Summary: Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on June 18th after attending the second China-Central Asia Summit. Cai Qi and Wang Yi were among those accompanying Xi on the return flight. Upon departure from Astana, Xi was seen off by Kazakh President Tokayev and other high-ranking Kazakh officials. Kazakh air force jets escorted Xi's plane after takeoff. Representatives from Chinese companies and students waved Chinese and Kazakh flags to celebrate the summit's success.
Summary: During President Xi Jinping's trip to Kazakhstan for the second China-Central Asia Summit, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi highlighted Xi's announcement of the "China-Central Asia Spirit," emphasizing mutual respect, mutual trust, mutual benefit, and mutual assistance. The six countries signed the "Treaty of Permanent Good Neighborliness and Cooperation" solidifying long-term friendly relations. They also agreed to designate 2025-2026 as the "Year of High-Quality Development of China-Central Asia Cooperation," focusing on trade, investment, and connectivity. Xi stressed China's commitment to openness and cooperation despite international changes. Wang also stated China is willing to work with Central Asian countries within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang, during a Jiangsu province tour from June 16-18, stressed innovation-driven development and expanding effective demand to invigorate the economy. Li visited companies, research institutes, and project sites in Xuzhou and Nanjing, focusing on technological upgrades in sectors like engineering machinery and advanced manufacturing. He encouraged domestic and foreign companies to invest and develop in China, highlighting the country's large and growing market. Li also emphasized the importance of international cooperation, especially with Central Asian countries, through initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative. Wu Zhenglong accompanied Li on the tour.
Summary: At the Second China-Central Asia Summit, Xi Jinping introduced the "China-Central Asia Spirit," characterized by mutual respect, trust, benefit, and assistance, promoting common modernization. He emphasized four key principles: mutual respect, deepened trust, mutual benefit, and mutual assistance. Xi highlighted China's unwavering commitment to opening-up and willingness to cooperate with Central Asian countries for common development. China will establish cooperation centers for poverty reduction, education, and desertification control, as well as a trade platform, and will offer substantial grants and training opportunities to Central Asian nations. The article claims the spirit opposes hegemonism, unilateralism, and protectionism, while advocating for a more just and equitable global order.
Summary: Wang Huning, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), emphasized the importance of integrating technological and industrial innovation during a consultation meeting with non-Communist parties. He stressed studying Xi Jinping's important discourses, enhancing political standing, and contributing to the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy. Leaders from various non-Communist parties presented research findings and policy recommendations. Li Ganjie, a member of the Politburo and head of the United Front Work Department, presided over the meeting.
Summary: The largest segment of a steel-concrete composite beam for the Xiangshan Port Cross-Sea Bridge in Ningbo, Zhejiang province was successfully installed on June 16th, laying a solid foundation for subsequent main beam erection and cable-stayed construction. The side-span segment, composed of seven independent beam sections, measures 107.5 meters in length and weighs 1619 tons. The bridge's main beam will consist of 95 steel box girder sections in total. The article contains no discussion of U.S. policy or Sino-American relations.
Summary: China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported that the nationwide large-scale mechanized wheat harvest is essentially complete, with 96% of the harvest finished as of June 18th. The harvest progressed 2-3 days faster than usual due to efforts to maximize favorable weather conditions. Over 800,000 combine harvesters were deployed, including over 200,000 operating across regions, with domestically produced high-capacity models becoming the primary equipment. The average mechanical harvesting loss rate is expected to remain below 1%, ensuring a strong summer grain harvest.
Summary: The article highlights the importance of bird protection and harmonious coexistence with nature, as reflected in the slogan "爱鸟护鸟 和谐共生" (Love Birds, Protect Birds, Harmonious Coexistence). It also mentions a theoretical piece advocating for addressing uncertainties through high-quality development. The article features a collection of images of national first-class protected bird species. No references to the United States or U.S.-China relations are present.
Summary: During the Second China-Central Asia Summit in Astana, Xi Jinping emphasized the "China-Central Asia spirit" of mutual respect, trust, benefit, and assistance, promoting common modernization through high-quality development. Central Asian representatives echoed this sentiment, highlighting the importance of this spirit in guiding cooperation across various sectors and fostering regional development. Xi announced further measures to strengthen cooperation focusing on trade, investment, connectivity and other projects. Participants noted how the Belt and Road Initiative and the deepening of relations would bring more opportunities.
Summary: The article emphasizes the deepening cooperation between China and Central Asian countries, highlighting the recent China-Central Asia Summit in Kazakhstan as a driver for closer ties. Trade between China and the five Central Asian nations reached a record high of $94.8 billion in 2024. Tajikistan, an early supporter of the Belt and Road Initiative, has seen significant Chinese investment in infrastructure projects. China has also been actively involved in education and talent development, including the establishment of the first Luban Workshop in Central Asia in Tajikistan, which has provided training opportunities for more than 1500 students.
Summary: According to Sabirov, Director of the Uzbek Center for Public Diplomacy of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the China-Central Asia mechanism provides a new model for multilateral cooperation. He highlighted the deepening Uzbekistan-China relationship, particularly through the Belt and Road Initiative, noting the elevation of bilateral ties to an "all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership" during Uzbek President Mirziyoyev's January 2024 state visit to China. Sabirov emphasized cooperation across various sectors, including joint ventures, infrastructure projects with participation by companies like BYD and Huawei, and increased trade and investment. He further mentioned growing cultural and educational exchanges, including visa-free travel which will further promote bilateral exchange.
Summary: The Chinese Pavilion at the Venice International Architecture Biennale showcases ten projects under the theme of "Inclusion. Wisdom," drawing inspiration from the Chinese concept of "unity of nature and humanity." Curator Ma Yansong stated that the exhibit presents Chinese solutions to contemporary challenges through material innovation, urban construction, and landscape regeneration. Projects displayed include examples of urban renewal and heritage preservation from Beijing, Guangdong, and Suzhou. Ecuadorian architect Jorge Ordonez praised the exhibit's blend of traditional and modern styles and its insights into China's societal development, expressing interest in future collaboration. Venice's Deputy Mayor expressed the city's support for cooperation with Chinese cities in various sectors.
Summary: Wang Yi spoke with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry regarding the escalating tensions in the Middle East following Israel's attacks. Shoukry condemned Israel's actions as a violation of international law and hoped for a political resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue. Wang Yi expressed China's concern about the potential for the situation to spiral out of control, urging all parties, especially Israel, to prioritize regional stability and pursue a ceasefire. Wang Yi affirmed China's support for Egypt's initiative with other Arab and Islamic nations to call for a ceasefire and resume negotiations regarding Iran's nuclear program. China aims to work with Egypt at the UN to promote dialogue and de-escalation.
Summary: In a phone call with Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed the recent Israeli attack on Iran. Albusaidi condemned the attack as a violation of international law and expressed concern over potential nuclear fallout, praising China's role in maintaining peace. Wang Yi stated that Israel's actions violated international law and undermined regional stability, further noting that it derailed Iranian nuclear negotiations brokered by Oman. Wang Yi emphasized the need for a ceasefire and expressed China's support for a joint statement by Arab and Islamic nations advocating for peaceful dispute resolution. Wang Yi also stated that China will maintain communication with regional countries like Oman, while working to promote peace through multilateral platforms like the United Nations.
Summary: Politburo member and head of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, Shi Taifeng, met with a visiting delegation of senior cadres from the Sri Lanka People's Liberation Front led by General Secretary Silva. Shi expressed China's willingness to work with Sri Lanka to advance mutually beneficial cooperation, including the Belt and Road Initiative. He also expressed a desire to deepen exchanges on party governance, particularly in cadre development. Silva reciprocated, stating a desire to implement the consensus reached by the two countries' leaders and deepen party-to-party relations.
Summary: A reception celebrating the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Myanmar was held in Beijing, co-hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Myanmar Embassy in China. Cai Dafeng, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended and delivered a speech at the event. Approximately 200 representatives from various sectors in China and Myanmar, including those from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce, were also present. The article contains no direct mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The second meeting of the China-Central Asia Business Council was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, resulting in over 30 cooperation agreements between Chinese and Central Asian companies. Representatives discussed topics such as green energy development and information technology cooperation. Ren Hongbin, Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), expressed the CCPIT's willingness to provide platforms and services to facilitate further cooperation within the framework of the China-Central Asia Business Council. A conference was also held on trade cooperation with Shaanxi Province.
Summary: A delegation of Chinese Tibetologists, organized by the State Council Information Office, visited Mongolia from June 16-18 to discuss the development of Tibet under Chinese governance and cultural exchange. The delegation, comprised of experts from various Tibetan studies institutions, engaged with Mongolian officials, think tanks, and religious figures. Discussions focused on Tibet's development within the context of Chinese-style modernization. Mongolian experts welcomed the delegation, emphasizing the importance of cultural exchange and expressing a desire for strengthened dialogue and cooperation in Tibetan studies to deepen mutual understanding between Mongolia and China.
Summary: A new "China-Caspian Sea International Transport Corridor" freight train route, departing from Jinhua, Zhejiang, has been inaugurated as part of the Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe (义新欧) freight train system. The train, carrying goods destined for Central Asia and Azerbaijan, will traverse Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan before crossing the Caspian Sea to Baku. This multimodal route aims to enhance trade and logistics efficiency between China, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. The new route upgrades the "land-sea" multimodal transport model.
Summary: Chinese Public Diplomacy Association held a special exchange meeting where Du Xiaohui, Secretary-General of the Chinese Follow-up Committee of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and Director-General of the Department of African Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, interacted with journalists. Du stated that China will unswervingly prioritize strengthening solidarity and cooperation with African countries regardless of international changes or China's own development. China aims to continue supporting African nations on issues involving core interests and major concerns. He emphasized China's commitment to being a sincere friend and reliable partner to African countries. There was no mention of the United States or US-China relations.
Summary: Politburo member Li Shulei visited and inspected the 31st Beijing International Book Expo (BIBF), which opened on June 18th. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought, the BIBF aims to promote cultural exchange and cooperation with a focus on showcasing Chinese and international cultural achievements through books. The expo features 1700 exhibitors from 80 countries and regions, with Malaysia as the guest of honor. The event includes domestic and international publishers, as well as a digital publishing area highlighting online literature and games. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations were made in this article.
Summary: Politburo member and Vice Premier He Lifeng, during a visit to Shandong, emphasized the need to support foreign trade and ensure its high-quality development, urging local governments to assist companies in addressing their concerns. He acknowledged the resilience of Chinese foreign trade manufacturers amidst a complex international environment, highlighting their contribution to both domestic economic growth and global supply chain stability. He encouraged companies to innovate and integrate into the "dual circulation" economic strategy, combining foreign trade with domestic market needs. He Lifeng visited Dezhou and Qingdao, where he toured export-oriented manufacturing companies to understand their operations and challenges.
Summary: Recent online discussions suggested some regions temporarily halted "national subsidies" (国补) for trade-ins, leading to speculation that the program was ending. However, investigations revealed that while some regions experienced temporary fund depletion, the national policy promoting consumer trade-ins remains active and will continue throughout the year, supported by central government funding. The central government has already allocated 162 billion yuan of the 300 billion yuan special treasury bonds to local governments in two batches and will allocate the rest in the third and fourth quarters of the year. Officials such as Ding Lin from the National Development and Reform Commission have stated that they will accelerate the distribution of trade-in funds. The policy has driven sales and structural upgrades in related consumer product sectors.
Summary: The article discusses the positive reception of China's "trade-in" (以旧换新) policy aimed at stimulating consumption and upgrading industries. It addresses recent rumors that the policy was being paused in some areas, noting that timely responses from various regions and departments have helped alleviate consumer concerns and stabilize market expectations. The article highlights the need to optimize funding allocation and reduce financial burdens on businesses to further improve the policy's implementation. The author believes the policy will continue to benefit consumers.
Summary: A group of five exemplary teachers met with journalists to discuss the spirit of educators and strengthening the country through education. Qinghua University Professor He Kebin highlighted using research to serve national strategies and cultivate innovative talent, noting that 85% of his environmental science graduates are working in critical roles for the country. Zhejiang Province Principal Cai Xiaoxiong emphasized tailoring education to individual student needs, while Professor Yu Cheng from Wuhan City Vocational College spoke about hands-on training in workshops. Guizhou Province teacher Liu Xiuxiang discussed his dedication to students in a rural boarding school, and Guangxi kindergarten head范徽丽 highlighted utilizing local resources for education in a challenging island environment.
Summary: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and five other departments issued the "Implementation Plan for Digital Transformation of the Textile Industry," aiming for over 70% digital integration in key business processes of large-scale textile enterprises by 2027. The plan targets the creation of 150+ digital transformation scenarios, 60+ benchmark enterprises, and 30+ model clusters/parks, promoting 200+ replicable digital solutions. Key goals include empowering the textile industry with new-generation information technology and promoting innovation in business models to achieve full value chain improvements by 2030. The plan outlines 18 specific tasks across four key areas, focusing on technological empowerment, innovative applications, high-quality industrial development, and infrastructure support.
Summary: China is expanding its intermodal rail-sea transport to reduce costs and transit times, with railway departments and shipping companies increasing cooperation. Major ports like Qingdao, Tianjin, and Ningbo-Zhoushan are developing rail-sea networks, including establishing inland ports and "shared station" models to streamline transfers. Innovations such as "one container" shipping are being implemented to further enhance efficiency by reducing handling and potential damage. For example, the Yiwu-Dubai "rail-sea express + Middle East express" logistics model has cut transport time by six days and reduced costs by 18%. Between January and May, national railways transported 6.833 million TEUs of intermodal containers, up 18.4% year-on-year.
Summary: The article reports on agricultural activities in Lu'jiang county, Hefei, Anhui province, specifically focusing on farmers spraying rice seedlings during a critical management period for rice cultivation. The emphasis is on optimizing rice yield through timely fertilization and weeding. The article highlights the importance of proper seedling management for a successful harvest. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations is made.
Summary: The CCP Central Committee is dispatching three central guidance groups to seven localities and organizations to promote further study and implementation of the "Eight-Point Regulation" on improving Party and government conduct. The teams will oversee Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Agricultural Bank of China, China Mobile Communications Group, and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The previously dispatched Central No. 3 Guidance Group will shift its focus from Qianjiang, Hubei, to Hubei province as a whole. No mention is made regarding the United States or U.S.-China relations in this dispatch.
Summary: The Central Financial Committee issued an "Opinion" to accelerate the development of the Shanghai International Financial Center, aiming to enhance its competitiveness and influence in accordance with the 20th Party Congress and the Central Financial Work Conference. The "Opinion" outlines goals for the next 5-10 years, including improving the modern financial system, strengthening the RMB asset allocation center, and enhancing risk management capabilities. Key measures include deepening financial market construction, upgrading financial institutions, improving financial infrastructure, expanding high-level two-way financial opening, and enhancing the quality and efficiency of financial services for the real economy. To ensure implementation, the Central Financial Office will work with the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Government, along with the PBOC, financial regulators, and other relevant bodies to establish a coordinated mechanism. The "Opinion" mentions promoting cross-border trade and investment and generally encourages financial openness.
Summary: In Yueqing, Zhejiang, grain farmer Cai Yongpin highlights the advancements in grain harvesting and transportation, where harvested wheat can be processed without ever touching the ground, by calling an agricultural service center which sends a professional vehicle team to manage the process. The Yueqing Municipal Grain and Material Reserve Bureau notes that these "clean grain centers" have helped reduce costs for farmers while also improving the income of the centers themselves. The clean grain centers also implement practices such as combined batch drying and transportation to reduce waste. Wenzhou has built 46 net grain centers, covering key areas of the city. Since 2023, Zhejiang has built a modern grain purchase and service system in 30 counties, greatly improving the socialized grain service capabilities.
Summary: Han Zhong city in Shaanxi province has transformed a barren riverbank into the Tianhan Wetland Park through ecological restoration and comprehensive management, creating a popular leisure destination for citizens. The park, featuring lush trees and scenic views, exemplifies the city's goal of building an ecologically friendly and livable environment. The People's Daily article illustrates this transformation with a photograph of the park taken on June 16th. There is no mention of US-China relations in this article.
Summary: The State Council has announced personnel changes, appointing Zhou Xing as Vice Minister of Natural Resources, Wang Jianhua as Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism, and Yang Jinlong as President of Tongji University (vice-ministerial level). Simultaneously, Wang Zhenjiang was removed from his position as Vice Minister of Justice, Jiang Wanrong from his position as Vice Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Zhao Baolin from his position as Chief Auditor of the National Audit Office, and Gou Ping from his position as Deputy Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The Harbin-Dalian High-Speed Railway (哈大高铁) has safely transported over one billion passengers as of June 17th. As the world's first high-speed railway in a high-altitude cold region, the railway maintains a stable transportation record through specialized operational and maintenance technologies to deal with the challenges posed by extreme temperature fluctuations. The railway is a north-south artery that links to a network of other railways, including the Jingha (京哈) High-Speed Railway, to form a larger national high-speed railway grid. The railway also is the basis for a two-hour economic zone centered on cities such as Shenyang, Changchun, and Dalian. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: During President Xi Jinping's trip to Kazakhstan for the second China-Central Asia Summit, Foreign Minister Wang Yi highlighted the establishment of the "China-Central Asia Spirit," emphasizing mutual respect, trust, and shared prosperity. The six nations signed the "Treaty of Permanent睦邻友好Cooperation," solidifying long-term friendly relations. They also agreed to designate 2025-2026 as the "Year of High-Quality Development of China-Central Asia Cooperation," focusing on trade, investment, and connectivity. Wang noted China's commitment to sharing development experiences and promoting a common path to modernization, contrasting this with protectionism and unilateralism. The U.S. was not specifically mentioned in the summary.
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Summary: The article features three young people working in China's western regions. Zhang Zhiqiang, a doctor in Sichuan, describes bringing healthcare to rural communities. Chen Xiangyan, a border patrol officer in Xinjiang, recounts the challenges and rewards of serving in a remote area. Liu Xiaoran, a teacher in Qinghai, shares stories of her students' aspirations for the future, including their interest in aerospace and the C919 aircraft.
Summary: The article discusses how technology is enhancing the presentation and appeal of Chinese stories, citing examples like AI-powered cultural exhibitions and the use of digital technology to convey Chinese philosophies at the Osaka Expo. It emphasizes that technology facilitates cross-cultural understanding by presenting Chinese culture in engaging ways. Furthermore, the article highlights the shift from "cultural export" to "emotional resonance," where digital platforms and games help connect global youth with Chinese culture. The piece stresses that while technology is crucial, compelling and authentic storytelling remains paramount. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S. - China relations.
Summary: Various regions in China are actively developing "15-minute employment service circles" to improve public employment services. Shanghai's Pudong New Area offers industry study tours and corporate training, while Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone utilizes "Happy Employment Stations" to connect employers and job seekers through recruitment fairs and live-streaming job postings. These initiatives aim to facilitate job seeking and career development by providing accessible resources and support within local communities. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: The article argues that Yunnan's tourism success is rooted in providing "emotional value" or a sense of fulfillment to tourists, who are increasingly prioritizing experiences and "fun" over mere cost-effectiveness. To capitalize on this trend, Yunnan should shift from superficial tourism to more immersive, participatory experiences that highlight local culture. Improving infrastructure and public services to make tourists feel welcome is also key to unlocking the economic potential of emotional value in tourism. The article mentions the popularity of experiences like gathering around a stove and buying flowers. The article does not discuss the statements or actions of any official, nor does it mention the United States.
Summary: A second-grade student in Jiangsu noticed an error in the textbook's depiction of "贝" (bèi, shell) and sent a query to the People's Education Press (人教社), who responded seriously and clarified the image represented an ancient Chinese currency. The article discusses the increasing number of students pointing out errors in textbooks across various subjects, attributing it to a growing spirit of inquiry and critical thinking nurtured by supportive parents and educational institutions. The People's Education Press's positive and receptive response to student feedback is highlighted as encouraging independent thought and innovation. The article argues that fostering this spirit of questioning is crucial for cultivating a generation capable of critical thinking and creativity in the face of technological advancements. The article emphasizes the importance of teaching children how to think, discern, and innovate, rather than merely imparting knowledge.
Summary: The article discusses the ongoing efforts to resolve historical issues hindering real estate registration across China, which affects millions of citizens. It emphasizes a problem-solving approach ("有解思维"), encouraging proactive and pragmatic solutions tailored to local conditions, rather than succumbing to the perception that resolution is impossible. The article also highlights the need to prevent future issues through improved regulations, including the upcoming Real Estate Registration Law. It stresses the importance of shifting from a "management-centric" approach to a "demand-oriented" service to improve people's livelihoods. The article does not mention the United States.
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Summary: Xu Xing, paleontologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recounts his pivotal 1997 discovery of the "Beipiao Dragon," a feathered dinosaur fossil that shifted his research focus. He and his colleagues have named over 80 new dinosaur species, with notable findings including the four-winged Microraptor and the bat-winged Ambopteryx. In 2012, the journal *Nature* recognized his contributions, noting that he has helped transform China into a paleontology powerhouse. Despite the hardships of field work, including long treks in remote areas and harsh conditions, he emphasizes the importance of using Chinese names for dinosaurs found in China. Xu also stresses the importance of science popularization, aiming to inspire children's interest in science and nature.
Summary: Liu Qiang and Lu Yan, a married couple and bus drivers for the Jinan Bus Group, operate the 312 bus line connecting Jiurushan scenic area to Jinan's city center. The 45-kilometer route is crucial for villagers traveling to the city for work and for urban residents visiting the mountains, with the couple completing at least two round trips daily. The couple has built strong relationships with the villagers they serve, offering assistance beyond transportation. Last year, the bus line was upgraded with new electric buses to improve comfort and operations. The article does not mention any statements or actions by government officials, nor does it mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China is experiencing a new round of heavy rainfall in its central and eastern regions, prompting the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) to jointly organize consultations with meteorological, water conservancy, and natural resources departments. A level-IV flood control emergency response has been initiated for Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, and Guizhou provinces. Three working groups have been dispatched to assist in flood control and disaster relief efforts in key areas. The consultations stressed the importance of strengthening risk assessments, reinforcing the monitoring and forecasting of rainfall and water conditions, improving the warning system for residents, and reinforcing personnel transfer. There is no mention of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: A recent report highlights Zhenyuan County, Qingyang City, Gansu Province's advancements in modern agriculture by balancing grain security with industrial restructuring and green transformation. The area is optimizing its industrial structure and promoting a green transition, while also maintaining a focus on food security. A photograph shows villagers harvesting wheat in terraced fields in Shiba Xian Village on June 16.
Summary: Liaoning province has released measures to boost consumption by integrating culture, sports, and tourism. These measures include implementing consumer action plans, promoting local products, and establishing service stations for self-driving tourists. The province will issue consumption coupons, subsidize cities that issue their own, and encourage tourist attractions to offer discounts. Travel agencies that bring tourists from outside the province will be rewarded, and cruise companies will be incentivized to deploy routes in Liaoning.
Summary: The Three Gorges Dam ship lock has been in operation for 22 years, facilitating the passage of over a million ships and 2.24 billion tons of cargo. Innovations like the "Luo Jing Scheduling Method" and coordinated scheduling have significantly increased the lock's annual cargo capacity. The annual cargo throughput has increased nearly fourfold, exceeding the designed passing capacity by nearly 70%. This has been achieved through collaborative operations of the dam's ship lock and coordinated control of ships passing through the Yangtze River trunk line.
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Summary: An article highlighting Chengdu's success in attracting foreign investment, it notes that over 4,000 foreign companies and 100,000 foreigners have made Chengdu their home, drawn by the city's unique cultural appeal, strategic location, and favorable business environment. The article uses the examples of a Dutch-Chinese couple who founded a recruitment firm for international talent, the Australian company Cochlear which established its only overseas production base for artificial cochleas in Chengdu, and a Belgian entrepreneur who created a WeChat platform for expats. Cochlear cited Chengdu's strategic location within the Belt and Road Initiative and its international transportation hub as key factors in their decision. The Belgian entrepreneur highlighted the city's friendly atmosphere and its strong ties with international sister cities. Chengdu's efforts to improve its business environment and attract foreign talent have led to it being recognized as one of China's most attractive cities for expats.
Summary: The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has released a draft notice proposing reforms to cross-border investment and financing, including simplifying procedures for foreign direct investment (FDI) and facilitating domestic reinvestment by foreign-invested enterprises. Key changes include eliminating pre-investment registration requirements for FDI and removing registration requirements for reinvestment within China. The notice also raises the foreign debt facilitation quota for qualified high-tech, specialized and innovative, and technology-based SMEs nationwide to $10 million USD. According to SAFE officials, the policies aim to improve the business environment, attract foreign investment, and support the high-quality development of the real economy.
Summary: China's National Healthcare Security Administration issued guidelines on pricing for cosmetic surgery medical services to regulate the rapidly expanding market and address issues such as opaque pricing. The guidelines aim to standardize pricing projects and regulate medical institutions' pricing behavior without altering the market-regulated pricing mechanism. The guidelines provide unified naming for common procedures based on service output, like "filling injection" encompassing hyaluronic acid and new materials. The guidelines also introduce a surcharge for revision surgeries to reflect increased technical difficulty and labor. The move is intended to create a more standardized, transparent, and orderly cosmetic surgery market.
Summary: A recent magnetic levitation experiment in Hubei's East Lake Laboratory achieved a record-breaking speed of 650 km/h, accelerating a 1.1-ton test vehicle over 1000 meters in 7 seconds. According to center director Li Weichao, the test employed short-range electromagnetic propulsion with high precision positioning and a braking distance of 220 meters. The technology has potential applications in fields such as high-speed rail and aerospace. China already operates commercial maglev lines in Shanghai, Beijing, and Changsha. The laboratory aims to further increase the speed to 800 km/h.
Summary: With assistance from the local power supply department, the Zijing Mountain Subdistrict in Penglai District, Yantai City, Shandong Province, installed over 20,000 solar panels on the roofs of local farms. The project is estimated to produce 8.4 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. Simultaneously, the space beneath the solar panels is used to raise over ten million white-feather chickens. The project increases land utilization and economic benefits.
Summary: The Tianjin Municipal Transportation Commission announced the completion of primary construction on the 2025 post-disaster reconstruction project for rural roads, addressing damage from recent extreme weather, particularly the 2024 flood season. The project encompassed 60 rural roads, 10 bridges, and 3 culverts in Jizhou District, along with 2 tunnels in Jinghai District. Construction teams overcame logistical challenges to complete 194.5 kilometers of rural roads before the flood season. The reconstruction aims to improve the quality and resilience of infrastructure and restore normal transportation for residents.
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Summary: China has been strengthening bird protection efforts, with the national monitoring of overwintering waterbirds reaching its highest number in 2024. However, illegal hunting and trafficking of birds continue to threaten wildlife populations in some areas. The report emphasizes the urgency of bird protection for biodiversity and ecological preservation. It calls for habitat protection and opposition to illegal hunting and trade. The report includes expert guidance from various research institutions and contributions from numerous photographers and organizations.
Summary: This article outlines the legal consequences in China for illegal activities involving wildlife, differentiating between criminal and administrative penalties. Criminal charges, including imprisonment and fines, apply to those who illegally hunt, kill, trade, or transport nationally protected or endangered species. Administrative penalties, such as confiscation and fines, are levied for offenses involving other protected wildlife, including those for consumption. The article specifically warns that several commonly caged songbirds have been reclassified as nationally protected species, making their capture, possession, or trade without proper authorization a potential criminal offense.
Summary: The provided text is too short to constitute an article on Chinese politics. It appears to be a production credit list, naming Chen Juan as the planner and coordinator, and Cai Huawei as responsible for the layout design. There is no mention of any political figures, statements, actions, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes China's commitment to high-quality development to counter global uncertainties, highlighting Xi Jinping's calls for strategic resolve. It argues China possesses the certainty for high-quality development due to the centralized leadership of the Party, a robust material and technological foundation, and sound institutional mechanisms. The author stresses the importance of dialectical thinking, stability-seeking progress, systemic perspectives, and the rule of law in achieving economic stability. The author concludes by advocating for expanding domestic demand, improving industrial supply, coordinating urban-rural development, promoting green transformation, and enhancing openness to further solidify China's high-quality development, while making no specific mention of the United States.
Summary: According to the article, Xi Jinping recently stated that manufacturing is a crucial pillar of the national economy and that technological empowerment and independent innovation are essential for its advancement. He emphasized the need to maintain a reasonable proportion of manufacturing in China's economy. The article argues that China possesses significant advantages, including a large domestic market and a rising global innovation index ranking, positioning it well to upgrade traditional industries and apply new technologies. The article further suggests strengthening technological support, optimizing resource allocation, reducing costs for manufacturing enterprises on the supply side, while innovating and enriching new consumption scenarios on the demand side. The article mentions that in areas such as 5G mobile communications, artificial intelligence, new energy vehicles and robotics, China is shifting from a “follower” to an equal or even leading position, but the article does not mention the United States.
Summary: Beijing's traditional snacks are well-known, but a new favorite has emerged: *nai pi zi* (奶皮子) yogurt from the Beijing-based restaurant chain, Ziguangyuan (紫光园). The yogurt, with its unique flavor and texture, has quickly gained popularity among tourists and locals, with Ziguangyuan selling over 300,000 cups a day at its peak. Ziguangyuan has successfully integrated the yogurt into the tourism market by partnering with Beijing's Palace Museum. Other restaurants have also begun offering the product. As Ziguangyuan's customer base expands, the company is prepared to embrace new consumer trends.
Summary: China's nationwide summer grain harvest, primarily wheat, concluded rapidly by June 18th, surpassing previous years' pace by 2-3 days due to variable weather. The expedited harvest, driven by the need to reap wheat at its peak ripeness and avoid losses from rain damage, was facilitated by government policies such as establishing "green channels" for agricultural machinery and providing weather updates, as well as technological advancements like the use of the BeiDou navigation system on harvesters. These efforts increased efficiency. The "three summers" harvest is crucial for achieving annual grain production targets.
Summary: A "village T-stage" fashion show featuring intangible cultural heritage (ICH) inheritors took place in Kaili City, Guizhou Province, showcasing ICH works and ethnic culture. Originating in July of last year with local villager participation, the Guizhou "village T-stage" fashion show, displaying Miao clothing, embroidery, and silver ornaments, has gained significant popularity online. The event, held over 500 times, has attracted approximately 50,000 participants and 400,000 tourists, boosting local businesses such as clothing rental and sales.
Summary: Here's a short summary of the provided articles: Several articles report on domestic developments in China. A new Great Wall museum opened in Hebei, showcasing the cultural heritage and construction achievements of the Great Wall National Cultural Park. The Hakka Culture (Western Fujian) Ecological Protection Zone was officially designated as a national-level ecological protection zone. Railway services in Taiyuan added extra trains to support "concert tourism," and Beihai introduced an on-demand bus service. Finally, the first harvest of wolfberries in Ningxia and wild mushrooms in Yunnan were gathered for domestic and international markets, with the latter being exported to Japan.
Summary: The article describes the establishment of convenient service points in Ningbo's Zhaobaoshan subdistrict to provide services like watch repair, shoe repair, and clothing alteration. These service points offer a more organized and comfortable environment for the artisans who previously operated in makeshift stalls. Local official Wang Tao stated that the initiative aims to revitalize underutilized urban spaces while meeting residents' repair needs. The service points charge vendors a nominal 50 yuan monthly rent. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Chongqing's efforts to consolidate poverty alleviation achievements by 2025. The city is implementing differentiated policies to promote employment, including the "Rain and Dew Program +" to improve skills for young people from impoverished families. Chongqing is also deepening labor cooperation with Shandong Province, providing job opportunities and skills training, and has established local workshops in rural areas to promote employment. An example provided is of a 60-year old carpenter, formerly a construction worker, in Dianjiang County who has been set up with employment as a street cleaner.
Summary: The "Chu Feng Lie" exhibition of Chu culture relics from Anhui province opened in Shanghai, showcasing 129 artifacts. A highlight is the "E Jun Qi Jin Jie," a bronze object detailing exemptions granted by King Huai of Chu. Jointly organized by Huainan and Minhang districts, the exhibition aims to promote cultural exchange between the two regions. The exhibition features artifacts spanning ritual objects, weaponry, and currency. The cooperative exhibition is a symbol of the long-term cultural and tourism collaboration in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Summary: Ahead of the summer tourism surge, the Lintong District Culture and Tourism and Sports Bureau in Xi'an is partnering with Bo Ren Hospital to provide free health checkups for over 2,300 local tour guides. The checkups include tests for heart, liver, kidney, blood lipids, blood sugar, blood pressure, and general blood health. Duan Ming, head of the Lintong District Culture and Tourism and Sports Bureau, stated the Bureau will continue to support tour guides to help promote the cultural and tourism development. This initiative aims to ensure the well-being of tour guides in Lintong, a key tourism area in Shaanxi Province. No US/China relations are discussed in the article.
Summary: Tianquan County, Sichuan, is promoting its caviar as a "Tianfu Granary" brand in Germany, targeting restaurants and agricultural businesses. The county's caviar exports have increased by 43% year-on-year from January to May, with production accounting for 14% of the global market. In 2024, Tianquan is expanding into new markets in Southeast Asia and East Asia and strengthening cooperation with established markets in Europe and North America, leading to increased orders and long-term supply agreements. Chefs are developing new Chinese dishes featuring caviar to promote it alongside internationalizing Chinese restaurants.
Summary: The 2025 Rice Noodle Industry Trade Fair was held in Nanchang from June 13-15, attracting nearly 500 domestic and foreign companies. Nanchang rice noodles have rapidly gained popularity, transitioning from local flavors to a national market, with daily consumption in the city reaching 100 tons. Rice noodles are being integrated with Nanchang's historical and cultural landmarks, boosting tourism in the city.
Summary: This article provides contact information for submissions to the *People's Daily* (rmrbgdcz@peopledaily.cn) and specifies that the design layout was done by Shen Yiling. There is no indication in the text of any political or policy content, of statements by officials, or discussion of U.S. relations.
Summary: Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of technological modernization for Chinese-style modernization and high-quality development, with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) focusing on developing new quality productive forces. SASAC has been guiding central enterprises (centrally-administered state-owned enterprises, or SOEs) to strengthen technological innovation, addressing critical technological issues, and contributing to technological self-reliance. Central SOEs have increased R&D spending, established research platforms, and undertaken major science and technology projects, achieving breakthroughs in areas like quantum information and 6G network architecture. SASAC is also guiding SOEs in industrial transformation, strategic emerging industries, and future-oriented industries, with SOE investment in strategic emerging industries reaching 2.7 trillion yuan in 2024. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Anhui Province's market regulators have focused on optimizing the environment, promoting consumption, and increasing efficiency to contribute to high-quality economic development. As of May, Anhui has 8.45 million business entities, a 3.75% year-on-year increase, and has implemented reforms to facilitate business registration and address unfair competition. Efforts have been made to improve the consumer environment through inspections and crackdowns on false advertising, resulting in 22,500 cases investigated. The province has also seen significant growth in invention patents, particularly in high-value patents, and has improved regulatory efficiency through service-oriented enforcement and standardized inspections.
Summary: Hainan province has released a plan outlining 20 measures to deepen the integration of technological and industrial innovation within the Hainan Free Trade Port. The plan emphasizes a multi-tiered innovation system, focusing on basic research, technological platforms, and major scientific infrastructure to enhance innovation effectiveness. It prioritizes strategic industries through a "Five-Orientation Strengthening" strategy (种、向海、向天、向绿、向数), alongside fostering reforms in key areas and promoting international collaboration to attract talent and facilitate cross-border flow of innovation factors. The plan aims to establish Hainan as a hub for technological innovation and international cooperation.
Summary: A China-Europe freight train carrying cross-border e-commerce goods manufactured in the Greater Bay Area departed from Guangzhou, Guangdong, bound for Italy via the Horgos port. This marks Guangzhou's first direct rail route for cross-border e-commerce to Europe, reducing transit time to approximately 13 days. The new "China-Europe Railway Express + cross-border e-commerce" model addresses logistical challenges for B2C e-commerce, shortening delivery times and lowering costs compared to sea and air freight. Customs officials are providing expedited clearance procedures to ensure timely departures.
Summary: Pingyang County in Zhejiang province is transforming from a leather production hub into a major center for pet supplies, leveraging its existing industrial base and local resources. Once plagued by pollution from leather processing, the area now boasts nearly 100 pet product companies, with significant shares of the national market in pet chews and leashes, with exports overseas. Local entrepreneurs like Zeng Yao are promoting Pingyang's pet products nationally through online platforms and integrated retail experiences. The county is also developing pet-themed tourism to attract pet owners. The shift was spurred by foreign demand for leather byproducts as pet chews, leading to a focus on pet product manufacturing.
Summary: Shanghai's Hongxin drainage pump station's initial rainwater storage and drainage project has entered a crucial construction phase with the launch of a domestically produced large-diameter shaft drilling machine. The project, located in Minhang District, involves the construction of a circular shaft with a maximum excavation diameter of 16.3 meters and a depth of 44.6 meters. The project can intercept 4,700 cubic meters of initial rainwater, temporarily storing it before transferring it to the municipal sewage network. The project will help Shanghai build a "safe, efficient, and green" modern drainage system, providing practical experience for national rain and flood management.
Summary: The 2025 Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair, hosted by the Hebei Provincial Government, opened on June 16th, focusing on modern commercial logistics. The fair has evolved into a specialized event for modern commercial logistics, attracting participants from nearly 100 countries and regions. It serves as a platform for Hebei to attract leading logistics enterprises and promote its development as a key hub. Hebei's foreign trade and investment rankings have steadily improved since 2022 as a result. The fair featured a "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei International Cooperation Investment Salon" and other activities to drive investment.
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Summary: Sun Yeman, a 98-year-old veteran of the New Fourth Army, recounted his experiences fighting against the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War and later battles, emphasizing the importance of following the Communist Party. He described joining the army at 17 to protect his family and comrades, recalling a particularly memorable battle during the Spring Festival in 1944 and his close relationship with his former deputy platoon leader, Zhang Yeqing. After the war, Sun continued to serve, contributing to national construction projects. He remains a staunch supporter of the Party, urging younger generations to strengthen the nation. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Democratic Party Central Committee, led by Chairman He Wei, conducted a research trip to Shanghai and Jiangsu focusing on "promoting 'AI+' actions to accelerate the digital transformation of manufacturing." The group visited companies and research centers to understand AI's application in areas like shipping, robotics, and biomedicine, noting both successes and challenges such as data scarcity and standardization gaps. They emphasized the importance of talent development and industry-academia collaboration to support AI-driven manufacturing upgrades. The delegation aims to provide policy recommendations to the central government based on their findings, focusing on fostering safe, responsible, and reliable AI development. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Ministry of Public Security's Criminal Investigation Bureau and the National Anti-Fraud Center have jointly released the "2025 Anti-Telecommunication Network Fraud Propaganda Manual" to raise public awareness and ability to identify scams. The manual analyzes common telecom fraud tactics, including investment scams, and introduces anti-fraud tools. These include the National Anti-Fraud Center App, the 96110 warning and dissuasion hotline, and the 12381 fraud-related warning and dissuasion SMS system. Since its launch, the 12381 system has sent 1.388 billion warning messages with a 60% success rate, preventing approximately 19.4 million users from being defrauded. The National Anti-Fraud Center has issued 1.838 million fund warning instructions in 2024, blocked 4.69 billion fraudulent calls, and intercepted 315.1 billion yuan of funds.
Summary: The Qianxi City Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission in Guizhou Province is increasing efforts to promote its complaint policies in villages. This involves distributing materials and providing on-site explanations to encourage citizens to report issues legally. On June 18th, Qianxi City discipline inspection and supervision cadres went to Qili Village, Daguan Town, to explain and answer questions from the public. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The city of Songzi is expanding its "Xiao Song Service" program by adding part-time assistants to help residents, particularly the elderly, disabled, and pregnant, with 139 frequently needed services like social security, civil affairs, public security and medical insurance. These assistants, including retired individuals and local cadres, earn points for their service, redeemable for goods. Songzi plans to improve the evaluation and incentive mechanisms of the service to increase citizen satisfaction. Xiong Tao, member of the Standing Committee of the Songzi Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, stated that the service will improve and expand. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: A staff member from Zhongshan's Nanlang Subdistrict is inspecting local historical buildings following heavy rains, addressing residents' inquiries about applying for "annual maintenance" (岁修) subsidies. Zhongshan implemented a "annual maintenance" system in 2023, providing funds for routine maintenance of city-level and unclassified immovable cultural relics. This initiative aims to solve funding and implementation issues related to the protection of these sites, covering all projects under 50,000 yuan. The program has already funded numerous projects in Nanlang, improving the condition of historical buildings and facilitating rural-cultural tourism integration.
Summary: The article discusses the difficulties in reading classical Chinese texts, highlighting challenges in understanding archaic language, selecting from a vast corpus of works, and bridging the gap between ancient and modern knowledge. It argues for the importance of reading classical texts as a way to preserve and transmit traditional Chinese culture and wisdom, showcasing the linguistic and intellectual achievements of past generations. The piece suggests approaching these texts with diligence, utilizing modern tools like dictionaries and bibliographies to overcome linguistic barriers and navigate the extensive literary landscape. Ultimately, engaging with classical texts can provide insights into identity and direction amidst contemporary societal shifts. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A research team at the Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in developing magnesium-based lithium-ion batteries with improved performance across a wide temperature range. Their biomimicry-inspired "alkyl chain swaying" design enhances electrolyte flow at the battery's cathode interface, promoting protective film formation at high temperatures and accelerating lithium-ion transfer at low temperatures. The design allows the lithium-ion battery to maintain high cycle life and battery capacity even at 60 degrees Celsius and -15 degrees Celsius. The research could also improve utilization of magnesium resources in Qinghai's salt lakes.
Summary: Shi Donglu Elementary School in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, has incorporated robotics programming into its curriculum. Students learn artificial intelligence technology through programming, debugging robots, and hands-on practice. This initiative aims to improve students' innovative thinking, practical skills, and teamwork abilities. The initiative was photographed on June 18th by Ding Genhou.
Summary: The 10th China Beijing International Art Biennale, co-sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPC, and the China Artists Association, has begun accepting submissions globally. The exhibition, scheduled for December 31, 2025, to February 1, 2026, at the Beijing Exhibition Center, will feature a main venue divided into thematic, special, and national exhibitions. Three additional special exhibitions are planned, focusing on digital art, Beijing themes, and international contemporary ink painting. Having been held nine times since 2003, the Biennale has grown to include nearly 120 participating countries, and is now China's largest international art exchange platform. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Shanghai's Putuo district is actively fostering collaboration along the Shanghai-Nanjing Industrial Innovation Belt, which is part of China's 14th Five-Year Plan. Putuo District has signed cooperation agreements with seven cities, including Nanjing and Suzhou, to serve the construction of the industrial innovation belt. District Party Secretary Hu Guangjie emphasized cross-regional collaboration in technological and industrial innovation. The district is promoting the "enterprise proposes, research institutions solve, government assists" mechanism to a wider scope. The district is focused on integrating innovation, industrial, talent, and capital chains with other cities along the innovation belt.
Summary: A conference on inbound tourism in Hunan province was recently held in Changsha, where the first list of 69 recommended inbound reception venues, covering hotels, scenic spots, catering, performing arts venues, and tourist commodities, was released. The Hunan Inbound Tourism Professional Committee will integrate resources across the tourism chain to promote a unified "Hunan Inbound Tourism" brand and high-quality routes. It also intends to organize promotional events and industry exchanges, guiding members to align with international standards in product innovation, reception standards, and safety guarantees. The conference saw the release of self-regulatory guidelines for the inbound tourism industry and service guidelines for tour guides. These initiatives aim to enhance the professionalism and internationalization of inbound services in Hunan. The United States and U.S.-China relations are not mentioned in the article.
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Summary: An article discusses the difficulties elderly Chinese citizens face in securing rental housing, with landlords and agencies often reluctant to rent to them due to concerns about potential health issues or death on the property. While some view age restrictions as discriminatory, current laws do not explicitly prohibit them, although requiring family guarantees may skirt ethical boundaries. Experts suggest clarifying anti-discrimination laws to include age and establishing risk-sharing mechanisms, while local governments are encouraged to support elderly-friendly rental ecosystems. As of 2023, 7.16 million elderly citizens have received public rental housing support.
Summary: The article encourages young people to introduce new technologies and gadgets to elderly family members to improve their quality of life and connect them to the wider world. It suggests devices like smartphones, tablets, smart nightlights, and electronic health monitors can bring convenience, safety, and richer experiences. The author emphasizes the importance of young people patiently guiding elders on how to use these technologies, fostering intergenerational connection and creating shared experiences. By helping seniors adopt new technologies, younger generations can provide them with more independence and security.
Summary: A Dutch content creator named Koen Sander, who spent nearly 20 years in China, is creating videos to show a more accurate and diverse picture of China to European audiences, aiming to bridge the gap of understanding between China and Europe. He produces videos showing various aspects of Chinese life, culture, and innovation. Sander also invites foreign friends to visit China and documents their reactions, hoping to encourage others to experience the country firsthand. He recently launched a project inviting musicians to create songs about China, both before and after visiting the country. Sander believes it is his responsibility to help the world understand the real China.
Summary: The article reports on the "Bangbang Workshop" program in Jiange County, Guangyuan, Sichuan province, which is a collaborative initiative between Zhejiang and Sichuan to provide employment opportunities for local residents. The program involves Zhejiang factories providing orders and raw materials, with local "Bangbang Stations" offering warehousing and training, and "Bangbang Workshops" handling production, ultimately selling products through e-commerce and physical stores. The initiative has reportedly created nearly 200 employment centers and helped over 700 people find jobs or start businesses, increasing their monthly income by nearly 3,000 yuan per person. The program addresses labor shortages in Zhejiang's small commodity market while creating local jobs in Sichuan.
Summary: Wuxi City Central Blood Station and the Wuxi Huishan District People's Hospital have launched a drone delivery route for blood, creating a new "air life channel." The route uses AI and drone technology integrated with a blood cold chain management system to improve delivery efficiency. This system reduces response times for emergency blood use in complex terrains and remote areas from approximately one hour to just over ten minutes. To date, the route has completed 22 deliveries, transporting 1600 ml of blood over nearly 400 kilometers. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations topics are discussed in this article.
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Summary: The Jiangsu Provincial Football League ("Su Chao"), after only four rounds, has gained popularity due to a combination of economic strength, developed infrastructure, strong local identity, and government support. This league is unique because it involves amateur players from all walks of life, creating a sense of community and regional competition. The league has successfully integrated city culture and identity, attracting sponsors and boosting local tourism and consumption, demonstrating a new model for grassroots football development by prioritizing fan experience and emotional connection. Other provinces can't simply copy "Su Chao", but they can learn from it. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article analyzes the success of the "Su Super" (苏超) amateur football league, attributing it to its focus on public enjoyment, respect for the development of amateur sports, and leveraging market forces. It emphasizes the importance of understanding and catering to public sentiment, fostering widespread participation, and creating opportunities for economic growth through sports, tourism, and cultural integration. The article does not mention any specific officials, United States, or U.S.-China relations. It concludes that the key to replicating the success of the "Su Super" lies in respecting these principles and harnessing grassroots enthusiasm to build a strong sporting nation.
Summary: Former national team player Fan Yunjie led the Henan team to victory in the women's veteran division of the National Games, defeating the Beijing team 1-0. This win marked a reunion for Fan with former national teammates, highlighting their enduring passion for soccer. Despite being the oldest player on her team and facing physical challenges, Fan's determination inspired her teammates. She emphasized the importance of team unity and individual willpower in securing the championship.
Summary: Hangzhou's Gongshu District in Zhejiang Province is innovating with "business communities" to boost its business environment and stimulate economic vitality. These 30 communities act as service hubs, streamlining resources and addressing enterprise needs through mechanisms like "three lists" that pinpoint issues. They emphasize a "zero-distance" service ecosystem, offering both online and offline support to resolve issues related to land use and talent acquisition. Gongshu District focuses on key industries like commerce, finance, digital economy, and biomedicine to promote industrial cluster development. This new governance approach seeks to facilitate high-quality economic development.
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Summary: The article highlights Kashgar's historical significance as a Silk Road hub, showcasing cultural fusion through its architecture, teahouses, and cuisine. It mentions Italian traveler Marco Polo's historical accounts of Kashgar and also notes an Italian tourist's recent visit, emphasizing the city's enduring vitality. The report also spotlights a cross-cultural love story between a Chinese man and his Tanzanian wife who run a cafe in Kashgar, importing coffee beans via the China-Europe Railway Express. This couple hopes for expanded trade opportunities with the development of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, which is starting in Kashgar.
Summary: An Indian tourist, Arun Tankapan, reported being drawn into a century-old teahouse in Kashgar by the sound of traditional music. He was impressed by the teahouse's architecture, furnishings, and cultural significance. The article highlights Kashgar's historical importance as a Silk Road hub, emphasizing the blend of diverse cultures that contributes to its unique appeal. It suggests that the city's vitality stems from the dynamic coexistence of tradition and modernity, which enriches its cultural heritage. This blending of cultures promotes cross-cultural understanding and people-to-people connectivity.
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Summary: The article discusses the expansion of local legislative power in China, highlighting innovations and characteristics over the past decade through case studies in Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Local legislations serve as incubators for new industries like smart vehicles, exemplified by Hangzhou and Suzhou's regulations promoting unmanned vehicle development. These legislations focus on specific issues with "small, quick, and flexible" approaches, such as protecting the mulberry-fish pond system in Huzhou and regulating online food safety in Changzhou. The article also mentions how local governments are soliciting public opinion in order to provide targeted and effective law, and promoting "common prosperity" through legislation, such as in Taizhou's efforts to develop rural areas and increase the income of technical workers. The legislative changes are aimed at solving problems at the grass root level, with targeted local changes.
Summary: Four National People's Congress (NPC) representatives discussed how to invigorate Chinese enterprises through institutional innovation and the "modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics." Feng Xingya (GAC Group) emphasized strengthening Party leadership within corporate governance, Li Mao (China Pingmei Shenma Group) focused on improving board decision-making, Shi Wenmei (Taiping Micro-Special Motor) advocated for efficient allocation of innovation factors, and Hou Jingbin (China Lucky Group) called for improved incentive mechanisms for innovation. The representatives each addressed the importance of Party leadership and the role of state-owned enterprises in driving innovation and high-quality development. There was no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Shouguang, known as the "Home of Chinese Vegetables," is using legal measures to protect its vegetable industry, focusing on the entire industrial chain from seed to sale. A "vegetable court" was established to resolve disputes related to seeds, transportation contracts, and other issues, having handled 1350 cases by the end of May. Police are also working to protect farmers by cracking down on agricultural crimes such as stolen machinery, and conducting inspections to ensure safe produce. The city is also promoting legal awareness among farmers through education programs conducted in the fields. Shouguang's Party Secretary Li Peng stated that the city will continue to optimize the business environment and provide high-quality legal services for the development of the vegetable industry.
Summary: China has released new regulations designed to break down data silos between government departments and levels of government. The regulations aim to standardize data management, promote data sharing, and improve government services by streamlining processes and reducing redundancies. By facilitating the free flow of government data, the new rules seek to enable more proactive and precise governance, support innovation in the digital economy, and foster public participation in social governance. The regulations also hope to create a more collaborative, transparent and efficient digital government. There is no explicit mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Prosecutors from Deqing County, Zhejiang Province, conducted a public awareness and follow-up inspection activity at the Xiashuzhu Lake Crested Ibis Rescue and Conservation Base. The activity focused on promoting legal protections for green development and safeguarding public interests related to wild flora and fauna. The initiative included public awareness campaigns and on-site inspections aimed at enhancing public understanding of wildlife conservation. The prosecutors hope to improve wildlife protection awareness among the public.
Summary: A resident in Guangdong sued their property management company for refusing to provide the necessary documentation to install an EV charging station in their personal parking space. The court ruled in favor of the resident, stating that the property management company should support national efforts in energy conservation and emissions reduction. The court clarified that the property management company's concerns regarding safety hazards or damage to civil defense infrastructure do not preclude them from issuing the required documentation, as these factors will be assessed by relevant authorities later in the process. The court emphasized that property management companies should actively support residents' needs related to EV charging infrastructure rather than passively obstructing them.
Summary: A recent exercise by the Jiangsu Province Fire and Rescue Corps showcased the increasing role of unmanned technology, such as drones and robotic dogs, in firefighting and rescue operations, highlighting their use in reconnaissance, high-rise firefighting, and search and rescue missions. According to Jiangsu Province Fire and Rescue Corps Deputy Chief Chen Haihua, Jiangsu firefighting teams are continuously exploring the application of drones in firefighting and rescue, establishing drone training bases and researching tactics such as using drone thermal imaging to filter smoke and collaborative drone operations. Drones are also utilized for routine patrols to identify fire hazards and ensure clear emergency routes. These technologies enhance the speed and effectiveness of rescue efforts, as evidenced by a case in Yancheng where drones rapidly located individuals trapped in a tidal flat, and another in Huaian where a drone identified a trapped resident during a building fire. Jiangsu Province Fire and Rescue Corps Information and Communications Department Head Yang Yang said that with more successful rescue cases, they are gradually refining and solidifying various drone search and rescue technologies and methods, effectively improving the efficiency of fire rescue.
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Summary: The Shanghai International Film Festival addressed challenges facing the Chinese film industry, including the struggle to translate online buzz into box office success and meet rising audience expectations. Filmmakers emphasized the need to reconnect with audiences by incorporating their feedback and understanding their evolving tastes, particularly among younger generations influenced by online content. Director Wang Changtian noted the difficulty of replicating the success of films like *Ne Zha*, despite its potential for over $100 million in overseas box office revenue. The festival highlighted the importance of originality and innovation in filmmaking to resonate with audiences in a rapidly changing media landscape.
Summary: In 1942, the Yan'an Film Group, the predecessor of China Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio, created the documentary *Nanniwan*, chronicling the 359th Brigade's efforts to cultivate the desolate Nanniwan area in response to economic hardships and military pressure. The film, produced under extremely difficult conditions with limited resources, aimed to capture the spirit of "self-reliance and hard work." Premier Zhou Enlai showed interest in the production of the film. Mao Zedong's slogan "Self-reliance and ample food and clothing" prominently featured in the film. The documentary served as a source of inspiration and was widely screened in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, promoting the spirit of self-reliance.
Summary: The author discusses the inspiration and principles behind his historical novel, "Chang'an's Lychee," emphasizing the importance of a "people's history" perspective. He argues that historical events should be viewed through the lens of ordinary individuals and their experiences, using the example of a brick inscription from the Eastern Han dynasty as a symbol of the common people's discontent. The novel aims to explore the complexities of historical events like the transportation of lychees to the emperor, focusing on the bureaucratic challenges and the lives of those involved. The author advocates for understanding the essence of history to create works that resonate with the masses, drawing on historical materialism as a guiding principle.
Summary: The city of Leling leveraged its proximity to Beijing to develop a film and television industry, constructing a film studio that includes a replica of San Francisco's Chinatown for the movie "Detective Chinatown 1900." Leling integrated film production with tourism, creating a theme park from the movie set to drive local tourism and economic growth. The film industry spurred growth in service industries, attracting new businesses and creating jobs for both local residents and outside talent. This development has led to a boost in the local economy, with increased tourism revenue and the establishment of new businesses. Leling aims to become a leading film production and tourism hub in northern China.
Summary: An actor, in an interview, discusses his role as Li Shande in the adaptation of "Chang'an's Lychee," emphasizing the character's struggle to deliver lychees to Chang'an. The actor highlights Li Shande's transformation from an insignificant figure to someone driven by a sense of responsibility and conscience, even in the face of impossible odds. He notes that the story isn't just about completing a difficult task, but about maintaining one's integrity amidst compromise. The actor also describes costume design choices that reflected Li Shande's changing circumstances.
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This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on June 18th: On the afternoon of June 18th, President Xi Jinping (习近平) returned to Beijing (北京) by special plane after concluding his attendance at the Second China-Central Asia Summit.
Cai Qi (蔡奇), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, and Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other accompanying personnel returned on the same plane.
This newspaper's Astana (阿斯塔纳) dispatch on June 18th (Reporters Wang Rong (王嵘) and Chen Shangwen (陈尚文)): Local time, June 18th, President Xi Jinping (习近平) concluded his attendance at the Second China-Central Asia Summit and returned to Beijing (北京).
When leaving Astana (阿斯塔纳), Kazakh President Tokayev (托卡耶夫) led senior officials such as Dazhbai (达杰拜), Director of the Presidential Office, Nurtleu (努尔特列乌), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kazikhan (卡济汉), Presidential Foreign Affairs Advisor, and Kasymbek (卡瑟姆别克), Mayor of Astana (阿斯塔纳), to the airport to see him off.
After the special plane carrying Xi Jinping (习近平) took off, Kazakh Air Force fighter jets took off to escort it.
On the way to the airport, representatives of Chinese-funded enterprises and international students waved the national flags of China and Kazakhstan on both sides of the road, warmly congratulating President Xi Jinping (习近平) on the complete success of attending the China-Central Asia Summit.
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On June 18th, this newspaper reported from Beijing that from June 16th to 18th, 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) was invited to Kazakhstan to attend the Second China-Central Asia Summit. As the trip concluded, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, briefed accompanying reporters on the visit.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that in midsummer, President Xi Jinping (习近平) traveled to Astana (阿斯塔纳) to attend the Second China-Central Asia Summit and held separate bilateral meetings with the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries. This was China's most important diplomatic action in the Central Asian region this year, and it was pragmatic, efficient, and far-reaching. In less than 48 hours in Astana (阿斯塔纳), President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended more than a dozen multilateral and bilateral events, reminiscing about traditional friendship with the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries, discussing cooperation plans, and drawing a blueprint for development, reaching more than 100 cooperation results. The host, Kazakh President Tokayev (托卡耶夫), attached great importance to President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit, personally welcoming and seeing him off at the airport, arranging fighter jets to escort the special plane, and jointly enjoying Kazakh children reciting self-composed Chinese poems and performing ethnic dances, fully demonstrating his deep friendship with President Xi Jinping (习近平).
Domestic and foreign public opinion paid close attention and generally believed that this trip reflected the important position of Central Asia in China's overall diplomatic strategy, promoted closer and deeper relations and broader prospects between China and Central Asian countries. China has long been committed to good-neighborliness and friendship, focusing on sharing development opportunities with neighboring countries. Central Asian countries are eager to develop relations and strengthen cooperation with China. This summit has become one of the most important diplomatic events in Central Asian countries this year. Facing global challenges such as unilateralism and protectionism, China and Central Asian countries have worked together to practice mutual respect, openness, inclusiveness, and mutually beneficial cooperation. Against the backdrop of major global powers establishing dialogue mechanisms with Central Asian countries, the China-Central Asia mechanism has developed rapidly, with practical cooperation and many achievements, which has been highly recognized by Central Asian countries and has become a benchmark for regional cooperation.
I. Building on the Past and Opening up the Future, Illuminating the "China-Central Asia Spirit"
Wang Yi (王毅) said that China and Central Asian countries are connected by mountains and rivers and are as close as lips and teeth. They have always treated each other with trust and sincerity and are good neighbors, good partners, and good brothers who share a common destiny. Through more than 30 years of joint efforts since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China and the five Central Asian countries have achieved "three full coverage" of comprehensive strategic partnership, co-building "Belt and Road" partners, and bilateral and regional community of common destiny, demonstrating the firm determination of both sides to work together and create a future together. Five years ago, the six countries jointly established the China-Central Asia mechanism. This mechanism meets the needs of all parties and conforms to the trend of history. Once established, it showed vigorous vitality and achieved rapid development. In particular, the successful holding of the first summit in Xi'an (西安) in 2023 quickly formed the framework for the mechanism's construction, 13 ministerial-level cooperation platforms were established one after another, and the permanent secretariat was fully operational, presenting a three-dimensional and diversified cooperation pattern of head of state leadership, government promotion, participation of all sectors, and multi-track parallel development.
The most prominent highlight of this summit was President Xi Jinping's (习近平) announcement of the "China-Central Asia Spirit." This spirit is rooted in the common ideas and values formed by the six countries in long-term cooperation, and is jointly explored and refined by all parties, demonstrating the firm will of the six countries to follow the wish of good-neighborliness, strengthen the foundation of trust, gather the strength of unity, and take mutual assistance actions. President Xi Jinping (习近平) incisively summarized the core essence of the "China-Central Asia Spirit," that is, to adhere to mutual respect and equal treatment; to adhere to deepening mutual trust and responding in the same voice; to adhere to mutual benefit and win-win results and common development; and to adhere to mutual assistance and **同舟共济** (tóng zhōu gòng jì - "crossing the river in the same boat," to share weal and woe; to be in the same boat). The heads of state of Central Asian countries unanimously agreed to uphold this spirit, strengthen the spiritual cohesion and ideological centripetal force of cooperation between Central Asia and China, anchor the goal of building a community of common destiny, strengthen cooperation with a more proactive attitude and more pragmatic measures, and promote the China-Central Asia mechanism to continuously achieve new and greater development.
The heads of state of the six countries jointly signed the "Astana Declaration (阿斯塔纳宣言)," which concentratedly reflects the important political consensus reached at this summit. All parties unanimously believe that maintaining effective all-round cooperation between China and the five Central Asian countries is in the fundamental interests of the six countries' people, and they are determined to work together to build a closer China-Central Asia community of common destiny. The six countries reaffirmed their mutual understanding, respect, and support on issues involving each other's core interests. China firmly supports Central Asian countries in independently choosing their development paths and supports all countries in safeguarding national independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. Central Asian countries reaffirmed their adherence to the one-China principle, recognizing that there is only one China in the world and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. All parties are determined to jointly combat the "three evil forces" and transnational organized crime, jointly respond to security threats, help Afghanistan (阿富汗) achieve peace, stability, reconstruction, and development as soon as possible, and create a peaceful and tranquil regional security pattern of shared destiny. All parties agreed to support the work of the China-Central Asia Secretariat and agreed that the third China-Central Asia Summit will be hosted by China in 2027. All parties support China's assumption of the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) and are willing to fully assist in the successful holding of this year's Tianjin (天津) summit.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. However, the world is still very unstable, and geopolitical conflicts are emerging one after another. Maintaining the post-war international order and sharing peace and tranquility are the common aspirations of the international community and the common wishes of the six countries. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that history cannot go backwards, it should move forward; the world cannot be divided, it should be united; mankind cannot return to the law of the jungle, it should build a community of common destiny for mankind. This important exposition is thought-provoking and resounding. In the arduous years of war, China and the people of Central Asia supported each other, shared weal and woe, and made important contributions to the cause of human justice. Entering the new era, China is willing to work with all parties to promote a correct view of history, defend the achievements of the victory of World War II, maintain the international system with the United Nations as the core, and inject more stability into world peace and development. Regarding the current situation in the Middle East, President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China opposes any act that violates the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of other countries. Military conflict is not the way to solve problems, and all parties should promote the de-escalation of the conflict as soon as possible to avoid further escalation of the tense situation. The heads of state of Central Asian countries positively evaluated China's constructive role in international and regional affairs, highly appreciated the concept of building a community of common destiny for mankind and the three major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and expressed their willingness to closely coordinate and cooperate with China in multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织), BRICS, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (亚信), adhere to solving hotspot issues through dialogue and consultation, and jointly defend international fairness and justice.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that from Xi'an (西安) to Astana (阿斯塔纳), this summit has important significance for continuing to strengthen China-Central Asia cooperation. Against the background of the accelerated evolution of the century-old changes and the superposition of multiple risks, China and Central Asian countries will learn from historical wisdom, make an agreement on a shared destiny, take the "China-Central Asia Spirit" as a guide, adhere to the original intention of unity, continue to stand on the right side of history, jointly protect peace, jointly seek development, jointly promote progress, and jointly defend justice, and build a good China-Central Asia common home.
II. High-Quality Development, Moving Towards Common Modernization
Wang Yi (王毅) said that China and the five Central Asian countries are all developing countries and have always been fellow travelers on the road to modernization. Twelve years ago, it was in Astana (阿斯塔纳) that President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the initiative to jointly build the "Silk Road Economic Belt." With the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" as the main line, trade and investment between the six countries have flourished, major projects have been launched one after another, and interconnection has been accelerated, forming a pragmatic, efficient, and deeply integrated cooperation pattern.
The most distinctive theme of this summit is that the heads of state of the six countries jointly announced 2025 to 2026 as the "Year of High-Quality Development of China-Central Asia Cooperation." All parties will focus on six priority directions: smooth trade, industrial investment, interconnection, green minerals, agricultural modernization, and people-to-people exchanges, promote more visible results, and help each other's development and revitalization. President Xi Jinping (习近平) and the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries witnessed the signing of the action plan for high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road." This is the first time that China has signed a cooperation document on jointly building the "Belt and Road" with all countries in a single surrounding region as a whole, coordinating and promoting cooperation from a strategic height and regional level, making Central Asia a more demonstrative and dynamic area for jointly building the "Belt and Road." China will strengthen the alignment of development strategies with Central Asian countries and accelerate the implementation of a number of major projects. During his meetings with the heads of state of Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦) and Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦), President Xi Jinping (习近平) unanimously agreed to promote the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway with high quality and strive to complete it as soon as possible for the benefit of all parties. China will also accelerate the construction of the third cross-border railway between China and Kazakhstan with Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦), implement the key section renovation of the second phase of the China-Tajikistan highway with Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦), deepen cooperation with Central Asian countries in China-Europe freight trains and the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, and promote the transformation of the Central Asian region from "landlocked" to "land-linked," truly becoming a "golden crossroads" connecting the Eurasian continent.
China is the most important trade and investment partner of Central Asian countries. Since the Xi'an (西安) summit, bilateral trade has achieved a substantial increase of 35%, reaching a record high of 94.8 billion US dollars last year. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that no matter how the international situation changes, China always adheres to its unwavering commitment to opening up to the outside world and is willing to carry out higher-quality cooperation with Central Asian countries, deepen the integration of interests, and achieve common development. All parties unanimously believe that there are no winners in tariff wars and trade wars, and there is no way out for unilateralism and protectionism. The heads of state of the six countries jointly unveiled the China-Central Asia Trade Smooth Cooperation Platform and reaffirmed their commitment to consolidating the multilateral trading system based on WTO rules. The six countries reached an action plan to strengthen economic and trade cooperation, China and Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) signed a new version of the investment protection agreement, and China and Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦) successfully concluded bilateral market access negotiations for Uzbekistan's accession to the WTO, demonstrating their firm willingness to oppose unilateralism and safeguard the international economic and trade order with practical actions.
In order to respond to Central Asia's urgent need to revitalize and enhance its independent development capabilities, President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced the establishment of three cooperation centers for poverty reduction, educational exchanges, and desertification prevention within the framework of China-Central Asia cooperation, and will provide 3,000 training opportunities for Central Asian countries in the next two years. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that China is willing to share development experience and the latest technological achievements with Central Asian countries, promote the interconnection of digital infrastructure, strengthen artificial intelligence cooperation, and cultivate new quality productive forces. The heads of state of Central Asian countries highly appreciated cooperation with China, thanked China for its selfless support and assistance, and believed that China's own development has brought a better new life to the people of Central Asia. Kazakh President Tokayev (托卡耶夫) said that China is Kazakhstan's (哈萨克斯坦) friendly neighbor, close friend, and reliable partner, and the permanent comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries is entering a new golden age. When hosting the China-Central Asia Summit, President Tokayev (托卡耶夫) thanked China in Chinese for its comprehensive cooperation with Central Asian countries and said that Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) highly appreciates President Xi Jinping's (习近平) advocacy of building a community of common destiny in the surrounding areas, which is in line with the common interests of all countries. Kyrgyz President Zhaparov (扎帕罗夫) emphasized cherishing the strategic partnership of mutual respect, equality, mutual benefit, good-neighborliness, and friendship between the two sides. China is Kyrgyzstan's (吉尔吉斯斯坦) largest trade and investment partner, and he welcomes more Chinese companies to invest in Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦). Tajik President Rahmon (拉赫蒙) recalled President Xi Jinping's (习近平) historic state visit to Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦) last year and said that he is willing to actively implement the results of the visit and upgrade Tajikistan-China strategic cooperation to a new level. Turkmen President Berdymukhamedov (别尔德穆哈梅多夫) believes that the comprehensive and in-depth development of Turkmenistan-China relations is of important strategic significance and is willing to comprehensively expand cooperation with China to benefit the people of both sides. Uzbek President Mirziyoyev (米尔济约耶夫) said that Uzbekistan and China are as close as brothers and are willing to strengthen exchanges of experience in governance and administration with China, learn from China's experience in poverty alleviation, and promote the high-quality development of relations between the two countries.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that sharing development experience with developing countries is China's responsibility and commitment, and it is also the due meaning of implementing the Global Development Initiative. China never pursues a modernization that benefits itself alone, but is committed to common development and win-win cooperation with all countries. The pragmatic cooperation between China and Central Asian countries solves development problems, gathers the strength of common progress, and supports common prosperity. China will bring more development opportunities to the world, including Central Asian countries, with high-quality development and high-level opening up, and work with all countries to embark on a broad road of common modernization.
III. Mutual Understanding and Affinity, Adhering to Permanent Good-Neighborliness and Friendship
Wang Yi (王毅) said, "Envoys look at each other on the road, and merchants travel endlessly" is a portrayal of the traditional friendship and historical exchanges between China and Central Asian countries. Entering the new era, people-to-people exchanges between China and Central Asian countries have become increasingly close, and good stories of friendly exchanges have been frequently reported, and the foundation of public opinion has become more solid.
The most significant initiative of this summit is that the heads of state of the six countries jointly signed the "Treaty of Permanent Good-Neighborliness and Friendship Cooperation," fixing the principle of lasting friendship in legal form. This is a new milestone in the history of relations between the six countries, benefiting the present and benefiting the future. The signing of the treaty shows that China and Central Asian countries have reached a new height in political mutual trust, a new step in strategic coordination, and a new leap in people-to-people connectivity, which will lay a solid foundation for the long-term stable development of relations between China and Central Asian countries. In the turbulent international situation, the six countries adhere to harmony and coexistence and are committed to making the heartland of the Eurasian continent a fertile ground for peaceful, harmonious, and beautiful development.
During the summit, China and Central Asian countries reached a series of new cooperation results in local cooperation, people-to-people exchanges, educational exchanges, cultural tourism, and other fields, tightening the humanistic ties of unity and mutual understanding. President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced that China will open more cultural centers, university branches, Luban Workshops, and traditional Chinese medicine centers in Central Asia, add Central Asian language majors in Chinese universities, continue to implement the "China-Central Asia Technical and Skill Improvement Program," and strengthen cooperation with Central Asian countries' legislative bodies, political parties, women, youth, media, think tanks, etc., and conduct in-depth exchanges of experience in governance and administration. The heads of state of the six countries witnessed the signing of multiple sister city agreements. The number of sister cities between China and Central Asian countries exceeded 100 pairs, completing the goal proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) three years ago. The first direct flight between Beijing (北京) and Dushanbe (杜尚别) was launched, achieving full coverage of direct flights between the capitals of China and Central Asian countries. The six countries signed a cooperation initiative to promote the facilitation of personnel exchanges and agreed to introduce facilitation measures such as simplifying visa procedures, allowing people from China and Central Asian countries to visit each other frequently like relatives. All parties agreed to actively promote the establishment of cultural centers and cooperate in the selection of "China-Central Asia Capital of Culture and Tourism" to connect the historical and cultural context of the six countries and inherit the millennial Silk Road friendship. During this trip, *Xi Jinping's Quotations from the Classics* was broadcast in the five Central Asian countries, and the Chinese poems and allusions quoted by President Xi Jinping (习近平) were widely concerned and loved by the local people.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that the key to state-to-state relations lies in people-to-people affinity. The traditional friendship between China and Central Asian countries is written by the people, and the beautiful future will also be created by the people. Under the joint leadership of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries, China and Central Asian countries have built bridges of exchange and mutual learning, creating a "heart-to-heart" pattern from the central to the local, from the official to the non-governmental, and from neighboring regions to wider areas. People-to-people mutual understanding and affinity and cultural exchanges and mutual learning will become an important support for the construction of the China-Central Asia community of common destiny, allowing the concept of lasting friendship between the six countries to continue and be passed on from generation to generation.
Finally, Wang Yi (王毅) said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to Central Asia was based on the surrounding areas, planned the overall situation, led the development of the China-Central Asia mechanism, promoted the construction of a community of common destiny in the surrounding areas, and gathered consensus on safeguarding international fairness and justice. It was another successful practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought and China's surrounding diplomacy. Those who follow the right path win the hearts of the people, and those who gather the will of the people achieve their goals. Facing the complex and ever-changing external environment, we will continue to take Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought as a guide, hold high the banner of building a community of common destiny for mankind, forge ahead and be proactive, and continue to write a new chapter in which China and countries around the world illuminate each other and achieve each other, and help comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Nanjing, June 18th (Reporter Zou Wei) Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Jiangsu (江苏) from June 16th to 18th. He emphasized the need to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions on economic work, adhere to innovation-driven development, focus on expanding effective demand, further create a strong atmosphere for entrepreneurship and innovation, stimulate the动力活力 (dònglì huólì - "dynamic vitality," driving force and energy) of high-quality development in deepening reform and opening up, and promote the continuous improvement of economic operation.
Li Qiang (李强) visited Xuzhou (徐州市) and Nanjing (南京市), going into enterprises, scientific research institutes, engineering sites, trade cooperation platforms, and other places to gain an in-depth understanding of economic operations. At Jiangsu Huizhi High-end Construction Machinery Innovation Center Co., Ltd., Li Qiang (李强) listened to reports on experimental projects and inspected core components and products. He pointed out that the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the construction machinery industry is the general trend. It is necessary to benchmark against international advanced levels, actively use technologies such as artificial intelligence and clean energy, and promote industrial transformation and upgrading. It is necessary to aggregate industry resources, build a collaborative innovation platform for large, medium, and small enterprises, and promote complementary advantages and mutual empowerment among enterprises. At the Yunlong Lake Laboratory (云龙湖实验室) for Deep Earth Science and Engineering, Li Qiang (李强) listened to introductions on the research and development progress of related technical equipment, hoping that everyone would effectively combine technological innovation with industrial needs, promote major original innovations and technological breakthroughs, and accelerate the industrialization and market application and promotion. At the Nanjing Atomic Manufacturing Institute (南京原子制造研究所), Li Qiang (李强) learned about the development of atomic-level manufacturing technology and encouraged them to anchor new fields and new tracks, strengthen forward-looking layout, conduct in-depth basic research, promote interdisciplinary integration, innovation, and open cooperation, and seize the commanding heights of future technology and industrial development.
Li Qiang (李强) came to the Nanjing North Railway Station (南京北站) project site to understand the planning and design and construction progress, looked out over the construction site, and held discussions with project leaders, requiring high standards to promote project construction, actively explore the application of new materials and new technologies, plan supporting facilities and industrial layout, and give full play to the project's radiation-driving role. He emphasized that quality is more important than Mount Tai, and every link should be controlled with the requirements of a century-long plan to ensure project quality. At BSH Home Appliances (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (博西家用电器（中国）投资有限公司), Li Qiang (李强) learned about the company's technology research and development and market expansion, and inquired in detail about the effect of consumer goods "trade-in," hoping that they would make good use of relevant policies, develop more high-quality products and services around users' new needs, and further release consumption potential. He said that China (中国) has a huge and growing market, and welcomes companies from all countries to invest and develop in China (中国). We will increase policy support and service guarantees to create a good environment for foreign-funded enterprises to develop deeply in China (中国).
At the Jiangsu Central Asia Center (江苏中亚中心), Li Qiang (李强) listened to reports on the platform's operation, inspected product displays, and inquired in detail about the economic and trade cooperation between China (中国) and Central Asian countries. He emphasized that open cooperation can lead to win-win development. It is necessary to better leverage the role of China-Europe freight trains and cross-border e-commerce, strengthen economic and trade exchanges, broaden cooperation fields, and promote mutual benefit and win-win results in the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that Jiangsu (江苏) has a good economic foundation and strong strength, and also has higher development requirements. He hopes that the vast number of cadres and people in Jiangsu (江苏) will 咬定发展不放松 (yǎo dìng fāzhǎn bù fàngsōng - "firmly grasp development and not relax," to be determined to pursue development without wavering), unite and work hard, better play the leading role of a major economic province, and make more contributions to the overall national development.
Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) accompanied the research.
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"In long-term practice, we have explored and formed the 'China-Central Asia Spirit' of 'mutual respect, mutual trust, mutual benefit, and mutual assistance, and promoting common modernization with high-quality development.'" At the keynote speech at the Second China-Central Asia Summit, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the "China-Central Asia Spirit" for the first time. This spirit is a high-level summary of the successful experience of China-Central Asia cooperation. Promoting this spirit with practical actions is of great significance for promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
"More than 2,000 years of friendly exchanges," "more than 30 years of unity and mutual trust since the establishment of diplomatic relations," and "openness and win-win cooperation since the new era." Grasping the "China-Central Asia Spirit" from these three dimensions, we more deeply understand that China-Central Asia cooperation has profound historical accumulation, solid practical soil, and a broad public opinion foundation. "Adhere to mutual respect and equal treatment," "adhere to deepening mutual trust and responding in the same voice," "adhere to mutual benefit and win-win results, and common development," and "adhere to helping each other and sharing weal and woe." The "four adherences" emphasized by President Xi Jinping (习近平) reflect the principles and policies of friendly exchanges between China and Central Asian countries, demonstrate the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, and provide useful insights into the way of international exchanges.
From the perspective of promoting China-Central Asia cooperation, both China and Central Asian countries are currently in a critical period of development and revitalization, and both face the task of achieving modernization. Working together on the road to modernization and taking the road of high-quality development urgently requires the "China-Central Asia Spirit" as a guide, and strengthening cooperation with a more progressive attitude and more pragmatic measures.
Looking back on the course of China-Central Asia cooperation, the China-Central Asia mechanism has grown from scratch, and 13 ministerial-level cooperation platforms and secretariats have built the "four beams and eight pillars (四梁八柱)," China-Central Asia natural gas pipelines, China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railways and other major projects are steadily advancing... Always anchoring the goal of building a China-Central Asia community with a shared future, we have embarked on a broader path of cooperation and win-win results. The list of achievements of this summit, including 110 cooperation results including 55 cooperation documents, covers all aspects of economy and trade, investment, transportation, energy, and cultural exchanges, further expanding the depth and breadth of China-Central Asia cooperation, and will inject new impetus into the modernization of China and Central Asian countries.
In today's world, unilateralism, protectionism, and hegemonism are surging against the trend. Whether to open up or close down, cooperate or confront, unite and cooperate or 以邻为壑 (yǐ lín wéi hè - "dig a moat to divert water to flood one's neighbor," selfishly seek one's own advantage at the expense of others), tests the courage and wisdom of all parties. The "China-Central Asia Spirit" jointly explored by China and Central Asian countries is a powerful answer to the question of the times, "What is wrong with the world and what should we do?" It inspires us that only by adhering to the heart of fairness and justice and not abandoning the ambition of mutual benefit and win-win results can we maintain world peace and achieve common development.
The more turbulent and intertwined the international situation is, the more it calls for mutual respect, harmony and mutual assistance, and harmonious coexistence. Guided by the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core and the international order based on international law, practice true multilateralism, work together to defend international fairness and justice, oppose hegemonism and power politics, and actively promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and an inclusive economic globalization, can inject more stability and certainty into world peace and development.
President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "No matter how the international situation changes, China always adheres to its unwavering commitment to opening up to the outside world and is willing to carry out higher-quality cooperation with Central Asian countries, deepen the integration of interests, and achieve common development." From the decision to establish three cooperation centers for poverty reduction, education exchange, and desertification prevention and a trade facilitation cooperation platform within the China-Central Asia cooperation framework, to providing 1.5 billion yuan in free assistance to Central Asian countries and providing 3,000 training opportunities to Central Asian countries in the next two years... A series of pragmatic measures announced at this summit run through the neighborhood, security, and prosperity, and the concept of affinity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness, reflecting China's sincere desire and firm determination to work with Central Asian countries to promote modernization, and it is precisely to practice the "China-Central Asia Spirit" with practical actions.
The great road is followed, and the more it is followed, the more determined it becomes. Starting again from Astana (阿斯塔纳), promoting the "China-Central Asia Spirit," always being a practitioner of friendly cooperation, a promoter of civilization exchanges, and a participant in building a community with a shared future for mankind, China-Central Asia cooperation will surely continue to reach new heights of high-quality development, make greater contributions to maintaining regional peace and development, and jointly create a better future for mankind.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 18th (Reporter Li Changyu (李昌禹)) that a consultation and discussion meeting on promoting the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation was held in Beijing on the 18th to discuss the key research results carried out by relevant central committees of democratic parties. Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC, attended and delivered a speech. He stated that the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core places scientific and technological innovation in a major strategic position in the overall national development and has made major arrangements to promote the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. We must thoroughly study and understand General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on promoting the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, profoundly grasp the task requirements put forward by the CPC Central Committee's decisions and deployments, enhance our political stance, strengthen our sense of mission and responsibility, and contribute wisdom and strength to promoting the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy and accelerating the construction of an innovative country.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) fully affirmed the in-depth investigation and research and active suggestions made by the relevant central committees of democratic parties on promoting the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. He stated that promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is the strategic guidance of adhering to the "four orientations," realizing high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, and building a modern industrial system. It is an inherent requirement for cultivating new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development, and it is a major measure for building an innovative country and promoting Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to enhance the depth and effectiveness of research, consultation, and suggestions, deepen research and form results around the key and difficult issues in promoting scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation and the bottlenecks in policy implementation, and do a good job in application and transformation. It is necessary to improve the quality of political party consultation and the level of deliberation and suggestions, strengthen key research and investigation work, serve the decision-making of the Party and the government with high-quality research, and broadly gather consensus and strength for the development of the Party and the country.
Hao Mingjin (郝明金), Chairman of the China National Democratic Construction Association Central Committee, Cai Dafeng (蔡达峰), Chairman of the China Association for Promoting Democracy Central Committee, He Wei (何维), Chairman of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party Central Committee, Jiang Zuojun (蒋作君), Chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party Central Committee, and Wu Weihua (武维华), Chairman of the Jiusan Society Central Committee, introduced the research results at the symposium and put forward pragmatic and pertinent policy recommendations on fostering new industries, new models, and new driving forces, accelerating the transformation and development of traditional industries, accelerating the digital transformation of manufacturing, promoting high-level opening up to the outside world, and optimizing the innovation ecosystem for enterprises.
Li Ganjie (李干杰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting. Shao Hong (邵鸿), Qin Boyong (秦博勇), Zhu Yongxin (朱永新), and Yang Zhen (杨震) attended the meeting. Responsible comrades from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) conducted consultations and exchanges with non-Party members.
Return to TopOn June 16th, the heaviest segment steel-concrete composite beam of the Xiangshan Port Cross-sea Bridge (象山港跨海大桥) in Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), was successfully erected, laying a solid foundation for subsequent main beam erection and cable-stayed cable construction. The entire bridge's main beam is divided into 95 steel box girder segments. The side-span large segment steel-concrete composite section erected this time is spliced from 7 independent beam segments, with a beam length of 107.5 meters and a weight of 1619 tons.
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Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 18th (Reporter Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)). Since the Start of Summer, the nation's summer grain wheat has been gradually ripening and harvested from south to north. A reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) that as of June 18, the harvest progress has reached 96%. Except for the northwest regions such as Xinjiang (新疆) and Gansu (甘肃), where wheat harvesting will continue until after the beginning of autumn, the harvest in key wheat-producing areas such as the southwest, Huanghuaihai, etc., has been completed. This year's national "Sanxia" (三夏) large-scale wheat mechanized harvesting has basically ended.
Since May 26, the "Sanxia" (三夏) large-scale wheat mechanized harvesting has fully commenced. During this year's wheat harvest, relevant departments strengthened work coordination and promptly consulted and studied service guarantee measures such as inter-regional passage and oil supply guarantees; they guided various regions to deploy and arrange early, leaving sufficient time for implementation, and proactively strived for the smooth advancement of the wheat harvest. After the start of summer this year, the weather has been changeable, and various regions have seized sunny days to rush the harvest, quickly adjusting the wheat harvesting rhythm following the wheat ripening time, and the overall progress is 2 to 3 days faster than usual.
The role of agricultural machinery as the main force continues to be demonstrated. China's agricultural machinery equipment is accelerating its iterative upgrades. This summer harvest, more than 800,000 combine harvesters have been put into operation nationwide, of which more than 200,000 are operating across regions. Domestic 9-10 kg/second large-feeding combine harvesters have become the main models for cross-regional operations; the average daily harvest area per machine reaches 80 mu, and the efficiency has increased by more than 30% compared with 5 years ago.
While grasping the progress of mechanized harvesting, various regions also attach importance to the quality of the harvest, deeply explore the potential for loss reduction in mechanized harvesting, and it is expected that the national average machine harvest loss rate of wheat will continue to be controlled at a relatively good level of less than 1% this year, providing a strong guarantee for the summer grain harvest and the stable production and supply of grain throughout the year.
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Return to Top"I am delighted to see that from the ancient capital of Xi'an (西安) to the pearl of the grasslands, Astana (阿斯塔纳), from the coast of the Yellow Sea to the shores of the Caspian Sea, from the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains to the Pamir Plateau, the consensus of the first China-Central Asia Summit has been fully implemented, the road of cooperation is becoming wider and wider, and the flowers of friendship are blooming more and more brilliantly." On the afternoon of June 17 local time, President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the Second China-Central Asia Summit at the Independence Palace in Astana (阿斯塔纳) and delivered a keynote speech, systematically expounding the profound connotation of the "China-Central Asia Spirit" and announcing further pragmatic measures to strengthen China-Central Asia cooperation, which aroused enthusiastic responses from all sectors of Central Asia. They said that the "China-Central Asia Spirit" proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) in his keynote speech will guide China-Central Asia cooperation to always move forward in the right direction, and closer pragmatic cooperation between Central Asian countries and China will create a better future for regional development and people's lives.
"Central Asian countries are constantly practicing the 'China-Central Asia Spirit' in cooperation with China in various fields"
In his keynote speech, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that our cooperation is rooted in more than 2,000 years of friendly exchanges, consolidated by more than 30 years of unity and mutual trust since the establishment of diplomatic relations, and developed in the new era with open and win-win cooperation. In the long-term practice, we have explored and formed the "China-Central Asia Spirit" of "mutual respect, mutual trust, mutual benefit, mutual assistance, and promoting common modernization with high-quality development."
"We highly agree with the 'China-Central Asia Spirit' proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and Central Asian countries are constantly practicing the 'China-Central Asia Spirit' in cooperation with China in various fields." Yerzhan Yerkimbayev, Vice Minister of Tourism and Sports of Kazakhstan, said that under the strategic guidance of head-of-state diplomacy, Kazakhstan and China have not only achieved remarkable results in economic and trade cooperation and connectivity, but also increasingly close cooperation in people-to-people exchanges and cultural activities, which has effectively promoted mutual understanding between the two peoples.
Nurmurad Ilkibaev, founder and business director of Turkmenistan's Orient News Agency, said that the more turbulent the international situation, the more equal dialogue and open cooperation between countries are needed. The "China-Central Asia Spirit" proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) fully demonstrates that the cooperation between Central Asian countries and China is based on equal dialogue, pragmatic cooperation, good-neighborliness and friendship, fairness and justice, and represents the correct direction of human development.
Kanat Baisek, President of the Kazakhstan China Trade Promotion Association, said that President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the "China-Central Asia Spirit" based on mutual respect for national sovereignty, territorial integrity, and respective development paths. Central Asian countries and China have their own characteristics in political systems, economic models, and cultural traditions, but mutual respect for each other's national sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the development path chosen by each constitutes an important cornerstone of our friendly and pragmatic cooperation.
Aigul Rakhimova, a reporter for the Turkmenistan newspaper Turkmenistan, believes that the China-Central Asia mechanism has grown from scratch and from weak to strong, and has become an important multilateral cooperation platform covering many fields such as politics, economy, and culture. From the Xi'an (西安) Summit to the Astana (阿斯塔纳) Summit, the leaders of the six countries have continuously deepened political mutual trust, worked together to meet challenges, and strengthened pragmatic cooperation, which is a reflection of the "China-Central Asia Spirit" proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平).
"Under the guidance of the 'China-Central Asia Spirit', China-Central Asia cooperation has been continuously deepened." Nuraly Khan Kusherov, Governor of the Turkistan Region of Kazakhstan, said that taking the Turkistan Region as an example, Chinese investment has expanded to new fields such as high technology, further enriching the connotation of local cooperation between the two sides. We look forward to more achievements in future cooperation between the two sides to promote economic development and improve people's well-being.
"The building of a China-Central Asia community with a shared future shows unprecedented vitality"
President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that we should take the "China-Central Asia Spirit" as the guide, strengthen cooperation with a more proactive attitude and more pragmatic measures, promote the high-quality development of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", and forge ahead towards the goal of a community with a shared future.
"The first China-Central Asia Summit was held in Xi'an (西安), the eastern starting point of the ancient Silk Road, and this summit was held in Astana (阿斯塔纳), where President Xi Jinping (习近平) first proposed the initiative to jointly build the 'Silk Road Economic Belt', which in itself has profound significance." Rashid Alimov, professor of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Tajikistan and former Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, said that after more than 30 years of joint efforts, Central Asian countries and China have established a comprehensive strategic partnership based on mutual trust and mutually beneficial cooperation. Central Asian countries and China actively interact on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the China-Central Asia mechanism, and carry out strategic coordination on a wide range of regional and international issues, injecting stability and positive energy into the turbulent international situation.
"The building of a China-Central Asia community with a shared future has gained wide recognition in Central Asia." Alibek Tazhibaev, Director of the "Eurasian Monitoring" Analysis and Research Center of Kazakhstan, said that Central Asia has been a crossroads of multiculturalism and trade since ancient times. The important initiatives and concepts put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平) reflect mutual respect and win-win cooperation, which highly meet the demands of Central Asian countries to adhere to diversified diplomacy and seek common development.
Kozhirova, Chairman of the Eurasian International Research Association of Kazakhstan, said that China is comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development, and Central Asian countries are also pursuing their respective modernization development. The convergence of development agendas has laid a solid foundation for all parties to deepen cooperation in a wider range of fields. There are broad prospects for cooperation in digital transformation, green technology, and infrastructure connectivity.
Abduaziz Shidirov, a political commentator for the National News Agency of Uzbekistan, said that the building of a China-Central Asia community with a shared future makes China-Central Asia cooperation transcend the bilateral scope and has important significance in the region and even the world. Central Asian countries are eager to enhance regional cohesion and hope to promote cooperation projects to achieve common development. The continuous maturity of the China-Central Asia cooperation mechanism will bring more opportunities to the entire Central Asia region.
Ruohman, a Turkmen teacher at China University of Petroleum (Beijing), has been studying, working, and living in China since 2010. "I deeply feel that the cooperation between Central Asian countries and China in economic and trade exchanges, educational exchanges, and technological innovation is constantly deepening, and the friendly relations are becoming closer. With the high-quality joint construction of the 'Belt and Road' going deeper and more solid, the building of a China-Central Asia community with a shared future shows unprecedented vitality," said Ruohman.
"Will bring more development opportunities to the people of Central Asian countries"
President Xi Jinping (习近平) summarized the fruitful results since the first summit in his keynote speech and announced pragmatic measures to further strengthen cooperation. People from all walks of life in Central Asia have expressed that they are encouraged and inspired.
Sheradil Baktygulov, Director of the World Politics Institute of Kyrgyzstan, said that President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced that China and Central Asian countries will focus on trade facilitation, industrial investment, connectivity, green minerals, agricultural modernization, and people-to-people exchanges, and implement more specific projects, which has resonated in Central Asian countries, especially the establishment of three major cooperation centers for poverty reduction, education exchange, and desertification prevention and a trade facilitation cooperation platform within the framework of China-Central Asia cooperation, which will lay an important foundation for creating a better life for the people of Central Asian countries.
Kanat Baisek said that most Central Asian countries are landlocked countries, and China's technology, capital, and market experience will help Central Asian countries break through geographical limitations in development. The pragmatic measures proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) to strengthen China-Central Asia cooperation "fully demonstrate the common determination of all parties to seek unity, promote stability, and seek development, and will help the six countries promote the modernization process."
"The number of sister cities between China and Central Asia has exceeded 100 pairs, which is of landmark significance." Maigeldinov, Chairman of the Kazakhstan Association of Chinese Researchers, said that this will provide a sustainable platform for Central Asian countries and China to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in culture, education, tourism, and urban management, and significantly enhance people-to-people exchanges and people's well-being.
Kozhirova said that in recent years, thanks to trade facilitation policies, port upgrading and transformation, and the construction of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor, economic and trade exchanges between Central Asian countries and China have become increasingly close. I believe that the new measures proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) at this summit will further promote economic and trade exchanges between Central Asian countries and China and bring more benefits to the people of all countries.
Asenbek, a student from Uzbekistan, is a young entrepreneur. "The Second China-Central Asia Summit has achieved fruitful results. With the deepening of cooperation, our logistics will be more convenient and the market will be broader, which will bring new opportunities to cross-border e-commerce practitioners like me. As an entrepreneur from a Central Asian country, I am deeply impressed by the benefits brought by the high-quality joint construction of the 'Belt and Road'. I believe that the continuous deepening of cooperation between Central Asia and China will bring more development opportunities to the people of Central Asian countries," said Asenbek.
(Reported from Astana (阿斯塔纳) on June 18 by reporters Che Bin (车斌), Li Qiang (李强), Xie Yahong (谢亚宏), Qu Pei (屈佩), Qu Song (曲颂), Chen Shangwen (陈尚文), Li Yingqi (李应齐), Zhang Zhiwen (张志文), Bao Han (包晗), and Li Yang (李洋))
Return to TopBy: 阿卜杜加尼·马马达齐莫夫
The second China-Central Asia Summit was held in Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦). This grand event conforms to the trend of the times of cooperation and win-win results, meets the common expectations of the people of Central Asia and China, and will powerfully promote the high-level development of relations between Central Asian countries and China. It is believed that the fruitful results achieved at the summit will further deepen the friendship and cooperation between Central Asia and China, and inject strong impetus into building a closer China-Central Asia community with a shared future.
China is an important partner of Central Asian countries. In recent years, it has maintained strong cooperation momentum in many fields such as economy and trade, energy, and agriculture. In 2024, the total trade volume between China and the five Central Asian countries reached 94.8 billion US dollars, hitting a record high. Comprehensive progress has been made in cooperation between the two sides in various fields. Substantial and fruitful cooperation results vividly demonstrate the vitality of Central Asia-China cooperation.
Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦) was one of the first countries to support the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative and sign cooperation documents with China on jointly building the "Belt and Road." In the process of jointly building the "Belt and Road" by both sides, many Chinese-funded enterprises have come to Tajikistan to invest and develop businesses. Projects such as the China-Tajikistan Highway, the Ayni-Vahdat Railway Tunnel, and the Ayni Cement Plant have powerfully promoted Tajikistan's connectivity and industrial upgrading, and injected strong impetus into Tajikistan's economic development. The two sides promote the in-depth alignment of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative and Tajikistan's "National Development Strategy to 2030," helping each other's modernization construction and bringing tangible benefits to the people of both countries.
China actively helps other developing countries, including Central Asian countries, to cultivate talents. At the end of 2022, China's first Luban Workshop (鲁班工坊) in the Central Asian region, built in Tajikistan, was officially launched. The Luban Workshop fits Tajikistan's vocational and technical talent training plan, and has played an important role in filling Tajikistan's talent gap. Up to now, it has provided learning and practical training opportunities for more than 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Since 1997, I have been visiting China regularly and have witnessed China's amazing development. I admire China's success in lifting 800 million impoverished people out of poverty, which is a unique achievement in the world today. I believe that China will achieve greater development achievements in the future and make more contributions to promoting the common development and prosperity of all countries.
At present, the international and regional situation is undergoing profound and complex changes. Facing major challenges such as geopolitical conflicts, unilateralism, and protectionism, the international community needs to take joint action. The five Central Asian countries and China are both developing countries and natural members of the Global South. They should strengthen unity and cooperation to better safeguard their own development rights and interests and international fairness and justice. China and Central Asian countries strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation and jointly building a closer China-Central Asia community with a shared future will inject strong positive energy into regional and even world peace and stability.
Peaceful development, prosperity and stability are the common pursuits of Central Asia and China. We look forward to taking the summit as an opportunity for Central Asian countries and China to further deepen cooperation in various fields and jointly draw a beautiful blueprint for Central Asia-China cooperation.
(The author is a scholar at Tajik National University (塔吉克斯坦民族大学)).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 强
"Against the backdrop of geopolitical turbulence and profound changes in the global governance system, the China-Central Asia mechanism provides a new paradigm for multilateral cooperation and brings new opportunities for the economic and social development of regional countries." Sabirov, Director of the Uzbekistan Shanghai Cooperation Organization Center for Public Diplomacy, said in a recent interview with this reporter that the Second China-Central Asia Summit has greatly promoted the relationship of mutual respect and long-term mutual benefit between Central Asian countries and China.
Sabirov believes that since Uzbekistan and China established diplomatic relations more than 30 years ago, especially with the in-depth advancement of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," the tree of bilateral relations has become more deeply rooted and luxuriant, and cooperation in various fields has achieved fruitful results. "The history of exchanges between Uzbekistan and China has a long history, and the ancient Silk Road has witnessed the friendship between the people." Sabirov said that the ancient Silk Road closely connected Uzbekistan and China. Today, this historical bond has been given new connotations of the times, building an important bridge for interconnectivity, economic and trade exchanges, and people-to-people affinity, playing a key role in promoting peace, cooperation, openness, inclusiveness, and common development among countries around the world.
Sabirov said that in January 2024, during Uzbek President Mirziyoyev's (米尔济约耶夫) state visit to China, the heads of state of the two countries unanimously decided to upgrade Uzbekistan-China relations to a new era of all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership and build a Uzbekistan-China community with a shared future at a higher starting point. In Sabirov's view, under the strategic guidance of the heads of state of the two countries, Uzbekistan and China will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation in the fields of politics, security, economy, science and technology, and culture, ensure the priority and sustainability of cooperation, and strengthen collaboration in international organizations. "Uzbekistan will continue to work with China to implement the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, share development opportunities, and benefit the people of both countries," Sabirov said.
"Uzbekistan and China have established joint ventures in many industries such as textiles, construction, chemicals, and food. Chinese companies are actively participating in the construction of highways, bridges, logistics centers, and energy infrastructure in Uzbekistan; BYD (比亚迪) factories in Uzbekistan are helping green transformation and development, and Chinese companies such as Huawei (华为) are actively participating in Uzbekistan's digital process, making great contributions to Internet development and youth technology training..." Sabirov has long been concerned about the development of Chinese enterprises in Uzbekistan and is very familiar with cooperation projects between the two countries. In his view, China has always been an important trade and investment partner of Uzbekistan, and the positive contributions of Chinese enterprises in helping the country's national and social development process are worthy of recognition.
"Uzbekistan and China have achieved fruitful results in cooperation in education, health, tourism and other fields in recent years." Sabirov said that the Confucius Institute (孔子学院) and Luban Workshop (鲁班工坊) opened in Uzbekistan cultivate professional talents with language and vocational education as their guidance, respectively. Within the framework of the "Healthy Express International Bright Journey" project, China has provided more than 1,000 free cataract surgeries in Uzbekistan, and the two countries have also jointly established the Uzbekistan-China Blindness Prevention Cooperation Center to bring light to more patients with eye diseases. The China-Uzbekistan Traditional Medicine Center in Tashkent (塔什干) has established cooperative relations with many medical universities in Uzbekistan, jointly training more than 500 medical experts. On June 1, the agreement on mutual visa exemption between China and Uzbekistan officially came into effect. "The implementation of the visa-free policy will further promote cultural communication and people-to-people affinity between the two countries," Sabirov said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 谢亚宏
Recently, a reporter walked into the Chinese Pavilion of the 19th Venice International Architecture Biennale, and representative landscapes on the Beijing Central Axis (北京中轴线), such as the Bell and Drum Towers, Jingshan (景山), and Qianmen (前门), came into view. This is a scene from the video work "Spring on the Beijing Central Axis." The bicycle bell sounds and voices in the video make the audience feel as if they are there, experiencing the vitality of the Beijing Central Axis (北京中轴线) as it protects tradition.
The Chinese Pavilion exhibition is hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China (中国文化和旅游部) and organized by China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd. (中国对外文化集团有限公司). With the theme of "Inclusion·Wisdom," it showcases 10 works (sets) themed on Liangzhu Civilization, Dunhuang Grottoes, Beijing Central Axis (北京中轴线), Overpass City, Renewing City, and Future City. Ma Yansong (马岩松), curator of the Chinese Pavilion and architect, said that the Chinese Pavilion reflects how Chinese architects draw wisdom from the "harmony between man and nature" worldview in traditional Chinese culture and apply this concept of "inclusion" to material renewal, urban construction, and landscape reconstruction, providing Chinese solutions to the current problems facing human social development. Projects designed by multiple Chinese teams were unveiled at this year's Biennale. Among them, the "Langtou Experiment" showcases the transformation and rebirth of Langtou Village (塱头村), one of the largest ancient villages preserved in Guangdong (广东), after protection and restoration. "Suzhou Gardens Archives - A Vivid Record of Heritage Garden Protection and Utilization" shares with the audience the experience of Suzhou Gardens (苏州园林), a model of classical Chinese architecture, in areas such as the interpretation of heritage value, systematic protection, and unified supervision.
Ecuadorian architect Jorge Ordoñez is carefully filming in the Chinese Pavilion, his lens focusing on the "Plug-in Renewal City" project designed by the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University (清华大学建筑学院) and others. He told reporters that this is his third consecutive year visiting the Chinese Pavilion, and he has gained new insights each time. "I especially like the idea mentioned in the project of using prefabricated modules to update and renovate Beijing courtyards (北京四合院). It cleverly provides residents with better comfort in a limited space, which has reference significance for densely populated cities," said Ordoñez. "The works in this year's Chinese Pavilion are diverse in subject matter and integrate traditional and modern architectural styles, providing a window into understanding China's social development." Ordoñez hopes to have the opportunity to visit China and carry out exchanges and cooperation with Chinese counterparts.
The Venice International Architecture Biennale is one of the oldest and most influential architectural art exhibitions in the world. This year's theme is "The Laboratory of the Future." More than 60 countries and regions have set up pavilions to explore how architecture should more intelligently respond to climate change and other common challenges facing humanity.
Venice Deputy Mayor De Martin (德·马丁) said that the Chinese Pavilion exhibition demonstrates how architecture can play a sustainable role in environmental changes, advocating the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and "inspiring the audience to think deeply about the relationship between technology and sustainability." He said that the Venice Municipal Government will continue to support strengthening cooperation between Venice and Chinese cities in culture, education, urban development, and other aspects.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 18th (Xinhua) - On June 18, 2025, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, had a phone call with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (阿卜杜勒阿提) at the latter's request.
Sameh Shoukry (阿卜杜勒阿提) said that the current regional situation is critical, and the international community is highly concerned that the Middle East region will fall into full-scale turmoil, directly endangering the security of countries in the region. Israel's attack on Iran is a clear violation of international law, and Egypt condemns this. Egypt hopes that the Iranian nuclear issue will return to the track of political settlement as soon as possible.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that Israel's actions, which disregard international law and international rules, have caused a sudden tension in the Middle East situation, and China is also deeply concerned about the possibility of the situation getting out of control. China once again calls on the parties to the conflict, especially Israel, to prioritize the interests and well-being of the people of the region, immediately achieve a ceasefire, ease the tense situation, and create conditions for returning to dialogue and negotiations. Egypt recently led 20 Arab and Islamic countries in issuing a joint statement by foreign ministers, jointly calling for a ceasefire to end the war, restarting negotiations on the Iranian nuclear issue, and maintaining lasting peace in the region. This is very timely and necessary for promoting the de-escalation of the situation, and China fully supports this.
Wang Yi (王毅) pointed out that at this critical moment, the international community, especially countries in the region, should further build consensus and take more unified actions. China is willing to work with Egypt to strengthen communication and coordination on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, make every effort to promote peace talks, and make unremitting efforts to strive for peace.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 18th (June 18, 2025) - Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke on the phone with Omani Foreign Minister Badr at his request.
Badr stated that Israel's attack on Iran blatantly violated the UN Charter and international law, infringing upon Iran's sovereignty and territory. Oman is deeply concerned about the current situation, especially the strike against nuclear facilities, which could lead to nuclear leakage and have a catastrophic impact on the region. China has always upheld justice and maintained peace in the international community, which Oman highly appreciates, and looks forward to China playing a greater role in restoring peace and stability in the Middle East.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that the merits of the current situation are clear at a glance. Israel's actions violate international law and the norms of international relations, infringe upon Iran's sovereignty and security, and undermine regional peace and stability. The conflict has also interrupted the hard-won indirect negotiation process on the Iranian nuclear issue, rendering Oman's mediation efforts futile. China has always advocated peaceful resolution of all disputes and opposes the use or threat of force. We have expressed our opposition to Israel's use of force at the first opportunity.
Wang Yi (王毅) emphasized that the **当务之急** (dāng wù zhī jí - "the most pressing matter," the most urgent affair; the most important thing at the moment) is to cease fire and stop the war. The sooner a ceasefire is achieved, the smaller the losses will be. We cannot sit idly by and watch the regional situation slide into an unknown abyss. China supports the joint statement issued by 21 Arab and Islamic countries, including Oman, calling for respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries and a balanced position of resolving disputes through peaceful means. At this critical juncture, the international community, especially countries in the region, should further strengthen their joint efforts, uphold justice, and form an international momentum against war, advocating for peace, and promoting political solutions. We hope that Arab and Islamic countries will unite and continue to make efforts to promote peace and talks. China will also further maintain communication and coordination with Oman and other countries in the region, and play a constructive role in promoting the cessation of hostilities and restoring peace in the Middle East on platforms such as the United Nations.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 18th. Shi Taifeng (石泰峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, met in Beijing on the 18th with a delegation of senior cadres from the People's Liberation Front of Sri Lanka, led by General Secretary Silva (席尔瓦).
Shi Taifeng (石泰峰) stated that China and Sri Lanka are traditional friendly neighbors. China is willing to work with Sri Lanka, guided by the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, to promote mutually beneficial cooperation in areas such as the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, deepen exchanges of experience in governing the party and the country, including the construction of cadre teams, jointly build a China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future, and create more well-being for the people of both countries.
Silva (席尔瓦) expressed his willingness to work with China to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, further deepen inter-party relations, and strengthen Sri Lanka-China friendship.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 18th. On June 18th, the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Embassy of Myanmar in China jointly held a reception in Beijing (北京) to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Myanmar. Cai Dafeng (蔡达峰), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the reception and delivered a speech. Approximately 200 people from various sectors of China and Myanmar, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部), the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), and the Embassy of Myanmar in China, attended.
Return to TopThis is a report from Astana, June 18th (Reporters Xie Yahong (谢亚宏) and Qu Song (曲颂)) The second meeting of the China-Central Asia Business Council was held on the 17th in Astana (阿斯塔纳), the capital of Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦). Chinese and Central Asian companies signed more than 30 memorandums of understanding or cooperation agreements.
During the event, representatives from the business communities of China and Central Asian countries conducted in-depth discussions on topics such as green energy development and information technology cooperation. Chinese and Central Asian companies signed 32 memorandums of understanding or cooperation agreements. The inaugural meeting of the Chinese Council of the China-Central Asia Business Council and the "Entering Shaanxi (陕西)" economic and trade cooperation matchmaking event were also held during the meeting.
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 the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade is willing to continue to work with all parties to give full play to its functional and resource advantages within the framework of the China-Central Asia Business Council mechanism, build a diversified platform for enterprises to connect and cooperate, provide refined services, and make positive contributions to promoting the development of economic and trade relations between China and Central Asian countries.
Return to TopUlaanbaatar, June 18 (Reporter Zhang Penghui (张朋辉)) A Chinese Tibetologist delegation organized by the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) visited Mongolia from the 16th to the 18th. They engaged in in-depth exchanges and discussions with the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (蒙古国外交部), think tanks, experts, religious figures, and others on topics such as China's achievements in Tibet's development, the practice of Chinese-style modernization in Tibet, and Sino-Mongolian cultural exchanges of mutual interest.
The delegation members included Tibetology experts and scholars from the China Tibetology Research Center (中国藏学研究中心), the Tibet Autonomous Region Foreign Cultural Exchange Association (西藏自治区对外文化交流协会), the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences (西藏自治区社科院), and the Human Rights Research Institute of Southwest University of Political Science & Law (西南政法大学人权研究院). The delegation held a seminar with the Institute of International Relations of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (蒙古国科学院国际关系研究所) and also held discussions with experts from the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy.
Mongolian experts welcomed the delegation's visit, believing that such exchanges are of great benefit to respecting diverse civilizations and strengthening exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations. They stated that Mongolia and China are connected by mountains and rivers and share cultural similarities. They expressed their willingness to strengthen dialogue and exchanges with China in areas such as Tibetology, explore cooperation projects, and deepen mutual understanding between Mongolia and China.
Return to TopJinhua, June 18th (People's Daily reporter Li Zhongwen (李中文) and Liu Junguo (刘军国)) On the morning of the 18th, the first (Jinhua (金华) - Bashi (巴希) - Baku (巴库)) Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor train departed from Jinhua South Railway Station (金华南站) in Zhejiang (浙江). This is another brand-new logistics channel opened up by the Zhejiang China-Europe train (Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe) (义新欧).
This train is fully loaded with 100 TEUs of daily necessities, clothing, hardware accessories and other commodities. After being supervised and released by Jinhua Customs (金华海关), the train will exit through the Horgos (霍尔果斯) port, passing through important Central Asian hub cities such as Almaty (阿拉木图) in Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦), Tashkent (塔什干) in Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦), and Ashgabat (阿什哈巴德) in Turkmenistan (土库曼斯坦), and finally arrive at the Port of Bashi (巴希港) in Turkmenistan (土库曼斯坦), and then cross the Caspian Sea to Baku (巴库) in Azerbaijan (阿塞拜疆) by sea.
It is reported that the route has upgraded the "land-sea intermodal" multimodal transport model, providing enterprises with efficient and reliable logistics options, which will increase the circulation speed of commodities between China and the five Central Asian countries and the Central and Eastern European markets, and promote trade between China and countries along the train route.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on June 18th (Reporter Wan Yu (万宇)): On the morning of the 18th, the China Public Diplomacy Association (中国公共外交协会) held a special exchange meeting at the "No. 7 Linjia Salon (临甲7号沙龙)". Du Xiaohui (杜晓晖), Secretary-General of the Chinese Follow-up Committee of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛中方后续行动委员会秘书长) and Director-General of the Department of African Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部非洲司司长), interacted and exchanged views with participating journalists on China-Africa relations, the implementation of the outcomes of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Beijing Summit (中非合作论坛北京峰会), and the recently successfully held Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Forum's Outcomes.
Du Xiaohui (杜晓晖) stated that no matter how the international situation changes, and no matter what stage of development China (中国) reaches, China (中方) will unswervingly take strengthening solidarity and cooperation with African countries as a priority direction of China's (中国) diplomacy, continue to support each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns, do more good things for the African people, handle more practical matters, be the most sincere friend of African countries, and be the most reliable partner of African countries.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on June 18th (Reporter: Li Zhuoer (李卓尔)) On June 18th, the 31st Beijing International Book Fair (北京国际图书博览会) opened at the China National Convention Center (北京国家会议中心) in Beijing (北京). Li Shulei (李书磊), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局委员) and Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部部长), visited and investigated the book fair.
Guided by 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), this year's book fair comprehensively implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (二十届三中全会), deeply studies and implements Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, takes "Promoting the inheritance and development of civilizations and promoting exchanges, mutual learning, and win-win cooperation" as its theme, adheres to openness and inclusiveness, adheres to integrity and innovation, solidly promotes the construction of a high-level opening-up platform, promotes pragmatic cooperation in cultural trade, and comprehensively displays the outstanding achievements of Chinese civilization and the civilizations of various countries around the world with books as the medium. The book fair has an exhibition area of 60,000 square meters, divided into domestic publishing exhibition areas, overseas publishing exhibition areas, and online publishing exhibition areas. Malaysia (马来西亚) serves as the guest of honor. More than 1,700 exhibitors from 80 countries and regions participated in the exhibition, with 220,000 kinds of books on display. More than 20 countries, including France (法国), Germany (德国), and Japan (日本), have set up national booths in the overseas exhibition area of the book fair. Springer Nature (施普林格·自然), Penguin Random House (企鹅兰登书屋), Wiley (威立), and other 30 international large-scale publishing institutions participated in the offline exhibition, focusing on displaying high-quality foreign language books representing the outstanding civilization achievements of various countries. China Arts and Animation Group (中国动漫集团), Tencent (腾讯), Douyin (抖音), NetEase (网易), Yuewen (阅文), 37Games (三七互娱) and other companies focused on displaying new publishing formats such as online literature and online games in the online publishing exhibition area.
The book fair lasts for 5 days and is hosted by the National Press and Publication Administration (国家新闻出版署).
Return to TopQingdao, Xinhua News Agency, June 18th. He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, emphasized during his research on foreign economic and trade work in Shandong (山东) from the 17th to 18th that it is necessary to conscientiously study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, increase support for stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment, strengthen support, service, and guarantee for enterprises, give full play to the competitive advantages of enterprises, and continuously promote the high-quality development of foreign trade and foreign investment.
He Lifeng (何立峰) visited Dezhou (德州) and Qingdao (青岛), successively, conducted on-site visits to several foreign trade export commodity production enterprises, gained an in-depth understanding of the enterprises' order acquisition, production, technological innovation, and international market development, and listened to the main concerns and demands of the enterprises. He Lifeng (何立峰) pointed out that since the beginning of this year, facing a complex and severe international environment, China's foreign trade and manufacturing enterprises have overcome many difficulties, demonstrated tenacious resilience, withstood pressure and resisted shocks, maintained stable growth in production and operation, and enjoyed a high reputation in the international market with high-quality and affordable export products, which not only strongly supports domestic economic development, but also helps to further enhance the stability of the world economy and effectively maintain the stability and smooth flow of global industrial and supply chains. He hopes that the majority of enterprises will dare to face problems directly, be good at 迎难而上 (yíng nán ér shàng - "meet difficulties head-on," to face difficulties bravely) and respond to changes, give full play to their own advantages, continue to focus on their main business, deeply cultivate the international market, and continuously promote product, technology, and business format innovation and upgrading, proactively and actively integrate into the new development pattern with the domestic large cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other, pay attention to the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, organically combine the expansion of foreign trade with serving the domestic demand market, and continuously provide high-quality and inexpensive products and excellent services.
He Lifeng (何立峰) requested that relevant departments such as the local government's commerce departments should be brave in assuming responsibility, go deep into the front line to understand the real situation in a timely manner, try every possible means to help foreign trade enterprises solve practical problems and demands, strengthen support, service, and guarantee, and take practical measures to support enterprises in actively cultivating new foreign trade advantages and continuously promoting the high-quality development of foreign trade.
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During the "618" shopping festival, online and offline promotional activities continued for many days, and consumers' enthusiasm for trade-ins remained high. However, social media also saw some discussions about the temporary inability to apply for "national subsidies" in some regions. Regarding these hot topics, reporters conducted interviews in various locations.
Since the end of May, discussions about the temporary inability to receive "national subsidies" in Chongqing (重庆), Jiangsu (江苏), Hubei (湖北), and other places have attracted attention on social media.
The reporter checked the Chongqing (重庆) consumer goods trade-in page on the UnionPay APP (云闪付APP) and found an announcement stating that the subsidy funds for 27 sub-categories of green and intelligent home appliances, home decoration, kitchen, and bathroom "renewal" had been used up.
Recently, when logging into the national subsidy zone on Taobao (淘宝), the reporter also saw a prompt on the Jiangsu (江苏) page stating, "The Jiangsu (江苏) national subsidy activity is being upgraded, and you will not be able to receive it during the upgrade period." The Hubei (湖北) page in the JD.com (京东) national subsidy zone also showed reminders such as "The Hubei (湖北) smart home national subsidy activity is being upgraded."
Based on these statements, some netizens began to speculate whether the "national subsidies" in some places had been discontinued.
Through interviews with relevant departments and responsible individuals in various locations, the reporter learned that the situation of canceling "national subsidies" does not exist.
The reporter contacted the Market Operation and Consumption Promotion Division of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce (江苏省商务厅) and learned that the Jiangsu (江苏) consumer goods trade-in policy has not been suspended. The relevant notice previously issued by Jiangsu (江苏) clarified the provision of "implementing quota management and qualification control for consumer goods trade-in funds," meaning that the "national subsidy" is subject to quota management.
In late May, the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Commerce (重庆市商务委) stated in its reply in the "Public Mailbox" section of its official website that the city is intensifying and expanding the implementation of consumer goods trade-in subsidy policies, and the public is highly enthusiastic about participating, with the first phase of subsidy funds about to be used up. Currently, relevant departments are drafting the second phase of trade-in subsidy policies.
The Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce (湖北省商务厅) explicitly told reporters that the Hubei (湖北) national subsidy activity will run throughout 2025, continuing until December 31. "Currently, national subsidy qualification vouchers for home appliances and digital 3C products are issued in limited quantities daily on a first-come, first-served basis," Dong Wei (董伟), a staff member of the Circulation Department of the Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce (湖北省商务厅流通处), told reporters.
Industry insiders stated that a small number of regions have periodically improved the implementation rhythm of the "national subsidy" policy. In reality, the consumer goods trade-in work will continue throughout the year, and consumers have opportunities to participate in applying for "national subsidies" every month and every week. Recently, some companies, platforms, and self-media have taken the opportunity to hype, engage in hunger marketing, and create panic, and consumers should pay special attention to distinguishing. In fact, in addition to the aforementioned few regions, national subsidy promotion activities are also proceeding normally in most provinces.
Consumer goods trade-in is an important policy deployed and promoted at the national level. Why are the "national subsidy" usage situations different after implementation in various regions?
Through research, the reporter found that on the basis of the "big framework" of national subsidy rules, various regions have a certain degree of autonomy and can determine the "small details" of the national subsidy implementation, such as how to apply for and use subsidies.
He Daixin (何代欣), Director and Researcher of the Fiscal Research Office of the Institute of Finance and Economics Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社科院), believes that the faster policy implementation progress in a few regions is related to the local consumption structure and consumer enthusiasm. "This also shows that the market has a strong demand for 'national subsidies,' and the policy has stimulated consumption vitality."
Since the beginning of this year, the consumer goods trade-in policy has been "strengthened" and "expanded," not only increasing new categories such as mobile phones, tablets, and dishwashers, but also doubling the scale of ultra-long-term special national debt funds arranged, from 150 billion yuan last year to 300 billion yuan this year.
These 300 billion yuan of ultra-long-term special national debt, plus the funds matched by local governments in proportion and arranged independently, jointly constitute the source of funds for the "national subsidy."
The reporter learned that these 300 billion yuan are "allocated in blocks" to local governments. During the allocation, factors such as the number of permanent residents in each region, regional GDP, the number of cars and home appliances owned, and the implementation of consumer goods trade-in policies and funds in 2024 will be comprehensively considered, and the fund allocation will be moderately tilted towards regions with better results in the 2024 consumer goods trade-in work.
This year, the total scale of funds arranged by the central government for ultra-long-term special national debt to support consumer goods trade-ins is 300 billion yuan, and this amount is fixed. In order to allow local governments to use central funds reasonably, orderly, and sustainably, the 300 billion yuan of central funds this year will be allocated in batches in terms of the allocation process.
The reporter learned from relevant ministries and commissions that two batches of central funds totaling 162 billion yuan have been allocated in January and April this year, respectively, to support local governments in doing a good job in the first and second quarters of consumer goods trade-in work. Subsequently, another 138 billion yuan of central funds will be allocated in batches in the third and fourth quarters, and local governments will also correspondingly match and independently arrange sufficient local funds, and the "national subsidy" will continue to benefit the majority of consumers.
The relevant chain for the implementation of the consumer goods trade-in policy is long and has many links. In the "China Economic Roundtable" interview launched in early June, Ding Lin (丁琳), Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Department of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), mentioned in the introduction of a series of policies and measures to expand domestic demand that the allocation of consumer goods trade-in funds will be accelerated.
In the research, the reporter found that many places actively optimize and improve policy processes, strive to reduce the pressure on participating companies to advance subsidy funds, innovate work measures, and enhance consumers' sense of experience and gain.
Many experts and scholars said that since its implementation last year, the consumer goods trade-in policy has become an important starting point for promoting consumption and expanding domestic demand.
In Hubei (湖北), as of June 11, the total sales volume of 3C digital, home appliances, kitchen and bathroom, electric bicycles, and other trade-in products in the province this year was 33.5815 million units, with a cumulative sales amount of 41.483 billion yuan; in Liaoning (辽宁), 2 million consumers in the province have participated in consumer goods trade-in activities, directly driving consumption of more than 15 billion yuan... Judging from the implementation in various places, the policy progress is positive and the effect continues to appear.
Data from the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) shows that as of May 31, 2025, consumer goods trade-ins in 5 major categories have driven sales of 1.1 trillion yuan, and approximately 175 million subsidies have been issued directly to consumers.
"From the practice in various places, the policy not only directly drives a significant increase in the sales of related consumer goods, but also actively promotes the structural upgrading of related consumer goods and the transformation and upgrading of related industrial chains," said Yao Dongmin (姚东旻), professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics (中央财经大学) and Deputy Director of the China Fiscal Development Collaborative Innovation Center (中国财政发展协同创新中心). With the subsequent allocation of funds and the continuous optimization of relevant systems, the consumer goods trade-in policy is expected to continue to play a positive role and benefit more people.
(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 18)
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Good policies need to be implemented and put into practice, and concerns need to be addressed promptly. Some netizens said that seeing the response from relevant departments "reassured me a lot."
The trade-in policy benefits consumers, stimulates market demand, and also leverages the leap in the supply-side industrial chain. It has been widely praised since its implementation. Recently, rumors that "trade-in has been put on hold" have appeared in some places, causing consumer concerns. Various regions and departments responded in a timely manner, dispelling doubts and playing an important role in stabilizing market expectations.
The fact that some regions are implementing policies at a faster pace precisely illustrates the high consumption capacity and participation in those areas. How to optimize the structure of fund allocation, use subsidy funds prudently, and reduce the pressure on companies to advance funds are all worthy of further detailed research.
We believe that good policies will continue to play a role, allowing more consumers to enjoy benefits.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 丁雅诵
Teachers are the foundation of education and the source of its vitality. Strengthening the teaching staff is the most important foundational work for building a strong educational nation. On June 18th, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a meeting with Chinese and foreign journalists on the theme of "Strivers on the New Journey," inviting five outstanding teacher representatives to exchange ideas with Chinese and foreign journalists on "Vigorously Promoting the Spirit of Educators and Accelerating the Building of a Strong Educational Nation."
The needs of the country are the direction of scientific research. As a university teacher and a scientific researcher, He Kebin (贺克斌), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院院士) and Professor of the School of Environment at Tsinghua University (清华大学环境学院), believes: "Breaking through technological bottlenecks, serving national strategies with scientific research and innovation achievements, and cultivating high-level innovative talents with responsibility and contribution for the country is the most direct way for us to serve the country."
How to stimulate students' interest in scientific research and innovative thinking, and how to improve the quality of independent talent cultivation? He Kebin (贺克斌) believes that students should be provided with real-world scenarios. "In the governance of air pollution, especially in the Blue Sky Defense Battle, my team and students have experienced one hard battle after another. The process of solving problems is also a process of theoretical learning and practical exercise, and we have therefore achieved many internationally leading research results," said He Kebin (贺克斌).
It is gratifying that China has cultivated a group of middle-aged and young backbone forces through the battle against pollution. "Taking the School of Environment at Tsinghua University (清华大学环境学院) as an example, 85% of the graduates have taken up key positions urgently needed by the country. Most of my students are fighting on the front lines of air pollution control," introduced He Kebin (贺克斌).
A good principal makes a good school. Cai Xiaoxiong (蔡小雄), who has worked on the front lines of basic education for 32 years, from an ordinary teacher to a senior teacher, and is now the Principal of Hangzhou No. 2 High School Education Group (浙江省杭州第二中学教育集团), has always remained true to his original intention of educating people according to their aptitude.
"As a math teacher, I have taught very talented students who can come up with many methods when I teach one. I have also taught students who get headaches as soon as they take a math class and can't solve math problems no matter what. For the former, I give him 'extra meals' in learning, encouraging him to learn more and learn deeper; for the latter, I work with him to find his own interests and strengths and take a path of diversified development," said Cai Xiaoxiong (蔡小雄).
Once, a student who was admitted to the Department of Mathematics at Zhejiang University (浙江大学数学系) told him: "Teacher Cai (蔡老师), I want to become a good math teacher who moves students like you." At that moment, Cai Xiaoxiong (蔡小雄) deeply felt that education is a career of life awakening life, and the words and deeds of teachers are the most vivid textbooks for students.
For Yu Cheng (禹诚), a professor at Wuhan City Vocational College (武汉城市职业学院), the workshop is a place full of memories. Yu Cheng (禹诚) likes to take his students to the workshop for skills training. Yu Cheng (禹诚) said: "What impressed me the most was one summer vacation when I led my students to solve a processing problem for a company. After we repeatedly test-cut more than 100 times, we finally made a perfect product. At that moment, we were very happy, and we felt that the machine oil in the workshop had a 'fragrance'."
Teachers are happy professionals. Among the students cultivated by Yu Cheng (禹诚), many have won the title of "National Technical Expert," some have received special allowances from the State Council (国务院政府特殊津贴), and many are front-line technical and skilled talents. "Seeing these students reshape their confidence, establish professional responsibility, and improve their job skills, my heart is always full of comfort and pride," said Yu Cheng (禹诚).
Liu Xiuxiang (刘秀祥), a teacher at Wangmo County Experimental High School (望谟县实验高中) in Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (黔西南布依族苗族自治州), Guizhou Province (贵州省), has never regretted choosing to return to his hometown and devote himself to education.
"We are a boarding school, and 70% of the children have to live on campus. We have to take care of their learning, clothing, food, health, mood, and everything about them. The children are all of my life," said Liu Xiuxiang (刘秀祥), unable to hide his smile when talking about the children. "I often invite the children to my home in batches. I am the chef, and the children help out. Dry-pot beef and spicy hot pot are the most anticipated meals for everyone every weekend."
Coming out of the mountains and returning to the mountains, Liu Xiuxiang (刘秀祥) has also witnessed the continuous improvement of the treatment and security of rural teachers. He introduced: "I have been living in the school's teacher apartment since I started working, which is very convenient for both life and work. Rural teachers also receive corresponding living allowances. In terms of professional development, the National Training Program (国培计划), the Provincial Training Program (省培计划), and other programs can help teachers innovate classroom education and teaching and improve their professional level."
There is no education without love. From founding the first public kindergarten on Weizhou Island (涠洲岛), to leading the team to start paired assistance for kindergarten education in the border areas of Guangxi (广西), Fan Huili (范徽丽), the principal of Beihai No. 1 Kindergarten (北海市第一幼儿园) in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), practices her educational dream with love.
Building a kindergarten on the island is full of difficulties. What if many courses cannot be realized due to limited conditions? Fan Huili (范徽丽) said: "We adapt to local conditions and fully explore the island's resources to create the 'Hai Yaya 365 Growth Action'. Shells, volcanic rocks, and banana leaves have become vivid teaching aids, and beaches and banyan trees have also become our most vivid classrooms."
In 2016, Fan Huili (范徽丽) established a special-grade teacher workshop, leading teachers to share the children's innocence and fun. In one educational story after another, teachers discover children, understand children, and the sense of identity and happiness in the preschool education profession is constantly improving.
Rooting in the harsh island requires a belief. What is this belief? Fan Huili (范徽丽) said firmly: "It is our love for children, and our sense of mission and responsibility for the cause of teaching and educating people."
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on June 18th (Reporter Wang Zheng (王政) and Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)): Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) and five other departments issued the "Implementation Plan for Digital Transformation of the Textile Industry," proposing that by 2027, the comprehensive digitalization rate of key business links in textile enterprises above a designated size will exceed 70%, creating more than 150 typical digital transformation scenarios, more than 60 benchmark enterprises for digital transformation, and more than 30 typical digital transformation clusters/parks, and cultivating and promoting more than 200 typical digital transformation solutions with strong demonstration effects that are easy to replicate and promote.
The textile industry is China's (中国) traditional pillar industry, an important people's livelihood industry, and an industry with international advantages. At present, the numerical control rate of key processes and the popularization rate of digital R&D and design tools in key industrial enterprises in China's (中国) textile industry have reached 63.7% and 82.3% respectively, and the intelligent factories of leading enterprises in fields such as chemical fiber and cotton spinning have reached the world's leading level.
The implementation plan focuses on four aspects: the new generation of information technology enabling action, the innovative application action of new models and new business forms, the high-quality industrial development action, and the solid foundation support action, and proposes 18 specific work tasks. The main goal by 2030 is to achieve significant results in enabling the digital transformation of the textile industry with a new generation of information technology, further promote the transformation and innovation of enterprise production methods, business models, and organizational forms, and achieve the leap of the entire value chain of the textile industry.
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Railway and marine transportation both have the characteristics of large capacity and low cost. For distances over 600 kilometers, rail-sea intermodal transport has a significant cost advantage compared to road-sea intermodal transport, generally saving about 30% of transportation costs.
Since the beginning of this year, railway departments and shipping companies have expanded cooperation to reduce transportation time limits and lower overall logistics costs. From January to May, national railways cumulatively transported 6.833 million TEUs of rail-sea intermodal container cargo, an increase of 18.4% year-on-year, with rail-sea intermodal transport accounting for the majority.
Inland Seaport Linkage Helps Efficient Overseas Shipping
At 22:38 on June 15, the Putian Station (圃田车站) in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南) was brightly lit. With a long whistle, train X9532 slowly started, marking a cumulative total of 107 trains operated on the Henan-Shandong (豫鲁) rail-sea intermodal train service.
This rail-sea intermodal train is full of export goods. "Henan's auto parts, refractory materials, and other products are exported to Japan. Compared with road-sea intermodal transport, rail-sea intermodal transport reduces the time by nearly 50%," said Zhang Xin (张欣), Marketing Department Manager of the Zhengzhou Railway Logistics Center (郑州铁路物流中心) of the China Railway Zhengzhou Bureau (国铁郑州局).
Two regular rail-sea intermodal trains operate daily between Zhengzhou and Qingdao Port (青岛港) in Shandong (山东). Currently, the total number of Qingdao Port's rail-sea intermodal trains has reached 86, including 71 along the nine provinces (regions) of the Yellow River (沿黄九省（区）), and the container rail-sea intermodal transport volume has ranked first in the country for 10 consecutive years. "According to the plan, by the end of the '14th Five-Year Plan,' the number of Qingdao Port's rail-sea intermodal train lines will reach 100, realizing the effective connection of the shipping logistics network and the land logistics network," said a relevant person in charge of Qingdao Port International Co., Ltd. (青岛港国际股份有限公司).
Tianjin Port (天津港) has 37 rail-sea intermodal train lines, completing 638,000 TEUs of rail-sea intermodal transport in the first five months of this year; Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) has opened 107 rail-sea intermodal lines, of which 27 are regularly operated train lines... A rail-sea intermodal network connecting inland and overseas is accelerating its expansion, opening a logistics channel that is mutually beneficial in both east-west and north-south directions, and linking land and sea.
Sharing Stations, Front Port-Back Station and Other Models Reduce Transfer Costs
Rail-sea intermodal transport involves multiple modes of transportation and multiple operating entities, and efficient connection is the key.
In the traditional model, railway stations and port terminals operate "independently." After containers are transported by rail to the front station of the railway port, they must be loaded and unloaded onto heavy trucks and transferred to the port's storage yard by road transport before they can be loaded onto ships.
At Ningbo Zhoushan Port, the railway department and the port have jointly launched a shared station model. The two parties flexibly adopt cooperative methods to build railway stations in the port, and the port is responsible for the unified organization of freight and loading and unloading production.
Under the shared model, the loading and unloading links at the front station of the original railway port are eliminated, which greatly improves the efficiency of intermodal organization and reduces the transfer costs for enterprises.
Currently, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has three railway stations directly connected to the port area in Beilun (北仑), Chuanshan (穿山), and Zhenhai (镇海). "After the station is shared and the operation is unified, the Chuanshan Railway Station, with only two whole-train loading and unloading lines, can handle a maximum of 3,200 TEUs per day, and the operating capacity has increased by more than 100%," said Hu Huabin (胡华斌), Deputy Director of the Ningbo Business Department of the Hangzhou Logistics Center (杭州物流中心) of the Shanghai Railway Group (上铁集团).
In 2024, the multimodal transport volume of Ningbo Zhoushan Port reached 1.864 million TEUs, an increase of 15.3% year-on-year. From January to May this year, this data reached 735,000 TEUs, an increase of 2.6% year-on-year.
What is the solution for some ports with insufficient hinterland and limited space that cannot achieve station sharing?
In Qingdao (青岛), the railway department and the port have jointly launched the "front port-back station" model, operating the "Jiaohuang Small Transfer" railway train service between the China Railway United Intermodal Qingdao Central Station (中铁联集青岛中心站) and the Qianwan Port (前湾港) of Qingdao Port as a public transport service. Export containers are gathered in advance at the railway central station and then transferred to the port in batches by rail, replacing short-distance road transport.
"This measure has increased the logistics efficiency of enterprises by more than 20% and reduced costs by 15%," said Liu Tao (刘涛), Deputy Station Master of Huangdao Station (黄岛站) of the Qingdao Vehicle Section (青岛车务段) of the China Railway Jinan Bureau (国铁济南局).
"One Container to the End" Makes Intermodal Transport More Convenient
For rail-sea intermodal transport, soft connectivity is also important. Setting up inland ports moves the "sea outlet" to the "doorstep" of enterprises.
Taking the Taiyuan Inland Port (太原内陆港) in Shanxi (山西) as an example, enterprises can complete customs declaration, inspection, and other procedures locally. The port arranges ship booking and space booking in advance, implements automatic release and automatic write-off of transit customs, and realizes direct transportation of export goods from the inland port by train, direct loading upon arrival at the port, and original container loading onto the ship, which can save more than 24 hours of waiting time for port inspection and release.
By the end of last year, Ningbo Zhoushan Port had built 38 inland dry ports, and Qingdao Port had 51 inland ports.
Creating a new model, the "one container" system makes rail-sea intermodal transport more convenient. At 10:30 on May 16, a "one container" rail-sea intermodal special train loaded with 2,145 tons of African imported copper concentrate departed from Haicang Station (海沧站) in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) and went directly to Jiaoyang Station (蛟洋站) in Longyan (龙岩).
The entire transportation process is "one container to the end," without changing containers or opening containers. After the goods arrive at the destination, the customs department opens the containers for random inspection.
"In the past, it took about 15 days for African copper concentrate to be transshipped, pass through customs, and be transported to the factory. The 'one container' system can achieve direct delivery in 6 days, and logistics costs are reduced by 10%," said Chi Hongde (池洪德), Deputy General Manager of Shanghang Zijin Railway Special Line Co., Ltd. (上杭紫金铁路专用线有限公司). He added that not changing containers throughout the process can also avoid cargo damage.
Data shows that the Silk Road Shipping (丝路海运) "one container" rail-sea intermodal special train saves about 500 yuan in logistics costs per container, shortens the transportation cycle by about 60%, and reduces the cargo damage rate by about 80%.
Launching new products, accelerating speed makes cross-border logistics more efficient. On May 18, the first order of the Yiwu (义乌) to Dubai (迪拜) "rail-sea express + Middle East express" logistics model was successfully shipped. Chen Songdi (陈松迪), Marketing Department Manager of the Hangzhou Railway Logistics Center of the Shanghai Railway Group, introduced: "Under the 'double express' model, the time for goods from the Yiwu collection warehouse to the Dubai distribution terminal has been shortened from the original 23 days to 17 days, reducing logistics costs by 18%.
As of May 9, the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) Railway's rail-sea intermodal transport in 2025 has exceeded 1 million TEUs, 9 days earlier than in 2024.
Return to TopOn June 18th, in the provincial-level modern agricultural demonstration zone of Baihu Town (白湖镇), Lujiang County (庐江县), Hefei City (合肥市), Anhui Province (安徽省), farmers were spraying rice seedlings in the fields.
"Good seedlings ensure half the harvest, good management ensures high yield." It is the critical period for rice management, and many places are seizing the farming season to carry out field operations such as fertilization and weeding.
Photo by Zuo Xuechang (左学长) (Image China)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 18th (Xinhua) -- The Party Central Committee has decided to continue dispatching three central guidance groups to deeply implement the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee. These groups will conduct learning and education guidance and supervision work in seven locations and units, including Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Guangxi (广西); the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林业和草原局); the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行), China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. (中国移动通信集团有限公司), and Beihang University (北京航空航天大学).
The previously dispatched Central No. 3 Guidance Group has been adjusted from guiding and supervising Qianjiang (潜江), Hubei (湖北), to guiding and supervising Hubei (湖北).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 18th. In order to implement the deployment requirements of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Third Plenary Session to "accelerate the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center" and the Central Financial Work Conference to "enhance the competitiveness and influence of Shanghai International Financial Center," the Central Financial Commission recently issued the "Opinions on Supporting the Accelerated Construction of Shanghai International Financial Center" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions").
The "Opinions" pointed out that for the current and future period, accelerating the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center should be guided by Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, always adhere to the "Eight Persistences," follow the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, firmly grasp the requirements of enhancing competitiveness and influence, take deepening financial system reform as the traction, take improving financial internationalization as the breakthrough point, take building a modern financial system with Chinese characteristics as the focus, earnestly do a good job in the "five major articles" of financial services for the real economy, strengthen the coordinated linkage of the "five centers" construction, strengthen financial supervision and risk prevention and control, cultivate a financial culture with Chinese characteristics, and make greater contributions to creating a new situation in financial work and promoting the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
The "Opinions" clarified that after five to ten years of construction, the level of Shanghai International Financial Center will be comprehensively improved, the adaptability, competitiveness, and inclusiveness of the modern financial system will be significantly enhanced, the hub and gateway function of financial opening-up will be significantly strengthened, the status of the global allocation center and risk management center for RMB assets will be significantly enhanced, and an international financial center matching China's comprehensive national strength and international influence will be basically built.
The main measures include:
First, deepening the construction of the financial market. Promote the high-quality development of the multi-level equity market, strengthen the "hard technology" positioning and inclusiveness of the Science and Technology Innovation Board (科创板), support Shanghai (上海) in taking the lead in creating a demonstration zone for high-quality development of listed companies, and support enterprises in becoming bigger and stronger through mergers and acquisitions. Deepen the construction of a multi-level bond market system and steadily develop asset-backed securities. Support the Shanghai Futures Exchange (上海期货交易所) to accelerate the construction of a world-class exchange, and continue to promote the development of currency, foreign exchange and other markets. Improve the price influence of the Shanghai (上海) financial market.
Second, enhance the level of financial institutions. Gather various legal person institutions and branches, licensed specialized institutions, etc. established by large domestic and foreign financial institutions in accordance with the law. Cultivate and attract financial holding companies with strong strength and standardized operations. Promote more international financial organizations to settle in Shanghai (上海). Enrich the main body of the asset management industry. Enhance the global competitiveness of financial institutions and deepen the reform of Shanghai (上海) financial state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises.
Third, improve financial infrastructure. Strengthen the service guarantee function of financial infrastructure and build an internationally leading financial infrastructure system. Strengthen the construction of the RMB cross-border payment and settlement system. Study and improve the trust registration and transfer system. Improve the gold market infrastructure and study supporting the Shanghai Gold Exchange (上海黄金交易所) to set up export supervision warehouses on the international board.
Fourth, expand the high-level two-way opening up of finance. Steadily expand the institutional opening up of the financial sector and fully align with international high-standard economic and trade rules. Promote the facilitation of cross-border trade and investment and provide comprehensive financial services for "going global" enterprises. Deepen and expand investment and financing cooperation under the "Belt and Road" initiative. Deepen the innovation of shipping insurance and reinsurance business. Build an offshore financial system matching the Shanghai International Financial Center (上海国际金融中心).
Fifth, improve the quality and efficiency of serving the real economy. Accelerate the construction of the Shanghai (上海) Science and Technology Innovation Financial Reform Pilot Zone. Promote the construction of green financial standards in line with international standards, enrich green financial products, and carry out international cooperation in green finance. Strengthen the construction of a unified financing credit service platform and support financial institutions in using blockchain and other technological means to develop supply chain finance. Serve the development of a multi-level and multi-pillar pension insurance system. Build a global financial technology center with high quality. Promote financial support for the higher quality integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角).
Sixth, effectively safeguard financial security under open conditions. Use blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to strengthen forward-looking research and timely judgment of risks. Prevent and resolve cross-border financial risks, and establish and improve a cross-border capital flow monitoring, early warning, macro-prudential assessment and coordination linkage system adapted to a high level of opening up. Strengthen the coordination of central and local supervision. Strengthen the legal guarantee for the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center (上海国际金融中心).
In order to do a good job in implementing the "Opinions," the Central Financial Office will jointly lead with the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee (上海市委) and the Shanghai Municipal Government (上海市政府), and work with the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行), the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局), the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会), and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (国家外汇局) to establish a coordination and promotion mechanism for the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center (上海国际金融中心), study and promote the resolution of major issues related to the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center (上海国际金融中心), and ensure that the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments on the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center (上海国际金融中心) are implemented.
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In Wengyang Subdistrict, Yueqing City (乐清市), Wenzhou (温州), Zhejiang (浙江), Cai Yongpin (蔡永品), a large grain grower, spoke enthusiastically about the new changes in grain collection and transportation: now, from harvesting to storage, wet grain can be handled without ever touching the ground. What's going on?
In the fields, ripe ears of wheat sway in the wind, and harvesters shuttle back and forth. Accompanied by the roar of machinery, the newly harvested wheat grains are loaded onto grain trucks waiting by the roadside through the harvester's conveying pipes. Yueqing (乐清) is one of the major grain-producing counties (cities) in Zhejiang Province (浙江省). Here, after the wheat harvest, the land is turned over to sow early rice, rotating rice and wheat, three crops a year.
"In the past, we had to handle the harvesting, transportation, drying, and impurity removal ourselves. The process was cumbersome, and we often had to wait in line, but time waits for no one! What's more, the grain loss from tossing it back and forth in each step was not a small amount," said Cai Yongpin (蔡永品). Now, he says, he can just make a phone call to book a time, and the professional fleet from the agricultural service center arrives, and he hardly has to worry about the rest.
Is that really the case? The reporter followed a grain truck loaded with wheat to the Yueqing City Zhefeng Agricultural Service Center (乐清市浙丰农事服务中心).
Reservation registration area, wet grain testing area, agreement quantification area, impurity and hulling area... Inside the grain cleaning center, which has been upgraded from a drying center, modern grain purchasing service areas are neatly arranged. Drying machines, impurity removal machines, paddy-brown rice separation machines, grain quality inspection equipment, etc., are all ready and waiting.
It was observed that after the grain truck completed the weighing operation on the weighbridge, the staff of the agricultural service center immediately tested the wet grain for heavy metals, moisture content, and other items.
The staff gave the reporter a science lesson: "Grain that fails the test will be treated separately to avoid contamination. In addition, grain that is cleaned and inspected at the service center can be exempted from inspection when entering the grain depot, improving efficiency."
Over there, Chen Dan (陈丹), head of the Zhefeng Agricultural Service Center (浙丰农事服务中心), and Cai Yongpin (蔡永品) were calculating the weight of the grain. The service center agrees with farmers in advance on the weight of dried grain after drying based on the quality of the wet grain—for every 1% increase or decrease in moisture, the agreed weight of dried grain will decrease or increase by 1.2%, and the actual settlement will be based on the actual sales situation after the grain is stored.
What are the benefits of doing this? Chen Dan (陈丹) took the reporter to the drying area. At this moment, the wheat grains that have been initially cleaned and had impurities removed are undergoing low-temperature uniform drying. "By calculating the weight in advance, grain of the same quality can be combined and dried in the same furnace, giving full play to the efficiency of the equipment, improving drying efficiency, and reducing energy waste," Chen Dan (陈丹) said. Compared with the previous drying by household in separate furnaces, the daily drying efficiency can now be increased by more than 40%.
The improvement of drying efficiency makes the operation of the service center smoother. "On the one hand, we adopt slow and moderate drying to avoid grain loss caused by high-temperature drying. On the other hand, the improvement of efficiency also allows us to further improve our comprehensive processing capacity and serve more farmers." Chen Dan (陈丹) gave the reporter an account: after a set of processes, compared with the past, farmers can save 60-70 yuan/ton in grain sales costs and reduce post-production losses by more than 2%.
At present, Wenzhou (温州) has built 46 grain cleaning centers with a service capacity of 6,760 tons, which can realize full coverage of grain cleaning facilities in key urban areas.
After completing a series of operations at the service center, the dried wheat was loaded back onto the grain truck through the pipeline. "The grain truck has been changed from a 10-ton small truck to a 20-ton large truck, realizing the combined transportation of grain," Chen Dan (陈丹) introduced. After loading, the staff installed coded steel buckles on the unloading baffle of the truck and recorded the time—12:00 noon.
At 1:00 p.m., the grain truck loaded with wheat stopped at the gate of the Yueqing Bay Grain Depot (乐清湾粮库). Checking whether the steel buckle is intact, calculating the transportation time... After inspection, the green channel of the grain depot was immediately opened, and the grain truck drove directly to the warehouse after weighing and transported the grain into the warehouse by conveyor.
Seeing this efficient scene, Cai Yongpin (蔡永品) was still a little surprised. He remembered that in the past, he had to brave the hot sun to find people and cars to sell grain to the grain depot, and the grain always needed to be cleaned a second time due to various problems, and queuing for a long time was common. When grain sales were concentrated, it was impossible to handle it in a short time. Now, small trucks have become large trucks, the number of inbound trucks has been reduced by 1/4, and the freight has also been reduced a lot.
"The service center uniformly and collectively processes the grain of farmers, which not only reduces the service costs of drying and transportation for farmers, but also helps the grain cleaning center increase its operating income. At the same time, group drying and transportation and the whole process of wet grain not touching the ground effectively reduce the loss of grain in the circulation process. The grain depot's queue-free storage greatly improves the grain depot's purchasing efficiency and reduces the waiting time for farmers to sell grain. It can be said that it is a win-win situation," said Zeng Chao (曾超), director of the Grain Coordination Division of the Wenzhou Municipal Grain and Material Reserve Bureau (温州市粮食和物资储备局).
Since 2023, Zhejiang (浙江) has launched the construction of a modern grain purchase service system. Through pilot projects, leading by example, 30 counties (cities, districts) have built a modern grain purchase service system, and the socialized grain service capacity has been significantly improved.
Accompanied by the roar of machinery, in the Yueqing Bay Grain Depot (乐清湾粮库), the trucks loaded with wheat from Cai Yongpin (蔡永品) and other farmers are transporting grain into the warehouse. At this moment, only one day has passed since the wheat harvest, and Cai Yongpin (蔡永品) has received the payment for the grain. These days, looking out over the fields, there are rows of early rice growing vigorously. Looking at this endless greenery, Cai Yongpin (蔡永品) is looking forward to the next harvest.
Return to TopIn recent years, Hanzhong City (汉中市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), aiming to build an ecologically livable city, the Tianhan Wetland Park (天汉湿地公园) has transformed barren滩 into a park and the riverbank into a scenic spot through ecological restoration and comprehensive management, becoming a good place for citizens to relax and entertain. The picture shows the Tianhan Wetland Park (天汉湿地公园) taken on June 16, where the forests are verdant and the distant mountains are like黛, with beautiful scenery.
People's Daily Online reporter Weng Qiyu (翁奇羽) photographed.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 18th - The State Council has appointed and removed national personnel.
Zhou Xing (周星) (female) has been appointed as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources; Wang Jianhua (王建华) has been appointed as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism; Yang Jinlong (杨金龙) has been appointed as President of Tongji University (同济大学) (at the vice-ministerial level).
Wang Zhenjiang (王振江) is removed from the post of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice; Jiang Wanrong (姜万荣) is removed from the post of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development; Zhao Baolin (赵保林) is removed from the post of Auditor General of the National Audit Office; Gou Ping (苟坪) is removed from the post of Deputy Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.
Return to TopBeijing, June 18th (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍) and Liu Hongchao (刘洪超)) The reporter learned from China Railway Shenyang Group (国铁沈阳局): As of June 17, the Harbin-Dalian High-Speed Railway (哈大高铁) has safely transported more than 1 billion passengers. The Harbin-Dalian High-Speed Railway starts from Harbin (哈尔滨) in the north and reaches Dalian (大连) in the south, running through the three provinces of Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Jilin (吉林), and Liaoning (辽宁). It is the world's first high-speed railway in a cold region.
The transportation safety remains stable. The Harbin-Dalian High-Speed Railway is located in a cold region, and the maximum temperature difference between winter and summer along the line exceeds 70 degrees Celsius. After years of independent exploration and innovation, China Railway Shenyang Group (国铁沈阳局) has fully mastered the operation and maintenance technology of high-speed railways in cold regions. On the trains, constant temperature is achieved in all carriages, overcoming the problem of low temperatures at the connections between carriages and near the doors. On the lines, the problem of "frost heave" control of railway subgrades in cold regions has been overcome, and a "one timetable for winter and summer" is implemented, running at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour throughout the year. In terms of low-temperature adaptability technology for traction power supply, communication signals, and other equipment, a core technology system for the operation of high-speed railways in cold regions has been formed. In terms of driver operation, effective measures for driving in ice and snow weather have been summarized and promoted to ensure the safe, punctual, smooth, and comfortable operation of high-speed trains.
A high-speed railway network in Northeast China has been formed. Over the past 10 years since the opening of the Harbin-Dalian High-Speed Railway (哈大高铁), it has driven the formation of a railway network in Northeast China with the Harbin-Dalian High-Speed Railway (哈大高铁) as the main north-south axis, connecting the Harbin-Qiqihar (哈齐), Harbin-Mudanjiang (哈牡), and Harbin-Jiamusi (哈佳) high-speed railways in the north, the Changchun-Hunchun Intercity Railway (长珲城际), the Baicheng-Dunhua section of the Shenyang-Jiamusi High-Speed Railway (沈佳高铁白敦段), and the Changchun-Baicheng-Ulanhot Railway (长白乌铁路) in the middle, and the Shenyang-Dandong (沈丹), Xintong (新通) and other high-speed railways, as well as the Dandong-Dalian (丹大) Express Railway in the south. It is also connected to the Beijing-Harbin High-Speed Railway Beijing-Shenyang section (京哈高铁京沈段), integrating into the national high-speed railway network, and forming a 2-hour economic circle centered on cities such as Shenyang (沈阳), Changchun (长春), and Dalian (大连).
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On June 18th, this newspaper reported from Beijing that from June 16th to 18th, 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) was invited to Kazakhstan to attend the Second China-Central Asia Summit. At the conclusion of the trip, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, briefed accompanying reporters on the visit.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that in midsummer, President Xi Jinping (习近平) traveled to Astana (阿斯塔纳) to attend the Second China-Central Asia Summit and held separate bilateral meetings with the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries. This was China's most important diplomatic action in the Central Asian region this year, and it was pragmatic, efficient, and far-reaching. In less than 48 hours in Astana (阿斯塔纳), President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended more than a dozen multilateral and bilateral events, reminiscing about traditional friendship with the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries, discussing cooperation plans, and drawing a blueprint for development, reaching more than 100 cooperation results. The host, Kazakh President Tokayev (托卡耶夫), attached great importance to President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit, personally welcoming and seeing him off at the airport, arranging fighter jets to escort the special plane, and jointly appreciating Kazakh children reciting self-composed Chinese poems and performing ethnic dances, fully demonstrating his deep friendship with President Xi Jinping (习近平).
Domestic and foreign public opinion has paid close attention, generally believing that this trip reflects the important position of Central Asia in China's overall diplomatic strategy, promotes closer and deeper relations and broader prospects between China and Central Asian countries. China has long been committed to good-neighborliness and friendship, focusing on sharing development opportunities with neighboring countries. Central Asian countries are eager to develop relations and strengthen cooperation with China. This summit has become one of the most important diplomatic events in Central Asian countries this year. Faced with global challenges such as unilateralism and protectionism, China and Central Asian countries have worked together to practice the cooperation path of mutual respect, openness and inclusiveness, and mutual benefit and win-win results. Against the backdrop of major global powers establishing dialogue mechanisms with Central Asian countries, the China-Central Asia mechanism has developed rapidly, with practical cooperation and many results, which has been highly recognized by Central Asian countries and has become a benchmark for regional cooperation.
I. Building on the Past and Opening up the Future, Illuminating the "China-Central Asia Spirit"
Wang Yi (王毅) said that China and Central Asian countries are connected by mountains and rivers and are as interdependent as lips and teeth. They have always treated each other with trust and sincerity and are good neighbors, good partners, and good brothers who share a common destiny. Through more than 30 years of joint efforts since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China and the five Central Asian countries have achieved "three full coverage" of comprehensive strategic partnership, co-building "Belt and Road" partners, and bilateral and regional community of common destiny, demonstrating the firm determination of both sides to work together and create a future together. Five years ago, the six countries jointly established the China-Central Asia mechanism. This mechanism meets the needs of all parties and conforms to the trend of history. Once established, it showed vigorous vitality and achieved rapid development. In particular, the successful holding of the first summit in Xi'an (西安) in 2023 quickly formed the four pillars and eight beams of the mechanism construction, and 13 ministerial-level cooperation platforms were established successively. The permanent secretariat is fully operational, presenting a three-dimensional and diversified cooperation pattern with the leadership of heads of state, government promotion, participation of all sectors, and multi-track parallel development.
The most prominent highlight of this summit is President Xi Jinping's (习近平) announcement of the "China-Central Asia Spirit." This spirit is rooted in the common concepts and values formed by the six countries in long-term cooperation, and is jointly explored and refined by all parties. It demonstrates the firm will of the six countries to follow the wishes of good-neighborliness, strengthen the foundation of trust, gather the strength of unity, and take mutual assistance actions. President Xi Jinping (习近平) incisively summarized the core essence of the "China-Central Asia Spirit," that is, to adhere to mutual respect and equal treatment; to adhere to deepening mutual trust and responding in the same voice; to adhere to mutual benefit and win-win results and common development; and to adhere to helping each other and sharing weal and woe. The heads of state of Central Asian countries unanimously agreed to uphold this spirit, strengthen the spiritual cohesion and ideological centripetal force of cooperation between Central Asia and China, anchor the goal of building a community of common destiny, strengthen cooperation with a more proactive attitude and more pragmatic measures, and promote the China-Central Asia mechanism to continuously achieve new and greater development.
The heads of state of the six countries jointly signed the "Astana Declaration" (《阿斯塔纳宣言》), which concentrates on the important political consensus reached at this summit. All parties unanimously believe that maintaining effective all-round cooperation between China and the five Central Asian countries is in the fundamental interests of the people of the six countries, and they are determined to work together to build a closer China-Central Asia community of common destiny. The six countries reaffirmed their mutual understanding, respect and support on issues involving each other's core interests. China firmly supports Central Asian countries in independently choosing their development paths, and supports all countries in safeguarding national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. Central Asian countries reiterated their adherence to the one-China principle, recognizing that there is only one China in the world and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. All parties are determined to jointly combat the "three evil forces" and transnational organized crime, jointly respond to security threats, help Afghanistan achieve peace, stability and reconstruction and development at an early date, and create a regional security pattern of peace and tranquility and shared destiny. All parties agreed to support the work of the China-Central Asia Secretariat and agreed that the third China-Central Asia Summit will be hosted by China in 2027. All parties support China's assumption of the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and are willing to fully assist in the success of this year's Tianjin (天津) Summit.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. However, the world is still very unstable, and geopolitical conflicts are emerging one after another. Maintaining the post-war international order and sharing peace and tranquility are the common aspirations of the international community and the common aspirations of the six countries. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that history cannot go backwards, it should move forward; the world cannot be divided, it should be united; mankind cannot return to the law of the jungle, it should build a community of common destiny for mankind. This important statement is deafening and resounding. In the arduous years of war, China and the people of the Central Asian region supported each other, shared weal and woe, and jointly made important contributions to the cause of human justice. Entering the new era, China is willing to work with all parties to promote a correct view of history, defend the achievements of World War II, maintain the international system with the United Nations as the core, and inject more stability into world peace and development. Regarding the current situation in the Middle East, President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China opposes any act that violates the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of other countries. Military conflict is not the way to solve problems. All parties should promote the de-escalation of the conflict as soon as possible and avoid further escalation of the tense situation. The heads of state of Central Asian countries positively evaluated China's constructive role in international and regional affairs, highly appreciated President Xi Jinping's (习近平) proposed concept of building a community of common destiny for mankind and the three major global initiatives, and expressed their willingness to closely coordinate and cooperate with China in multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, adhere to solving hotspot issues through dialogue and consultation, and jointly defend international fairness and justice.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that from Xi'an (西安) to Astana (阿斯塔纳), this summit is of great significance for China-Central Asia cooperation to continue to increase its efforts. Against the background of the accelerated evolution of the century-old changes and the superposition of multiple risks, China and Central Asian countries will learn from historical wisdom, make an appointment with a common destiny, and take the "China-Central Asia Spirit" as a guide, adhere to the original intention of unity, continue to stand on the right side of history, jointly protect peace, jointly seek development, jointly promote progress, and jointly defend justice, and build a good China-Central Asia common home.
II. High-Quality Development, Moving Towards Common Modernization
Wang Yi (王毅) said that China and the five Central Asian countries are all developing countries and have always been fellow travelers on the road to modernization. Twelve years ago, it was in Astana (阿斯塔纳) that President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the initiative to jointly build the "Silk Road Economic Belt." With the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" as the main line, trade and investment between the six countries have flourished, major projects have been launched one after another, and interconnection has been accelerated, forming a pragmatic, efficient, and deeply integrated cooperation pattern.
The most distinct theme of this summit is that the heads of state of the six countries jointly announced 2025 to 2026 as the "Year of High-Quality Development of China-Central Asia Cooperation." All parties will focus on six priority directions: smooth trade, industrial investment, interconnection, green minerals, agricultural modernization, and people-to-people exchanges, promote more visual results, and help their respective development and revitalization. President Xi Jinping (习近平) and the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries witnessed the signing of the action plan for high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road." This is the first time that China has signed a cooperation document on jointly building the "Belt and Road" with all countries in a single surrounding region as a whole, coordinating and promoting cooperation from a strategic height and regional level, making Central Asia a more demonstration area for jointly building the "Belt and Road" with more sufficient color and stronger momentum. China will strengthen the alignment of development strategies with Central Asian countries and accelerate the implementation of a number of major projects. When President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with the heads of state of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, they unanimously agreed to promote the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway with high quality and strive to complete it at an early date so that all parties can benefit. China will also accelerate the construction of the third cross-border railway between China and Kazakhstan with Kazakhstan, implement the second phase of the key road section renovation of the China-Tajikistan highway with Tajikistan, deepen cooperation between China-Europe freight trains and the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor with Central Asian countries, and promote the transformation of the Central Asian region from "landlocked" to "land-linked," truly becoming a "golden crossroads" connecting the Eurasian continent.
China is the most important trade and investment partner of Central Asian countries. Since the Xi'an (西安) Summit, bilateral trade has achieved a substantial increase of 35%, reaching a record high of US$94.8 billion last year. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that no matter how the international situation changes, China always adheres to its unwavering commitment to opening up to the outside world and is willing to carry out higher-quality cooperation with Central Asian countries, deepen the integration of interests, and achieve common development. All parties unanimously believe that there are no winners in tariff wars and trade wars, and there is no way out for unilateralism and protectionism. The heads of state of the six countries jointly unveiled the China-Central Asia Trade Smooth Cooperation Platform and reaffirmed their commitment to consolidating the multilateral trading system based on WTO rules. The six countries reached an action plan to strengthen economic and trade cooperation, China and Kazakhstan signed a new version of the investment protection agreement, and China and Uzbekistan successfully concluded bilateral market access negotiations for Uzbekistan's accession to the WTO, demonstrating their firm willingness to oppose unilateralism and safeguard the international economic and trade order with practical actions.
In order to respond to the urgent needs of Central Asia for revitalization and enhancement of independent development capabilities, President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced the establishment of three cooperation centers for poverty reduction, education exchange, and desertification prevention within the framework of China-Central Asia cooperation, and will provide 3,000 training opportunities for Central Asian countries in the next two years. President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that China is willing to share development experience and the latest technological achievements with Central Asian countries, promote the interconnection of digital infrastructure, strengthen artificial intelligence cooperation, and cultivate new quality productive forces. The heads of state of Central Asian countries highly appreciated cooperation with China, thanked China for its selfless support and assistance, and believed that China's own development has brought a better new life to the people of Central Asia. Kazakh President Tokayev (托卡耶夫) said that China is Kazakhstan's friendly neighbor, close friend, and reliable partner, and the permanent comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries is entering a new golden age. When hosting the China-Central Asia Summit, President Tokayev (托卡耶夫) thanked China in Chinese for its comprehensive cooperation with Central Asian countries and said that Kazakhstan highly appreciates President Xi Jinping's (习近平) advocacy of building a community of common destiny in the surrounding areas, which is in line with the common interests of all countries. Kyrgyz President Zhaparov (扎帕罗夫) emphasized cherishing the strategic partnership of mutual respect, equality, mutual benefit, good-neighborliness and friendship between the two sides. China is Kyrgyzstan's largest trade and investment partner, and welcomes more Chinese companies to invest in Kyrgyzstan. Tajik President Rahmon (拉赫蒙) recalled President Xi Jinping's (习近平) historic state visit to Tajikistan last year and said that he is willing to actively implement the results of the visit and raise Tajikistan-China strategic cooperation to a new level. Turkmen President Berdymukhamedov (别尔德穆哈梅多夫) believes that the comprehensive and in-depth development of Turkmenistan-China relations is of important strategic significance and is willing to comprehensively expand cooperation with China to benefit the people of both sides. Uzbek President Mirziyoyev (米尔济约耶夫) said that Uzbekistan and China are as close as brothers and are willing to strengthen exchanges of experience in governance and administration with China, learn from China's experience in poverty alleviation, and promote the high-quality development of relations between the two countries.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that sharing development experience with developing countries is China's responsibility and is also the due meaning of implementing the Global Development Initiative. China never pursues a modernization that is good for itself alone, but is committed to common development and win-win cooperation with all countries. The pragmatic cooperation between China and Central Asian countries solves development problems, gathers the strength of common progress, and supports common prosperity. China will bring more development opportunities to the world, including Central Asian countries, with high-quality development and high-level opening up, and work with all countries to embark on a broad road of common modernization.
III. Knowing and Loving Each Other, Adhering to Permanent Good-Neighborliness and Friendship
Wang Yi (王毅) said, "Envoys look at each other on the road, and merchants travel endlessly" is a portrayal of the traditional friendship and historical exchanges between China and Central Asian countries. Entering the new era, people-to-people exchanges between China and Central Asian countries have become increasingly close, good stories of friendly exchanges have been frequently spread, and the foundation of public opinion has become more solid.
The most important initiative of this summit is that the heads of state of the six countries jointly signed the "Treaty of Permanent Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation" (《永久睦邻友好合作条约》) to fix the principle of friendship from generation to generation in legal form. This is a new milestone in the history of relations between the six countries, which will benefit the present and the future. The signing of the treaty shows that China and Central Asian countries have reached a new height in political mutual trust, a new step in strategic coordination, and a new leap in people-to-people connectivity, which will lay a solid foundation for the long-term stable development of relations between China and Central Asian countries. In the turbulent international situation, the six countries adhere to harmony and coexistence and are committed to making the heartland of the Eurasian continent a fertile land for peaceful, harmonious and beautiful development.
During the summit, China and Central Asian countries reached a series of new cooperation results in the fields of local cooperation, people-to-people exchanges, education exchange, and cultural tourism, tightening the people-to-people bonds of common heart and common mind and knowing and loving each other. President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced that China will open more cultural centers, university branches, Luban Workshops, and traditional Chinese medicine centers in Central Asia, add Central Asian language majors in Chinese universities, continue to implement the "China-Central Asia Technical and Skill Improvement Program," and strengthen cooperation with legislative bodies, political parties, women, youth, media, and think tanks of Central Asian countries, and conduct in-depth exchanges of experience in governance and administration. The heads of state of the six countries witnessed the signing of a number of sister city agreements. The number of sister cities between China and Central Asian countries exceeded 100 pairs, completing the goal of the initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) three years ago. The first direct flight between Beijing (北京) and Dushanbe (杜尚别) was launched, and direct flights between China and the capitals of Central Asian countries have achieved full coverage. The six countries signed a cooperation initiative to promote the facilitation of people-to-people exchanges and agreed to introduce facilitation measures such as simplified visa procedures, so that the people of China and Central Asian countries can visit each other as often as relatives. All parties agreed to actively promote the establishment of cultural centers with each other, cooperate in carrying out the selection of "China-Central Asia Capital of Culture and Tourism," connect the historical and cultural context of the six countries, and inherit the millennium-old Silk Road friendship. During this trip, "Xi Jinping's Quotations" (《平“语”近人——习近平喜欢的典故》) was broadcast in the five Central Asian countries, and the Chinese poems and allusions quoted by President Xi Jinping (习近平) were widely concerned and loved by the local people.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that the key to state-to-state relations lies in people-to-people affinity. The traditional friendship between China and Central Asian countries is written by the people, and the beautiful future will also be created by the people. Under the joint leadership of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries, China and Central Asian countries have built bridges of exchange and mutual learning and created a "heart-to-heart" pattern from the central to the local, from the official to the non-governmental, and from neighboring regions to wider regions. People-to-people affinity and civilization exchange and mutual learning will become an important support for the construction of the China-Central Asia community of common destiny, so that the concept of friendship from generation to generation between the six countries will continue to flourish and be passed on.
Wang Yi (王毅) finally said that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to Central Asia this time is based on the surrounding areas, planning the overall situation, leading the development of the China-Central Asia mechanism, promoting the construction of a community of common destiny in the surrounding areas, and gathering the consensus on safeguarding international fairness and justice. It is another successful practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought and China's surrounding diplomacy. **行大道者得人心** (xíng dà dào zhě dé rén xīn - "those who follow the great path win people's hearts," meaning that those who act justly and righteously will gain popular support) and **凝众志者成其远** (níng zhòng zhì zhě chéng qí yuǎn - "those who unite the will of the people achieve great things," meaning that collective effort leads to success). Faced with the complex and volatile external environment, we will continue to take Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought as a guide, hold high the banner of building a community of common destiny for mankind, forge ahead and be proactive, and continue to write a new chapter in which China and the world illuminate each other and achieve each other, and help comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Return to TopNowadays, more and more young people are choosing to go to the western regions to contribute their youthful strength and write brilliant chapters in their lives. What kind of growth can be gained in the western regions and at the grassroots level? In this issue of "Everyone's Talk," let's listen to the stories of three young people.
——Editor
The Value of Expertise is Highlighted Here
Zhang Zhiqiang (张志强)
Standing on the banks of the Suomo River (梭磨河) in Malkang City (马尔康市), Sichuan (四川), at an altitude of 2,600 meters, looking at the winding highway beneath my feet, my thoughts can't help but return to 2018. That year, after graduating, my wife and I came here together. My wife taught in the local area, and I joined the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture People's Hospital (阿坝藏族羌族自治州人民医院). Since then, I have witnessed and participated in the process of bringing "mobile clinics and free clinics" into schools, communities, and pastoral areas.
Establishing oral health records for school-age children, popularizing oral health for herders, and providing door-to-door medical services for elderly people living alone... The number of free clinics has grown from more than 10 per year to now covering 13 counties and cities in the entire prefecture, benefiting more than 50,000 people. With our efforts bit by bit, we are constantly weaving a denser health security network for the local people. Through the "mentor-apprentice" model to train local medical staff, using 5G technology to achieve remote expert consultation, and opening up a green channel for referrals in the adjacent areas of Sichuan (川), Gansu (甘), and Qinghai (青) provinces, a full-cycle service system of "prevention-diagnosis-rehabilitation" is now maturing. I will never forget an old woman holding the doctor's hand and saying, "In the past, when my teeth hurt, I could only endure it and put some peppercorns on it. Now, the 'Menba' (门巴) (Tibetan for: doctor) has brought health to my doorstep!" These simple words made me deeply realize the value of my major and inspired me to continue moving forward.
The more difficult the place, the more responsibility is needed. By stepping forward and taking responsibility, youth will shine; by striving for progress, youth will have meaning. From "difficulty in seeing a doctor" to having "experts at the doorstep," from single-point breakthroughs to regional collaboration, the transformation that has taken place in Malkang (马尔康) is the fruitful result of the dedication and commitment of many people. I will do my best to build a solid health defense line with my expertise and perseverance, and write a new answer sheet with my original intention and mission.
(The author is a doctor at the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture People's Hospital (阿坝藏族羌族自治州人民医院) in Sichuan (四川))
Perseverance is the Appearance of Youth
Chen Xiangyan (陈相延)
Six years ago, after a bumpy ride, I arrived at the Yidaliang Border Police Station (依达良边境派出所) in Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture (克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州), Xinjiang (新疆). The wind rolled up gravel and hit the car windows, making a dense sound. Coming from the "coast of the East China Sea" to the "state of ten thousand mountains," I truly felt the meaning of the word "border" for the first time.
Here, the breath exhaled in winter freezes into ice, and the footsteps of spring are always wrapped in sand and dust from afar. When I first arrived, I carried a police affairs bag to visit herders and often got lost in the ravines. Grassroots police work is not as thrilling as in movies and TV dramas, but more about trivial daily routines. For example, helping herders find lost sheep, mediating disputes between herders over pastureland, and escorting children with sudden high fevers to the hospital late at night... One winter, my colleagues and I crossed mountains and ridges in the biting cold wind, walking for 7 hours to deliver life-saving rations to herders trapped in the mountain nest. When I heard more and more people say "Police Balangzi Yakexi" (警察巴郎子亚克西) (Uyghur, meaning "Good police boy"), I gradually understood the meaning of perseverance.
The stage of youth is not elsewhere, but in the place where the country and the people need it. Walking on the ridges of the border, I often see camel thorns on the Gobi Desert - rooted in barren land but deeply hidden with the tenacity of life, this is what our youth looks like.
(The author is a police officer at the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture Border Management Detachment (克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州边境管理支队) of the Xinjiang Entry-Exit Border Inspection General Station (新疆出入境边防检查总站))
Dreams and Hopes in "Collections"
Liu Xiaoran (刘晓冉)
In less than a year since I came to Delingha (德令哈) City, Qinghai (青海), to teach at Chaidamu Road Primary School (柴达木路小学), I have three special "collections" on my desk - a beverage bottle filled with starch, a paper rose, and a simple drawing. They come from children in three different grades.
The beverage bottle was left by a third-grade student after an experiment. When teaching the non-Newtonian fluid experiment, the children mixed starch and water in proportion, and then marveled at the magical properties of non-Newtonian fluids that are "**遇强则强，遇柔则柔**" (yù qiáng zé qiáng, yù róu zé róu - "strong when encountering strength, soft when encountering softness," the stronger the impact, the greater the resistance; the weaker the impact, the less the resistance). This bottle, labeled "River that will Harden," is not only a vivid testimony to stimulating students' curiosity with science experiments, but also an epitome of improving the quality and efficiency of education in the western regions.
The second item is a paper rose made by a second-grade student. She saw a video of the sea of flowers in Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛), Hebei (河北), online and hopes that in the future, she can use her efforts to make flowers bloom in the sandy land of Delingha (德令哈). The paper rose reflects the germination of ecological civilization seeds in the students' hearts, and also carries the children's beautiful wishes to build their hometown.
The third item is a painting drawn for me by a first-grade student. In the painting, I am wearing a space helmet, and in the sky are Beidou satellites (北斗卫星) and C919 large aircraft (C919大飞机). This stems from my telling them about my alma mater's research team's participation in the development of these two "national heavyweights."
The three "collections" are all small objects, but they are very precious to me. In the "collections" are the children's big dreams and the new hope for education in the western regions. Education is the foundation for building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation. Starting from preparing a good lesson and teaching a good course, this is my responsibility and ambition.
(The author is a member of the 26th Graduate Teaching Group of Yanshan University (燕山大学))
Return to TopBy: 宋佳航
When technology empowers cultural expression, Chinese stories become more charming and activate boundless imagination.
From *Ne Zha* interpreting "Chinese-style romance" with stunning special effects, to China's first virtual reality film *Eternal Love in the Forbidden City* premiering at the 78th Cannes International Film Festival, and then to the first Artificial Intelligence exhibition area at the 21st China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) where various robots showcased their "unique skills"... Through innovative landscapes in different fields, we can see that the "technological content" in Chinese stories is constantly improving.
Currently, cutting-edge technologies are booming, reshaping the way Chinese stories are expressed with unprecedented power. From the visual shock of large models constructing "digital stages" to the immersive new experiences of cultural expositions created by virtual reality and big data visualization, and then to the powerful appeal of works such as *Black Myth: Wukong* activating traditional cultural narratives, with the support of technology, Chinese stories are making a renewed appearance in a more vivid and shocking manner.
When technology empowers cultural expression, Chinese stories become more charming and activate boundless imagination. At the 21st ICIF, robots playing musical instruments, dancing, and playing chess were ubiquitous, frequently becoming the focus of attention. At the Osaka World Expo in Japan, "AI Sun Wukong" used the iFlytek Spark large model to achieve trilingual interaction in Chinese, Japanese, and English, transforming into the "smart spokesperson" of the China Pavilion. These technology-empowered innovative presentations build bridges that cross cultural barriers, allowing overseas audiences to get close to Chinese culture in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, quietly stimulating cross-cultural understanding and recognition.
From cultural expression to value texture, China is also using technology as a medium to convey ideas and spirit. The display of the China Pavilion at the Osaka World Expo in Japan is a model: it transcends the static expression of traditional exhibitions, cleverly using interactive devices, digital technology, and artificial intelligence to vividly present concepts such as "harmony between man and nature" and "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets." China has rich practices and wonderful stories in areas such as responding to climate change, promoting sustainable development, and exploring the mysteries of the universe. The "experiential narrative" constructed by technology empowerment not only helps to eliminate the gap in civilization understanding, but also allows the image of a responsible major country to be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people through emotional resonance.
What Chinese technology promotes is far more than the innovation of communication methods, but also the transformation of expression paradigms. The steady improvement of China's international image in the past few years is inseparable from the shaping of the "Cool China" image and the deep emotional resonance achieved with the global younger generation. Domestic games, virtual digital humans, the metaverse, and other emerging carriers are telling Chinese stories in a language familiar to young people: Chinese online games melt "black technology" and traditional cultural elements into one furnace, intangible cultural heritage skills are rejuvenated in the virtual world, Hanfu culture is sweeping the globe through live broadcasts, and Chinese-style music is widely sung on short video platforms... These innovative practices effectively narrow the "heart distance" between global users and Chinese culture, allowing the younger generation to spontaneously become communicators and interpreters of Chinese stories in an immersive experience. This paradigm shift from "cultural output" to "emotional resonance" is injecting a continuous stream of new impetus into the shaping of China's international image, and also allows the ancient Chinese civilization to show its lasting vitality and appeal in the global dialogue of the digital age.
Facts have proved that excellent technology applications and innovative digital experiences can transcend language, culture, and time and space, allowing more Chinese stories to knock on the door of the world's heart. Of course, technology is only a means, and content is the soul. No matter how advanced the technology is, high-quality, authentic, and in-depth narratives are always the core competitiveness. Therefore, while embracing the wave of technology, creators need to have a deeper cultural determination and value insight, so that technology can better serve the depth and temperature of the story itself.
In fact, Chinese technology can not only "light up" more Chinese stories, but it is also a wonderful Chinese story in itself. DeepSeek amazes the world, robots twisting Yangko on the Spring Festival Gala stage are stunning, and the Asian Winter Games achieve 100% green electricity supply... Behind the "blowout" of Chinese innovation achievements, the stories of Chinese scientific researchers are also worth listening to. It is their perseverance, hard work, and overcoming difficulties that allow Chinese technology to shine brightly on the innovation stage. Today, when technology and culture achieve each other in two-way empowerment, the new generation of innovators will surely have a broader world to gallop in and write more surging and more powerful Chinese stories.
Chinese technology "lights up" Chinese stories, and the future still holds infinite possibilities. As cutting-edge technology accelerates its entry into ordinary people's homes, the subject and form of telling Chinese stories will undergo more profound changes - technology empowerment allows more ordinary people to have the possibility of telling stories around them. In the future, more Chinese stories carrying real emotions and the imprint of the times will stir up emotional ripples in the hearts of global audiences through diversified personalized expressions. Chinese stories will also surely go further and spread wider with the power of technology, leaving more warm and brilliant imprints in the starry sky of world civilization.
Return to TopShanghai Pudong New Area (上海浦东新区), Qingnian Chuangxiao (青年创校) provides services such as industrial study tours and corporate training to help job seekers accumulate work experience; Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone (郑州经开区), Henan (河南), has 8 "Leyexiaozhan (乐业小站)" radiating across 29 streets, connecting employers and job seekers by organizing recruitment fairs, live broadcasts, and other methods... In recent years, various regions have actively explored the creation of "15-minute employment service circles" to clear the "last mile" of public employment services.
This is precisely:
Striving for a career, why walk alone?
The streets and lanes work together to spread the word.
Diligently exploring the path to success,
And borrowing the east wind to start a new journey.
Wang Jingwen (王静文)
Return to TopBy: 云南昆明 杨文明
Wild mushrooms that were once unknown in the mountains have been transformed into a "mountain delicacy feast"; fresh flowers that were once considered "neither edible nor wearable" now support an annual transaction volume of tens of billions of yuan... Tasting a pot of mushrooms, buying a bouquet of flowers, strolling through a city, if you ask about the secret to the success of Yunnan (云南) cultural tourism, "emotional value" must be an important factor.
What is emotional value? Simply put, it is a sense of gain. With economic and social development and the continuous improvement of people's quality of life, consumers not only pay attention to cost performance, but also begin to care about "happiness performance." Fireside tea brewing, healing experiences, "dopamine scenic spots"... In the cultural tourism market, more and more people, especially young people, are willing to pay for "fun" and for "healing." For local cultural tourism, aiming at the demand for emotional value and providing real and tangible experiences can not only help tourists better understand and integrate into the local culture and win psychological recognition, but also create a unique competitiveness for themselves.
Emotional value, in the final analysis, is a kind of humanistic value, focusing on the humanistic core and emotional experience. Therefore, to go from value for money to belonging in the heart, on the one hand, we must put in detailed efforts in the design of cultural tourism projects, change the traditional "走马观花" (zǒu mǎ guān huā - "riding a horse watching flowers," to gain a superficial understanding through cursory observation) model, and present local customs in a more participatory and ritualistic form; on the other hand, we must continue to optimize infrastructure and public services to make tourists feel at home. Excavating the economic value contained in emotional value will surely open up new space for the high-quality development of cultural tourism.
Return to TopBy: 皇甫思逸
Recently, the news that "a second-grade boy pointed out errors in the Chinese textbook, and the People's Education Press (人教社) replied seriously" has gone viral.
In Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏), Chang Qiming (常启鸣), a second-grade student, felt something was wrong when previewing the lesson "The Story of 'Shell'" at home—why was the illustration of "shell" in the textbook a single-shelled snail? So, with his mother's support, this student sent his question to the Chinese Editorial Department of the People's Education Press (人教社语文编辑部), seeking an answer. Afterward, the editorial department not only replied to explain the confusion, clarifying that the picture was of "cowry shells," an ancient Chinese currency, but also seriously accepted Xiao Chang's (小常) suggestion to add a supplementary footnote.
In recent years, more and more children like Xiao Chang (小常) have dared to "find fault" with textbooks. In Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁), some students pointed out that the bee picture in the English textbook was actually a hoverfly; elementary school students in Shanghai (上海) discovered that the "leaf" in the art textbook was actually an ancient sea lily; a junior high school student in Huangshan (黄山), Anhui (安徽) found an error in the name of an important figure on a historical map... These children not only have the knowledge reserves and subjective initiative to discover errors, but also the courage to question and the courage to seek verification. Behind this is the driving force of the pursuit of knowledge, and also a spirit of not blindly following is budding. This is precisely the excellent quality that education should cherish.
At the same time, the parents' attitude and the People's Education Press's (人教社) reply are also particularly heartwarming. Chang's mother (常妈妈) did not use "textbooks can't be wrong" to perfunctorily answer her child, but instead became a guide on her child's exploration path; the People's Education Press (人教社) did not despise "children's questions," but instead used a rigorous attitude to dispel doubts and accept reasonable suggestions. This "squatting down to talk" posture conveys a clear positive feedback to the child: your ideas are important, your thinking has value.
In the long run, cherishing children's spirit of questioning is also safeguarding the source of innovation. If children become passive recipients of knowledge from an early age, they may lose the courage to actively explore. When their "small questions" are cherished, and when society forms an educational ecology that encourages questioning and exploration, the seeds of independent thinking and innovative creation will quietly sprout. Letting children learn through questioning and grow through deliberation makes education more vital and can cultivate a generation with their own opinions and creativity.
Currently, the wave of intelligence is surging, and there are more channels for acquiring knowledge than in the past. The goal of education is no longer just to "give a man a fish," but to "teach a man to fish," teaching children how to think, how to discern, and how to innovate. We might as well leave space for these naive voices that dare to "find fault," and safeguard this precious growth force with an inclusive and open attitude.
(Excerpted and adapted from *Guangzhou Daily (广州日报)*, originally titled *Children Finding Fault with Textbooks Deserves Cherishing*)
Return to TopBy: 杨 琛
Overcome the fear of difficulty that says "it can't be solved," and have more pragmatic thinking and quick action on "how to solve it," solving the urgent needs and anxieties of the people step by step.
Real estate registration involves millions of households. It is an important system for serving economic and social development and protecting the property rights of the people, and it is also an important part of optimizing the business environment. For a long time, due to historical legacy issues such as imperfect land use procedures, the disappearance of development entities, and inconsistent real estate information, some regions have experienced "registration difficulties" for real estate, which has become a "heart disease" for many people.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Embody the people-centered development philosophy in all aspects of economic and social development, so that whatever the people care about and expect, the reform should seize and promote, and bring more gains to the people through reform." Adhering to people-oriented principles, protecting rights and interests, ensuring transactions, and benefiting the people, unblocking obstacles and breaking down barriers, and continuously deepening the unified real estate registration reform, can properly resolve a series of historical legacy issues and do practical things to the hearts of the people.
There must be a certain strategy before there can be a certain achievement. In 2021, the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) issued a policy document to resolve historical legacy issues, requiring that the responsible entity, measures, and time limits be clarified according to the principle of "what is missing, what is supplemented, and who approves is responsible," pressing the "fast forward button" for resolving historical legacy issues. As of now, more than 20 million sets of historical legacy houses have been resolved nationwide, benefiting more than 50 million people. In particular, since 2024, a total of more than 3.4 million sets of various long-standing inter-departmental "hard bone" problems have been resolved nationwide. Solving historical legacy issues requires concentrated efforts, and it will inevitably go through a process. Solidly advancing and persevering, the "registration difficulty" of real estate will surely be solved.
Establish a "solvable thinking" and actively promote the resolution of historical legacy issues. The reasons for "registration difficulty" are complex, the types are different, and they are often not in the "registration" itself, but in the problems formed in special historical periods and development stages. In actual operation, all regions and departments should adhere to the method of seeking truth from facts and adapting to local conditions, and use innovative thinking to solve problems. Weihai (威海), Shandong (山东), established the working idea of "clarifying problems and implementing policies according to different categories," tracing the source of 18 problems in 5 categories: taxes and fees, supporting facilities, quality, fire protection, and planning, implementing one policy for each question, and promoting the "certificate processing and tax payment" two-line parallel working method and the "handling certificates, recovering payments, and investigating and handling cases" three-pronged working method, effectively solving a number of real estate certificate processing problems. Practice shows that historical legacy issues will not disappear on their own. Covering up problems is not a solution. The longer the time is delayed, the more problems and contradictions will accumulate. When solving problems, it is necessary to overcome the fear of difficulty that says "it can't be solved," and have more pragmatic thinking and quick action on "how to solve it," solving the urgent needs and anxieties of the people step by step.
Small wisdom governs things, great wisdom governs systems. To solve the "registration difficulty" of real estate, it is necessary to take multiple measures to remove the stock, but also to combine dredging and blocking to prevent incremental increases, and prevent new problems from arising at the source. While allowing the people to enjoy policy dividends, it is also necessary to prevent illegal and irregular behaviors from "hitching a ride" on the handling of historical legacy issues. At present, China (中国) has fully realized the unified real estate registration, and the unified registration system has basically taken shape. The Real Estate Registration Law has also been included in the first category of projects in the legislative plan of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee. Seizing the legislative opportunity, adhering to the problem-oriented approach, carefully sorting out the outstanding problems and reform practices encountered in various places, drawing on successful experiences, and improving the real estate registration system led by the Real Estate Registration Law and coordinated and unified by relevant laws and regulations, can provide a solid guarantee for solving various problems.
Complex problems often do not have simple solutions, and we can find a path by meeting difficulties head-on. Further deepening reform, taking practical measures to resolve difficulties, and realizing the transformation of services from "management-oriented" to "demand-oriented" will surely make the "big red book" of real estate ownership certificates better support the people's "dream of living in peace" and bring a real sense of gain, happiness, and security.
(Author's unit: Real Estate Registration Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部不动产登记中心))
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Return to TopBy: 《环球人物》记者 王喆宁
Xu Xing (徐星), born in 1969 in Yili (伊犁), Xinjiang (新疆), is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), and the director and a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (古脊椎动物与古人类研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He mainly engages in the study of Mesozoic reptile fossils and stratigraphy, and has won the Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, and other awards. Enthusiastic about popular science, his book "The Undead Dinosaurs" was named one of the top ten popular science books in the country.
Years later, Xu Xing still clearly remembers a night in 1997 in Beipiao (北票市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省). That day, the field excavation work on dinosaur fossils had ended, and a local told Xu Xing and his colleagues that he was willing to donate a fossil specimen. Arriving at the donor's residence, Xu Xing saw some broken fossils piled in a corner of the house. When he saw the faint feather imprints on one of the fossils, he excitedly squatted down. "The feeling at that time was indescribable," as if he had opened a crack in the door of evolutionary history, behind which lay the long process of dinosaurs evolving into birds.
This fossil was later named "Unexpected Beipiao Dragon," and was the world's first discovered therizinosaur fossil preserved with feathers. It was this discovery that led Xu Xing to choose feathered dinosaurs as his research direction.
Today, Xu Xing is the director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he and his colleagues have named more than 80 new species of dinosaurs. When reporters walk into the library of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the shelves are neatly stacked with Chinese and foreign academic journals in the field of paleontology, and Xu Xing's name can be seen in many journals.
Exploring the Unknown, Deeply Cultivating the Field of Dinosaur Evolution
In the early 21st century, an excavation in Chaoyang (朝阳市), Liaoning Province, changed people's understanding of dinosaurs—Xu Xing and his colleagues discovered *Microraptor*, which had flight feathers on both its forelimbs and hind limbs, and proposed the four-winged dinosaur hypothesis, but it was met with some skepticism. Xu Xing admitted: "Our traditional understanding of dinosaurs and birds has a fixed pattern, and many researchers cannot accept such a concept."
At that time, most scholars believed in the cursorial origin of bird flight, that is, they believed that the ancestors of birds were small theropod dinosaurs that walked on two legs, and during running, their forelimbs were liberated and evolved the ability to flap. However, Xu Xing and others believe that these dinosaurs with four wings may have already had gliding ability. This discovery provided key evidence for the hypothesis that the origin of bird flight was in arboreal animals and went through a gliding stage.
In 2011, in the Wucaiwan (五彩湾) area of Xinjiang (新疆), Yu Tao (余涛), a member of the scientific expedition team, discovered a row of curved and sharp teeth exposed on the stratum. "At that time, we were very excited and wondered if it could be a member of the tyrannosaur family? Jurassic tyrannosaur family fossils were very rare at that time, and this very well-preserved fossil would be an important discovery." Xu Xing and his colleagues, who were very excited, high-fived to celebrate. Subsequently, the members of the scientific expedition team finally obtained complete fossils through arduous excavation.
In 2015, the discovery of *Yi qi* caused even greater waves. This dinosaur had bat-like membranous wings, which contradicted the previously known evolutionary history of feathered flight. To confirm this discovery, Xu Xing's team first performed CT scans on the fossils, then observed the microscopic structure of the wings with an electron microscope, and even analyzed the residual chemical composition of the wing membrane. "Through evidence from different sources, we finally convinced the reviewers of *Nature* magazine to believe that *Yi qi* did have strange wings," Xu Xing said.
With the deep cultivation in the field of dinosaur evolution, Xu Xing has published more than 300 papers, and his research results have created a number of world firsts. In 2023, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is affectionately known as the "Dinosaur Academician."
Xu Xing introduced, "Why can't the dinosaurs discovered in China be named in Chinese? In fact, scholars from all over the world are trying to name dinosaurs in local languages to increase the local characteristics of dinosaurs."
Xu Xing first used Hanyu Pinyin to directly name "Mei long (寐龙)" in 2004, which not only describes the curled sleeping posture of the fossil, but also implies hundreds of millions of years of sleep. After that, he named many dinosaur names with Chinese style, such as "Dilong paradoxus (奇异帝龙)" and "Chaoyangopterus zhangi (朝阳传奇龙)". In 2012, *Nature* magazine commented: "Xu Xing has revolutionized dinosaur evolution research, helping China become a paleontology 'powerhouse'. He has named more than 60 species, more than any other living vertebrate paleontologist..."
Roughing It, Carrying Out Difficult Excavations in No Man's Land
Although many types of dinosaurs have been named, for Xu Xing and many researchers, "no important discoveries" is the norm for field excavations. In his early years, when he carried out field expeditions, he often led teams to areas rarely visited by predecessors to look for dinosaur fossils. This exploration process was full of hardships and uncertainties. "Our scientific expedition team of more than 10 people often walked 20 to 30 kilometers a day in no man's land, working continuously for one or two weeks, without any discoveries."
The process of finding fossils is often extremely boring. Xu Xing's daily fieldwork begins with equipment inspection before dawn. Geological hammers, magnifying glasses, consolidants, etc. are packed into faded canvas bags. After the team members arrive at the location, they hold geological hammers and bend over to tap the rock formations, repeating the work of peeling, cleaning, and marking every day.
Roughing it is the daily routine of the team, and sometimes they even have to compete with wolves for food. Once, a sheep was lost from the camp. "A few days later, we found the sheep that had been bitten to death by wolves 300 meters away from the camp." Vehicle failures are even more common—the steering wheel falls off in the bumps, and the tires are pierced by sharp stones...
What impressed Xu Xing the most was working in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. In order to save water, team members could not wash their faces or brush their teeth for 20 consecutive days. Xu Xing's socks were so hardened by sweat salt crystals and sand that they were like boots and could stand upright in the corner of the tent.
Once in the Gurbantunggut Desert (古尔班通古特沙漠) in Xinjiang, Xu Xing was working on the ground as usual. "After finding the fossil, it must be wrapped in plaster and burlap and taken back, a bag of about 50 kilograms." When moving it, Xu Xing clearly heard a "click" from his waist, and a sharp pain struck him. In order not to delay the investigation 200 kilometers away, he lay in the back seat of the car in pain and crossed the Gobi Desert for more than two days before reaching the next destination. Now, back pain has become a chronic problem, and he often has to work standing up. However, Xu Xing does not think it is bitter. "Only by 'walking' year after year can we have the opportunity to reap luck." Just like the discovery of "Unexpected Beipiao Dragon," the so-called "luck" is the result of "**水到渠成**" (shuǐ dào qú chéng - "when water comes, a channel is formed," success comes naturally; when conditions are right, success will follow) after experiencing hardships and hard work.
Embracing "Turning Points," Using Popular Science to Convey Knowledge and Fun
In his childhood, Xu Xing had many dreams, such as becoming a mathematician like Chen Jingrun (陈景润), but he never thought that he would be connected with creatures from hundreds of millions of years ago. In junior high school, he became fascinated by physics and wanted to study in the Physics Department of Peking University (北京大学).
The first turning point in fate occurred in the summer of 1988. The Physics Department of Peking University did not enroll undergraduates in Xinjiang that year. When he saw "Paleontology and Stratigraphy" on the admission notice, Xu Xing was very puzzled: "What does this major do?" The teacher was also confused and thought it might be a new major. After the start of school, Xu Xing learned that this discipline was a branch of earth science.
The second turning point came even more dramatically. In 1992, the top students in Xu Xing's class all gave up their qualifications for postgraduate recommendation, and he unexpectedly obtained a recommendation and became the only newly enrolled master's student of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that year.
Xu Xing finally accepted the "choice of fate." In the last year of his master's degree, in order to complete his graduation thesis, Xu Xing began to systematically study dinosaur fossils and carry out field excavations. "At that time, I realized that dinosaur fossil research is a very interesting thing, and the required technologies and methods are also very compatible with my abilities. I like field expeditions and like to lie on the ground looking for fossils. When I touched a dinosaur fossil with my own hands for the first time, I seemed to feel life from hundreds of millions of years ago." From then on, Xu Xing was truly considered to have entered the field of paleontology.
In order to pass on the fun of paleontology to more people, Xu Xing began to get involved in popular science a few years later. At first, he wrote many popular science articles and also gave popular science lectures. The first time he gave a lecture at the Xidan Book Building (西单图书大厦) in Beijing (北京), there were a total of 7 people, including the on-site staff, parents, children, and Xu Xing. He has been sticking to popular science to this day, and he has also been questioned. "Some people say that the time of academicians is very valuable and they should do more important things, such as scientific research. But I think that popular science and scientific research are equally important," Xu Xing said.
More than 20 years ago, Xu Xing learned that he needed to write a popular science article about dinosaurs of about 1,000 words, and it might be published in elementary school Chinese textbooks. He was both excited and distressed. "Scientific language and popular science language are actually two different style systems. It was a text for the fourth grade of elementary school. It had to be understandable to children and also have literary qualities, which was a very challenging task for me." In just 1,000 words, Xu Xing repeatedly deliberated and revised it several times.
"Speaking of dinosaurs, people often think of the ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex or the clumsy and slow Mamenchisaurus; when it comes to birds, we naturally think of the light and agile pigeons or the colorful peacocks. The two seem to be unrelated, but a large number of fossils discovered in recent years show that during the Mesozoic era, a branch of dinosaurs underwent a long evolution and eventually became birds soaring in the sky..." When the article was finally presented in the textbook, Xu Xing's "**自豪感**" (zì háo gǎn - "sense of pride," feeling of being proud) was "stronger than achieving scientific research results." Later, many children said in every popular science lecture that they had developed a great interest in dinosaurs because they had learned the text "Dinosaurs Flying to the Blue Sky."
Today, Xu Xing's popular science lectures are always packed. "Our understanding of the world begins in childhood. Dinosaur fossils can grab the attention of seven- or eight-year-old children, and can also allow children to pay more attention to science and understand science." Xu Xing said, "I do popular science not because I hope that all children will choose paleontology in the future, but because I hope that more children will pay attention to nature and science. Only when the whole society forms an atmosphere of advocating science can we truly cultivate the black soil for scientific and technological development and lay a solid foundation for scientific research."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 者
Entering summer, it dawns exceptionally early. At 5 o'clock, Liu Qiang (刘强) and Lu Yan (卢岩), husband and wife, arrived on time at the Jiurushan Scenic Area (九如山景区) parking lot in the southern mountainous area of Licheng District (历城区), Jinan City (济南市), Shandong Province (山东省).
After changing into work clothes, his wife Lu Yan (卢岩) thoughtfully straightened her husband Liu Qiang's (刘强) collar and cuffs. Subsequently, the two boarded the buses they were to drive, carefully checked the condition of each component, preheated the vehicles, and prepared for departure in a tense and orderly manner.
Lu Yan (卢岩) is 36 years old this year, and Liu Qiang (刘强) is 38 years old. Both are drivers of the Jinan Bus Group (济南公交集团) and have been engaged in bus driving for 13 years. In 2020, the two came to Route 312 together, driving buses to facilitate the travel of the masses, and have spent more than 5 years together.
The Route 312 bus departs from Jiurushan Scenic Area (九如山景区) and terminates at Yanshan Overpass (燕山立交桥) in Lixia District (历下区), Jinan City (济南市). It is an important route connecting the southern end of Jinan City (济南市) with the city center transportation hub. The entire route has more than 60 stops and is nearly 45 kilometers long, making it an important travel option for villagers in the mountainous area to enter the city and for citizens to travel. Every day, the couple has to make at least two round trips, a total of nearly 180 kilometers.
Igniting the engine and starting the car, lightly stepping on the accelerator... At 5:30 in the morning, Lu Yan (卢岩) steadily started the vehicle and drove out of the station.
"Uncle Li (李), going to the city early today? This green onion looks very fresh."
"Go early and try to sell it for a good price."
The vehicle entered the first stop, Jiurushan Scenic Area (九如山景区). Li Wei (李伟), a 73-year-old villager from the nearby Huluyu Village (葫芦峪村), carrying a basket of green onions, got on the bus and greeted Lu Yan (卢岩) enthusiastically. Li Wei (李伟) is engaged in vegetable planting and has been going to the city to sell vegetables every day for nearly 10 years, taking the Route 312 bus to and from the city.
There are many villagers like Li Wei (李伟) along Route 312. Some of them go to the city to work, and some go to the city to sell vegetables. They depart at different times, but every day they wait for the arrival of the Route 312 bus at different platforms.
Being "needed" has become Lu Yan's (卢岩) deepest feeling about driving the Route 312 bus.
The conditions in the mountainous area are difficult, and there are no dedicated water intake facilities for washing vehicles, so water needs to be drawn from the lake. In winter, when the temperature drops below zero, the couple chisels ice to fetch water in order to clean the vehicles, and their hands are frozen red. Lu Yan (卢岩) also wanted to give up, but then she thought, "This route is related to the livelihood of the people in the mountainous area," so she chose to persevere.
At 6:03, the vehicle arrived at the Longwan Village (龙湾村) stop, and many villagers who went to the city to work poured into the bus, and the carriage suddenly became lively. Among them was Aunt Chu (初), a villager who was familiar with Lu Yan (卢岩). She greeted Aunt Chu (初) to get on the bus and reminded her to find a seat.
In the process of serving passengers, the villagers also reciprocate the couple with heartwarming gestures. On the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, it was Lu Yan's (卢岩) turn to be on duty. When she drove into Longwan Village (龙湾村), Aunt Chu (初), who had been waiting there, brought a pot of steaming dumplings to the bus to give to Lu Yan (卢岩). Lu Yan (卢岩) quickly took the dumplings, helped Aunt Chu (初) to sit down, and promised her that she would taste this "warmth" during her break.
In rainy and snowy weather, the couple will send the villagers to the entrance of the village and help them carry their luggage; if there are good employment opportunities in the city, they will not forget to recommend them to the villagers... Over time, the couple has forged a deep friendship with the villagers. During festivals, there are always villagers waiting for the couple at the bus stop, just to bring them fresh fruits that have just matured in their own forest land.
At 6:25, the vehicle entered the urban area, and the traffic increased. Lu Yan (卢岩) concentrated on driving. Working on the same route, Liu Qiang (刘强) would pass on some driving experience to her. "When I first drove this route, he would organize the locations of the city where the traffic flow is large and when the morning peak appears into labels to remind me," said Lu Yan (卢岩).
At 6:55, the vehicle drove into the terminal station, Yanshan Overpass (燕山立交桥). Lu Yan (卢岩) lightly stepped on the brake and parked the vehicle. After resting here for 25 minutes, she had to drive back to the Jiurushan Scenic Area (九如山景区) parking lot.
"Look, the newly replaced electric car has a lighter braking sound." During the break, Lu Yan (卢岩) talked about the new changes on the route. Last year, the bus group replaced 8 brand-new electric buses for Route 312. The start was more stable and lighter, and more than a dozen seats were added. The driving comfort was improved, and the couple's enthusiasm was even greater.
At 7:05, Liu Qiang (刘强) also drove into the terminal station, Yanshan Overpass (燕山立交桥). After parking the vehicle, he hurried to jump on the bus driven by his wife to help his wife with the pre-departure inspection.
At 7:20, Lu Yan (卢岩) started the vehicle again and slowly drove away from the station. Liu Qiang (刘强) silently watched his wife leave and turned to devote himself to vehicle maintenance. After many years together, this has long become the norm between the couple.
Return to TopAccording to meteorological monitoring, strong rainfall occurred in Guangxi (广西), Sichuan (四川), Henan (河南), and other places during the day on June 18th. Strong convective weather appeared in some areas of Henan (河南), Hebei (河北), and other places. A strong precipitation process in the central and eastern regions has begun. At 18:00 on June 18th, the Central Meteorological Observatory continued to issue a yellow alert for heavy rain and a yellow alert for strong convective weather. The China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) activated a Level III emergency response for major meteorological disasters (heavy rain). The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) jointly issued an orange meteorological warning for mountain torrent disasters and a meteorological risk warning for geological disasters with the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局).
The Central Meteorological Observatory predicts that from the night of June 18th to the 21st, there will be a strong rainfall process in eastern Southwest China, western and northern Jiangnan, Jianghan, Jianghuai, Huanghuai, and Guangxi (广西), with heavy to torrential rain in some areas, localized heavy torrential rain, accompanied by short-term heavy precipitation, thunderstorms, strong winds, and other strong convective weather.
Among them, it is expected that from 20:00 on June 18th to 20:00 on June 19th, parts of Guizhou (贵州), southern and eastern Sichuan (四川), Chongqing (重庆), northern Guangxi (广西北部), Hubei (湖北), western and northern Hunan (湖南), central and eastern Henan (河南), eastern and southern Hebei (河北), central and western Shandong (山东), southern Tianjin (天津), and northern Liaoning (辽宁) will experience heavy to torrential rain. In particular, parts of central Henan (河南中部), southwestern Hubei (湖北西南部), northwestern Hunan (湖南西北部), and central and northern Guizhou (贵州中北部) will experience localized heavy torrential rain. The aforementioned areas will be accompanied by short-term heavy precipitation, and localized thunderstorms, strong winds, and other strong convective weather.
In other news, on June 18th, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters Office (国家防总办公室) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) organized a joint consultation with meteorological, water resources, and natural resources departments to analyze and judge the development trend of a new round of strong rainfall in the central and eastern regions, and to refine the deployment of prevention and response work for strong rainfall in key areas. According to the "National Flood Control and Drought Relief Emergency Plan" (《国家防汛抗旱应急预案》) and relevant regulations, the State Flood Control Headquarters decided to launch a Level IV flood control emergency response for Anhui (安徽), Hubei (湖北), Hunan (湖南), Chongqing (重庆), and Guizhou (贵州) at 12:00 on June 18th, and dispatched three working groups to key areas to assist and guide flood control and disaster relief work.
The consultation emphasized the need to strengthen the implementation of flood control responsibilities, urge responsible persons at all levels to take their positions, and implement responsibilities to the smallest units. It is necessary to strengthen the investigation of risk hazards, and before the heavy rain arrives, organize forces to re-investigate, re-implement, and re-rectify key flood control areas such as important projects, dangerous sections, mountain torrent disaster-prone areas, and urban and rural waterlogging-prone areas. It is necessary to intensify the monitoring, forecasting, consultation, and judgment of rainfall and water conditions, release early warning information in a timely and accurate manner, strengthen the linkage between early warning and response, and implement a direct early warning "call response" and follow-up feedback mechanism for grassroots responsible persons in the event of disasters. It is necessary to strengthen the evacuation and sheltering of personnel, transfer threatened personnel decisively in advance in accordance with the "four alls" requirements to ensure that all those who should be transferred are transferred, and that they are transferred early, and to strengthen the safety management of transferred personnel.
Return to TopIn recent years, Zhenyuan County (镇原县), Qingyang City (庆阳市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), while ensuring food security, has optimized its industrial structure and promoted green transformation, forging a path of modern agricultural development. The picture shows villagers in Shiba Xian Village (十八岘村), Zhenyuan County (镇原县) rushing to harvest terraced wheat on June 16.
Photo by Wang Qining (王启宁) (Image China).
Return to TopThis newspaper Shenyang (沈阳) June 18th (Reporter Liu Hongchao (刘洪超)) Recently, the "Several Measures of Liaoning Province (辽宁省) for Promoting the Integration of Culture, Sports and Tourism to Boost Consumption" jointly formulated by more than 10 units including the Liaoning Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (辽宁省文化和旅游厅), the Provincial Department of Finance (省财政厅), and the Provincial Sports Bureau (省体育局) was officially released.
According to several measures, Liaoning (辽宁) will deeply implement the "Hundred Cities and Hundred Districts" and "Hundred Cities and Thousand Stations" cultural and tourism consumption action plan, continue to promote the "Liao Products Out of Liao" action, and the cultural and tourism self-driving love station service. Consumer coupons of "Happy Shopping in Liaoning (乐购辽宁), Enjoying the Beautiful (惠享美好)" will be issued for the cultural, sports, and tourism fields. The province will provide matching support to cities that issue consumption subsidies at a certain amount, at a ratio of no more than 50%. A-level and above tourist attractions are encouraged to launch free or discounted tickets and other activities, and online travel companies are supported to launch platform subsidy activities for multiple scenarios and categories such as "food, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment."
Travel agencies that organize tourists from outside the province and overseas to travel to the province will be given corresponding rewards. Support cruise companies to deploy cruise routes and establish operating institutions in Liaoning (辽宁). Cruise companies that arrange no less than 10 voyages per year from the port of departure in Liaoning (辽宁) will be given a reward of no more than 200,000 yuan/voyage, with an annual maximum of no more than 2 million yuan.
Based on Liaoning's (辽宁) cultural, sports, and tourism resource endowments, Liaoning Province (辽宁省) encourages tourism enterprises to launch "Travel Liaoning (游辽宁) All-in-One Ticket" products (monthly pass, quarterly pass, annual pass), design and launch "Liaoning Panoramic Tour (辽宁全景游)" tourism routes and products, and form more cultural, sports, and tourism product service supply that reflects the characteristics of Liaoning (辽宁).
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Wuhan, June 18th (Reported by Fan Haotian (范昊天)) This reporter learned from the Changjiang Three Gorges Navigation Authority (长江三峡通航管理局) that the Three Gorges Dam ship lock has been operating safely and stably for 22 years since it was officially opened to social ships on June 18, 2003. It has accumulated 215,000 lock operations, with 1,074,000 ship passages, 12,291,100 passenger passages, and a cargo throughput of 2.24 billion tons.
The Three Gorges Dam ship lock is the inland river ship lock with the largest number of continuous stages, the highest total head and inter-stage water transfer head, and the most complex technology in the world. In order to solve the problem that the designed passing capacity of the Three Gorges Dam ship lock is not adapted to the ever-increasing freight demand, the Three Gorges navigation personnel innovated the "Luo Jing Scheduling Method" to scientifically arrange the ship's dam crossing operation plan; implemented the joint scheduling of the two dams' ship locks and the linkage control of ships crossing the dam on the main stream of the Yangtze River (长江), realizing the coordinated operation of the ship lock groups... Now, the annual cargo throughput of the Three Gorges Dam ship lock has increased from the initial 34 million tons to the current maximum of 169 million tons, an increase of nearly 4 times, exceeding the designed passing capacity by nearly 70%.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王永战
Investing in China is investing in the future. The huge market size, complete industrial system, and continuously optimized business environment have created a strong attraction for foreign investment in China. Foreign investment also plays an important role in developing new quality productive forces and realizing Chinese-style modernization.
Starting today, this edition launches a series of reports titled "Big Data Observation: Investing in China," focusing on the good practices and new stories of attracting foreign investment to China in various regions. The first issue focuses on Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), which attracts foreign investment with its unique cultural heritage, convenient location advantages, and excellent business environment, encouraging them to invest and develop roots.
——Editor
What development opportunities did the Dutch man and his "Sichuan girl" wife discover in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川)? Why did an Australian cochlear implant product development company choose to invest and build a factory here? Why did a foreigner from Flemish Brabant (弗拉芒·布拉邦省) in Belgium settle and start a business in this friendly city?
Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), is attracting a continuous influx of foreign investment. Today, Chengdu (成都) has gathered more than 4,000 foreign-funded enterprises, and more than 100,000 foreigners are investing, starting businesses, and developing in Chengdu (成都).
Why has Chengdu (成都) become a hot spot for investing in China? The reporter visited three foreign-funded companies in Chengdu (成都) to explore the secret of their "rooting."
Devoted to Tianfu Culture (天府文化)
A Sichuan Son-in-Law Attracts a Group of Overseas Talents
"'Ba Shi' (巴适)." When talking about the reason for settling in Chengdu (成都), Robert (罗伯特), a Dutchman, blurted out.
In 2008, Robert (罗伯特) met Chen Ruzhe (陈汝泽), a "Sichuan girl," at a university in the Netherlands. The two fell in love, graduated, and found jobs together. In 2013, Robert (罗伯特) accompanied his newlywed wife back to her hometown of Zigong (自贡), Sichuan (四川), to visit relatives and traveled to Chengdu (成都) along the way.
Chengdu (成都) has a long history, rich cultural resources, and distinctive urban characteristics, making it one of the most charming cities in the eyes of foreign tourists. "Just like children like amusement parks, I fell in love with Chengdu (成都) at once," Robert (罗伯特) said. At that time, he was not only fascinated by the scenic spots but also loved watching people dancing in the square and drinking tea in teahouses. That comfortable and free lifestyle deeply attracted him.
"Why not develop in Chengdu (成都)?" his wife suggested. This coincided with Robert's (罗伯特) idea.
In early 2015, the couple settled in Chengdu (成都). Robert (罗伯特) learned Chinese and adapted to the new environment: "There is traditional culture and modern life here. There are too many interesting things: historical sites, pandas, Sichuan opera, exhibitions, hot pot, and teahouses."
The couple is also busy planning a new career. At that time, the implementation plan for building Chengdu (成都) as an international exchange center was released not long ago, and policies such as the "Chengdu Talent Plan (成都人才计划)" and the "Entrepreneurship Tianfu Plan (创业天府计划)" were promoted simultaneously, aiming to vigorously introduce overseas talents and students returning from overseas. These all released a signal that Chengdu (成都) was opening its arms and seeking talents. "After full research, we decided to start a company to help overseas talents find jobs," Robert (罗伯特) founded Chengdu Ecore Technology Co., Ltd. (成都宜可睿科技有限公司) in 2016.
In 2017, the company moved into the International Talent City (国际人才城) in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone (成都高新区) and enjoyed rent reduction policies. "We mainly help international schools and foreign companies in China recruit talents," Chen Ruzhe (陈汝泽) introduced. Robert (罗伯特) is responsible for recruiting international talents, and she is responsible for internal management and customer maintenance. They cooperate tacitly.
In 2023, the company moved to the International Talent Port (国际人才港), which also belongs to Chengdu Hi-tech Zone (成都高新区), and enjoyed a new rent-free period. Relying on the International Talent Port (国际人才港), Chengdu Hi-tech Zone (成都高新区) is focusing on building an important human resources service industry highland in the central and western regions and a global youth talent innovation and entrepreneurship vitality zone. There are many international talent exchange scenarios here, and global innovation and entrepreneurship competitions are held regularly. These conditions also bring opportunities to Ecore (宜可睿) company.
"We are responsible for connecting and helping international talents find suitable jobs. In this process, our couple and the company have also found their own place in this city," Robert (罗伯特) said.
In recent years, Chengdu's (成都) "international style" has become more and more distinct: On the "2024 China Tourist Destination Heat Map" released by Ctrip Travel, Chengdu (成都) is the first choice for foreign tourists; various talent plans, overseas talent introduction direct train working mechanisms, and other policy environments have made Chengdu (成都) continuously rated as "China's Best Talent Introduction City" and "The Most Attractive Chinese City in the Eyes of Foreign Talents."
Over the years, Ecore (宜可睿) company has helped tens of thousands of overseas talents find jobs. "More and more foreign friends are coming to Chengdu (成都) and falling in love with Chengdu (成都)," Robert (罗伯特) said. The company also plans to help Chengdu's (成都) local talents go abroad to achieve two-way exchanges.
Recognizing Convenient Transportation
Cochlear Implant Company Settles in International Hub
As soon as Li Xinyu (李新宇) got off the plane, he went straight to the base to follow up on the production situation. In the workshop, the staff stared at the screen, carefully observing the implant of the cochlear implant. Not far away, the products that had just been assembled were neatly stacked.
This is the Chengdu (成都) production base of the Australian Cochlear (科利耳) company. Li Xinyu (李新宇) is the general manager in charge of the Chinese regional business. Speaking of business trips, Li Xinyu (李新宇) is used to it: "Chengdu's (成都) air routes are getting denser and denser, and the company's material and personnel exchanges are much more convenient."
In September 2017, the production base project of the Australian Cochlear (科利耳) company was established in Sichuan Tianfu New Area (四川天府新区). "The Chengdu (成都) factory is the company's only overseas production base for cochlear implants. The base has built a production building and equipped it with instruments and equipment, with a total investment of about 87 million US dollars," Li Xinyu (李新宇) said. The project was built smoothly and officially put into operation in 2021.
Why choose Chengdu (成都)? "Chengdu (成都) has developed transportation and is located at an important node of the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road' (一带一路), and is an international hub. The parts required for the production of cochlear implants can be transported efficiently and at low cost by rail or air," Li Xinyu (李新宇) said.
In addition to hard connectivity, there is also soft connectivity. "I felt the full sincerity from all parties in every link of the project construction and operation," Li Xinyu (李新宇) said. After the project was launched, the relevant departments of Tianfu New Area (天府新区) provided "one-on-one" services and actively matched support policies. In addition, Chengdu (成都) has universities and research institutes such as the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学), which has a large reserve of professional talents, as well as dozens of Grade III Class A hospitals, providing broad space for the company to cooperate with medical institutions.
After the base was put into operation, the advantages of convenient transportation became more prominent. "Through Chengdu's (成都) dual international airports, products can also be conveniently transported to various cities in China and Southeast Asia and other regions," Li Xinyu (李新宇) introduced. With the coordination and support of customs and other departments, the product customs clearance time has been shortened from half a month to 1 day, and logistics costs have also been greatly reduced.
Developed and convenient transportation and a friendly and open environment attract a continuous influx of foreign investment. In 2024, the passenger throughput of Chengdu's (成都) international aviation hub exceeded 87 million passengers, and the cargo and mail throughput exceeded 1 million tons. One out of every 20 flights in the country takes off and lands in Chengdu (成都). In the first four months of this year, Chengdu (成都) absorbed 656 million US dollars of foreign direct investment, ranking first among cities in the central and western regions.
From a Friendly City
"Chengdu Tong (成都通)" Opens a Public Account to Serve Foreigners
The WeChat notification sound rang, and Dieter (迪特尔) picked up his phone to check. "Who knows where there are Sichuan cuisine cooking classes in English?" Someone asked in the group. Dieter (迪特尔) quickly responded and sent a link to the Sichuan Cuisine Museum (川菜博物馆): "You can check it out here."
Dieter (迪特尔) is from Belgium and is now a "Chengdu Tong (成都通)." In 2015, Dieter (迪特尔) founded the "Chengdu Foreigners (成都外籍人士)" WeChat public account and formed a WeChat question and answer group to provide guidance to foreigners in Chengdu (成都) on schooling, employment, and life. "Through the platform, friends can learn about all aspects of Chengdu (成都)," Dieter (迪特尔) introduced. Thousands of people click on the "Chengdu Foreigners (成都外籍人士)" mini program every day, and the relevant website has nearly 300,000 clicks every year.
Dieter (迪特尔) was born in Flemish Brabant (弗拉芒·布拉邦省), Belgium. When he was young, he saw ancient Chinese buildings such as the Forbidden City (故宫) and the Temple of Heaven (天坛) in books and was very curious about this country with a long history. When he was in middle school, he paid attention to China's rapid economic development in the media and felt that China's future was full of opportunities, so he took action and entered the Chinese Department of Leuven University (鲁汶大学) to study.
In 2006, during an exchange study in China, Dieter (迪特尔) came to Chengdu (成都) for the first time and quickly became fascinated. "I feel that there is a lot of human touch and life here," Dieter (迪特尔) said. After graduating from Leuven University (鲁汶大学), he applied to Sichuan University (四川大学) to continue studying Chinese.
In 2011, Chengdu (成都) and Flemish Brabant (弗拉芒·布拉邦省) established a friendly city relationship, and the ties between the two places became closer and personnel exchanges became more frequent, which made Dieter (迪特尔) feel more cordial and excited. "I considered investing and starting a business in Chengdu (成都). In 2013, I opened a bar with a friend," Dieter (迪特尔) said. The store often holds music exchange activities, attracting many local people and foreigners in Chengdu (成都).
In the exchange, Dieter (迪特尔) keenly realized that if he could run a platform that provides various information about Chengdu (成都), it would bring a lot of convenience to foreigners in Chengdu (成都), and it could also give full play to his strengths and open up new businesses. In this way, the "Chengdu Foreigners (成都外籍人士)" WeChat public account and mini program came into being. The mini program and related websites adopt an open architecture, and everyone can upload information about Chengdu's (成都) catering, leisure, culture, life, and other aspects, and the content is rich and colorful. This foreign-funded entrepreneurial team led by Dieter (迪特尔) has achieved good profit performance while gaining user love and praise.
Since establishing a friendly city relationship with Montpellier (蒙彼利埃) in France in 1981, the number of Chengdu's (成都) international friendly cities has reached 244. Now, Dieter (迪特尔) often participates in exchanges and interactions between Chengdu (成都) and some friendly cities. "There are many foreigners from friendly cities like me who are living happily in Chengdu (成都)," Dieter (迪特尔) hopes that more people from all over the world will come to Chengdu (成都) to travel and invest, making the city more lively and prosperous.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 葛孟超
The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) recently released the "Notice of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Issues Concerning Deepening the Reform of Foreign Exchange Administration for Cross-border Investment and Financing (Draft for Comment)," which involves nine specific policies in three aspects: deepening the reform of foreign exchange administration for cross-border investment, deepening the reform of foreign exchange administration for cross-border financing, and optimizing the facilitation of payment of capital account income. Many of these foreign exchange facilitation policies have been piloted in some provinces and cities in the early stage. After the notice is released, these policies will be promoted nationwide.
The relevant department负责人 (fù zé rén - "person in charge") of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (国家外汇管理局) stated that in recent years, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (国家外汇管理局) has actively promoted the reform of foreign exchange administration in accordance with the idea of system integration, stability and order, continuously improved the level of cross-border investment and financing facilitation, promoted the optimization of the business environment, and served the high-quality development of the real economy. This notice covers a package of facilitation policies such as investment, financing, and payment, comprehensively reflecting the guidance of deepening reform, expanding opening up, and promoting attracting and stabilizing investment in foreign exchange management.
In terms of deepening the reform of foreign exchange administration for cross-border investment, the notice cancels the basic information registration of pre-establishment expenses for foreign direct investment (FDI). Overseas investors can directly open a pre-establishment expense account at the bank and remit relevant funds without going through registration procedures before opening an account. The aforementioned relevant department负责人 (fù zé rén - "person in charge") stated that canceling the FDI pre-establishment expense registration will reduce the "foot cost" of overseas investors, improve capital efficiency, and help accelerate investment landing.
In order to facilitate domestic reinvestment by foreign-invested enterprises, this notice clarifies that the registration of domestic reinvestment by foreign-invested enterprises will be cancelled. Previously, the policy of exempting registration for domestic reinvestment by foreign-invested enterprises has been piloted in 19 provinces and cities and is operating well. The notice will further promote this policy to be implemented nationwide.
This notice further optimizes the foreign exchange administration of cross-border financing. At present, the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (国家外汇管理局) implement macro-prudential management of cross-border financing. The foreign debt borrowed by enterprises cannot exceed a certain proportion of their net assets. However, high-tech, "specialized and innovative" (专精特新) and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises are often in the initial stage, with small net assets or not yet profitable, and it is difficult to obtain cross-border financing or the financing scale is limited according to relevant regulations.
In recent years, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (国家外汇管理局) has continued to expand the pilot program for cross-border financing facilitation to support the innovative development of high-tech, "specialized and innovative" (专精特新) and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. At present, high-tech, "specialized and innovative" (专精特新) and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises that meet the conditions in 17 provinces and cities including Tianjin (天津市), Shanghai (上海市), and Jiangsu Province (江苏省) can independently borrow foreign debt within the equivalent of US$10 million, while high-tech, "specialized and innovative" (专精特新) and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises in other provinces and cities can independently borrow foreign debt within the equivalent of US$5 million.
This notice clarifies that the foreign debt facilitation quota for eligible high-tech, "specialized and innovative" (专精特新) and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises nationwide will be uniformly increased to the equivalent of US$10 million, and the foreign debt facilitation quota for eligible enterprises selected by relevant departments based on the "innovation points system" will be increased to the equivalent of US$20 million. "The release of the policy will help companies reduce financing costs, increase R&D investment, and promote technological progress," said the aforementioned relevant department负责人 (fù zé rén - "person in charge").
Return to TopAccording to a report from our newspaper on June 18th in Beijing (北京) (reporter Sun Xiuyan (孙秀艳)), the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) recently compiled and issued the "Medical Service Pricing Project Establishment Guidelines for Cosmetic Surgery (Trial Implementation)," guiding medical institutions to independently and reasonably set prices, and helping to build a more standardized, transparent, and orderly cosmetic surgery market environment.
While China's (中国) cosmetic surgery market continues to expand, the industry's chaotic pricing issues remain prominent, and some cosmetic medical institutions are heavily criticized for promoting low prices and hidden price increases. This establishment guideline does not change the management method of market-adjusted prices for cosmetic surgery, but aims to unify price projects and standardize the pricing behavior of medical institutions.
For cosmetic surgery projects with relatively mature technology and widely carried out clinical practice, the establishment guideline uniformly names them according to service output. Taking "filler injection" as an example, this price project includes not only common hyaluronic acid injections, but also new material filler injections such as polylactic acid that have recently appeared clinically can also be charged according to this. At the same time, a new price project has been added to unify fine suture scar reduction.
In order to fully reflect technical value and labor input, the establishment guideline explores starting with small incisions, and establishes a "reoperation" surcharge for price projects such as rhinoplasty, eye bag removal, double eyelid surgery, and canthoplasty, where the difficulty of reoperation is significantly increased. Whether other price projects are surcharged is determined independently by medical institutions.
Return to TopAccording to a report from our newspaper in Wuhan (武汉) on June 18th (Reporters Tian Doudou (田豆豆) and Wu Jun (吴君)), recently, the High-speed Maglev Electromagnetic Propulsion Technology Innovation Center of Hubei East Lake Laboratory (湖北东湖实验室) conducted a maglev experiment. Researchers successfully accelerated a 1.1-ton test vehicle to 650 kilometers per hour within 1000 meters in 7 seconds. The test speed broke the global record for similar platforms, becoming the fastest maglev test speed in the world.
Li Weichao (李卫超), director of the center, introduced that the test adopted a short-range boosting method, with a positioning accuracy of up to 4 millimeters. Relying on electromagnetic boosting and precise speed measurement and positioning, the test vehicle can also "brake to a stop" within 220 meters at an operating speed of 650 kilometers per hour. The test line technology has been promoted and applied in scientific research devices, and will continue to increase speed in the future, moving towards the goal of 800 kilometers per hour.
High-speed maglev technology has application prospects in the fields of ultra-high-speed electromagnetic sleds, high-speed maglev rail transit, low-altitude economy, and aerospace electromagnetic launch. China (中国) has already operated commercial maglev lines in Shanghai (上海), Beijing (北京), and Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南).
Return to TopZijing Mountain Street (紫荆山街道), Penglai District (蓬莱区), Yantai City (烟台市), Shandong Province (山东省), with the assistance of the local power supply department, installed more than 20,000 photovoltaic panels on the roof of the farm, with an annual power generation of approximately 8.4 million kilowatt-hours. At the same time, tens of millions of broiler chickens are raised under the photovoltaic panels, which not only improves land utilization but also increases economic benefits.
Xu Chang (徐畅) Photo
Return to TopAccording to reports from Tianjin (天津), June 18th (Reporter Gong Xiangjuan (龚相娟)), the reporter learned from the Tianjin Municipal Transportation Commission (天津市交通运输委): Recently, with the completion of cement concrete pouring on Pianhong Road in Jizhou District (蓟州区), the main construction of the 2025 Tianjin (天津) rural road post-disaster reconstruction project has been fully completed.
It is reported that the main purpose of this project is to eliminate the impact of extreme weather on rural road facilities in recent years, especially the damage to mountain roads to varying degrees caused by the flood season in 2024. The project mainly includes 60 rural roads such as Caigou Road in Jizhou District (蓟州区彩沟路), 10 bridges such as the Great Wall Bridge (长城桥), 3 culverts, and 2 tunnels such as Jinghu Railway Zhangguantun (京沪铁路张官屯) in Jinghai District (静海区). In order to ensure completion before the flood season, the construction team overcame difficulties such as numerous locations, a short construction period, and complex site conditions, and worked day and night to accelerate the progress. During construction, measures such as phased advancement were adopted to minimize the impact on the lives of surrounding people.
Up to now, 194.5 kilometers of rural roads in Tianjin (天津) have successfully achieved the main completion target, and the travel of residents in the surrounding areas has basically returned to normal. The newly built roads and bridges and other facilities have significantly improved in flatness, comfort, and resilience.
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Return to TopEditor's Note: Birds are an indispensable and important part of the Earth's ecosystem. The fate of birds is related to the health and stability of the ecosystem.
In recent years, China has continued to strengthen bird protection efforts. In 2024, the national number of overwintering waterbirds reached the highest monitored number. However, in some places, illegal hunting and selling of birds and other wild animals still occur from time to time, threatening the safety of bird and other wild animal populations.
Protecting birds is 刻不容缓 (kè bù róng huǎn - " brook no delay," demands immediate action; brooks no delay). This is not only to maintain biodiversity, but also to protect the ecological environment on which we depend. Protecting bird habitats, resisting illegal hunting and selling, and observing, loving, and protecting birds in a civilized manner... This edition launches a special report to showcase the appearance of some national first-class protected birds and introduce relevant legal knowledge on bird protection. Let us work together to protect birds so that they can soar freely in the green hills and clear waters.
Professional Guidance: National Bird Banding Center of the Chinese Academy of Forestry (中国林业科学研究院全国鸟类环志中心), Beijing Forestry University (北京林业大学), Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院昆明动物研究所)
Photography: Jia Yifei (贾亦飞), Zhu Bianyong (朱边勇), Song Huiqiang (宋会强), Yang Bin (杨斌), Yang Xuefei (杨学飞), Li Aihong (李爱宏), Wu Xiushan (吴秀山), Cao Jianjun (曹建军), Liu Weiwen (刘伟文), Tang Shengli (唐盛利), Pan Shengyu (潘晟昱), Yin Yihu (尹以祜), Xu Zheng (徐铮), Hu Peng (胡鹏), Yang Jufen (杨菊芬), Song Gang (宋刚), Li Dongming (李东明), Xiong Yuehui (熊跃辉), Jiang Dexian (蒋德先), Huai Biaoyun (怀彪云), Ye Yuanxing (叶元兴), Luo Huitan (罗会潭)
Provided by: Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院动物研究所), Beijing Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (北京市野生动物救护中心), Beijing Miyun Reservoir Management Office (北京市密云水库管理处), Yancheng Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department of Jiangsu Province (江苏盐城市委宣传部), Yancheng Wetland and World Natural Heritage Protection and Management Center of Jiangsu Province (江苏盐城市湿地和世界自然遗产保护管理中心)
Reporters: Yang Wenming (杨文明), Yao Xueqing (姚雪青), Dong Siyu (董丝雨), Wu Yuehui (吴月辉), Pan Junqiang (潘俊强), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), Dong Zeyang (董泽扬), Yang Xun (杨迅), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文), Qiao Dong (乔栋), Li Rui (李蕊)
Return to TopI. Criminal liability will be pursued if a crime is constituted.
Those who illegally hunt or kill rare or endangered wild animals under state protection, or illegally purchase, transport, or sell rare or endangered wild animals under state protection and their products, will be subject to criminal penalties.
Those who violate hunting regulations by hunting in prohibited hunting areas or during prohibited hunting periods, or by using prohibited tools or methods, and damage wildlife resources, where the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance, or a fine.
Violations of wildlife protection and management regulations, involving the illegal hunting, purchase, transportation, or sale of terrestrial wild animals that naturally grow and reproduce in the wild environment, other than those specified in the first paragraph of Article 341 of the Criminal Law, for the purpose of consumption, will constitute the crime of illegally hunting, purchasing, transporting, or selling terrestrial wild animals.
II. Administrative penalties will be imposed if a crime is not constituted.
Acts that endanger wild animals under state protection, "three-protected" animals (of beneficial, economic, or scientific value), and wild animals under local key protection, which do not constitute a crime, may be subject to administrative penalties in accordance with the Wildlife Protection Law. Among them, if illegally hunting, purchasing, transporting, or selling other terrestrial wild animals for the purpose of consumption does not constitute a crime, administrative penalties will be imposed in accordance with Article 53 of the Wildlife Protection Law: the wildlife and their products shall be confiscated by the wildlife protection authorities of the people's governments at or above the county level and the market supervision and management departments according to their respective duties; if the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than one time but not more than five times the value of the wildlife and their products shall be imposed.
III. Precautions for raising birds:
Many ornamental passerine birds kept in cages have been upgraded to wild animals under state key protection.
The yellow-breasted bunting has been upgraded to a national first-class protected bird.
The crested myna, hwamei, red-billed leiothrix, song lark, Mongolian lark, Eurasian skylark, reed parrotbill, Japanese white-eye, black-throated laughingthrush, brown laughingthrush, silver-eared leiothrix, rufous-tailed robin, Siberian blue robin, Xinjiang ground-robin, common rosefinch, and red crossbill have been upgraded to national second-class protected birds.
Whether wild populations or artificially bred populations, the above-mentioned birds are all wild animals under state key protection. According to the provisions of the Criminal Law, the Wildlife Protection Law and other relevant laws and regulations, without approval and permission, hunting, caging, buying, selling, and transporting wild animals under state key protection may constitute a criminal offense, and the public security organs will pursue criminal responsibility in accordance with the law.
(The above content is provided by Zhang Chongbo (张崇波), Director of the Legal System Research Center of Nanjing Police Academy (南京警察学院), and compiled by Zhang Tianpei (张天培), reporter of this newspaper.)
Return to TopPlanning and Coordination: Chen Juan (陈娟)
Layout Design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)
Return to TopBy: 李玉举
Currently, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace. Changes in the world, the times, and history are unfolding in unprecedented ways. To seek China's development in a more unstable and uncertain world, we must unswervingly manage our own affairs well and strive to use the certainty of our own work to cope with the uncertainty of the situation. The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) held on April 25 proposed: "To cope with the drastic changes in the external environment with the certainty of high-quality development"; on May 20, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Henan (河南): "To cope with various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development." These important arguments are full of dialectics and are strategic choices made by China at a time when the international situation is changing rapidly and the global economy is turbulent. To deeply understand the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee (党中央), we must firmly grasp the correct political direction, maintain political stability, focus on building a new development pattern, accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure, and cope with the uncertainty of various risks and challenges with the certainty of high-quality development.
China has the certainty to promote high-quality development.
Materialist dialectics believes that the development of things is the result of the joint action of internal and external causes. The internal cause is the basis of change, the external cause is the condition of change, and the external cause plays a role through the internal cause. *The Art of War* mentions: "Those who were good at war in the past first made themselves invincible to await the enemy's vulnerability." The meaning is that those who are good at using troops to fight always create conditions to put themselves in a position of not being defeated, and then wait for the enemy to show an opportunity to be defeated before defeating the enemy in one fell swoop. The same principle applies, coping with uncertainty must focus on doing our own thing well and first be in an invincible position. With the certainty of our own work, we can effectively cope with the uncertainty of the changing situation.
China is a large developing country, and the unstable, uncertain, and unsafe factors in the external environment have always existed, and sometimes they will continue to increase or even become very prominent. We must actively face this objective fact. Only by concentrating on managing our own affairs well, firmly grasping the initiative of development in our own hands, and on this basis, accurately recognizing changes, scientifically responding to changes, and proactively seeking changes, can we win the initiative, win advantages, and win the future in the changing situation. After years of unremitting efforts, China's economic strength has achieved a historic leap, ranking second in the world, standing at a higher historical starting point, and steadily moving forward on a path of higher quality, more efficiency, more fairness, more sustainability, and more security. Comprehensively, China has the certainty to promote high-quality development.
The certainty of high-quality development comes from the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央). Adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) is the fundamental reason why we have continuously achieved victories. Since the new era, facing the severe and complex international environment and the arduous and heavy domestic reform, development, and stability tasks, the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has adhered to observing the general trend, planning the overall situation, and doing practical work, continuously improving the system and mechanism for the Party to lead economic work, paying attention to the Party's role in setting the direction, planning the overall situation, formulating policies, and promoting reform, providing an important guarantee for promoting all parties to jointly do economic work well; at the same time, it has continuously deepened its understanding of the laws of economic work, put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, formed Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, and led China's economic development to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic changes. Since September last year, the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has decisively deployed and stepped up the introduction of a package of incremental policies to promote economic recovery and improvement. Since the beginning of this year, the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has strengthened its comprehensive leadership over economic work, and all regions and departments have focused on tackling key problems, with various macro policies working together, the economy has shown a positive trend, social confidence has continued to be boosted, high-quality development has been steadily promoted, and the overall social situation has remained stable. Practice has fully proved that at critical moments and important nodes, the Party Central Committee (党中央) timely analyzes the situation and makes decisions and deployments, which is not only a strong guarantee for ensuring that China's economic ship can ride the wind and waves and move steadily and far, but also a powerful manifestation of the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) injecting certainty into China's high-quality development. With General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) at the helm and Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as a scientific guide, the entire Party has a "pillar" and the 1.4 billion Chinese people have a "stabilizing star," and promoting high-quality development has the strongest guarantee.
The certainty of high-quality development comes from a solid material and technological foundation. A solid material and technological foundation is the basic premise and necessary condition for coping with various uncertainties. After long-term unremitting efforts, China's economic volume and development quality have reached a new level, providing a fundamental support for promoting economic development and resisting external risks. For example, China's total economic output has exceeded 130 trillion yuan, forming a super-large market, and the total retail sales of social consumer goods reached 48.3 trillion yuan in 2024. With the accelerated construction of a unified national market and the continuous improvement of the basic system of the market economy, the potential of China's super-large market and the driving force of domestic development will be further stimulated. For another example, China's real economy has grown vigorously, building the most complete industrial system in the world, with strong manufacturing capabilities and perfect supporting capabilities, and the development of manufacturing continues to climb to the middle and high end. In the first quarter of 2025, the output of new energy vehicles, 3D printing equipment, and industrial robots in China increased by 45.4%, 44.9%, and 26.0% year-on-year, respectively, which not only reflects the vigorous development of China's high-end manufacturing industry, but also highlights the reality that new quality productive forces are accelerating their formation. For another example, with economic and social development, China's total human resources, scientific and technological human resources, and total R&D personnel all rank first in the world, and more than 5 million graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are trained every year, leading the world, which strongly supports China's scientific and technological progress and promotes industrial transformation and upgrading. These are the basic conditions for China's stable economic foundation, strong resilience, and great potential, giving us a more solid foundation and more sufficient confidence to continue to promote high-quality development at a higher historical starting point.
The certainty of high-quality development comes from the guarantee of a scientific system and mechanism. A systematic, complete, scientific, standardized, and effective operating system is an important guarantee and powerful foundation for responding to changes, cultivating new opportunities, and opening up new situations. Since the new era, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, we have accelerated the improvement of the socialist market economic system, given full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, better played the role of the government, promoted the accelerated formation of an economic order that is both "vibrant" and "manageable," effectively stimulated the potential for social wealth creation, and promoted high-quality development to achieve solid results. At the same time, the Party Central Committee (党中央) has established and improved a strict organizational system and assessment and evaluation system that runs from top to bottom and is effective in execution, ensuring that the Party Central Committee's (党中央) major decisions and deployments are effectively implemented, and guiding economic and social development with the new development concept; it has clearly required that the Party and government share responsibility for food security, risk disposal, environmental protection, arable land protection, work safety, and food safety, firmly guarding the bottom line of not allowing systemic risks to occur; it has established and improved the indicator system, policy system, standard system, statistical system, performance evaluation, and performance appraisal for promoting high-quality development, created and improved the institutional environment, and promoted China's economic and social development to continuously achieve new progress in achieving high-quality development. This series of important institutional arrangements provides a strong guarantee for us to continuously promote high-quality development.
Adhere to a scientific methodology to inject more stability into economic and social development.
To cope with various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development, we must not only deeply understand the advantages of China's development and make good use of these advantages, but also adhere to correct work strategies and methods. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The correct strategy needs the correct tactics to implement. Tactics serve the strategy under the guidance of the strategy." "We must combine the steadfastness of the strategy with the flexibility of the tactics." We must follow the laws of economic development, accurately grasp the stage characteristics of China's economic development, adhere to a scientific methodology, strengthen macro thinking and top-level design, improve work art and management level, and do various tasks in a solid and steady manner with more powerful measures and more scientific methods.
Adhere to dialectical thinking, seize and use opportunities, and open up new situations in the midst of changes. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized to party members and cadres the dialectical relationship between grasping changes and new situations. Changes objectively exist and cannot be avoided, and at the same time, changes also foreshadow new situations. If changes are dealt with well, risks can be prevented and resolved, and we can remain calm in the face of danger and seek opportunities in danger; we can seize opportunities, accurately recognize changes, scientifically respond to changes, and proactively seek changes, thereby promoting construction and promoting development. To promote high-quality development in a complex and volatile internal and external environment, if we only see difficulties, challenges, contradictions, and risks, we will naturally be trapped in "**山重水复疑无路**" (shān chóng shuǐ fù yí wú lù - "mountains and rivers block the way, doubting there is no road," a metaphor for being in a dilemma). While objectively analyzing difficulties and challenges, we deeply grasp the opportunities, capabilities, conditions, and advantages of development, and we will see "**柳暗花明又一村**" (liǔ àn huā míng yòu yī cūn - "dark willows, bright flowers, another village," a metaphor for finding hope in a hopeless situation), and then turn crises into opportunities and pressure into motivation. Currently, the external environment facing China is becoming more complex and severe, the growth momentum of domestic effective demand is insufficient, and opportunities and challenges coexist in development. For example, coping with climate change and promoting green and low-carbon development transformation has become a consensus of the international community, and the general trend of accelerating the green and low-carbon development transformation is irreversible, while the huge demand for green and low-carbon development and the insufficient green production capacity coexist. China has built the world's largest and most complete new energy industry chain, providing 70% of photovoltaic modules and 60% of wind power equipment to the world. Seizing this opportunity and giving full play to its advantages to vigorously promote China's clean energy development can cultivate more new energy products and form new competitive advantages. While contributing more Chinese technology, Chinese products, and Chinese solutions to the world, it will also make greater contributions to the global clean energy development. As long as we are good at capturing and creating opportunities from the current changes and challenges and implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央), we will surely be able to consolidate the foundation for high-quality development.
Adhere to seeking progress while maintaining stability, and promote stability through progress. Seeking progress while maintaining stability is an important principle for our Party to govern the country and manage state affairs, and it is also a methodology for doing economic work well. Stability is the overall situation, that is, adhering to the stability of the general direction, the stability of the principles and policies, and the stability of the strategic deployment, maintaining the stability of the overall economic and social situation, guarding the foundation, and stabilizing the position; progress is the direction and driving force, that is, actively making progress in transforming the mode, adjusting the structure, improving the quality, and increasing the efficiency, mastering the strategic initiative, enhancing the resilience of development, improving the quality and efficiency of the economy and core competitiveness, and cultivating and expanding new economic growth points and growth poles, firmly grasping the initiative of development. Currently, facing the complex external environment, we must strengthen our confidence, unswervingly manage our own affairs well, and take multiple measures to stabilize employment, stabilize enterprises, stabilize the market, and stabilize expectations, effectively stabilizing the basic economic situation. Stabilizing employment makes development more people-oriented; stabilizing enterprises injects strong impetus into development; stabilizing the market makes development build a solid foundation; stabilizing expectations makes development gather firm confidence. This is an important focus for coordinating domestic economic work and international economic and trade struggles and unswervingly managing our own affairs well. At the same time, we must adhere to using the method of deepening reform and opening up to solve the problems in development, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and cultivate and expand new quality productive forces by continuously promoting the tackling of key core technologies and accelerating the implementation of the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, creating a number of emerging pillar industries, and ensuring that the transformation of economic development mode and innovation-driven development achieve new results.
Adhere to the concept of system, and hedge the uncertainty of the international cycle with the internal stability and long-term growth of the domestic cycle. Things are universally connected, and the whole world is an interconnected whole and an interactive whole. Looking at the world economy, large countries rely on the scale advantages of resources and markets to form an internal circulation system for economic development, which has strong independent development capabilities and self-regulation functions, and can better resist the impact of world economic fluctuations and achieve sustained and stable development. At the same time, the internal and external cycles of a country's economy are not independent of each other, but interdependent and mutually reinforcing. Strengthening the internal cycle helps to provide good support for the external cycle, and expanding the external cycle can provide more development opportunities and resources for the internal cycle. China's economic volume, market capacity, and industrial supporting capabilities are all very large, which are favorable conditions for enhancing the domestic cycle. 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) recently issued the "Special Action Plan for Boosting Consumption," proposing 30 specific measures to combine promoting consumption with benefiting people's livelihoods and making up for shortcomings, expanding consumer demand, and enhancing consumption capacity; in recent years, the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin and other major regional strategies have been steadily implemented, the vitality of regional development has continued to increase, and the spatial pattern has become more optimized; and so on. These all help us to consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the domestic cycle in promoting sustained economic improvement. At the same time, we must unswervingly expand high-level opening up, increase the intensity of pilot policies for opening up the service industry, strengthen services for enterprises to "go global," and work with the international community to actively maintain multilateralism and oppose unilateral bullying. This will enhance the linkage effect of the two markets and two resources at home and abroad, and continuously inject surging power into development through the interaction of domestic and international resources and the allocation of factors.
Adhere to the concept of the rule of law, focus on creating a transparent, stable, and predictable policy environment, and further boost confidence. The rule of law is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization, and it is also an important means to promote high-quality development and optimize the business environment. Consciously using the thinking and methods of the rule of law on the track of the rule of law to continuously optimize the business environment can ensure that the boundaries between the government and the market are clear, the market mechanism is effective, the regulation and supervision are moderate, and the handling procedures are standardized. These are all conducive to reducing institutional transaction costs, improving the level of market access facilitation, and promoting business entities to improve economic efficiency and enhance market competitiveness. The Private Economy Promotion Law has been officially promulgated and implemented, which will further optimize the development environment of the private economy, stimulate the development momentum of the private economy, and create a good atmosphere conducive to the common development of various ownership economies, including the private economy. Taking this as an opportunity, improving the regular communication and contact mechanism between government departments and enterprises, and timely understanding and responding to the demands of enterprises can improve the scientificity and effectiveness of government decision-making and further enhance the market competitiveness of enterprises, and jointly promote the sustained and healthy development of the economy and society. At the same time, incorporating economic policies and non-economic policies into the consistency assessment of macro policy orientation and coordinating the entire process of policy formulation and implementation will improve the overall effectiveness of policies. These are all conducive to promoting high-quality development and striving to transform the positive factors in all aspects into development achievements.
Grasp the key points to further consolidate the certainty of China's high-quality development.
Since the beginning of this year, China's economic operation has had a good start, continuing the trend of recovery and improvement, and positive factors have accumulated and increased, but the foundation for promoting sustained economic recovery still needs to be consolidated. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Accelerate the construction of a new development pattern and comprehensively promote high-quality development." We must adhere to high-quality development as the hard truth of the new era, and truly think about problems, make decisions, and do things in accordance with the requirements of high-quality development, both unswervingly managing our own affairs well and unswervingly expanding high-level opening up, continuously enhancing the certainty of high-quality development, and better coping with various uncertainties in development.
Expand domestic demand in all directions. Domestic demand is the main driving force and stabilizing anchor for economic growth. To consolidate the foundation for economic recovery, we need to continue to put restoring and expanding consumption in a priority position and better play the key role of investment in driving economic growth and optimizing the supply structure. We must thoroughly implement the special action to boost consumption, promote the increase of income and reduction of burdens for low- and middle-income groups, and enhance consumption capacity, willingness, and level. We must promote the construction of "two major projects" with greater efforts, do a better job in the "two new" work, and actively develop the first-release economy, the ice and snow economy, and the silver-haired economy. We must better coordinate "hard investment" and "soft construction," effectively drive social investment with government investment, and continue to promote the introduction of private capital into major projects.
Enhance the supply quality of the industrial system. The real economy is the fundamental source of wealth creation and an important pillar of national strength. To deeply grasp the new characteristics and requirements of the stage of development, we must adhere to making the real economy stronger and better as the main direction of attack. At present, the international environment is still complex and severe, and problems such as declining industrial product prices, difficulties in corporate efficiency, and insufficient market demand need to be solved urgently. We must deepen supply-side structural reform, take improving the quality of the supply system as the main direction of attack, vigorously eliminate ineffective supply, promote the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries, accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing, and promote the deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy. We will thoroughly implement the innovation-driven development strategy, strengthen the main position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, form new sources of growth momentum, and comprehensively shape new advantages in development. At the same time, we will further improve the ability of financial services to serve the real economy, and coordinate the "five major articles" of technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance.
Promote coordinated urban-rural and regional development. Coordinated development is an important evaluation criterion for high-quality development in the new era, and promoting coordinated urban-rural and regional development is an inherent requirement for enhancing the integrity and coordination of development. To this end, we must adjust and improve the regional policy system in accordance with objective economic laws, accurately grasp the positioning and characteristics of various regions, give play to the comparative advantages of various regions, promote the rational flow and efficient aggregation of various factors, and form a regional economic layout with complementary advantages and high-quality development. We will coordinate the coordinated development of the four major sectors in the east, central, west and northeast, and unswervingly implement the major regional strategies. We will increase support for major economic provinces to take the lead, and enhance the innovation capabilities and radiation-driving role of advantageous areas for economic development. We will adhere to the overall planning of land and sea and vigorously develop the marine economy. We will implement the rural revitalization strategy well and promote the formation of a new pattern of new urbanization development.
Promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. Green development is the development that achieves the greatest economic and social benefits at the least cost of resources and the environment, and it is high-quality and sustainable development. At present, China's ecological civilization construction has entered a critical period of focusing on carbon reduction as a strategic direction, promoting synergistic efficiency in pollution reduction and carbon reduction, promoting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and realizing the transformation of ecological environment quality from quantitative to qualitative change. We must adhere to the principle of giving priority to conservation, protection, and natural restoration, establish and improve an economic system of green, low-carbon, and circular development, comprehensively improve resource utilization efficiency, promote total resource management, scientific allocation, comprehensive conservation, and circular utilization, and achieve the greatest economic and social benefits at the least cost of resources and the environment. At the same time, we will advocate and promote green consumption and promote the formation of green, low-carbon lifestyles and consumption patterns.
Improve the quality and efficiency of expanding opening up. Opening up is the only way to achieve high-quality development. The high-quality development of China's economy and society must be carried out under more open conditions. This requires us to unswervingly expand high-level opening to the outside world, clean up and abolish policies that hinder the construction of a unified national market and fair competition, eliminate institutional and mechanism obstacles that restrict the rational flow of factors, and fully stimulate innovation and creativity. We will firmly implement a mutually beneficial and win-win opening-up strategy, orderly expand autonomous opening-up and unilateral opening-up, steadily promote institutional opening-up, and expand pilot programs in telecommunications, medical care, education and other fields. We will promote the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" to go deeper and more solid, improve the overseas comprehensive service system, and coordinate the promotion of major landmark projects and "small but beautiful" livelihood projects.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Xi Jinping Economic Thought Research Center (习近平经济思想研究中心))
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Manufacturing is the mainstay of the real economy, and promoting the development of manufacturing can build a strong material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization. Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Henan (河南): "Manufacturing is an important pillar of the national economy, and promoting Chinese-style modernization must maintain a reasonable proportion of manufacturing. Modern manufacturing is inseparable from technological empowerment, and it is necessary to vigorously strengthen technological breakthroughs and follow the path of independent innovation." This important exposition is a profound grasp of the laws of manufacturing development and a firm grasp of the initiative in industrial competition among major countries against the backdrop of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. To deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, it is necessary to analyze the mechanism and laws of the evolution of the proportion of manufacturing from the long river of history, the tide of the times, and the global perspective, and fully utilize China's (中国) advantageous conditions in the new era and new journey to promote new industrialization and accelerate the construction of a manufacturing powerhouse, providing a solid support for maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing.
Reviewing the history of industrialization since modern times, it can be found that technology has always been a key factor determining the proportion of manufacturing in the economy. In the mid-to-late 18th century, the technological revolution characterized by mechanization significantly changed the production organization methods of traditional industries such as cotton textile and iron manufacturing, greatly improved production efficiency, and spawned new industries such as railway equipment manufacturing, machine tool manufacturing, and alkali manufacturing, promoting the continuous increase of manufacturing's proportion in the economy. In the late 19th century, the technological revolution characterized by electrification rapidly expanded the scale of manufacturing industries such as automobiles, electrical equipment, heavy machinery, chemicals, and steel products, further highlighting the dominant position of manufacturing in the economy. Since the mid-20th century, the technological revolution characterized by computerization has further expanded the range of products manufactured, with computers, integrated circuits, communication equipment, etc. emerging from scratch, making the engine role of manufacturing in driving economic growth more prominent.
Currently, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in depth. In this regard, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Scientific research is expanding to the extremely macro, delving into the extremely micro, advancing towards extreme conditions, and exerting efforts towards extreme integration and intersection, constantly breaking through the boundaries of human cognition. Technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of intensive activity, with cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology, and biotechnology emerging in concentration, triggering chain-like changes." This provides important support for promoting new industrialization. On the one hand, digital and green technologies continue to penetrate traditional manufacturing, giving it new vitality and continuing to play an important role in promoting economic growth and supporting employment; on the other hand, emerging technologies are also moving from the laboratory to the market in the form of independent products, with new products and new business forms such as self-driving cars, embodied intelligent robots, quantum computing platforms, and brain-computer interface devices breeding new industries and new tracks, becoming new driving forces for economic development. As the world's largest manufacturing country, China (中国) has great potential to use new technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries, and has a good foundation for providing application scenarios and supporting conditions for new technologies, possessing a solid realistic basis for maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing.
China (中国) has a series of significant advantages in maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing. From the perspective of international industrial division of labor, the more active a country or region's technological innovation and the larger its domestic market size, the higher its position in the global manufacturing division of labor system. Furthermore, the higher a country or region's position in the global manufacturing division of labor system, the more active its manufacturing R&D, production, and sales activities, and the more efficient and smooth its manufacturing input-output cycle, thereby promoting a more stable and proactive change in its manufacturing proportion. Since the new era, China's (中国) scientific and technological innovation has achieved all-round progress and historic achievements. China's (中国) ranking in the Global Innovation Index has risen to eleventh, making it the only middle-income economy in the top 30 economies and one of the economies with the fastest rise in the innovation index in the past 10 years. China (中国) has 26 global top 100 science and technology innovation clusters, ranking first in the world. In fields such as 5G mobile communication, artificial intelligence, new energy vehicles, and robots, China (中国) is transitioning from a "follower" to a "parallel runner" or even a "leader." Breakthroughs in key core technologies in these fields are driving China's (中国) manufacturing to continuously climb to the high end of the global value chain. At the same time, China (中国) has the world's most growing ultra-large-scale market, which helps to promote the continuous deepening of the division of labor among manufacturing enterprises, forming cost advantages and efficiency advantages based on economies of scale; helps to provide rich application scenarios for the technological innovation of manufacturing enterprises, allowing different technical routes and different business models to compete, promoting the large-scale application process of new technologies and accelerating iterative optimization, helping to achieve the "thrilling leap" of technological innovation, and promoting enterprises to form first-mover advantages in the innovation competition; and helps to promote the formation of closer division of labor and cooperation relationships between enterprises, improve the resilience of the industrial chain and supply chain, and more calmly respond to the uncertainties in global economic development.
On the new journey, to comprehensively promote Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development, it is necessary to implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, seize opportunities, make good use of advantages, and comprehensively implement policies from both the supply and demand sides to promote the high-quality development of manufacturing and improve the competitiveness of manufacturing.
On the supply side, first, strengthen technological empowerment, focus on the weak links restricting the high-quality development of manufacturing, increase technological research and development efforts, promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation with high-quality technological supply, promote manufacturing enterprises to break through bottlenecks and constraints, and form a more secure and resilient, more competitive industrial system; second, strengthen factor guarantees, focus on the needs of the manufacturing industrial chain, optimize the capital chain, improve the talent chain, and improve the data chain, and further enhance the level of financial services for the real economy, talent services for advanced manufacturing development, and data services for industrial transformation; third, reasonably reduce the comprehensive costs and tax burdens of manufacturing enterprises, implement policies such as additional deductions for R&D expenses and tax incentives for technology transfer, and add strength to the transformation and upgrading and innovative development of manufacturing.
On the demand side, it is necessary to innovate and enrich new consumption scenarios, improve consumption conditions, improve the regulatory system that adapts to the healthy development requirements of new consumption, and improve the long-term mechanism to promote the sustained and stable growth of new consumption, so as to drive the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing with the expansion and quality improvement of new consumption, and accelerate the formation of a higher-level dynamic balance in which high-quality consumption demand drives supply and high-quality supply creates demand; at the same time, grasp the trend of manufacturing servitization, promote the integrated development of modern manufacturing and the service industry, and expand new space for manufacturing development while improving the efficiency of the service industry and improving the relative price relationship between manufacturing products and services.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院))
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Candied hawthorns, donkey rolls, pea flour cakes, fried dough pieces, stir-fried tripe, stewed lungs… Beijing's (北京) special snacks are numerous and enduring. For tourists visiting Beijing (北京), milk skin yogurt has become a newly popular "top streamer," adding a more lingering and mellow flavor to Beijing's (北京) cuisine.
Around 10 a.m. on a Sunday morning, in front of the Ziguangyuan (紫光园) Qianmen Dazhalan (前门大栅栏) branch, the customer queue twisted several times, including many tourists dragging their luggage. "I'm taking the high-speed train home this evening, so I came specifically to have another Peking duck meal and pack two large bags of milk skin yogurt!" said Xiao Chen (小陈) from Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁) excitedly. A staff member at the store told reporters, "The yogurt is so popular that selling more than 10,000 cups a day is common!"
This is no exaggeration. On Qianmen Street (前门大街), Wangfujing Street (王府井大街), and at major subway and high-speed rail stations, many tourists can be seen carrying Ziguangyuan (紫光园) milk skin yogurt packaging bags. "From last year until now, there have been many of these packaging bags going through security every day," said a security guard at Qianmen (前门) subway station.
"8 yuan per cup, buy 5 get 1 free!" More consumers are ordering milk skin yogurt through live streaming platforms. Every day, the express delivery foam boxes sent from Ziguangyuan's (紫光园) cloud warehouse to all parts of the country pile up like a small mountain, with the furthest destinations being Xinjiang (新疆) and Tibet (西藏).
Opening the lid reveals a layer of delicate yellow "milk skin," and the cheese-like yogurt has a silky texture and rich taste. With its unique taste and flavor, milk skin yogurt has quickly gained the favor of a large number of tourists. "The taste is amazing!" Netizens have left messages on social media, and Ziguangyuan (紫光园) milk skin yogurt has become a hit.
Compared to other long-standing Beijing (北京) delicacies, milk skin yogurt has only been around for a few years. Why has it stood out and become a "new Beijing (北京) specialty"?
This has to be attributed to the transformation of the time-honored Beijing (北京) brand Ziguangyuan (紫光园).
Like many Beijing (北京) restaurants, Ziguangyuan (紫光园) previously had plain old yogurt. However, this old yogurt was only used as a pairing to cut through the greasiness when eating grilled skewers and Peking duck, and needed to be drizzled with honey when eating, so it could not be taken away as a snack.
Old dishes still need to be made in new ways, and old flavors still need to be passed on in new ways. "Customers are pursuing fresh tastes. A cup of yogurt has been sold for more than 10 years, and it can't remain unchanged," recalled Liu Zheng (刘政), president of Ziguangyuan (紫光园) Catering Group. A few years ago, the company originally just wanted to make a new product that was easy to carry and had a better taste. The chefs made all kinds of yogurt for selection, and the milk skin yogurt made everyone's eyes light up.
From a technological point of view, milk skin yogurt still mainly uses fresh milk and pure bacterial powder for low-temperature fermentation, except that while forming thick yogurt, a layer of light yellow milk skin is also condensed on the surface, like cheese. Initially, Ziguangyuan (紫光园) invited the relatives and friends of employees to try it, and asked customers for their opinions in some stores, and then went back to improve the process. Finally, milk skin yogurt has its current silky texture and rich taste.
Since 2020, Ziguangyuan (紫光园) has been widely opening stores in Beijing (北京) communities. These stores are close to residential areas and have accumulated a large number of regular customers. It is based on the word-of-mouth of a large number of repeat customers that milk skin yogurt has gradually gained recognition and is often in short supply. The original handmade method could not meet the sales demand, so the company specially developed a production machine.
As the first wave of fans pushed this cup of yogurt from their doorstep onto the Internet, milk skin yogurt ushered in another "fermentation" on social media platforms. Ziguangyuan (紫光园) took advantage of the situation to jointly launch a product with "The World in the Palace," an IP under the Beijing Palace Museum Cultural Development Co., Ltd. (北京故宫宫廷文化发展有限公司), with the Taihe Hall (太和殿) pattern and the slogan "Eat Yogurt and Visit the Palace" printed on the cup lid. With the rising popularity of Beijing's (北京) cultural tourism, milk skin yogurt achieved a sales performance of 120,000 cups per day during last year's National Day holiday.
When the Beijing (北京) traditional food gene and the Internet traffic economy join hands, milk skin yogurt continues to become popular.
"Everywhere is coming to us to ask for goods," said Liu Zheng (刘政). In popular stores, the daily sales of milk skin yogurt can even reach 20,000 cups, and the total daily sales of Ziguangyuan (紫光园) milk skin yogurt has exceeded 300,000 cups at its highest. Meituan (美团) platform data shows that in the past month, sales of Ziguangyuan (紫光园) milk skin yogurt have increased by 145% compared with the same period last year.
The popularity of a cup of yogurt has quickly split into a collective action of Beijing (北京) catering, and Quanjude (全聚德), Juqi (局气), Fangzhuanchang No. 69 Fried Sauce Noodles (方砖厂69号炸酱面) and other Beijing (北京) restaurants have successively launched milk skin yogurt, and sales are considerable.
"Consumers prefer its cheese-like silky taste and the visual impact of the milk skin layer, which combines innovation and nostalgia." The relevant person in charge of Fangzhuanchang No. 69 Fried Sauce Noodles (方砖厂69号炸酱面) said that since the store launched milk skin yogurt in early March this year, the average daily sales have been about 6,000 cups, and the sales increase on weekends and holidays has reached 25% to 30%.
When Red Star Qianjin Bread and Milk Company (红星前进面包牛奶公司) opened a branch in Shanghai (上海) last year, milk skin yogurt was introduced simultaneously. "I didn't expect it to be so popular in Shanghai (上海)." Guo Ge (郭歌), the brand marketing director of the store, said that the Shanghai (上海) branch can only produce a maximum of 300 cups per day, and it sells out before 1 p.m. after opening at 10 a.m.
For Ziguangyuan (紫光园), the small yogurt has also leveraged changes in consumer groups. Previously, most of the consumers of this time-honored brand were elderly people over 60 years old, and now consumers under 40 years old account for half. When young people snap up milk skin yogurt, they also take a fancy to more snacks such as vegetable dumplings and steamed rice cakes.
With the addition of more catering companies, the milk skin yogurt craze is spreading to areas outside Beijing (北京). "The successful launch of new yogurt products has allowed companies to see more possibilities, and we are also ready to welcome new consumer trends," said Liu Zheng (刘政).
Recently, "Ziguangyuan (紫光园) Milk Skin Yogurt" has been successfully selected into the "Beijing (北京) Gift" brand list. The wonderful story of Beijing's (北京) cultural, commercial, and tourism integration stimulating vigorous consumer vitality will continue.
Return to TopBy: 张帅祯
Since the Beginning of Summer, the national summer grain wheat has been successively ripening and harvested from south to north. As of June 18, the national "Sanxia" (三夏, three summers: summer harvesting, summer planting, and summer hoeing) large-scale mechanized wheat harvest has basically ended. This year, the weather has been changeable since the beginning of summer. Various regions have seized sunny days to rush the harvest, quickly adjusting the wheat harvesting rhythm following the wheat ripening time. The overall progress is 2 to 3 days faster than the average year. Why is "Sanxia" dependent on rushing?
Behind the word "rush" is a race against the natural order, grain by grain. The golden harvest period for wheat is during the "nine-tenths ripe" stage, from the end of the wax-ripe stage to the beginning of the fully ripe stage, which usually lasts only 3 to 5 days. At this stage, the grain moisture content is 15% to 25%, the yield is the highest, the quality is the best, and the loss during harvest is the least. If harvested too early, the grain filling will be insufficient, and the yield will decrease. If harvested too late, the loss of grain shedding and ear dropping will increase. At the same time, it is also necessary to guard against the sudden attack of "rotten field rain." If continuous rainy weather occurs during the harvest period, it can easily cause wheat lodging and flooding, and even mold and wheat ear germination, which will also affect the drying of wheat grains, leading to reduced production.
Wisdom assists in "rushing," which is the joint effort of policy and technology. In order to strengthen agricultural machinery operation service support, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) has efficiently linked and innovatively collaborated with the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部), the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), the China Meteorological Administration (气象局), China National Petroleum Corporation (石油) and Sinopec (石化) and other departments and units. "Green channels," "meteorological special reports," and "sending oil to the countryside" have "rushed" for timeliness and enhanced confidence for "Sanxia" operations.
In Guantun Township (关屯乡), Yingshang County (颍上县), Anhui Province (安徽), in order to attract out-of-town "wheat harvesters," the local government opened its compound to provide considerate services to agricultural machinery operators, and rushed to harvest 33,000 mu of wheat in just 3 days. In Zhongxiang City (钟祥市), Hubei Province (湖北), combine harvesters are equipped with the "Beidou" (北斗) system to accurately and efficiently complete the entire process of harvesting and threshing, and then directly load the vehicles for transportation and drying, improving the operation efficiency by about 30%. From "relying on the weather" to "knowing the weather and acting accordingly," from "sweat-soaked" to "data flowing," the connotation of "rushing" is changing, the efficiency is improving, and there is more calmness and determination in the figure of "rushing."
Whether the "Sanxia" work is done well is related to whether the annual grain production target can be successfully achieved. Always maintaining a "rushing" posture, and unremittingly grasping the summer harvest, summer planting, and summer management, and continuing to do a good job in the annual grain production, we will surely be able to firmly hold the Chinese rice bowl and tightly consolidate the foundation of a major country that is 手中有粮、心中不慌 (shǒu zhōng yǒu liáng, xīn zhōng bù huāng - "having grain in hand, not panicking in heart," having enough food to feel secure).
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 李中迪
On the evening of June 15th, at the Miao and Dong Ethnic Customs Garden in Kaili City (凯里市), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou Province (贵州), 20 representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage took to the "Village T" stage to showcase their intangible cultural heritage works and achievements, demonstrating the unique charm of intangible cultural heritage and the style of ethnic culture.
In July of last year, the first Guizhou "Village T" fashion show, spontaneously participated in by local villagers, was held in Kaili (凯里). This "catwalk," mainly showcasing Miao (苗族) element clothing, embroidery, and silver ornaments, garnered over 46 million views across the internet, and Guizhou's "Village T" became a viral sensation.
As a public welfare activity, Guizhou's "Village T" has held more than 500 themed fashion shows to date, attracting nearly 50,000 people to take the stage. Attracted by "Village T," more than 400,000 tourists have entered the venue to watch, and in the markets near the show, clothing rentals and jewelry sales have increased by 200%, driving the development of surrounding homestays and the catering industry.
Return to TopThe Shanhaiguan China Great Wall Museum (山海关中国长城博物馆) Opens
According to Xinhua News Agency, the Shanhaiguan China Great Wall Museum (山海关中国长城博物馆), located in Shanhaiguan District (山海关区), Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛) City, Hebei (河北) Province, officially opened on June 15. The museum is a national first-class museum and a landmark project in the construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park.
The museum aims to showcase the achievements in the protection, inheritance, and utilization of Chinese Great Wall culture, present the world cultural heritage value of the Great Wall and the construction achievements of the Great Wall National Cultural Park, and is a modern comprehensive museum integrating cultural relic protection, collection display, education and scientific research, and leisure experience.
Hakka Culture (Western Fujian) Ecological Protection Zone Approved as "National Level"
Fujian Daily, Fuzhou (福州), June 18 (Reporter Guo Bin (郭斌)) It was recently learned that according to the relevant provisions of the "Administrative Measures for National-Level Cultural Ecological Protection Zones," the Ministry of Culture and Tourism organized the acceptance of the construction achievements of the National-Level Cultural Ecological Protection Experimental Zone. After procedures such as material review, on-site unannounced visits, expert evaluation, and social publicity, the Hakka Culture (Western Fujian) Ecological Protection Zone (客家文化（闽西）生态保护区) was officially determined as a National-Level Cultural Ecological Protection Zone.
The protection scope of the Hakka Culture (Western Fujian) Ecological Protection Zone (客家文化（闽西）生态保护区) is the ancient "Tingzhou Eight Counties" (汀州八县), namely Changting County (长汀县), Shanghang County (上杭县), Liancheng County (连城县), Wuping County (武平县), Yongding District (永定区) of Longyan City (龙岩市), and Ninghua County (宁化县), Qingliu County (清流县), and Mingxi County (明溪县) of Sanming City (三明市).
Taiyuan (太原) Railway Department Adds "Fan Special Train"
This newspaper, Taiyuan (太原), June 18 (Correspondent Jin Jianguo (靳建国)) In order to meet the cross-city travel needs of fans during the concert, the Taiyuan (太原) Railway Department added 8 night-time EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) trains on June 15 and 16, namely: G4066 from Taiyuan South (太原南) to Beijing Fengtai (北京丰台), D4511 and D4909 from Taiyuan South (太原南) to Xi'an North (西安北), and D4631 and D4541 from Taiyuan South (太原南) to Zhengzhou (郑州).
This is the first batch of "fan special trains" operated by China Railway Taiyuan Bureau (国铁太原局). In the future, customized passenger trains, including "fan special trains," will be operated in a timely manner according to market demand, providing transportation capacity guarantees for the tourism economy, silver economy, and concert economy.
Beihai (北海), Guangxi (广西), Opens Convenient "Online Ride-Hailing Bus"
Guangxi Daily, Beihai (北海), June 18 (Reporter Bin Shixiong (宾士雄)) Beihai City (北海市), Guangxi (广西), recently launched an "online ride-hailing bus" service, covering 88 traditional stations and 10 virtual stations in the main urban area. This is the first time Beihai (北海) has launched an "online ride-hailing bus" service, providing more choices for citizens to travel efficiently and conveniently.
Citizens only need to enter the boarding and alighting stations and the number of people on mobile platforms such as mobile phone APPs or WeChat mini-programs and complete the payment, and the system can intelligently match the optimal route and dispatch the order.
Ningxia Zhongning (宁夏中宁) First Crop of Wolfberries Begins Picking
This newspaper, Ningxia Zhongning (宁夏中宁), June 18 (People's Daily Online reporter Kuan Rong (宽容)) Recently, the first crop of wolfberries in Ningxia (宁夏) has entered the picking and harvesting season. In the ten-thousand-mu wolfberry garden of Xizan Ecological Wolfberry Manor (玺赞生态枸杞庄园) in Zhongning County (中宁县), Ningxia (宁夏), the bright red first crop of fresh wolfberries hangs all over the branches.
Today, there are more than 120 kinds of Zhongning (中宁) wolfberry processed products in 10 major categories, and the comprehensive output value of the wolfberry industry has exceeded 12.6 billion yuan, with a regional brand value of 20.5 billion yuan.
Yunnan's "First Water Mushrooms" Freshly Arrive Overseas
Yunnan Daily, Kunming (昆明), June 18 (Reporter Huang Yixian (黄议娴)) Recently, 24 kilograms of fresh matsutake mushrooms produced in Shangri-La (香格里拉), Yunnan (云南), were air-transported to Osaka (大阪), Japan. This is the first batch of fresh matsutake mushrooms exported from Kunming Changshui International Airport Customs (昆明长水国际机场海关) this year.
The first batch of wild mushrooms picked after the start of the rainy season is called "first water mushrooms" (头水菌), which have a short shelf life and are very fresh. Kunming Customs (昆明海关) has formulated a supervision plan, promoted convenient customs clearance models such as advance declaration, and opened a green channel for the export of fresh and perishable products to help Yunnan (云南) wild mushrooms export quickly.
Return to TopBy: 浙江日报记者 李 华
In Zhaobao Mountain Subdistrict (招宝山街道), Zhenhai District (镇海区), Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江), the mornings always seem to arrive exceptionally early. At 6 a.m., Zhou Youqiong (周幼琼), the 65-year-old owner of a clock repair shop, is awakened by her cell phone. A customer with a broken watch has been waiting outside her shop for a while, and, anxious, decided to call her.
On the east side of the Zongpu Bridge Community (总浦桥社区) cinema in Zhaobao Mountain Subdistrict (招宝山街道), a row of green booths are neatly arranged along the road. Shoe repair, key duplication, zipper repair, pant hem alterations... 11 booths, each 5 square meters, are neatly arranged, forming a miniature complex that meets residents' "odds and ends" needs. Each booth has air conditioning and lighting, and when the window under the awning is opened, it transforms into a service counter.
Zhou Youqiong's (周幼琼) clock repair shop is among them. Having learned clock repair from her father at the age of 19, she has seen the number of her peers dwindle over the past 40 years. However, many old customers have moved, even to other cities, and still send their watches back to her for repair. At such times, Zhou Youqiong (周幼琼) thinks: for the sake of these old customers, she must keep going.
This year, Zhaobao Mountain Subdistrict (招宝山街道) has set up five such convenient service points, utilizing urban odd-shaped plots and scattered spaces, charging the stallholders a symbolic rent of 50 yuan per month. "In the past, these artisans either roamed the streets or lived in tin sheds, working in harsh environments, which also brought challenges to urban management," said Wang Tao (汪涛), Deputy Director of the Zhaobao Mountain Subdistrict Office (招宝山街道办事处). By integrating and iterating service points, they have revitalized urban odd-shaped plots and met residents' repair needs.
At 8:30 a.m., at the convenience service point at the intersection of South Street (南大街) and West Chenghe Road (城河西路), Chen Miaoyun (陈苗云), 60, had just seen off an office worker who discovered a missing button on their way out, when two older women rushed over to pick up their clothes. In recent years, fewer and fewer people are mending clothes, but Chen Miaoyun's (陈苗云) dedication and superb skills have earned her many repeat customers.
"Now that there is a unified service point, the place is clean and there is air conditioning," said Chen Miaoyun (陈苗云). With a better environment and the needs of the neighborhood, she plans to work for a few more years.
(Luo Mengyuan (罗梦圆) participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 重庆日报记者 赵伟平
At 7 a.m., Bai Juming (白巨明), a formerly impoverished villager from Jingfeng Village (静峰村), Baijia Town (白家镇), Dianjiang County (垫江县), Chongqing (重庆), finished breakfast and went out to sweep the village road.
Bai Juming (白巨明) is a carpenter from Jingfeng Village (静峰村). In previous years, he worked as a carpenter on construction sites in urban areas of Chongqing (重庆). After returning to his hometown nearing his sixtieth birthday, Guo Su'lan (郭素兰), the village's poverty alleviation cadre, learned about his family's difficulties and applied for a public service position cleaning the highway for him. In his spare time, he also works in nearby orchards. The total income is enough to cover basic household expenses.
2025 is the final year of the 5-year transition period for consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation and effectively linking them with rural revitalization. Chongqing (重庆) implements classified policies to carry out employment assistance. For young and middle-aged laborers, since 2022, Chongqing (重庆) has implemented the "Rain and Dew Program +" employment promotion action, extending the scope of support from vocational education to employment assistance, organizing and guiding children from poverty-stricken families to improve their skills and quality; for cross-provincial employment personnel, by deepening Lu-Yu labor cooperation, signing labor cooperation agreements, and mutually dispatching and training professional and technical personnel, etc., to promote employment outside the province. In 2024 alone, the two places jointly held more than 60 special recruitment events, transporting nearly 3,000 people to Shandong (山东) for employment "point-to-point," assisting 36,000 rural laborers in transferring to employment, and training 16,000 agricultural, educational, and other technical personnel; in rural areas of Chongqing (重庆), many employment assistance workshops have also been opened at the doorsteps of villagers.
Return to TopBy: 安徽日报记者 柏 松
On June 15th, the "Fierce Chu Style - Exhibition of Anhui Chu Culture Relics" opened at the Minhang District Museum (闵行区博物馆) in Shanghai (上海). 129 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics came to Shanghai (上海) from Anhui (安徽) to "visit relatives," bringing a feast of Chu culture to the Shanghai (上海) audience.
In the center of the exhibition hall, a bronze ware shaped like a split bamboo section attracted the audience to stop. This is the "E Jun Qi Jin Jie (鄂君启金节)" issued by King Huai of Chu (楚怀王) to his son E Jun Qi (鄂君启) during the Warring States Period. The gold-inlaid characters on the surface clearly record the amount of tax exemption and other content. "The Chu State's commerce was so developed!" exclaimed citizen Lu Meng (卢猛).
The exhibition is jointly hosted by Huainan City (淮南市), Anhui (安徽), and Minhang District (闵行区), Shanghai (上海), to promote cultural exchange through cross-regional joint exhibitions of cultural relics.
From bronze heavyweights to Chu-style jade ornaments, the exhibits cover categories such as ritual vessels, weapons, and currency. Wang Maodong (汪茂东), curator of the Huainan City Museum (淮南市博物馆), said that this joint exhibition brings together the finest cultural relics from the Anhui Museum (安徽博物院), the Huainan City Museum (淮南市博物馆), and the Anhui Chu Culture Museum (安徽楚文化博物馆), and is an epitome of the deep integration of culture and tourism in the Yangtze River Delta. Shanghai (上海) and Anhui (安徽) are using cultural relics as a medium to deepen cooperation in areas such as cultural relic protection and talent exchange.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 王三合
These days, at the Physical Examination Center of Borun Hospital (博仁医院) in the Lintong Development Zone (临潼开发区) of Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西) province, tour guides are holding examination application forms, waiting for or undergoing various physical examinations.
As the summer tourism peak approaches, in order to ensure the health of tour guides in the area, the Lintong District Culture and Tourism Sports Bureau (临潼区文化和旅游体育局) and Borun Hospital (博仁医院) jointly launched a "health gift": providing free health check-up services covering electrocardiograms, liver function, kidney function, blood lipids, blood routine, blood sugar, and blood pressure to more than 2,300 tour guides in the district.
This free physical examination has made the tour guides feel very warm. "The free physical examination has brought us real health care, and everyone feels a great sense of belonging," said tour guide Hu Linna (胡琳娜).
Lintong District (临潼区) is an important tourism window for Xi'an (西安) and even Shaanxi Province (陕西省). Duan Ming (段明), Director of the Lintong District Culture and Tourism Sports Bureau (临潼区文化和旅游体育局), introduced that they will continue to play a bridging role, providing care and support to the tour guide group, and helping to promote the integrated development of culture and tourism.
Return to TopBy: 四川日报记者 李 婷
A few days ago, in Frankfurt, Germany, caviar from Tianquan County (天全县), Sichuan Province, was showcased and promoted to German catering, agricultural product companies, and food lovers as a premium brand of Sichuan's "Tianfu Granary" (天府粮仓). Tianquan County (天全县) caviar is expanding into overseas markets, with export value increasing by 43% year-on-year from January to May this year.
Tianquan County's (天全县) caviar production accounts for approximately 14% of the global market and is exported to more than 30 countries and regions. This year, the local area has vigorously explored overseas markets, customizing caviar with different flavors and appearances for emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, Japan, and South Korea. At the same time, relying on stable supply quality, cooperation with traditional overseas markets such as Europe and North America has been upgraded, with increased order volumes and long-term supply, forming multiple sales growth points.
Peking duck with caviar, caviar dan dan noodles, caviar yogurt... Chefs from various schools of cuisine were invited to Tianquan (天全) to develop new Chinese-style caviar dishes, creating new Chinese specialties, allowing Tianquan (天全) caviar, which is expanding into overseas markets, to 强强联合 (qiáng qiáng lián hé - "strong-strong combine," a powerful alliance) with Chinese restaurants that are going international, attracting more fans for caviar.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 熊婷婷
In Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi (江西) province, the first wisp of daily life often begins with the aroma of rice noodles permeating the streets and alleys. The smooth and chewy rice noodles, paired with a fresh, fragrant, and rich sauce, sprinkled with a handful of crispy peanuts and verdant scallions, constitute breakfast for many Nanchang (南昌) residents.
From June 13th to 15th, the 2025 Rice Noodle Industry Trade Fair was held in Nanchang (南昌), attracting nearly 500 domestic and foreign enterprises to participate in the exhibition.
In recent years, Nanchang (南昌) rice noodles have rapidly gained popularity, transitioning from street corners to branded chains, and from local flavors to the national market. The daily consumption of fresh, wet rice noodles in the urban area of Nanchang (南昌) reaches as high as 100 tons, with over 7,000 rice noodle shops distributed throughout the streets and alleys.
A bowl of noodles invigorates a city. Popular attractions such as the Tengwang Pavilion (滕王阁), Wanshou Palace Historical and Cultural Block (万寿宫历史文化街区), and Shengjin Tower Food Street (绳金塔美食街) cleverly integrate rice noodles with Nanchang's (南昌) history, culture, and folk customs. Rice noodles are becoming the traffic driver for Nanchang (南昌) cultural tourism.
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Return to TopBy: 国务院国资委党委
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Chinese-style modernization must be supported by scientific and technological modernization, and high-quality development must rely on scientific and technological innovation to cultivate new driving forces." The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) conscientiously studies and implements the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives, implements the major deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council (国务院), focuses on developing new quality productive forces, continuously improves the organizational system, business system, and policy system, and promotes central enterprises to strengthen scientific and technological innovation with unprecedented efforts, focusing on solving major scientific and technological problems that affect and restrict national development security and long-term interests, and makes positive contributions to promoting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and building a strong country in science and technology.
Serving the major strategic needs of the country and building national strategic scientific and technological strength.
The world today is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace. A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in depth, and high-tech fields have become the forefront and main battlefield of international competition. Enterprises are the main body of innovation, and central enterprises are the "national team" of scientific and technological innovation. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) adheres to the principle of "giving what should be given and giving as much as possible," fully reflecting strong support for scientific and technological innovation in performance appraisals, salary distribution, and state-owned capital operation budgets, and guiding central enterprises to integrate more deeply and broadly into the national scientific and technological innovation system.
Accelerate the improvement of scientific and technological innovation capabilities. The R&D investment of central enterprises exceeded one trillion yuan for three consecutive years from 2022 to 2024. The R&D investment intensity in 2024 reached 2.79%, of which basic research and applied basic research accounted for 8.8% of R&D investment. As of the end of 2024, there were 474 national-level R&D platforms and 1.443 million scientific researchers, an increase of 5.5% year-on-year.
Taking the lead in undertaking major scientific and technological tasks. Central enterprises led 3 and participated in 19 national major science and technology projects, playing an important role in national-level tackling tasks and major science and technology innovation projects. The number of national science and technology awards won by central enterprises in 2023 reached a new high, accounting for 54% of similar awards, and won all three special prizes for scientific and technological progress.
Focusing on building an original technology source. Optimized the overall layout of the source in 8 categories, 60 fields, and 201 directions, paying more attention to solving problems from the source and the bottom layer. The first batch of 45 sources has formed 121 landmark achievements, and 52 new sources have been built in fields such as quantum information and brain-like intelligence. A series of major breakthroughs have been achieved in cutting-edge fields such as controlled nuclear fusion, 6G network architecture, and carbon dioxide capture.
Achieved a number of world-class scientific and technological achievements. The Shenzhou (神舟) series of spacecrafts explored the sky, the Chang'e (嫦娥) lunar exploration project continued to explore space, major breakthroughs were achieved in the development of high-end equipment such as the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者) submersible, the "Mengxiang" (梦想) submersible, and the "Deep Earth Tacore 1" well. A series of major projects such as the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge (深中通道) and the Antarctic Qinling Station (南极秦岭站) were completed. Central enterprises have greatly boosted the confidence and self-reliance of the Chinese nation with their own scientific and technological achievements.
Playing a leading role in industry-university-research cooperation and enhancing the overall effectiveness of the innovation system.
At present, scientific and technological innovation has entered a new stage of large-scale science characterized by division of labor, collaboration, and overall advancement. As an important carrier connecting the government and the market, central enterprises are in a key hub in China's innovation chain and play a particularly important role in the new type of national system. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) guides central enterprises to give full play to their advantages in talent, capital, and scenarios, and focus on promoting the entire chain of innovation from basic research to industrialization.
Strengthen the overall organization of scientific and technological breakthroughs. A three-level linkage breakthrough system has been constructed that integrates into the overall national deployment, organizes central enterprises to jointly tackle key problems, and promotes enterprises to take the initiative to make breakthroughs. An integrated advancement mechanism has been formed that connects the innovation chain of the industrial chain and connects the breakthroughs with their application. A number of "bottleneck" key core technologies have been overcome in fields such as integrated circuits, industrial mother machines, and industrial software.
High-quality creation of innovation consortia. Adhering to the principle of shared benefits and shared risks, 24 innovation consortia have been formed in fields such as core electronic components and high-end CNC machine tools to jointly design tasks and jointly organize implementation. Talent, capital, and projects are allocated in an integrated manner. 86 central enterprises have driven more than 800 universities, research institutes, state-owned enterprises, and private enterprises to promote more than 1,000 projects, and 190 achievements have been applied and promoted.
Driving the integrated innovation of various innovation entities. As of the end of 2024, central enterprises have led 479 national and local industrial science and technology innovation strategic alliances and built 155 incubator platforms and science and technology industrial parks. In 2024, 35 central enterprises launched "revealing the list and taking command" to the whole society, releasing a total of 210 lists, carrying out 25,000 industry-university-research cooperation projects, and actually spending 27.42 billion yuan.
Unblocking the "last mile" of scientific and technological achievement transformation. Improve the docking and industrialization mechanism of industry-university-research achievements, actively promote the first (set), first batch, first version, first trial, and first use, and have cumulatively built 205 pilot verification platforms and 76 achievement transformation institutions. In 2024, 1,232 independent research achievements were applied and promoted, with a contract amount of 75.84 billion yuan, helping a large number of original technologies that truly meet market needs to stand out.
Promoting industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation and accelerating the development of new quality productive forces.
The core element of developing new quality productive forces is scientific and technological innovation. The key is to apply the achievements of scientific and technological innovation to specific industries and industrial chains, transform and upgrade traditional industries, cultivate and strengthen emerging industries, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. Central enterprises are the backbone and mainstay of China's real economy and are the main force in developing new quality productive forces. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) guides central enterprises to steadily promote special actions such as industrial renewal, future industry start-up, and AI+, and strive to achieve the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
Focusing on the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Through various means such as equipment transformation, technological breakthroughs, process upgrades, and product creation, we will focus on promoting the high-end, intelligent, and green development of traditional industries. Central enterprises continue to expand to high-tech and high-value-added fields. 108 enterprises under 76 central enterprises are carrying out digital transformation pilots. In 2024, the comprehensive energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of output value (operating income) of central enterprises decreased by 2.8% year-on-year, and the carbon dioxide emissions per 10,000 yuan of output value (operating income) decreased by 2.4% year-on-year.
Promoting the cluster-style development of emerging industries. The scale advantages in new-generation mobile communications, new energy, and other fields have been significantly consolidated. The bottom-line guarantee capabilities in fields such as industrial mother machines and new materials have been significantly improved. The layout speed in fields such as integrated circuits, biotechnology, new energy vehicles, and artificial intelligence has been significantly accelerated. A number of industry large models that empower high-value scenarios have emerged in petroleum and chemical industry, equipment manufacturing, power grids, and other aspects... In 2024, central enterprises completed an investment of 2.7 trillion yuan in strategic emerging industries, an increase of 21.8% year-on-year, and the proportion of total investment exceeded 40% for the first time. The operating income scale of strategic emerging industries exceeded 11 trillion yuan, accounting for nearly 30%.
Forward-looking layout of future industries. In accordance with the standards of "new track, new technology, new platform, and new mechanism," 79 future industry-related enterprises have been established through wholly-owned, holding, and equity participation. In 2024, central enterprises released the world's first computing power router in future industry-related fields, and the new generation of "artificial sun" broke through the "double 100 million degrees" of ions and electrons, completed the prototype test of the quantum gravimeter, and formed a batch of products and services with market and competitiveness, accelerating the seizure of the commanding heights of future development.
The achievements made in the scientific and technological innovation work of state-owned assets and central enterprises are fundamentally due to the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
In the next step, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) and central enterprises will adhere to the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives as the guide, adhere to and strengthen the Party's leadership over scientific and technological work, accelerate the construction of a results-oriented scientific and technological innovation system, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, strengthen high-quality scientific and technological supply, promote high-efficiency achievement transformation, build a high-level innovation ecosystem, resolutely win the battle to overcome key core technologies, strive to break through a batch of cutting-edge technologies with independent intellectual property rights, and strive to be the vanguard in promoting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, building a modern industrial system, and developing new quality productive forces.
Return to TopThis report from Hefei, June 18th (by reporter Tian Xianjin (田先进)) - This reporter learned from a press conference held by the Anhui (安徽) Provincial Government Information Office that since the beginning of this year, market supervision departments across Anhui Province have focused on optimizing the environment, promoting consumption, and enhancing efficiency, making positive contributions to promoting high-quality economic development. As of the end of May, Anhui had 8.4486 million various types of business entities, a year-on-year increase of 3.75%.
Anhui promoted the pilot reform of enterprise relocation registration and the "one-thing" reform of individual businesses transforming into enterprises, and issued implementation measures for the registration management of business entity domiciles (business premises). It strengthened fair competition review and inspection assessments, and rectified the abuse of market dominance and the abuse of administrative power to exclude and restrict competition. It implemented a three-year action plan to optimize the consumption environment, carried out a special action to comprehensively investigate outstanding problems in the market consumption environment, and investigated 14,000 problems. It cleaned up and rectified false and illegal advertisements in the medical, pharmaceutical, food, and other livelihood fields, carried out the "Guardian of Consumption" iron fist action, investigated and handled 22,500 illegal cases, and announced a number of major typical cases.
Significant results have been achieved in incentivizing high-level scientific and technological innovation through intellectual property. It helped "USTC Silicon Valley" (科大硅谷) successfully register 10 text trademarks and approved 5 national geographical indication products. The number of invention patents per 10,000 people in the province was 32.9, a year-on-year increase of 10.0%; the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people was 11.22, a year-on-year increase of 28.2%.
The comprehensive effectiveness of market supervision has been effectively improved. It has fully promoted service-oriented law enforcement and penetrating supervision, issued and implemented provincial local standards for the double-random "one industry, one inspection" supervision work norms, implemented joint departmental random inspections in 76 industry fields, piloted the exploration of "market supervision inspection once," carried out 8 centralized rectification actions such as food safety in primary and secondary schools, and strived to solve the "key small matters" around the masses.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Haikou (海口) report on June 18th (Reporter Sun Haitian (孙海天)) - This reporter learned from the Department of Science and Technology of Hainan Province (海南省科学技术厅) that the "Hainan Province Science and Technology Innovation Quality Improvement and Efficiency Enhancement Action Plan (2025-2027)" has been released recently, proposing 20 specific measures to promote the deep integration and development of science and technology innovation and industrial innovation in the Free Trade Port.
In terms of system layout, Hainan (海南) will build a multi-level innovation system of "laboratory matrix + technology innovation platform echelon," promote the construction of major science and technology infrastructure, and carry out a full-chain planning and design from basic research to condition guarantee around the creation of a multi-level science and technology innovation system. It proposes to accelerate the formation of a laboratory matrix and a technology innovation platform echelon, plan and promote the implementation of a number of major science and technology facilities, and lay a solid foundation for enhancing innovation effectiveness.
In terms of industrial integration, the focus is on implementing the "Five Orientations Strengthening" strategy of orienting towards seeds, the sea, the sky, green, and data, laying out new tracks such as biomanufacturing, taking national major science and technology projects as the traction, organizing and implementing special industrial technology innovation projects, promoting the deep integration of science and technology with the modern industrial system, and helping the transformation and upgrading of leading industries and the development of emerging industries.
In terms of promoting reform, it will strengthen reform breakthroughs in key areas and crucial links, strengthen policy supply and system construction, innovatively propose the "three coordinations" management model (coordinating basic research and technological innovation, free exploration and organized scientific research, stable support and competitive support), and comprehensively promote the reform of the ownership of job-related scientific and technological achievements, and deepen the integrated reform of education, science and technology, and talent.
In terms of open innovation, Hainan (海南) will build a high ground for scientific and technological opening-up and cooperation, build an international talent introduction mechanism, promote the cross-border flow and aggregation of innovation factors, and enhance the international recognition of scientific and technological innovation in the Free Trade Port.
Return to TopGuangzhou (广州), June 18th (Reporters He Linping (贺林平) and Li Gang (李刚)) On the 18th, a China-Europe freight train loaded with cross-border e-commerce export goods manufactured in the Greater Bay Area, such as clothing, small household appliances, and kitchenware, departed from the Guangdong (广东) Guangzhou (广州) Eastern Public-Private Partnership Transportation Hub (Zengcheng West Station (增城西站)) on its maiden voyage. It will exit through the Horgos (霍尔果斯) port and is expected to arrive in Italy in 13 days. This is Guangzhou's (广州市) first China-Europe freight train e-commerce express line, marking Guangzhou's (广州) official opening of a cross-border channel for e-commerce goods to directly reach Europe via the China-Europe freight train.
"In the past, our cross-border e-commerce goods mainly arrived in Europe via sea or air. Sea transportation takes more than 30 days, while air transportation is relatively expensive," said Zhang Junmei (张俊梅), the customs affairs manager of Shenzhen Jiuzhou International Logistics Co., Ltd. (深圳市玖洲国际物流有限公司). "Now, with the China-Europe freight train e-commerce express line, goods can arrive in Europe in 13 days. The transportation time is more than twice as fast as sea transportation, and the cost is only 1/5 of air transportation."
Yang Guozhong (杨国忠), the Party Branch Secretary of the Zengcheng (增城) Business Department of Guangzhou Railway Logistics Center (广州铁路物流中心), introduced that according to the "China-Europe freight train + cross-border e-commerce" transportation model, e-commerce goods are collected and consolidated from warehouses to the Guangzhou China-Europe Freight Train Cross-border E-commerce Center (广州中欧班列跨境电商中心) to complete security inspection and customs clearance, and then shipped from the Railway Zengcheng West Station (铁路增城西站). The time for collection, consolidation, and on-site processing takes only 4 days; the railway transportation time from domestic to foreign stations is 13 days, and the customs clearance and delivery abroad take 3 days. The entire process from customer order to delivery takes only 20 days at the fastest. This "China-Europe freight train + cross-border e-commerce" model effectively solves the transportation pain points of small-batch, multi-batch B2C (business-to-consumer) orders for cross-border e-commerce companies, helping small-batch B2C cross-border retail products to quickly go overseas and meet the needs of European consumers in a timely manner.
In order to ensure the smooth operation of Guangzhou's (广州市) first China-Europe freight train e-commerce express line, Zengcheng Customs (增城海关), under Huangpu Customs (黄埔海关), provided comprehensive guidance on aspects such as site approval materials, layout design, hardware facilities, and card management. "We have set up dedicated personnel on-site to guide enterprises to quickly complete customs declaration, release, and transfer procedures, and implement a '7×24 hours' appointment customs clearance service to ensure that containers are inspected upon arrival and released immediately upon passing inspection, greatly improving customs clearance efficiency and ensuring the timely departure of trains," said Hu Jiwan (胡继万), Chief of the Supervision Section of Zengcheng Customs (增城海关监管科).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
"Let's take the dogs for a dress-up show this weekend, and then browse the pet supplies supermarket. The pet canned food production workshop is right next door, would you like to take a look?" Zeng Yao (曾尧), a post-90s native of Pingyang County (平阳县), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, recommends his treasure hometown to friends who own pets.
Pingyang (平阳) has beautiful mountains and clear waters, with the Ao River (鳌江) flowing through the city. From dog houses and cat litter in rural homestays to eye-catching themed wall paintings... Pingyang (平阳), located in a mountainous area, is filled with pet elements everywhere.
"I used to be afraid to even eat fish because the water in the ponds was blue-black." Zeng Yao (曾尧) usually likes to walk along the river. In his childhood memories, the air was filled with the smell of tannery wastewater. More than 20 years ago, the most prosperous business in Pingyang (平阳) was leather, with as many as 1,200 leather manufacturing enterprises. While the leather business created wealth for the local area, it also caused serious pollution. Transformation and upgrading were imminent.
"In the 1990s, merchants came to us to collect scraps of pigskin and cowhide, and we learned that these things could be used to make pet chews!" said Chen Zhenbiao (陈振标), a native of Shuitou Town (水头镇), Pingyang County (平阳县). Later, he founded Peidi Leather Products Factory (佩蒂皮件制品厂), using the second and third layers of leather scraps to make high-protein pet products.
Now, on Chongle Road (宠乐路) in Shuitou Town (水头镇), the products of two pet supplies listed companies facing each other across the road have been exported overseas. In 2024, nearly 100 pet supplies companies in Pingyang (平阳) created a total output value of more than 5 billion yuan. Among them, the export volume of pet chewable food accounted for more than half of the national total, and the output of pet leashes accounted for 1/3 of the domestic market.
Walking into the production workshop of Peidi Animal Nutrition Technology Co., Ltd. (佩蒂动物营养科技股份有限公司), on the new pet staple food production line, workers cut raw materials such as duck, chicken, and beef, and then put them into freeze-drying warehouses to produce high-quality freeze-dried staple food. "Consumers' pursuit of quality and brands continues to increase, forming a huge segmented market." Tang Zhaobo (唐照波), Deputy General Manager of Peidi (佩蒂), introduced that in addition to chews, the company also produces pet staple food and meaty snacks, as well as pet ice cream and other products.
Zeng Yao (曾尧), who previously ran a bag business, also found new business opportunities. He used the traditional advantages of the leather industry in Shuitou Town (水头镇) to innovatively launch transparent portable pet carriers; in the neighboring Wanquan Town (万全镇), enterprises rely on the original home furnishing industry foundation to transform and produce pet sofas, cat scratching boards and other pet furniture... Under the guidance of the local government, each township adapts to local conditions, and the categories of Pingyang (平阳) pet supplies have been expanded to dozens of series and thousands of varieties, including pet staple food snacks, pet toys, and pet bags.
With increasingly rich products, opening up the market is even more critical.
"In the past, there were not so many people raising pets. Most of our companies did foreign trade. Now the domestic market is booming, and we must seize the opportunity." Zeng Yao (曾尧) said that the strong supply chain of the Pingyang (平阳) pet supplies industry was laid by the older generation, and as a new generation, he must promote Pingyang's (平阳) good products to the whole country.
No sooner said than done. The original "Pet Town Living Room" (宠物小镇客厅) in Shuitou Town (水头镇) gradually changed: a pet supplies collection store opened. In the huge exhibition hall, pet supplies from "Pet Town" (宠物小镇) in Pingyang (平阳) and all over the country are gathered, and consumers can freely choose.
Next door, the newly opened live broadcast base is also bustling. "There is both live broadcast e-commerce and offline cultural tourism and sales, so as to help companies bring goods and incubate internet celebrity brands. Now more than 50 local pet supplies brands in Shuitou Town (水头镇) have settled in." Now, Zeng Yao (曾尧) also has another identity - Chairman of Wenzhou Jiusheng Digital Industry Development Co., Ltd. (温州玖升数字产业发展有限公司). Opening his mobile phone, he showed the online store - "Zhejiang Pingyang Pet Town Specialty Store" (浙江平阳宠物小镇专营店) has been launched on the Jingdong (京东) platform.
"We are the source factory, there are no middlemen making the difference, and there are coupons in the live broadcast room today, which is very cost-effective." Following the sound, the anchor Zeng Xinyi (曾心怡) in the live broadcast room is enthusiastically interacting with online viewers. After graduating from the pet care major of Pingyang County Second Vocational School (平阳县第二职业学校), she chose to stay in her hometown. Her alma mater has established many pet-related majors. Through the talent delivery agreement established with enterprises, many students do not have to worry about finding a job.
This is "Pet Town" (宠物小镇), but where are the cute pets?
From various cute pet experience activities held regularly by brand collection stores, to the continuous landing of cute pet competitions and pet-friendly tourism routes... Nowadays, relying on the beautiful mountains and clear waters, and through the integration of culture and tourism, there are more and more cute little guys on the streets.
"We plan to create pet-themed tourism routes, launch services such as pet boarding, pet-friendly camping, pet-friendly buses, pet hotels, and self-service care, to help create a tourist destination for pet lovers to travel with their pets." said the relevant person in charge of the Pingyang County Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Sports Bureau (平阳县文化和广电旅游体育局).
"Cute pets are also a big business!" Zeng Yao (曾尧) is full of confidence. In the future, he also plans to open the brand collection store of "Pet Town" (宠物小镇) in more cities, so that more people can understand Pingyang's (平阳) cute pet products.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shanghai (上海) dispatch on June 18th (Reporter Ji Juesu (季觉苏)) On the morning of June 18th, the Shanghai (上海) Hongxin (虹莘) Drainage Pumping Station's initial rain regulation and storage gallery project achieved key progress - the domestically produced large-diameter vertical shaft tunneling machine used in the project smoothly started, and the country's first mechanically excavated vertical shaft initial rain regulation and storage gallery entered an important construction phase.
The project is located in Qibao Town (七宝镇), Minhang District (闵行区), Shanghai (上海), and includes civil construction and electromechanical installation, supporting water inlet and outlet pressure pipes, underground substations and ancillary works. Among them, the circular vertical shaft with a maximum excavation diameter of 16.3 meters and a depth of 44.6 meters is the main civil construction project of the project.
According to reports, the vertical shaft tunneling machine that started this time was jointly developed by China Railway Eleventh Bureau (中铁十一局) and Tie Jian Heavy Industry (铁建重工), with a maximum power of 1400 kilowatts and a total weight of approximately 522 tons. The vertical shaft is mechanically excavated from top to bottom, and innovatively adopts a three-section structure of "top cast-in-place + prefabricated pipe segments + steel blade foot."
Since construction began on October 30 last year, the project construction team has adhered to the principle of technology first, and has successively overcome the dual challenges of equipment assembly in a narrow site and high-precision pipe segment assembly. After the project is completed, it can intercept 4,700 cubic meters of initial rainwater each time, and after regulation and storage, it will be transported to the municipal main sewage pipe network, which can significantly reduce the pressure on the urban pipe network and improve the water quality of downstream rivers. As an important practice in urban resilience construction, the project will help Shanghai (上海) build a "safe, efficient, and green" modern drainage system and provide practical experience for national rain and flood management.
Return to TopOn June 16th, the 2025 China·Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair (referred to as "Langfang Economic and Trade Fair") hosted by the People's Government of Hebei Province (河北省人民政府) opened in Langfang City (廊坊市), Hebei Province (河北省). Building a national important base for modern commerce and logistics is a major historical mission entrusted to Hebei (河北) by the Party Central Committee and the State Council (国务院), and an important starting point for deeply implementing the coordinated development strategy of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北). As an important exchange platform in the field of commerce and logistics, the Langfang Economic and Trade Fair has, since 2023, transformed from a comprehensive exhibition to a professional exhibition themed on modern commerce and logistics.
The Langfang Economic and Trade Fair continues to enhance its driving effect on the industry. Nearly a hundred countries and regions around the world, thousands of leading enterprises, and over ten thousand industry representatives gathered in Langfang (廊坊) to discuss opportunities and development. The conference continues to release landmark achievements in the modern commerce and logistics industry, and jointly holds professional conferences such as the annual meeting of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport with five major business associations, deeply integrating investment promotion, production and sales docking, and exhibition consumption, and has become a "weathervane" for the modern commerce and logistics industry.
The Langfang Economic and Trade Fair injects strong momentum into the development of Hebei's (河北) commerce and logistics industry. Hebei (河北) has used the conference platform to attract a number of leading logistics companies to settle and layout, and pilot projects such as national logistics hub layout bearing cities have been successively approved. The pilot project of Langfang (廊坊) as a "global international postal express hub" has been implemented, and the pattern of "Qingpu in the South and Langfang in the North" in the express delivery industry has initially formed. From 2022 to 2024, the proportion of the added value of the province's commerce and logistics industry in the regional GDP increased from 14.8% to 15.4%, the proportion of total social logistics costs in GDP decreased from 14.7% to 14%, the volume of express delivery business increased by 81%, and the province's express delivery business volume jumped to fourth in the country in 2024. The modern commerce and logistics industry has become a new engine for Hebei's (河北) high-quality development.
The Langfang Economic and Trade Fair is becoming an important platform for Hebei's (河北) opening up to the outside world. The conference innovatively organized a series of investment promotion and docking activities such as the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei International Cooperation Investment Promotion Parlor", and continued to hold import and export commodity exhibitions, domestic and foreign logistics technology and equipment exhibitions, attracting more than a thousand overseas merchants, heads of international business associations, and representatives of the world logistics industry from more than 60 countries and regions to participate in the exhibition. From 2022 to 2024, Hebei's (河北) ranking in the country in terms of foreign investment, foreign trade, and foreign economy has steadily improved, with the ranking of actual use of foreign capital rising by 4 places, the ranking of imports and exports rising by 2 places, and the ranking of foreign direct investment rising by 1 place, achieving a new leap in the quality and efficiency of opening up to the outside world.
Data source: Department of Commerce of Hebei Province (河北省商务厅)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李家鼎
Hearing that reporters were coming, Sun Yeman (孙业满) had his daughter tidy up his military uniform adorned with medals early in the morning, while he quietly waited in the corner of the living room. Underneath the transparent desk mat were photos, certificates of merit, and commendation letters, recording the glorious years of this old man's past.
From the Anti-Japanese War to the Liberation War, and then to the Korean War, Sun Yeman (孙业满) experienced over a hundred battles, large and small, and was awarded military merits more than ten times. In recent years, although his memory has deteriorated significantly, he can still sing the songs of those years without missing a word: "We are the New Fourth Army, we are one family, fighting together, living together, sharing life and death, sharing hardships, everyone with one heart..."
What did it feel like to carry a gun for the first time?
"The gun is used to protect family, protect comrades, protect yourself. If you follow the right team, you don't have to be afraid of not winning."
Speaking of his childhood, Sun Yeman's (孙业满) expression suddenly became serious. "To sum it up in six words: 'not enough to eat, not enough to wear.'"
In January 1926, Sun Yeman (孙业满) was born in Damingtang Village (大明堂村), Lujiang County (庐江县), Anhui Province (安徽省). When he was five years old, his father, who worked away from home, unfortunately died in a boiler room explosion. His mother later remarried, and the young Sun Yeman (孙业满) and his older siblings could only depend on their grandmother for survival. "The cotton-padded jacket worn in winter had many holes, and my hands were full of frostbite; there was not enough food to eat, so I had to dig wild vegetables. When I was growing up, I was so hungry that I felt panicked when I went to bed..."
Greater unease came from the invaders' wanton plundering. "The Japanese puppet troops often went to the countryside to 'sweep,' grabbing whatever they saw. The livestock had long been gone, and the few days' worth of food we saved could not be kept." Sun Yeman (孙业满) said.
After the Southern Anhui Incident (皖南事变) in 1941, the Wuhu Guerrilla Column (无为游击纵队), the Third Column of the New Fourth Army (新四军第三纵队), the Anhui Southern breakout troops (皖南突围部队), and some local armed forces led by the Chinese Communist Party were reorganized into the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army (新四军第七师), becoming the backbone force in the Wanjiang area (皖江地区) to persist in the war against Japan. The deep affection of the New Fourth Army for the people and their strict military discipline left a deep impression on Sun Yeman (孙业满) in his youth.
"The New Fourth Army's garrison was not far from our village. In their spare time from training, the soldiers often helped the villagers repair houses, carry water, and teach everyone how to counter the 'sweeps'. More importantly, they were really fighting the Japanese devils with real guns!" Sun Yeman's (孙业满) eyes lit up.
In December 1943, 17-year-old Sun Yeman (孙业满) made the most important decision of his life: "Join the New Fourth Army and take up arms to fight the Japanese devils."
"What did it feel like to carry a gun for the first time?"
"The gun is used to protect family, protect comrades, protect yourself. If you follow the right team, you don't have to be afraid of not winning!" Sun Yeman (孙业满) said, raising his voice.
Long-distance running, obstacle climbing, grappling, bayonet fighting... The young Sun Yeman (孙业满) began his military career on the training ground of the Baihu Regiment (白湖团) of the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army (新四军第七师), which not only improved his skills but also gained him a comradeship that he would remember for the rest of his life.
How did you spend the most unforgettable Spring Festival?
"After winning the battle, the villagers beat gongs and drums to welcome us. That New Year was unforgettable to this day."
Before the Spring Festival in 1944, while the people around the garrison were preparing for the New Year, the troops where Sun Yeman (孙业满) was stationed were still planning new battles. "At that time, after learning that there was a Japanese puppet military stronghold not far from the garrison at the Tongyang River Estuary (烔炀河口), we asked our superiors for permission to take the initiative to attack and destroy it."
The battle application was quickly approved, and the squad where Sun Yeman (孙业满) was assigned was designated as the vanguard squad. On the eve of the battle, the soldiers boarded a boat from the south bank of Chaohu Lake (巢湖), and under the cover of night, quietly approached the enemy's stronghold at the Tongyang River Estuary (烔炀河口) and lay in ambush.
"Deputy Squad Leader Zhang Yeqing (张业清) told me that the enemy's defenses were usually the most lax when it was about to dawn, so we decided to start the operation at this time." Sun Yeman (孙业满) said that as the vanguard squad, their primary task was to crouch down and cut open the barbed wire in front of them to tear open a breakthrough for the main force to charge.
The battle began, and the main force poured in through the cut barbed wire, quickly capturing the enemy's main force. But just as the soldiers were counting the spoils of war, a bunker 30 meters away on the east side suddenly spewed out flames...
The bunker was at a high point, and its firepower covered a wide range. A blind charge would definitely cause casualties. "Zhang Yeqing (张业清) gathered me and another comrade and suggested using water-soaked cotton quilts to lay on the newly captured Eight Immortals table (八仙桌) to make a 'native tank' as a cover." Sun Yeman (孙业满) said that the three of them decisively collected all the grenades from the platoon's soldiers, and while crawling forward, they pushed the "native tank" closer to the bunker. Although the wet cotton quilts were riddled with holes, the three of them managed to reach the throwing distance.
"Zhang Yeqing (张业清) shouted, 'Throw!' More than a dozen grenades fell like hailstones!" The old man excitedly patted his knees and said, "There were loud explosions inside and outside the bunker, and several Japanese devils were blown to death." Immediately afterward, Zhang Yeqing (张业清) took the lead in rushing into the bunker and captured the remaining enemies.
This was the first large-scale battle Sun Yeman (孙业满) participated in, which made him admire Zhang Yeqing (张业清): "The deputy squad leader was brave in battle and had many ideas!"
In the battle at the Tongyang River Estuary (烔炀河口), the troops where Sun Yeman (孙业满) was stationed captured more than 50 rifles and machine guns. When the soldiers returned in triumph carrying the spoils of war, they found that the people in the garrison had gathered around. "After winning the battle, the villagers beat gongs and drums to welcome us. That New Year was unforgettable to this day!" Sun Yeman (孙业满) said.
Do you have much contact with your former comrades?
"Parting from life and death is commonplace. Many comrades are gone without saying goodbye. I had the most contact with the deputy squad leader."
"After the first battle, I established a deep friendship with Zhang Yeqing (张业清). Whether it was training, fighting, or living, he helped me a lot," Sun Yeman (孙业满) recalled.
In 1945, the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army (新四军第七师) was ordered to go north to Shandong (山东). In a battle near Yuncheng County (郓城县) with the enemy, Zhang Yeqing (张业清) was shot in the face and withdrew from the front line.
"Parting from life and death is commonplace. Many comrades are gone without saying goodbye. I had the most contact with the deputy squad leader," Sun Yeman (孙业满) said. During the Huaihai Campaign (淮海战役) in 1948, Sun Yeman (孙业满), who was already a platoon leader, accidentally discovered that the new political instructor of his company was Zhang Yeqing (张业清). After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Yeqing (张业清) worked in Huainan City (淮南市), Anhui Province (安徽省), and maintained contact with Sun Yeman (孙业满) until his death.
"As long as you are a soldier for one day, you must listen to the Party and follow the Party." After returning from Korea, Sun Yeman (孙业满) did not choose to transfer to civilian work but instead followed his troops to devote himself to national construction. In peacetime, Sun Yeman (孙业满) built reservoirs in Changzhi (长治), Shanxi (山西), built underground works in Tianjin (天津), and dug tunnels in Helan Mountain (贺兰山)...
In 1982, Sun Yeman (孙业满) retired and settled in Xiqing District (西青区), Tianjin (天津). "In recent years, my father has always insisted on telling revolutionary stories. He often tells young people to study, listen to the Party, and build the country even stronger," said Sun Xiuping (孙秀萍), Sun Yeman's (孙业满) eldest daughter.
Sun Xiuping (孙秀萍) also told reporters that a few years ago, the old man underwent surgery for a heart problem and had a pacemaker installed. The old man often said to his children: "Just like when I joined the New Fourth Army to fight the Japanese devils, I have a young 'heart'."
"Grandpa, thank you for your story." At the end of the interview, the reporter said goodbye to Sun Yeman (孙业满). Sun Yeman (孙业满) waved with a smile and then gently straightened the Party member badge on his chest.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 闫伊乔
This year's "Government Work Report" proposed to continuously promote the "Artificial Intelligence +" initiative, better integrate digital technology with manufacturing advantages and market advantages, and support the widespread application of large models.
Entrusted by the CPC Central Committee, the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (农工党中央) Central Committee recently conducted a key research and study for 2025 on "Promoting the 'Artificial Intelligence +' Initiative and Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing." He Wei (何维), Chairman of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party Central Committee, led the research team to Shanghai (上海) and Jiangsu (江苏) for on-site inspections.
Visiting the Front Lines of Enterprises, Conducting Solid Research
Artificial intelligence, as a forward-looking and strategic technology that leads the future, has become the core driving force of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. "How to accelerate the shaping of new industrial advantages, cultivate and develop new driving forces, and better promote the empowerment of artificial intelligence to thousands of industries?" With these questions in mind, the research team visited many enterprises to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences and practices of artificial intelligence in technological innovation and industrial development.
At China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (中国远洋海运集团有限公司), the research team learned in detail about the specific applications of artificial intelligence in international shipping, port operations, and logistics services. "'Intelligent Route' products provide customers with comprehensive and integrated intelligent route management services, optimize fleet operations, and improve route efficiency." After hearing the introduction from the person in charge of the enterprise, the research team expressed their affirmation and further inquired about the details of artificial intelligence in route planning and cargo tracking.
"How many times do you have to repeat the same action every day?" "Compared with the previous generation of robots, in which aspects has this batch mainly improved?" Walking into the Shanghai Zhuyuan Robot Base (上海智元机器人基地), rows of robots were undergoing motion training and data collection under the control of staff. Members of the research team stopped to observe and tried to use robots to complete actions in human life scenarios such as unpacking express deliveries, folding clothes, and carrying plates.
On the bank of the Huangpu River (黄浦江), the "Model Speed Space" (模速空间) Large Model Innovation Ecological Community in Shanghai's Xuhui West Bund (上海徐汇西岸) has developed from a vacant lot into an innovative space gathering nearly 400 large model enterprises and promoting the implementation of 43 registered large models in less than two years.
"How much computing power does the company currently have?" "How to maintain a competitive advantage in the global competition?" "Which industries have you already cooperated with?"... The research team came to Shanghai Jieyue Xingchen Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (上海阶跃星辰智能科技有限公司), a representative enterprise of basic large models located in "Model Speed Space," to exchange and interact with the person in charge of the enterprise and explore the experience of Xuhui District (徐汇区) in building an artificial intelligence industry cluster worth hundreds of billions of yuan.
Shanghai (上海) regards artificial intelligence as one of the three leading industries, comprehensively deploying it in multiple key areas and forming a batch of internationally leading technology application cases. The research team affirmed the obvious achievements made by Shanghai in promoting the "Artificial Intelligence +" initiative and its exemplary leading role in the country, and proposed to further explore the full-chain application of artificial intelligence and promote the deep empowerment of artificial intelligence in emerging fields such as future manufacturing and new energy.
Going Deep into Scientific Research Positions, Understanding Scientific and Technological Achievements
The Yangtze River Delta Quantum Technology Innovation Center (量子科技长三角产业创新中心) has now completed the research and development of a 26-bit quantum computer; Xingluo Intelligent Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (星逻智能科技（苏州）有限公司) has deeply integrated AI technology with drones, realizing the intelligent management of the entire process of drone operations...
During the research in Jiangsu (江苏), the research team walked, asked, and looked all the way, listening to the introduction of the team's efforts to overcome difficulties and progress from the technical负责人 and scientific researchers of the enterprises. The research team unanimously agreed that artificial intelligence still faces challenges in data, computing power, and other aspects, but some fields have used artificial intelligence to overcome core problems, providing China (中国) with opportunities for overtaking in related fields.
At the Juwei Yuanchuang Intelligent AI R&D Center (聚维元创智能化AI研发中心) in Suzhou (苏州), scientific researchers gave a presentation to the research team on "Breakthroughs in Non-Grain Biomanufacturing Technology" and "AI-Driven Synthetic Biology Innovation." "The deep integration of artificial intelligence and biomanufacturing is a key direction for future industrial transformation. We must maintain strategic focus and continue to make breakthroughs in cutting-edge fields such as biomanufacturing." The research team affirmed the center's cutting-edge practices in solving the "bottleneck" problems in the biomanufacturing industry.
"Is there an opportunity to participate in technical training here?" "What about promotion channels and settlement policies?" Walking into scientific research and innovation platforms such as the Nanjing Artificial Intelligence Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中科南京人工智能创新研究院), the research team had cordial conversations with young scientific researchers to understand the research institute's talent training model and talent evaluation system.
Nanjing (南京) has been approved to build 34 national key laboratories, and the 6G non-cellular wide-area low-altitude coverage technology and other achievements of the Zijin Mountain Laboratory (紫金山实验室) are globally leading. "This is a fertile ground for scientific and technological innovation, and we must vigorously support young scientific researchers to bravely enter the 'no-man's land.'" The research team said.
The research team suggested building a multi-level talent training system, carrying out cross-disciplinary talent training related to artificial intelligence and manufacturing, and cultivating compound talents who understand both industry knowledge and master digital technology. Support enterprises to cooperate closely with universities, scientific research institutes, and vocational colleges to create a deep integration model of industry, education, and research, and cultivate a group of high-level talents and high-skilled talent teams.
Summarizing Effective Experience, Providing Decision-Making Reference
After inspecting a series of high-quality achievements of Nanjing Silicon-Based Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (南京硅基智能科技有限公司) in the field of digital human commercial applications, the research team reached a consensus on the bottlenecks and pain points facing the next development in the field of digital humans: "We should accelerate the introduction of commercial industry standards and norms for digital humans, fully assess the related ethical risks, and make them develop in a safer, more responsible, and trustworthy direction."
"Small and medium-sized enterprises with fundamentally different foundations and diverse demand scenarios are the focus and difficulty of digital transformation in manufacturing." After visiting the Suzhou "Artificial Intelligence + Manufacturing" Innovation Application Center (苏州市“人工智能+制造业”创新应用中心), the research team suggested increasing support and exploring the formation of a long-term mechanism to promote the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, and solving the outstanding problems of some small and medium-sized enterprises lacking money, people, and technology, and not wanting to transform, not daring to transform, and not knowing how to transform.
"Without investigation, there is no right to speak; investigation and research are the foundation of planning and the way to success." From Shanghai (上海) to Jiangsu (江苏), members of the research team researched, recorded, and summarized while conducting on-site investigations, holding internal meetings, and holding symposiums with relevant departments负责人 and experts and scholars from the two places to widely listen to opinions and suggestions and carefully summarize relevant experiences and practices.
At the symposium, the research team learned that the current development of the domestic artificial intelligence industry still faces challenges such as the scarcity of high-quality datasets, the lagging of high-quality corpus industry standards, and the imperfect benefit distribution mechanism.
"Overall, under the current situation, accelerating the digital transformation of manufacturing through the 'Artificial Intelligence +' initiative is both important and urgent for continuously consolidating China's (中国) leading manufacturing advantages." The research team pointed out that making good use of "Artificial Intelligence +" is a systematic and large-scale project. Consolidating the technical foundation is the basis, promoting the intelligent upgrading of industries is the focus, and improving the intelligent level of key products and equipment is the key. More investment and more norms are also needed.
The research team stated that it will fully sort out and analyze the results of this research, repeatedly study and demonstrate the opinions put forward by various units, and strive to form a high-quality research report, put forward practical and feasible suggestions to the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and contribute to further promoting the "Artificial Intelligence +" initiative.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
Received a pick-up SMS but can't find the package? Be vigilant! This may be a scammer attempting to induce victims to download illegal apps through fake delivery SMS messages, ultimately to steal bank card funds. WeChat accounts can be registered for free by anyone, so why are some people willing to pay high prices to buy used WeChat accounts in bulk? This may be because criminals want to use these accounts to carry out telecom and online fraud...
In order to cope with the endless stream of telecom and online fraud methods and effectively enhance the public's awareness and ability to prevent fraud, the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部刑侦局) and the National Anti-Fraud Center (国家反诈中心) jointly released the "2025 Edition of the Telecom and Online Fraud Prevention Manual" recently. The manual creates an accessible "anti-fraud shield" for the public through the form of "real case analysis + deconstruction of telecom fraud routines + core anti-fraud tips."
What are the common types of telecom and online fraud currently? The manual details 10 types of high-incidence telecom fraud routines, such as brushing and rebate scams, and fake online investment and financial management, and reveals the modus operandi by analyzing typical cases and deconstructing fraud routines. The manual also details several anti-fraud tools launched by the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) in conjunction with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工信部) and the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行), including the National Anti-Fraud Center APP (国家反诈中心APP), the 96110 early warning and dissuasion hotline, the 12381 fraud-related early warning and dissuasion SMS system, the national mobile phone card "one-certificate check" (全国移动电话卡“一证通查”), the national internet account "one-certificate check" (全国互联网账号“一证通查”), anti-fraud business cards, the UnionPay APP (云闪付APP) "one-click card check" (一键查卡), and cross-border reminder services.
Since 2024, the National Anti-Fraud Center (国家反诈中心) has issued a cumulative total of 1.838 million fund early warning instructions, intercepted 4.69 billion fraudulent calls and 3.37 billion SMS messages, and urgently intercepted 315.1 billion yuan of funds involved in the cases. In addition, since the 12381 fraud-related early warning and dissuasion SMS system went online, as of the end of May 2025, the 12381 system has sent a cumulative total of 1.388 billion early warning messages, with an early warning and dissuasion success rate of 60%, directly preventing approximately 19.4 million users from being defrauded.
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Return to TopThe Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission of Qianxi City (黔西市), Guizhou Province, continues to increase the promotion of letter and visit policies in villages, guiding the public to report problems according to the law through the distribution of promotional materials, on-site explanations and answers, and other forms. On June 18, discipline inspection and supervision cadres from Qianxi City (黔西市) went to Qili Village (七里村) in Daguan Town (大关镇) to explain and answer questions for the public.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 田豆豆
"Hello! I am Hu Rencui (胡仁翠) from 'Xiao Song Help Service'." Hearing the "dong, dong, dong" of knocking, Jian Kaiping (蹇开平) quickly opened the door. Jian Kaiping (蹇开平) and his wife live in Yuling Garden Community (玉岭花园小区), Xinjiangkou Subdistrict (新江口街道), Songzi City (松滋市), Hubei (湖北). Recently, the couple needed to process the qualification certification for receiving pension benefits, but their legs and feet were not nimble, making it inconvenient to go to the window for processing. "I heard from a neighbor that Teacher Hu (胡老师) is the community's help service member. I called her, and in less than 20 minutes, she came to our door and helped us complete the certification in a few minutes," said Jian Kaiping (蹇开平).
"Since March of this year, the community has selected a group of 'Five Olds' personnel with a spirit of dedication, enthusiasm, responsibility, and a good foundation among the masses to join the help service team. Teacher Hu (胡老师) is 63 years old this year. She is an old party member and retired teacher who is usually enthusiastic about volunteer service work. As soon as she signed up, she was selected," said Sun Weihua (孙卫华), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Neighborhood Committee of Yuling Community (玉岭社区).
"Xiao Song Help Service" is a convenient service brand launched by Songzi City (松滋市). Since 2023, the city has arranged 350 full-time help service members at the city, town, and village levels. The service items include 139 high-frequency items from departments such as civil affairs, human resources and social security, public security, and medical insurance. Zhang Junshuang (章俊霜), the relevant person in charge of the Songzi City (松滋市) Government Service Center, said: "Help service members mainly serve special groups such as the elderly, the disabled, and pregnant women. Those low-frequency items that require personal on-site processing and have particularly high personalized needs are not yet included."
In order to enrich the help service team, Songzi City (松滋市) further organized and mobilized Party member household heads, village-based cadres, and "Five Olds" personnel to serve as part-time help service members this year. In the points exchange supermarket of Yuling Community (玉岭社区), Hu Rencui (胡仁翠) exchanged 3120 service points earned as a help service member for 1 bucket of oil, 2 bags of rice, and 1 bottle of laundry detergent. She happily said: "The points reward is not as simple as rice and oil. It represents that I can still 发挥余热 (fā huī yú rè - "give off residual heat," to continue to be useful in retirement) after retirement, and I feel particularly accomplished."
Currently, 2223 part-time help service members in Songzi City (松滋市) have helped handle 11,020 items of various types. Xiong Tao (熊涛), member of the Standing Committee of the Songzi Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, said: "We will further improve the help service points incentive mechanism, carry out 'mass evaluation' of convenient services, and continuously extend the service tentacles to the grassroots level to improve public satisfaction."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜晓丹
The "Dragon Boat Water" season has just passed, and typhoon season is upon us, bringing frequent rainfall to Guangdong. Liu Jiang (刘江), a staff member at the Publicity and Culture Service Center of Nanlang Subdistrict (南朗街道) in Zhongshan City (中山市), takes every opportunity to check on the old buildings in the subdistrict. When residents see Liu Jiang (刘江), many start asking questions.
"Mr. Liu (刘工), has this year's annual maintenance started?"
"Does the renovation of this house meet the application requirements?"
The residents are inquiring about applying for annual maintenance subsidy funds. In 2023, Zhongshan City (中山市) issued the "Zhongshan City Measures for the Management of Annual Maintenance Funds for Immovable Cultural Relics (Trial)" (《中山市不可移动文物岁修资金管理办法（试行）》), promoting the "annual maintenance" system for cultural relics. This system establishes annual maintenance subsidy funds for small daily maintenance projects for municipal-level protected and unrated immovable cultural relics.
"The annual maintenance system solves common problems in cultural relic protection, such as who pays, who repairs, and how to repair," said Liu Jiang (刘江). Zhongshan City's (中山市) "'Annual Maintenance System' Achieves Full Coverage of Immovable Cultural Relics Protection" was recognized as one of the top ten high-quality development cases in the national cultural relic sector by the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) in 2023.
Who Pays?
Government Funding Solves Cultural Relic Protection Problems
Liu Jiang (刘江) has been working in cultural relic protection for nearly 10 years. He inspects all 120-plus immovable cultural relics in the subdistrict at least once every quarter.
"National and provincial-level protected units have special funds, but lower-level cultural relic buildings do not have fixed protection funds," Liu Jiang (刘江) explained. In Nanlang Subdistrict (南朗街道), there are 113 immovable cultural relics below the municipal level, with collective and individual ownership accounting for more than 70%.
Some of the碉楼 (diaolou) and residential buildings from the Republic of China period in Nanlang Subdistrict (南朗街道) are either owned by people who do not live locally and are temporarily managed by relatives, or have been uninhabited for a long time, with caretakers who have no intention of repairing the houses. Due to a long-term lack of maintenance, many houses have multiple damages, such as missing wooden doors, damaged wooden windows, peeling paint, cracked walls, and damaged wooden stair treads, posing various safety hazards.
In the past, after discovering problems during inspections, staff would instruct caretakers on precautions and remind them to carry out repairs. Caretakers would often respond perfunctorily, be unreachable, or even avoid them, leaving Liu Jiang (刘江) and his colleagues feeling helpless.
In 2023, the Zhongshan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, and Tourism (中山市文化广电旅游局) issued the "Zhongshan City Measures for the Management of Annual Maintenance Funds for Immovable Cultural Relics (Trial)" (《中山市不可移动文物岁修资金管理办法（试行）》), implementing a full-coverage system for annual maintenance of immovable cultural relics. This measure provides full coverage and full subsidies for daily maintenance projects under 50,000 yuan for all municipal-level cultural relic protection units and immovable cultural relics that have not yet been approved and announced as cultural relic protection units.
"Government funding has solved the funding problem for the maintenance of low-level cultural relics. Now, when staff go for inspections, the people are much more enthusiastic, and many people are asking to join the next batch of renovations," said Liu Jiang (刘江). He feels a great sense of accomplishment watching the old buildings regain their glory through minor repairs.
In 2023, Zhongshan City (中山市) selected a first batch of 188 immovable cultural relic annual maintenance projects that met the subsidy conditions, allocating a total of 5.43 million yuan in annual maintenance subsidy funds for immovable cultural relics. Among them, 90 sites in Nanlang Subdistrict (南朗街道) met the requirements for cultural relic annual maintenance, and 23 sites were finally selected. In 2024, the city allocated 3 million yuan in subsidy funds, including 500,000 yuan to Nanlang Subdistrict (南朗街道), covering 17 cultural relic sites, which have now all been completed.
Who Repairs?
Professional Teams Ensure Quality
In Nantang Village (南塘村), Nanlang Subdistrict (南朗街道), the Jian Clan Ancestral Hall (简氏大宗祠) stands quietly. This ancient building, built in 1723, has become lively again due to the annual maintenance system.
"The ancestral hall is an important activity place for local villagers. Everyone gathers here for collective activities." A few years ago, Liu Jiang (刘江) discovered that one side of the Jian Clan Ancestral Hall's lintel was cracked, multiple roof tiles were leaking, the walls were moldy, and the paint on the doors was severely peeling. If not maintained in time, many wooden structures would gradually rot due to water seepage.
As early as 2002, the Jian Clan Ancestral Hall (简氏大宗祠) was renovated with donations from villagers, but it had not been renovated or maintained for more than 20 years since then. Why couldn't they raise funds for renovation again? Village officials admitted that it was "difficult to handle." First, it was difficult to raise money; some people were willing to donate, while others were not, and the amount of donations would also affect the harmony of the village. Second, renovation was difficult; older people wanted to repair, while young people who lived away for a long time felt it was unnecessary, making it difficult to reach a consensus. Moreover, the ancestral hall was a cultural relic, the renovation process was complicated, and the renovation work had been delayed.
In 2023, after receiving the annual maintenance project application notice, Liu Jiang (刘江) quickly gathered the eligible cultural relic management units and village officials to explain the policy content and requirements to them. The Jian Clan Ancestral Hall (简氏大宗祠) finally successfully applied for annual maintenance project funding subsidies. "The villagers were initially skeptical about the government paying for repairs," said Liu Jiang (刘江). "We used a platform for bidding and hired qualified design companies and construction teams, ensuring quality." The ancestral hall is slowly restoring its appearance, and many villagers often come to take a look.
The leaking phenomenon has disappeared, the doors have been repaired, and the stains on the walls are gone. The Jian Clan Ancestral Hall (简氏大宗祠) has regained its glory. Villagers in Nantang Village (南塘村) have also clearly felt that more villagers are willing to host banquets in the ancestral hall this year. Many young people choose to hold wedding banquets in the ancestral hall, "It's quaint and charming here."
How to Repair?
Daily Maintenance Prevents "Minor Illnesses" from Becoming "Major Illnesses"
How exactly is annual maintenance carried out? Liu Jiang (刘江) is often asked this question.
Unlike the rescue renovation of cultural relics, annual maintenance is more of a preventive work, focusing on daily maintenance. "A comprehensive renovation of a cultural relic costs hundreds of thousands of yuan, while the small repairs of annual maintenance cost less than 50,000 yuan per cultural relic per time, and can also avoid major repairs in the future. This is a worthwhile investment!" said Liu Jiang (刘江).
Annual maintenance also has prerequisites. "Currently, the overall preservation status of cultural relic protection units at all levels in Zhongshan City (中山市) is good, and no obvious safety hazards have been found," said Wu Rongchao (吴荣超), head of the Cultural Heritage Section of the Zhongshan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, and Tourism (Zhongshan Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics) (中山市文化广电旅游局（中山市文物局）文化遗产科科长). "This allows us to focus on 'minor illnesses and pains.' There are a large number of unrated immovable cultural relics in the city that have not yet been approved and announced as cultural relic protection units, making protection difficult. Without daily maintenance, they will fall into a vicious cycle of 'renovation—deterioration—renovation,' which will not only require huge financial investment, but also be accompanied by the loss of historical information and the weakening of authenticity."
In 2023, Nanlang Subdistrict (南朗街道) applied for 1.3 million yuan in annual maintenance subsidy funds, which were used for weeding, termite control, cleaning, partial repairs, and fire extinguisher replacement for cultural relics. "These are all small projects, but the effects are very obvious," said Liu Jiang (刘江).
"The annual maintenance system not only helps the cultural relics in Nanlang Subdistrict (南朗街道) 'live longer,' but also effectively promotes the integrated development of agriculture, culture, and tourism," said Wu Rongchao (吴荣超). Traditional villages such as Yongmo Village (雍陌村) in Sanxiang Town (三乡镇) and Caobian Village (曹边村) in Nan District Subdistrict (南区街道) in Zhongshan City (中山市) have completed the maintenance and repair projects of cultural relic buildings such as the Shengtang Temple (圣堂庙) in Yongmo Village (雍陌村), the Tianhou Palace (天后宫) in Caobian Village (曹边村), and the Wuhou Temple (武侯庙) in Caobian Village (曹边村). By revitalizing and utilizing characteristic resources such as ancient buildings and old overseas Chinese houses, the local area has developed characteristic homestays, catering, and other business formats, seeking a fit for the integrated development of agriculture, culture, and tourism.
Inspired, Liu Jiang (刘江) began to think about how to revitalize and utilize cultural relic buildings: some privately owned cultural relic buildings can be used as homestays or art studios, and the rental income can not only subsidize daily maintenance, but also allow owners to obtain some income... Thinking this way, Liu Jiang (刘江) began to have new plans.
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Understanding ancient books is not easy. Even Dai Zhen (戴震), a great scholar of the Qing Dynasty (清代), was often at a loss during his studies.
When reading the "Shangshu" (《尚书》), upon reaching "Nai Ming Xi He (乃命羲和)," he had to close the book because he did not understand the principles of the movement of stars; when reading the "Classic of Poetry" (《诗经》), he found that he did not understand ancient sounds, and many poems did not rhyme when read; when reading the "Classic of Rites" (《礼经》), he could not understand it because he did not understand the ancient palace and clothing system... In short, Dai Zhen (戴震) felt that reading ancient books was like pulling a cart on a ridge – **一步一个坎** (yī bù yī gè kǎn - "one step, one bump," encountering difficulties at every step), which was very frustrating.
The difficulty of reading ancient books generally lies in three aspects.
One is the difficulty of understanding the text. The grammar and vocabulary of classical Chinese are obscure and difficult for modern people to understand. Some readers say that reading ancient books often gives them a feeling that "every word is known, but when they are put together, they don't know what it means."
One is the difficulty of selecting ancient books. There are more than 200,000 kinds of ancient books in existence, and the "Siku Quanshu" (《四库全书》) alone contains more than 3,400 kinds of books, with about 800 million words. In the vast sea of books, is it possible to get lost as soon as you set sail?
Another is that many of the knowledge and ideas in ancient books are distant from today. The ethical codes, cosmic concepts, and cumbersome rituals of the ancients are often very different from those of today.
The above three factors create a result – the inability to continue reading, and give rise to a question: why do we still read ancient books today?
Ancient books are the material carriers of traditional culture. From Confucius' (孔子) sigh of "逝者如斯夫" in the "Analects" (《论语》), to the historian's unique insight of Sima Qian (司马迁) in the "Records of the Grand Historian" (《史记》) to "understand the changes of ancient and modern times," all are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients. It is the duty of every generation of Chinese people to preserve and spread the legacy left by our ancestors.
Ancient books contain the supreme skills of language expression and the blossoming of thought. The ancients were good at using the strength of an inch of writing to carry the weight of a thousand jun of thought. The famous "Zheng Bo Ke Duan Yu Yan (郑伯克段于鄢)" in the "Zuo Zhuan" (《左传》) uses only more than 700 words to explain the power struggles of the family and the state, and the subtleties of human nature; "Zhuangzi" (《庄子》) uses the story of "butcher Ding dismembering an ox (庖丁解牛)" to express the ultimate truth of following nature and being able to handle things with ease.
Having solved the question of why to read, we must face the difficulty of how to read. In order to explain the word "光 (guāng - light)" in the "Shangshu" (《尚书》), Dai Zhen (戴震) traced it from the "Shuowen Jiezi" (《说文解字》) to the "Erya" (《尔雅》), exploring it to its source before he was willing to put down the book. This stubbornness of "tracing a word to its source" is the key for the ancients to open the door to ancient books.
More fortunate than Dai Zhen (戴震), we today have very useful introductory tools for ancient Chinese characters – the "Dictionary of Commonly Used Characters in Ancient Chinese" (《古汉语常用字字典》), as well as a large number of bibliographical works, one to teach character recognition and one to help select books. The former is like a raft for crossing a river, helping people cross the chasm of writing; the latter is like navigation software, guiding people to choose the good from the sea of books and learning.
Reading ancient books requires cultivating ambition and cultivating concentration. Ancient books contain rich humanistic wisdom and life insights. Holding up a yellowed classic is like having a hand-in-hand conversation with wise men from thousands of years ago. This dialogue across time and space will eventually help us to recognize who we are and identify where we are going in the torrent of great changes in the times.
Return to TopThis newspaper Qinghai (青海) June 18th (Reporter Cao Jiwei (曹继炜)) The Solution Chemistry Group of the Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes (青海盐湖研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) has recently made new progress in the field of wide-temperature-range magnesium-based lithium-ion battery research. The scientific research result was recently published in the international academic journal "Advanced Materials," providing technical support for the commercial application of wide-temperature-range lithium-ion batteries.
Lithium-ion batteries have difficulty maintaining stable operation in extremely low and high-temperature environments, that is, the wide-temperature-range performance is insufficient. "At high temperatures, the electrolyte will attack the electrode material, leading to battery failure; at low temperatures, the electrolyte has poor fluidity, and the battery capacity decays sharply," explained Zhang Bo (张波), a member of the research group.
The research team took a different approach and innovatively carried out an "alkyl chain swaying" design from a biomimetic perspective. The "alkyl chain swaying" design can enable the electrolyte to flow rapidly on the positive electrode interface of the battery, which can not only ensure the timely formation of a protective magnesium-based interface film on the positive electrode of the battery at high temperatures, but also accelerate the lithium-ion transmission efficiency at low temperatures.
Experimental data show that the lithium-ion battery using this design can still maintain a high number of cycles and battery capacity at a high temperature of 60 degrees Celsius and a low temperature of minus 15 degrees Celsius.
Nano-magnesium hydroxide is the carrier of "alkyl chain swaying" in the "alkyl chain swaying" design and is also the main component of the positive electrode interface film of lithium-ion batteries. If this design can be put into commercial application, it will effectively solve the industry status quo of insufficient utilization and low added value of salt lake magnesium resources.
Return to TopShidong Road Primary School in Yuquan District (玉泉区), Hohhot (呼和浩特), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) has incorporated robot programming into its school-based curriculum. By writing programs and debugging robots, students learn artificial intelligence technology in practice, enhance innovative thinking, and exercise hands-on skills and teamwork awareness.
The picture shows students of Shidong Road Primary School (石东路小学) in Yuquan District (玉泉区) operating programming robots on June 18.
Photographed by Ding Genhou (丁根厚) (Image China).
Return to TopBeijing, June 18th (Reported by Wu Yanli (吴艳丽)) The 10th China Beijing International Art Biennale, co-sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中国文学艺术界联合会), the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共北京市委宣传部), and the Chinese Artists Association (中国美术家协会), began accepting submissions from around the world on the 18th. The exhibition is scheduled to be held at the Beijing Exhibition Center (北京展览馆) from December 31, 2025, to February 1, 2026.
Since 2003, the Beijing International Art Biennale has been successfully held for nine sessions, with nearly 120 participating countries, and has become the largest international art exchange and exhibition platform in China. The main venue of this Biennale is divided into three parts: the theme exhibition, the special exhibition, and the national exhibition. In addition, three special exhibitions are planned: digital art, Beijing theme, and international modern ink painting.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 巨云鹏
In Shanghai's Putuo District (上海普陀区), a little over two-kilometer-long Wuning Road (武宁路) is surrounded by two "Double First-Class" universities, East China Normal University (华东师范大学) and Tongji University (同济大学), 16 ministerial and municipal research institutes, 44 national and municipal science and technology research and development platforms, and nearly a thousand technology-based enterprises.
Since the beginning of this year, Putuo District (普陀区) has signed cooperation memorandums with seven cities in Jiangsu (江苏) Province—Nanjing (南京), Wuxi (无锡), Changzhou (常州), Suzhou (苏州), Nantong (南通), Zhenjiang (镇江), and Taizhou (泰州)—to jointly serve the construction of the industrial innovation belt along the Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) line.
The industrial innovation belt along the Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) line is written into the national "14th Five-Year Plan" and the 2035 long-term goal outline, aiming to target international advanced science and technology innovation capabilities and industrial systems, and improve the Yangtze River Delta's ability to allocate global resources and drive national development.
"Innovation is not a solo effort; collaboration can stimulate greater energy," said Hu Guangjie (胡广杰), Secretary of the Putuo District (普陀区) Party Committee. In recent years, Putuo District (普陀区) has been focusing on cross-regional collaboration in science and technology innovation and industrial innovation, actively contributing to the construction of the industrial innovation belt along the Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) line.
At the recently concluded 7th Yangtze River Delta Integration Development High-Level Forum, the Yangtze River Delta Isotope Technology Innovation Consortium, led by Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (上海化工研究院有限公司) located in Putuo District (普陀区), officially debuted as one of the second batch of 12 Yangtze River Delta innovation consortia.
Lei Wen (雷雯), Assistant to the President of Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (上海化工研究院有限公司), said that in 2022, the Putuo District (普陀区) Science and Technology Commission specifically included a clause in the special project for accelerating the development of the R&D service industry to encourage industry-university-research collaborative cooperation. The "Biomedical Testing Reagents and Technology Service R&D" project declared by Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (上海化工研究院有限公司) joined hands with several well-known Shanghai (上海) hospitals to carry out isotope raw material research and development according to the needs of the hospitals, and the Putuo District (普陀区) Science and Technology Commission supported 30% of the total self-raised investment funds of the project.
"For the innovation and R&D of enterprises, there are more diverse industrial forms and richer application scenarios on the industrial innovation belt along the Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) line," said Lu Hai (陆海), Executive Deputy Director of the Putuo District (普陀区) Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) Collaborative Innovation Office.
In order to better leverage the role of innovation collaboration, Putuo District (普陀区) promoted the establishment of the Wuning (武宁) Innovation Community, facilitating more than 50 cooperation intentions in areas such as regional scientific research and academic, technology research and development, and international market development. At the same time, it encouraged enterprises to go out of Putuo (普陀) and build industrial alliances with other cities along the Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) industrial innovation belt.
In April of this year, a "Taizhou (泰州)-Putuo (普陀) Science and Technology Innovation Market" held in Putuo District (普陀区) attracted 25 units from the two places to participate. Li Wenbo (李文波), Director of the Putuo District (普陀区) Science and Technology Commission, introduced that the Science and Technology Innovation Market is a technology service platform built for exchanges and connections between innovative enterprises, universities and research institutes, and financial institutions.
At the market, a professional software for intelligent analysis of geological engineering independently developed by Professor Tang Jizhou's (汤继周) team from Tongji University (同济大学) was unveiled and attracted the attention of relevant units in Hailing District (海陵区), Taizhou (泰州), who hoped to cooperate in shale oil development-related work.
The integrated service model of the Science and Technology Innovation Market has efficiently promoted the aggregation and sharing of innovation resources. Up to now, the Putuo District (普陀区) Science and Technology Innovation Market has held 6 series of activities, and more than 200 enterprises have communicated and cooperated with financial institutions, universities, and other institutions through market activities. "Focusing on key industries, we are promoting the 'enterprises propose questions, research institutes solve questions, and the government assists with questions' mechanism to a wider range," Li Wenbo (李文波) introduced that Putuo District (普陀区) is actively building an online mini-program for the Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) Collaborative Innovation Market, gathering the needs of enterprises, scientific research platforms, and technology resources from different cities to improve the effectiveness of scientific and technological achievements transformation.
Currently, various types of cooperation are widely carried out on the industrial innovation belt along the Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) line.
In the "Innovation Lane" science and technology innovation industrial space in Putuo District (普陀区), a robot developed by Shanghai Zhikangjia Robotics Co., Ltd. (上海智康加机器人有限公司) weighing only about 7 kilograms solves the problem of the large size and poor mobility of past rehabilitation equipment.
Shanghai Robot Industry Technology Research Institute (上海机器人产业技术研究院), which incubated Zhikangjia Robotics Company (智康加机器人公司), is located in Putuo District (普陀区). Since 2017, it has carried out robot product testing-related technical services to more than 20 companies located on the industrial innovation belt along the Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) line, such as Nanjing (南京), Suzhou (苏州), and Changzhou (常州).
"Based in Shanghai (上海) and serving the Yangtze River Delta," said Hu Guangjie (胡广杰). Putuo District (普陀区) is jointly sorting out the "three lists" of resources, needs, and cooperation with other cities on the industrial innovation belt along the Shanghai-Nanjing (沪宁) line to promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, talent chain, and capital chain.
Return to TopThis newspaper Changsha (长沙) June 18th (Reporter Yang Xun (杨迅)) The Hunan Province Inbound Tourism Business Exchange Conference and Inbound Tourism Professional Committee Member Congress was recently held in Changsha (长沙). At the meeting, the first batch of 69 recommended inbound reception directories were released, involving hotels, scenic spots, catering, performing arts venues, and tourist commodities.
The Hunan Province Inbound Tourism Professional Committee will effectively integrate the entire chain of resources such as travel agencies, scenic spots, hotels, and transportation, take the lead in developing and promoting the unified brand and high-quality routes of "Hunan Inbound Tourism," regularly organize inbound tourism product promotion conferences and industry chain exchange conferences, and guide member units to benchmark international first-class standards in product innovation, reception standards, and safety guarantees, so as to improve the professionalism and internationalization level of Hunan's inbound services.
The meeting also released the "Hunan Province Inbound Tourism Industry Self-Discipline Convention," "Hunan Province Inbound Tourism Guide Reception Specification Guidelines," and "Changsha Airport (长沙机场) Passenger Entry-Exit Service Guide," etc.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 君
The "Fifth China Urban and Rural Elderly Living Conditions Sample Survey Basic Data Bulletin" shows that in 2021, 70.1% of elderly people in China owned housing property rights belonging to themselves or their spouses. Some elderly people without their own housing need to rely on renting to solve their housing problems. In addition, some elderly people also have temporary rental needs due to practical reasons such as transitional housing due to house demolition and helping their children take care of their children.
Recently, a news item about "a 65-year-old mother and an elderly grandmother being rejected 20 times in 3 days when renting a house" has attracted attention. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) shows that as of the end of last year, the number of people aged 65 and above in China reached 220 million, accounting for 15.6% of the national population. To achieve housing security for the elderly and make the rental market more friendly to the elderly, the joint efforts of the entire society are needed.
What difficulties do elderly people face when renting houses? Why are intermediaries and landlords unwilling to rent houses to elderly people? Are these behaviors illegal?
Intermediary:
Cannot rent together, the price of renting the whole unit is more expensive
"Elderly people over 60 years old cannot rent together, we have relevant requirements." "We only consider young people for renting together." On a rental APP, the reporter selected several properties in Wuchang District (武昌区), Wuhan (武汉) City, Hubei Province (湖北省), and when consulting rental intermediaries about whether elderly people could rent together, the answers received were mostly like this.
Rental intermediaries said that it is already difficult for elderly people to rent houses, and it is even more difficult to rent together. Some housing intermediaries told reporters that landlords often do not restrict the gender of tenants when renting out houses, but they require that they not be rented to elderly people over 60 or 65 years old.
As for renting the whole unit, many intermediaries replied: it can be rented, but the price will be more expensive.
Subsequently, the reporter learned about the rental market near the Shuiguohu (水果湖) subway station in Wuchang District (武昌区). A housing intermediary said that for a 50-square-meter, one-bedroom, one-living room, and one-bathroom apartment, if an elderly person rents the whole unit, the monthly rent would be about 2,500 yuan. However, the reporter found on the online rental APP that similar-sized and styled apartments in the same community only cost about 2,200 yuan per month.
Some housing intermediaries reminded that if elderly people use their own identity information when signing a rental contract, it is possible that the rental contract review will not pass. "It is best for the young people in the family to help sign the contract," said a housing intermediary.
Some online rental platforms directly state that there is no age limit for residents who rent the whole unit; the age of residents in shared rental properties (including the signatory and co-renters) must be over 18 years old (inclusive) and under 40 years old (inclusive).
Landlord:
Worried about problems with the elderly in the rented house, afraid to rent out
Why are some landlords unwilling to rent houses to elderly people? Why are some intermediaries unwilling to serve elderly people? Why is the rent higher for elderly people for the same house?
"I am worried that the elderly will have accidents in my house. If the elderly fall or die in my house, it will not only cause disputes, but also my house may not be easy to rent out again, and it will be discounted when sold," said Ms. Ling (凌女士), a citizen of Wuhan (武汉). She has a 120-square-meter apartment for rent, and when looking for tenants through an intermediary, she requires finding young tenants.
"If it is renting the whole unit, I will also require the elderly to have young people accompany them," said Ms. Ling (凌女士). For elderly people who meet the rental conditions, she will specifically state in the rental contract that if the tenant has an accident in the house not due to house renovation reasons, the responsibility shall be borne by the tenant.
Ms. Ling's (凌女士) concerns are not superfluous. Previously, media reported that a nonagenarian in Dongping Village (东平村), Heshang Town (鹤上镇), Changle District (长乐区), Fuzhou (福州) City, Fujian Province (福建省) fell and died in the village's Zhenqing Elderly Apartment (真情老人公寓), and the family had a dispute with the person in charge of the apartment. "I would rather lower the rent a little and leave it vacant for a period of time than dare to rent it to the elderly alone," said Ms. Ling (凌女士).
In addition to landlords worrying about taking responsibility, some tenants are also unwilling to share a house with elderly people. Mr. Dong (董先生), a citizen of Wuhan (武汉) who shares a house with others near his workplace, said that when he first rented together, he only considered choosing to live with young people.
"The living habits of the elderly are different from ours, and if they have an accident, under the same roof, I am also afraid of taking responsibility," said Mr. Dong (董先生). If the landlord arranges for elderly people to rent together, he will change to another house.
Regarding the restriction on elderly people renting together, some intermediary companies explained that if elderly people and young people rent together, it is easy to create conflicts in shared areas. They set the age conditions for co-renters in order to give tenants a better rental experience.
In the eyes of some elderly tenants, the age restriction is unreasonable. "I am now over 60 years old, and my health is still very good. I take my grandson around every day," said Grandpa Li (李大爷), who came from other places to help his children take care of their children and rents in the Chutian Dushi Yayuan (楚天都市雅园) community in Wuhan (武汉) City with his children. He said that the living conditions and medical conditions are better than before, and people age more slowly, so restricting age is unreasonable.
"If requiring a medical examination report when renting a house is more scientific than restricting age," said Grandpa Li (李大爷).
However, some elderly people also believe that not requiring young tenants to provide a medical examination report, but only requiring elderly people to provide one, is a form of age discrimination.
Expert:
A risk-sharing mechanism can be matched to improve the housing rental ecology
Is the "age restriction" in the rental market illegal?
Hu Cuilan (胡翠兰), director of the Legal and News Department of the Hubei Provincial Consumer Council (湖北省消费者委员会), believes that housing rental is a civil contract relationship. Whether it is direct rental or rental through an intermediary, the landlord has the right to choose their own tenants and determine the rent for their own house. The "age restriction" alone is not illegal.
Shi Zhilei (石智雷), vice president of the China Population Association (中国人口学会) and dean of the School of Economics of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (中南财经政法大学), said that the current Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (老年人权益保障法) in China explicitly prohibits discrimination against the elderly, but the legislative expression is relatively general and does not define specific behaviors in rental scenarios.
"In practice, the 'age red line' in the rental market exists more in the form of implicit rules, such as requiring additional guarantees or refusing independent contracts. Although these behaviors do not directly violate the principle of equality in the contract section of the Civil Code (民法典), they may touch the bottom line of social ethics, and judicial practice is more inclined to recognize that such behaviors violate the core socialist values," said Shi Zhilei (石智雷). The existing laws on the definition of "indirect discrimination" (such as requiring children to provide guarantees) are also relatively vague, which objectively provides room for landlords and intermediaries to circumvent the rules.
Shi Zhilei (石智雷) believes that the fundamental solution lies in clarifying "age" as a prohibited discriminatory matter through special legislation and establishing a risk-sharing mechanism. Through systematic risk management and precise service supply, it can not only avoid legal disputes, but also seize the blue ocean of the silver economy.
Shi Zhilei (石智雷) suggested that businesses can develop a "children's remote electronic signing + local on-site confirmation" dual-channel service to meet legal requirements while ensuring convenience; launch flexible solutions such as short-term trial stays and intergenerational co-renting to reduce landlords' concerns about long-term risks. Local governments can integrate age-appropriate housing information, provide value-added services such as legal consultation and medical emergency linkage, and create an elderly-friendly rental ecology.
New explorations are also underway to solve the problem of elderly people renting houses.
Urban families with housing difficulties who meet the four conditions of having no property in the city or having a per capita housing construction area lower than the prescribed standard, and having no property transfer or cancellation records within 3 years, can apply for public rental housing security according to the "Wuhan Public Rental Housing Security Measures" (《武汉市公共租赁住房保障办法》). The measures stipulate that if the lessee does not meet the rental conditions but is temporarily unable to vacate the house due to objective reasons, a relocation period of no more than 6 months may be granted upon application, and the rent shall still be paid according to the rent amount agreed in the contract during the relocation period. After the relocation period expires, if there is no other housing to move into, they may be allowed to continue to rent in accordance with relevant regulations, and the rent shall be charged according to the market rent assessed by the project.
The "2023 National Aging Development Bulletin" (《2023年度国家老龄事业发展公报》) pointed out that it guides various regions to give priority to eligible elderly people in public rental housing security. As of the end of 2023, a total of 7.16 million elderly people aged 60 and above in China have enjoyed public rental housing security.
In the future, China's aging process will accelerate, and a social age-appropriate transformation also needs to accelerate.
Return to TopBy: 程 晨
Young people can specifically introduce some new items for the elderly in their homes, making silver-haired life more convenient, richer, and warmer.
Many netizens were touched by a "selfie mistakenly taken by someone over 160 years old": an elderly couple leaned their heads together, staring at the camera with puzzled expressions, and reaching out to try to adjust it. The elderly couple seemed to have selected a personal beauty filter, which recognized the old lady, making her cheek skin appear fair and smooth, while the old man was "directly output from the original image"... The granddaughter of the two elderly people said that her grandmother is 80 years old and her grandfather is 83 years old. She was afraid they would be bored, so she used a tablet to show them videos, and one day she accidentally discovered this mistakenly taken selfie.
If these two octogenarians didn't have a "new item" like a tablet in their lives, we wouldn't have seen this adorable video. For the elderly, new items are a good helper to improve the quality of life and a new channel to connect with the world. Young people can specifically introduce some new items for the elderly in their homes, making silver-haired life more convenient, richer, and warmer.
New items can bring convenience to the lives of the elderly and also play an irreplaceable role in health management. For example, with smartphones, mobile payment can avoid the trouble of making change, and online registration can avoid the hassle of queuing; using smart sensor night lights makes getting up at night safer. Electronic blood pressure monitors and smart pill boxes make health management more efficient. These new items bring ease, autonomy, and a sense of security to the daily lives of the elderly.
New items can broaden the horizons of the elderly and enrich their spiritual lives. Relying on smartphones and tablets, the elderly can use news or social apps, photo editing software, KTV software, etc., to meet their needs for knowledge, social interaction, and entertainment, bringing more possibilities to their later years.
With new items, how to use them? Many times, it requires patient guidance from young people. This process can create time and common topics for young people and the elderly to spend together, strengthening intergenerational connections. In fact, when thinking about what kind of new items to introduce and how to introduce them, young people are carefully considering the feelings and needs of the elderly. Sharing new items with the elderly can make them feel valued and cared for, creating new and precious family memories for family members.
Young people can take the initiative to reach out and let new items open the door to a new world for the elderly and bring about an upgrade in their lifestyle. When grandpa can skillfully open food delivery apps when he doesn't want to cook, and when grandma is used to wearing a health monitoring watch when she goes out for a walk, those of us who are away from home working hard will also feel more at ease and comfortable. When we see the cute selfies left by grandparents on the tablet, we will also show a heartfelt smile and repeatedly savor those curious eyes.
Give life a possibility, and time will surely return you to your true self.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 牛瑞飞
Recently, a video titled "Dutch guy spends 480 euros to invite an African band to create a song for China" has become popular online. In the video, a young man with a Western face introduces the song in fluent Chinese. The singing of the four African singers is enthusiastic and full of vitality. Netizens left messages under the video: "I love China sounds so good in English" "Well written, welcome to China"... The foreign guy in the video who speaks Chinese is named Koen Sanders (柯桑德), and he is Dutch.
The sunny and cheerful Koen Sanders (柯桑德), with his relaxed, humorous, sincere and natural short videos, shows his view of China to more than 18 million fans in Europe and even the world.
In 2001, Koen Sanders (柯桑德), who was only 7 years old, came to Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) with his father who worked in China, and has since formed an indissoluble bond with China. On the campus of Shenzhen (深圳), he learned Chinese, understood Chinese culture, and made Chinese friends. After graduating from high school, Koen Sanders (柯桑德) chose to stay in China to help in his father's company. In 2017, his father returned to the Netherlands to work, and Koen Sanders (柯桑德), who continued to live in China, began to try shooting videos, recording what he saw and heard in his life, and grew from a video enthusiast to a professional creator.
In 2020, due to his father's advanced age, Koen Sanders (柯桑德) returned to the Netherlands. After returning to his hometown, he was surprised to find that many Europeans were still very unfamiliar with China - some were prejudiced, and some knew nothing. "This makes me feel very sorry," he said, "but that's exactly why I realized that I might be able to become a bridge connecting China and Europe."
"I have lived in China for nearly 20 years, witnessed its development and changes, and felt the enthusiasm and friendliness of the Chinese people. Compared with the monotonous and one-sided reports in Western media, I would like to present the real China I have seen with my own eyes to European audiences," said Koen Sanders (柯桑德). He decided to use his expertise in shooting videos and use social platforms to launch short films with the theme of China to tell Chinese stories with vivid images.
Under his lens, there are street interviews recording the daily life of Chinese people, online car-hailing experiences showing the convenience services of the city, as well as content about traditional festivals, food culture, and technological innovation.
"I am not trying to 'prove' anything to anyone, but I sincerely want Europeans to understand that China is actually a wonderful, open and diverse country," said Koen Sanders (柯桑德).
Today, Koen Sanders' (柯桑德) videos have become the "first lesson" for many young Europeans to understand China. His works are not only widely popular in many European countries, but also won the love of Chinese netizens. Some people call him a "China expert among foreign internet celebrities," and others call him a "small envoy of Sino-European cultural exchange."
The year before last, Koen Sanders (柯桑德) began to invite some foreign friends - especially those who had never been to China - to visit China in person. Koen Sanders (柯桑德) recalled with a smile: "I like to see their reaction when they first come to China. It's a kind of pure curiosity and surprise."
He believes that to truly understand China, you can't just rely on the Internet: "You must go there yourself to truly feel this country."
Quentin (昆汀) is a popular Dutch blogger in Europe who went to China with Koen Sanders (柯桑德) to film. "After returning from China, he started to insist on taking Chinese lessons every week. He said that China is so interesting that learning Chinese well can help him better understand the country," said Koen Sanders (柯桑德).
Recently, Koen Sanders (柯桑德) has planned another special project - he has invited three musicians from all over the world to create around the theme of "China." "These musicians have never been to China before. I hope they will write a song based on their own understanding first," he said, adding that these songs will be made into videos. Then, he will take them to China to experience it in person, and then ask them to create a second song about China, "to see how their creation will change after they have been to China in person. This is a very interesting and meaningful thing."
This year, one of Koen Sanders' (柯桑德) short video works won the first prize in the "Fifty Years of China-Europe, Working Together Towards the Future" themed creative competition. For a content creator who has been rooted in China for a long time and is committed to telling Chinese stories to Europe, this honor is not only an affirmation, but also an encouragement.
Koen Sanders (柯桑德) sincerely said: "I grew up in China, and China is also my home. I think it is my responsibility to let the world know and understand the real China."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋豪新
The sewing machine "dada" rattled, more than 20 machines were neatly arranged, and the female workers skillfully operated them, with needles and threads shuttling between the fabrics... In a "Bangbang Workshop" in Xiasi Town (下寺镇), Jiange County (剑阁县), Guangyuan City (广元市), Sichuan Province (四川省), workers are rushing to produce a batch of children's clothing orders destined for Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江). Ma Faying (马发英), 34 years old, checks the quality of the clothing while guiding new workmates: "This batch of orders is urgent, everyone should pay attention to the density of the stitches and the alignment of the cuffs."
Two years ago, Ma Faying (马发英) was still a full-time mother. Her husband worked away from home all year round, and she had two children. Her youngest son suffered from congenital hearing impairment and needed long-term rehabilitation treatment, and her elderly mother-in-law suffered from chronic diseases. "At that time, I was worried about daily expenses as soon as I opened my eyes, and I was most afraid of my children getting sick. A trip to the hospital would cost more than half a month's living expenses." Recalling the past, Ma Faying's (马发英) eyes were a little red.
The turning point came in the summer of 2022. Community workers brought recruitment information for the "Bangbang Workshop" to her door, and Ma Faying (马发英) signed up with a try-it-and-see attitude. After a month of free sewing training, she successfully passed the assessment and took up her post. "I earned 1,800 yuan in the first month, and I was very excited." Now, as a technical backbone, her monthly income is stable at more than 3,000 yuan. "With the 'Bangbang Workshop,' there is one more person in the family earning money."
What made Ma Faying (马发英) even more delighted was that her husband, who worked away from home, chose to stay in his hometown after the Spring Festival this year after seeing the changes in the family. "He is now doing logistics distribution at the 'Bangbang Post,' and the two of us can earn more than 7,000 yuan a month."
The "Bangbang Workshop" that changed Ma Faying's (马发英) fate originated from the innovative practice of East-West collaboration between Zhejiang (浙江) and Sichuan (四川). In June 2022, with the promotion of the Party committees and governments of Shangcheng District (上城区) in Hangzhou City (杭州市) and Jiange County (剑阁县) in Guangyuan City (广元市), the "Bangbang Tan" (帮帮摊) project was officially launched. The person in charge of the Jiange County (剑阁县) Employment Promotion Center introduced: "At first, we just wanted to let people in need set up street stalls to increase their income, but we didn't expect it to grow bigger and bigger like a snowball."
"Now we have formed a complete industrial chain." The person in charge of Sichuan Bangbang Tan Trade Co., Ltd. (四川帮帮摊商贸有限公司) pointed to the flow chart on the wall and introduced, "Zhejiang (浙江) manufacturers provide orders and raw materials, the 'Bangbang Post' is responsible for warehousing and training, the 'Bangbang Workshop' carries out production, and finally it is sold through e-commerce and physical stores." This model not only solves the labor shortage in the relevant small commodity market in Zhejiang (浙江), but also enables employment-difficult groups in Jiange County (剑阁县) to achieve employment at their doorstep.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Guangyuan City (广元市) Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, as of now, nearly 200 "Bangbang" series employment carriers have been built in the city, driving more than 700 people to find employment and start businesses, with an average monthly income increase of nearly 3,000 yuan per person.
As dusk approaches, Ma Faying (马发英) tidies up her work station and prepares to go home. At the entrance of the workshop, her husband is waiting on an electric tricycle, with finished products to be shipped tomorrow in the carriage. "Now, life is getting better and better." She said with a smile as she fastened her seat belt.
Return to TopMedical staff at the Huishan District People's Hospital (惠山区人民医院) in Wuxi (无锡), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), receive a delivered blood transport box.
The Wuxi Central Blood Station (无锡市中心血站) and the Huishan District People's Hospital (惠山区人民医院) in Wuxi (无锡) have jointly launched a low-altitude drone route for instant blood delivery, building a new and efficient "air lifeline." This route uses artificial intelligence and drone technology, integrating a blood cold chain management system and a blood scheduling platform. It solves the problems of low efficiency and susceptibility to traffic congestion in traditional ground blood delivery, greatly improving the ability to guarantee medical blood use. It reduces the response time for emergency blood use in complex terrain and remote areas from about one hour to just over ten minutes, winning valuable "golden rescue time" for patients.
To date, the route has completed 22 deliveries, transporting 1600 ml of blood, with a cumulative flight distance of nearly 400 kilometers.
Su Nan (苏楠) and Chen Xiang (陈祥) reported with photos (People's Vision (人民视觉)).
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈晨曦 白光迪
After four rounds of competition, the Jiangsu City Football League remains popular.
On the evening of June 15th, the Wuxi team, playing at home, defeated the Changzhou team 2-0, achieving their first victory of the season while handing their opponents their fourth consecutive defeat. This "bottom-of-the-table clash" between southern Jiangsu teams attracted over 25,000 spectators. The match between the Xuzhou team and the Zhenjiang team saw more than 30,000 fans flock to the Xuzhou Olympic Sports Center (徐州奥体中心), not only breaking the record for the highest number of on-site spectators in the "Jiangsu Super League" but also overshadowing the attendance rates of some professional leagues held during the same period.
Why is the "Jiangsu Super League" so popular? Can it be replicated? Recently, reporters went to Jiangsu (江苏) to conduct on-site interviews to find out.
A League for the People
For Chinese football, the "Jiangsu Super League" is not the first provincial football league. The "Zhejiang Super League" (浙超) and "Guangxi Super League" (桂超), among others, have a history of many years and have also had positive explorations. The current popularity of the "Jiangsu Super League" is not just a coincidence of catching the "huge wave of traffic" but a vivid reflection of "Jiangsu the Strong" (苏大强) at the football level.
In 2024, Jiangsu Province's (江苏省) GDP reached 13.7 trillion yuan, ranking second only to Guangdong (广东). The 13 prefecture-level cities in the province each have their own strengths and are relatively balanced in development, earning them the nickname "Thirteen Taibaos" (十三太保). Airports and high-speed railway stations are located in many cities throughout the province, and the developed transportation network forms a "one-day viewing circle." Football fields and large sports centers have become standard in various places. To meet the needs of fans, the home stadiums of each team are constantly being "upgraded." Football-themed schools and youth training clubs are springing up like mushrooms after rain in various cities, and amateur events at all levels are gradually forming a system, enriching the football soil.
This is a carnival for all. In addition to a small number of professional players, amateur enthusiasts such as teachers, deliverymen, and students participate in it. Many people work during the day, train at night, and compete on weekends, maximizing the "mass" attribute.
Regional memes add fuel to the fire. The match between the Suqian team and the Xuzhou team is known as the "Chu-Han Contention" (楚汉之争), and the match between the Nanjing team and the Wuxi team is jokingly referred to as "Salted Duck VS Honey Peach" (盐水鸭VS水蜜桃). Humorous expressions such as "Competition first, friendship fourteenth" and "Defend the Chang character head" have created a strong social communication effect.
Although the government is taking the lead in building the stage, the "Jiangsu Super League" is not being promoted in a high-profile manner but has been built into a league for the people. On June 14th, for the Nanjing team's away game against the Huai'an team, the Nanjing Municipal Government (南京市政府) communicated with the railway department and opened the first "Jiangsu Super League" fan high-speed rail special train from Nanjing Station (南京站) to Huai'an East Station (淮安东站). On June 15th, for the Suzhou team's away challenge against the Lianyungang team, with the coordination and organization of the Suzhou Municipal Sports Bureau (苏州市体育局), fans only need to purchase a fan special train package to go directly to the event site. On the same day, for the Xuzhou team's home game against the Zhenjiang team, the Xuzhou Bus Group (徐州公交集团) opened a special shuttle bus line for spectators, and fans can go directly from Xuzhou East Station (徐州东站) to the Xuzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium (徐州奥体中心体育场).
In terms of food, accommodation, and transportation, the home teams are showing their unique abilities and "pampering" their fans in various ways. "Huai'an Release" (淮安发布) stated that you can enjoy Huai'an (淮安) with your event ticket and enjoy benefits such as scenic spots, food, and accommodation. Yangzhou City (扬州市) announced that on the weekends when the Yangzhou team has home games, it will send exclusive benefits to citizens of the visiting team's city: 21 hotels will offer an 80% discount on the listed price on online booking platforms, and you will receive free lion's head, Yangzhou fried rice, and Wensi tofu and other delicacies when dining at several designated restaurants. The Lianyungang team (连云港队) will host the Suzhou team (苏州队) on June 15th, and the local government announced that state-owned A-level scenic spots will be free to Suzhou citizens from the 13th to the 15th.
With the right timing, geographical advantages, and popular support, the "Jiangsu Super League" finally became an instant success.
Not Only Lively, But Also Warm
In the first year of the "Jiangsu Super League," various places "earned" popularity and traffic, driving cultural tourism and consumption.
The popularity of the event remains high, and it is not only the stands that are booming, but also business opportunities. Jiangsu Provincial Sports Competition Co., Ltd. (江苏省体育竞赛有限公司), as the event operator, was caught off guard by the influx of merchants. Ma Wei (马伟), Minister of the company's Marketing Department, said that after the first three rounds of the "Jiangsu Super League," companies were almost lining up to discuss sponsorship matters. Before the opening, the "Jiangsu Super League" had already obtained a title sponsorship of 8 million yuan from Jiangsu Bank (江苏银行), and now the sponsorship amount has soared to three levels of 1 million yuan, 2 million yuan, and 3 million yuan. The number of event sponsors at all levels has increased from 6 at the opening to 19 today.
As soon as the "Jiangsu Super League" came out, it presented a vivid picture of urban culture and regional identity. For Jiangsu fans, they not only have a home team to cheer for, but also allow the competition between cities to go beyond economic culture and compete on a more participatory and entertaining platform.
Modern football was inextricably linked to community culture from the very beginning, and many world-renowned clubs were born in schools, neighborhoods, and factories. Today's Jiangsu "Thirteen Taibaos" also have the concept of a "large community." The history and culture of each region make it easy for people to gather around their respective teams. The event slogan "Fight for the honor of the city" accurately touches the emotions of the "scattered" Jiangsu people.
In the past, many teams in the Chinese professional football league did not pay much attention to brand and cultural construction, and their connection with cities and fans was not close enough. Club relocation, change of ownership, and other situations occurred frequently, and the roots of football were naturally difficult to grow healthily.
The emergence of the "Jiangsu Super League" provides a new way to solve the problem: sinking the event, enriching the sense of competition experience, and then triggering emotional resonance between fans and teams. Jia Leishi (贾蕾仕), Secretary-General of the "Guangxi Super League," said: "We want to thank the 'Jiangsu Super League' for allowing more people to see the urban attributes of football and the role of grassroots leagues in promoting football culture."
The "Jiangsu Super League" is not only a football league, but also allows every city to have the opportunity to showcase its unique charm through the "one city, one home stadium" design. The Xuzhou team wears jerseys with Chu-Han armor elements, the Suzhou team's kesi craftsmanship trophy, the Suqian team's Bawang whip drum cheering, the Wuxi team's "Erquan Yingyue" (二泉映月) light show... The addition of these cultural elements makes the "Jiangsu Super League" a stage to showcase the style of the city.
Through this novel cultural marketing, fans have gained a rich viewing experience. Football is no longer just a stadium competition, but also a contest of urban culture, an expression of local identity, and a display of humor. When the event has a deep, diversified connection with fans, the event development has a foundation.
Jia Leishi (贾蕾仕) said that fans will experience a stage from watching the excitement to watching the game, watching the victory or defeat, and even watching the inheritance. Now, most people may want to get a share of happiness from the excitement of the "Jiangsu Super League." "Who didn't start watching football from watching the excitement? Our professional league needs to work hard on how to make the game more lively, and the 'Jiangsu Super League' has achieved not only liveliness, but also warmth."
One "Jiangsu Super League" is Far From Enough
The "Jiangsu Super League" has become popular, attracting other provinces to watch and learn from it, but the answer may not be copied. After all, the situation in each province is different. Whether it is the foundation of football, the level of economic development, transportation venues, or regional culture, it is necessary to adapt to local conditions and find a provincial football development path with different characteristics.
Jia Leishi (贾蕾仕) said: "The 'Jiangsu Super League' has received attention and support from the government. Jiangsu is a major economic province, and the 'Thirteen Taibaos' are closely connected and have topics, which can easily cause heated discussions with the help of events. In comparison, the 'Guangxi Super League' cannot copy it. This time, the 'Jiangsu Super League' is very popular, and I also encourage our club to find ways to connect with the lives of citizens and enter schools, communities, etc."
The "Guangxi Super League" is the abbreviation of the Guangxi Football Super League, which is the highest-level amateur football league in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区). It was founded in 2011. In the past ten years, the league has grown from 6 teams to 15 teams. Different from the "Jiangsu Super League," the "Guangxi Super League" teams participate in the competition in the form of clubs. Now, 4 "Guangxi Super League" teams have entered the professional league sequence by participating in the China Amateur Football League (中冠联赛). "If the 'Jiangsu Super League' wants to go more steadily and further, the teams need to be clubbed, instead of temporarily forming teams for each game. Only when the teams form continuity will there be cultural inheritance, which will make it easier for fans to have a sense of belonging," said Jia Leishi (贾蕾仕).
From the beginning of the "Jiangsu Super League," Jiangsu Province (江苏省) and various cities have given special support in terms of venues, security, and publicity, which has greatly reduced the participation costs of the teams. In the future, if the event wants to develop healthily, it also needs stable financial support and stronger commercial operation. As the cornerstone of the Chinese football pyramid, provincial football events still face the long-term challenge of improving the commercial value and market appeal of the events.
Wang Xiaowan (王小湾), Vice Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Football Association (江苏省足协), believes that as a league, the "Jiangsu Super League" will definitely gradually move towards marketization in the future. "At this stage, we need to analyze and judge more calmly how to make scientific and professional plans for the event's broadcasting rights, sponsor returns, franchise merchandise, and event peripherals."
The "Jiangsu Super League" is still exploring and moving forward, and it is clear that other provinces cannot simply copy the "homework." Latercomers should think about and learn from the universal laws contained in it: respect the laws of the project, meet the needs of the masses, explore market vitality, stimulate social participation, and find a new "football +" development model that suits them.
For Chinese football, one "Jiangsu Super League" is far from enough.
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The success of "Su Chao" is difficult to replicate, but the experience can be referenced.
Respecting the emotional value of the masses, the most distinctive feature of "Su Chao" is happiness. Loving football, loving memes, loving food, loving travel... Happiness itself is one of the biggest economic drivers. "Su Chao" carries people's pursuit of a better life, and its entertainment and purity are creating a joyful feast. When the organizers gladly participate in it, empathize and enjoy with the masses, this "down-to-earth," "human touch," and "relaxed feeling" touches many people's hearts.
Respecting the laws of project development, cultivate the soil for national participation. Among the 13 participating teams in "Su Chao," most players come from different industries. The new model of "football for all" brings it closer to the public, while creating a good football atmosphere, and promoting mass events from "lively" to "professional." Mass sports are the foundation of a strong sports nation. Only when the soil is fertile can fruitful results be produced.
Respecting the inherent logic of the market, seize more opportunities by following the trend. The surge of traffic tests the wisdom of converting it into "incremental growth." Constantly "upgrading" venues, launching various exclusive benefits, and making good use of social media... "Loose" Jiangsu (江苏) gives full play to the advantages of local resources, more new consumption scenarios are created, and the new magnetic field of cultural, sports, and tourism integration is activated, connecting sports events and urban development.
The answer to mass sports is written in "respect." To copy the "Su Chao" homework, you must copy its essence—people-oriented, following the rules, and taking advantage of the situation. Let every enthusiasm growing from the "grassroots" be gathered into the surging power for the construction of a strong sports nation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 季 芳
"After 32 years, we have won the championship again!" said Fan Yunjie (范运杰), a 53-year-old former member of the Chinese women's national football team (pictured, provided by the interviewee) proudly. Recently, the 15th National Games (全运会) mass games women's football seven-a-side veteran group competition concluded, with the Henan team (河南队) led by Fan Yunjie defeating the Beijing team (北京队) 1-0 in the final to win the championship. Fan Yunjie shed tears of excitement after the game, "This gold medal has special significance."
The veteran group of the National Games (全运会) football event for mass games brought together many retired players. Among them, Fan Yunjie and Wen Lirong (温利蓉) of the Beijing team (北京队) attracted much attention. They were both key players in the Chinese women's national football team in the 1990s when they won silver medals at the Olympic Games and the World Cup, and they built a solid central defender line for the national team.
Fan Yunjie is no stranger to the National Games (全运会) arena. In the 7th National Games (全运会) in 1993, the Henan women's football team (河南女足) won the championship, and she was a 20-year-old rookie on the field at that time. Starting from here, Fan Yunjie began her brilliant football career. After being selected for the national team, she participated in the Olympic Games, the World Cup, and the Asian Games, achieving many brilliant results.
Now that Fan Yunjie has been retired for many years, she is very emotional to be running on the green field again: "This time I met some of my former teammates from the national team. It shows that everyone's love for football is as consistent as ever."
In this competition, Fan Yunjie was the oldest player in the Henan team (河南队). The dense schedule and hot weather were not small challenges for her, but her fighting spirit was as strong as ever. In the semi-final against the Tianjin team (天津队), Fan Yunjie was carried off the field due to a muscle strain, and many players cried anxiously, but she returned to the field in the final. "Teacher Fan's tenacity is impressive," said Yang Fan (杨帆), a player from the Sichuan team (四川队). "Whenever I had the opportunity during the breaks between games, I would go to watch her game. There are many things about her that are worth learning from us."
This time, the teammates all said, "Teacher Fan led everyone to charge forward." But in Fan Yunjie's view, the care and concern between the players also brought her strength. "Everyone has their own lives at ordinary times. This preparation was not very systematic, but after the players came on the field, the fighting spirit in their bones was stimulated." She said that in the end, what they were fighting for was personal will and the spirit of unity in the team, "All the players did their best and finally won this honor."
The former "Steel Roses" still like to run on the field. In Fan Yunjie's view, her story with football will continue.
Return to TopDeveloping new quality productive forces requires stimulating the innovation vitality of enterprises, which is inseparable from the fertile ground of the science and technology innovation ecosystem, the empowerment of the industrial synergy system, and the assistance of optimizing the business environment. As a strong commercial district in Zhejiang Province, Gongshu District (拱墅区) of Hangzhou (杭州) City focuses on the problems and pain points of difficult overall governance of business districts, scattered docking of enterprise needs, and slow development of regional industries. It innovatively explores the construction of business communities, strives to reshape the vitality, synergy, and attractiveness of diversified economic formats, and the imperceptible monitoring of the business environment ranks first in the province.
Optimizing and integrating resources to consolidate the foundation of services
Gongshu District (拱墅区), referring to the community establishment, innovatively constructed 30 physical business communities, adhering to the concept of "serving enterprises like serving residents," actively creating a first-class business environment, and accurately helping the economy to stabilize and improve quality.
In terms of physical space, Gongshu District (拱墅区) integrated tens of thousands of square meters of Party-masses service centers and idle areas in buildings to form a "1+30+N" service network, that is, taking the district-level enterprise comprehensive service center as the main body, 30 hub-type business community service centers as nodes, and hundreds of building stations as fulcrums, to consolidate the organizational foundation for comprehensive service to enterprises.
In order to further enhance the breadth and depth of service coverage, Gongshu District (拱墅区) actively builds mechanisms, carries bodies, and strengthens teams. It improves the "one building six staff" service configuration, and solves more than 200 specific demands such as takeaway delivery and fire safety through consultation, realizing the "self-government cycle" of "building affairs discussed in the building, building affairs handled in the building, and building affairs managed in the building," and transforming organizational advantages into the development effectiveness of business communities.
In addition, Gongshu District (拱墅区) pays attention to talent allocation, and takes "understanding the economy, being able to serve, and being good at governance" as the standard, and formed a full-time service team of more than 150 people, and selected 183 representatives from the enterprise side, property rights side, and property side to serve as part-time members, forming a diversified and professional service team. Through the training mechanism such as the business backbone of the economic department explaining policies every two weeks, the service capacity of the team is continuously improved. In April 2025, Hangzhou Energy Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州能源工程技术有限公司) successfully relocated, and the Dongqing Business Community (东清商务社区) in Changqing Street (长庆街道) in Gongshu District (拱墅区) established a special docking team, and the enterprise service commissioner helped the enterprise to declare materials throughout the process, realizing "immediate handling and same-day completion."
Accurately docking demands and efficiently helping enterprises overcome difficulties
Different from traditional communities, business districts and buildings have significant economic attributes, high degree of governance professionalization, and strict service standards. Gongshu District (拱墅区) innovated the business community governance model, innovatively built a "zero-distance" service ecosystem, created a market-oriented, rule-of-law, and international business environment, and realized the dual improvement of governance effectiveness and service quality.
The "three lists" accurately promote the implementation of "inclusive + customized" services. Gongshu District (拱墅区) starts from the real needs of enterprises and employees, and forms the "three lists" focusing on "what enterprises need," "what employees expect," and "what communities can do," and accelerates the implementation of "at most one run" for all life cycle matters of enterprises in business communities. Changqing Street (长庆街道), according to the street conditions, through the "Bei Hui Jin, Nan Dong Qing" dual-core drive, promotes the transformation of service methods from "enterprises running policies" to "policies chasing enterprises," and escorts the growth of enterprises with the concept of full life cycle service, providing strong support for improving the quality and efficiency of the regional economy. Relying on the street comprehensive enterprise service center, the hub-type service position in the business community area, the building service station, and multiple characteristic windows, Changqing Street (长庆街道) has built a "1+2+11+N" full-chain and full-field service model, using the "three lists" to help solve more than 150 kinds of problems such as enterprise registration and landing, project construction, and youth entrepreneurship in buildings, accurately and timely responding to the demands of enterprises and employees, so that enterprises can "start lightly."
In addition, Gongshu District (拱墅区) matches personalized policy packages for more than 1,200 enterprises through the "enterprise ordering, community receiving, and department distribution" mechanism, and the completion rate of enterprise demands reaches 98.6%. In December 2024, Hangzhou Qihui Excellence Trading Co., Ltd. (杭州启慧卓越贸易有限公司) was established in Changqing Street (长庆街道), but due to lack of experience, there were difficulties in declaring national subsidy projects. The enterprise service commissioner of Dongqing Business Community (东清商务社区) learned about the needs of the enterprise during the visit, and then took the initiative to intervene. On the one hand, it actively docked with the District Bureau of Commerce to introduce the business development plan of the enterprise in detail. On the other hand, it provided detailed guidance to the enterprise from the declaration process to the declaration materials, helping the enterprise to successfully participate in the national subsidy project, and exchanged the "comfortable" development of the enterprise with "heart-warming" service.
"Responding immediately" accurately creates a "online + offline" service closed loop. Gongshu District (拱墅区) adheres to the service principle of "responding to every request and not disturbing when there is nothing to do," selects enterprise service commissioners to contact key enterprises in pairs, and lays out more than 90 building service stations such as "Red Shield Station +" offline, and develops the "Enterprise Service All-rounder" mini program online, unblocking the enterprise service chain and realizing the closed-loop management of the whole process of problem solving. As of early June 2025, the online platform has cumulatively accepted 42,000 enterprise consultations and coordinated to solve more than 1,700 problems such as enterprise land use and employee settlement, and the enterprise satisfaction rate reached 99.3%.
Expanding industrial clusters and giving play to agglomeration effects
A first-class business environment lies not only in service, but also in ecology. As the "first commercial district in the province," Gongshu District (拱墅区) always adheres to the concept of innovation-driven and open and inclusive, so that the business community is not only a service unit, but also an accelerator for industrial upgrading, promoting the agglomeration and development of industries.
According to the principle of similar industries, adjacent locations, and interconnected resources, Gongshu District (拱墅区) focuses on commercial and financial, digital economy, life and health, e-sports and entertainment, and new manufacturing industries to form a "1+4" key industry, and promotes the development of business community areas in groups. Dongqing Business Community (东清商务社区) gives full play to the advantages of high-quality medical resources, and forms a development group with Fengqi Business Community (凤起商务社区) to realize joint activities and joint sharing of resources, and jointly create a new highland for the urban health industry. In 2024, the business communities in Gongshu District (拱墅区) jointly carried out more than 100 "double recruitment and double introduction" activities, newly introduced 46,000 young college students, and newly identified 3,458 municipal high-level talents, injecting talent momentum into industrial upgrading and development.
Gongshu District (拱墅区) takes the business community as the carrier, and through optimizing spatial layout, accurately matching needs, and gathering industrial resources, it not only opens up the "last mile" of serving enterprises, but also constructs a new micro-governance paradigm for promoting the development of new quality productive forces, providing a "Gongshu plan" that can be used for reference for the high-quality development of the urban economy.
Data source: Organization Department of the CPC Gongshu District Committee (中共拱墅区委组织部)
Propaganda Department of the CPC Gongshu District Committee (中共拱墅区委宣传部)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 车 斌 李亚楠
The poet Guo Xiaochuan (郭小川) once wrote: "Without entering the Tianshan Mountains, you don't know how strong and robust Xinjiang (新疆) is; without walking through southern Xinjiang, you don't know how vast Xinjiang is; without going to Kashgar (喀什), you don't know how long and rich Xinjiang's history is."
Kashgar, formerly known as "Shule (疏勒)," means a place with abundant water and grass. The Yarkand River (叶尔羌河), originating from the Karakoram Mountains, flows through this area, forming the Kashgar oasis surrounded by mountains and rivers. The northern and southern routes of the ancient Silk Road meet here. Traveling merchants and travelers crossed the Pamir Plateau, staying, resting, gathering, and trading in Kashgar, making it an important node on the ancient Silk Road and the earliest international trading port in Xinjiang. Zhang Qian (张骞), Xuanzang (玄奘), Faxian (法显), Marco Polo (马可·波罗), and other famous figures in Chinese and foreign history have left their footprints here.
The reporter came to Kashgar to explore the marks of Eastern and Western civilization exchanges and mutual learning on the vast Kunlun Mountains and the long Silk Road, and to feel the historical glory and contemporary vitality of the Silk Road.
Ancient Residences on High Cliffs—
There is inheritance, but also the convergence of different civilizations.
Starting from Kashgar city and driving south along the "China-Pakistan Friendship Highway"—the Karakoram Highway—for nearly 300 kilometers, you will arrive at Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County (塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县) (hereinafter referred to as "Taxian (塔县)"), where "a rooster crows and awakens four countries." This is the only county in China that borders Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. There is a saying locally that "in Taxian, a rooster's crow can wake up people in four countries."
The Stone City ruins in the northern suburbs of Taxian have a history of more than 2,000 years. From the Three Kingdoms period to the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the Stone City was called Qiepantuo (朅盘陀) (meaning "mountain road"). When Xuanzang returned east after obtaining scriptures, he passed through this place and described the appearance of the Stone City in the "Great Tang Records on the Western Regions": The country of Qiepantuo, the capital city is based on a large stone ridge, backing the Situdo River... After thousands of years of vicissitudes, the Stone City still stands majestically on the "large stone ridge" described by Xuanzang.
Building houses at high places and living near water. This is the convergence of natural environment, social culture, and human wisdom in architectural style.
The ancient residences on high cliffs (also known as "Gao Tai Min Ju (高台民居)") in the core area of the old city of Kashgar also have this feature. According to research, people have lived here since the Han Dynasty. On the loess high cliffs, more than 40 meters high and more than 800 meters long, layers of residences are built upwards. Below the high cliffs, the Tuman River (吐曼河) flows quietly.
Gao Tai Min Ju, originally named "Kozigar Bashi (阔孜其亚贝希)," means "earthenware people on high cliffs," said to be named because many potters initially gathered here. Walking into a residence with "earthenware people on high cliffs" hanging on the lintel, mud, blanks, and earthenware products of various sizes fill the entire space. This is the workshop of Tursun Rustam (吐尔逊·肉斯塔木), a representative inheritor of the Uyghur molded earthenware firing technique, a national intangible cultural heritage.
Old man Tursun has been making earthenware since he was a teenager. Selecting soil, kneading mud, pulling blanks, drying, firing... For decades, he has completed every process by hand. There are no drawings or prototype molds for making earthenware, relying entirely on imagination, feel, and experience, so each earthenware work is unique and most easily absorbs different cultural elements. Old man Tursun said: "Grapes, cotton, peacock feathers, these patterns are all engraved in my heart. As long as I have the feel, I can fire good works."
There are 4 pillars in front of the main entrance of the ancient residences on high cliffs, symbolizing the convergence of the world's four ancient civilizations here. Standing under the pillars and looking up at the continuous ancient residences on high cliffs, the blue of the sky sets off the yellow of the earthenware. The beauty of long history and colorful civilization is embodied here.
Centennial Old Teahouse—
There is vitality, but also the charm of civilization integration.
Just across the street from the ancient residences on high cliffs is the ancient city of Kashgar, which has a history of more than 2,100 years.
This is a "living ancient city of thousands of years." In the early morning, a "Welcome to the ancient city of Kashgar" knocks on the gate of a thousand-year history. The camel bells are melodious, the drums are loud, and dancers walk from the city with cheerful music, welcoming tourists from all directions. This is the daily opening ceremony of the ancient city of Kashgar.
Budai Lane, Rainbow Lane, Mill Lane, Geziniqi Lane, Bulakbeshi Lane... Walking into the ancient city of Kashgar, the 99 streets and lanes, mainly earth-yellow, are crisscrossed and winding. Potted plants, flowers, wood carvings, and colorful domes and cornices adorn them. In the ancient city, each time a generation of residents increases, another floor is added to their house, forming compact architectural forms with distinctive features such as overhanging buildings, semi-street buildings, and suspended buildings. Over the years, more than 20,000 residences are lined up, making this a maze-like urban block unique in China and one of the largest existing adobe building complexes in the world.
In the early Yuan Dynasty, Marco Polo, a famous Italian traveler who was 17 years old at the time, followed his father and uncle from his hometown of Venice, Italy, passed through Syria and Iran, crossed the Pamir Plateau, and came to Kashgar. "The Travels of Marco Polo" recorded Kashgar at that time: "There are beautiful gardens, orchards, vineyards... Merchants are all over the world."
In August last year, Vina Camarota, an Italian hiking enthusiast, crossed the border between China and Kyrgyzstan and came to Kashgar through the Irkeshtam Port. Before setting off for China, Camarota had read about Kashgar in "The Travels of Marco Polo." She was pleasantly surprised to find: "Kashgar is not only an important node on the ancient Silk Road, but also a place full of vitality to this day. The streets here are vibrant during the day and poetic in the evening, full of voices and filled with the aroma of spices, freshly baked bread, and barbecue."
In the ancient city of Kashgar, Camarota visited the century-old teahouse, experienced the making of naan bread, and changed into local ethnic costumes. "I was immersed in the ancient history and diverse culture, getting lost in the winding alleys, thus glimpsing its charm... This is the best way for me to enter China," Camarota said.
The century-old teahouse visited by Camarota is located on the bustling historical street of Wusitangboyi Road. With a good location and a century-old brand, it not only attracts local regulars but also attracts many domestic and foreign tourists. Walking into the teahouse, the earthen kang built along the wall is full of tea drinkers, old and young. Some sit cross-legged, drinking tea and chatting; others raise their mobile phones to take pictures.
"The century-old teahouse is in my hands for the fourth generation. The teahouse used to have only 6 tea tables, but now there are more than 10 tea tables and 5 private rooms. In the past, it was just a pot of tea with a piece of naan bread, but now the tea and snacks we offer are becoming more and more abundant. Some medicinal teas have as many as 18 kinds of ingredients," said Maimaitikeli Mu Maimaiti (买买提克里木·买买提), the owner of the teahouse, while taking out his latest blended medicinal tea.
In recent years, more and more tourists from neighboring countries such as Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan have come, and the teahouse's menu has also added English. Maimaitikeli said that drinking tea in the teahouse is a local way of life. Now more and more tourists are willing to walk in and sit down, and the century-old teahouse presents the charm of the integration of different civilizations.
"Fusion" Coffee Shop—
"Belt and Road," deducing more stories of exchanges and interactions.
"Our love story began on campus. We were both college students studying in Fuzhou (福州), Fujian (福建) Province. The 'Belt and Road' initiative has closely linked our lives together," said Dilishati Tursun (迪力夏提·吐尔逊), a young man from Kashgar, with a sweet smile when introducing the story of his wife, Hediya, from Tanzania.
Hediya responded that, thanks to the "Belt and Road" cooperation project, she had the opportunity to come to China to study and live. "In May 2020, I returned to his hometown of Kashgar with Dilishati. The first time I came to Kashgar, I fell deeply in love with it. Kashgar is an important channel of the Silk Road. It has a long history and the residents are warm and hospitable. In my hometown of Zanzibar (桑给巴尔), Tanzania, there is also a Stone Town, similar to Kashgar, which increases my sense of closeness."
In March 2023, the couple started running a coffee shop called "Dili and Diya" in the ancient city of Kashgar. In the coffee shop, the wall cabinets are full of local earthenware coffee cups, and many of the decorations on the walls are from Africa. Dilishati said: "Tanzanian coffee beans are well-known in the Chinese market, so we opened this coffee shop together. Hediya taught me how to grind coffee beans into a mellow cup of coffee. Our latte is made with local milk and Tanzanian coffee beans, just like the ancient city of Kashgar, integrating Eastern and Western cultures."
The cross-border love story of Dilishati and Hediya has attracted many Chinese and foreign tourists to visit the store. "China's visa-free 'circle of friends' is constantly expanding, and there are more and more foreign tourists in our coffee shop," Dilishati said.
With the coffee shop's business getting better and better, Dilishati is most concerned about whether the continuous supply of coffee beans can be guaranteed. "At the beginning, we brought coffee beans back when we went to Tanzania to visit relatives. Now, coffee beans are transferred from Africa to Europe and transported to Kashgar by China-Europe freight trains, forming a relatively stable logistics channel," Dilishati said.
At the end of last year, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project was launched and is currently under construction. Dilishati paid attention to this good news as soon as possible. "After doing business myself, I have a more real feeling about the convenience and benefits brought by interconnection. The starting point of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project is in Kashgar. I look forward to the early completion and opening of the railway, and then it will be more convenient for us to transport coffee beans. I also believe that the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway will bring more trade opportunities and more convenient life to the people of the co-construction countries," Dilishati said.
(Our reporter Xie Yahong (谢亚宏) participated in the writing)
Link: Xinjiang Kashgar (新疆喀什)
Kashgar Prefecture is located in southwestern Xinjiang, bordering the Tianshan Mountains to the north, the Pamir Plateau to the west, the Karakoram Mountains to the south, and the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠) to the east. Because it is located on the western border of China, Kashgar is known as China's "city with the latest sunset."
Kashgar is a bridgehead for China's opening to the west and an international thoroughfare to Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia. It is also the starting city of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. There are 5 first-class ports open to the outside world around Kashgar, including Khunjerab (红其拉甫) and Kalasu (卡拉苏), bordering or adjacent to 8 countries including Pakistan and Kazakhstan, and enjoys the reputation of "five ports connecting eight countries and one road connecting Europe and Asia." The 90-minute aviation circle of Kashgar Laining International Airport (喀什徕宁国际机场) can cover the capitals and major cities of 8 surrounding countries.
Kashgar has strong economic complementarity with surrounding countries, and the development potential of opening to the outside world is huge. The superimposed release of policy dividends such as the China (Xinjiang) Free Trade Pilot Zone (中国（新疆）自由贸易试验区), the Kashgar Economic Development Zone (喀什经济开发区), the Comprehensive Bonded Zone (综合保税区), and the Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone (跨境电子商务综合试验区) has powerfully stimulated Kashgar's vitality and potential for opening to the outside world.
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As the interview in Kashgar Old City (喀什古城) was drawing to a close, the reporter encountered Arun Thankappan, a tourist from India, at the intersection of Wusitangboyi Road (吾斯塘博依路) and Kumudaiwaza Road (库木代尔瓦扎路). Arun Thankappan told the reporter that he had just visited the century-old teahouse in the city, "The cheerful music of the local traditional instrument Rewap (热瓦普) playing in the teahouse attracted me. The architecture and furnishings of the teahouse tell its century-old history, and the exquisite teapots show its cultural heritage, making me 流连忘返 (liú lián wàng fǎn - "linger and forget to return," to be so captivated as to forget to leave)."
The enduring and profound appeal of historical culture stems from its multi-dimensional value core and deep alignment with human spiritual needs. The inclusive and diverse culture is even more captivating, making people 流连忘返 (liú lián wàng fǎn - "linger and forget to return," to be so captivated as to forget to leave). Kashgar (喀什) has been a transportation hub on the Silk Road since ancient times, with merchants from China and abroad gathering and Eastern and Western cultures converging. The unique historical and cultural background and the integration of diverse ethnic cultures are the key to Kashgar's (喀什) unique attraction.
Just as people praise Kashgar (喀什) as a "living ancient city of thousands of years," it is necessary to continuously activate the rich connotation and profound heritage of diverse historical cultures through the dynamic symbiosis of tradition and modernity, continuously deepen surrounding cultural exchanges, so that the spirit of the Silk Road transcends time and space, continues to thrive and remain fresh in the atmosphere of everyday life, and more effectively promotes people-to-people bonds and facilitates mutual understanding.
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As an important supplement to national laws and administrative regulations, local legislation addresses the "last mile" problem of the rule of law reaching the masses and the grassroots.
In 2015, the Third Session of the Twelfth National People's Congress amended the Legislation Law. One of the important contents of the amendment was to grant local legislative power to all cities divided into districts. The number of local legislative bodies in cities divided into districts increased from the previous 49 larger cities to the current 289 cities divided into districts, 30 autonomous prefectures, and 4 prefecture-level cities not divided into districts.
Over the past 10 years, what new highlights have emerged in local legislation? What are the distinct local characteristics? How can it meet the local development and governance needs in a way that suits local conditions? Recently, reporters went to Zhejiang (浙江) and Jiangsu (江苏) for interviews, exploring the institutional code between good law and good governance through several local legislative "keywords."
Keyword: "Incubator"
Promote legislation in emerging fields, develop new quality productive forces, and cultivate and strengthen new drivers of economic development.
What will freight vehicles running on the road look like in the future? Local legislation in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), and Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), outlines the future for us.
"We started to deploy unmanned vehicle research and development very early, but a major obstacle to development in the past was the lack of clear laws and regulations to support it," said Li Qiang (李强), Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of Unmanned Vehicles at Cainiao Group. In the early days, unmanned vehicles only dared to operate in closed parks, but this also greatly compressed the application space and failed to realize their huge potential.
In 2024, Hangzhou (杭州) issued the "Hangzhou Intelligent Connected Vehicle Testing and Application Promotion Regulations" (《杭州市智能网联车辆测试与应用促进条例》), providing a legal and compliant development path for functional unmanned vehicles. Li Qiang (李强) said: "Legislation gives functional unmanned vehicles an 'identity', which not only boosts the confidence of enterprises in research and development, but also allows us to let go and continue to innovate for the market."
At Jiushi (Suzhou) Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (九识（苏州）智能科技有限公司), the first-person perspective of intelligent unmanned logistics vehicles "walking through the streets and alleys" in Suzhou (苏州) urban areas is displayed on the big screen in real time: they automatically avoid pedestrians when encountering them, and can independently plan routes when encountering complex road conditions... The smooth driving performance and precise delivery execution are impressive. "We have deployed more than 1,000 unmanned vehicles in about 200 cities, and have processed more than 100 million orders, covering high-frequency scenarios such as express delivery, e-commerce, and community group buying," said the relevant person in charge of Jiushi Intelligence.
"Focusing on strategic emerging industries, we have formulated the 'Suzhou Intelligent Vehicle Networking Development Promotion Regulations' (《苏州市智能车联网发展促进条例》)," said Chen Xuezhen (陈雪珍), director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the Suzhou (苏州) Municipal People's Congress. This regulation stipulates the industrial development, promotion and application, and safety guarantee, and also supports leading intelligent vehicle networking enterprises to take the lead in forming innovation consortiums to carry out cutting-edge technology and cross-industry joint technology research.
New technologies and applications such as the digital economy and artificial intelligence have spawned a series of new industries and new models, but there is still a time difference and blank areas in relevant legal systems. By promoting legislation in emerging fields, local legislation has become an "incubator" for developing new quality productive forces, allowing innovation to be carefully cared for and have room to grow from the "cradle" stage.
"The 'Suzhou Science and Technology Innovation Promotion Regulations' (《苏州市科技创新促进条例》) helped our technology to get out of the 'laboratory'," said Luo Wei (骆威), the founder of a national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprise. The regulation clarifies the whole-chain transformation mechanism and accurately solves the transformation problems in the medical device industry where it is located.
From science and technology financial services to intellectual property protection, the "Suzhou Science and Technology Innovation Promotion Regulations" (《苏州市科技创新促进条例》) is promoting technological innovation to become the "largest increment" in Suzhou's (苏州) development, helping to build an industrial science and technology innovation center.
Hangzhou (杭州) has a "Science and Technology Innovation Grand Corridor" (科创大走廊), where about 20,000 business entities are born every year, and half of the "Hangzhou Six Little Dragons" (杭州六小龙) come from here. In order to break the administrative division restrictions, Hangzhou (杭州) formulated the "Hangzhou West Science and Technology Innovation Grand Corridor Regulations" (《杭州城西科创大走廊条例》).
"Legislation empowers industrial platforms and provides support for the development of the digital economy," said Chen Maduoli (陈马多里), Deputy Secretary-General and Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the Hangzhou (杭州) Municipal People's Congress. The Grand Corridor adheres to the service concept of "I am responsible for sunshine and rain, and you are responsible for thriving", and the entrepreneurial atmosphere is becoming more and more intense.
Keyword: "Small, Fast, and Flexible"
Based on "small incisions", it responds in a timely manner to new situations and new problems that arise in economic and social development.
"A land of fish and rice, a network of water, with green mulberry trees on both banks."
In Huzhou (湖州), Zhejiang (浙江), the mulberry-dike fish pond ecological model, which has been passed down for generations, of "planting mulberry trees on the dikes, feeding silkworms with mulberry leaves, raising fish with silkworm droppings, fertilizing the pond with fish manure, and fertilizing mulberry trees with pond mud" is a globally important agricultural cultural heritage recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
With the acceleration of urbanization, the local mulberry-dike fish pond system has gradually declined and its functions have gradually degraded.
"Legislating to protect the mulberry-dike fish pond system is to inherit ecological traditions, promote ecological culture, and protect the ecological environment," said Sun Xianlong (孙贤龙), Director of the Standing Committee of the Huzhou (湖州) Municipal People's Congress. In 2022, it was included in the legislative plan, and in 2023, the "Huzhou Mulberry-Dike Fish Pond System Protection Regulations" (《湖州市桑基鱼塘系统保护规定》) was formulated.
In the two years since the regulations were implemented, the mulberry-dike fish ponds have not only "returned", but have also been upgraded: after breeding, the mulberry trees have become shorter, which is more conducive to agricultural management; in addition to mulberry-dike fish ponds, new models such as "oil-dike fish ponds", "fruit-dike fish ponds" and "vegetable-dike fish ponds" have been creatively developed. "In the past, a catty of fish sold for more than ten yuan, but now that the brand of 'ecological fish' has been launched, each catty can sell for thirty or forty yuan!" said Ni Wei (倪威), a representative of the People's Congress of Nanxun District (南浔区), Huzhou (湖州), and General Manager of Digang Fishing Village (荻港渔庄).
"The most moving color in Huzhou (湖州) is green, and the biggest advantage is ecology," said Sun Xianlong (孙贤龙). In addition to the systematic regulations of the "Huzhou Ecological Civilization Model City Construction Promotion Regulations" (《湖州市生态文明典范城市建设促进条例》), Huzhou (湖州) has been "taking small steps quickly" in the field of ecological civilization construction, and basically formulates "small, fast, and flexible" regulations every year, making full use of and making good use of local legislative powers.
Compared with traditional catering services, online catering services, which have developed rapidly in recent years, have relatively higher food safety risks and greater regulatory difficulties due to the long chain, many links, and strong concealment. How to safeguard the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of the people?
In the Representative Home of Longhutang Street (龙虎塘街道) of Xinbei District (新北区), Changzhou (常州), Jiangsu (江苏), a "Several Regulations on Food Safety Management of Online Catering Services in Changzhou" (《常州市网络餐饮服务食品安全管理若干规定》) is prominently displayed. "This is one of the earliest local regulations in the country specifically regulating online catering food safety, and we all participated in the solicitation of legislative opinions at that time," said Qian Jiong (钱炯), director of the Working Committee of the People's Congress of Longhutang Street (龙虎塘街道), Xinbei District (新北区), proudly.
With the completion of the legislation, relevant supporting regulations and measures have also kept up in a timely manner. This year, relevant departments have ordered a total of 503 online catering service providers to make corrections in accordance with the law, and imposed administrative penalties on 128, achieving good legal and social effects.
"Based on 'small incisions' and making full use of 'small, fast, and flexible' in the fields of public safety and grassroots governance," said Bai Yunping (白云萍), Director of the Standing Committee of the Changzhou (常州) Municipal People's Congress. From promoting the use of serving chopsticks and spoons to strengthening the safety management of leased factories, Changzhou (常州) has enhanced the timeliness of legislation and responded in a timely manner to new situations and new problems that have emerged in economic and social development when selecting legislative topics and designing regulations and systems in recent years.
Keyword: "Golden Ideas"
Absorbing public opinion and gathering public wisdom, legislation has become a "thing around" the masses.
"Through grassroots legislative liaison points, we have built a 'bridge' with 'legislation + industry'," said Xu Lihong (徐黎宏), director of Shanghai Shangzheng Hengtai (Suzhou) Law Firm (上海上正恒泰（苏州）律师事务所). As a liaison point, the firm not only gives play to its professional advantages, but also actively uses "external brains" to establish a "Local Legislation Research Center" to make legislative opinions and suggestions more in line with legal practice.
Speaking, Xu Lihong (徐黎宏) picked up the "Suzhou Low-Altitude Economy Promotion Regulations (Draft)" (《苏州市低空经济促进条例（草案）》), which is currently soliciting legislative opinions, "Taking this legislation as an opportunity, we organized a 'Industrial Chain Legislation Roundtable' to invite upstream and downstream industrial chain enterprises to participate and build a platform for business entities to participate in local legislation."
Soliciting opinions from the people and asking for needs from the people. From building and using grassroots legislative liaison points and representative home stations to flexibly using methods such as research, seminars, demonstrations, hearings, and evaluations, all localities have established local legislation on a solid foundation of public opinion.
Zhang Huifen (章慧芬) is not only a representative of the People's Congress of Yuhang District (余杭区), Hangzhou (杭州), but also a legislative information officer at the Xianlin埠 (闲林埠) grassroots legislative liaison point.
Once, when she participated in the solicitation of legislative opinions on the "Hangzhou Charity Promotion Regulations (Draft)" (《杭州市慈善促进条例（草案）》), she encountered such a group of "contradictions": on the one hand, many charitable people emphasized that they did not seek returns and hoped to donate in a low-key manner and without publicity; on the other hand, when soliciting opinions from community residents and others, the masses said that legislation should ensure that "good people are rewarded", so that more people would do good deeds.
How should the simple and kind words of the masses be included in the law? After careful consideration, Zhang Huifen (章慧芬) condensed the collected opinions into legislative suggestions and submitted them. After the "Hangzhou Charity Promotion Regulations" (《杭州市慈善促进条例》) was voted and passed in April this year, Zhang Huifen (章慧芬) was happy to find that the regulations improved the charity courtesy mechanism and clarified that donors would be provided with care and courtesy in terms of consumption discounts, window services, training and improvement, and assistance for the difficulties.
"The masses' vernacular has become a warm law," said Zhang Huifen (章慧芬). The legislative process from "people's language" to "legal language" has made legislation a "thing around" the masses.
In Changzhou (常州), if a "golden idea" is adopted by legislation, a letter of thanks will be received. Yu Bojun (俞伯俊), a representative of the Changzhou (常州) Municipal People's Congress, has received letters of thanks for proposing many suggestions that have been absorbed and adopted by legislation.
"Better encouraging gathering public wisdom can improve the quality of local legislation." Yu Bojun (俞伯俊) often participates in local legislative seminars, legislative consultations, and other activities. Not long ago, he also participated in the discussion of the "Changzhou Safety Management Regulations for Leased Factories (Draft)" (《常州市租赁厂房安全管理规定（草案）》). The participants spoke freely on whether the relevant clauses were feasible, whether there were conflicts, and how multiple departments should coordinate in the implementation. The Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress sent people to listen to everyone's opinions on the spot.
"Sending out legislative thank-you letters is an exploration to improve the incentive mechanism for the adoption of legislative opinions and suggestions," said Xu Ling (许玲), Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the Changzhou (常州) Municipal People's Congress. A letter of thanks is not only a sincere thank you to all sectors of society for their concern and support for legislative work, but also a way to better stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for participating in democratic legislation.
Keyword: "Rich Pockets"
The "black and white" of the regulations text becomes the "real money" in the pockets of the masses.
In recent years, Zhejiang (浙江) has steadily promoted high-quality development and the construction of a common prosperity demonstration zone, exploring and demonstrating the way for the country to promote common prosperity.
In Tiantai County (天台县), Taizhou (台州), Zhejiang (浙江), the "butterfly change" that occurred in the "group" development of 8 former "unattended" and top-ranked "poor villages" in the county became the source of inspiration for local "common prosperity legislation".
Tahou Village (塔后村) is close to historical sites such as Guoqing Temple (国清寺), and its beautiful natural scenery makes it very suitable for developing the homestay economy. However, at the beginning of development, the villagers who wanted to "eat by the scenery" encountered bottlenecks.
"In the past, the problems of scattered resources, conflicting planning, and homogenized industries in various villages were prominent," said Chen Gao (陈高), Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Chicheng Street (赤城街道), Tiantai County (天台县). For example, in 2019, Tahou Village (塔后村) planned to build a health and wellness homestay cluster, while the neighboring Xiandu Village (仙都村) also wanted to develop a similar industry, and the two sides fell into a stalemate due to competition for customers and land disputes.
What to do? The local government thought of promoting the implementation of regionalized and group-style construction in villages with complementary and mutually beneficial spatial characteristics, resource endowments, and industrial characteristics.
To this end, Tahou Village (塔后村) and neighboring villages and relevant units formed a joint party committee. Everything from industrial layout to land transfer would be brought to the monthly "Regional Roundtable Meeting" for joint discussion by the party organization secretaries, party member representatives, and business leaders of each village.
"Now, everyone is working together, achieving a 1+1>2 effect," said Chen Xiaoxing (陈孝形), Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of the Village Committee of Tahou Village (塔后村). In 2024, the Datahou area received a total of 1.38 million tourists, with a total tourism revenue of over 340 million yuan, "which was an astronomical figure that I couldn't even imagine before."
At present, Taizhou (台州) has promoted 686 administrative villages to form 105 areas in groups. The "Taizhou Regulations on Promoting the Development of Rural Areas in Groups" (《台州市促进乡村片区组团发展规定》), which came into effect on May 1 this year, fixed these explorations in the form of legislation to promote common prosperity in rural areas.
The experience created by "common prosperity" practice needs to be consolidated through legislation, and the problems encountered also need to be solved through legislation.
Taizhou (台州) has a developed manufacturing industry. How can industrial workers better achieve "skill-based wealth creation"? With the implementation of the "Taizhou Vocational Education School-Enterprise Cooperation Promotion Regulations" (《台州市职业教育校企合作促进条例》) and the "Taizhou Several Regulations on Improving the Treatment of Skilled Workers and Expanding the Middle-Income Group" (《台州市提高技术工人待遇扩大中等收入群体若干规定》), school-enterprise cooperation in Taizhou (台州) has become increasingly close. 1,394 skilled workers have received equity incentives, accounting for 40.32% of the total number of incentives, and more and more "workers" have become "partners".
To promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, how can farmers increase their income nearby? After the implementation of the "Taizhou Common Prosperity Workshop Construction and Management Regulations" (《台州市共富工坊建设管理规定》), there are standards for the recognition of common prosperity workshops, and there is a basis for resource element incentives. There are already 1,688 common prosperity workshops in the city, solving the employment of 58,000 farmers. Rural people "farm in busy seasons and earn money in slack seasons", and can "enter the workshop, become workers, and receive wages" at their doorstep.
"'Common prosperity legislation' should closely focus on the people's expectations to find the focus," said Wu Haiping (吴海平), Director of the Standing Committee of the Taizhou (台州) Municipal People's Congress. Only when it is "**立得住、行得通、真管用**" (lì de zhù, xíng de tōng, zhēn guǎn yòng - "stand firm, work well, and be truly effective," meaning the legislation must be well-founded, practical, and truly useful), can the "black and white" of the regulations text be transformed into the "real money" in the pockets of the masses.
Further Reading
Why "Decentralize" Local Legislative Power?
According to the relevant person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China is a unified and unitary country with a vast territory and a large population, and the economic and social development of various localities is uneven. In order to adapt to the national conditions and ensure that the law can not only be implemented throughout the country but also meet the needs of different situations in various localities, the Legislation Law, in accordance with the principles established by the Constitution, establishes a unified and hierarchical legislative system under the premise that the highest state power organ uniformly exercises legislative power.
The 2015 amendment to the Legislation Law granted local legislative power to all cities divided into districts, which was an important improvement to the legislative system. The 2023 amendment to the Legislation Law further expanded and improved the legislative powers of cities divided into districts in order to meet the actual needs of cities divided into districts to formulate local regulations.
Over the past 10 years, the people's congresses and their standing committees of cities divided into districts have combined with reality, adhered to problem orientation, and actively promoted legislation in urban and rural construction and management, ecological civilization construction, historical and cultural protection, and grassroots governance, covering property management, civilization promotion, fireworks and firecrackers, urban dog ownership, garbage classification, environmental protection, and other aspects. With small incisions and small, fast, and flexible legislation, they have focused on enhancing the pertinence and effectiveness of local regulations and effectively solved the problems related to the vital interests of the people, such as parking, dog ownership, gas, and drinking water, meeting the needs of local governance in a way that suits local conditions, reflecting distinct local characteristics.
"In practice, the function of local legislation is mainly reflected in three aspects: implementation, supplementation, and exploration," said the relevant person in charge of the National Law Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
The so-called "implementation" is to formulate implementation measures for laws or administrative regulations, so that the provisions of the superior law are more specific, detailed, and operable, and to ensure that the Constitution, laws, and administrative regulations are observed and implemented in the administrative region; the so-called "supplementation" is to formulate regulations and provisions on local affairs within the statutory authority to provide legal guarantees for local development and local governance; the so-called "exploration" is to conduct pilot projects and accumulate experience through local legislation for matters that the state has not yet legislated in accordance with the principle of "non-conflict", especially to explore some new situations and new problems encountered in reform and opening up.
Over the past 10 years, newly formulated local regulations at the level of cities with districts have exceeded 5,000, playing an important role in improving the level of local governance in accordance with the law and becoming an important part of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics. As of May 2025, China has 306 currently effective laws, approximately 600 administrative regulations, and more than 14,000 local regulations. The socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, with the Constitution as its core, is more scientific, complete, unified, and authoritative. Its systematicness, integrity, coordination, and timeliness are constantly enhanced, and the legislative cause has achieved great accomplishments.
The modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics is an important component of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. How can institutional innovation empower enterprise development, further unleash the vitality of micro-entities, and cultivate more dynamic, resilient, and competitive modern enterprises? Our reporter interviewed four National People's Congress (NPC) deputies.
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National People's Congress (NPC) Deputy, Party Secretary and Chairman of GAC Group (广汽集团), Feng Xingya (冯兴亚):
Using Party Building in State-Owned Enterprises to Improve the Modern Enterprise System
Establishing a modern enterprise system is the direction of reform for state-owned enterprises. Under the leadership of the Party, we must achieve the organic unity of the advantages of the socialist system and the efficiency of the market economy through institutional innovation.
Construct a system and mechanism conducive to integrating Party leadership into corporate governance. Scientifically formulate a list of matters decided by the Party Committee, dynamically adjust the list of major business management matters discussed by the Party Committee, continuously optimize the authorization management and decision-making procedures for major matters, and promote the coordinated operation of the Party Committee, the Board of Directors, and the management team to form a scientific and efficient decision-making synergy.
Promote the organic unity of Party organization settings and enterprise organizational structure operations. Give play to the role of "head geese" and stimulate grassroots vitality. Deeply promote Party building in mixed-ownership enterprises, promote the construction of Party organizations in independent legal entity enterprises and grassroots Party organizations established in internal institutions by category, promote the embedding of Party organizations in key links of the industrial chain and supply chain, expand the breadth of organizational coverage, and enhance the depth of work coverage.
Innovate the system of the Party managing cadres and talents, and build a market-oriented mechanism for selecting and employing people. Adhere to the correct employment orientation, give full play to the Party Committee's leadership in checking, standardizing procedures, participating in inspections, and supervising and guaranteeing in various reforms, establish and improve the implementation mechanism for management personnel to compete for posts, adjust the bottom, and exit if they are incompetent, and form a system for deepening reform, releasing vitality, and promoting development and innovation.
(Interview compiled by Li Zong (李纵), reporter of this newspaper)
National People's Congress (NPC) Deputy, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Pingmei Shenma Group (中国平煤神马集团), Li Mao (李毛):
Promote Scientific and Efficient Decision-Making by the Enterprise Board of Directors
Based on the fundamental requirements of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, the board of directors of state-owned enterprises must become the decision-making center and efficiency core of corporate governance.
Consolidate the pre-decision guarantee. While selecting and equipping the board of directors of state-owned enterprises with excellent personnel, internal decision-making and external brain consulting think tanks can be formed to diagnose and treat the development of enterprises; clarify the list of powers and responsibilities of each governance subject; implement two-level review by subsidiaries and the group, multiple rounds of expert demonstration, embed infeasibility research procedures, strictly control the demonstration process, and comprehensively identify risks. In particular, it is necessary to establish a corporate general counsel system to promote the early intervention and full participation of the legal affairs front in decision-making matters and build a solid bottom line of legality and compliance.
Establish a scientific decision-making mechanism. For major matters such as investment and financing, establish a "two-decision" mechanism for initial decision-making and tracking decision-making, set a cooling-off period and a review period in the middle to effectively curb investment impulses; promote the hierarchical decision-making functions and clarify the decision-making authority of the board of directors at all levels.
Strengthen the closed loop of execution and supervision. Strictly control the execution and implementation, follow up with supervision and inspection in a timely manner, strictly supervise the process, increase post-evaluation and accountability, and realize the full-cycle closed-loop management of "project establishment, decision-making, implementation, evaluation, and accountability" to ensure accurate investment decisions, rapid project construction, and good operating results.
(Interview compiled by Fang Min (方敏), reporter of this newspaper)
National People's Congress (NPC) Deputy, Director of the R&D Center of Zhejiang Huzhou Taiping Micro Motor Co., Ltd. (浙江湖州太平微特电机有限公司), Shi Wenmei (施文美):
Improve the Efficient Allocation Mechanism of Innovation Factors
The innovative allocation of production factors is the core driving force of new quality productive forces, and enterprises are an important carrier for the innovative allocation of production factors. In the process of enterprise development, it is very important to improve the efficient allocation mechanism of innovation factors.
Improve the two-way flow mechanism of scientific research personnel between enterprises and universities and scientific research institutes. The premise for enterprises to achieve innovation is to cultivate a large number of high-quality talents. An open enterprise talent system should be improved, such as carrying out off-campus tutor assistance programs and promoting school-enterprise cooperation, to promote close ties between regional industries and professional universities, encourage enterprises in various industries to fully participate in all aspects of education and teaching, form a multi-entity collaborative education talent training model, and promote the integration of industry and education.
Improve the enterprise technology transfer management system. Support leading enterprises in the industry to provide technical services such as concept verification, pilot testing, testing and certification for small and medium-sized micro enterprises, and break through the development bottlenecks restricting enterprise technology transfer.
Build an industry alliance to achieve collaborative innovation. By further integrating industrial chain resources, creating a complete industrial ecosystem, and forming a strong industrial cluster effect, we can accelerate the development of new quality productive forces.
(Interview compiled by Dou Hao (窦皓), reporter of this newspaper)
National People's Congress (NPC) Deputy, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Lucky Group Co., Ltd. (中国乐凯集团有限公司), Hou Jingbin (侯景滨):
Improve the Enterprise Incentive Innovation System
Innovation is the primary driving force for development. Enterprises are the main body of innovation. Improving the enterprise incentive innovation system is a key measure to stimulate enterprise innovation vitality and promote the transformation of enterprise development mode from scale and speed type to quality and efficiency type.
Solve the problem of resource fragmentation with organizational form innovation. Break the R&D model of fighting alone, give full play to the advantages of the new national system, vigorously promote collaborative innovation between government, industry, academia, research, and application, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and promote the deep integration of the innovation chain and the industrial chain by jointly building new R&D institutions, pilot verification platforms, and enterprise incubation centers.
Release the talent technology dividend with factor allocation reform. The key to innovation lies in the free flow of talent and technology. On the one hand, it is necessary to break down barriers to talent flow and support scientific researchers to "take the lead" and flexibly flow. On the other hand, it is necessary to deepen the reform of the property rights system of scientific and technological achievements and explore market-oriented paths such as intellectual property securitization and technology equity participation.
Stimulate long-term innovation momentum with incentive mechanism design. As the main body of scientific and technological innovation, enterprises must establish an assessment system of "long cycle, strong constraints, and emphasis on transformation." Build an incentive mechanism covering the entire chain of creative incubation, R&D tackling, and achievement transformation. Establish a differentiated evaluation mechanism, focusing on long-term honorary rewards for basic research teams and strengthening the benefits of achievement transformation for applied research teams. Boldly explore the innovation fault-tolerance mechanism and create a good cultural atmosphere that encourages innovation and tolerates failure.
(Interview compiled by Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), reporter of this newspaper)
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Early in the morning, the Shouguang Agricultural Products Logistics Park (寿光农产品物流园) in Weifang (潍坊) City, Shandong Province (山东省) becomes bustling: unloading, weighing, loading – trucks loaded with various vegetables leave in an orderly manner, heading to various places. The park is crowded, and patrolling police officers quickly step forward to lend a hand when they see someone needing help.
Shouguang (寿光) is the "Hometown of Chinese Vegetables" (中国蔬菜之乡), with an average of more than 17,000 kilograms of vegetables sold to various places every minute. This "vegetable basket" not only "buys from the whole country and sells to the whole country," but also establishes a complete industrial chain system "from a seed to a plate of good dishes."
In order to powerfully protect the Shouguang (寿光) vegetable brand, in recent years, the Shouguang (寿光) political and legal organs have adhered to and developed the new era "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验), giving full play to the guiding, standardizing, and guaranteeing role of the rule of law, and using the power of the rule of law to escort the development of the entire vegetable industry chain.
Vegetable Court Resolves Seed Disputes
Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture, concerning "major national affairs."
In the Dantian River (丹河) Facility Vegetable Standardized Production Demonstration Park in Daotian Town (稻田镇), Shouguang City (寿光市), the exhibition hall displays a wide array of eggplant and fruit seeds, the small tomatoes in the intelligent greenhouse stand upright with colorful sepals, and there are also various pre-made dish products.
"These seeds are sold by the grain, about 700 yuan per bag, about 500 bags per box, worth about 350,000 yuan." Cheng Lin (程琳), Deputy General Manager and Director of the R&D Center of Shouguang Vegetable Seed Industry Group (寿光蔬菜种业集团), said, picking up a bag of tomato seeds called "Zhang Xiaobai" (樟小白).
Corresponding to the development of the vegetable industry, there have been frequent contradictions, disputes, and lawsuits arising from seed and seedling, greenhouse facility construction, agricultural materials and pesticides, and transaction logistics.
Relying on the Daotian People's Court (稻田人民法庭), the Shouguang Court (寿光法院) established a Vegetable Court, establishing a diversified dispute resolution model of "professional trial + litigation and mediation docking + judicial services," carrying out specialized trials for disputes involving vegetable seeds and seedlings, transportation contracts, etc., and accurately escorting the high-quality development of the vegetable industry.
During the busy farming season, the Vegetable Court is equipped with a mobile court vehicle, going deep into the fields, vegetable markets, cooperatives, etc. to conduct mobile public trials, solving problems on the front line and explaining the law through cases. As of the end of May this year, it has heard 1,350 vegetable-related disputes and guided other organizations to mediate 480 cases.
"The evidence is here, and he still refuses to pay for the seeds." Recently, Dali Seed Company (大力种业公司) (pseudonym) sued Zhao Lei (赵磊) (pseudonym) to the Shouguang Court (寿光法院), demanding payment for the purchase of "Huakui" (花魁) (pseudonym) and other brand seeds, totaling 90,000 yuan.
Zhao Lei (赵磊) argued that the "Huakui" (花魁) seeds he purchased from Dali Seed Company (大力种业公司) were impersonating the same-named seeds of Sitong Seed Company (四通种业公司) (pseudonym) and were fake seeds. At the same time, Zhao Lei (赵磊) filed a separate lawsuit on the grounds that Dali Seed Company (大力种业公司) sold fake seeds, demanding that he not pay for the seeds and that Dali Seed Company (大力种业公司) return three times the seed money.
"These are two typical seed sales contract disputes, which often occur in the seed market." Wang Chunhong (王春红), president of the Vegetable Court, said that after accepting the case, the judge quickly launched an investigation through on-site investigation and visits.
It turned out that Dali Seed Company (大力种业公司) had already obtained a production and operation license for "Huakui" (花魁) sweet pepper seeds and was operating legally. The "Huakui" (花魁) seeds of Sitong Seed Company (四通种业公司) were small pepper seeds, which did not belong to the same crop type as sweet peppers, and had not applied for plant variety registration protection, and did not have exclusivity or exclusive rights. Zhao Lei (赵磊) purchased the seeds in question for seedling cultivation in a seedling base, not as a consumer subject in the legal sense, and had not yet paid for the seeds in question, which did not meet the prerequisite for "refund one, compensate three."
Ultimately, the court ruled that Zhao Lei (赵磊) should pay Dali Seed Company (大力种业公司) 90,000 yuan for the seeds and rejected his claim in the other case.
In response to the problems found in the trial, such as the "IOUs" received by vegetable farmers being non-standard and difficult to protect their rights, the Vegetable Court also issued judicial recommendations to market supervision and other departments to prevent and reduce contradictions and disputes at the source. The Shouguang City Procuratorate (寿光市检察院) has established an Intellectual Property Procuratorate Office and set up procuratorial service contact points in key agricultural enterprises while severely cracking down on agricultural crimes such as the production and sale of counterfeit and shoddy products.
"Golden Shield" Protects People's Vegetable Baskets
In the vast fields of Shouguang (寿光), vegetable greenhouses stretch endlessly.
At the first light of dawn, Zhang Wenpeng (张文鹏), a vegetable grower in Sunjiaji Street (孙家集街道), came to the greenhouse and busily walked through the cucumber frames.
"In the past, we were always worried, afraid that excessive pesticide residues would affect sales. Now it's good, with this rapid testing equipment, we feel much more at ease!" Zhang Wenpeng (张文鹏) said with a smile.
In recent years, the Shouguang City Public Security Bureau (寿光市公安局) and the local market supervision department have jointly launched a "rapid qualitative testing + precise quantitative testing" one-stop testing model to build a defense line for vegetable safety.
Hualong Town (化龙镇) is rich in carrots. The freshly unearthed carrots are bright in color after being washed, and after being selected, boxed, and sealed for refrigeration, they can be sold to more than 20 countries and regions.
Recently, a truck loaded with tens of thousands of yuan worth of high-quality carrots drove from the workshop of grower Wang (王) for the first time to a certain place.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, a phone call from the consignee made Wang (王) anxious: "Due to severe damage to the packaging boxes, some of the carrots were damaged during transportation and could not be sold."
Wang (王) immediately contacted the logistics driver Zhao (赵), demanding full compensation for the loss. However, Zhao (赵) blamed it on poor packaging and poor road conditions, and the two sides argued fiercely and refused to give in.
After learning about the situation, Xu Sijie (徐思杰), a police officer from the Hualong Police Station (化龙派出所), intervened in a timely manner, inspected the damage to the goods on the spot, retrieved surveillance footage, and consulted packaging experts. The facts gradually became clear: although the packaging was not optimal, the logistics party's failure to fully reinforce it was the main reason; the grower also underestimated the packaging risks.
"Both of you are responsible. Can you accept a 'shared responsibility' mediation plan?" Xu Sijie (徐思杰) organized the two parties to negotiate at the Hualong Police Station (化龙派出所). Based on factual analysis and the police's fair mediation, the two parties reached an agreement, signed an agreement on the spot, and fulfilled the compensation.
In Shouguang (寿光), one end of the vegetable greenhouse is connected to the vegetable baskets of thousands of households, and the other end is connected to the farmers' wallets.
The eight oil poles of a vegetable greenhouse were stolen, and the Jitai Police Station (纪台派出所) took three days to arrest four suspects; the cables on the rolling shutter machines of multiple greenhouses were stolen, and the police from the Luocheng Police Station (洛城派出所) followed the clues and quickly identified the suspect and arrested him... Shouguang (寿光) police have always maintained a high-pressure stance against illegal and criminal activities involving agriculture, and have carried out special operations in conjunction with relevant departments to protect the legitimate rights and interests of vegetable farmers.
"To protect the vegetable basket, we must solve major cases and manage minor matters." Ji Honggang (姬洪刚), Deputy Mayor of Shouguang City (寿光市) and Director of the Public Security Bureau, said that Shouguang (寿光) police will continue to carry out the "Police-People Jointly Escort the Vegetable Basket" project to escort the construction of a high-quality vegetable township with high-quality police affairs.
Legal Education Classes are Held in Vegetable Greenhouses
On May 30, the 26th China (Shouguang) International Vegetable Science and Technology Expo (中国（寿光）国际蔬菜科技博览会) closed. This year's Vegetable Expo focused on the display of the entire industry chain and immersive experience, displaying more than 2,600 new varieties at home and abroad, and promoting more than 100 technologies and more than 80 new models. Vegetable farmer Liu Jiaxiang (刘家祥) said that he comes to this "feast" every year to see new varieties and technologies, and also show off his new skills.
During the Vegetable Expo, a public legal education and civilization practice activity with the theme of "Rule of Law Empowering Agricultural Industry Development" attracted many people to participate.
Public legal education volunteers and many lawyers from the Shouguang City Bureau of Justice (寿光市司法局) set up "Public Legal Education Stalls" to carry out public legal education activities through the form of "stationed answering questions and doubts + mobile public legal education in the exhibition hall." Public legal education volunteers also closely approached the booths to "ask for needs at the door," patiently explaining the law and answering questions about legal issues encountered by exhibitors and visitors in the process of cooperation and negotiation, and providing professional and practical legal advice.
Automatic rolling shutter machines, automatic ventilation machines, integrated water and fertilizer machines... With the blessing of modern facilities, the vegetable greenhouses in Hejia Village (何家村), Daotian Town (稻田镇) are full of "technology."
On this day, Zhao Shuli (赵姝丽), a public legal education volunteer from the Shouguang City Bureau of Justice (寿光市司法局), came to Hejia Village (何家村) to promote legal education in the greenhouse. Vegetable farmer Qi Yingtang (齐英堂) was picking cucumbers. After hearing the purpose, he summoned his neighbors to consult on some legal issues they had encountered.
"What should I do if I encounter a buyer who 'writes a blank IOU'?" Qi Yingtang (齐英堂) took the lead in raising the question.
Zhao Shuli (赵姝丽) said that vegetable farmers and buyers mostly have long-term cooperation, and over time they become accustomed to verbal agreements, but this is very risky for vegetable farmers. If you encounter a buyer who "writes a blank IOU" again, you should strongly suggest signing a purchase contract and specify the specific information such as price and quantity.
"What should I do if I find that the seedlings I purchased have quality problems during the growth process?" Vegetable farmer He Shouqing (何守庆) asked.
"This also requires everyone to sign an agreement with the seedling farm before purchasing seedlings, indicating the quantity, variety, quality guarantee period, etc." Zhao Shuli (赵姝丽) explained that whether it is purchasing seedlings or selling them, vegetable farmers must establish a "contract awareness" throughout the process, only recognize "black and white," and be prepared.
After a conversation, the vegetable farmers nodded repeatedly: "'Greenhouse legal education' teaches us to handle affairs according to the law and find the law when things happen."
In recent years, the Shouguang City Bureau of Justice (寿光市司法局) has promoted the deep integration of the legal service chain and the vegetable industry chain, vigorously implemented the "Legal Understanding Person" cultivation project, and focused on cultivating members of the village "two committees" team, people's mediators, grid members, and heads of new agricultural business entities, making them legal and regulatory explainers and mediators of contradictions and disputes.
"Vegetables are Shouguang's (寿光) gold-lettered signboard. We will continue to optimize the business environment and strive to provide higher-quality legal services and a more solid legal guarantee for the development of the vegetable industry." Li Peng (李鹏), Secretary of the Shouguang Municipal Party Committee (寿光市委书记), said.
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Recently, the State Council (国务院) promulgated the "Regulations on the Sharing of Government Affairs Data" (政务数据共享条例) (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"). For the first time, the "Regulations" stipulate the catalog management, sharing and use, and platform support of government affairs data from the national level in the form of administrative regulations, marking a new stage of legalization and standardization of government affairs data sharing.
The digital wave is surging, and government affairs data has become a key element driving the construction of digital government and innovative social governance. The "Digital China Development Report (2024)" (《数字中国发展报告（2024年）》) shows that by the end of 2024, China has achieved full coverage of the national, provincial, municipal, and county-level government affairs extranets; in the past 5 years, the cumulative data sharing of government service platforms in various regions has exceeded 540 billion times, and the cumulative electronic license sharing service has exceeded 10.8 billion times.
However, for some time, "data barriers" between government departments and between different levels of government still exist to a certain extent: the data standards between different departments are not unified, and the formats are inconsistent, resulting in difficulties in data interconnection and sharing; although some local governments have established data sharing platforms, they lack unified management and coordination mechanisms; some government affairs data resources have problems such as unclear base, repeated collection, and inconsistent sources, making it difficult to fully realize their value.
The "Regulations" clarify that "no obstruction or influence on the sharing of government affairs data is allowed by arbitrarily adding conditions," stipulate that government departments shall not repeatedly collect government affairs data that can be obtained through sharing, and also require higher-level departments to "completely return data" to lower-level departments. By standardizing the catalog management, sharing and use, and platform support of government affairs data, the "data barriers" between departments are broken. By promoting cross-level, cross-regional, cross-departmental, and cross-business government affairs data sharing and process reengineering, it helps to upgrade and iterate from "people running errands" to "data running errands," so that "entering only one door" and "running at most once" become the norm, and the "source of living water" of data sharing is aggregated into a "trickle of warm current" that benefits the people and enterprises.
The implementation of the "Regulations" will help drive the governance model to leap from "passive response" to "active service." By breaking down "data barriers" and integrating people's livelihood data resources such as education, medical care, and elderly care, it can more proactively and accurately understand potential demand gaps, and shift policy supply to "precise drip irrigation"; further interconnection of government affairs data will also help management departments better assess and perceive risks and hidden dangers, and help prevent them in advance.
Government affairs data sharing will help the formation of a huge public product spillover effect of the "National Government Affairs Big Data System." On the one hand, it serves as a key digital economy infrastructure to support market innovation: the lawful and orderly opening and sharing of public data in the fields of taxation and market supervision provides authoritative data support for enterprise research and development innovation, risk assessment, etc. On the other hand, with government affairs data sharing as a link, the space for multiple subjects to participate in social governance can be continuously broadened. For example, in the construction of future communities in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), community residents participate in parking space scheduling and elderly care service design through the "open data application interface"; Guangdong (广东) has built a "credit repair sharing platform" to synchronize enterprise untrustworthy information to various departments in real time, forming a closed-loop mechanism for joint rewards and punishments for social credit.
The implementation of the system is not a 一劳永逸 (yī láo yǒng yì - "one effort, permanent ease," one good turn that settles everything) end point. After the implementation of the "Regulations", in order to better exert the effectiveness of government affairs data sharing, it is still necessary to deepen more dimensional connection mechanisms: improve the government affairs data standard system and break through the current bottleneck of heterogeneous data integration of various systems; explore the balance between data confirmation of rights and privacy protection; it is necessary to improve the execution supervision mechanism to avoid the institutional attenuation of "thousands of threads above, one needle below."
The value and effectiveness of government affairs data lies in flow and sharing. Taking the promulgation of the "Regulations" as a new starting point, through continuous increase in institutional innovation and technological innovation, the government's digital governance capabilities and government service effectiveness will be continuously improved, and a new picture of a more collaborative, more transparent, and more efficient digital government will become clearer, which will better benefit economic and social development and people's happy life.
Return to TopProtecting green development in accordance with the law and effectively protecting the public interest related to wild animals and plants are important responsibilities of the procuratorial organs. Recently, prosecutors from the Deqing County People's Procuratorate (德清县人民检察院) in Zhejiang Province (浙江省) came to the Crested Ibis Rescue and Protection Base of Xiazhuhu (下渚湖朱鹮抢救保护基地) in Deqing County (德清县) to carry out the "Protecting the Crested Ibis Home" publicity campaign and public interest litigation "review" activity. Through various forms such as publicity and on-site investigation, they enhanced the public's awareness of wildlife protection.
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Return to Top[Case] Nie (聂某), a resident of a city in Guangdong (广东), purchased an electric car. For ease of use, he wanted to install an electric car charging station in his underground parking space in the residential area. According to relevant procedural requirements, in order for the power supply company to install a charging station for residents, in addition to considering safety and environmental protection requirements, a necessary condition is a certificate of consent to install an electric car charging station issued by the property management company of the residential area. However, Nie (聂某) repeatedly applied to the property management company for a certificate of consent to install an electric car charging station, but was rejected by the property management company. The property management company stated that the installation of electric car charging stations in the underground garage of the residential area involves the common interests of the owners of the residential area in the public resources of the residential area, and the property management company has no right to issue relevant certificates. Moreover, the residential area has been built for a long time, and there may be safety hazards in the installation, connection, and use of charging stations. In addition, the parking space is a civil air defense parking space, and to issue a certificate of consent to install a charging station, it is necessary to first ensure that the installation and use of the charging station will not damage the relevant functions of the civil air defense project. The two sides argued endlessly, and Nie (聂某) sued the property management company in court.
[Statement] The court held that the Civil Code stipulates: "Civil subjects engaged in civil activities shall be conducive to saving resources and protecting the ecological environment." Vigorously developing the new energy vehicle industry is of positive significance for promoting energy conservation and emission reduction and preventing and controlling air pollution. Departmental regulations issued by relevant state departments require property service enterprises to play an active role in the construction of charging facilities. Therefore, the property management company of the residential area should actively respond to the national energy conservation and emission reduction measures and cooperate when owners apply for the construction of charging facilities. In addition, the owner installs charging facilities in his own parking space for the daily needs of vehicle charging, which is to make better use of the parking space. This behavior does not involve changing the use of the shared part and does not belong to the matters that should be jointly decided by the owners as stipulated in the Civil Code.
As for the property management company's claim that there may be safety hazards in the charging station and that it may damage the relevant functions of the civil air defense project, it does not affect the property's issuance of a certificate of consent to install. Because issuing a certificate is a necessary procedure for installing a charging station, not the only procedure. Whether the parking space has the conditions for installing a charging station will be determined by the power supply company and other relevant departments based on the on-site survey.
In summary, the court ruled that the property management company should issue a certificate of consent for Nie (聂某) to install a charging station in the parking space he uses.
The judge pointed out that in recent years, the state has vigorously developed the new energy vehicle industry, which has a positive role in promoting energy security, promoting energy conservation and emission reduction, and protecting the ecological environment, and property service enterprises should not passively respond to residents' needs and 一推了之 (yī tuī le zhī - "push away and be done with it," to wash one's hands of the matter; to shirk responsibility). If the property service company finds safety hazards in the charging facilities after the owner installs the charging station, it can also exercise its property management powers in a timely manner to stop and correct them.
(Case source: Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), compiled by Jin Xin (金歆), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 亓玉昆 白光迪
"Smoke detected, initiate disaster reconnaissance!" A drone automatically takes off, deploying aerial reconnaissance and spraying foam to suppress hotspots. Another drone, connected to a fire hose, flies into the air to extinguish high-rise fires.
At the same time, on the ground, firefighters wearing "exoskeleton" equipment lead robot dogs through the smoke, entering the building to conduct search and rescue operations. The smart helmets worn by firefighters can measure temperature and sense infrared in real-time, determining the direction of fire spread and searching for trapped personnel. They also transmit images from inside the building to the command center, helping commanders make visualized command decisions.
Recently, the Jiangsu Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps (江苏省消防救援总队) conducted a live-fire exercise of new quality combat capabilities. In the urban high-rise fire drill scenario, unmanned new equipment such as drones and robot dogs became a major highlight of the exercise.
With the continuous development of technology, the application of low-altitude aircraft represented by drones in the field of fire rescue is becoming more and more widespread. Chen Haihua (陈海华), Deputy Chief of the Jiangsu Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps (江苏省消防救援总队), introduced that Jiangsu Fire has continued to explore the application of drones in fire reconnaissance, data support, personnel search and rescue, and other fire fighting and rescue operations. A drone training base was established in the Lianyungang Fire and Rescue Detachment (连云港消防救援支队) to carry out research on tactics such as using drone thermal imaging to filter smoke, combined use with high-jet vehicles, multi-machine collaborative support, and search and rescue of trapped personnel, and initially formed practical application models such as drone rapid reconnaissance, regional patrol, micro-station mobilization, fire protection publicity, and security patrol.
For fire rescue, time is life. The practical application of drones greatly improves the speed of fire rescue.
In Sheyang County (射阳县), Yancheng City (盐城市), three people were trapped in the mudflats at night while catching the sea, facing the danger of sinking deeper and the rising tide. After receiving the alarm, fire rescue personnel used a drone to accurately locate the incident location within one minute, and then, guided by the drone's lights, drove an assault boat to rescue the trapped personnel.
It is understood that because the beach area is large, if drones were not used to assist in the search and rescue, a full area search would take nearly two hours. The application of drones speeds up the search and rescue and increases the likelihood of personnel being rescued.
The fire scene is changing rapidly, and fire rescue personnel face dangers such as explosions, collapses, corrosion, and poisoning when conducting reconnaissance at the disaster site, but drones can effectively carry out reconnaissance and provide an important basis for on-site command decisions.
In March of this year, a fire broke out on the 5th floor of a residential building in a community in Huai'an City (淮安市). A large amount of black smoke and flames emerged from the window. When fire rescue personnel used a drone to investigate the fire, they found a person trapped on the balcony on the 6th floor and immediately shouted to keep the person calm. While extinguishing the fire, rescue personnel wearing masks went upstairs to search for the trapped person. Twenty minutes later, the fire was extinguished and the trapped person was successfully rescued.
"With the increasing number of successful search and rescue cases, we have gradually refined and solidified various drone search and rescue technical methods, such as thermal imaging search and rescue mode, high-precision zoom plus lighting confirmation, low-altitude shouting two-way intercom, laser dot navigation guidance, throwing rescue materials, and multi-machine collaborative segmented search and rescue, effectively improving fire rescue efficiency," said Yang Yang (杨扬), Director of the Information and Communication Division of the Jiangsu Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps (江苏省消防救援总队).
In Jiangsu (江苏), drone patrols by fire rescue departments in various places have become the norm. From villages, mountains, and fields to the skies above cities, they can promptly discover fire and safety hazards and eliminate "potential dangers" in the bud. In Xuzhou (徐州), Changzhou (常州), and other places, drones also participate in special fire safety actions such as clearing life channels and dismantling windows and nets, and promptly discover safety hazards such as fire safety channels being occupied or blocked through patrols.
Chen Haihua (陈海华) said that they will continue to promote the practical application of drone technology to more effectively protect the lives and property of the people.
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"Why hasn't the ubiquitous short video marketing translated into box office success?" "Why aren't audiences necessarily buying into the increasing number of large-scale productions?" Since the Spring Festival film season of 2025 created the "strongest ever" box office, a series of questions that have plagued filmmakers have been addressed one by one at the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival.
On one hand, the value of good movies continues to amplify, and the spillover effect of movies is refreshing perceptions. On June 14, the opening film of this year's film festival, "Jiang Yuan Lane Murders (酱园弄·悬案)," held its premiere at the Shanghai Film City (上海影城), breaking the Shanghai single-screening box office record with 580,000 yuan. As of June 15, the total box office for this year's film festival reached 43 million yuan. Wang Changtian (王长田), Chairman of Enlight Media (光线传媒), revealed at the opening forum of the film festival that the estimated sales of derivatives from "Ne Zha: The Devil Child Reborn (哪吒之魔童闹海)" (hereinafter referred to as "Ne Zha 2 (哪吒2)") are over 100 billion yuan, and overseas box office is expected to exceed 100 million US dollars.
On the other hand, the threshold for good movies is constantly rising, and it seems increasingly difficult to "align" with the audience's aesthetic tastes and emotional values. According to a user survey analysis by Lighthouse Research Institute (灯塔研究院) after the Spring Festival film season, the audience's evaluation criteria for "good movies" have risen by another 15%. Li Jie (李捷), President of Damai Entertainment (大麦娱乐), said: "After the Spring Festival film season, many movies did not reach the expected box office. On the surface, it looks like audience loss, but in reality, it is a failure to meet audience expectations."
How to respond? Rebuilding the relationship between movies and audiences is the most resonant topic at the film festival.
"Today's audiences are so amazing! They have very high demands. They want good stories and place even more emphasis on word-of-mouth," said director Chen Maoxian (陈茂贤) with deep feeling. "In the past, movies were the director's world. Now I want to open up my world and let the audience in."
As a "dark horse" of domestic films in 2024, "Breakout (破·地狱)" grossed over 200 million yuan at the box office, and Chen Maoxian (陈茂贤) won the Best Screenplay Award at the 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards for this film. What is little known is that the released "Breakout (破·地狱)" was the fiftieth edited version. Between the first and fiftieth versions, the main creators surveyed approximately 1,000 audience members, repeatedly editing and modifying based on audience feedback. "Watching movies objectively like the audience, and even bringing the audience in to co-create the movie." This is how "Breakout (破·地狱)" connected with the audience, and it is also what Chen Maoxian (陈茂贤) feels most deeply about.
Young director Dong Runnian (董润年) is also thinking: "In the past, we talked about facing the audience, but now we need to be clear about which audience I am standing among." Dong Runnian's (董润年) film "Johnny Keep Walking! (年会不能停！)," which he wrote and directed, was also a "dark horse" among domestic films. In addition to generating nearly 1.3 billion yuan at the box office, it also created annual buzzwords such as "aligning granularity" and "volunteering for overtime." "My father is a worker, and I have many friends who are office workers. I understand them very well. During the interview and creation process, I will stand in their shoes to express their lives and concerns. When the movie is released, it will also gain the support of this part of the audience," Dong Runnian (董润年) concluded. "Because you are standing among them telling stories. As a creator, you must first be honest, be true to yourself, and tell a story that I understand and believe in."
Why have some previously effective movie promotion and distribution methods become ineffective? Can the formula for blockbuster movies be "replicated"? Since the Spring Festival film season, there have been different perspectives on the blockbuster code of "Ne Zha 2 (哪吒2)." Wang Changtian (王长田) said: "'Ne Zha 2 (哪吒2)' is a work that is bound to appear at this stage of Chinese film development. At the same time, it also manifests as a unique individual case, which is difficult to promote and widely learn from."
If we want to analyze the success code of the "Ne Zha (哪吒)" series and the "Wandering Earth (流浪地球)" series, the common elements are actually originality and foresight. "Movie themes must be forward-looking. We can't just do what's fashionable today, because by the time it's released, the topic will be outdated. In fact, many profound contents exist in everyone's life, and creators need to dig them out." Young director Wei Shujun (魏书钧) believes that the profoundness in life is the constant theme.
For some time, the saying "short videos and micro-dramas are stealing movie audiences" has been very popular. Behind the constantly changing trends is actually the change in the audience's aesthetics. "The Z generation audience grew up watching videos and accompanied by the Internet world, video games, and other media. This determines their high requirements for audio-visual and narrative, and they will not passively accept the content of movies, and they are also tired of traditional models." Director Wen Yan (文晏) believes that the solution is innovation, "innovating type narratives, making theme expressions more precise, and making the audience feel more present and participatory."
The intensity of ticket grabbing at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival makes pessimistic views unconvincing. One hour after the sale started, among the approximately 1,500 screenings of more than 400 films, 92 films and more than 600 screenings were sold out. The fastest, "Best Director Film in the Golden Goblet Award Main Competition Unit," sold out in just 26 seconds, and young people were the main force in grabbing tickets. Audiences, especially young audiences, do not dislike watching movies; the key is whether the quality of the works matches this love.
From silent to sound, from black and white to color, from film to digital, movies are always constantly innovating themselves along with technological changes, media changes, and aesthetic changes. Looking back at the 130-year history of the birth of world cinema and the 120-year history of the birth of Chinese cinema, we can find that pioneering and leading have always been the enduring charm of film art. Movies are often praised as the "art of dreaming." Those dreams that audiences repeatedly savor, those dreams that can still resonate across time and space, must not be just the creator's own dreams, but the dreams of the masses and the dreams of the times.
Returning to the creative laws of movies and returning to the aesthetic needs of the audience, question marks can be disassembled one after another. In a great era of constant change and surging trends, filmmakers must dare to break the routine and dream with the audience. After all, today's audience has become the creator, disseminator, and commentator of culture. Coexistence, co-creation, and sharing, creators and audiences capture the pulse of this world together, and the charm of movies will naturally bloom, and the sincerity of the works will eventually arrive.
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"In the Nanniwan (南泥湾) of yesteryear, there were barren hills everywhere, with no sign of human habitation; but the Nanniwan of today is different from the past... It is no longer the old look, but the good Jiangnan (江南) of northern Shaanxi..." In 1961, when the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio (中央新闻纪录电影制片厂) reproduced the documentary "Nanniwan (南泥湾)," the widely popular song "Nanniwan (南泥湾)" was incorporated into it. From barren hills to the Jiangnan (江南) of northern Shaanxi, the past years are laid out, illuminating the shared memories of generations.
In 1942, the Yan'an Film Group (延安电影团), the predecessor of the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio (Group) (中央新闻纪录电影制片厂（集团）), used black and white film to forever capture the spirit of the 359th Brigade (三五九旅) of "self-reliance and hard struggle" as an eternal image.
After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the strategic stalemate stage, the Japanese army implemented "mopping-up operations" and "village cleansing" against the anti-Japanese base areas, adopting the "Three Alls" policy. At the same time, the Kuomintang (国民党) die-hard forces carried out military encirclement and economic blockade of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region (陕甘宁边区), "There was almost no clothing to wear, no oil to eat, no paper, no vegetables, the soldiers had no shoes and socks, and the staff had no bedding in winter... Our difficulties were truly great." In such a difficult environment, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东同志) called on the military and civilians of the border region to "do it themselves" and cope with the difficulties by combining production and combat.
In the spring of 1941, the 359th Brigade (三五九旅) of the Eighth Route Army (八路军) responded to the call, "carrying guns to the battlefield and hoes to the farm," and resolutely went to the deserted Nanniwan (南泥湾) area for reclamation. These heroic soldiers created amazing great miracles in various production and construction projects, turning Nanniwan (南泥湾), which was originally full of barren hills, into the "good Jiangnan (江南) of northern Shaanxi," and was praised by the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央西北局) as the "vanguard of economic development."
Under the guidance of the spirit of the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art (延安文艺座谈会), the predecessors of the Yan'an Film Group (延安电影团) engraved the idea of "serving the people" in their hearts and were determined to record the heroic deeds of the 359th Brigade (三五九旅) with their cameras.
Relying on a 16mm film camera and only a few thousand feet of expired Kodak (柯达) positive film, under the extremely scarce conditions of film production materials, the documentary "Combining Production and Combat" (生产与战斗结合起来) was completed in 1942. The film was sincere and moving, and was affectionately called "Nanniwan (南泥湾)" by the people of the border area.
This epic written with a camera was completed in extremely difficult circumstances. At that time, the Yan'an Film Group (延安电影团) had no negative film, and the photographers could only repeatedly explore the photosensitive characteristics of the positive film, and insisted on using the positive film as a negative film. After the film was shot, the picture lacked the proper grain texture, and the black and white tones appeared particularly monotonous. But even so, the quality of these images far exceeded expectations.
Yan'an (延安) city lacked electricity and water, so the predecessors took water from the Yan River (延河), settled and clarified it for film washing; without professional equipment, they modified the camera into a film printer; lacking electricity, they grasped the angle and time of sunlight in the self-made "darkroom." Faced with the dilemma of not having a film washing machine, they cut 1,500 feet of film into hundreds of sections and washed them manually in sections, ensuring that each section was fully developed and that the tones were uniform.
The 16mm film frame was tiny. In the absence of editing equipment and magnifying glasses, they creatively used a mirror to reflect light to view the picture, repeatedly identifying the starting and ending moments of the characters' actions in the faint light and shadow, and looking for appropriate editing points for the film. It was precisely by relying on this creative concept of overcoming all difficulties and striving for excellence that they selected 1,300 feet of film from 1,500 feet of shooting material and finally compiled it into "Nanniwan (南泥湾)."
In February 1943, the "premiere" of "Nanniwan (南泥湾)" was held in the Central Auditorium (中央大礼堂) in Yan'an (延安). Because of limited conditions, it could only be presented in the form of a "silent film." The predecessors "invented" a combination of a hand-cranked small motor, a phonograph, and a small speaker, and realized sound and picture synchronization at the screening site. Music and narration flowed out with the picture, and the entire auditorium was moved by it. Zhou Enlai (周恩来) specially walked to the predecessors of the Yan'an Film Group (延安电影团) to learn about the creation process of the film, and immediately instructed that it should be screened on tour in various parts of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region (陕甘宁边区).
The premiere of "Nanniwan (南泥湾)" in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region (陕甘宁边区) triggered a viewing craze. This was the first time that the military and civilians of the border region saw a film reflecting their own struggles on the screen. The familiar Pagoda Mountain (宝塔山), Yan River (延河) water, the harvested Nanniwan (南泥湾) fields, and the faces of the soldiers who lived together day and night jumped onto the screen. The film not only brought art closer to the people, but also vividly interpreted the Nanniwan (南泥湾) spirit of "self-reliance and hard struggle" in vivid image language, injecting a strong spiritual impetus into the border area's great production movement, and becoming a vivid teaching material to inspire the morale of the military and civilians.
That day in Zao园 (枣园), the sun shone through the branches. Mao Zedong (毛泽东) walked out of the cave dwelling, stopped in front of the wooden table, spread out two sheets of Xuan paper, and wrote "Do it yourself, have enough food and clothing" (自己动手 丰衣足食). This moment full of historical texture was eternally captured by the camera of the Yan'an Film Group (延安电影团), becoming the most symbolic picture in "Nanniwan (南泥湾)." With the film's tour screenings, these eight characters quickly spread throughout the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region (陕甘宁边区), turning into a spiritual bugle call to encourage hundreds of millions of military and civilians to reclaim land and resist the enemy.
"A hoe and a gun, self-sufficiency to defend the Party Central Committee" (一把镢头一支枪，生产自给保卫党中央), the powerful slogan resounded through Nanniwan (南泥湾). In this vigorous great production movement, the soldiers of the 359th Brigade (三五九旅) not only reclaimed thousands of acres of land, but also cultivated the Nanniwan (南泥湾) spirit of "self-reliance and hard struggle" on the Loess Plateau (黄土高原). This spirit illuminated the forward path of the Chinese revolution and became an eternal coordinate in the spiritual pedigree of the Chinese Communists.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, filmmakers continued to write the story of "Nanniwan (南泥湾)." In 1961, the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio (中央新闻纪录电影制片厂) artistically recreated this precious historical image. The filmmakers of New China, through film restoration, soundtrack and special effects processing, allowed the melody of "The fragrance of flowers in the flower basket" to travel through time and space, and the figures sweating like rain in the lens and the fields with harvest in sight have all become spiritual symbols that never fade.
Let us remember Wu Yinxian (吴印咸) and Xu Xiaobing (徐肖冰), the photographers of "Combining Production and Combat" (生产与战斗结合起来) (i.e., "Nanniwan (南泥湾)"), Qian Xiaozhang (钱筱璋), the editor, and Zhou Congchu (周从初), the printer.
Despite the passage of time and the changes of years, the people of Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio (中央新闻纪录电影制片厂) have never forgotten their historical mission and responsibility, and are still following in the footsteps of the older generation of New China documentary filmmakers, using images to record the great rejuvenation of the nation.
(The author is the Party Secretary and Chairman of the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio (Group) (中央新闻纪录电影制片厂（集团）党委书记、董事长))
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Before discussing the TV series "Chang'an's Lychee," it's necessary to introduce a brick.
In 1976, archaeologists discovered a large number of inscription bricks from the late Eastern Han Dynasty in the Cao clan tombs in Yuanbaokeng Village, Bozhou (亳州), Anhui Province. Among them was a large brick, dated to the third year of Jianning in the Eastern Han Dynasty, i.e., 170 AD. It was inscribed with 26 characters: "Wang Fu (王复), you made me build this great wall, you wronged me, people don't know, but I will beat your family. The blue sky will die, I will fight."
Those familiar with the history of the late Han Dynasty will be shocked upon reading this. This sentence is too familiar. Fourteen years later, in the seventh year of Guanghe, the three Zhang brothers raised the banner of "The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky shall rise" and launched the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which shook the entire Eastern Han Dynasty.
When I was young, I was immersed in the culture of the Three Kingdoms, feeling that it was an era of heroes. After studying history in depth, I realized that behind the turbulent situation was the heavy reality of "**兆民呼嗟于昊天，贫穷转死于沟壑矣**" (zhào mín hū jiē yú hào tiān, pín qióng zhuǎn sǐ yú gōu hè yǐ - "the people cry out to the heavens, the poor die in ditches," describing widespread suffering and desperation). But these descriptions are still too grand. Whether it is the "people" or the "masses," they are all abstract concepts. It was not until I saw this brick that I deeply felt the pain of a small individual.
One leaf reveals the coming of autumn. I wonder how many people like this existed in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. This brick is truly a wonderful symbol. It tells us that the beginning of the chaotic Three Kingdoms period was not only due to those heroic figures, but perhaps also due to the anger of a small brick maker in Bozhou (亳州). This small person is like a drop of water in the Yangtze River, insignificant, but if thousands of water droplets have the same desire and move in the same direction, they can converge into a great river and form the historical trend we are familiar with. The direction of history is ultimately driven by the will of the broad masses of the people. This is what I understand as the people's historical perspective.
Once, when I was teaching my son to recite Du Mu's "A courier raises dust with his horse for the smile of a concubine, no one knows it is the lychee arriving," I suddenly thought: we often care about the causes and consequences of the "concubine's smile," but pay little attention to the "courier raising dust," and no one ever cares about how the lychees were specifically transported. The *Book of the Later Han* does record that during the reign of Emperor He of the Han Dynasty, lychees were presented as tribute from Lingnan (岭南), "a post was set up every ten li, and a mound every five li, rushing through dangers, with people dying along the way." This passage focuses on the hardship of transporting lychees, but the perspective is still not detailed enough.
I used to be an office worker for 10 years, so I am used to analyzing problems from the perspective of an administrator. There must be a specific official in charge of transporting lychees, right? What would he feel when he received such a task? How much budget would the entire plan require? How many departments would need to be coordinated? How would the design of the transportation route be justified? How should the research report on lychee preservation be written? When should the logistics scheduling be implemented? I was surprised to find that transporting lychees from Lingnan (岭南) to Chang'an (长安) was an incredibly complicated task. Just simulating it made my head feel like it was about to explode. It is conceivable how much pressure the official specifically responsible for this matter must have been under at the time.
The story of "Chang'an's Lychee" begins here. At first, I didn't have much of an idea, I just wanted to write a light comedy about an ancient office worker.
A small lychee thus leveraged the fate of an official; the fate of an official, in turn, triggered changes in the fate of more people. If we use the logic of the people's historical perspective to think about the well-known historical event of Lingnan (岭南) tribute lychees, we will find that it should not be just a simple story of transporting lychees, but an attempt to cut into the social fabric.
I have always adhered to three principles when creating historical novels: the grand era, the small person, and the deep incision. The so-called "grand era" is to reveal a certain characteristic of a specific historical era; the so-called "small person" is to examine this grand era from the bottom up from the perspective of the lowest level, so as to see the essence of many problems and obtain the widest artistic appeal and resonance; the so-called "deep incision" means focusing on one thing and one person, narrowing the subject matter, deepening the perspective, going straight to its essence, and concentrating on typical examples and typical characters. The creation process of "Chang'an's Lychee" is to follow these three principles and gradually unfold thinking. Thus, it also changed from the initial office worker's work log to what it is today.
Mr. Mao Dun (茅盾) once pointed out in "On History and Historical Drama" that artistic fiction is not fabrication out of thin air, but is based on fully mastering historical materials and analyzing them with the viewpoints and methods of historical materialism and dialectical materialism. After having a clear understanding of the essence of historical facts, then fiction is carried out on this basis. This is extremely instructive for the creation of historical novels. Only by adhering to the people's historical perspective and correctly understanding the essence of history can we create literary and artistic works that are popular with the broad masses of the people.
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Can a small county-level city support a movie dream? The answer is yes.
Leling City (乐陵市), Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东), located at the junction of Shandong (山东) and Hebei (河北) provinces, is a county-level city mainly based on agriculture. Although it has many A-level and above tourist attractions, its cultural tourism industry has not achieved a breakthrough. We realize that the integration of film and television with cultural tourism is the "golden key" to unlocking a new track for high-quality development.
Beijing (北京) is an important gathering place for national film and television cultural resources, and Leling (乐陵) is only a two-hour drive from Beijing (北京)—this unique location advantage is like an invisible bridge, quietly connecting the small city with the infinite possibilities of the film and television industry. We decisively seized the opportunity of the spillover of Beijing's (北京) film and television industry, attracted investment to build Leling Film and Television City (乐陵影视城), and started a journey of chasing light "from scratch, creating something out of nothing."
In recent years, "going to a city for a drama" has gradually become a trend. If Leling Film and Television City (乐陵影视城) is to make great achievements, it must deeply bind itself to influential film and television IPs. In 2023, while the Film and Television City (影视城) was looking for projects, it learned that director Chen Sicheng's (陈思诚) team was preparing to shoot the movie "Detective Chinatown 1900" (唐探1900) and planned to create a real-life shooting base tailored for the new film. The two parties hit it off immediately and decided to replicate Chinatown (唐人街) in San Francisco (旧金山) in the early 20th century in Leling (乐陵) on a 1:1 scale.
This is a "light and shadow appointment" in a race against time. "Detective Chinatown 1900" (唐探1900) was scheduled to be released during this year's Spring Festival, leaving less than 10 months for the construction of Leling Film and Television City (乐陵影视城). Leling Film and Television City (乐陵影视城) quickly connected with the construction party, and thousands of builders and art designers entered the site at the same time. In just 218 days, the Chinatown (唐人街) district in San Francisco (旧金山), including 199 single buildings, was erected and delivered on time.
At the beginning of the construction, Leling Film and Television City (乐陵影视城) reached an agreement with the crew that after the filming is completed, the relevant sets will be converted into cultural tourism assets to create a top-level "film and television + tourism" IP, realizing a closed-loop operation from film and television shooting to site construction, tourism diversion, and comprehensive income. This year, the national launch ceremony of "traveling with movies" was held in Leling Film and Television City (乐陵影视城), making this small city the focus again. During the Spring Festival, Leling Film and Television City (乐陵影视城) opened the "Chinatown Theme Park" for a limited time, organically combining scene marketing and experiential economy, and launched more than 30 "immersive" play experiences and consumption check-in projects such as NPC interaction, movie theme exhibitions, and performing arts carnivals. The number of tourists, tourism consumption, and moviegoers in Leling (乐陵) have all achieved rapid growth. Leling Dadi Giant Screen Cinema (Debai Store) (乐陵大地巨幕影城（德百店）) rushed into the top five in the national cinema box office split, forming a virtuous interaction of "watching movies online and experiencing offline."
The film industry has the characteristic of 一业兴、百业旺 (yī yè xīng, bǎi yè wàng - "one industry prospers, all industries thrive," meaning that the prosperity of one industry can lead to the prosperity of many others). The booming film and television industry in Leling (乐陵) has not only brought traffic to the city, but also provided favorable opportunities and broad space for the development of the service industry. In recent years, 178 new film and television-related enterprises have been registered, more than 8,400 new hotel and homestay beds have been added, 66 well-known brands have been attracted to settle in their "first stores," and it has won the title of "National County Commercial Leading County." At the same time, it has provided more than 30,000 group performance positions, attracting more than 1,000 people to innovate and start businesses at their doorsteps, and more than 3,600 foreign film and television talents and senior technicians have come to Leling (乐陵) to work, realizing the goal of both retaining local people and attracting outsiders.
This once unknown small city, because it has been given the wings of film dream-making, has been transformed into a city with bustling crowds and radiating charm, truly realizing "one city makes a drama, and one drama makes a city popular." This year, several more theatrical movies, satellite TV dramas, and excellent short dramas will be filmed in the Film and Television City (影视城). Leling (乐陵) is firmly moving towards becoming a leading film and television shooting destination, post-production gathering place, and film and television cultural tourism destination in northern China.
Return to TopBy: 雷佳音（电视剧《长安的荔枝》主演）
The first time I read "Chang'an's Lychee" was when the novel had just been published. Everyone who had read the novel was saying, "If this novel could be made into a drama, it would definitely be worth watching." Later, when I came into contact with the script and was really going to play Li Shande (李善德), I realized that this was not just a "good-looking" story, but also an involuntary "fight."
Li Shande (李善德) is like a "Tang Dynasty version of a logistics specialist," transporting lychees from Lingnan (岭南) to Chang'an (长安), which was an impossible task at the time, but one that had to be completed. A small figure not recorded in history, bearing an impossible task, he chose to treat the absurd task as a belief to be completed, and this contrast is where the power of the story lies.
If it weren't for the "delivering fresh lychees" incident, he would have followed his established life trajectory and been "that" Li Shande (李善德). Fate happened to throw an accident in front of him, stimulating something in him; he was living towards death. The scene that impressed me the most when I first read the script was the one where Li Shande (李善德) verbally battled the Confucian scholars. A "rabbit" started biting people, which I thought was very interesting, and the character immediately became vivid. Li Shande (李善德) himself came from the Ming Suan (明算) department, was sensitive to numbers, and liked to tend flowers and plants, which was equivalent to combining his profession and hobbies. He saw possibilities in a little bit of hope. He also wanted to know if this could really be done. No matter the outcome, he wanted to try. As he said, "Even if I fail, I want to know how far I fell from the finish line."
Many people like the novel or drama "Chang'an's Lychee" precisely because the character Li Shande (李善德) is very real and relatable. He has a bit of a wandering temperament, like someone floating in the torrent of fate. I feel that this person is always busy, not very neat, and informal. I didn't particularly design those behaviors or languages, but there were some designs in the costumes. For example, he wore boots in Chang'an (长安), but when he arrived in Lingnan (岭南) because of the climate, he tucked his robe into his waist, exposing his legs, and his shoes were also slippers, like someone who was about to go to the field to work at any time.
In the process of playing this role, I repeatedly thought about "what is success." Li Shande (李善德) arrived in Lingnan (岭南) and gradually discovered this and that, trying to solve problems, wanting to give up many times, but every time he was on the verge of despair, he found a glimmer of hope and felt that there was hope, so he kept moving forward. In him, I saw that true success is not fame and fortune, but a clear conscience. Many times, Li Shande (李善德) had the opportunity to leave, escape, and give up, but he didn't. In crisis after crisis, he used his last bit of strength and decided to make this happen. For Li Shande (李善德), the most worthwhile thing to stick to is the conscience in his heart.
Therefore, I have always felt that "Chang'an's Lychee" is not about "how to complete a difficult task," but about how a person does not lose himself in the tug-of-war between compromise and persistence. The Li Shande (李善德) in the story, in my opinion, has a kind of "being thrown into a desperate situation by fate, still choosing to shoulder responsibility, and using the last bit of strength to make things happen" vitality and dignity. And the reason why he can go all the way is not because he is smart, not because he is strong, but because he has always guarded that little bit—his conscience.
(Interview and compilation by Ren Shanshan (任姗姗) and Xu Qingyi (徐庆怡))
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