the three major structures of space, scale, and industry, the three major links of planning, construction, and management, the three major driving forces of reform, science and technology, and culture, the three major layouts of production, life, and ecology, and the three major subjects of government, society, and citizens, so as to better promote the construction of people's cities; and so on. The concept of people's cities profoundly clarifies the fundamental guarantee, value orientation, goals and tasks, and ideas and methods of the construction of people's cities, and is a profound grasp of the laws of urban development.
Since the new era, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, China has practiced the concept of people's cities and adhered to the Chinese-style urban development path. As of the end of 2023, China's urbanization rate of permanent residents reached 66.16%, with more than 930 million people living in cities and towns; China's "two horizontal and three vertical" urbanization strategic pattern has basically taken shape, the coordination of urban regional development has been enhanced, the spatial distribution has become increasingly balanced, the number of cities has reached 694, there are 29 cities with a permanent population of more than 5 million, and 11 cities with more than 10 million; the urban economy has entered a stage of high-quality development, with vitality released and resilience demonstrated. In 2023, the GDP of cities at the prefecture level and above reached 77.0 trillion yuan, contributing 61.1% of the domestic GDP, and the platform economy, sharing economy, and digital economy have flourished, releasing urban consumption vitality. Supported by high-quality urban development, people's livelihood security has been continuously improved, and people's lives have become better. From 2013 to 2023, China has cumulatively achieved more than 140 million new urban jobs, and the urban surveyed unemployment rate has remained within 5.5% in all years except for 2020 and 2022, which were affected by the COVID-19 epidemic. The integration of urban and rural development has achieved remarkable results, the settlement restrictions for cities with a resident population of less than 3 million in urban areas have been basically lifted, the equalization of basic public services in urban and rural areas has been deepened, and the integration level of urban and rural infrastructure has been significantly improved.
Accurately Grasp the Distinctive Characteristics of People's Cities
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in his "Speech at the Central Urbanization Work Conference": "Solving the problem of people is the key to promoting new urbanization"; in "Basic Ideas for Doing a Good Job in Urban Work," he pointed out: "Citizens are the main body of urban construction and urban development. We must respect citizens' right to know, participate in, and supervise urban development decisions, and encourage enterprises and citizens to participate in urban construction and management in various ways." At present, China's urban development has entered an important period of urban renewal. The concept of people's cities endows China's urban development with distinctive characteristics, making people's lives happier.
Adhere to the people-oriented approach. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The core of the city is people. Whether urban work is done well or not, whether the people are satisfied or not, and whether life is convenient or not are important criteria for judgment. We must adhere to the people-oriented approach, continuously improve urban functions, and improve the quality of life of the people." Cities are the carriers of people's beautiful lives, and the people are the main body of urban construction and the source of power for urban development. Adhering to the people-oriented approach, practicing whole-process people's democracy, and organically unifying the people's status as masters of the country with our Party's fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, firmly grasping the 12 words of "clothing, food, housing, transportation, birth, aging, illness, death, living and working in peace and contentment," can promote high-quality development that unifies urban development and improvement of people's livelihoods. For example, Shanghai insists on integrating whole-process people's democracy into the modernization of urban governance, stimulating the enthusiasm and creativity of the people to create a better life through various forms such as people's deliberation halls and community live broadcast rooms, building a community of urban governance, and promoting people's deep participation in urban governance, construction, and maintenance; in 2024, Xiamen adopted 40 livelihood items approved by the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, solving the people's most direct livelihood problems, ensuring that the people share the fruits of livelihood, and creating a happy background for the city; and so on. To practice the concept of people's cities, we must practice whole-process people's democracy in the construction, operation, and governance of cities, better build a community of urban governance in which everyone participates, everyone is responsible, everyone contributes, and everyone shares, empower the balanced accessibility of basic public services in cities, and make people's lives in cities more convenient, comfortable, and beautiful.
Attach great importance to the protection of historical and cultural heritage. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Basic Ideas for Doing a Good Job in Urban Work" in 2015: "China's 5,000-year-old civilization has cities as a major carrier"; he emphasized during his inspection in Guangdong in 2018 that "urban planning and construction should attach great importance to the protection of historical and cultural heritage, without seeking quick success and instant benefits, and without large-scale demolition and construction." Cities have inherited and accumulated the bits and pieces of history in their formation and development, witnessing and carrying the development process of culture. Respecting history and culture, and integrating the protection of historical and cultural resources into the lives of citizens, can better continue the cultural heritage of the city, achieve cultural enrichment of the city, and better meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people. The Chinese nation has a civilization history of more than 5,000 years. The cultural continuity and historical inheritance of each city contain the Chinese nation's wisdom of keeping pace with the times, its spirit of inclusiveness, and its continuous culture. They witness the past of the city, highlight the city's heritage, and also foreshadow the city's future. They are not only the wealth of contemporary people, but also the characteristic resources of future generations. To promote urban development, we must deeply understand that culture is the soul of the city. For example, Beijing has determined the overall framework of "one core, one city, three belts, and two zones" for the construction of the national cultural center, formulated regulations on the protection of historical and cultural cities, and promoted the harmonious integration of the modernization development of megacities and the protection of historical and cultural heritage, continuing the cultural heritage of the city in the construction of people's cities. To practice the concept of people's cities and build people's cities, we must not only promote urban economic development, but also do a good job in the excavation and protection of urban historical and cultural resources, integrate the protection of historical and cultural heritage into urban renewal, let the city leave memories, and let people remember their nostalgia.
Focus on promoting urban modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Cities are important carriers of modernization." As the most active area of economic and social development, urban modernization is an inherent requirement for promoting Chinese-style modernization, and also an important manifestation of the development achievements of Chinese-style modernization. The essence of modernization is the modernization of people. China's cities are the spatial carriers and main battlefields for promoting high-quality development, promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas, and enhancing people's well-being, and are also important places for promoting the modernization of people. The city's education and talent system is perfect, and the digital, networked, and intelligent tools are advanced, which can better promote the leap of laborers, labor materials, labor objects, and their optimized combination, and develop new quality productive forces. For example, Hangzhou relies on the data base and computing power foundation to strengthen the construction of the city brain and create a smart city with data-driven operation and intelligent governance. At the same time, it must be recognized that urban modernization is not a simple industrial expansion or population agglomeration, nor can it be at the expense of the countryside, but must promote the all-round development of people in promoting the common prosperity of all people. To practice the concept of people's cities and build people's cities, we must make full use of modern scientific and technological means, strengthen the leading role of innovation, practice the development concept of intensive and efficient, green and low-carbon, safe and resilient, and promote the transformation of urban development from traditional incremental expansion to high-quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. By optimizing resource allocation, improving urban quality, and enhancing urban resilience, we can ensure that all classes and groups do not fall behind in the modernization process, share the fruits of development, and make the city not only an engine for economic development, but also a happy home for people to live and work in peace and contentment and achieve all-round development.
Highlight the protection of the urban ecological environment. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "A good ecological environment is the fairest public product and the most universal benefit to people's livelihood" and "To build a modernization in which man and nature coexist in harmony, we must place the protection of the urban ecological environment in a more prominent position and scientifically and rationally plan the city's production space, living space, and ecological space." The historical development of cities from ancient times to the present shows that cities and nature are symbiotic rather than opposed. Cities should be products that conform to nature, rather than invaders of nature. As the most concentrated area of human activity, modern cities need to consume a lot of natural resources in their operation, and are also the most concentrated places for pollution emissions. According to statistics from UN-Habitat, cities account for less than 2% of the earth's surface, but consume 78% of the world's energy, and more than 60% of greenhouse gas emissions come from urban areas. For human survival, gold and silver mountains are certainly important, but green mountains and clear waters are also an important part of people's happy lives, and are equally important. In the process of Chinese-style modernization, promoting the harmonious coexistence of urban development and natural ecology is not only an inherent requirement for high-quality urban development, but also an important content to meet the people's needs for a better life. For example, Fuzhou connects public spaces and ecological resources to build urban forest trails and create a national ecological civilization demonstration city where people and nature coexist in harmony; Chengdu insists on carrying out urban physical examinations, and promotes carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth in a coordinated manner to build a park city that integrates mountains, rivers, cities, and gardens. To practice the concept of people's cities and build people's cities, we must fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, plan and layout the green development of cities with systematic thinking, handle the relationship between urban production and life and ecological environmental protection, and improve both the quality of economic development and the quality of people's lives.
Promoting the construction of people's cities requires handling a series of relationships.
The current and upcoming period is a crucial time for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Basic Ideas for Doing a Good Job in Urban Work": "We must understand, respect, and comply with the laws of urban development, correct the guiding ideology of urban development, and earnestly do a good job in urban work." The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the urban construction goal of "creating livable, resilient, and smart cities." The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made important deployments on "adhering to the principle that the people build the city and the city is for the people," and proposed "establishing a sustainable urban renewal model and policies and regulations, strengthening the construction of underground integrated pipe corridors and the renovation and upgrading of old pipelines, and deepening the action to enhance urban safety and resilience." The Central Economic Work Conference held at the end of 2024 proposed "vigorously implementing urban renewal" and "improving the modernization governance level of megacities and super-large cities." To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee, practice the concept of people's cities, and promote the construction of people's cities, a series of relationships must be correctly handled.
The relationship between top-level design and grassroots exploration. Promoting the construction of people's cities is a systematic and holistic project that requires systematic planning with overall consideration and overall promotion in systematic planning. It is necessary to grasp the laws of urban development, fully consider the common needs of the people, do a good job in the overall deployment and top-level design of the city, and form an urban construction plan with integrity, innovation, and foresight; it is also necessary to combine grassroots practice, respect the actual conditions of different cities, combine theory with practice, and integrate history and reality, and explore and form the characteristics of urban development in practice. It is necessary to grasp the commonality and characteristics of urban development, pay attention to the organic combination of universality and uniqueness, base on its own historical heritage and endowment advantages, adhere to adapting measures to local conditions, and actively explore urban development paths suitable for its own characteristics.
The relationship between modernization construction and historical and cultural heritage protection. In the process of promoting the construction of people's cities, it is necessary to coordinate the relationship between modernization construction and historical and cultural heritage protection, so that the city's history, reality, and future are integrated, and the city does not lose its cultural heritage and historical foundation in the process of modernization. In urban planning and construction, it is necessary to put in enough "embroidery effort" and strengthen the all-round protection of cultural resources with refined management and protection measures; coordinate the relationship between urban renewal and cultural symbiosis, do a comprehensive census of urban historical and cultural resources, and completely preserve the scenic spots and historical and cultural relics that condense the people's emotions, so that every historical site and every cultural memory can be continued. At the same time, deeply explore the rich connotation of historical and cultural resources, strengthen the promotion and dissemination of characteristic cultural resources, integrate the city's history and culture into the daily life of the people, so that urban residents have history to tell and objects to look up to, and let historical culture radiate new vitality in the new era.
The relationship between centralized development and decentralized development. In urban development, the concentration of population and resources in large cities can realize the efficient use of resources and generate economies of scale. At the same time, the carrying capacity of urban resources and environment is difficult to support the unlimited expansion and disorderly concentration of urban scale. Decentralized development helps to alleviate the pressure on the city center and build a livable environment, but there are also shortcomings such as increased production costs and decentralized transportation. Therefore, it is necessary to coordinate the centralized and decentralized development of cities, rationally determine the scope of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, enhance the rationality of industrial division of labor among cities within urban agglomerations, establish a sound infrastructure and transportation network, and achieve complementary advantages. Promote the central cities in urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas to better radiate and drive the coordinated and联动 development of surrounding small and medium-sized cities, form a well-spaced, collaborative, and functionally complete urban spatial pattern, and achieve the organic unity of efficient, livable, and sustainable development.
The relationship between high-quality urban development and comprehensive rural revitalization. Integrated urban-rural development is an inevitable requirement of Chinese-style modernization. Incorporating the breaking of the urban-rural dual structure into the overall layout of people's city construction for coordinated planning can give full play to the city's resource integration advantages and radiating driving role, build an urban-rural complementary and coordinated development industrial system, realize the two-way free flow of factors, enhance the complementarity between urban and rural areas, and then realize the benign interaction between comprehensive rural revitalization and high-quality urban development. Cities should give play to their advantages in industrial base, scientific and technological strength, and talent resources to drive the development of rural areas; rural areas should also give full play to their own ecological advantages, cultural characteristics, and land resource potential to provide cities with ecological barriers, cultural nourishment, and agricultural product supply, forming a benign development pattern of mutual dependence and mutual promotion between urban and rural areas.
(Author's units: School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), China Central Economic and Social Development Research Center of Nanchang University (南昌大学))
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Cities are important carriers of people's happy life and the peaceful and prosperous life of the people. Urban renewal is a comprehensive and systematic strategic action to promote high-quality urban development. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) meeting held on April 25 pointed out: "Step up the implementation of urban renewal actions." In this process, historical culture plays an important role. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to the role of historical culture in urban development and urban renewal, emphasizing that "historical culture is the soul of a city, and we must protect urban historical and cultural heritage as we cherish our own lives," "Protecting traditional blocks, protecting ancient buildings, and protecting cultural relics is preserving the city's history and context," etc. During his inspection in Henan (河南) from May 19 to 20, he further emphasized that "the integration of culture and tourism has broad prospects. We must promote the high-quality development of the cultural and tourism industry and truly build it into a pillar industry, a people's livelihood industry, and a happiness industry." The "Opinions on Continuing to Promote Urban Renewal Actions" recently issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) clearly requires "adhering to the principle of protection first, ensuring that everything that should be protected is protected, and promoting protection through utilization, and strengthening the protection of urban cultural heritage in the entire process and all aspects of urban renewal," and proposes the main goals of achieving important progress in the implementation of urban renewal actions by 2030, including "effective protection of cultural heritage and more prominent features," which fully reflects the importance attached by the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core to strengthening the inheritance and utilization of historical culture in urban renewal. To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央), we must not only protect and inherit the city's historical context, but also give full play to the role of historical culture in promoting urban renewal, and promote the deep integration and mutual promotion of historical culture and high-quality urban development.
Currently, China's urban development has shifted from large-scale incremental construction to a focus on both stock quality improvement and incremental structural adjustment. The needs of the people are shifting from "having it or not" to "how good it is." Implementing urban renewal actions, through promoting urban structural optimization, functional improvement, cultural continuity, and quality enhancement, can provide strong support for high-quality urban development while continuously meeting the people's needs for a better life. As an important part of urban life, historical culture can provide abundant driving force for urban renewal through creative transformation and innovative development. Giving play to the role of historical culture in urban renewal is not only a necessary requirement for promoting urban renewal with the people-centered urban concept, but also an inherent requirement for exploring sustainable urban renewal models.
Specifically, on the one hand, historical and cultural protection provides endogenous power for urban renewal, making urban renewal full of humanistic heritage. Historical culture is the "root" that demonstrates the city's connotation, quality, and characteristics. Each city will form its historical and cultural memory in the process of formation and development. In urban renewal, deeply exploring the historical context, preserving urban memory, and displaying the city's unique style through the protection of historical culture can effectively avoid problems such as "thousands of cities with one face" and "campaign-style" renewal, and achieve the organic unity of the transformation and upgrading of old urban areas and the protection of historical sites, and the continuation of the city's cultural context, so that people can "see the mountains, see the water, and remember the nostalgia" in the city. On the other hand, urban renewal provides solid support for the inheritance and development of historical culture, which helps to enhance urban competitiveness by empowering culture. By protecting historical culture in urban renewal, promoting the transformation of historical blocks and traditional business districts from material form renewal to cultural content upgrading, and systematically optimizing urban space, functions, and environment through the construction of cultural scenes with local characteristics, it not only helps to expand urban public cultural service space and provide emerging elements for urban development, but also can better meet the cultural needs of urban residents, enhance the sense of belonging and cohesion of urban residents, and cultivate spiritual and moral customs. Using historical culture as an engine to promote the improvement of the city's economic value, humanistic quality, livable environment, and people's livelihood and well-being can further enhance the city's competitiveness.
In practice, many cities have correctly handled the relationship between urban renewal and the inheritance, protection, and utilization of historical culture, and have achieved urban prosperity through culture and industrial promotion through culture. For example, Suzhou (苏州) launched the "Ancient City Protection and Renewal Partner Program," introducing new business formats and new urban functions while repairing ancient buildings and historical blocks, making ancient buildings and old houses "alive" and becoming new landmarks for local cultural tourism consumption; Guangzhou (广州) insisted on both repairing the old as before and improving functions in the renovation of old blocks, improving the community environment with "embroidery" skills, retaining the traditional style of the arcade blocks, revitalizing the old city, and cultivating new consumption hotspots for cultural tourism integration; and so on. This fully shows that urban renewal and historical and cultural protection and inheritance are not a relationship of ebb and flow. The organic unity and mutual empowerment of the two can further improve the quality and resilience of urban development. Facing the future, anchoring the important progress made in the implementation of urban renewal actions by 2030, the effective protection of cultural heritage, and the more prominent features, it is necessary to strengthen the protection, inheritance, and utilization of historical culture in urban renewal, and give full play to the enabling role of historical culture.
Implement the requirement that "old cities cannot be demolished again." Old city protection is the prerequisite and foundation for doing a good job in the inheritance and utilization of urban historical culture. To this end, it is necessary to find out the number of cultural heritage resources in old urban communities, old blocks, and old factory areas, and delineate the strictest protection scope; incorporate cultural relic protection management into the preparation and implementation of territorial space planning, and establish and improve the protection pre-positioning mechanism of "investigation before construction" and "archaeology before transfer"; strengthen the management of the demolition of old houses, do not arbitrarily demolish old buildings and ancient dwellings with protection value, and resolutely prevent "demolishing the real and building the fake"; protect important place names with important historical and cultural value that reflect the historical context of China, so that urban memories can be continued in place names.
Establish a protection and implementation mechanism with residents as the main body. Establishing this mechanism can activate the subjective initiative of urban residents and truly make historical culture an endogenous force for enhancing the identity of urban residents and promoting urban renewal. We can promote the restoration of historical and cultural blocks and the repair of immovable cultural relics and historical buildings, and explore ways and paths to rationally utilize cultural heritage; promote the promotion of systems such as "neighborhood council halls" and "community planners," mobilize community residents to jointly participate in the protection and repair of historical blocks and cultural relic buildings, and jointly discuss and discuss ways and paths to rationally utilize cultural heritage; strengthen public education and publicity, cultivate urban residents' cultural awareness and historical protection awareness, and form a good atmosphere in which everyone participates and everyone is responsible.
Promote the revitalization and utilization of urban historical and cultural heritage. Utilization is the best protection. It is necessary to promote the functional transformation, business format upgrading, and vitality enhancement of old blocks, and create a number of vibrant blocks with urban memory and cultural atmosphere in accordance with local conditions; transform and upgrade commercial pedestrian streets and old commercial blocks, improve the quality of public space, enrich commercial formats, and innovate consumption scenarios, so that culture and consumption interact and integrate; encourage the market-oriented promotion of the renewal and transformation of old factory areas, support the introduction of public cultural facilities such as museums, art galleries, and intangible cultural heritage experience centers into historical buildings and cultural blocks, and implant new business formats such as technological innovation, cultural and creative design, and maker spaces to achieve "new life for old factories" and enrich the cultural life of citizens. At the same time, strengthen the style control of key areas and important sections of urban renewal, and strictly manage super-large public buildings and super-high-rise buildings.
(Author's unit: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所), School of Sociology and Ethnology, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院大学社会与民族学院))
Return to TopIn the Yangtze River Delta, a one-hour high-speed train can take you from Shanghai (上海) to many surrounding cities.
In Wujiang District (吴江区), Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, a single window can handle multiple permits, such as business licenses and entry-related permits, for one-time inter-provincial processing and collection.
In Jiashan County (嘉善县), Jiaxing (嘉兴), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, cross-provincial buses turn "scenic spots" into "stations" on tourist routes, improving tourism accessibility...
In recent years, regional development has been synergistically linked, accumulating momentum. The Yangtze River Delta Ecology and Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone (长三角生态绿色一体化发展示范区) (hereinafter referred to as the "Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Zone") has continuously broken down barriers and 推陈出新 (tuī chén chū xīn - "weed through the old to bring forth the new," to get rid of the old to make way for the new) to create a win-win cooperation ecosystem.
Ordinary people's lives are also undergoing new changes.
A young entrepreneur from Qingpu (青浦), Shanghai (上海)
"I chose Qingpu (青浦) primarily because of its convenient transportation"
A table and a computer – that's all Jin Fanji (金樊嘉) has in his office at the Shanghai Qingpu (Yangtze River Delta) Overseas Students Pioneer Park (上海青浦（长三角）留学人员创业园). After graduating from overseas studies, Jin Fanji (金樊嘉) chose to return to China to start a business, establishing a brand consulting company.
"The reason I chose Qingpu (青浦) is primarily because of its convenient transportation," said Jin Fanji (金樊嘉). The company's clients are mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta region, and he may have to travel for 10 days a month, sometimes going to cities such as Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), and Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), and returning on the same day.
As an important part of the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Zone (长三角示范区), Qingpu District (青浦区) has vigorously promoted the construction of transportation infrastructure in recent years. At the end of 2017, Shanghai Metro Line 17 (上海轨道交通17号线) was officially opened; in February 2022, the main line of Shanghai Songze Elevated Road (上海崧泽高架路) was opened to traffic; at the end of 2024, the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou High-speed Railway (沪苏湖高铁) passing through Qingpu (青浦) was officially opened for operation... The completion of these projects has made the connection between Qingpu (青浦) and other areas of Shanghai (上海), as well as Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), and Jiaxing (嘉兴), Zhejiang (浙江), closer and travel more convenient.
Currently, Jin Fanji's (金樊嘉) new project in Xianju County (仙居县), Taizhou (台州), Zhejiang (浙江), is about to open. They have built an idle area in the park into "River Valley Coffee (河谷咖啡)," attracting tourists to visit the mountains and rivers. "We use methods that young people like to see and hear to spread the word, allowing more people to experience the high-quality natural resources of the Yangtze River Delta while also contributing to rural development," said Jin Fanji (金樊嘉).
An operator from Wujiang (吴江), Jiangsu (江苏)
"No need to run back and forth between provinces, one window can handle it"
"No need to run back and forth between provinces, one window can handle it." Zhang Wei (张伟) handled two matters in Wujiang District (吴江区).
Zhang Wei (张伟) is the operator of a transportation company in Jiashan County (嘉善县) and usually lives in Wujiang (吴江). Not long ago, Zhang Wei (张伟) needed to change the company's business license and reapply for a road transport business license. "In the past, I had to go back to my hometown, Jiashan (嘉善), to handle these matters, which was very troublesome."
Hearing that Wujiang District (吴江区) had launched the "1+N" license joint handling and collection service, Zhang Wei (张伟) came to the "Cross-regional Handling · Cloud Comprehensive Window (跨域通办·云综窗)" special window of the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Zone (长三角示范区) of the Wujiang District Data Bureau (吴江区数据局) and received the electronic business license and road transport business license in less than half a day.
Over the years, Qingpu (青浦), Wujiang (吴江), and Jiashan (嘉善) have broken down administrative and regional restrictions and jointly explored the interconnection of people's livelihood and business environment services in the context of integration, facilitating residents and enterprises in the three places.
Wujiang (吴江) and Jiashan (嘉善) jointly launched the "1+N" license joint handling and collection service in the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Zone (长三角示范区). Applicants only need to apply once, submit one set of materials at one window, and they can handle multiple permits such as business licenses and entry-related permits for one-time inter-provincial processing and collection.
Today, opening the "Cross-regional Handling (跨域通办)" item list in Wujiang (吴江), high-frequency service needs of the public and enterprises such as social security, medical insurance, and household registration are listed one by one, and the scope of cross-regional coverage is also expanding. Zong Liang (宗亮), Director of the Wujiang District Data Bureau (吴江区数据局局长), said that Wujiang District (吴江区) has initially built a "Cross-regional Handling · Cloud Comprehensive Window (跨域通办·云综窗)" service system that radiates the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Zone (长三角示范区) and connects multiple provinces and cities, completing cross-regional handling of 443 high-frequency items with 6 provinces including Shanghai (上海), Zhejiang (浙江), and Anhui (安徽).
A cross-provincial bus driver from Jiashan (嘉善), Zhejiang (浙江)
"Many people take cross-provincial bus lines for tourism, which is very convenient"
Zhu Xuexin (朱学新), the driver of the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Zone (长三角示范区) Route 5 cross-provincial bus line, has been driving on this route for 6 years, with the first bus departing from Xitang (西塘), Jiashan (嘉善) at 7:00 every day and the last bus returning from Lili (黎里), Wujiang (吴江) to Xitang (西塘) at 17:30. "It only takes half an hour from Xitang Ancient Town (西塘古镇) to Lili Ancient Town (黎里古镇), and many people take cross-provincial bus lines for tourism, which is very convenient," said Zhu Xuexin (朱学新).
Focusing on cross-regional integration, Qingpu (青浦), Wujiang (吴江), Jiashan (嘉善), and other places have connected tourism resources into lines by developing public transportation. In addition, the cultural and tourism departments of Qingpu (青浦), Wujiang (吴江), Jiashan (嘉善), and Kunshan (昆山), Jiangsu (江苏) signed an agreement to establish a tourism alliance to promote the integrated development of tourism resources in the four places.
Henggang Village (横港村), Yaozhuang Town (姚庄镇), Jiashan County (嘉善县) is located on the "Peach Blossom Fishing Song (桃源渔歌)" tourist route in the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Zone (长三角示范区). There is a popular internet cafe here that has become a local village cafe "traffic leader" because it can interact with small animals and experience rural life – with a maximum daily sales volume of over 600 cups and an average daily sales volume of about 300 cups. Li Xuewen (李雪雯), the person in charge of the cafe, said that Henggang Village (横港村) is located at the junction of Jiashan (嘉善) and Shanghai (上海) and Jiangsu (江苏), and most customers come from surrounding cities.
"I saw it on Moments and brought my child here specifically to play. My child likes it very much," said Ms. Pu (浦女士) from Shanghai (上海).
From tourism travel to tourism alliances, Jiashan (嘉善) has continuously deepened the cultural and tourism cooperation system and mechanism with Qingpu (青浦) and Wujiang (吴江), strengthening the organic connection between regions. From breaking down mechanisms to value sharing, the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Zone (长三角示范区) has launched multiple tourist routes, covering themes such as the ecological green experience tour of Jiangnan water towns, the ancient town style tour of Jiangnan water towns, and the sightseeing tour of beautiful villages.
(Comprehensive reports from Wang Weijian (王伟健) and Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏), reporters from this newspaper, Zhao Yan (赵焱), reporter from Suzhou Daily, and Ding Heng (丁珩), reporter from Jiashan County Media Center)
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Waves of wheat roll, and agricultural machinery roars. During the "Sanxia" (三夏) busy farming season, winter wheat successively enters the harvest period from south to north. Scenes of abundant harvests unfold across the vast fields.
Meteorological satellites observe clouds and measure the sky in the vast space, sensing equipment explores soil moisture deep underground, and intelligent agricultural machinery shows its skills in the vast wheat fields... Nowadays, the "tech factor" of the summer harvest is becoming more and more significant. Technology is gradually becoming a new hope growing in the fields, writing a new answer sheet for stable production and increased income.
Technology is transforming the summer harvest from "relying on the weather" to "knowing the weather and acting accordingly." In Anhui (安徽), 65 high-standard farmland meteorological monitoring stations and 85 automatic soil moisture stations form a "space-air-ground" monitoring network, providing precise guidance for summer harvesting. In Henan (河南), based on "big data early warning + large model monitoring," the Dengzhou (邓州) Smart Agriculture Big Data Platform can provide early warning of weather changes, racing against time for wheat to enter the warehouse. Organizing "northern machines going south" to fully harvest before the rain, and seamlessly relaying with tracked harvesters after the rain, is a vivid microcosm of meteorological technology empowering the summer harvest.
Technology is transforming the summer harvest from "sweat agriculture" to "smart agriculture." In Tengzhou (滕州), Shandong (山东), new agricultural machines applying "5G + unmanned driving" technology have appeared in the fields, improving production efficiency and reducing labor intensity. In Jingmen (荆门), Hubei (湖北), a drying center used new grain drying equipment to successfully complete the drying of 350 tons of wheat in just one week, effectively alleviating farmers' "difficulty in drying grain." Various agricultural machines equipped with advanced technology provide more intelligent, efficient, and precise services, injecting a continuous stream of power into "Sanxia" (三夏) production.
Even bigger changes are quietly happening on the small screens of mobile phones. Place an order on your mobile phone, and the agricultural machinery will arrive at the field—in many places, farmers can use their mobile phones to book "one-stop" services such as harvesting, drying, and storage. There is scientific guidance for planting, a "smart housekeeper" for field management, and reservation services for summer harvesting... The development of technology has made mobile phones a good helper for farmers to cultivate the land.
From putting "grabbing" first to being led by "intelligence," the summer harvest is accelerating its transformation towards digitalization and intelligence. When more fertile fields are illuminated by technology, the melody of the harvest will be more calm and melodious, helping the "granary" to be filled more solidly and the "rice bowl" to be held more firmly.
Return to TopBy: 贵州日报记者 周 强 杨媛媛
With an annual salary of 200,000 yuan and management of 3 production lines... Ran Kui (冉奎), 43, is a technical backbone of an automotive parts manufacturing enterprise in Zhejiang (浙江). Previously, he was a blacksmith from Datanghe Village (大塘河村), Qiyanqiao Town (七眼桥镇), Xixiu District (西秀区), Anshun City (安顺市), Guizhou (贵州).
Datanghe Village (大塘河村) is a "blacksmith village" with a history of about 600 years. Like Ran Kui (冉奎), about 200 villagers have transformed from blacksmiths to forgers, finding new career development opportunities in automotive manufacturing enterprises.
On the production line, Ran Kui (冉奎) observes every detail with focused attention. "Automotive parts forging requires extremely high precision; temperature and rhythm must be accurate to the second," said this master craftsman with 27 years of forging experience.
Ran Kui (冉奎) began learning traditional blacksmithing techniques from relatives at the age of 16 and went to work in Zhejiang (浙江) in 2000. From initially pulling carts and carrying goods to becoming a technical backbone of the enterprise with his superb forging skills, and now being sent to the enterprise's branch factory to be responsible for production line management, Ran Kui (冉奎) has used his strength to prove the value of traditional craftsmen in modern manufacturing.
"The automotive manufacturing industry urgently needs experienced forgers," said Ran Kui (冉奎). A qualified forger needs years of practical accumulation, developing a "feel" in thousands of forgings. "Although the degree of equipment automation is increasing, the precision control of complex parts still requires experienced craftsmen to oversee."
To inherit the ancient blacksmithing technique, Datanghe Village (大塘河村) has launched a craftsman training program. The ancient "blacksmith village" is being revitalized in a new way.
Return to TopChina-Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) Terminal in Xi'an (西安) Put into Operation
People's Daily, Xi'an (西安), June 11 (Reporter Zhang Danhua (张丹华)) The commissioning ceremony of the China-Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) Terminal in Xi'an (西安) was held simultaneously in Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西) Province, China (中国) and Almaty (阿拉木图), Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) via video link on the 10th. As one of the important cooperation achievements of the first China-Central Asia Summit, the Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) Xi'an (西安) Terminal located at Xi'an (西安) International Port Station was completed and put into operation in 2024. On the eve of the second China-Central Asia Summit, the Xi'an (西安) Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) Terminal in Almaty (阿拉木图) was completed and put into operation, promoting a closer connection between Almaty (阿拉木图) and Xi'an (西安), and upgrading from "point-to-point" to "hub-to-hub."
The World's First New Anti-Influenza A PB2 Drug Approved for Marketing
Southern Daily, Guangzhou (广州), June 11 (Reporters Zhong Zhe (钟哲) and Wu Shaomin (吴少敏)) Recently, the domestically developed original drug Omladavir was approved for marketing by the National Medical Products Administration, becoming the world's first new anti-influenza A PB2 drug (acting on the PB2 subunit of the influenza virus RNA polymerase).
The drug was developed under the leadership of Zhong Nanshan (钟南山), winner of the "Medal of the Republic" and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院). Zhong Nanshan (钟南山) introduced that after patients use Omladavir, it can not only quickly relieve symptoms, but also inhibit the viral load to a very low level within 24 hours of medication, making it less likely to infect others and develop drug resistance.
Wine Vocational Skills Competition Held in Minning Town (闽宁镇)
People's Daily, Yinchuan (银川), June 11 (Correspondent Fan Xiaoru (范晓儒)) A few days ago, the first National Wine Industry "Chuangshu Cup" Employee Vocational Skills Competition kicked off in Minning Town (闽宁镇), Yinchuan (银川), Ningxia (宁夏), with more than 200 front-line employees from the wine industry from 25 provinces participating.
As a national wine industry special skills competition, this competition sets up two competition categories: sommelier (wine) and winemaker (wine), comprehensively testing the comprehensive professional qualities and practical abilities of the contestants.
Guangxi (广西) Establishes Cultural Archives for "Liu Sanjie (刘三姐)" for the First Time
People's Daily, Nanning (南宁), June 11 (Reporter Pang Geping (庞革平)) On the 9th, the "'National Treasure, Millennium Memory' - Liu Sanjie (刘三姐) Cultural Archives Exhibition" opened in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西). This is the first time that Guangxi (广西) has established cultural archives for "Liu Sanjie (刘三姐)" and held an exhibition at the government level.
The exhibition showcases the origin, development and prosperity of Liu Sanjie (刘三姐) culture through more than 300 precious archival documents.
107 Beijing Swifts Complete Annual "Physical Examination"
People's Daily, Beijing (北京), June 11 (Reporter Shi Fang (施芳)) On the 7th, the annual "physical examination" of Beijing (北京) swifts was launched at the Summer Palace (颐和园) in Beijing (北京). 107 Beijing (北京) swifts were ringed, including 74 that had been marked before, indicating that Beijing (北京) swifts have a high return rate.
The Beijing (北京) swift is one of the very few wild migratory birds named after "Beijing (北京)". It travels between Beijing (北京) and South Africa (南非) every year, with a migration route of about 30,000 kilometers. With increased protection efforts, the number of Beijing (北京) swifts has exceeded 10,000.
Stranded Dolphin "Yangyang (阳阳)" Released into the Sea in Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南)
People's Daily, Sanya (三亚), June 11 (Reporter Dong Zeyang (董泽扬)) On the 8th, the female adult rough-toothed dolphin "Yangyang (阳阳)" rescued in Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南) was released back into the sea.
On April 24, "Yangyang (阳阳)" was found stranded in Qingmei Port (青梅港) waters of Yalong Bay (亚龙湾), Sanya (三亚). After rescue by police officers, staff from the Sanya (三亚) Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and volunteers, "Yangyang (阳阳)" was sent to the Sanya (三亚) Haichang Ocean Biological Conservation Center for treatment.
Return to TopBy: 辽宁日报记者 胡海林
"The scale is too large, it's making me nervous." On June 5th, in Luobokan Village (萝卜坎村), Nianpan Township (碾盘乡), Dongzhou District (东洲区), Fushun City (抚顺市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), villager Yang Yong (杨勇) greeted the people who came to observe in his greenhouse. On this day, the Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences Vegetable Research Institute (辽宁省农科院蔬菜研究所) held a new product launch event for two thin-skinned melon varieties, "Ganlu 16" and "Ganlu 20," here because he was the first person in the province to trial these two varieties.
Standing among the ridges, Zhang Jiawang (张家旺), director of the Melon Research Office of the Vegetable Research Institute, cleared his throat and began "praising the melons": "'Ganlu 16' averages 7 to 8 fruits per plant, with an average single fruit weight of 520 grams; its greatest advantage is its high sugar content, generally reaching over 15%, and it is a dry-flesh melon that is resistant to storage."
As the breeder of these two new varieties, Zhang Jiawang's (张家旺) proudest achievement is the simplified cultivation model: the number of melon seedlings planted per mu is significantly less than the current common cultivation method; after transplanting, the vines are pruned to two main stems, and then no further pruning or side-shoot removal is required throughout the entire growth cycle, allowing them to grow naturally, which also saves labor costs. Yang Yong (杨勇) exclaimed, "I've been growing melons for 20 years and have switched many varieties, these two varieties are sweet, have high yields, are disease-resistant, and the labor cost is greatly reduced throughout the entire process."
"Holding a 'new product launch event' in a greenhouse is also a first for us. We mainly consider seed companies, cooperatives, and growers as our demonstration and promotion targets. Letting them see the real thing and communicate more with growers will give them a more direct understanding of the new varieties," said Liu Aiqun (刘爱群), director of the Vegetable Research Institute.
Return to TopBy: 成都日报记者 刘 飞
Inside the hangar of Sichuan Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co., Ltd., aircraft maintenance engineer Kong Feng (孔锋) and his colleagues are using electric drills to reinforce the fuselage.
"This aircraft was sent here a few days ago. After the aircraft enters the hangar, it needs to undergo a comprehensive inspection, and then be investigated area by area and step by step," said Kong Feng (孔锋). "From a small screw to a large engine, every component must be inspected multiple times according to the work plan before the aircraft can 'return to the blue sky.'"
"All aspects of maintenance must maintain an extremely cautious attitude, allowing no room for the slightest omission." Zhang Chi (张翅), Deputy General Manager of Sichuan Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co., Ltd., said that the company is an important aviation maintenance base in Southwest China, known as the "aircraft hospital." Since its operation in August 2010, it has provided airframe maintenance services to more than 20 airline customers worldwide, and has maintained more than 1,500 aircraft of various types to date.
Return to TopBy: 福建日报记者 单志强
The morning drizzle, wrapped in mountain mist, shrouded the Yangmeilin Natural Village (杨梅林自然村) of Quanshi Village (圈石村), Tuoxi Township (托溪乡), Ningde City (宁德市), Fujian Province (福建省), in a hazy veil.
Wu Fengmei (吴凤妹), an 83-year-old villager, was clutching her chest and coughing. "Grandma, I'm here." Li Haodong (李浩东), the director of Tuoxi Health Center (托溪卫生院), with sweat trickling down his cheeks, stepped over the threshold carrying a "medical security outpatient bag" on his back.
Li Haodong (李浩东) squatted down, opened his backpack, and spread a stethoscope, blood pressure monitor, and medicine box across half of the wooden table. After the examination, Li Haodong (李浩东) took out cold medicine and antihypertensive pills, broke them into the correct dosages, and placed them in the old woman's palm: "Take the white pills after meals, and hold one of the yellow ones in your mouth now."
Such scenes have become common in the mountain villages of Tuoxi Township (托溪乡). "In recent years, medical security in mountainous areas has gradually improved, but due to geographical, transportation, and other limitations, the 'difficulty in accessing medical care' for rural folks in remote areas still exists," said Li Haodong (李浩东).
In October 2023, with the support of the local Party committee and government, Tuoxi Health Center (托溪卫生院) began "village mobile clinics" and "door-to-door medical services," with doctors carrying outpatient bags on their backs to provide door-to-door diagnosis and treatment for the masses.
As soon as the consultation ended, Li Haodong (李浩东) received a message from grid member He Bangwu (何邦午): Granny Ye (叶大娘) next door has been bedridden for a long time and wants to have a physical examination. Li Haodong (李浩东) immediately got up and went.
This precise "on-demand" service stems from the "four lists" mechanism of Tuoxi Township (托溪乡). Relying on the grid member teams in each village, the health center established a "medical network integration" service team, dividing the entire township into three major areas, with grid members conducting daily inspections and reporting. "We are like takeaway riders, delivering 'health packages'," said Li Haodong (李浩东). When key people of concern have medical needs, grid members will notify the "backpack doctors," who will conduct online consultations or door-to-door visits based on the condition.
In Shouning County (寿宁县), such "backpack clinic" services have covered all 14 townships in the county. As of now, the "backpack doctor" service team has served more than 2,600 people.
(Wu Sumei (吴苏梅) participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 新疆日报记者 郭 倩
"Good shot! Lao Zhang's (老张) smash is powerful!" Recently, at the Xinxing Community Activity Center, Kashi East Road Subdistrict, High-tech Industrial Development Zone (New Urban Area) (新疆乌鲁木齐高新技术产业开发区（新市区）喀什东路街道新兴社区), Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), Xinjiang (新疆), resident Li Lulin (李路林) held a ping-pong paddle, took a step forward, and caught the spinning ball flying from the opposite side.
This "elderly paradise" used to be the community office hall. In the past, the community's elderly activity center was close to the residential area, and the sounds of chess, cards, singing, and dancing caused dissatisfaction among neighbors. Wang Xiulan (王秀兰), a 66-year-old resident, said, "I wanted to go out for activities, but I was worried about disturbing my neighbors."
The turning point came this spring. Yan Lidong (燕立东), the secretary of the community Party committee, took the staff to visit door-to-door and invited resident representatives to discuss solutions together. Soon, the elderly found that the community office hall had moved from the first floor to the second floor and merged with the former office area on the second floor.
The vacated space was transformed into an elderly activity room: the walls of the first-floor hall were painted snow-white, the old lamps were replaced one by one, and new elderly-assistance facilities were installed in the restrooms. The activity room has a chess and card area, a reading corner, and a billiard table was set up in the innermost part. In this regard, Yan Lidong (燕立东) said, "Seeing the happy faces of the uncles and aunts, we feel it's 很值 (hěn zhí - "very worthwhile," indicating that something is considered to be of great value or worth the effort)."
Return to TopBy: 赵 伟
The weather is getting hotter, and the front of the medicinal diet workshop in the northwest corner of our Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital's emergency department is equally "hot." Last month, our medicinal diet workshop officially opened. There are many citizens who come here to buy medicinal diet bread every day.
Now, "Traditional Chinese Medicine (中医药) + Catering" is becoming increasingly popular in many places. Medicinal diet bread and other products have attracted many consumers and have also driven more people to understand Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge and health concepts.
The idea of medicinal diet bread came from a group of "picky" (嘴刁 (zuǐ diāo - "picky eater," someone who is very selective about what they eat)) young people I encountered in the clinic. Because they are busy with work or studies, many young people have some sub-health symptoms. They may find drinking Traditional Chinese Medicine bitter and troublesome, and it would be great if food could be convenient to eat and also nourish the body.
After some thought, I thought of bread, which can be carried in a bag and eaten when you have time. So, my colleagues and I started research and development. In the selection of medicinal materials, I referred to some classic ancient prescriptions, such as *Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber* (*Jinkui Yaolue* (金匮要略)) and *Compendium of Materia Medica* (*Bencao Gangmu* (本草纲目)), and also combined the list of substances that are both medicine and food, to determine the Traditional Chinese Medicine to be put into the bread.
How to knead Traditional Chinese Medicine into the dough to make medicinal diet bread with a rich medicinal aroma and attractive color? During that time, I went straight to the hospital cafeteria after my clinic hours and tried it again and again with the cafeteria chefs - first, I boiled the Traditional Chinese Medicine decoction pieces into water and added it to the dough, but there was no medicinal taste; then I ground the medicinal materials into powder and put it into the dough... Because no additives are used, we can only rely on adjusting the types of Traditional Chinese Medicine to reflect the color, so each bread contains five or six kinds of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and it is necessary to carefully consider whether the compatibility is appropriate.
"Eight Treasures Scone," "Alkaline Water Four Gods Cake"... After repeated improvements, the first batch of bread with medicinal materials such as *Codonopsis pilosula*, *Poria cocos*, and *Angelica sinensis* was launched. Medicinal diet bread has also become popular in Yangzhou (扬州), and is loved by citizens, especially young people. Taking advantage of this momentum, we have recently launched medicinal diet mung bean cakes, vitality tea drinks, medicinal diet light meals, etc., and each one is in short supply.
I hope these medicinal diet foods can be accepted by more people, and I also hope that through these new medicinal diet products, more people can understand Traditional Chinese Medicine culture.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Center of Yangzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (扬州市中医院) in Jiangsu (江苏). Journalists Ding Yun (丁云) and Zhang Qingping (张庆萍) of Yangzhou News Media Center (扬州市新闻传媒中心) interviewed and compiled the article.)
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 杨 雯
"Looking through a magnifying glass, even the feathers of a bird are distinctly visible." Stepping into the Hengshui Museum (衡水市博物馆) in Hengshui (衡水) City, Hebei (河北) Province, the newly promoted Hebei (河北) Province Arts and Crafts Masters (Inner Painting) four-person joint exhibition is underway. 300 exquisite Hengshui (衡水) inner paintings are making a stunning debut, prompting visitors to exclaim in admiration.
Hengshui (衡水) inner painting is a unique skill of Chinese folk art. It uses the inner wall of snuff bottles as a canvas and uses a specially made hook pen to paint in reverse, condensing different creative themes into a small space. In 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
The selected snuff bottle masterpieces in this exhibition include traditional themes such as landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, and poetry, and also integrate modern elements, historical events, and classic literature. The audience can appreciate cultural art, social life, arts and crafts, and folk customs from them.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 沛
Having moved into his new house, Mr. Zhang always found his old appliances "unpleasing to the eye." The refrigerator, air conditioner, and washing machine had limited functions, high energy consumption, and their appearance did not match the new home's decor.
Mr. Zhang, an individual business owner living in Laiwu District (莱芜区), Jinan (济南), Shandong (山东) Province, changed houses this year. Catching up with the "trade-in" policy, he wanted to replace his appliances with a better set.
The family came to the appliance store, browsing and looking around. A set of elegant, milky-white smart appliances came into view. "It has an oriental aesthetic and matches the decoration style of the home." Mr. Zhang was intrigued.
What caught the Zhang family's attention was the Hisense Group's (海信集团) high-end home appliance C璀璨 (cuǐcàn) series, which has been fully upgraded in terms of function, comfort, appearance, and intelligence.
"In recent years, domestic consumers' pursuit of quality of life has been continuously improving, and the demand for home appliances is also continuously upgrading." Li Long (李龙), Assistant Vice President of Hisense China (海信中国) Marketing Headquarters, said that taking televisions as an example, in the past year, 310,000 Chinese families have chosen 100-inch televisions, a year-on-year increase of nearly 3 times.
"More and more consumers not only require powerful product functions, but also want emotional connections. The demand for high-end consumption is strong. If domestic appliance brands cannot keep up with this demand, consumers can only turn their attention to imported brands," said Li Long (李龙).
Inside the Qingdao (青岛) Hisense Visual Technology (海信视像) Smart Factory, televisions are moving along a fully automated production line. Robotic arms precisely place light strips on the back panel, six-axis robots flexibly snap the panel and backlight together, high-precision color analyzers perform picture quality debugging on each product, and AI voice broadcasts production progress in real time. Assembly, inspection, self-calibration... In between the shuttling, the automated production line "spits out" LCD TVs one after another.
As one of the earliest home appliance companies to go global, Hisense (海信) has successfully entered overseas high-end markets. Relevant reports show that in the first quarter of 2025, Hisense's global shipment share in the 100-inch and above TV field was 56.69%, ranking first in the world.
Capturing the changes taking place in the domestic consumer market, Hisense (海信) entered the domestic high-end market and officially released its first high-end suite of home appliances, the 璀璨 (cuǐcàn) series, in 2020. Currently, the series has launched three suites, covering all categories of home appliances. After several years of development, sales of the series have increased by more than 20 times.
"The high-end suite experience is completely different from traditional home appliances, and the degree of intelligence is very high." Mr. Zhang said, "A mobile phone application can seamlessly connect different devices, and the intelligent sensing system can automatically adjust the working mode according to environmental changes." After calculating the price, Mr. Zhang decisively placed an order for the product. The entire set of appliances meets the first-class energy efficiency and smart appliance standards, and can receive "trade-in" subsidies. After calculation, the TV, refrigerator, washing machine, and air conditioner enjoy a national subsidy of 9,000 yuan, and enjoy a corporate discount of 3,000 yuan, saving 12,000 yuan for a suite.
Data shows that since the implementation of the national subsidy policy, the demand for 璀璨 (cuǐcàn) series orders has been strong, and the sales scale from September last year to May this year has increased by more than 60% year-on-year.
The state's implementation of the "trade-in" policy, in the eyes of most consumers such as Mr. Zhang, is related to the upgrading of their own quality of life. For practitioners on the enterprise side, what they perceive is another layer of profound meaning - promoting the comprehensive renewal of the industrial chain.
Taking televisions as an example, from the earliest video processing chips to 8K picture quality chips, it has now been upgraded to light and color co-control AI picture quality chips. "Over the years, we have continued to strengthen research and development." Wang Yedong (王烨东), Deputy General Manager of Hisense Visual Technology (海信视像) Research and Development Center, introduced that the company has released a number of independently developed display technologies this year, and sales of UX series products using the new technologies have increased by 3 times compared with the same series of products last year.
From scratch, the high-end road of domestic brands is not easy. In Li Long's (李龙) view, it all comes down to products in the final analysis. Only when the product quality is worth the price paid can it win the trust of consumers.
With product upgrades, market strategies are also iterating.
With the changes in the home decoration market, home appliances are increasingly becoming pre-installed attributes. Consumers are more inclined to choose overall decoration, such as choosing a refrigerator first and then building a cabinet to ensure home integration. The user's experience becomes particularly important when purchasing. Li Long (李龙) introduced that relying on specialty stores offline, the 璀璨 (cuǐcàn) series has carried out product tasting events for six categories, such as TV experience watching movies and games, refrigerator experience vacuum storage food preservation, air conditioner experience AI voice fresh air, and washing machine experience quick care of clothing. More than 2,000 product tasting events were held last year alone.
Online efforts are also being made simultaneously. "Now, before actually buying products, users often search and browse other users' reviews online to fully understand the product situation. Users' changes are the direction of our improvement." Li Long (李龙) said that this year the brand will continue to increase its activity on social media, interact with more users online, and understand user needs through multiple channels.
In the Hisense Industrial Design Center (海信工业设计中心), the whiteboard in the conference room is filled with user feedback - "Want intelligence, but don't want complexity" "Like a sense of technology, but also want a warm design"... Wang Difei (王涤非), General Manager of the Design Center, pointed to the inspiration sketches plastered on the wall and said: "Look at this one, it was drawn when we were collecting folk customs in Anhui (安徽). The blank space of the white walls and black tiles eventually evolved into the embedded design of the 璀璨 (cuǐcàn) series. Domestic consumers tend to prefer products that have both high-tech attributes and contain Chinese charm, which is also our original intention of design."
"High-end does not mean high-cold. Whether online or offline, we are committed to getting close to consumers and winning consumer trust with quality and service, and creating independent brands under the trend of consumption upgrading." Li Long (李龙) introduced that as of the end of March this year, 璀璨 (cuǐcàn) series home appliances have entered millions of families.
Return to TopBy: 贾少谦
In an era of continuous consumption upgrades and rapidly changing markets, capturing user needs and leading consumption upgrades with high-end products is Hisense's core logic for moving forward.
User needs are the "compass" of consumption upgrades. Today, consumers are no longer satisfied with basic functions; they have higher pursuits for quality, experience, and technological integration, shifting from seeking "usability" in home appliances to "good usability, durability, and smart usability," and from focusing on single products to full-scene smart living. Behind this lies a yearning for a better life, a strong signal of consumption upgrades. We have established a multi-dimensional user insight system, using big data analysis, user research, and scenario-based experience feedback to uncover the "real pain points" of needs, ensuring that every high-end product starts with the accurate capture of user needs.
High-end leadership must be based on "hard-core technology." Hisense has more than 50 years of technical foundation, with breakthroughs and innovations in display technology, refrigeration technology, intelligent interaction, and other fields. Taking televisions as an example, we integrate the Hisense AI image quality chip, stacked screen technology, etc., allowing consumers to bring a cinema-level experience home. In the field of refrigerators, focusing on the needs of "fresh food storage and health management," we have developed vacuum magnetic field preservation technology, making high-end home appliances not just "high-end appearance," but also "high-end experience + high-end value," using technology to build a solid foundation for consumption upgrades.
Consumption upgrades also require building a "full-scene ecosystem." We break the boundaries of single products, using "smart home" as a blueprint to make televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, kitchen appliances, etc., interconnected. From product high-endization to scene high-endization, we create a full-link high-end experience, allowing consumption upgrades to be not just about buying more expensive products, but about "embracing a smarter and better lifestyle."
In the future, Hisense will continue to take user needs as the center and technological innovation as the radius, drawing a "concentric circle" that leads consumption upgrades with high-end products, allowing more users to enjoy a high-quality life.
(The author is the Chairman of Hisense Group (海信集团), compiled by Wang Pei (王沛), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 曹怡晴
Rather than "following the wind," it's better to "create the wind." In the future, the new energy vehicle industry needs a "long-termism" mindset even more, finding a direction and track where it excels in the process of value creation, to run further, more steadily, and better.
Recently, a friend was preparing to purchase a new energy vehicle and went to 4S stores to test drive new cars, constantly considering which model to buy. Before long, all of the shortlisted models had their prices reduced. On the one hand, my friend lamented "saving money," but on the other hand, became even more hesitant to make a purchase, "afraid of buying it at too high a price." In car forums, many old car owners complained about encountering "price stabs in the back": taking delivery of a car for two months, only to see the price drop by 20,000 yuan, and the new model being launched directly turning their car into a "collector's edition." In the new energy vehicle consumer market, why does the awkward situation of "the earlier you buy, the more you lose" linger?
In recent years, with the decline in raw material costs, coupled with increased market competition, the situation of new energy vehicles reducing prices and giving profits has become relatively common. Recalling a few years ago, when I purchased a new energy vehicle, 80,000 to 90,000 yuan could only buy an entry-level small car with a range of only 200 kilometers; now, with the same budget, the brands and models that can be selected, the functions and accessories equipped, are much richer, and the range has more than doubled. In addition to direct price reductions, some car companies have also increased their promotional efforts through strategies such as "one-price" and "interest-free financing," further pushing price competition to a fever pitch.
Of course, increasing cost-effectiveness is a good thing, but extreme price reductions are actually difficult to consider a "win-win" for both consumers and car companies. Some consumers have just bought a car, and the brand is unable to support it due to thin profits, and subsequent repairs and warranties become problems; considering the vehicle's residual value and long-term usage costs, originally buying a car hoping to drive it for ten years, now it becomes an "antique" in less than a year, and the price of used cars has fallen by more than half, making it impossible to talk about retaining value.
In fact, for consumers, "enjoying benefits" is certainly important, but in the matter of purchasing new energy vehicles, the era of simply looking at prices has passed.
In today's world of "new models every day," design sense, personalization, high performance, and strong after-sales service are also factors that consumers must consider when purchasing new cars. Consumers who value driving feel care about the 0-100 km/h acceleration time and high-speed power output level; consumers who like cool styles are concerned about intelligent auxiliary functions and futuristic interactive interfaces; and many consumers are more willing to pay for "appearance," they study the lines of the interior, the shape of the wheels, and even whether the car paint and license plate color can be harmoniously matched, they have to struggle for a long time... Facing the changes in consumer concepts and the adjustment of consumer preferences, relying solely on "low-price output" will only lead car companies into the dilemma of "the more they produce, the more they lose" and "increased revenue but no increased profit."
Not long ago, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (中国汽车工业协会) issued the "Initiative on Maintaining Fair Competition Order and Promoting the Healthy Development of the Industry" (《关于维护公平竞争秩序 促进行业健康发展的倡议》), guiding car companies to compete on "value" rather than "price." Rather than "following the wind," it's better to "create the wind." In the future, the new energy vehicle industry needs a "long-termism" mindset even more, finding a direction and track where it excels in the process of value creation, to run further, more steadily, and better.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on June 11th (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)) - This reporter learned from China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路青藏集团有限公司) that as of early June, the railway department has operated a total of 20 tourist trains to Tibet (西藏) this year, serving more than 8,000 tourists. Both the number of trains and the number of tourists served have reached a new high in the past five years.
Since 2020, the railway department has operated more than 170 tourist trains in the Tibet (西藏) region, safely transporting more than 50,700 tourists. Among them, 61 tourist trains were heading to Tibet (西藏), and 109 were leaving Tibet (西藏).
Taking the "Great Beautiful Qinghai (青海) Happy Tibet (西藏)" branded train as an example, it departs from Xining (西宁), Qinghai (青海), with its destination being Nyingchi (林芝), Tibet (西藏). Since its launch in March this year, it has operated a total of 14 trains, attracting tourists from more than 10 provinces and overseas, including Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Guangdong (广东), and Zhejiang (浙江).
Tourist trains heading to Tibet (西藏) pass through the Qinghai-Tibet Railway (青藏铁路) and the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway (拉林铁路), connecting Qinghai Lake (青海湖), Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山), Hoh Xil (可可西里), the Three-River-Source Region (三江源), and other places. With the operation of more and more tourist trains, tourists from all over the world are 纷至沓来 (fēn zhì tà lái - "coming in a continuous stream," arriving in a continuous stream), injecting a continuous stream of development vitality into the areas along the route.
Return to TopRecently, high temperatures have appeared in some areas of our country. Many places provide cooling and heat-reducing services for citizens and outdoor workers in public places.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Haikou on June 11th (Reporter Sun Haitian (孙海天)): A reporter learned recently from Haikou Customs (海口海关) that in order to further promote the implementation of opening-up measures in the cross-border service trade negative list, the General Administration of Customs (海关总署) has innovatively optimized the method for foreign companies to register as customs declaration enterprises. Foreign companies do not need to establish a legal entity in China, and after registration, they can engage in customs declaration business in the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港).
The specific procedures are as follows: Foreign companies need to register with the market supervision department as "foreign (regional) enterprises engaged in production and operation activities within China," and the registered business premises are located within the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港). After obtaining the qualification of business entity, foreign companies can submit a customs declaration enterprise registration application to the customs through channels such as the China International Trade "Single Window" and "Internet + Customs." If the requirements are met, the customs will handle the registration in accordance with regulations.
This favorable measure cancels the restrictions on business entities established outside China and overseas individuals engaging in customs declaration business, which is conducive to expanding the opening up of professional service industries. In the future, overseas service providers can provide customs declaration services to entities within the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) through cross-border means, without having to establish a legal entity in China, which increases the freedom for overseas customs declaration companies to enter the domestic market and effectively reduces the operating costs of enterprises.
Next, Haikou Customs (海口海关) will jointly work with commerce, market supervision and other departments to continue to carry out policy publicity and interpretation, guide foreign companies to conduct business in compliance with laws and regulations, attract more business entities to participate in the construction of the Free Trade Port, and jointly improve the opening-up level of service trade in the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港).
Return to TopGuangzhou, June 11th (Reported by Luo Aihua (罗艾桦)) – The Guangdong Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Industry Alliance was officially established in Guangzhou (广州) recently. With the Guangdong Federation of Industry and Commerce (广东省工商联) as its governing body, the alliance brings together various innovative entities such as enterprises, universities, research institutes, and application units. It has 11 specialized committees, including intelligent manufacturing, intelligent robots, and cutting-edge technologies. The alliance aims to promote collaboration between upstream and downstream industries in the value chain, deepen the integration of industry, academia, and research, and press the "accelerator button" for the development of the artificial intelligence and robotics industries in Guangdong Province (广东省).
In the next step, the alliance will systematically lay out a full-chain ecological system from technology research and development to industrial implementation. Among them, the industrial fund has a target scale of 10 billion yuan, with the first phase of fundraising reaching 2 billion yuan, focusing on supporting the research and development of core technologies such as AI large models, intelligent robots, and chip semiconductors. At the same time, it will promote vertical scene applications such as intelligent manufacturing and smart cities, helping technology accelerate from the laboratory to industrialization.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王永战
How Can One Kind of Pear Enrich 14 Ethnic Groups?
The reporter traveled through the continuous high mountains of Jinchuan County (金川县), Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (阿坝藏族羌族自治州) in Sichuan Province (四川省) to find the answer.
After more than 6 hours of driving, scattered pear trees appeared, covering the gentle slopes of the river valley. Looking closely, green fruits were embedded in the dense green leaves.
Pears have a special significance for Jinchuan (金川). To explore the stories related to pears, the reporter first came to Ge'er Township (咯尔乡).
Under the pear trees, figures flickered. Although it was early morning, the sun was already dazzling. In Jinjiang Village (金江村), Zeng Qianyou (曾乾友) and his family were busy applying organic fertilizer to the pear trees. Having grown pears for many years, this Tibetan man has planted more than 20 mu of Xue pears (雪梨) this year, covering eight or nine varieties.
"I started eating and growing pears since I was a child," said Zeng Qianyou (曾乾友). He added that baskets of Xue pears (雪梨) are a common source of income for 14 ethnic groups, including Han, Tibetan, Hui, and Manchu. "We have a local saying, 'Sell one more basket of pears to send children to study.' Pears have benefited generations." Last year, his pear orchard produced 120,000 jin of fresh fruit, with a gross income of more than 200,000 yuan.
Speaking of growing pears, Zeng Qianyou (曾乾友) has a lot of experience. "In winter, we need to irrigate the trees with overwintering water, scrape off the bark of the fruit trees after the spring, clean the orchard, apply lime powder to prevent insects, and prune the branches of the fruit trees." Zeng Qianyou (曾乾友) said that these are the "5 management" measures for standardized Xue pear (雪梨) planting taught by experts. Now, local Xue pear (雪梨) growers of different ethnic groups have mastered this technical key.
Not only is it important to grow well, but also to sell well. In recent years, the sales channels for Zeng Qianyou's (曾乾友) Xue pears (雪梨) have become wider and wider. As soon as the fruits ripen, he sends them to online customers via express delivery. When Xue pears (雪梨) are on the market in large quantities, Zeng Qianyou (曾乾友) chooses to sell them to fruit merchants or processing plants. Last year, his family sold more than 30,000 jin of Xue pears (雪梨) to Jinchuan Jinxueli Fruit Industry Development Co., Ltd. (金川金雪梨果业开发有限责任公司), which is located nearby.
Promoting the industrialization of Xue pears (雪梨) cannot be separated from extending the industrial chain. At Jinxueli Fruit Industry (金雪梨果业), a series of Xue pear (雪梨) cleaning, screening, juicing, and cooking equipment are connected to form a deep-processing production line for Xue pears (雪梨). "We can turn Xue pears (雪梨) into different products such as Xue pear paste and Xue pear lozenges through processing and cooking," said Tan Liang (谭亮), the company's general manager.
"Last year, we purchased more than 4,900 tons of fresh fruit," said Tan Liang (谭亮). He also introduced that when the company purchased Xue pears (雪梨), the local government also gave fruit farmers a sales subsidy of 0.6 yuan per jin. According to statistics, more than 10,000 tons of Xue pears (雪梨) were sold and processed locally last year, with an output value of more than 20 million yuan.
To increase the added value of Xue pears (雪梨), we must also strive to sell Xue pear (雪梨) products further. At the Jinchuan County E-commerce Industrial Park (金川县电商产业园), Jinchuan 2193 Food Co., Ltd. (金川贰壹玖叁食品有限公司) sold more than 10 million yuan of Xue pear (雪梨) products last year. Speaking of sales experience, Han Mei (韩梅), the company's head, introduced: "We have specialty stores offline, and we have also settled in e-commerce platforms online."
In recent years, the Jinchuan Pear Blossom Festival (金川梨花节) has always attracted many tourists every March. In Desheng Village (德胜村), Ge'er Township (咯尔乡), Lu Xianbing (卢显兵), a large grower, is currently planning to apply for funds to build a pear orchard trail. "After the trail is built, tourists can enjoy pear blossoms and rapeseed flowers in the spring, come to escape the summer heat in the summer, and watch the red leaves of pear trees in the fall," said Lu Xianbing (卢显兵). In winter, you can come to Jinchuan (金川) to soak up the sun.
Promoting the scenic transformation of pear orchards, the pear industry is developing towards the integration of agriculture and tourism. Not far from Lu Xianbing's (卢显兵) orchard on the hillside, a B&B is about to be completed. Today, in the Jinchuan Pear Modern Agricultural Park (金川县梨现代农业园区), more than 70 various farmhouses and tourist B&Bs have gathered. During the Jinchuan Pear Blossom Festival (金川梨花节) in March this year, the area received more than 510,000 tourists.
"We are working hard to promote the branding of Xue pears (雪梨), the scenic transformation of pear orchards, and the industrialization of pear products, the integrated development of the three industries, and the realization of the full industrial connection of pear industry production, processing, sales, tourism, shopping, and entertainment," introduced Ze Lang (泽郎), director of the Jinchuan County Science and Technology and Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Bureau (金川县科学技术和农业畜牧局). At present, the county has a total of 42,000 mu of Xue pears (雪梨) planted, with an annual output of more than 30,000 tons, and the annual output value of the Xue pear (雪梨) industry exceeds 420 million yuan.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shijiazhuang (石家庄) report on June 11th (Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), Wu Xiaokai (武小凯)) "Today, I'm recommending these dandelion-filled dumplings to everyone. They're delicious, nutritious, and healthy." In Guangping County (广平县), Handan (邯郸), Hebei (河北) Province, at the e-commerce base of Zhongxiang Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. (中祥农业发展有限公司), a live broadcast is underway. Don't underestimate the small products and small live broadcast room; sales are considerable. "Our company has built 14 live broadcast rooms, and we mainly promote 16 types of deeply processed products through live broadcast platforms," said Song Guimin (宋贵民), General Manager of Zhongxiang Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. "In 2024 alone, our dumpling products generated 70 million yuan in sales on one live broadcast platform, consistently ranking among the top three on the platform's praise list, popularity list, and hot-selling list."
Guangping County (广平县) is located in the Heilonggang (黑龙港) River basin on the eastern foothills of the Taihang Mountains (太行山), with abundant sunshine and distinct seasons. The fertile soil nurtures a rich variety of crops, such as traditional crops like corn and wheat, and economic crops like dandelions and shepherd's purse. Since the beginning of this year, Guangping County (广平县) has strengthened the construction, management, and operation of live broadcast bases, improved the three-level live broadcast system at the county, town, and village levels, and built a coordinated development model of "county-level 'one product, one broadcast' live broadcast base + enterprise live broadcast room + mass entrepreneurship live broadcast," helping good products find good sales channels.
Logistics distribution is a crucial link in the development of the e-commerce industry. "We actively introduce logistics cloud warehouse technology and innovatively provide integrated warehousing and distribution comprehensive supply chain logistics services. Currently, the daily shipment volume in the county is nearly 10,000 orders," said the relevant person in charge of the Guangping County Development and Reform Bureau (广平县发展和改革局). Guangping County (广平县) has built a full-chain digital ecosystem covering production, sales, and logistics. The county has built four live broadcast bases, including one county-level main base and three specialized sub-bases, equipped with more than 140 live broadcast rooms, providing strong momentum for the county's economic growth.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 倪 弋
This June is the "Protect Your Wallet, Safeguard Your Happy Home" Publicity Month for Preventing Illegal Financial Activities. Recently, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) released typical cases of procuratorial organs cracking down on illegal fundraising crimes. Through these typical cases, the common methods and risks of illegal fundraising crimes are revealed, guiding the public to enhance their awareness of prevention and better protect their own property security.
High-Interest Wealth Management Scams
Using legitimate online lending as a guise to engage in illegal fundraising, attracting investors' attention and investment through disguised promises of principal protection and high-interest inducements.
[Typical Case] Zhang Moufeng (张某锋), Liu Mou (刘某), Wang Mou (王某), and others were shareholders of an investment center and, in the name of the investment center, successively established an information company and an investment consulting company. From 2013 to 2021, Zhang Moufeng (张某锋) and others operated an online lending platform through the information company and the company, promoting debt-type wealth management products such as "Jincai (金财)" and "Juyoucai (聚有财)" to the general public through website promotion, word-of-mouth, and other means, and promising to pay high returns with an annualized rate of 6% to 12.5%, illegally absorbing more than 269 million yuan in funds, causing losses of more than 105 million yuan to fundraising participants.
The handling prosecutor introduced that in this case, Zhang Moufeng (张某锋) and others built an online lending information intermediary platform to engage in illegal fundraising under the guise of legitimate online lending, attracting investors' attention and investment through disguised promises of principal protection, high-interest inducements, and public promotion. They collected funds by concealing the actual main borrowers, fabricating false targets, and mismatching terms, resulting in the majority of lenders not understanding the true use of funds and the fund risk situation, ultimately causing losses to investors.
[Risk Warning] The handling prosecutor reminded that investors should remember "investment is risky, entry requires caution," and remember that returns are proportional to risks. The higher the return, the greater the risk. Be more vigilant when the rate of return is significantly higher than other wealth management products.
The "Four Checks" principle should be adhered to. First, check the qualifications, that is, whether there are relevant financial business qualifications; second, check the project, that is, the authenticity of the underlying assets; third, check the flow, that is, the true use and destination of funds; fourth, check public opinion, that is, online complaint records, etc. In addition, "evidence" should be retained. In order to facilitate rights protection and accountability, pay attention to preserving relevant investment contracts, communication records, transfer vouchers, and other materials when investing, and report or file a case in a timely manner when encountering suspected illegal fundraising behavior.
"Elderly Financial" Scams
Under the banner of "elderly finance," products such as "travel prepayment cards" and "nursing apartments" are launched for the elderly, luring them into the quagmire of Ponzi schemes.
[Typical Case] Shen Moufeng (沈某峰) (a fugitive on the Interpol Red Notice) organized the recruitment of Zhou Moubiao (周某标), Li Mou (李某), and others to establish a group company. Without the permission of the national financial management department, they opened elderly tourism bases, hotels, resort villas, and other projects in Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏), Anhui (安徽), Yunnan (云南), and other places, and recruited business teams to promote wealth management products such as elderly care and travel to the public through tourism promotion meetings, word-of-mouth, and other means, promising to guarantee the principal and obtain fixed income, illegally absorbing public funds. According to the audit, the group company absorbed a total of more than 5.03 billion yuan from the public, with an undelivered amount of 1.54 billion yuan.
The handling prosecutor introduced that the company involved in the case, under the banner of "elderly finance," used the provision of elderly apartments and travel bases as a gimmick to launch products such as "travel prepayment cards" and "nursing apartments" for elderly investors, promoting that they could obtain high interest on the one hand and enjoy high-quality elderly care and tourism services on the other hand, using the elderly's two major needs for fund security and elderly care security, leading a large number of elderly people into the quagmire of Ponzi schemes.
[Risk Warning] The handling prosecutor reminded that the public should enhance their risk awareness and not easily believe in "high-yield" promises. Be wary of "high-return, no-risk" publicity, maintain rationality in the face of benefits such as "free travel, low-price travel," and safeguard the elderly's "wallet."
The qualifications of elderly care services should be verified, and the "prepayment" trap should be guarded against. When choosing an elderly care institution, pay attention to checking the enterprise's business license, elderly care institution establishment license, and other documents to confirm that the enterprise has the legal qualifications to provide elderly care services. At the same time, be wary of the payment method of purchasing "prepayment cards," and the funds paid in advance have certain safety hazards in supervision.
In addition, the elderly should communicate more with their children or professionals before managing their finances and investing, and they can also consult with civil affairs and financial regulatory departments. If they find clues suspected of illegal fundraising, they should report them to the public security organs or financial regulatory departments in a timely manner.
False Forex Trading Traps
The so-called "foreign exchange trading account" may only be a virtual number, and the funds do not enter the real foreign exchange trading market, but are controlled by the platform, and security cannot be guaranteed.
[Typical Case] From January 2014 to July 2020, Wang Mou (王某) successively established a number of investment management companies, colluding with Gu Mou (顾某), Mu Mou (穆某), and others to build a false forex trading platform MT4, and publicly promoted to the public through the distribution of leaflets, holding customer briefings, and other means, falsely claiming that the MT4 platform built could carry out real foreign exchange margin trading business.
The above-mentioned companies signed "Entrusted Account Opening Agreements" and "Account Entrusted Management Agreements" with investors, stipulating that the company would "open an account" and "deposit funds" on the platform on behalf of the investors, and subsequently, a dedicated person would carry out daily account maintenance and forex trading. The company charged a certain percentage of consulting fees, and after the contract expired, the principal and returns ranging from 20% to 300% were returned to the customers. Wang Mou (王某) and others illegally raised more than 1.92 billion yuan from the public through the above-mentioned methods, and the fundraising funds were mainly used for returning principal and paying interest and personal high consumption. At the time of the incident, the unpaid principal was more than 390 million yuan.
[Risk Warning] The handling prosecutor reminded that the national financial management department has not approved any institution to carry out or act as an agent for foreign exchange margin business in China, and investors' participation may involve violations of the law. Investors' so-called "foreign exchange trading accounts" may only be virtual numbers, and the funds do not enter the real foreign exchange trading market, but are controlled by the platform, and fund security cannot be guaranteed.
In addition, this type of false forex trading platform manipulates the "exchange rate" through the background, artificially creating "losses," and usually has no physical qualifications, and may suddenly close the website or lose contact. The public should invest rationally and improve risk prevention awareness. When encountering forex trading promotion, they should remain calm and prudent, not easily believe or blindly follow, and prevent property losses. Special investment vigilance should be maintained for projects that claim "zero risk" and "guaranteed profit."
At the same time, financial knowledge learning should be strengthened, and investment projects should be selected carefully. Understand the difference between legal investment channels and illegal fundraising, and learn about the authenticity and legality of investment projects through formal channels. In the process of investment, if abnormal situations such as failure to pay funds on time and inconsistency between publicity and reality are found, investment should be stopped immediately, and the case should be reported to the public security organs in a timely manner, and legal means should be taken to protect rights and interests.
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Only by earnestly listening to the opinions of the masses and fully respecting their wishes can we better identify weaknesses and pinpoint areas of focus.
"There are too few cultural activities in the village. Can we organize some performances for the masses?" Chen Guizhi, a villager, said during a research visit to Baisheng Village (百盛村), which caught the attention of Wang Teng (王腾), the Party Secretary of Longsheng Town (隆盛镇).
Wang Teng (王腾) had received such requests from the masses before. However, when discussing solutions, many people felt that the town and village cadres were already busy enough with their "main tasks" such as infrastructure construction, industrial development, and social governance. Where would they find the extra energy to engage in those "dispensable" activities? So, the matter was temporarily shelved.
This time, hearing the masses' feedback in person, Wang Teng (王腾) felt somewhat ashamed and constantly reflected: "Are rural cultural activities really 'dispensable'?" "How can we solve the problem of a lack of vitality in the countryside?"
With these doubts and thoughts, Wang Teng (王腾) held a discussion meeting with the town and village cadres. At the meeting, the discussions were intense, and disagreements persisted.
Some people believed that villagers were no longer satisfied with just having enough to eat and wear, and their demand for spiritual and cultural life was increasing day by day. This was the "urgent needs and concerns" of the new era's farmers. Others felt that promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside still required focusing efforts on driving income growth and wealth creation.
"The demands of the masses are the direction of our efforts. What we think is important is not necessarily what the masses need," Wang Teng (王腾) said. Gradually, everyone reached a consensus.
After careful planning, the "Village Voice" series of cultural activities made a brand new appearance. Focusing on chorus singing, it guided villagers to participate in diverse cultural and recreational activities, enriching rural cultural life.
There were many difficulties and problems in organizing such a comprehensive cultural activity for the first time. Wang Teng (王腾) and his colleagues insisted on "relying on the masses" and pooled their wisdom to solve the problems. The participation of each village was uneven, so they used competitions to promote performances, stimulating villagers' enthusiasm through contests and group competitions. There was a lack of professional talent, so they leveraged the role of "folk stars," allowing local cultural talents to lead the singing and act as "conductors."
Over the past two years, the Longsheng Town (隆盛镇) 2023 "Village Voice" finals, and the 2024 and 2025 "Village Evening" events have been held successively. The loud singing broke the silence of the countryside, and the fields of hope were full of vitality. Chen (陈) Dajie (大姐), who initially raised the issue, is now a "pillar" of the village choir. When she saw Wang Teng (王腾) again, she said happily, "When we have time, we rehearse together, singing and dancing, it's very lively!"
The "Village Voice" series of cultural activities brought "people" together in one place, and even more connected "hearts" together. Cadres and the masses not only sang together on stage, but also formed a joint force in the process of comprehensive rural revitalization, including infrastructure construction, industrial development, and environmental beautification. The "Village Voice" extended from the stage to the fields and villages, converging into a strong voice of working together to seek development and promote revitalization.
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣。群众不满意，也会影响基层干部工作积极性。只有认真听取群众意见、充分尊重群众意愿，才能更好发现薄弱点、找准着力点，让惠民暖心举措落到实处。
基层干部每天忙忙碌碌，但如果不和群众忙在一个“频道”上，就难以产生共情共鸣
Return to TopOn the night of July 7, 1937, a unit of the Japanese army stationed in Fengtai (丰台), Beiping (北平) held a provocative military exercise near the Lugou Bridge (卢沟桥).
Around midnight, the Japanese army claimed that a soldier was missing during the exercise and demanded to enter Wanping (宛平) to search. After their unreasonable demand was rejected by the Chinese side, they launched an attack on the Chinese garrison and bombarded Wanping (宛平). A unit of the 29th Army of the Chinese garrison was forced to resist, and the nationwide War of Resistance against Japan broke out.
After the July 7th Incident, all sectors of society were filled with indignation, and calls for resistance against Japan arose throughout the country. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China quickly responded to the Japanese invasion.
On July 8, the Communist Party of China issued a nationwide circular, pointing out that only a war of resistance by the whole nation was the way out for China; it called on the people, the army, and the government of the whole country to unite and build a solid Great Wall of the national united front to resist the Japanese invasion.
Through the unremitting efforts of the Communist Party of China, the Second Kuomintang-Communist Cooperation was formally established. Under the active efforts and promotion of the Communist Party of China, based on the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, a broad anti-Japanese national united front was formed and developed, with the widespread participation of people of all ethnic groups, democratic parties, patriotic armies, patriotic people from all walks of life, and overseas Chinese.
Under the banner of the anti-Japanese national united front, both north and south of the Yangtze River (长江), inside and outside the Great Wall (长城), all Chinese sons and daughters braved the enemy's artillery fire and 共赴国难 (gòng fù guó nàn - "together face national crisis," to jointly brave national disasters).
(Reported by Wang Haonan (王昊男) and Xu Leipeng (徐雷鹏), reporters of this newspaper)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) June 11th dispatch (Reporter Zhang Cong (张璁)) Recently, the Ministry of Justice (司法部) announced the newly revised "Measures for Handling Legal Aid Complaints," which will take effect on June 15, 2025.
To facilitate public complaints, the measures require judicial administrative organs to publicize legal aid complaint addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses, and other information to the public, designate specific personnel to receive complaints, and provide barrier-free services for the elderly and people with disabilities to facilitate public complaints through written, oral, or other appropriate procedures.
At the same time, this revision also strengthens guidance and supervision. The measures expand the scope of complaints, stipulating that applicants, recipients, or interested parties of legal aid who discover that legal aid institutions or personnel have collected property, failed to provide legal aid services that meet standards, or failed to notify the handling of legal aid matters in accordance with the law, etc., in seven situations, can all file complaints. Implement full-process supervision of legal aid complaint handling, and hold relevant legal responsibilities in accordance with the law for abuse of power, 玩忽职守 (wán hū zhí shǒu - "neglect duty," to be negligent in one's duties) or other illegal and irregular behaviors.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 祝大伟
Walking into the "Red Station" of the Party and Mass Service Center in Tongda Community, Hailun City (海伦市), Suihua (绥化), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), delivery riders and couriers are drinking water, charging their devices, and taking a short break.
Such thoughtful "Red Stations" have achieved full coverage in 25 communities in Hailun City (海伦市), providing more than 10 heartwarming services such as temporary rest and emergency medicines for new employment groups, while also organizing Party members to participate in community Party building activities nearby.
Hailun City (海伦市) makes good use of service positions such as community Party and Mass Service Centers, outdoor workers' stations, and drivers' homes, encouraging emerging field organizations to cooperate with surrounding units to jointly build Party building positions, share Party building resources, and jointly carry out activities, continuously enhancing the cohesion of Party organizations.
While strengthening services, emerging field Party organizations continue to stimulate the enthusiasm of new employment groups to participate in urban governance. At present, more than 170 new employment group workers in the city have voluntarily registered with the community and become grass-roots supervisors, safety officers, grid members, etc.
Delivery rider Liu Yu (刘宇) discovered a hidden danger of blocked corridors in a residential area during a delivery, and after several patient communications with residents, finally prompted the effective clearing of idle bicycles. Since the beginning of this year, Party members of new employment groups have cumulatively discovered and reported more than 140 suggestions on various issues such as damage to street infrastructure, blocked fire exits in residential areas, and disorderly parking of vehicles.
In recent years, Hailun City (海伦市) has conducted investigations into emerging field organizations, promoted the establishment of Party organizations, and simultaneously dispatched Party building instructors to guide the Party building work of non-public enterprises and social organizations. At present, Hailun City (海伦市) has cumulatively developed 147 emerging field organizations, more than 270 Party members, and established 34 Party organizations.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
"By running errands with problems, cadres' ability to solve problems can be trained in one 'unboxing' after another." said Lu Shaojun (陆少君), member of the Party Committee of Lingqiao Town, Fuyang District (富阳区), Hangzhou (杭州) City, Zhejiang Province (浙江省). After more than a month of interviews and research on public sentiment, he is more confident in solving people's livelihood problems.
Fuyang District launched the Qingfeng Strong Foundation Action this year, using "day visits and night talks" as a starting point, focusing on the urgent needs and expectations of the masses, deepening research, and promoting the transformation of cadres' work style by continuously solving problems and relieving worries for the people. Since March, more than 1,800 village-level cadres in Fuyang District have conducted full-coverage visits and investigations in 354 villages and communities. Lu Shaojun (陆少君) is one of them.
Seeing the town's cadres come to the factory workshop, Xiong Linfeng (熊林锋), an employee of Hangzhou Xin Hai Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州芯海半导体技术有限公司), went straight to the point: "The number of school places near my home is limited, and the schools that are being transferred to are too far away, making it very inconvenient to pick up and drop off my children to and from work."
With the problem in mind, Lu Shaojun (陆少君) visited the nearby Lingqiao Town Central Primary School (灵桥镇中心小学). After repeated communication, the school agreed to add classes, and the children of employees of nearby enterprises can all enroll nearby in the fall.
In order to promote close ties between cadres and the masses, various towns and townships in Fuyang District (富阳区) have actively innovated mechanisms. Huyuan Township (湖源乡) adopted a model of "leadership team contracting + special team sinking," mobilizing all government cadres, village committee cadres, etc. to form 10 special teams to sink to the front line to carry out "carpet-style" centralized visits and investigations; Wanshi Town (万市镇) implemented a point system for the number of farm households visited by young cadres and the number of problems solved through research...
According to reports, more than 730 district-managed leading cadres in Fuyang District (富阳区) have visited a total of 97,800 farmers, led the implementation of more than 850 difficult projects, and implemented more than 350 micro-reforms. "Party member cadres should not only go to places where work can be carried out well to learn from experience, but also go to places where there are more difficulties, complex situations, and sharp contradictions to investigate and solve problems, so as to promote the continuous deepening of research work in the whole district and the continuous improvement of cadres' work style." said the relevant person in charge of the Organization Department of the Fuyang District (富阳区委组织部) Party Committee.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 迅
The dawn light was just breaking. In Yanwo Ridge of Baizhu Village, Jiugongqiao Town, Shaoyang County (邵阳县), Hunan Province (湖南省), nearly eighty-year-old Liu Yong'an (刘永安) was already busy in his old house, preparing for the day's performance. Behind him, the simple and ancient opera box and various puppets silently recounted the vicissitudes of this ancient art.
As a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage representative project puppet show (Shaoyang cloth bag puppet show), for 50 years, Liu Yong'an (刘永安) has carried this set of equipment, which carries the local accent of thousands of years, starting from the crisscrossing countryside and embarking on a road to protect and inherit the intangible cultural heritage of his hometown and brighten the cultural brand of his hometown.
**持之以恒** (chí zhī yǐ héng - "persevere," to persist in doing something consistently) Persisting in Upholding Intangible Cultural Heritage Skills
Tying cymbals and gongs to the stool, stepping into the stage surrounded by blue printed cloth, the person and the puppet "become one," manipulating the puppet with both hands and feet, while completing multiple skills such as blowing, pulling, playing, singing, and acrobatics, integrating singing and performance, and vividly expressing the characters' experiences and emotions through the puppets... Liu Yong'an (刘永安) improvised a cloth bag puppet show.
Shaoyang cloth bag puppet show is a unique skill of "one person, one stage show," also known as "carrying pole show" or "quilt show," mostly drawing materials from Chinese folk mythology and historical novels. Whether it is the puppet's singing, acting, reciting, dialogue, or musical instrument accompaniment, it is all done by one cloth bag puppet show performer, which can be called "one person equals seven people." The entire stage and all the performance equipment can be carried by just one carrying pole.
Liu Yong'an (刘永安) is the eighteenth-generation inheritor of Shaoyang cloth bag puppet show. In the 1960s, he followed his uncle to perform in the countryside, and in the 1970s, he took over the opera carrying pole and began a wandering life, traveling all over Hunan (湖南), Jiangxi (江西), Guangxi (广西), and Guizhou (贵州).
Over the years, Liu Yong'an (刘永安) has been engaged in Shaoyang cloth bag puppet show performances in the countryside, foreign exchanges, and other work, and has cooperated with the Shaoyang County (邵阳县) Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center to carry out inheritance teaching and other activities.
Deng Fei (邓飞), director of the Shaoyang County (邵阳县) Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, introduced that in order to better protect the intangible cultural heritage skill of cloth bag puppet show, the center has taken measures in many aspects: recording audio and video of cloth bag puppet shows; promoting the spread of cloth bag puppet shows among the younger generation through entering schools, communities, and scenic spots to improve social awareness; and launching cloth bag puppet show performances in festival activities to expand influence.
"With the support and cooperation of the inheritors, we have collected and sorted out more than 30 traditional cloth bag puppet show scripts and more than 50 musical scores, and filmed more than 300 minutes of video materials and more than 3,000 pictures of daily performances, inheritance teaching, and related display and performance activities, focusing on digitally recording more than 10 traditional repertoires, leaving valuable materials," Deng Fei (邓飞) introduced.
In 2016, the rescue recording project "Chinese Memory" of the National Library of China came to Shaoyang (邵阳) and filmed a documentary for Liu Yong'an (刘永安) called "One-Man Theater," which took five years to film. In front of the camera, Liu Yong'an (刘永安) meticulously displayed and explained everything he had learned in his life. The precious audio and video became digital collections in the National Cultural Memory Bank, making an important contribution to the digital preservation of Shaoyang cloth bag puppet show.
In October 2021, the 4th China Ethnographic Film Academic Exhibition and Awards Ceremony was held at the National Library of China. "One-Man Theater" stood out from 50 shortlisted documentaries and won the only Excellent Award in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Image Unit. Liu Yong'an's (刘永安) simplicity, perseverance, dedication to cloth bag puppet show, and love deeply touched the judges and the audience.
Passing on the Flame: Devoting Oneself to Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance
Liu Yong'an's (刘永安) figure is often active in the training classroom of the Shaoyang County (邵阳县) Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center. He provides careful guidance to the students of cloth bag puppet show, teaching the singing, reciting, and operation points to the younger generation without reservation.
The team inheriting Shaoyang cloth bag puppet show is constantly expanding. There is currently 1 national representative inheritor, 1 provincial representative inheritor, 2 municipal representative inheritors, 5 county representative inheritors, and more than 10 social practitioners. The dissemination and influence are constantly increasing, and the ancient skills are焕发出新的光彩 (huàn fā chū xīn de guāng cǎi - "radiating new splendor," to regain vitality).
However, the real difficulties have to be faced - the skills of cloth bag puppet show are difficult and profound, the learning cycle is long, and the unstable performance income is difficult to support a livelihood. A batch of originally enthusiastic students either find learning the art too hard or choose to leave due to livelihood pressures.
Speaking of family inheritance, Liu Yong'an (刘永安) admitted that his grandson can do some simple manipulations, but has not been able to specialize in this. Regarding the successors who learn cloth bag puppet show, Liu Yong'an (刘永安) said: "They must have a cultural foundation, perseverance, and be able to endure hardship."
Inheritance, after all, must fall on people. How to promote the culture of cloth bag puppet show? This is a question that Liu Yong'an (刘永安) has been thinking about.
Times are changing, and dissemination also needs to break the situation. In May of this year, Douyin blogger "Little Wan Girl" paid attention to Shaoyang cloth bag puppet show. She contacted Liu Yong'an (刘永安) and suggested promoting cloth bag puppet show through live streaming. Liu Yong'an (刘永安) had doubts and hesitation. However, the desire to have cloth bag puppet show "seen" ultimately overcame the hesitation.
From the initial awkwardness in front of the camera to the current ease in the live broadcast room, Liu Yong'an's (刘永安) "touching the internet" journey has been fruitful. Since the opening of the Douyin account, the number of fans has exceeded 390,000, and the peak number of viewers in a single live broadcast has exceeded 10,000. Young netizens from all over the world poured into the live broadcast room, marveling at the "one-man theater": "This is Guochao!" "The puppets in Grandpa's hands seem to be alive!"... With the help of the digital wave, Liu Yong'an's (刘永安) small stage has been watched by audiences from all over the world, and the thousand-year-old skill has found a confidant in the cloud.
Rooted in the Countryside: Brightening the Cultural Brand
"One mouth tells the story of thousands of years, and two hands dance with millions of soldiers." At the intangible cultural heritage performance site of the 4th Hunan Tourism Development Conference, the sound of gongs and drums rang out, and as soon as Liu Yong'an (刘永安) opened his mouth, the small "stage" instantly attracted tourists to stop and watch.
No matter how famous he is, the stage that Liu Yong'an (刘永安) cherishes most is always the fertile land of his hometown. During the slack farming season, he still habitually picks up the opera carrying pole and walks through the surrounding villages. The threshing ground at the village entrance and the small square in the market town are his stages. Adding joy to weddings and entrusting condolences to funerals, Liu Yong'an's (刘永安) cloth bag puppet show performances are deeply embedded in rural culture, bringing simple joy and comfort to the daily lives of local people.
Liu Yong'an's (刘永安) decades of persistence have brought more attention to Shaoyang cloth bag puppet show. Yanwo Ridge, a once unknown small mountain village, has attracted the attention of the outside world because of cloth bag puppet show and Liu Yong'an (刘永安), and some cultural enthusiasts have come to visit. Cloth bag puppet show has become a shining cultural brand of Shaoyang (邵阳).
Taking this opportunity, Shaoyang (邵阳) is building and improving the cultural atmosphere and promoting the development of cultural tourism. Liu Fei (刘飞), a cadre of the Shaoyang County (邵阳县) Party Committee Propaganda Department, introduced that Shaoyang (邵阳) plans to further promote cloth bag puppet show and drive the development of local cultural tourism resources.
"The countryside has its local accent, and traditional culture cannot be forgotten. The cloth bag puppet show sets up three sticks, and today I come on stage to sing, and traditional culture must be promoted." Liu Yong'an (刘永安) is performing a section of Yugu, "Cloth bag puppet show is passed down from generation to generation, and intangible cultural heritage is so brilliant. A hundred flowers are blooming, and it is gratifying to this day..."
"Ancient culture must keep pace with the times and combine modern concepts for innovative expression." Talking about the future of cloth bag puppet show, Liu Yong'an (刘永安) said that he has made some repertoire innovations on the basis of traditional cloth bag puppet show, and also added elements such as 快板 (kuài bǎn - "clapper talk," a form of rhythmic storytelling), hoping to attract more young audiences, and also hoping to achieve the sustainable development of cloth bag puppet show culture through more policy support and social attention.
As night falls, Yanwo Ridge returns to tranquility. Liu Yong'an (刘永安) gently wipes the puppets that have accompanied him for most of his life. "We cannot let the good things passed down by our ancestors be断在我们这一代人手里 (duàn zài wǒ men zhè yī dài rén shǒu lǐ - "cut off in our generation's hands," to not allow something to be discontinued during one's lifetime)." These simple words carry a folk artist's awe of the cultural roots of his hometown.
This issue is coordinated by: Lü Li (吕莉) and Li Zhiyao (李祉瑶)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张文豪
"Help—someone has fallen into the water!" On the afternoon of June 6th, the tranquility of the South Lake in the ancient city of Shangqiu (商丘), Henan (河南) was broken by cries for help. Splashes of water flew on the lake surface, and five people struggled painfully in the deep water area.
On that day, a couple fell into the water, and three passersby successively jumped into the lake to rescue them. Due to poor swimming skills and lack of rescue experience, several people pulled each other and were also trapped in the lake. At this time, no one on the shore dared to go into the water again, and could only shout for help.
At that time, Zhang Wei (张伟), a 36-year-old active-duty soldier on vacation, was walking with his mother, who is over sixty years old, in the ancient city. In this critical moment, Zhang Wei jumped into the water without hesitation. He first swam towards the woman who had fallen into the water and grabbed her arm. In a panic, the woman hugged his neck, and he was pressed into the water, choking on several mouthfuls.
Relying on his military training experience, Zhang Wei quickly adjusted his approach, using a reverse breaststroke technique to support the woman's armpits, and struggled to drag her to the shore.
In this way, Zhang Wei went back and forth to the shore several times. When he rescued the fourth person, he was already pale and breathing rapidly, and had no strength left.
"Son, you can't save any more," his mother hugged him and pleaded, "If you save again, we will lose our lives!"
"Mom, I am a soldier, please let me save one more!" Kneeling in front of his mother, Zhang Wei kowtowed and turned to jump into the water again.
The last person who fell into the water was significantly larger than Zhang Wei. The instinct to survive made him hug Zhang Wei and gasp for breath. Watching her son only showing his head, rising and falling in the water, the mother on the shore cried out in distress: "My son!"
Closing his eyes tightly, taking deep breaths, relying on willpower and instinct, Zhang Wei dragged the last person to the shore. With the help of everyone, both of them were rescued ashore. At this time, Zhang Wei was spitting water from his mouth, unconscious, and was rushed to a nearby hospital.
"Looking back now, I'm still a little scared, I was completely exhausted at the end," Zhang Wei said, lying in the hospital bed with an oxygen tube in his nose, recalling the rescue process. He said that if an accident happened, the most regrettable thing would be not being able to fulfill his filial duty.
During Zhang Wei's hospitalization, the rescued people came with flowers and banners. He raised his hand, which was still receiving an IV, and gave a military salute to the three passersby: "You are also kind rescuers, knowing that you are not good swimmers but still stepping forward, this spirit is worth learning from."
The video of Zhang Wei's heroic rescue went viral online, and netizens praised him.
"As a soldier, when the people encounter difficulties, I will not hesitate to lend a helping hand. I think some soldiers would do even better than me," Zhang Wei said.
On June 10, Zhang Wei recovered and was discharged from the hospital, returning to his hometown of Chezhuang Village (车庄村), Huodian Town (火店镇), Xiayi County (夏邑县). Many villagers spontaneously came to the entrance of the village to welcome the safe return of the hero.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 11th (Chen Juan): On June 11th, the thematic reading event "National Sentiment, the Hometown in Everyone's Heart" and the second printing publication seminar of "Xiang Yu" (《乡愈》) were held at Peking University (北京大学). At the meeting, the participating guests shared their thoughts on the book's spiritual connotation, value and significance, reading experience, and publication response, and jointly discussed the creation of new era works of literature on hometown and family affection from multiple perspectives, exploring how to continue the Chinese cultural heritage in creative transformation and innovative development.
"Xiang Yu" (《乡愈》) was published by Peking University Press (北京大学出版社) in 2024 and is the sixth work of hometown and family affection by writer Wang Xuewu (王学武). It has been well received since its publication a year ago. The second printing of "Xiang Yu" (《乡愈》) includes new works created by the author in the past year, such as "The Way of the Mortal World" (《凡间道》), "Only Respect What You Desire and Follow Your Heart" (《唯敬所欲随心》), and "Everyone is a Philosopher of Life" (《每个人都是生活哲学家》). The author stated that hometown sentiment is an extension of family affection, patriotism is a sublimation of hometown sentiment, and the creation of hometown and family affection literature must properly handle the relationship between the big and the small, creation and writing, writer and author, and poetry and distant places.
This event was hosted by Peking University Press (北京大学出版社) and the Publicity Department of the Chun'an County Committee of Zhejiang Province (浙江省淳安县委宣传部). Experts, scholars, and reader representatives from the fields of literature and art, science and technology, education, and business attended the meeting.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 驰
"With the power restored, I feel much more at ease. The past few days were too difficult." In Dizhengdang Village (迪政当村), the northernmost village in Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡), Gongshan Dulong and Nu Autonomous County (贡山独龙族怒族自治县), Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture (怒江傈僳族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省), villager Chen Yonghua (陈永华) looked around the bright main room and breathed a sigh of relief.
At 17:39 on June 10, as the transformer in Dizhengdang Village (迪政当村) successfully closed, normal power supply was fully restored in Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡) after the disaster.
From May 31 to June 1, Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡) was hit by continuous heavy rainfall. The rain triggered mountain floods and mudslides, causing the 35 kV Dulongjiang Substation (独龙江变电站) in Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡) to shut down, all four 20 kV lines to be interrupted, and 87 power distribution areas and 2,040 households to lose power. With communications and roads cut off, Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡) became an "isolated island."
Chen Yonghua (陈永华) said that during the days of the power outage, the hardest thing was being cut off from the outside world: "At night, we could only burn the fire pit. There was no cell phone signal, and we couldn't charge our phones. I was very scared."
At the emergency meeting of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网公司) on June 1, a series of difficult problems were presented: the four main power supply lines, stretching 134 kilometers, were "scarred and battered," with 140 damaged points scattered in deep valleys; many roads leading to Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡) were completely swallowed by mudslides, making it impossible for large machinery and materials to move; and with continuous heavy rain, landslides could occur at any time...
"No matter how difficult it is, we must go. We must restore power as soon as possible!" The Party Leadership Group of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网公司党组) decisively issued an order to "re-equip and reinforce" the support efforts. Yunnan Power Grid Corporation (云南电网公司) quickly established a front and rear command headquarters for the emergency response, dispatched a working group to Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡) immediately, and built a "front-line rescue + rear command" dual-line system with Nujiang Power Supply Bureau (怒江供电局). Party members and cadres bravely rushed to the front line of the rescue effort.
In the face of broken roads and desperate situations, technology empowered solutions. On June 3, under the precise control of technicians, an 80-kilogram heavy-lift drone successfully crossed the turbulent flood and mudslide accumulation, flew over an 800-meter road break, and safely delivered a small generator to the other side. Heavy-duty drones shuttled over the Nujiang Grand Canyon (怒江峡谷), accurately delivering more than 17 tons of critical supplies such as power poles, cables, generators, emergency lights, and food to multiple villages, laying an important foundation for restoring power.
Amidst the wind and rain, Party building led the way to the "heart road." In complex areas where drones could not directly reach or required precise deployment, He Shancong (和善聪), Deputy General Manager of Nujiang Gongshan Power Supply Bureau (怒江贡山供电局) of Yunnan Power Grid Corporation (云南电网公司) and former director of Dulongjiang Power Supply Station (独龙江供电所), led a Party member commando team, carrying generators and repair tools weighing more than 70 kilograms on their backs, and trudged through knee-deep mud and steep slopes where landslides could occur at any time, spending three days traveling 65 kilometers to understand the disaster situation.
"It's raining heavily, and the mountain roads are steep and slippery. It's impossible not to be afraid, but as a Party member, I can't back down," said He Shancong (和善聪). "Bringing electricity to the villagers' homes as soon as possible is our common belief."
In Xiaowangdang Village Group (肖旺当村小组), Kongdang Village (孔当村), Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡), when the small generator carried by the repair team on their shoulders and in their hands was successfully started at the entrance of the village, villager Bing Lijun (丙利军) choked up as he held the team member's hand: "The electricity came the day after the flood. When the lights came on, we felt much more at ease."
In the steep canyons, the repair team's work surfaces were muddy and scattered over a wide area. Yunnan Power Grid Corporation (云南电网公司) urgently dispatched 55 experienced backbone personnel for power distribution network safety supervision from across the province, embedding them in each repair team to achieve "same entry and exit" for the teams. "Safety first" became the underlying principle for safeguarding the repair work.
On June 4, in the square of Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡), tents printed with "The Party Flag Fluttering Reflects the Original Intention" were set up, becoming a warm harbor for the local people in the continuous wind and rain.
"The company's front-line command coordinated 122 four-wheel-drive emergency vehicles and supplies such as tents, sleeping bags, and moisture-proof mats, and established a 'power supply station canteen + mobile dining car' to provide food and accommodation for 700 people," said Jiang Hongyun (姜虹云), Secretary of the Party Committee of Nujiang Power Supply Bureau (怒江供电局). Seventeen Party member commando teams and two Party member service teams built Party organizations on the emergency response chain and service chain, quickly restoring power and going into villages and households to investigate hidden dangers, building a "bridge of hearts" with the people.
Ma Chunxiang (马春香), a Dulong ethnic member of the Dulongjiang Power Supply Station (独龙江供电所) Party member service team, has been working with township staff to visit households to investigate circuit safety hazards and popularize safe electricity use knowledge, her voice already hoarse from speaking.
"I visited seven village groups, asking if they needed emergency lights and if they had enough food at home. We delivered comfort to their homes, letting the villagers feel the power of the Party organization," said Ma Chunxiang (马春香).
"The fact that the China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) rescue team was among the first external forces to break through obstacles and enter the core disaster area to carry out professional rescue by relying on walking, drones, and other methods is due to transforming the Party's political and organizational advantages into a winning force," said Jiang Hongyun (姜虹云). As of now, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网公司) has invested a total of 635 professional repair personnel, deployed 397 generators, 16 heavy-lift drones, and 77 light drones, and continuously carried out disaster investigation and power restoration to ensure power supply in Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡). After continuous efforts, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网公司) restored normal power supply to Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡) with the largest work surface and in the shortest time.
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Wangtan Town (王坛镇), Keqiao District (柯桥区), Shaoxing City (绍兴市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) is located in the hinterland of the Kuaiji Mountains (会稽山) and belongs to the Xiaoshun River (小舜江) source ecological protection area. The town governs 24 villages and 1 community, with approximately 9,300 permanent elderly residents aged 60 and above, accounting for about 84% of the permanent population.
In 2024, to alleviate the financial burden of supporting elderly parents for children working away from home and to ensure that the elderly can enjoy nutritious, healthy, and delicious meals, Wangtan Town (王坛镇) revitalized vacant houses and built 6 elderly canteens and 19 elderly meal service points, forming a "central kitchen + distribution point" service network. It provides an average of 1,000 meals per day, achieving full coverage of all 25 villages (communities) in the town. Among them, the distance from the Wangtan Town (王坛镇) Leling Center (乐龄中心) elderly canteen to the farthest village (community) in the town is about 18 kilometers, a half-hour drive.
After the meals are delivered, villagers can choose to eat at the elderly meal service points or take them home. For elderly people with mobility issues, the village committee arranges volunteers to deliver meals to their homes free of charge.
The meal standard for elderly meal assistance in Wangtan Town (王坛镇) is 8 yuan per meal, including one meat dish, one vegetable dish, one soup, and rice. To further enhance the elderly's sense of gain, Wangtan Town (王坛镇) issued a document in April of this year to increase subsidies, ensuring that elderly people aged 80 and above do not need to pay personal expenses for meals.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 林 琳 唐天奕
Recently, the international competitive arena has been quite lively.
In less than a month, the World Snooker Championship trophies for both men and women were engraved with the names of Chinese players for the first time; at the Doha World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese team won 4 titles but missed out on the men's doubles gold medal; at the French Open, Zheng Qinwen (郑钦文) achieved her best result but lost to her old rival Aryna Sabalenka.
There were great victories and narrow defeats. People cheered for those who made breakthroughs and offered comfort to those who stumbled. The wins and losses on the field no longer seem to easily stir up national emotions as they once did. Could it be that gold medals are not as important today?
Before answering this question, let's first talk about what gold medals mean.
Like bright pearls, gold medals are the highest honor in an athlete's career. The road to the championship is often paved with the thorns of tedious repetition and thrilling challenges. At the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会), veterans Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) and Qi Guangpu (齐广璞) finally won gold after their fourth attempt. Their repeated falls and climbs, the sweetness after suffering, provided a delicate footnote to "mountains and seas can be leveled," and gave "love can withstand the long years" a life-like image.
Igniting the passion in their hearts, gold medals sow the seeds of sports dreams for spectators. When athletes push themselves to the limit for a breakthrough of 0.01 seconds or a leap of 1 centimeter, their courageous posture of challenging human boundaries stirs up a power that reaches the soul. At the Paris Olympics (巴黎奥运会), Pan Zhanle (潘展乐) broke the world record in the men's 100-meter freestyle, swimming out "Chinese speed." The Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together" took root and sprouted in countless hearts.
Enjoying the abundant fruits, the number of gold medals is an important yardstick for measuring a country's competitive sports strength. From Xu Haifeng's (许海峰) shooting of China's first Olympic gold medal in 1984 to the Chinese team winning 40 gold medals at the Paris Olympics in 2024, the total number of China's Summer Olympic gold medals has reached 303. The gold medal map has also expanded from traditional advantageous sports to more fields: the first freestyle BMX gold medal, the first artistic swimming gold medal, the first women's boxing gold medal... One breakthrough after another makes China's competitive sports career shine and the gold medals more valuable.
In the changing times, gold medals are still important, still demonstrating the spirit of tenacious struggle and striving for the first place, and carrying the earnest expectation of "raising the national flag and playing the national anthem."
It's just that our gaze at gold medals has changed.
Once, that gaze was as hot as a torch, full of a nation's desire and determination to catch up with the world. In our collective memory, engraved is Rong Guotuan's (容国团) first world championship for China, echoing is Xu Haifeng's gunshot, and shining are the women's volleyball team's unprecedented "five consecutive championships." Those hard-won gold medals solemnly declared to the world: Chinese people can do it!
When "March of the Volunteers" (《义勇军进行曲》) resounded in international arenas time and time again, the meaning of gold medals had surpassed winning or losing. At the Athens Games, we remember Liu Xiang's (刘翔) shout of "Asia has me, China has me" when he broke the monopoly of European and American athletes; in the summer of 2008, we will never forget the "famous scene" of three five-star red flags being raised simultaneously twice in the table tennis arena. The gold medals in our eyes have become a testament to the increasing comprehensive strength of a major country.
As time surges forward, we are striding into a new era. A China that is striving forward is becoming increasingly prosperous; the ambition, integrity, and confidence of being Chinese are constantly increasing. When gold medals are no longer a necessity to prove national confidence, we become more and more calm.
We "play with memes" with Fu Yuanhui (傅园慧), who exhausted her "prehistoric power," give Zhang Boheng (张博恒), who repeatedly failed to win gold medals, full of comfort, and offer applause to the last runner to cross the finish line in the marathon. As long as you have struggled and persevered, even without a gold medal, you are still strong!
The light of gold medals is still dazzling. We learn respect and appreciation from the perseverance of strivers, and we also see more colors in the spectrum of sports.
National fitness is surging with vitality. By the end of 2024, China's per capita sports venue area reached 3 square meters, the proportion of people regularly participating in sports exercise increased from 28.2% in 2007 to 37.2% in 2023, the national fitness qualification level improved by 3.3 percentage points in 20 years, and the average life expectancy reached 79 years... The vivid picture of national fitness and national health resonating at the same frequency is painting a beautiful picture of building a strong sports country and a healthy China.
Mass sports events are booming with vitality. From the grasslands of northern China to the villages of southwestern China, from the water towns of Lingnan to the coastal cities, the enthusiasm of grassroots people to participate in sports events is being fully displayed in the fields and streets. The "Su Chao" (苏超), which has become popular, is not only a platform for people to exchange football skills, but also a bright name card to show the characteristics and connotation of the city. The "Village BA" (村BA), which has entered the international arena, not only shows the vigorous atmosphere of the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, but also builds a broad bridge for the exchange and mutual learning of different cultures.
The sports industry is accelerating. In 2023, the total scale of the national sports industry was nearly 3.7 trillion yuan, the national sports goods e-commerce sales exceeded 333.7 billion yuan in 2024, and the scale of the ice and snow industry is expected to exceed one trillion yuan this year... Behind each jumping number is the continuous release of development potential, and the sports industry has become a new engine to promote high-quality development.
International events are coming one after another. Beijing (北京) has become the world's first "dual Olympic city," engraving an "unparalleled" Chinese mark in the history of the Olympics; the Chengdu Universiade (成都大运会) and the Hangzhou Asian Games (杭州亚运会) were successfully held, contributing an effective "Chinese solution" to the world. At the same time, the engine roar of the F1 China Station and the wonderful showdown of the China Open... One top international event after another allows an enthusiastic and open China to share development experience and development opportunities with the world.
The spirit of sports gathers strength. At the Paris Olympic Games, heartfelt words such as "national honor always exceeds personal" and "my gold medal is dedicated to the great motherland" are moving, and the patriotic feelings of putting the motherland first and striving for glory for the country are inspiring; badminton player He Bingjiao (何冰娇) held the National Olympic Committee badge of her opponent who withdrew from the competition due to injury and stepped onto the podium, and the spirit of sports that transcends winning and losing and respects opponents won the resonance and respect of the world.
From "looking up at the world" to "looking at the world on an equal footing," we have more calmness when we look at gold medals; we have more confidence when we look at the world. The values of sports that transcend competition are nurturing a strong spiritual force and gathering into a mighty force to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
"We do not judge heroes solely on the basis of winning or losing, but at the same time, heroes must dare to be the first and dare to strive for the first place." Today, we no longer regard the number of gold medals as the only standard for measuring success or failure, but the heart that never gives up and strives for victory is still hot!
Return to Top"Second Breath" and "Hitting the Wall" have recently become buzzwords as part of this year's Beijing Gaokao (北京高考) essay question. What do they mean?
In fact, many sports enthusiasts have experienced it to varying degrees: feeling unable to run after running for a short time, or panting after sprinting back and forth on the court a couple of times... But by adjusting the pace, reducing the intensity, and inspiring fighting spirit, the body will regain vitality after a period of time, ushering in a smooth and natural "second breath."
From the perspective of exercise physiology, when performing exercise of a certain intensity, in the initial stage, because the reactions of the respiratory and circulatory systems lag behind the needs of the muscles, the body mainly relies on anaerobic metabolism to quickly supply energy, resulting in the accumulation of lactic acid. This leads to the symptoms of "hitting the wall," that is, feeling difficulty breathing, general weakness, and low spirits. If you continue to persevere, the body will gradually adapt to the exercise state, oxygen supply will continue to increase, lactic acid will gradually be eliminated, and the above-mentioned adverse reactions will slowly dissipate. The body will re-establish balance, and this state is called "second breath."
Generally speaking, the greater the exercise intensity and the poorer the physical fitness of the exerciser, the earlier the "hitting the wall" appears, the more obvious the body's reaction, and the slower the relief of discomfort symptoms. In addition, sufficient warm-up exercises can allow the body to adapt to the exercise state in advance, thereby delaying the arrival of the "hitting the wall" and reducing the intensity of the reaction.
After understanding the principle of "hitting the wall," in sports and in life, we may wish to give ourselves more positive psychological cues. When encountering difficulties, persevere a little longer, get through the "hitting the wall," and you can embrace the "second breath."
(Reported by Liu Shuoyang (刘硕阳), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 11th (Reporter Ji Fang (季芳)) On local time June 10th, the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Germany entered its final day of competition. Wang Zifei (王子菲), an 18-year-old young player from the Chinese shooting team, and Hu Kai (胡凯), 23 years old, continued their hot form this season, winning the women's 10-meter air rifle and men's 10-meter air pistol championships, respectively.
In the women's 10-meter air rifle competition, Wang Zifei (王子菲) achieved excellent results in the qualifying round. She broke the world record and world youth record for the qualifying round with a score of 637.9 rings, securing a place in the final for the Chinese team in advance. The competition in the final was even more intense, with Kwon Eun-ji (权恩吉) from the South Korean team becoming a strong opponent. She scored 10.8 rings in the last shot. Wang Zifei (王子菲) performed well and ultimately narrowly defeated her opponent by 0.1 rings. This is also her third World Cup stage win this season, following the Argentina and Peru stops.
The final of the men's 10-meter air pistol was also full of suspense. Before the final round, Chinese team player Hu Kai (胡凯) was 0.4 rings behind the Kazakhstani team player. In the last two shots, Hu Kai (胡凯) scored 10.4 rings and 10.5 rings, while the Kazakhstani team player made a mistake. In the end, Hu Kai (胡凯) achieved a comeback and won the championship with a total score of 242.3 rings, achieving a three-game winning streak in the World Cup this season.
On local time the 11th, 20-year-old Sun Yujie (孙瑜洁) won the women's 25-meter pistol championship, taking her personal three-game World Cup winning streak this season.
Return to TopExploring the vast land, discovering traces of civilization; stepping into the lush rainforest, feeling the vitality of life. Listening to the wind, listening to the rain, listening to the endless life in the silence of all things; watching the mountains, watching the sea, watching the shifting stars between sunset and moonrise. Taking nature as the classroom, making civilization accessible, looking up at the distant starry sky, feeling the vastness and depth of the universe. Walking into Yunnan, let the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau become a book, start a study tour, and experience a life called Yunnan.
Tracing the Cambrian, deciphering the origin of life
In Yuxi City (玉溪市), there is a magical museum where tourists can "travel" to the Cambrian explosion period more than 500 million years ago and "experience" the story of the evolution of life on Earth.
It is the Chengjiang Fossil Site World Natural Heritage Museum (澄江化石地世界自然遗产博物馆) nestled on the shore of Fuxian Lake (抚仙湖) in Chengjiang City (澄江市). Here, more than 60,000 biological fossils and specimens convey information dating back more than 500 million years. As China's first and Asia's only fossil world heritage site, the Chengjiang Fossil Site (澄江化石地) is the core area for preserving Chengjiang biota fossils. The Chengjiang biota is hailed by the international scientific community as a "world-class fossil treasure trove."
The museum uses high-definition digital technology to realistically restore unique scenes such as the "518 million-year-old marine ecosystem" and the "evolution of Maotianshan (帽天山) in Fuxian Lake (抚仙湖)." Here, children can visit more than 280 kinds of rare Cambrian flora and fauna fossils, and also experience museum exhibition hall science popularization classes, 4D cinema viewing, field fossil collection, laboratory fossil restoration, insect specimen making, and handmade study projects.
Exploring Dinosaur Valley, "returning" to the Jurassic
In 1938, as the soil was gently brushed away, a huge dinosaur skeleton was exposed on the surface. On a small hillside in Lufeng City (禄丰市), Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture (楚雄彝族自治州), China's first complete dinosaur skeleton fossil was presented to the public. Lufeng (禄丰) became famous and became the world-renowned "hometown of Chinese dinosaurs." Since then, more than 120 relatively complete individual dinosaur fossils have been excavated in Lufeng (禄丰), spanning the early, middle, and late Jurassic periods.
Now, the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley (楚雄彝族自治州禄丰世界恐龙谷) has become a popular tourist destination. Dinosaur Valley (恐龙谷) includes a dinosaur culture science popularization exhibition area, a dinosaur amusement park area, and a dinosaur resort area, which can provide tourists with a high-quality tourism experience integrating science popularization, thematic amusement, leisure and entertainment, hot spring vacations, and health and wellness. In the Dinosaur Ruins Museum, more than 60 Lufengosaurus huenei (许氏禄丰龙), Jinshanosaurus (金山龙), Dilophosaurus (双脊龙), and Lufengosaurus lufengensis (芦沟龙) skeletons unearthed in Lufeng (禄丰) are centrally displayed. Tourists can view them from multiple angles and up close, as if "traveling" to the Jurassic period.
Watching stars on the snow mountain, flying a galaxy dream
Under the night sky of Lijiang City (丽江市), the beautiful meteor shower and the charming scenery of Lijiang (丽江) jointly weave a soul-stirring cosmic show, leading tourists to embark on a wonderful starry night journey.
Looking up at the boundless universe, admiring the starry sky. In Lijiang (丽江), a famous stargazing spot, the Yulong Snow Mountain (玉龙雪山) is full of stars at night, which is intoxicating. Lijiang (丽江) is located in the northwest Yunnan plateau, with high altitude, low latitude, and low light pollution. The superior geographical characteristics allow astronomy enthusiasts in Lijiang (丽江) to observe a pure and deep night sky, a dazzling Milky Way, and stars as dense as fine sand. At the same time, Lijiang (丽江) has important astronomical observation facilities and science popularization experience places such as the Lijiang Astronomical Observation Station (丽江天文观测站) of the Yunnan Observatory (云南天文台) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), the Lijiang Gemini Astronomical Manor (丽江双子天文庄园), and the Lijiang Jinmao Purelax Mountain Hotel (丽江金茂璞修·雪山酒店), attracting astronomy enthusiasts from all over the world to rush to the starlight feast.
"Star chasers" can stay in star hotels, pillow the sea of clouds, watch the snow-capped mountains, and view the stars; go to the star camp, carry out star study tours, and enjoy star routes, feeling the shock and tranquility of the vast starry sky. The magnificent Milky Way and the brilliant meteor shower feast the eyes of tourists.
The beauty of Yunnan (云南) is naturally beautiful and unique. In "A life called Yunnan (有一种叫云南的生活)," from life in ancient times to the magnificent starry sky, there are always amazing miracles waiting for you to explore and discover.
Data source: Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (云南省文化和旅游厅)
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Southeast Asia has many excellent deep-water ports, which are important channels connecting Eastern and Western freight. According to the "2024 Southeast Asia Freight Assessment Report" released recently by the Global Logistics and Freight Association, Southeast Asian countries are accelerating investment in and expansion of modern port infrastructure to meet growing trade demands and create new heights for development.
Ports Promote Regional Economic Prosperity
Not long ago, Sihanoukville (西哈努克省), Cambodia, held an event to celebrate the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port's (西哈努克港) container throughput exceeding 1 million TEUs. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet (洪玛奈) said that Sihanoukville Autonomous Port's (西哈努克港) container throughput increased by 29% year-on-year in 2024, reaching an unprecedented high level, contributing to the country's economic development. According to Lou Kim Chhun (卢金春), General Manager of Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (西哈努克港), the port has undergone modern upgrades and transformations and has become an important force in promoting Cambodia's economic opening-up and enhancing international competitiveness.
The Port of Singapore (新加坡港) has more than 250 shipping routes connecting the world, attracting hundreds of shipping companies from more than 80 countries and regions to call and transit here, making it one of the most utilized ports in the world. Data from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (新加坡海事及港务管理局) shows that in 2024, the Port of Singapore (新加坡港) handled a total of 41.12 million TEUs, an increase of 5.4% year-on-year, and the total tonnage of ships arriving at the port reached 3 billion gross tons, an increase of 0.6%.
Data from the Malaysian Ministry of Transport (马来西亚交通部) shows that Port Klang (巴生港), Malaysia's largest port, saw its container throughput increase by 4.12% year-on-year in 2024, reaching 14.64 million TEUs. In 2024, the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (丹戎柏乐巴斯港), another important port in the country, had an annual container throughput of over 12.25 million TEUs, setting a record high. Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke Siew Fook (陆兆福) said that Port Klang (巴生港) and the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (丹戎柏乐巴斯港) continue to rank among the world's 20 busiest ports. "The outstanding achievements of the two major ports demonstrate Malaysia's huge potential for economic and trade growth, further consolidating Malaysia's position as a logistics hub in Southeast Asia, and bringing more logistics development opportunities for regional and international enterprises," said Anthony Loke Siew Fook (陆兆福).
Indonesia has thousands of ports, of which 33 major ports constitute its main shipping network. Located in Jakarta (雅加达), Indonesia, Tanjung Priok Port (丹戎不碌港) has become a gateway connecting East Asia with Oceania and even Europe due to its superior geographical location, and is one of the important logistics centers in Southeast Asia. As the busiest container terminal in the Tanjung Priok Port (丹戎不碌港) area, Jakarta International Container Terminal (雅加达国际集装箱码头) handled more than 2.2 million TEUs in 2024, exceeding expectations. In 2025, the terminal will continue to consolidate its position as an important container port in Indonesia, maintaining 24-hour uninterrupted operation.
Southeast Asia Infrastructure magazine published an article pointing out that the Southeast Asian port industry has achieved significant growth in launching new projects and increasing production capacity. The Kasikorn Research Center (开泰研究中心) in Thailand believes that Southeast Asian countries are stepping up the construction of waterway transportation networks, which will help promote regional trade and promote regional economic prosperity.
Multiple Measures to Enhance Comparative Advantages
The "2024 Southeast Asia Green Economy Report" jointly released by Temasek (淡马锡), Bain & Company (贝恩), Standard Chartered Bank (渣打银行) and other institutions pointed out that Southeast Asia is facing a window of opportunity to improve its competitiveness and promote economic growth through green transformation. The report recommends that Southeast Asian countries focus on green transportation and other fields, including ports, to achieve green transformation. Currently, many Southeast Asian countries are accelerating the expansion and upgrading of port infrastructure and green development through policy guidance and technological innovation.
The Thai government recently announced a plan to upgrade the Port of Bangkok (曼谷港) into an international modern logistics hub. The project is expected to cost 100 billion Thai Baht (泰铢) (1 RMB is approximately 4.54 Thai Baht), including the construction of semi-automated terminals, eastern container terminals, and coastal freight facilities. In addition, in order to enhance tourism attractiveness, the Thai government will also invest in cruise terminals and supporting commercial areas, duty-free shops, hotels and other tourism facilities to fully meet the needs of cruise passengers and promote the diversified development of ports.
In August 2024, the expansion project of the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (西哈努克港) container terminal was officially launched. After the expansion, the terminal's annual handling capacity has increased from 550,000 TEUs to 1 million TEUs, and it can accommodate cargo ships with a maximum draft of 10.4 meters. In addition, the first phase of the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (西哈努克港) "Deep-Water Port" project also started in December 2023 and is expected to be completed in 2026. After the completion of the project, the port will be able to provide services to 93% of large ships passing through the Asia-Pacific region.
Vietnam strives to maintain an average annual growth rate of port cargo throughput between 4.2% and 4.8% by 2050. Attracting infrastructure construction funds, improving port construction efficiency, enhancing attractiveness to shipping companies, and attracting international transit containers are a series of measures taken by the Vietnamese government to improve port competitiveness.
While expanding the scale of ports, some countries also focus on improving the automation level of ports and building green ports. The Port of Singapore (新加坡港) has achieved remarkable results in the construction of automated terminals, intelligent management, and low-carbon operation. The Port of Singapore (新加坡港) has effectively improved port operating efficiency by widely adopting automated guided transport vehicles and remotely operated cranes. In order to further reduce its carbon footprint, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (新加坡港务局) is piloting the use of biofuels as power for some ships and actively deploying container loading and unloading equipment powered by electricity and other low-carbon alternative fuels. Port Klang (巴生港) in Malaysia is also accelerating the construction of green ports, such as installing solar panels and using renewable energy for power supply. In addition, the port also uses artificial intelligence to optimize energy management systems to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction.
Kriengkrai Chaisiriwongsuk (克林格莱), Director-General of the Port Authority of Thailand (泰国港务局), said at the ASEAN Ports Association meeting recently that maritime transportation plays a vital role in global cargo trade. With the strong recovery of the ASEAN economy, the port industry must accelerate reforms to improve its level of digitization and intelligence to meet the rapidly growing maritime demand in the region.
Cooperation to Create a "Blue Engine"
Data shows that 65% of trade between China and Southeast Asian countries is achieved through maritime transportation. Southeast Asian countries and China have increasingly close cooperation in port construction, transformation, and operation, and the two sides continue to build a "blue engine" to help build a blue economic partnership.
When reporters recently came to Muara Port (摩拉港) in the northeast corner of Brunei, they saw towering tower cranes carrying out loading and unloading operations: the long arms of the tower cranes accurately grabbed containers on cargo ships and steadily placed them on the trucks waiting below. In a short while, trucks full of goods lined up neatly and drove mightily to the next stop.
Muara Port (摩拉港) is Brunei's largest port and only deep-water port, and is the country's most important international trade channel. In 2017, China's Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group (广西北部湾国际港务集团) and a local Bruneian company jointly established Muara Port Company (摩拉港公司). Since then, Muara Port (摩拉港) has ushered in comprehensive upgrades and modern management and operation. The relevant person in charge of the company introduced to reporters that Brunei's only national rice and white sugar reserve库 settled in Muara Port (摩拉港) in 2021, providing high-quality warehousing services for Brunei's national people's livelihood materials. Muara Port (摩拉港) also signed a service contract with Brunei Fertilizer Industries Sdn Bhd (文莱化肥工业有限公司) to provide it with "factory-port-ship" full logistics services to improve commodity logistics efficiency. "Muara Port (摩拉港) has become a window for Brunei's economic development and foreign cooperation, and is a regional hub port connecting China's Western Land-Sea New Corridor (西部陆海新通道) with the East ASEAN Growth Area," said the person in charge.
In recent years, Chinese enterprises and some coastal provinces and cities have actively explored cooperation with Southeast Asian countries in ports. COSCO Shipping (中远海运) creatively built the world's first aerial yard in the Port of Singapore (新加坡港), which not only saved port operating space but also improved operating efficiency; China Harbour Engineering Company (中国港湾) signed a contract with Cambodia's Kampot Multipurpose Port Co., Ltd. (柬埔寨贡布多功能港口有限公司) for the start-up phase project of the Kampot Multipurpose Port (贡布多功能港口), helping to build the port into Cambodia's second large-scale deep-water international port...
Cambodian reporter Yeap Sophors (叶速坡) said that he hopes that China can share its experience in building smart ports and other aspects with Cambodia to help Cambodia's port development. Werachat (韦拉察), Assistant Vice President of Laem Chabang Port (林查班港), told reporters that China has achieved success in promoting the use of clean energy in ports and empowering ports with technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data analysis, and has accumulated rich experience. "We can further deepen cooperation, share green technologies and logistics innovation technologies, and work together to promote the green transformation and upgrading of regional ports."
(Reported from Bangkok (曼谷) by this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄培昭
The General Authority for Investment and Free Zones of Egypt recently announced the launch of the Middle East's largest green hydrogen plant project in the South Sinai Governorate (南西奈省) of Egypt. The project covers an area of 127 square kilometers, with a total investment of up to $17 billion, and a planned annual production capacity of 400,000 tons of green hydrogen. At the same time, Egypt also plans to build the Middle East's first green hydrogen-powered skyscraper in the New Administrative Capital. Egyptian media commented that the successive commissioning or commencement of multiple green hydrogen projects in Egypt marks a solid step for Egypt in the field of renewable energy, which is of great significance for promoting the country's carbon reduction goals and accelerating energy transition.
According to reports, the 50-story green hydrogen-powered skyscraper in Egypt's New Administrative Capital, integrating office and residential areas, is scheduled to begin construction in the second half of 2025 and be completed in 2030, and is expected to become a landmark building in Egypt's New Administrative Capital. Unlike traditional skyscrapers that rely on fossil fuels, the building will use a hybrid power supply mode of green hydrogen and solar energy. Through the large-scale installation of integrated photovoltaic panels, it can meet approximately 25% of the electricity demand, with the remainder provided by green hydrogen. In addition, the project will also utilize cutting-edge technologies such as "liquid organic hydrogen carriers" to improve the safety of hydrogen energy storage and transportation and the efficiency of energy utilization.
In recent years, the Egyptian government has successively introduced a number of policies and measures to promote the development of the hydrogen energy industry. In April 2022, the Egyptian Cabinet passed a decree to include the production, storage, and export of green hydrogen and green ammonia into the national economic development priorities in order to attract more domestic and foreign investors. In August 2023, Egypt established the National Green Hydrogen Council, responsible for coordinating and promoting the implementation of the green hydrogen strategy, reviewing relevant laws and regulations, and focusing on removing investment barriers. In January 2024, the Egyptian government passed a new green hydrogen subsidy law, which not only implements tax reductions ranging from 33% to 55% for green hydrogen projects, but also exempts value-added tax, stamp duty, and customs duties on imported raw materials, machinery, and equipment for the projects, and also exempts value-added tax on exported green hydrogen and its derivatives.
In August 2024, Egypt officially launched its National Hydrogen Energy Strategy. According to the strategy, by 2030, Egypt's production capacity of green hydrogen and its derivatives will reach 1.5 million tons; by 2040, this number is expected to climb to 5.8 million tons, of which 3.8 million tons will be used for export. By then, the hydrogen energy industry is expected to contribute nearly $18 billion to Egypt's gross domestic product and create more than 100,000 jobs. Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly (马德布利) said that the implementation of this strategy will help Egypt achieve diversified development of clean and sustainable energy, earnestly fulfill its international commitments to reduce carbon emissions, and contribute Egyptian strength to the global response to climate change.
Driven by multiple favorable policies, Egypt has achieved fruitful results in international cooperation in the field of hydrogen energy. Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, Norwegian energy companies, TotalEnergies and other international companies have invested in Egypt, and multiple green hydrogen and green ammonia cooperation projects are steadily advancing. Chinese companies are also actively participating in the construction of hydrogen energy projects in Egypt. In February 2024, a consortium composed of China Construction Group (中国建筑集团有限公司) and Korean companies signed a hydrogen energy cooperation agreement with the Egyptian New and Renewable Energy Authority and other parties, planning to build an electrolyzed water system with an installed capacity of 250 megawatts, producing 50,000 tons of green hydrogen annually, which is expected to be put into operation in 2029. In March 2025, China United Energy Group (中国联合能源集团) signed a memorandum of understanding with Air Liquide Egypt (法国液化空气集团埃及公司) to jointly develop a green hydrogen-to-green ammonia project.
"Chinese investment and technological support have injected strong impetus into Egypt's green economic development," said Mostafa Sherbini (穆斯塔法·谢尔比尼), an Egyptian expert on sustainable development and climate risk assessment. "I look forward to more pragmatic cooperation between Egypt and China in the field of hydrogen energy in the future, jointly writing a new chapter in green development."
(Reported from Cairo (开罗) by this newspaper)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Singapore, June 11th (Reporter Shu Chang) The International Cooperation Forum on the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor and the China-Singapore Financial Summit were held in Singapore on the 11th. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the launch of the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity (中新（重庆）战略性互联互通示范项目), political figures, industry leaders, and experts from Singapore (新加坡), China (中国), and other Southeast Asian countries gathered to explore new opportunities for regional cooperation.
In his opening remarks, Singapore's (新加坡) Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information and Health, Chee Hong Tat (陈杰豪), said that the 10th anniversary of the launch of the China-Singapore Connectivity Project is a milestone in Singapore-China cooperation, reflecting the common commitment of both sides to regional integration and innovative development. ASEAN and China are each other's largest trading partners, and there are broad prospects for cooperation between the two sides. The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor will create more new opportunities for cross-border trade and financing.
Xu Jian (徐建), Vice Mayor of Chongqing (重庆), said in his speech that over the past decade, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, born out of the China-Singapore Connectivity Project, has become an important link connecting western China with ASEAN and even the world. The current world economic landscape is undergoing profound changes, and regional cooperation is ushering in new opportunities. The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor will play a more important role in promoting regional economic integration, facilitating trade, and strengthening financial cooperation.
Leong Sing Chiong (梁新松), Deputy Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (新加坡金融管理局), said that finance is an important driver of the China-Singapore Connectivity Project. Looking ahead to the next decade, western China and ASEAN can further deepen cooperation in forward-looking areas such as green finance and digital connectivity, improve the quality and breadth of cross-border financial services, and better serve the real economy.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 禹丽敏
The European Commission recently stated that Bulgaria has met the criteria for joining the Eurozone on January 1, 2026. This means that more than 18 years after joining the European Union, Bulgaria will become the twenty-first member of the Eurozone, and its currency, the Lev, will be gradually withdrawn from circulation after a 6-month transition period. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov (罗森·热利亚兹科夫) said that this is another milestone in Bulgaria's integration into the European integration process.
Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007, and joining the Eurozone has been a working goal and priority for the country's government for more than 10 years. Bulgaria had planned to join the Eurozone in 2024, but was forced to postpone it due to an inflation rate that once reached 9.5%. In February of this year, Bulgaria submitted a special convergence report request to the European Commission and the European Central Bank, with the goal of formally adopting the Euro in 2026. The EU concluded in its 2025 Convergence Report released on June 4 that Bulgaria meets the convergence criteria for joining the Eurozone. Currently, Bulgaria needs to wait for the EU Finance Ministers' meeting to complete the approval process in early July to start the countdown to currency conversion. If everything goes according to plan, the Euro will officially circulate in Bulgaria on January 1 next year.
The EU has highly praised Bulgaria's progress in joining the Eurozone. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (冯德莱恩) said that joining the Eurozone will inject strong development momentum into Bulgaria, which will not only promote trade with Eurozone partners and attract more foreign direct investment, but also broaden financing channels, create high-quality jobs and increase people's actual income. European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Valdis Dombrovskis (东布罗夫斯基斯) said that this is a historic moment for Bulgaria, the Eurozone and the EU, and joining the Eurozone will bring benefits to Bulgaria in terms of stabilizing prices, reducing transaction costs, protecting savings, increasing investment and promoting trade.
Some people in Bulgaria have questioned joining the Eurozone. Agence France-Presse reported that recent polls show that nearly half of Bulgarian respondents oppose giving up the Bulgarian Lev. A considerable number of people are worried that joining the Eurozone will weaken national fiscal autonomy and have a negative impact on the country's economy. Some Bulgarian netizens left messages on social platforms saying that the introduction of the Euro may lead to rising prices, which will not only drive away tourists seeking cost-effectiveness, but also have an impact on poor rural families.
Jasmine Groeschl, a senior economist at Allianz Group Europe, believes that, in the long run, joining the Eurozone is more beneficial than harmful to Bulgaria. After joining the Eurozone, Bulgaria will be subject to the policy constraints of the European Central Bank and abide by strict fiscal rules, but higher economic stability, lower cross-border transaction costs and deeper integration with the EU market will gradually offset short-term pain.
The Bulgarian government has pledged to do everything possible to avoid any behavior that may undermine public confidence in currency conversion. The country's Minister of Finance Temenuzhka Petkova (特梅努日卡·佩特科娃) emphasized: "It is necessary to continuously monitor prices to ensure that Bulgarian people and businesses are confident that there will be no unreasonable price increases during this period."
Return to TopThe Mesopotamian Marshes, located at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in southern Iraq, are one of the world's largest inland delta systems and were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016. In the past few decades, due to climate change and other reasons, the wetland area has shrunk dramatically, leading to the relocation of many local people. In recent years, the Iraqi government has taken various measures to protect the wetlands, and some people have begun to return to the wetlands to engage in tourism and other traditional industries.
(People's Daily reporter Guan Kejiang (管克江))
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, New York, June 11 (Reporter Xia Lin (夏林)) A protest against the federal government's immigration policies in New York, USA, escalated on the 10th. Thousands of protesters took to the streets, gathering at City Hall and other places, waving signs such as "Stop Deportations," and shouting "Stand with Los Angeles," and the scene was once out of control.
The day's protest was the largest in New York City in recent days. The New York City Police Department dispatched a large number of police officers, some protesters were pinned to the ground, and at least 15 people were arrested. According to local media reports, police had already arrested 24 protesters in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan (曼哈顿区), New York City on the 9th.
The protest was initiated by labor unions and immigrant groups, aimed at demanding that the U.S. federal government completely stop its current crackdown on illegal immigration and opposing the government's dispatch of the Marine Corps and the National Guard to Los Angeles to assist in the arrest of illegal immigrants.
A protester at the scene told Xinhua News Agency reporters that they opposed the federal government's immigration policies, and that the victims of this policy included people around them, and that deporting illegal immigrants and other practices violated the rights of many people.
U.S. federal agency personnel searching for illegal immigrants have repeatedly clashed with residents of Los Angeles in recent days. According to local media reports on the 10th, Marine Corps personnel have arrived in Los Angeles. Several U.S. media outlets reported that related protests have also spread to dozens of cities, including Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 鲜 敢 张博岚 环球时报记者 范凌志 赵觉珵
Connecting the most provinces in China, encompassing the diverse and beautiful natural and cultural landscapes of water towns, basins, and plateaus, National Highway 318, known as the "Landscape Avenue of the Chinese People," starts at the People's Square in Huangpu District, Shanghai (上海市黄浦区人民广场) in the east and ends at the Friendship Bridge in Zhamu Town (樟木镇), Nyalam County (聂拉木县), Shigatse City (日喀则市), Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) in the west.
A reporter recently visited the Friendship Bridge (友谊桥) in Zhamu Town (樟木镇) and did not find the silence of the national highway's end point. Around 10 a.m., the border between China and Nepal opened, and a unique scene of back-and-forth, two-way travel unfolded as traffic and people converged on the bridge.
In Shigatse (日喀则), it's not just Zhamu Town (樟木镇). Several famous valleys, such as Gyirong (吉隆), known as the "Little Jiangnan of Tibet" in the Himalayas, and even the "Ancient Salt-Sheep Road" at an altitude of over 4,000 meters, are becoming channels for material exchange and corridors for cultural integration between domestic and foreign people.
Zhamu (樟木): A Port Full of Hope
The Friendship Bridge (友谊桥) spans the Boqu River (波曲河), connecting Zhamu Town (樟木镇) and Datopani Village (达都巴尼村) in Sindhupalchok District (新都巴尔恰克区) of Nepal.
Chiring, a young man from Datopani Village (达都巴尼村), is among the first to enter China through the Zhamu Port (樟木口岸) every day. "Hello," "This is cheap"... His Chinese is not fluent, but it doesn't hinder his business at all. Shoes, blankets, bedding... all kinds of goods fill his small shop. "Chinese products are of good quality and affordable." Facing customers who come to buy, Chiring introduces the goods in his store like a treasure. His shop is located inside the Zhamu Port (樟木口岸), and business has always been good.
In Tibetan, "Zhamu (樟木)" means "nearby, edge." It borders Nepal, about 750 kilometers from Lhasa (拉萨) and about 120 kilometers from Kathmandu (加德满都), the capital of Nepal. Zhamu Port (樟木口岸) officially opened in 1966 and became the largest first-class land port in Tibet, handling more than 80% of the trade volume between China and Nepal at its peak.
Many new cars are neatly parked on the road near the port. Zeng Shuai (曾帅), a staff member of a car sales company, was running around with a thick stack of documents, counting the number of cars and directing the drivers to move them. These new cars are all for export to Nepal. "MG and Dongfeng, these domestic brands of new energy vehicles are very popular in Nepal. As of the end of May, more than 1,000 vehicles have been exported this year," said Zeng Shuai (曾帅).
New energy vehicles departing from Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南) on the South Asia train, can be transported to Nepal through the Zhamu Port (樟木口岸) after being declared at the Shigatse International Land Port (日喀则国际陆地港) export cargo inspection site. In recent years, Chinese-made new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products, which highly meet the needs of the South Asian market, have become star products in the local market. In 2024, 11,000 new energy vehicles were exported through the Zhamu (樟木) and Gyirong (吉隆) ports in Shigatse (日喀则).
At the Kodari Port (科达里口岸) on the Nepalese side, after completing the entry procedures, several Nepalese people quickly surrounded the reporter and asked in Chinese: "Take a car?" "Go to Kathmandu (加德满都)?"
The reporter got into a blue jeep and arrived at Datopani Village (达都巴尼村) along the river in about ten minutes. There is frequent commercial exchange between here and the adjacent Zhamu (樟木). There is a Buddha statue enshrined in the village, and a huge prayer wheel in a small house. In the village's shops, restaurants, and barber shops, the reporter saw pictures of the Potala Palace (布达拉宫) and beautiful snow-capped mountains hanging on the walls many times – signs of traditional exchanges and cultural integration are visible everywhere.
Although the Nepal earthquake in April 2015 caused great damage here, and the Zhamu Port (樟木口岸) only resumed passenger transport functions on September 1, 2023, it has now become the port with the most inbound and outbound personnel and the busiest in Tibet.
Gyirong (吉隆): A Small River Valley, Half the History of Tibet
North of Gyirong County (吉隆县) in Shigatse (日喀则), at the Awajiaying Pass (阿瓦呷英山口), there is still a cliff stone carving that records the experience of Wang Xuanze (王玄策), an envoy of the Tang Dynasty (唐朝), passing through Gyirong (吉隆) on his way to Tianzhu (天竺) (ancient India) in the third year of Xianqing of Emperor Gaozong of Tang (唐高宗) (658 AD).
In Tibetan, "Gyirong (吉隆)" means "happy village, comfortable village." Here, a long valley located in the hinterland of the Himalayas has become a convenient channel for exchanges with South Asia, receiving water vapor from the south, forming a colorful human history and beautiful natural scenery, known as "One Gyirong Valley (吉隆沟), Half the History of Tibet (西藏史)" and "One Mountain Presents Four Seasons, Ten Miles Different Days," and is praised as the "Back Garden of Mount Everest (珠峰)." Princess Chizun (尺尊公主) of Nepal, who married into Tibet, and Master Padmasambhava (莲花生大师) and Atisha (阿底峡尊者), who entered Tibet to promote Buddhism, all entered through here.
At the Gyirong Port (吉隆口岸), one can see one Nepalese transport vehicle after another entering China through the port. Many of the trucks are hung with bilingual Chinese-Nepalese signs, which read "Nepalese Silage (Animal Feed) Exported to the People's Republic of China." In July 2023, Nepalese forage crossed the Himalayas into China for the first time, precisely via the Gyirong Port (吉隆口岸).
In Gyirong Town (吉隆镇), the reporter encountered a cycling team composed of 16 motorcycles and more than 20 people. The team leader, Sujan Basnet, is from Kathmandu (加德满都). This time, he brought 16 Australian tourists to ride motorcycles around the border area between China and Nepal. "The planned trip is 11 days, the journey is more than 2,500 kilometers, and it will pass through Lhasa (拉萨), Mount Everest Scenic Area (珠穆朗玛峰景区) and other places that tourists are most looking forward to," said Basnet.
Basnet's father did business in the Sino-Nepalese border in his early years. Because he was optimistic about the development prospects of cross-border cultural tourism between the two countries, he founded a travel agency in 2001. Currently, the travel agency has been completely taken over by Basnet.
"Now the travel agency business is getting better and better. The transportation conditions in China are very good. Our partners in the United States, Brazil, Europe and other places will introduce many tourists to visit China every year." Basnet believes that Chinese Tibet is an internationally renowned tourist destination, but the international popularity of National Highway 318 is still not high. "I hope to recommend this route to more foreign tourists."
In Gyirong Town (吉隆镇), some shops have become tourist attractions. Rowling Restaurant is quite famous locally. This restaurant was opened by Nepalese businessman Mima Tsomu and her husband. 14 years ago, she brought authentic Nepalese flavors to Gyirong Town (吉隆镇). In 2019, Mima Tsomu also opened a clothing store and a specialty store in the Gyirong Border People's Mutual Trade Market, "with an annual income of 300,000 to 400,000 yuan (RMB, the same below)."
"Countries and regions with geographical proximity carry out cross-border cooperation in border trade, cultural exchanges, etc. based on the differences in bilateral resource endowments, which helps promote the common development of both sides," said Yang Yabo (杨亚波), director of the South Asia Research Institute of the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences.
Shigatse (日喀则): A New Border City of Openness and Friendship
On November 13, 2023, the Sino-Nepalese Rizi-Neqiong Port (中尼里孜—乃琼口岸) was officially opened.
The Rizi Port (里孜口岸) is located in Yare Township (亚热乡), Zhongba County (仲巴县), Shigatse City (日喀则市), at an altitude of 4,772 meters. It is the highest open port in Tibet. Despite the high altitude, the "Ancient Salt-Sheep Road" that has stretched for thousands of years passes through here. Through here, you can reach Pokhara (博卡拉), an important city in Nepal. The opening of this port has made the China-South Asia trade channel smoother.
At the Zhamu (樟木) and Gyirong (吉隆) ports, the reporter found that both China and Nepal are stepping up construction. "Accelerating the construction of the Gyirong Border Economic Cooperation Zone (吉隆边境经济合作区) and the Shigatse International Land Port (日喀则国际陆地港)" and other projects have been written into the 2025 Tibet Autonomous Region Government Work Report. According to the plan, the level of development and opening up in border areas will be steadily improved.
On both sides of the port, large trucks can always be seen coming and going. The truck bodies and cabs are carefully decorated by the drivers. Some carriages are also hung with the national flags of China and Nepal, and "Sino-Nepalese Friendship" and "Good Brothers" are written in colored paint.
Nepalese businessman Lapa's restaurant is located in Datopani Village (达都巴尼村). Because it is not the peak tourist season, there are not many customers in the store. Lapa is watching Chinese online short dramas with English subtitles on his mobile phone. "Chinese short dramas fascinate me, many of them are about family and work. I like to watch the trivial things around me, it seems that everyone is similar," said Lapa.
In addition to exchanges and interactions bringing the feelings of both sides closer, convenient and humanized customs clearance services and efficient logistics systems also make exchanges and interactions smoother and warmer.
"In the past, fingerprint recognition was used for border declaration. Some people's fingerprints were worn out due to labor, and the declaration took a long time. Now face recognition is available, which is much more convenient," said Lamu (拉姆), a resident of Gyirong County (吉隆县).
In recent years, Shigatse City (日喀则市) has continuously improved its high-level opening to the outside world. It has now established 15 foreign exchange service outlets, providing enterprises with cross-border trade settlement, securities investment, overseas direct investment and personal foreign currency exchange and other foreign exchange businesses, covering 9 border counties and the two ports of Gyirong (吉隆) and Zhamu (樟木). "Attentive service has been exchanged for gratifying results. In the first quarter of this year, the total value of Shigatse's foreign trade import and export reached 907 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.2%, of which imports and exports to South Asian countries were 574 million yuan." Tsering Tsomo (次仁措姆), deputy section chief of the Comprehensive Business Section of Shigatse Customs (日喀则海关), said that according to the current warm trend of surrounding exchanges, it is expected to break historical records this year.
It seems that the western terminal area of National Highway 318, which is known as the "Landscape Avenue," is also forming a new landscape. Friendship bridges spanning valleys and heading in both directions have enhanced the "neighborhood temperature" and outlined a beautiful landscape of surrounding exchanges.
Link: Shigatse (日喀则), Tibet
Shigatse City (日喀则市) is located in the southwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区). In Tibetan, it means "first-class, best manor." It has a land area of 179,240 square kilometers and an average altitude of over 4,000 meters. It is the source of the Yarlung Zangbo River (雅鲁藏布江). The city is located between the middle section of the Himalayas and the middle section of the Gangdise-Nyainqentanglha Mountains, and has the world's highest peak, Mount Everest (珠穆朗玛峰).
Shigatse (日喀则) has 5 of the 6 land ports in the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), including Zhamu Port (樟木口岸), Gyirong Port (吉隆口岸), Rizi Port (里孜口岸), Chentang Port (陈塘口岸), and Riwu Port (日屋口岸), and is an important land channel connecting China and South Asia. The city's regional GDP, total retail sales of social consumer goods, and port customs clearance value rank among the top in the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区). As a key central city facing South Asia, Shigatse (日喀则) is increasing its efforts to expand high-level opening to the outside world.
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Crossing the Donglin Zangbo River, walking on the Resuo Bridge, the mountain wind howls in the Himalayas, and the roar of diesel engines and the noise of people come from my ears. The reporter has visited the Gyirong (吉隆) and Zhangmu (樟木) ports of Shigatse City (日喀则市) many times, and "busy" is always the first impression. The coming and going border residents and the endless stream of vehicles jointly create a vibrant picture of border trade.
In front of the two national gates are newly built boundary bridges, with two-way two lanes, which are convenient and accessible. At the Gyirong Port (吉隆口岸), the Resuo Bridge stands on the boundary river. According to the staff of the port, the Resuo Bridge has undergone changes from a wooden suspension bridge to a steel cable bridge, and then to today's modern highway bridge. Several generations of Resuo Bridges have connected the increasingly prosperous trade between China and Nepal. Arriving at Zhangmu (樟木), I realized that the end of National Highway 318 is not Lhasa (拉萨), but the Friendship Bridge bordering Nepal. Similar to the Resuo Bridge, the Friendship Bridge has also undergone several "upgrades," witnessing the continuous deepening and sublimation of the friendship between the two countries.
With bridges and roads open, border trade is booming. In recent years, with the completion of the reconstruction of the Resuo Bridge and the Friendship Bridge, which were damaged by the earthquake in Nepal, two-way customs clearance and personnel exchanges have been fully restored, and the Sino-Nepalese border trade has prospered again. Today, the Resuo Bridge and the Friendship Bridge are full of traffic, with an endless stream of vehicles. They are bridges of peace, closely linking the two countries connected by mountains and rivers; they are arteries of development, allowing the exchange of funds, goods, personnel, and culture to be unimpeded; they are ties of people-to-people connectivity, making the foundation for the long-term friendship, mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation between the Chinese and Nepalese people more solid.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孟祥夫
"The elderly and the young" are related to people's livelihood and connect with the hearts of the people. Solving the problems of "the elderly and the young" not only affects hundreds of millions of families, but also has important significance for promoting the long-term balanced development of China's population. This year's "Government Work Report" proposed, "Actively respond to the aging of the population, and improve the policy mechanism for developing elderly care services and the elderly care industry" and "Vigorously develop integrated childcare services and increase the supply of inclusive childcare services."
How can we better care for "the elderly" and care for "the young" so that more families can enjoy fair, accessible, and reliable elderly care and childcare services? We invited members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and experts in related fields to offer suggestions on this topic.
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Dialogue Guests:
He Dan (贺丹), Member of the National Committee of the CPPCC, Director of the China Population and Development Research Center (中国人口与发展研究中心)
Huang Hongxia (黄红霞), Member of the National Committee of the CPPCC, Director of the Henan Provincial Health Commission (河南省卫生健康委员会)
Ding Mei (丁梅), Member of the National Committee of the CPPCC, Deputy Secretary-General of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the CPPCC (天津市政协)
Lu Xiaoming (鲁晓明), Member of the National Committee of the CPPCC, Vice President of Guangdong University of Finance and Economics (广东财经大学)
Wu Ruijun (吴瑞君), Member of the National Committee of the CPPCC, Deputy Director of the University Council of East China Normal University (华东师范大学)
Activate Resources and Build a Good Platform
[Scene] In the "Elderly and Young" Service Center of Nanyuan Street (南苑街道), Rencheng District (任城区), Jining City (济宁市), Shandong Province (山东省), a group of children are making pasta under the guidance of the elderly. The children transform into little chefs, put on aprons, and hold rolling pins, skillfully rolling the dough into skins. The elderly then pinch the skins into shapes such as petals and ingots. The scene is filled with joy and laughter.
Ding Mei (丁梅): Currently, some places face the problem of insufficient public service facilities for elderly care and childcare, which is more common in old residential areas. Some places are exploring the "co-care of the elderly and young" model, which organically combines elderly care and childcare in terms of living space, infrastructure, public services, and human resources, which helps alleviate the concerns of families with "elderly above and young below."
In practice, "co-care of the elderly and young" also faces some difficulties, such as unsound coordination mechanisms among relevant departments and inconsistent standards. Localities should adapt to local conditions, accelerate the formulation of service standards for "co-care of the elderly and young," issue relevant policy documents, incorporate them into the overall planning of the elderly care and childcare service system, and establish cross-departmental coordination mechanisms to avoid waste of resources and policy disconnect.
Exert efforts internally and externally to solve the problem of insufficient resources for elderly care and childcare facilities. On the one hand, we must tap into internal potential and make full use of urban renewal policies to renovate and upgrade the original facilities in the community for the construction of elderly canteens, community-embedded elderly care institutions, and childcare institutions. On the other hand, we must expand externally, encourage qualified kindergartens to open nursery classes to meet the inclusive childcare needs of surrounding residents. Encourage qualified nursing homes to open restaurants and cultural activity facilities to the elderly in surrounding communities, so that public service resources can be used efficiently.
Lu Xiaoming (鲁晓明): At present, the biggest shortcomings of elderly care and childcare services are in rural areas, which face problems such as scattered resources, lack of professional talents, and weak infrastructure. We should improve relevant policies on rural public service facilities and establish and improve a mechanism for revitalizing and utilizing idle rural resources. At the same time, develop mutual assistance services, such as exploring a mutual assistance model of "the elderly caring for the elderly and the elderly caring for children," and establish a volunteer service record system. In addition, promote regional linkage, establish a three-level elderly care and childcare service network at the county, township, and village levels to form a pattern of resource sharing and service linkage; promote urban elderly care and childcare institutions to pair up with rural institutions to help each other and promote resource sinking; and use information technology to develop remote services and smart elderly care and childcare.
Optimize Services to Better Meet Needs
[Scene] At 9 a.m., the Comprehensive Elderly Service Center of Xiayang Street (夏阳街道), Qingpu District (青浦区), Shanghai (上海) is already bustling with activity. The elderly in the Tai Chi class are practicing Tai Chi under the guidance of the teacher; in the multi-functional hall, a professional teacher is providing on-site guidance, and several elderly people are concentrating on painting. The weekly updated activity menu accurately meets the cultural needs of the elderly and enriches their spiritual world.
Wu Ruijun (吴瑞君): Strengthening the services for "the elderly and the young" is a basic project to guarantee and improve people's livelihood in development. With economic development and social progress, the services for "the elderly and the young" should also be optimized and upgraded to better meet their needs. However, according to the survey, the effective supply of elderly care and childcare services in some areas is still insufficient.
In order to provide more thoughtful and high-quality elderly care and childcare services, it is recommended to accurately identify the needs of the elderly and young and establish a list of needs services. Carry out "one household, one table" home visits, with social workers and building leaders regularly visiting homes to record personalized needs. Design service carriers in layers and categories to create branded activities. For example, recruit elderly people with expertise in the community to open courses to form a "the elderly have something to do" brand; organize children to participate in community micro-renewal design to cultivate their sense of ownership and creativity. Open professional parenting courses to optimize childcare services. For example, open parent-child early education classes for infants and young children aged 0-3; jointly organize online and offline parent classes on scientific feeding, child psychology, and first aid skills with maternal and child health hospitals and educational institutions.
He Dan (贺丹): Taking coverage of the entire population, the entire process, and the entire life cycle as the evaluation criteria for whether the elderly care and childcare service system is complete, and taking guaranteed quality, affordable prices, and convenient accessibility as the evaluation criteria for whether elderly care and childcare services are inclusive, increase the number and proportion of "health services" in the basic elderly care service system list. Suggestions: First, include infant and toddler care and family parenting guidance into the basic public service system to reduce service prices. Second, pay attention to key groups and make policy reserves for coping with rapid aging with healthy aging. Improve the healthy elderly care service system, establish a dual service guarantee system that emphasizes both disability prevention and long-term care, and steadily increase the scale and proportion of active elderly people. At the same time, attach importance to the fairness of the elderly care service system, do a good job in guaranteeing the bottom line for key groups and people in need, improve the basic elderly care service capacity in rural areas, build a care system for empty-nest elderly living alone, and narrow the urban-rural gap in the quality of life for the elderly.
Establish a Mechanism to Gather Multi-Party Forces
[Scene] Sand pits, climbing frames, rainbow runways... A childcare center in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong Province (广东省) was originally an open space outside an idle public house, but now it is the most vibrant place in the community. Inside the house, tables and chairs are neatly arranged, and the childcare center is equipped with functional rooms such as a health room and a sports classroom, as well as activity areas, rest areas, cleaning areas, and meal preparation areas; the children's activity area is more than 100 square meters, including an outdoor activity area and a book reading area. In recent years, Guangzhou (广州) has explored a series of support measures such as "construction + operation" double subsidies to effectively reduce the burden on childcare institutions.
Huang Hongxia (黄红霞): The long-term operation of elderly care and childcare institutions cannot be separated from long-term support. We must focus on improving the policy system, strengthening government guidance, promoting innovation and integration, and improving supervision and services to promote the healthy development of elderly care and childcare. Suggestions:
According to the population distribution and structural changes of "the elderly and the young," scientifically plan the "15th Five-Year Plan" elderly care and childcare service system, and integrate it into relevant special plans to promote the improvement and expansion of service capacity and the balanced regional layout. Coordinate the development of urban and rural elderly care and childcare, and plan and reserve a number of projects to actively respond to the aging of the population and childcare projects. Strengthen government guidance and build a number of inclusive elderly care and childcare service institutions. Deepen the integration of medical care and elderly care, and cultivate a number of medical care and elderly care institutions with strong comprehensive capabilities, good social benefits, and high public satisfaction. Improve the comprehensive supervision system for elderly care and childcare services, actively carry out investigations and rectifications, prevent various risks, and firmly guard the safety bottom line.
He Dan (贺丹): As the first environment for family life and the basic unit of social governance, the community is not only the front line for directly providing basic public services, but also the "last mile" for the implementation of elderly care and childcare-related policies and measures. The community must effectively integrate resources, establish a long-term mechanism, gather multi-party forces, and serve and care for "the elderly and the young."
Gongshu District (拱墅区), Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) has explored the integration of the community's "Sunshine Little Babies" stations with the "Sunshine Elderly Homes" facilities and the renovation of old residential areas, specializing in, refining, and improving the community's "micro-childcare," providing short-term childcare services accompanied by parents and supervised by full-time staff, and regularly carrying out activities such as scientific feeding, development guidance, and parent classes. All financial investment is borne by the district and street-level finances and is open to families in the jurisdiction free of charge, which has achieved positive results.
In order to better promote the sustainable development of community elderly care and childcare services, we should give play to the supporting role of townships (streets) and villages (communities) in jointly building and sharing the elderly care and childcare service system, establish special support funds for elderly care and childcare, and implement fee subsidies and exemptions for elderly care and childcare service institutions in the jurisdiction; integrate venues and facilities such as party and mass service centers and community cultural squares, and coordinate the layout of service facilities for "the elderly and the young"; coordinate health, education, and other resources in the jurisdiction to provide business guidance and comprehensive supervision for community elderly care and childcare services to ensure the safety and quality of services; guide all sectors of society to pay attention to the elderly care and childcare industry, and build a community inclusive elderly care and childcare service system with the participation of employers, social organizations, and party and government organs in the jurisdiction.
Return to TopPromoting High-Quality Development of the Ecological and Cultural Tourism Industry in the Yangtze River Basin
Proposer: China National Democratic Construction Association (民建中央)
Reason: The ecological and cultural tourism industry is becoming an important way to promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, but there are still constraints such as insufficient understanding of the concept of ecological and cultural tourism and imperfect standard system for ecological and cultural tourism products.
Suggestions: Based on ecological advantages, create new heights for ecological and cultural tourism. Prepare a high-level plan for the high-quality development of the ecological and cultural tourism industry in the Yangtze River Basin, forming an overall development pattern that combines points, lines, and surfaces, connects beads into chains, and links pieces into surfaces, to create a world-class tourist destination. Strengthen ecological environmental protection and ecological resource cultivation, and fully explore and rationally utilize the value of ecological resources, ecological culture, and ecological products.
Strengthen digital empowerment and develop new forms of ecological and cultural tourism. Create a scenario-based integrated supply and demand platform for cultural and creative design for industrial upgrading, increase support for the cultural and creative industry, select regional brands, and create products with significant market influence. Actively explore the deep integration of artificial intelligence and ecological and cultural tourism.
Consolidate policy guarantees and guide new coordination models. Adhere to low-carbon development, improve the policy support system, and guide the development of ecological and cultural tourism projects and the construction of facilities towards low-carbon, energy-saving, and environmentally friendly development. Improve the ecological environment supervision mechanism and standardize cultural tourism development behavior. Establish and improve the ecological compensation mechanism.
Improve the coordination mechanism and coordinate new regional development. Establish a coordination mechanism for the development of ecological and cultural tourism in the Yangtze River Basin, and plan the ecological protection and high-quality development of the cultural tourism industry in the Yangtze River Basin from a global perspective. Establish a hierarchical linkage mechanism to strengthen the coordination of large areas and small areas in the Yangtze River Basin, and promote the coordinated development of the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin ecological and cultural tourism belt and the interactive cooperation between the east, middle, and west.
(Text compiled by Tong (文 通))
Strengthening Education on Outstanding Traditional Chinese Culture for Young People
Proposer: Communist Youth League Central Committee (共青团中央)
Reason: At present, more and more young people have a strong consensus and high recognition of outstanding traditional Chinese culture. Further strengthening education on outstanding traditional Chinese culture and cultivating the values of young people has important contemporary value and practical significance.
Suggestions: Further increase the overall guidance for young people's reading work, guide young people to love reading, read good books, and be good at reading, and deeply understand outstanding traditional Chinese culture in reading. Interpret and transform classic texts of outstanding traditional Chinese culture, and use methods that young people like to see and hear to publicize and explain them. Increase support for and exhibition of literary and film works and public service advertisements with outstanding traditional Chinese culture as the theme.
Promote the organic integration of outstanding traditional Chinese culture and the modern education system. Continue to promote the deep integration of outstanding traditional Chinese culture into education at all levels, so that the seeds of socialist core values take root and sprout in the hearts of young people. Attach importance to using outstanding traditional Chinese culture to cultivate the teaching staff, and better train teachers who are familiar with outstanding traditional Chinese culture and also have youth education skills. Strengthen the transformation and application of modern digital technologies such as generative artificial intelligence and big data, and innovate classroom teaching scenarios of outstanding traditional Chinese culture that conform to the cognitive characteristics of young people.
Actively play the unique role of cultural and tourism integration. Further build and use various patriotic education bases with outstanding traditional Chinese culture as the theme, deeply explore and vividly present the traditional cultural elements contained in various places of interest, strengthen the role of public cultural resources such as museums, cultural relics, ancient buildings, and traditional handicraft workshops, and build a broad platform for young people to understand and practice outstanding traditional Chinese culture.
(Text compiled by Yang (文 阳))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 白光迪
In the early morning, Zhang Ganlin (张甘霖), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) and a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology (南京地理与湖泊研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), entered his laboratory. On his desk lay a thick stack of ecological reports and water quality monitoring data. His eyes were focused as his fingers tapped away at the keyboard, analyzing the research data.
Zhang Ganlin's (张甘霖) concern for water ecology stems from his years of research on lakes, wetlands, and small water bodies. These seemingly inconspicuous water areas play an indispensable role in ensuring safe water supply, regulating climate, and maintaining biodiversity. "However, the basic information of many small water bodies is unclear, and their ecological functions are gradually disappearing. The protection of these water bodies is imminent," said Zhang Ganlin (张甘霖).
"In rural areas, I often see some lakes and ponds that should be full of ecological vitality gradually disappearing due to human intervention. A general survey should be launched as soon as possible to understand the current situation of these water bodies and formulate corresponding protection measures for them." To this end, Zhang Ganlin (张甘霖) has been conducting in-depth research at the front line for a long time, and put forward a proposal on the general survey of lake, reservoir, pond, and polder resources and environment, suggesting that the national level should clarify the scope of jurisdiction and responsibilities of lakes, reservoirs, ponds, and polders, and establish an effective management mechanism for organizational coordination by competent departments and division of labor and cooperation among multiple departments. At the same time, a general survey should be conducted as soon as possible to find out the "family property" of lake, reservoir, pond, and polder resources across the country, so as to provide a scientific basis for future protection and management.
On Zhang Ganlin's (张甘霖) suggestion, relevant departments have gradually carried out the resource survey of lakes, reservoirs, ponds, and polders, and established a more complete basic database of ecosystems. The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) clearly stated in the key points of river and lake management work in 2024 that it would "sort out and improve the list of rivers and lakes" and gradually establish a list of rivers and lakes outside the list of the first national water conservancy census. The proposal's suggestions have been implemented, which makes Zhang Ganlin (张甘霖) feel very gratified.
Not only that, Zhang Ganlin (张甘霖) also pays attention to the ecological governance of the Yangtze River Basin (长江流域). He proposed to conduct zonal assessment of the water quality of the basin and formulate differentiated protection and restoration plans. "We cannot rely on a single standard to manage water ecology. We must combine the specific conditions of each region and take more precise and personalized measures." Zhang Ganlin (张甘霖) said that this is the only way to fundamentally solve the water environment problem and ensure the effect of ecological restoration.
"We must not only raise problems, but also propose solutions." Zhang Ganlin (张甘霖) said, "Whenever I see proposals and suggestions transformed into concrete policies and measures, I am filled with a sense of accomplishment. I will continue to contribute to the construction of a beautiful China (美丽中国) with a sense of responsibility for environmental protection, through solid research and scientific analysis."
Return to TopBy: 陈晓红
The "Educational Powerhouse Construction Planning Outline (2024-2035)" proposes to improve the mechanism for discovering and cultivating top-notch innovative talents. In recent years, the Party and the state have attached great importance to using artificial intelligence to help educational transformation, promote new changes in the educational landscape, and achieve practical results in talent cultivation. In order to adapt to this trend, we should accelerate the transformation of artificial intelligence from "tool integration" to "system reconstruction" and fully empower the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents. The following suggestions are made:
Accelerate the updating and transformation of educational concepts. There is an urgent need for five transformations: to shift from single-discipline education to interdisciplinary education, cultivating students' interdisciplinary thinking and comprehensive qualities; to shift from knowledge imparting to ability cultivation; to shift from "one-size-fits-all" standardized education to personalized education, providing students with educational paths and resources suitable for their development; to shift from closed education to open education, integrating high-quality educational resources at home and abroad; and to shift evaluation standards from the traditional focus on "grades" to "qualities" and "abilities," building a comprehensive and dynamic evaluation system.
Create a hierarchical and categorized curriculum teaching system. Construct a modular system of "foundation + specialty + innovation" in a hierarchical and categorized manner. At the foundation course level, combine artificial intelligence introduction, programming basics, and other courses with traditional subjects such as mathematics and physics, focusing on consolidating knowledge foundations and cultivating digital literacy and thinking. At the professional course level, deepen the interdisciplinary integration of artificial intelligence with disciplines such as management and economics, both broadening knowledge horizons and enhancing innovative thinking. At the innovation course level, set up courses such as cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies and encourage students to participate in cutting-edge research and practical applications.
Form a precise and adapted educational practice path. Accelerate the construction of intelligent education systems, accurately analyze learners' cognitive characteristics, learning preferences, and growth trajectories, and provide all-round assistance in learning, teaching, research, management, and evaluation. Use intelligent learning analysis systems to push personalized learning content to students based on their learning progress and knowledge mastery. Improve practical skills by allowing students to solve complex problems through the construction of real industrial scenarios. Based on the data mastered by the artificial intelligence system, judge students' classroom participation and knowledge mastery, comprehensively evaluate their ability improvement and innovative practice, and establish a mechanism to adjust teaching strategies and learning plans in a timely manner based on the results.
Construct a virtual-real combined educational field structure. Promote the expansion of the educational field to a virtual-real integrated space, forming a new type of educational space form with physical space immersion and virtual space extension. Actively build intelligent teaching spaces to realize the interconnection and intelligent control of teaching equipment. Build online learning platforms to provide personalized learning recommendations, intelligent tutoring, learning progress tracking, and other services. Develop interactive and immersive digital teaching resources to realize the intelligent management of the teaching process.
In addition, it is necessary to strengthen institutional supply and ethical governance. Clarify the setting standards and requirements for artificial intelligence-related courses, and establish a quality evaluation system for artificial intelligence-assisted teaching. Improve the rules and regulations on data use, privacy protection, and algorithm transparency in artificial intelligence in teaching, scientific research, management, and other scenarios. Clarify the rights and responsibilities of teachers and students in using artificial intelligence tools, prevent academic misconduct and technology abuse, and achieve coordinated development of "technology empowerment" and "ethical integrity."
(The author is Sun Baoguo (孙宝国), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院), and the Party Secretary of Hunan University of Technology and Business (湖南工商大学党委书记). This article was compiled and edited by Sun Chao (孙超), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 璁
Recently, another residential building in Jinping Garden Community in Guang'an (广安), Sichuan (四川) Province, was successfully equipped with elevators.
Residents said that there are many elderly people in this community, but the buildings designed in the early years only had stairs, and they had long hoped for an elevator. In recent years, the country has had good policies for installing elevators, but their building was located on the street, and in the past, due to the restrictions of a "red-letter document," this elevator could not be installed.
The modification of this "red-letter document" stemmed from an administrative reconsideration initiated by community residents against the government.
The cause:
The long-awaited elevator installation was stuck in the approval process.
At the beginning of last year, an application for the installation of elevators submitted by Song Xiaohua (宋小华) and other residents of the community was stuck in the approval process.
It turned out that, according to a "red-letter document" at the time—the "Implementation Opinions of the Guang'an (广安) Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau and Seven Other Departments on Further Promoting the Installation of Elevators in Existing Residences" (《广安市住房和城乡建设局等七部门关于进一步推进既有住宅电梯增设工作的实施意见》, hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), the design required that elevator installations "should not be set on the street-facing side of the building in principle" and "if it is necessary to set them, the elevator should not protrude from the main facade of the building and should not damage the overall style of the building facade."
After accepting the application, the Guang'an (广安) Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning believed that the elevator to be installed in the building was not only located on the street-facing side but also protruded from the main facade of the building, which did not comply with the regulations. Therefore, it made a reply of "temporary disapproval."
"There is a problem with this regulation!" Faced with this reply, Song Xiaohua (宋小华) was full of dissatisfaction. Pointing to the building and the small road next to it, he said that there was still a wall between the building and the road, which strictly speaking could not be considered street-facing; even if it was street-facing, the conditions of his building were limited, and it was impossible to install elevators internally. Installing elevators externally did not hinder others, so why not allow it?
Initially, Song Xiaohua (宋小华) originally planned to go to court to file a lawsuit. To this end, Song Xiaohua (宋小华) himself searched for street-facing buildings in Guang'an (广安) that had installed elevators, and took photos and videos to collect evidence, in preparation for supporting his claims in court in the future.
After some preparation, just as Song Xiaohua (宋小华) was preparing to file a case in court, a word from someone reminded him: Have you tried administrative reconsideration?
On January 1, 2024, the newly revised Administrative Reconsideration Law officially came into effect. According to this newly revised law, if it is believed that the normative document on which the administrative act of the administrative organ is based is illegal, "when applying for administrative reconsideration of the administrative act, an application for incidental review of the normative document may be submitted to the administrative reconsideration organ at the same time."
"I also learned during the investigation that some other communities are also facing the same problem." Song Xiaohua (宋小华) said, since the root cause is still in the red-letter document, can we request to modify the document?
Therefore, an application for administrative reconsideration was submitted to the Guang'an (广安) Municipal Bureau of Justice.
Investigation:
The provisions of the document are out of touch with the urgent needs of the masses, and modification is imminent.
"I have three demands: first, to revoke the original reply of 'temporary disapproval'; second, to order the relevant departments to approve the application in accordance with laws and regulations; and third, to request a review of the unreasonable provisions in the document, and it must be changed if it should be changed." When the administrative reconsideration agency accepted the case, Song Xiaohua (宋小华) directly stated his demands.
What is the situation? A site investigation was immediately launched.
Arriving at Jinping Garden Community, Liu Nian (刘念), deputy section chief of the Administrative Reconsideration and Response Section of the Municipal Bureau of Justice, first walked around the unit building involved in the administrative reconsideration and carefully inspected it. She saw at the scene that although the building faced the road, there was still a public green space and a community wall separating the two, with a distance of nearly 20 meters in between.
When visiting the surrounding area, Liu Nian (刘念) further discovered that the street facing the unit where the elevator was to be installed was not a main urban road, but a back street, and the building was not parallel to the road, so it did not have a significant impact on the urban landscape.
As the investigation deepened, the urgent need of local residents for this livelihood project also attracted the attention of the administrative reconsideration agency.
"Our community has 13,000 people, of which the elderly over 65 account for 1/3." Li Jincheng (李金成), secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Neighborhood Committee of Yutu Community (玉兔社区), Wansheng Street (万盛街道), Guang'an District (广安区), Guang'an (广安) City, said that especially in the unit applying for elevator installation, the proportion of elderly residents in the building is as high as 60%, and the willingness to install elevators is very strong. The neighbors up and down basically supported it when soliciting opinions.
So what were the considerations of the administrative agency at that time? "Administrative reconsideration is like a court hearing, and both sides must be heard." Yin Peiyu (尹培宇), section chief of the Administrative Reconsideration and Response Section of the Guang'an (广安) Municipal Bureau of Justice, said that the administrative reconsideration agency quickly communicated with the natural resources department.
To everyone's surprise, behind this "temporary disapproval" there was actually a hidden story: it turned out that before Song Xiaohua (宋小华) and others filed for administrative reconsideration, some residents in Guang'an (广安) who had encountered similar problems had found relevant departments to reflect that the regulations were unreasonable, and the administrative agency also intended to initiate the modification of the "red-letter document," so it made a reply of "temporary disapproval."
"In fact, when this document was originally drafted, there were not many cases of residents installing elevators, and the installation problem of street-facing buildings was not prominent." Staff of the Guang'an (广安) Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning listed a set of data, saying that the city installed only more than 20 elevators in total from 2016 to 2018, but in the past two years, more than 200 elevators have been installed every year. The relevant regulations of "prohibiting the installation of elevators on the street-facing side" have not kept up with the needs of development.
On one hand, there is a strong demand from the masses to install elevators, and on the other hand, the administrative agency also has the intention to modify the "red-letter document." This administrative dispute has found a "way out" for resolution.
Resolution:
Handling one case and standardizing a whole area to prevent similar disputes from the source.
Since filing for administrative reconsideration, Song Xiaohua (宋小华) has repeatedly approached the Municipal Bureau of Justice several times: "Residents are looking forward to installing elevators as soon as possible. When will there be a result for this administrative reconsideration?"
"The institutional advantages of administrative reconsideration are fairness, efficiency, convenience, and benefit to the people. The key is to solve problems." Yin Peiyu (尹培宇) fed back to Song Xiaohua (宋小华) the idea of relevant departments to modify the document. In order to substantially resolve administrative disputes, the administrative reconsideration agency decided to organize both parties to conduct mediation.
The newly revised Administrative Reconsideration Law expands the scope of application of mediation, which is conducive to resolving contradictions and disputes in a timely manner through mediation and consultation. "We applied the relevant provisions of the newly revised Administrative Reconsideration Law and suspended the trial of the case after obtaining the consent of the parties, which bought time for mediation." Liang Ningchuan (梁宁川), deputy director of the Guang'an (广安) Municipal Bureau of Justice, said.
"Although it is difficult to approve based on the existing documents, the reply of 'temporary disapproval' is not standardized."
"Administrative actions should take into account both the realization of administrative goals and the protection of the rights and interests of the counterparties, and limit the adverse effects to the smallest possible scope and extent."
During the mediation, the focus of the dispute gradually became clear—the biggest obstacle to the application for elevator installation was the provision in the "Opinions."
In repeated communication, the "red-letter document" accelerated the speed of modification.
Before long, Song Xiaohua (宋小华) waited for the news of the modification of the regulations: Under the guidance of the administrative reconsideration agency, the relevant provisions of the "Opinions" were revised to "in principle, elevators should not be set on the street-facing side of the building. If it is indeed difficult to set them internally or it is impossible to enter the household on the same level, they can be set on the street-facing side, but the overall style of the building facade should not be damaged, and the exterior material of the elevator should be of high-quality material."
With the new document as the basis, the natural resources department quickly reviewed and approved the design plan resubmitted by Song Xiaohua (宋小华) and others. Song Xiaohua (宋小华) and others were very satisfied with the mediation result, so they also withdrew the application for administrative reconsideration.
"I didn't expect administrative reconsideration to be so useful!" Song Xiaohua (宋小华) said that now not only the building where he is located has been equipped with elevators, but many street-facing buildings in Guang'an (广安) have also started installation projects one after another, enjoying the benefits of the national policy of benefiting the people.
Because of a dispute caused by an elevator installation, the modification and improvement of the "red-letter document" was finally promoted. This case was selected as a typical case of administrative reconsideration released by the Ministry of Justice.
"From individual case supervision to similar case standardization, achieving the good effect of handling one case and standardizing a whole area can prevent similar disputes from the source and give full play to the main channel role of administrative reconsideration in resolving administrative disputes." The relevant person in charge of the Administrative Reconsideration and Response Bureau of the Ministry of Justice said.
Reporter's Notes
Make the masses more willing to choose administrative reconsideration.
The first article of the newly revised Administrative Reconsideration Law clearly states, "Give full play to the main channel role of administrative reconsideration in resolving administrative disputes."
What does it mean to give full play to the "main channel role"? A set of data can well illustrate the problem: In 2024, the number of newly received administrative reconsideration applications nationwide was close to 750,000, and more than 90% of the cases were resolved in the administrative reconsideration procedure without entering administrative litigation or petition procedures. As a supervisory system for internal error correction in the administrative system and a relief system for resolving administrative disputes of "people suing officials," it has the institutional advantages of fairness, efficiency, convenience, and benefit to the people, and is an important starting point for promoting the construction of a government under the rule of law.
So how to make more people choose administrative reconsideration to solve problems? In front-line interviews, it was found that only when the masses feel that administrative reconsideration is easy to use and effective, and can truly respond to the reasonable demands of the masses in a timely and effective manner, will the masses be more willing to use and love it. In the final analysis, this depends on continuously improving the quality and efficiency of case handling. The masses are very disgusted with the "empty rotation of procedures," which requires deepening and solidifying the substantive resolution of administrative disputes; the effect of "handling cases on a case-by-case basis" is limited, and it is imperative to reduce administrative disputes through source governance... As the effectiveness of the construction of the main channel of administrative reconsideration gradually emerges, it is necessary to further strengthen grass-roots infrastructure construction and make great efforts in standardization, informatization, and professionalization.
For enterprises, administrative reconsideration is also an effective way to protect their legitimate rights and interests. Since last year, a special action for administrative reconsideration to escort the high-quality development of enterprises has been carried out nationwide, and 79,000 enterprise-related cases have been handled in accordance with the law, and a number of illegal and improper acts that infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises, such as random fines and random seizures, have been corrected in a timely manner. At present, various localities are carrying out special actions to standardize administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, and it is even more necessary to make good use of the supervisory role of administrative reconsideration, from focusing on outstanding problems such as "minor offenses with heavy penalties" and profit-seeking law enforcement to strengthening the supervision of government dishonesty. Administrative reconsideration should further respond to social concerns, protect the legitimate rights and interests of various business entities equally in accordance with the law, provide strong legal guarantees for promoting the healthy development of enterprises and continuously optimizing the business environment, and make the institutional advantages of administrative reconsideration more prominent.
Return to TopBy: 魏哲哲
Recently, the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) issued a notice, deciding to launch a two-month special campaign nationwide, named "Qinglang (清朗) · Optimizing the Online Business Environment – Rectifying Online 'Black Mouths' Targeting Enterprises," focusing on addressing four prominent issues: maliciously smearing, slandering, and attacking enterprises; extorting enterprises; malicious marketing hype; and leaking secrets and infringing rights.
For some time, the phenomenon of online "black mouths" harming enterprises has occurred from time to time. In particular, online "black mouths" target private enterprises and star enterprises for infringement, becoming a troubling factor affecting enterprise development. For example, some criminals release false or untrue information or negative information about enterprises at important time nodes such as new product launches, listings, and financing, coercing enterprises to carry out business cooperation; some release negative information about enterprises and then demand "deletion fees" and "public relations fees" from enterprises in the name of "deleting posts" and "withdrawing drafts"; some conduct live broadcasts and short video shooting activities at enterprise business premises in the name of "fighting counterfeiting" and "safeguarding rights," interfering with the normal production and operation of enterprises; and some conduct false and untrue evaluations to maliciously smear, slander, and attack enterprises; and so on. These behaviors not only damage the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and entrepreneurs, but also disrupt the normal market order and damage the business environment.
The Internet is not a place outside the law, and speech involving enterprises cannot cross the bottom line of objective truth, let alone touch the red line of the law. In recent years, China's relevant legislation has been continuously improved, and the enforcement and handling of online "black mouths" targeting enterprises have become clearer. The recently implemented Law on Promoting the Private Economy further consolidates the legal foundation, explicitly stipulating that "no unit or individual may use the Internet or other communication channels to maliciously infringe upon the personality rights and interests of private economic organizations and their operators by means of insults, defamation, etc." Continuously improving laws and regulations have built a legal defense line for punishing prominent problems such as online "black mouths."
The online environment is an important part of the business environment. Drawing swords against online "black mouths" is to "support" the development of enterprises and "reduce the burden" on business entities. In response to online "black mouths," the national cyberspace authorities have carried out multiple rounds of special crackdown actions, severely cracking down on online malicious damage to the image and reputation of enterprises and entrepreneurs, extortion for illegal profits, and other behaviors; public security organs have carried out in-depth special actions to combat and rectify online rumors, investigating and handling the creation and spread of rumors in accordance with the law, shutting down illegal and irregular accounts, and maintaining a clear and orderly cyberspace... Relevant departments continue to strengthen governance and crackdown efforts, launching heavy punches to rectify online "black mouths" targeting enterprises, forming a strong deterrent to relevant illegal behaviors and establishing a clear orientation, which also further purifies the online ecology and helps enterprises to start lightly and develop with peace of mind.
Timely rights relief is of great significance for enhancing corporate confidence. The infringement methods of online "black mouths" targeting enterprises have the characteristics of fast dissemination speed and wide range of influence, and rights holders have high demands for the efficiency of rights relief. In practice, judicial organs make full use of criminal and civil means to protect the development of enterprises in an all-round way, so that illegal acts that smear and slander enterprises pay the due price. At the same time, the application of behavioral preservation system in accordance with the law and in a timely manner avoids the expansion of damage results, and supporting enterprises to take measures such as public statements and media clarification to restore the damaged reputation of enterprises also allows justice to arrive in a timely manner.
Rectifying online "black mouths" requires not only strict crackdown by law enforcement and judicial departments, but also the platform to take responsibility. For example, strengthening the management of online information content, establishing and improving complaint and reporting mechanisms, and disposing of illegal information in a timely manner. It is believed that the further clearing of the online environment will be more conducive to enterprises focusing on production and development.
Return to Top[Case] Mr. Huang planted flowers and trees and built a "garden" on the third-floor public platform outside his house. Ms. Li's shop was located below the platform and was experiencing water leaks. She suspected that it was caused by the excessive growth of tree roots in Mr. Huang's flower beds, which damaged the waterproof layer of the roof, and repeatedly asked Mr. Huang to clean it up. However, Mr. Huang believed that the leak had nothing to do with him, and the two sides were at a stalemate. After the property management company intervened and communicated many times, Mr. Huang's son agreed to allow the property staff to enter the platform from his home to carry out the cleanup. After learning about this, Mr. Huang believed that the property management company had cleaned up the flowers and trees without his consent and had not retained some of the plants according to his requirements, causing serious losses and infringing on his rights. The property management company stated that the cleanup work was carried out with the consent of Mr. Huang's son, and there was no unauthorized cleanup without consent. Mr. Huang sued the property management company to the court, demanding compensation for various losses of more than 30,000 yuan.
The court held after hearing the case that the owner's use of the public area of the community should be within a reasonable limit and should not affect the rights and interests of other owners. The platform involved in the case belongs to the public area. Mr. Huang has occupied the public platform for a long time and planted a large number of flowers, plants and seedlings, which has exceeded the limit of reasonable use and has also caused neighborhood disputes. Therefore, Mr. Huang has the obligation to cooperate with the property management company to clean up.
The property management company carried out the cleanup work after communicating with Mr. Huang's son, which is a legitimate act to maintain the normal life order of the community and protect the rights and interests of all owners. It is a necessary measure to perform the duties of property management and does not constitute property infringement. The property management company also retained some green plants and has fulfilled its reasonable duty of care during the cleanup process. In the end, the court found that the property management company's cleanup behavior was legal and compliant, and rejected Mr. Huang's claim for compensation of more than 30,000 yuan.
[Statement] The judge said that in daily life, property management services have become an important support for ensuring the quality of life of residents. The public area of the community is a space shared by all owners, and its cleanliness directly affects the community environment and the quality of life of residents. Once problems such as accumulation of debris and滞留 of garbage occur in the public area, it will not only damage the beauty of the community, but also bring potential safety hazards. As the main body of community management, the property management company's timely and lawful cleanup of the public area is an important task for performing its management duties, which can not only effectively maintain the community environment and prevent safety accidents such as fires, but also a necessary measure to maintain community order and protect the rights and interests of all owners.
The judge reminded that the property management company's cleanup behavior must strictly abide by laws and regulations and contractual agreements. The cleanup behavior should be based on maintaining the public interest, take reasonable and necessary methods, and avoid causing undue damage to the rights and interests of owners. According to relevant provisions of the Civil Code, owners need to fulfill their obligation to cooperate. If they occupy the public area excessively for a long time and refuse to rectify, they may face administrative penalties or even bear corresponding legal responsibilities. Only when property management and owners consciously abide by the management regulations can the balance between community public interests and individual rights be achieved, and a safe, clean, civilized and harmonious beautiful home be built together.
(Case source: Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), reporter Qi Yukun (亓玉昆) of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
On June 2nd, Tan Yue (谭悦) (pseudonym), a post-95s girl who was shopping in Wanfeng New World Shopping Center in Huandong Street, Zhuji (诸暨), Zhejiang (浙江), received a call from an "airline" claiming that her upcoming flight had been temporarily canceled and that they were now processing a refund and rescheduling service for her.
When the other party accurately stated her personal information and flight details, Tan Yue gradually lowered her guard and followed the other party's instructions. However, when the customer service representative said that she needed to provide her bank card number for identity verification, she suddenly saw the "Xishi Anti-Fraud (西施反诈)" reminder on her milk tea packaging. She immediately felt suspicious and quickly went to the nearby Joint Police Station to consult the on-duty police.
After hearing what happened, the police realized that this was a typical "flight ticket refund and rescheduling" scam, and quickly dissuaded Tan Yue from proceeding with the operation. They immediately opened a case to prevent more people from being deceived.
"I almost lost the money in my bank card. I am really grateful to the police and that cup of 'anti-fraud milk tea'," said Tan Yue.
Now, when you walk into the shopping center, various anti-fraud elements with the image of Xishi (西施) come into view. Novel and diverse, highly recognizable anti-fraud logos can be seen on store walls, milk tea cup sleeves, shopping bags, and take-out orders... Xishi has become the "leading lady" of anti-fraud publicity. Zhuji Public Security has cleverly combined the historical and cultural elements of the ancient Yue (越) capital with anti-fraud publicity, creating the "Xishi Anti-Fraud" IP. He Zhixiong (何志炯), director of the Huandong Police Station (浣东派出所) of the Zhuji Public Security Bureau (诸暨市公安局), introduced that since the promotion of the "Xishi Anti-Fraud" IP in February this year, the number of telecom fraud cases in the Wanfeng business district has decreased by about 40% year-on-year.
The "new highlight" of anti-fraud publicity has tightened the "safety line" of telecom fraud prevention, helping Zhuji's anti-fraud publicity gradually form a new pattern of multi-level, three-dimensional, all-round, and all-coverage.
"The high rate of return has already confused you, and you can't see the outline of the gold you sent..." An anti-fraud MV in local dialect became an instant hit as soon as it was released, attracting frequent praise from netizens. In Yingdianjie Town (应店街镇), Zhuji City (诸暨市), there is a well-known "Old Boys" anti-fraud team. Their average age is 65. In the anti-fraud MV, they wear suits, sunglasses, and sing dialect RAP. The magical melody combined with professional anti-fraud knowledge reveals a distinct and interesting contrast, which has attracted widespread attention.
The dialect anti-fraud MV exposes high-incidence fraud routines and offers tips for encountering fraud; the "anti-fraud bus" connecting urban and rural areas allows anti-fraud publicity to roll to every corner of the city with the wheels; the "peace teachers" jointly developed by police and schools bring prevention courses into the campus...
In recent years, the police and people of Zhuji have joined hands to form an anti-fraud publicity team composed of diverse groups such as village and community party organization secretaries, "internet celebrities," and silver-age lecturers, driven by professional "academics" and social "volunteer teams," realizing the transformation of anti-fraud publicity from the public security's "**单打独斗** (dān dǎ dú dòu - "fighting alone," acting alone without assistance)" to the participation of all people.
"We have mobilized and guided the masses, constantly extending the tentacles of anti-fraud, turning the power of the masses into an important publicity force, and stimulating the enthusiasm of the whole society to jointly fight against fraud," said Shen Yuquan (沈玉权), Deputy Mayor of Zhuji City (诸暨市) and Director of the Public Security Bureau (公安局). "To combat and govern telecommunications network fraud crimes, publicity is the first line of defense. Only by making publicity comprehensive, refined, and in place can we play the anti-fraud 'first move' well and protect the people's 'money bags'."
Return to TopBy: 阮援朝
In May 87 years ago, the "Taihang Mountain Theater Troupe of the Eighteenth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army" (国民革命军第十八集团军太行山剧团) (hereinafter referred to as the Taihang Mountain Theater Troupe (太行山剧团)) was established. The name of the troupe implies that it should be as majestic and strong as the Taihang Mountains (太行山), always be with the soldiers and civilians of the Taihang Mountains (太行山), unite to resist Japan, and strive for the final victory.
My father, Ruan Zhangjing (阮章竞), was appointed by General Zhu Rui (朱瑞) as the political and artistic instructor of the Taihang Mountain Theater Troupe (太行山剧团). One day, he received a letter from Wuhan (武汉) containing song works by his teacher Xian Xinghai (冼星海), "Children of China" (《中国的孩子》) and "We Sing of the Motherland" (《我们歌唱祖国》), as well as the song "On the Taihang Mountains" (《在太行山上》), which he co-authored with Gui Taosheng (桂涛声).
On December 26, 1937, Xian Xinghai (冼星海) saw his student Ruan Zhangjing (阮章竞) off at Hankou Railway Station (汉口火车站) to join the group led by Gui Taosheng (桂涛声) who abandoned their pens for military service. Their destination was the North China front. My father met Mr. Xian Xinghai (冼星海) at a command training class in Shanghai (上海). Mr. Xian Xinghai (冼星海) heard that this young man had an outstanding voice, and after class, he asked my father to come closer and talk. Upon hearing his accent, he realized that they were fellow villagers from the west bank of the Pearl River (珠江西岸), and so my father became Xian Xinghai's (冼星海) disciple. My father recalled, "I met Mr. Xian Xinghai (冼星海) at the most urgent and dangerous time for the Chinese nation. I will never forget his care and teachings!"
In December 1937, Nanjing (南京) fell, and my 23-year-old father was filled with grief and indignation. He was determined to repay the country with blood, so he asked Xian Xinghai (冼星海) to help him find a way to fight the enemy on the front lines. It so happened that Gui Taosheng (桂涛声) was going north, so there was a farewell at Hankou Railway Station (汉口车站). At that time, the song "Ode to the Eight Hundred Heroes" (《歌八百壮士》), with lyrics by Gui Taosheng (桂涛声), was inspiring the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the entire nation. Gui Taosheng (桂涛声) took my father and two other young men from Zhengzhou (郑州) to Bo'ai (博爱), and then along the Taihang Xing (太行陉), they ascended the magnificent and majestic Southern Taihang (南太行), known as "being with the heavens." My father wrote in his memoirs: "When we reached the mountainside, it was early morning, and the rising sun shone brightly. Looking back, we saw a yellow ribbon floating in the vast sky in the distance, which was the mother river of the Chinese nation - the Yellow River (黄河). How many times have I called out to it, how many times have I longed to see the Yellow River (黄河) in my dreams, magnificent and desolate." This scene must have also given Gui Taosheng (桂涛声) a great shock.
As Japanese invaders invaded North China, the towering Taihang Mountains (太行山) became the reliance of anti-Japanese forces, allowing them to advance to attack and retreat to defend. Gui Taosheng (桂涛声) and my father saw the competition and contest of various forces, but the scene of the entire nation uniting against the enemy was even more impressive.
In late June 1938, Gui Taosheng (桂涛声) returned to Wuhan (武汉), and the lyrics of the inspiring and combative anti-Japanese song "On the Taihang Mountains" (《在太行山上》) had matured. The ochre-red cliffs of the Southern Taihang (南太行) rising from the North China Plain (华北平原), as well as the surging popular sentiment of resisting to the death, ignited Xian Xinghai's (冼星海) surging passion through his fervent lyrics, like beacon fires. At the residence of the Third Hall of the Political Department of the Military Commission of the National Government (国民政府军事委员会政治部第三厅) in Tanhualin (昙华林), Wuchang (武昌), the lyrics were given musical wings on a borrowed piano. "The red sun shines all over the east, the god of freedom is singing heartily! Look! Thousands of mountains and valleys, walls of copper and iron, the flames of anti-Japanese war are burning on the Taihang Mountains (太行山), with a momentum of tens of millions of feet. Listen! Mothers call their sons to fight the Eastern barbarians, wives send their husbands to the battlefield. We are on the Taihang Mountains (太行山), we are on the Taihang Mountains (太行山), the mountains are high and the forests are dense, the soldiers are strong and the horses are sturdy. Wherever the enemy attacks, we will destroy them there! Wherever the enemy attacks, we will destroy them there!"
On July 7, at the Wuhan (武汉) singing conference commemorating the first anniversary of the War of Resistance, the song "On the Taihang Mountains" (《在太行山上》) was premiered by singers such as Zhang Shu (张曙), Lin Lu (林路), and Zhao Qihai (赵启海), and it soared into the sky.
My father, who received the sheet music, was also deeply moved. With sincere respect for his two teachers, he immediately taught and rehearsed it in the Taihang Mountain Theater Troupe (太行山剧团), and in August, it was included in the troupe's performance program. After the performance, my father would often respond to the audience's requests and teach the song on the spot, which every Eighth Route Army (八路军) soldier wanted to learn immediately. Zhu Lin (朱霖), the wife of General Huang Zhen (黄镇) of the Political Department of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army (八路军129师政治部), once told me: "My deepest impression of your father is that he was thin, wearing a gray Eighth Route Army (八路军) uniform, standing on the stage conducting the whole audience to sing 'The red sun shines all over the east!'" My father always remembered what Xian Xinghai (冼星海) said when he taught conducting and singing national salvation songs: to express the strong demand of the people for resisting Japan and saving the country, to express the will to fight, firm determination, and the belief in victory. It should be tragic, rough, bold, and powerful, without any affectation, simple, and not flashy. It is necessary to be good at embracing the entire singing team tightly in the arms, forming a force of sprint.
At that time, according to the instructions of Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) to create an anti-Japanese base area relying on the Taihang Mountains (太行山), the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army (八路军129师) transferred cadres, sent them to companies, and organized many work groups and guerrilla detachments to disperse to various parts of the Taihang Mountains (太行山区) to mobilize the masses. In October, the Taihang Mountain Theater Troupe (太行山剧团) launched a tour performance across the central Taihang Mountains (中太行), going north along the main peak of the Taihang Mountains (太行山), then down the eastern foothills, and then back to the main peak to the western foothills. In this way, the troupe started from Donggu Village (东古村), Tunliu County (屯留县), and traveled for 3 months, covering 2,500 li, performing in more than 30 towns in 11 counties including Xiangyuan (襄垣), Wuxiang (武乡), Xingtai (邢台), Yuanshi (元氏), Xiyang (昔阳), and Heshun (和顺). The battle song "On the Taihang Mountains" (《在太行山上》) was sung and taught throughout the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in North China. During the mobile performances, there was also a communications class accompanying the troupe to do security work. My father wrote in his memoirs: "Between Zanhuang (赞皇) and Gaoyi (高邑), 20 li away from the Japanese stronghold, when we held a慰问 (wèi wèn - "to express sympathy, to console") performance for our army's front-line troops, the troops sent out sentry posts in the direction of the Pinghan Railway (平汉铁路) to protect our safe performance. Under the solemn autumn night starlight, with the enemy close at hand, and a battle could break out at any time, the golden drums sounded together, and we sang 'On the Taihang Mountains' (《在太行山上》) with abandon, inspiring the soldiers and the people."
This large-scale movement was the first long march of the Taihang Mountain Theater Troupe (太行山剧团). While marching and performing, every time they arrived at a place, they put down their luggage and borrowed things from the villagers to build a stage, and then marched overnight after the performance. When the troupe performed, two large gas lamps lit up, and the red light shone on the gullies. When the whistle sounded and the curtain was drawn, the performers stood neatly in rows, women in front and men in the back. The masses commented: The Eighth Route Army (八路军) also has people with such good voices. Singing the "March of the Volunteers" (《义勇军进行曲》) is really energetic. When the singing drills into the surrounding mountains and returns, it is still "Forward, forward!" When singing "On the Taihang Mountains" (《在太行山上》), the loud voice, the majestic momentum, and the kind lyrics captured everyone's hearts.
When Xian Xinghai (冼星海) arrived in Yan'an (延安) in November 1938, his music had arrived earlier. Whether it was at the welcome party at Lu Yi (鲁艺) that night, the drama performance the next day, or the meeting in the auditorium a few days later, he and his wife Qian Yunling (钱韵玲) were always asked to "perform a 'full-scale war of resistance' version of 'On the Taihang Mountains' (《在太行山上》)!" Before each meeting, Xian Xinghai (冼星海) was also asked to conduct the entire audience in a chorus, and the repertoire always included "On the Taihang Mountains" (《在太行山上》).
The Taihang Mountains (太行山) are heroic mountains, copper walls and iron walls in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. In everyone's hearts, the artistic image of this song is the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) and the Eighth Route Army (八路军). Whether in the past or now, and forever, it is a great musical symbol of the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines led by the CPC (中共).
Many years later, my father wrote these words: "'On the Taihang Mountains' (《在太行山上》) shines on the Taihang Mountains (太行山) like the morning sun, warming the hearts of every soldier and civilian in battle, and the resonance it evokes is like the echo of the mountains, echoing in the flames of war for a long time. In fact, it is still echoing to this day."
How many Eighth Route Army (八路军) soldiers sang this majestic "On the Taihang Mountains" (《在太行山上》) and fought bloody battles with the enemy; how many ordinary people listened to this affectionate "On the Taihang Mountains" (《在太行山上》) and looked forward to the victorious return of their sons and brothers. Born in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War, "On the Taihang Mountains" (《在太行山上》) condensed the iron will of the entire nation to resist Japan and issued a strong voice of the times for the struggle for national independence and freedom. Today, we sing this song again, cherish the hard-won peace, continue the great national spirit, and draw the magnificent power to create the future.
(The author is the daughter of Ruan Zhangjing (阮章竞))
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The 2025 "Beijing Story" Excellent Small Theater Show Exhibition recently opened. Over the next 3 months, 24 small theater productions will be staged in turn on the capital's stage. All along, small theaters, with their low production costs and open stage space, have been the best "experimental fields" for literary and artistic production. Since the new century, represented by Meng Jinghui's "Rhinoceros in Love" (恋爱的犀牛), young creators have transformed their fantasies into stage practice, and through small stages, have moved towards a broader artistic space. After years of development, small theaters have gradually formed their own unique ecology: the backbone is works that combine artistic and market attributes; on both sides of it, one is the creation that is more market-oriented, represented by Xi Xiaotang (戏逍堂) and Li Bonan Drama Studio (李伯男戏剧工作室), and the other is the creation that is more experimental, represented by the Beijing Youth Drama Festival (北京青年戏剧节). This ecology of small theaters has lasted for nearly 20 years, and its artistic innovation interacts with other literary and artistic forms, promoting the overall development of literature and art.
In recent years, new and excellent works have continued to emerge in small theaters. The movie "Mr. Donkey" produced by Happy Twist (开心麻花) originated from the small theater work "Mr. Donkey" (驴得水) by Zhou Shen (周申) and Liu Lu (刘露); the "Drama Nine" (话剧九人) troupe led by Zhu Hongxuan (朱虹璇) also started from the small theater works "Four Weaving Machines" (四张机) and "Spring逝", relying on audience word-of-mouth, gradually moving towards large theaters, and gradually becoming an important force in the current theater market. However, compared with the rapidly developing performing arts industry, small theaters are not outstanding in terms of either play innovation or the number of performances.
Currently, the most representative performances in the field of small theaters are two types. One is the "immersive theater" represented by the Shanghai Asia Building (上海亚洲大厦). These performances often introduce copyrights and promote multiple performances of a work at a very low production cost. For example, the introduced musical "Apollonia" is characterized by the ability to interact with actors in a theater decorated as a bar, and has been performed nearly a thousand times in 3 years. These works are too commercial and it is difficult to form artistic accumulation and breakthroughs. It is worth noting that many stand-up comedy performances are also using the low-cost advantages of small theaters to try to form a virtuous market cycle.
The other type of performance shows an increasingly strong experimental nature. In recent years, the works of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival (乌镇戏剧节) and the Aranya Theatre Festival (阿那亚戏剧节) have mostly had a strong avant-garde consciousness. At the Aranya Theatre Festival, "Romeo and Juliet by the Sea" began performing by the sea at 3 am, and ended "naturally" when the sun rose; "Lying Flat 2.0" (躺平2.0) at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival only recruited 10 to 20 audience members per show, and completed the performance on site with AI and actors. These works try to push the characteristics of the theater to the extreme, are creative, and are more like a pure art dialogue in the field of drama, which is far from the overall market and social environment. These works may only be individual cases, but they are widely discussed in the theater circle, showing the exploration of contemporary small theater drama art.
These two types of works are gradually occupying the mainstream in the ecology of small theaters. The superficial reason is that the overall prosperity of the performing arts market has invisibly raised the cost of performances, and the excellent creators who were originally deposited in small theaters have also been gradually attracted by the expanded performing arts market. The deeper reason is probably that small theater creators are increasingly influenced by Western avant-garde theater concepts. There is certainly nothing wrong with learning from others, but being obsessed with such avant-garde ideas can easily go too far in terms of concepts and technology.
The small theater opera festivals in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海) and other places have accumulated for more than 10 years and have gradually formed a scale effect. Not only mainstream operas such as Kunqu Opera (昆曲) and Peking Opera (京剧), but also many local operas are trying to innovate. For example, Quanzhou Liyuan Opera (泉州梨园戏) holds a small theater play exhibition every year, and seeks the contemporary expression of Liyuan Opera in the interaction with young audiences. Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe (浙江小百花越剧院) uses the novelty of "immersive" theaters to collide traditional singing with the style and mode of musicals, creating the Yue Opera "New Dragon Inn" (新龙门客栈), leaving the audience with endless charm in terms of aesthetics.
If the experimental nature of the theater in the past was mainly defined by Western avant-garde art, then today's experimental nature of the theater may need to "look back" - starting from tradition and creating brand-new works for the future.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院文学研究所))
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The animated series "New Big-Headed Son and Little-Headed Dad - Taking You to See China," produced by CCTV Animation, won the Golden Monkey Award for Best Animated Series at the recently concluded 21st China International Cartoon & Animation Festival.
How to revitalize the classic IP "Big-Headed Son," which has been around for 30 years and accompanied children's growth? Four years ago, this was an important question facing the creative team. At that time, the "cultural tourism craze" swept the country, and "parent-child study tours" became a new trend in family consumption. Children's curiosity about the vast motherland was written in their bright eyes. We suddenly realized: Why not let this warm and happy family of three become "cultural tourism guides" for children in the new era, leading them to measure the mountains and rivers of the motherland with a childlike perspective and perceive the depth of culture.
After in-depth research, we became more firm in our direction: The main audience of the "Big-Headed Son" series is preschool children. Children at this stage rely on intuitive experience for learning and cognition, and grand historical narratives or dense knowledge imparting are not suitable. Therefore, we chose to focus on the most authentic "seeing" - seeing how the misty waves of the Li River (漓江) are rendered into ink paintings, how the sunset in the Dunhuang (敦煌) desert gilds the flying murals, and how the modern coastal ports operate efficiently with the blessing of high technology... Let the journey itself become a vivid classroom, and let the bits of knowledge subtly infiltrate children's hearts like a spring breeze and rain.
To fit thousands of miles of rivers and mountains into the small screen, traditional production methods are stretched thin in terms of efficiency and expressiveness. We decided to explore a new path - using AI (artificial intelligence) to assist in creation and using stories to protect the warmth of family. However, the road to exploration was not smooth. Although AI can quickly generate diverse styles of art scenes, output stability and controllability are a major problem, making it difficult to meet mass production needs. Faced with technical difficulties, the team independently developed some plug-ins to improve output stability, and adopted a strategy of "AI foundation, manual refinement." Senior artists carefully carved and corrected each stroke based on detailed regional materials and expert guidance: smoothly outlining the upturned eaves and black tiles of Huizhou (徽州) architecture, and delicately rendering the winding streams and scattered yurts on the grassland. Behind every frame that conforms to the essence of culture is repeated tug-of-war and running-in with AI. Difficult exploration has convinced us that AI is a powerful efficiency tool, but the lamp holders of artistic soul and cultural depth are always people.
The bigger challenge lies in balancing the knowledge and fun of the story. In order to maintain the "childlike fun" and "family affection" of the "New Big-Headed Son and Little-Headed Dad" series, we took a bold step: on the journey of "Seeing China," we opened a window to the wonderful starry sky - "Wakaka" (哇咔咔), a little friend from outer space, unexpectedly joined the family's study tour on Earth. The blunders they caused due to their unfamiliarity with Earth culture not only created comedic effects, but also naturally introduced popular science on historical relics, human geography. This narrative structure of "real cultural tourism + science fiction imagination" makes the journey of the Big-Headed Son's family full of exploration fun, and always runs through the main line of family affection of "Dad teaching his son to recognize the world, and son taking his dad to see the childlike heart." The popularity of the animation has activated the resonance between "online IP" and "offline cultural tourism." The city scenes presented in the play have gradually become "check-in guides" for parent-child family trips, attracting more and more local cultural tourism departments to actively integrate urban characteristics into the animation plot. When children excitedly imitate the characters in the play to find local landmarks and shout "This is the scene in the animation," a cognitive closed loop is formed "from screen to reality."
The "Big-Headed Son" family has moved from a warm "small home" to a magnificent "big country," interpreting "Why China" through the most daily family interactions and childlike perspectives, and allowing the "beauty of China" to be subtly imprinted in the hearts of young viewers, truly realizing the "childlike" expression and "family-oriented" transmission of grand themes.
The brilliant glory of the "Golden Monkey Award" is just one arrival, but animation creation is a journey without an end. The "Big-Headed Son" family's journey of "Seeing China" continues. As creators, we are willing to continue to embrace sincerity and awe, to protect every inch of the beautiful rivers and mountains in the childlike vision, and let the light of fireflies illuminate more curious minds, to touch this deep and lovely land under our feet. Because we firmly believe that the starlight shining in the eyes of today's children will eventually converge into the shining dawn of this land tomorrow.
(The author is the planner of "New Big-Headed Son and Little-Headed Dad - Taking You to See China")
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Huangmei Opera is a drama genre with a considerable audience base. From its beginnings as performances in fields to "The Fairy Couple" and "The Female驸马" in the 1950s, and continuing to the present day, its themes and content have never been disconnected from the common people, consistently maintaining a synergy with the audience. How to continuously find themes that grow out of its own regional culture and are in harmony with the genre temperament of Huangmei Opera is a difficult problem.
In creating the Huangmei Opera "Six Foot Lane: Tolerance," we broke the traditional narrative mode and explored the contemporary value of traditional stories from a new perspective. The plot does not start from the perspective of Zhang Ying (张英), a high-ranking official, but seeks its roots in folk power, that is, taking the "Lady Qingning" (倾宁夫人), the niece-in-law of Grand Scholar Zhang Ying (张英) in his hometown of Tongcheng (桐城), as the first perspective, to deeply explore the profound values of sociology, law, and political science, and to explore the conflict between law and human sentiment. In this way, we not only escaped the creative clichés of previous similar themes, but also rejuvenated the ancient story in the modern context.
From limited dissemination confined to the stage, to entering thousands of households through movies and television, and then to achieving diversified dissemination through emerging platforms such as short videos and online live broadcasts in the Internet era, the dissemination history of Huangmei Opera is a microcosm of art dissemination media in different eras. At present, the dissemination challenges faced by Huangmei Opera are essentially the survival dilemma of traditional culture in the modern fast-paced and diversified cultural ecology. This prompts us to think about the "change" and "unchanged" in cultural communication: the communication methods need to keep pace with the times and constantly innovate, respecting the laws of the times; but the cultural connotation and artistic charm carried by Huangmei Opera, this core value, is the "unchanged" that must be adhered to in the communication process. The theater is the base camp of drama. No matter how advanced the technology is, it cannot replace the "true feelings" of the actors. Only when the audience truly enters the theater can they truly experience a charming aura and become a part of the performance. This is a feeling that cannot be given by screens, the Internet, AI technology, and other media.
The success of "The Fairy Couple" and "The Female驸马" in those years was the result of Huangmei Opera taking the initiative to harmonize with the times and empathize with the public. Today, Huangmei Opera also needs to focus on the trends of the times, study the needs of the public, and find new resonance. Only in this way can Huangmei Opera continue to shine in the long river of history and display the unique charm and eternal value of Chinese culture on the stage of the times.
(The author is the Dean of the Huangmei Opera Art Institute of Anqing Normal University (安庆师范大学))
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Four years ago, I visited the former residence of Zeng Guofan (曾国藩). In a small room at Fuhoutang (富厚堂), a yellowed page was displayed on the wall, which was the preface Zeng Guofan wrote for *Chuanshan Yishu* (《船山遗书》). In it, he mentioned five people when discussing the inheritance of Confucian culture: Confucius (孔子), Mencius (孟子), Dai Sheng (戴圣), Zhang Zai (张载), and Wang Chuanshan (王船山).
Wang Chuanshan, also known as Wang Fuzhi (王夫之), was born in 1619 and died in 1692. Because he lived in seclusion in Shichuanshan (石船山) in his later years, he was respectfully called "Mr. Chuanshan" by later generations. Not only Zeng Guofan, but also Tao Shu (陶澍) and Wei Yuan (魏源) before him, Guo Songtao (郭嵩焘) and Zuo Zongtang (左宗棠) in the same period as him, and Tan Sitong (谭嗣同), Huang Xing (黄兴), and Yang Changji (杨昌济) after him, all highly respected Mr. Chuanshan.
A year ago, our team had the opportunity to shoot a documentary with Mr. Chuanshan as the subject. Because we had previously told the stories of great thinkers in Chinese history such as Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi (庄子), and Mozi (墨子) when filming the documentary *China* (《中国》), I didn't think there would be any difficulties at the beginning of *Mr. Chuanshan* (《船山先生》). But I soon realized that this time I was facing not a high mountain, but a ten-thousand-ren (仞) cliff.
A documentary with a thinker as its theme needs two key points. First, is the life course of this thinker. However, Mr. Chuanshan persevered through turmoil and frustration in the first half of his life, and his 17 years of seclusion were as calm as water. For artistic creation, it is difficult to tell such a life well. Second, unlike other types of biographical films, simply telling life stories is not enough for thinkers. The audience wants to understand his thoughts themselves. However, Mr. Chuanshan's ancient writings involving politics, history, philosophy, etc., amount to tens of millions of words, and it is almost impossible to sort these out in a documentary format.
What to do? I thought of the encounter with Mr. Chuanshan at the former residence of Zeng Guofan. I realized that his life consisted of two parts: one part was his life, and the other part was the continuation of his thoughts. The former focuses on the era in which he lived, and the latter points to the world after his death. The most compelling aspect of Mr. Chuanshan's story lies in his loneliness during his lifetime and his great reputation after his death. His life, experiences, and the era he lived in were the origin of the river of his thoughts; the people he influenced after his death were the places through which the river of his thoughts flowed. Thus, this became the two lines of entry for the documentary. One line is to trace where these thoughts came from; the other line is to follow the sound of the flowing water along the riverbank to see which people and places the river of his thoughts flowed through.
Mr. Chuanshan's life seems very simple, so simple that it can be summarized in one or two words. Taking the demise of the Ming Dynasty (明朝) when he was in his 20s as the dividing line, the theme of his life before that was "imperial examination," and after that it became "resistance"—raising troops in Hengshan (衡山) to resist the Qing Dynasty (清朝) and joining the Southern Ming (南明) regime were fierce and externalized political resistance; the second half of his life, when he was exiled in southern Hunan (湘南) and lived in seclusion under Shichuanshan, was an internal ideological and cultural resistance. Behind the resistance was his perseverance. Even after the Southern Ming was defeated, he never compromised. This is the most touching part of his personal story.
Mr. Chuanshan proposed a philosophical point of view: 道器相依、道不离器 (dào qì xiāng yī, dào bù lí qì - "the Way and the vessel depend on each other, the Way cannot be separated from the vessel," the idea that abstract principles (道) are manifested through concrete things (器), and that understanding the principles requires understanding the concrete). If Mr. Chuanshan's thought is the "Way," then he himself is the "vessel." Understanding Mr. Chuanshan's life also means understanding the origin of his thought. After this, we came to the downstream of Mr. Chuanshan's river of thought, and through his followers and admirers, we entered the ideological legacy of Mr. Chuanshan and the era value it embodies from a third-party perspective.
Interestingly, we found that many descendants of Hunan (湖湘) regarded Mr. Chuanshan as a spiritual mentor, but took different actions. For example, Zeng Guofan and Guo Songtao tried to use Mr. Chuanshan's historiography and ritual studies to reshape the political order and the system of social norms in the late Qing Dynasty; while Tan Sitong and later the Xinhai Revolutionaries (辛亥革命者) took Mr. Chuanshan's strong national outlook as a banner and devoted themselves to overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. This is not contradictory, but rather reflects the vastness of Mr. Chuanshan's thought. And no matter which faction they were, they all followed the same purpose—**经世致用** (jīng shì zhì yòng - "manage the world and apply knowledge," to study and apply knowledge for practical purposes, especially in governance). This is the common mark that Chuanshan's thought gave them.
The four-episode documentary *Mr. Chuanshan* is our tribute to the sages, a tribute to the thinkers, and even more a tribute to Chinese history. I hope that after watching it, the audience will re-examine this master from their own perspective.
(The author is the director of the documentary *Mr. Chuanshan*)
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Ten years ago, when the TV series "Ordinary World," adapted from Lu Yao's (路遥) novel of the same name, was a hit, I was a recent graduate teaching at a high school. In my early twenties, I wasn't much older than the senior high school students I taught, and during breaks, the students liked to discuss the characters in the show with me.
Like my students' feelings when watching the TV series, I also liked to put myself in the story when reading the novel and watching the show. Compared to the older brother Sun Shaoan (孙少安) in the show, when I was in high school, I preferred to be the younger brother Sun Shaoping (孙少平). Although Sun Shaoan's spirit of sacrificing himself for his family was commendable, at the time, I felt that he lacked the courage to try to change his destiny compared to his younger brother. His younger brother was different. When Sun Shaoping worked in the coal mine, the environment was extremely harsh, but he still insisted on reading and pursuing knowledge, which was commendable and moving.
The supporting characters in the show also had a different kind of brilliance. I saw the tenacity of Sun Yuhou (孙玉厚) in the show. One should be like Sun Yuhou, an ordinary farmer who, in a difficult environment, was able to be filial to his mother and also succeeded in raising his children well: he cultivated Sun Shaoan's spirit of being brave and responsible, and also encouraged Sun Shaoping to pursue his dreams. I understood the valuable qualities of sincerity, tenacity, and simplicity in the young male characters under Lu Yao's (路遥) pen, and also saw the selfishness, evasion, and narrow-mindedness hidden behind their humanity. I also saw the inner beauty of many female characters in the book, the kind Tian Runye (田润叶), the simple He Xiulian (贺秀莲), the sincere Tian Xiaoxia (田晓霞)... Each character had something moving about them, and I encouraged the students to express their own opinions. That conversation 10 years ago lasted from break time until the end of the next self-study class.
The characters in the show, especially the young people, were full, vivid, and vibrant, but the beauty of youth lies in its brevity and irreproducibility, while also being full of infinite possibilities. In the blink of an eye, 10 years have passed. As I and my former students have grown older, we have all been fulfilling our respective responsibilities and obligations in each stage of our life's journey. Revisiting the TV series "Ordinary World" on a summer night, I reminisce about youth and the fleeting years. 似水年华 (sì shuǐ nián huá - "like water years," fleeting time; the passage of time like flowing water).
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