Summary: The article highlights Xi Jinping's emphasis on strategic planning, referencing his leadership in developing Xiamen's 1985-2000 economic and social development strategy while working there as a local official. It discusses Xi's consistent approach to strategic planning throughout his career, from Zhengding to Fujian and Zhejiang. The article details the process of creating the Xiamen plan, emphasizing the importance of research, expert consultation, and public input. It also notes Xi's commitment to reform and opening up, including the initial explorations of free port policies in Xiamen. Finally, the article discusses the importance of long-term vision and dedication to a strategic plan, emphasizing that China's path to modernization is unique and requires ongoing exploration and innovation.
Summary: Xi Jinping's speech at the second China-Central Asia Summit, titled "Carrying Forward the 'China-Central Asia Spirit' and Promoting High-Quality Development of Regional Cooperation," has been published. The People's Publishing House released the standalone edition, which is now available nationwide in Xinhua bookstores. The speech likely outlines China's vision for regional cooperation with Central Asian countries.
Summary: Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the opening of the 14th National Committee of the All-China Youth Federation and the 28th Congress of the All-China Students' Federation, encouraging youth to contribute to the country's development. Members of the All-China Youth Federation and All-China Students' Federation expressed their commitment to following the Party's lead and contributing to national rejuvenation in various fields, including technology, grassroots service, and rural revitalization. They emphasized the importance of aligning personal aspirations with the needs of the nation, strengthening skills, and promoting legal awareness among youth. Officials stated the need to reform and improve the All-China Youth Federation and All-China Students' Federation to better unite and lead young people.
Summary: On July 3rd, Vice President Han Zheng addressed the opening of the 13th World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University, outlining China's vision for global peace and development. Han emphasized Xi Jinping's initiatives as offering Chinese solutions to global challenges, particularly in the context of the current "accelerated evolution of the global situation." He suggested maintaining the post-war international order, improving global governance, promoting the world's prosperity and development through cooperation, and working together towards modernization. Han also said China is willing to promote world peace and prosperity with all countries, and build a better world. The forum was attended by approximately 400 people, including former foreign dignitaries such as former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
Summary: China will expand the implementation of 77 pilot measures originating from Free Trade Zones (FTZs) to further align with international high-standard economic and trade rules, as outlined in a State Council notice. 34 measures, including digital RMB application innovation and cross-border data management, will be replicated in other FTZs. The remaining 43 measures, such as promoting cross-border e-payment and data security management, will be applied nationwide. The move aims to leverage Shanghai FTZ's pilot program as a model for institutional openness and promote high-quality development through deeper reforms. The measures cover areas like service trade, digital trade, and intellectual property protection.
Summary: This article discusses Xiamen's economic and social development over the past 40 years, attributing its success to a strategic 15-year plan (1985-2000) spearheaded by Xi Jinping when he was the executive vice mayor. The article emphasizes the importance of long-term strategic planning, balancing top-level design with local experimentation, and continuous reform and opening up. It highlights Xiamen's transformation into a modern international city through innovation, industrial upgrades, and ecological preservation. It emphasizes that the success of Xiamen reflects China's governance, strategic thinking, and the spirit of reform. The article alludes to the importance of long-term strategic thinking in national development plans.
Summary: The Heishanxia Yellow River Bridge in Zhongwei, Ningxia, successfully completed its closure on July 3rd, paving the way for its opening to traffic within the year. The bridge, a key part of the G338 highway project, is 1539 meters long with a main span of 240 meters and a designed speed of 80 km/h. Upon completion, the bridge is expected to improve the highway network in the Northwest region. The bridge is expected to promote ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: The 2025 Cross-Strait Youth Summit opened in Beijing with over 700 attendees. Beijing Party Secretary Yin Li, echoing Xi Jinping's sentiments, emphasized the importance of cross-strait youth cooperation in achieving the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation. Taiwan Affairs Office Director Song Tao urged youth to oppose Taiwan independence and foreign interference, while also promoting cross-strait integration. Former KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou encouraged cross-strait youth exchanges to create a brighter future for the Chinese nation. The summit included forums and exhibitions focused on cultural and technological exchange.
Summary: A press conference held by the State Council Information Office announced events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, including art performances and exhibitions. Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism Lu Yingchuan noted that the performances would include affordable tickets. Deputy Director of the National Radio and Television Administration Liu Jianguo mentioned a media campaign titled "Witness of Mountains and Rivers: Our Memories of the War of Resistance." These events aim to promote patriotism and remember history, with a focus on showcasing the CCP's role and China's contribution to the global fight against fascism. Wang Xiaozhen, Deputy Director of China Central Television, introduced documentaries and television programs that will be broadcast to promote the victory.
Summary: Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the opening of the 14th National Youth Federation Committee and the 28th National Student Federation Congress, encouraging youth to contribute to the nation. Members of the All-China Youth Federation (ACYF) and All-China Students' Federation (ACSF) expressed their commitment to following the Party, strengthening their skills, and contributing to national goals like technological self-reliance and rural revitalization. Officials emphasized the importance of the ACYF and ACSF in uniting and leading youth under the Party's leadership. The ACYF pledged to implement various actions to build a loyal, vibrant, and well-functioning organization.
Summary: The article discusses the strategic development plan (1985-2000) for Xiamen, formulated under the leadership of Xi Jinping when he was the Deputy Mayor. It highlights the plan's comprehensive and systematic approach to economic and social development, crediting it for Xiamen's transformation into a modern international city. The article emphasizes the importance of long-term strategic planning, integrating top-level design with local conditions, and continuous reform and opening up. It also stresses the significance of balancing long-term goals with immediate actions in achieving modernization. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The All-China Youth Federation (ACYF) and All-China Students' Federation (ACSF) concluded their national congresses, reaffirming their commitment to Xi Jinping Thought. The congresses reviewed past work and planned for the next five years, emphasizing adherence to the Party line and the "Two Establishments." Amendments to the ACYF and ACSF charters enshrined the Party's leadership and the "Two Upholds." Xu Xiao was elected Chairman of the ACYF, while Li Wenduo was elected Chairman of the ACSF.
Summary: China's logistics industry saw continued expansion in June, with the China Logistics Prosperity Index rising to 50.8%, according to the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing. The business volume index has been in the expansion range for four consecutive months this year, indicating improving demand. Notably, the central and western regions experienced business volume indices above the national average. The postal express delivery and air transport industries experienced significant expansion, driven by e-commerce and seasonal fresh food cold chain demand. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region's 14th People's Congress Standing Committee appointed Wei Tao as Vice Chairman of the Autonomous Region and decided that he would serve as acting Chairman. The decision was made at the 17th meeting of the Standing Committee on July 3rd. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The State Council has removed Fei Dongbin from his position as Director of the National Railway Administration. No replacement was mentioned in the announcement. The announcement did not contain any discussion of the United States.
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Summary: The UN's Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville, Spain, addressed sustainable development financing amid global economic challenges. The conference launched the Seville Action Platform, incorporating the Global Development Initiative, proposed by China, which was widely recognized and consists of 130 actions to promote structural reform and financing innovation. Speakers highlighted China's increasing role in multilateral financing and its support for developing nations through initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative and South-South cooperation. Experts, including those from the United States, noted China's importance in addressing international financial system limitations. The conference also addressed the challenges of trade fragmentation and the need for increased multilateral cooperation, with some alluding to the dangers of "decoupling".
Summary: The article emphasizes China's efforts to promote international understanding and counter biases through increased people-to-people exchanges. It highlights the growing popularity of Chinese culture, products, and tourism among foreigners, who are experiencing a more authentic and dynamic China firsthand. The expansion of China's visa-free policies and overall opening-up are presented as key factors driving this trend. These exchanges facilitate deeper understanding, foster goodwill, and contribute to a more positive image of China globally. The article suggests that such exchanges can help overcome global misunderstandings and build trust in a world facing complex challenges.
Summary: SCO Deputy Secretary-General Sohail Khan lauded China's role as SCO chair, emphasizing its promotion of a closer SCO community. He highlighted Xi Jinping's focus on SCO development, including the "five common homelands" initiative presented at the Astana summit, and noted that China's Belt and Road Initiative provides opportunities for enhanced connectivity. Khan also pointed to expanding SCO cooperation in areas like e-commerce, the digital economy, and green technologies, as well as the importance of youth exchanges. Khan further mentioned that SCO countries need to strengthen communication and coordination mechanisms amid complex international situation.
Summary: The article argues that U.S. tariff policies are economically isolating the U.S., harming its consumers and businesses, and endangering global progress toward cooperation and prosperity. These policies are said to undermine the rules-based international order, erode trust in the U.S., and increase prices for American consumers, potentially leading to job losses and decreased competitiveness. The author contends that U.S. manufacturing, reliant on global supply chains, will suffer increased costs and suppressed profits due to the tariffs. The article concludes that U.S.-China cooperation is in the interest of the entire world.
Summary: During the 13th round of high-level strategic dialogue in Brussels, Wang Yi stated that China and the EU should view each other as partners rather than rivals, emphasizing cooperation amidst disagreements, and that China is not the U.S. and should not be seen through that lens. He called on the EU to respect China's core interests, particularly regarding Taiwan, and adhere to the One China Principle. Kallas affirmed the EU's commitment to the One China Policy and expressed a desire for constructive dialogue and more balanced economic cooperation. Both parties discussed international issues such as the Ukraine crisis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Iran nuclear issue.
Summary: Saudi Aramco and China's Power Construction Group Shandong Electric Power Construction Co. celebrated the completion of the land-based works for the King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries and Services project in Saudi Arabia. The project, a global-scale "super shipyard," is now equipped for ship repair and construction. The completion signifies a milestone in Saudi Arabia's maritime industrial capabilities. No US or US-China relations were mentioned in this article.
Summary: The Sixth Meeting of SCO Environment Ministers was held in Tianjin, focusing on green, sustainable, and low-emission development. Participating parties signed a joint statement and adopted an initiative emphasizing sustainable and low-emission development as a core SCO goal. The initiative advocates for SCO members to participate in global environmental governance, expand cooperation in areas like the circular economy, and support the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework." Discussions also covered green technologies, cooperation mechanisms, pollution management, and waste management. The meeting did not explicitly address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2025 SCO Film Festival opened in Chongqing, co-hosted by the National Film Bureau and Chongqing Municipal Government, featuring 28 films from SCO countries. Over 1,500 official representatives and film professionals from SCO member and observer states attended the opening ceremony. The five-day festival, themed "Science and Technology Lights Up Film, SCO Style," includes film screenings, awards, a cooperation forum, and a technology exhibition. Ten awards will be presented from 20 competing films, including Best Film and Best Director. The event, held in conjunction with the SCO summit, marks a renewed chapter in film exchange and cooperation within the SCO framework after seven years.
Summary: The article discusses Xi Jinping's leadership in formulating Xiamen's 1985-2000 economic and social development strategy during his time as Deputy Mayor, highlighting its significance for the upcoming "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan." It emphasizes Xi's strategic thinking and long-term vision in guiding Xiamen's development as a special economic zone and his approach of combining top-level design with practical experimentation. The article also notes Xi's emphasis on learning from the people and integrating their ideas into the development plan. It suggests that Xiamen's experience in opening up can provide experience for the rest of China. The article concludes by reiterating the importance of a long-term perspective, scientific planning, and dedication in achieving China's modernization goals.
Summary: This article discusses the optimal balance between government intervention and market forces in providing public services in China. It highlights examples like customized bus routes in Shanghai and the decline of public bicycle programs in some cities to illustrate how the government ("the visible hand") should adapt to evolving needs and market dynamics. The piece emphasizes that the government should address areas where the market ("the invisible hand") falls short, citing examples of elderly care in Jiangsu and sports facility access in Shenzhen. Experience-based investigation ("体验式调研") is recommended as one way to find problems more easily, so that the government can improve services. It also references a recent initiative with ten points to address public concerns in areas like education, healthcare, and elder care, aiming for more equitable and accessible public services.
Summary: The Director of the Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology reflects on their lifelong dedication to archaeology, emphasizing the importance of perseverance, respect for historical sites, and innovation in excavation methods. The director highlights the significance of understanding artifacts within their historical context and the responsibility of archaeologists to educate the public. They also mention the "Anhui Archaeology Enters Primary and Secondary Schools" public welfare activity, aimed at increasing public understanding and love for historical and cultural heritage. The director expresses a commitment to continuing their work even after retirement, driven by a passion for exploring history. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article discusses the evolution of clothing trends in China, reflecting changes in lifestyle, aesthetic preferences, and technological advancements. It highlights the increasing popularity of functional clothing for outdoor activities and the rise of "Guochao" (national trend) fashion, showcasing the resurgence of traditional Chinese culture. Technological innovations in clothing manufacturing, such as AI design and smart textiles, are also emphasized as drivers of progress in the industry. The article concludes by stating that clothing embodies culture, technology, and societal development.
Summary: The National Forestry and Grassland Administration has strengthened bird habitat protection, wintering waterbird monitoring, and law enforcement to safeguard migratory birds. They guided local regions in conducting public awareness campaigns, such as "Love Bird Week," reaching over 14 million participants online and offline. These measures have increased bird protection efforts and enhanced public awareness, fostering a sense of collective responsibility for bird conservation. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: The article discusses the "post-exam economy" following the Gaokao, China's national college entrance examination, and argues that it represents a valuable opportunity for students to learn about responsible consumption and financial management. It suggests that society and families should use this period to educate students on developing a healthy consumer mindset and understanding their role as consumers in society. The author emphasizes that the true value of post-exam spending lies in self-discovery and taking on responsibility, rather than simply rewarding oneself.
Summary: The article discusses the integration of digital technology into cultural tourism in China, emphasizing its role in enhancing experiences and promoting high-quality development. It highlights how technologies like AI and immersive experiences are transforming cultural resources into engaging tourist products, citing examples like the "Cloud Axis" program showcasing Beijing's central axis. The piece argues that these technologies facilitate deeper emotional connections with culture and cater to diverse tourist needs through personalized services. Ultimately, the integration of digital technology with local culture can inject new momentum into high-quality development in the cultural tourism sector. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Wang Fengge, a commander in the anti-Japanese war, organized and led armed resistance against the Japanese after the September 18th Incident. Despite facing immense hardship and military setbacks, Wang refused to surrender, even when his wife and child were captured alongside him. He and his family were executed in 1937 after he refused to surrender, proclaiming "Better a broken head than a slave". His unwavering spirit inspired many to join the fight against the Japanese occupation. The article did not mention the U.S.
Summary: The Central Propaganda Department and All-China Federation of Trade Unions have jointly recognized nine "Most Beautiful Workers" for 2025, highlighting their extraordinary achievements in various fields. These workers include individuals like Zhang Tengjiao, a welder contributing to national-level projects, and Luo Minghao, who helped develop domestic high-purity aluminum refining equipment. Other honorees include Liu Yuhui, an aviation expert who developed a "remote aircraft diagnostic and real-time tracking system", breaking foreign technological monopoly in the field. The honorees also include educators, transportation workers, firefighters, agricultural researchers and power grid operators. Their stories emphasize dedication to their professions and contributions to national development.
Summary: A lychee harvest is underway in Gaozhou, Guangdong province, where farmers are using drones to transport freshly picked lychees from the mountains to collection points below. The use of drone technology is expediting the transportation process, facilitating a more efficient harvest. The article includes a photograph taken on June 29th showcasing the drone delivery process. There is no mention of U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At a press conference, five representatives from China's Customs system discussed their efforts to safeguard the country's borders amid increasing foreign trade. They highlighted initiatives such as streamlining customs clearance at ports like Ningbo-Zhoushan and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, as well as facilitating trade via the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor through the Khunjerab Port. Efforts to enhance customs efficiency in the Hainan Free Trade Port were also discussed, as were measures to expedite agricultural exports via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor. A key aspect of their work involves safeguarding against the entry of foreign pests through strengthened monitoring and collaboration with regions along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor.
Summary: He Xineng, a village doctor in a remote area of Zhejiang Province, has been providing medical care to the villagers for 45 years, often making house calls. Despite personal hardships, including a childhood illness that left him with a limp and an accident that caused severe injuries, he remains dedicated to his work. He maintains detailed records of his patients' health and is well-known and trusted in the community. Despite reaching retirement age, he intends to continue serving the villagers as long as he is needed. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: China's domestically produced C909 aircraft launched its first international route on July 1, flying from China to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. According to China Commercial Aircraft engineer Chen Yong, the C909 has already established air routes to Southeast Asia and is exploring new commercial applications, and the development of the C909 is helping China create its own civil aviation design and experimental norms. To date, three overseas airlines in Southeast Asia operate seven C909 aircraft on 15 routes, serving 18 cities and carrying over 370,000 passengers. The C909 is also exploring the use of sustainable aviation fuel to meet customer demand for green, low-carbon travel.
Summary: The World Internet Conference International Organization held a press conference in Beijing on July 3rd to announce the 2025 Digital Silk Road Development Forum, hosted by the WIIC and organized by the Fujian Provincial People's Government, will be held in Quanzhou, Fujian on July 24th. The forum, themed "Digital Intelligence Maritime Silk Road, Embracing the Future: Working Together to Build a Community of Common Destiny in Cyberspace," will focus on digital trade cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, AI empowering the private sector, and the digital transformation of international transportation. An AI development and governance exchange, as well as a digital economy training program, will also be held. The forum will also feature a Chinese traditional culture exhibition displaying the fusion of digital technology and traditional arts.
Summary: Sinopec's Qingdao Refining & Chemical's floating photovoltaic project has commenced operations in Qingdao, Shandong, with a capacity of 7.5 MW. The project is expected to generate 16.7 million kWh of green electricity annually, reducing CO2 emissions by 14,000 tons. The project's innovative floating structure enhances power generation efficiency through seawater cooling. The project also utilizes salt-resistant and wave-resistant technologies which are expected to reduce costs for future coastal projects. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 17th International Transportation Technology and Equipment Exhibition in Beijing showcased advancements in intelligent, green, and efficient transportation. Exhibits included XPeng Huitian's modular flying car, Didi's autonomous Robotaxi, and JD Logistics' new delivery drone. Innovations also featured green initiatives like ecological dredging vessels and ultra-fast EV charging corridors developed by Yunnan Communications Investment and Huawei. Furthermore, the exhibition highlighted logistical advancements such as SF Express' drone-rail delivery system and Sichuan Port & Shipping Group's multimodal transport platform.
Summary: To mark the 28th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, a Chinese PLA Navy carrier strike group led by the aircraft carrier Shandong arrived in Hong Kong for a five-day visit. The Shandong, accompanied by the destroyers Yan'an and Zhanjiang, and the frigate Yulin was greeted with a welcome ceremony led by Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee. The vessels Zhanjiang and Yulin will be open for public tours. Representatives from the Central Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office and the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong, among others, attended the ceremony. The event did not refer to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Tan Ting, China's first hearing-impaired lawyer who passed the judicial exam, works at a law firm in Chongqing, providing legal assistance to the hearing-impaired community. Overcoming her own hearing loss from childhood, Tan passed the bar exam in 2020 and has since helped over 5,000 hearing-impaired individuals with legal issues, leveraging her knowledge of both law and sign language. She also creates popular legal education videos in sign language and teaches at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, training bilingual legal professionals. Tan encourages others not to limit themselves due to hearing impairment. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Since 2010, Ningbo city, Zhejiang province, has been supporting Kucha city in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, focusing on improving people's livelihoods, promoting cultural exchange, and enhancing local development. Ningbo has sent 509 cadres, invested 5.223 billion yuan in aid, and implemented 864 projects, with efforts made in education and healthcare through initiatives like "group-based" medical assistance and "chain-style" education aid. They are also promoting the use of Mandarin through language games and competitions. Ningbo is also helping Kucha build a demonstration zone for the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the National Organizational Work Conference in July 2018, Xi Jinping first proposed the Party's organizational line for the new era, scientifically summarizing its connotation. The article emphasizes the importance of Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era as the guiding ideology for organizational construction. It also highlights the need to focus on building a strong organizational system, cultivating high-quality cadres, and gathering talented individuals. The article stresses that the organizational line serves the political line, ensuring the Party's leadership in upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of selecting personnel based on political integrity and competence.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of digitalizing China's cultural industries to meet the people's spiritual needs and boost the digital economy. It acknowledges the challenges posed by digital technologies, such as "information cocoons" and the influx of undesirable content and the need to uphold socialist values and promote Chinese culture. The article advocates for strengthening intellectual property protection for digital cultural products, including international cooperation to combat cross-border infringement. It also recognizes the importance of regulating cross-border data flow. Finally, the article highlights the need to avoid over-reliance on technology and algorithm dominance, focusing on creating diverse and high-quality cultural content.
Summary: The article discusses efforts by China's railway authorities to reduce logistics costs, which are seen as vital to the real economy. Measures include "railway express" (铁路“包邮”) services where the railway takes on end-to-end logistics responsibility, multi-modal transport "one single system" (多式联运“一单制”) to streamline transfers between rail and sea, and "freight loans" (运费贷) that use shipping history as collateral. The "railway express" has helped to reduce shipping duration by 10% and logistic cost by 20% for some companies. These initiatives aim to improve efficiency and reduce financial burdens for businesses by streamlining the shipping process from production to the end user, as well as increasing overall railway shipping volume.
Summary: Haier Group Chairman and CEO Zhou Yunjie argues that China possesses significant untapped domestic demand, contrary to claims of market stagnation. He emphasizes that Chinese brands should focus on understanding consumer needs, fostering emotional connections with users, and shifting from product manufacturers to ecosystem creators. Zhou expressed confidence in China's economy due to the rise of excellent companies and the country's large market. He hopes more Chinese companies, especially in the home appliance sector, can become global leaders in setting standards and building mutually beneficial industrial ecosystems, while enhancing competitiveness across the entire value chain. He further calls for Chinese brands to embrace globalization and take center stage on the world stage.
Summary: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) convened a meeting focused on promoting the high-quality development of the photovoltaic (PV) industry. MIIT emphasized the need to address disorderly, low-price competition within the PV sector through regulation and guidance. They urged companies to improve product quality, phase out outdated production capacity, and strengthen international cooperation. MIIT pledged to provide macroeconomic guidance, improve standards, and offer support to address pressing issues for PV companies. The meeting highlighted the PV industry's growth into a leading sector for China.
Summary: At a Ministry of Commerce press conference on July 3rd, spokesperson He Yongqian addressed questions about "zero-kilometer" used cars. He emphasized that automobiles are durable consumer goods and that promoting used car markets is a common practice internationally. He noted that since February 2024, the Ministry of Commerce has been working to establish requirements and procedures for used car exports. Moving forward, the Ministry of Commerce will continue to guide used car exports to ensure healthy and orderly development.
Summary: China successfully launched the Shiyan-28B 01 satellite via a Long March-4C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The satellite will be used for space environment detection and related technology experiments. This launch marks the 583rd flight of the Long March rocket series. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In Taihe County, Anhui Province, "melon inspectors" like Fu Qianyou and Chen Youyi are employed to ensure the quality and ripeness of locally grown watermelons. These inspectors, with years of experience, use techniques like visual inspection and sound analysis to determine the best melons for harvest, earning income based on the weight of inspected produce. Local officials highlight the town's comprehensive watermelon industry, including cultivation, sales, and logistics, bolstered by events like the Watermelon Culture and Tourism Festival, to expand the brand and boost the local economy. Merchants value the work of the inspectors, because it helps guarantee the quality of their products.
Summary: The Guangxi Pinglu Canal project has completed 77% of its total planned investment, amounting to approximately 56 billion yuan, as of June 30th. Excavation of earth and stone is at 90.9% completion, while the main concrete pouring for the locks is at 84.7%. The project is progressing steadily with significant portions of planned work completed this year, including 53% of investment, 51.5% of excavation, and 65.1% of concrete pouring. The report does not mention U.S. involvement in the project.
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Summary: Nanjing's Hongshan Forest Zoo is implementing various green and low-carbon initiatives to achieve sustainable development. These include processing fallen trees into organic fertilizer, using permeable materials for rainwater collection, and installing photovoltaic power generation systems. The zoo utilizes solid waste for composting and animal feed production. Director Shen Zhijun aims for zero-waste operations.
Summary: The article discusses the scientific reasons why certain colors, particularly yellow and green, attract insects. It explains that insects are drawn to these colors due to their "color preference" and "phototaxis," relying on their complex visual systems to perceive and react to different wavelengths of light. Higher color saturation increases attraction. The article suggests avoiding highly saturated yellow and green clothing, and using eye protection or repellents to minimize insect interaction during outdoor activities. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Deqing County's freshwater pearl farming system in Zhejiang province has been recognized by the UN as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System due to its traditional ecological practices. The system utilizes a fish-shellfish mixed farming technique, promoting biodiversity and a natural ecological cycle. This method involves raising fish and mussels together, where the mussels feed on fish waste, improving water quality and pearl quality. The pearl industry in Deqing has expanded into processing, R&D, and tourism, generating significant economic benefits and employment. Deqing's annual pearl processing volume is nearly 100 tons, accounting for approximately 10% of the national output.
Summary: Chinese authorities are issuing warnings and initiating emergency responses due to anticipated heavy rainfall across multiple regions, including Northwest China, Sichuan Basin, North China, and Northeast China. The National Flood Control Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management convened with meteorological, water resources, and natural resources departments to assess the situation and deploy preventative measures. Flood emergency responses have been activated in Liaoning, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, and Qinghai. The Ministry of Water Resources has initiated a flood defense emergency response in Qinghai due to expected river level increases.
Summary: A rescue operation in Gansu province's Jinta county successfully saved three black stork chicks, a Class A protected species in China. Concerned citizens alerted the Linye Caoyuan Shiwu Zhongxin to the presence of the birds. Rescue workers used an excavator to reach the nest, located on a cliff in the Beishan area of the county's aerospace town. The chicks were then transferred to the Jiuquan Wildlife Rescue Center for care before their eventual release.
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Summary: The article focuses on the lives and improved working conditions of delivery drivers ("小哥") in China, highlighting increased income stability, improved algorithm management for delivery timeframes, and better insurance coverage. Reforms include platforms optimizing algorithms based on driver feedback to allow for safer delivery schedules and recourse for unfair penalties. Local governments and platforms are providing support through labor dispute resolution centers and financial subsidies for social security contributions. Several drivers express optimism about their ability to improve their lives and contribute to their communities through their work. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article highlights the increasing use of carbon fiber in sports equipment manufacturing in China, specifically in bicycles and archery bows. Taishan Ruibao Composite Materials Co. is partnering with the Chinese Cycling Association to prepare for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, focusing on producing lightweight and high-performance carbon fiber bicycles. Guangxi Beihai Xinqi Sports Goods Manufacturing Co. utilizes carbon fiber to produce lighter, faster archery bows, with their products now being exported internationally and used by teams in events like the Asian Games. The companies are working to lower the cost of carbon fiber materials while improving performance. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Carbon fiber, a high-strength material with excellent properties like heat and corrosion resistance, is increasingly used in sports equipment due to its lightweight and durable nature. According to Wang Xiangdong of Jimei University, carbon fiber's adaptable layering allows for precise control of equipment performance, meeting the demands of various sports. It's favored for lightweighting, reducing athlete fatigue, and improving performance, with examples including lighter bicycle frames and tennis rackets. Carbon fiber's superior fatigue resistance compared to metals extends the lifespan of equipment, leading to less frequent replacements. The application of carbon fiber is expanding from professional sports to the mass market, driving significant growth in the global sports equipment market.
Summary: The 12th World Games will be held in Chengdu from August 7th to 17th, marking the first time the event has been held in mainland China. Chengdu is prioritizing frugality by repurposing existing venues and temporarily constructing facilities in parks, avoiding new construction and relying on sponsorships. The Games are integrated with the city's park network, aligning with the concept of a "park city" and preserving natural landscapes. Chengdu has also launched promotional events and built new sports facilities to engage citizens, aiming to promote mass fitness and stimulate the "sports+" economy. The city also plans to expand its sports economy and consumption in order to boost tourism.
Summary: The newly opened high-speed rail line connecting Chongqing's central city to Nanchuan District aims to accelerate the latter's economic development by placing it within a half-hour commute. Nanchuan plans to leverage this improved connectivity to build advanced manufacturing, cultural tourism and healthcare, and modern agriculture sectors. Specifically, Nanchuan is focused on developing clusters in intelligent connected new energy vehicles, green building materials, and new energy storage, while also focusing on tourism centered around Jinfo Mountain. Nanchuan aims to attract more projects and businesses by optimizing the business environment, though the article does not mention the United States.
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By: 本报记者 汪晓东 吴秋余 付 文 王 浩
Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made important instructions on the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan," emphasizing that scientifically formulating and successively implementing five-year plans is an important experience in our Party's governance and an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has consistently attached great importance to the work of development strategy and planning.
More than 30 years ago, the "Xiamen Economic and Social Development Strategy for 1985-2000" led by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) during his work in Xiamen (厦门) became a classic model of combining top-level design with 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "feeling the stones to cross the river," to cross a river by feeling for stones at the bottom; fig. to proceed with caution, to feel one's way), pioneering the earliest 15-year development strategy compiled by a local Chinese government, which has a very important demonstration and leading role for the current scientific planning of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Over the past 30 years, Xiamen (厦门) has always followed the direction guided by the "Development Strategy," drawing a blueprint to the end, and one term after another, from a small coastal defense city to a high-quality, high-value, modern, and international city.
Today, when we reopen this "Development Strategy" formulated more than 30 years ago, we can more deeply feel the strategic thinking, scientific concepts, and valuable experience contained therein, and more deeply feel the ideological brilliance and practical power that transcends time and space and remains fresh over time.
In planning the economic and social development of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, all regions should accurately position themselves in the overall national situation and strengthen the connection of plans. Recently, reporters from this newspaper came to Xiamen (厦门) to trace the original intention and footprints of Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) in leading the formulation of the "Development Strategy," to understand the origin and practice of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in Xiamen (厦门), and to understand the profound enlightenment of the "Development Strategy" for compiling medium and long-term development plans and promoting the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
-- Editor
A book, a city.
A period of time, a blueprint.
In the book, there is a strategic blueprint for the development of Xiamen (厦门), as well as profound thinking about the future of the country; there is the pioneering work of "the practice of reform and the practice of opening up," as well as the sincere feelings of "enabling the people of the city to get more benefits from participating in the construction of the special zone."
October 16, 2024, China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone Xiamen Area (中国（福建）自由贸易试验区厦门片区).
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), who was inspecting here, picked up a blue-covered, more than 300-page "Xiamen Economic and Social Development Strategy for 1985-2000" (hereinafter referred to as the "Development Strategy") and carefully read it.
This is the earliest economic and social development strategy formulated in the national economic special zones, and it is also the earliest 15-year economic and social development strategic plan formulated by a local Chinese government. The leader who formulated it was Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), then a member of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party Committee and Executive Vice Mayor.
More than 30 years have passed, the sea breeze and waves remain the same, but Xiamen (厦门) has changed its old appearance.
"When compiling this plan, how to run the free port? How can people enter and exit freely? What about financial and monetary policies? We didn't know, so we explored, piloted first, and felt the stones to cross the river. Seeing Xiamen (厦门) today, we feel very gratified." Looking back on the past, the General Secretary was very emotional.
Why does a "Development Strategy" formulated more than 30 years ago make the General Secretary think about it and care about it to this day?
What enlightenment does this "Development Strategy" formulated more than 30 years ago have for the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and for promoting the construction of Chinese-style modernization?
Open this "Development Strategy," open a period of reform, open a period of entrepreneurship, and open a treasure house of thought.
Planning
"Economic development strategies must have basic work, and there must be industry plans and urban plans"
Between the blue sea and the blue sky, the words "Starting Port of the Silk Road Maritime Transport" in the Dongdu Port Area of Xiamen Port (厦门港东渡港区) are particularly eye-catching.
The giant pulleys of the gantry crane move slowly, and buses are steadily hoisted onto cargo ships. Not long ago, 130 "Xiamen-made" buses set sail from here to Jeddah Port in Saudi Arabia. At present, Xiamen Port (厦门港)'s "Belt and Road" routes have reached 98, passing through 63 ports in 20 countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road."
One day 40 years ago, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), who had just taken office in Xiamen (厦门), came here, looked far into the distance against the sea breeze, walked to the bridge crane, looked up at this giant dozens of meters high, and fell into deep thought.
At that time, Xiamen Port (厦门港) had only 2 bridge cranes, and one could only complete 35,000 TEUs a year. In Hong Kong, the same bridge crane can complete 120,000 TEUs a year.
In June 1985, the State Council approved the expansion of the Xiamen Economic Special Zone (厦门经济特区) to the entire island and gradually implemented certain policies of a free port. In the same month, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Xiamen (厦门) to take office as a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Executive Vice Mayor. This was his "first time on a leadership position at the city level, the first time directly participating in the reform and opening up of developed coastal areas, and the first time personally experiencing the construction and management of a city."
The day he reported for duty was Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平)'s 32nd birthday.
"I was very excited to come to Xiamen (厦门) at that time, just wanting to try the practice of reform and the practice of opening up." In a later interview, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) described his mood at the time.
However, at that time, there were no ready-made answers or precedents to follow on how to build an economic special zone or how to build a free port. Everything was being explored. Local cadres described it as: "It's like giving you a big meal, but you don't know how to start."
"Economic development strategies must have basic work, and there must be industry plans and urban plans." Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), who also served as the Deputy Director of the Municipal Economic System Reform Commission, thought deeply. Obviously, what he was considering was not a temporary matter, but the long-term development of Xiamen (厦门).
In view of this thinking, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed to the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government to organize a group of people to study certain policies of the free port and formulate a development strategy to guide the development of the Xiamen Economic Special Zone (厦门经济特区).
With the support of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) transferred personnel from the Municipal Planning Commission to work at the Municipal Science and Technology Museum and formally established the Economic and Social Development Strategy Research Office, with him personally in charge of this work.
On July 30, 1986, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) convened a mobilization and work deployment meeting for full-time personnel of the three topics of Xiamen (厦门)'s economic and social development strategy, overall plan for economic system reform, and administrative system reform, and officially launched the formulation of Xiamen (厦门)'s medium and long-term development plan.
At this meeting, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward a very important point of view: "We are engaged in modern economic construction, we must have long-term considerations, coordinate the overall situation, and not only focus on the present and deal with things temporarily, which will be counterproductive and even lose our direction and fail to grasp the initiative of the overall situation."
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has consistently attached importance to strategic and planning work.
During his work in Zhengding (正定), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) took the lead in formulating the "Overall Plan for Economic, Technological, and Social Development of Zhengding County (正定县)," proposing the "three-step" development goals of Zhengding (正定)'s economy and the development policy of "opening up to the outside world, invigorating the domestic economy, relying on cities, developing intelligence, developing the economy, and enriching the people."
During his work in Fuzhou (福州), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) presided over the compilation of the "Strategic Conception of Fuzhou's Economic and Social Development for 20 Years" (also known as the "3820" strategic project), proposing strategic goals and steps and measures for economic and social development in 3 years, 8 years, and 20 years.
During his work in Zhejiang (浙江), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the "Eight-Eight Strategy," focusing on the two key issues of "how to give play to advantages and how to make up for shortcomings," comprehensively and systematically expounding Zhejiang (浙江)'s eight advantages, and proposing eight measures for reform and development, which became the general program for leading Zhejiang (浙江)'s development and the general strategy for promoting various tasks in Zhejiang (浙江).
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) once pointed out: "The development of a city should not only consider the medium and long-term development goals of 10 years and 20 years, but also consider the long-term development goals of 30 years, 50 years, or even hundreds of years..."
"Our understanding of time is not counted in decades or centuries, but in centuries or millennia."
From August 1986, after a year and a half, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) led the formulation of this nearly 250,000-word "Development Strategy."
In order to formulate the "Development Strategy," Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) invited experts and scholars from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), and relevant departments of Xiamen University (厦门大学), and transferred capable personnel from more than a dozen departments in the city to form a research team of more than 100 people, focusing on the two basic strategic ideas of "strengthening ties with Taiwan (台湾) and promoting the reunification of the motherland" and "gradually implementing free port policies and building a free port-type economic special zone," and conducted research on 21 special topics.
"These 21 special topics were all personally reviewed by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), and 4 of them were proposed for the first time in the country." Zheng Jinmu (郑金沐), one of the drafters of the "Development Strategy" and then Deputy Director of the Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Planning Commission, said, "The great significance of formulating this 'Development Strategy' lies in the fact that in the early years of the Xiamen Economic Special Zone (厦门经济特区), it sorted out the various tasks of the special zone from the perspective of thinking about the city's positioning and development direction, and identified the direction for the construction of the economic special zone from the very beginning, avoiding twists and turns or going astray."
"Analyze the strategic position of Xiamen (厦门) and place the Xiamen Special Zone (厦门特区) in the environment of the entire country's reform and opening up and the world's economic development trends." Based on this positioning, the "Development Strategy" systematically studied and planned Xiamen (厦门)'s economic construction, industrial development, system reform, technological innovation, and ecological protection, clarifying the advantages and disadvantages of the Xiamen Economic Special Zone (厦门经济特区) and guiding Xiamen (厦门)'s medium and long-term construction and development.
"This 'Development Strategy' embodies Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平)'s profound thinking on modernization construction and his profound grasp of the laws of economic development, runs through the Marxist worldview and methodology, is an important starting point of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and draws a comprehensive, scientific, and systematic development blueprint for the Xiamen Economic Special Zone (厦门经济特区). It is still an important magic weapon for Xiamen Economic Special Zone (厦门经济特区)'s reform and development exploration and pioneering, and will surely guide Xiamen (厦门)'s economic and social development for a long time." Cui Yonghui (崔永辉), member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee, said.
Over the past 30 years, Xiamen (厦门) has kept its entrustment in mind, been grateful and striving, worked persistently, and forged ahead bravely, promoting the realization of historic leaps in various undertakings. From 1985 to 2024, Xiamen (厦门)'s regional GDP grew at an average annual rate of 13.8%, which was 5.1 percentage points and 2.8 percentage points higher than the national and provincial growth rates during the same period, respectively. Today's Xiamen (厦门) has developed into a high-quality, high-value, modern, and international city.
"This is a group photo of the meeting at that time. Time flies so fast." On October 16, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), who was inspecting the Xiamen Free Trade Zone (厦门自贸片区), opened the "Development Strategy" formulated more than 30 years ago. The old photo on the first page of the book was taken on March 25, 1988, when Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) presided over a demonstration meeting for this development plan.
"At that time, we invited many famous economists in China..." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully examined the list of the editorial board in the book and clearly remembered the position and division of labor of each person at that time.
"We participated in the entrepreneurship here, and the current development is better than we imagined at that time."
Seeking Advice
"Adopt various methods to widely absorb elderly and middle-aged and young experts and scholars engaged in economic theory work, as well as relevant natural science and technical workers to participate in research work"
A gentle breeze blows by Furong Lake (芙蓉湖), and the Chengzhi Building (成智楼) is bustling with activity.
In January of this year, Xiamen University (厦门大学) welcomed a high-end think tank seminar. Experts and scholars from the Development Research Center of the State Council (国务院发展研究中心), the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委宏观经济研究院), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) and other units gathered together to review the scientific concepts and methods that run through the "Development Strategy," and exchanged views on the "15th Five-Year Plan" local development strategy, putting forward forward-looking suggestions on the strategic focus of promoting high-quality development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
"In this 'Development Strategy,' experts and scholars from Xiamen University (厦门大学) deeply participated in it, and many planning topics became the school's scientific research projects. It has become a fine tradition of Xiamen University (厦门大学) to offer suggestions for national and local development strategies." Li Deguo (李德国), Deputy Dean of the School of Public Affairs of Xiamen University (厦门大学), who participated in the seminar, said.
Many teachers at Xiamen University (厦门大学) remember that in order to grasp the formulation of the "Development Strategy," Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) often came to Xiamen University (厦门大学) to ask experts and scholars here for advice and to consult relevant materials in the library.
Xi Jinping (习近平) said in an interview after working in Zhejiang (浙江) that after arriving in Xiamen (厦门) from Hebei (河北), "these three years were a process of comprehensive learning, a very arduous and painstaking learning process."
During the leadership and formulation of the "Development Strategy," Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at a special class work meeting: "The special team should work hard to learn and be brave in exploration. At the same time, it should also rely on the active cooperation of various departments and units in the city, strive for the support of relevant universities and scientific research units, and adopt various methods to widely absorb elderly and middle-aged and young experts and scholars engaged in economic theory work, as well as relevant natural science and technical workers to participate in research work."
A task force composed of more than a dozen units, more than 100 experts, professors, and practical workers conducted in-depth research, found out the basic situation of Xiamen (厦门), and wrote hundreds of thousands of words of investigation materials.
"Jinping (近平), you're here again!" Zheng Jinmu (郑金沐) clearly remembers the scene when he followed Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) to Beijing (北京) to visit the famous economist Yu Guangyuan (于光远). Old Yu's kind greeting showed that Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) was not the first time to come to ask Old Yu for advice.
In order to widely listen to the opinions and suggestions of cadres and the masses in Xiamen (厦门), in October 1986, the Xiamen Daily (厦门日报) launched a征文 (zhēngwén - "solicited essay") activity called "2000 - Xiamen in My Mind." Many submissions poured in, expressing the vision of the cadres and masses in Xiamen (厦门) for the future. The opinions and suggestions in more than a dozen submissions were incorporated into the "Development Strategy."
Opening the door to seek advice and pooling wisdom and strength, unifying strengthening top-level design and adhering to seeking advice from the people - from the local to the central government, this is Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平)'s consistent leadership method and working method.
"Secretary Xi (习书记) never sits idle in the office." Before coming to Xiamen (厦门), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), who was the Secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee (正定县委书记), often took his staff, chose the time of the county town's big market, set up a table on the street, and pulled the old people who came to the market to do surveys. The gate of the county party committee was always open, and the old farmers carrying dung baskets came straight in and talked with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平).
In the first year of working in Xiamen (厦门), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) spent at least 1/3 of his working time on research. At that time, transportation was inconvenient. In order to carry out research, he specially bought a locally produced "Wuyi" brand bicycle and rode it to run community streets. During the research, he was like ordinary people. Once he sat down, he first communicated his feelings and then entered the topic without any airs.
Every time he went to a place, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) sat on small benches with everyone and talked cordially with the masses. Local people in Xiamen (厦门) like to make tea. The teacups have a layer of black tea stains due to years of use. "Many of the cadres who went to the countryside couldn't drink the teacups I brought out, but Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) picked up the cup and drank it. The villagers were very moved and told him everything from the bottom of their hearts." A farmer who received Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) that year said.
Time after time, going up high mountains, boarding islands, going down to the countryside, and entering farmers' homes, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) traveled almost all over Xiamen (厦门). Every time he went to a place, he took out his notebook and pen, listened carefully, and took notes carefully.
Xi Jinping (习近平) said: "There are three tricks to being a cadre: knowing the roads, knowing the neighbors, and knowing the characteristics. If you figure out what the characteristics and resources of that place are, you will have a good idea of the work."
From the local to the central, from Liangjiahe (梁家河) to Zhongnanhai (中南海), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has consistently maintained this feeling of being rooted in the people, caring about their well-being, and being concerned about every single matter, big or small, and it has never changed.
At a democratic life meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Zhongnanhai (中南海) must always be directly connected to the people."
Recalling his days as an educated youth, the General Secretary once said affectionately: "Being among the people makes me feel grounded, and being with the people gives me strength."
Deeply aware that "the people are the source of our strength," he always adheres to seeking advice from the people and understanding their needs, and always thinks and works together with the people.
Exploring the Path
"Reform, taking the first step involves risks, but the country needs someone to explore the path. If it's done well, it will provide experience for the country's future reforms and play a role in setting the overall direction."
Building a free port-type special economic zone is a clearly stated goal in the "Development Strategy."
In the mid-1980s, some people had different opinions on running special economic zones, worrying "whether it was engaging in capitalism." There were quite a few dissenting voices against developing a free port, the most open type of free trade zone.
"So, can socialist countries utilize and open up free ports? The answer should be yes." Facing doubts, the "Development Strategy" clearly stated: "In the global trend of reform and opening up, conducting some exploratory experiments on the feasibility of our country utilizing and opening up free ports not only meets the requirements of developing a socialist economy but also conforms to the trend of world economic development."
Special economic zones bear the important responsibility of being pioneers in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Exploring the path means being unprecedented, starting anew, and facing various risks, contradictions, problems, and challenges.
At a Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee meeting, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) firmly said, "Reform, taking the first step involves risks, but the country needs someone to explore the path. If it's done well, it will provide experience for the country's future reforms and play a role in setting the overall direction."
Crossing the river by feeling the stones requires courage, wisdom, and action.
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) led members of the research group to Singapore for investigation and organized the first international seminar on "export processing zones and free ports" in the country, accumulating relevant international materials and data for Xiamen (厦门).
"We must base ourselves on China's reality and Xiamen's (厦门) reality. We cannot completely copy the Singapore model, let alone the Hong Kong model. We can use them as important references." Under the direct leadership of Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), Xiamen (厦门), based on its own conditions, proposed specific ideas for implementing certain free port policies, hoping to explore a new path for the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics.
The first step is to establish and improve the bonded warehouse area located in the Huli (湖里) Dongdu (东渡) port area and carry out entrepot trade.
The second step is to replace the bonded warehouse area with a free trade zone, expand entrepot trade, and increase business activities.
The third step is to open up the entire island as a free port with limitations.
Based on a pragmatic analysis of the national, provincial, and municipal conditions, the "Development Strategy" proposed a "three-step" strategic concept for building Xiamen (厦门) into a "free port-type special economic zone" and clearly required that "administrative and economic system reforms must move forward by leaps and bounds."
"This is the initial exploration of a free port development path with Chinese characteristics, which is highly pioneering nationwide." Lin Zhaohui (林朝晖), former vice president and first-level inspector of the Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party School, believes that the "three-step" strategic concept has promoted the iterative upgrading of the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone from an export processing zone, bonded zone, zone-port linkage, bonded port zone to a free trade pilot zone, and the degree of opening up to the outside world has continued to increase.
Today's Xiamen (厦门) Free Trade Zone is a key part of the "three-step" strategic concept and is exploring the path for high-level opening up to the outside world.
Following the concepts and paths proposed in the "Development Strategy," the Xiamen (厦门) Free Trade Zone is deepening institutional opening up, striving to build a higher-level free trade pilot zone, and continuously exploring and pioneering the path for promoting high-level opening up to the outside world. Since its establishment, the Xiamen (厦门) Free Trade Zone has cumulatively launched 632 innovative measures, 153 of which were the first in the country, and 31 reform and innovation measures have been replicated and promoted nationwide.
"The achievements of the Free Trade Zone today are precisely because it has always followed the direction guided by the 'Development Strategy' and adhered to drawing a blueprint to the end." The person in charge of the Xiamen (厦门) Free Trade Zone Management Committee said, "The Free Trade Zone will continue to explore and improve the high-level opening-up system and mechanism and realize the 'three-step' strategic concept as soon as possible."
First proposed "gradually developing offshore financial business at an appropriate time"; took the lead in proposing the concept of "ecological niche," clarifying that while developing the special zone economy, it is necessary to prevent environmental pollution and maintain ecological balance... Opening the "Development Strategy," the spirit of exploration of "daring to be the first in the world" is reflected everywhere.
The first airport in the country built with foreign government loans - Xiamen Gaoqi Airport (厦门高崎机场);
Took the lead in reforming the state-owned asset management system, and 3 local state-owned enterprises entered the top 200 of the world's top 500;
Took the lead in implementing the "three certificates in one" reform in the free trade pilot zone, which evolved into "multiple certificates in one," and the Xiamen (厦门) experience was promoted nationwide;
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Over the past 30 years, one "first" after another, one "pioneer" after another, has witnessed the historical leap of Xiamen's (厦门) reform and opening up. What the "Development Strategy" has left to Xiamen (厦门) is not only earth-shaking changes but also the determination and courage to "**杀出一条血路**" (shā chū yī tiáo xiě lù - "kill a bloody path," to break through difficulties with great determination) and "blaze a new trail."
"Currently, Xiamen (厦门) is actively serving and integrating into the national strategy, making every effort to build a node city for the new development pattern, consolidating and upgrading the level of external circulation, innovating and enhancing the driving force of internal circulation, and promoting the connection and mutual promotion of dual circulation in Xiamen (厦门)." Sun Jianhui (孙建辉), director of the Xiamen (厦门) Development and Reform Commission, said that it is the "expanding opening up to the outside world and seizing the implementation of certain free port policies" proposed in the "Development Strategy" that has become Xiamen's (厦门) "key move" in opening up to the outside world.
"The person who eats the first crab also makes a contribution" and "it is necessary to combine top-level design with crossing the river by feeling the stones." Less than two weeks after the trip to Fujian (福建), General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) remarks at the opening ceremony of the special seminar for leading provincial and ministerial-level cadres to study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee were thought-provoking.
When General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Guangdong (广东) for his first local inspection after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he clearly stated: "It cannot be said that we had to cross the river by feeling the stones at the beginning of reform and opening up, and now we cannot mention crossing the river by feeling the stones anymore."
In those years, the construction of the Xiamen (厦门) Special Zone was a pioneering undertaking; today, "Chinese-style modernization is a pioneering undertaking unprecedented in history, which requires us to explore and innovate." From "crossing the river by feeling the stones" to "it is necessary to combine top-level design with crossing the river by feeling the stones," this world-renowned path of China's reform and opening up is becoming more and more firm.
"'Crossing the river by feeling the stones' as a methodology of reform is not outdated and will not be outdated."
Reform
"The task of the special economic zone is reform. The special economic zone was born for reform, and we must shoulder this responsibility."
"Xiamen (厦) shelters guests from five continents, and its gate embraces ten thousand hectares of waves." Xiamen (厦门) has been a port for trade and prosperity since ancient times and a gateway for opening up and cooperation.
With the tide of reform and opening up rising, how can Xiamen (厦门), which has become a special economic zone, stand at the forefront of the tide?
"Implement the policy of reform and opening up, and make full use of certain free port policies" and "take the road of participating in the international economic division of labor and exchange, and strive to build Xiamen (厦门) into a multi-functional socialist economic special zone with free port characteristics by the end of this century." The guiding ideology of the "Development Strategy" fully reflects the requirements of the era of reform and opening up.
"Without reform and opening up, socialism cannot progress" and "the task of the special economic zone is reform. The special economic zone was born for reform, and we must shoulder this responsibility." Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has a clear attitude towards reform.
Reform requires a correct understanding of the relationship between a region and the overall situation.
"Xiamen (厦门) is the Xiamen (厦门) of the whole country, and Xiamen (厦门) should be a window for the people of the whole country." Both focusing on the needs of the overall situation and basing on the capabilities of a region. This line of logic is particularly clear in the book "Development Strategy."
"Finding the strategic positioning in the overall national situation" to plan, there is both the epistemology of "how to see" and the methodology of "how to do."
"The economic center of southern Fujian (闽南)," "the gateway to China's southeast coast," "the bridge to realize the reunification of the motherland," and "the base for China's connection with the Asia-Pacific economic region" - the strategic position of Xiamen (厦门) in the "Development Strategy" is outlined, and reform measures are connected one by one.
Planning a region from the perspective of the overall situation and serving the overall situation with a region is the way of governance and the strategy of reform.
"The Party Central Committee looks at problems from a broad perspective. What is the most important mission of a place?" Wherever he goes, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) often keeps a map by his side. Whenever he arrives in a place, he combines it with the local reality and carefully guides and deploys the local practice of Chinese-style modernization.
Reform requires the clarity and courage to face problems directly.
"The construction of infrastructure lags behind the needs of the special zone's construction and development";
"The existing product structure, market structure, and technical structure are not reasonable enough";
"The contradiction between the original economic system and the operating mechanism of the special zone economy";
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Analyzing both favorable conditions and constraints, the lines reflect a clear problem orientation. This pragmatic attitude makes the "Development Strategy" highly targeted and guiding.
The special zone construction lacks funds. Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) took the lead in promoting financial system reform. Xiamen (厦门) established China's first Sino-foreign joint venture bank, Xiamen International Bank (厦门国际银行), in 1985. The "Development Strategy" proposed that "it is necessary to deepen financial reform and create a market-based financial environment";
The special zone's development prioritizes transportation. Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) was in charge of Xiamen Airlines (厦门航空公司) and strived for various favorable conditions for the development of this first Sino-foreign joint venture and enterprise-operated airline in China. The "Development Strategy" proposed "expanding the airport and extending the runway";
To optimize the special zone's business environment, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) took the lead in studying and formulating a series of policies and measures to promote the reform of the special economic zone's government management system, simplifying enterprise approval and delegating power to enterprises. The "Development Strategy" proposed the principle of "small government, big society" for the first time in the country and established a "streamlined, efficient, clean, and united government";
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"Reform is generated by problems and is deepened in the process of constantly solving problems." The course of more than 40 years of reform and opening up is a process of constantly discovering problems, analyzing problems, and solving problems. Since the new era, comprehensively deepening reform has been continuously advancing in one problem after another.
What must be changed and what cannot be changed in reform, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) thought deeply and thoroughly from the beginning.
When leading the formulation of the "Development Strategy," Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) said to the comrades in the strategy office: "We are engaged in special economic zones, not political special zones. We are engaged in socialism. The development strategy must reflect this and strictly grasp the direction of strategic development. We must adhere to the direction of socialism and build Xiamen (厦门) into a socialist economic special zone with free port characteristics. Moreover, this point must be written into the guiding ideology for formulating the development strategy. By the end of this century, Xiamen (厦门) will be built into a multi-functional socialist economic special zone with free port characteristics."
"Our reform has a direction and principles."
In the magnificent reform practice of the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must adhere to one principle in our reform: what should be changed must be resolutely changed, and what should not be changed must not be changed."
Having traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers, we still need to climb mountains and wade through rivers.
From reform to comprehensively deepening reform, and then to further comprehensively deepening reform. "We should firmly believe that China's path of reform and opening up will surely succeed."
Responsibility
"As a leader, one must not only base oneself on the present but also focus on the long term, be willing to do groundwork, and be willing to grasp unfinished matters."
Gulangyu (鼓浪屿), the Bagua Building (八卦楼) is hidden among green trees. Inside the hall, the organist sits upright, and the sound of the pipe organ, sometimes low and sometimes high-pitched, comes. This is the only organ museum in China and one of the best in the world.
One day in 1986, Gong Jie (龚洁), then director of the Xiamen (厦门) Museum, found Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), who was attending a meeting in Gulangyu (鼓浪屿). At that time, Gong Jie (龚洁) was worried about the renovation funds for the Bagua Building (八卦楼).
"How much is missing?"
"300,000 yuan."
"Come and get it tomorrow." Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) made the decision on the spot.
"At that time, Xiamen (厦门) needed to develop everywhere, and there was a shortage of money everywhere. This 300,000 yuan was very precious and completely reversed the fate of this century-old building." said Lin Yuefeng (林跃锋), director of the Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) Management Committee.
The "Development Strategy" specifically analyzed "the social and cultural value of Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) and its tourism development and utilization" and proposed that "it is very necessary to regard Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) as a national treasure and uniformly plan its construction and protection at this height."
In 2017, Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, and General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made an important instruction: "Carefully protect the cultural heritage left by our ancestors and better inherit the historical context."
Today, the Bagua Building (八卦楼) has become one of the 53 core elements of Gulangyu's (鼓浪屿) World Cultural Heritage, and this small island of about 1.88 square kilometers has become a "cultural highland." The "Seaside Garden," this plan and vision of Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) in the "Development Strategy" has long become a reality.
Today's Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) and today's Xiamen (厦门) have already "changed their old appearance for a new one" compared with the time when the "Development Strategy" was formulated more than 30 years ago. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) lamented that "it is even better than we imagined at the time."
Shortly after taking office in Xiamen (厦门), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) said at a meeting: "I came to work in Xiamen (厦门), and I use Mr. Sun Yat-sen's (孙中山) 'Do not aspire to be a high official, but aspire to do great things' to encourage myself. The position has changed, but the style cannot change."
Leading the formulation of the "Development Strategy" is undoubtedly a major event in Comrade Xi Jinping's (习近平) mind. However, at that time, the term "development strategy" was still unfamiliar to many people, and studying the development strategy was also a painstaking and difficult task with little visible effect.
But in Comrade Xi Jinping's (习近平) view, being an official in one term benefits one party, "as a leader, one must not only base oneself on the present but also focus on the long term, be willing to do groundwork, and be willing to grasp unfinished matters." This is also his consistent adherence and persistence.
"Now some leaders are rushing to do something during their tenure, and as soon as the results come out, they leave immediately. But Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) showed a spirit of being willing to do groundwork and planting trees for future generations in the 1980s, which is very remarkable." said a comrade who participated in the formulation of the "Development Strategy."
Not greedy for temporary achievements, not seeking temporary fame, this is the due meaning of establishing a correct view of achievements that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized, and it is also the mind and responsibility that Chinese Communists should have.
"We Communists engage in undertakings and create achievements for the benefit of the people, not for personal promotion and gain."
"To do practical things for the people" - when he left the Loess Plateau at the age of 22, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) already had a firm life goal. In his heart, the people are always placed in the highest position.
"To enable the people of the city to get more benefits from investing in the construction of the special zone" - opening this 300-page "Development Strategy," this sentence is particularly striking, consistent with "Let the fruits of modernization benefit all the people more and more fairly," consistent and inherited in the same line.
A one-square-meter family laboratory, a student-managed vegetable garden, building a book-filled campus... The Xiamen New Education School's (厦门市新教育学校) campus is new, and its teaching philosophy is refreshing. Principal Wang Yimin (王益民) introduced that the school's philosophy is "to live a happy and complete educational life," allowing more children to enjoy the benefits of education; and the school's student body is mainly composed of children of migrant workers, "To integrate new citizens into Xiamen (厦门), we must first integrate the children into Xiamen (厦门)."
"It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people." The "Development Strategy" mentions that "Xiamen (厦门) education is the most important basic project in the construction of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone (厦门经济特区)," and sets goals for basic education, vocational and technical education, higher education, and adult education in 2000.
Focusing on promoting the construction of an urban system, so that urban and rural residents can share a better life; focusing on protecting the ecological environment, to ensure that the people share a livable ecological environment; focusing on cultivating and introducing talents, and placing education in an important strategic position... The "Development Strategy" focuses on "long-term foundation and long-term plans," proposing precise strategies and pragmatic measures, all aimed at "enabling the people of the city to obtain more benefits from participating in the construction of the special zone."
"We must remember the word 'People' in front of the government." This sentence, spoken by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) when he worked in Fujian (福建), is still remembered by local cadres today.
When working in Fujian (福建), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) noticed a detail: many years later, the younger generations in Dongshan County (东山县) still "first worshiped Gu Gong (谷公), then their ancestors" during festivals. He was deeply moved and inspired, and called on everyone to learn from the spirit of Gu Wenchang (谷文昌), "**为官一任，造福一方**" (wèi guān yī rèn, zào fú yī fāng - "hold office one term, benefit one region," an official should always work to benefit the local people).
In October 2024, during his inspection in Dongshan County (东山县), Fujian (福建), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) specifically visited the Gu Wenchang Memorial Hall (谷文昌纪念馆) and said earnestly: "When we learn from his deeds, we should not only admire him, but also learn from the virtuous, and be like him in our conduct and governance, 'hold office one term, benefit one region,' only by following this path is the right way."
Accumulating the merits of inches to achieve the benefits of millennia, "this kind of 'latent achievement' is the greatest 'obvious achievement'."
Guidance
"A good blueprint, as long as it is scientific, realistic, and in line with the wishes of the people, everyone should continue to work on it generation after generation."
A city of spring colors, half city of flowers, ten thousand acres of waves embrace the sea. Looking up, the sky is a refreshing blue, and all around is a pleasant green.
Yundang Lake (筼筜湖) has witnessed the determination and resolve to "draw a blueprint to the end."
Yundang Lake (筼筜湖) was once a long and narrow bay that penetrated into Xiamen Island (厦门岛). A 1.7-kilometer-long seawall separated the lake from the sea. In the 1980s, factories stood all around, discharging sewage directly, and the stench was overwhelming.
"When will Yundang Lake (筼筜湖) no longer be black and smelly?" The people's question is also a question about ecology.
The "Development Strategy" "**对症开方**" (duì zhèng kāi fāng - "prescribe the right medicine," to suit the remedy to the case), "concentrate certain financial, material, and scientific research resources to actively manage Yundang Lake (筼筜湖)," "adopt a combination of engineering measures and biological measures to make the lake clear and allow organisms to reproduce moderately," and even very foresightedly proposed "domestic waste should be classified and treated by incineration, deep burial, or used as base fertilizer."
"To propose such a concept in the early days of reform and opening up is extremely strategic," said Qiu Shuilin (丘水林), a special researcher at the Fujian Provincial Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (福建省习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心).
Following the 20-character policy of "governing the lake according to law, intercepting and treating sewage, dredging and building embankments, revitalizing the water body, and beautifying the environment" proposed by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), year after year, by 2023, Xiamen (厦门) had carried out five phases of comprehensive management of Yundang Lake (筼筜湖), with a cumulative investment of nearly 2 billion yuan.
"A good blueprint, as long as it is scientific, realistic, and in line with the wishes of the people, everyone should continue to work on it generation after generation, and what is done is all practical achievements, which the broad masses of cadres and people will see and remember in their hearts."
Guided by the "Development Strategy," Xiamen (厦门) has successively formulated and implemented the "Xiamen Implementation Outline for Accelerating the Construction of a Bay-type City" (厦门市加快海湾型城市建设实施纲要), the "Xiamen Resolution on Accelerating the Integrated Construction of Inside and Outside the Island" (厦门市关于加快岛内外一体化建设的决议), the "Beautiful Xiamen Strategic Plan" (美丽厦门战略规划), the "Xiamen High-Quality, High-Value, Modern, and International City Development Strategy (2020-2035)" (厦门高素质高颜值现代化国际化城市发展战略（2020—2035）), and the "Xiamen 'One, Two, Three' Strategic Plan" (厦门“一二三”战略规划), striving to turn the grand blueprint drawn by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) for Xiamen (厦门) into a beautiful reality.
On the first working day after the Spring Festival holiday this year, Xiamen (厦门) launched a special action with the theme of "Striving and Forging Ahead," deploying major breakthroughs in projects to create new industrial advantages and accumulate new momentum for development.
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) once said: "Xiamen (厦门) should further overcome islander consciousness, avoid indulging in comfort, make cadres nervous, and work hard and quickly." "Xiamen (厦门) needs to develop further and further, it cannot be content with small wealth, it cannot be satisfied with superficial achievements, it must have great ambition and great vision."
"To allow the people of Xiamen (厦门) to be proud of the city of Xiamen (厦门) for a long time, cadres must not be proud; to allow the people to live comfortably in this city for a long time, cadres must not be comfortable." The Xiamen Municipal Party Committee (厦门市委) repeatedly emphasized that party members and cadres should not be complacent or slack.
"Hard work, pioneering innovation, inclusiveness and harmony" is the Xiamen Spirit (厦门精神) proposed by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平). From a coastal defense town to a high-quality, high-value, modern, and international city, Xiamen (厦门) relies on this spirit; in the new era and on the new journey, Xiamen (厦门) still needs this spirit.
After leaving Xiamen (厦门), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has always been concerned about the development of Xiamen (厦门) and has repeatedly recalled his experience in Xiamen (厦门) -
"During the three years of working in Xiamen (厦门), I felt deeply and benefited greatly. The work in the special zone is indeed a very valuable experience in my life."
"I was once a special zone person, Xiamen (厦门) is my second hometown, I am particularly proud of the achievements made by Xiamen (厦门), and I have been greatly inspired and encouraged by it."
In March 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said emotionally during his inspection in Fujian (福建): "I have deep feelings for the mountains, rivers, plants, and trees here. After leaving Fujian (福建), I have always paid attention to Fujian (福建). Some of the thoughts and explorations during my work here are still being thought about and deepened in my later work, and some have been practiced on a larger scale across the country."
"Fujian (福建) is an important birthplace and practice ground for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) worked in Fujian (福建) for 17 and a half years, pioneering a series of important concepts and major practices, including leading the formulation of the '1985-2000 Xiamen Economic and Social Development Strategy' (1985年—2000年厦门经济社会发展战略). Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made a series of important speeches, important instructions, and important approvals on the work of Fujian (福建), personally drawing a grand blueprint for building a new Fujian (福建) with a flexible mechanism, superior industry, prosperous people, and beautiful ecology, and earnestly hopes that we will strive to be the first in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. We will keep our mission firmly in mind, forge ahead, stick to our goals and not relax, draw a blueprint to the end, blaze a new trail in promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, strive to be the first in comprehensively deepening reform and expanding high-level opening up, set an example in promoting coordinated regional development and integrated urban-rural development, and make lasting efforts to enhance cultural influence and showcase the new image of Fujian (福建), and strive to write a new chapter in the construction of a new Fujian (福建)," said Zhou Zuyi (周祖翼), Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee (福建省委书记).
Holding the cloud river to wash the sky blue, the mountains and rivers of Min (闽) are new and rich in resources.
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"Realizing the Chinese Dream is a historical relay race."
From the transformation of Egret Island (鹭岛) to the governance of China, always adhering to "giving play to the strategic guiding role of national development planning," the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics continues to break new ground.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) is coming to a close, and the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) is being planned and prepared.
Accurately grasping the phased requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period, focusing on the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, closely centering on the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization, reasonably determining goals and tasks and proposing ideas and measures in one field after another... "With goals, plans, and strategies," Chinese-style modernization is "**一步一个脚印扎扎实实向前推进**" (yī bù yī gè jiǎoyìn zhāzhāshíshí xiàng qián tuījìn - "one step at a time, steadily and firmly moving forward").
(Fujian Daily reporter Lin Liming (林丽明), Xiamen Daily reporter Wu Huiquan (吴慧泉) participated in the writing)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3rd (Xinhua) The single edition of the keynote speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平), entitled "Promoting the 'China-Central Asia Spirit' and Promoting High-Quality Development of Regional Cooperation – Speech at the Second China-Central Asia Summit," has been published by the People's Publishing House and will be distributed in Xinhua bookstores nationwide starting today.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 昊
The 14th Plenary Session of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and the 28th National Congress of the All-China Students' Federation opened in Beijing (北京) on the morning of the 2nd. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory letter to the congress, which greatly inspired and encouraged the vast number of young people and students.
Everyone expressed that General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory letter has a far-reaching vision and is inspiring, placing high hopes on the healthy growth and meritorious service of the vast number of young people and students on the new journey, and putting forward clear requirements for doing a good job in the Youth Federation and the Student Federation under the new situation. The vast number of young people and students have expressed that they will keep in mind the entrustment, work hard and make progress, and strive to write a youthful chapter of courage and responsibility.
Contributing Youth Strength, Demonstrating the Spirit of the New Era Chinese Youth
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Youth Federation and Student Federation organizations at all levels have performed their duties and actively played their roles, organizing and mobilizing the vast number of young people and students to closely follow the Party, work hard and make progress, contribute youth strength, and demonstrate the spirit of the new era Chinese youth forging ahead."
Wang Yi (王屹), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and Deputy Director of the Natural Gas Hydrate Research Center of the Guangzhou Institute of Energy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院广州能源研究所), has long focused on the basic theory and key technology research of deep-sea natural gas hydrate (combustible ice) mining. "Young scientific and technological workers should actively adapt to the era requirements of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, actively embrace new technologies and models such as artificial intelligence, apply scientific research results to the forefront of industrial upgrading, and inject surging youth momentum into the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance."
"Start with making contributions in your position, start with small things, and consciously integrate the youth struggle of the 'small self' into the era torrent of the 'big self'." Li Yunfei (李运飞), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and Political Instructor of the Kuqa City Brigade of the Aksu Prefecture Fire and Rescue Detachment in Xinjiang (新疆阿克苏地区消防救援支队库车市大队), said, "I will continue to improve my ability to prevent and resolve major safety risks and respond to various disaster accidents, strengthen fire safety publicity and education, and rush to the front when the Party and the people need it."
Wang Li (王利), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and driver of the Wuhan Branch of Didi Chuxing Technology Co., Ltd. (滴滴出行科技有限公司武汉分公司), sticks to the streets and alleys of the city to provide passengers with safe and convenient travel services. "I will continue to improve my service level and practice my original aspiration and mission with extraordinary perseverance in ordinary positions. At the same time, I will play a good role as a bridge and link to provide good services for young people in new employment groups."
Li Yitong (李沂桐), representative of the All-China Students' Federation and a 2023 undergraduate student majoring in Land Resource Management at China Agricultural University (中国农业大学), is rooted in the Xifangezhuang Science and Technology Small Courtyard in Beijing (北京西樊各庄科技小院), closely integrating classroom learning with rural practice. "As a member of the Student Union Presidium, I will strengthen ideological leadership, play a good role as a bridge and link, build a broader practice platform for students, and lead them to write an era answer sheet for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside with the power of youth."
Consciously Listen to the Call of the Party and the People, Firmly Establish Ideals and Beliefs, and Deepen the Feelings of Home and Country
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The vast number of young people should consciously listen to the call of the Party and the people, firmly establish ideals and beliefs, deepen the feelings of home and country, bravely shoulder historical missions, and strive to write a youthful chapter of courage and responsibility."
Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and freestyle skier, achieved a personal "Grand Slam" this year. She has a deep understanding of the "firmly establish ideals and beliefs, deepen the feelings of home and country" pointed out in the General Secretary's congratulatory letter. "The belief in winning glory for the country supports me to challenge the limits and break through myself time and time again. We must maintain the responsibility of having the mission on our shoulders and striving for myself, hone our skills, and lead more young people to work hard together, so that the five-star red flag can rise slowly in the arena."
"Youth has a lot to offer in comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization." Jiang Weihui (蒋韦慧), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and Deputy Procurator General of the Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County People's Procuratorate in Guangxi (广西罗城仫佬族自治县人民检察院), said, "I will innovate and carry out legal education for young people, actively participate in grassroots social governance, and strive to let the sunshine of the rule of law shine on the road to youth growth, and contribute youth strength to promoting the construction of a rule-of-law China."
Hong Meishu (洪美叔), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and teacher of Yongxing School in Sansha City, Hainan Province (海南省三沙市永兴学校), is rooted in the southernmost school in the motherland, guarding the "South Gate" of basic education in the motherland with youth. "I will keep in mind the General Secretary's entrustment, adhere to the original aspiration and mission of educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, and let the flowers of youth bloom in the places where the motherland and the people need them most."
Song Haixia (宋海霞), technical director of the Live Working Center of State Grid Weihai Power Supply Company (国网威海供电公司), is rooted in the front line of live working and participates in ensuring the stable supply of urban power. "We must consciously listen to the call of the Party and the people, rush to the front at critical moments, continuously improve our professional skills, and contribute youth strength to the safe and stable operation of the power grid."
Better Unite and Lead the Vast Number of Young People and Students to Forge Ahead on a New Journey and Create New Achievements Under the Banner of the Party
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The Youth Federation and Student Federation organizations must firmly adhere to the correct political direction, deepen reform and innovation, and better unite and lead the vast number of young people and students to forge ahead on a new journey and create new achievements under the banner of the Party."
"As a broad patriotic united front organization of young people of all ethnic groups and circles in my country under the leadership of the Party, the Youth Federation has a lot to offer on the new journey." Li Di (李迪), Secretary-General of the All-China Youth Federation and Minister of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央统战部部长), said that the All-China Youth Federation will conscientiously study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important congratulatory letter, implement the youth soul-casting action, the youth cohesion action, the youth meritorious service action, the youth empowerment action, and the youth hand-in-hand action, and focus on building a Youth Federation organization that is loyal to the Party, full of vitality, operates in a standardized manner, and has an excellent work style.
"Studying General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important congratulatory letter, I deeply realized the General Secretary's earnest expectations for young students and the high importance he attaches to the work of the Student Federation." Li Wenduo (李文铎), the 28th Chairman of the All-China Students' Federation and a student at Peking University (北京大学), said, "The Student Federation and student union organizations must keep in mind the entrustment, firmly adhere to the correct political direction, deepen reform and innovation, guide the vast number of young people to consciously listen to the call of the Party and the people, and make their own growth and success go in the same direction as the country's prosperity and the nation's rejuvenation."
Not long ago, Haidian District in Beijing (北京市海淀区) held the 2025 Zhongguancun Graduation Season event, providing young people with policy packages, a "one-stop" docking platform and entrepreneurial services to help young people solve problems such as housing and employment. "We must give full play to the role of the Youth Federation organization, widely organize young people, wholeheartedly serve young people, help young people solve problems and create conditions for the vast number of young people to make contributions." Ren Yiding (任一丁), Secretary of the Haidian District Committee of the Communist Youth League of Beijing and Chairman of the District Youth Federation, said.
"In social service work, I must always keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, unite young people and serve young people more widely, and lead more young people to play a role in employment and entrepreneurship, counterpart assistance and construction, and rural revitalization, so that youth can bloom in the struggle and dedication for the cause of the Party and the people." Li Lei (李磊), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and Chairman of the Shanghai Yishe Public Welfare Culture Development Center (上海益社公益文化发展中心), said.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on July 3rd (Reporter Wang Xinping (王新萍)): On July 3rd, Vice President Han Zheng (韩正) attended the opening ceremony of the 13th World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University and delivered a speech.
Han Zheng (韩正) stated that the world is currently undergoing accelerated changes unseen in a century, with international and regional hotspots emerging one after another, and the cause of world peace and development facing severe challenges. President Xi Jinping (习近平) has proposed the important concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, as well as the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, providing Chinese solutions to major issues concerning human peace and development.
Han Zheng (韩正) pointed out 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, as well as the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. China is willing to work with all countries to jointly promote world peace and prosperity, and work together to build a better world.
Han Zheng (韩正) put forward four suggestions. First, adhere to learning from history and jointly safeguard the post-war international order. Adhere to maintaining the international system with the United Nations as the core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, and firmly safeguard international fairness and justice.
Second, adhere to unity and cooperation, and jointly improve global governance. Adhere to the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, practice true multilateralism, adhere to mutual respect and equal consultation, and accelerate the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
Third, adhere to opening up and cooperation, and jointly promote world prosperity and development. Deepen interdependence, mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly maintain the multilateral trading system, the stability and smooth flow of global industrial and supply chains, and an international environment of opening up and cooperation, and promote inclusive growth of the world economy.
Fourth, adhere to 同舟共济 (tóng zhōu gòng jì - "crossing the river in the same boat," to be in the same boat; to stick together in difficulties) and jointly move towards modernization. Adhere to mutual assistance, place development at the center of the international agenda, effectively address the development concerns of developing countries, and be committed to solving the problems of global development inequality and imbalance.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (鸠山由纪夫), former Belgian Prime Minister and former President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy (范龙佩), foreign former politicians, diplomatic envoys to China, Chinese and foreign scholars, and others, totaling approximately 400 people, attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 (Reporter Xie Xiyao) - The "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Comprehensively Aligning Free Trade Zones with International High-Standard Economic and Trade Rules and Promoting the Replication and Promotion of Pilot Measures for High-Level Institutional Opening-up," issued by the State Council recently, was released to the public on the 3rd.
According to the notice, the 77 pilot measures to be replicated and promoted this time cover seven aspects: trade in services, trade in goods, digital trade, intellectual property protection, government procurement reform, "behind the border" management system reform, and risk prevention and control. Among them, 34 measures, including strengthening the innovation of digital Renminbi (人民币) pilot application scenarios, optimizing the cross-border fund centralized operation management policy for multinational corporations, formulating a negative list for data export, promoting the application of electronic bills of lading and other electronic documents, and improving the tripartite mechanism for coordinating labor relations, will be replicated and promoted to other free trade zones; 43 measures, including promoting the cross-border application of electronic payments, encouraging the adoption of commercial cryptography testing and certification results, implementing a data security management certification system, orderly promoting the opening of government affairs data, and improving the digitalization level of government procurement platforms, will be replicated and promoted nationwide.
The notice pointed out that in November 2023, the State Council issued the "Overall Plan for Comprehensively Aligning with International High-Standard Economic and Trade Rules to Promote High-Level Institutional Opening-up in the China (Shanghai) Free Trade Zone (中国（上海）自由贸易试验区)," supporting the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (上海自由贸易试验区) to comprehensively align with international high-standard economic and trade rules to carry out pilot projects and build a national demonstration zone for institutional opening-up. After more than a year of pilot testing, a number of leading and landmark institutional innovations have been carried out, and a number of advanced experiences and typical cases with high gold content have been formed.
The notice requires that the strategy of upgrading free trade zones should be implemented in depth, the pilot experience of institutional opening-up in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (上海自由贸易试验区) should be used well, replication and promotion work should be carried out in accordance with local conditions, pilot measures urgently needed by enterprises and the public should be promoted, institutional innovation dividends should be released on a larger scale, and high-level opening-up should promote deep-level reform and high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 金社平
The wisdom of history is hidden in the memory of time.
40 years ago, citizens described Xiamen (厦门) as having "uneven roads, dim lights, unreliable telephones, and frequent water outages."
The new era of Xiamen (厦门) has become a high-quality, high-value, modern, and international city praised by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
What has written the magnificent transformation of Egret Island (鹭岛) is the strategic ambition written in the "Xiamen Economic and Social Development Strategy for 1985-2000" (hereinafter referred to as the "Development Strategy"), the reform determination of "paving roads when encountering mountains and building bridges when encountering rivers," the perseverance to implement a blueprint to the end, and the unwavering original aspiration of "I will abandon myself for the people."
"Combining top-level design with 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "feeling the stones to cross the river," learning from experience while undertaking something new)." For more than 30 years, a blueprint and a city have demonstrated the power of thought and interpreted the governance of China.
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A blueprint, marking strategic thinking and a systemic perspective.
At Xiamen (厦门) Yuanhai Terminal (远海码头), unmanned container trucks shuttle back and forth under 5G signal coverage, and "Open Xiamen (厦门)" connects rivers and seas; with an average of one flexible screen produced every 4 seconds, the unmanned workshop of Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd. seizes every second, and "Innovative Xiamen (厦门)" continues to climb; egrets dance gracefully on Yundang Lake (筼筜湖), with clear water and blue waves, and people and nature coexist harmoniously, and "Beautiful Xiamen (厦门)" is changing with each passing day... The vivid scene of high-quality development in Xiamen (厦门) today originates from the blueprint drawn more than 30 years ago.
From planning economic construction, industrial development, and system reform to deploying scientific and technological innovation, ecological protection, spiritual civilization construction, education, talent, and other aspects of work, the "Development Strategy" formulated under the leadership of Xi Jinping (习近平), then a member of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor, outlined a comprehensive, scientific, and systematic development blueprint for Xiamen (厦门), pioneering the earliest 15-year development strategy compiled by a local government in China.
The overall situation and a specific area are grasped in strategic thinking.
"Correctly understanding the strategic position is an important basis for formulating an overall development strategy." Focusing on the history, reality, and future of Xiamen (厦门), the "Development Strategy" clearly states: "Analyze the strategic position of Xiamen (厦门) and place the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone in the environment of the entire country's reform and opening up and the world's economic development trend."
"The economic center of southern Fujian," "China's gateway to the southeast coast," "China's base for connecting with the Asia-Pacific economic region"... The "Development Strategy" contains the dialectic of a specific area and the overall situation, and is committed to "enabling Xiamen (厦门) to achieve stable and rapid development in seizing opportunities and meeting challenges."
Observing the general trend, planning the overall situation, and grasping major events are important ideological methods and working methods. On the journey of Chinese-style modernization, only by standing tall and looking far ahead, and keeping the overall situation in mind, can we continuously improve the principles, systematicness, foresight, and creativity of "planning a specific area," so that we can play a good "national game" and sing a "grand chorus" of high-quality development.
The present and the long-term are coordinated in systematic planning.
At a time when Xiamen's (厦门) industry was still dominated by food, machinery, chemicals, and textiles, the "Development Strategy" boldly proposed that "the electronics industry, after vigorous support, is most likely to become the leading industry in the special zone in the next few years"; with scientific and technological innovation as the driving force, the "Development Strategy" proactively proposed that "in the field of science and technology, more scientific and technological achievements should reach the national advanced level, and some scientific and technological achievements should be at the world's advanced level"...
The visionary blueprint has turned dreams into reality. Today, Xiamen (厦门) is actively cultivating and developing new quality productive forces, deeply implementing the advanced manufacturing doubling plan, and building a "4+4+6" modern industrial system with continuous momentum and tiered development. Ten key development industries, such as flat panel displays, mechanical equipment, and financial services, have exceeded 100 billion yuan in scale, and the industrial innovation capability and overall competitiveness are constantly enhanced.
More importantly, in the era when there was little exploration of medium and long-term strategic planning for regional development both internationally and domestically, the "Development Strategy" innovatively proposed a framework paradigm for medium and long-term strategic research, explored the path and methods of modern urban governance in China, and proved with long-term practice that medium and long-term development planning is crucial for local sustainable development.
Top-level design and seeking advice from the people are unified in scientific planning.
From the "Xiamen (厦门) in My Eyes in 2000" essay contest in 1986 to the first time in the history of the Party that the relevant work of the Party's National Congress was publicly solicited for opinions from the entire Party and society in 2022, and to the recent important instructions on the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" emphasizing "listening to the opinions and suggestions of the people and all sectors of society in various ways, and fully absorbing the fresh experiences created by cadres and the masses in practice"... The consistent leadership methods and working methods are to always adhere to observing public sentiment, listening to public opinion, gathering public wisdom, and pooling public strength, "unifying strengthening top-level design and adhering to seeking advice from the people," and the national development plan always adheres to the people-centered development ideology.
From Xiamen (厦门) practice to the governance of China, "scientifically formulating and successively implementing five-year plans is an important experience in our Party's governance and administration, and also an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics."
Practice has proved that medium and long-term development planning can not only give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, but also better play the role of the government, highlighting the significant advantages of China's governance.
"Enhance the foresight of the strategy," "Enhance the overall situation of the strategy," "Enhance the stability of the strategy," the blueprint for Chinese-style modernization embodies the historical consciousness and strategic thinking of "looking at problems and thinking about problems from a strategic perspective."
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A blueprint, marking the spirit of reform and opening up that is always forward-looking and never slackens.
"The development of Xiamen (厦门) is a microcosm of the course of China's reform and opening up."
"Xiamen (厦门) shelters guests from all over the world, and the door embraces thousands of acres of waves." Anchoring the greatest advantage of Xiamen's (厦门) development, reform and opening up, the "Development Strategy" clearly adopted a gradual approach, taking "three steps" to build Xiamen (厦门) into a "free port-type special economic zone."
The special economic zone undertakes the mission of "pathfinder" for reform and opening up. Facing the historical opportunity for the development of Xiamen (厦门), Xi Jinping (习近平), who "directly participated in the reform and opening up of developed coastal areas for the first time," did not hesitate, "The country needs someone to explore the path. If it is done well, it will provide experience for the country's future reforms."
"Grasp the key points at the top and divide the details below." Opening the "Development Strategy", innovative ideas, reform methods, and opening-up measures that directly face problems can be seen everywhere, and the source of the tide of reform flows from the lines.
Adhering to the unity of top-level design and grassroots exploration, for more than 30 years, anchoring the "three-step" strategic goal, one "first" after another and one "pioneering" after another have witnessed the historical leap of Xiamen's (厦门) reform and opening up.
Taking the lead in the country in introducing tax and profit separation measures to activate many state-owned enterprises in distress; proposing the principle of "small government, big society" for the first time in the country to establish a streamlined, efficient, clean, and united government; taking the lead in establishing a financial system in the special economic zone and taking the lead in borrowing foreign debt to carry out infrastructure construction... Under the guidance of the "Development Strategy", a great ideological emancipation swept across the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone, and one reform and innovation measure after another led the country.
Today, Xiamen (厦门) has become one of the system integration areas in China with the highest density, greatest intensity, most concentrated measures, and most prominent effects of major reform pilot policies.
Today, the average berthing time of ships in Xiamen (厦门) Port is 0.93 days, ranking second among major ports in the world. The China-Europe Railway Express (Xiamen) reaches more than 30 cities in 13 countries, and takes the lead in building a cross-strait standard common service platform. The "center" has stronger radiation, the "gateway" is more open, the "base" is more solid, and the "bridge" is interconnected.
Today, Xiamen (厦门) is actively serving and integrating into the national strategy, making every effort to build a node city for the new development pattern, consolidating and upgrading the external circulation level, innovating and enhancing the internal circulation power, and promoting the connection and mutual promotion of dual circulation in Xiamen (厦门).
Knowing the past and knowing the present, it is precisely the reform direction established by the "Development Strategy" and the methodology of "combining top-level design with 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "feeling the stones to cross the river," learning from experience while undertaking something new)" that have become the key to the historical leap of various undertakings in Xiamen (厦门).
"The people of southern Fujian often say, 'You will win if you work hard.' This contains a spirit of forging ahead." The successful practice of Xiamen (厦门) reflects the spirit of self-improvement and overcoming difficulties of the Chinese people.
"Promoting Chinese-style modernization is an exploratory undertaking, and there are still many unknown areas." When reform has gone through thousands of mountains and rivers, the era, as the "question setter," constantly throws difficult "hard bones" in front of us. We must always maintain the spirit of "daring to try," the vigor of "daring to create," and the style of "daring to do," boldly try and bravely break through the stones under the framework of top-level design, and strive to open up a new world for reform and development.
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A blueprint, marking the spiritual realm of "achieving success does not necessarily require me" and the historical responsibility of "achieving success will definitely have me."
The life of planning lies in execution. "A good blueprint, as long as it is scientific, realistic, and in line with the wishes of the people, everyone should work on it one after another."
For more than 30 years, Xiamen (厦门) has never stopped. Since the implementation of the "Development Strategy" to 2023, Xiamen's (厦门) gross regional product and total fiscal revenue have increased by 149.6 times and 460.9 times respectively, and the built-up area of the city has increased by 11 times.
For more than 30 years, Xiamen (厦门) has always been the same. Drawing a blueprint to the end and working one term after another has become the spiritual emblem of this city. Taking the "Development Strategy" as the traction, implementing the "strategy of certainty" and building the "merit of certainty."
Working one term after another and writing one stroke after another, guided by the "Development Strategy", Xiamen (厦门) has successively formulated and implemented the "Implementation Outline for Accelerating the Construction of a Bay-type City in Xiamen (厦门)", the "Resolution of Xiamen (厦门) on Accelerating the Integrated Construction of the Island and Outside the Island", the "Beautiful Xiamen (厦门) Strategic Plan", the "Xiamen (厦门) High-Quality, High-Value, Modern, and International City Development Strategy (2020-2035)", following in the footsteps and striving forward.
"Scientific planning is the greatest benefit, planning errors are the greatest waste, and planning tossing is the greatest taboo."
The 3-year, 8-year, and 20-year goals of the Fuzhou "3820" strategic project were achieved as scheduled, and the Zhejiang "Eight-Eight Strategy" has been consistently implemented for more than 20 years... Drawing a blueprint to the end is a reflection of the political achievements and career outlook of the rulers, reflecting the spiritual realm of "achieving success does not necessarily require me" and the historical responsibility of "achieving success will definitely have me."
Time, on the road of Chinese-style modernization, is a constant for testing determination and a variable for seizing the day.
"Our understanding of time is not calculated in decades or centuries, but in centuries or millennia." This is the Chinese Communists' view of time.
For long-term tasks, we must maintain strategic focus and patience, adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, dripping water through stone, and persevering. History tells us that only by focusing on the long-term and maintaining strategic focus and historical patience can we avoid being greedy for great and quick results, engaging in winds and movements, and prevent detours and reversals.
"Always be concerned" and "Seize the opportunity and work hard" are the Chinese Communists' views on practice.
For urgent matters, we must act immediately and handle them quickly, and we must not be slow or procrastinate. Practice tells us that under the premise of grasping the overall goal, overall direction, and overall requirements, we can strike one hammer after another and roll up our sleeves and work hard to accumulate small victories into big victories and accumulate small steps to a thousand miles.
Planning for the long-term and working in the present, persevering and seizing the day, are precisely complementary and internally unified dialectical relationships. The cause of the Party and the country is advanced in stages, "neither can it be delayed nor can it be rushed."
Through wind and rain, forging ahead, "implementing the historical perspective and strategic thinking into specific actions."
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on July 3rd (Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫)) The Heishan Gorge Yellow River Bridge (黑山峡黄河大桥) in Zhongwei City (中卫市), Ningxia (宁夏), was successfully closed on the 3rd, laying a solid foundation for completion and opening to traffic within the year. The bridge is located in the Shapotou District (沙坡头区) of Zhongwei City (中卫市), Ningxia (宁夏), and is an important controlling project of the Zhongwei (中卫) to Mengjiawan (孟家湾) section of the National Highway 338 (国道338线) highway project. The bridge is 1539 meters long, with a main span of 240 meters, and is designed for a speed of 80 kilometers per hour.
After the project is completed, it will further improve the highway network in the Northwest region and promote ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin (黄河流域).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3rd (Reporter Wang Chenghao (王承昊)) The 2025 Cross-Strait Youth Summit opened in Beijing (北京) on the 3rd, with more than 700 people from all walks of life and youth representatives from both sides of the Taiwan Strait attending the opening ceremony.
Yin Li (尹力), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Beijing (北京) Municipal Party Committee, said at the opening ceremony that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to the growth and success of young people on both sides of the Strait, places high hopes on the youth to shoulder the future of the country and the nation, and encourages young people on both sides of the Strait to work together to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Cross-Strait Youth Summit is an important platform for young people from Taiwan (台湾) and the mainland to exchange and learn from each other, and it continuously gathers new forces and injects youthful vitality into national rejuvenation and national reunification. For a long time, Beijing (北京) has had close ties with Taiwan (台湾), and exchanges and cooperation have yielded fruitful results. Compatriots on both sides of the Strait are a family with blood ties, share a common responsibility for the nation, and share a common mission for the future. He hopes that everyone will unite and strengthen cultural exchanges in cultural and creative industries, intangible cultural heritage, film and television, and other fields, work together to promote exchanges between Beijing (北京) and Taiwan (台湾), promote frequent exchanges between young people on both sides of the Strait, and deepen friendship. Grasp the general trend of history, bravely shoulder the great cause of the nation, enhance the love for the country and the ambition to serve the country, work together to promote the great cause of national reunification, and write a youthful chapter worthy of history and worthy of the times.
Song Tao (宋涛), Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) is very concerned about the growth of young people, emphasizing that "youth is the hope of the country and the future of the nation. When young people on both sides of the Strait are doing well, the future of both sides of the Strait will be good." Young people on both sides of the Strait are participants, promoters, and beneficiaries of national rejuvenation, and they must shoulder the mission and responsibility entrusted to them by the times, and inject youthful vitality and contribute youthful strength to the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Young people on both sides of the Strait must uphold the common belief that "the territory cannot be divided, the country cannot be chaotic, the nation cannot be dispersed, and civilization cannot be broken," resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatism and external interference, firmly safeguard the common home of the Chinese nation, and promote national reunification. Young people on both sides of the Strait should be brave to take responsibility and work together, aim high and be down-to-earth, actively participate in cross-Strait exchanges and cooperation and integrated development, and demonstrate the responsibility of youth in the bright prospects of Chinese-style modernization.
Ma Ying-jeou (马英九), former Chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang (中国国民党), said in a video message that youth is the hope for the future of both sides of the Strait. He encouraged more young people from Taiwan (台湾) to come to the mainland to see, and also welcomed more young people from the mainland to visit Taiwan (台湾). Young people on both sides of the Strait should learn from each other and jointly create a better future for the Chinese nation.
The summit, themed "Working Together to Draw Youth and Striving for a New Era," will hold exchange activities such as a main forum, sub-forums, and a exhibition of achievements in the integration of science, technology, and culture. From July to August, activities such as the Beijing-Taiwan Youth Exchange Camp will also be held.
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On July 3rd, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a press conference to introduce the theme exhibition and launch excellent literary and artistic works and activities for the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
Holding Galas, Exhibitions, and Other Activities
Setting Low-Priced, People-Benefiting Tickets to Allow More Audiences to Share Artistic Achievements
On the evening of September 3rd, a literary and artistic gala commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War will be held in Beijing (北京). "To make this gala a success, we have gathered a large number of outstanding domestic artists, and the younger generation of literary and artistic workers will take the lead, striving to present a sophisticated and infectious performance to the general audience," said Lu Yingchuan (卢映川), Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部).
In recent years, literary and artistic workers across the country have created and launched a large number of stage art and art works commemorating the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. The Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部) and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) will organize an exhibition of outstanding stage art works commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War from August to October. At that time, about 20 outstanding plays will be selected from across the country and about 40 performances will be held in major theaters in Beijing (北京).
Lu Yingchuan (卢映川) said that this exhibition adheres to the people-benefiting orientation, and each performance will set a certain proportion of low-priced, people-benefiting tickets to allow more audiences to share artistic achievements.
In addition, the State Administration of Radio and Television (广电总局) will organize national radio and television media to carry out the "Witness of Mountains and Rivers - Our Memories of the War of Resistance" all-media publicity campaign.
"We will carry out a large-scale relay live broadcast activity by national radio and television media," said Liu Jianguo (刘建国), Deputy Director of the State Administration of Radio and Television (广电总局). Journalists from local radio and television media will go deep into the sites of major battles and important meetings during the War of Resistance, and visit the sites of anti-Japanese battlefields and anti-Japanese base areas, leading the audience to relive the memories of the War of Resistance. Through comparisons between the past and the present, they will feel the historic achievements of China's economic and social development, create a strong atmosphere of "remembering history, cherishing the memory of martyrs, cherishing peace, and creating the future" in the whole society, and inspire the spirit of the people across the country to forge ahead in the new era.
Themed Exhibitions and Art Exhibitions Open to the Public
Classic Works Such as "Roar, China!" Will Be Exhibited
Starting from July 7th, the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (中国人民抗日战争纪念馆) will hold the "For National Liberation and World Peace - Theme Exhibition Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War". The exhibition area is 12,200 square meters, exhibiting 1,525 photos and 3,237 cultural relics. The theme exhibition will be exhibited as a basic display for a long time and will be open to the public from July 8th.
Luo Cunkang (罗存康), curator of the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (中国人民抗日战争纪念馆), introduced that the theme exhibition uses a variety of modern exhibition methods to present precious cultural relics, archival documents, historical images, artworks, and historical scenes to the audience in three dimensions. There are mainly four characteristics: focusing on presenting the 14-year history of the War of Resistance in a connected way, comprehensively displaying the heroic epic of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation fighting for national survival, national rejuvenation, and human justice under the banner of the anti-Japanese national united front established by the Communist Party of China; focusing on highlighting the role of the Communist Party of China as the mainstay in the national War of Resistance, focusing on demonstrating that the Communist Party of China is the most determined to defend national independence, the most resolute in safeguarding national interests, and the most courageous in resisting foreign aggression; focusing on highlighting the status of China's War of Resistance as the main eastern battlefield, focusing on demonstrating the great contribution made by the Chinese people to the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War; focusing on telling the story of the War of Resistance, deeply exploring details, using objects to prove history, and displaying the great history and spirit of the War of Resistance in multiple dimensions.
This exhibition also specially set up a special area of "Promoting the Great Spirit of the War of Resistance and Deeply Cherishing the Memory of the Heroes of the War of Resistance". "By specially setting up an audio-visual space for family letters of the War of Resistance, etc., we will focus on presenting the family letters of heroes of the War of Resistance such as Zuo Quan (左权) and Zhao Yiman (赵一曼), so that the family letters can be heard and seen, allowing the audience to feel the spiritual world of the heroes of the War of Resistance," said Luo Cunkang (罗存康).
From August to September, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中国文联) will also hold an art exhibition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War at the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆). At that time, more than 300 various art works, including Chinese paintings, oil paintings, prints, sculptures, and watercolors, will be selected from the classic works collected by art museums at all levels across the country and related units, as well as newly created works in recent years, for centralized exhibition.
"A number of classic works will be presented and exhibited at that time, such as Li Hua's (李桦) 'Roar, China!', Tang Yihe's (唐一禾) 'The Bugle of July 7th', Situ Qiao's (司徒乔) 'Put Down Your Whip', Wang Shenglie's (王盛烈) 'Eight Women Throwing Themselves into the River', and Hua Tianyou's (滑田友) 'Bombing'," said Lu Yingchuan (卢映川).
A Batch of Audio-Visual Works Will Be Broadcast
Micro-Short Dramas Are a Highlight of Literary and Artistic Creation on the Theme of the War of Resistance
Liu Jianguo (刘建国) introduced that the State Administration of Radio and Television (广电总局) carefully promoted the creation of a batch of themed works, including works with grand narratives and panoramic views, works with microscopic perspectives and starting from small stories, and works that move people with emotions and tell the fate of individuals in the historical background, with a rich variety of themes and types.
"We have created a batch of documentary films on the theme of the War of Resistance, including 'Victory 1945', 'Lugou Bridge: Our Commemoration' (卢沟桥：我们的纪念), 'Where to Settle the Heart' (心安何处), 'Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army' (东北抗联), 'War of Justice', etc., as well as the online documentary 'Peace Power', these works will be broadcast successively this year," said Liu Jianguo (刘建国).
At the same time, TV stations and online audio-visual platforms across the country will also broadcast a large number of classic audio-visual works on the theme of the War of Resistance. The "Revisiting Classics" channel will broadcast dramas such as "Cliff" and "Proof of Memory" in the evening slot in July; broadcast "Crossing the Guandong" (闯关东), "Eighth Route Army" (八路军), and "Marshal Peng Dehuai" (彭德怀元帅) in August; and broadcast "Taihang Mountains" (太行山上) in the afternoon slot in September, and "Bright Sword" (亮剑) and "History's Sky" (历史的天空) in the evening slot.
Wang Xiaozhen (王晓真), Deputy Director of China Media Group (中央广播电视总台), introduced that in terms of literary and artistic creation, China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) has planned a batch of special films, documentaries, film and television works, and literary and artistic programs, and will focus on promoting the great significance of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression on all platforms and in multiple languages.
In terms of special films and documentaries, China Media Group CCTV Comprehensive Channel and Science and Education Channel will broadcast the 10-episode political commentary film "Victory", the National Defense Military Channel will arrange to broadcast the 5-episode special film "Mountains and Rivers Remember" (山河铭记), and the Chinese International Channel will broadcast the 6-episode documentary "Surrender", etc.; in terms of TV dramas, two key TV drama works will be launched, namely "Our Rivers and Mountains" (我们的河山) and "Returning to the Team" (归队). China Media Group CCTV Comprehensive Channel and Variety Channel will broadcast the 10-episode special program "Beacon War Songs" (烽火战歌), showing the great course of the Communist Party of China leading the whole nation in bloody battles through a batch of popular classic anti-Japanese war songs.
At present, the user base of micro-short dramas is growing rapidly. Liu Jianguo (刘建国) said that a batch of lighter, faster-paced, and audience-friendly micro-short drama works are also being created.
"Micro-short dramas such as 'Cradle on Horseback' (马背摇篮) and 'Angry Stab' (怒刺) will meet the audience from September to October," said Liu Jianguo (刘建国). The combination of micro-short dramas and red culture on the theme of the War of Resistance can use small and beautiful stories and deep emotions to diversify and rejuvenate heavy-themed works, becoming a highlight in the literary and artistic creation of the War of Resistance theme.
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The 14th Plenary Session of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and the 28th Congress of the All-China Students' Federation opened in Beijing (北京) on the morning of the 2nd. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory letter to the congress, which greatly inspired and encouraged the vast number of young people and students.
Everyone expressed that General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory letter has a lofty vision and is inspiring, placing high hopes on the healthy growth and achievements of the vast number of young people and students on the new journey, and putting forward clear requirements for doing a good job in the Youth Federation and the Student Federation under the new situation. The vast number of young people and students have expressed that they will keep their entrustment in mind, work hard and make progress, and strive to write a youthful chapter of courage and responsibility.
Contributing youth strength and demonstrating the spirit of the new era of Chinese youth striving upwards
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Youth Federation and the Student Federation organizations at all levels have performed their duties and actively taken action, organizing and mobilizing the vast number of young people and students to closely follow the Party, work hard and make progress, contribute youth strength, and demonstrate the spirit of the new era of Chinese youth striving upwards."
Wang Yi (王屹), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and Deputy Director of the Natural Gas Hydrate Research Center of the Guangzhou Institute of Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院广州能源研究所), has long focused on the basic theory and key technology research of deep-sea natural gas hydrate (combustible ice) mining. "Young scientific and technological workers should actively adapt to the era requirements of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, actively embrace new technologies and models such as artificial intelligence, apply scientific research results to the forefront of industrial upgrading, and inject surging youth momentum into the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement."
"Start with making contributions in your position, start with small things, and consciously integrate the youth struggle of the 'small self' into the era torrent of the 'big self'." Li Yunfei (李运飞), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and Political Instructor of the Kuqa City Brigade of the Aksu Region Fire and Rescue Detachment in Xinjiang (新疆阿克苏地区消防救援支队库车市大队), said, "I will continue to improve my ability to prevent and resolve major safety risks and respond to various disaster accidents, strengthen fire safety publicity and education, and rush to the front when the Party and the people need me."
Wang Li (王利), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and driver of the Wuhan Branch of Didi Chuxing Technology Co., Ltd. (滴滴出行科技有限公司武汉分公司), sticks to the streets and alleys of the city, providing passengers with safe and convenient travel services. "I will continue to improve my service level and practice my original aspiration and mission with extraordinary perseverance in ordinary positions. At the same time, I will play a good role as a bridge and link to provide good services for young people in new employment groups."
Li Yitong (李沂桐), representative of the All-China Students' Federation and undergraduate of the 2023 class of Land Resource Management major at China Agricultural University (中国农业大学), is rooted in the Xifangezhuang Science and Technology Small Courtyard in Beijing (北京西樊各庄科技小院), closely combining classroom learning with rural practice. "As a member of the Student Union Presidium, I will strengthen ideological leadership, play a good role as a bridge and link, build a broader practice platform for students, and lead them to write an era answer sheet for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside with the power of youth."
Consciously listen to the call of the Party and the people, strengthen ideals and beliefs, and cultivate a sense of family and country
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The vast number of young people should consciously listen to the call of the Party and the people, strengthen ideals and beliefs, cultivate a sense of family and country, bravely shoulder historical missions, and strive to write a youthful chapter of courage and responsibility."
Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and freestyle skier, achieved a personal "Grand Slam" this year. She has a deep understanding of the "strengthening ideals and beliefs, and cultivating a sense of family and country" pointed out in the General Secretary's congratulatory letter. "The belief in winning glory for the country supports me to challenge the limits and break through myself time and time again. We must maintain the responsibility of having the mission on our shoulders and striving for myself, hone our skills, and lead more young people to work hard together, so that the five-star red flag can rise slowly in the arena."
"The cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation in all respects with Chinese-style modernization has a lot to offer young people." Jiang Weihui (蒋韦慧), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and Deputy Procurator-General of the Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County People's Procuratorate in Guangxi (广西罗城仫佬族自治县人民检察院), said, "I will innovate and carry out legal education for young people, actively participate in grassroots social governance, and strive to let the sunshine of the rule of law shine on the road to youth growth, and contribute youth strength to promoting the construction of a rule of law China."
Hong Meishu (洪美叔), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and teacher of Yongxing School in Sansha City, Hainan Province (海南省三沙市永兴学校), is rooted in the southernmost school in the motherland, guarding the "South Gate" of basic education in the motherland with youth. "I will keep in mind the General Secretary's entrustment, adhere to the original aspiration and mission of educating people for the Party and educating talents for the country, and let the flowers of youth bloom in the places where the motherland and the people need them most."
Song Haixia (宋海霞), technical director of the Live Working Center of State Grid Weihai Power Supply Company (国网威海供电公司), is rooted in the front line of live working and participates in ensuring the stable power supply of the city. "We must consciously listen to the call of the Party and the people, rush to the front at critical moments, continuously improve our professional skills, and contribute youth strength to the safe and stable operation of the power grid."
Better unite and lead the vast number of young people and students to forge ahead on a new journey and create new achievements under the banner of the Party
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The Youth Federation and the Student Federation organizations must firmly adhere to the correct political direction, deepen reform and innovation, and better unite and lead the vast number of young people and students to forge ahead on a new journey and create new achievements under the banner of the Party."
"As a broad patriotic united front organization of young people of all ethnic groups and circles in my country under the leadership of the Party, the Youth Federation has a lot to offer on the new journey." Li Di (李迪), Secretary-General of the All-China Youth Federation and Minister of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央统战部部长), said that the All-China Youth Federation will conscientiously study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important congratulatory letter, implement the youth soul-casting action, the youth cohesion action, the youth meritorious service action, the youth empowerment action, and the youth hand-in-hand action, and focus on building a Youth Federation organization that is loyal to the Party, full of vitality, operates in a standardized manner, and has an excellent work style.
"Studying General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important congratulatory letter, I deeply realized the General Secretary's earnest expectations for young students and the high importance he attaches to the work of the Student Federation." Li Wenduo (李文铎), the 28th Chairman of the All-China Students' Federation and student of Peking University (北京大学), said, "The Student Federation and the Student Union organizations must keep their entrustment in mind, firmly adhere to the correct political direction, deepen reform and innovation, guide the vast number of young people to consciously listen to the call of the Party and the people, and make their own growth and success go hand in hand with the country's prosperity and national rejuvenation."
Not long ago, Haidian District in Beijing (北京市海淀区) held the 2025 Zhongguancun Graduation Season event, providing young people with policy packages, a "one-stop" docking platform and entrepreneurial services to help young people solve problems such as housing and employment. "We must give full play to the role of the Youth Federation organization, widely organize young people, wholeheartedly serve young people, help young people solve problems and create conditions for the vast number of young people to make contributions." Ren Yiding (任一丁), Secretary of the Haidian District Committee of the Communist Youth League in Beijing and Chairman of the District Youth Federation, said.
"In social service work, I must always keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, more widely unite young people, serve young people, and lead more young people to play a role in employment and entrepreneurship, counterpart support and construction, and rural revitalization, so that youth can bloom in the struggle and dedication for the cause of the Party and the people." Li Lei (李磊), member of the All-China Youth Federation Committee and Chairman of the Shanghai Yishe Public Welfare Culture Development Center (上海益社公益文化发展中心), said.
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The wisdom of history is hidden in the memory of time.
40 years ago, citizens described Xiamen (厦门) as having "uneven roads, dim lights, unreliable telephones, and frequent water outages."
The new era of Xiamen (厦门) has become a high-quality, high-value, modern, and international city praised by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
What has written the magnificent transformation of Egret Island is the strategic ambition written in the "Xiamen Economic and Social Development Strategy for 1985-2000" (hereinafter referred to as the "Development Strategy"), the determination to reform by "paving roads through mountains and building bridges across rivers," the perseverance to implement a blueprint to the end, and the unwavering original aspiration of "I will devote myself and live up to the people."
"Combining top-level design with 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "feeling the stones to cross the river," to proceed with caution, learning from experience as one goes)." For more than 30 years, a blueprint and a city have demonstrated the power of thought and interpreted the governance of China.
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A blueprint, marking strategic thinking and a systematic concept.
At Xiamen (厦门) Yuanhai Terminal, unmanned container trucks shuttle back and forth under the coverage of 5G signals, "opening Xiamen (厦门)" to connect rivers and seas; an average of one flexible screen is produced every 4 seconds, and the unmanned workshop of Xiamen (厦门) Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. is racing against time, "innovating Xiamen (厦门)" to continue climbing; egrets dance gracefully on Yundang Lake (筼筜湖), the lake is clear and the water is blue, and people and nature coexist harmoniously, "beautiful Xiamen (厦门)" is changing with each passing day... Today's vivid scenes of high-quality development in Xiamen (厦门) originate from the blueprint drawn more than 30 years ago.
From planning economic construction, industrial development, and system reform, to deploying scientific and technological innovation, ecological protection, spiritual civilization construction, education, talent, and other aspects of work, the "Development Strategy" formulated under the leadership of Xi Jinping (习近平), then a member of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor, drew a comprehensive, scientific, and systematic development blueprint for Xiamen (厦门), pioneering the earliest 15-year development strategy compiled by a local government in China.
The overall situation and a specific area are grasped in strategic thinking.
"Correctly understanding the strategic position is an important basis for formulating an overall development strategy." Focusing on the history, reality, and future of Xiamen (厦门), the "Development Strategy" clearly states: "Analyze the strategic position of Xiamen (厦门) and place the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone in the environment of the entire country's reform and opening up and the world's economic development trend."
"The economic center of southern Fujian," "China's gateway to the southeast coast," "China's base for connecting with the Asia-Pacific economic region"... The "Development Strategy" contains the dialectic of a specific area and the overall situation, and is committed to "enabling Xiamen (厦门) to obtain stable and rapid development in capturing opportunities and meeting challenges."
Observing the general trend, planning the overall situation, and grasping major events are important ideological methods and working methods. On the journey of Chinese-style modernization, only by standing tall and looking far, and bearing the overall situation in mind, can we continuously improve the principles, systematicness, foresight, and creativity of "planning a specific area," and can we play a good "chess game" for the whole country and sing a "grand chorus" of high-quality development.
The present and the long-term are coordinated in systematic planning.
At a time when Xiamen's (厦门) industry was still dominated by food, machinery, chemicals, and textiles, the "Development Strategy" boldly proposed that "the electronics industry, after vigorous support, is most likely to become the leading industry in the special zone in the next few years"; with scientific and technological innovation as the driving force, the "Development Strategy" proactively proposed that "in the field of science and technology, more scientific and technological achievements should reach the advanced level in the country, and some scientific and technological achievements should be at the world's advanced level"...
The visionary blueprint has turned dreams into reality. Today, Xiamen (厦门) is actively cultivating and developing new quality productive forces, implementing an advanced manufacturing doubling plan in depth, and building a "4+4+6" modern industrial system with sustainable momentum and tiered development. Ten key development industries, such as flat panel display, mechanical equipment, and financial services, have exceeded 100 billion yuan in scale, and the industrial innovation capability and overall competitiveness are constantly enhanced.
More importantly, in the era when there were few explorations of medium- and long-term strategic planning for regional development both internationally and domestically, the "Development Strategy" innovatively proposed a framework paradigm for medium- and long-term strategic research, explored the path and methods of modern urban governance in China, and proved with long-term practice that medium- and long-term development planning is crucial for local sustainable development.
Top-level design and seeking advice from the people are unified in scientific planning.
From the "Xiamen (厦门) in My Mind in 2000" essay contest in 1986 to the first time in the history of the Party that the relevant work of the Party's National Congress was publicly solicited for opinions from the entire Party and society in 2022, and to the recent important instructions on the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" emphasizing "listening to the opinions and suggestions of the people and all sectors of society in various ways, and fully absorbing the fresh experiences created by cadres and the masses in practice"... The consistent leadership methods and working methods are to always adhere to observing public sentiment, listening to public opinion, gathering public wisdom, and pooling public strength, "unifying strengthening top-level design and adhering to seeking advice from the people," and the national development plan always adheres to the people-centered development thought.
From Xiamen's (厦门) practice to China's governance, "scientifically formulating and successively implementing five-year plans is an important experience in our Party's governance and administration, and also an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics."
Practice has proved that medium- and long-term development planning can not only give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, but also better play the role of the government, highlighting the significant advantages of China's governance.
"Enhancing the foresight of the strategy," "enhancing the overall situation of the strategy," "enhancing the stability of the strategy," the blueprint for Chinese-style modernization embodies the historical consciousness and strategic thinking of "looking at problems and thinking about problems from a strategic perspective."
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A blueprint, marking the spirit of reform and opening up that is always forward-looking and never slackens.
"The development of Xiamen (厦门) is a microcosm of the course of China's reform and opening up."
"Xiamen (厦门) shelters guests from five continents, and the gate welcomes waves from ten thousand hectares." Anchoring reform and opening up as the biggest advantage of Xiamen's (厦门) development, the "Development Strategy" clearly adopted a gradual approach, taking "three steps" to build Xiamen (厦门) into a "free port-type special economic zone."
The special economic zone undertakes the mission of "pathfinder" for reform and opening up. Facing the historical opportunity for Xiamen's (厦门) development, Xi Jinping (习近平), who "directly participated in the reform and opening up of coastal developed areas for the first time" at that time, did not hesitate, "The country needs someone to explore the path. If it is done well, it will provide experience for the country's future reforms."
"Grasp the essentials above and divide the details below." Opening the "Development Strategy," innovative ideas, reform methods, and opening-up measures that directly address problems can be seen everywhere, and the source of the tide of reform flows out from between the lines.
Adhering to the unity of top-level design and grassroots exploration, for more than 30 years, anchoring the "three-step" strategic goal, one "first" after another, and one "pioneering" after another, have witnessed the historical leap of Xiamen's (厦门) reform and opening up.
Taking the lead in introducing tax and profit separation measures in the country to activate many state-owned enterprises in distress; proposing the principle of "small government, big society" for the first time in the country to establish a streamlined, efficient, clean, and united government; taking the lead in establishing a financial system for special economic zones in the country, and taking the lead in borrowing foreign debt to engage in infrastructure construction... Under the guidance of the "Development Strategy," a great ideological emancipation swept across the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone, and one reform and innovation measure after another led the country.
Today, Xiamen (厦门) has become one of the system integration areas in China with the highest density, greatest strength, most concentrated measures, and most prominent effects of pioneering reform policies.
Today, the average time for ships to stay in Xiamen (厦门) Port is 0.93 days, ranking second among major ports in the world. The China-Europe Railway Express (Xiamen) (中欧班列（厦门）) reaches more than 30 cities in 13 countries, and takes the lead in building a cross-strait standard common service platform. The "center" has stronger radiation, the "gateway" is more open, the "base" is more solid, and the "bridge" is more interconnected.
Today, Xiamen (厦门) is actively serving and integrating into the national strategy, making every effort to build a node city for the new development pattern, consolidating and upgrading the external circulation level, innovating and enhancing the internal circulation power, and promoting the connection and mutual promotion of dual circulation in Xiamen (厦门).
Knowing the past to know the present, it is precisely the reform direction established by the "Development Strategy" and the methodology of "combining top-level design with 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "feeling the stones to cross the river," to proceed with caution, learning from experience as one goes)" that have become the key to the historical leap of various undertakings in Xiamen (厦门).
"The people of southern Fujian often say, 'You will win if you work hard.' This contains a spirit of forging ahead." The successful practice of Xiamen (厦门) reflects the Chinese people's spirit of self-improvement, overcoming difficulties, and working hard.
"Promoting Chinese-style modernization is an exploratory undertaking, and there are still many unknown areas." When reform has gone through thousands of mountains and rivers, the era, as the "question setter," constantly throws difficult "hard bones" in front of us. We must always maintain the spirit of "daring to try," the vigor of "daring to create," and the style of "daring to do," and boldly try and bravely break through the stones under the framework of top-level design, and strive to open up a new world for reform and development.
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A blueprint, marking the spiritual realm of "achieving success without having to be me" and the historical responsibility of "achieving success must have me."
The life of planning lies in execution. "A good blueprint, as long as it is scientific, realistic, and in line with the wishes of the people, everyone must work on it one after another."
For more than 30 years, Xiamen (厦门) has never stopped. Since the implementation of the "Development Strategy" to 2023, Xiamen's (厦门) gross regional product and total fiscal revenue have increased by 149.6 times and 460.9 times respectively, and the built-up area of the city has increased by 11 times.
For more than 30 years, Xiamen (厦门) has remained the same. Drawing a blueprint to the end and working on it one term after another has become the spiritual emblem of this city. Taking the "Development Strategy" as the traction, implementing a "fixed strategy" and building a "fixed achievement."
Working on it term after term, writing it stroke by stroke, with the "Development Strategy" as the guide, Xiamen (厦门) has successively formulated and implemented the "Xiamen (厦门) Implementation Outline for Accelerating the Construction of a Bay-type City," the "Xiamen (厦门) Resolution on Accelerating the Integrated Construction of Inside and Outside the Island," the "Beautiful Xiamen (厦门) Strategic Plan," the "Xiamen (厦门) High-Quality, High-Value, Modern, and International City Development Strategy (2020-2035)," and the "Xiamen (厦门) 'One, Two, Three' Strategic Plan," following in its footsteps and striving forward.
"Scientific planning is the greatest benefit, planning errors are the greatest waste, and planning tossing is the greatest taboo."
The 3-year, 8-year, and 20-year goals of the Fuzhou (福州) "3820" strategic project were achieved as scheduled, and the Zhejiang (浙江) "88 Strategy" has been consistently implemented for more than 20 years... Drawing a blueprint to the end is a reflection of the political achievements and career outlook of those in power, reflecting the spiritual realm of "achieving success without having to be me" and the historical responsibility of "achieving success must have me."
Time, on the road to Chinese-style modernization, is a constant for testing determination and a variable for seizing the day.
"Our understanding of time is not calculated in decades or centuries, but in centuries or millennia." This is the Chinese Communists' view of time.
For long-term tasks, we must maintain strategic focus and patience, adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, persevere, and achieve success over time. History tells us that only by focusing on the long term, maintaining strategic focus and historical patience, can we avoid being greedy for greatness and quick success, avoid engaging in formalism and movements, and prevent detours and reversals.
"Always being concerned" and "doing it quickly when you see it accurately" are the Chinese Communists' view of practice.
For urgent matters, we must act immediately and handle them quickly, and we must not be slow or procrastinate. Practice tells us that under the premise of grasping the overall goals, overall directions, and overall requirements, we can strike one hammer after another and roll up our sleeves and work hard to accumulate small victories into big victories and accumulate small steps to reach thousands of miles.
Planning for the long term and working in the present, achieving success over time and seizing the day are precisely complementary and internally unified dialectical relationships. The cause of the Party and the country is advanced in stages, "neither can it be delayed nor can it be rushed."
Through wind and rain, forging ahead, "implementing the historical perspective and strategic thinking into concrete actions."
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on July 3rd (Reporter Yang Hao (杨昊)) The Fourteenth Committee Plenary Session of the All-China Youth Federation and the Twenty-eighth Congress of the All-China Students' Federation completed all agenda items and concluded in Beijing (北京) on the 3rd.
The Fourteenth Committee Plenary Session of the All-China Youth Federation and the Twenty-eighth Congress of the All-China Students' Federation conscientiously studied the important congratulatory letter from General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the congratulatory speech from the Party Central Committee.
The meetings respectively adopted resolutions on the work reports of the Thirteenth Standing Committee of the All-China Youth Federation and the work reports of the Twenty-seventh Committee of the All-China Students' Federation, comprehensively summarizing the work of the All-China Youth Federation and the All-China Students' Federation over the past five years under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and made arrangements for the work, construction, and reform of the All-China Youth Federation and the All-China Students' Federation for the next five years. The meetings held that the All-China Youth Federation and the All-China Students' Federation organizations must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "**两个确立**" (liǎng gè què lì - "two establishes," establishing Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and establishing the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era), resolutely achieve the "**两个维护**" (liǎng gè wéi hù - "two safeguards," safeguarding General Secretary Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and safeguarding the Party Central Committee's authority and centralized, unified leadership), shoulder the important responsibilities of the times, be determined to reform and innovate, be brave in self-revolution, and better unite and lead the vast number of young people and students to forge ahead on a new journey and create new achievements under the banner of the Party.
The meetings respectively adopted resolutions on the "Constitution of the All-China Youth Federation (Amendment)" and the "Constitution of the All-China Students' Federation (Amendment)," deciding to incorporate the adherence to the comprehensive leadership of the Communist Party of China, a profound understanding of the decisive significance of the "**两个确立**" (liǎng gè què lì - "two establishes," establishing Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and establishing the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era), strengthening the "**四个意识**" (sì gè yì shí - "four consciousnesses," political consciousness, overall situation consciousness, core consciousness, and conformity consciousness), strengthening the "**四个自信**" (sì gè zì xìn - "four confidences," confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics), and achieving the "**两个维护**" (liǎng gè wéi hù - "two safeguards," safeguarding General Secretary Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and safeguarding the Party Central Committee's authority and centralized, unified leadership) into the Constitution of the All-China Youth Federation and the Constitution of the All-China Students' Federation.
The Fourteenth Committee Plenary Session of the All-China Youth Federation elected the new leadership of the All-China Youth Federation. Xu Xiao (徐晓), Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, was elected Chairman of the Fourteenth All-China Youth Federation. The meeting elected 18 Vice-Chairmen of the Fourteenth All-China Youth Federation and 249 members of the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth All-China Youth Federation.
The Twenty-eighth Congress of the All-China Students' Federation elected the Twenty-eighth Committee of the All-China Students' Federation, composed of 198 groups. At the first plenary meeting of the Twenty-eighth Committee of the All-China Students' Federation held subsequently, the student union organizations of 43 schools were elected as the Presidium of the Twenty-eighth All-China Students' Federation, the Peking University (北京大学) Student Union was elected as the Chairman Group of the Twenty-eighth All-China Students' Federation, and student Li Wenduo (李文铎) was elected as the Chairman of the Twenty-eighth All-China Students' Federation.
The congress called on the vast number of young people and students to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, consciously listen to the call of the Party and the people, strengthen their ideals and beliefs, cultivate their feelings for the country and the people, bravely shoulder their historical mission, and strive to write a youthful chapter of daring to take responsibility for Chinese-style modernization.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) July 3rd dispatch (Reporter Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)) The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (中国物流与采购联合会) recently released the June China Logistics Industry Prosperity Index, which was 50.8%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month. Looking at the sub-indices, the total business volume index has been in the expansion range for four consecutive months since the beginning of this year. As demand further improves, the volume of logistics business maintains expansion, and the level of prosperity further increases.
From a regional perspective, the total business volume indices of the three major regions are all in the expansion range, and the total business volume indices of the central region and the western region are higher than the national level, at 51% and 52.8% respectively.
From an industry perspective, the total business volume indices of road transportation, railway transportation, and air transportation are all in the prosperity range. Driven by online shopping and seasonal fresh cold chain commodity demand, the total business volume indices of the postal express delivery industry and the air transportation industry were 69.3% and 52% respectively, showing a clear expansion trend. Surveyed enterprises in some regions reported that the total volume of seasonal fruits and vegetables and cold chain flower air logistics business has maintained an upward trend, and the volume of new orders has also maintained an upward trend.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Nanning on July 3rd (Reporter Deng Jiansheng (邓建胜)) The 17th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th People's Congress of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) decided on July 3rd to appoint Wei Tao (韦韬) as Vice Chairman of the Autonomous Region, and decided that he would act as Chairman of the Autonomous Region.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3rd (Xinhua) -- The State Council has appointed and removed national personnel.
Fei Dongbin (费东斌) has been removed from his position as Director of the National Railway Administration (国家铁路局).
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From June 30 to July 3, the Fourth UN International Conference on Financing for Development was held in Seville, Spain, marking the first time in 10 years that the UN has held an international conference on financing for development. Representatives from governments, international organizations, financial institutions, the business community, and civil society groups focused on financing for sustainable development, working together to address development challenges and promote reforms in the global governance system. Under the Seville Action Platform framework, China continues to promote the alignment of the Global Development Initiative with the development strategies of various countries, gaining widespread attention and positive evaluation from the international community.
Launching the Seville Action Platform, Incorporating 130 Actions Including the Global Development Initiative
Currently, global economic growth is weak, geopolitical conflicts persist, and inflationary pressures are particularly evident in developing countries. High debt and financing costs make it difficult for developing countries to raise funds for sustainable development, and systemic inequalities in the international financial system make the situation even more challenging.
To address these challenges, the conference adopted the outcome document "The Seville Commitment" and launched the Seville Action Platform, incorporating 130 actions including the Global Development Initiative, aimed at promoting structural reforms, innovative financing mechanisms, and the achievement of green and equitable development goals through cooperation among four types of entities: national, institutional, local, and private sectors.
The Global Development Initiative proposed by China has attracted attention from all parties. Focusing on stronger, greener, and healthier global development, the Global Development Project Pool has accumulated more than 1,100 projects, with special funds in the funding pool reaching $14 billion, covering multiple fields such as public health, agriculture, education, energy transition, and digital infrastructure. It has also established cooperation mechanisms with institutions such as the United Nations Development Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development to promote the development of multiple sub-platforms such as green bond financing, emergency disaster funds, technical training, and cross-border digital services.
"The world today is facing unprecedented geopolitical challenges," Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić (Александар Вучић) told reporters, adding that Serbia supports China's position in international affairs and supports the Global Development Initiative. "China has made significant achievements in green development and other areas, and I believe China will continue to make positive contributions to these key issues."
In February of this year, China and the International Fund for Agricultural Development held a signing ceremony in Rome, the capital of Italy, for the renewal of the China-International Fund for Agricultural Development South-South and Triangular Cooperation Fund. China will increase the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Fund by $10 million equivalent in RMB to help promote agricultural and rural development and economic and social progress in the Global South. Donal Brown, Associate Vice President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, said, "China's support demonstrates that South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation can bring practical results."
Former Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Temir Porras (泰米尔·波拉斯) told reporters that China provides tangible support for the social development of developing countries. "China promotes direct investment in sustainable projects." Porras said that high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" cooperation responds to reality, focuses on development, and provides support for co-building countries to promote development in key areas, achieving mutual benefit and win-win results.
Emerging Financial Institutions Show Great Potential and Unique Role
The problem of differential treatment between developed and developing countries in the existing international financial architecture and development financing system is becoming increasingly prominent. Developing countries not only face borrowing costs that are 2 to 4 times higher than those of developed countries, but also bear further rising financing pressures. This dilemma severely restricts the economic growth and social progress of developing countries.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (古特雷斯) called for the construction of a new international financial architecture, including promoting the redistribution of special drawing rights of the International Monetary Fund, reforming credit rating mechanisms, expanding the capital of multilateral development banks, and giving developing countries more say.
Former Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado (阿尔瓦拉多) believes that the world is currently facing major challenges, and "stakeholders such as international financial organizations, the Global North, and the Global South should strengthen dialogue and work together to promote inclusive solutions."
Insufficient scale, instability, poor effectiveness, insecurity, and lack of inclusiveness - Kevin Gallagher, director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University in the United States, summarized the current international financial architecture problems as the above "five major limitations." "China has played an important role in solving these problems." Gallagher believes that China is increasingly focusing on green transformation, actively promoting the reform of the international financial system, and leading emerging multilateral cooperation mechanisms to provide assistance for the development of the Global South.
According to the Seville Action Platform document, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the New Development Bank of BRICS countries have led or participated in a number of key action items, playing an increasingly important role in global financing governance. Porras believes that this marks China's increasing institutional influence in the multilateral financing system, reflecting the collective voice and active participation of the Global South in addressing development challenges. "China conducts cooperation with all parties in an equal manner. This attitude of respecting sovereignty and emphasizing dialogue is deeply recognized in Latin America."
UN Deputy Secretary-General Li Junhua (李军华) told reporters that emerging financial institutions have shown great potential and a unique role, becoming a beneficial supplement to existing large development banks and international financial organizations. "We must not only continue to improve existing mechanisms, but also further explore more innovative models and institutions. In this sense, these emerging institutions will undoubtedly play a more important role in the future."
Exploring New Forms of Financing, China's Experience Provides Important Lessons
On the first day of the conference, a side event on "China and the Future of International Development Financing" was held, and the venue was packed, with all parties looking forward to gaining an in-depth understanding of China's latest plans in global development financing. "As long as the word 'China' is written in the theme of the meeting, it should be arranged in the largest conference room." Before the start of the side event, the audience waiting in line stretched outside the venue. A British scholar said at the door: "China's importance lies here."
"I live in Nairobi (内罗毕), the capital of Kenya, and we used to miss our flights often. After the airport expressway invested and built by Chinese companies was put into operation, we can now catch our flights on time." The speech by Abebe Kefale (阿比·凯迪尔), Research Director of the African Economic Research Consortium, caused laughter and applause from the participants. Kefale said that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the New Development Bank of BRICS countries, and the Export-Import Bank of China have played an important role in improving infrastructure in Africa. "In the global energy transition process, Africa faces the problem of 'asymmetric transition'. Although the prices of clean energy technologies continue to decrease, Africa's infrastructure has not kept up. Africa urgently needs structural policy transformation and resource support," Kefale said.
"We can learn from China's experience in financing cooperation with other developing countries." Rebecca Ray, a senior researcher at the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University in the United States, said, "The practical experience of jointly building the 'Belt and Road' initiative is constantly being enriched, including not only infrastructure projects, but also foreign direct investment."
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (伊维拉), Director-General of the World Trade Organization, pointed out that trade policy fragmentation, "decoupling," and non-tariff barriers are exacerbating the financing difficulties of developing countries. Guterres also bluntly stated that multilateralism is under unprecedented pressure, and trust between countries and institutions is constantly being weakened. "Sustainable development driven by international cooperation is facing 'strong headwinds'." He proposed that all parties should explore new forms of financing, leverage funds through multilateral financial institutions, thereby increasing resources available to support developing countries.
(Reported from Seville, Spain, July 3)
Return to TopChina's active promotion of people from various countries to visit and exchange ideas in China not only allows the world to see a more real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China, but also provides a model and injects impetus for mutual understanding, appreciation, and learning among different civilizations.
Recently, from "China tours" that people embark on at a moment's notice, to Chinese trendy toys and film and television dramas becoming popular around the world, and Chinese beverage brands such as Mixue Ice Cream & Tea and CHAGEE winning the favor of a large number of overseas consumers, more and more foreign friends are experiencing a more real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China through personal experience. A trendy toy, a trip, a cup of tea... These "immersive" ways of perceiving China are breaking down cognitive barriers and stimulating emotional resonance in the most vivid and direct way.
Prejudice often stems from a lack of understanding, and understanding begins with communication. Real interaction and sincere exchange can transcend the limitations of individual experience, construct more inclusive cognition in dialogue, and the emotional resonance it generates is often more touching and can eliminate estrangement. Whether it is "checking in" on a trip to China and seeing a safe, open, and modern China, or meeting friendly, inclusive, and humorous Chinese people on social media platforms, or feeling the creativity and vitality of Chinese enterprises through a "Labubu," foreign friends are witnessing a more real and vivid China with their own eyes, and feeling the vigorous vitality of more than 1.4 billion Chinese people with open hearts. "China is so cool," "I feel full of positive energy from the Chinese people"... Observing with their eyes, listening with their ears, and measuring with their feet, real experiences break information cocoons and eliminate cognitive barriers.
Why are more and more foreign friends choosing to visit China in person or experience Chinese products? "Chinese products have bid farewell to the era of replicating international brands," "China's new generation of trendy brands are refreshing the international image of 'Made in China'"... Recent intensive reports in foreign media provide clues to answer this question. China's high-quality development is constantly advancing, especially the image of "Creative China" and "Dynamic China" is spreading wider and wider internationally, which naturally attracts friends from all countries. From convenient mobile payment and high-speed rail networks integrated into daily life, to the continuous emergence of innovative products such as DeepSeek and humanoid robots, these together constitute a three-dimensional and diverse picture of modern China. The common improvement of hard power and soft power makes people more willing to understand Chinese stories and listen to Chinese voices.
Open exchange, policy support, an inclusive environment, and convenient channels are essential. Chinese civilization has always pursued "harmony in diversity," and opening its arms to embrace the world is a conscious action of contemporary China. At present, China's visa-free "circle of friends" is constantly expanding, the number of countries applicable to the unilateral visa-free policy to China has expanded to 47, and the number of countries applicable to the 240-hour transit visa-free policy has expanded to 55. China is firmly promoting high-level opening up to the outside world, continuously facilitating the exchange of Chinese and foreign personnel, and allowing foreign friends to strengthen their understanding of China through real and close cultural contact. Coming to China, seeing China, enjoying China, and even sharing China on social media, the global China "travel craze," "live streaming craze," and "trendy toy craze" have emerged. The image of China is redefined in the real experiences and spontaneous dissemination of friends from all countries, fixed ideas are broken, and a sense of goodwill and closeness to China arises spontaneously. Foreign friends marvel, "Going to China is worth a two-way journey."
Exchanging ideas to stimulate resonance also provides wisdom and inspiration for addressing the problems facing the world. In today's world, where the century-old changes are accelerating and geopolitical conflicts are frequent, dialogue among civilizations and people-to-people exchanges have become important bonds for resolving estrangement and enhancing mutual trust. China's active promotion of people from various countries to visit and exchange ideas in China not only allows the world to see a more real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China, but also provides a model and injects impetus for mutual understanding, appreciation, and learning among different civilizations.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李欣怡 章凯风 李 明
"As the rotating chair of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, China (中国) is promoting cooperation with pragmatic and efficient actions, promoting the construction of a closer Shanghai Cooperation Organisation community with a shared future, and bringing tangible benefits to the people of the region and the world." Deputy Secretary-General Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation said in a recent interview with this reporter.
This year is the "China Year" of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. On May 20, President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory letter to the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development Forum. Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗) said, "President Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and has put forward a series of important initiatives and proposals, injecting strong impetus into the realisation of common development by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries." He said that at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organisation+" Astana Summit in July 2024, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed building "five common homes" of unity and mutual trust, peace and tranquility, prosperity and development, good-neighborliness and friendship, and fairness and justice. "This initiative follows the 'Shanghai Spirit' and points the direction for the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation under the new situation," said Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗).
On May 23, Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗) attended the 2025 SCO Countries Media Cooperation Forum jointly organised by the People's Daily (人民日报社) and the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区人民政府) in Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), Xinjiang (新疆). He believes that media cooperation is an important part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's cooperation in various fields, and plays an important role in enhancing mutual understanding and promoting people-to-people connectivity among the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries. Through platforms such as the Media Cooperation Forum, the media of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries will establish closer cooperative relations and promote the continuous advancement of mutual learning among civilisations to new heights.
Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗) has visited Xinjiang (新疆) many times, visiting Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), Kashgar (喀什) and other places. "Relying on the China (Xinjiang) Free Trade Pilot Zone (中国（新疆）自由贸易试验区), Xinjiang's (新疆) economic and trade exchanges with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries are becoming closer. We look forward to Xinjiang (新疆) continuing to leverage its advantages and continuously deepen exchanges with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries," said Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗).
In recent years, economic and trade exchanges between the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries have become increasingly close. In 2024, the trade volume between China (中国) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states, observer states, and dialogue partners reached 890 billion US dollars, setting a historical record. Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗) said that economic and trade cooperation is a powerful engine for the vigorous development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and strengthening infrastructure construction has played an important role in deepening economic and trade cooperation among the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries. "China (中国) is constantly promoting the high-quality joint construction of the 'Belt and Road' (一带一路), bringing more opportunities for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries to strengthen connectivity and carry out pragmatic cooperation," said Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗).
Currently, the development of emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and green technology is adding more impetus to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries to carry out cooperation. Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗) said that in recent years, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states have continuously expanded cooperation in emerging fields such as e-commerce and the digital economy, and continue to create new growth points for mutually beneficial cooperation. China (中国) has leading technological advantages in related fields, and deepening cooperation among all parties will contribute to the development and transformation of countries in the region.
"People-to-people exchanges, especially youth exchanges, play a unique role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation cooperation," said Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗). Young people are the future of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. More and more students from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries are coming to China (中国) to study, expanding their horizons and becoming envoys for promoting friendly exchanges. The development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries requires more human resources support, and deepening educational cooperation and carrying out skills training will cultivate more talents for the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit will be held in Tianjin (天津) soon. Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗) said that in recent years, the international influence of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has continued to expand, its attractiveness has continued to increase, and it has played a key role in regional security, stability, development and prosperity. With the advancement of the expansion process, the influence of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will be further enhanced. Facing the current complex and volatile international situation, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries need to strengthen communication, further improve coordination mechanisms, and deepen cooperation in the political, security, economic, cultural and other fields. "We look forward to this year's Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit reaching more consensus, expanding more areas of cooperation, and promoting the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to a new level," said Sohail Khan (索海尔·汗).
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The United States' tariff policy will economically isolate the U.S., harm the interests of American consumers and businesses, and at the same time endanger the progress made by the U.S. and the world over the past decades in achieving greater cooperation and greater prosperity, and exacerbate the uncertainty facing global development.
The unilateral tariff measures introduced by the United States have triggered widespread concern in the international community. These practices will economically isolate the U.S., harm the interests of American consumers and businesses, and at the same time endanger the progress made by the U.S. and the world over the past decades in achieving greater cooperation and greater prosperity, and exacerbate the uncertainty facing global development. Currently, the direct impacts of the U.S. tariff policy, such as rising prices and business uncertainty, have already emerged, while the deeper impacts on the U.S.'s international standing and the international economic order have not yet fully manifested.
The international image of the United States is rapidly declining. The unilateral actions of the U.S. undermine the rules-based international order, which has a profound impact on the prosperity, economic cooperation, and stability of global industrial and supply chains of all countries, and will weaken the efficiency and vitality of the world economy. From leading economic globalization in the past to introducing protectionism and exacerbating the fragmentation of global governance today, the U.S.'s tariff policy is undermining people's trust in the U.S.. Financial markets have already reacted with volatility, highlighting investors' concerns about the prolongation of trade conflicts and the risk of economic recession.
Tariff policies are harming the U.S. economy, and their impact will continue to spread. Tariffs are usually passed on to consumers, leading to price increases for various commodities, including electronics, automobiles, clothing, and food. A study by Yale University shows that tariffs will cost the average American family $4,400. Already worrying inflation may be further exacerbated, which will be particularly detrimental to the lives of American working class.
As imports decrease, the reduced competition faced by U.S. domestic producers will also lead to further price increases. Economic activities in the U.S. that rely on exports or global industrial and supply chains, including agriculture, manufacturing, and retail, may also experience layoffs. Currently, U.S. consumer confidence is declining, reflecting concerns about inflation, job security, and the overall economic outlook. U.S. manufacturing cannot escape these destructive impacts either. U.S. manufacturers rely on global industrial and supply chains, and tariffs increase their production costs and squeeze profit margins. Many companies are postponing investments and re-examining their supply chains, and some may be forced to lay off employees or close factories. Due to the lack of transparency and coherence in the U.S. government's trade policy, companies cannot develop long-term plans. This unpredictability inhibits innovation and growth, weakening the competitiveness of U.S. companies at home and abroad.
Strengthening cooperation between the U.S. and China meets the expectations of the whole world. The international community expects the U.S. government to implement wiser policies and create mutually beneficial and win-win space for the economic development of the U.S., China, and the world.
(Author is the Executive Chairman of the U.S.-China Cooperation Foundation)
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The newspaper reported from Brussels on July 3 (Reporter Niu Ruifei (牛瑞飞)) On July 2, local time, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held the 13th round of China-EU High-Level Strategic Dialogue with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kallas (卡拉斯), in Brussels (布鲁塞尔).
Wang Yi (王毅) said that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the EU, and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. The upcoming new China-EU leaders' meeting is highly anticipated. Over the past 50 years, China-EU relations have experienced ups and downs, and overcome numerous obstacles. Only by comprehensively reviewing the path we have taken can we correctly grasp the direction forward. The development of China-EU relations shows that the relationship between the two sides is positioned as partners rather than rivals, and cooperation is the main theme and ballast stone. The two sides should properly handle differences through communication within this framework. There are no fundamental conflicts of interest between China and the EU, and there are broad common interests. Both sides support multilateralism and open cooperation, support the core position of the United Nations and the democratization of international relations, and adhere to peaceful resolution of disputes through dialogue. Faced with rising uncertainty and instability in the international situation, China and the EU, as two major forces and two major economies, should strengthen exchanges, deepen understanding, enhance mutual trust, and promote cooperation, jointly safeguard the post-war international order, and provide the world with scarce certainty. China is willing to work with the EU to promote positive results from the new China-EU leaders' meeting and point the way for the future development of China-EU relations.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that Chinese diplomacy adheres to the harmonious genes of Chinese civilization and advocates peace, inclusiveness, and cooperation. On peace and security issues, China is the major country with the best record in the world today. China is not the United States, and China should not be mirrored by the path the United States has taken. China and Europe have different histories, cultures, and values. We cannot regard each other as rivals simply because there are differences, nor can we seek confrontation simply because there are disagreements. Europe is currently facing various challenges, but neither in the past, present, nor future do these challenges come from China. The two sides should respect each other, learn from each other, develop together, and make progress together, so as to make new contributions to human civilization. It is hoped that the European side will truly establish an objective and rational understanding of China and pursue a more proactive and pragmatic China policy.
Wang Yi (王毅) emphasized that as comprehensive strategic partners, the most important thing for China and the EU is to respect each other and take care of each other's core interests. China has always supported European integration, supported the EU in enhancing its strategic autonomy, and played a constructive role in international affairs. It is hoped that the European side can also respect China's core interests with practical actions. The Taiwan issue concerns China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. UN Resolution 2758 has long since completely resolved the issue of China's representation in the United Nations, including Taiwan (台湾), from both factual and legal perspectives. It is hoped that the European side will earnestly adhere to the one-China principle.
Kallas (卡拉斯) said that the EU and China are partners, and the two sides have common responsibilities and important influence on major issues such as supporting the leading role of the United Nations and safeguarding international law and the international order. The EU adheres to the one-China policy and is willing to work with China to prepare for the new China-EU leaders' meeting, enhance mutual understanding through frank communication, develop a more constructive EU-China relationship, and carry out more balanced and fair economic and trade cooperation.
The two sides also exchanged views on the Ukraine crisis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Iranian nuclear issue.
Return to TopRecently, Saudi Arabian Oil Company (沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司) and Power Construction Corporation of China Shandong Electric Power Construction Co., Ltd. (中国电建集团山东电力建设有限公司) held a ceremony at the site of the King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries and Services Project (萨勒曼国王国际综合港务设施项目) in Saudi Arabia to jointly celebrate the comprehensive completion of the project's land area engineering. This marks that the world's largest "super shipyard" is now capable of repairing and building ships.
The picture shows an aerial view of the King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries and Services Project (萨勒曼国王国际综合港务设施项目).
People's Daily reporter Guan Kejiang (管克江), Ren Haoyu (任皓宇), Cheng Shifeng (成世峰) photographed.
Return to TopThis newspaper Tianjin (天津) July 3rd (Reporter Jin Bo (靳博)) The Sixth Meeting of Environment Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) Member States was held in Tianjin (天津) on the 3rd, with the theme of "Cooperation to Promote Green, Sustainable, and Low-Emission Development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) Member States." The parties attending the meeting signed the "Joint Statement of the Sixth Meeting of Environment Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) Member States" and adopted the "Initiative of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) Member States on Strengthening Cooperation on Sustainable Development."
The joint statement stated that the global ecological and environmental agenda is currently facing severe challenges. All parties will take the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) Sustainable Development Year as an opportunity to jointly promote the exchange of environmental protection experiences and best practices, and are committed to ensuring sustainable development and accelerating the implementation of relevant environmental goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The initiative adopted that day emphasized that sustainable and low-emission development is one of the basic goals of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) cooperation, advocated that Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织) member states participate in and promote global environmental governance, expand cooperation in the development and application of circular economy, energy conservation, low-emission and other environmental protection science and technology fields, support the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" implementation initiative, strengthen capacity building and scientific and technological cooperation in the Global South, jointly promote biodiversity protection, and proposed strengthening efforts and expanding cooperation to address pollution problems and improve regional environmental quality.
At the meeting, representatives from various countries also exchanged in-depth views on cooperation in ecological and environmental protection fields such as the development of green technologies, sustainable and low-emission development cooperation mechanisms and platforms, addressing pollution problems, and waste management.
Return to TopThis newspaper Chongqing (重庆) July 3rd dispatch (Reporters Liu Yang (刘阳), Ren Shanshan (任姗姗), Chang Biluo (常碧罗)) On July 3rd, the 2025 SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) Film Festival was inaugurated in Yongchuan District (永川区), Chongqing (重庆). During the film festival, 28 excellent films from SCO countries will be screened.
The film festival is co-sponsored by the National Film Administration (国家电影局) and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government (重庆市人民政府). More than 1,500 guests, including official representatives and filmmakers from SCO member states and observer states, as well as domestic industry experts, business representatives, university scholars, and well-known filmmakers, attended the opening ceremony.
It is understood that this year's film festival will last for 5 days, with the theme of "Technological Light and Shadow · SCO Style," and will hold a series of activities such as the opening ceremony, film awards, film cooperation forum, film technology achievement exhibition, film market, and closing ceremony and awards ceremony. The closing ceremony and awards ceremony will select 10 awards from 20 participating films, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and the Jury Special Award.
In combination with the consumption trends of "traveling with movies" and "tasting food with movies" in recent years, Chongqing (重庆) will also carry out supporting activities such as a film benefiting people consumption season, "one movie ticket to play around a city," and a drone special performance during the film festival.
2025 marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of world cinema and the 120th anniversary of the birth of Chinese cinema. The SCO Film Festival is an important cultural exchange activity in coordination with the SCO summit. It is being held in China again after 7 years, continuing a new chapter in SCO film exchange and cooperation.
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Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made important instructions on the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan," emphasizing that scientifically formulating and successively implementing five-year plans is an important experience in our Party's governance and an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has consistently attached great importance to the development strategy and planning work.
More than 30 years ago, the "Xiamen Economic and Social Development Strategy for 1985-2000" (1985年—2000年厦门经济社会发展战略) led by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) during his work in Xiamen (厦门) became a classic model of combining top-level design with 摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "feeling the stones to cross the river," to cross a river by feeling for stones at the bottom; to proceed with caution; to feel one's way), pioneering the earliest 15-year development strategy compiled by a local Chinese government, which has a very important demonstration and guiding role for the current scientific planning of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Over the past 30 years, Xiamen (厦门) has always followed the direction guided by the "Development Strategy" (发展战略), drawing a blueprint to the end, and one term after another, from a small coastal defense city to a high-quality, high-value, modern, and international city.
Today, when we reopen this "Development Strategy" (发展战略) formulated more than 30 years ago, we can more deeply feel the strategic thinking, scientific concepts, and valuable experience contained therein, and more deeply feel the ideological brilliance and practical power that transcends time and space and lasts forever.
All regions should accurately position themselves in the overall national situation and strengthen planning coordination when planning economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Recently, reporters from this newspaper came to Xiamen (厦门) to trace the original intention and footprints of Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) in leading the formulation of the "Development Strategy" (发展战略), to understand the germination and practice of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in Xiamen (厦门), and to understand the profound enlightenment of the "Development Strategy" (发展战略) for compiling medium- and long-term development plans and promoting Chinese-style modernization.
——Editor
A book, a city.
A period of time, a blueprint.
In the book, there is a strategic plan for the development of Xiamen (厦门), as well as profound thinking about the future of the country; there is the pioneering work of "the practice of reform and the practice of opening up," as well as the sincere feelings of "enabling the people of the city to get more benefits from participating in the construction of the special zone."
October 16, 2024, China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone Xiamen Area (中国（福建）自由贸易试验区厦门片区).
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), who was inspecting here, picked up a blue-covered, more than 300-page "Xiamen Economic and Social Development Strategy for 1985-2000" (《1985年—2000年厦门经济社会发展战略》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Development Strategy" (《发展战略》)) and carefully read it.
This is the earliest economic and social development strategy formulated in the national economic special zones, and it is also the earliest economic and social development strategic plan spanning 15 years formulated by a local Chinese government. The leader who formulated it was Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), then a member of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor.
More than 30 years have passed, the sea breeze and waves remain the same, but Xiamen (厦门) has undergone a complete transformation.
"When compiling this plan, how to develop the free port? How can people freely enter and exit? What about financial and monetary policies? We didn't know, so we explored, piloted first, and felt our way. Seeing Xiamen (厦门) today, we feel very gratified." Looking back on the past, the General Secretary was very emotional.
Why does a "Development Strategy" (发展战略) formulated more than 30 years ago make the General Secretary think about it and care about it to this day?
What enlightenment does this "Development Strategy" (发展战略) formulated more than 30 years ago have for the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and for promoting Chinese-style modernization?
Open this "Development Strategy" (发展战略), open a period of reform, open a journey of entrepreneurship, and open a treasure house of ideas.
Planning
"Economic development strategy should have basic work, industry planning, and urban planning"
Between the blue sea and sky, the words "Starting Port of the Silk Road Maritime Transport" (丝路海运始发港) in the Dongdu Port Area (东渡港区) of Xiamen Port (厦门港) are particularly eye-catching.
The giant pulleys of the gantry crane move slowly, and buses are steadily hoisted onto cargo ships. Not long ago, 130 "Xiamen-made" buses set sail from here to Jeddah Port (吉达港), Saudi Arabia. At present, Xiamen Port (厦门港) has 98 "Belt and Road" (一带一路) routes, passing through 63 ports in 20 countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路).
One day 40 years ago, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), who had just taken office in Xiamen (厦门), came here, looked far into the distance against the sea breeze, walked to the bridge crane, looked up at this dozens of meters high fellow, and fell into deep thought.
At that time, Xiamen Port (厦门港) only had 2 bridge cranes, and one could only complete 35,000 TEUs a year. In Hong Kong (香港), the same bridge crane could complete 120,000 TEUs a year.
In June 1985, the State Council approved the expansion of the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone to the entire island and gradually implemented certain policies of a free port. In the same month, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Xiamen (厦门) to take office as a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor, which was his "first time taking a leadership position at the municipal level, the first time directly participating in the reform and opening up of developed coastal areas, and the first time personally experiencing urban construction and management."
The day he reported for duty was Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平)'s 32nd birthday.
"I was very excited to come to Xiamen (厦门) at that time, just wanting to try the practice of reform and the practice of opening up." In a later interview, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) described his mood at that time.
However, at that time, there were no ready-made answers or precedents for how to build a special economic zone or how to build a free port. Everything was being explored. Local cadres described it as: "It's like giving you a big meal, but you don't know how to start."
"Economic development strategy should have basic work, industry planning, and urban planning." Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), who also served as Deputy Director of the Municipal Economic System Reform Commission, thought very deeply. Obviously, what he was considering was not a temporary matter, but the long-term development of Xiamen (厦门).
In view of this thinking, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed to the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government to organize a group of people to study certain policies of the free port and formulate a development strategy to guide the development of the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone.
With the support of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) transferred personnel from the Municipal Planning Commission to work in the Municipal Science and Technology Museum, and formally established the Economic and Social Development Strategy Research Office, which he personally took charge of.
On July 30, 1986, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) convened a mobilization and work deployment meeting for full-time personnel of the three topics of Xiamen (厦门) Economic and Social Development Strategy, Overall Plan for Economic System Reform, and Administrative System Reform, and officially launched the formulation of the medium- and long-term development plan of Xiamen (厦门).
At this meeting, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward a very important point of view: "We are engaged in modern economic construction, we must have long-term considerations, take into account the overall situation, and not only focus on the present, dealing with things as they arise, which will be counterproductive and even lead to losing direction and failing to grasp the initiative of the overall situation."
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has consistently attached importance to strategy and planning work.
During his work in Zhengding (正定), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) took the lead in formulating the "Overall Plan for Economic, Technological, and Social Development of Zhengding County" (正定县经济技术、社会发展总体规划), proposing the "three-step" development goals of Zhengding (正定) economy and the development policy of "opening up to the outside world, invigorating internally, relying on cities, developing intelligence, developing the economy, and enriching the people."
During his work in Fuzhou (福州), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) presided over the compilation of the "Strategic Conception of Economic and Social Development in Fuzhou for 20 Years" (福州市20年经济社会发展战略设想) (also known as the "3820" strategic project), proposing strategic goals and steps and measures for economic and social development in 3 years, 8 years, and 20 years.
During his work in Zhejiang (浙江), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the "Eight-Eight Strategy" (八八战略), focusing on the two key issues of "how to give play to advantages and how to make up for shortcomings," comprehensively and systematically expounding Zhejiang (浙江)'s eight advantages, and proposing eight measures for reform and development, which became the general program for leading Zhejiang (浙江)'s development and the general strategy for promoting various tasks in Zhejiang (浙江).
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) once pointed out: "The development of a city should not only consider the medium- and long-term development goals of 10 years and 20 years, but also consider the long-term development goals of 30 years, 50 years, or even 100 years..."
"Our understanding of time is not calculated in decades or centuries, but in centuries or millennia."
From August 1986, after a year and a half, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) led the formulation of this nearly 250,000-word "Development Strategy" (发展战略).
In order to formulate the "Development Strategy" (发展战略), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) invited experts and scholars from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), and relevant departments of Xiamen University (厦门大学), and transferred the backbone forces of more than a dozen departments in the city to form a research team of more than 100 people, focusing on the two basic strategic ideas of "strengthening ties with Taiwan (台湾) and promoting the reunification of the motherland" and "gradually implementing the free port policy and building a free port-type special economic zone," and conducted 21 special studies.
"These 21 topics were all personally reviewed by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), and 4 of them were proposed for the first time in the country." Zheng Jinmu (郑金沐), one of the drafters of the "Development Strategy" (发展战略) and then Deputy Director of the Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Planning Commission, said, "The great significance of formulating this 'Development Strategy' (发展战略) lies in the fact that in the early years of the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone, it sorted out the various tasks of the special zone from the perspective of thinking about the city's positioning and development direction, and identified the direction for the construction of the special economic zone from the very beginning, avoiding twists and turns or going astray."
"Analyze the strategic position of Xiamen (厦门) and place the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone in the environment of the entire country's reform and opening up and the world economic development trend." Based on this positioning, the "Development Strategy" (发展战略) systematically studied and planned Xiamen (厦门)'s economic construction, industrial development, system reform, technological innovation, and ecological protection, clarified the advantages and disadvantages of the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone, and guided the medium- and long-term construction and development of Xiamen (厦门).
"This 'Development Strategy' (发展战略) embodies Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平)'s profound thinking on modernization construction and his profound grasp of the laws of economic development, runs through the Marxist worldview and methodology, is an important starting point of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and has drawn a comprehensive, scientific, and systematic development blueprint for the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone. It is still an important magic weapon for the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone to explore, experiment, and pioneer in reform and development, and will surely guide the economic and social development of Xiamen (厦门) for a long time." Cui Yonghui (崔永辉), member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian (福建) Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party Committee, said.
Over the past 30 years, Xiamen (厦门) has kept its entrustment firmly in mind, been grateful and striving, made long-term efforts, and forged ahead bravely, promoting the realization of historical leaps in various undertakings. From 1985 to 2024, the average annual growth rate of Xiamen (厦门)'s regional GDP was 13.8%, which was 5.1 percentage points and 2.8 percentage points higher than the national and provincial growth rates during the same period, respectively. Today's Xiamen (厦门) has developed into a high-quality, high-value, modern, and international city.
"This is a group photo of the meeting at that time, time flies so fast." On October 16, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), who was inspecting the Xiamen (厦门) Free Trade Zone, opened this "Development Strategy" (发展战略) formulated more than 30 years ago. The old photo on the first page of the book was taken on March 25, 1988, when Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) presided over a demonstration meeting for this development plan.
"At that time, we invited many famous economists in China..." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully examined the list of the editorial board in the book and clearly remembered the position and division of labor of each person at that time.
"We participated in the entrepreneurship here, and the current development is better than we imagined at that time."
Seeking Advice
"Adopt various methods to widely absorb elderly and middle-aged and young experts and scholars engaged in economic theory work, as well as relevant natural science and technology workers to participate in research work"
The breeze is gentle by Furong Lake (芙蓉湖), and the Chengzhi Building (成智楼) is bustling with activity.
In January this year, Xiamen University (厦门大学) welcomed a high-end think tank seminar. Experts and scholars from the Development Research Center of the State Council (国务院发展研究中心), the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委宏观经济研究院), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) and other units gathered together to relive the scientific concepts and methods that run through the "Development Strategy" (发展战略), and exchanged views on the local development strategy of the "15th Five-Year Plan," putting forward forward-looking suggestions on the strategic focus of promoting high-quality development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
"In this 'Development Strategy' (发展战略), experts and scholars from Xiamen University (厦门大学) deeply participated in it, and many planning topics became the school's scientific research projects. Contributing to the national and local development strategies has become a fine tradition of Xiamen University (厦门大学)." Li Deguo (李德国), Deputy Dean of the School of Public Affairs of Xiamen University (厦门大学), who participated in the seminar, said.
Many teachers at Xiamen University (厦门大学) remember that in order to grasp the formulation of the "Development Strategy" (发展战略), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) often came to Xiamen University (厦门大学) to ask experts and scholars here for advice and to consult relevant materials in the library.
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) said in an interview after working in Zhejiang (浙江) that after arriving in Xiamen (厦门) from Hebei (河北), "these three years were a process of comprehensive learning, a very arduous and painstaking learning process."
During the leadership and formulation of the "Development Strategy" (发展战略), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at a special class work meeting: "The special team should work hard to learn and be brave in exploration. At the same time, it should also rely on the active cooperation of various departments and units in the city, and strive for the support of relevant universities and scientific research units, and adopt various methods to widely absorb elderly and middle-aged and young experts and scholars engaged in economic theory work, as well as relevant natural science and technology workers to participate in research work."
A task force composed of more than a dozen units, more than 100 experts, professors, and practical workers conducted in-depth research, found out the basic situation of Xiamen (厦门), and wrote hundreds of thousands of words of investigation materials.
"Jinping (近平), you are here again!" Zheng Jinmu (郑金沐) clearly remembers the scene when he followed Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) to Beijing (北京) to visit the famous economist Yu Guangyuan (于光远). Old Yu's kind greeting showed that Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) was not the first time to come to ask Old Yu for advice.
In order to widely listen to the opinions and suggestions of cadres and the masses in Xiamen (厦门), in October 1986, the Xiamen Daily (厦门日报) launched a征文 (zhēngwén) activity called "2000 - Xiamen in My Mind" (2000年——我心目中的厦门). Many submissions poured in, expressing the vision of the cadres and the masses in Xiamen (厦门) for the future. The opinions and suggestions in more than ten submissions were incorporated into the "Development Strategy" (发展战略).
Opening the door to seek advice and pooling wisdom and efforts, combining strengthening top-level design with adhering to asking the people for advice - from the local to the central government, this is Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平)'s consistent leadership method and working method.
"Secretary Xi (习书记) never sits idle in the office." Before coming to Xiamen (厦门), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), who was the Secretary of the Zhengding (正定) County Party Committee, often took his staff to set up tables on the street during the county town's market day and conduct surveys with the old people who came to the market. The gate of the county party committee office was always open, and old farmers carrying manure baskets came straight in to talk to Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平).
In the first year of working in Xiamen (厦门), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) spent at least 1/3 of his working time on research. At that time, transportation was inconvenient. In order to carry out research, he specially bought a locally produced "Wuyi" (武夷) brand bicycle and rode it to visit communities and streets. During the research, he was just like ordinary people. Once he sat down, he first communicated his feelings and then got to the point, without any airs.
Every time he went to a place, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) sat on small benches with everyone and talked cordially with the masses. Locals in Xiamen (厦门) like to make tea. The teacups have a layer of black tea stains due to years of use. "Many cadres who went to the countryside couldn't drink the teacups I served, but Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) picked up the cup and drank it. The villagers were very moved and told him everything from the bottom of their hearts." A farmer who received Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) that year said.
Time after time, going up high mountains, landing on islands, going down to the countryside, and entering farmers' homes, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) traveled almost all over Xiamen (厦门). Every time he went to a place, he took out his notebook and pen, listened carefully, and took notes carefully.
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) said: "There are three tricks to being a cadre: knowing the roads, knowing the neighbors, and knowing the characteristics. If you figure out what the characteristics and resources of that place are, you will have a good idea of the work."
From the local to the central government, from Liangjiahe (梁家河) to Zhongnanhai (中南海), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has consistently maintained this feeling of being rooted in the people, caring about their well-being, and being concerned about every single matter, never changing.
At a democratic life meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Zhongnanhai (中南海) must always be directly connected to the people."
Recalling his days as an educated youth, the General Secretary once said with deep feeling: "Being among the people makes me feel grounded, and being with the people gives me strength."
Deeply aware that "the people are the source of our strength," he has always insisted on seeking advice from the people and understanding their needs, and has always thought and worked together with the people.
Exploring the Path
"Reform carries risks when taking the first step, but the country needs someone to explore the path. If it is done well, it will provide experience for the country's future reforms and play a role in **纲举目张** (gāng jǔ mù zhāng - "lift the net by its main rope," to achieve order by grasping key links)."
Building a free port-type special economic zone is a clearly stated goal in the "Development Strategy."
In the mid-1980s, some people had different opinions on running special economic zones, worrying "whether it is engaging in capitalism." There were quite a few dissenting voices against developing a free port, the most open type of free trade zone.
"So, can socialist countries utilize and open free ports? The answer should be yes." Facing doubts, the "Development Strategy" clearly stated: "In the global trend of reform and opening up, conducting some exploratory experiments on the feasibility of our country utilizing and opening free ports not only meets the requirements of developing a socialist economy but also conforms to the trend of world economic development."
Special economic zones bear the important task of being pioneers in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Exploring the path means being unprecedented and starting anew, meaning facing various risks, contradictions, problems, and challenges.
At a Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee meeting, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) firmly said, "Reform carries risks when taking the first step, but the country needs someone to explore the path. If it is done well, it will provide experience for the country's future reforms and play a role in **纲举目张** (gāng jǔ mù zhāng - "lift the net by its main rope," to achieve order by grasping key links)."
**摸着石头过河** (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "crossing the river by feeling the stones," to proceed with caution by feeling one's way) requires courage, wisdom, and action.
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) led members of the research group to Singapore for investigation and organized the first international seminar on "export processing zones and free ports" in the country, accumulating relevant international materials and data for Xiamen (厦门).
"We must base ourselves on China's reality and Xiamen's (厦门) reality. We cannot completely copy the Singapore model, let alone the Hong Kong (香港) model. We can use them as important references." Under the direct leadership of Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), Xiamen (厦门), based on its own conditions, proposed specific ideas for implementing certain free port policies, in order to explore a new path for the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics.
The first step is to establish and improve the bonded warehouse area located in the Huli (湖里) Dongdu (东渡) port area and carry out entrepot trade.
The second step is to replace the bonded warehouse area with a free trade zone, expand entrepot trade, and increase business activities.
The third step is a free port with limited opening of the entire island.
Based on a pragmatic analysis of the national, provincial, and municipal conditions, the "Development Strategy" proposed a "three-step" strategic concept for building Xiamen (厦门) into a "free port-type special economic zone" and clearly required that "administrative and economic system reforms must move forward by leaps and bounds."
"This is the initial exploration of a free port development path with Chinese characteristics, which is highly pioneering nationwide." Lin Zhaohui (林朝晖), former vice president and first-level inspector of the Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party School, believes that the "three-step" strategic concept has promoted the iterative upgrade of the Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zone from an export processing zone, bonded zone, zone-port linkage, bonded port area, to a free trade pilot zone, and the degree of opening to the outside world has continued to increase.
Today's Xiamen (厦门) Free Trade Zone is a key part of the "three-step" strategic concept and is exploring the path for high-level opening to the outside world.
Following the concepts and paths proposed in the "Development Strategy," the Xiamen (厦门) Free Trade Zone is deepening institutional opening-up, striving to build a higher-level free trade pilot zone, and continuously exploring and pioneering the path for promoting high-level opening to the outside world. Since its establishment, the Xiamen (厦门) Free Trade Zone has cumulatively launched 632 innovative measures, 153 of which are the first in the country, and 31 reform and innovation measures have been replicated and promoted nationwide.
"The achievements of the Free Trade Zone today are precisely because it has always followed the direction guided by the 'Development Strategy' and adhered to drawing a blueprint to the end." The person in charge of the Xiamen (厦门) Free Trade Zone Management Committee stated, "The Free Trade Zone will continue to explore and improve the high-level opening-up system and mechanism, and realize the 'three-step' strategic concept as soon as possible."
First proposed "gradually developing offshore financial business at an appropriate time"; first proposed the concept of "ecological niche," clarifying that while developing the special zone economy, it is necessary to prevent environmental pollution and maintain ecological balance... Opening the "Development Strategy," the spirit of exploration of "daring to be the first in the world" is reflected everywhere.
The first airport in the country built using foreign government loans - Xiamen Gaoqi Airport (厦门高崎机场);
Pioneered the reform of the state-owned asset management system, with 3 local state-owned enterprises entering the top 200 of the world's top 500;
Pioneered the implementation of the "three certificates in one" reform in the free trade pilot zone, and evolved into "multiple certificates in one," and the Xiamen (厦门) experience was promoted nationwide;
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Over the past 30 years, one "first" after another, one "pioneer" after another, has witnessed the historical leap of Xiamen's (厦门) reform and opening up. What the "Development Strategy" has left to Xiamen (厦门) is not only earth-shaking changes but also the determination and courage to "**杀出一条血路**" (shā chū yī tiáo xiě lù - "fight a bloody path," to blaze a trail through difficulties) and "**闯出一条新路**" (chuǎng chū yī tiáo xīn lù - "break out a new path," to forge a new path).
"Currently, Xiamen (厦门) is actively serving and integrating into the national strategy, making every effort to build a node city for a new development pattern, consolidating and upgrading the external circulation level, innovating and enhancing the internal circulation power, and promoting the connection and mutual promotion of dual circulation in Xiamen (厦门)." Sun Jianhui (孙建辉), director of the Xiamen (厦门) Development and Reform Commission, said that it is the "expanding opening to the outside world and seizing the implementation of certain free port policies" proposed in the "Development Strategy" that has become Xiamen's (厦门) "key move" in opening to the outside world.
"The first person to eat crabs is also contributing," and "we must combine top-level design with **摸着石头过河** (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "crossing the river by feeling the stones," to proceed with caution by feeling one's way)." Less than two weeks after the trip to Fujian (福建), General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) remarks at the opening ceremony of the special seminar for leading provincial and ministerial-level cadres to study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee were thought-provoking.
When Xi Jinping (习近平) first came to Guangdong (广东) for local inspection after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he clearly stated: "It cannot be said that we had to **摸着石头过河** (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "crossing the river by feeling the stones," to proceed with caution by feeling one's way) in the early stage of reform and opening up, and now we can no longer mention **摸着石头过河** (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "crossing the river by feeling the stones," to proceed with caution by feeling one's way)."
In those years, the construction of the Xiamen (厦门) Special Zone was a pioneering undertaking; today, "Chinese-style modernization is a pioneering undertaking unprecedented in history, which requires us to explore and innovate." From "**摸着石头过河**" (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "crossing the river by feeling the stones," to proceed with caution by feeling one's way) to "we must combine top-level design with **摸着石头过河**" (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "crossing the river by feeling the stones," to proceed with caution by feeling one's way), this world-renowned path of China's reform and opening up is becoming more and more firm.
"The methodology of reform of '**摸着石头过河**' (mō zhe shí tou guò hé - "crossing the river by feeling the stones," to proceed with caution by feeling one's way) is not outdated and will not be outdated."
Reform
"The task of the special economic zone is reform. The special economic zone was born for reform, and we must shoulder this responsibility."
"Xiamen (厦门) shelters guests from five continents, and the gate welcomes thousands of hectares of waves." Xiamen (厦门) has been a port for trade and prosperity since ancient times, and it is also a gateway for opening up and cooperation.
With the tide of reform and opening up surging, how can Xiamen (厦门), which has become a special economic zone, stand at the forefront?
"Implement the policy of reform and opening up, and make full use of certain free port policies" and "take the road of participating in the international economic division of labor and exchange, and strive to build Xiamen (厦门) into a multi-functional socialist economic special zone with free port characteristics by the end of this century." The guiding ideology of the "Development Strategy" fully reflects the requirements of the era of reform and opening up.
"Without reform and opening up, socialism cannot progress" and "the task of the special economic zone is reform. The special economic zone was born for reform, and we must shoulder this responsibility." Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has a clear attitude towards reform.
Reform requires a correct understanding of the relationship between a region and the overall situation.
"Xiamen (厦门) is the Xiamen (厦门) of the whole country, and Xiamen (厦门) should be a window for the people of the whole country." Both focusing on the needs of the overall situation and basing on the capabilities of a region, this line of logic is particularly clear in the book "Development Strategy."
"Finding the strategic positioning in the overall national situation" to plan has both the epistemology of "how to see" and the methodology of "how to do."
"The economic center of southern Fujian (闽南)," "the gateway to my country's southeast coast," "the bridge to realize the reunification of the motherland," and "the base for my country's connection with the Asia-Pacific economic region" - the strategic position of Xiamen (厦门) in the "Development Strategy" is outlined, and reform measures are connected one by one.
Planning a region from the overall situation and serving the overall situation with a region is the way of governance and also the strategy of reform.
"The Party Central Committee looks at problems from a broad perspective. What is the most important mission of a place?" Wherever he goes, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) often keeps a map by his side. Whenever he goes to a place, he combines it with the local reality and gives careful guidance and deployment on the local practice of Chinese-style modernization.
Reform requires the clarity and courage to face problems directly.
"The construction of infrastructure lags behind the needs of the development of the special zone";
"The existing product structure, market structure, and technical structure are not reasonable enough";
"The contradiction between the original economic system and the operating mechanism of the special zone economy";
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Analyzing both favorable conditions and constraints, the lines reveal a clear problem orientation. This pragmatic attitude makes the "Development Strategy" highly targeted and guiding.
The construction of the special zone lacks funds. Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) took the lead in promoting financial system reform. Xiamen (厦门) established my country's first Sino-foreign joint venture bank in 1985 - Xiamen International Bank (厦门国际银行). The "Development Strategy" proposed that "financial reform must be deepened to create a market-based financial environment";
The development of the special zone requires transportation first. Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) was in charge of Xiamen Airlines (厦门航空公司) and strived for various favorable conditions for the development of this my country's first joint venture and enterprise-operated airline. The "Development Strategy" proposed "expanding the airport and extending the runway";
To optimize the business environment of the special zone, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) took the lead in studying and formulating a series of policies and measures to promote the reform of the government management system of the special economic zone, simplify enterprise approval, and delegate power to enterprises. The "Development Strategy" proposed the principle of "small government, big society" for the first time in the country and established a "streamlined, efficient, clean, and united government";
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"Reform is generated by the pressure of problems and is deepened in the continuous solution of problems." The course of more than 40 years of reform and opening up is a process of constantly discovering problems, analyzing problems, and solving problems. Since the new era, comprehensively deepening reform has been continuously advancing in one problem after another.
What must be changed in reform and what cannot be changed, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) thought very deeply and thoroughly from the beginning.
When leading the formulation of the "Development Strategy," Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) said to the comrades in the Strategic Office: "We are engaged in special economic zones, not political special zones. We are engaged in socialism. The development strategy must reflect this, strictly grasp the direction of strategic development, adhere to the direction of socialism, build Xiamen (厦门) into a socialist economic special zone with free port characteristics, and write this point into the guiding ideology for formulating the development strategy. By the end of this century, build Xiamen (厦门) into a multi-functional socialist economic special zone with free port characteristics."
"Our reform has a direction and principles."
In the magnificent reform practice of the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must adhere to one principle in our reform: we must resolutely change what should be changed, and we must not change what should not be changed."
Having traveled thousands of mountains and rivers, we still need to climb mountains and wade through rivers.
From reform to comprehensively deepening reform, and then to further comprehensively deepening reform, "We should firmly believe that China's path of reform and opening up will definitely succeed."
Responsibility
"As a leader, we must not only base ourselves on the present but also focus on the long term, be willing to do groundwork, and be willing to grasp unfinished matters."
Gulangyu (鼓浪屿), the Bagua Building (八卦楼) is shaded by green trees. In the hall, the organist sits upright, and the sound of the pipe organ, sometimes low and sometimes high-pitched, comes. This is the only organ museum in China and one of the best in the world.
One day in 1986, Gong Jie (龚洁), then curator of the Xiamen (厦门) Museum, found Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), who was attending a meeting in Gulangyu (鼓浪屿). At that time, Gong Jie (龚洁) was worried about the renovation funds for the Bagua Building (八卦楼).
"How much is missing?"
"300,000 yuan."
"Come and get it tomorrow." Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) made a decision on the spot.
"At that time, Xiamen (厦门) needed development everywhere and was short of money everywhere. This 300,000 yuan was very precious and completely reversed the fate of this century-old building." said Lin Yuefeng (林跃锋), director of the Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) Management Committee.
The "Development Strategy" specifically analyzed "the social and cultural value of Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) and its tourism development and utilization," and proposed that "it is very necessary to regard Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) as a national treasure and uniformly plan its construction and protection at this height."
In 2017, Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, and General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made an important instruction: "Carefully protect the cultural heritage left by our ancestors and better inherit the historical context."
Today, the Bagua Building (八卦楼) has become one of the 53 core elements of Gulangyu's (鼓浪屿) World Cultural Heritage. This small island of about 1.88 square kilometers has become a "cultural highland." The "Sea Garden," this plan and vision of the "Development Strategy" for Gulangyu (鼓浪屿), has long become a reality.
Today's Gulangyu (鼓浪屿) and today's Xiamen (厦门) have already undergone a "new look" compared with the time when the "Development Strategy" was formulated more than 30 years ago. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) lamented that "it is better than we imagined at that time."
Shortly after taking office in Xiamen (厦门), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) said at a meeting: "I came to work in Xiamen (厦门) and used Mr. Sun Yat-sen's (孙中山) 'Don't aspire to be a high official, but aspire to do great things' to encourage myself. The position has changed, but the style cannot change."
Leading the formulation of the "Development Strategy" is undoubtedly a major event in Comrade Xi Jinping's (习近平) mind. However, at that time, the term "development strategy" was still unfamiliar to many people, and studying the development strategy was also a painstaking and difficult task that was difficult to see results.
But in Comrade Xi Jinping's (习近平) view, being an official in one term and benefiting one party, "as a leader, we must not only base ourselves on the present but also focus on the long term, be willing to do groundwork, and be willing to grasp unfinished matters." This is also his consistent adherence and persistence.
"Now some leaders are rushing to do something during their tenure, and as soon as the results come out, they leave immediately. But Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) showed a spirit of being willing to do groundwork and being willing to plant trees for future generations in the 1980s, which is very remarkable." said a comrade who participated in the formulation of the "Development Strategy."
Not greedy for temporary achievements, not seeking temporary fame, this is the due meaning of establishing a correct view of achievements that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized, and it is also the mind and responsibility that Chinese Communists should have.
"We Communists do business and create achievements for the benefit of the people, not for personal promotion and loss."
"To do practical things for the people" - when he left the Loess Plateau at the age of 22, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) already had a firm life goal. In his heart, the people are always placed in the highest position.
"To enable the people of the city to get more benefits from investing in the construction of the special zone" - opening this 300-page "Development Strategy," this sentence is particularly eye-catching, consistent with "Let the fruits of modernization benefit all the people more and more fairly," consistent and consistent.
A one-square-meter family laboratory, a student-managed vegetable garden, building a book-filled campus... The Xiamen New Education School's campus is new, and its teaching philosophy is refreshing. Principal Wang Yimin (王益民) introduced that the school takes "living a happy and complete educational life" as its philosophy, allowing more children to enjoy the benefits of education; and the school's student body is mainly children of migrant workers, "To integrate new citizens into Xiamen (厦门), we must first integrate the children into Xiamen (厦门)."
Ten years to grow trees, a hundred years to cultivate people. The "Development Strategy" mentioned that "Xiamen (厦门) education is the most important basic project in the construction of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone," and set goals for basic education, vocational and technical education, higher education, and adult education in 2000.
Focusing on promoting the construction of the urban system, so that urban and rural residents can share a better life; focusing on protecting the ecological environment, ensuring that the people share a livable ecological environment; focusing on cultivating and introducing talents, and placing education in an important strategic position... The "Development Strategy" focuses on "long-term foundation and long-term plans," proposing precise strategies and pragmatic measures, all aimed at "enabling the people of the city to gain more benefits from participating in the construction of the special zone."
"We must remember the word 'people' in front of the government." This sentence, said by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) when he worked in Fujian (福建), is still remembered by local cadres.
When working in Fujian (福建), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) noticed a detail: many years later, the younger generations in Dongshan County (东山县) still "first worshiped Gu Gong (谷公), then worshiped their ancestors" during festivals. He was deeply moved and inspired, and called on everyone to learn from the spirit of Gu Wenchang (谷文昌), "being an official for a term, benefiting one side (为官一任，造福一方)."
In October 2024, during his inspection in Dongshan County (东山县), Fujian (福建), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) specifically visited the Gu Wenchang Memorial Hall, and said earnestly: "When we learn from his deeds, we should not only look up to him, but also learn from the virtuous, and be like him in character and governance, 'being an official for a term, benefiting one side (为官一任，造福一方),' only by taking this path is the right way in the world."
Accumulating the merits of inches to achieve the benefits of thousands of years, "this kind of 'latent achievement' is the greatest 'obvious achievement'."
Guidance
"A good blueprint, as long as it is scientific, realistic, and in line with the people's wishes, everyone should work on it generation after generation."
Half the city is filled with spring scenery and flowers, and ten thousand acres of waves embrace the sea. Looking up, there is a refreshing blue, and looking around, there is a pleasant green.
Yundang Lake (筼筜湖) has witnessed the determination and resolve to "draw a blueprint to the end (一张蓝图绘到底)."
Yundang Lake (筼筜湖) was once a long and narrow bay that penetrated into Xiamen Island (厦门岛). A 1.7-kilometer seawall separated the lake from the sea. In the 1980s, factories stood all around, discharging sewage directly, and the stench filled the air.
"When will Yundang Lake (筼筜湖) no longer be black and smelly?" The people's question is also a question of ecology.
The "Development Strategy" "prescribed the right remedy," "concentrating certain financial, material, and scientific research resources to actively manage Yundang Lake (筼筜湖)," "adopting a combination of engineering measures and biological measures to make the lake clear and allow organisms to reproduce appropriately," and even very foresightedly proposed that "domestic waste should be classified and treated by incineration, deep burial, or used as basic fertilizer."
"Proposing such a concept in the early days of reform and opening up was extremely strategic," said Qiu Shuilin (丘水林), a special researcher at the Fujian Provincial Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Following the 20-character policy of "governing the lake according to law, intercepting and treating pollution, clearing silt and building banks, revitalizing the water body, and beautifying the environment" proposed by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平), year after year, by 2023, Xiamen (厦门) had carried out five phases of comprehensive renovation of Yundang Lake (筼筜湖), with a cumulative investment of nearly 2 billion yuan.
"A good blueprint, as long as it is scientific, realistic, and in line with the people's wishes, everyone should work on it generation after generation, and what is done is real achievement, which the vast number of cadres and the masses will see and remember."
Guided by the "Development Strategy," Xiamen (厦门) has successively formulated and implemented the "Xiamen (厦门) Implementation Outline for Accelerating the Construction of a Bay-type City," the "Xiamen (厦门) Resolution on Accelerating the Integrated Construction of Inside and Outside the Island," the "Beautiful Xiamen (厦门) Strategic Plan," the "Xiamen (厦门) High-Quality, High-Value, Modern, and International City Development Strategy (2020-2035)," and the "Xiamen (厦门) 'One, Two, Three' Strategic Plan," striving to turn the grand blueprint drawn by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) for Xiamen (厦门) into a beautiful reality.
On the first working day after the Spring Festival holiday this year, Xiamen (厦门) launched a special action with the theme of "Striving and Forging Ahead," deploying major breakthroughs in projects to shape new industrial advantages and accumulate new momentum for development.
Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) once said: "Xiamen (厦门) should further overcome islander consciousness, avoid indulging in comfort, make cadres nervous, and work hard and quickly." "Xiamen (厦门) needs to develop, develop, and develop again, it cannot be content with small wealth, it cannot stop at superficial attempts, it must have great ambition and great vision."
"To allow the people of Xiamen (厦门) to be proud of the city of Xiamen (厦门) for a long time, cadres cannot be proud; to allow the people to live comfortably in this city for a long time, cadres cannot be comfortable." The Xiamen (厦门) Municipal Party Committee has repeatedly emphasized that party members and cadres should not be complacent or slack.
"Hard work, pioneering innovation, inclusiveness, and harmonious atmosphere" are the Xiamen (厦门) spirit proposed by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平). From a coastal defense town to a high-quality, high-value, modern, and international city, Xiamen (厦门) relies on this spirit; in the new era and on the new journey, Xiamen (厦门) still needs this spirit.
After leaving Xiamen (厦门), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) has always been concerned about the development of Xiamen (厦门), and has also recalled his experiences in Xiamen (厦门) many times—
"During the three years of working in Xiamen (厦门), I felt deeply and benefited greatly. The work in the special zone is indeed a very valuable experience in my life."
"I was once a special zone person, Xiamen (厦门) is my second hometown, I am particularly proud of the achievements made by Xiamen (厦门), and I have been inspired and encouraged by it."
In March 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said emotionally during his inspection in Fujian (福建): "I have deep feelings for the mountains, rivers, plants, and trees here. After leaving Fujian (福建), I have always paid attention to Fujian (福建). Some of the thoughts and explorations during my work here are still being thought about and deepened in my later work, and some have been practiced on a larger scale across the country."
"Fujian (福建) is an important birthplace and practice ground of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) worked in Fujian (福建) for 17 and a half years, creating a series of important concepts and major practices, including leading the formulation of the '1985-2000 Xiamen (厦门) Economic and Social Development Strategy.' Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made a series of important speeches, important instructions, and important approvals on the work of Fujian (福建), personally drawing a grand blueprint for building a new Fujian (福建) with a vibrant mechanism, superior industries, rich people, and a beautiful ecology, and earnestly hoping that we will strive to be the first in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. We will keep our entrustment in mind, forge ahead, stick to our goals, draw a blueprint to the end (一张蓝图绘到底), blaze a new trail in promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, strive to be the first in comprehensively deepening reform and expanding high-level opening up, set an example in promoting coordinated regional development and urban-rural integration, and make long-term efforts to enhance cultural influence and showcase the new image of Fujian (福建), and strive to write a new chapter in the construction of a new Fujian (福建)," said Zhou Zuyi (周祖翼), Secretary of the Fujian (福建) Provincial Party Committee.
Holding the Milky Way to wash the sky blue, the mountains and rivers of Min (闽) are new and rich.
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"Realizing the Chinese Dream is a historical relay race."
From the transformation of Egret Island (鹭岛) to the governance of China, adhering to the "strategic guiding role of national development planning," the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics continues to break new ground.
As the "14th Five-Year Plan" is about to conclude, the "15th Five-Year Plan" is being planned and prepared.
Accurately grasping the phased requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, focusing on the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, closely focusing on the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization, reasonably determining goals and tasks and proposing ideas and measures in one field after another... "With goals, plans, and strategies," Chinese-style modernization is "advancing step by step in a solid manner (一步一个脚印扎扎实实向前推进)."
(Fujian Daily reporter Lin Liming (林丽明), Xiamen Daily reporter Wu Huiquan (吴慧泉) participated in the writing)
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Conducting experiential research makes it easier to find the problems, pain points, and bottlenecks that are not easily noticed while sitting in the office, thereby promoting the elimination of governance blind spots and improving the refinement of services.
Shanghai (上海), Wuhan (武汉) in Hubei (湖北) Province, and other places have launched customized bus services; Ma'anshan (马鞍山) in Anhui (安徽) Province, Dongying (东营) in Shandong (山东) Province, and other cities have announced the suspension of public bicycle services. Through these two recent news items about public transportation, one can glean some insights into how to provide good urban public services.
First, let's look at buses. In the past, opening regular bus routes took a long time from planning to approval, which could not meet the diverse travel needs in a timely manner. Now, residents of Shanghai (上海) can submit "personal customization" applications through the "Suishenxing (随申行)" platform. Once enough people sign up for each bus, a customized bus route can be opened in as little as 3 days. This is using the power of the "visible hand" to solve the urgent needs and expectations of the people.
Then, let's look at public bicycles. To solve the "last mile" travel problem, compared with emerging options such as shared bicycles, the original urban public bicycles were not flexible enough and had low operating efficiency. The government-led public service has taken the opportunity to withdraw from the market, and the "visible hand" can devote more energy to optimizing supervision and creating a good development environment.
The "one step forward and one step back" of public transportation services reflects, from one perspective, the coordinated and progressive approach of the government's "visible hand" being proactive and effective, and the market's "invisible hand" being fully utilized.
To improve the efficiency of people's livelihood services, the "visible hand" should not "overstep its bounds," but should respect market laws more and give better play to the role of the "invisible hand." In Gusu District (姑苏区) of Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, where the population over 60 years old accounts for more than 30%, most community elderly canteens are currently operated by companies. By simply recharging to become a member, each elderly person can get a discount of 2 yuan per meal, and can also enjoy services such as meal delivery, housekeeping, and health rehabilitation at preferential prices. The elderly enjoy convenient services, the enterprises have profit margins, the government departments do a good job of supervision, and the social undertakings are of higher quality and more sustainable. Adapting to local conditions and innovating institutional design and cooperation models can effectively transform social innovation and creativity into the ability to improve public services.
To improve the quality of people's livelihood services, the "visible hand" should "fill the gap" in a timely manner, and promote the handling of a category of things by solving one thing. The Shenzhen (深圳) Municipal Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau in Guangdong (广东) Province has connected all the city's sports venues to create a "one-click reservation" platform. Citizens can use their mobile phone clients to reserve venues, pay fees, and navigate online to achieve staggered sharing. The platform also regularly issues preferential coupons to encourage everyone to "invest" in their health. The government builds the platform, revitalizes existing resources, and all sectors of society work together to improve venue services and the environment in response to user feedback. The construction of people's livelihood is constantly upgraded in the process of interaction and exchange between the government and enterprises, and between the government and the people.
To enhance the accessibility of people's livelihood services, the "visible hand" cannot be "absent," and must adhere to goal orientation and problem orientation, and give full play to its role in providing basic security. It should be noted that some public services are now criticized, often not because they are not available, but because they are not convenient enough or practical enough. To fill the gaps that the "invisible hand" cannot reach and provide people's livelihood services to the hearts of the people, it is necessary to develop the consciousness of thinking from another's perspective and have more "people's perspective" of understanding.
To address people's urgent needs, the "Tianjin Municipality Temporary Assistance Measures (天津市临时救助办法)," which came into effect this year, broke the original policy's restrictions on the applicant's place of household registration. Families or individuals who encounter sudden, urgent, or catastrophic difficulties in Tianjin (天津) can directly apply for temporary assistance in the place where the emergency occurred, which not only expands the scope of assistance coverage, but also makes emergency assistance more efficient.
Putting oneself in others' shoes, after a cadre from Changhe Street (长河街道) in Binjiang District (滨江区) of Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, conducted an experiential research, he found that riders simply did not have time to use charging piles during work, let alone go far away from the activity area to take a break or borrow an umbrella. Therefore, the street turned to building stations in areas with dense rider activity, adding battery exchange cabinets, and increasing related services such as electric vehicle maintenance, and the stations became very popular.
The key to people's livelihood construction lies in attention to detail. Conducting experiential research on matters related to serving the people and enterprises in this region and unit makes it easier to find the problems, pain points, and bottlenecks that are not easily noticed while sitting in the office, thereby promoting the elimination of governance blind spots and improving the refinement of services.
The "Opinions on Further Ensuring and Improving People's Livelihood and Focusing on Solving the Urgent Needs and Expectations of the People (关于进一步保障和改善民生 着力解决群众急难愁盼的意见)," issued in March this year, put forward 10 practical measures to solve the worries, annoyances, and concerns of the people in the fields of education, medical care, and elderly care, and to promote a more fair, balanced, inclusive, and accessible people's livelihood construction. Adhering to the better combination of an active government and an effective market, continuously improving governance effectiveness and improving service levels, and more heart-warming practices of "investing in people" will surely support the "steady happiness" of more than 1.4 billion people.
Return to TopBy: 叶润清
"Choose one thing, live a lifetime." Since choosing archeology as my major when I entered university in 1986, I have never left archeological exploration and cultural relic protection. For this career, it can be said that my original aspiration has not changed, my sincerity is always present, and my infatuation is complete.
Archeology is about exploring the unknown, seeking answers in the "book of the earth without words," and finding the universe in broken fragments. When I first entered school, I heard that Mr. Zou Heng (邹衡), a teacher, often pieced together pottery shards in the winter night until the rooster crowed at dawn. At that time, I only felt it was a legendary story. It wasn't until later, during an archeological internship, that I pieced together broken pottery shards from the Western Zhou Dynasty into pottery for the first time. The shock and emotion at that moment were beyond words. I understood, believed, and inherited that perseverance.
I still remember that at that time, I carefully washed and dried the pottery shards, and classified them according to pottery quality, pottery color, and decoration. Unconsciously, the rim was there, the belly pieces were there, and the bottom was also there. This is a complete cultural relic! Gently stroking the patterns and cracks on the pottery with my fingertips, it felt like I had traveled through thousands of years, looking at its maker from across the long river of time and space. I realized that cultural relics are not isolated devices; behind them are living people and real histories. The ancients handed the soil to the flames and fired it into vessels. Today, we receive the remaining warmth with our palms and restore it to objects. What is transmitted in between is the temperature of civilization.
Archeology is also about excavating history, drawing the original appearance through long years, and guarding the roots of civilization to pass on the torch. Faced with different exploration situations, in addition to always having curiosity, we must also hold a sense of awe. Sometimes we must restrain the urge to explore urgently, reduce inappropriate "disturbances," and avoid possible damage.
For example, at the Shahe Warring States-Western Han Dynasty Cemetery in Zongyang County, Anhui (安徽枞阳县), we pioneered the "green" excavation method, which can not only directly reflect the spatial relationship between the tomb pit and the mound, but also maximize the preservation of the topographic features of the excavation area. In the Dongyang Eastern Wu Tomb in Dangtu County, Anhui (安徽当涂县), we tried the "minimum intervention" excavation method, preserving as much information as possible about the tomb structure, such as brick chambers and backfill, so as to achieve the best results in later protection and display. Combining theory with practice, thinking one step further with systematic thinking, and thinking one level deeper with a global perspective, can we better continue the historical and cultural context in continuous innovation and exploration.
Deciphering the code of civilization requires generations to pass it on. As an "archeological craftsman," I deeply know that my responsibility is not only limited to on-site excavation, but also to passing on the fire and cultivating talents. Soon after arriving at the Institute of Archeology, I actively participated in and presided over field internships for students from multiple universities, passing on the spirit of "insisting on the scene and rushing to the front line." Interest is the best teacher. In order to help students strengthen their ideals, I carefully explained to them the practical significance and extraordinary fun of field archeology, such as the infinite charm of stratigraphy, the magical use of typology, and the help of field basic skills to thesis writing. Later, some students summarized that there is a realm in field archeology, which is to be happy in it. What does this mean?
The Chinese civilization, which has lasted for more than 5,000 years and is still new, has accumulated a profound history and splendid culture. The more archeological excavations and the more historical research I do, the more I marvel at the wisdom, culture, and traditions contained in it, and I deeply feel that I have the responsibility and obligation to popularize science and let the public know more about archeological knowledge. Since 2021, the Anhui Provincial Institute of Archeology (安徽省文物考古研究所) has joined forces with multiple units to carry out the public welfare activity of "Anhui Archeology Enters Primary and Secondary Schools." We pay attention to telling archeological stories in a scene-based, situational, and easy-to-understand language. Many children listen attentively, and some even sigh, "It turns out that our ancestors were so cool." Now, we are also trying to spread new archeological discoveries through short videos and other methods. Being able to pass on my knowledge to more archeology enthusiasts and increase the public's understanding and love of historical and cultural heritage is the happiness of us archeologists.
Is archeology hard? The answer is yes. But people, what they are competing for is energy and spirit. If the spirit is there, you can do well. Think about the archeological site in the moonlight, where starlight and lamplight are intertwined, and pottery shards sparkle in the soil. Such a picture is full of poetry. I will retire in another year, but I will continue to struggle, constantly seek in the depths of history, and strive to contribute to the archeological cause.
(The author is the director of the Anhui Provincial Institute of Archeology (安徽省文物考古研究所), interviewed and compiled by Li Junjie (李俊杰), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 卢 涛
In the sweltering summer, sun protection clothing has once again become a popular item in the clothing market. Searching for "sun protection clothing" on shopping platforms, you can find a wide selection of slim-fit and loose-cut styles, as well as integrated face mask and hat designs, extra-long ankle-length cloak styles, and ultraviolet protection factors that provide important references for purchasing. If we turn back the clock 20 years, people would have rarely heard of sun protection clothing. The continuous "new arrivals" in clothing reflect the changes and evolution of trends, from which we can hear the rhythm of the times.
Clothing is related to people's basic living needs and is a concrete manifestation of life scenes and concepts. China can produce more than 70 billion pieces of clothing every year, which can provide more than 8 pieces of clothing for everyone in the world. The "abundance" of clothing provides fertile ground for the "newness" of trends, outlining a contemporary snapshot of a better life.
As life gets better and better, clothing is constantly being renewed. Comfortable and durable cycling apparel, waterproof and warm mountaineering clothing, and versatile camping outfits have become the "favorites" of some people, reflecting the vigorous rise of outdoor sports; the selection of sun protection clothing, yoga apparel, and professional sportswear is becoming increasingly rich, reflecting the deep-rooted concept of health... Each piece of clothing is like a concrete representation of the timeline, recording the subtle changes in consumption trends and connecting the advancing pace of social life.
From ancient times to the present, in addition to the practical functions of keeping warm and covering the body, the stitches of clothing also sew together people's expression of beauty. From the Han Dynasty folk songs describing "long skirts with connected belts and wide sleeves with paired joy," to the Tang Dynasty poems praising "lotus leaf skirts tailored in one color," and then to the Song Dynasty lyrics singing "indigo shirts and apricot yellow skirts," the fluttering garments in the writings of literati and poets are like aesthetic letters traversing time and space, telling of the Chinese people's appreciation of the beauty of attire.
Today, clothing categories, styles, and combinations are constantly innovating. What changes is the aesthetic orientation, and what remains unchanged is people's desire and pursuit of beauty. Taking fashion trends as an example: "Canelé style" uses brown as the base, matched with low-saturation pink, blue, green, and other colors to create a fresh atmosphere; "dopamine style" collides various high-saturation colors to create full vitality; "Maillard color scheme" uses caramel-like colors to create a warm and mellow feeling... There are also "forest style," "Tyndall color scheme," and so on, which are too numerous to mention. Decorating the exterior with clothing, beautifying life, using outfits to highlight individuality and express oneself, the diverse styles blooming in the streets and alleys reflect the vigorous vitality of an era.
The popularity of "Guochao (国潮) style" in the clothing field is a vivid footnote to the inheritance and promotion of outstanding traditional Chinese culture and the continuous improvement of national cultural soft power. A survey of young people shows that 54.4% of young respondents would choose Guochao clothing as their first choice for daily wear. From more and more people wearing Hanfu (汉服) and Qipao (旗袍) walking through the streets, to silk and Yunjin (云锦) and other fabrics becoming selling points for clothing, and then to traditional patterns such as cloud patterns, Taotie (饕餮) patterns, and entwined lotus patterns being renewed in modern tailoring, the popularity of "new Chinese style" clothing demonstrates a profound cultural heritage and is a clear reflection of a more firm cultural confidence.
Clothing is a concrete expression of aesthetic and cultural symbols, behind which there is also the strong support of technological innovation. This year marks the 65th anniversary of the first Chinese ascent to Mount Everest (珠峰). Recently, reviewing relevant materials, I learned more about the difficulty of the ascent that year. At that time, the down-filled mountaineering suits, down sleeping bags, and other equipment required for mountaineering were all purchased from abroad. Times have changed, and now, various domestic clothing "black technologies" are emerging one after another. From intelligent temperature-controlled clothing automatically adapting to extreme environments, to ultra-light and high-strength fabrics extremely reducing the burden, and then to life sign monitoring systems safeguarding safety... New technologies empower and powerfully serve production and scientific research under extreme conditions, and are constantly responding to the new needs of consumers, weaving a bright future for the clothing industry.
Today, walking into many clothing factories, what you see is not only rotating sewing machines and workers sweating like rain, but also efficient and intelligent production lines. From AI design and automatic pattern making, to software intelligent matching and the application of bio-fibers to clothing manufacturing... Every inch of fabric upgrade interprets the power of innovation; every technological iteration demonstrates the broad space for the transformation of traditional manufacturing to new development. It is believed that these vibrant innovative forces will better empower the "beauty economy" and a better life, benefiting every consumer.
Woven together, threads become brocade, and there are many new stories in clothing. By continuously optimizing the quality of supply and better meeting the needs of the people, we see walking cultural cards from the myriad of clothing, read vivid science and technology articles, and hear the powerful footsteps of the development of the times.
Return to TopSince the beginning of this year, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) has continuously strengthened the protection of bird habitats and the monitoring of overwintering waterbirds, as well as law enforcement supervision, to safeguard migratory bird migration. At the same time, it has guided various regions to carry out themed publicity activities such as "Love Bird Week" in conjunction with the bird migration season, with more than 14 million people participating online and offline. These related measures have increased the protection of birds, enhanced the public's awareness of protection, and are conducive to forming a social atmosphere of "protecting birds is everyone's responsibility."
This is precisely:
Flying birds dance gracefully together,
The concept of treating all living things with kindness is kept in mind.
Do not say that living beings have nothing to do with oneself,
All things sing together in the same homeland.
Xu Zhiwen (徐之文)
Return to TopBy: 陈 江
Inside electronic stores, students are excitedly selecting their favorite electronic products; at major scenic spots, students holding admission tickets are lining up to wait for identity verification; at driving school registration offices, students are forming long queues... With the conclusion of the college entrance examination, the "post-exam economy" has become a popular consumption trend during the summer vacation. Students emerging from the examination halls are taking advantage of this time after the exam to enter society, relax, and learn skills.
Before the college entrance examination, students spent almost all their time on textbooks and on campus. After the exam, with more free time, many people begin to learn to make plans, design their own trips, and schedule driving lessons... Balancing leisure and enriching activities allows them to take a deep breath after a major exam in life.
This social practice class brought about by leisure time has significance far beyond consumption, entertainment, and recreation itself. Complete self-reliance is the first step for young people to learn to take responsibility. The free admission to scenic spots, special air tickets, and catering discounts enjoyed with the admission ticket are like "admission tickets" handed out by society. Taking this opportunity, students have a deeper and more comprehensive contact with society. Things that they didn't have time to understand in the past due to busy schoolwork can now be slowly appreciated.
Treating post-exam consumption as a preparatory course for entering society, rather than some kind of "reward," may be more meaningful. Making consumption choices yourself is like driving the car of desire. Knowing how to step on the gas is not enough; you also have to learn when to step on the brakes. If you only focus on enjoying the pleasure of "buy, buy, buy" without thinking about where the money comes from and how to spend it reasonably, you will miss the best opportunity to learn self-management.
The educational significance of the "post-exam economy" is that children begin to realize their social identity. Before the college entrance examination, "student" was their main identity label; now, they are beginning to be recognized by society as independent consumers. The admission ticket is transformed into a "pass" in specific consumption scenarios, allowing them to experience their social roles. The change in identity awareness brought about by "I have the final say" in how to consume is also a profound coming-of-age ceremony.
In this sense, the real value of the consumption boom triggered by the "post-exam economy" lies in creating suitable scenarios to guide students to establish correct consumption and values. Taking this opportunity, society and families may wish to take "consumption education" as an important lesson in the coming-of-age ceremony. When the noise fades away, the real mark of growth may be the financial awareness that young students begin to develop, or the professional direction that suddenly becomes clear during the journey. Post-exam consumption is not only about purchasing products and services, but more importantly, about exploring oneself, understanding the world, and trying to shoulder a little responsibility. This is the most precious gift of growth that the "post-exam economy" brings to students.
(Excerpted and edited from *Zhejiang Daily (浙江日报)*, originally titled "The Post-Exam Economy is a Consumption Education")
Return to TopBy: 李宇宏 赵宏伊
From smart navigation to AI digital humans and immersive light and shadow theaters, in recent years, digital intelligence technology has been integrated into the development of culture and tourism with unprecedented depth and breadth, giving rise to a series of new scenes and new services, bringing better experiences to consumers, and playing an important role in empowering the high-quality development of culture and tourism.
Digital transformation of excellent culture is an important means to expand the boundaries of culture and tourism. China has a vast territory and abundant resources, a long history, and has nurtured rich and colorful cultural resources. How to deeply explore and better present them? Fifteen heritage components are laid out in sequence, and users transform into game characters, immersing themselves in exploring the past and present of the Beijing Central Axis (北京中轴线), experiencing fun activities such as the construction of the Zhengyangmen Gate Tower (正阳门城楼)... Open the "Cloud Central Axis" (云上中轴) mini-program, click "Digital Central Axis · Microcosm" to enter the experience, and you can complete an online journey of the Beijing Central Axis. Digital intelligence technology, as a new quality productive force, can integrate excellent cultural resources on a wider range, deeper level, and higher level, and transform them into products and services that are popular with the public. Although online tours and viewing cannot replace personal experience, and digital resources cannot replace physical objects, they provide new choices for tourists and open up new paths for the inheritance and development of excellent culture.
The widespread application of digital intelligence technology has opened up new space for the integration of culture and tourism. The integration of culture and tourism is a systematic project, involving the processing and integration of cultural resources, the activation and inheritance of cultural genes, and the innovative application of narrative forms, not simply stacking them together. Digital intelligence technology can change the way of experiencing culture and tourism, forming deeper emotional interaction. The "Red Ribbon" (红飘带) of the Guizhou Long March Culture Digital Art Museum (贵州长征文化数字艺术馆) combines holographic images, mechanical stages, three-dimensional sound fields, and special-shaped displays to vividly restore historical scenes such as the Xiangjiang Battle (湘江战役), the Zunyi Conference (遵义会议), and climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing grasslands, creating an all-round immersive experience of "images everywhere, stories everywhere," using technological means to resonate the audience with the spirit of the Long March. With the help of digital intelligence technology, cultural resources are no longer static, but can be transformed into tourism projects that can be experienced, perceived, and touched, allowing tourists to enhance their tour experience and appreciate culture in a strong cultural atmosphere.
Digital intelligence technology is also conducive to enriching the supply of cultural and tourism products and services, and better meeting the diverse needs of consumers. Unlike the previous relatively single ways of group tours and visiting scenic spots, today's tourism formats and forms are more diverse. Facing different needs, digital intelligence technology has a lot to offer. For example, in study tours, many exhibition halls or scenic spots have added AR question-answering experience projects, which not only adds to the fun of touring and visiting, but also allows children to learn knowledge about history, culture, science and technology. For silver-haired tours, some scenic spots provide special services such as voice navigation and electronic maps to solve the problem of using smart devices for the elderly and customize relatively easy tour routes. In the future, personalized and diversified cultural and tourism needs will continue to increase, and digital intelligence technology will inevitably play a greater role in enhancing the cultural and tourism experience.
Technology makes life better and also makes culture and tourism more attractive. Combining the advantages of local cultural resources, applying new technologies around the real needs of tourists, and creating new products and new services will surely open up broader development space in the integration of culture and tourism and inject new impetus into high-quality development.
(Author's unit: School of Arts, Renmin University of China (中国人民大学艺术学院))
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Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 张博宇
He exhausted his family fortune, yet received his mother's praise; he insisted on resisting the Japanese, striking fear into the enemy; he vowed to never surrender, moving thousands of people; he generously faced death, accompanied by his wife and children. He was the renowned anti-Japanese general – Wang Fengge (王凤阁).
Wang Fengge (王凤阁) was born into a teacher's family in Tonghua (通化), Jilin (吉林). As a child studying in a private school, he encouraged himself with "serving the country with utmost loyalty" and often played "Manjianghong" to express his lofty aspirations. After the September 18th Incident in 1931, Wang Fengge (王凤阁) witnessed the vast loss of territory and the suffering of the people, and resolutely participated in anti-Japanese national salvation activities.
To create anti-Japanese armed forces, he ran around raising donations and selling family property. In the mountainous areas of Hongtuyai (红土崖) in Linjiang (临江) and Luoquangou (大罗圈沟) in Tonghua County (通化县), he secretly organized an armed force of hundreds of people and raised the banner of resisting Japan and saving the country. In May 1932, Wang Fengge (王凤阁) led his troops to join the Liaoning People's Self-Defense Army (辽宁民众自卫军) led by anti-Japanese general Tang Juwu (唐聚五), serving as the commander of the 19th Route Army, and fought against the Japanese and puppet troops in Liuhe (柳河), Jinchuan (金川), Huinan (辉南), Hailong (海龙), Mengjiang (濛江), Linjiang (临江) and other places.
In the mountainous area of Tonghua (通化), Wang Fengge (王凤阁) built fortresses such as Guosongchuan (果松川) and Qidaogou (七道沟), using guerrilla tactics to deal with the Japanese and puppet troops. From 1933 to 1937, Wang Fengge's (王凤阁) troops relied on the favorable mountainous terrain to fight against the enemy and puppets hundreds of times, giving the enemy and puppets a heavy blow.
In the spring of 1937, Wang Fengge (王凤阁) endured unimaginable hardships under the bitter cold and the enemy's frenzied attacks. When he led his troops to the Laohudingzi (老虎顶子) fortress located at the junction of Tonghua (通化), Linjiang (临江), and Ji'an (辑安) counties, the Japanese and puppet troops followed closely. After three days and nights of fierce fighting, the Japanese and puppet troops still could not win, and they mobilized aircraft to drop incendiary bombs, turning the mountains and plains into a sea of fire.
Wang Fengge (王凤阁) led his troops to break through the enemy's artillery fire and retreated to Dongnancha (东南岔) near Da Luoquangou (大罗圈沟). At this time, Wang Fengge's (王凤阁) troops were hungry, cold, and exhausted, and in the face of overwhelming odds, they were finally killed and the entire army was wiped out. Wang Fengge (王凤阁), his wife, and son were unfortunately captured.
Fearing that he would run away, the enemy nailed his hands to a millstone with large iron nails. The captain of the Japanese military police used both soft and hard tactics to persuade Wang Fengge (王凤阁) to surrender, but Wang Fengge (王凤阁) firmly stated: "The head can be broken, the blood can flow, but surrender is impossible."
Seeing that they could not persuade Wang Fengge (王凤阁) to surrender, the enemy played the family card and asked the military police to send Wang Fengge's (王凤阁) young son, Xiaojinzi (小金子), sweets, biscuits, and rice balls to lure the child to surrender. Xiaojinzi (小金子), who was four years old, had been influenced by his family since childhood and also had a backbone. He said: "I am Chinese, I will not eat the food of a subjugated people, I will not eat Manchurian food."
In April 1937, Wang Fengge's (王凤阁) family was escorted to the execution ground. Before the execution, the Japanese military police took photos of Wang Fengge (王凤阁) and his wife in order to claim credit for themselves. When taking the photos, they deliberately took the young Xiaojinzi (小金子) aside to cover up the crime of sending a young child to the execution ground.
When they arrived at the execution ground, the enemy asked Wang Fengge (王凤阁) to go down into the large pit that had been dug in advance. At this time, he raised his head and shouted to the crowd who had been driven to watch: "I hope everyone will not be discouraged. If one Wang Fengge (王凤阁) falls, there will be thousands of Wang Fengges (王凤阁) standing up! If the hearts of the people do not die, the country will not perish! Fellow villagers, fight! Long live the Chinese nation!" The enemy asked him to kneel down, but he stood still. The executioner waved his knife at the hero, and a burst of hot blood shot into the sky. His wife, Zhang (张氏), picked up her child and jumped into the pit without hesitation, and was also brutally murdered by the enemy.
The hero's steadfastness and the enemy's brutality aroused the fighting spirit of many people. According to historical records, after the sacrifice of Wang Fengge's (王凤阁) family, although the Japanese invaders sent plainclothes men to patrol the execution ground day and night, traces of people's sacrifices were often found around the pit where the general was buried. Some people also joined the anti-Japanese national salvation team from then on.
Today, in the Tonghua (通化) area, the name of Wang Fengge (王凤阁) is well-known, and stories of their family's resistance to Japan and national salvation and their unwavering integrity are spread everywhere. The Yang Jingyu (杨靖宇) Martyrs Cemetery and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army Memorial Hall (东北抗日联军纪念馆) in Tonghua City (通化市) receive an average of more than 400,000 visitors every year. In the exhibition hall, the photos of Wang Fengge (王凤阁) and his wife before the execution often attract people to stop and watch. In the photo, the couple looked ahead with firm expressions... Although the hero is gone, his integrity of "rather break the head than be a slave" inspires generations of people.
(Xinhua News Agency, Changchun (长春), June 29)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 易舒冉
In order to vigorously promote the spirit of the times of labor being glorious, skills being valuable, and creation being great, the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions released the advanced deeds of the "Most Beautiful Workers" for 2025 to the whole society.
Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟), Hu Xiping (胡喜平), Luo Minghao (罗明浩), Yang Jun (杨俊), Liu Yuhui (刘宇辉), Bin Shoupeng (宾守朋), Wang Rongrong (王荣荣), Wu Jianan (吴嘉楠), Yang Yanfeng (杨彦锋) and other nine "Most Beautiful Workers" have created extraordinary achievements through ordinary labor, and achieved their dreams in hard work, honest work, and creative work.
Pursuing Excellence and Helping the Development of Major National Instruments
Compressors are compared to the "industrial heart." Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟), a welder in the turbine assembly workshop of Shengu Group Co., Ltd. (沈鼓集团股份有限公司), is responsible for welding various "blood vessels"—engineering pipelines—to this "industrial heart."
"If you do it, do it well, and strive for perfection." This is what Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) often says to his apprentices. Since starting his career, Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) has successively completed the pipeline welding tasks for more than 20 national key projects, including China's first million-ton ethylene compressor unit, the first West-East Gas Pipeline compressor unit, and the first 100,000 air separation compressor unit. Up to now, none of the hundreds of pipelines welded by Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) have had any quality accidents.
In recent years, major national instruments have been transformed from blueprints into reality, from catching up to leading, which is inseparable from the dedication and pursuit of excellence of industrial workers.
Luo Minghao (罗明浩), chief technician of Jiangfeng Electronics Materials Co., Ltd. (江丰电子材料股份有限公司) in Ningbo, Zhejiang, has been engaged in the research of semiconductor material equipment and technology for nearly 20 years. "Core technologies cannot be bought or begged for. We have to rely on our own learning and exploration," said Luo Minghao (罗明浩).
In countless sleepless nights, Luo Minghao (罗明浩) and his colleagues solved a series of problems one by one, such as the high vacuum of the furnace body and the degassing of the aluminum liquid, the hydraulic control of the furnace body, the insulation control of the runner, the casting water temperature control, and the casting speed control, so that the first domestic high-purity aluminum refining and casting equipment was successfully operated.
Liu Yuhui (刘宇辉), an airborne information system expert at China Southern Airlines Co., Ltd. (中国南方航空股份有限公司) Engineering Technology Branch (Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Department), has been deeply involved in the field of aviation electronic technology and engineering for 29 years. He regards the difficulties in aircraft maintenance as his own interests and developed the "Aircraft Remote Diagnosis and Real-time Tracking System," breaking the foreign technology monopoly and winning more say and autonomy for Chinese airlines in the field of aircraft maintenance, which greatly improves the international competitiveness of domestic airlines.
"One person's strength is limited, and the power of unity is infinite." Liu Yuhui (刘宇辉) said that he wants to lead his colleagues to innovate and break through, and make more contributions to building a transportation powerhouse.
Based on Positions, Creating a Better Life
Domestic services are deeply integrated into people's lives. Wang Rongrong (王荣荣), a training lecturer at Shaanxi Kang Sao Domestic Service Co., Ltd. (陕西康嫂家政服务有限公司), became a childcare worker through participating in domestic service skills training.
"Nutritional meal preparation, scientific childcare, pediatric massage... Childcare workers need to learn various professional skills." From the beginning of her career, Wang Rongrong (王荣荣) often encouraged herself. With her excellent skills and high-quality service, Wang Rongrong (王荣荣) quickly won praise from customers.
Later, Wang Rongrong (王荣荣) returned to her hometown and devoted herself to the domestic service training business, training more than 800 senior domestic service talents and driving employment for more than 2,000 people, writing a wonderful chapter of "every profession produces its own leading figures" with practical actions.
Yang Jun (杨俊), director of the Jiangxi Gannan Art Creation Research Institute (江西赣南艺术创作研究所), has been rooted in the front line of art creation for decades, striving to do a good job in the creation and performance of excellent works and the inheritance and development of Gannan Tea-picking Opera. In recent years, Yang Jun (杨俊) has organized and implemented professional actor training for more than 2,000 people, and excavated, collected, and sorted out 52 traditional drama texts of Gannan Tea-picking Opera, 23 male tune melodies of Gannan Tea-picking Opera, and more than 400 traditional music melodies.
"I will continue to excavate, sort out, and utilize traditional cultural resources, create more artistic masterpieces of tea-picking opera, and contribute to the development of Chinese drama art," said Yang Jun (杨俊).
In his 25-year career as a driver, Yang Yanfeng (杨彦锋), a driver of Yinchuan Public Transport Co., Ltd. (银川市公共交通有限公司) in Ningxia, has driven one million kilometers safely, achieving zero accidents and zero complaints.
Route 102 driven by Yang Yanfeng (杨彦锋) is the earliest, latest, most frequent, longest, and most passenger-volume bus route in Yinchuan, and the work is very hard. Even so, Yang Yanfeng (杨彦锋) is enthusiastic and careful with elderly passengers, caring for child passengers, sincere and patient with out-of-town passengers, and respectful and warm-hearted to special passengers. "Occupations are not divided into noble and humble. As long as you work hard and steadily, life will get better and better," said Yang Yanfeng (杨彦锋).
Practicing Diligently and Demonstrating Responsibility
Bin Shoupeng (宾守朋), a first-level firefighter at the Kare Pudong Road Special Service Station of the Shigatse Fire and Rescue Detachment (日喀则市消防救援支队) in Tibet, often says, "Doing every job well, extinguishing every fire well, and rescuing every danger well is being loyal to the Party and serving the people wholeheartedly."
In 2025, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in Dingri County (定日县), Tibet. Bin Shoupeng (宾守朋) arrived at Changsuo Township (长所乡), the most severely affected area, at the first time and continued to fight for 18 days and nights.
In recent years, Bin Shoupeng (宾守朋) has always fought on the front line of fire fighting and rescue, participating in more than 1,000 fire fighting and rescue battles such as forest fire rescue, river dike breach rescue, and earthquake rescue.
Responsibility is a mission, and only by bravely shouldering the mission can we gather the strength to forge ahead.
Hu Xiping (胡喜平), Dean of the Soybean Research Institute of Beidahuang Kenfeng Seed Industry Co., Ltd. (北大荒垦丰种业股份有限公司), takes ensuring the national soybean supply security as his responsibility and has been engaged in soybean genetics and breeding for 30 years.
Over the years, Hu Xiping (胡喜平) led the team to expand dozens of acres of experimental fields to hundreds of acres, bred 68 new soybean varieties, promoted soybeans to more than 190 million mu cumulatively, and created economic benefits of more than 8 billion yuan. "I feel at ease only when I deal with land and seeds every day," said Hu Xiping (胡喜平).
"Go to the west, go to the grassroots, go to the places where the motherland needs you most!" After graduating from university, Wu Jianan (吴嘉楠), born in the 1990s, rushed to the Qinghai Plateau (青海高原) and devoted herself to the power industry. As a substation operation and maintenance management specialist in the Operation and Maintenance Department of the State Grid Qinghai Electric Power Company (国网青海省电力公司) Ultra High Voltage Company, she has participated in the acceptance of 14 substations and accumulated rich experience in handling abnormal conditions and accidents.
"Through the inspection, maintenance, and repair of substations, we ensure that high-quality and clean electricity is stably transmitted to thousands of households. My greatest sense of achievement is contributing my strength to the efficient transmission of clean energy," said Wu Jianan (吴嘉楠).
Return to TopRecently, the lychee base in Muguangdong, Dajing Town (大井镇), Gaozhou City (高州市), Maoming (茂名), Guangdong (广东) Province, presented a scene of abundant harvest. Lychees hung all over the branches, and fruit farmers used transport drones to quickly transport the lychees picked from the mountains to the receiving point at the base of the mountain. The picture shows drones transporting lychees on June 29.
Photo by Liu Guoxing (刘国兴) (Image China).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 欧阳洁
In recent years, China's foreign trade has achieved growth in scale and improvement in quality, further consolidating its position as the largest country in goods trade. Behind the achievements is the dedication of the customs teams on the front line of the national border. On July 3, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a meeting between Chinese and foreign journalists on "Strivers on the New Journey," inviting five representatives from the customs system to exchange views with Chinese and foreign journalists on "Being a Guardian of the Country's Gate that the Party Can Trust and the People Are Satisfied With."
A strong trading nation cannot be separated from world-class strong ports. In 2024, the cargo throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) exceeded 1.35 billion tons, ranking first in the world.
There are many small and micro enterprises in Zhejiang Province (浙江省), and the demand for LCL export is strong. In 2023, Beilun Customs (北仑海关), affiliated to Ningbo Customs (宁波海关), took the lead in creating a regulatory model of "inspection before loading" for LCL export goods in the country. "Customs clearance efficiency is the lifeblood of small and micro enterprises, and also the gear connecting the world," said Ye Wei (叶玮), deputy director of the office of Beilun Customs (北仑海关), affiliated to Ningbo Customs (宁波海关).
"One bridge connects three places." On average, about 80,000 passengers, 19,000 passenger and freight vehicles, and 600 million yuan of goods enter and exit from the Zhuhai Highway Port (珠海公路口岸) of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (港珠澳大桥) every day. "This puts forward higher requirements for customs supervision. We can grab a second is a second, and do our best to compress the customs clearance time." Zhong Anqi (仲安琪), deputy section chief of the Supervision Section 3 of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Customs (港珠澳大桥海关) affiliated to Gongbei Customs (拱北海关), introduced that the customs has comprehensively optimized the country's first "one-stop" system for passenger and freight vehicles, promoted the transformation of the customs risk gate cloud bayonet, optimized the verification of driver cards and other micro-transformations, and actively cooperated with local governments to promote the "small car customs clearance efficiency improvement" project. For vehicles without abnormalities and no need for inspection, the customs clearance time does not exceed 10 seconds.
The Khunjerab Pass (红其拉甫) at an altitude of 5,100 meters is the highest national gate in the world. On September 11, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to all the officers and staff of the Khunjerab Customs (红其拉甫海关), putting forward earnest expectations for the cadres and employees of the customs system to better fulfill their duties and missions.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) reply is an entrustment and an encouragement. I will continue to stick to my post with my colleagues, perform my duties, and be a guardian of the country's gate that the Party can trust and the people are satisfied with." Liu Zhendong (刘震东), deputy section chief of the Inspection Section of the Khunjerab Customs (红其拉甫海关) affiliated to Urumqi Customs (乌鲁木齐海关), introduced that since the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (中巴经济走廊) in 2013, Khunjerab (红其拉甫) has gradually developed from a border town into a "golden hub" on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (中巴经济走廊). In December last year, the Khunjerab Port (红其拉甫口岸) officially achieved year-round opening. In that year, the Khunjerab Port (红其拉甫口岸) imported Pakistani cherries for the first time. In order to ensure that the cherries were "freshly" put on the market, the customs set up a special working group in advance to provide enterprises with "one-stop" customs services. "After the cherries entered the country, we completed all the procedures from cargo inspection to sampling and testing at the fastest speed, saving enterprises more than 6 hours of customs clearance time per vehicle and saving costs of about 1,500 yuan," said Liu Zhendong (刘震东).
Yangpu Economic Development Zone (洋浦经济开发区) is China's first national-level economic development zone to enjoy bonded zone policies, and it is also a pioneer and demonstration zone for the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港). In 2020, Yangpu Bonded Port Area (洋浦保税港区) took the lead in piloting the policy of "first-line liberalization and second-line control" ("一线放开、二线管住").
"Customs officers should not only guard the national gate, but also build bridges. We always promote great convenience with micro-innovation." Li Wen (黎文), director of the Supervision Department of Yangpu Customs (洋浦海关) affiliated to Haikou Customs (海口海关), introduced that the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) is about to be closed. Focusing on the convenience of customs clearance at the "second-line port" ("二线口岸"), it is actively exploring the integration of customs supervision into the outbound logistics, and improving the effectiveness of supervision with smart supervision, classified supervision, and credit supervision. At present, five regulatory business scenarios, including "zero tariff" transportation vehicles and yachts, production equipment, offshore duty-free, processing and value-added, and hazardous chemicals, have been launched and operated, laying a solid foundation for the future operation of the entire island.
In April this year, Chongqing Tongnan (重庆潼南) lemon fresh fruit was exported for the first time by the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) cross-border highway bus, crossing 1,300 kilometers into the Vietnamese market in only 48 hours, achieving a double reduction in transportation time and cost.
In recent years, Chongqing Customs (重庆海关) has implemented actions to promote the export of advantageous and characteristic agricultural food products, carried out export assistance for products with export potential, implemented "green channels" for export agricultural products and "cloud issuance" of animal and plant quarantine certificates, so that customs clearance of export agricultural products is faster.
"The distance to the world is getting closer and closer, and the risks are also approaching." Sun Tao (孙涛), head of the Plant Quarantine Laboratory of the Technology Center of Chongqing Customs (重庆海关), introduced, "We build a national gate biological safety defense line in a variety of ways, and establish a cooperation mechanism with the provinces (regions and cities) along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) to carry out monitoring activities of foreign harmful organisms in ports, terminals, airports, railways and other ports every year."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
After 10 a.m., seeing that no one was coming for treatment, He Xineng (何新能), a village doctor in Dapanxi Village (大蟠溪村), Sandan Township (三单乡), Dongyang City (东阳市), Zhejiang (浙江), shouldered his medical kit, got on his electric tricycle, and began his day of door-to-door rounds.
Sandan Township (三单乡) is surrounded by mountains and is a relatively remote township in the area. Dapanxi Village (大蟠溪村) is located deep in the mountains, and it takes nearly an hour by car from the township government to reach it. There are more than 300 villagers here, mostly elderly. He Xineng (何新能) is the only doctor in the village health clinic and has been awarded the title of "Excellent Rural Doctor of Zhejiang Province (浙江省优秀乡村医生)". For 45 years, whenever villagers needed him, day or night, He Xineng (何新能) was always available.
A dilapidated medical kit
On the mottled wooden cabinet, various commonly used medicines are neatly arranged; in the simple treatment room next to it, clean medical equipment is stored... This is the health clinic of Dapanxi Village (大蟠溪村), and also He Xineng's (何新能) home.
He Xineng's (何新能) family has an old-fashioned leather medical kit. The outer shell and straps have peeled and faded, and the metal buckles are also rusty. Inside, thermometers, sphygmomanometers, stethoscopes, first aid medicines, etc. are neatly arranged. Since he started practicing medicine, this "old partner" has accompanied He Xineng (何新能) for more than 40 years. "I am very content to be able to treat everyone. It is enough to do this one thing well in my life," he said.
He Xineng (何新能) is a native of Dapanxi Village (大蟠溪村). At the age of 3, he contracted polio. A sudden high fever, coupled with the high mountains and long roads, prevented him from receiving timely treatment, so he limped and walked with a sway.
"I hope that my fellow villagers can receive timely treatment after they get sick, so as not to leave regrets." After graduating from junior high school, He Xineng (何新能) was determined to study medicine and returned to the village in 1980 after completing his studies.
In the 1980s, after the old village doctor retired, He Xineng (何新能) was responsible for everything: consultation, examination, prescription, injection, infusion, and registration. At that time, the health clinic was located in the old ancestral hall of the village. The conditions were simple, there was a lack of basic medical equipment, and it leaked air everywhere in winter. He Xineng (何新能) simply moved the health clinic into his own home.
"In the beginning, there were no roads in the village, so we could only walk." He Xineng (何新能) said that it took him one or two hours to walk a road that others could walk in half an hour. Sometimes he needed to go to neighboring counties to get medicine, which took a day to go back and forth. Due to years of rushing, his feet were often covered with blisters, and he didn't know how many pairs of shoes he had worn out.
A long scar
There is a long scar on He Xineng's (何新能) right cheek.
It was one evening in May 2018 when He Xineng (何新能) was returning from a villager's home. The electric tricycle suddenly lost its brakes, and he fell heavily to the ground and passed out. Fortunately, a passing villager found him and took him to the hospital.
He Xineng (何新能) was in a coma for a long time before he woke up. He had multiple fractures in his cervical and lumbar vertebrae. After being discharged from the hospital, he lay at home for more than 3 months before his body slowly recovered. Even so, he did not forget to prescribe medicine for villagers in need. After recovering, he bought another electric tricycle and continued to carry his medical kit around the village for rounds.
In the villagers' impression, He Xineng (何新能) hardly has any days off. Even during the Spring Festival, as long as he receives a call for help, he sets off with his medical kit on his back. Neighbors say that sometimes, they can hear knocking on He Xineng's (何新能) door in the middle of the night.
"As long as the villagers' illnesses are cured, everything is worth it." His wife, Zhang Xiuran (张秀然), supports him very much. Over the years, He Xineng (何新能) has not saved much money, and sometimes he even helps people pay for medical expenses in advance. In 2019, He Xineng (何新能) borrowed money from various sources to build a new house, and most of the space on the first floor was used as a health clinic. He Xineng (何新能) enjoys it: "If people call me 'doctor' for a day, I will do my duty as a doctor for a day. No matter how hard or tired I am, I have never thought about giving up."
A thick work log
"Grandma, how is your health recently? Let me take your blood pressure..." Zhang Xiangqiu (张香球), a 93-year-old villager, has suffered from high blood pressure for many years, and He Xineng (何新能) visits her every month for treatment. After returning from the visit, he writes the work situation in his work log.
146 patients with hypertension, 30 patients with diabetes... Day after day of sitting in the clinic, making house calls, and making rounds, He Xineng (何新能) knows the health status of the villagers like the back of his hand. He is also responsible for the rounds of 6 surrounding natural villages, and a thick work log records the patient's condition in detail.
Rooted in the countryside for 45 years, He Xineng (何新能) has traveled every path nearby, and almost everyone in Dapanxi Village (大蟠溪村) knows him.
Although he has reached retirement age, He Xineng (何新能) has not put down his medical kit: "As long as everyone needs me, I will continue to do it. I am very satisfied to be able to do something for everyone." As he spoke, He Xineng (何新能) received a call. Without even having time to eat a hot meal, he quickly checked the medical equipment and medicines, and got into the car with his medical kit on his back.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 谷业凯 邱超奕
On the morning of July 1st, a domestically produced C909 passenger plane belonging to Air China (中国国际航空公司) smoothly landed at Chinggis Khaan International Airport in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, marking the official opening of Air China's first C909 international route.
As China's first domestically developed short-to-medium-range new turbofan regional jet with independent intellectual property rights in accordance with international airworthiness standards, the C909 aircraft (ARJ21 aircraft) made its maiden flight on June 28, 2016. In November 2024, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (中国商飞) announced that the ARJ21 aircraft would add the commercial name C909.
Over the past 9 years, the C909 has continuously expanded its route network and accelerated its large-scale and serialized development. Currently, a total of 166 aircraft have been delivered to the market, with a cumulative operation of more than 700 routes, transporting more than 24 million passengers. As a trailblazer in China's commercial aircraft field, the C909 has achieved a "from 0 to 1" breakthrough in the commercial operation of domestic jet aircraft.
From scratch.
Paving the way for the development of China's large aircraft.
In June, Xinjiang (新疆) entered its peak tourist season, and flights connecting Kashgar (喀什) and Yining (伊宁), two major tourist destinations, reached 4 round trips per day, all operated by Chengdu Airlines (成都航空) and China Express Airlines' (华夏航空) C909s. Since June 2023, a total of 22 C909s have been put into operation in Xinjiang, opening up more than 120 routes, reaching 26 transport airports in the region, safely carrying more than 1.3 million passengers, and building an air corridor of "**疆内通、县域联**" (jiāng nèi tōng, xiàn yù lián - "connecting within Xinjiang, linking counties," connecting all parts of Xinjiang).
Chen Yong (陈勇), Chief Engineer of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China and Chief Designer of the C909 aircraft series, introduced that since its establishment in 2002, the C909 has shouldered the important mission of opening up the technology chain and industrial chain of domestic commercial aircraft. "How to establish the research and development and industrial system of domestic commercial aircraft? We relied on the C909 to solve the problem of 'from scratch', and now we are moving towards improving product competitiveness and have made good progress," said Chen Yong.
Not just Xinjiang. In Heilongjiang (黑龙江), the C909 takes Harbin (哈尔滨) as its hub, connecting a total of 32 airports inside and outside the Northeast region; in Hohhot (呼和浩特), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), many C909s take off and land every day, connecting 46 airports inside and outside the Inner Mongolia region; Chengdu Airlines' C909 aircraft have increased from 1 to 30, and the cumulative number of routes opened has increased from 1 to more than 360, with more than 60 routes currently in operation.
"For the development of China's civil aviation aircraft, the biggest contribution of the C909 is first of all that it systematically 'ran through' the research and development technology of jet passenger aircraft and aligned with international airworthiness standards; secondly, the C909 aircraft and operation have achieved serialized development throughout the entire life cycle, paving the way for the development of China's large aircraft," Chen Yong believes.
"In the research and development stage, we had to break through the supercritical wing and turbofan engine overall layout technology to achieve high-speed cruise of jet passenger aircraft. We carried out hundreds of calculations and experiments, and finally achieved subsonic flight without shock wave resistance," said Chen Yong.
In July last year, a C909 took off from Kashgar Laining International Airport (喀什徕宁国际机场) to Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County Hongqilafu Airport (塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县红其拉甫机场), marking the successful opening of the first high-altitude route of the C909. Chen Yong explained that the high-altitude route has thin air and drastic temperature changes, and the C909 has improved its starting performance and handling performance.
Zhang Hui (张辉), a Chengdu Airlines pilot who has flown the C909 in Xinjiang many times, said that from the flight performance, the C909 aircraft is very suitable for the local operating environment.
Over the years, the C909 has been continuously iterated and improved in use, with thousands of large and small design optimizations. Starting from Xinjiang and the Northeast, the C909 already has its own international routes. On October 26, 2019, the first international route of the C909, Harbin-Vladivostok (哈尔滨—符拉迪沃斯托克) route, was opened; on June 7, 2024, the first Central Asian route of the C909, Kashgar-Khujand (喀什—胡占德) route, was opened, further promoting economic, cultural, and tourism exchanges between border cities and foreign cities.
Going global.
Contributing to the international civil aviation market.
On April 18, 2023, the C909 successfully made its maiden flight in Indonesia (印尼), the "Country of a Thousand Islands," opening up feeder routes between islands and expanding to cross-border trunk routes. The C909 operated by TransNusa Aviation Mandiri (翎亚航空) is based in Jakarta (雅加达) and Manado (美娜多). From Jakarta, it can fly to domestic Indonesian destinations such as Bali (巴厘岛), Yogyakarta (日惹), and Singkawang (山口洋), as well as other Southeast Asian countries such as Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡), Malaysia. From Manado, it can fly to some eastern Indonesian cities as well as Guangzhou (广州) and Shanghai (上海) in China.
It is worth mentioning that the Manado-Guangzhou route has a flight distance of more than 2,700 kilometers, which is currently the longest commercial route operated by the C909. To date, TransNusa Aviation Mandiri still holds the record for the highest daily air-to-ground operating time of the C909 at 15.88 hours. "By 'going global', the C909 has expanded new operating scenarios and contributed to the international civil aviation market," said Chen Yong.
At the same time, the C909 has also explored new business models for domestic passenger aircraft. On April 12, 2025, the C909 "dry lease" (only involving the lease of the aircraft, excluding crew and spare parts) from Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China to Lao Airlines (老挝航空) completed its first commercial flight. Since then, the C909 has started high-intensity operations in Laos (老挝), mainly flying flights between the capital Vientiane (万象) and the southern economic hub Pakse (巴色). Currently, the maximum number of operating segments per day for the C909 has reached 8.
On April 19, 2025, two C909 aircraft "wet leased" (a type of aircraft leasing model equipped with crew, maintenance, and other services) from Chengdu Airlines to Vietjet Air (越南越捷航空) of Vietnam (越南) simultaneously started commercial operations. Today, the C909 flies daily routes from the Vietnamese capital Hanoi (河内) and the largest economic city Ho Chi Minh City (胡志明市) to Con Dao (昆岛). Con Dao Airport (昆岛机场) has a runway length of only 1,800 meters and is surrounded by the sea on both ends, which fully verifies the C909's operating capabilities on short and narrow runways and its adaptability to the humid environment in Southeast Asia.
As of now, 3 overseas airlines, TransNusa Aviation Mandiri of Indonesia, Lao Airlines, and Vietjet Air of Vietnam, operate 7 C909 aircraft in Southeast Asia, opening 15 routes, connecting 18 cities, and transporting more than 370,000 passengers.
Serialized development.
Creating design specifications for civil jet passenger aircraft.
On October 30, 2023, the first 2 C909 passenger-to-cargo aircraft were delivered to Hangzhou YTO Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd. (杭州圆通货运航空有限公司) and Zhongyuan Longhao Airlines Co., Ltd. (中原龙浩航空有限公司) respectively, and made their maiden flight at YTO Airlines.
The serialized development of models is an important feature of the commercial aircraft industry. Currently, the C909 has 4 derivative models: cargo aircraft, emergency rescue command aircraft, medical aircraft, and business jet. "Through serialized development, the C909 will achieve diversification of models and maximize the satisfaction of various market demands," said Chen Yong.
Since its establishment in 2002, through the research and development of the C909, China has formed 3 generations of technical teams and produced more than 40 chief designers and deputy chief designers. They are active in the front line of domestic commercial aircraft research and development and have played a role in the training and gathering of talent teams.
"While developing the C909, we are also writing design specifications and experimental specifications for civil jet passenger aircraft, and have established a specification system covering more than 10,000 standards," said Chen Yong. "For example, for some airports with large amounts of wind and sand, we have specially arranged relevant simulation tests, carried out targeted research, and improved relevant standards."
In recent years, in order to promote the sustainable development of the aviation industry, the civil aviation industry is exploring green and low-carbon development. Chen Yong said that Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China is carrying out application exploration of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on domestic commercial aircraft. Currently, the C909 aircraft has the ability to use SAF fuel with a maximum blending ratio of 50% for commercial operation, which can meet customers' green, low-carbon, and environmentally friendly usage needs.
Good aircraft are made, but even more so, they are flown. In recent years, the C909 has been continuously improved and optimized, constantly improving performance, crew operating experience, and cabin comfort, and is moving forward step by step in the market. Chen Yong said that today, the C909 has initially found suitable operating scenarios. Some airlines use the C909 to operate high-density commuter routes, some operate "narrow and long" routes, and others are exploring new markets. We look forward to the C909 flying higher and farther in the future!
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on July 3rd (Reporter Jin Xin (金歆)) On the afternoon of the 3rd, the World Internet Conference International Organization held a press conference in Beijing (北京) to introduce the basic situation, overall preparation progress, and highlights of the 2025 World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum.
The Digital Silk Road Development Forum is hosted by the World Internet Conference and organized by the People's Government of Fujian Province (福建省人民政府), with the People's Government of Quanzhou City (泉州市人民政府), the Cyberspace Administration of Fujian Province (福建省网信办), and the Development and Reform Commission of Fujian Province (福建省发展改革委) as co-organizers. It will be held in Quanzhou (泉州), Fujian (福建) on July 24th. The forum is themed "Digital Intelligence Maritime Silk Road, Embracing the Future Together - Working Together to Build a Community of Common Destiny in Cyberspace" and will focus on three topics: "'Belt and Road' Digital Trade Opening and Cooperation," "Artificial Intelligence Empowering High-Quality Development of the Private Economy," and "Digital Transformation and Sustainable Development of International Transportation." It aims to promote the vigorous, healthy, and orderly development of international digital trade.
The forum will also host the World Internet Conference Artificial Intelligence Development and Governance Exchange Meeting, inviting relevant policymakers and high-level representatives of members to exchange views on artificial intelligence-related policies; carry out supporting activities such as the World Internet Conference Digital Research Institute's Advanced Seminar on Digital Economy Innovation and Development; and hold a Chinese traditional culture performance, showcasing the innovative practice of digital technology empowering cultural heritage through the integration of digital technology and traditional art.
Return to TopAccording to Sinopec (中国石化), the Qingdao Petrochemical (青岛炼化) full-seawater environment floating photovoltaic project of Sinopec (中国石化) in Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东) has recently been put into operation. It has an installed capacity of 7.5 MW, generates 16.7 million kWh of green electricity annually, and can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 14,000 tons.
The project covers an area of approximately 60,000 square meters and innovatively adopts a floating photovoltaic structure. Through the design of photovoltaic panels rising and falling synchronously with the tide, it can maximize the use of seawater for heat dissipation and increase power generation efficiency by 5% to 8% through the cooling effect.
In order to solve application problems such as seawater corrosion, biological adhesion, and tidal fluctuations, the R&D team has developed special floats and brackets that are resistant to salt spray corrosion and barnacle adhesion. They have also developed an underwater anchoring system that can withstand a level 13 typhoon and adapt to a tidal range of 3.5 meters, reducing investment by approximately 10% compared to traditional pile-based photovoltaics. These technological innovations will provide standardized solutions for photovoltaic development in coastal and shallow sea areas and promote project cost reduction.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 韩 鑫
On July 3rd, the 17th International Transportation Technology and Equipment Exhibition, lasting three days, concluded in Beijing (北京). A variety of the latest technologies and equipment in the field of transportation were showcased, weaving together a new vision for future travel.
Within this vision, there are new developments in intelligent transportation. Upon entering the exhibition hall, a detachable flying car composed of a land module and a flight module attracted a crowd of onlookers. "It is currently in the critical stage of commercial落地," said the relevant person in charge of XPeng Huitian (小鹏汇天).
The new generation of pre-installed mass-produced Robotaxi models at the Didi (滴滴) booth achieve full-scene, full-condition perception and recognition through the coordinated cooperation of various sensors; the new generation of urban delivery drones launched by JD Logistics (京东物流) has a maximum flight range of 24 kilometers... Information technology represented by artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated with transportation, accelerating the upgrading of transportation technology and equipment.
Within this vision, there is a new trend in green transportation. At the China Communications Construction Company (中交集团) booth, the miniature model of China's independently developed dredging tool, the "Taihu Star" (太湖之星) ecological dredging intelligent integrated platform ship, attracted much attention; Yunnan Transportation Investment (云南交投) joined hands with Huawei (华为) to create a super-fast charging green charging corridor on the expressway, realizing "second-level energy replenishment and full green electricity" for electric vehicles... Green products and services have become a booster to promote the green and low-carbon transformation of the transportation industry.
Within this vision, there is also a new model of efficient logistics. The Futian (福田) - Bihaiwan (碧海湾) air-rail combined transport demonstration line, jointly built by SF Express (顺丰) and Shenzhen Metro (深圳地铁), organically connects drones, stations, unmanned vehicles, and subways to help make logistics and distribution more efficient; the multimodal transport digital intelligence platform launched by Sichuan Port and Shipping Investment Group (四川港航集团) collects all-element data of "railway, highway, waterway, air, and postal" from the entire province, and applies AI large models and other technologies to create a fully functional "logistics supermarket."
The relevant person in charge of the China International Sustainable Transport Innovation and Knowledge Center stated that currently, China's transportation infrastructure construction and transportation equipment manufacturing technology have been greatly improved, and the ability of transportation technology innovation has been continuously enhanced, which is injecting new impetus into accelerating the construction of a transportation powerhouse.
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On the occasion of the 28th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the aircraft carrier formation composed of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy aircraft carrier Shandong (山东舰), missile destroyer Yan'an (延安舰), missile destroyer Zhanjiang (湛江舰), and missile frigate Yuncheng (运城舰), carrying various types of carrier-based fighters, helicopters, and marines, arrived in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on the morning of July 3rd, commencing a five-day visit. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government held a grand welcoming ceremony at the Ngong Shuen Chau Barracks for the fleet's visit to Hong Kong.
At approximately 8:00 AM on the 3rd, the Shandong (山东舰) and its three affiliated ships formed a column formation and sailed into Victoria Harbour (维多利亚港) accompanied by the Hong Kong SAR government fleet, People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison ships, and helicopters. On the flight deck of the Shandong (山东舰), carrier-based fighters and helicopters were lined up, and over 700 naval officers and soldiers, dressed in white uniforms, formed the four large characters "National Security, Family Well-being" (国安家好), expressing their deep patriotism and love for Hong Kong and their best wishes to the Hong Kong compatriots. At sea, the Hong Kong SAR fireboat welcomed the fleet with a "water salute"; in the air, the Hong Kong SAR escort helicopter broadcasted live the fleet's entry into the port; and the people on the shore waved to the visiting officers and soldiers across the sea. According to the planned arrangement, the Shandong (山东舰) and Yan'an (延安舰) anchored in the western anchorage of Victoria Harbour (维多利亚港), while the Zhanjiang (湛江舰) and Yuncheng (运城舰) docked at the Ngong Shuen Chau Barracks pier.
At 10:00 AM, the Zhanjiang (湛江舰) lowered its gangway, and naval and fleet leaders and officer and soldier representatives stepped onto the Ngong Shuen Chau Barracks pier, warmly shaking hands and exchanging greetings with people from all walks of life in Hong Kong who came to welcome them. As the welcoming ceremony began, the majestic national anthem was played. Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu (李家超) delivered a speech, representing the Hong Kong SAR Government and the citizens of Hong Kong, expressing a warm welcome to the arrival of the naval fleet. Relevant leaders and representatives from the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council (中央港澳办), the Central Government's agencies in Hong Kong (中央驻港机构), the Southern Theater Command (南部战区), and the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison (驻香港部队) attended the ceremony and boarded the Zhanjiang (湛江舰) and Yuncheng (运城舰) for a tour.
Except for the Yuncheng (运城舰), the Shandong (山东舰), Yan'an (延安舰), and Zhanjiang (湛江舰) are visiting Hong Kong for the first time. From the 4th to the 6th, the Shandong (山东舰) will be open to the public, including Hong Kong residents and students, at the western anchorage of Victoria Harbour (维多利亚港), while the Zhanjiang (湛江舰) and Yuncheng (运城舰) will be open at the Ngong Shuen Chau Barracks pier, and interactive exchange activities such as military experience, training demonstrations, and national defense knowledge lectures will be carried out, giving Hong Kong citizens the opportunity to experience firsthand the construction and development achievements of the people's army in the new era.
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"Why did you choose to withdraw the lawsuit after initially planning to sue?" In the Hua Dai Law Firm located in Dadukou District, Chongqing (重庆大渡口区), Tan Ting (谭婷), a post-90s deaf lawyer, asked her client with concerned gestures.
In China, there are more than 27 million people with hearing disabilities. As China's first deaf lawyer to pass the bar exam, Tan Ting (谭婷) is not only proficient in law but also skilled in communicating with the hearing-impaired community, translating legal provisions into everyday language they can "understand," and actively safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the hearing-impaired community.
Tan Ting (谭婷) was born in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan (四川凉山彝族自治州). At the age of eight, a medical accident caused her to lose her hearing, and her language skills gradually deteriorated. Tan Ting (谭婷) seized the opportunity to study at Leshan Special Education School in Sichuan (四川乐山市特殊教育学校), overcame numerous difficulties, and with excellent grades, knocked on the door of the Special Education major at Chongqing Normal University (重庆师范大学), changing her destiny.
When Tan Ting (谭婷) graduated from university in 2017, she accidentally learned that Chongqing Hua Dai Law Firm (重庆华代律师事务所) was recruiting deaf college students as assistants. "Many hearing-impaired people have legal service needs, but communication is difficult. We hope to recruit deaf assistants to better help them," said the head of the law firm.
Tan Ting (谭婷) thus entered the legal profession. "Hearing-impaired people who file lawsuits are like being trapped in a glass room, able to see the outside but unable to make a sound. I want to help them push open this glass door!" she secretly resolved.
At the beginning of her career, in order to improve her professional skills, she absorbed legal knowledge like a sponge and spurred herself on with the goal of passing the bar exam.
The road to preparing for the exam was extremely difficult: Tan Ting (谭婷) needed to repeatedly pause and record subtitles for a 30-minute legal lecture video, taking 3 hours to digest it; professional terms were like dense forest vines, and she pondered the term "force majeure" alone for an entire night. Over three years, she studied for more than 12 hours a day, and her notes were "**等身**" (děng shēn - "as tall as oneself," describing a large quantity of notes).
After repeated failures and repeated attempts, Tan Ting (谭婷) finally passed the bar exam on her third attempt in 2020. Afterwards, Tan Ting (谭婷) decided to challenge herself again - to restore her speaking ability.
In her twenties, Tan Ting (谭婷) learned to speak like a baby, imitating pronunciations from learning videos, bravely talking to strangers, and judging whether her pronunciation was correct based on their reactions. At the same time, through voice conversion software, she repeatedly practiced pronunciation, improving her pronunciation accuracy over and over again, and communicating with ordinary people became smoother.
Understanding both law and sign language, Tan Ting (谭婷) fully utilized her advantages to develop in a differentiated manner, making legal popularization short videos while speaking and using sign language to promote legal knowledge to the hearing-impaired community. "How to collect evidence when encountering domestic violence in marriage?" "How to protect your rights when you are owed wages?" Her legal popularization short videos are very popular, with a cumulative playback of over one million times.
Busy online and offline consultations followed: a hearing-impaired person was robbed but could not report the case due to communication barriers. Tan Ting (谭婷) assisted in organizing materials overnight to help the police file the case; others encountered debt defaults and dared not demand repayment due to threats. She encouraged them to protect their rights through litigation and won the case... Over the years, she has helped as many as 5,000 hearing-impaired people.
In recent years, Tan Ting (谭婷) has taken on a new identity - an external teacher of the Southwest University of Political Science & Law (西南政法大学) Excellent Public Legal Service Talent Experimental Class, participating in the training of a group of compound legal talents who understand both law and sign language, and more than 30 people have graduated so far. In the classroom, she not only teaches sign language skills, but also analyzes the thinking patterns of the hearing-impaired community, using "**星星之火**" (xīng xīng zhī huǒ - "a single spark," a small beginning that can ignite a great movement) to illuminate the "silent world."
"I want to tell my friends who are like me, don't limit your life because of hearing impairment. What truly limits us is only the obstacles in our hearts," said Tan Ting (谭婷).
Return to TopSince the launch of the new round of counterpart assistance to Xinjiang in 2010, Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang Province, has been providing counterpart assistance to Kuqa City (库车市) in Aksu Prefecture (阿克苏地区), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), and the 10th, 11th, 14th, and 16th Regiments of the First Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团第一师阿拉尔市). Over the past 15 years, the Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have thoroughly implemented the spirit of the Central Xinjiang Work Symposiums and the National Counterpart Assistance to Xinjiang Work Conference, fully and accurately implemented the Party's strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era, firmly grasped the overall goal of Xinjiang's work, adhered to the main line of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and always adhered to the concept of "supporting Kuqa is developing Ningbo." They have adhered to the combination of what is needed and what is possible, blood transfusion and blood creation, and support and mutual benefit. They have successively selected and dispatched 509 cadres and talents, invested 5.223 billion yuan in assistance funds, implemented 864 assistance projects, raised approximately 150 million yuan in extra-budgetary assistance funds, actively explored a shared assistance model, and continuously contributed wisdom and strength to the construction of a beautiful Xinjiang.
Focusing on enhancing people's well-being and deepening innovative practices.
In order to help Kuqa create a "Ten Thousand Villages Project" (千万工程) demonstration area in southern Xinjiang, Ningbo learned and applied the experience of the "Ten Thousand Villages Project," taking "Ten Villages Demonstration, Hundred Villages Improvement" as the starting point, systematically constructing the "2351" planning system for the "Ten Thousand Villages Project" Kuqa model, and formulating and issuing a three-year action roadmap for "Ten Batches." Through the "full-chain support model" of planning, design, cost, investment promotion, and operation, the Ningbo Municipal Planning and Design Institute was invited to complete the planning of seven demonstration villages, including Kang Village (康村), Yongku Tongxin Village (甬库同心村), and Yongku Lianxin Village (甬库联心村). Later, Ningbo Fuyong and other cultural tourism operation teams were introduced to implement the overall operation of the cultural tourism new village. Kang Village was rated as a demonstration village for rural revitalization at the autonomous region level, and the Yongku Cultural Park in Yongku Zhenxing Village (甬库振兴村) was created as a national 3A-level tourist attraction.
In order to explore the establishment of a common prosperity workshop model in southern Xinjiang, Ningbo gave full play to the role of Party organizations in the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, promoted the joint construction of Party organizations in townships, villages (communities), and enterprises, guided the Party organizations of the aided villages to actively expand the joint construction of Party organizations between villages and non-public enterprises, promoted the integrated development of agriculture, culture, and tourism, and created a dividend model of "direct dividend + indirect benefit." Drawing on the experience of "Common Prosperity Workshops" in Zhejiang, a smart agricultural plant factory in Yongku Tongxin Village was built, helping to increase local income by more than 500,000 yuan annually. The "Rabbit Xiaotu" theme park in Yongku Zhenxing Village receives approximately 50,000 tourists annually, generating an economic income of approximately 1.5 million yuan. Explore the establishment of entrepreneurship common prosperity workshops, intangible cultural heritage common prosperity workshops, and women's entrepreneurship workshops to enrich the path of common prosperity practice.
A batch of landmark livelihood project achievements of the Ningbo Aid Xinjiang Headquarters (宁波市援疆指挥部) (referred to as the "Headquarters") have been completed, carrying out the "Enriching the People and Living in Peace" project, completing the construction of Ningbo Avenue and Kang Village, Yongku Tuanjie Village (甬库团结村), and Yongku Zhenxing Village with high quality, and building a number of well-known schools such as Kuqa Yinglin Kindergarten (库车市应麟幼儿园), Kuqa Yangming Primary School (库车市阳明小学), and Kuqa Cixiao Academy (库车市慈孝书院). Deeply implement the "Qiming Action," renovate and expand Kuqa Qizhi School (库车市启智学校), and better serve special education students in the four eastern counties (cities) of Aksu Prefecture. Supporting Kang Village to build a tourist service center and entrepreneurship workshop at the southern end of the Duku Highway (独库公路). In 2024, the village received more than 400,000 tourists, the village collective economic income reached 1.2 million yuan, an increase of 122% year-on-year, and the per capita annual income of villagers reached 29,890 yuan, an increase of 125% year-on-year.
Continue to brighten the brand of aid to Xinjiang and actively carry out cultural exchanges.
Continue to brighten the "I Love Zhejiang and Xinjiang" brand. Promote the integration of the visual image of the Chinese nation into the work of aiding Xinjiang, build the Kuqa New Era Civilization Practice Center and 15 exemplary rural cultural auditoriums, revitalize and utilize the former residence of Nishakhan (尼沙汗故居), the former site of Kuqa Women's No. 1 Normal School (库车市女子第一师范学校旧址), and the Kuqa Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop (龟兹非遗工坊), renovate Kuqa Lin Jilu Primary School (库车市林基路小学), build a number of key cultural positions, carry out more than 200 "Five Advances" activities of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and build more than 100 Chinese cultural characteristic classrooms. Deeply promote "Party Building Aid to Xinjiang," build more than 100 Party building cultural positions, and brighten the "Five Hearts" (medical heart, educational heart, gathering heart, connecting heart, and concentric heart) Party building brand.
Actively carry out cultural exchanges. The Headquarters independently developed 12 sets of "National Common Language Cards" covering 1092 commonly used characters and obtained a national invention patent. It organized the "National Common Language Cards" competition in the four prefectures of southern Xinjiang, with nearly one million people actively participating, realizing cross-regional promotion and injecting new vitality into the popularization of national common language and writing. Promote traditional cultural exchanges, carry out Ningbo Celadon Oule Xinjiang tour performances, covering two prefectures and the First Division of the Corps Alar City (兵团第一师阿拉尔市), carry out 7 special performances, and more than 20,000 people watched the live and online live broadcasts. By attempting cross-regional promotion, the regional boundaries of aid to Xinjiang work are gradually broken, and complementary advantages, multi-party linkage, and integrated advancement are realized.
Explore and promote rural cultural immersion. The Headquarters actively organizes a series of activities such as the Kuqa Rural Dance Competition and Mass Village Evening, cultural, scientific, technological, and health "Three Going to the Countryside," "Love the Country, Love Xinjiang, Love the Hometown, Sing Good Songs Together" red song competition, and returning student style competition. It holds the "Village Super," "Village BA," and "Village Volleyball" three major ball games, creates the "Yongku Cup" series of sports boutique events, and organizes rural people to participate in a series of activities such as "Weekend Watching Qiuci" and "Visiting Museums," continuously promoting the integrated cultural interconnection between urban and rural areas and the in-depth development of ethnic exchanges.
Focusing on enhancing hematopoietic capacity and comprehensively helping Kuqa's development.
Ningbo comprehensively helps Kuqa create a new highland for county education in southern Xinjiang, always regards education aid to Xinjiang as a basic and strategic project, adheres to the combination of front and rear, both software and hardware, and the combination of "blood transfusion, blood creation, and blood activation," and has invested a total of 650 million yuan, successively dispatched 358 aid Xinjiang teachers, and promoted the realization of a "three-in-one" education aid model of group-style, full-chain, and shared. Focus on promoting "group-style" education aid to Xinjiang, strengthen "famous school pairing, centralized assistance," innovate the talent assistance system, promote Ningbo Zhenhai Middle School (宁波市镇海中学), Ningbo Middle School (宁波中学) and other schools to establish branches in Kuqa, build 31 famous teacher studios, flexibly introduce 1335 famous teachers from Ningbo, and train 2783 apprentices, training more than 30,000 local teachers through the "inviting in + going out" method. Focus on promoting "full-chain" and "shared" education aid to Xinjiang, build a "full-chain" high-quality education demonstration system from kindergarten to higher vocational education, carry out Chinese excellent traditional cultural immersion education such as Yinglin Three Character Classic Enlightenment Culture, Yangming Xinxue Culture, and Cixiao Li Shan Culture, and hold more than 20 Yinglin Culture, Yangming Culture, and Cixiao Culture festivals. Strengthen "hundred school pairing, co-research and sharing," implement the Ningbo Education Aid Xinjiang "Hundred Thousand Ten Thousand Project" three-year "Peiying" plan, create the Yongku Education "Sharing Center" for the first time, build a "1234" sharing mechanism, promote the construction of the Yongku "Hundred School Alliance" education community and the urban-rural school co-progress plan, and the undergraduate enrollment rate in the 2025 college entrance examination will increase by 25.7% compared with 5 years ago, and the high school entrance examination results will rank first in the region for two consecutive years, helping to build a fair and high-quality education system.
Ningbo comprehensively helps to create a new benchmark for county medical care, innovatively implements the three-dimensional collaborative medical aid model of "group assistance + flexible aid to Xinjiang + large specialist," and helps Kuqa's urban medical service to improve quality and efficiency. Vigorously carry out group assistance, successively selected 5 batches of 10 phases of 62 group-style medical experts to Kuqa City to carry out counterpart support, and trained 22 local medical backbones. Vigorously implement the "Hundred Famous Flexible Medical Aid to Xinjiang Project," open the "hospital-based department" 2.0 version of medical aid to Xinjiang model, establish 10 famous doctor studios, 6 Ningbo tertiary hospitals contracted 9 disciplines, successively dispatched more than 300 flexible medical experts, focusing on carrying out teaching blood transfusion and third and fourth level surgery, promoting the construction of five major centers, and building an integrated long-term assistance mechanism of "clinical-teaching-scientific research." Build a multidisciplinary collaborative diagnosis and treatment model, establish a free treatment fund composed of corporate donations and aid Xinjiang funds, and have cumulatively helped more than 180 patients. Since 2010, a total of 250 million yuan of aid Xinjiang funds has been invested, and 2 municipal hospitals, 3 township health centers, and the Yongku remote medical service platform have been built successively.
Ningbo comprehensively creates a new situation of cadre and talent exchange and cooperation, promotes cadres of Party and government organs and enterprises and institutions to broaden their horizons and improve their abilities, implements cadre ability and quality improvement training actions by category and level, organizes cadres of Party and government organs and enterprises and institutions in Kuqa, and grassroots village and community cadre teams to go to Zhejiang to recharge and accumulate energy, sends more than 600 person-times of cadres to follow-up study, and exchanges and studies more than 7,000 person-times. Relying on the advantages of aid Xinjiang resources, deeply carry out the "Kekeya Talent Introduction Project" (柯柯牙引才工程), and flexibly introduce 372 talents. The Xinjiang Branch of Tengtou Rural Revitalization College (滕头乡村振兴学院) was established to promote the experience of comprehensive rural revitalization, cultivate talents for comprehensive rural revitalization, guide the practice of comprehensive rural revitalization, jointly brighten the training brand of comprehensive rural revitalization, invite experts and scholars to conduct special lectures, continuously improve the training level, and open 200 special training courses on comprehensive rural revitalization, urban management, education and health, and cumulatively train nearly 50,000 local cadres and talents in Kuqa. Pay close attention to the mental health of grassroots cadres in Kuqa, undertake the publicity and sending study activities of the new book "Ten Methods of Psychological Empowerment for Grassroots Cadres" by the Party Building Reading Material Publishing House, and distribute more than 1,200 books.
Under the guidance of the Party's strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era, the Headquarters continues to deepen the construction of the Corps, diligently and honestly aid Xinjiang, deeply implement the three "hundreds of thousands" special actions of industrial aid to Xinjiang, focus on the development needs of Kuqa's three leading industries of petrochemical, cultural tourism, and agriculture, build three platforms for investment promotion, science and technology, and finance, and embark on a new path of complementary advantages, regular linkage, and win-win mutual learning in industrial cooperation between Yongku, in which the "Women's Entrepreneurship" action is deeply welcomed by local women. The Ningbo Kuqa Women's Entrepreneurship and Employment Alliance was established, focusing on women's advantageous fields such as pastries, clothing, and flower arrangement, relying on the Ningbo Women Entrepreneurs Association to carry out pairing assistance, stimulate the enthusiasm of local women to start businesses, and create the Ningbo Aid Xinjiang "Women's Entrepreneurship" brand. Invested more than 1 million yuan in aid Xinjiang funds to build demonstration bases such as Laliya Creative Pastry Workshop and Qiuci Alley Women's Entrepreneurship Workshop, raised more than 1 million yuan in extra-budgetary funds to support Xinjiang Shangmei Fashion Clothing to expand channels and expand the market, and drive more than 200 women to employment.
The Ningbo Aid Xinjiang Headquarters adheres to the concept of inheritance and innovation, and continues to promote "full-chain" education aid to Xinjiang, "group-style" medical aid to Xinjiang, "shared" cultural moisturizing Xinjiang, "small group" science and technology aid to Xinjiang, and the construction of the "Ten Thousand Villages Project" Kuqa model, and continues to create "golden business cards" for Ningbo Aid Xinjiang.
Data source: Ningbo Aid Xinjiang Headquarters.
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In July 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) creatively proposed the Party's organizational line for the new era at the National Organizational Work Conference and scientifically summarized its connotation. In June 2020, the Political Bureau of the 19th CPC Central Committee held a collective study on "In-depth Study and Comprehension and Implementation of the Party's Organizational Line in the New Era." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech, clearly putting forward the basic requirements for implementing the Party's organizational line in the new era, and pointing out the correct direction for the entire Party to deepen its understanding and implement the Party's organizational line in the new era. The Party's organizational line in the new era scientifically summarizes the basic experience of the Party's organizational construction over the past century, rationally sublimates the successful practice of our Party leading the great social revolution with great self-revolution in the new era, and profoundly answers the major theoretical and practical issues of the Party's organizational construction with directionality and principles. It constitutes a scientific system with complete content, rich connotation, clear structure, and strict logic. It is an original and iconic concept of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and a landmark achievement of a new leap in the Sinicization of Marxism in the new era, with milestone significance.
For the first time in the history of the development of Marxist party-building theory and the construction history of proletarian ruling parties, the connotation of the Party's organizational line has been scientifically defined.
"Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement." In the history of the development of scientific socialism, Marxist party-building theory, as a scientific theoretical guide for the construction of proletarian parties and the proletarian revolutionary movement, plays an extremely important role. Marx and Engels scientifically expounded the basic issues of the nature, purpose, action program, goals, and strategic principles of proletarian parties in classic works such as the "Communist Manifesto," providing general principles and guiding principles for the construction of proletarian parties. Lenin founded Leninism in the process of leading the Russian revolution and construction, forming a complete party-building theory. In the process of promoting the Sinicization of Marxism, our Party has continuously deepened its understanding of the laws of Marxist party building, forming a system of Marxist party-building theory with Chinese characteristics. Each leap in the Sinicization of Marxism is accompanied by a deepening of the Chinese Communists' understanding of the laws of proletarian party building, which will powerfully promote the enrichment and development of Marxist party-building theory.
Organizing is a basic principle of Marxist party-building theory. In the struggle to lead the proletarian revolutionary movement, revolutionary teachers such as Marx, Engels, and Lenin always insisted on organizing the proletariat into an independent political party as a prerequisite for the revolution, and clearly put forward classic arguments such as "In the political struggle of class against class, organization is the most important weapon" and "The strength of the working class lies in organization," laying the theoretical foundation for the organizational line of the proletarian party. However, Marxist classical writers did not explicitly put forward the concept of an organizational line, but left the historical mission of further enriching and expanding these theories to later generations.
The Communist Party of China (中国共产党) was established in accordance with the principles of Marxist party building. From the very beginning, it has insisted on placing organizational construction in a prominent position, and is committed to building a strictly organized Marxist advanced party. At the same time, our Party is a party with a high degree of theoretical consciousness, attaches great importance to theoretical construction and theoretical guidance. In the course of continuously promoting the Sinicization of Marxism for more than a hundred years, it has strived to use Chinese practice and Chinese theory to contribute to the enrichment and development of Marxism. As early as the Sixth National Congress of the Party in 1928, our Party clearly put forward the concept of "organizational line" for the first time in the history of proletarian party building, and in the long-term practice of leading the Chinese revolution, construction, and reform, it has continuously deepened its understanding of the laws of organizational construction. However, for a long time, our Party has not made a theoretical summary of the connotation of the organizational line, and has mostly expounded it from the perspective of its importance or its relationship with other lines, which has become a prominent problem restricting the effectiveness of party building and a major issue that our Party has not resolved for a long time in promoting the Sinicization of Marxism. Clearly putting forward the concept of the Party's organizational line in the new era and scientifically expounding its connotation is a major theoretical innovation of our Party, which has pioneering significance in the history of the development of Marxist party-building theory, marking that our Party's understanding of the laws of Marxist party building has reached a new height.
For the first time, the basic layout of organizational construction has been clarified, realizing the scientific allocation and organic integration of the core elements and main content of organizational construction.
Being good at planning, arranging, and implementing strategies from a strategic and overall perspective is an important ideological method and working method consistently advocated by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平). Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), proceeding from the overall situation of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, has continuously deepened his understanding of the "three major laws," and has successively proposed the "five-sphere integrated plan" and the "four-pronged comprehensive strategy" for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, enriching and developing the overall layout of party building in the new era, and establishing the general program for our Party to govern the country and administer the Party in the new era, making the key links, key areas, and main directions of the Party and the country's work clearer, and the internal logic more rigorous, achieving the effect of planning before acting and revitalizing the whole game.
Our Party has always attached great importance to the scientific planning of the layout of party building. The history of party building for more than a hundred years is a history of continuously adapting to changes in the situation and tasks and the requirements of practical development, and exploring and improving the overall layout of party building. In this process, our Party's understanding of the basic layout of organizational construction has also experienced a long process of development in inheritance. Historically, the main content and core elements of the Party's organizational construction were not balanced in the overall work of the Party and in the organizational line. Due to the extreme importance of cadre work, for a considerable period of time, organizational construction emphasized cadre work more, and even to a large extent used the cadre line to refer to the organizational line. In 1938, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) proposed the cadre line of "appointing people on their merits" at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Party. In 1957, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) proposed at the Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party that cadres in all walks of life should be "both red and expert." "Appointing people on their merits" and "both red and expert" became representative vocabulary of the organizational line in the revolutionary war years and the early days of the founding of New China, respectively. In 1994, the Fourth Plenary Session of the Fourteenth Central Committee of the Party proposed to promote the new great project of party building, emphasizing that we should focus on solving the organizational construction of the Party, especially the three aspects of adhering to and improving democratic centralism, strengthening and improving the construction of the Party's grassroots organizations, and cultivating and selecting leading cadres who are both moral and talented. The National Organizational Work Conference in 2002 clearly proposed "the Party manages talents," and for the first time incorporated talent work into the layout of organizational work. The Party's organizational line in the new era proposes "focusing on the construction of the organizational system, focusing on cultivating high-quality cadres who are loyal, clean, and responsible, and focusing on gathering outstanding talents from all walks of life who love the country and dedicate themselves," clarifying the basic layout of organizational construction from the height of the Party's line for the first time in the history of the Party, enriching and expanding the connotation of the Party's organizational line, and scientifically answering the major principles of the main content, core elements, and work focus of the Party's organizational construction in the new era, which not only has a global strategic height, but also highlights the focus and grasp of the work.
In the basic layout of the Party's organizational construction, the three aspects of "one focus and two focuses" are not simply a parallel relationship, but are independent of each other, each performing its functions, and forming its own system, and are also interconnected, interacting, and supporting each other, forming an internally unified and interconnected organic whole. The organizational system is the material foundation for our Party to realize comprehensive leadership and all work. It occupies a fundamental position and plays a supporting role in the basic layout of organizational construction, determining whether our Party can stand firm and move steadily. Cadres and talents are the decisive factors and strategic resources for our Party to respond to changes, cultivate new opportunities, open up new situations, and seek rejuvenation. The two constitute the two pillars of the basic layout of organizational construction. Among them, the construction of the cadre team is related to our Party's leadership level and governance capacity, and is the decisive factor to ensure that our Party always becomes the strong leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, determining whether our Party can achieve long-term stable governance and how far the great cause can go; the construction of the talent team reflects our Party's political leadership and political absorption capacity, gathers strong synergy and injects inexhaustible power for the great cause led by the Party, determining how high the great cause can reach and how well it can go. In practice, we must plan as a whole and promote it in coordination, rely on a strict organizational system to select cadres and gather talents, and rely on high-quality cadres and outstanding talents to strengthen the organization and do business, promote the three core elements to complement each other, promote each other, and complement each other, improve the overall quality, give play to the overall effectiveness, and promote the three core elements to complement each other, promote each other, and complement each other, improve the overall quality, and give play to the overall effectiveness.
For the first time, the organic combination of ideological party building and organizational party building has been deployed from the height of the Party's line, profoundly revealing that the ideological source of our Party's organizational power lies in scientific theoretical guidance and scientific theoretical arming.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Organization is the 'form,' and thought is the 'soul.' To strengthen the Party's organizational construction, we must not only 'shape' but also 'cast the soul.'" Always adhering to Marxism and its Chinese achievements as our guide to action, adhering to arming party members and cadres with the Party's innovative theories, and establishing the mind, casting the soul, and gathering strength for the entire Party is our Party's fine tradition, successful experience, and unique advantage in grasping its own construction, and it is also the fundamental guarantee for ensuring that the entire Party always maintains unified thinking, firm will, coordinated action, and strong combat effectiveness.
Our Party attaches great importance to ideological party building and theoretical strengthening of the Party. From the very beginning of its establishment, it has written Marxism on its banner and insisted on arming the entire Party with Marxist scientific theory to guide practice. The Gutian Conference (古田会议) held in 1929 established the fundamental principle of "building the Party ideologically." The Yan'an Rectification Movement (延安整风运动) that began in 1942 was a vivid practice of ideological party building. Through the rectification, the Marxist level of the entire Party was generally improved, and unprecedented unity in ideology, politics, and action was achieved, laying an important ideological and political foundation for winning the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the victory of the democratic revolution. Since the reform and opening up, in the process of our Party exploring and improving the overall layout of party building, ideological construction and organizational construction have always existed as two relatively independent core elements, mutually presupposing and supporting each other. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has innovatively proposed the brand-new proposition of "adhering to the organic combination of organizational party building and ideological party building" and promoted its implementation in the practice of governing the Party in the new era, achieving remarkable results. The Party's organizational line in the new era clearly proposes "comprehensively implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era," clarifying the guiding ideology and primary task of organizational construction, and profoundly revealing the dialectical unity between the Party's ideological construction and organizational construction, which is the logical extension of the theoretical innovation and practical innovation of the Party's construction in the new era at the level of the Party's line.
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, as contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st-century Marxism, is the spiritual banner and theoretical weapon guiding the direction of China's development in the new era, and is the fundamental guideline and guide to action for all work of the Party and the country. Embarking on a new journey of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, we must adhere to the organic combination of organizational party building and ideological party building, take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the general program for grasping the overall situation, adhere to the guidance of the Party's scientific theory throughout the entire process and all aspects of the Party's organizational construction, and ensure that organizational work always maintains the correct political direction; take adhering to arming the entire Party with the latest achievements of the Sinicization of Marxism as the primary task, use the power of thought to stimulate the power of organization, display the power of thought through the power of organization, and constantly consolidate, develop, and give play to the Party's organizational advantages, and effectively transform the Party's innovative theory into the practical force for promoting the great cause.
Highlighting the systematic requirements of organizational construction, it has realized a major leap from emphasizing element construction to paying more attention to system construction and giving play to system functions.
Adhering to the concept of system is an important part of the worldview and methodology of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and it is an ideological method and working method with a foundational and iconic nature in Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to using the concept of system to analyze and solve problems, and profoundly pointed out that "the whole world is an interconnected whole and also an interacting system."
Our Party exists and develops in the form of an organization. From the very beginning of its establishment, it has deeply realized that "the strength of the Party comes from the organization," so it attaches great importance to expanding and consolidating the Party from the organization. However, for a long time, our Party has placed the focus of organizational construction mainly on the construction of grassroots organizations in various fields, and in many cases even used "grassroots organizational construction" to refer to "organizational construction." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has creatively proposed the brand-new proposition of "grasping the construction of the Party's organizational system," and has published a series of important expositions, profoundly clarifying the foundational and key position of the construction of the Party's organizational system in the overall layout of the Party's construction and the overall situation of the Party's cause, and profoundly clarifying the framework function and construction focus of the Party's organizational system. The Party's organizational line in the new era clearly proposes "focusing on the construction of the organizational system," highlighting the requirements of systematic construction, which is a creative inheritance and development of the Party's historical emphasis on the construction of grassroots organizations, and is a concrete application of the worldview and methodology of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at the level of the Party's organizational line.
The Party's organizational construction is a complex systematic project. The Party's organizational system includes not only a sound organizational structure and a large team of party members, cadres, and talents, but also a complete organizational system and strict organizational discipline, which is an organic whole with complete elements, a clear structure, and a scientific layout. Each element of the organizational system is in a specific position in the system, has a specific function, and plays a specific role, and is interconnected, interacting, and influencing each other. In practice, we must enhance systematic thinking and a global perspective, implement the requirements of systematic construction, adhere to the organic unity of increasing quantity, expanding scale, and optimizing structure, improving functions, and giving play to roles, and attach great importance to the wide social coverage of the organizational system, and also attach great importance to handling the internal structure, functional positioning, and structural proportional relationship of the organizational system, further tightening the organizational structure that goes to the end vertically and to the edge horizontally, promoting the organic integration of organizational elements, the continuous optimization of organizational functions, and the overall play of organizational effectiveness, ensuring that our Party always maintains strong political leadership and broad social appeal, and better promotes the transformation of the advantages of the Party's organizational system into winning advantages.
Highlighting the political criteria for selecting and appointing people, it reflects the value leadership and characteristics of the times of the organizational line.
The key to governing a country lies in employing people. Marx and Engels believed that the ruling class "is the dominant material force in society, and at the same time is the dominant spiritual force in society." The ruling party's orientation in selecting and employing people depends on the nature and purpose of the ruling party, determines the regime's institutional absorption capacity, system integration capacity, and policy execution capacity, and is not only an important part of its internal political culture, but also has a value-leading role for the entire society and has a decisive impact on social culture.
We have always attached great importance to team building since the very beginning of our Party, adhering to strict standards for admitting Party members and using correct guidance to select cadres. As early as 1938, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) clearly stated: "The Communist Party's cadre policy should be based on whether they can resolutely implement the Party's line, obey the Party's discipline, maintain close ties with the masses, possess independent working ability, be proactive and hardworking, and not seek personal gain." In the new era of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, our Party also proposed the "four transformations" policy for cadre team building, emphasizing the need to "select individuals with both integrity and ability into leadership positions." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has distinctly put forward the standards for good cadres in the new era and the standard requirements for cadre work such as "three stricts and three steadies" (三严三实), "four haves" (四有), "four iron-clad qualities" (四个铁一般), and "five hard qualities" (五个过硬), which have greatly enriched the connotation of the Party's cadre work. The Party's organizational line in the new era proposes the principle of "adhering to both integrity and ability, prioritizing integrity, and appointing people based on merit," highlighting the leading role of "merit," the priority of "integrity," and the indispensability of "ability." The standards are more specific and the guidance is clearer, answering the fundamental question of what standards to use to select people and what kind of people to select, setting up a new era's benchmark. At the same time, it proposes "focusing on cultivating high-quality cadres who are loyal, clean, and responsible, and focusing on gathering outstanding talents from all fields who love the country and are dedicated to their work," emphasizing that cultivating cadres should adhere to political standards and a pragmatic orientation, and gathering talents should focus on political guidance and political absorption. This highly condenses the new standards and requirements put forward by the Party and the people's cause in the new era and on the new journey for cadres and talents, and is a concrete manifestation of the principle of selecting and appointing people in the construction of cadre and talent teams.
The idea of appointing people based on merit is the essence of China's excellent traditional culture, has a profound historical and cultural foundation, and is also the cadre line that our Party has consistently adhered to. Due to the relative abstractness of the concept of "merit," its specific standards and elements vary with time and circumstances. As our Party's understanding of the laws of its own construction continues to deepen, "merit" has gradually been concretized into two major aspects: integrity and ability. "Appointing people based on merit" stipulates the direction of selecting and appointing people at the principle level; "having both integrity and ability, with integrity as the priority" is a concretization of "appointing people based on merit," clarifying the elements and conditions for selecting and appointing people at the operational level. Integrity and ability are a complete and unified whole that are interconnected and indispensable. Emphasizing integrity as the priority is because, as socialism with Chinese characteristics enters a new era, the integrity of leading cadres has a fundamental and exemplary significance for individuals and society, and is a primary and prerequisite condition for ensuring the healthy and sustainable development of the cause of the Party and the people. Emphasizing political standards in selecting and appointing people, while taking into account ability and quality, reflects the characteristics of the times and the requirements of practice, which is conducive to encouraging the vast number of cadres and talents to have strong political integrity and to dare to take responsibility in their work, and is conducive to forming a good value orientation in the whole society, maximizing the gathering of outstanding talents from all fields to the cause of the Party and the people.
Highlighting the fundamental goal and value orientation of the organizational line serving the political line, profoundly elucidates the unique political advantages of the inherent unity between Party building, Party leadership, and the great cause.
The Party's organizational line serves the Party's political line. The Party's political line, as the general line of all work of the Party in a certain historical period, is the prerequisite for establishing the organizational line; and the organizational line is not only passively reflecting and adapting to the requirements of the political line, but the correct organizational line serves to ensure the correct political line, and at the same time has a positive impact on the formulation and implementation of the political line.
Our Party fully recognized from the early days of its founding that Party building serves the cause of the Party, recognized that Party leadership is the fundamental guarantee for the success of the cause, and formulated and adhered to the correct organizational line in different historical periods according to the development and changes of the situation and tasks and the needs of the political line, proposed and completed the tasks of organizational work, and ensured the implementation of the Party's correct political line. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has distinctly put forward major judgments such as "the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics," theoretically elucidating that the inherent unity and inseparability of Party leadership and socialism with Chinese characteristics is a huge and unique political advantage. The Party's organizational line in the new era proposes "providing a strong organizational guarantee for upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership and upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics," pointing out the fundamental starting point and foothold of the Party's organizational construction, and is a highly condensed and timely expression of the political logic of our Party leading the country through governing the Party and leading the great social revolution through great self-revolution in the new era.
Faced with the new era background of the "two overall situations" (两个大局) intertwined, interacting, and influencing each other, our Party must always be at the forefront of the times and always become the strong leading core for realizing the rejuvenation of the nation, so it must do a good job in its own construction, ensure that the Party always has the ability to lead the great cause, and effectively shoulder this major political responsibility, and truly become the most powerful political party in the world. The Party's leadership is concrete, not abstract, and is reflected in adhering to the guidance of scientific theory, adhering to the principle of the Party managing cadres and the Party managing talents, selecting the right people and using them correctly, and ensuring that the cause of the Party and the country always advances along the socialist direction; it is reflected in the organizational system being connected from top to bottom and effectively implemented, the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments being resolutely implemented, and the requirements of "two safeguards" (两个维护) being implemented in the practical actions of Party organizations at all levels and all Party member cadres. Implementing the Party's organizational line in the new era and strengthening the Party's organizational construction are ultimately aimed at building the Party well and building it strongly, ensuring that the Party leads the people to govern the country well, and the ultimate value should be reflected in upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(Written by: You Wenhu (尤文虎), Zheng Min (郑敏), Zhang Jingwei (张经纬))
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Cultural industry digitalization is a concentrated embodiment of the deep integration of culture and technology. It is not only an important way to better meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people, but also a growth point for promoting the high-quality development of the digital economy. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must prosper and develop cultural undertakings and cultural industries, innovate and implement cultural projects that benefit the people, vigorously promote cultural digitalization, so that advanced socialist culture can increase momentum and benefits for economic development, increase connotation and charm for tourism and leisure, and increase integrity and vitality for urban and rural society." The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "implementing the national cultural digitalization strategy, improving the modern public cultural service system, and innovating and implementing cultural projects that benefit the people," which pointed out the direction for promoting the digitalization of the cultural industry. To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, it is necessary to deeply explore the economic value of data, overcome the limitations of "information cocoons," and empower the high-quality development of the cultural industry through digitalization.
The transformation of the cultural production field is always closely related to technological progress. Looking back at history, every leap in human society and every sublimation of the technological revolution has been accompanied by the historic progress of culture. The integration of culture and technology, and the integration with industry, can drive the creative transformation of cultural resources and the innovative supply of cultural products. At present, a new generation of digital technologies represented by artificial intelligence, blockchain, virtual reality, and 5G are accelerating innovation, promoting the acceleration of the digitalization of the cultural industry. From the perspective of cultural development, digitalization has stimulated the vitality of cultural innovation and creation, which has not only promoted the innovation of cultural creation and communication methods, allowing high-quality content to emerge continuously, but also stimulated people's potential for innovation and creation, and gathered a wide range of creative subjects for the production of high-quality cultural products. From the perspective of industrial development, digitalization helps to extend the cultural industry chain, plays an important role in cultivating new cultural formats, promoting the formation of new cultural industry growth points, and stimulating the vitality of traditional cultural industries, and promotes increasingly personalized cultural consumption and the emergence of new business models. In the first quarter of this year, 16 small categories of industries with relatively obvious characteristics of new cultural formats achieved operating income of 1,484.6 billion yuan, an increase of 12.5% over the same period last year, 6.3 percentage points faster than all cultural enterprises above designated size. At the same time, it is necessary to see that while digital technology is broadening the path for the development and innovation of the cultural industry, it also brings challenges to the market model, values, and governance methods of the cultural industry, which requires high attention and active response, and promotes the digitalization of the cultural industry in adhering to integrity and innovation, and empowers the high-quality development of the cultural industry through digitalization.
Adhere to the correct direction of development. While digital technology brings huge empowerment to the cultural industry, it is inevitable that it will also produce negative effects such as traffic supremacy and algorithm dominance, leading to problems such as the influx of some vulgar content and dross of foreign culture, deviating from the direction in which the cultural industry should play a positive guiding role. Therefore, we must firmly grasp the correct direction of the digitalization of the cultural industry, adhere to putting social benefits first, and achieve the unity of social and economic benefits, take socialist core values as the guide, inherit and promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, improve the quality of digital cultural products such as online dramas, short videos, and self-media, and stimulate the subjective initiative of the people to carry out cultural creation through digital platform media, and fully meet the people's beautiful expectations for spiritual and cultural life. At the same time, promote and regulate the cross-border flow of data, strengthen risk assessment and entry-exit supervision of cross-border cultural data, and promote the safe circulation of cultural data.
Overcome the limitations of "information cocoons." Cultural industry digitalization has important advantages in improving production efficiency and expanding communication boundaries, but there are also problems such as technological dependence and content homogenization. At present, the provision of digital cultural products and services mainly relies on new intelligent devices and digital communication platforms, and has accumulated a large amount of data resources, including consumer browsing records, published comments, and purchase information. On the premise of respecting users' right to know and privacy, building and enriching the cultural industry database can help practitioners in the digital cultural industry improve product quality, explore market laws, and provide data support for the production of more and better digital cultural products. While digital platforms accurately deliver cultural products, they also form a significant "information cocoon" effect, which makes consumers' experiences tend to be singular and repetitive, and even limits the expansion of consumers' thinking. Therefore, we must promote healthy competition in the digital cultural market, broaden the sources of cultural products and services, improve public online literacy, and reduce dependence on single sources of information. At the same time, establish an effective consumer information feedback mechanism to promote the improvement and optimization of information push mechanisms.
Strengthen intellectual property protection. With the comprehensive integration of digital technology into the economy, society and other fields, the connection between the domestic market and the international market is closer. The overseas expansion of digital cultural products is an extension of the digitalization of the cultural industry in the international market. In this process, intellectual property protection is an important link. Digital cultural products have the characteristics of being easy to copy and disseminate, and low cost of piracy. Coupled with external reasons such as rapid network dissemination and difficulties in cross-border law enforcement, digital cultural products such as online literature, games, and audio and video face serious infringement and creators' difficulties in protecting their rights. In order to reduce illegal copying and online distribution and other illegal activities, new digital technology means such as digital watermarks and copyright blockchains can be used to strengthen the intellectual property protection of digital cultural products. Establish and improve a digital copyright trading platform to provide services such as copyright registration, trading, and rights protection, promote the legal circulation and use of digital cultural products, and provide convenience for copyright trading. In addition, international cooperation should be strengthened, actively participate in or organize international intellectual property protection-related activities, jointly formulate and implement intellectual property protection rules, and coordinate with other countries to combat cross-border intellectual property infringement. For example, promote industry self-discipline and standard construction, establish an industry intellectual property protection alliance, and provide supporting international intellectual property judicial services to assist in handling overseas digital cultural product infringement judicial disputes.
(Author's unit: School of Statistics, University of International Business and Economics)
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Logistics is the "meridian" of the real economy, connecting production and consumption, and is related to people's livelihood and development. Reducing the logistics costs of the whole society can "relax the muscles and promote blood circulation" for economic development.
The "Action Plan for Effectively Reducing Logistics Costs in the Whole Society" issued in November last year proposed that by 2027, the structure of cargo transportation will be further optimized, and the proportion of railway freight volume and railway freight turnover will strive to increase to about 11% and 23% respectively, and the volume of port container rail-water combined transportation will maintain rapid growth.
With the implementation of special actions to reduce logistics costs in the whole society, what new measures have the railway departments introduced, and what are the benefits for reducing logistics costs? The reporter conducted an interview.
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Connecting the "one kilometer" before and after the factory area and the store——
Railway "free shipping" saves worry and effort
In Ordos (鄂尔多斯市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), on the loading line of the special railway line of Yitai Guanglian Coal Chemical Co., Ltd. (伊泰广联煤化有限责任公司), a C80 10,000-ton train full of coal is ready to depart and will soon head to Caofeidian West Station (曹妃甸西站) in Tangshan (唐山), Hebei (河北).
"This year, we signed a total logistics service contract for the whole year with Yitai Company (伊泰公司), and have cumulatively shipped 2.3315 million tons," said Zhang Bin (张斌), director of the Marketing Department of Baotou Railway Logistics Center (包头铁路物流中心), China Railway Hohhot Bureau (国铁呼和浩特局).
For Yitai Company (伊泰公司), the entire chain of logistics services experienced by these power coal, from the mine mouth to the power plant coal stove, such as automobile transshipment and railway transportation, are all contracted by the railway department.
Railway "free shipping" sounds simple, but it is an important reform of the railway department.
The biggest advantages of railway transportation are large volume and low cost, but outside the railway trunk lines and freight yards, the "one kilometer" short-distance connection before and after connecting factories and stores has become a bottleneck for "road to rail." "Don't underestimate this 'one kilometer'. Each one-way short-distance transportation means an extra loading and unloading, which involves a lot of materials, labor, and possible losses," said Zhang He (张贺), deputy director of the Marketing Department of Baotou Railway Logistics Center (包头铁路物流中心), China Railway Hohhot Bureau (国铁呼和浩特局).
In the past, the railway department was only responsible for trunk line transportation. Now, after promoting the total logistics package, the railway department will tailor the best logistics solution for customers, solve the problem of short-distance transportation, and provide services such as storage, loading and unloading, handling, and packaging, so as to achieve the effect of "door-to-door," "production line to production line," and "factory-station-warehouse-dealer," helping customers reduce comprehensive logistics service costs.
Not only that, relying on the total logistics package, the railway department has also optimized its internal freight organization. In the past, cargo transportation involved multiple departments such as loading and unloading and dispatching. It generally took about 4 days from submitting a cargo transportation application to departure. After the implementation of the total logistics package, the railway department implemented joint office work internally, and personnel were assigned to monitor each operation link to ensure that the goods were sent out within 1 day.
Yitai Company (伊泰公司) has a deep understanding of this. This year, Yitai Company (伊泰公司) has sent nearly 300 10,000-ton trains, with an overall transportation efficiency increase of 10% and a comprehensive logistics cost reduction of about 20%.
Data from China State Railway Group (国铁集团) shows that a total of 655 total logistics package contracts were signed in the first five months, with a contract volume of 979 million tons. Taking China Railway Hohhot Bureau (国铁呼和浩特局) as an example, it has signed "total-to-total" logistics package service contracts with companies such as Baogang (包钢) and China Coal (中煤), signing 68 logistics package projects and locking in a contract volume of 114.88 million tons.
"Locking in the volume in advance is conducive to us arranging freight transportation in advance and improving the efficiency of line use," said Du Hui (杜慧), a staff member of the Freight Department of China Railway Hohhot Bureau (国铁呼和浩特局). Thanks to this, in the first five months, the China Railway Hohhot Bureau (国铁呼和浩特局) completed a cargo delivery volume of 111.23 million tons, an increase of 11.438 million tons year-on-year.
"Carrying out total logistics package business is to maximize the network advantages of railways and the production capacity advantages of enterprises, reduce logistics costs, and improve logistics efficiency," said the relevant person in charge of the Freight Department of China State Railway Group (国铁集团).
From rail transport to sea transport——
"One order to the end" crosses mountains and seas
Fuzhou Port (福州港), Fujian (福建), blue sky and blue sea, crane operations are busy. A train that started from Zhangshu Station (樟树站) in Jiangxi (江西) and carried 36 containers of industrial salt arrived smoothly at the station in front of the port. After the goods are unloaded, they will be transferred to Yingkou Port (营口港) in Liaoning (辽宁) by liner.
"Different from the previous transportation methods, this batch of goods has realized a 'one-order system' from rail transport to sea transport," said Bu Fanhua (卜繁华), marketing manager of the Logistics Division of China Railway Nanchang Bureau (国铁南昌局).
"'One-order system' for multimodal transport is a concentrated embodiment of smooth logistics," Bu Fanhua (卜繁华) introduced. The "one-order system" refers to the integrated transportation service model in the entire process of container multimodal transport, with one multimodal transport (electronic) waybill or bill of lading, realizing one-time entrustment, one order to the end, one box to the end, and one-time settlement for the shipper.
However, it is not easy to achieve a "one-order system."
Unified standards are a prerequisite. The key to realizing the "one-order system" for multimodal transport lies in realizing the system connection and data circulation between railway transportation and waterway transportation. There are many problems in this process.
"For a simple example, the same coconut juice drink is called coconut juice in the railway system, and coconut juice in the shipping company's system. Different names and different standards will make it impossible to achieve data connection," said Feng Yibin (冯轶斌), director of the Multimodal Transport Department of China Railway Container Transport Co., Ltd. (中铁集装箱运输有限责任公司).
To this end, the railway department has built a new set of sea freight booking system, providing "translation" functions, which solves the problem of conversion and mutual recognition of tens of thousands of basic data such as cargo names and port terminal names.
Reforming quotations is the key. The outstanding feature of the "one-order system" is that it realizes one order to the end and one-time settlement. In order to adapt to the quotation needs under the "one-order system," the railway department has changed the past ex-post quotation to real-time quotation, so that users can clearly see the transportation price when choosing a transportation method.
At the end of February this year, China State Railway Group (国铁集团) signed cooperation agreements with four shipping companies, Zhonggu Logistics (中谷物流), Xinfeng Shipping (信风海运), Antong Logistics (安通物流), and Pan Asia Shipping (泛亚航运), to jointly carry out container multimodal transport "one-order system" transportation services.
The "one-order system" for multimodal transport not only facilitates customers, but also greatly improves efficiency and reduces costs.
"After the system is connected, the shipping company can not only reserve space and arrange schedules in advance, but also arrange the work of collecting ports, loading and unloading in advance, which improves efficiency," said the relevant person in charge of Xinfeng (Ningbo) Shipping Logistics Co., Ltd. (信风（宁波）海运物流有限公司).
At the same time, in order to promote the "one-order system" transportation, the railway department organized the allocation of empty containers, the allocation of empty vehicles, and the grouping and hanging of vehicles, and arranged the train operation plan according to the schedule to ensure seamless connection of all links.
Data shows that the above-mentioned multimodal transport from Zhangshu (樟树) in Jiangxi (江西) to Yingkou (营口) in Liaoning (辽宁), after adopting the "one-order system" transportation, the entire transportation time was shortened by 5 days compared with the original, and the freight was reduced by 10%.
"In the past, we had to connect with a variety of transportation methods, and the process was cumbersome. Now, we can submit an application on the railway 95306 platform to 'one order to the end,' which saves time and effort," said Xu Xiaofeng (徐晓峰), secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Jiangxi Jinghao Salt Chemical Co., Ltd. (江西晶昊盐化有限公司).
According to statistics, the railway department has developed 119 "one-order system" products for multimodal transport.
Freight historical data replaces collateral——
"Freight Loan" reduces financing costs
"The railway 'Freight Loan' has helped me solve a big problem. With this special fund, the company is more confident in its development this year," said Li Bo (李波), deputy general manager of Henan Modern Public-Rail Logistics Co., Ltd. (河南现代公铁物流有限公司).
The railway "Freight Loan" mentioned by Li Bo (李波) is an innovative railway-exclusive financial service product launched by the railway department with lower interest rates, lower thresholds, faster processes, and faster lending. Relying on the railway "Freight Loan," cargo owners do not need to provide traditional mortgage guarantees, and can apply for loans 24/7 based on their own railway freight historical data, realizing the entire process of online financing application, credit approval, and single loan disbursement.
Li Bo (李波) introduced that for logistics companies, there is an account period between receipts and payments, and the company's cash flow pressure is relatively high. If the business is expanded, it will inevitably encounter tight funds. The railway "Freight Loan" can solve the urgent need.
Using the company's railway freight historical data instead of collateral, logistics companies can obtain financial support more conveniently. "Our company has cumulatively obtained 7 million yuan of special loan funds through the railway 'Freight Loan.' In the past three months, the company's number of loaded vehicles and tons sent have increased by 2.8 times and 1.2 times respectively compared with the same period last year, and the development momentum is very good," said Li Bo (李波).
In order to better serve customers, the railway department and cooperative banks automatically conduct credit assessments based on historical data, and dynamically determine the credit line and interest rate. The credit line of large and medium-sized enterprises can also be determined according to their shipping scale, freight volume, and freight changes on the railway.
After the loan application submitted by the customer through the railway 95306 platform or the bank's designated online channel is approved online, the funds can be quickly credited to the account, and the approval time is shortened by more than 70%.
"In order to serve the high-quality development of enterprises, we have deeply analyzed the operation of more than 1,000 freight customers in the jurisdiction, and formulated exclusive railway logistics financial cooperation plans for 409 target customers one-on-one. At present, a total of 21 customers have been granted credit, with a credit amount of 344 million yuan," said Shao Dali (邵大力), director of the Special Logistics Department of the Freight Department of China Railway Zhengzhou Bureau (国铁郑州局).
Data shows that in the first five months, railway logistics financial services have cumulatively served 819 customers, with a total credit financing amount of 19.783 billion yuan. With the help of the railway "Freight Loan" product, the comprehensive financing cost of small and medium-sized micro logistics enterprises has decreased by about 30%, effectively reducing the company's cost of capital use.
"Subsequently, on the basis of doing a good job in the railway 'Freight Loan' business, the railway department will also jointly launch bank guarantee business with banks to address the problems of 'one-price' customer deposit occupying capital flow, and continue to expand the application scenarios of railway logistics finance," said Shao Dali (邵大力).
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It's not that the market lacks demand, but that many effective demands have not been tapped.
From the batch export of products in 1991 to achieving profitability in overseas markets in 2016, Haier persisted for a full 25 years. This year, Haier has been the number one global major appliance brand for 16 consecutive years, with a market share more than 50% higher than the second place, and overseas revenue accounting for 53%.
In the past, the label of Chinese products was "cost-effectiveness"; now, Chinese-created products have the labels of "high-tech" and "high-experience." With the changes of the times, I have found that in the consumer context dominated by Generation Z, serious industrial narratives need to be injected with more personalized expressions, and enterprises should have a deeper understanding of consumers' needs.
On the one hand, the vitality of an enterprise depends not only on product performance, but also on the emotional connection with users. The transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing must not only be reflected in technological upgrades, but also in the innovation of narrative methods. On the other hand, a good IP uses sincerity and strength to make the brand the protagonist of the era. We cannot one-sidedly pursue high traffic, but study how to precipitate traffic into retention while creating value for users.
To further embrace the trend of economic globalization, more Chinese brands need to move to the center of the world stage, and I hope Haier can play its role well in this. One is from a follower to a rule maker. Haier has already achieved leadership in product standards, management standards, etc., and hopes that more Chinese companies, especially home appliance companies, can become leaders together. The second is from a product manufacturer to an ecosystem creator. It is hoped that a tropical rainforest-style industrial ecology can be built in the future, allowing users, makers and other parties to co-create and promote the win-win situation of the entire industrial ecosystem.
Currently, there are some voices of pessimism, saying that domestic market demand is insufficient. I think the opposite is true. It's not that the market lacks demand, but that many effective demands have not been tapped. After more than 40 years of reform and opening up, a group of very excellent enterprises and brands have grown up, coupled with China's (中国) super-large market, I am very confident in the Chinese economy (中国经济). Envisioning the future, facing internal competition and external pressure, enterprises should continue to deepen their understanding of consumer demand, create a better life scene for users through innovation, and at the same time do a good job in the domestic market and expand the overseas market, and continuously improve the competitiveness of the entire industrial chain.
(The author is Zhang Ruimin (张瑞敏), Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Haier Group (海尔集团). This article was compiled by Lin Ziye (林子夜) and Shang Dan (尚丹), reporters from this newspaper.)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 (Reporters Zhou Yuan (周圆) and Zhang Xin (张辛欣)) The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) convened the 15th Manufacturing Enterprise Symposium on the 3rd, focusing on accelerating the high-quality development of the photovoltaic industry. It proposed governing the photovoltaic industry's low-price and disorderly competition in accordance with laws and regulations, guiding enterprises to improve product quality, promoting the orderly withdrawal of backward production capacity, and achieving healthy and sustainable development.
The person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) introduced that in recent years, China's photovoltaic industry has achieved a transformation from scratch and from weak to strong, and has achieved leading advantages in terms of industrial scale, technological level, and application market, becoming a bright name card of "Made in China."
The person in charge stated that industry enterprises should devote themselves to technological innovation, adhere to the bottom line of quality and safety, strengthen international cooperation, and accelerate the shaping of China's next-generation photovoltaic product competitive advantages. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) will further increase macro guidance and industry governance, strengthen standard leadership and service guarantees, and continue to help enterprises solve urgent and difficult problems that they are anxious about.
Return to TopBeijing, July 3rd (Reported by Wang Ke (王珂)) At the regular press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) on July 3rd, news spokesperson He Yongqian (何咏前) stated in response to a question about "0 kilometer" used cars that automobiles are "major durable" consumer goods, and encouraging and supporting the development of the "used car" market is a common practice in various countries. In February 2024, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), together with relevant departments, jointly formulated relevant requirements and procedures for used car exports and issued an announcement, officially launching the used car export business nationwide. Over the past year, various regions have organized and implemented the work in accordance with the requirements of the announcement, strictly ensuring quality and safety, and doing a good job in the export of used cars, meeting the car purchase choices of overseas consumers. In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) will continue to work with relevant departments to strengthen guidance on used car export work and promote the healthy and orderly development of used car exports.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京), July 3rd (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) At 17:35 on the 3rd, China successfully launched the Shiyan-28B 01 satellite using the Long March 4C (长征四号丙) carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (西昌卫星发射中心). The satellite successfully entered its predetermined orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success. The satellite is mainly used for space environment exploration and related technology experiments.
This mission was the 583rd flight of the Long March series of carrier rockets.
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"This melon is definitely not ripe, blame me if I'm wrong!"
Early in the morning, at a watermelon purchasing agent location in Xijie Village (西街村), Guomiao Town (郭庙镇), Taihe County (太和县), Fuyang City (阜阳市), Anhui Province (安徽省), "melon inspector" Fu Qianyou (付迁友) began to get busy. He cut open a watermelon on the spot, and the whitish pulp confirmed his judgment.
On average, Fu Qianyou (付迁友) can inspect a watermelon in just 3 seconds. The trick is to look, tap, and listen. "The darker the color of the melon's pattern, the clearer the echo when tapped, the riper the watermelon. A good melon also has a rebound in the feel when tapped," Fu Qianyou (付迁友) said with a smile. Becoming a "melon inspector" is not easy and requires long-term training.
In 2008, Fu Qianyou (付迁友) transferred 30 mu of land to grow watermelons, thus beginning his indissoluble bond with watermelons. In the process of dealing with watermelons for a long time, Fu Qianyou (付迁友) developed "discerning eyes" and "skillful hands." The melons that pass his inspection are basically good melons that meet the standards.
With this unique skill, Fu Qianyou (付迁友) was invited by nine surrounding watermelon purchasing agent locations to serve as a "melon inspector," and sometimes he also goes to other provinces to inspect melons. "The income of a 'melon inspector' is calculated according to the weight of the watermelon. You can get three or four cents for inspecting 1 kilogram of watermelon," said Fu Qianyou (付迁友).
At about 11 a.m., Fu Qianyou (付迁友) finally loaded the inspected watermelons into the truck, totaling 10,000 kilograms, and received more than 300 yuan in remuneration. Although the working hours are sometimes long, Fu Qianyou (付迁友) does not dare to slack off in the slightest. "If the melons bought by the merchants are not ripe, they won't come again! We can't ruin the reputation of Guomiao Town (郭庙镇) watermelons," Fu Qianyou (付迁友) said with a smile.
"Combining local climatic conditions, we use greenhouse planting mode. The watermelons grown are thin-skinned and sweet, and are very popular among consumers. We have also gradually formed a whole industrial chain development model from watermelon seedling breeding, planting, sales to logistics and transportation," said Zhang Xuefeng (张学峰), deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Guomiao Town (郭庙镇). "At present, the watermelon planting area in the town has remained stable at about 10,000 mu for many years. We also hold a watermelon cultural and tourism art festival for a long time, using colorful activities to continuously expand brand influence."
Every year, Guomiao Town (郭庙镇) watermelons are on the market from the beginning of May to the end of July, and Fu Qianyou (付迁友) can do more than two months of melon inspection work. In Guomiao Town (郭庙镇), there are more than 1,000 melon inspectors like Fu Qianyou (付迁友), distributed in 47 watermelon purchasing agent locations throughout the town.
At the watermelon purchasing agent location in Lixin Village (立新村), Guomiao Town (郭庙镇), "melon inspector" Chen Youyi (陈友义) is busy tapping watermelons.
"These melons are very ripe, so be sure to tap them gently, otherwise they will easily burst open." Chen Youyi (陈友义) gently picked up and put down the watermelon, paused, and added, "The sweetness should be good."
Amid the surprised gazes of the crowd, Chen Youyi (陈友义) pinched the watermelon a few times with his fingertips, and the watermelon cracked open with a light tap. After tasting it, the surrounding customers gave thumbs up.
Chen Youyi (陈友义) is an "old hand" in growing watermelons in Guomiao Town (郭庙镇) and one of the earliest "melon inspectors" in the area.
"The emergence of 'melon inspectors' was initially to reduce the waste of watermelons," said Chen Youyi (陈友义). In the past, many melon farmers could not accurately distinguish the ripeness of watermelons, and the harvested watermelons were not ripe, which caused waste if they could not be sold. "Melon inspectors" help melon farmers find ripe melons, mark them, and facilitate precise picking.
As the local watermelon planting area becomes larger and larger, the demand for "melon inspectors" also increases. In Chen Youyi's (陈友义) view, the profession of "melon inspector" has played a positive role in promoting the development of the watermelon industry, enhancing the popularity and reputation of local watermelons, and expanding the sales market.
Wu Xinghao (吴兴好), a merchant from Lu'an City (六安市), Anhui Province (安徽省), lives and eats at the watermelon purchasing agent location in Lixin Village (立新村) and sends a truckload of watermelons back to Lu'an (六安) every day. "It's worth the cost of hiring a 'melon inspector' because it guarantees the quality of the watermelons, and I can sell them for a good price when I get back," said Wu Xinghao (吴兴好).
(Li Peng (李鹏) participated in the writing)
Return to TopThis is reported from Nanning on July 3rd (Reporter Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺)). The reporter learned from Guangxi Pinglu Canal Group Co., Ltd. (广西平陆运河集团有限公司) that as of June 30, the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河) has cumulatively completed approximately 56 billion yuan in investment, accounting for 77% of the total investment, with an annual completion rate of 53%; cumulatively excavated approximately 286.712 million cubic meters of earth and stone, accounting for 90.9% of the total, with an annual completion rate of 51.5%; and cumulatively completed approximately 4.953 million cubic meters of main concrete pouring for the ship locks, accounting for 84.7% of the total, with an annual completion rate of 65.1%.
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Classifying fallen leaves to produce organic fertilizer; laying permeable materials to collect rainwater; utilizing photovoltaic power generation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions... In recent years, the Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo (南京市红山森林动物园) in Jiangsu Province (江苏省) has actively explored green and low-carbon initiatives, striving to achieve low-carbon, environmentally friendly, and sustainable development.
In the native species conservation area of the Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo (南京市红山森林动物园) in Jiangsu Province (江苏省), there is a Quercus variabilis tree that had fallen due to a typhoon. The park did not choose to move this tree but preserved it, allowing the trunk to become a new space for the coexistence of many other plants, animals, fungi, and other life forms.
The fallen tree has become a habitat for living creatures, which embodies the cycle of the ecosystem and is also an epitome of the Hongshan Forest Zoo's (红山森林动物园) exploration of carbon reduction. Shen Zhijun (沈志军), director of the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园), introduced that the zoo generates fallen leaves and wood, animal manure, tourist waste, etc. every day, and the venues need to be temperature- and humidity-controlled all year round. The animals and plants in the zoo also consume a lot of resources every day. For a long time, there have been problems such as high energy consumption and high carbon emissions. In order to change this situation, the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园) has begun to build a zero-waste, low-carbon zoo.
Recently, the reporter walked into the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园) to find the secret of the green transformation of this "major carbon emitter" zoo.
Classifying and processing solid waste to achieve recycling
To the right of the Quercus variabilis tree that was blown down by the typhoon, there is a park guide sign, the main part of which is made of fallen wood from the park.
The Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园) is built on a mountain, and the entire zoo is covered by various plants, with a forest coverage rate of over 85%, overlooking like a green ocean. Tall trees provide habitats for various species and also allow tourists to cool off in the shade. However, many trees can also cause problems. The Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园) produces an average of about 2 cubic meters of garden waste such as tree sections and branches every day, and this number will increase in typhoon and rainstorm weather.
"We will crush the pruned branches into wood chips as needed. Some of the wood chips are used as animal bedding in animal venues or to cover exposed loess areas. Some of the wood chips are mixed with the collected animal manure in a certain proportion and then transported to a fully automatic and fully enclosed fermentation tank. Special aerobic strains are added, and after 20 days of fermentation, sterilization, deodorization, and other harmless treatments, it is produced into organic manure fertilizer, which is mainly used for fertilizing trees in the park and improving the soil in the animal green fodder planting base, so as to achieve the purpose of turning waste into treasure," Chen Changju (陈昌菊), director of the Gardening Management Department of the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园), told reporters.
In addition to large fallen trees, the pine needles and fallen leaves produced daily by the zoo, the green grass removed from the park, the kitchen waste from the staff canteen, and the deteriorated materials and grain feed, these seemingly useless "wastes" are actually "good things" for improving the ecosystem. "We collect the solid waste produced in the native species conservation area and pile it in a box. Microorganisms and other organisms will decompose the organic matter. This process is called composting," said Chen Yuelong (陈月龙), technical supervisor of the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center of the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园). These fertilizers will be used in the farmland of the native species conservation area to make the land fertile and support the healthy growth of crops. "These plants become the feed for the animals raised in the native species conservation area after they mature, realizing self-circulation."
The soil nutrition of the zoo's 150-mu animal feed base and the fertilization of trees in the park all rely on organic manure fertilizer. "Using animal manure to produce organic fertilizer solves the problem of animal manure treatment, and at the same time allows animal and plant waste to achieve 'self-production and self-sales'," Chen Changju (陈昌菊) introduced. The remaining organic fertilizer is also made into zoo cultural and creative products, which tourists can buy to grow flowers, spreading the concept of green and low-carbon to more people.
Rainwater infiltrates to conserve water sources and recycle water resources
Many water surfaces are the intuitive feeling of many tourists to the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园). In the North Gate Lake (北门湖) of the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园), Erigeron annuus, Trifolium repens, Broussonetia papyrifera, water lilies, lotus flowers, Phragmites australis and other plants grow arbitrarily, and moorhens leisurely inhabit and forage in the water. This is not like a traditional zoo, but more like an ecological park.
The zoo needs a rich aquatic ecosystem. "In the process of planning the zoo, we hope to reduce human intervention and create a natural ecosystem," Shen Zhijun (沈志军) introduced. Water plays a vital role. In the planning of the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园), we hope to retain more "water" and then recycle it, so as to nourish all things while reducing carbon emissions.
Some "invisible" water is also left in the park. Some tourists have noticed that many of the walking paths in the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园) feel soft to step on, which is exactly the secret of "retaining water". The walking paths in the park are either "ecological paths" paved with wood chips, forage, and soil to facilitate the passage of earthworms and other organisms, or paved with high-performance permeable bricks. Both of these walking paths have water permeability, and rainwater can seep down along the ground to replenish groundwater.
"Rainwater infiltration can not only conserve water sources, but also maintain soil moisture, creating a good living environment for surface vegetation and microorganisms." Ma Ke (马可), director of the Construction Department of the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园), led and participated in most of the zoo's infrastructure projects. Water cycle is an important indicator he considered at the beginning of the design. "At present, except for the main roads, which need to bear vehicle transportation tasks due to the large flow of people, other walking paths in the park are paved with permeable materials, and the two complement each other," Ma Ke (马可) said. "In order to reduce water consumption, the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园) has integrated the concept of environmental protection into the construction. Water cycle designs have been adopted in the South Gate area (南门区) and the native species conservation area to save and recycle water resources by collecting rainwater."
Installing photovoltaic power generation projects to save energy and reduce carbon emissions
Every weekend, the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园) ushers in a peak of visits. In the native species conservation area, many tourists are resting in the "Sustainable Living Courtyard". There is a "zero-carbon" coffee machine in the courtyard. Guo Jun (郭君), a citizen of Nanjing (南京), scanned the code to buy a cup of "zero-carbon" iced coffee, and the screen showed "The carbon emission of this cup of iced coffee in your hand is about 85 grams."
"We use local Chinese coffee beans, choose 'carbon neutral' milk, and the coffee grounds will also be used for composting, and the electricity used by this machine is also supplied by the photovoltaic panels above the courtyard," Chen Yuelong (陈月龙) introduced to reporters. "Zero-carbon" coffee is not completely free of carbon emissions, but it is designed to reduce emissions as much as possible by calculating the emission value of greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide).
The "Sustainable Living Courtyard" is a small experimental area for energy conservation and environmental protection in the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园). There are 10 solar photovoltaic panels above the courtyard, with a total area of 31 square meters. The electricity generated is allocated by the native species conservation area itself. After buying coffee, Guo Jun (郭君) noticed that there were also sockets for charging mobile phones on the tables in the rest area. Not only that, the lighting and air-conditioning electricity in the adjacent cultural and creative cabin are also supported by photovoltaic power generation.
Compared with the "small-scale practice" of the "Sustainable Living Courtyard", the energy-saving practice of the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center of the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园) is more systematic and large-scale. The zoo transformed and installed a 1,100-square-meter photovoltaic power generation project on the roof of the rescue center, which can generate more than 80,000 kilowatt-hours of green electricity a year, equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 60.8 tons, basically meeting the daily electricity needs of the rescue center. In addition, there are many green and carbon reduction details when walking around the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园), such as beverage bottle recycling stations, composting yards, and ecological mats in the cat pavilion.
"We will take low-carbon, environmental protection and sustainability as the goal of the zoo's development, actively promote the park's zero-waste action plan, and also hope to provide a microscopic sample for urban waste management, resource recycling, energy conservation and carbon reduction through the exploration of the Hongshan Forest Zoo (红山森林动物园)," Shen Zhijun (沈志军) introduced.
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Yellow and green are "preferred" by most insects, and the higher the saturation of the color, the easier it is to attract insects.
As summer temperatures rise, insects become more active. Many people have noticed that when walking down the street wearing bright yellow or green clothes, they are often surrounded by small flying insects. Some people wonder why these colors of clothing are more likely to attract small flying insects. To avoid or reduce their intrusion, what color clothes are best to wear?
To understand the science behind this phenomenon, we must first understand two concepts: insect "color preference" and "phototaxis."
In the insect world, color and light have a magical attraction for them. In nature, the preference or aversion of insects to external stimuli such as light, temperature, humidity, and chemical substances is called insect "taxis." Taxis plays an important role in their foraging, courtship, habitat selection, and avoidance of enemies. The taxis of insects to colors is called "color preference," and the taxis to light sources is called "phototaxis."
Different types of insects have different preferences for colors. In general, studies have shown that yellow and green are "preferred" by most insects. At the same time, the higher the saturation of the color, the easier it is to attract insects. For example, wearing bright yellow clothes with high saturation will attract insects more easily than wearing light yellow clothes with low saturation.
The reason why insects can keenly perceive colors is mainly due to their complex visual system. The visual system of most insects is composed of compound eyes and ocelli, and insects rely more on compound eyes to perceive color and light. A compound eye is composed of many ommatidia, and each ommatidium is an independent imaging system, equivalent to a "camera." Generally speaking, the more ommatidia there are, the clearer the insect's visual perception. When the insect's visual system receives light signals, these signals are transmitted to the visual nerve center, and after a series of processing and integration, it will trigger the insect's reaction to different colors. This reaction mechanism enables insects to quickly make approaching or avoiding behaviors.
How can you avoid or reduce the intrusion of flying insects? When engaging in outdoor activities, avoid wearing highly saturated yellow or green clothes. You can wear goggles and use insect repellents or insect sprays.
(The author is the Deputy Dean of the School of Forestry of Beijing Forestry University (北京林业大学), interviewed and compiled by Chang Qin (常钦), a reporter from this newspaper)
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Deqing County (德清县), Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) is a place where rivers and harbors intertwine, surrounded by green mountains. On the wide waters of the Xiaoshan Yang (小山漾) freshwater pearl ecological aquaculture base, rows of white spherical buoys float, connected in lines, resembling strings of pearl necklaces when viewed from above.
"The buoys connect to underwater net cages, precisely positioning the pearls for suspension culture at a depth of 30-40 centimeters underwater." Lü Yingxuan (吕瑛轩), 23 years old, is a local young pearl farmer. Recently, what makes him most proud is that the Deqing (德清) Freshwater Pearl Composite Culture System (hereinafter referred to as the "Deqing Freshwater Pearl System") at his doorstep was recently recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System.
What makes ordinary aquaculture worthy of being recognized as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System? "It contains the ecological wisdom of our ancestors," said Lü Yingxuan (吕瑛轩).
Based on the mixed culture of fish and mussels, and using the shell-attached pearl culture technology originating locally, the Deqing (德清) Freshwater Pearl System encompasses rich aquatic biological resources such as mussels, fish, zooplankton, benthic animals, and aquatic plants. It has gradually formed a natural ecological cycle of "fish eat grass, mussels eat fish feces, and pearls are cultivated within the mussels," which not only improves water quality but also maintains biodiversity, presenting a rural landscape pattern of "lake-pond-farmland-woodland-village" mosaic distribution.
Pearl farmer Zhang Guoyong (张国勇)'s family has adhered to the traditional ecological method of mixed fish and mussel culture for three generations. "Mixed fish and mussel culture does not require feeding the Cristaria plicata mussels. The water becomes clearer, the survival rate of the mussels also increases, and the quality of the pearls is greatly improved," said Zhang Guoyong (张国勇).
"The pearls produced by Cristaria plicata are smooth and delicate and are excellent varieties for cultivating freshwater pearls in China." After saying that, Zhang Guoyong (张国勇) salvaged a Cristaria plicata attached to the net cage, cut it open with a knife, and squeezed out round and large pearls from the mussel meat. At the Xiaoshan Yang (小山漾) freshwater pearl ecological aquaculture base, more than 300,000 Cristaria plicata are salvaged every year, and each mussel can produce 20-30 pearls.
After fine classification, the pearls become raw materials for related pearl products. "Among them, 80% are used for medicinal pearls and cosmetic raw materials, and only 5% can be selected as jewelry-grade pearls." In the view of Yang Anquan (杨安全), Secretary-General of the Deqing County (德清县) Pearl Industry Association, the Deqing (德清) Freshwater Pearl System has achieved a win-win situation in terms of economic and ecological benefits.
In recent years, Deqing (德清) has not only inherited traditional ecological aquaculture techniques and explored the development of modern three-dimensional pearl aquaculture models, but also launched the construction of the "Source of Jiangnan" cultural heritage park. It has also strengthened cooperation with universities to carry out breeding work with modern technology and continuously improve variety selection.
At the same time, from farming pearls to developing deep pearl processing, generations of pearl farmers have continuously integrated processing, research and development, cultural tourism, and other links to explore the entire industrial chain of "pearl +": "Pearl + Brand," Li Min (李敏) from Deqing (德清) founded her own pearl brand. The pearl jewelry such as brooches, pendants, and earrings she designed are not only sold in exclusive stores in the county but have also become popular souvenirs for tourists; "Pearl + Technology," from founding a pearl powder factory to developing into a group, local leading enterprises have combined cutting-edge technologies to successively overcome technologies such as pearl polypeptide purification and pearl fermentation, embarking on the deep processing path of pearl skincare; "Pearl + Cultural Tourism," at the Xiaoshan Yang (小山漾) freshwater pearl ecological aquaculture base, children who come for research and study set off by boat to learn about the growth environment of mussels and experience the process of opening mussels and collecting pearls on site...
According to statistics, the total amount of deep pearl processing in Deqing County (德清县) is nearly 100 tons per year, accounting for about 10% of the total national output. The annual output value of pearl farming and deep processing exceeds 7 billion yuan, driving employment for nearly 20,000 people.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on July 3rd (Reporters Li Hongmei (李红梅), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), and Li Xiaoqing (李晓晴)) - The Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) predicts that in the next 3 days, there will be more rainfall in eastern Northwest China, western Sichuan Basin, Yunnan (云南), North China (华北), Northeast China (东北地区) and other places, with moderate to heavy rain in some areas, and local heavy rain to torrential rain. At 18:00 on the 3rd, the Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) continued to issue a blue rainstorm warning, and issued a meteorological risk warning for floods in small and medium rivers and a meteorological forecast for waterlogging risk. The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) respectively issued an orange meteorological warning for mountain torrent disasters and a meteorological risk warning for geological disasters jointly with the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局).
It is expected that from 20:00 on the 3rd to 20:00 on the 4th, there will be heavy rain to torrential rain in some areas of eastern Qinghai (青海), central and eastern Gansu (甘肃), southern Ningxia (宁夏), southwestern and northern Shaanxi (陕西), western Sichuan Basin (四川盆地), southeastern Tibet (西藏), western Yunnan (云南), eastern Liaoning (辽宁), and southeastern Jilin (吉林), including local torrential rain in northwestern Sichuan Basin (四川盆地) and southeastern Gansu (甘肃).
On the 3rd, 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 study and judge the development trend of heavy rainfall in North China (华北), Northeast China (东北地区), Northwest China (西北地区), and western Sichuan Basin (四川盆地), and refined the deployment of heavy rainfall prevention and response work in key areas. On the 3rd, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总) launched a Level IV emergency response for flood control in Liaoning (辽宁), Sichuan (四川), Yunnan (云南), Gansu (甘肃), and Qinghai (青海).
Affected by the rainfall process, there will be a significant rise in water levels in the main and tributary streams of the upper reaches of the Yellow River (黄河) in Qinghai (青海), and some small and medium rivers in the rainstorm area may experience floods exceeding the warning level. The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) launched a Level IV emergency response for flood defense in Qinghai Province (青海省) at 12:00 on the 3rd, requiring local water resources departments and relevant river basin management agencies to pay close attention to changes in rainfall and water conditions, and do a good job in river flood control, safe flood passage of reservoirs and silt dams, and prevention of floods in small and medium rivers and mountain torrent disasters. At present, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) maintains a Level IV emergency response for flood defense in Chongqing (重庆), Sichuan (四川), Gansu (甘肃) and other 3 provinces.
Return to TopOn July 1st, the Forestry and Grassland Affairs Center of Jinta County (金塔县), Jiuquan City (酒泉市), Gansu Province (甘肃省) received a call from an enthusiastic member of the public, stating that three fledglings had been discovered in the Beishan (北山) area of Hangtian Town (航天镇), Jinta County (金塔县), and were in urgent need of rescue. After the staff arrived at the scene, they found a black stork's breeding nest on a cliff in Beishan (北山), with three black stork fledglings inside. The rescuers used the long arm of an excavator to build a temporary "air passage," and finally successfully transferred the three fledglings to safety.
The black stork is a Class I protected bird in China. After a preliminary examination, the three fledglings had no obvious external injuries, but were physically weak. Currently, the three black stork fledglings have been sent to the Jiuquan City Wildlife Rescue Center (酒泉市野生动物救护中心) to receive professional care. After they recover their physical strength and have the ability to survive independently, a suitable wild environment will be selected for their release back into nature.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙 振
Introduction
What comes to mind when you think of delivery riders?
Fast, hard, tiring...
These people who are racing against time work from dawn till dusk, earning hard-earned money. One delivery rider described himself as: working non-stop through all four seasons, with irregular meals, constantly on the move, and focused on making money.
But who is afraid of hardship and fatigue?
Wu Mingliang (邬明亮), a Meituan (美团) delivery rider in Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江), who failed in his business venture and is in debt, is more eager than anyone to run orders. But he is more enthusiastic than anyone in responding to the union's initiative and popularizing insurance knowledge among his peers: "Don't rush when running orders, safety first!"
Wang Jibing (王计兵), an Ele.me (饿了么) delivery rider in Kunshan (昆山), Jiangsu (江苏), has turned his monotonous days into poetry: Who says that spreading wings means flying high/Low-altitude flight is still flight/There is also the sound of wind like birdsong/And wheels like shooting stars...
He Ping (何萍), the head of a Yuantong (圆通) Express station in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), responded to the policy by paying social insurance for all 20+ delivery riders at the station. "I used to be a courier myself, and I understand their needs best."
In hardship and fatigue, there is the essence of everyday life, the texture of life, and the continuous implementation of rights protection.
In hardship and fatigue, the extraordinary dedication in ordinary positions explains at every moment: to be happy, you must strive, and striving itself is a kind of happiness.
Is the time still tight?
The algorithm has added warmth, dynamic optimization, and more composure to delivery
Just one minute short, clicking "delivered" in advance resulted in a bad review and a fine of 50 yuan... Feeling sorry for a long time, Pu Yonglu (濮永禄), an Ele.me (饿了么) delivery rider in Beijing (北京), twisted the throttle even tighter, "wanting to earn back the fine."
Riding too fast, a sharp turn caused a crash, and the delivered cake was deformed. Zhu Lijuan (朱丽娟), a Dada (达达) rider in Kunshan (昆山), Jiangsu (江苏), apologized while transferring money to the customer, but her feet were still swift, "There are still several orders to deliver."
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How to balance fast delivery and safe delivery? Delivery riders all have the experience of racing against time.
Why so urgent? Sun Qi (孙琦), a Meituan (美团) delivery rider in Beijing (北京) with more than 5 years of experience, admitted that he used to be pushed by the algorithm. Even if the system assigned orders that were on the way, it was still rushed, "The delivery time is short, and there are many uncontrollable factors. For example, during peak meal times, if the restaurant is slow to prepare the food, several orders will be delayed; another example is waiting in line for the elevator in office buildings, sometimes waiting for more than ten minutes."
The change came from a series of rider symposiums organized by relevant departments, street communities, and platforms. In the past two years, Sun Qi (孙琦) has participated in many times, expressing all his troubles.
Beyond the symposiums, there is a quiet and profound reform. In 2023, the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部) was established, and social work departments of the Party committees at the provincial, municipal, and county levels were established accordingly, continuously strengthening the management and service of new employment groups, of which algorithm governance is an important part. Under the guidance of policies, platforms such as Meituan (美团) and Ele.me (饿了么) are constantly adjusting and optimizing them.
After the algorithm was optimized, Sun Qi's (孙琦) delivery time became much more generous: based on road conditions, distance, etc., big data provides multiple reference durations, and the algorithm takes the longest, and then gives an 8-minute buffer time on top of that, "Delivery within the buffer time does not count as overtime."
He also has several more rights: if the restaurant is slow to prepare the food, he can transfer the order to a nearby rider; in the case of waiting in line for the elevator, he can report the abnormality and apply for a delay; in the event of a bad review, he can appeal online. If there is indeed a mistake, in the past, there would be a fine, but now service points are deducted.
When the algorithm adds warmth, Pu Yonglu (濮永禄) has more composure. Not long ago, when delivering food, he saw the customer's garbage at the door and took it down with him. Soon after, he received a good review.
Zhu Lijuan (朱丽娟) recalled that after finishing that order, she sent the deformed cake to her son's kindergarten, and the children were very happy to eat it. Slowly, she changed her mindset, "The delivery time is longer, so I'm not so rushed. After all, it's just a meal?"
Fan Peng (范鹏), a SF Express (顺丰) delivery rider in Ezhou (鄂州), Hubei (湖北), also has this composure. After delivering express for 7 years, the daily number of deliveries has doubled, but he rarely delays, what does he rely on? At the front end, automated distribution and sorting; in the middle, intelligent vehicle-cargo matching, big data planning routes. "The goods are delivered to the network points more timely, and the delivery time is more generous," said Fan Peng (范鹏).
In fact, sometimes the delivery riders are still in a hurry. One day in June last year, there was heavy rain in the local area. Because he forgot to turn off the order receiving system, Yu Zhenhang (俞振航), a Meituan (美团) delivery rider in Kunshan (昆山), was assigned an order, and also received customer information: "I've been busy all day and haven't eaten, can this order be delivered?"
Deliver! Accept the order, go downstairs, and head straight into the wind and rain.
In the wind and rain, the algorithm is escorting: increasing the delivery fee for riders, and not deducting service points for overtime or bad reviews.
Multi-departmental efforts to ensure. Yu Zhenhang (俞振航) recalled that on that day, the rider stations in Kunshan (昆山) city were fully stocked with raincoats and umbrellas. On the streets, many police and volunteers maintained traffic and provided emergency services. About 1 hour later, the meal was delivered, and he also received a 50 yuan tip.
New measures continue to follow up. Not long ago, the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部) and other 8 departments jointly issued a document proposing to "guide key online ride-hailing and delivery platform enterprises to dynamically optimize and adjust algorithm rules."
Recently, Sun Qi (孙琦) participated in two more symposiums, reflecting new problems: for example, in order to reduce riders waiting for food, the platform is piloting scheduling pick-up after the restaurant prepares the food in some restaurants, but not many restaurants are participating; another example is that as a dedicated (mostly full-time) rider, fines for overtime, bad reviews, etc. have been cancelled, but this provision does not yet apply to the crowdsourcing (mostly part-time) riders who run orders with him.
Sun Qi (孙琦) believes that the positive responses from the platform and relevant departments at the symposium will further improve their riding experience.
Is the income stable?
Transparent salary, peace of mind to work hard, and increased hope in life
On the first day of running orders, Huang Xiaoqin (黄晓琴), an Ele.me (饿了么) rider in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), earned 173 yuan from morning to night. That night, her clothes were soaked with sweat, and the moonlight shone into her heart, "That was the light of life." She used the money she earned to buy a can of milk powder for her 1-year-old child.
In the first month of running orders, Sun Lulu (孙路路), an Ele.me (饿了么) delivery rider in Kunshan (昆山), earned about 6,000 yuan. His wife never manages the money, but he took the initiative to hand over 5,200 yuan to express "I love you," "At that time, the child was just born, and my wife was taking care of the baby full-time, and she put in the most effort."
The small delivery box contains the livelihood of a family. Sun Lulu's (孙路路) parents opened several mobile phone stores in their hometown of Huai'an (淮安), Jiangsu (江苏), and Sun Lulu (孙路路) has been helping in the store. Who knew that the business grew, the capital chain broke, and they were still in debt; the printing shop opened by Huang Xiaoqin (黄晓琴) and her husband lost a lot of money due to poor management.
Many riders enter the industry out of helplessness. But they use smiles to face life's "jokes" calmly. Every holiday, Sun Lulu (孙路路) will order a takeaway and send a bouquet of flowers to his wife, "If you don't earn enough money, you can't have less happiness in life."
Some friends questioned: Riding in the wind and sun, can female riders run orders for a long time? Taking out her mobile phone, Huang Xiaoqin (黄晓琴) showed the reporter the order receiving APP. Every time she runs an order, a few more yuan will be added to her account, "This makes me always persist and believe: one point of effort, one point of return."
This belief comes from management changes. Meituan (美团), Ele.me (饿了么) and other platforms, Jitu (极兔), "STO, YTO, SF Express, Yunda" (中通、圆通、申通、韵达) and other express companies all implement franchise management, and the delivery business of a district or station is operated by the franchise company. In the past, when the franchise company went bankrupt and the operator ran away, the riders' salaries were also lost. Now, the franchise company pays a deposit to the headquarters offline. If it goes bankrupt, the deposit will be used to pay the arrears; online information management, takeaway and delivery revenue, the system directly reaches the platform and headquarters enterprises, and then settles with the riders on a daily or monthly basis; the salary is very transparent, updated in real time according to the number of orders, and the riders can check it on their mobile phones at any time.
This belief is guarded by someone. Many places have established labor dispute mediation centers specifically serving new employment groups, with multiple departments stationed in, one-stop dispute resolution, and some have also set up "salary security codes" to facilitate riders to claim their wages "on the code." A comrade from a local Party committee social work department spoke sincerely: "Integrate the strength of all parties to support the riders and be the riders' 'big brother'!"
What is guarded is not just the "money bag."
Located in the Qinba (秦巴) mountainous area, Li Haiqiang (李海强), a postal delivery rider in Longnan (陇南), Gansu (甘肃), has been delivering express in the mountain villages for 16 years. The relevant departments have always been concerned about the 16 years of adherence to the road - "sending coolness in summer and warmth in winter", and also recommended him to participate in e-commerce training. Now Li Haiqiang (李海强) is not only a courier, taking on the "last kilometer" of rural delivery, but also a cargo carrier, live streaming online, picking up packages at the door, and helping more mountain goods fly out of the mountains, "As a rider, I have gained professional value and recognition."
What is guarded is also the riders' "micro-wishes."
When not running orders, Liu Fengye (刘凤叶), an Ele.me (饿了么) delivery rider in Hangzhou (杭州), likes to sing, and also won the runner-up in the local "Wonderful Welcoming Asian Games, Riders Show Their Style" event, and the prize was a new electric car. He has a wish to record a personal original single. At the beginning of this year, this wish was "recognized" by the micro-wish fulfillment action for new employment groups carried out by the Hangzhou (杭州) Municipal Party Committee Social Work Department. He wrote the lyrics, and the director of the Shangcheng (上城) District Cultural Center in Hangzhou (杭州) composed the music, and wrote a song "Rider's Song": Four seasons as a pen, wind and rain as ink, I write busy days into a beautiful song...
In his spare time, Liu Fengye (刘凤叶) always likes to loop his own single. In his opinion, life is like this song, becoming more and more beautiful: In the past few years, he and his wife failed in their business venture, and he left his hometown of Heilongjiang (黑龙江) alone to deliver takeaways in Hangzhou (杭州); now, he is the "order king" of the station, running about 2,000 orders per month, with an income of more than 10,000 yuan.
"Save some more money and plan to open a small shop in Hangzhou (杭州) and bring my wife and children over." With guaranteed income and hope in life, Liu Fengye (刘凤叶) sighed, "The small takeaway box contains the dreams of a family."
Is the guarantee in place?
Explore pilot projects, insurance as a backstop, and more peace of mind for riding
Tao Jie (陶杰), 61, is a retired express "old brother" in Kunshan (昆山).
Since May last year, the "old brother" has been receiving more than 4,000 yuan in pension every month, as well as medical insurance. In the same year, JD Logistics (京东物流) welcomed the first batch of more than 1,200 retired "old brothers."
JD Logistics (京东物流) was founded in 2007, and Tao Jie (陶杰) was among the first to join. The company paid social insurance and housing provident fund for all the riders. Tao Jie (陶杰) said that at that time, he wanted to get more cash, but later when he got older, he felt the benefits of the five insurances and one fund, "In 2014, I used the provident fund to take out a loan and bought a 90-square-meter two-bedroom apartment in Kunshan (昆山)."
The reporter learned that companies such as JD (京东) and SF Express (顺丰) adopt a self-operated model, mostly sign formal labor contracts with employees, and pay social insurance. Other express and takeaway platform companies that implement franchise management have various forms of employment, and the proportion of paying social insurance for riders is low.
Why?
Enterprises are under pressure. Most franchise companies are small and micro enterprises. Some company leaders told reporters that if all hundreds of riders under their banner pay social insurance, the operating pressure is high, and many people have high mobility.
Riders have ideas. Many people believe that retirement life is still far away and hope to get more cash.
The situation varies, how to solve it?
Previously, Huang Xiaoqin (黄晓琴) paid her own social insurance. Since last year, she has been receiving a platform subsidy of 500 yuan per month. With the support of policies, Ele.me (饿了么), Meituan (美团) and other platforms have successively piloted "pay first and then subsidize" in some places, and the platform subsidizes 50% of the total payment amount for stable riders who are willing to pay social insurance, up to a maximum of 500 yuan.
According to the principle of hierarchical classification, some places support franchise companies to pay social insurance for riders who are promoted to management or work stably. Responding to the policy, He Ping (何萍), who came from a courier background, not only painstakingly, but also empathized, and told the young riders at her station about the benefits of social insurance, and paid all of them, and also rented houses for new riders to use as dormitories. Sincerity for sincerity, the turnover rate of riders at the station has remained below 5% for many years.
Are the rights and interests of riders who have not paid social insurance guaranteed?
Tian Ye (田冶), the person in charge of rider protection at Meituan (美团), said that for riders, among the "five insurances" (pension, medical, work-related injury, maternity, and unemployment insurance) of social insurance, work-related injury insurance is the most urgently needed, but it is based on the existence of a labor relationship and the total monthly salary as the payment base, "Some riders work for two days and rest for two days, flexible employment, and do not meet the payment conditions."
In July 2022, Beijing (北京), Jiangsu (江苏) and other 7 provinces piloted occupational injury protection for new employment forms. Different from traditional work-related injury insurance, it is charged by order, declared and paid by monthly order volume, and paid directly by the platform. With insurance as a backstop, Wang Jibing (王计兵), an Ele.me (饿了么) delivery rider in Kunshan (昆山), is more at ease running orders, "On average, the platform pays 6 cents of insurance premium for each order."
There is also commercial insurance as a supplementary guarantee. "The method is flexible, pay by order or by day." Wu Mingliang (邬明亮), a Meituan (美团) delivery rider in Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江), said that 3 yuan will be deducted from the reward for his first order every day as the insurance premium for running orders for one day. In addition to running orders, he also participates in industry union activities to popularize commercial insurance claim knowledge for his peers, "Submit materials online, and the claim payment will be reviewed and credited to the account in as little as 10 working days." At present, many express and takeaway companies that implement franchise management have paid commercial insurance for riders.
With insurance, can you run freely?
Because he did not speed or run red lights, Zhang Shaofeng (张少锋), a Meituan (美团) delivery rider in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), received a safety score reward of 510 yuan last month. The station implements safety score assessment, rewards for safe riding, and penalties for those who do not abide by the rules: if the system detects speeding or running red lights, riders will be subject to penalties such as deducting service points and restricting order receiving according to the number and degree of violations.
Safe riding, Zhang Shaofeng (张少锋) ran more than 1,300 orders last month, with an income of about 8,000 yuan, "The guarantee is being followed up, the management is being standardized, and our riding road is becoming more and more stable!"
(Our reporters Wang Haonan (王昊男), Wang Jintao (王锦涛), Wang Weijian (王伟健), and Wu Jun (吴君) participated in the writing)
Riders' heartfelt words
Several times, the merchants' small commodities "exploded" with orders, and they couldn't temporarily spare people. Our whole family went to the door to pick up the goods until midnight, and we were very tired. But when I think that I can make "Yiwu (义乌) good goods" sell better, I feel very beautiful.
——Li Xiang (李想), a Yuantong (圆通) delivery rider in Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江)
By running orders, I paid off more than 200,000 yuan in debt in 4 years. Looking back, the days were really not easy, but they also really taught me: believe in struggle, believe in life.
——Pu Yonglu (濮永禄), an Ele.me (饿了么) delivery rider in Beijing (北京)
A customer lives on the top floor of the 7th floor, without an elevator. Every time I deliver the package to the door, I also help her take the packages of other companies stored in the express cabinet. Good service wins good reputation, and now many customers ask me to send packages.
——Ma Pengcheng (马鹏程), a JD Express (京东快递) delivery rider in Longnan (陇南), Gansu (甘肃)
Once, on a rainy day, the electric car broke down on the road, and I walked to deliver the last two orders at hand. Although it was overtime, the platform did not deduct service points, and the customer also expressed gratitude. This made me feel that riders are becoming more and more respected and understood.
——Sun Lulu (孙路路), an Ele.me (饿了么) delivery rider in Kunshan (昆山), Jiangsu (江苏)
In the past, I was an excavator driver, following projects all over the country. Now, I deliver takeaways in my hometown, guarding my family, and my income is not small, and I feel very happy!
——Li Ting (李庭), a Meituan (美团) delivery rider in Aba (阿坝), Sichuan (四川)
For more than 10 years, I have used my chin and right arm to deliver packages to the villagers, and I have also relied on my efforts to settle down and buy a house. Life is a bit bitter and a bit astringent, but the days of struggle are sweet!
——Wang Yanpo (王延坡), a one-armed Yunda (韵达) delivery rider in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南)
Once, I was picking up a batch of goods when I received a call from a customer saying that his urgent package had to be delivered immediately. In order not to delay the other party, I paid to book a same-city flash delivery to ensure timely delivery. In our line of work, we must think more about customers.
——Zhang Hengpu (张恒普), a SF Express (顺丰) delivery rider in Beijing (北京)
Delivered 150,000 orders in 7 years, with a monthly income of nearly 20,000 yuan. Effort has its rewards, and every road I have traveled counts.
——Liu Peng (刘朋), a Meituan (美团) delivery rider in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东)
Unforgettable sense of accomplishment
Running orders, running out of our family status. In those years, the husband and wife shop lost money, and my wife said, it's all your fault for bringing me into the "darkness"; now that I earn money by running orders, my wife says, I believe you can lead me to the "dawn." You see, the days of hard work will not be bad sooner or later!
——Liu Fengye (刘凤叶), Ele.me delivery driver, Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江)
"This phone costs 10,000 yuan." Upon hearing this, I carefully wrapped the product, took a photo to send to the customer, and promptly provided delivery updates. The customer said that their previous impression of us was "expensive," but now it's "good." I felt a surge of happiness: truly, every effort is seen!
——Xiong Jie (熊杰), SF Express delivery driver, Ezhou (鄂州), Hubei (湖北)
I won first place in the city's online ride-hailing and delivery driver skills competition. **三百六十行，行行出状元！** (sān bǎi liù shí háng, háng háng chū zhuàng yuán - "360 professions, every profession produces an expert," every job can produce outstanding people).
——Guo Zhongyuan (郭中原), Ele.me delivery driver, Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南)
First, I secure the flowers with nylon straps, then fill the gaps with bubble wrap. The flowers I wrap are stable and secure, even when dropped from a height of over 1 meter. Relying on these "skills," I was named a technical expert in Hebei Province (河北省).
——Zhong Chao (钟超), SF Express delivery driver, Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛), Hebei (河北)
On my first day, I couldn't ride steadily, wasn't familiar with the roads, and only delivered a few orders, even receiving a complaint for being late. Later, I started arriving early every day and hand-drawing maps of the area in a small notebook. **凡事就怕认真** (fán shì jiù pà rèn zhēn - "everything fears diligence," anything can be accomplished with diligence) – now, I can deliver over 1,000 orders each month.
——Cao Peng (曹鹏), Meituan delivery driver, Longnan (陇南), Gansu (甘肃)
Last April, while delivering an order, I saw someone collapse on the roadside. I quickly called 120, and thankfully, they received timely assistance. Later, the street where the station is located sent a thank-you letter to my hometown, Mianhuayuan Village (棉花园村), Longhui County (隆回县), Hunan (湖南). This feeling of "doing good deeds and having everyone in my hometown know" is great!
——Xiao Zhuo (肖卓), Ele.me delivery driver, Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江)
I participated in the Chaoyang District (朝阳区) online ride-hailing and delivery driver skills competition and won first place, with a prize of 10,000 yuan. Society is paying more and more attention to us, and I feel even more motivated when delivering orders!
——Sun Qi (孙琦), Meituan delivery driver, Beijing (北京)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I participated in volunteer deliveries, spraying myself with alcohol every time I entered and exited. In the end, I still tested positive. But my heart was warm: every order contributed to the operation of city life.
——Wan Shengli (万胜利), Postal delivery driver, Ezhou (鄂州), Hubei (湖北)
Yiwu Small Commodity City (义乌小商品城) has so many merchants that delivering orders used to be dizzying. Now, my colleagues and I download the "Yiwu Gou (义乌购)" APP, and we can accurately locate merchants by entering the house number. **凡事动脑筋、想办法** (fán shì dòng nǎo jīn, xiǎng bàn fǎ - "use your brain and think of solutions in everything," thinking and finding solutions to everything) makes a difference!
——Zhao Chuanhuan (赵传欢), Ele.me delivery driver, Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江)
My Little Wishes
When delivering express packages to mountain villages, some elderly and disabled people find it inconvenient, so they ask me to buy rice, flour, and oil and bring it to them. The villagers praise me as the village's "same-city delivery driver." I want to continue to do a good job of providing services and make urban-rural connections smoother.
——Li Haiqiang (李海强), Postal delivery driver, Longnan (陇南), Gansu (甘肃)
Not long ago, I bought a sports camera and started taking short videos while delivering orders, learning about self-media operations. After saving some more money, I want to open an online store in this small commodity capital and sell "Yiwu (义乌) goods" to the whole country.
——Wu Mingliang (邬明亮), Meituan delivery driver, Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江)
Last December, I delayed delivering an order because I helped an injured elderly person, but I received an honor – Ele.me awarded me the title of "Blue Knight Community Hero." I want to continue to be a brave knight and contribute more to city life.
——Wang Boyang (王博洋), Ele.me delivery driver, Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南)
After more than 4 years of delivering orders, I became a rider captain and have mentored over 1,000 apprentices. Last year, I and other riders initiated the establishment of a public welfare center, wanting to share delivery skills with more riders and help everyone realize their dreams together.
——Huang Xiaoqin (黄晓琴), Ele.me rider, Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江)
As a southerner, I'm most afraid of winter in Beijing (北京). One year during "Double 11 (双11)," the wind was howling, and I was collecting packages until midnight. My hands were chapped from the cold, but I insisted on collecting all the customers' packages. I hope our efforts can make every package arrive faster.
——Zheng Wei (郑卫), Yunda delivery driver, Beijing (北京)
I have a car, a house, and a pension and medical insurance. This is my retirement life. I hope my story is known to more people, and I hope the security for delivery drivers gets better and better.
——Tao Jie (陶杰), retired "old driver" from JD Express, Kunshan (昆山), Jiangsu (江苏)
I helped the owner of a small shop, which had only done offline business for many years, register an online store. Last year, the shop's online turnover exceeded 500,000 yuan. I hope Longnan's (陇南) e-commerce industry grows bigger and bigger, and our delivery volume can increase rapidly!
——Cheng Jie (成杰), ZTO Express delivery driver, Longnan (陇南), Gansu (甘肃)
Not long ago, I saw in the news that Ezhou (鄂州) was approved as a comprehensive pilot zone for cross-border e-commerce. I look forward to the near future when I have more deliveries and more income, and I also want to deliver more international packages!
——Du Wei (杜伟), ZTO Express delivery driver, Ezhou (鄂州), Hubei (湖北)
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Return to TopFrom lightning-fast racing bicycles to archery fields showcasing pinpoint accuracy, carbon fiber materials have been demonstrating their capabilities in sports equipment manufacturing in recent years, both helping athletes achieve breakthroughs and boosting the high-quality development of related industries. Our reporter visited Shandong (山东) and Guangxi (广西) to explore the interesting stories of carbon fiber materials in the sports industry.
——Editor
Racing Bicycles: Lightweight and Effort-Saving
Our Reporter Wang Liang (王亮)
What is the key material for manufacturing a lightweight, strong, and durable racing bicycle?
The reporter came to the production base of Taishan Ruibao Composite Materials Co., Ltd. (泰山瑞豹复合材料有限公司) in Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东) to find the answer. Entering the carbon fiber bicycle production workshop, robotic arms were seen operating precisely, with carbon fiber weaving, carbon cloth cutting, carbon cloth forming, and pultrusion processes proceeding in an orderly manner.
"Carbon fiber material is very important. The production process of a carbon fiber frame is somewhat similar to making a piece of clothing. Dozens of meters of carbon fiber, after weaving and high-pressure application, become carbon cloth. The cut carbon cloth is wrapped on the core material and placed in a mold to form the carbon fiber frame," said Deng Longxun (邓龙洵), the company's chief engineer.
Compared to ordinary bicycles, high-end racing bicycles have extremely high-performance requirements. Especially in the Olympic arena, where competition is often accurate to a thousandth of a second, equipment is even more important.
Earlier this year, the Chinese Cycling Association (中国自行车运动协会) announced that it had reached another cooperation with Taishan Ruibao (泰山瑞豹) to jointly prepare for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. At the Tokyo Olympics, the Ruibao (瑞豹) T24 track bike used by the Chinese National Cycling Team (中国国家自行车队) in the competition had a frame weighing only 1.15 kilograms, and a complete bike could be lifted with one hand.
How much does the road bike custom-made for the national team weigh this time?
Deng Longxun (邓龙洵) teased: "It cannot be revealed for the time being. The requirement of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is that road bikes must not be less than 6.8 kilograms. While meeting the standard, we will be 'meticulous.'"
Deng Longxun's (邓龙洵) office has a stack of notebooks, recording the arduous journey of the company's early exploration. In recent years, the company has increased investment and developed carbon fiber materials with performance reaching aviation grade, while greatly reducing costs.
Today, domestic cycling is constantly "breaking circles," and the racing bicycle market is broad. "In the two-way rush between professional competitive cycling and national fitness, we strive to produce more lightweight and labor-saving products to meet market demand," said Deng Longxun (邓龙洵).
High-Performance Bows: Faster Arrow Speed
Our Reporters Zhang Yunhe (张云河) and Tang Tianyi (唐天奕)
An archery competition is underway, the bow is fully drawn, and the momentum is like a rainbow. "10 rings!" The flying arrow streaks like a meteor, hitting the bullseye.
"When drawing a bow, draw a strong one; when using an arrow, use a long one." A good bow is inseparable from high-quality limbs.
In Guangxi Beihai Xinqi Sporting Goods Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (广西北海鑫琪体育用品制造有限公司), different machines such as edge grinding machines, laminating machines, sanding machines, and engraving machines "perform their respective duties," and material, forming, and grinding workshops cooperate closely to produce recurve bow limbs with the top of the bow arms bent outward.
"The key to making bow limbs lies in the ratio of the carbon fiber material structure," said Jin Houchun (金虎淳), the company's general manager. "Under the same poundage and model, our production goal is lighter limbs, a smoother draw, and faster arrow speed."
"The density of carbon fiber material is much lower than traditional materials, which can reduce the weight of the limbs and increase the arrow speed while ensuring structural strength," said Li Ge (李戈), the company's technical director. "It can also effectively reduce the vibration when the arrow is fired, improving the comfort and stability of the athlete when shooting." In addition, strong environmental adaptability, strong resistance to deformation, and long service life are also advantages of carbon fiber materials in the production of high-performance bow limbs.
Every winter, Beihai (北海) welcomes 15 to 20 archery teams. "We make full use of this opportunity to collect feedback from athletes on the products and continuously optimize product performance," said Jin Changxun (金昌勋), the company's sales manager. "Now, our products have been sold overseas."
In the men's recurve team event of the archery competition at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games (杭州亚运会), the Indonesian team won the bronze medal, and their competition bows were produced here. "We are very proud that domestic brands are standing on the world stage," said Jin Houchun (金虎淳). "In the future, we will continue to improve production technology and make better bows."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 季 芳
Carbon fiber refers to high-strength, high-modulus fiber with a carbon content of more than 90%. It is as light as a feather but as strong as steel, and has excellent properties such as high-temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, and fatigue resistance. It is known as "industrial black gold." According to Wang Xiangdong (王向东), doctoral supervisor at the School of Physical Education of Jimei University (集美大学), by adjusting the direction and thickness of the fiber layup, the mechanical properties of the equipment can be precisely controlled to meet the needs of different sports.
"The density of carbon fiber material is only about 1/4 of that of steel, but its strength is 7 to 12 times that of steel. It has now become the preferred material for the production of lightweight sports equipment, which can help athletes reduce physical energy consumption and improve competitive performance," said Wang Xiangdong (王向东). Carbon fiber bicycle frames are 30% lighter than aluminum alloy frames, which can help athletes save energy in long-distance races; carbon fiber tennis rackets can reduce arm vibration while increasing the initial speed of the ball; and carbon fiber single sculls weigh only 14 kg, which is 35% lighter than aluminum alloy boats.
"Carbon fiber materials have strong fatigue resistance, far superior to metal materials, and even local damage will not lead to overall failure. Therefore, the service life is 2 to 3 times that of traditional materials, and the replacement frequency is much lower." Wang Xiangdong (王向东) said that with the advancement of manufacturing technology, the application of carbon fiber materials in the sports field is extending from professional sports to the mass market, empowering the sports industry. In the next 5 years, the global carbon fiber market for sporting goods is expected to maintain an average annual growth rate of 12%.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李凯旋
From August 7th to August 17th, the 12th World Games will be held in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川). This is the first time the World Games have been held in mainland China, and it is also the second time that western China has hosted an international comprehensive sports event after the Chengdu Universiade.
Stepping into the Tianfu Park (天府公园) World Games venue construction area in the central business district of Tianfu New Area (四川天府新区), a lush green scene comes into view. The scattered white tents and venue complex are embedded between lakes and green spaces, seamlessly integrating the competition space with the natural landscape.
As the competition venue for the Faustball and Climbing (Speed) events of the Chengdu World Games, the Tianfu Park venue center has a building area of approximately 15,000 square meters and is an outdoor temporary building. "From the initial design, the concept of a park city was integrated, maximizing the preservation of the original topography and vegetation resources," said Hu Hengming (胡亨铭), the person in charge of venue construction.
"To borrow if possible, to rent if borrowing isn't possible, and to buy only if renting isn't possible, is our core philosophy of frugality," said Hu Hengming (胡亨铭). A large amount of materials such as air conditioners in the venue functional areas and seats in the climbing venue are borrowed. The functional sheds and tents needed for the event are resolved through the World Games Executive Committee attracting sponsorships. "The Faustball venue will be retained as a World Games legacy and continuously maintained."
Among the 27 competition venues undertaking the Chengdu World Games competitions, 18 are existing venues with partial functional adjustments, and 9 are temporarily built relying on lakes and parks. No new venues have been built. Currently, the renovation and temporary construction of the 27 venues are being fully promoted.
Since the beginning of this year, the atmosphere of the World Games in Chengdu (成都) has become increasingly strong. In March, the "Love Chengdu (爱成都)·Welcome World Games (迎世运)·Get Moving" World Games project campus promotion activity was launched. Currently, more than 20 related project youth sports activities have been organized, with over 40,000 participants.
To promote the benefits of the event for the people, Chengdu (成都) has built and renovated 77 sports parks, 407 community sports corners, and 830 new Tianfu Greenway (天府绿道) spaces. 130 "World Games Spaces" at the doorsteps of citizens are being opened one after another. In the streets and alleys, many accessible, visible, and participatory World Games project experience platforms meet the public, and various experience scenarios and events have attracted more than 100,000 participants.
While the national fitness campaign is in full swing, it also stimulates the release of new momentum in "sports +" consumption in Chengdu (成都).
Badminton Thomas & Uber Cups, ITTF Mixed Team World Cup, World Breaking Championships... Since last year, more than 100 important international and domestic events have been held in Chengdu (成都), promoting the vigorous development of the sports industry. This year, Chengdu (成都) plans to push the total scale of the sports industry to exceed 150 billion yuan and the scale of sports consumption to exceed 80 billion yuan.
Behind the clear goals are a series of actions and measures. Chengdu (成都) continues to carry out the "Sports Festival·Watching Games and Vacationing" sports consumption promotion campaign, attracting citizens and tourists to spend their holidays through sports and fitness, and watching games through methods such as "sports + food" and "sports + culture and tourism." At the same time, the Chengdu (成都) World Games "Follow the Games to Travel" event is being carried out in depth, connecting various resources with the games to promote the integrated development of culture, sports, and tourism.
Return to TopOn the morning of June 27th, the G8699 train departing from Chongqing East Station (重庆东站) slowly pulled into Nanchuan North Station (南川北站), officially incorporating Nanchuan District (南川区) of Chongqing (重庆市) into the high-speed rail network. It now takes just over 20 minutes to reach Nanchuan (南川) directly from the central urban area, greatly reducing travel time. With its full integration into the city's "half-hour commute circle," Nanchuan's (南川) high-quality economic development is entering a "fast lane."
Nanchuan District (南川区) is an important node in the eastern and southern Chongqing (重庆) outbound corridors. In recent years, Nanchuan (南川), based on its location advantages and resource endowments, has been cultivating development advantages with distinctive features and strengths, and is striving to build "three growth poles" of advanced manufacturing, cultural tourism and health, and modern agriculture, promoting the construction of Yudong Ecological New City (渝东生态新城) to accelerate.
Grasp the key points to build an advanced manufacturing base.
As a city of industry with concentrated factors and a good situation, Nanchuan (南川) is seizing the opportunity of Chongqing (重庆) to build a "33618" modern manufacturing cluster, accelerating the construction of a "332" industrial cluster system, and striving to build a city-level advanced manufacturing base.
On June 20, Nanchuan (南川) held a centralized commencement and completion ceremony for key projects in the second quarter of 2025. A total of 53 key projects were centrally commenced and completed. Among them, 29 projects including the annual production of 800,000 sets of lightweight and high-strength new energy vehicle parts projects were commenced, with a total agreement amount of approximately 6.72 billion yuan; 24 projects including the Aluminum Era annual production of 20 million sets of new energy vehicle battery tray component projects were completed, with a total investment of approximately 12.48 billion yuan. This is a vivid microcosm of Nanchuan's (南川) adherence to projects as the lead, and continuous supplementation of chains, optimization of ecology, and construction of clusters.
In recent years, Nanchuan (南川) has taken the opportunity to build a benchmark city for optimizing the business environment in the city, attracting more and more large projects and good enterprises to settle down. At the same time, Nanchuan (南川) relies on many advantages such as industrial foundation, location conditions and resource endowments to promote the transformation of industries from "single-point breakthroughs" to "whole-chain collaboration" and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system.
In the next step, Nanchuan (南川) will make full use of the dividends brought by the accelerated flow of factors and the spillover of technology and space brought by the opening of high-speed rail, accelerate the construction of three leading industrial clusters of intelligent networked new energy vehicles, green building materials, new energy and new energy storage, carefully cultivate Aluminum Era (铝器时代), Honglu Steel Structure (鸿路钢构), Sinopec Shale Gas (中石化页岩气) and other 10 billion-level enterprises, cultivate and strengthen the three characteristic industrial clusters of modern traditional Chinese medicine, advanced materials, food and agricultural product processing, and brew the layout of two strategic emerging industrial clusters of electronic information manufacturing and software information services, and biotechnology.
Grasp the commanding heights to create an optimal destination for cultural tourism and health.
About 15 kilometers from Nanchuan North Station (南川北站), Mount Jinfo (金佛山), a world natural heritage site, is surrounded by clouds and mist, with picturesque scenery. It has many titles such as a national 5A-level tourist attraction, a national nature reserve, and a national forest park, and is a tourist destination suitable for all seasons.
Nanchuan (南川) takes the construction of the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor (巴蜀文化旅游走廊) as the overall starting point, optimizes the industrial spatial layout of "one mountain, one area, one belt and multiple points," and constantly enriches the "four tours" formats of scenic spot tours, health and summer resort tours, homestay camping tours, and agricultural and tourism integration tours, and strives to create a distinctive brand of Chongqing (重庆) cultural tourism and build a national-level tourist resort. In the future, Nanchuan (南川) will seize the opportunity of the opening of high-speed rail, continue to enhance the competitiveness, attractiveness and influence of the cultural tourism and health industry, and continue to expand the characteristic brand effect of the cultural tourism and health growth pole.
Brighten the name card of Mount Jinfo (金佛山) as a world natural heritage site. Create more than 10 mountain outdoor sports projects such as Jinshan Lake (金山湖) paragliding, Via Ferrata, Shenlongxia (神龙峡) spring rafting, and canyoning, upgrade the quality of Mount Jinfo (金佛山) study projects, innovate and launch hot spring health and other projects, and accelerate the creation of a national high-quality outdoor sports destination.
Promote the formation and momentum of cultural tourism and health in the Shanwangping (山王坪) area. The "Auspicious Full Moon" themed cultural tourism project is about to open to welcome guests, accelerate the creation of a new way of high-quality health life in Shanwangping (山王坪), and coordinate the construction of Liangyu (良瑜), Lecun (乐村) area, and China Overseas Lixiang Lake (中海黎香湖) health projects to enhance the overall quality with multi-point support.
Launch the brand of "Big Mount Jinfo 178 Ring Mountain Fun Drive". Implement the "six major promotion actions" of "178 Ring Road" human settlement environment, identification system, tourism roads, supporting services, popular projects, and competition activities, enrich the "fun" series of tourism products such as "fun check-in," "fun sports," and "fun camping," and create an influential self-driving tour route.
Find the right focus to build a modern agricultural demonstration zone.
Petite three-color tomatoes, plums full of branches, plump blueberries... In June, the land of Nanchuan (南川) is fragrant with fruits, attracting tourists from all over the world to taste fresh. With the opening of high-speed rail, more and more tourists will take high-speed rail to Nanchuan (南川) for sightseeing and picking experiences.
As the first batch of national agricultural modernization demonstration zone creation counties, national high-quality rice standardization demonstration zone, and the first batch of municipal rural revitalization comprehensive experimental demonstration zone, modern agricultural industrial park, Chongqing (重庆) characteristic agricultural product (Fangzhu bamboo shoots, Nanchuan rice (南川米)) advantage area, Nanchuan (南川) has the foundation and conditions to build a modern agricultural demonstration zone.
Optimize characteristic products and build a suburban characteristic agricultural gathering area. The northern area focuses on developing facility agriculture, boutique agriculture, and leisure agriculture, developing weekend economy, short holiday economy, and study and experience economy, and creating an optimal destination for agricultural and tourism integration in the central urban area of Chongqing (重庆); the southern area deeply cultivates mountain characteristic industries such as traditional Chinese medicine, Nanchuan Dashu tea (南川大树茶), and Fangzhu bamboo shoots, and develops homestays, camping, outdoor sports and other formats, and creates a "178 Ring Road" agricultural and tourism integration development demonstration zone.
Cultivate characteristic brands and promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of modern agriculture. Follow the new road of development of "sightseeing agriculture, suburban rural areas, and new farmers," focusing on fruit and vegetable, tea and other industrial bases, expand the development scale of "one area and three lines" facility agriculture with points leading the way, promote the customized production of Nanchuan rice (南川米), the clustered planting of blueberries, and the branded development of Nanchuan Dashu tea (南川大树茶); build a new Fangzhu bamboo (方竹) nurturing demonstration base, accelerate the construction of the "Yu Shiwei" (渝十味) traditional Chinese medicine advantage characteristic industrial cluster project, and improve the modernization level of the agricultural industrial system, production system, and management system.
Data source: Publicity Department of the Nanchuan District Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共重庆市南川区委宣传部)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 祝大伟 方 圆
The Ussuri River is long and ever-flowing, the blue waters ripple and surge, the Hezhe people cast a thousand nets, boats fill the river and holds overflow with fish..." This song, derived from a Hezhe folk song, "The Ussuri Boat Song," is widely known and vividly depicts the fishing life of the Hezhe people.
The leisurely Ussuri River flows north, merging into the Heilong River (known as the "Amur River" in Russia). Raohe County (饶河县), Shuangyashan City (双鸭山市), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), located on the west bank, is where "The Ussuri Boat Song" was born, and it is known as the "Hometown of the Hezhe" and the "Cradle of Eastern Fishing and Hunting Civilization."
Across the Ussuri River lies the main residential area of the Nanai people in Russia. As ancient fishing and hunting peoples, both the Hezhe and Nanai are world-renowned for their unique fish skin making skills. The similar fish patterns, wave patterns, and cloud patterns on their fish skin clothing have become common symbolic imprints. Today, the two ethnic groups are working together to innovate distinctive products and sing the praises of mutual understanding.
Ancient Fishing and Hunting Culture—
Becoming a Bond of Mutual Understanding Across Borders
Every year in May and June, Mount Dadingzi (大顶子山) is covered with blooming flowers, and the Xing'an azaleas gradually bloom from the mountainside to the summit. The line "White clouds float over Mount Dadingzi" in "The Ussuri Boat Song" has made this mountain in Raohe County (饶河县) quite well-known.
Raohe County (饶河县) is located on the eastern edge of the Sanjiang Plain (三江平原), surrounded by mountains and rivers, and faces the city of Bikin in the Khabarovsk Krai (哈巴罗夫斯克边疆区) of Russia across the Ussuri River. Sipai Hezhe Ethnic Township (四排赫哲族乡) in Raohe County (饶河县) is one of only three Hezhe ethnic townships in China.
With its crisscrossing mountains and numerous river networks, the natural ecological environment and abundant fishing, hunting, and plant resources have given the fishing and hunting peoples on this land the "advantage of boats" and the "source of food and clothing," nurturing a long-standing fishing and hunting civilization.
South of Raohe County (饶河县), there is an isolated hill 106 meters above sea level, and locals call its secondary peak Xiaonanshan (小南山). A batch of pottery unearthed here is engraved with vortex patterns, fishing net patterns, and water wave patterns, leaving behind the ancient imprints of the fishing and hunting ancestors. "The archaeological discovery of the Xiaonanshan Site (小南山遗址) proves that the fishing and hunting ancestors who were active between the Changbai Mountains (白山) and Heilong River (黑水) played a special and important role in the early process of ancient Chinese civilization." The Xiaonanshan Site (小南山遗址), excavated under the direction of Li Youqian (李有骞), a researcher at the Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (黑龙江省文物考古研究所), was selected as one of the "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in China in 2019."
Ge Yuxia (葛玉霞), a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Hezhe "Imakan" (伊玛堪) (a form of storytelling through song), is a native Hezhe woman from Raohe County (饶河县). An experience of visiting a Nanai settlement across the river 10 years ago is still fresh in her memory. At the home of an elderly Nanai, the old man told Ge Yuxia the story of the fishing girl. "It felt the same as the story of the fishing girl in the 'Imakan' sung by my father," Ge Yuxia was surprised. She then introduced to the old man the plot of the fishing girl story told by her father, Ge Desheng (葛德胜). "After listening, the old man gave me a big hug." Afterwards, the old man enthusiastically explained the similarities in patterns and styles between Hezhe and Nanai clothing.
The same story of the fishing girl is circulating among the two ethnic groups. Ge Yuxia said with emotion: "We both come from ancient fishing and hunting peoples, and we still drink from the same river, jointly guarding the fishing and hunting culture that has been passed down for thousands of years."
Ding Siyao (丁思尧), a professor of ethnology at Jiamusi University (佳木斯大学), has long focused on the study of Hezhe culture. When visiting Russia with a delegation, Ding Siyao was delighted to find that the Nanai people were very familiar with the melody of the Hezhe folk song "The Ussuri Boat Song" and could hum along with it. "The cultural exchange between the two ethnic groups is an important bond across borders, and everyone has the desire to achieve common development and prosperity through cultural and artistic exchanges," Ding Siyao said with deep feeling.
Fish Skin Making Skills—
Continuously Innovating and Excelling in Exchange and Integration
On a clear summer morning, at the Raohe County Cultural and Creative Design Industry Center (饶河县文化创意设计产业中心) on the banks of the Ussuri River, You Xuesong (尤雪松), a provincial representative inheritor of the Hezhe fish skin making technique, holds a piece of shimmering fish skin, gently stroking its delicate texture with her fingertips, and in the blink of an eye, cuts it into a leaping carp. Valentina, a Russian Nanai craftsman beside her, carefully observes You Xuesong's operation and exchanges opinions from time to time.
Regarding the Hezhe people, the Qing Dynasty's "Notes on Ningguta Landscape" (《宁古塔山水记》) records: "The fish skin tribe lives by eating fish, does not grow grains, and uses fish skin as clothing, which is as warm as cowhide." Therefore, the Hezhe people are also known as the "Fish Skin Tribe."
Condensing the wisdom of fishing and hunting civilization into fish skin crafts, You Xuesong's fish skin painting "Abundance Year After Year" won an international gold medal, and the judges exclaimed: "The ancient technique can be so vivid."
The secret of vividness lies in cross-border exchange and integration. At an exhibition and sales event in the Nanai District of Khabarovsk Krai (哈巴罗夫斯克边疆区) in Russia, You Xuesong learned that "the Nanai's fish skin dyeing secret recipe can keep the color from fading for a hundred years, and the pattern design is also very simple and dynamic." At the Sino-Russian National Culture Exchange Exhibition, You Xuesong met Valentina, a Nanai female craftsman who always wears fish skin headdresses. She showed You Xuesong the tapestries and Nanai costumes she had hand-embroidered, with colors as brilliant as the aurora. The two immediately agreed: "Your embroidery and my appliqué, combined together, make a complete 'fishing and hunting story.'"
In the following 10 years, the Ussuri River became a river flowing with creativity. You Xuesong took the Hezhe's "rhomboid wave pattern" north along the river, and Valentina took the Nanai's "reindeer totem" south. On the wooden table in the Raohe workshop, they tried to combine the Hezhe fish skin painting's flat pasting technique with the Nanai's relief sewing.
Valentina embroidered exquisite water wave patterns with silk thread, and You Xuesong cut out schools of fish leaping out of the water with hollowed-out fish skin... A jointly completed work was born in this way.
Through continuous exchange and learning, the traditional techniques of the Hezhe and Nanai peoples are preserved in works of art.
The warmth of craftsmanship is becoming more and more intense through mutual learning and reference. The "Sino-Russian Fish Skin Technology Training Class" was established in Raohe to teach fish skin making techniques to tourists. Drawing patterns, cutting, and pasting are all explained patiently and meticulously. Many Russian tourists carefully preserve the fish skin paintings they made themselves and take them back to their country.
In the photo album of Liuba, a Nanai friend, the video she took of You Xuesong teaching is specially marked for preservation. Liuba added Nanai subtitles and sent it back to the rural schools in Khabarovsk, "The children are learning to cut Hezhe patterns around the screen, which is more vivid than any museum."
Because of the common inheritance of fishing and hunting culture and technology, Raohe County (饶河县) and Khabarovsk (哈巴罗夫斯克), Amursk (阿穆尔斯克), and other places in Russia carry out regular mutual visits and exchanges. You Xuesong also often travels between the Hezhe and Nanai villages, developing ornaments combining fish skin and bone china and ceramics, as well as pendants, headdresses, cloud shoulders, bracelets, hair ropes, etc. combining fish skin and rope weaving, and fish skin technology is constantly innovating.
New Ussuri Boat Song—
Civilization Exchange and Mutual Learning Sing Out Multiple Benefits
In January of this year, the Sino-Russian Boundary River International Ice Fishing Festival Invitational Tournament opened in full swing in the Nanhu section of the Ussuri River in Raohe County (饶河县). The event attracted more than 440 anglers from 220 teams from Russia and all over China.
A photo of 23-year-old Katyusha (喀秋莎) from Blagoveshchensk (布拉戈维申斯克), Russia, holding an ice-fished carp and wearing a Northeast floral jacket, became a hit online. Katyusha began to learn Chinese on her own at Khabarovsk University (哈巴罗夫斯克大学) in Russia. In 2023, by chance, Katyusha came to work in Raohe and became a member of the e-commerce live broadcast base. Katyusha kneads dough, bakes rye bread, and recommends Russian food and Raohe specialties in front of the camera. Russian candies sold out just 3 minutes after being put on the shelves, and Chinese netizens chased her to learn the trilled "r" sound in Russian... The live broadcast room was very lively.
As a "cross-border cultural ambassador," Katyusha has also participated in Sino-Russian exchange activities many times. Last year, when the Raohe County (饶河县) delegation visited Russia, she wore a Hezhe fish skin coat and introduced the birch bark paintings of Sipai Township (四排乡) in Russian. An elderly Nanai man with white hair in the audience said in a trembling voice: "This pattern is exactly the same as the one my grandmother embroidered..." This spring, Raohe County (饶河县) launched the Sino-Russian Youth Study Tour Program as scheduled. She also took children from both countries to visit the Sipai Hezhe Folk Tourism Scenic Area (四排赫哲风情旅游景区) and told the fishing and hunting epic of the ancestors. The children of Raohe will also go to Russia to experience exotic customs in local museums.
Over the long years, the Hezhe and Nanai cultures have been connected, with trade exchanges and friendship blending together. Since the 1980s, the Hezhe people have held the Uzhigong (乌日贡) Congress every four years in their gathering places, and the Nanai people have been invited to participate in each session, performing cultural and sports programs. The Nanai people have also restored the traditional festival of "Regional Ethnic Olympics," and Hezhe representatives have been invited to display intangible cultural heritage skills.
Today, new cultural tourism routes are constantly being extended. Raohe County (饶河县) has seized the opportunities of jointly building the "Belt and Road" and the strategy of developing northward, vigorously promoting cross-border tourism and cultural and artistic exchanges, and has opened passenger transport buses from Raohe to Bikin and other places. Walking in front of the national gate of the Raohe Port (饶河口岸) Joint Inspection Hall, international passenger buses enter the station from time to time, and tourists get off the bus to take pictures, which makes people feel the prosperity of Sino-Russian cross-border tourism.
Sipai Village (四排村), a Hezhe settlement, has been transformed from a small village into the Sipai Hezhe Folk Tourism Scenic Area (四排赫哲风情旅游景区). Here, there is both the river view of lush trees and verdant cliffs, and the charm of the Hezhe intangible cultural heritage, making it a popular destination for Chinese and foreign tourists. With "intangible cultural heritage + industry," Sipai Village (四排村) is becoming a well-known wealthy village.
The new Ussuri Boat Song is being sung louder and louder on the rivers of cultural integration and increasing prosperity.
Link: Shuangyashan (双鸭山), Heilongjiang (黑龙江)
Shuangyashan City (双鸭山市) is located on the northern foot of the Wanda Mountains (完达山脉) and in the hinterland of the Sanjiang Plain (三江平原), facing Russia across the Ussuri River. Shuangyashan City (双鸭山市) is an important coal, electricity, chemical, steel, and grain production base in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), and is known as the "Capital of Black Soil Wetlands and the City of Green Ecology." Shuangyashan City (双鸭山市) is a representative area of Hezhe culture. "The Ussuri Boat Song," which praises the vivid fishing and hunting life of the Hezhe people, was born in Raohe County (饶河县) and is still sung today.
Within a 300-kilometer radius of Shuangyashan City (双鸭山市), there are 6 national first-class ports to Russia. It has a national first-class port, Raohe Port (饶河口岸), and is an important node city in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) participating in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative and the construction of the "China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor."
In recent years, Shuangyashan City (双鸭山市) has strengthened cultural exchanges and cooperation with Russia, and actively created a cultural exchange brand between the Chinese Hezhe and Russian Nanai peoples. The city has held a series of distinctive cultural activities such as the Uzhigong (乌日贡) Congress, the Sino-Russian Cultural Exchange Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition, and the Sino-Russian Outdoor Carnival in the form of "intangible cultural heritage + tourism" and "culture and sports + tourism," accelerating the development of border tourism industry, and further promoting cultural exchanges, mutual understanding, and win-win development between China and Russia.
Return to TopBy: 祝大伟
The wide Ussuri River, like a green belt, meanders through Sipa Village (四排村). The Ussuri River Boat Song Culture Memory Hall by the river hangs a giant landscape oil painting. Looking across the river through the window, the mountains within Russia are lush and green.
Across the boundary river, the painting and the scenery blend into one, making people marvel at the charm of art and be moved by the cultural integration shown by Raohe County (饶河县), this border town, and its neighboring countries. In You Xuesong's (尤雪松) WeChat group "Hezhe-Nanai Family", the two ethnic groups share fish skin making skills, photos of joint performances, and daily life snippets.
The fishing and hunting tradition of "fish skin for clothing, birch bark for boats" is a common historical memory of the Hezhe (赫哲族) and Nanai (那乃族) ethnic groups. Under the traction of common cultural ties, the exchanges between the two ethnic groups have never stopped. The small city of Raohe (饶河) has also continuously expanded cultural exchange and cooperation with many cities in the Russian Far East, forging deep friendships and promoting common development.
Visiting the border, I truly felt that the common aspiration of the Hezhe (赫哲族) and Nanai (那乃族) ethnic groups is to see civilization exchanges and economic development resonate at the same frequency. The two-way flow of culture, jointly guarding the memory roots of fishing and hunting culture, and building an emotional community across mountains and rivers. Based on the culturally concentric circles jointly drawn, people look forward to further expanding mutually beneficial and win-win development space.
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Return to TopOn June 29, Qinghai's largest cross-basin water diversion project, the Yin Da Ji Huang Project (引大济湟工程), fully completed its final acceptance and was put into operation as a whole. The project diverts water from the Datong River (大通河) at the foot of the Qilian Mountains (祁连山) into the Huangshui River (湟水) basin, connecting the Datong River and Huangshui River basins from north to south, and linking the water systems of Xining (西宁) and Haidong (海东) cities from east to west.
After twenty-nine years of dedication, where does the "beauty" of the Yin Da Ji Huang Project lie?
Its beauty lies in ensuring irrigation and "quenching thirst." Qinghai (青海), known as the "Water Tower of China," has an extremely uneven distribution of water resources. The Huangshui River basin accounts for 65% of Qinghai's population, 71% of its cultivated land, and 68% of its total industrial output above a designated size, but only 3.4% of its water resources. After the project is put into operation, it will benefit more than 3 million people and turn 1 million mu of dry land on the north bank of the Huangshui River into irrigated land, completely changing the local farmers' history of 靠天吃饭 (kào tiān chī fàn - "relying on the heavens for food," depending on the weather for a good harvest) for thousands of years.
Its beauty lies in overcoming difficulties. The project area is located in the Qilian Mountains (祁连山) major fault zone of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), with complex geological conditions and traversing high-altitude permafrost. Many earthquakes occurred during construction. The low temperature during winter construction resulted in a failure rate of up to 40% for the start-up of mechanical equipment. The builders rose to the challenge and solved a series of problems such as large-span concrete prestressed aqueduct structures, complex geology and extreme weather, and cross-operations.
Its beauty lies in persistent effort. The Yin Da Ji Huang Project (引大济湟工程) has many points, long lines, and a wide area, consisting of six sub-projects: the Shitouxia Reservoir (石头峡水库), the main water diversion canal, the Heiquan Reservoir (黑泉水库), the first phase of the North Canal, the second phase of the North Canal, and the West Canal Project, covering 75 townships in 1 prefecture, 2 cities, and 5 counties (districts). Over the past 29 years, generations have continued to work, drawing a blueprint to the end, and finally ushering in the victorious moment of completion and commissioning.
(Reported by Gong Shijian (龚仕建) and Qiao Dong (乔栋) of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 栾心怡
Twenty-nine years of hard work, all for the sake of nourishing one region. The "Leading Yellow River Water to Replenish Qinghai" project traverses the high mountains and canyons of Qinghai (青海), connecting the north and south river basins and linking the water systems of the east and west cities. It carries the expectations of more than 3 million people and witnesses the relay of more than 18,000 builders to overcome difficulties.
Looking at the whole country, from the South-to-North Water Diversion Project to the Yunnan Central Water Diversion Project, a long construction period for major water conservancy projects is the norm. This not only means a long time and a large investment, but also means doing a good job of coordination between "stability" and "progress" -
With the tenacity of 绳锯木断 (shéng jù mù duàn - "a rope can saw through wood," perseverance can overcome any difficulty), the "Leading Yellow River Water to Replenish Qinghai" project took 9 years to overcome world-class problems such as deep burial; with the prudence of ecological priority, the "Leading Han River Water to Replenish Wei River" project opened up migration channels for fish and reduced environmental impact; with the awe of safety first, the Xiaolangdi (小浪底) Water Control Project predicted risks through a digital twin platform... In the long cycle, we see the responsibility of long-termism.
Working persistently for a long time is for the benefit of future generations. The fruits of long-termism are in the smiles of farmers who bid farewell to staying up all night to queue for water, in the symphony of wetland waterbirds flocking together, and in the prosperity of industrial enterprises stringing into chains. While water conservancy projects nourish the land, they also inject vitality into development.
From water management to national governance, it is precisely because of adhering to long-termism in development that one five-year plan after another has been steadily advanced, and that Chinese-style modernization has been forging ahead step by step. "The road ahead is long and bright," such long-termism is the source of vitality for China's economic and social continuous development and moving towards a new and better future.
Return to TopBy: 孙甘露
The influence of Soviet Russian literature on a generation of Chinese writers was extensive and lasting, continuing from the early 20th century until after the founding of New China. Young writers of that era, such as Mr. Wang Meng (王蒙), with his early work "Long Live Youth" and the unrestrained and expansive narrative style of the 1970s and 80s, continued and connected the development and growth of the Chinese revolution and contemporary Chinese literature. The image of the young Bolshevik, his free and richly varied literary style, had a great influence on young people just starting out in literary creation, including young people like me, born in the 1950s into a military family, who loved Soviet Russian literature.
From the perspective of poetry, the translated works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, and others, along with novels, dramas, paintings, and films, sketched a picture of an era that was idealistic and lofty, arduous and romantic. Of course, this picture was also filled with bloodshed and sacrifice. Among these, Nekrasov's poetry left a special mark in my reading memories of adolescence. After a gap of about half a century, while creating the novel "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" (千里江山图), which depicts the story of Chinese Communist revolutionaries, my personal imagination of that era, the life stories of Chinese revolutionaries more than 90 years ago, the spiritual atmosphere of that era, and the countless martyrs who gave their lives in that era of great change, were suddenly illuminated by the following lines of poetry: "They say the storm is coming, I can't help but smile."
As most people know today, that generation of revolutionaries threw themselves into the pursuit of ideals, bathed in the international communist movement of that era and the spread and influence of revolutionary ideas around the world. The image of the Party's underground workers in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" (千里江山图) is precisely placed in this historical picture, built on this ideological background and spiritual source, and their choices in difficult circumstances are still thought-provoking today. The detailed environmental descriptions in the novel are precisely an attempt to find a real basis for the characters' behavior.
The history of underground struggle during this special period is itself full of thrilling stories. From the beginning of the preparation stage of the creation, I did not simply consider it as a spy novel. More emphasis was placed on exploring the actual living conditions and realistic situations of underground workers, starting from the social environment, ideological trends, interpersonal relationships, and methods of struggle of that period, striving to truly restore that arduous and extraordinary era, and at the same time extracting clues to the story and the basis for the characters' behavior from the environment, rather than simply designing the story's direction and promoting the development and twists and turns of the plot in order to satisfy the narrative methods of genre novels. This confirms that historical events and personal experiences find a unity of imagination and reality in narrative methods and artistic laws.
Of course, as a unique type of genre novel, spy novels provide a special channel for observing the times and human nature in contemporary Chinese and foreign literature. It explores the fate and choices of various characters in a dramatically turbulent era, the subtle aspects of human nature, the complexity and variability of motives, and the ups and downs of fate, providing readers with observation angles that are different from daily experience, even extreme observation scenarios, and also opens up imaginative space for exploring the dark side of that special era.
My personal interest in reading genre novels is not based on strict classification, but rather regards the narrative methods of spy novels, detective novels, crime novels, adventure novels, thriller novels, and other different types of novels, as well as the narrative methods of novels or non-fiction works in a general sense, as different aspects of narrative methods. It makes the analysis of human nature, the exploration of psychology, the search for historical clues, the influence and evolution of customs, the influence of geography and climate, and the circulation of material or cultural elements such as products and artifacts more clear, and also establishes an effective path for better understanding the world at that time. Just as the continuous innovation of technology brings an increasingly detailed understanding of the external world, the detection of the human heart is still unfathomable. Moreover, the ways of life of different eras and different ethnic groups are also very different, and their psychological impact on people is becoming increasingly complex. Even beyond the devastating impact of aggression on the battlefield, the imprisonment and abuse of ordinary civilians has caused lifelong harm to countless people. This gives endless torment to ordinary people who try to return to peaceful life after the war. All of this constitutes an important topic in literary writing.
Genre novels, including spy novels, are a very rich treasure trove of narrative literature. They have gradually evolved from the military affairs and power struggles of ancient humans, and have become increasingly complex and rich with the development of the times and technology. Like other types of literary works, they establish guidance and landmarks for us to understand the world, understand ourselves, and understand unknown fields. It has the characteristics of a labyrinth, bringing intellectual pleasure and profound insights into human nature to both authors and readers, revealing the thrilling scenes beneath the calm surface of daily life, allowing us to see different aspects of life, and constantly prompting us to reflect on the hidden world contained beneath the things we take for granted, beneath our words, and beneath our actions.
Looking back briefly at my reading experience, my father joined the army and embarked on the revolutionary road during the Anti-Japanese War. His military career also gave me a strong interest in exploring his life trajectory and growth path. He always put his experiences and the experiences of his comrades together, observing the war from the perspective of a soldier. It was also under his influence that literary works about the anti-fascist war in different countries and cultures, the situation of individuals in the war, the relationship between people in extreme environments, the shaping of people's character by the war, and the changes in people's fate always filled me with infinite compassion.
At the same time, I have a strong interest in how literary works reveal the complex impact of war on human destiny. Such as many literary works well-known to Chinese readers, "Lotus Reed Marsh" (荷花淀), "Railway Guerrilla" (铁道游击队), "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" (这里的黎明静悄悄), "The Diary of Anne Frank" (安妮日记), "Schindler's List" (辛德勒名单), these writings with different styles, distinct characters, and human brilliance in their writing, have left the world with the most sad and most tragic human stories. They not only reveal the universal disaster brought to mankind by the fascist war, but also show the special pain contained in the traumatic memories of different cultures. These common memories gathered from different ethnic groups and different cultures evoke the same compassion and reflection in readers and audiences with different cultural backgrounds. These works, or the records of these unfortunate encounters, constantly make us think deeply about the meaning of writing, let us explore what secrets are hidden beneath the appearance of the world, and make us have a long-term vigilance against those injustices and unfairness.
(The author is a writer and chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association (上海市作家协会).)
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When traveling in the UK, whether in a large city or a small village, one can always see memorials to the Second World War. For example, many churches have special memorial bells or monuments, often engraved with elegies, or densely inscribed with the names of local soldiers who died in battle. In squares or streets, there are also various public sculptures that invite people to stop and look up, commemorating the martyrs. Clearly, the great victory of the World Anti-Fascist War has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
To this day, artists continue to create artworks in various ways to commemorate this extraordinary history. The large metal sculpture "Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers" (locally known simply as "Freddie," see picture below, provided by the author), located on the North Bay promenade in Scarborough (斯卡伯勒), a seaside resort in North Yorkshire (北约克郡), England, is a famous example.
In 2008, Freddie Gilroy (弗雷迪·吉尔罗伊), a close friend of sculptor Ray Lonsdale, passed away at the age of 87. Freddie was a retired miner from the Shotton (肖顿) coal mining area. In April 1945, as World War II was coming to an end, he went to the German battlefield as a member of the British Army to participate in the liberation of prisoners of war in the Bergen-Belsen (贝尔根—贝尔森) concentration camp. This was also where Anne Frank (安妮·弗兰克) (author of "The Diary of a Young Girl") had been imprisoned. Freddie had personally experienced this history, and those memories stayed with him throughout his life. His death plunged Lonsdale into sadness and sparked a strong creative impulse.
The artist used pieces of welded weathering steel (also known as corten steel) to create a sculpture more than two meters high: Freddie sits on a metal bench, facing the turbulent North Sea, as if sinking into long contemplation in the direction of the former battlefield. At first glance, this image resembles an old man walking along the seaside promenade with a cane, taking a break on a bench when he gets tired. He is not a tall and upright hero, but more like an ordinary old man in daily life.
Lonsdale shaped him in this way partly because Freddie was a familiar old friend, and he wanted the work to retain his appearance during his lifetime; on the other hand, this work also continues the artist's consistent creative concept of war themes—war is not far away, it is closely related to every ordinary person, and the trauma and pain that war brings to mankind has not left us to this day, and it is by no means a topic that can be taken lightly. In a sense, the closer the story of war is to the people in our lives, the more it reveals the cruelty of war. This sculpture is certainly Lonsdale's expression of respect to an old friend, but the commemorative significance it carries has long surpassed the individual and become a broad monument, reminding people not to forget all the soldiers who fought bloody battles for peace in World War II.
Careful viewers will notice that a long empty space is left beside Freddie, which is the loneliness that the artist deliberately creates: the war took the lives of his comrades, and most of those surviving comrades who were once captured, experienced heavy trauma, and struggled to return home are now gone. It is this blank space that allows later generations to sit in the empty seat. Here and now, people can not only feel the solemn temperament of the veteran, but also imagine him as a friend chatting side by side. This place is for companionship, for remembrance, and also an excellent place to reflect on war.
When shaping the sculpture, Lonsdale deliberately made the character hunch over with a solemn expression. Like many war survivors, Freddie also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, which was then called "shell shock." The person who returns from war is no longer the same person! Facing the sculpture, people's hearts are filled with unspeakable heaviness, and they feel a deep attachment and gratitude for the peaceful life of today.
Lonsdale came from a shipbuilding family and is familiar with the characteristics of steel materials. He chose weathering steel as the raw material for the sculpture because this steel will form a thin layer of oxide on the surface when placed outdoors for a long time, producing a caramel orange-like rust color. As a result, the sculpture gradually integrates with the surrounding environment, and a sense of vicissitudes comes to the face, which also implies the precipitation and continuation of historical memory. The artist welds and combines steel sheet materials in a layered manner, which not only inherits his personalized artistic style, but also reminds people of computer modeling effects, giving the work a distinct contemporary character.
In 2011, the sculpture was completed on the seaside promenade, and locals and tourists came to pay their respects in an endless stream. They regard Freddie Gilroy (弗雷迪·吉尔罗伊) as the eternal guardian of the coast, and especially like to take photos with him at sunset. Veteran groups also offer flowers, handwritten notes, medals and other commemorative items on specific days to show their respect.
A British tourist wrote on social media: "'Freddie' is not only a metal sculpture, but also the embodiment of all soldiers who return home but whose hearts are trapped on the battlefield." This sentence expresses the most touching meaning of the sculpture: it not only solidifies personal memory, but also awakens the world's deep understanding of the pain of war and the preciousness of peace. In the sound of the North Sea, it will continue to tell silently, reminding those who come to remember, remember, and cherish this hard-won peaceful time.
(The author is a professor at the School of Arts, Peking University (北京大学).)
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There is an interesting floating market in Bangkok, Thailand: Damnoen Saduak Floating Market (丹嫩沙多水上集市), commonly known as the Bangkok Floating Market (曼谷水上集市).
When we arrived at the Damnoen Saduak pier (丹嫩沙多码头), the morning light gilded the palm trees on both sides of the canal. The air was filled with a mixture of charcoal and spice aromas, and the distant shouts rose and fell, like a peculiar morning serenade. Dozens of slender wooden boats were docked at the pier, their hulls painted in bright blue, red, or green, with their bows raised high, like a peacock spreading its tail.
The waterway was much narrower than imagined, only allowing two or three small boats to pass side by side. On both banks were stilt houses, some painted bright yellow or sky blue, and some retaining the original color of the wood, which had been stained dark brown by the years. Clothes drying in front of the houses swayed gently in the morning breeze, and occasionally sleepy-eyed children leaned on the railings, curiously looking around. Countless boats loaded with goods shuttled back and forth on the water, like a dynamic painting: a woman selling fruit wore a wide-brimmed straw hat, and the bow of her boat was piled high with golden mangoes, bright red wax apples, and verdant coconuts; the boat selling breakfast had a small charcoal stove, and fragrant Thai milk tea and golden crispy banana pancakes were bubbling in the iron pot; there were also boats specializing in selling flowers, with jasmine garlands hanging on both sides of the hull, the white flowers crystal clear in the morning light, with an intoxicating fragrance.
The real excitement began at 7 a.m. By this time, the sunlight had become bright and sharp, making the canal sparkle. An aunt selling green papaya salad noticed my interest in the stone mortar on her boat, and immediately used a long bamboo pole to hook our boat, and the two boats were steadily parked side by side. She deftly pounded the green papaya shreds, added fish sauce, lemon juice, and small chili peppers, her movements flowing like clouds and water.
The aroma of food intertwined on the water. We followed the richest coconut fragrance to find a small boat specializing in selling mango sticky rice. The boat owner was an old woman with a wrinkled face, and she knelt at the bow of the boat, with several small charcoal stoves in front of her. The snow-white sticky rice steamed on banana leaves, next to sliced golden mangoes and thick coconut milk. When we gestured that we wanted to buy a portion, she smiled and held up 3 fingers—30 baht. Taking the sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves, I was conquered by the warm and sweet taste at the first bite. The sticky rice was soft and glutinous, the coconut fragrance was rich but not greasy, the sweetness and sourness of the mangoes perfectly neutralized the sweetness, and the crispy rice sprinkled on top added a layer of texture. Enjoying this breakfast while sitting on a rocking boat, watching the sunlight cast mottled shadows on the water through the palm leaves, and listening to the bargaining sounds of various languages—this is probably the most authentic Bangkok experience.
At a bend, the boatman suddenly pointed to the shore: "Look, the 'floating post office'!" It turned out to be a boat painted bright red, with the Thai Post logo hanging on the awning. It is said that this is a mobile post office specially serving canal residents, where residents can come to send letters, pick up packages, and even pay water and electricity bills—the living facilities of the water community are far more complete than imagined, they are not isolated from the world, but have chosen a different way of life.
On the way back, we passed a relatively open water area. The sun poured down without any obstruction, making the water as bright as molten silver. In the distance, several merchant ships lined up in a row, and the boatmen's melodious songs came with the waves, their hoarse voices intertwined with the sound of oars and water, forming a natural water ballad. At this moment, I suddenly understood why Thai people cherish this floating market so much—it is not only an attraction to attract tourists, but also a living museum of cultural memory, a unique space where tradition and modernity intertwine.
Return to TopBy: 胡玉君 李 晶
The camel bells echo on the ancient Silk Road, and the sounds of barbarian horses still carry the Tang and Han winds. The Silk Road linked the ancient civilizations of Asia, Europe, and Africa, profoundly influencing the development of Chinese civilization and human civilization. The stone coffin bed unearthed from the Sui Dynasty tomb of Qu Qing (麴庆) and his wife in Anyang (安阳), Henan (河南) Province, is an important testament to the cultural exchanges of the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago.
The stone coffin bed was a special burial item popular in the northern regions from the Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The Qu Qing tomb stone coffin bed was unearthed in 2020. It is made of white marble and bluestone, about 2.2 meters long, 1.2 meters wide, and 0.5 meters high. The stone coffin is composed of components such as a front baffle, a rear baffle, east and west side baffles, a bed surface stone slab, and a screen, and each part is carved with exquisite patterns. Although the gold leaf and colored paintings have severely peeled off, one can still feel the Han and barbarian styles of thousands of years ago by observing its shape and carved patterns.
The carving on the front baffle of the stone coffin bed combines openwork and bas-relief, and the exquisitely carved and lifelike patterns present the characteristics of the integration of Zoroastrian and Buddhist art. Each of the two arched doors on the front is carved with a mythical beast. The two mythical beasts face each other, with stout bodies, large skulls, round and bulging eyes, wide mouths and fangs, and cloud-shaped wings decorated with bas-relief on their shoulders. The back is decorated with bas-relief curly cloud-shaped manes. The legs are short and thick, and the tail is slender. From the perspective of body characteristics, it is different from the traditional Central Plains mythical beast style and is closer to the Sogdian style of the Western Regions.
Above the arched doors are carved eight divine king musician figures, who either ride horses, sheep, or phoenixes, or sit on futons, holding instruments such as transverse flutes, huqin, bili, pipa, and husheng. The musician divine kings all wear jeweled crowns, with fluttering tassels on both sides, head halos behind their heads, necklaces around their necks, and bracelets on their wrists and ankles. They are naked and barefoot, with ribbons fluttering around their bodies and arms, and wide scarves around their waists. Their sitting postures are casual and their expressions are focused. Their high-bridged noses and wide eyes reflect the unique characteristics of the barbarians at that time.
Different from the carved patterns on the front baffle, the main patterns on the side and rear baffles are Han cultural elements such as lotus flowers, flowing clouds, and phoenixes. The screen depicts scenes from the tomb owner's daily life, such as travel, banquets, listening to the Tao, and playing the qin, accompanied by buildings such as pavilions, terraces, and waterside gardens. For example, in a picture in the middle of the east screen, an old man sits on the left, with two buns tied on his head, fine wrinkles on his face, and the corners of his eyes drooping in the shape of the character "八" (bā - "eight"). He has a long beard, wears a pleated robe and a wide skirt, and a belt around his waist. He sits cross-legged on a square cushion, with an ancient qin placed horizontally between his legs, his left hand pressing and his right hand plucking. On the right is a woman, who has her hair combed on top of her head and wears a headdress. She wears a long-sleeved ru (襦 - a type of jacket) with a right-fastening collar on her upper body and a skirt on her lower body. Her left arm rests on her knee, and her right arm is raised, with her index finger pointing at the old man, as if discussing qin skills with him. These carved patterns, whether in terms of character clothing or architectural style, already have Han cultural characteristics.
The shape and carved patterns of the stone coffin bed reflect the integration of Sogdian culture and Han culture. More than 270 items, including daily-use porcelain, porcelain figurines, and stone figurines, were unearthed along with it. Among them, the female servant figurines have plump faces and fluttering sleeves; the barbarian figurines have high noses and deep eyes and wear military uniforms. These cultural relics with strong Western Regions styles and distinct Central Plains flavors reflect the extensive exchange of Eastern and Western cultures on the ancient Silk Road.
According to the epitaph found in the same tomb as the stone coffin bed, the tomb owner, Qu Qing (麴庆), was from Beiping (北平) in Longxi (陇西). He once served as a military advisor in the Pingyang (平阳) Prince's Mansion of the Northern Qi (北齐) Dynasty, and later was promoted to Sima (司马 - a military rank) and General Zhenwei (振威将军). Qu Qing's wife, Madam Han (韩氏), was from Xiacheng (夏城) in Changli (昌黎). Her ancestors were tribal chiefs (leaders of tribes on the grasslands during the Northern Wei Dynasty). Longxi (陇西) was a transportation hub on the ancient Silk Road, with a mixture of ethnic groups and religions. Qu Qing's ability to serve as an official in the Central Plains and marry Madam Han (韩氏) was the result of the full exchange and integration of Eastern and Western cultures.
Based on his official position, it is speculated that Qu Qing's (麴庆) grandfather was likely to be Qu Jia (麴嘉), the founding monarch of the Qu clan Gaochang Kingdom (麴氏高昌国). The Gaochang Kingdom (高昌国) was located in the area of today's Turpan Basin (吐鲁番盆地) and was a local regime established mainly by the Han people. Historically, it experienced four different ruling periods: the Kan clan, the Zhang clan, the Ma clan, and the Qu clan. In the early 6th century AD, Qu Jia (麴嘉) established the Qu clan Gaochang regime. After that, Sogdians from Central Asia continued to migrate to Gaochang, engaging in commercial activities and gradually becoming an important immigrant group in the area. At that time, in addition to being affiliated with the Central Plains dynasty, Gaochang also successively relied on powerful tribes such as the Gaoche, Rouran, and Turks in the north, absorbing customs and habits from these ethnic groups, and the phenomena of "barbarians becoming Sinicized" and "Han people becoming barbarianized" appeared. In addition, Gaochang was located on the necessary route of the northern Silk Road, with a constant stream of merchants coming and going. The ethnic cultures and religious beliefs of the Central Plains and the Western Regions merged here, resulting in Gaochang's cultural landscape of establishing the country with Confucianism, promoting Buddhism, popularizing Zoroastrianism, and believing in other religions.
The stone coffin bed unearthed from the joint tomb of Qu Qing (麴庆) and his wife vividly demonstrates the exchange and integration between Eastern and Western cultures at that time. This discovery reflects the fine traditions of China's inclusiveness, harmony as the highest principle, and friendship with neighbors since ancient times, and also confirms the important role of the ancient Silk Road in promoting exchanges between different regions, ethnic groups, and cultures. At the same time, this archaeological achievement also shows that Yecheng (邺城) and Anyang (安阳) in the 4th to 6th centuries AD were not only important political, economic, and cultural centers for the intersection of East and West, but also one of the important eastern starting points of the Silk Road. Starting from here, Yecheng (邺城) and Anyang (安阳) went to the world, and the world also entered China from here.
(Authors' affiliations: Anyang Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Anyang Museum)
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Return to Top**Xi Jinping (习近平)**, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, emphasized, "We must promote a comprehensive green transformation of development methods and build a modern industrial system with distinctive advantages," and "Coordinate and promote various tasks, strengthen collaboration and cooperation, promote high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and create a new era of the Yellow River Cantata."
The Yellow River, the mother river flowing through 9 provinces and regions, provides 50% of the country's milk, 40% of its eggs, and 30% of its meat. At the same time, it also faces problems such as poor ecological background, serious soil erosion, and weak resource and environmental carrying capacity. Grassland animal husbandry is a traditional advantageous and pillar industry in the Yellow River Basin. In 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) launched a three-year high-quality development project for grassland animal husbandry in the Yellow River Basin, organized and implemented by the National Animal Husbandry Service (全国畜牧总站), to explore a path that balances ecological protection and production development. Recently, reporters traveled downstream, visiting provinces along the Yellow River such as Qinghai, Gansu, and Henan, to see how grassland animal husbandry is playing a movement that takes into account production, ecology, and life.
—Editor
[Yellow River Source Area]
Increasing Grass and Conserving Grain, Cattle and Sheep Eat "Nutritious Meals"
By Yu Jingxian (郁静娴), reporter of this newspaper
In early summer, in Sizhai Township (寺寨乡), Huangyuan County (湟源县), Qinghai Province (青海省), the Qilian Mountains (祁连山脉) are lined with green grasslands.
Guo Julan (郭菊兰), a large-scale breeding household in Caoyuan Village (草原村), has just brought back more than 800 cattle. She picked up a handful of forage from the trough and introduced, "This is a feed with a good ratio of concentrate to roughage. The concentrate is mainly corn and soybean meal, and the roughage is a mixed silage of beans and grains. It has good palatability, and the cattle love to eat it."
Huangyuan County (湟源县) is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), with high altitude, short frost-free period, and long dormant period, resulting in high grazing pressure on natural grasslands.
Guo Julan (郭菊兰) recalled that in previous years, they relied on grazing, and the cattle and sheep were not full. They often gnawed at the grass as soon as they saw it. In addition, excessive trampling led to ecological imbalance and rodent plagues, and the grass mountains became severely bald. "There was not enough food to eat, and nearly half of the calves could not survive the winter."
In 2015, Guo Julan (郭菊兰) transferred more than 2,000 mu of land to cultivate forage oats, trying to alleviate the dual pressure of overgrazing on production and ecology. However, over time, she found that planting oats on the same plot of land year after year led to soil degradation, increased pests and diseases, and reduced forage quality. Blind application of fertilizer also caused the soil to harden, affecting the water conservation function of the upstream. At the same time, the crude protein content of oats was low, making it difficult to meet the high protein needs of herbivorous livestock.
How to solve the contradiction between grass and livestock? Walking into Guo Julan's (郭菊兰) pasture planting area, forage oats and forage peas are mixed and planted in the field, creating distinct layers of green waves. Wang Wei (王伟), associate researcher at the Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of Qinghai University (青海大学畜牧兽医科学院), is checking the growth of the forage. "Legumes have a nitrogen-fixing effect, while the root secretions of gramineous plants can promote the growth of legumes." Wang Wei (王伟) introduced that the mixed sowing technology of forage oats and forage peas can effectively improve the production efficiency of dryland pasture in alpine regions by rationally matching drought-resistant and cold-resistant varieties and supporting green cultivation techniques. Under the guidance of the technical team of Qinghai University (青海大学), Guo Julan's (郭菊兰) 1,300 mu of mixed sowing land yielded 3.6 tons of fresh grass per mu last year, an increase of 12% compared to planting only oats, and fertilizer use was reduced by more than 20%.
Whether the bean-grain intercropping model is sustainable depends on the effect of replacing grain with grass. Every year in mid-to-late August, when the oats are in the milky ripening stage, the two forages are mixed and harvested for silage. A month later, the pasture turns yellow, which is just right for supplying roughage to yaks. "After planting grass with Teacher Wang (王老师) and them, the concentrate feed is saved, and the quality of the yaks has also improved," said Guo Julan (郭菊兰).
According to calculations, the crude protein content of the mixed-sown forage can reach 13%, nearly 50% higher than that of oats alone. "We help farmers determine the best concentrate-to-roughage ratio formula, and the proportion of roughage during stall feeding is increased from 30% to more than 60%, shortening the fattening time of yaks by 10-15 days. In the later stage, yak manure is directly returned to the field after harmless treatment, forming an ecological cycle of 'livestock-manure-grass'," said Wang Wei (王伟).
Grass and livestock are linked, and they coexist beautifully. In Huangyuan County (湟源县), the mixed sowing technology of forage oats and forage peas has been demonstrated and promoted on 10,000 mu this year. Calculated based on the dry grass yield of 50 kilograms per mu of alpine grassland, each mu of mixed-sown artificial grassland can replace 18 mu of natural grassland. "The problem of winter feed for cattle and sheep has been solved, which helps reduce farmers' dependence on natural grasslands," said Wang Wei (王伟).
On the pastures and in the pens, increasing grass and conserving grain brings visible changes: the grassland vegetation coverage in the technical radiation area has increased by more than 15%, the average plant height has increased by 31.9%, the vegetation recovery rate has increased by 30%, and the stall feeding rate of yaks in the county in winter has increased from 61.7% in 2022 to 66.5%... Next, Huangyuan County (湟源县) will form a hundred-person technical service team through the "expert + base + technician + demonstration household" mechanism to implement joint point contracting and encourage more farmers to shift from traditional grazing to stall feeding and semi-stall feeding methods.
[Hinterland of the Loess Plateau]
Mulch Hole Seeding, Covering the Loess Land with a "Functional Quilt"
By Li Xiaoqing (李晓晴), reporter of this newspaper
In Caoqi Village (曹旗村), Mubao Town (木钵镇), Huan County (环县), Gansu Province (甘肃省), 30 mu of alfalfa demonstration fields ripple with green waves in the breeze. He Rui (何瑞), deputy director of the Huan County Modern Sheep Industry Research Institute (环县现代羊产业研究院), wearing a pair of travel shoes covered in mud, enthusiastically explained to the villagers gathered around him: "Folks, take a look at the alfalfa in this field, how well it grows! Our area is dry and short of water. Using mulch hole seeding drought-resistant and seedling-preserving technology can increase the emergence rate by 18 percentage points and the seedling survival rate by 15 percentage points."
For a long time, farmers in Huan County (环县) mainly plowed and planted wheat and corn, lacking a grain-grass rotation system, which accelerated the loss of water and soil and soil organic matter, and the soil fertility declined year after year, resulting in low grain yields and poor economic benefits.
In order to solve this dilemma, with the support of the National Animal Husbandry Service (全国畜牧总站) project, Shen Yuying (沈禹颖), an expert of the National Pasture Industry Technology System and professor at Lanzhou University (兰州大学), led a team to promote mulch hole seeding drought-resistant and seedling-preserving technology for planting alfalfa in the local area.
"First, choose the right alfalfa variety, and then mulch before May. This mulch is like covering the land with a 'functional quilt', which can increase the surface soil temperature in spring by 3 degrees Celsius and increase the moisture content by 15 percentage points, playing a role in increasing temperature, preserving moisture, and preventing wind and sand." This spring, in the alfalfa field in Yinjiaqiao Village (殷家桥村), Mubao Town (木钵镇), Shen Yuying (沈禹颖) taught on-site, "Sow the alfalfa seeds under the mulch, control the row spacing, hole spacing, and sowing depth, and when the alfalfa grows to 20 centimeters high, remove the mulch, and you can harvest it in the early flowering stage."
With the unremitting efforts of researchers and technology extension personnel, alfalfa mulch hole seeding drought-resistant and seedling-preserving technology has been promoted in Huan County (环县). In Yinjiaqiao Village (殷家桥村), Huirong Grass Industry Co., Ltd. (荟荣草业有限公司) transferred land to plant 200 mu of alfalfa. Wang Gang (王刚), the company's负责人, said: "The farmers who cooperated with us did not quite believe it in the early stage. In the second year, they encountered a severe drought. The average dry grass yield per mu of land planted using mulch hole seeding drought-resistant and seedling-preserving technology reached 500 jin, an increase of 15% compared to those without mulch, and the net income per mu increased by 66 yuan."
The considerable economic benefits have given farmers the motivation to plant, and have also brought significant ecological benefits. He Rui (何瑞) introduced: "The soil erosion rate in the area where alfalfa mulch hole seeding drought-resistant and seedling-preserving technology is implemented has been reduced by 20%. We also carry out the construction of artificial pastureland on slopes to increase the vegetation coverage of slopes, which also effectively reduces sediment entering the river."
As a traditional large sheep-raising county, improving the supply of high-quality forage and promoting the efficient combination of grass and livestock are key issues for promoting the high-quality development of grassland animal husbandry in Huan County (环县) and increasing the income of farmers and herdsmen. He Rui (何瑞) introduced: "We promote the strip intercropping of silage corn and forage soybeans, mixing planting, mixing harvesting, and mixing storage, the purpose is to increase the protein content of silage feed, promote healthy sheep raising, and create the brand of Huan County (环县) lamb."
Gu Juncheng (谷军成), a sheep farmer in Shuangcheng Village (双城村), Quzi Town (曲子镇), said with deep feeling: "My family raises 40 sheep. After using mixed silage feed, they can be sold about 15 days earlier. On average, 0.2 kilograms of concentrate feed can be saved per day during the fattening period. Calculating these two items, each sheep can reduce feeding costs by about 105 yuan."
[Yellow River Beach Area]
Improving Soil, Turning Saline-Alkali Land into "High-Yield Fields"
By Chang Qin (常钦), reporter of this newspaper
At more than 5 a.m., Wang Chengzhang (王成章), a 70-year-old professor at Henan Agricultural University (河南农业大学), had already driven off to the Yellow River beach area in Lankao (兰考). This is his twenty-third trip to this "battlefield" where he has fought for 6 years. "The newly installed water and fertilizer integration equipment is irrigating and fertilizing the third crop of alfalfa. I have to go and see the effect."
In 2019, after the relocation of residents in the Yellow River beach area of Lankao (兰考), awakening the sleeping saline-alkali land became an urgent task for the local area. That spring, Wang Chengzhang (王成章), then chairman of the Henan Pasture Alliance (河南省牧草联盟), took on this "hard bone."
Wang Chengzhang's (王成章) "weapon" is alfalfa. The root system is deeply rooted in the ground for five or six meters, which can not only fix nitrogen and improve the soil, but also greatly reduce wind and sand dust and soil erosion. However, large-scale planting of alfalfa in saline-alkali land in Henan is still a new topic.
Seed selection is the first step. "In the past, seed selection focused on high yield and quality; this time, we must pay more attention to salt-alkali resistance and lodging resistance." Wang Chengzhang (王成章) said that in the end, four alfalfa varieties, including Zhongmu No. 3 (中苜3号) and Juneng 601 (巨能601), stood out, and the single-crop harvesting time was extended from 5 days to 15 days, and the proportion of first-class and above alfalfa grass jumped from 50% to 75%.
For planting alfalfa in saline-alkali land, the emergence rate is the "lifeline." While others sow in spring, Wang Chengzhang (王成章) insisted on setting the sowing period in October. "The salt return on the surface is serious in spring, and the emergence rate and survival rate of seeds are low. During the rainy season from July to September, rainwater leaches the salt-alkali to the deep layer, and the surface salt content is the lowest in the whole year in October. Sowing at this time is the right 'time'!" All 27,000 mu of alfalfa were sown in autumn, and the emergence rate miraculously jumped from less than 20% in spring sowing to 90%.
While improving the emergence rate, Wang Chengzhang (王成章) decided to increase the sowing rate per mu—from 1.5 kg to 2 kg for bare seeds, and to 2.5-3 kg for coated seeds, increasing alfalfa production by nearly 10% in the first year.
Diammonium phosphate is an alkaline fertilizer and is not suitable for application in saline-alkali land. Wang Chengzhang's (王成章) team decisively changed to using acidic fertilizer monoammonium phosphate, promoted soil testing and formulated fertilization technology, and developed alfalfa-specific compound fertilizer. Using grass to nourish the land, improve saline-alkali, and promote water and fertilizer integrated alfalfa planting technology, the fertilizer efficiency was increased by more than 20%.
Behind Wang Chengzhang's (王成章) "unconventional approach" is the support of more than 300 field trials. After customized improvement, the saline-alkali land achieved a "reversal"—on the banks of the Yellow River in Lankao (兰考), 60,000 mu of high-quality alfalfa swayed in the wind, and 40,000 mu of rotated wheat and corn grew luxuriantly.
"Planting 3 years of alfalfa in exchange for 2 years of high grain yield." Wang Chengzhang (王成章) proposed a grain-grass rotation technology for slightly saline-alkali land, which can be called the "space-time magic" of saline-alkali land improvement. After 3 years of alfalfa planting, the pH value of saline-alkali land can be reduced from 8.6 to 8.2, the salt content can be reduced from 0.3% to 0.2%, and the soil fertility can be increased by 20%-30%. In Yangzhuang Village (杨庄村), Dongbatou Town (东坝头镇), Lankao County (兰考县), the wheat yield per mu before planting alfalfa was 249.7 kg. After 3 years of alfalfa planting and rotation of wheat, the yield per mu reached 446.7 kg, realizing the transformation from low yield to medium yield. In the Lankao Hexi Base (兰考河西基地), the wheat yield per mu increased from 397.3 kg to 533.7 kg, from medium yield to high yield; the yield of whole-plant silage corn per mu increased from 2 tons to 3 tons, and the crude protein content increased by 10%-20%, becoming a "hot commodity" for well-known dairy companies. At present, the grain-grass rotation technology for slightly saline-alkali land has been promoted in 9 counties along the Yellow River in Henan.
60,000 mu of alfalfa is made into silage to supply dairy companies, and dairy cow manure is fermented and returned to the field, reducing the application of chemical fertilizers by 65 kg per mu; companies sign orders with farmers, the land transfer rent is 800 yuan per mu per year, and the monthly income of working villagers exceeds 4,000 yuan... Today, in the Yellow River beach area of Lankao (兰考), a "grass-livestock-fertilizer-grain" circular economy has been formed, and the former "three harms" of "saline-alkali, wind and sand, and waterlogging" are gradually becoming a model of "strong grass industry, rich farmers, and beautiful ecology."
Return to TopBy: 郁静娴
To adapt to the diversified transformation of meat consumption scenarios, promote intensive processing of livestock and poultry products and comprehensive utilization of by-products, strengthen internal skills and improve quality across the entire industrial chain, and promote a win-win situation for both breeding and consumption.
Recently, the topic "Why does a live duck cost over 100 yuan, while a roast duck only costs 25 yuan?" became a trending search.
After some investigation, the answer emerged—good breed, low cost. The roast duck sold on the street uses Cherry Valley White Feather meat ducks, which "eat less and grow faster," resulting in lower breeding costs. Selling separately is more profitable. The duck carcass used for roast duck only accounts for about 25% of the overall value of the meat duck. The truly valuable parts are the duck wings, duck gizzards, duck feathers, etc. The roast duck sold for 25 yuan each still provides a considerable profit for the store.
The popularity of street roast duck comes from people's concern for food safety and is also a small indication of the modernization of China's breeding industry.
China is the world's largest meat producer and consumer. Livestock and poultry breeding cycles are relatively long, coupled with market response delays and a large number of small and medium-sized breeding farms, some varieties inevitably experience periodic supply and demand mismatches, causing cyclical fluctuations in the industry and even across industries. For example, affected by the high pork prices in the previous cycle, ducks and geese, as substitutes, expanded in breeding scale. As pork supply gradually increased, the market share of ducks and geese correspondingly "shrank." The shortage of knife feathers from duck and goose wings, which are used to make badminton shuttlecocks, led to a surge in badminton prices starting in the second half of 2023. This transmission chain reflects both the basic position of agriculture in the national economy and people's livelihood and highlights the impact of cyclical fluctuations in the breeding industry.
How to secure the "meat basket" and achieve a win-win situation for both breeding and consumption? The economic calculation of "25 yuan roast duck still making money" contains the efficiency-enhancing code for the transformation and upgrading of the breeding industry—from "selling whole" to "selling separately," realizing revenue growth through "breaking down into parts." The key lies in the complete livestock product processing system opening up new value-added space.
According to a survey by the China Meat Association (中国肉类协会), more than 80% of livestock and poultry meat is currently consumed in the form of primary products, indicating that there is great potential for deep processing of livestock products. As people's living standards continue to improve, meat consumption scenarios are showing diversified development. From chilled fresh meat suitable for daily home cooking to specific meat materials such as steaks, chicken wings, and lamb skewers suitable for outdoor barbecues, from cooked braised dishes and flavored snack foods to fat-loss meals, pre-made dishes, and pet food... By anchoring target groups and identifying niche markets, promoting intensive processing of livestock and poultry products and comprehensive utilization of by-products is conducive to leveraging the role of production capacity as a reservoir and better coupling with consumption trends.
To promote cost reduction and efficiency enhancement in the breeding industry, it is necessary to strengthen internal skills and improve quality across the entire industrial chain. In recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) has organized and implemented the Grain-Saving Action in the Breeding Industry, vigorously promoting precision formulation of low-protein diets and accelerating the construction of an efficient, intensive, green, and low-carbon breeding production system. In Qiqihar (齐齐哈尔市), Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Province, the application of the "Digital Ranch" system and the construction of an integrated breeding innovation system have injected "intelligent manufacturing genes" into the beef cattle industry chain, significantly increasing added value.
From a long-term perspective, from cultivating high-quality livestock and poultry breeds to the digital application of breeding farms, and then to accelerating the improvement of the meat classification and grading standard system, further expanding the value space of the breeding industry still requires efforts from multiple links. In this way, consumers can enjoy their meals, and breeders can face industry cycle fluctuations with more composure.
Return to TopAccording to reports from our newspaper, the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) recently released the third batch of 17 typical cases of comprehensive land consolidation across the entire area. This batch of cases has accumulated valuable, generalizable, and replicable experiences in optimizing spatial layout, realizing ecological value, ensuring full public participation, promoting mechanism innovation, and driving industrial development.
It is reported that in 2019, the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) officially launched the pilot work of comprehensive land consolidation across the entire area, and in 2024, this work was transformed from a pilot project to a comprehensive rollout. Previously, the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) had released two batches of 30 typical cases of comprehensive land consolidation across the entire area in 2024.
(Chang Qin (常钦))
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"With the help of experts, the village's rice will definitely sell better this year." Recently, the arrival of the expert team from Suzhou Vocational Institute of Agriculture (苏州农业职业技术学院) brought new expectations to the villagers of Yinhuang Village (尹黄村), Wangguanjizhen (王官集镇), Sucheng District (宿城区), Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省).
Yinhuang Village (尹黄村) produces good rice, but suffers from a lack of reputation, which prevents sales prices from increasing, hindering the income growth of grain farmers.
Wherever the urgent needs and concerns of the masses lie, the service of party member cadres follows. Sucheng District (宿城区), in conjunction with the current in-depth study and education on implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定), has party member cadres deeply rooted in the grassroots to solve problems for the masses. The villagers of Yinhuang Village (尹黄村) reflected the rice sales difficulties to Chen Jie (陈杰), Deputy Mayor of Wangguanjizhen (王官集镇).
Chen Jie (陈杰) acted immediately, joining forces with the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee's Rural Revitalization Work Team in Sucheng District (江苏省委驻宿城区乡村振兴工作队), actively connecting with Suzhou Vocational Institute of Agriculture (苏州农业职业技术学院), holding symposiums to listen to the opinions of the masses, contacting experts for on-site inspections, and finally facilitating cooperation between the institute and Yinhuang Village (尹黄村) in optimizing the rice brand logo, updating packaging, and developing rice paddy sightseeing experiences. This gave Chen Yong (陈勇), Secretary of the Party Branch of Yinhuang Village (尹黄村党支部书记), increased confidence: "It is estimated that the price of rice can increase by 15% this year, and both the village collective and the villagers will benefit greatly."
Without agriculture, there is no stability; without industry, there is no prosperity. Tucheng Town (屠园镇) in Sucheng District (宿城区) is focusing on building a distinctive coffee industry chain, and the town has established a mechanism for enterprise service commissioners to help enterprises overcome difficulties in an all-round way.
Shen Zhengzhou (沈正洲), Deputy Director of the Economic Development and Statistics Office of Tucheng Town (屠园镇经济发展和统计办公室副主任), is one of the service commissioners. He runs to the town's Coffee Science and Technology Cultural Industrial Park whenever he has time. "How is the renovation progress of Factory Building No. 3? Let me know if you need anything at any time." At Jiangsu Amafi Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. (江苏阿玛菲机械设备有限公司), Shen Zhengzhou (沈正洲) inquired in detail with Cui Jian (崔建), the person in charge of the company.
"Shen Zhengzhou (沈正洲) often comes to help. Not long ago, he also helped the company obtain a food production license. With his full assistance, we can concentrate on industrial development," said Cui Jian (崔建).
The full-process nanny-style service of the service commissioners has helped the construction of the distinctive coffee industry chain in Tucheng Town (屠园镇) to progress smoothly. Last year, the total output value exceeded 100 million yuan, driving employment for nearly 200 people.
The comprehensive revitalization of the countryside requires industry as the key and enriching the people as the foundation. Sucheng District (宿城区) regards the development of rural industries that enrich the people as an important starting point for promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, focusing on industrial prosperity and increasing farmers' income, based on advantageous industries such as green fruits and vegetables, high-quality rice, and distinctive aquatic products, and has introduced 136 high-quality and efficient projects. Last year, it promoted the increase of village collective income in the district by more than 20 million yuan, helping 4,000 people find employment at their doorstep.
Return to TopAccording to our sources, Hubei Province's first "Carbon Revenue Loss Insurance" policy for rural distributed photovoltaic projects was recently implemented in Dongfeng Community, Xihu District (东西湖区), Wuhan (武汉). Led and promoted by State Grid Wuhan Electric Power Company (国网武汉供电公司), and based on the "Electricity-Carbon-Financial Service Center" platform, this insurance is jointly carried out by Yinda Chang'an Insurance Brokerage Co., Ltd. (英大长安保险经纪有限公司) and China Pacific Property Insurance Co., Ltd. (中国太平洋财产保险股份有限公司). Its main purpose is to provide carbon inclusive revenue risk protection for the distributed photovoltaic project built by Wuhan Guanggu Comprehensive Energy Service Co., Ltd. (武汉光谷综合能源服务有限公司) in Xihu District (东西湖区), Wuhan (武汉), accurately solving the uncertainty of carbon revenue from distributed photovoltaic projects, and allowing farmers and enterprises to invest more confidently in the green transformation of rural energy.
(Wang Xin (王欣))
Return to TopLate at night, walking into a convenience store to buy a hot drink, reading a good book in a bookstore... With the rise of the nighttime economy, more and more shops are starting to operate 24 hours a day. In addition to meeting all-weather consumer demand, some provide hot water to sanitation workers and delivery riders, some provide reading places for rural readers, and some provide digital convenience services for the elderly in the community... The warmth of people's livelihood is often contained in small things, and the feelings of the people are the most direct, the most real, and the most profound. Recently, reporters from this newspaper walked into three 24-hour operating shops to record the warm stories in the shops.
--Editor
Rural Bookstore
The Book Light Always Shines for the Villagers
Reporter Jiang Xiaodan (姜晓丹)
"Hoeing millet under the midday sun, sweat dripping onto the soil..." On the weekend, a field reading session was held at the "Bookstore Farm" in Xiaobu Village (小布村), Huashan Town (花山镇), Guangzhou (广州) City, Guangdong (广东) Province. More than twenty parent-child families participated, and Jiang Yongqiang (江永强), the leader, explained ancient poems to everyone while taking the children to experience the real "hoeing millet" scene. The children listened with great interest.
"It is meaningful to increase knowledge through reading and to let children get in touch with nature." Many parents said that they came to participate in the activity because of the good reputation of the "24-hour bookstore" for many years.
The "24-hour bookstore" that parents are talking about is an inconspicuous small shop in Xiaobu Village (小布村). The bookstore has more than 300 square meters and is equipped with activity rooms and reading rooms. Although the area is not large, it does a lot of things. The bookstore is open 24 hours a day. Books can be purchased or borrowed for free. Villagers come to read books when they have nothing to do, and children come to do their homework after school. Public welfare reading activities are also held here every month.
"When I was a child, I loved to read, but I had to walk several kilometers to go to the library. Sometimes I borrowed books from my neighbors. From that time on, I had a dream of opening a bookstore, so that the children in the village could enjoy the fun of reading at their doorstep." When asked about his original intention of opening a bookstore, Jiang Yongqiang (江永强) recalled. In 2017, Jiang Yongqiang (江永强) returned to his hometown to start a business and opened this bookstore. He insisted on opening it at night because when he was working hard in Shenzhen (深圳), he often patronized a 24-hour bookstore where customers could read at any time. "I hope my bookstore can also convey this kind of warmth."
During the day, Jiang Yongqiang (江永强) leads parent-child families in study tours. When he returns to the bookstore at night, he starts to organize poetry sharing sessions. Some poetry lovers come to the bookstore, sit together, share their favorite prose poems, and even recite a few sentences when they are in high spirits. "Seeing that the bookstore can provide a platform for reading enthusiasts to communicate, I feel that I have not worked in vain."
At 11 o'clock in the evening, Jiang Yongqiang (江永强) and the staff packed up their things and prepared to leave, but the bookstore was still open, and the sporadic readers in the store were not disturbed. "At the beginning, we took turns on duty, but some employees left because of continuous staying up late." Later, he simply decided not to leave anyone on duty at night, posted self-service guides in the tea room and toilet, and left a phone number. Readers can call at any time if they need anything. "The bookstore is opened in the countryside, where the folk customs are simple, and most of the people who come to the store at night are book lovers. I believe them."
In fact, the bookstore has been able to open for the eighth year, which is inseparable from the change of business ideas. Jiang Yongqiang (江永强) roughly calculated that in the past, selling teaching aids and doing training were the main income of the bookstore, but now the income from reading clubs and study tours has become the pillar, so that the bookstore can basically achieve a balance of payments.
In Jiang Yongqiang's (江永强) view, the bookstore can now develop new businesses, and so many people are willing to participate in activities, which is inseparable from the bookstore's original intention of adhering to public welfare and service. "In addition to readers who borrow books, there are also backpackers who pass by and take a rest. They often come to sit down. I think this is also a trust in the bookstore and in me. I hope not to live up to this trust and can continue to persevere," Jiang Yongqiang (江永强) said.
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Jiang Yongqiang's (江永强) day is busy, but his expression is free and satisfied. Promoting reading in the countryside is more meaningful to him than making money. It is this persistence in public welfare that has become the reason why his bookstore can persevere.
Every time he walks into the bookstore, Jiang Yongqiang (江永强) will look at a lamp in the store. This lamp has been on since it opened, 24 hours a day. Jiang Yongqiang (江永强) said that as long as the bookstore is still there, this lamp will always be lit, always accompanying people who love books.
Warm Supermarket
You Can Have a Hot Drink and Take a Break Here
Reporter Yao Xueqing (姚雪青)
"Ding Dong - Welcome to Meiyijia." At 9 pm, this supermarket next to Maigaoqiao (迈皋桥) subway station in Nanjing (南京) City, Jiangsu (江苏) Province ushered in a busy moment.
Looking around, the store is full of food and daily necessities. A long-haired girl selects fresh milk, sandwiches and large buckets of water, and walks to the counter to check out. "Hello." Store manager Zhang Sheng (张生) has an impression that this is an "old face" who often comes to the store at this time. She also represents the largest customer group of this supermarket - citizens who live or transfer nearby.
There are 5 communities and about 40,000 residents around Maigaoqiao (迈皋桥) subway station. It is also a transportation hub in the northern part of the city. 100,000 people take the subway every day, many of whom shop at the supermarket on the way. The long-haired girl said that coming here to buy breakfast is a small ritual in her life.
The "Ding Dong" sound kept ringing. Zhang Sheng (张生) buried his head in checking out, and when he looked up again, he saw a group of young people with kebabs coming in. Because of the dense flow of people here, the night market is booming at night. More than 200 stalls are set up for more than 300 meters, attracting more than 5,000 consumers every day.
"People come to buy breakfast as early as 5:30 in the morning, and the night market is still not over at 3 or 4 in the morning. Our store has customers 24 hours a day." Zhang Sheng (张生) introduced that the staff works in three shifts, and he is responsible for the middle shift from 4 pm to 12 pm.
Seeing Qian Zhaosheng (钱兆生) in a red vest coming in, Zhang Sheng (张生) knew that it was already past 11 o'clock, because he was the night cleaning worker at the transportation hub. "Come at 10:30 in the evening, first clean the square, take a rest, and then clean up the garbage in the night market, and get off work at 12:30." Qian Zhaosheng (钱兆生) took hot water next to the counter and sat down to rest. He pointed to the prompt on the glass of the convenience store: the warm station provides free hot water, love umbrellas, charging services...
Next to him, there were also delivery riders waiting to receive orders. "You can have a hot drink and take a break here." Delivery boy Yu Congling (于琮领) remembered that one day there was a sudden rainstorm, and he rushed into the supermarket soaking wet. He not only had hot ginger tea, but also borrowed a raincoat. Since then, he often comes to the store to get a cup of water.
Yang Qin (杨琴), secretary of the Party Committee of Maigaoqiao Street Community (迈皋桥街社区), Maigaoqiao Street (迈皋桥街道), Qixia District (栖霞区), Nanjing (南京) City, said that the community actively cooperates with this 24-hour supermarket to set up a "warm station" to provide hot water, temporary rest and other services for sanitation workers, night market managers, delivery riders, and community volunteers. The community synchronizes resources, supplements emergency supplies, and works together to build a convenient service network, exploring a new model of co-construction, sharing and co-governance in grassroots governance practices.
Zhang Sheng (张生) opened the ledger. The store has a daily passenger flow of 500 people and an average daily turnover of 6,000 yuan. After deducting costs, the monthly profit is just over 10,000 yuan. The bills record life and people's livelihood.
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The ledger records the visible livelihood accounts, but the "invisible" accounts are equally warm.
What is an "invisible" account? The convenience store receives more than 40 sanitation workers, night market managers, delivery riders and other outdoor workers in the field of people's livelihood services every day. Due to work reasons, most of them only have time to take a cup of hot water and take a short rest for ten minutes, and hardly generate "economic value." But in Zhang Sheng's (张生) view, this is a more meaningful "people-oriented account" - a cup of hot tea contains the warmth of a 24-hour convenience store, and also contains the temperature of urban governance.
Community Convenience Store
The List of Convenient Services is Getting Longer and Longer
Reporter Zheng Yangyang (郑洋洋)
At 8 pm, the Tangjiu (唐久) convenience store at the entrance of the Fuli City (富力城) community in Taiyuan (太原), Shanxi (山西) Province, sent out a cool breeze from the air conditioner.
"Xiao Yin (小殷), I'm here to avoid the heat! Help me recharge my natural gas fee and print something." Zhang (张) Grandma, an 80-year-old resident of the community, pushed open the door and smiled heartily at store manager Yin Guandong (殷关东), who was shuttling between the shelves.
Yin Guandong (殷关东) greeted her: "Grandma Zhang (张) is here, is it to print the details of your pension?" He said as he helped Grandma Zhang (张) sit down. It turned out that Grandma Zhang (张) would come to the store every month to print her pension statement, and Yin Guandong (殷关东) would not only help her print it, but also carefully help the old lady check the amount.
There are more than 20 buildings in the Fuli City (富力城) community, and most of them are elderly people. Because of their mobility problems, sometimes they run around, often saving up several things to do together.
"This child Xiao Yin (小殷) is more considerate than his own relatives!" Grandma Zhang (张) praised everyone she met. Once, Grandma Zhang (张) urgently needed to buy daily necessities, but it suddenly rained heavily, so she had to call the convenience store. Without saying a word, Yin Guandong (殷关东) quickly selected the items and delivered them to the old lady in the rain, which moved the old lady very much.
In this 24-hour convenience store, a "convenient service list" has gradually formed: paying natural gas fees, water and electricity bills, and phone bills; mobile phone charging, printing and copying, and heating food; borrowing umbrellas on rainy days, and delivering goods to your door... These services are like a dense network, covering the trivial needs of residents' lives.
In the eyes of many residents, the convenience store at the door is becoming more and more like a comprehensive service window. In recent years, Taiyuan (太原) City has been aiming at meeting the basic consumption and quality consumption of residents' daily life, and has been creating a 15-minute convenient living circle by optimizing the layout, making up for shortcomings, and improving diversified services, so as to improve the community's happiness index.
Li (李) Grandpa, 70 years old, walked into the store with his mobile phone: "Xiao Yin (小殷), this mobile phone can't receive the verification code again!" Yin Guandong (殷关东) patiently helped the old man clear the cache and set up the network, while teaching the old man how to operate: "Grandpa, next time you click here to refresh, I will set it to a large font for you, come and call me at any time if you can't see clearly."
Last month, the electronic lock of Wang (王) Grandma's house malfunctioned, but the old lady didn't know where to find someone, so she called Yin Guandong (殷关东). Yin Guandong (殷关东) not only contacted the locksmith, but also specially heated a bun from the store and brought it to her because he was worried that the old lady was hungry. "Grandma, this is what I should do, we are all one family!" Yin Guandong (殷关东) smiled and declined the thank-you red envelope that the old lady gave him.
"Next, we also plan to add services such as sending laundry, recycling old clothes, and paying property fees." Yin Guandong (殷关东) pointed to the smart terminal being debugged and introduced, "In the future, residents can take care of their daily chores while taking a walk downstairs."
Scene Sketch:
The convenience store is not big, but it has a lot of things: printers, water dispensers, microwave ovens, umbrellas, etc. are all available. Mending and helping to unlock the door, these "needle and thread" small things, build the city's fireworks.
There are not many staff in the convenience store, but there are many things to do: from time to time, acquaintances passing by greet the store manager, sometimes asking for help or making suggestions. Perhaps, it is not the 24-hour store that has the fireworks, but the people who serve wholeheartedly.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐驭尧
For the elderly Lobsang (洛桑), the village's Happiness Courtyard is his other home.
In Xiqin Township (锡钦乡), Lhatse County (拉孜县), Shigatse City (日喀则市), Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), elderly people are spending their leisure time in a two-story building.
Picking up a Dramyin (扎念琴), Lobsang plays and sings. Although his fingering is not skilled, everyone's interest is piqued, and they sing with extra joy. This is a skill that Lobsang has just learned, and his teacher also lives in the Happiness Courtyard.
This Happiness Courtyard gathers many elderly people from the township. When they finish their farm work, or when there is nothing to do at home, they like to gather here to chat.
The elderly in the Happiness Courtyard also spontaneously formed an art performance team, led by elderly people with a good foundation in dance to teach others to dance. In addition, the township cultural station regularly sends art performance teams to teach the elderly to dance and play the Dramyin (扎念琴).
"In our township, many young people have gone out to work, and the elderly lack places to go during the slack season. The township transformed this house into a Happiness Courtyard to provide the elderly with a space for leisure and socializing during the day," said Tenzin Drolma (旦增卓玛), a science and technology specialist in Xiqin Village (锡钦村), Xiqin Township (锡钦乡). "The elderly are afraid of loneliness. Letting them gather and be lively will increase their sense of happiness."
The staff of the Happiness Courtyard also provide more security and support for the elderly. Tenzin Drolma (旦增卓玛) recalled that once, an elderly man walked up to her with an anxious expression. "Old man, what's the problem?" she asked quickly. "I went to the county hospital yesterday to get medicine, and the doctor wrote down how to take it, but I can't understand it. Can you help me take a look, young lady?" the old man said. Tenzin Drolma (旦增卓玛) checked the doctor's instructions and explained them to the old man little by little, resolving his confusion in a timely manner.
Helping the elderly answer various health questions, solving electronic product failures, and contacting family members in other places are all common things that the staff of the Happiness Courtyard do.
In the Happiness Courtyard, the elderly's demand for health services is particularly prominent, so the staff has specially set aside a room as a clinic. Medical personnel from the township health center and village doctors regularly examine the elderly, allowing them to understand their physical condition in a timely manner.
"We have prepared a 'health ledger' for each elderly person to record their physical condition and medication, so that the elderly have better medical security," said Tenzin Drolma (旦增卓玛).
Another issue that the elderly are concerned about is children. Due to the departure of young people, it is common for the elderly to live with children. Therefore, the Happiness Courtyard has created a "托管之家" (托管之家 - "托管之家," childcare center), solving the worries of parents.
When the elderly come to the Happiness Courtyard, they often bring their children with them. The village-based cadres often take the children to do homework, read picture books, and help them learn and grow.
Tenzin Drolma (旦增卓玛) remembers that once, when several children were watching an animation, they mentioned a 成语 (chengyu) - 望梅止渴 (wàng méi zhǐ kě - "longing for plums to quench thirst," to console oneself with illusions). The children did not understand what it meant, and when they asked the elderly, they were also unclear. A village-based cadre explained the historical allusion behind the 成语 (chengyu) to the children, and they listened with great interest.
Such scenes often appear in the Happiness Courtyard. Children here not only have playmates, but also have educational support that the elderly cannot provide, which makes everyone love to come to the Happiness Courtyard even more.
"The Happiness Courtyard is not a nursing home, but a 'rural public space'. Lhatse County (拉孜县) effectively integrates social forces to jointly participate in the services of the rural Happiness Courtyard, so that the Happiness Courtyard can play a role in the lives of grassroots people. The elderly have needs, and our government should respond to them, focusing on solving their urgent and difficult problems, so that the elderly in rural areas can have a better life in their later years," said Li Yunfeng (李贇峰), a Shanghai (上海) aid-Tibet cadre, member of the Standing Committee of the Lhatse County (拉孜县) Party Committee, and Deputy County Head.
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In summer, sesame-sized ticks enter their active period. Participating in outdoor activities such as camping and spring outings, or coming into contact with pets and livestock, can easily lead to tick bites if precautions are not taken. What are the dangers of ticks? What should you do if bitten? A reporter interviewed disease control experts.
Liu Qiyong (刘起勇), chief expert of vector-borne diseases at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (中国疾控中心), introduced that ticks, also known as 壁虱, 扁虱, or 草爬子, usually live in grass, bushes, and other places, or parasitize on the body surfaces of rodents, livestock, and other animals. They are generally reddish-brown or grayish-brown, long oval, and dorsoventrally flattened. When not sucking blood, ticks are only the size of sesame seeds to rice grains, but after sucking blood, they can be the size of soybeans or even larger. Ticks can transmit viruses, bacteria, parasites, and other pathogens through biting and blood-sucking, causing diseases in humans and animals.
The symptoms after being bitten by a tick often vary from person to person. Liu Qiyong (刘起勇) said that the bite site may appear red, swollen, itchy, or slightly painful, similar to mosquito bites, but the duration will be longer. Some people are allergic to the proteins in tick saliva, which may cause rashes, blisters, or even systemic urticaria. If the tick carries pathogens, it may cause systemic symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle soreness, and fatigue.
Proper handling is necessary after being bitten by a tick. Liu Qiyong (刘起勇) said that the tick should be removed as soon as possible. When a tick sucks blood, it buries its head in the skin. Use tweezers or a special tick removal tool to clamp the tick's head close to the skin and slowly pull it straight up vertically. The tick's head has barbs, and forcibly removing it will only make it tighter, so do not rotate or pull it violently to avoid breaking the tick's mouthparts and leaving them in the skin. After removing the tick, clean the bite site with alcohol or iodine to prevent infection. In the following weeks, if you experience fever, rash, or other abnormal symptoms, seek medical attention promptly.
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VR large spaces have the potential to develop into a new medium with greater content integration, evolving in diverse directions such as future cultural tourism, future films, future games, and future amusement parks.
More than 60 years ago, Sutherland, the founder of computer graphics, invented the first virtual reality device, hoping that one day computers could bring an Alice-like wonderland roaming experience. More than 60 years later, virtual reality large spaces (hereinafter referred to as "VR large spaces") applications in China have begun to develop explosively. According to incomplete statistics, since 2023, scenic spots, shopping malls, and cultural and museum institutions across China have successively launched more than 200 VR large space projects such as "Digital First Congress·Journey of Original Aspiration" (《数字一大·初心之旅》), "Antarctic Voyage" (《南极起航》), "Wind Rises in Luoyang" (《风起洛阳》), and "Qin Tide Awakening" (《秦潮觉醒》). Most of these projects rely on various cultural tourism and entertainment IPs, and some also involve major historical themes, expanding the temporal and spatial dimensions of tourism and entertainment experiences, and bringing users a cultural experience with impact and memorable points.
With the blessing of cultural tourism integration and digital intelligence empowerment, VR large spaces have developed into a rising star in the cultural tourism and entertainment industries, and are regarded as "potential stocks" for cultural tourism resources to "come alive" with the help of digital technology. In VR large spaces, people can naturally walk in digital wonderlands without the need for interactive devices such as mice, keyboards, or handles, or return to the scene of historical events, or visit famous scenic spots and natural landscapes, or enter the world of myths and fantasy stories. For example, in "Digital First Congress·Journey of Original Aspiration" (《数字一大·初心之旅》), travel back to Shanghai more than 100 years ago and witness the birth of the Communist Party of China at the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China; in "Antarctic Voyage" (《南极起航》), take the "Xuelong 2" (雪龙2号) icebreaker to Antarctica, visit Qinling Station (秦岭站), and explore various natural landscapes; in "Wind Rises in Luoyang" (《风起洛阳》), transform into a city defender and work with teammates to defeat invading enemies and protect the peace of the people... Based on the great potential of VR art, during this year's Beijing International Film Festival, the National Film Administration awarded the VR film "Dragon Mark" numbers 001 and 002 to two VR large space works, "Tang Palace Night Banquet" (《唐宫夜宴》) and "The Hidden Mausoleum of Qin" (《隐秘的秦陵》), showing the film and television industry's high expectations for this "future narrative art."
The concept of "virtual reality" has been popular for more than ten years, but it has only recently begun to be implemented on a large scale. This is due to the closer connection between new technologies and the real needs of the public, as well as the application scenarios of the cultural and entertainment industries. On the one hand, the form of VR large spaces reduces the interaction threshold of digital experiences, allowing users to "walk and watch" without much operation, and obtain an immersive experience of "walking in the environment." On the other hand, the multi-level integration of VR large spaces with the cultural tourism industry enables it to leverage the rapidly developing cultural tourism economy and build its own growth on deeper and more real social needs.
In addition to the overall positive development trend, we have also seen signs of impetuosity in the VR large space industry. Some practitioners only know the surface of VR large space narrative but not the reason why, but they are eager to start projects and produce results. As a result, they can only copy existing project models such as "The Disappearing Pharaoh" (《消失的法老》), resulting in a cluster of homogeneous and formulaic products. Most of these projects will have a tour guide who leads users to watch attractions along a fixed route and in fixed positions. The experience process often involves inexplicable time travel, and the tour guide transforms into a small animal image to sell cuteness, and the explanation is rigidly implanted with a lot of low-level popular science. The first experience of such content may still be a bit novel, but after trying a few more, you will feel "it's the same old routine" and it becomes boring.
For VR large spaces and even virtual reality art to develop in the long term, the most fundamental thing is to explore narrative methods and find opening methods that are suitable for different themes. This requires more extreme exploration and use of the possibilities of the new virtual reality medium, and in-depth cultivation of the diverse potential of "walking and watching," so that people can immerse themselves in meaningful "journeys" in fresh scenes. I once experienced a VR large space work with the theme of Su Dongpo (苏东坡). On a bamboo forest path near the end, the audience spontaneously recited the poem "Bamboo stick and straw sandals are better than a horse, who's afraid? A misty rain lets me live my life" (竹杖芒鞋轻胜马，谁怕？一蓑烟雨任平生) with the poet. I think it is because the "walking and watching" here is not just a simple cursory glance, but also means experiencing the ups and downs of the "journey of life" with Su Shi (苏轼). The inner emergence of insights from the journey of life will naturally lead to recitation at that "just right" moment.
In fact, if the simple form of "walking and watching" is superimposed with rich connotations, it can completely transcend the single form of "tourism check-in" and expand to a broader space of meaning. In addition to the "journey of life" that shows the experiences of characters, VR large spaces can also become a "spiritual journey" that carries the journey of the mind, a "legendary journey" that stages heroic epics, a "journey of truth" that unfolds suspense and decryption, a "journey of growth" that tells youth stories, a "journey of true feelings" that interprets emotional experiences, and an "exploration journey" that undertakes popular science education... Here, almost every "journey" corresponds to an existing literary and artistic theme, and each theme corresponds to a basic dimension of human experience. This means that VR large spaces have the potential to develop into a new medium with greater content integration, evolving in diverse directions such as future cultural tourism, future films, future games, and future amusement parks.
(Author's unit: Institute of Marxist Literary and Art Theory, Chinese Academy of Arts (中国艺术研究院))
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The micro-drama "One Pregnancy, 99 Babies" is another "thunderous work." The female lead, pregnant with the emperor's child, experiences auspicious omens during labor, giving birth to 99 babies in a row, stacked into a "pyramid" and sent to the palace... Netizens criticized the plot, the topic trended on social media, and the platform quickly removed it, once again sparking attention and discussion about the development of micro-dramas.
The "plot failure" reflects the "competing to be outrageous" mentality of some creators who "roll" symbols, create spectacles, and seek attention. Upon closer inspection, it is not difficult to find that the plot is protracted, the dialogue is repetitive, and the characters are "mentally impaired." The opening "One Pregnancy, 99 Babies" is the only "memory point," solely to gain clicks.
Behind this is the prevalence of the "traffic-only" theory. Related reports show that the drama had over 40 million views before it was taken down, indeed "reaping" traffic. In the eyes of some creators, there are diverse types of audio-visual products, and viewers' attention is extremely limited, so they can only win by being "outlandish," relying on "brain holes" to open up traffic outlets, while cultural connotations and artistic value are all sacrificed. If you have a wealth of ten thousand, I will have trillions of assets; if you have special abilities, I have heaven-defying ultimate moves... Over time, "competing to be outrageous" has become a track.
Literary and artistic works have always welcomed imagination, but imagination should play a role in promoting the plot, shaping characters, and expressing the theme. Sun Wukong's (孙悟空) "72 transformations" correspond to vivid images, are related to stories of overcoming difficulties and obstacles, and also accumulate the narrative energy of leveling bumps and achieving great success. In contrast, some outrageous plots have no logical background settings, are not related to character shaping, and are even completely irrelevant to the theme. Viewers who are attracted by these explosive concepts, plots, and gimmicks become more and more confused as they watch, deeply feeling "fooled."
We do not need to demand micro-dramas with the high standards of masterpieces, but the creative orientation of focusing on content quality must be reiterated again and again. Some practitioners have already called for traffic thinking not to replace creative thinking, and not to let individual works "fail" and hinder the industry's growth. Researchers are also looking for reasons and offering suggestions: the initial single model of investment and pay-per-episode has fueled the trend of traffic supremacy. Adding revenue-sharing models, membership models, advertising sponsorship models, etc., is expected to break through the creative cocoon of "traffic-only theory."
To break the vicious cycle of "competing to be outrageous" and provide viewers with high-quality content choices, it is necessary to create a good creative and dissemination environment. Currently, the micro-drama industry has entered a period of quality improvement and upgrading. Compared to the large user base of 662 million and the tens of thousands of works, the quantity and proportion of high-quality products still need to be improved. Facing the phenomenon of "competing to be outrageous," only when producers, dissemination platforms, and regulators work together to promote integrity and eliminate corruption, and continuously encourage "heartfelt" creation, can the stubborn disease be eradicated.
Micro-dramas are still new things. When the consensus on high-quality products is transformed into outstanding works that are well-known, stand firm, and remain, the benchmark for creation will be established, leading the micro-drama industry upward and forward, forming a healthy and prosperous situation.
Return to TopBy: 张炜煜
In recent days, a video of 58-year-old migrant worker Liu Shili (刘诗利) attending a new book launch at the Beijing Book Building (北京图书大厦) has gone viral. As a witness and book editor, I am greatly shocked by this phenomenon: why would a short video of a bookstore sighting receive so much attention?
Because I was the host of the new book launch, I arrived early and immediately noticed Brother Liu (刘大哥), whose face was full of wrinkles, who was dressed neatly, and who looked a bit uneasy. I went over to ask him to sit down, wanting to ask who he came with, whether he had made a reservation or was a walk-in reader, but seeing his awkwardness, I gave up. During the book signing, a volunteer led him to the front and gave him a book. At that time, I felt a little guilty, feeling that I had ignored him before, so I took him to the author, Chen Xingjia (陈行甲). Chen Xingjia (陈行甲) bowed and communicated with him, and after signing, came out and hugged him tightly, which was touching. After the video went viral, I wondered if it would have gone viral if it hadn't been Chen Xingjia (陈行甲), but an unknown author.
It still would have gone viral. Because what resonates with everyone is reading. In ancient times, a highly regarded couplet said: The first class are loyal ministers and filial sons, the two important things are reading and farming. Regardless of the feudal era's loyalty and filial piety, the concept of "reading" is still deeply rooted in people's hearts today. Whether it is highly educated parents or parents with little education, what they care most about is whether their children are willing to read. No one would say that the family's property cannot be spent in three lifetimes, so there is no need to study so hard. And in ordinary families, ambitious parents grit their teeth, no matter how hard and tired they are, they must send their children to school.
What can reading bring? When I interviewed Brother Liu Shili (刘诗利), his eyes were clear, and he said seriously: "This is a very ordinary thing, but it is a bit unexpected that it has attracted so much attention. But in reality, it is not too surprising. While working on the construction site, I want to do better. Most people are like this."
I asked him: "What do you mean by 'do better'?" He said: "It means reading more books to improve myself. I think most people are doing this, except that I am improving myself while working." Brother Liu's (刘大哥) words are very simple. He reads books for both spiritual needs, such as liking to read biographies of famous people, and knowledge needs, such as liking to browse reference books such as the *Modern Chinese Dictionary* (*现代汉语词典*), and even more for skills improvement, such as reading books on construction, carpentry, and breeding, focusing on practicality.
The results of the 22nd National Reading Survey show that in 2024, the average per capita reading volume of paper books and e-books among adult citizens in China was 8.31, higher than 8.15 in 2023. From Wu Guichun (吴桂春), who wrote a message of more than 130 words to the Dongguan Library (东莞图书馆), to the convenience of being able to wash your hands and enter the Hangzhou Library (杭州图书馆), people hope to have a pure land for reading after achieving basic food and clothing.
For Liu Shili (刘诗利), after harvesting wheat under the scorching sun, he goes to the city to tie steel bars, picks up work around 5 am, and takes a bus from the construction site to the bookstore in the evening. In the bustling steel torrent, in the tall cement buildings, in addition to the glamorous employees, there are also men who grow good crops and work in the city, carrying full of expectations for tomorrow.
Reading means the unfolding of life's posture, the improvement of spiritual realm, and more possibilities in life.
At present, it is a difficult problem to get more people to pick up books for in-depth reading. Fragmented reading and a large amount of junk information pass through fingertips, leaving little solid knowledge for the brain. The video of students offering "Shuxiu" (束脩) to their teachers during graduation season has triggered likes and reposts, but it should be known that in ancient times, very few teenagers could offer "Shuxiu" (束脩) to their teachers, and more people simply did not have the conditions and opportunities to read. Today, national reading is strongly advocated, and venue facilities are becoming more and more complete. How to create a strong reading atmosphere and create conditions for voluntary reading is probably still a lot of work to be done. As a book editor, I am also deeply educated by this. I didn't expect netizens to be so interested in reading, and I didn't expect migrant workers as old as Liu Shili (刘诗利) to love reading so much. The editorial department is also discussing and reflecting: what kind of books should publishers make, and who are the books made for? Without leaving the editorial department, you don't know the richness of the world and the breadth of people's hearts. How to plan and publish popular reading materials that the general public likes, like the "vulgar lectures" of the Tang Dynasty—explaining classics in popular language and popularizing culture—is a topic that publishers must face squarely.
The appearance and popularity of Liu Shili (刘诗利) show that reading has nothing to do with identity, only with love, the mainstream of society still promotes reading, and reading is still the common spiritual gene of mankind. From Liu Shili (刘诗利), netizens see another self in their hearts. Everyone is a reader, and every soul can poetically live on the earth.
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As one of the earliest domesticated animals, dogs have depended on humans for survival throughout a long history, like family members. However, how deeply do we truly understand them? Qiu Kejun's (丘克军) novel, "The Adventures of a Stray Dog" (弃犬历险记) (published by Flower City Publishing House (花城出版社)), tells the story of "I" and the puppy Ah Hua (阿花) embarking on a shared journey and destiny of growth. Through a narrative filled with ups and downs, it allows us to re-understand animals and recognize their complex emotions, memories, and spiritual world.
The novel employs a reverse chronological order, captivating us with the image of a puppy chasing after a train. "The dog running alongside the train" also serves as the introduction to the entire novel. The author narrates in detail how "I" was sent with my mother to Yádòng Village (崖洞村) in my ancestral home in southeastern Guangxi (桂东南). Ah Hei (阿黑), the female dog raised by Uncle Wang Ding (旺丁叔) in the village, was particularly popular. After each pregnancy, her puppies were reserved in advance. However, Ah Hua, a mixed-breed dog, was deemed inauspicious by a fortune teller and abandoned by the customer. Coincidentally, "I" needed a watchdog at home, and thus "I" and Ah Hua became each other's deepest companions. The countryside gradually unfolded in the eyes of "I," a child born in the city: livestock, mountains, small roads, fourth-class train stations, railway tracks, and local delicacies formed a strange and novel landscape.
The main story location, the fourth-class train station, is both realistic and symbolic, possessing broad interpretive space. "I" and my mother were in the countryside, while my father and older siblings remained in the county town. The small fourth-class train station carried the dreams and hopes of the entire family. As a child, "I" followed my parents back and forth between the countryside and the station. Details such as blisters on the soles of my feet and the theft of new shoes bring readers back to the past, prompting reflection: how many people seek new paths amidst scarcity and harsh conditions? The platform witnesses the gatherings and separations of loved ones, as well as the pursuit of dreams and the future. Ah Hua's running is therefore particularly touching, with bitterness and melancholy extending infinitely along the railway tracks.
The central plot of the novel is "I" taking Ah Hua on a journey to rebuild their memory link. Ah Hua accompanied "I" and my mother on a midnight train to the county town to find my father, who had been out of contact. Midway, it was forced off the train, left in the long night. A full 26 days apart! Miraculously, Ah Hua returned! It was thin, covered in scars. "I" felt deeply disturbed by this and decided to take Ah Hua back along the original route during the summer vacation after the high school entrance exam to find that separated memory. During this "adventure," Ah Hua encountered good fortune at every turn, reunited with old acquaintances, and the past reappeared. This process also presents the simplicity, warmth, and beauty of human relationships in the countryside. The "root-seeking" journey of mutual dependence deepened the friendship between "I" and Ah Hua. "I" helped Ah Hua rebuild its memory, and Ah Hua also enlightened "I's" growth with its kindness and affection. They mirrored each other, becoming better versions of themselves.
In addition to presenting the growth story of "I" and Ah Hua, the novel also incorporates more thematic subplots because it is integrated with a specific historical background. "I's" mother was once the principal of a county town school. After being sent to the countryside, she still emphasized education, inspiring "I" to read and think. Professor Yang Junbin (杨俊斌), who was also sent down, similarly refused to succumb to his fate, using knowledge to benefit his hometown and influencing the next generation in the countryside with his personal strength. Although these characters drifted like dandelions in the wind, they always adhered to their subjectivity. People interacted with the land and water, and wherever they fell, they took root, blossomed, and bore fruit. The warmheartedness of rural society will also become a rich gift in the middle of these people's lives. For example, Uncle Wang Ding (旺丁叔) is not only kind and helpful but also has rich life experience. He builds houses, plants trees, hosts banquets, and can also act as a "pig broker" and "cattle broker," using his silver tongue to sell pigs and cattle at good prices, solving problems for the villagers. The kindness that bursts forth in the ordinary shows the brilliance of human nature.
"I" ultimately stayed with Ah Hua and brought it to the university campus, where it was loved by teachers and students. After its death, it was made into a specimen for commemoration and even cloned to be "resurrected." "I" also wrote it into a novel with affection, allowing it to circulate for a long time as a beloved protagonist. Ah Hua's loveliness, loyalty, and unwavering commitment have become a unique "one," and its wisdom and courage, as well as its growth story mirroring its young master, have enriched contemporary literature's writing about animals.
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On the banks of the Songhua River, melodious music resonates. The 69th Annual Conference of the World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) has just concluded in Harbin (哈尔滨), Heilongjiang (黑龙江). The federation brings together the world's top art competitions, including the highly influential International Chopin Piano Competition and the Paganini International Violin Competition, all of which are members of the federation. Chinese artists such as Liao Changyong (廖昌永), Lü Siqing (吕思清), Lang Lang (郎朗), and Wang Yujia (王羽佳) also emerged through these international music competitions and became well-known figures in the international music scene.
The cities that have hosted the federation's annual conferences in the past all have deep roots in music. This year's conference was the first to be held in China, and Harbin (哈尔滨) was chosen because of the city's artistic accumulation, which earned it the title of "City of Music" by the United Nations. Classical music took root here in the early 20th century, and the Harbin Symphony Orchestra (哈尔滨交响乐团) is one of the earliest established symphony orchestras in China and one of the top orchestras in China today. Concert halls, music parks, music promenade squares, music museums... music is condensed into architectural landmarks, opening up large and small public cultural spaces where people can share the joy of music and reap the nourishment of art.
Two years ago, Harbin (哈尔滨) became a social media sensation. As soon as winter arrived, tourists from all over the country poured into "Dear Harbin (尔滨)," to see the ice and snow wonders and experience the extremely warm service in the extremely cold land. But in the face of emerging cultural tourism hotspots across the country, how can we dig deeper into more content to extend the internet fame into lasting popularity? Music can serve as a supplement to the ice and snow brand. Appreciating a high-level classical music performance and listening to a master class by top musicians provide people with another reason to stop and stay, and also allow them to more deeply appreciate the humanistic temperament of a city.
With the continuous deepening of the integration of culture and tourism, people are no longer satisfied with sightseeing that involves "seeing mountains, seeing water, and seeing scenery," but instead hope for cultural experiences that highlight individuality and novelty. To see the musical of the Asian Building, people come to Shanghai (上海); to see the Yue Opera "New Dragon Inn," people come to Hangzhou (杭州); to listen to a Xinghe Chamber Choir concert, people come to Wuhan (武汉)... Going to a city for a play, a performance, or an exhibition has become an increasingly common cultural phenomenon.
For cities, art is an innovative engine of the cultural tourism economy and a vivid carrier of cultural temperament. Modern cities are filled with traffic and tall buildings, becoming increasingly homogeneous, but art can light up the colors of the city, and the quality of life nurtured by art also becomes a unique attraction of the city. Art allows a city to be 腹有诗书气自华 (fù yǒu shī shū qì zì huá - "a bellyful of poetry and books radiates natural beauty," inner cultivation manifests as outward grace), engraved in the blood and nostalgia of everyone who lives in it, and also becomes a wonderful memory that visitors will never forget.
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"Homesickness is a shallow strait, I am on this side, the mainland is on the other." In that instant, history froze into two sides. Mazu (妈祖), can you melt away my unforgettable longing?
The drama "Crossing the Sea" delves into the depths of history and characters' fates, restoring a long-sealed true story of life and touching upon a unique emotional sentiment.
In 1949, the two sides closed the strait passage. Wu Tiangui (吴天桂), a renowned boatman in a Fujian (福建) fishing village, risked crossing the sea by boat to smuggle Lin Awei (林阿伟), a Taiwanese (台湾) villager who had saved his life, back home. As a result, they were scattered by the other side's shore artillery, and their fate was unknown to each other. Wu Tiangui, stranded in Taiwan, missed his wife, Alian (阿莲), took care of Lin Awei's wife and children, and never married. Lin Awei, who remained on the mainland, helped Alian and her daughter through difficult times in adversity to repay his gratitude, and married Alian with the matchmaking of the village cadres. More than 30 years later, Wu Tiangui finally returned to his hometown with a group of Mazu believers from Taiwan to worship his ancestors. The dislocation of the characters' relationships caused irreparable emotional guilt and regret in their hearts. The longing, expectation, and guilt of the four members of the two families for more than 30 years are intertwined, unable to be resolved, leading the audience step by step into a deep realm of aesthetic intoxication.
I was particularly surprised by the bold and unusual stage design. A huge sea dam blocking the sky and the earth always lies in front of the audience. When the characters are emotionally excited, they always rush up and down between the dams, transforming the performance space from a plane to a three-dimensional one, completing a risky move of turning death into life. Combined with lighting projection, the raging waves of the sea descend from the sky, giving the performance of crossing the sea a strong impact. The two rows of opened shacks structure the space for dialogue across the sea. The cooperation of the double performance areas at the top and bottom of the dam increases the spatial extension of the stage and the characters' emotions.
The work cleverly uses the Mazu worship ceremony to create an atmosphere and set off emotions, breaking through the iron curtain of estrangement, making the idea that the two sides of the strait have the same cultural roots and will inevitably move towards each other vivid and on-site. The introduction of Shifan folk customs further strengthens this effect. A thousand-stitched straw hat fully expresses the emotional story of Alian and Wu Tiangui. The body language of the actor playing Lin Awei is very appropriate, and he plays an important role in portraying the characters' psychology in the absence of lines. For example, in the action of welcoming Wu Tiangui home to the banquet and taking a seat, Lin Awei hesitates to extend his hands to guide him and then retracts them, vividly expressing his complex inner activities of being both the host of the family and guilty of being the host, and feeling dazed that the host should not be himself.
Finally, everyone went into the house and sat down in silence. The audience stared intently at the stage to see how to break the deadlock. Alian moved, picked up chopsticks and picked up a dish, hesitated for a moment in mid-air, and then sent it to Lin Awei's plate. Under the realistic constraints of 30 years of fixed habits, her social identity, and her family position, she made a choice that was unexpected but reasonable. Wu Tiangui rushed out, with great sorrow and long pain, and then laughed up to the sky, laughing out all the desolation, grief, and resentment in his heart, making the audience feel a deep regret in life.
Crossing the sea, we have waited too long! A shallow strait cannot become a permanent chasm that prevents the reunion of compatriots.
The ancient ballad sounded, the curtain fell, and the complex emotions that surged in the audience's hearts could not be calmed for a long time.
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