Summary: The article emphasizes China's economic shift towards "new productive forces" (新质生产力) in the first half of the year, driven by technological innovation in areas like AI and aerospace. It highlights upgrades to traditional industries, breakthroughs in key technologies, and acceleration in the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements. The report stresses the transition from passively addressing weaknesses to proactively developing strengths, exemplified by the growth of emerging industries and the cultivation of future-oriented sectors. Finally, the piece indicates that foreign investment is increasingly driven by innovation.
Summary: Xi Jinping and Mauritanian President Ghazouani exchanged congratulatory messages on the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations, with Xi noting the mutual respect and beneficial cooperation between the two nations. Both leaders recalled upgrading bilateral relations to a strategic partnership during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Beijing Summit, expressing a commitment to deepening cooperation. Premier Li Qiang echoed this sentiment in his message to Mauritanian Prime Minister Ould Daddah, emphasizing the implementation of agreements reached by Xi and Ghazouani. Ould Daddah reaffirmed Mauritania's adherence to the One China Principle and pledged to strengthen the strategic partnership under the guidance of both presidents.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang attended and announced the official commencement of the Yarlung Zangbo River (雅鲁藏布江) downstream hydropower project in Nyingchi (林芝), Tibet. The ceremony, held at the Milin (米林) Hydropower Station dam site, included speeches from representatives of the National Development and Reform Commission, China Yajiang Group, and China Electric Power Construction Corporation, among others. Wu Zhenglong presided over the ceremony, which was also attended by representatives from central government departments, state-owned enterprises, expert consultants, construction participants, and local residents. The project, involving the construction of five cascade power stations with an investment of 1.2 trillion yuan, will primarily transmit electricity externally while also meeting local demand in Tibet. The article did not mention the U.S. or Sino-U.S. relations.
Summary: According to the article, Henan province has consistently maintained over 160 million mu of grain planting area and over 130 billion jin of grain production for eight consecutive years. The province's summer grain harvest reached 75.01 billion jin, achieving a stable and abundant yield despite drought. Henan is focusing on improving high-standard farmland and promoting superior crop varieties, with a high coverage rate of over 97% for main crops. The province is also working to develop a modern food industry chain, aiming to transform from a "large granary" to a "large kitchen" and ultimately a "large dining table," with the goal of strengthening its role in ensuring national food security. Wang Kai, Deputy Secretary of the Henan Provincial Committee and Governor, pledged to prioritize food security and build a strong agricultural province.
Summary: The article commemorates the "Eight Heroines," eight female soldiers who sacrificed themselves during the Anti-Japanese War in 1938, by jumping into the Ussuri River to avoid capture. The piece highlights efforts to preserve their memory through museum exhibits, educational programs for youth (including the use of "red scarf" guides), and a song and dance performance at Mudanjiang Normal University. The area around the Ussuri River, once a battleground, has been revitalized through industries like goose farming, illustrating the region's resurgence. The renewed memorial hall will be using modern technologies to create a dynamic exhibit of the battles that took place.
Summary: China's national railway saw a record high of 2.24 billion passenger trips in the first half of the year, a 6.7% year-on-year increase. The railway network expanded its capacity with 121 new Fuxing high-speed train sets and increased daily passenger train operations by 7.5% to 11,183. Cross-border passenger traffic also rose significantly, with the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway and the China-Laos Railway seeing increases of 16.1% and 19.1% respectively. Foreign passenger trips increased by 30.1%, reaching 9.148 million.
Summary: A marathon was held at Great Wall Motor's (GWM) Xushui smart factory in Baoding, Hebei, showcasing the company's intelligent manufacturing capabilities, including robotic arms and smart transport vehicles. GWM emphasizes its commitment to independent research and development of core technologies in line with Xi Jinping's call for technological self-reliance. The company has significantly increased R&D investment, exceeding 10 billion yuan for three consecutive years, and is focused on new energy vehicle and intelligent technologies, including AI-driven driver assistance systems. GWM is expanding its global presence with manufacturing facilities in countries like Brazil and Thailand, aiming for a comprehensive global industrial chain and is increasing its international sales. The company is also focused on developing an entire ecosystem to support its global sales.
Summary: This article reports on ecological restoration efforts in the Liupan Mountains of Ningxia, a crucial ecological barrier in Northwest China. Ningxia is expanding green spaces in the Liupan Mountain region through major ecological protection and restoration projects, such as the "Landscape Project." The aim is to strengthen the ecological security barrier in the region. The article is accompanied by a photograph of the Madongshan Forest Farm in Guyuan City, Ningxia. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: As of the end of June, China's total number of motor vehicles reached 460 million, including 359 million cars, according to the Ministry of Public Security. The number of new energy vehicles (NEVs) reached 36.89 million, accounting for 10.27% of the total number of cars. During the first half of the year, new NEV registrations reached 5.622 million, a year-on-year increase of 27.86%, hitting a record high for the same period. The number of motor vehicle drivers in China reached 550 million.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang, accompanied by Wu Zhenglong, conducted a research trip to Tibet from July 18-19, emphasizing the importance of ecological protection and high-quality implementation of national projects like the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and the Yarlung Zangbo River hydropower project. He stressed prioritizing quality, safety, and scientific construction for the railway, and technological innovation and ecological protection for the hydropower project, while ensuring proper resettlement. Li also highlighted developing characteristic agriculture to boost local incomes and promote ethnic unity. He encouraged local officials to focus on stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border.
Summary: The article discusses Jiangxi province's efforts to promote integrated development through rural-urban linkages, industrial integration, and regional cooperation, with a focus on boosting local economies. Examples include land reform in Yingtan, the rise of e-commerce in Dexing, and Nankang's integration with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) to attract investment and expand its furniture industry. Nankang officials are reported to be working hard to integrate with the GBA. Nankang's furniture industry is also expanding internationally, with successful exhibitions in Malaysia and at the Ganzhou Home Expo.
Summary: Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing attended the inaugural meeting of the China Yajiang Group Co., Ltd., emphasizing the importance of the company's establishment as a strategic decision by the central government under Xi Jinping to ensure the smooth construction and operation of the Yaxia Hydropower Project. Zhang stressed prioritizing quality, safety, technological innovation, and ecological protection in project construction, while also focusing on efficient corporate governance and management. He also called for strengthening Party leadership within the company to ensure the project becomes a landmark achievement. Representatives from central and state organs, local governments, related enterprises, experts, and employee representatives attended the meeting. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During his inspection in Inner Mongolia, CCP Politburo member Chen Wenqing stressed the importance of consolidating stability in the northern border region, focusing on ethnic unity and social stability. He highlighted the need to address potential risks in key areas like mineral resources and the environment, while also improving public service centers and legal frameworks for handling public complaints. Chen emphasized strengthening party discipline within the political and legal system, urging officials to adhere to strict regulations and combat corruption. He further called for upholding the leadership of the CCP in law-based governance and ensuring fairness in all legal matters. The article did not report on the statements or actions of any US official, nor does it mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes China's strong economic "new productive forces" (新质生产力) in the first half of the year, driven by technological innovation and industrial upgrades. It highlights advancements in areas like AI, aerospace, traditional industry modernization (高端化智能化绿色化), and new materials, with examples from both state-owned and private enterprises. The piece underscores the importance of innovation in overcoming challenges and fostering high-quality development, transitioning from passively addressing weaknesses to actively cultivating strengths. The report credits China's robust innovation capabilities to continuous accumulation of innovation potential, broad application scenarios, and the release of talent innovation vitality. Foreign capital is highlighted as contributing to the development, with investment moving towards innovation-driven projects.
Summary: A meeting was convened in Nanning by the National Export Control Coordination Mechanism Office, including representatives from the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of State Security, General Administration of Customs, State Post Bureau, Supreme People's Court, and Supreme People's Procuratorate, to advance the campaign against strategic mineral smuggling. The meeting acknowledged initial successes in cracking down on illegal exports but emphasized the ongoing severity of the problem, including increasingly sophisticated methods of evasion like false declarations and third-country transshipments. Attendees resolved to maintain pressure, enhance enforcement, and prevent the illegal outflow of strategic minerals and technologies, including preventing them from being used for military end-users. The meeting also decided to place overseas end-users who circumvent national export control measures on export control management lists.
Summary: The article reports on the recent push across various regions in China to promote urban renewal initiatives tailored to local conditions. These initiatives aim to improve living environments and enhance the comfort of residents. The article does not mention any specific officials, their companions, or US-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Henan province's efforts to strengthen its agricultural sector and ensure food security following directives from Xi Jinping. Henan achieved a summer grain output of 75 billion kilograms, attributing the success to high-standard farmland and improved seed varieties. The province is focusing on developing the entire food industry chain, from production to processing and sales, to transform from a "large granary" to a "large kitchen." Henan is also working to create agricultural brands and upgrade existing ones. Governor Wang Kai emphasized the province's commitment to national food security and building a strong agricultural province.
Summary: The third China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) was held in Beijing with 651 enterprises from 75 countries participating. U.S. companies increased participation by 15% compared to the last CISCE, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attending and showcasing AI technologies. Airbus also participated, showcasing its supply chain partnerships. Participants from multiple countries, including the UK and South Africa, emphasized the importance of international collaboration for supply chain resilience and mutual benefit. Companies like Honeywell highlighted China's role as both a key consumer market and innovation hub, showing that the U.S. and China are both committed to supply chain cooperation.
Summary: Xi Jinping and Mauritanian President Ghazwani exchanged congratulatory messages on the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations, highlighting mutual respect and support. China has supported Mauritania's development path and opposes external interference in its internal affairs. Bilateral trade reached $2.42 billion in 2024, a 7.8% increase, and China has provided zero-tariff treatment for Mauritania. Cultural exchanges are expanding, and China aims to provide new opportunities for Mauritania's development through Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: A seminar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focused on innovation collaboration between China and Brazil, with discussions spanning technological innovation, energy transition, and sustainable development. Participants, including government officials and academics, highlighted China's leading role in emerging technologies and advocated for Brazil to leverage Chinese experiences and investment to enhance bilateral cooperation for mutual benefit. Brazilian officials, including the Deputy Minister of Science and Innovation, emphasized China's significant investment in Brazil and expressed interest in aligning Brazil's development strategies with the Belt and Road Initiative, particularly in areas like AI and aerospace. Attendees also discussed the role of geopolitics in China-Brazil strategic cooperation, new technologies for development and opportunities in the energy sector. The seminar also cited China's visa-free policy for Brazilians as a welcome development.
Summary: The Fifth China-Africa Rice Value Chain Cooperation Workshop and West Africa Rice Value Chain Project Summary Meeting was held in Guangzhou, co-hosted by multiple international organizations and China's State Administration of Grain and Reserves. Representatives discussed the achievements of the West Africa rice value chain project, highlighting collaborations between the WFP and China in Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea. The project introduced Chinese agricultural technology, including machinery and storage solutions, leading to increased rice production and improved farmer livelihoods. Officials from Cote d'Ivoire expressed interest in learning from China's rice cultivation technology to promote innovation in their own rice farming practices. Zhao Bing, the World Food Programme Representative to China, emphasized the positive impact of the project on local communities and the potential for transforming rice paddies into fields of prosperity.
Summary: The 2025 "Belt and Road" Journalists Organization Forum was held in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, focusing on the theme of "News Power, Civilizational Dialogue, and Promoting World Modernization." At the forum, which was co-sponsored by the All-China Journalists Association and the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department, participants emphasized the importance of media cooperation in the face of global uncertainties, advocating for a global network of civilizational dialogue and cooperation. Chinese officials, including Wang Gang, Vice Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee, and He Ping, Chairman of the China Journalists Association, gave speeches on the role of media in promoting development, understanding, and peace. The forum also included the launch of the "International Journalists Home" volunteer program and journalist roundtables focusing on China-Latin America and China-EU relations.
Summary: China-Laos Railway has added a pair of international passenger trains between Kunming and Vientiane, increasing the daily total to four. The new trains utilize "Fuxing" bullet train sets with a top speed of 160 km/h and operate daily in both directions. Since the launch of international passenger service in April 2023, the railway has transported 540,000 cross-border passengers. The China-Laos Railway is becoming a vital transportation artery for China, Laos and neighboring countries.
Summary: The "World Mayor Dialogue·Qingdao" event was held in Qingdao, Shandong, focusing on cultural tourism exchange and industrial cooperation between cities. Mayors or representatives from eight international cities, including Piraeus (Greece), Sihanoukville (Cambodia), Minsk (Belarus), Regensburg (Germany), Lagos (Nigeria), Shimonoseki (Japan), Dunedin (New Zealand), and Daegu (South Korea), along with Qingdao, Yantai, and Weihai from China, discussed topics such as marine tourism, historical district revitalization, and international tourism development. The event, designed to foster international trust and cooperation, saw the 11 participating cities extend cultural tourism invitations to the world.
Summary: Approximately 80 experts and scholars attended the Academic Exchange on Ocean Governance and Development in Dalian, focusing on refuting the "South China Sea Arbitration" from a Chinese perspective. Dalian Maritime University President Shan Hongjun emphasized the role of university think tanks in safeguarding national sovereignty and promoting China's maritime discourse. Wu Shicun of the China National Institute for South China Sea Studies characterized the "South China Sea Arbitration" as a tool for external actors to complicate the situation, "stigmatize" China, and disrupt regional peace. Participants asserted China's historical and legal basis for its claims in the South China Sea, deeming the arbitration a politically motivated farce violating international law. The conference also saw the release of the "China Ocean Rule of Law Development Report (2025)."
Summary: The article reports on the life and death of Yang Dazhang, a communist official who died in 1944 during a battle with Japanese forces in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region. Yang, also known as Yang Shiying, held several positions, including director of the First District Administration Office. He was killed while leading a retreat from an enemy encirclement. His remains, along with those of other fallen soldiers, are interred at the Cuanlingmiao Martyrs Cemetery in Tianjin. Local officials are now promoting the site as part of a red tourism initiative.
Summary: A resident of Gusheng Village, Yan Bingqi, recounts his decade-long effort as a river warden to protect the Yangxi River, which flows into Erhai Lake. He describes the river's transformation from polluted to clean due to systematic governance efforts including the removal of upstream farms, promotion of organic farming, and the construction of wetlands. Yan details his daily work of cleaning the river and the positive impact on both the environment and local tourism. He emphasizes the importance of protecting Erhai Lake, the "mother lake," for the community's well-being. The article highlights the broader commitment to ecological preservation in the region.
Summary: Volunteers in Zhejiang province are monitoring and working to attract the critically endangered Chinese crested tern ("mythical bird") to Zhongtie Dun Island, now the species' largest breeding ground globally. The efforts involve attracting the birds using decoys and sound systems, with the population increasing from 19 in the first year to 109 in 2024. Ding Peng, deputy director of the local natural resources bureau, provides supplies to the island volunteers. The project is a collaboration between the Zhejiang Xiangshan Jiushan Islands National Nature Reserve, the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, and Oregon State University in the United States. As of 2024, the protected area has cumulatively hatched 209 Chinese crested tern chicks, accounting for more than 80% of the global total.
Summary: The article commemorates the "Eight Heroines," eight female soldiers who sacrificed themselves during the anti-Japanese war in 1938. It highlights efforts to preserve their memory through museum exhibits, educational programs for youth, and artistic performances. The story also discusses the economic revitalization of the area around the Ussuri River, including the development of the local goose farming industry, as a tribute to the heroines' spirit. The article underscores the importance of patriotism and carrying forward the spirit of these heroines for the future development of the region. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The "AI Super League" competition launched in Nanning, Guangxi, under the theme "AI Guangxi, AI China, AI ASEAN," aiming to integrate AI technology with the real economy. The competition features three tracks focused on application innovation, industrial challenges, and general AI creation, targeting both Guangxi and ASEAN markets. Guangxi has been actively promoting AI development this year, releasing open scenario lists and investment initiatives to build an AI cooperation hub oriented towards ASEAN. The initiative seeks to create a new AI technology application ecosystem and foster a closer China-ASEAN community. The United States is not mentioned in the text.
Summary: According to a report from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the National Supervisory Commission (NSC), in the first half of 2025, disciplinary inspection and supervision organs across China filed 521,000 cases and disciplined 420,000 individuals. This included 30 provincial-ministerial level officials who were disciplined, out of 43 who had cases filed against them. Disciplinary organs also handled 1.9 million complaints and tip-offs. The report notes that 16,000 bribe-givers were investigated, and 1,990 were transferred to prosecutorial organs.
Summary: A half-marathon was held at Great Wall Motor's (GWM) smart factory in Hebei, showcasing intelligent manufacturing. GWM emphasizes self-reliance in core technologies, with over 10 billion yuan invested in R&D in 2024, and it covers the entire automotive value chain. GWM Chairman Wei Jianjun highlighted the company's focus on new energy vehicles and intelligent technology, including AI-driven driver assistance systems. GWM is expanding globally with overseas production bases, including a new factory in Brazil, aiming for a comprehensive "ecological overseas" strategy beyond just exporting products, and highlighting the company's role as an ambassador for Chinese manufacturing.
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Summary: Ahead of China's Youth Day, Xi Jinping encouraged young people to contribute to the construction of Chinese-style modernization by serving in areas where the country needs them most. The article profiles three "post-00s" (born after 2000) youth who have chosen to work in Western China: a teacher in Xinjiang, a technician in Ningxia, and a rural doctor in Qinghai. These individuals express a commitment to dedicating their youth to the development of the region. They highlight their personal growth and contributions to local communities, emphasizing the opportunities and challenges of working in less-developed areas. The article suggests no connection to the United States.
Summary: The article discusses China's *gaokao* (National College Entrance Examination) and encourages students to view it as a starting point rather than an end. It emphasizes the importance of resilience and continuous effort, regardless of the outcome. The piece also highlights the diverse paths to success, suggesting that students should explore their interests and adapt to new environments in college. The article uses the examples of successful Chinese figures who overcame initial setbacks to illustrate that failure in *gaokao* does not determine one's future. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Xu, a researcher at the Ulanqab City Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences in Inner Mongolia, returned to his hometown after earning his doctorate to develop locally adapted grass varieties and address agricultural waste issues. He and his team developed several high-quality grass varieties, including "Wu You No. 1" and "Mengsi Yan series," which are now widely cultivated by local herders. Xu's team also pioneered circular agriculture models using insects to decompose organic waste, solving pollution problems and increasing farmers' income. Xu aims to develop more drought-resistant and salt-tolerant grass varieties and further explore sustainable development paths.
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Summary: This article profiles the "Pingxingguan Assault Company" (平型关大战突击连), now an infantry company (装步9连) in the 79th Group Army, tracing its history from the 1937 Pingxingguan victory against the Japanese. The unit emphasizes carrying forward the spirit of the anti-Japanese war through activities like visiting the Pingxingguan memorial and honoring veterans. Modernization efforts are highlighted, with the company upgrading from basic weaponry to advanced armored vehicles and participating in joint exercises, including the "Steppe Partner-2024" exercise with Mongolia. The company aims to maintain its combat readiness by mastering new equipment and staying true to its heroic past.
Summary: An exhibition titled "For National Liberation and World Peace" opened at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, showcasing artifacts and scenes from the Second Sino-Japanese War. The exhibition emphasizes remembering the history of resistance against Japan and carrying forward the spirit of the war through innovative methods of expression. It calls for the people to transform the spirit of resistance into a powerful driving force for overcoming difficulties and moving forward, especially when the country is facing major struggles in realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The article stresses the importance of passing on the legacy of patriotism, national integrity, and heroism inherent in the war. The article did not mention the United States.
Summary: An initiative streamlining services for veterans is gaining traction across China. The "one-stop service" reform, included in the State Council's "Efficiently Handle One Matter" list, allows veterans to complete multiple procedures like registration and social security transfer in a single application. This is achieved through digital platforms and inter-departmental data sharing, reducing bureaucratic hurdles. Local veteran affairs departments are establishing integrated service windows and offering services like skills training. A representative of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs emphasized the initiative's focus on high-quality development and showing respect for veterans.
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Summary: This article summarizes China's experience and future direction in protecting and utilizing its world heritage sites, marking the 40th anniversary of China's accession to the *Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage*. Experts highlighted the importance of balancing protection and utilization, emphasizing sustainable development, public engagement, and leveraging technology. They also noted that some local governments prioritize economic gains over heritage protection after successful inscription. The interviewees stressed the need to enhance the understanding and value of these sites, and use them to promote cultural exchange and showcase Chinese civilization to the world.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of ensuring villagers are the primary beneficiaries of rural tourism development in China, moving beyond a "scenic spot" model. It highlights successful examples like Dazhai Village and Azheke Village, where villagers actively participate in and profit from tourism, fostering cultural pride and incentivizing environmental protection of terraced fields. The piece argues that this "common prosperity" approach to cultural tourism development is crucial for sustainable rural revitalization. By recognizing the value of local culture and landscapes, villagers are motivated to preserve and enhance them, turning "green mountains and clear waters" into "gold and silver mountains."
Summary: Zhang Jianjun, a national-level representative inheritor of "Shan Hua'er" (a folk song from Ningxia), is dedicated to preserving and innovating the traditional art form. Zhang innovates by incorporating modern elements and techniques from other folk genres, while remaining true to its origins. He travels extensively across rural China to collect and document "Shan Hua'er" melodies, and established a training center to teach the art form to enthusiasts and students. Zhang also teaches "Shan Hua'er" to children, adapting the songs to be suitable for them, to ensure its continuation for future generations. The article makes no mention of the United States or of U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article discusses the need for improved training of young animation talent to meet the challenges of the digital age. It highlights the deep technological and artistic changes occurring in global animation, emphasizing the importance of young talent in driving this transformation. The article features perspectives from experts in art institutions and universities, exploring various pathways for cultivating new generation of animators. The experts will discuss education, creative, and technology application perspectives.
Summary: A recent exhibition in Sanya showcased 100 animated shorts from the "Animation Creation 100" project, highlighting the goals of young Chinese animators: creating original works with personal style, Chinese cultural elements, and broad appeal. These works blend traditional Chinese art styles with digital technologies, reflecting a trend of cultural inheritance and innovation. The exhibition emphasized the need to balance cultural roots with a global perspective, using universal artistic language to tell Chinese stories. The author argues that nurturing young talent requires fostering both cultural understanding and technical proficiency to create high-quality, original Chinese animation that resonates domestically and internationally. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Dean of the Animation and Digital Arts School at the Communication University of China (中国传媒大学) discusses the evolving landscape of the Chinese animation industry, noting the shift from traditional media to gaming, short video platforms, and the impact of AI. The Dean emphasizes the need for animation education to adapt by fostering interdisciplinary skills combining art and technology. The university has emphasized a curriculum that teaches students about technology, storytelling, and marketing to prepare them for the modern animation industry. The Dean notes that graduates of the university have contributed to many successful Chinese animated films. The Dean concludes that multidisciplinary talent is key for the animation industry to thrive in the digital age.
Summary: The article discusses the impact of AIGC (AI-generated content) on the animation industry, potentially streamlining production to a two-step process: "setting" and "completion." It emphasizes the need for new animation talent equipped with strong conceptual, aesthetic, imaginative, and communicative abilities to guide AI in producing high-quality works. The author argues that AIGC is a key to winning the global animation competition and that new creators must embrace change while maintaining the essence of creation. It does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article discusses how historical figures in China coped with the summer heat, as revealed through their calligraphy and writings. It mentions Wang Xizhi's complaints about the heat in his letters, anecdotes of officials escaping the summer heat, and exchanges of gifts such as tea to provide comfort during the hot weather. The article also references summer delicacies like "酥蜜水" and "冷淘" (cold noodles) enjoyed during the season. It suggests that studying these historical writings provides a refreshing glimpse into how people experienced summer in the past.
Summary: The article discusses the resurgence in popularity of "Zan Hua" (簪花), the practice of wearing flowers in the hair, particularly the style from Quanzhou's Xunpu village, which has become a popular cultural experience. It traces the history of Zan Hua from ancient China through the Song dynasty, noting it was not exclusive to women and was associated with both beauty and status. The article highlights the cultural exchange involved, noting the influence of imported flowers via the Maritime Silk Road and the potential Tamil origins of Xunpu's specific floral headdress style. It concludes that the modern appeal of Zan Hua lies in its connection to a slower, more mindful way of life.
Summary: The Suzhou Archaeological Museum, Jiangsu Province's first archaeological-themed museum, has opened, designed by程泰宁 and inspired by artifacts unearthed at the Yuecheng site. The museum's architecture blends modern design with the site's history, featuring a landscape design and incorporating elements like the "stone adze" and "钺." Its exhibits include the "Eastern Wu Tomb" and integrate various public spaces. The museum aims to offer visitors a diverse experience of archaeology.
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By: 本报记者 喻思南
In the first half of this year, China's economy showed a strong "new momentum"—
Phenomenal innovations have emerged one after another. From the strong rise of domestically produced large models to the accelerated "evolution" of humanoid robots, innovation and creation represented by artificial intelligence are inspiring and motivating.
The footsteps of aerospace dream-seeking are sonorous. Tianwen-2 is heading towards an asteroid, marking a new step in China's deep space exploration. Shenzhou flies into space again, and China's aerospace industry is climbing to higher and farther places.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths to develop new quality productive forces." In the first half of this year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size increased by 9.5%. From January to May, the operating income of strategic emerging service enterprises above designated size increased by nearly 10%. As the innovation-driven development strategy goes deeper and more solid, the innovation field is full of vitality, and the innovation engine is surging with momentum.
New Leap—
Traditional industries are being upgraded, and the resilience of the industrial chain and innovation chain is enhanced.
After going through processes such as heating, rolling, finishing, and inspection, steel billets are transformed into steel plates. The wide and thick plate production workshop of Xiangtan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (湘潭钢铁集团有限公司) is busy and orderly.
In the first quarter of this year, Xianggang's operating performance achieved a substantial increase. "We focus on high-end steel and special steel, and take the road of differentiated variety development, winning market favor with products with high technological content and high added value," said Luo Deng (罗登), Party Secretary of the Xianggang Technology Center (Steel Research Institute).
Xianggang's growth is a vivid footnote to leading industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation and achieving leapfrog development.
Leaping towards "new," traditional industries are being upgraded, and the background color of high-end, intelligent, and green is more sufficient.
Yulin (榆林), Shaanxi (陕西), Sunjiacha Longhua Coal Mine (孙家岔龙华煤矿) of Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry Group (陕西煤业化工集团), underground, a 10-meter ultra-large mining height intelligent coal mining machine roars, and the coal mining machine equipped with 98 intelligent sensors autonomously plans the optimal cutting route. "Artificial intelligence, 5G communication, digital twin and other technologies empower the coal mining machine to be 'smarter', making operations safer, greener and more efficient," said Shi Chunxiang (史春祥), an expert from the Shanghai Research Institute of China Coal Technology.
In the workshop of Suzhou Huazhan Aerospace Electric Co., Ltd. (江苏苏州华旃航天电器有限公司), an operator taps the screen to ask a question, and the artificial intelligence assistant immediately pushes technical documents. At the beginning of this year, Suzhou Huazhan (苏州华旃) just connected to the DeepSeek large model and received a surprise: the work efficiency of employees has been greatly improved, and the training cycle has been shortened by nearly half.
Chen Zhi (陈志), Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Industry Development of the China Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategy, said: "To achieve high-quality development, enterprises need to get out of inefficient competition, and technological innovation has become a breakthrough to break the 'involution' competition."
Researching the next generation of high-efficiency solar cell technology, exploring the development direction of high-energy-density lithium batteries, and optimizing algorithms to improve the level of assisted driving...
Leaping towards "new," key technologies are constantly breaking through, and the resilience of the industrial chain and innovation chain is enhanced.
Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), HGTECH (华工科技) Intelligent Manufacturing Future Industrial Park, semiconductor process laboratory. In about 20 minutes, a silicon carbide wafer is cut, and the meandering degree is within 5 microns.
To develop the compound semiconductor industry, you must have your own wafer processing equipment. Starting from scratch, after more than 3 years of tackling key problems, HGTECH (华工科技) has realized the independent production of key components of laser wafer stealth dicing equipment.
"We have mastered the ability to mass produce and sell wafer dicing equipment," said Huang Wei (黄伟), General Manager of HG Laser Semiconductor Product Operation Center.
Innovation has always been the greatest confidence for industries to resist risks and enhance "stress resistance."
Climbing to higher places and tackling difficulties, from the information industry to high-end equipment to medical devices, since the beginning of this year, aiming at the problem of "bottleneck," the pace of self-reliance and self-improvement has been firm.
Leaping towards "new," the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is accelerating, accelerating the transformation to new quality productive forces.
Science and technology services are more efficient. Xihai Biotechnology (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. (喜海生物科技（青岛）有限公司) is busy, making a sprint for production. Relying on the "key technology research on photosynthetic carbon fixation capacity" results, Professor Yang Jianming (杨建明)'s team from Qingdao Agricultural University (青岛农业大学) established Xihai Biology (喜海生物). The "scientific and technological matchmaker" provides industrialization diagnosis, and the Qingdao Institute of Industrial Technology (青岛市工业技术研究院) and others provide public R&D platforms. From laboratory technology to completing 100 liters and 1 ton of fermentation amplification pilot tests, and then accelerating the promotion of industrial mass production, Xihai Biology (喜海生物) only took about one year.
Incentive policies are more powerful. In the production workshop of Anhui Hefei Zhileng Cryogenic Technology Co., Ltd. (安徽合肥知冷低温科技有限公司), Chairman Wang Shaoliang (王绍良) led the team to seize the key problems. Wang Shaoliang (王绍良) is also a teacher at Anhui University (安徽大学). The reform of empowering scientific and technological achievements in his position has solved his worries and given the team greater motivation. The company has been established for more than two years and has achieved a number of breakthroughs in the independent control of ultra-low temperature dilution refrigerators.
Enterprises are the main body of scientific and technological innovation. More than 77% of China's R&D investment comes from enterprises. Guided by market demand, the supply of science and technology and the demand of industry are "running in both directions."
New Advantages—
Innovative initiatives "forge long boards" to open up new fields and new tracks.
Leading the development of new quality productive forces with scientific and technological innovation, from passively "making up for shortcomings" to actively "forging long boards," we are opening up new fields and new tracks.
Advancing from "new," emerging industries are gradually growing.
The ocean is a strategic place for high-quality development and an important area for cultivating new quality productive forces.
About 200 kilometers southwest of Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), Enping 15-1 offshore crude oil production platform (恩平15—1海上原油生产平台). In May of this year, China's first offshore CCUS (carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage) project was put into operation here. "The successful commissioning of the project has realized the full-chain upgrade of China's offshore carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage equipment technology," said Wan Nianhui (万年辉), General Manager of CNOOC Enping Oilfield Operation Company (中国海油恩平油田作业公司).
Exhibitions are a barometer of high-quality development. At the 3rd Chain Expo, the green hydrogen energy full industrial chain based on liquid hydrogen equipment and technology brought by the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院理化技术研究所) attracted much attention. "Our hydrogen liquefaction technology provides a new solution to solve the pain points of hydrogen energy storage and transportation such as safety and economy," said Hu Zhongjun (胡忠军), a researcher at the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院理化技术研究所).
Starting from "new," the advantages of future industries are accelerating.
A generation of materials, a generation of industries, new materials are the key support for industrial leap.
In April of this year, the scientific research team of China Iron & Steel Research Institute Group Co., Ltd. (中国有研科技集团有限公司) successfully developed high-magnesium light and strong aluminum.
New materials open up new worlds. "The application of high-magnesium light and strong aluminum is expected to enhance China's competitiveness in many fields," said Xiong Baiqing (熊柏青), Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of China Iron & Steel Research Institute (中国有研科技委) and Director of the National Key Laboratory of Structural Materials for Nonferrous Metals.
Beijing (北京) has proposed to focus on cultivating 20 future industries such as humanoid robots, biomanufacturing, and new materials; Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) is focusing on biomedicine, developing cutting-edge industries such as gene and cell, synthetic biotechnology, and "artificial intelligence + pharmaceuticals"... Based on their advantages, various places are laying out along the development direction of new technologies, and future industries are growing.
To create new advantages, private enterprises are becoming increasingly active.
The "dexterous hand" developed has good durability and high cost performance. It can not only play the piano and guzheng, but also realize the automatic assembly of industrial scenes. Lingxin Qiaoshou Company (灵心巧手公司), which made this product, is an innovative private enterprise established only about two years ago.
The "China Unicorn Enterprise Development Report (2025)" released at the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (2025中关村论坛) shows that integrated circuits and semiconductors, software and information services, new energy technologies, and artificial intelligence are the areas where China's unicorn enterprises are concentrated. These fields are important stages for private enterprise innovation.
Encouraging the lead in major national technological breakthroughs, supporting cooperation with universities and research institutes in research and development, and unblocking financing channels... A series of pragmatic measures further stimulate the endogenous power of private enterprise innovation.
To create new advantages, foreign-funded institutions inject vitality.
Siemens Healthineers (西门子医疗) Shenzhen (深圳) new base broke ground, which will undertake the research and development and production functions of angiography equipment and magnetic resonance core components; Hunan Iron and Steel Group (湖南钢铁集团) and ArcelorMittal Group (安赛乐米塔尔集团) signed an agreement to promote the implementation of the third phase project of Valin ArcelorMittal Automotive Steel Co., Ltd. (华菱安赛乐米塔尔汽车板有限公司) and build a global R&D center for automotive steel in Hunan (湖南)... The trend of foreign investment since the beginning of this year confirms that the investment and cooperation between multinational companies and China has extended from "market-oriented" and "cost-oriented" to "innovation-driven."
Foreign investment is increasing R&D, reflecting the accelerated development of China's new quality productive forces and the industry's move towards the high end of the value chain.
New Momentum—
Innovation potential, application scenarios, and talent vitality support the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces.
Innovation in China has strong momentum.
The momentum comes from the constantly accumulating innovation potential.
In the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Effective Utilization of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (北京化工大学化工资源有效利用国家重点实验室), several prototype equipment for electrolyzing seawater to produce hydrogen are particularly eye-catching. Professor Sun Xiaoming (孙晓明)'s team of the university cooperated with the industry to develop the world's first 500-kilowatt seawater electrolysis hydrogen production device. Not long ago, the team published its results in *Nature*, for the first time realizing 10,000 hours of stable operation in the field of alkaline seawater electrolysis. Basic research consolidates the foundation, and the industrialization of seawater electrolysis hydrogen production further consolidates China's first-mover advantage.
Innovation investment has increased. China's R&D expenditure accounts for nearly 2.7% of its gross domestic product, which has exceeded the average level of the European Union and is close to the average level of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. From January to May, the number of valid invention patent applications in China was nearly 5 million, an increase of 12.8%.
Discovering high-temperature superconductivity of nickel oxide under normal pressure, and proposing the concept of brain-computer collaborative evolution for the first time... Since the beginning of this year, major original achievements in quantum technology, life sciences and other fields have emerged one after another, injecting source water for cultivating and developing new quality productive forces.
The innovation map has been expanded. Beijing Zhongguancun (北京中关村), Wuhan Optics Valley (武汉光谷), Hefei Science Island (合肥科学岛), Dongguan Songshan Lake (东莞松山湖)... Innovation highlands are accelerating their rise. China has 26 global top 100 science and technology innovation clusters, ranking first in the world for two consecutive years, and is becoming an innovation "source" and a "catalyst" for the accelerated landing of new technologies.
The momentum comes from the support of rich application scenarios.
In the operating room of Beijing Tiantan Hospital (北京天坛医院), an affiliated hospital of Capital Medical University, the deep brain electrode implantation that used to take 3 hours to complete now only takes 1 hour. Behind this is the blessing of the domestic SR surgical robot. The positioning accuracy of Huake Precision (华科精准) SR series robots has surpassed the imported ROSA surgical robot, accounting for more than 70% of the domestic market. And 7 years ago, this product was basically monopolized by foreign countries.
How to pry open the market? "The government took the lead in launching application demonstration projects to help our products enter top hospitals," said Liu Wenbo (刘文博), head of R&D at Huake Precision (华科精准). With the deepening of applications, the product continues to "evolve."
Transforming the advantages of market resources into the driving force for industrial development. From shield machines to new energy vehicles, from 5G communication to biomanufacturing, the demand of the super-large market has created good conditions for the large-scale application of new technologies and new products.
The momentum comes from the release of talent innovation vitality.
Recently, the team of Professor Hu Qiang (胡强), a chair professor at Shenzhen Institute of Technology (深圳理工大学), cooperated with the industry to demonstrate the world's largest microalgae "photocarbon intelligent manufacturing" production line in Guangdong Province (广东省). Encouraging teachers to carry out horizontal cooperation and supporting innovative teams to establish joint laboratories with enterprises have enabled Hu Qiang's (胡强) team to take a key step in industry-university-research cooperation.
Coordinating and promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, China has implemented a special pilot project for the reform of engineering master's and doctoral training. This summer, the first batch of more than 2,100 special pilot master's students successfully graduated and moved towards a broad innovation stage.
People are the most critical factor in scientific and technological innovation. China's R&D personnel calculated by full-time equivalent have reached 7.24 million person-years, ranking first in the world for many years; more than 5 million STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) graduates each year, the number is the world's leading. Breaking and establishing together to optimize the scientific and technological evaluation system, supporting young talents to take the lead and be the protagonists... Cultivating, introducing, and using talents well, the talent dividend is taking shape.
To promote Chinese-style modernization, science and technology must take the lead. Moving towards "new" and improving "quality," continuing to do a good job in this big article of innovation, high-quality development will gain strong support.
(Reporters Xu Jing (徐靖) and Bai Guangdi (白光迪) of this newspaper participated in the writing)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 19th. On July 19th, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani exchanged congratulatory messages to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that over the 60 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Mauritania, regardless of changes in the international situation, the two sides have always respected each other and treated each other as equals, setting a model for developing countries to help each other and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. In recent years, China-Mauritania relations have developed in a healthy and stable manner, political mutual trust has been increasingly consolidated, and exchanges and cooperation in various fields have been fruitful. During the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation last year, I met with President Ghazouani (加兹瓦尼) and reached important consensus, jointly announcing the upgrading of China-Mauritania relations to a strategic partnership, opening a new chapter in the relations between the two countries. I attach great importance to the development of China-Mauritania relations and am willing to work with President Ghazouani (加兹瓦尼) to take the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations as a new starting point, continue our traditional friendship, deepen mutual trust and cooperation, and jointly create a new future for the development of the China-Mauritania strategic partnership, so as to better benefit the people of both countries.
Ghazouani (加兹瓦尼) said that over the past 60 years, Mauritania and China have established a solid friendship, cooperated closely at all levels, and supported each other on international occasions. During the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in September 2024, I and President Xi Jinping (习近平) jointly announced the upgrading of the exemplary Mauritania-China relations to a strategic partnership. This is the most authentic portrayal of the in-depth development of relations between the two countries, which will benefit the friendly people of both countries and help enhance the security and prosperity of the people of all countries.
On the same day, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) and Mauritanian Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Bilal exchanged congratulatory messages. Li Qiang (李强) said that China is willing to work with Mauritania to take the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries as an opportunity to fully implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Ghazouani (加兹瓦尼), and continuously enrich the connotation of the China-Mauritania strategic partnership.
Bilal said that Mauritania adheres to the one-China principle and is willing, under the guidance of the visionary leadership of President Ghazouani (加兹瓦尼) and President Xi Jinping (习近平), to strengthen the Mauritania-China strategic partnership with China to serve the development of both countries.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Nyingchi, Tibet, July 19th (Reporter Zou Wei) The commencement ceremony for the hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River was held in Nyingchi City (林芝市), Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) on the morning of July 19th. Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, attended the commencement ceremony and announced the official start of the project.
At about 9:00 a.m. that day, the commencement ceremony was held at the dam site of the Milin Hydropower Station (米林水电站) in Nyingchi City (林芝市). Representatives from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the project owner China Yajiang Corporation (中国雅江集团), the project research, testing, and construction units China Power Construction Corporation (中国电建), and the main responsible comrades of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) spoke successively.
Li Qiang (李强) announced the commencement of the hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, officially kicking off the project construction.
Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) presided over the commencement ceremony.
Responsible comrades from relevant departments of the central and state organs, relevant central enterprises, members of the expert advisory committee for the construction of the hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, representatives from project research, testing, and construction units, and local people attended the commencement ceremony.
The hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River is located in Nyingchi City (林芝市), Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区). The project mainly adopts the development method of cutting bends and straightening channels, and diverting water through tunnels, constructing 5 cascade power stations with a total investment of approximately 1.2 trillion yuan. The project's electricity is mainly for external transmission and consumption, while also taking into account local self-use needs in Tibet.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 叶 琦 毕京津
Grain planting area has remained stable at over 160 million mu for years, grain output has remained stable at over 130 billion jin for eight consecutive years, and over 60 billion jin of raw grain and finished products are transferred out every year...
Grain production is Henan's advantage, which must not be lost at any time.
In May of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Henan: "We must strengthen the protection and construction of arable land, shoulder the responsibility for food security, extend the modern agricultural industry chain, and drive the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas with integrated urban-rural development to promote common prosperity between urban and rural areas." During the National People's Congress in 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "As a major agricultural province, Henan's agriculture, especially grain production, has a pivotal impact on the whole country."
Thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, Henan firmly grasps grain as its core competitiveness, continuously adjusts and optimizes the agricultural structure, shoulders the responsibility for food security, and accelerates the construction of a strong agricultural province.
From the banks of the Yellow River (黄河) to the banks of the Huai River (淮河), from the eastern Henan plain to the western Henan hills, the Central Plains fertile land has faded from golden yellow, and Henan's summer harvest has come to a successful conclusion, with a cumulative harvest of more than 85 million mu of wheat. "Taking multiple measures to cope with the adverse effects of drought, Henan's total summer grain output this year was 75.001 billion jin, achieving stable production and a bumper harvest," said Sun Weifeng (孙巍峰), Director of the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
"As the old saying goes, all things grow from the soil. This year's wheat harvest is inseparable from the 'hard power' of high-standard farmland." Liu Jifeng (刘纪锋), a grain grower in Zhangshi Town (张市镇), Weishi County (尉氏县), Kaifeng City (开封市), revealed the "secret."
Fields are square, roads form a network, trees are in rows, canals are connected, drought can be irrigated, and floods can be drained... Henan stores grain in the land, continues to exert efforts, transforms farmland into good fields, and seeks output from good fields. Since 2022, Henan has built a batch of high-standard farmland demonstration areas on the basis of more than 83 million mu of high-standard farmland that has been built, in accordance with the "six modernizations" requirements of standardized construction, modernized equipment, intelligent application, scaled operation, standardized management, and ecological environment, with an average investment of more than 3,000 yuan per mu.
It is important to build well, but also to manage well. Henan has formed a high-standard farmland management and protection team of nearly 100,000 people, and the provincial finance arranges 100 million yuan of management and protection reward and subsidy funds every year. "We also promote typical management and protection models such as autonomous management and protection by beneficiaries, grid management and protection by collective organizations, professional management and protection by industry institutions, and market-oriented management and protection by insurance institutions, in accordance with local conditions to help the construction of high-standard farmland," introduced Yang Guangyu (杨广玉), Deputy Director of the Farmland Construction Division of the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
The summer harvest is over, and the summer planting follows closely.
"Good seeds are the 'key'!" Chen Shehui (陈社会), a large grain grower in Changying Town (常营镇), Taikang County (太康县), Zhoukou City (周口市), is full of confidence, "These two new varieties sown this summer are high-yielding and drought-resistant, and the yield per mu is expected to reach a new high."
Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture. To increase yield through improved varieties, Henan vigorously implements the seed industry revitalization action, and 10 varieties were selected as national leading varieties in 2024. At present, the coverage rate of improved varieties of major crops in the province exceeds 97%, and the contribution rate of improved varieties to grain yield increase exceeds 45%. The annual output of wheat seeds is 3.6 billion jin, accounting for about 38% of the country.
Stepping into the Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley (中原农谷) Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Zhongyuan Research Center (中国农业科学院中原研究中心) located in Xinxiang City (新乡市), clusters of wheat ears are full of grains and the ear layers are neat.
This is the "wheat-Leymus chinensis" distant hybridization innovation germplasm created by the Li Lihui (李立会) team of the Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院作物科学研究所). "At present, 18 new varieties and 39 reserve new varieties have been derived and cultivated, and applied to more than 100 breeding units across the country." Li Lihui (李立会) picked up an ear at random, "The 'marriage' of wheat and Leymus chinensis not only results in high yield, but also improves resistance to adversity and diseases."
With its strength to "attract fans," Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley (中原农谷) has built 14 national-level scientific research platforms and 53 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research platforms, introduced 16 academicians, settled in 88 seed industry enterprises, cultivated 178 excellent varieties of crops, and built 1.1 million mu of improved seed breeding bases.
Good seeds are matched with good methods. Henan also customizes supporting cultivation technology solutions for growers according to varieties, providing zoned and classified, precise services, and full tracking to ensure high yields. The contribution rate of agricultural science and technology progress has gradually increased, and Henan's comprehensive strength in agricultural science and technology innovation has remained in the first echelon in the country.
How many kinds of flour can one wheat grain produce?
With the help of advanced technology, Yanjin (延津) wheat has become a "clone master." One wheat grain can produce more than 120 kinds of flour products. With the aroma of wheat overflowing, Yanjin (延津) wheat has attracted well-known enterprises such as Luhua (鲁花) and Kemin Noodle Industry (克明面业) to invest and set up factories.
From "big granary" to "big kitchen" to "big dining table," Henan continues to deepen the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, taking agricultural industrialization enterprises as the leader and the intensive processing of agricultural products as the direction, to build a modern food full industry chain integrating "production, purchase, storage, processing, and sales."
Yanjin (延津) Noodle Industry, Lin Ying (临颍) Leisure Food, Yuanyang (原阳) Catering, Yongcheng (永城) Flour... In the Central Plains, one characteristic brand after another is fully emerging. Henan focuses on upgrading "time-honored brands," developing "original brands," and cultivating "new brands" to create more than 40 national-level agricultural brands.
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) instructions, we will continue to focus on food security as the top priority, accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural province, and strive to show greater responsibility and action in ensuring national food security and building a strong agricultural country," said Wang Kai (王凯), Deputy Secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and Governor.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄 超 郭晓龙
The "Eight Women Throwing into the River" (八女投江) memorial sculpture in Mudanjiang City (牡丹江市), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), stands solemn and respectful after a passing shower.
Several cleaners quickly sweep the fallen leaves around the sculpture. "We sweep as soon as the rain stops," says cleaner Wu Qingdong (吴庆东), whose daily guardianship is a sincere tribute to the heroes.
More than eighty years have passed, and on the banks of the Wusihun River (乌斯浑河), this land once stained with the blood of martyrs bursts forth with a powerful vitality that transcends time and space.
**Tempered by Blood:** An Eternal Moment Etched in the Nation's Memory
Stepping into the memorial hall opposite the sculpture, a replica of a Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Diary is quietly displayed. The diary bears the marks of time, with mottled ink on its pages: "The women Leng Yun (冷云), Yang Guizhen (杨贵珍), and others, eight in total, all drowned themselves in the river... On the banks of the Wusihun River (乌斯浑河) and the Mudanjiang River (牡丹江), there should be a monument to these heroic women." The words written by Anti-Japanese Allied Forces General Zhou Baozhong (周保中) serve as a powerful footnote to that period of history.
"The eight female soldiers who heroically sacrificed themselves were Leng Yun (冷云), the political instructor of the Women's Corps of the Fifth Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, squad leaders Hu Xiuzhi (胡秀芝) and Yang Guizhen (杨贵珍), soldiers Guo Guiqin (郭桂琴), Huang Guiqing (黄桂清), Wang Huimin (王惠民), Li Fengshan (李凤善), and An Shunfu (安顺福), the director of the clothing factory," explains narrator Hu Yao (胡尧) with deep emotion. "Among them, the youngest, Wang Huimin (王惠民), was only 13 years old, yet she shouldered the great cause of the nation with her tender shoulders and resolutely chose to face the national crisis with her comrades."
Inside the exhibition hall, items weathered by time silently recount the fiery years of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces: coats worn, simple weapons used... Visitors often stop to look, as if returning to the intense battlefield. Li Likun (李立昆), a visitor from Guangdong (广东), softly reads the descriptions of the artifacts, his voice trembling slightly: "The loyal souls are immortal. Fortunately, these records, written with tears of blood, prevent the heroic deeds from being buried in the smoke of war."
In 1938, the flames of resistance burned across the land of Northeast China. To crush the "Three Rivers Great Extermination" campaign of the Japanese and puppet troops, the Second Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces decided to launch a westward expedition. Leng Yun (冷云) led seven comrades to fight alongside the First Division of the Fifth Army. In October of that year, when the troops reached the banks of the Wusihun River (乌斯浑河), they were surrounded by more than a thousand Japanese and puppet troops due to betrayal.
"They could have hidden and crossed the river, but they chose to use their lives to cover their comrades," says Yu Chunfang (于春芳), an 83-year-old researcher of Anti-Japanese Allied Forces history, unable to suppress her emotions whenever she speaks of this. At that time, the eight female soldiers, having reached the riverbank, abandoned crossing the river to cover the main force. Under the leadership of Leng Yun (冷云), they took the initiative to open fire on the enemy, attracting fierce fire. The main force was able to break through the encirclement, but they were trapped on the riverbank.
When their ammunition ran out and they were cut off from reinforcements, the female soldiers vowed to die rather than surrender in the face of the Japanese and puppet troops' demand to "capture them alive." They destroyed their weapons, linked arms, shoulder to shoulder, and stepped into the bone-chilling, turbulent Wusihun River (乌斯浑河), sacrificing themselves heroically.
After decades of rigorous research, Yu Chunfang (于春芳) has reconstructed more details: four of the female soldiers were members of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), Wang Huimin (王惠民) loved to hum hometown nursery rhymes during marches... "When lecturing in grassroots units, many cadres and the masses wanted to know more stories behind the 'Eight Women Throwing into the River,' which motivated me to continuously collect historical materials and organize the heroic deeds."
**Youth Relay:** From Red Scarves to Song and Dance Epic
On the bank of the Wusihun River (乌斯浑河) in Linkou County (林口县), Mudanjiang City (牡丹江市), at the site where the "Eight Women Throwing into the River" died, a line of Red Scarf narrators walks along the path. Wang Zhiqiao (王祉乔), a Young Pioneer from Junsheng School (骏升学校) in Diaoling Town (刁翎镇), stands on tiptoe to place white chrysanthemums in front of the monument inscribed with "The Heroic Souls of the Eight Women Shine Through the Ages," and turns to explain to visitors: "In the past, our hometown experienced a cruel war. The Japanese invaders attempted to seize our homeland, committing arson, murder, looting, and all kinds of evil..."
Over the years, this township school, not far from the site, has integrated the red gene into its bloodline: opening the school-based textbook "The Souls of the Eight Heroic Women," the "Fiery Years in the Memory of the Hometown" unit vividly recreates the bloody battles of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces; the school's group exercises incorporate the "Flame Transmission" formation, with the commentary beginning with "This is the spiritual highland forged by the lives of the Eight Heroic Women"; and a group of Young Pioneers are trained to serve as Red Scarf narrators, telling people the stories of the heroes...
Youth are the future of the country and the hope of the nation. Grasping patriotic education for youth is a fundamental plan to cultivate roots and cast souls, ensuring that the red country has successors. In recent years, schools at all levels and types in Mudanjiang City (牡丹江市) have actively guided the new era of youth to carry forward the great spirit of the War of Resistance and cultivate a sense of national identity and responsibility.
In the concert hall of Mudanjiang Normal University (牡丹江师范学院), the 53rd performance of the song and dance epic "Never-Fading Belief" is underway, with more than 120 college students from the School of Music and Dance participating. In the third act, "The Heroic Souls of the Eight Women," student Ji Meng (纪萌) plays Leng Yun (冷云), who leads her comrades into the Wusihun River (乌斯浑河). "It is an honor to die for the motherland!" The tragic words resound throughout the hall.
"On the eve of the premiere in 2016, Li Min (李敏), a female soldier of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in her nineties, and more than a dozen veterans of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces also came," says instructor Yin Maoyuan (尹茂源), opening his yellowed creative notes. This literary and artistic work has become the "first lesson of the semester" for new students at the school, with more than 1,600 students participating in the creation and performance.
"In the past 10 years, the actors have changed batch after batch. The continuous injection of young blood has stimulated new artistic creativity and contemporary understanding," says Yin Maoyuan (尹茂源). The college has listed the work as a required course and has also created choral pieces such as "A Broadsword and a Rifle."
The children's voices of Junsheng School (骏升学校) echo on the riverbank, and the students of Mudanjiang Normal University (牡丹江师范学院) use dance to recreate the heroic souls. Red memories are passed down from generation to generation...
**Industrial Revitalization:** The Wusihun River (乌斯浑河) Banks are Full of Vitality
According to the Linkou County Gazetteer (林口县志), geese have been raised here for more than 2,100 years. However, in those years, the Japanese invaders implemented the inhumane "consolidation of villages," and goose farmers were driven into "collective settlements," destroying the foundation of the industry. After the victory of the War of Resistance, local production gradually recovered. In recent years, cadres and the masses of Linkou County (林口县) have carried forward the great spirit of the War of Resistance, allowing this land to radiate with vitality.
Arriving at the Si Village (四村) Smart Goose Farm in Gucheng Town (古城镇), Linkou County (林口县), Xu Jinghai (徐井海), the director of the Haihua Goose Breeding Professional Cooperative, opens the door to the constant-temperature incubation room. The temperature is 37.8 degrees Celsius, the humidity is 65%, and the electronic screen on the wall displays real-time data. The downy goslings chirp and probe with their beaks.
"Goslings are 'golden beans'!" Xu Jinghai (徐井海) smiles, his eyes squinting as he holds a newly hatched gosling. In the past, goose farming depended on the weather, but now the mobile APP receives warnings from the Cold Region Ecological Goose Service Center at any time. Last winter, the service center discovered an abnormal temperature in a goose house through drone thermal imaging and sent a technical team overnight to repair it, avoiding tens of thousands of yuan in losses.
At the construction site in Zhenxi Village (镇西村), Linkou Town (林口镇), tower cranes are hoisting prefabricated panels, and a modern base with an annual incubation of 5 million goslings is about to rise.
Linkou County (林口县) has established an industrial fund, innovated financial products such as "Goose Industry Loan" and breeding insurance, and has issued a total of more than 300 million yuan in subsidies over three years; the Cold Region Ecological Goose Service Center is located in the mountains, with drones patrolling goose sheds; "Lincheng Snow Goose" flies to dining tables in many places, and 39 goose restaurants sell 600,000 geese annually...
Even more amazing is the transformation of goose feathers. Stepping into a goose down processing workshop in Linkou County (林口县) is like being in a snow country. Qu Zhilong (曲志龙), a villager from Qingshan Village (青山村), Qingshan Town (青山镇), works here as a sorter, skillfully putting down into different hoppers: "Feathers are used to make badminton shuttlecocks, down is used to make down jackets, and broken down can also be used to extract protein powder." He holds up a handful of goose down and says: "Our goose feathers have toughness! The down is large and the stems are thin, and the fluffiness is 50% higher than ordinary goose down, selling for 30,000 yuan more per ton."
Look! Sea buckthorn berries flow with orange-yellow juice, sublimating on modern production lines, with a planting area maintained at 70,000 mu. Taste! Fresh corn bursts with sweet and glutinous juice, and harvesting figures flash among the green gauze tents, with an annual processing volume of fresh corn exceeding 90 million ears... The revitalization of rural industries in Linkou County (林口县) is booming.
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As the setting sun spreads over the banks of the Wusihun River (乌斯浑河), the renovation project of the "Eight Women Throwing into the River" Memorial Hall is nearing completion, and workers carefully start testing the lights. The new exhibition will use technologies such as projection to dynamically present the battle scenes of that year.
A new batch of Red Scarf narrators come to rehearse, and their clear children's voices echo in front of the memorial hall. The spirit of the eight female soldiers who guarded the mountains and rivers of the motherland transcends time and space, illuminating the way forward, and inspiring the children of the Wusihun River (乌斯浑河) to continue writing a magnificent chapter worthy of the martyrs and worthy of the times on the journey of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era.
Return to TopPeople's Daily Beijing (北京) July 19th (Reported by Li Xinping (李心萍)) The reporter learned from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (中国国家铁路集团有限公司): In the first half of the year, the national railway cumulatively transported 2.24 billion passengers, an increase of 6.7% year-on-year, setting a new record for the same period in history.
Since the beginning of this year, the railway department has newly put into use 121 standard sets of Fuxing (复兴) high-speed trains, and the passenger transport capacity has been continuously improved. In the first half of the year, an average of 11,183 passenger trains were operated daily, an increase of 7.5% year-on-year.
In the first half of the year, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong (广深港) High-Speed Railway transported 15.033 million cross-border passengers, and the China-Laos Railway (中老铁路) transported 139,000 cross-border passengers, representing year-on-year increases of 16.1% and 19.1% respectively. The national railway transported 9.148 million foreign passengers, an increase of 30.1% year-on-year.
In the first half of the year, the national railway cumulatively operated 972 tourist trains, an increase of 23.2% year-on-year, helping the development of the tourism economy and the silver economy.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张腾扬
With the sound of the starting gun, the 2025 Great Wall Motor Smart Factory Half Marathon kicked off. At the Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) Xushui (徐水) Smart Factory in Baoding (保定), Hebei (河北) Province, over ten thousand runners passed through the stamping, welding, and final assembly workshops, heading towards the high-speed loop track.
Inside the workshops, on both sides of the track, rows of robotic arms waved in an orderly fashion, and intelligent transport vehicles shuttled nimbly... Intelligent equipment formed a unique industrial landscape.
"I was running slowly and fell behind, and the robotic arm next to me recognized it and displayed the word 'Cheer' on the screen to encourage me!" said an employee of the participating company.
Today, robots can efficiently complete a series of automated operations such as welding, transferring, handling, and applying glue to car bodies. Intelligent production is deeply integrated into all aspects of Great Wall Motor's production line. Through continuous independent innovation, Great Wall Motor has achieved independent research and development and manufacturing of key components such as engines, transmissions, and power batteries.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "To promote the high-quality development of China's automobile manufacturing industry, we must strengthen the independent research and development of key core technologies and key components, achieve technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and strengthen and expand national brands."
Deeply implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, Great Wall Motor has always insisted on keeping key core technologies in its own hands, with its business covering the entire value chain of vehicle and component design, research and development, production, sales, and service. In 2024, Great Wall Motor's revenue reached 202.195 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.73%. In the first half of this year, Great Wall Motor sold nearly 570,000 new vehicles, a steady year-on-year increase.
Putting in all efforts, key core technologies must be firmly in our own hands.
In 2024, Great Wall Motor's R&D investment reached 10.4 billion yuan, exceeding 10 billion yuan for three consecutive years, accounting for 5.2% of sales. Currently, Great Wall Motor has an engineering team of 23,000 people, with an average of one engineer for every four employees.
Walking into Great Wall Motor's Environmental Wind Tunnel Laboratory, inside the sealed cabin, new test vehicles are taking turns undergoing simulated scenarios of strong light irradiation, high-temperature exposure, sudden rainstorms, and violent windstorms. Outside the laboratory, technicians are closely monitoring the various data scrolling in real-time on the large screen.
"The environmental wind tunnel laboratory we have built includes 35 subsystems such as a wind turbine, chassis dynamometer, temperature and humidity control system, sunlight simulation system, and control system," said Li Can (李灿), head of the Environmental Simulation Test Section of Great Wall Motor's Technology Center. "It can simulate extreme temperatures from minus 40 degrees Celsius to plus 60 degrees Celsius, and the maximum wind speed can reach 250 kilometers per hour. By simulating complex climates around the world, it allows new car R&D technology to reach high standards and adapt to the global market."
The Environmental Wind Tunnel Laboratory reflects Great Wall Motor's emphasis on technological research and development. The enterprise has invested nearly 10 billion yuan to build a test center with more than 2,000 test capabilities in areas such as new energy and thermal management, as well as a collision safety laboratory and a comprehensive test site.
"Electrification, artificial intelligence, and other technologies have brought new development opportunities to the automotive industry," said Wei Jianjun (魏建军), Chairman of Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd. In recent years, Great Wall Motor has focused on intelligent technology for new energy vehicles, creating an end-to-end large model, a new generation of artificial intelligence data intelligence system, and the Jiuzhou (九州) Supercomputing Center. Its self-developed new generation of intelligent driving assistance system provides intelligent assisted driving in scenarios ranging from urban to rural areas, and from driving to parking. "We insist on taking technology as the engine of development and are determined to promote R&D innovation."
Twisting into a rope, strengthening the automotive industry through vertical integration.
In the 1990s, Great Wall Motor was still a small factory producing pickup trucks, and key components such as engines and transmissions relied on external procurement. To cope with this situation, Great Wall Motor successively established internal combustion engine companies and component companies, improving its R&D and production capabilities by integrating the supply chain.
However, new problems arose. Component companies relied on internal vehicle orders and lacked R&D motivation, resulting in costs higher than external suppliers and insufficient innovation capabilities.
In 2018, all of Great Wall Motor's component companies became independent. After independence, the component companies were unable to obtain Great Wall Motor's orders. "That period was really difficult," said Zhang Dehui (张德慧), Chairman of Nobo Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. "We jointly bid with foreign companies for Great Wall Motor's business and had to work hard to improve product quality standards. It took several years to achieve mass production and supply."
However, it was precisely this change that brought new development opportunities to the company. The company began supplying international first-class companies such as BMW (宝马) of Germany, entering the global supply chain.
Great Wall Motor took the lead in vertical integration. After 35 years of development, the company has built a complete supply chain system that can assist each other and recycle resources. "Strengthening the automotive industry is not only about the production and technology ends, but also about forming our own unique competitiveness in the channel and user ends. Suppliers and dealers are not only our partners, but also comrades-in-arms who 'fight side by side'. We must make good use of digital technology to achieve full ecological synergy and optimization," said Wei Jianjun. "In the future, our key competition will be upgraded from the competition of the industrial chain to the competition of the industrial ecosystem."
Competing for a breath, setting sail to shine the Chinese brand.
"This car has a range of 200 kilometers on a single charge, and fuel consumption is only 7 liters per 100 kilometers. The sound system is surround stereo and has a built-in artificial intelligence large model. It is also equipped with a 12.5-liter independent refrigerator with a minimum temperature of zero degrees Celsius..." In May of this year, visiting foreign guests watched new models such as the Gaoshan (高山), Tank (坦克) 300 Hi4-T, and Haval (哈弗) H9.
Wei Jianjun introduced that the Sao Paulo (圣保罗) factory in Brazil (巴西), which will be put into production in the middle of the year, will have an annual production capacity of 50,000 new energy vehicles, creating 2,000 jobs. The factory adopts intelligent and digital production methods, and its products include pure electric, hybrid, and other power forms, and are equipped with advanced intelligent network connection technology.
Great Wall Motor's "ecological going global" model has attracted attention. Great Wall Motor believes that internationalization is not about exporting goods, but about exporting brands; it is not about exporting products, but about exporting industries. The internationalization strategy has also been upgraded from product export and overseas direct investment to building complete vehicle production bases with complete processes overseas, realizing a full industrial chain global layout integrating R&D, production, supply, sales, and service, creating a truly global brand, and realizing "ecological going global."
Today, at Great Wall Motor's Rayong (罗勇) New Energy Factory in Thailand (泰国), the new ORA (欧拉) Good Cat pure electric vehicle with a localization rate of over 50% is steadily rolling off the production line.
The factory is Great Wall Motor's second overseas complete vehicle manufacturing base after the Tula (图拉) factory in Russia (俄罗斯), and its first overseas new energy vehicle production base. It covers an area of 658,800 square meters, with a planned first-phase annual production capacity of 80,000 vehicles. Great Wall Motor strictly follows global manufacturing standards, introduces advanced production, quality management, environmental protection, and information technology concepts, and uses cutting-edge equipment and technology to achieve comprehensive intelligent upgrading of the factory.
Nairong (乃隆), General Manager of Marketing for Great Wall Motor in Thailand, said: "Every Chinese automobile company that goes overseas represents the image of Chinese manufacturing and is a Chinese business card. Chinese brand new energy vehicles are accelerating the transformation of Thailand to an electric vehicle society, allowing more Thai consumers to experience electric vehicles."
Currently, Great Wall Motor's global sales network covers more than 170 countries and regions, with more than 1,400 overseas sales channels, cumulative overseas sales exceeding 2 million vehicles, and more than 15 million global users; in 2024, overseas sales reached 450,000 vehicles.
Return to TopLiupan Mountain (六盘山) is an important ecological security barrier in Northwest China. In recent years, Ningxia (宁夏) has taken major ecological protection and restoration projects such as the "Mountains and Rivers Project" as its starting point, and has continued to expand the green space in the Liupan Mountain (六盘山) area to build a solid ecological security barrier. The picture shows a hillside in the Madongshan Forest Farm (马东山林场) in Yuanzhou District (原州区), Guyuan City (固原市), Ningxia (宁夏), taken on July 17.
Xinhua News Agency (新华社) reporter Wang Peng (王鹏) photographed.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) July 19th dispatch (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)): Reporters learned from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部): As of the end of June, the national motor vehicle ownership reached 460 million, including 359 million cars; the national new energy vehicle ownership reached 36.89 million, accounting for 10.27% of the total number of cars, of which, the pure electric vehicle ownership was 25.539 million, accounting for 69.23% of the total number of new energy vehicles.
In the first half of the year, 16.88 million new motor vehicles were registered nationwide. Among them, 5.622 million new energy vehicles were newly registered, an increase of 27.86% year-on-year, a record high for the same period in history.
As of the end of June, the number of motor vehicle drivers nationwide reached 550 million, of which the number of car drivers was 515 million, accounting for 93.68% of the total number of drivers. In the first half of the year, the number of newly licensed drivers nationwide was 12.58 million.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Lhasa, July 19th (Reporter Zou Wei) Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Tibet from July 18th to 19th. He emphasized the need to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on Tibet work and the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, adhere to the priority of ecological protection, implement national major engineering projects with high quality, cultivate characteristic and advantageous industries in accordance with local conditions, continuously promote economic and social development, and constantly enhance the well-being of all ethnic groups.
In Nyingchi (林芝), Li Qiang first arrived at the exit of the Sejila Mountain Tunnel (色季拉山隧道) of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway (川藏铁路) to inspect the on-site construction of the tunnel, learn about the progress of construction, and communicate with the construction personnel. He highly praised the construction team for overcoming complex geological and climatic conditions, working hard, and continuously overcoming the difficulties in engineering construction. He pointed out that the completion and opening of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway is of great significance for promoting the development of Tibet and improving people's livelihoods. It is necessary to always put quality and safety first, adhere to scientific and orderly construction, pay close attention to the whole process of quality control, and ensure that the project can stand the test of history. It is necessary to step up the construction of supporting facilities such as electricity and communication, do a good job in logistics service support, and create favorable conditions for the smooth implementation of the project. At the dam site of the Milin Hydropower Station (米林水电站) and the Yani Wetland (雅尼湿地), Li Qiang inspected construction equipment, drilling cores, etc., and listened to reports on the development of hydropower projects in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River (雅鲁藏布江), scientific and technological research, and resettlement of immigrants, and learned in detail about the ecological and environmental protection of the wetland. He emphasized that the Yarlung Zangbo River Hydropower Project (雅下水电工程) is large in scale, long in cycle, and far-reaching in impact, and can be called a project of the century. It is necessary to actively apply advanced technologies, equipment, processes, and materials to provide strong support for high-quality construction, and to lead technological innovation and industrial innovation in related fields. Special attention should be paid to ecological protection to ensure that the ecological environment is not damaged. It is necessary to carefully carry out the resettlement of immigrants, and better combine the promotion of project construction with promoting local people's employment and income increase. With a high sense of mission and a spirit of being responsible to history and the people, the Yarlung Zangbo River Hydropower Project should be built into a major landmark project of the new era.
In Lhasa (拉萨), Li Qiang came to the Qushui Caina National Modern Agriculture Demonstration Zone (曲水才纳国家现代农业示范区) to listen to the introduction of the development of agriculture and animal husbandry industries in the autonomous region and the construction of the Plateau Biology Research Institute (高原生物研究所), and watched the demonstration of self-produced fruits and vegetables, plateau characteristic food and beverages, and ethnic handicrafts in the demonstration zone. He said that developing plateau agriculture and animal husbandry by utilizing characteristic and advantageous resources is an important starting point for enriching the people and revitalizing Tibet. It is necessary to strengthen the demonstration and promotion of new agricultural and animal husbandry technologies, strive to achieve new breakthroughs in plateau breeding, and promote the scale and branding of agriculture and animal husbandry by relying on modern agricultural industrial parks and characteristic industrial clusters. It is necessary to train more new professional farmers and herdsmen who understand technology and management, innovate the mechanism of linking farmers and benefiting farmers, and better drive the masses to become rich. During the research, Li Qiang inspected the greening project on the north and south mountains along the way, and encouraged local cadres to fully mobilize all parties to widely participate in afforestation and greening, so as to benefit people's livelihood with a good ecological environment.
Li Qiang fully affirmed the achievements of Tibet's economic and social development, and hoped that the vast number of cadres and people in Tibet will keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment, forge a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation, grasp the four major tasks of stability, development, ecology, and strengthening the border, and constantly achieve new achievements in building a new socialist modern Tibet.
Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) accompanied the research.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘天亮 周 欢
From the air, one can see that the Poyang Lake area is embraced even more tightly.
A lakeside road of more than 100 kilometers connects Nanchang (南昌), Jiujiang (九江), Shangrao (上饶), and other places along Poyang Lake, forming a contiguous Poyang Lake wetland cultural tourism area. Bird watching, sightseeing, dining, research, and other business formats have sprung up, accelerating the integrated development of the region.
Integration is turning "remote places" into "treasure bowls" in the countryside of Jiangxi (江西).
One piece of land, two sets of accounts, reflecting the high efficiency of urban-rural integration.
In the Jinjiang Town (锦江镇) Urban-Rural Integration Development Demonstration Park in Yujiang District (余江区), Yingtan (鹰潭), rows of industrial standard factory buildings are neatly arranged. In Yingtan Huahe Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (鹰潭华和精密制造有限公司), the earliest company to settle in the park, new energy vehicle parts are being produced at an accelerated pace.
Gong Yangyang (龚洋洋), the general manager of the company, revealed the "books": moving to Yingtan (鹰潭) not only expands production capacity but also reduces costs. "The rent is only 1/3 of that in the developed coastal areas, and the service is equally attentive."
Land is a scarce resource, but under the dual urban-rural structure, some rural collective land is in a "sleeping" state. In the pilot project of reforming the market entry of collective commercial construction land, Yujiang (余江) has reserved the commercial construction land scattered in various villages and put it on the market locally or in other places.
Land entering the market attracts funds, recruits talents, and gathers industries. Factor resources flow smoothly between urban and rural areas, ultimately boosting the countryside and benefiting the villagers. Chen Libin (陈利斌), secretary of the Party branch of Qianjin Village (前进村) in Jinjiang Town (锦江镇), also has "a set of books": In 2024, the total income from land entering the market obtained by the village is about 580,000 yuan, 70% of which is used for small public welfare undertakings such as road construction, and the remaining 30% is distributed in a differentiated manner, turning resources into assets, and villagers get dividends.
One village, one network cable, condensing the great potential of industrial integration.
Walking into the Qishi Fabric Art Processing Factory (齐氏布艺加工厂) in Tiquan Village (体泉村), Xingangshan Town (新岗山镇), Dexing City (德兴市), one first hears the "tat-tat-tat" sound of sewing machine needles jumping quickly on the fabric, as workers hurry to pack curtain fabrics into express bags.
This village of more than 2,800 people now has more than 1,500 online stores, specializing in personalized customization of fabric art, forming a "village-level industrial park" with annual sales of 250 million yuan.
The visible road network and the invisible Internet have broken the physical barriers of the mountain villages. The digital economy and modern logistics support Tiquan Village (体泉村) in quickly integrating into the national market. Every day, about 25,000 express deliveries are sent from Tiquan Village (体泉村) to all parts of the country. The fabric art industry drives employment for more than 1,000 people, and the former "hollow village" has been transformed into a well-known wealthy village.
One park, a two-way rush, reflecting a new picture of regional integration.
On Sunday, July 13, the Nankang District (南康区) of Ganzhou (赣州) held a symposium for "Unveiling and Commanding" project team cadres.
"Don't you rest on Sundays?"
"Project implementation is a race against time. When companies are invited in, they must be retained and able to increase investment. Services are aligned, standards are aligned, and the old revolutionary base area is accelerating its integration into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area."
In Nankang (南康), there is a "furniture industry chain checklist" where 64 approval service items and 35 value-added service items are handled in the enterprise comprehensive service center, providing "one-stop, one-chain" value-added services for furniture enterprises' investment promotion, project implementation, production, and operation, improving processing efficiency by more than 35%.
In February 2023, Saint Dessibao (Ganzhou) Intelligent Home Manufacturing Base (圣蒂斯堡（赣州）智能家居制造基地) moved from Dongguan (东莞), Guangdong (广东) to Nankang (南康), and in February this year, it added an investment of 800 million yuan. General Manager Song Maiwen (宋迈文) admitted: "The business environment is good, not only is it responsive and non-intrusive, but it can also think one step ahead and think more deeply for you."
Chen Jue (陈珏), director of the Industrial Cluster Development Center of Nankang District (南康区产业集群发展中心), introduced that in the past 5 years, Nankang District (南康区) has gone to the Greater Bay Area for investment promotion more than 500 times, introducing more than 150 furniture companies. This former national-level poverty-stricken county achieved a cluster output value of over 140 billion yuan in the first half of this year.
Integrating into the Greater Bay Area is only the first step. With the help of the Greater Bay Area, Nankang (南康) furniture is constantly expanding its "circle of friends" and integrating into the dual circulation. In March this year, on the first day of the Malaysian Furniture Fair, Nankang (南康) furniture exhibits were snapped up; in May, at the Ganzhou (赣州) Home Expo, Nankang (南康) furniture achieved a total contract signing amount of over 25 million US dollars for foreign centralized procurement. Integrating into the new development pattern has become a 骐骥一跃 (qí jì yī yuè - "a steed's leap," a great leap forward) for the high-quality development of the old revolutionary base area.
One piece of land, one village, one cluster, writing a moving chapter of urban-rural integration, industrial integration, and regional integration, a new picture of coordinated urban-rural development is constantly unfolding on the land of Ganpo (赣鄱).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 19th - The inaugural meeting of China Yajiang Group Co., Ltd. (中国雅江集团有限公司) was recently held in Beijing (北京). Zhang Guoqing (张国清), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended and unveiled the company's establishment.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清) emphasized that the establishment of China Yajiang Group Co., Ltd. (中国雅江集团有限公司) is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core from a strategic and overall perspective. It is an important measure to thoroughly implement the overall national security concept, the new energy security strategy, and the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, and to ensure the smooth construction and operation of the Yaxia Hydropower Project. China Yajiang Group (中国雅江集团) must resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, meticulously carry out project organization, management, and construction implementation, adhere to quality first and safety as the foundation, pay attention to scientific and technological breakthroughs and ecological protection, and promote project construction with a spirit of high responsibility to history and the people. It is necessary to solidly grasp enterprise operation and management, establish a flat and highly efficient management structure, build a digital and intelligent command and dispatch system, construct an assessment and incentive mechanism and team management system that meet the needs of project construction, vigorously inherit and promote the "Old Tibet Spirit," and create a strong atmosphere for entrepreneurship. It is necessary to adhere to the organic unity of Party leadership and improving corporate governance, give full play to the role of the company's Party leadership group in setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation, give full play to the role of grassroots Party organizations as fighting fortresses and the exemplary role of Party members, and make every effort to build the Yaxia Hydropower Project into a century project and benchmark project with Chinese characteristics that can stand the test of history.
Responsible comrades from relevant departments of the Central and State organs, relevant localities, and relevant enterprises, as well as experts and employee representatives, attended the conference.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Hohhot, July 19th. Chen Wenqing (陈文清), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委), emphasized during his research in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) from July 17th to 18th that the political and legal front must keep in mind the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) during his inspection of Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), fully perform their duties, be courageous and responsible, coordinate development and security, and resolutely build a solid security and stability barrier in the northern border of the motherland.
In grassroots political and legal units in Hohhot (呼和浩特市) and Ulanqab (乌兰察布市), Chen Wenqing (陈文清) learned in detail about the comprehensive management of social security and the prevention and resolution of conflicts and disputes. He emphasized the need to implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) people-centered development thought and make every effort to safeguard national unity, social stability, and border tranquility. Efforts should be made to prevent and resolve risks related to stability, implement the responsibility system for maintaining social stability, focus on key areas such as mineral resources, ecological environment, and grassland pastures, and organically unify rights protection and stability maintenance. Efforts should be made to promote the standardized construction of comprehensive management centers to ensure that every demand of the people is handled and handled in accordance with the law. Efforts should be made to promote the rule of law in handling letters and visits, promote substantive solutions through procedures, and achieve the resolution of disputes through legal means. Efforts should be made to refine the service management of relevant groups, and in-depth work should be done in the resettlement and assistance of released prisoners, the management and assistance of patients with severe mental disorders, and the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency.
During a symposium with responsible comrades from political and legal units in the autonomous region, Chen Wenqing (陈文清) emphasized the need to conscientiously study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech during the 21st collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, to be strict to the end and not give an inch, to strengthen discipline and work style construction, and to unswervingly promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the political and legal field. We must do a good job from beginning to end in studying and educating on the spirit of the eight central regulations, improve the normalized and long-term mechanism for work style construction, and fight a protracted war against rectifying unhealthy tendencies, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption. We must be strict with ourselves, be strict in assuming responsibility, and be strict in managing our subordinates, and promote the integrated advancement of "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt," and forge a new era of political and legal iron army that is loyal, clean, and responsible with iron discipline.
During the research, Chen Wenqing (陈文清) held a research symposium on comprehensively governing the country according to law, emphasizing the need to comprehensively implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law and accurately grasp the correct political direction of comprehensively governing the country according to law. We must unswervingly adhere to the Party's leadership and earnestly implement it in the entire process and all aspects of comprehensively governing the country according to law; unswervingly adhere to the people-centered approach and strive to ensure that the people feel fairness and justice in every legal system, every law enforcement decision, and every judicial case; unswervingly adhere to the path of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics, firmly grasp the significant advantages of the Party's management of political and legal work system, and ensure that political and legal units perform their respective duties, divide responsibilities, cooperate with each other, and check each other under the leadership of the Party.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 喻思南
In the first half of this year, China's economy has shown strong "new momentum"——
Phenomenal innovations have emerged one after another. From the strong rise of domestically produced large models to the accelerated "evolution" of humanoid robots, innovation and creation represented by artificial intelligence are inspiring and motivating.
The pursuit of space dreams is progressing steadily. Tianwen-2 is heading towards an asteroid, marking a new step in China's deep space exploration. Shenzhou flies into space again, as Chinese aerospace climbs to higher and farther destinations.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths to develop new quality productive forces." In the first half of this year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size increased by 9.5%. From January to May, the operating income of strategic emerging service enterprises above designated size increased by nearly 10%. As the innovation-driven development strategy deepens and becomes more practical, the innovation arena is full of vitality, and the innovation engine is surging with power.
New Leap——
Traditional industries are being upgraded, and the resilience of the industrial and innovation chains is enhanced.
Through processes such as heating, rolling, finishing, and inspection, steel billets are transformed into steel plates. The wide and thick plate production workshop of Xiangtan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (湘潭钢铁集团有限公司) is busy and orderly.
In the first quarter of this year, Xianggang's operating performance achieved a significant increase. "We focus on high-end steel and special steel, taking the path of differentiated product development, and winning market favor with products that have high technological content and high added value," said Luo Deng (罗登), Party Secretary of the Xianggang Technology Center (Iron and Steel Research Institute) (湘钢技术中心（钢铁研究院）).
Xianggang's growth is a vivid illustration of leading industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, achieving leapfrog development.
Leaping towards the "new," traditional industries are being upgraded, with a stronger emphasis on high-end, intelligent, and green characteristics.
In Yulin, Shaanxi (陕西榆林), at the Sunjia岔 Longhua Coal Mine (孙家岔龙华煤矿) of Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry Group (陕西煤业化工集团), underground, a 10-meter ultra-large mining height intelligent coal mining machine rumbles, and the coal mining machine equipped with 98 intelligent sensors autonomously plans the optimal cutting route. "Empowered by technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G communication, and digital twins, the 'smarter' coal mining machine makes operations safer, greener, and more efficient," said Shi Chunxiang (史春祥), an expert from the Shanghai Research Institute of China Coal Technology (中国煤科上海研究院).
In the workshop of Suzhou Huazhan Aerospace Electric Co., Ltd. (江苏苏州华旃航天电器有限公司), in Suzhou, Jiangsu (江苏苏州), an operator lightly taps the screen to ask a question, and the artificial intelligence assistant immediately pushes technical documents. At the beginning of this year, Suzhou Huazhan just connected to the DeepSeek large model and received a surprise: employee work efficiency was greatly improved, and the training cycle was shortened by nearly half.
Chen Zhi (陈志), Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Industry Development of the China Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategy (中国科学技术发展战略研究院科技与产业发展研究所), said: "To achieve high-quality development, enterprises need to get out of inefficient competition, and technological innovation has become a breakthrough to eliminate 'involution' competition."
Researching the next generation of high-efficiency solar cell technology, exploring the development direction of high-energy-density lithium batteries, optimizing algorithms to improve the level of assisted driving...
Leaping towards the "new," key technologies are constantly being broken through, and the resilience of the industrial and innovation chains is enhanced.
In Wuhan, Hubei (湖北武汉), at the Huarong Technology Intelligent Manufacturing Future Industry Park (华工科技智能制造未来产业园), a semiconductor process laboratory. In about 20 minutes, a silicon carbide wafer is cut, with a meandering degree within 5 microns.
To develop the compound semiconductor industry, it is necessary to have its own wafer processing equipment. Starting from scratch, after more than 3 years of tackling key problems, Huarong Technology (华工科技) has achieved independent production of key components for laser wafer stealth dicing equipment.
"We have mastered the ability to mass-produce and sell wafer dicing equipment," said Huang Wei (黄伟), General Manager of the Semiconductor Product Operation Center of Huarong Laser (华工激光半导体产品运营中心).
Innovation has always been the greatest confidence for industries to resist risks and enhance "stress resistance."
Climbing to higher places and tackling difficult problems, from the information industry to high-end equipment to medical devices, since the beginning of this year, aiming at "bottleneck" problems, the pace of self-reliance and self-improvement has been firm.
Leaping towards the "new," the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is accelerating, accelerating the transformation to new quality productive forces.
Science and technology services are more efficient. Xihai Biotechnology (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. (喜海生物科技（青岛）有限公司) is busy, making a sprint for production. Relying on the results of the "Key Technology Research on Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation Capacity," Professor Yang Jianming's (杨建明) team from Qingdao Agricultural University (青岛农业大学) established Xihai Biology (喜海生物). The "science and technology matchmaker" provides industrialization diagnosis, and the Qingdao Institute of Industrial Technology (青岛市工业技术研究院) and others provide public R&D platforms. From laboratory technology to completing 100-liter and 1-ton fermentation amplification pilot tests, and then accelerating the promotion of industrial mass production, Xihai Biology (喜海生物) only took about one year.
Incentive policies are more powerful. In the production workshop of Anhui Hefei Zhileng Cryogenic Technology Co., Ltd. (安徽合肥知冷低温科技有限公司), Chairman Wang Shaoliang (王绍良) leads the team to seize the key problems. Wang Shaoliang (王绍良) is also a teacher at Anhui University (安徽大学). The reform of empowering scientific and technological achievements with positions has solved his worries and given the team greater motivation. The company has been established for more than two years and has achieved a number of breakthroughs in the independent and controllable ultra-low temperature dilution refrigerator.
Enterprises are the main body of scientific and technological innovation. More than 77% of China's R&D investment comes from enterprises. Guided by market demand, the supply of science and technology and the demand of industry are moving in both directions.
New Advantages——
Innovative initiatives to "forge long boards," opening up new fields and new tracks.
Leading the development of new quality productive forces with scientific and technological innovation, from passively "making up for shortcomings" to actively "forging long boards," we are opening up new fields and new tracks.
Advancing from the "new," emerging industries are gradually growing stronger.
The ocean is a strategic location for high-quality development and an important area for cultivating new quality productive forces.
About 200 kilometers southwest of Shenzhen, Guangdong (广东深圳), the Enping 15-1 offshore crude oil production platform (恩平15—1海上原油生产平台). In May of this year, China's first offshore CCUS (carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage) project was put into operation here. "The successful commissioning of the project has realized the full-chain upgrade of China's offshore carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage equipment technology," said Wan Nianhui (万年辉), General Manager of CNOOC Enping Oilfield Operation Company (中国海油恩平油田作业公司).
Exhibitions are barometers of high-quality development. At the 3rd Chain Expo, the green hydrogen energy full industrial chain based on liquid hydrogen equipment and technology brought by the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院理化技术研究所) attracted much attention. "Our hydrogen liquefaction technology provides a new solution to solve the pain points of hydrogen energy storage and transportation, such as safety and economy," said Hu Zhongjun (胡忠军), a researcher at the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院理化技术研究所).
Starting from the "new," the advantages of future industries are accelerating.
A generation of materials, a generation of industries, new materials are the key support for industrial leap.
In April of this year, the scientific research team of China Iron & Steel Research Institute Group Co., Ltd. (中国有研科技集团有限公司) successfully developed high-magnesium light and strong aluminum.
New materials open up new worlds. "The application of high-magnesium light and strong aluminum is expected to enhance China's competitiveness in many fields," said Xiong Baiqing (熊柏青), Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of China Iron & Steel Research Institute (中国有研科技委) and Director of the National Key Laboratory of Structural Materials for Nonferrous Metals (有色金属结构材料全国重点实验室).
Beijing (北京) has proposed to focus on cultivating 20 future industries such as humanoid robots, biomanufacturing, and new materials; Nanjing, Jiangsu (江苏南京) is focusing on biomedicine, developing cutting-edge industries such as genes and cells, synthetic biotechnology, and "artificial intelligence + pharmaceuticals"... Based on their advantages, various places are laying out along the development direction of new technologies, and future industries are growing rapidly.
To shape new advantages, private enterprises are becoming increasingly active.
The developed "dexterous hand" has good durability and high cost performance. It can not only play the piano and guzheng, but also realize the automatic assembly of industrial scenes. Lingxin Qiaoshou Company (灵心巧手公司), which made this product, is an innovative private enterprise that has only been established for about two years.
The "China Unicorn Enterprise Development Report (2025)" released at the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (2025中关村论坛) shows that integrated circuits and semiconductors, software and information services, new energy technologies, and artificial intelligence are the areas where Chinese unicorn enterprises are concentrated. These fields are important stages for private enterprise innovation.
Encouraging leading national major technological breakthroughs, supporting cooperation with universities and research institutes in research and development, and unblocking financing channels... A series of pragmatic measures further stimulate the endogenous power of private enterprise innovation.
To shape new advantages, foreign-funded institutions are injecting vitality.
Siemens Healthcare's (西门子医疗) new base in Shenzhen (深圳) broke ground, and will undertake the research and development and production functions of angiography equipment and magnetic resonance core components; Hunan Iron and Steel Group (湖南钢铁集团) and ArcelorMittal Group (安赛乐米塔尔集团) signed an agreement to promote the implementation of the third phase of the Valin ArcelorMittal Automotive Steel Co., Ltd. (华菱安赛乐米塔尔汽车板有限公司) project and build a global R&D center for automotive steel in Hunan (湖南)... The trends of foreign investment since this year confirm that the investment and cooperation between multinational companies and China has extended from "market-oriented" and "cost-oriented" to "innovation-driven."
Foreign investment is increasing R&D, reflecting the accelerated development of China's new quality productive forces and the industry's move towards the high end of the value chain.
New Momentum——
Innovation momentum, application scenarios, and talent vitality support the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces.
Innovative China has sufficient stamina.
The stamina comes from the constantly accumulated innovation momentum.
In the National Key Laboratory of Chemical Resources Effective Utilization of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (北京化工大学化工资源有效利用国家重点实验室), several prototype equipment for electrolyzing seawater to produce hydrogen are particularly eye-catching. Professor Sun Xiaoming's (孙晓明) team of the university cooperated with the industry to develop the world's first 500-kilowatt electrolyzed seawater hydrogen production device. Not long ago, the team published its results in Nature, and for the first time realized 10,000 hours of stable operation in the field of alkaline seawater electrolysis. Basic research has consolidated the foundation, and the industrialization of electrolyzed seawater hydrogen production has further consolidated China's first-mover advantage.
Innovation investment has increased. China's R&D expenditure accounts for nearly 2.7% of its gross domestic product, which has exceeded the average level of the European Union and is close to the average level of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. From January to May, the number of valid invention patent applications in China was nearly 5 million, an increase of 12.8%.
Discovering that nickel oxide has high-temperature superconductivity under normal pressure, and proposing the concept of brain-computer collaborative evolution for the first time... Since the beginning of this year, major original achievements in quantum technology, life science and other fields have emerged one after another, injecting source of living water into the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces.
The innovation map has been expanded. Beijing Zhongguancun (北京中关村), Wuhan Optics Valley (武汉光谷), Hefei Science Island (合肥科学岛), Dongguan Songshan Lake (东莞松山湖)... Innovation highlands are accelerating their rise. China has 26 global top 100 science and technology innovation clusters, ranking first in the world for two consecutive years, and is becoming an innovation "source" and a "catalyst" for the accelerated landing of new technologies.
The stamina comes from the support of rich application scenarios.
In the operating room of Beijing Tiantan Hospital (北京天坛医院), affiliated to Capital Medical University, the deep brain electrode implantation that used to take 3 hours to complete now only takes 1 hour. Behind this is the blessing of the domestic SR surgical robot. The positioning accuracy of Huake Precision (华科精准) SR series robots has surpassed the imported ROSA surgical robot, accounting for more than 70% of the domestic market. And 7 years ago, this product was basically monopolized by foreign countries.
How to pry open the market? "The government took the lead in launching application demonstration projects to help our products enter top hospitals," said Liu Wenbo (刘文博), head of R&D at Huake Precision (华科精准). With the deepening of applications, the products continue to "evolve."
Transforming the advantages of market resources into the driving force for industrial development. From shield machines to new energy vehicles, from 5G communications to biomanufacturing, the demand of the super-large market has created good conditions for the large-scale application of new technologies and new products.
The stamina comes from the release of talent innovation vitality.
Recently, the team of Professor Hu Qiang (胡强), a distinguished professor at Shenzhen Institute of Technology (深圳理工大学), cooperated with the industry to demonstrate the world's largest microalgae "photocarbon intelligent manufacturing" production line in Guangdong Province (广东省). Encouraging teachers to carry out horizontal cooperation and supporting innovative teams to establish joint laboratories with enterprises have enabled Hu Qiang's (胡强) team to take a key step in industry-university-research cooperation.
Coordinating the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, China has implemented a special pilot project for the reform of engineering master's and doctoral training. This summer, the first batch of more than 2,100 special pilot master's students successfully graduated and moved to a broad innovation stage.
People are the most critical factor in scientific and technological innovation. China's R&D personnel calculated by full-time equivalent have reached 7.24 million person-years, ranking first in the world for many years in a row; more than 5 million STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) graduates each year, the number is the world's leading. Optimizing the scientific and technological evaluation system by breaking and establishing, supporting young talents to take the lead and be the protagonists... Cultivating, introducing, and using talents well, the talent dividend is taking shape.
To promote Chinese-style modernization, science and technology must take the lead. Moving towards the "new" and improving the "quality," continuing to do a good job in this big article of innovation, high-quality development will gain strong support.
(Reporters Xu Jing (徐靖) and Bai Guangdi (白光迪) of this newspaper participated in the writing)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 19th (北京) - On the 19th, a reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) that the National Export Control Coordination Mechanism Office (国家出口管制工作协调机制办公室) organized the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), the Ministry of State Security (国家安全部), the General Administration of Customs (海关总署), the State Post Bureau (国家邮政局), the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) and other units, held a promotion meeting in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西) for the special campaign to combat the smuggling and export of strategic minerals. The meeting summarized and reported the progress and effectiveness of the previous stage, comprehensively analyzed the current situation of combating smuggling, and redeployed and further promoted the special campaign.
The meeting pointed out that since the launch of the special campaign, all relevant departments have thoroughly implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央) and the State Council (国务院), established special teams and acted quickly, formulated plans and clarified tasks, adopted a policy of "zero tolerance and severe crackdown" on the smuggling and export of strategic minerals, continuously increased law enforcement efforts, investigated and handled a number of illegal export cases of strategic minerals, and arrested a number of smuggling criminal suspects. The special campaign has achieved phased results.
The meeting emphasized that the current situation of combating the smuggling and export of strategic minerals remains grim. A few lawbreakers still engage in smuggling in collusion with domestic and foreign entities for their own selfish interests, and the methods of evasion such as false declarations and transshipment through third countries are becoming increasingly concealed. All relevant departments must **守土有责、守土尽责** (shǒu tǔ yǒu zé, shǒu tǔ jìn zé - "responsible for guarding one's territory, fulfilling one's duty in guarding one's territory," to be responsible and fulfill one's duty in one's position), always maintain a high-pressure posture of strict investigation and severe crackdown, and strictly prevent the illegal outflow of strategic minerals and related technologies.
The meeting required that all relevant departments should continue to carry out the special campaign in a thorough and in-depth manner, and further increase law enforcement efforts; study and establish a joint law enforcement coordination center for export control of dual-use items; investigate and handle major illegal and criminal cases in accordance with the law, strictly and quickly, and promptly announce a batch of typical law enforcement and judicial cases; resolutely prevent roundabout exports, and include overseas end-users who circumvent national export control measures in the export control management list; formulate and issue guidelines for compliant export of strategic minerals; guide and warn export enterprises to do a good job in due diligence investigations, and strictly prevent related items from being illegally used for military users or military purposes.
Return to TopIn recent years, various regions have been promoting urban renewal tailored to local conditions, making the living environment better and the lives of the people more comfortable.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 叶 琦 毕京津
Grain planting area has remained stable at over 160 million mu for years, grain output has remained stable at over 130 billion jin for eight consecutive years, and over 60 billion jin of raw grain and finished products are transferred out every year...
Grain production is Henan's advantage, and it must not be lost at any time.
In May of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Henan: "We must strengthen the protection and construction of arable land, shoulder the responsibility for food security, extend the modern agricultural industry chain, drive the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas with integrated urban-rural development, and promote common prosperity between urban and rural areas." During the National People's Congress in 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "As a major agricultural province, Henan's agriculture, especially grain production, has a pivotal impact on the whole country."
Thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, Henan firmly grasps grain as its core competitiveness, continuously adjusts and optimizes the agricultural structure, shoulders the responsibility for food security, and accelerates the construction of a strong agricultural province.
From the banks of the Yellow River (黄河) to the banks of the Huai River (淮河), from the eastern Henan plain to the western Henan hills, the Central Plains fertile land has faded from golden yellow, and Henan's summer harvest has come to a successful conclusion, with a cumulative harvest of more than 85 million mu of wheat. "Taking multiple measures to cope with the adverse effects of drought, Henan's total summer grain output this year was 75.001 billion jin, achieving stable production and a bumper harvest," said Sun Weifeng (孙巍峰), Director of the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
"As the old saying goes, all things grow from the soil. This year's wheat harvest is inseparable from the 'hard power' of high-standard farmland." Liu Jifeng (刘纪锋), a grain grower in Zhangshi Town (张市镇), Weishi County (尉氏县), Kaifeng City (开封市), revealed the "secret."
Fields are square, roads are networked, trees are lined up, canals are connected, drought can be irrigated, and floods can be drained... Henan stores grain in the land, continues to exert efforts, transforms farmland into good land, and seeks output from good land. Since 2022, on the basis of having built more than 83 million mu of high-standard farmland, Henan has built a number of high-standard farmland demonstration areas in accordance with the "six modernizations" requirements of standardized construction, modernized equipment, intelligent application, scaled operation, standardized management, and ecological environment, with an average investment of more than 3,000 yuan per mu.
It is important to build well, but also to manage well. Henan has formed a high-standard farmland management and protection team of nearly 100,000 people, and the provincial finance arranges 100 million yuan of management and protection reward and subsidy funds every year. "We also promote typical management and protection models such as independent management and protection by beneficiary entities, grid management by collective organizations, professional management by industry institutions, and market-oriented management by insurance institutions according to local conditions, to help the construction of high-standard farmland," introduced Yang Guangyu (杨广玉), Deputy Director of the Farmland Construction Department of the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
The summer harvest is over, and the summer planting follows closely.
"Good seeds are the key!" Chen Shehui (陈社会), a large grain grower in Changying Town (常营镇), Taikang County (太康县), Zhoukou City (周口市), is full of confidence, "These two new varieties sown this summer are high-yielding and drought-resistant, and the yield per mu is expected to reach a new high."
Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture. To seek output from good seeds, Henan vigorously implements the seed industry revitalization action, and in 2024, 10 varieties were selected as national leading varieties. At present, the coverage rate of improved varieties of major crops in the province exceeds 97%, and the contribution rate of improved varieties to grain yield increase exceeds 45%. The annual output of wheat seeds is 3.6 billion jin, accounting for about 38% of the country.
Stepping into the Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley (中原农谷) China Academy of Agricultural Sciences Zhongyuan Research Center (中国农业科学院中原研究中心) located in Xinxiang City (新乡市), clusters of wheat ears are full of grains and the ear layers are neat.
This is the "wheat-Leymus chinensis" distant hybridization innovation germplasm created by the team of Li Lihui (李立会) of the Institute of Crop Science of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院作物科学研究所). "At present, 18 new varieties and 39 reserve new varieties have been derived and cultivated, and applied to more than 100 breeding units across the country." Li Lihui (李立会) picked up an ear at random, "The 'marriage' of wheat and Leymus chinensis not only has high yield, but also improves resistance to adversity and diseases."
With strength to "attract fans," Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley (中原农谷) has built 14 national-level scientific research platforms and 53 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research platforms, introduced 16 academicians, settled in 88 seed industry enterprises, cultivated 178 excellent varieties of crops, and built 1.1 million mu of improved seed breeding bases.
Good seeds are matched with good methods. Henan also customizes supporting cultivation technology solutions for growers according to varieties, provides zone-by-zone and category-by-category, precise services, and full-process tracking, ensuring high yields. The contribution rate of agricultural science and technology progress has gradually increased, and Henan's comprehensive strength in agricultural science and technology innovation has remained in the first echelon in the country.
How many kinds of flour can one wheat grain produce?
With the help of advanced technology, Yanjin (延津) wheat has become a "clone master." One wheat grain can produce more than 120 kinds of flour products. The aroma of wheat is overflowing, and Yanjin (延津) wheat has attracted well-known enterprises such as Luhua (鲁花) and Kemin Noodle Industry (克明面业) to invest and set up factories.
From "big granary" to "big kitchen" to "big dining table," Henan continues to deepen the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, taking agricultural industrialization enterprises as the leader and deep processing of agricultural products as the direction, to build a modern food full industry chain integrating "production, purchase, storage, processing, and sales."
Yanjin (延津) Noodle Industry, Lin Ying (临颍) Leisure Food, Yuanyang (原阳) Catering, Yongcheng (永城) Flour... In the Central Plains, one characteristic brand after another is fully rising. Henan strives to upgrade "time-honored brands," develop "original brands," and cultivate "new brands," creating more than 40 national-level agricultural brands.
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) instructions, we will continue to grasp food security as the top priority, accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural province, and strive to show greater responsibility and action in ensuring national food security and building a strong agricultural country," said Wang Kai (王凯), Deputy Secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and Governor.
Return to TopFrom July 16th to 20th, the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) was held at the Shunyi Hall of the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing (北京), themed "Connecting the World, Creating the Future." This year's CISCE attracted 651 enterprises and institutions from 75 countries and regions. The CISCE's "circle of friends" continues to expand, and its "international flavor" is stronger and more sufficient, which not only demonstrates the common demands of business people from all countries to maintain the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain, but also reflects China's sincerity and determination to strengthen the resilience of the global industrial chain, build consensus on cooperation, and promote high-level opening to the outside world.
Innovation in Internationalization Level, First Exhibition and First Release Show Vitality
The level of internationalization of this year's CISCE has reached a new high. The proportion of overseas exhibitors has increased from 32% in the previous session to 35%. A large number of well-known multinational companies have appeared on the CISCE stage for the first time, and more than 170 overseas groups have come to visit the exhibition. The atmosphere of on-site negotiation and cooperation is warm.
South Africa participated in the exhibition for the first time this year, and built a very distinctive exhibition area with the theme of "Inspiring Innovation." Dozens of booths focused on displaying various distinctive products such as skin care products, chemical products, engineering machinery components, and mineral technology services. Thabiso Mkhize, general manager of South Africa's Macoya Company, brought a multi-purpose adhesive that is widely applicable, has a strong bonding effect, is reusable, and is not easy to stick to hands. He said: "The CISCE is an excellent platform. I can introduce our company's products to the audience and more partners." Stofford Matom Mananze, the head of another hydraulic cylinder manufacturer, revealed to reporters that many Chinese companies in South Africa have adopted their hydraulic cylinders, and they look forward to further deepening cooperation with Chinese companies through the CISCE.
At this year's CISCE, the number of American exhibitors increased by 15% compared with the previous session, continuing to rank first among overseas exhibitors. Jensen Huang (黄仁勋), founder and CEO of Nvidia, attended the CISCE for the first time. He said with emotion: "The scale here is very large, and the atmosphere is very warm. It fully reflects China's support for innovation and its commitment to building a prosperous future." During the exhibition, Nvidia and its partners showcased a number of artificial intelligence terminal achievements, involving robotics, automobiles, industrial digitization, networks, end-to-end solutions and other fields. Among them, the new silicon photonics network switch introduces silicon photonics technology to integrate optical modules on the chip, which can achieve lower energy consumption and stronger reliability compared with traditional technology, and will significantly reduce deployment and operation and maintenance difficulty.
Airbus, which participated in the CISCE for the first time, jointly exhibited with 8 upstream and downstream supply chain exhibitors. Bernhard Brenner (柏舒曼), Executive Vice President of Airbus Global and Chief Operating Officer of Airbus China, said, "Airbus hopes to show through this way of jointly exhibiting with suppliers that Airbus, as a member of China's aviation industry ecosystem, is growing together with suppliers and forging a solid partnership." Brenner said that he is already very much looking forward to participating in next year's CISCE.
Innovation Leadership is More Prominent, and There are Many Highlights in Scientific and Technological Achievements
This year's CISCE has specially set up the "CISCE First Release Station" and the "Innovation Chain Special Zone." Many new products, new processes, new scenarios, and new ecosystems on the global supply chain are competing to "bloom," vividly demonstrating how in-depth collaboration between production and supply chains can bring a better life to mankind.
Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company, showcased the company's development achievements in China over the past 30 years from the aspects of "linking global innovation," "linking chronic disease management," and "building a healthy China together." "As a biopharmaceutical company rooted in the Chinese market with the entire industrial chain, our gene of co-innovation with Chinese partners has a long history." Zhou Xiaoping (周霞萍), Senior Vice President of Novo Nordisk Global, introduced that Novo Nordisk established a research and development center in China in 1997, which has become an important part of the company's global research and development chain. "We look forward to further strengthening cooperation and exchanges with Chinese market partners, continuously promoting joint innovation, and helping to achieve the goal of a healthy China."
In the field of digital technology and smart supply chain, Walmart China's smart supply chain system, built based on big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and other cutting-edge technologies, has realized the intelligent upgrade of the entire chain from commodity procurement to inventory management, from logistics and distribution to store operations. Qiu Tao (邱涛), Senior Vice President of Integrated Supply Chain and Technology of Walmart China, said that digitalization is not only a means of technological upgrading, but also a key engine for optimizing operational efficiency and creating a seamless omnichannel experience. Walmart is providing customers with better quality goods and shopping experiences through deep system integration and data-driven decision-making mechanisms.
L'Oréal (欧莱雅), a French company, is also participating in the CISCE for the first time this year, and presented innovative cases with partners in the entire value chain such as raw material supply, research and development innovation, logistics and distribution, and service experience at its booth. During the exhibition, L'Oréal and the China Barcode Technology and Application Association held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony, which will focus on promoting the improvement and global promotion of the cosmetic QR code standard system, and jointly build a digital system covering the entire industrial chain.
Cooperation and Win-Win Situation Become a Consensus, China and Foreign Countries Join Hands Towards the Future
As the world's first national-level exhibition with the theme of supply chain, the CISCE is not only a platform for displaying achievements, but also a bridge for promoting cooperation. Friends from all over the world gathered together to find friends, partners, and expand markets, and write a new chapter of cooperation and win-win.
"In the current situation, the importance of the CISCE is particularly prominent." Julian Fisher (古沛勤), Chairman of the China-Britain Business Council, said that the economies of the UK and China are highly complementary. "We must cooperate with China so that we can achieve a low-carbon future and sustainable development."
Honeywell (霍尼韦尔) has established 10 R&D engineering centers in China and has more than 1,000 supply chain partners in China. Yu Feng (余锋), the relevant person in charge of the company, said that China is not only the world's leading consumer market, but also an important source of global innovation. For multinational companies, it is an inevitable strategic choice to deeply cultivate the Chinese market and integrate into the overall situation of China's development. "Honeywell pays close attention to the development trend of Chinese technology and will continue to collaborate with local Chinese partners to jointly respond to the ever-upgrading needs of the Chinese market and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results."
"Against the background of global economic instability, I have seen many countries and companies participating in the conference, showing their high attention to the CISCE." Tetsuro Homma (本间哲朗), Global Vice President of Panasonic Holdings Corporation, said that the CISCE has built a platform for companies to exchange and learn with government agencies and upstream and downstream companies in the supply chain, and promotes business development by integrating innovative resources in the industrial chain. China provides huge market opportunities for foreign-funded enterprises. Foreign-funded enterprises are important participants in Chinese-style modernization, and the Chinese market has established a win-win relationship with foreign investment.
"This time, we gathered in China, and I saw broad prospects for cooperation and common development opportunities. We can join hands, give full play to our respective advantages, and build a more efficient, more cost-effective, sustainable and resilient supply chain system." Paul Mashatile (保罗·马沙蒂莱), Deputy President of South Africa, said that the CISCE will further promote cooperation between South African producers and Chinese buyers and importers. "I hope that all parties can seize the opportunity, deepen cooperation, jointly shape the future of the supply chain, and build a more resilient and prosperous world."
(Reporters Zhang Mengxu (张梦旭), Mou Zongcong (牟宗琮), Li Feng (李锋), Huang Fahong (黄发红), Li Yingqi (李应齐), Li Xinyi (李欣怡), Li Ming (李明), Li Mo (李墨) of this newspaper)
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On July 19, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Mauritanian President Ghazwani (加兹瓦尼) exchanged congratulatory messages to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Over the past 60 years, no matter how the international situation has changed, China and Mauritania have always respected each other and treated each other as equals, setting a model of developing countries helping each other and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results.
China and Mauritania respect each other politically and have always supported each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Mauritania relations have embarked on a fast track of all-round, multi-level, and wide-ranging development. In September 2024, President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with President Ghazwani (加兹瓦尼), who came to China to attend the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, and the two heads of state announced the upgrading of China-Mauritania relations to a strategic partnership, which pointed out the direction for the development of bilateral relations. China firmly supports Mauritania in following a development path that suits its own national conditions and opposes external forces interfering in Mauritania's internal affairs. Mauritania firmly adheres to the one-China principle and actively responds to China's various initiatives and propositions. The two countries coordinate and cooperate in regional and international affairs, adhere to multilateralism, and oppose hegemonism and power politics.
China and Mauritania have achieved mutual benefit and win-win results in economic terms, and cooperation has yielded fruitful results. The Chinese government has long actively provided support and assistance for Mauritania's economic and social development. In 1968, three years after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Mauritania, China implemented its first grant aid project to Mauritania - the M'Pourie Rice Demonstration Farm, to carry out rice planting experiments. Major projects such as the Friendship Port, the Friendship Overpass, the National Stadium, the Conference Center, and the Friendship Hospital, built with Chinese government assistance, are a testament to the enduring friendship between China and Mauritania. Economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has developed steadily. China has been Mauritania's largest trading partner for many years in a row. In 2024, bilateral trade reached $2.42 billion, an increase of 7.8% year-on-year. In 2023, the governments of China and Mauritania signed a cooperation plan on jointly promoting the construction of the "Belt and Road," opening a new chapter in high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road." From December 1, 2024, China will grant 100% zero-tariff treatment to all tariff items of the least developed countries that have diplomatic relations with China, including Mauritania.
The traditional friendship between China and Mauritania is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and cultural exchanges are booming. Since 1968, China has sent a total of 35 medical teams to Mauritania, with more than 800 medical team members. Medical workers have used great love and compassion to relieve the pain and protect the health of the Mauritanian people. The Chinese government provides scholarships to Mauritania every year. In 2019, Hebei University (河北大学) and the University of Nouakchott (努瓦克肖特大学) jointly established the Confucius Institute, building a bridge to enhance mutual understanding between the two peoples. More and more Mauritanian youths are learning Chinese, understanding Chinese culture, and going to China for exchanges, studies, or business, becoming envoys to strengthen the ties of friendship between the two countries.
At present, China is comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development. What Chinese-style modernization pursues is not 独善其身 (dú shàn qí shēn - "cultivate oneself alone," focusing only on one's own improvement and ignoring others), but rather expects to work with African countries, including Mauritania, to jointly achieve modernization, provide new opportunities for Mauritania's development with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization, benefit the two countries and their peoples, and make positive contributions to building a closer China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era.
Over the past 60 years, through thick and thin, the friendship between China and Mauritania has been as vibrant as an oasis in the desert. Looking to the future, China is willing to work with Mauritania to fully implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, carry forward the traditional friendship, consolidate unity and cooperation, and continuously create new prospects for the development of the China-Mauritania strategic partnership.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Mauritania)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋亦然 时元皓
The "China-Rio: Bridge of Innovation" seminar was recently held in Rio de Janeiro (里约热内卢), Brazil, where political and business figures, experts, and scholars engaged in in-depth discussions on topics related to innovation in areas such as technological innovation, energy transition, and sustainable development. Participants agreed that China's innovative technologies in emerging fields are at a world-leading level, and Brazil should learn from China's experience and make good use of its own advantages to further attract Chinese investment, deepen cooperation with China, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
As one of the organizers of the seminar, Anderson Pedroso (安德森·佩德罗索), President of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (巴西里约热内卢天主教大学), stated that the event aimed to promote dialogue between the government, universities, and enterprises. The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro has signed cooperation agreements with many schools in China and also cooperates with many Chinese-funded enterprises in Brazil. "The holding of the event will help Brazil and China enhance mutual understanding and create a prosperous future," said Pedroso.
Luiz Fernandes (路易斯·费尔南德斯), Deputy Minister of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (巴西科技创新部), stated in his keynote speech that China is one of Brazil's main sources of investment, and Chinese enterprises play an important role in helping Brazil's economic development. Cooperation between the two countries in economic, trade, cultural, and other fields is constantly moving to a higher level. It is hoped that Brazil and China will continue to promote the alignment of Brazil's development strategy with the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" Initiative (一带一路) to help the two countries deepen cooperation in areas such as artificial intelligence, aerospace, and energy transition.
"China's development path is worth studying in depth," said Elias Jabbour (埃利亚斯·贾布尔), a professor at the Institute of Economics of Rio de Janeiro State University (里约热内卢州立大学经济科学院). China has embarked on a development path that conforms to its own national conditions, relying on strong policy coordination capabilities and a sound industrial system to promote technological progress and economic growth in a mutually reinforcing manner. "China's development experience shows that promoting high-quality development requires not only education and talent, but also long-term planning, public resource allocation, and coordinated support from industrial and financial systems, which provides important inspiration for Brazil and other developing countries," said Jabbour.
The participating guests also conducted discussions on topics such as "Geopolitical Landscape and China-Brazil Strategic Cooperation," "New Technologies Leading Development in the Context of China-Brazil Cooperation," "The Role of China and Brazil in the Future Oil Industry," and "Challenges and Opportunities in China-Brazil Energy Transition." Everyone said that the event was rich in content and diverse in perspective, which deepened their understanding of Brazil-China relations and stimulated their thinking on bilateral cooperation. Letícia (莱蒂西亚), an international relations major at Rio de Janeiro State University (里约热内卢州立大学), told reporters: "I believe that such exchanges will not only help increase our understanding of China, but also help bring the people of Brazil and China closer together."
"Cultural exchanges bring us closer together," said Sun Yanping (孙艳萍), the Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (里约热内卢天主教大学孔子学院). This year, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro has organized two groups of educators to go to China for exchanges, and more and more Brazilians are approaching China and experiencing China. "With China's trial implementation of visa-free policies for Brazil, exchanges between the two sides in various fields have ushered in unprecedented opportunities."
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The 5th China-Africa Rice Value Chain Cooperation Seminar and the West Africa Rice Value Chain Project Summary Meeting were held in Guangzhou recently. The meeting was co-hosted by the World Food Programme (WFP) Centre of Excellence for Rural Development in China, the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), and the Foreign Affairs Department of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration of China (中国国家粮食和物资储备局外事司). With the theme of "Building Prosperity and Creating a New Chapter of Sustainable Development," the participants summarized the practical achievements of the West Africa Rice Value Chain Project and discussed cooperation paths for the transformation of the China-Africa food system and sustainable agricultural development.
Since 2022, the WFP Centre of Excellence for Rural Development in China, in collaboration with the WFP Regional Centre of Excellence against Hunger and Malnutrition (CERFAM) in West Africa, has implemented the West Africa Rice Value Chain Project in Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea, effectively promoting the upgrading of the local rice value chain and deepening China-Africa agricultural cooperation under the UN framework.
Amadou Touré, an agricultural engineer from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Côte d'Ivoire, said that the Pitiangomon agricultural group in Korhogo, Côte d'Ivoire, consists of 188 farmers. In the past, local rice cultivation faced many challenges such as low yields and limited rice storage conditions. After the implementation of the project, the Pitiangomon agricultural group obtained agricultural machinery and equipment such as threshers, rice milling machines, and three-wheeled tractors, which greatly improved the production situation.
Tahirou Sylla Pierre, a project officer at the WFP Regional Centre of Excellence against Hunger and Malnutrition (CERFAM) in West Africa, introduced that in Korhogo in Côte d'Ivoire and N'Zérékoré in Guinea, the project deployed two multi-functional rice processing lines to replace traditional manual rice milling operations, and the rice processing broken rice rate was significantly reduced. The project also provided 600 sets of small steel silos made in China, together with 4 community granaries, which improved the storage capacity of local rice communities and farmers.
"The cooperation model between the WFP and China in Africa has achieved positive results. China provides agricultural technical support to help African farmers produce independently, and farmers can also find partners in the global market. This new model can better help Africa get rid of poverty, increase food production, and build an inclusive production chain and value chain," said Rie Shimomura, Deputy Country Director of the WFP Guinea Country Office.
In September last year, Jacob Démbélé, Director of the Rice Development Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Côte d'Ivoire, participated in a West Africa Rice Value Chain study tour organized by the WFP in Sichuan Province. The whole-process mechanized production of the Sichuan agricultural rice demonstration base left a deep impression on him. He said that Côte d'Ivoire needs to learn China's rice planting technology and hopes to introduce China's advanced technology through the WFP project to promote technological innovation in rice planting in Côte d'Ivoire.
"Africa has about 60% of the world's undeveloped arable land and abundant labor, with great development potential, but the current rice yield per unit area in Africa is generally lower than the global average. The West Africa Rice Value Chain Project connects China's experience with local African needs through South-South cooperation and tripartite cooperation, providing assistance for enhancing the resilience of the food system and achieving the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Last year, I inspected the project areas in Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea, saw the results of rice processing equipment driving local agricultural production and efficiency, and also heard feedback from colleagues and local beneficiary farmers, which was quite touching." At the project summary meeting, Zhao Bing, WFP Representative in China (世界粮食计划署驻华代表赵兵), shared the voice of a farmer in Guinea: "With better harvests, my children can go to school, and our community can be revitalized." "Let us work together to turn rice fields into 'fields of prosperity' by providing inclusive and sustainable solutions," Zhao Bing said.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Ganzhou on July 19th (Reporters Cao Pengcheng (曹鹏程) and Zhao Yipu (赵益普)) The 2025 "Belt and Road" Journalists Organization Forum was held on July 19th in Ganzhou (赣州), Jiangxi (江西). Nearly one hundred heads of journalist organizations and media representatives from more than 50 countries and regions conducted discussions and exchanges around the theme of "News Power, Civilization Dialogue, and Promoting World Modernization."
The forum was jointly hosted by the All-China Journalists Association (中华全国新闻工作者协会) and the Publicity Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee (江西省委宣传部). Wang Gang (王纲), Deputy Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), attended and delivered a speech.
The participating guests believed that, facing the challenges of increasing uncertain factors in global development, media from all countries should adhere to a civilized view of equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, promote the construction of a diversified and three-dimensional global civilization dialogue and cooperation network, broaden horizons, innovate expressions, build consensus, deepen friendship, and use the power of media communication to cross mountains and seas, eliminate cognitive gaps, and gather global synergy.
He Ping (何平), Chairman of the China Journalists Association (中国记协), said in his keynote speech that news media should gather the power of development to build a foundation for civilizational progress, build a bridge of mutual learning to help civilizational prosperity, and sing the voice of peace to protect the survival of civilization. He used "Zhang and Gong Rivers converging into the Gan River" (章贡汇流成赣江) as an example, emphasizing the use of an inclusive spirit to gather surging power, promote the common values of all mankind, promote the process of world modernization through true and objective reporting, and jointly issue a strong voice of the times to promote peace, development, cooperation, and win-win results. Andrei Krivosheev, rotating chairman of the Presidium of the "Belt and Road" Journalists Organization Cooperation Platform and chairman of the Belarusian Journalists Union, said that journalists from all countries need to strengthen collaboration, reduce misunderstandings and prejudices through objective reporting, and contribute media power to promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
The forum launched the "International Journalists Home" volunteer program, and journalist organizations from 11 countries applied for the "International Journalists Home" certificate. Eight Chinese and foreign "media envoys" shared vivid stories of news reports, and four participating guests shared "Civilization Dialogue in the Eyes of Foreign Media." The "My Marathon" global micro-video solicitation and exhibition event selected 10 outstanding works from 6 countries. Excellent manuscripts from more than 50 foreign journalists were selected for the forum's journal "First Impressions of China: Impressions of Chinese Culture." The "Belt and Road" Journalist Station has settled in Jiangxi (江西), providing foreign journalists with more choices for interviews and field visits in China.
During the forum, the "China-Latin America Journalists Roundtable" and the "China-EU Journalists Roundtable" were held.
Return to TopStarting July 18th, the China-Laos Railway will add a pair of international passenger trains between Kunming (昆明) and Vientiane (万象). The new trains will use a centralized power "Fuxing Hao" (复兴号) bullet train set, with a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour, operating in both directions daily. As a result, the number of international passenger trains between Kunming (昆明) and Vientiane (万象) will increase to 4 per day. On April 13, 2023, the China-Laos Railway launched international passenger trains, with one train operating in both directions daily between Kunming South (昆明南) and Vientiane (万象) stations. As of July 15 this year, the China-Laos Railway international passenger trains have carried a cumulative total of 540,000 cross-border passengers, becoming an important channel for convenient travel between China and Laos and neighboring countries and regions.
The picture shows the newly added D86 international passenger train running on the Yuanjiang (元江) Double-Line Extra Large Bridge (元江双线特大桥) on the China-Laos Railway on July 18.
Yang Wenming (杨文明) and Yin Xuehe (殷学合) photographed and reported.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Qingdao, July 19th (Reporters Cong Jiaxin (丛佳鑫) and Li Aoqiu (李傲秋)) On July 19th, the "World Mayors Dialogue · Qingdao" event, themed "Wonderful Culture and Tourism, Shared by Friendship Cities," was held in Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东) Province. Eight overseas cities and three Chinese cities joined hands to explore new spaces for cultural and tourism exchanges and open up new paths for industrial cooperation.
During the event, the mayors or mayor representatives of Piraeus (比雷埃夫斯), Greece, Sihanoukville (西哈努克), Cambodia, Minsk (明斯克), Belarus, Regensburg (雷根斯堡), Germany, Lagos (拉各斯), Nigeria, Shimonoseki (下关), Japan, Dunedin (达尼丁), New Zealand, Daegu (大邱), South Korea, as well as Qingdao (青岛), Yantai (烟台), and Weihai (威海) in China, focused on topics such as "Strengthening Unique Advantages and Developing Marine Tourism," "Revitalizing Historical Urban Areas and Opening a New Chapter in Culture and Tourism," and "Developing International Tourism and Promoting Cultural Exchange," and conducted discussions and exchanges.
The "World Mayors Dialogue" is an important platform for global exchange and cooperation, aiming to enhance international mutual trust and friendship, deepen mutual learning, and strengthen global cooperation. During the event, the 11 participating cities extended cultural and tourism invitations to the world, using culture and tourism as a bridge to promote friendly people-to-people exchanges.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Dalian, July 17th (Reporter Guo Xiang) The 2025 Academic Exchange on Ocean Governance and Development, hosted by Dalian Maritime University (大连海事大学), was held on the 17th in Dalian (大连), Liaoning (辽宁). Approximately 80 experts and scholars from domestic universities, research institutes, and think tank organizations attended the meeting. The academic exchange focused on the theme of "Refutation and Response to the 'South China Sea Arbitration': A Chinese Perspective," and participants conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges on topics such as "Legal Refutation of the 'South China Sea Arbitration Ruling'," "South China Sea Situation and Tasks," and "National Ocean Governance and Development."
Shan Hongjun (单红军), President of Dalian Maritime University (大连海事大学), stated that the South China Sea issue concerns national sovereignty and maritime rights and interests. University think tanks should fully leverage their academic research advantages to contribute wisdom and strength to the maintenance of national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, as well as the international dissemination of maritime discourse.
Wu Shicun (吴士存), Chairman of the Academic Committee of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies (中国南海研究院) and Chairman of the Board of the Huayang Maritime Center (华阳海洋研究中心), stated that the "South China Sea Arbitration Ruling," due to its serious legal flaws and political manipulation, has become an important cause of the complex situation in the South China Sea. It is a tool for countries outside the region to repeatedly hype up the South China Sea issue and "stigmatize" China, and is a "troublemaker" for peace and stability in the South China Sea and a "root cause" of unrest in the South China Sea.
The participating experts and scholars stated that China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea have full historical and legal basis. The "South China Sea Arbitration Case" disregards the basic facts of the South China Sea, is a carefully planned political farce, violates international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and is illegal and invalid. All parties in the South China Sea should promote the early conclusion of a "Code of Conduct in the South China Sea" to provide a strong institutional guarantee for maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea.
During the academic exchange, Dalian Maritime University (大连海事大学) released the "China Ocean Rule of Law Development Report (2025)."
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The Cuangling Temple Martyrs' Cemetery (爨岭庙烈士陵园) in Jizhou District (蓟州区), Tianjin (天津), is lush with vegetation. The martyrs' tombstones stand solemnly, and visitors who come to pay their respects walk softly, their expressions solemn. Here lie 102 martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the Cuangling Temple (爨岭庙) breakout battle, including Yang Dazhang (杨大章), the commissioner of the First District Commissioner's Office of the CPC (中共) Jirebian Special Committee (冀热边特委).
Yang Dazhang (杨大章), originally named Yang Shiying (杨士英), also known as Zhang Di (章棣), was born in Tianjin (天津) in 1909. In 1923, he was admitted to Nankai Middle School (南开中学), where he was influenced by progressive ideas during his studies. After the September 18th Incident (九一八事变) in 1931, he actively participated in the anti-Japanese national salvation struggle led by the Party and joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in the same year.
In 1936, he was transferred to the Shanhaiguan (山海关)-Tianjin (天津)-Zhengzhou (郑州) section to be responsible for railway liaison work, taking the opportunity to actively organize and lead the anti-Japanese national salvation association work in the railway section.
After the Lugouqiao Incident (卢沟桥事变), the situation in Tianjin (天津) became increasingly severe. According to the instructions of the Party organization, Yang Dazhang (杨大章) established anti-Japanese national salvation groups in Tianjin (天津), Tangshan (唐山), and other places, printed and distributed anti-Japanese propaganda pamphlets, and conducted patriotic and nationalist education for young railway workers.
In April 1939, Yang Dazhang (杨大章) and his wife, Yan Guozhen (阎国珍) (a CPC (中共) member, alias Yan Zhi (阎志)), went to the Pingxi (平西) Anti-Japanese Base Area to work. In July of the same year, he served as the chief of the Civil Affairs Section of the Sixth Commissioner's Office of Jin-Cha-Ji (晋察冀) (i.e., Pingxi (平西) Commissioner's Office). In 1940, Yang Dazhang (杨大章) concurrently served as the director of the Pingxi (平西) Commissioner's Office Secretariat and was soon transferred to be the county magistrate of Changwan County (昌宛县).
Pingxi (平西) was one of the earliest anti-Japanese base areas established by our Party in the Jin-Cha-Ji (晋察冀) region. The Japanese army began to carry out large-scale "mopping-up" operations in this area starting in 1940. Changwan (昌宛) is where Lugouqiao (卢沟桥) is located, and the enemy implemented a cruel "three alls" policy here. In an extremely harsh environment, Yang Dazhang (杨大章) encouraged everyone to grit their teeth and persevere, and led the people of the county to fight on Baihua Mountain (百花山) and the banks of the Yongding River (永定河).
In 1943, the situation in eastern Hebei (冀东) improved, and most of the basic areas that had been eroded by the enemy were restored, and large new areas were opened up. In order to adapt to the new situation of struggle, in July 1943, the Jirebian Special Committee (冀热边特委) was established, with five local committees and five commissioner's offices under its jurisdiction. Yang Dazhang (杨大章) was appointed as the commissioner of the First District Commissioner's Office.
The First District Commissioner's Office had jurisdiction over four joint counties in western Jirebian (冀热边). After taking office, Yang Dazhang (杨大章) first established a system for the organ's life, work, and study; clarified regulations on reporting, requesting instructions, and inspections; printed and distributed various policies and decrees issued by the border area government; and formulated various measures to consolidate the construction of the base area's political power in light of specific circumstances. The Commissioner's Office also issued an instruction letter on transforming the village political power, pointing out that it is necessary to resolutely eliminate bad elements in the original village political power to ensure the purity of the village cadre team.
On May 16, 1944, in order to rectify local Party organizations and strengthen local political power construction as soon as possible, Yang Dazhang (杨大章), Liao Feng (廖峰), deputy political commissar of the Thirteenth Regiment, and Ji An (季安), secretary of the Jizunxing Joint County (蓟遵兴联合县) Party Committee, led more than 200 district and county cadres into the mountains for a meeting. The meeting place, Tuanshanzi (团山子), was not far from the enemy's Xiaying (下营) stronghold, and enemy agents were rampant. The news of the meeting was quickly learned by the enemy. At about 10:00 a.m. on the 17th, the enemy attacked Tuanshanzi (团山子). Yang Dazhang (杨大章) quickly organized the evacuation. At dawn on the 18th, the team was surrounded by the enemy. Yang Dazhang (杨大章) organized everyone to burn important documents while organizing the guards to cover the county and district cadres to break through to the south.
The commanders and fighters bravely charged through the enemy's artillery fire, tearing open a breakthrough, and some cadres quickly broke through. However, the enemy quickly re-blocked the area. Under the circumstances of being attacked from both sides, Yang Dazhang (杨大章) raised his arms and shouted, "Swear to fight the enemy to the death!" The battle lasted from dawn until nearly noon. When the bullets ran out, they used stones to smash the enemy. In the battle, Yang Dazhang (杨大章) was unfortunately shot and heroically sacrificed his life at the young age of 35.
After the battle, local anti-Japanese cadres and the masses buried the remains of Yang Dazhang (杨大章) and other martyrs on the hillside southwest of Cuangling Temple (爨岭庙), but due to various reasons, only the identities of Yang Dazhang (杨大章) and martyr Zhan Zhong (占中) were confirmed. In 1957, the Cuangling Temple Martyrs' Cemetery (爨岭庙烈士陵园) was built, and the remains of Yang Dazhang (杨大章), Zhan Zhong (占中), and 100 unnamed martyrs were buried in the park. For more than 80 years since the battle, the nearby villagers have silently guarded this unnamed martyrs' tomb.
In 2021, Xiaying Town (下营镇) in Jizhou District (蓟州区), Tianjin (天津), organically connected the Cuangling Temple Martyrs' Cemetery (爨岭庙烈士陵园) and the former site of the Tianjin Broadcasting Station (天津广播电台) war preparedness station in Qingshanling Village (青山岭村), 5 kilometers away, to build a red cultural corridor. Party member cadres in Xiaying Town (下营镇) took on the task of explaining and became voluntary tomb keepers.
Li Qi (李琦), a 26-year-old cadre in Xiaying Town (下营镇), also joined the ranks of tomb keepers after joining the job. She said: "The soldiers cast loyalty with their blood, bravely and heroically. I hope to use new media communication and other methods to let more people know the stories of these 102 martyrs."
(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Tianjin (天津), July 16)
Return to TopBy: 讲述人：云南省大理白族自治州大理市古生村滩地管理员 严炳其
I am a native of Gusheng Village (古生村). In front of our village is the Yangxi River (阳溪), which originates between the Lotus Peak (莲花峰) and Wutai Peak (五台峰) of Cang Mountain (苍山) and eventually flows into Erhai Lake (洱海). Opposite us is Xiangyangxi Village (向阳溪村). A stream serves as the boundary between the two villages, yet it also closely connects us, and we work together to protect the Yangxi River (阳溪) and Erhai Lake (洱海).
In the early years, the Yangxi River (阳溪) was severely polluted, with rampant weed growth. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides from the farmland flowed into the river, and there were also sewage discharges from farms and sand plants along the banks. At that time, I thought, we cannot let this garbage pollute the Yangxi River (阳溪) and Erhai Lake (洱海). In 2015, we had a recruitment here for civilian river guardians, and I applied to become a river channel assistant administrator for the Yangxi River (阳溪).
After becoming an assistant administrator, I would set off before dawn every day to patrol the river and collect garbage. I remember one day in 2018, at 5 a.m., I found that the Yangxi River (阳溪) sluice gate was blocked by weeds, and the water overflowed onto the bank. The weather was still relatively cold at the time, but I didn't think much about it. I only thought that I couldn't let the water flood the village, so I jumped directly into the water and used a sickle to dig open the blocked weeds and clear the sluice gate. The piercingly cold water poured in through my trouser legs, making me shiver. Later, I also became a reservoir administrator and a beach administrator, responsible for cleaning duckweed and collecting blue algae. During the most tiring times, I had to carry two tons of water plants with a shoulder pole every day, and my shoulders were chafed raw. Seeing the Yangxi River (阳溪) in front of my house becoming clearer and clearer, I felt that these hard efforts were worth it.
What really changed the Yangxi River (阳溪) was the systematic governance project carried out by the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture (大理白族自治州). Relevant departments shut down the upstream farms and sand plants, and the village began to promote ecological planting, using organic fertilizers, which reduced non-point source pollution. We built a wetland park at the lake entrance, set up water quality monitoring points along the river, and also laid sewage interception pipe networks for the Yangxi River (阳溪) to collect domestic sewage to the sewage treatment plant.
Over the years, I have personally watched the Yangxi River (阳溪) become clearer little by little, and Erhai Lake (洱海) has become more and more beautiful: in the past, I could collect two tons of water plants a day, but now it is only a few hundred pounds; the water surface, which used to be covered with garbage, can now see small fish swimming; after the wetland park at the lake entrance was built, villagers come to take a walk every day, and tourists also love to take pictures. My small supermarket is located near the Yangxi River (阳溪). In the past, when the river water was dirty, tourists would walk around it, but now there are more tourists in the store, and business is getting better and better.
Now I patrol the river every day, report any abnormal water quality, and pick up garbage when I see it. Even if it is a cigarette butt, I have to bend down and pick it up into a bag. My wife, Li Guangfen (李光芬), always laughs at me for "picking up wherever I go."
Some people ask me, why do I work so hard to patrol and protect the river? I always say, "The Yangxi River (阳溪) flows into Erhai Lake (洱海), and Erhai Lake (洱海) is our mother lake. Protecting the Yangxi River (阳溪) at our doorstep is protecting our lives." Now, when I drive a boat in Erhai Lake (洱海) to collect water plants, the hull划过水面, I can see the clear stream of the Yangxi River (阳溪) flowing into Erhai Lake (洱海), with the sky, clouds, and the reflection of Cang Mountain (苍山) intertwined. I was surprised to realize that the changes in the Yangxi River (阳溪) have carried my 10 years of day and night.
I often say to the new administrators that governing rivers requires as much attention as taking care of children every day. I have already thought about it. As long as the Yangxi River (阳溪) is still flowing, I will stay here until I can't work anymore.
(Reported and compiled by Li Maoying (李茂颖), reporter of this newspaper)
[Reporter's Note]
I first met Yan Bingqi (严炳其) in 2022, when he was wearing work clothes and collecting water plants. When I came back to visit a few years later, except for the gradual reduction in the amount of salvage, the scene was almost the same as it was then. Today, the streams and lakes are crystal clear, with cloud shadows reflected in them.
The changes in the Yangxi River (阳溪) have rejuvenated the landscape of nostalgia in Cang Mountain (苍山) and Erhai Lake (洱海), and have also written a moving chapter of ecological protection. Yan Bingqi (严炳其) has been protecting the river for ten years, turning protection into a daily routine and integrating responsibility into his blood. Under Cang Mountain (苍山) and by Erhai Lake (洱海), there are many people like Yan Bingqi (严炳其). The water of the Yangxi River (阳溪) flows to Erhai Lake (洱海), and their stories also surge with it. Today, on this land, ecological and environmental protection has become a commitment engraved in the bones—only by keeping the streams clear for a long time can we ensure that the beautiful scenery of "Cang Mountain (苍山) is a painting of a thousand autumns without ink, and Erhai Lake (洱海) is a zither of ten thousand ages without strings" can continue for thousands of years and benefit future generations.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
Under the scorching sun, inside the birdwatching cabin on Zhongtiedun Island (中铁墩屿) of the Jiushan Islands (韭山列岛) in Xiangshan County (象山县), Ningbo City (宁波市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), the salty smell of sea breeze mixes with the scent of mosquito repellent as volunteer Zhao Ziyan (赵子嫣) holds a camera, her expression focused.
In the lens, flocks of birds fly up and down, foraging along the waves.
These are Greater Crested Terns, but among them are a few different faces – black-tipped beaks, and upright crests on their heads, resembling "phoenix heads."
"Click," Zhao Ziyan (赵子嫣) presses the shutter, "This is the object we want to record – the Chinese Crested Tern, known as the 'mythical bird'."
The Chinese Crested Tern currently has a population of only about 200, making it one of the rarest birds in the world, and they usually breed in mixed colonies of Greater Crested Terns.
Less than 500 meters from Zhongtiedun Island (中铁墩屿), on Jigu Mountain Island (积谷山岛), there is a simple brick house where volunteers live, allowing them to observe the Chinese Crested Terns in real time.
In the monitoring screen, two motionless Greater Crested Terns caught the reporter's attention. "These two are fake birds. We attract birds to roost and breed by placing fake birds and playing back bird sounds," said volunteer Zhu Xiuhe (朱修禾).
Zhongtiedun Island (中铁墩屿), this small island of 0.02 square kilometers, has become the largest breeding ground for Chinese Crested Terns in the world.
Zhu Xiuhe (朱修禾) opens the monitoring log on the table. In addition to basic information such as tides and weather, the log also records the daily operation of the sound equipment, the number of terns, breeding conditions, and disturbances.
The public recruitment of volunteers for Chinese Crested Tern monitoring work began in 2017, with two batches of four people each year. Volunteers need to monitor the entire process of the terns' arrival, courtship, laying eggs, incubating, raising chicks, and leaving the island.
Extreme heat, mosquitoes, power shortages, and internet outages are all commonplace. "I came to the island at the end of June, and I'm used to it now." Zhu Xiuhe (朱修禾), who is still in college, studies a biology-related major. He became interested in crested terns after a popular science lecture and came here after layers of selection.
"Supplies are here!" Ding Peng (丁鹏), Deputy Director of the Natural Protected Area Management Center of the Xiangshan County (象山县) Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, cruised here and brought drinking water, vegetables and other supplies to the volunteers.
"The conditions used to be even more difficult. Not only was the house dilapidated, but the supply ship only came once every ten or fifteen days," Ding Peng (丁鹏) recalled.
The Chinese Crested Tern was once thought to be extinct, but traces of it were found several times in the Jiushan Islands (韭山列岛), and then disappeared due to human interference and typhoon effects. Since 2013, the Zhejiang Xiangshan Jiushan Islands National Nature Reserve (浙江象山韭山列岛国家级自然保护区) has jointly implemented the Chinese Crested Tern attraction and restoration plan with the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History (浙江自然博物院) and Oregon State University (美国俄勒冈州立大学).
That year, Ding Peng (丁鹏) graduated from university and started his hard work of guarding the island as soon as he came to the reserve. Now, he is no longer fighting alone. "It is estimated that 39 monitoring volunteers have worked on the island. The local area also regularly organizes volunteers to carry out garbage cleaning and other activities on the island," said Ding Peng (丁鹏).
The family of Chinese Crested Terns on the island is also constantly growing. The number of adult birds attracted has increased from 19 in the first year to 109 in 2024. As of 2024, the reserve has cumulatively hatched 209 Chinese Crested Tern chicks, accounting for more than 80% of the global total.
At the end of April this year, a new round of Chinese Crested Tern attraction and population restoration work was launched, and a maximum of 40 Chinese Crested Terns were observed at one time "settling" in the Zhongtiedun Island (中铁墩屿) attraction site.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄 超 郭晓龙
A brief shower has just ended, and the "Eight Women Throwing Themselves into the River" (八女投江) sculpture in Mudanjiang (牡丹江), Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Province, stands solemn and respectful.
Several cleaners quickly sweep away the fallen leaves around the sculpture. "We sweep as soon as the rain stops," says cleaner Wu Qingdong (吴庆东), adding that this daily maintenance is a sincere tribute to the heroic martyrs.
More than eighty years have passed, and on the banks of the Ussuri River (乌斯浑河), this land once stained with the blood of martyrs is bursting with a powerful vitality that transcends time and space.
**Tempered by Blood:** An Eternal Moment Etched in the Nation's Memory
Entering the memorial hall opposite the sculpture, a replica of a Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrilla diary is quietly displayed. The diary bears the marks of time, with faded ink on its pages: "The women Leng Yun (冷云), Yang Guizhen (杨贵珍), and others, eight in total, all drowned themselves in the river and sacrificed their lives... In the future, there should be a monument to these heroic women on the banks of the Mudanjiang River (牡丹江) near the Ussuri River (乌斯浑河)." These words, written by Anti-Japanese Allied Forces General Zhou Baozhong (周保中), serve as a powerful footnote to that period of history.
"The eight heroic female soldiers who bravely sacrificed themselves were Leng Yun (冷云), the political instructor of the Women's Corps of the Fifth Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, squad leaders Hu Xiuzhi (胡秀芝) and Yang Guizhen (杨贵珍), soldiers Guo Guiqin (郭桂琴), Huang Guiqing (黄桂清), Wang Huimin (王惠民), Li Fengshan (李凤善), and An Shunfu (安顺福), the director of the clothing factory," explained narrator Hu Yao (胡尧) with deep emotion. "Among them, the youngest, Wang Huimin (王惠民), was only 13 years old, yet she shouldered the great cause of the nation with her tender shoulders and resolutely chose to face the national crisis with her comrades."
Inside the exhibition hall, exhibits weathered by time silently recount the fiery years of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces: coats worn, simple weapons used... Visitors often stop to look, as if returning to the intense battlefield. Li Likun (李立昆), a visitor from Guangdong (广东), softly reads the artifact descriptions, his voice trembling slightly: "The loyal souls are immortal. Fortunately, these records, written with tears of blood, have prevented the heroic deeds from being buried in the smoke of war."
In 1938, the flames of the Anti-Japanese War spread across the land of Northeast China. In order to crush the "Three Rivers Great Extermination" campaign of the Japanese and puppet troops, the Second Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces decided to launch a western expedition. Leng Yun (冷云) led seven comrades to fight alongside the First Division of the Fifth Army. In October of that year, when the troops reached the banks of the Ussuri River (乌斯浑河), they were surrounded by more than a thousand Japanese and puppet troops due to a traitor's betrayal.
"They could have hidden and crossed the river, but they chose to use their lives to cover their comrades," said Yu Chunfang (于春芳), an 83-year-old researcher of Anti-Japanese Allied Forces history, unable to suppress her emotions whenever she speaks of this. At that time, the eight female soldiers, having reached the riverbank, gave up crossing the river in order to cover the main force. Led by Leng Yun (冷云), they took the initiative to open fire on the enemy, attracting fierce fire. The main force was able to break through the encirclement, but they were trapped on the riverbank.
When their ammunition was exhausted and they had no reinforcements, the female soldiers vowed to die rather than surrender in the face of the Japanese and puppet troops' demand to "capture them alive." They destroyed their guns, linked arms, shoulder to shoulder, and stepped into the bone-chilling, turbulent Ussuri River (乌斯浑河), sacrificing themselves heroically.
After decades of rigorous research, Yu Chunfang (于春芳) has reconstructed more details: four of the female soldiers were members of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), Wang Huimin (王惠民) always loved to hum the nursery rhymes of her hometown during marches... "When lecturing in grassroots units, many cadres and the masses wanted to know more stories behind the 'Eight Women Throwing Themselves into the River,' which motivated me to constantly collect historical materials and organize the heroic deeds."
**Youthful Relay:** From Young Pioneers to Epic Dance Drama
On the bank of the Ussuri River (乌斯浑河) in Linkou County (林口县), Mudanjiang (牡丹江) City, a line of Young Pioneer narrators walks along the "Eight Women Throwing Themselves into the River" martyrdom site. Wang Zhiqiao (王祉乔), a Young Pioneer from Junsheng School (骏升学校) in Diaoling Town (刁翎镇), tiptoes to place white chrysanthemums in front of the monument engraved with "The Heroic Souls of the Eight Women Shine Through the Ages," and turns to explain to visitors: "In the past, our hometown experienced a cruel war. The Japanese invaders attempted to occupy our homeland, committing arson, murder, looting, and all kinds of evil..."
Over the years, this township school, not far from the site, has integrated the red gene into its bloodline: opening the school-based textbook "The Souls of the Eight Heroic Women," the "Fiery Years in the Memory of Our Hometown" unit vividly reproduces the bloody battles of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces; the school's group exercises incorporate the "Flame Relay" formation, with the commentary beginning with "This is the spiritual highland built by the Eight Heroic Women with their lives"; training a group of Young Pioneers to serve as Young Pioneer narrators, telling people the stories of the heroes...
Teenagers are the future of the country and the hope of the nation. Doing a good job in patriotic education for teenagers is a fundamental plan to cultivate the roots and cast the soul, and ensure that the red country will have successors. In recent years, schools at all levels and types in Mudanjiang (牡丹江) City have actively guided the new era of youth to carry forward the great spirit of the Anti-Japanese War and cultivate a sense of home and country.
In the concert hall of Mudanjiang Normal University (牡丹江师范学院), the 53rd performance of the epic dance drama "Never Extinguished Belief" is underway, with more than 120 college students from the School of Music and Dance participating. In the third act, "The Souls of the Eight Heroic Women," student Ji Meng (纪萌) plays Leng Yun (冷云), leading her comrades into the Ussuri River (乌斯浑河). "It is an honor to die for the motherland!" The tragic words resound throughout the hall.
"On the eve of the premiere in 2016, Li Min (李敏), a female soldier of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in her nineties, and more than a dozen veterans of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces also came," said instructor Yin Maoyuan (尹茂源), opening a yellowed creation notebook. This literary and artistic work has become the "first lesson of the school year" for new students, and more than 1,600 students have participated in the creation and performance.
"In the past 10 years, the actors have changed batch after batch. The continuous injection of young blood has stimulated new artistic creativity and contemporary understanding," said Yin Maoyuan (尹茂源). The college has listed the work as a compulsory course and has also derived choral works such as "A Broadsword and a Gun."
The children's voices of Junsheng School (骏升学校) echo on the riverbank, and the students of Mudanjiang Normal University (牡丹江师范学院) use their dance to reproduce the heroic souls. The red memory is passed on from generation to generation...
**Industrial Revitalization:** The Ussuri River (乌斯浑河) Banks Are Full of Vitality
According to the Linkou County (林口县) Chronicles, geese have been raised here for more than 2,100 years. However, in those years, the Japanese invaders implemented the inhumane "consolidation of villages," and goose farmers were driven into "collective settlements," destroying the foundation of the industry. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, local production gradually recovered. In recent years, the cadres and masses of Linkou County (林口县) have carried forward the great spirit of the Anti-Japanese War, allowing this land to radiate with vitality.
Arriving at the Si Village Smart Goose Farm in Guzhen Town (古城镇), Linkou County (林口县), Xu Jinghai (徐井海), chairman of the Haihua Goose Breeding Professional Cooperative, opens the door to the constant temperature incubation room. The temperature is 37.8 degrees Celsius, the humidity is 65%, and the electronic screen on the wall displays real-time data. The downy goslings chirp and probe with their beaks.
"Goslings are 'golden beans'!" Xu Jinghai (徐井海) smiles, his eyes squinting as he holds a newly hatched gosling. In the past, goose farming relied on the weather, but now the mobile phone APP receives warnings from the Cold Region Ecological Goose Service Center at any time. Last winter, the service center used drone thermal imaging to discover an abnormal temperature in a goose house and sent a technical team overnight to repair it, avoiding hundreds of thousands of yuan in losses.
At the construction site in Zhenxi Village (镇西村), Linkou Town (林口镇), tower cranes are hoisting prefabricated panels, and a modern base with an annual incubation of 5 million goslings is about to rise.
Linkou County (林口县) has established an industrial fund, innovated financial products such as "Goose Industry Loan" and breeding insurance, and has issued a total of more than 300 million yuan in subsidies in three years; the Cold Region Ecological Goose Service Center is located in the mountains, with drones patrolling the goose sheds; "Lincheng Snow Goose" flies to dining tables in many places, and 39 goose restaurants sell 600,000 geese a year...
Even more amazing is the transformation of goose feathers. Stepping into a goose down processing workshop in Linkou County (林口县) is like being in a snow country. Qu Zhilong (曲志龙), a villager from Qingshan Village (青山村), Qingshan Town (青山镇), works here as a sorter, skillfully putting the down into different hoppers: "Plumes are used to make badminton shuttlecocks, down is used to make down jackets, and broken down can also be used to extract protein powder." He holds up a handful of goose down and says: "Our goose feathers have tenacity! The down is large and the stems are thin, and the fluffiness is 50% higher than ordinary goose down, selling for 30,000 yuan more per ton."
Look! Sea buckthorn berries flow with orange-yellow liquid, sublimating on modern production lines, with a planting area maintained at 70,000 mu. Taste! Fresh corn bursts with sweet and glutinous juice, and harvesting figures flash between the green gauze tents, with an annual processing volume of more than 90 million ears... The revitalization of rural industries in Linkou County (林口县) is booming.
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As the setting sun spreads over the banks of the Ussuri River (乌斯浑河), the renovation project of the "Eight Women Throwing Themselves into the River" Memorial Hall is coming to an end, and workers carefully start testing the lights. The new exhibition will use technologies such as projection to dynamically present the battle scenes of that year.
A new batch of Young Pioneer narrators come to rehearse, and their clear children's voices echo in front of the memorial hall. The spirit of the eight female soldiers who guarded the mountains and rivers of the motherland transcends time and space, illuminating the way forward, and inspiring the children of the Ussuri River (乌斯浑河) to continue writing a magnificent chapter worthy of the martyrs and worthy of the times on the journey of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Nanning (南宁) July 19th dispatch (Reporter Pang Geping (庞革平)) On July 19th, the AI Empowering Thousands of Industries Super League (hereinafter referred to as "AI Super League") was launched in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西). With the theme of "AI Guangxi (广西) AI China (中国) AI ASEAN," the AI Super League is jointly organized by government, enterprises, and universities. Based on industry characteristics and rooted in Guangxi (广西) while facing ASEAN, the AI Super League has set up three tracks: "Scenario Breakthrough" application innovation, "Bidding to Win" industrial propositions, and "AI Everyone Creates" national challenge. It aims to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence technology and the real economy, promote the aggregation of innovation resources and the transformation of achievements, create a new ecosystem for artificial intelligence technology applications, and better serve the construction of a closer China (中国)-ASEAN community with a shared future.
According to reports, since the beginning of this year, Guangxi (广西) has seized the opportunity for the development of artificial intelligence, efficiently connecting international and domestic resources and markets. It has released 16 "Artificial Intelligence +" action open scenario lists, coordinated the Guangxi (广西) "Artificial Intelligence +" industrial investment promotion action, actively created a batch of iconic intelligent products and vertical field demonstration application scenarios, and promoted the landing and aggregation of small but special, small but beautiful, and small but refined artificial intelligence innovation products and service projects, accelerating the construction of a high ground for artificial intelligence cooperation facing ASEAN.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on July 19th (Reporter Zhao Cheng (赵成)) - The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission (中央纪委国家监委) published a message on the 19th, announcing the supervision, inspection, review, and investigation situation of national discipline inspection and supervision agencies in the first half of 2025. In the first half of 2025, national discipline inspection and supervision agencies filed 521,000 cases and punished 420,000 people, including 30 provincial and ministerial-level cadres.
The announcement showed that in the first half of 2025, national discipline inspection and supervision agencies received 1,906,000 letters and visits reporting violations, including 589,000 letters and visits reporting accusations. 1,206,000 pieces of problematic clues were handled. 521,000 cases were filed, including 43 cases against provincial and ministerial-level cadres, 2,335 cases against department and bureau-level cadres, 20,000 cases against county and division-level cadres, and 68,000 cases against township and section-level cadres; 48,000 cases were filed against current or former village Party branch secretaries and village committee directors. 420,000 people were punished, including 313,000 with Party disciplinary actions and 136,000 with administrative disciplinary actions; 30 provincial and ministerial-level cadres, 1,876 department and bureau-level cadres, 15,000 county and division-level cadres, 51,000 township and section-level cadres, 55,000 general cadres, and 298,000 other personnel from rural areas, enterprises, etc. were punished.
According to the announcement, in the first half of 2025, national discipline inspection and supervision agencies used the "four forms" to criticize, educate, and handle 843,000 person-times. Among them, the first form was used to criticize, educate, and handle 417,000 person-times, accounting for 49.4% of the total; the second form was used to handle 341,000 person-times, accounting for 40.4%; the third form was used to handle 42,000 person-times, accounting for 5%; and the fourth form was used to handle 43,000 person-times, accounting for 5.2%. At the same time, adhering to investigating bribery and offering bribes together, 16,000 people who offered bribes were filed, and 1,990 people were transferred to the procuratorate.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张腾扬
With the sound of a starting gun, the 2025 Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) Smart Factory Half Marathon began. At the Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) Xushui (徐水) Smart Factory in Baoding (保定), Hebei (河北) Province, over ten thousand runners passed through the stamping, welding, and final assembly workshops, heading towards the high-speed test track.
Inside the workshops, on both sides of the track, rows of robotic arms waved in an orderly fashion, and intelligent transport vehicles moved nimbly... Intelligent equipment formed a unique industrial landscape.
"I was running slowly and fell behind. The robotic arm next to me recognized this and displayed the word 'Cheer' on the screen to encourage me!" said an employee of the company who participated in the race.
Today, robots can efficiently complete a series of automated tasks such as welding, transferring, handling, and applying adhesive to car bodies. Smart manufacturing is deeply integrated into all aspects of Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) production lines. Through continuous independent innovation, Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) has achieved independent research and development and manufacturing of key components such as engines, transmissions, and power batteries.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "To promote the high-quality development of China's automobile manufacturing industry, we must strengthen independent research and development of key core technologies and key components, achieve technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, and strengthen and expand national brands."
In thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) has always insisted on keeping key core technologies in its own hands, with its business covering the entire value chain of vehicle and component design, research and development, production, sales, and service. In 2024, Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) revenue reached 202.195 billion yuan, an increase of 16.73% year-on-year. In the first half of this year, Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) sold nearly 570,000 new vehicles, a steady year-on-year increase.
**铆足一股劲** (mǎo zú yī gǔ jìn - "muster all strength," to exert all one's energy and effort), key core technologies must be firmly in our own hands.
In 2024, Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) R&D investment reached 10.4 billion yuan, exceeding 10 billion yuan for three consecutive years, accounting for 5.2% of sales. Currently, Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) has an engineering team of 23,000 people, with an average of one engineer for every four employees.
Walking into Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) environmental wind tunnel laboratory, inside the sealed chamber, new test vehicles are undergoing simulated scenarios of strong light exposure, high-temperature exposure, torrential rain, and violent wind. Outside the laboratory, technicians are closely monitoring the various data rolling in real-time on the large screen.
"Our environmental wind tunnel laboratory includes 35 subsystems such as wind turbines, chassis dynamometers, temperature and humidity control systems, solar simulation systems, and control systems," said Li Can (李灿), head of the Environmental Simulation Test Section of the Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) Technology Center. "It can simulate extreme temperatures from minus 40 degrees Celsius to plus 60 degrees Celsius, and the maximum wind speed can reach 250 kilometers per hour. By simulating complex climates around the world, it allows new car R&D technology to reach high standards and adapt to the global market."
The environmental wind tunnel laboratory reflects Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) emphasis on technological research and development. The company has invested nearly 10 billion yuan to build a test center with more than 2,000 test capabilities in the fields of new energy and thermal management, as well as a crash safety laboratory and a comprehensive test site.
"Electrification and artificial intelligence technologies have brought new development opportunities to the automotive industry," said Wei Jianjun (魏建军), Chairman of Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd. (长城汽车股份有限公司). In recent years, Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) has focused on intelligent technology for new energy vehicles, creating an end-to-end large model, a new generation of artificial intelligence data intelligence system, and the Jiuzhou (九州) Supercomputing Center. Its self-developed new generation of intelligent driving assistance system provides intelligent assisted driving in scenarios ranging from urban to rural areas and from driving to parking. "We insist on taking technology as the engine of development and are committed to promoting research and development innovation."
**拧成一股绳** (níng chéng yī gǔ shéng - "twist into one rope," to unite efforts and work together), strengthen the automotive industry through vertical integration.
In the 1990s, Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) was still a small factory producing pickup trucks, and key components such as engines and transmissions relied on external procurement. To cope with this situation, Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) successively established internal combustion engine companies and component companies, improving its research and development and production capabilities through supply chain integration.
However, new problems arose. Component companies relied on internal vehicle orders and lacked the motivation for research and development, resulting in costs higher than external suppliers and insufficient innovation capabilities.
In 2018, all of Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) component companies became independent. After independence, the component companies were unable to obtain orders from Great Wall Motor (长城汽车). "That period was really difficult," said Zhang Dehui (张德慧), Chairman of Nobo Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (诺博汽车系统有限公司). "We jointly bid with foreign companies for Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) business and had to work hard to improve product quality standards. It took several years to achieve mass production matching."
However, it was precisely this change that brought new development opportunities to the company. The company began supplying international first-class companies such as BMW (宝马汽车) of Germany, entering the global supply chain.
Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) took the lead in vertical integration. After 35 years of development, the company has built a complete supply chain system that can assist each other and recycle resources. "Strengthening the automotive industry is not only about the production and technology ends, but also about forming our own unique competitiveness on the channel and user sides. Suppliers and distributors are not only our partners, but also comrades-in-arms who 'fight side by side'. We must make good use of digital technology to achieve full ecological synergy and optimization," said Wei Jianjun (魏建军). "In the future, our key competition will be upgraded from the competition of the industrial chain to the competition of the industrial ecosystem."
**争上一口气** (zhēng shàng yī kǒu qì - "vie for a breath," to strive for success and recognition), set sail overseas and shine the Chinese brand.
"This car has a range of 200 kilometers on a single charge and a fuel consumption of only 7 liters per 100 kilometers. The sound system is surround stereo and has a built-in artificial intelligence large model. It is also equipped with a 12.5-liter independent refrigerator with a minimum temperature of zero degrees Celsius..." In May of this year, visiting foreign guests viewed new models such as the Gaoshan (高山), Tank (坦克) 300 Hi4-T, and Haval (哈弗) H9.
Wei Jianjun (魏建军) introduced that the São Paulo (圣保罗) factory in Brazil (巴西), which will be put into production in the middle of the year, will have an annual production capacity of 50,000 new energy vehicles, creating 2,000 jobs. The factory adopts intelligent and digital production methods, and its products include pure electric and hybrid power forms, and are equipped with advanced intelligent network connection technology.
Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) "ecological going global" model has attracted attention. Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) believes that internationalization is not about exporting goods, but about exporting brands; it is not about exporting products, but about exporting industries. The internationalization strategy has also been upgraded from product export and overseas direct investment to building complete vehicle production bases with complete processes overseas, realizing a full industrial chain global layout integrating research and development, production, supply, sales, and service, creating a truly global brand, and realizing "ecological going global."
Today, at Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) Rayong (罗勇) New Energy Factory in Thailand (泰国), the new ORA (欧拉) Good Cat pure electric vehicle with a localization rate of over 50% is continuously rolling off the production line.
The factory is Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) second overseas complete vehicle manufacturing base after the Tula (图拉) factory in Russia (俄罗斯), and its first overseas new energy vehicle production base. It covers an area of 658,800 square meters and has a planned first-phase annual production capacity of 80,000 vehicles. Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) strictly follows global manufacturing standards, introduces advanced production, quality management, environmental protection, and information technology concepts, and uses cutting-edge equipment and technology to achieve comprehensive intelligent upgrading of the factory.
Nairong (乃隆), General Manager of Marketing for Great Wall Motor (长城汽车) in Thailand (泰国), said: "Every Chinese automobile company that goes overseas represents the image of Chinese manufacturing and is China's business card. Chinese brand new energy vehicles are accelerating the transformation of Thailand (泰国) into an electric vehicle society, allowing more Thai consumers to experience electric vehicles."
Currently, Great Wall Motor's (长城汽车) global sales network covers more than 170 countries and regions, with more than 1,400 overseas sales channels, cumulative overseas sales exceeding 2 million vehicles, and more than 15 million global users. In 2024, overseas sales reached 450,000 vehicles.
Return to TopAhead of this year's May Fourth Youth Day, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), in his reply to all members of the Western China Program volunteer service team stationed at the border in Xietite Primary School (谢依特小学), Halajun Township (哈拉峻乡), Artux City (阿图什市), Xinjiang (新疆), encouraged young people to "shine and generate heat in the places where the motherland and the people need them most, and contribute their youthful strength to the construction of Chinese-style modernization."
To promote high-quality development in the western region, the continuous struggle and practical dedication of young people are indispensable. In recent years, a large number of post-00s have chosen to go to the west, take root at the grassroots level, and grow and develop in the vast world. Why did they choose the hot land of the west, and what growth have they gained here? Recently, reporters approached young post-00s who are devoted to the construction of the west to hear their stories and thoughts on growth.
—Editor
"The Western China Experience Reshaped Me"
By Li Yanan (李亚楠), reporter of this newspaper
Two years ago, standing on the campus of Jinzhong Normal College (晋中师范高等专科学校) in Shanxi (山西), Yan Zefeng (闫泽峰), a post-00s student, still had confusion about graduation until he saw a Western China Program poster on the bulletin board.
"It is very meaningful to go to the border areas to gain experience!" the counselor said.
"Young people should do something meaningful!" his grandfather also encouraged him.
Yan Zefeng no longer hesitated and submitted the application form.
From his hometown of Shanxi (山西) to Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture (克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州) in Xinjiang (新疆), the distance of more than 3,000 kilometers refreshed Yan Zefeng's life radius. Plane, then car, then rural line car, the more he went, the more desolate it became. Finally, Yan Zefeng arrived at Xietite Primary School (谢依特小学), only 47 kilometers away from the border.
The school's spacious and bright classrooms, brand-new desks and chairs, and multimedia equipment made Yan Zefeng feel a little relieved. However, a classroom exchange with the children made him realize that the students' basic Chinese language skills were still relatively weak. "There are still many, many things I need to do." Yan Zefeng made up his mind at that time.
If the pronunciation of new words was inaccurate, Yan Zefeng demonstrated it again and again, asking the students to read along; if the grammar could not be understood, he combined simple examples to explain the rules; if the students' levels were uneven, he assigned layered assignments, provided one-on-one tutoring for students with learning difficulties, and regularly displayed learning results to enhance students' confidence and sense of achievement...
After a period of time, Yan Zefeng found that after the teachers finished teaching at school, the children lacked parental supervision when they returned home, and lacked effective review sessions. He and his teammates promoted the formation of a virtuous cycle of cooperation between home and school through repeated home visits and patient communication.
A year later, the learning atmosphere in the class became more intense. "The tangible changes and improvements have also given parents hope," Yan Zefeng said. Parents' trust in teachers is also gradually increasing: "We are very relieved to let our children follow you!"
Once after school, all the children had gone home, leaving only one student in the classroom. Yan Zefeng asked him why he didn't go home. The student said, "Teacher, no one is at home right now. Can I just do my homework at school?" Yan Zefeng took him to the office, tutored him in his homework, and then sent him home. "Teacher, I'm not afraid to walk at night with you." On the way, the student held Yan Zefeng's hand and said. Yan Zefeng sighed that compared to preaching, education with warmth is more likely to move people.
It was not only Yan Zefeng who made efforts. The students' compositions often included "I want to be like Teacher Yan." Last winter, after a heavy snowfall, several naughty students secretly followed Yan Zefeng to the office with their hands behind their backs. Yan Zefeng thought the children were going to "sneak attack" him with snowballs. "Unexpectedly, they took out a rose made of snow from behind. At that time, I couldn't help but shed tears," Yan Zefeng said. This is the brilliant flower he cultivated with his heart and affection.
"Teacher, will you leave?" As the time of teaching support passed, the children always asked this question. "The western teaching experience has reshaped me: from an impatient college student to a patient teacher, from only focusing on myself to understanding the value of 'being needed'," Yan Zefeng said. With one year left before the end of the three-year term, Yan Zefeng made a decision: to apply for a teaching position in Xinjiang (新疆).
"The parents of the students are mostly border guards. Parents guard the border, and we escort the future of the children!" Yan Zefeng said that from the initial nosebleeds caused by dryness to now being adapted to the local climate, and the children's grades are also improving little by little, he feels happy from the bottom of his heart.
Yan Zefeng is not the only one fighting together. Since August 2022, college graduates from all over the country have gathered at Xietite Primary School (谢依特小学) to form a volunteer service team for the Western China Program stationed at the border. A group of volunteers left after their service period expired, and a new group of volunteers joined. "The youth of struggle will always shine in the places where the motherland needs them most!" Yan Zefeng said.
"This Hot Land Is Worth Rushing To"
By Zhang Wen (张文), reporter of this newspaper
Every pipe and every instrument, Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮) carefully checks and registers, not letting go of any dead corners. Despite the hot weather and being covered in sweat, she still meticulously performs equipment inspection work. This post-00s employee of the Guoneng Ningmei Coal-to-Oil Plant (国能宁煤煤制油厂) Power Plant is now an experienced "old technician."
In recent years, the western region has seen rapid industrial development and continuous improvement of infrastructure, providing better and better conditions for young people to start businesses, live and work, attracting a large number of young people, including Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮), to pursue their dreams. Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮) grew up in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) and later studied at the School of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology (浙江工业大学). During her studies, Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮) learned from the news that a coal-to-oil industrial project that converts coal into oil products was stably put into production on the Gobi Desert south of Yinchuan (银川), Ningxia (宁夏). This gave Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮) the idea of devoting herself to it: "How great it would be if I could apply what I have learned and contribute to industrial development."
In 2023, Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮) joined the Guoneng Ningmei Coal-to-Oil Plant (国能宁煤煤制油厂) Power Plant. To this day, she still remembers how she felt on the day she reported to the factory: the wind of the Gobi Desert wrapped in rough sand hit her face, and various pipes crisscrossed.
After being assigned to the turbine post in the workshop, listening to the steam roaring in the pipes, and seeing the turbine more than 10 meters high standing in front of her like a steel behemoth, she had deep worries at that moment—could she be competent for this post?
In order to get into the role as soon as possible, her notebook was initially filled with technical terms. The mentor in the workshop saw her unease, patiently explained the operating principle of the turbine, and taught her the "look, smell, ask, and feel" process of equipment inspection.
From then on, she often ran between the unit and the pipes, recognizing equipment, matching pipes, running processes, and recording parameters. Gradually, she became more and more skilled and calm when inspecting independently. She could not only "look in all directions" to check whether the equipment had "running, leaking, dripping," but also listen carefully to whether the steam roaring caused severe vibration of the pipes, and also pay attention to whether the parameter fluctuations on the central control panel were within the specified range...
Last year, Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮) was selected by the workshop to join the "black screen operation" tackling project team. "Black screen operation" refers to the realization of production automation management by optimizing alarms and operations, improving efficiency and safety. However, frequent alarms and invalid alarms of the device became "stumbling blocks" on the road to tackling. In order to overcome this technical bottleneck, she joined the project team members to jointly tackle the problem. During the two-month on-site measurement and inspection, she repeatedly volunteered to drill into the narrow pipe gaps with her body arched, carefully measuring each piece of equipment. Finally, with her assistance, the project team eliminated more than 20 abnormal faults and successfully completed the alarm value calibration and correction.
"This process made me truly feel that every technical specification in the process operation regulations is derived from countless practices and cannot tolerate the slightest carelessness," Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮) said.
Today, with the efforts of the post-00s "old technician" Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮) and her colleagues, the factory's coal-to-oil project products have expanded to 5 categories and 21 types. "The hot land of the west is worth rushing to. This is a stage to display youth, and ordinary people can also create shining achievements here," Ouyang Chenni (欧阳辰妮) said. Every nail, every rivet, every steel, and every frame in the workshop will continue to witness her unrepentant life of displaying youth in the field of industrial production.
"Take Root Here Like a Poplar Tree"
By Qiao Dong (乔栋), reporter of this newspaper
In mid-July, there are many large mosquitoes in the desert Gobi in Wutumeiren Township (乌图美仁乡), Golmud City (格尔木市), Qinghai (青海). Ma Xuemei (马学梅), a post-00s village doctor, packed her medicine kit, tightened her sunscreen clothing, and put on a mask in "full armor" to prepare for a visit. Not long after going out, a layer of mosquitoes covered her white sleeves. Today, she will visit Grandpa Xu (许大爷) in Ankang Village (安康村) who suffers from high blood pressure.
In the distance are the majestic and continuous Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山), and on both sides is the endless "sandy Gobi desert." "Especially in winter and spring, the yellow sand covers the sky when the wind blows," Ma Xuemei (马学梅) joked, "I've gotten used to it now, and I wrap my whole body tightly when I go out."
After graduating from Qinghai Health Vocational and Technical College (青海卫生职业技术学院) in 2022, Ma Xuemei (马学梅), 20, interned as a general practice assistant at the Second People's Hospital of Xining (西宁市第二人民医院). During this period, she also studied on her own and passed the adult undergraduate examination of Qinghai University (青海大学). In 2024, a chance encounter led her to see a notice for recruiting village doctors in Golmud City (格尔木市). With a try-it-out mentality, she signed up for the exam and passed it smoothly. "Someone has to go to remote areas. I'm still young and I think this job is very challenging," Ma Xuemei (马学梅) said.
The reality is much harder than she imagined. "I peeled off a layer of skin after only two days in Golmud (格尔木)," Ma Xuemei (马学梅) said. Located on the plateau, Ma Xuemei (马学梅) soon experienced chest tightness and sleeplessness. But she is very optimistic: "Poplar trees can adapt, and I can adapt too."
Grandpa Xu (许大爷) is over 70 years old. When he saw Ma Xuemei (马学梅), he propped himself up from the kang and greeted her warmly: "Girl, you are busy every day, and I always have to trouble you." Ma Xuemei (马学梅) asked about his recent medication situation while neatly tying a blood pressure cuff on him. One night not long ago, Grandpa Xu (许大爷) suddenly had a headache. Without saying a word, Ma Xuemei (马学梅) walked more than 3 kilometers back and forth to deliver medicine to his door.
"Aren't you afraid? Wolves have entered our village in the middle of the night," Ma Xuemei (马学梅) scratched her head, "When I received the call, I didn't have time to think so much. In fact, being a village doctor is very good for training people. I can now handle many situations independently."
In March of this year, Ma Xuemei (马学梅), who was on duty, was awakened in the middle of the night by a "咚咚" knocking sound. When she opened the door, she saw a young man passing by from Xinjiang (新疆) covered in sweat, carrying his mother inside. Ma Xuemei (马学梅) initially judged that "the patient had difficulty breathing due to altitude sickness." She brought an oxygen concentrator tube to help the patient inhale oxygen. "The high pressure has reached more than 200, and oxygen inhalation has not improved." Ma Xuemei (马学梅) quickly called the People's Hospital of Golmud City (格尔木市人民医院), "I have a patient here who urgently needs to be transferred to the hospital for treatment." She issued a referral note, took close care of the patient, and finally the patient recovered.
Golmud City (格尔木市) has established a close-knit medical community, establishing a complete communication system from city-level hospitals to township health centers and village doctors. This is very helpful for Ma Xuemei's (马学梅) growth: "Doctors from other hospitals can conduct remote consultations, and I can also participate in long-term business communication training."
Health science popularization is a very important task for village doctors. In addition to distributing leaflets, Ma Xuemei (马学梅) also downloaded mobile phone video editing software. "I learned to edit some science popularization videos and forward them in the village group, and the effect is not bad," Ma Xuemei (马学梅) said happily.
In summer, the poplar forest becomes a beautiful green landscape in the desert. "I like the poplar forest here. Even when the leaves are falling and withered, it can still show amazing colors with its tenacity. I want to take root here like a poplar tree and bloom my own light," Ma Xuemei (马学梅) said.
Return to TopBy: 吴 月
I still remember that summer more than 10 years ago—I received the admission letter from the postman, took the train with my parents to register at the university, put down my luggage, waved goodbye, and turned around to face the overwhelming college life. That was an important summer in my life, and many changes started from there.
This year's college entrance examination results have gradually been released, and university admission letters are flying to thousands of households. On social media, some students are showing off their joy of success, while others are a little disappointed and asking about changing majors. In fact, whether you are proud or frustrated, the college entrance examination is by no means the end of your struggle, but the starting point of a new life. Standing at the gate of the university, travel light, start again, and there is more scenery ahead.
Starting again requires the courage to "return to zero" and the resilience to face setbacks. Life will not always be smooth sailing because of the success of one exam, nor will it fall to the bottom because of the failure of one exam. Correctly treating temporary success or failure, not being arrogant in good times, and not losing ambition when frustrated, is a "required course" on the road to growth.
Vibrant youth is not defined by scores. Perhaps you have not been able to enter your ideal university or major at the moment, but there are still many possibilities in the future—
Physicist Xue Qikun (薛其坤) succeeded in "landing ashore" after 3 postgraduate entrance exams, and his firm belief allowed him to overcome setbacks; writer Yu Hua (余华) failed in the college entrance examination, but later changed his destiny through literature; national model worker Yang Yongxiu (杨永修) also failed in the college entrance examination, and after repeating a year, he entered a vocational school to study numerical control, and became a technical expert all the way... If the current situation is not satisfactory, you may wish to look forward, the road is still very long; you may also wish to look outward, there is more than one road, and every track may lead to a shining life. Just as Wang Xingxing (王兴兴), the founder of Yushu Technology (宇树科技), suggested to college entrance examination candidates: "Please do not give up trying to find what you like and are good at, look for new directions, and please be sure to work hard to practice."
Starting again means 追风赶月莫停留 (zhuī fēng gǎn yuè mò tíng liú - "chase the wind and catch the moon, don't stop," to seize every minute). Entering university, facing new ways of learning and living, don't stop your struggle.
Listen to the stories of the graduates who just graduated this year: At the Tsinghua University (清华大学) undergraduate graduation ceremony, graduate representative Dang Jie (党杰) recalled that in the first professional course, other students talked eloquently in the "flipped classroom," but she didn't know where to start. Facing difficulties and with the help of teachers and friends, she adapted to the highly challenging learning; at the Peking University (北京大学) graduation ceremony, Jiang Changyan (蒋昌焱), a graduate representative from the mountainous area, shared that after leaving the mountains, he joined the army in the university and guarded the motherland's sea frontier, and returned to school to participate in many volunteer services, and found his own path in rich practice.
The first time to travel far away, the first time to choose a course, the first time to have a roommate, the first time to intern... Many life experiences start from university. Learning is endless, from the "track" arranged by others to the "wilderness" full of choices, from attending classes in an orderly manner to independently exploring the unknown, from having standard solutions to "correct answers everywhere," university "freshmen" need to adjust and adapt as soon as possible, take steady steps, and start again.
Starting again is actually a common state in life. Not only is the college entrance examination like this, but there are many turns in the canyon: it may be an important competition in the future, it may be to go to a new school for further study, it may be to a new job position, the tension before the start, the anxiety when waiting for the results, and the calmness after the dust settles, you and I will experience again. In fact, these turning points often contain new opportunities. Experience the psychological quality of being indifferent to honor and disgrace, strengthen the indomitable spirit of enterprise, maintain an optimistic and upward mental state, and you will be more confident and more active when you start again, and welcome better scenery.
Graduation, further education, employment... For many young people, this summer is a new starting point in life. Starting again from here, the road ahead is long and full of miracles.
Return to TopBy: 徐振朋
I was born into an ordinary farming family in Ulanqab (乌兰察布市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古自治区). My most unforgettable childhood memories are of working in the fields with my parents, my feet treading on the soft soil.
After graduating with a doctorate in 2017, my supervisor encouraged me to stay in academia and conduct research. But I kept thinking about what the villagers had said to me: "Xu (徐) boy, can you use what you've learned to help us?" I wanted to use technology to repay the land that nurtured me. In the end, I packed my bags and returned to Ulanqab (乌兰察布), becoming a researcher at the Municipal Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (市农林科学研究所).
When I first arrived at the institute, I discovered that local herders had long relied on grass seeds imported from other places, which were not only expensive but also poorly adapted to the local environment. Lao Yao (老姚), a herder from the Right Wing Middle Banner of Chahar (察哈尔右翼中旗), complained to me: "The alfalfa seeds I bought at a high price last year were all frozen to death by a snowstorm in the winter, wasting half a year's worth of hard-earned money!" That night, I wrote in my diary: "What this land lacks is not effort, but a way to make that effort worthwhile. How wonderful it would be if we could cultivate pasture varieties suitable for the local area!"
When I formed a team, many people had concerns: "Pasture breeding has a long cycle, and it may not produce results in ten or eight years. What's the point?" But I couldn't forget Lao Yao's (老姚) words. I stepped up contact with China Agricultural University (中国农业大学), the Grassland Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院草原研究所) and other institutions, and established expert workstations. Resource scarcity was the first hurdle. My team members and I traveled all over northern China to collect oat, alfalfa and other pasture materials from different types of grassland. Over the years, we have accumulated more than 2,000 copies of various pasture resources and selected five high-quality varieties, including "Wuyou No. 1 (乌莜1号)" and "Mengsi Yan Series (蒙饲燕系列)". Today, these "native" pasture varieties have become "sweet pastries" that herders are vying to plant.
Ulanqab (乌兰察布) is an important agricultural and livestock product production base, but the disposal of livestock and poultry manure and crop straw is a problem. Faced with mountains of agricultural waste, my team and I came up with an idea: to use the biotransformation capabilities of insects to achieve "turning waste into treasure."
In 2019, I began experimenting with using insects to decompose organic waste, but this idea was initially met with skepticism. Some farmers waved their hands: "It's so cold here in the winter, how can insects survive?" After months of experiments, we finally broke through the technical bottleneck of large-scale breeding in cold regions.
Today, two sets of circular agriculture models innovated by me and my team have been promoted locally. This technology not only solves the problem of breeding pollution, but also promotes the income increase of farmers and herdsmen.
"The land does not deceive people. If you treat it well, it will reward you." I have always kept in mind what the local planters said. Every time I walk on the ridges of the fields, watching the wind blow through the green fields, and listening to the herdsmen calculate the increased income and laugh, I think of the scene of growing crops with my parents in my childhood. The seeds planted will eventually grow into continuous crops; the wishes in my heart that year are spreading little by little along the ridges.
In the future, my team and I will continue to select more cold-resistant, drought-resistant, and saline-alkali-resistant pasture varieties to turn deserts into oases, while deepening circular agriculture research and exploring more transformation paths of 绿水青山就是金山银山 (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "Green waters and lush mountains are gold and silver mountains," ecological environment is invaluable asset).
(The author is the head of the Pasture Research Group of the Ulanqab (乌兰察布市) Municipal Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (市农林科学研究所) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区). This report was compiled by Zhai Qinqi (翟钦奇), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金正波
Towering Taihang Mountains, there is such a pass, not famous for its steepness, but because of a great victory 88 years ago, which will be forever recorded in history - this is Pingxingguan (平型关).
On September 25, 1937, a gunshot at Pingxingguan (平型关) was like a sharp sword piercing the dark sky. The 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army (八路军) used a beautiful ambush to wipe out more than a thousand Japanese troops in one fell swoop. The Pingxingguan (平型关) victory was the first major victory of the Chinese army's active attack after the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japan, which severely打击了日寇的猖狂气焰 打击了日寇的猖狂气焰 (dǎ jī le rì kòu de chāng kuáng qì yàn - "strike down the arrogance of the Japanese invaders," to deflate the enemy's morale).
At that time, the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 685th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army (八路军) was tasked with the assault team to intercept the vanguard of the Japanese army. Facing the Japanese invaders equipped with heavy weapons, all the officers and soldiers of the company were fearless and rushed forward bravely, successfully completing the task. After the war, the company was awarded the honorary title of "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company."
Today, the smoke of gunpowder has dissipated, and the former heroic company has been transferred to the 9th Infantry Company of a certain brigade of the 79th Group Army (陆军第79集团军). Striving forward on the new journey of strengthening the army, the 9th Company, after reform and reshaping, continues the great spirit of the War of Resistance and strives to forge an iron fist of assault in the new era.
A Journey of Root-Seeking
"The bright red flag is passed into our hands, and we must not fail our mission."
"Dear predecessors, without your bravery and fearlessness in those years, there would be no prosperity and strength of the country today. The bright red flag is passed into our hands, and we must not fail our mission..."
On April 27 this year, in the Pingxingguan (平型关) Martyrs Cemetery, officers and soldiers from the "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company" were neatly dressed and stood solemnly. Li Xinchao (栗新朝), the 47th political instructor of the company, stepped forward slowly, unfolded the letter, and his sonorous voice echoed for a long time.
"This year is the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. We came to the old battlefield of the Pingxingguan (平型关) victory from the 'Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company' to visit the memorial hall, visit the battle site, and feel the revolutionary predecessors' fearless spirit of not being afraid of strong enemies and the winning gene of daring to show their swords." Li Xinchao (栗新朝) said with emotion that this is a journey of root-seeking and a spiritual baptism.
Walking and watching along the way, the officers and soldiers came to Qiaogou (乔沟), the main battlefield where the martyrs shed their blood in the past.
This gully extends from the northeast to the southwest, with a depth of tens of meters. The terrain is dangerous, winding and twisting. The narrowest point is only a few feet wide, and the sides are steep cliffs of more than 20 meters. Standing in the battlefield of that year, the sound of metal clashing and horses neighing seemed to be heard in my ears.
In the early morning of September 25, 1937, it was raining heavily. The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army (八路军), wearing thin coarse cloth clothes, rushed in the dark and hurried to the predetermined ambush position, arriving smoothly before dawn. After repairing the battle fortifications, the soldiers lay on the cold ground, waiting for the battle. When the Japanese baggage troops carrying a large amount of supplies entered the ambush circle, the commander gave an order, and shouts resounded through the valley.
Zeng Xiansheng (曾贤生), the company commander at the time, was nicknamed "Mengzi" because of his bravery and decisiveness in combat. "After launching the charge, Zeng Xiansheng (曾贤生) led all the officers and soldiers of the company to take the lead in attacking the enemy. When the bullets ran out, they raised their broadswords and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese devils. When the broadswords were chipped, they smashed the Japanese invaders hard with their gun butts. When the gun butts broke, they fought the enemy hand-to-hand." Sergeant Wang Feng (王烽) said that every soldier in the company is familiar with this history.
将有必死之心，士无贪生之意 将有必死之心，士无贪生之意 (jiàng yǒu bì sǐ zhī xīn, shì wú tān shēng zhī yì - "generals have the heart to die, soldiers have no intention of living," to be ready to sacrifice oneself). Zeng Xiansheng (曾贤生) was surrounded after stabbing more than a dozen Japanese devils to death, pulled the last grenade, and died with the enemy. Until the victory of the battle, only more than 30 of the 160 people in the company remained. In a fierce battle, more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers were wiped out and more than 100 vehicles were destroyed.
After the July 7th Incident (七七事变), in the critical situation of continuous loss of cities and land, this victory was of extraordinary significance and greatly boosted the confidence of the military and civilians across the country in the War of Resistance.
The red gene is passed down from generation to generation. As time changes, in the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company," the collision of blood and fire in those years is still clearly perceptible.
Whenever new recruits join the camp, the first activity is to visit the company's honor room. Every soldier will listen to the veterans telling the heroic story in front of the "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company" flag; every time they perform major tasks, the officers and soldiers will solemnly swear to the company flag to boost morale, strengthen courage, and sharpen courage.
This honorary flag has witnessed every important moment of the "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company" and praises the moving heroic epic -
September 3, 2015, Tiananmen Square (天安门广场). At the military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company" model hero troop phalanx, as one of the ten model hero troop phalanxes, accepted the review of the motherland and the people.
"One parade, a lifetime of glory. At that time, there was only one thought: we must walk through Tiananmen (天安门) with the most standard steps, live up to our predecessors, and not fail our mission." Speaking of the scene of the parade 10 years ago, Jiang Feng (姜丰), the 46th political instructor of the company, is still excited.
This honorary flag, like a burning torch, inspires the heroic successors to carry forward the spirit of the War of Resistance and maintain the revolutionary nature forever -
"I am a soldier of the 'Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company'. If war breaks out, I will go to the battlefield without hesitation!" In the honor room, there is an electronic screen that loops the sonorous vows of the officers and soldiers of the past generations.
Li Xinchao (栗新朝) said: "When soldiers see their images in the same frame as the martyrs, the mission has a concrete scale."
A Road of Transformation
"How great it would be if we had such equipment back then."
Not long ago, officers and soldiers of the "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company" visited General Wang Fuzhi (王扶之), 102 years old, with high respect. Wang Fuzhi (王扶之) came from the 115th Division of that year and personally experienced the battle 88 years ago that was recorded in history.
During this visit, the officers and soldiers of the company brought two special gifts, one was a rusty broadsword, and the other was a model of the company's main battle equipment.
This broadsword has nicks all over the blade, from which the flames of war of that year can be faintly touched. "The broadsword砍向鬼子们的头上砍去 砍向鬼子们的头上砍去 (kǎn xiàng guǐ zi men de tóu shàng kǎn qù - "chop at the heads of the Japanese devils," a line from the song "The Broadsword March"). The armed brothers across the country, the day of the War of Resistance has come..." The old general held the hilt of the knife, his eyes instantly became sharp, and he unconsciously hummed "The Broadsword March."
"This vehicle is good! How great it would be if we had such equipment back then!" Seeing the infantry fighting vehicle model and listening to the performance introduction, the old man's gratification was beyond words.
Before parting, in order to encourage the officers and soldiers of the company to maintain their original aspirations and improve their skills, the old general wrote "First Battle of Pingxingguan (平型关), Fame Spreads All Over the World" for the company with deep affection.
"From the broadswords of the past to the advanced chariots of today, the equipment is changing, but what remains unchanged is the assault spirit of 'fierce attack and fierce attack, and first charge into the enemy's formation.'" Company Commander Yan Wei (阎伟) said that in 2017, the 9th Company moved thousands of miles. The following year, a new type of armored infantry fighting vehicle was equipped to the company. Facing the new establishment and new equipment, the officers and soldiers of the company took their predecessors as an example, underwent transformation in actual combat training, and overcame the "Pingxingguan (平型关)" on the road of transformation.
Compared with the old equipment in the past, the new equipment is highly professional and informationized. The cold iron armor, the flashing screens, and the unfamiliar parameters made the former training experts instantly become laymen.
"Facing the task transformation, how should the infantry fighting vehicle company train?" A brainstorming session of transformation and debate quickly swept the entire company. Everyone felt that the form of war was constantly developing and changing, and walking the old road in new shoes was destined to be 头破血流 头破血流 (tóu pò xuè liú - "head broken and blood flowing," to suffer a crushing defeat). Facing the challenge, we must transform to war with a strong sense of responsibility and mission.
With a desire for victory, all the officers and soldiers of the company raced against time to study tactics, practice tactics, and strengthen skills. They worked hard to study equipment theory and established three professional tackling groups for driving, communication, and shooting; they applied to the brigade party committee to allocate 6 equipment technical backbones and coaches to the company to help train, and actively selected soldiers to study in colleges and universities; they vigorously promoted "one specialty with multiple skills" training and systematically trained key positions such as vehicle commanders and technicians.
"In order to figure out the structure of the equipment, we disassembled hundreds of thousands of parts; in order to achieve the improvement of the hit rate, we experimented again and again. After high-intensity training, the question marks that restricted the improvement of combat effectiveness were straightened." Vehicle Commander Wang Zhihuan (王志煊) said that looking back on those days, although it was hard, his heart was particularly bright.
One point of hard work, one point of harvest. Two months later, the brigade organized a military competition. In all 20 subjects, the company won 7 first places and 6 second places. More than 90% of the company's professionals obtained grade certificates, and the combined battalion's live-fire confrontation exercise won the first place in the overall evaluation.
Keep up with the times to seek development, and aim at winning battles to strengthen skills. The company held the mission of fighting over its head and tempered its excellent skills in transformation and reshaping.
In May last year, the company participated in the China-Mongolia "Prairie Partner-2024" army joint training. This was the first time in the history of the "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company" that it carried out a mission across national borders as a complete unit.
That day, on the Gobi Desert, the strong wind rolled up sand and gravel and smashed the armor plates with a crackling sound. Our infantry fighting vehicle charged at full speed. Under the violent bumps, the target area was looming. "I've practiced it thousands of times in the early stage, there's absolutely no problem!" Artillery Technician and Sergeant Wang Zhenmin (王振民) stabilized his mind, stared at the sighting mirror, and accurately locked the target.
"Annihilate!" The moment the infantry fighting vehicle stopped, Wang Zhenmin (王振民) quickly opened the launch program, decisively fired, and successfully hit the target, "blowing it up."
"The revolutionary predecessors relied on broadswords and grenades to win against the Japanese army armed to the teeth. Now, we are stronger and more courageous!" Yan Wei (阎伟) said that the form of war is constantly evolving, and the methods of warfare and training must also be updated accordingly. Only by learning and using new equipment well can we promote the rapid formation of actual combat capabilities of new equipment.
A Group of Heroic Successors
"Live up to Pingxingguan (平型关), live up to the Assault Company, and be the best soldier."
"Once the powerful enemy invades the border, sing generously and go to the battlefield..." Standing in front of the Pingxingguan (平型关) battle site, Sergeant Ma Wenkai (马文凯) couldn't help singing this "Eighth Route Army Song." Not long ago, he returned to Pingxingguan (平型关) with Li Xinchao (栗新朝).
Ma Wenkai (马文凯) is a soldier of the "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company" and also a native of Pingxingguan (平型关).
"When I was a child, Pingxingguan (平型关) was just an ordinary pass at my doorstep. Later, when I grew up, from the stories my grandfather told me, from the textbooks our teachers taught us, I learned about the battle that took place here in those years." Ma Wenkai (马文凯) said that from that time on, he gradually understood that "Pingxingguan (平型关)" is not just the name of his hometown, but also a permanent coordinate that transcends geographical significance.
In 2020, with this special feeling, Ma Wenkai (马文凯) signed up to join the army in college and was assigned to the "Pingxingguan (平型关) Battle Assault Company." "In this way, I walked out of Pingxingguan (平型关) and came to 'Pingxingguan (平型关)' again. My military career is closely linked to Pingxingguan (平型关) again." Ma Wenkai (马文凯) said excitedly.
When he first arrived at the company, he walked into the company history museum and saw the old photos and the battle flag full of glory, as if silently telling the company's bravery and sacrifice on that hot land. Ma Wenkai's (马文凯) heart was shocked, and his blood instantly surged through his body. Ma Wenkai (马文凯) said: "At that moment, I warned myself in my heart: Live up to Pingxingguan (平型关), live up to the Assault Company, and be the best soldier!"
But when the dream came true, everything was not so easy. The company's training requirements were high, and coupled with a weak foundation, Ma Wenkai's (马文凯) scores ranked behind in several assessments. "As a member of the heroic collective, how can I better carry this battle flag?" Ma Wenkai (马文凯) asked himself again and again.
Practice, practice desperately! In the cold winter days with snow, he ran desperately around the camp's playground, one lap, two laps, three laps; in the hot summer training ground, he rushed up the mountain and climbed tactics wearing thick equipment. Taking off his shoes and socks, the plaster on his ankles had stuck to his flesh... Striving hard and gritting his teeth, hard work pays off. Ma Wenkai (马文凯) won the first place in the 100-meter event and the first place in the comprehensive score with absolute advantage in the brigade's military sports meeting.
The battle flag leads the belief, and the successors continue to write the spirit. In the Assault Company, everyone has this energy. This battle flag, like a strong magnetic field, tightly unites everyone's hearts.
"Don't talk about breaking a finger, even if my arm is broken, I will still do it!" After many years, driver Chen Xijiang (陈希姜) recalled that "fierce battle" many years ago, still extremely firm.
In a night exercise, Chen Xijiang (陈希姜) drove the vehicle through a rugged mountain road, and the wheels constantly rolled over steep slopes. The continuous violent bumps opened the car door. If the hatch is not closed, the gunner will not be able to complete the shooting. In the darkness, Chen Xijiang (陈希姜) quickly reached out and groped for the latch on the swaying hatch. During the closing of the door, Chen Xijiang (陈希姜) only felt a chill on his hand, and was caught by the hatch weighing dozens of kilograms. It was sticky, and it should be bleeding.
In order to continue to focus on driving, after locking the hatch, he groped for a rag and wrapped it up randomly. It was not until after rushing into the "enemy" position that Chen Xijiang (陈希姜), who breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly felt a piercing pain in his hand. Looking at the blood on his arms and clothes, Chen Xijiang (陈希姜) realized that his little finger had been broken when he closed the hatch.
The original intention is as solid as a rock, and the battle flag is hunting. The officers and soldiers of the Assault Company have been tempered into steel in the extreme quenching on the training ground, the actual combat test of major tasks, and the determination to win in the international arena in one challenge after another to the limit and surpassing themselves.
It is another year for new recruits to join the company. On July 9, the officers and soldiers of the company received a special letter. Zhou Xin (周信), a 91-year-old veteran of the Assault Company, wrote with deep affection:
"I hope that the new generation of comrades will carry forward the great spirit of the War of Resistance and shoulder the historical mission of protecting national security and safeguarding the happy life of the people!"
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On July 8th, the themed exhibition "For National Liberation and World Peace" officially opened to the public at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (中国人民抗日战争纪念馆). Piece by piece, mottled exhibits, restored scenes, and deeply affectionate letters form a timeline, recounting the memories of the War of Resistance and the past of the nation and families in the historical storm.
In the audio-visual space of the War of Resistance family letters, visitors lingered for a long time, many with tears in their eyes. "It's easy to part, but difficult to meet. It's been twenty-one months since we separated. When will we reunite? I miss you, I miss you." This is the last family letter written by General Zuo Quan (左权) to his wife before his heroic sacrifice in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, full of sincere feelings. Between national righteousness and the warmth of a small family, thousands upon thousands of soldiers like Zuo Quan (左权) resolutely chose to dedicate themselves to the country. Each letter carries not only longing, but also the oath of allegiance to the country written with their lives by the sons and daughters of China.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that it is necessary to tell the stories of the War of Resistance well and pass on the great spirit of the War of Resistance from generation to generation. Remembering the history of the War of Resistance, telling the stories of the War of Resistance well, and safeguarding this national memory soaked in blood are not only about respecting history, but also about凝聚团结奋进合力 (**凝聚团结奋进合力** (níng jù tuán jié fèn jìn hé lì - "cohesion, unity, striving, synergy," to unite and work together towards progress)).
The narratives of those who experienced it firsthand are the most original and shocking annotations to the history of the War of Resistance. "The enemy is fierce, but we are not afraid," "Resolutely resist to the end, not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice"... Not long ago, the People's Daily (人民日报) published a report entitled "Listen! The Stories of Ten Veterans of the War of Resistance." The report recorded the veterans' simple but sonorous words, showing their fighting spirit and tenacious will tempered in the flames of war. As the veterans grow old, in order to keep this red memory from fading, it is urgent to systematically and professionally carry out the collection of historical materials, digital archiving, and oral history compilation. This is not only about recording individual stories of the War of Resistance, but also about leaving valuable historical materials of the War of Resistance for the nation.
Innovate expression methods to make the history of the War of Resistance feelable and knowable. The officers and soldiers of the "Liu Lao Zhuang Company" (刘老庄连) of the 82nd Group Army (陆军第82集团军) of the Army wrote, directed, and performed a drama, recreating the scene of the eighty-two martyrs fighting for the masses, inspiring the officers and soldiers of the new era to carry forward the company's spirit of "life does not cease, the battle does not stop" and to work tirelessly on the road to strengthening the army; the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (中国人民抗日战争纪念馆) uses holographic images, artificial intelligence interaction and other technologies to create an immersive visit experience, allowing visitors to feel the historical scene up close... These innovative practices of telling the stories of the War of Resistance make the history of the War of Resistance come alive and enhance the appeal and penetration of red memory.
Preserving historical materials is the foundation, and innovative expression is the bridge. Ultimately, the great spirit of the War of Resistance must be internalized and externalized, and forged into a force for progress. In those years, the Chinese people fought against strong enemies with铮铮铁骨 (**铮铮铁骨** (zhēng zhēng tiě gǔ - "unyielding spirit," describes a person of strong character and integrity)), built a great wall with their flesh and blood, and赴国难 (**前仆后继赴国难** (qián pū hòu jì fù guó nàn - "advance wave upon wave to meet the national crisis," describes people's bravery and self-sacrifice in the face of national crisis)), writing a magnificent epic that moved the heavens and wept the ghosts. Telling the stories of the War of Resistance, its profound meaning lies not only in remembering the suffering and sacrifice, but also in remembering and inheriting the patriotic feelings, national integrity, and heroic spirit contained therein. We should vow not to forget the great spirit of the War of Resistance forged by our predecessors with their blood, and transform it into a powerful driving force for overcoming difficulties and moving forward bravely.
Remembering is for a better future. At present, China is in a critical period of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the people's army is striving to achieve the centennial goal of army building as scheduled. On the road ahead, we will face no shortage of major struggles. We must continue to tell the stories of the heroes of the War of Resistance, inherit and promote the great spirit of the War of Resistance, dare to啃硬骨头 (**啃硬骨头** (kěn yìng gǔ tou - "gnaw on hard bones," to tackle difficult problems)), dare to wade through dangerous shoals, and strive forward and meet difficulties head-on with the spirit of advancing despite difficulties, and move towards a better future.
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Log in to the "Minzheng Tong (闽政通)" WeChat mini-program, enter the "Efficient Handling of One Matter (高效办成一件事)" zone, select the "One Matter" service for veterans, check the items, fill in the information... After returning to his hometown of Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) province, veteran Liu Yangyang (刘阳阳) completed the application for 13 items such as demobilization registration and social security transfer and continuation at home in just over 10 minutes. "In the past, I had to run to various departments to handle these matters, but now I can do it with a tap of my finger!" said Liu Yangyang (刘阳阳).
Efficient handling of veteran services is a significant achievement brought about by the "One Matter" reform. In July 2024, the "One Matter" service for veterans was included in the new batch of key items on the State Council's (国务院) "Efficient Handling of One Matter" list. Over the past year, veteran affairs departments at all levels have focused on the goals of "service convenience, management efficiency, and data security," providing veterans with efficient, convenient, intensive, and standardized warm services.
Zhang Zhenkai (张振凯), a staff member of the Xiaoshan District (萧山区) Veterans Affairs Bureau in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) province, remembers that a few years ago, he and his colleagues held the materials of dozens of transferred military officers and went to public security, human resources, and other departments to handle demobilization procedures on their behalf. "Now, the process has been greatly simplified. This year's spring demobilized soldiers only need to log in to the government service website, fill in personal information, check the items to be processed, and submit basic materials and registration forms on-site to complete the application for multiple items," said Zhang Zhenkai (张振凯).
Behind the efficient handling is the veteran affairs department's focus on the needs of veterans, using digital empowerment to promote the upgrading of the veteran service model. Veteran affairs departments in various regions have collaborated with public security, human resources, medical insurance, and other departments to connect the business system interfaces between different departments and set up a special entrance for the "One Matter" service for veterans. After veterans submit materials at one time, the online platform background system automatically shares and distributes the materials to relevant departments for parallel approval, realizing "letting data run more, and veterans run less."
Offline, many places have set up a "One Matter" comprehensive window in veteran service centers at all levels, responsible for daily consultation, comprehensive acceptance, and other businesses. In Haikou (海口), Hainan (海南), transferred cadre Chen Xiaohui (陈小慧) completed the procedures that used to require running to multiple departments in less than half an hour. As one of the first beneficiaries of the "One Matter" service for veterans in Hainan Province (海南省), Chen Xiaohui (陈小慧) also participated in adaptive training for veterans, systematically learning professional skills to prepare for a smooth transition from military camp to society.
"People's livelihood is no small matter. From 'running multiple windows' to 'efficient handling,' from 'passive waiting' to 'active delivery,' the 'One Matter' service for veterans closely follows the main line of high-quality development and strives to create a new model of veteran service." The relevant person in charge of the Planning and Finance Department of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs (退役军人事务部) said that this work innovation benefiting millions of veterans is continuously making the respect and care for veterans truly felt.
(Wang Rui (王睿) and Zhao Chenran (赵晨冉) participated in writing)
Return to TopThis year marks the 40th anniversary of China's accession to the "Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage." From the Great Wall (长城), the Forbidden City (北京故宫) in Beijing (北京), and other first batch of heritages being inscribed on the "World Heritage List" in 1987, to the successful application of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) in 2025, the total number of World Heritage sites in China has reached 60, ranking among the top in the world.
These 40 years have been a process of continuous updating of China's World Heritage protection concepts and continuous deepening of practices. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has attached great importance to the protection, inheritance, and utilization of cultural and natural heritage, and has promoted China from a major country in World Heritage to a strong country in protection and management.
We invite experts, scholars, and relevant practitioners to summarize the experiences and inspirations of China's World Heritage protection, inheritance, and utilization. We look forward to more Chinese heritage going to the world and more Chinese experience benefiting the world in the future.
——Editor
Host:
Wang Jue (王珏), Reporter of this newspaper
Interview Guests:
Liu Shuguang (刘曙光), Chairman of the Chinese Museums Association (中国博物馆协会)
Zheng Jun (郑军), Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (中国文化遗产研究院)
Xiong Jun (熊军), Director of the Management Office of the Western Xia Mausoleums (银川西夏陵区管理处) in Yinchuan (银川)
In-depth excavation of the rich historical and cultural connotations of World Heritage, telling the profound Chinese civilization, and promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
Reporter: What experiences are worth sharing in China's World Heritage application and protection?
Zheng Jun (郑军): Over the past 40 years, China's number of World Heritage sites has ranked among the top in the world, and the level of protection and management has been greatly improved. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has made important instructions on strengthening the protection, inheritance, and utilization of cultural and natural heritage. The Party and the government attach great importance to the application work, creating a very good social environment and atmosphere. More and more members of the public are paying attention to and supporting the application, and joining the team of protection, inheritance, and utilization.
Liu Shuguang (刘曙光): The achievements made by China since joining the "Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage" can be summarized into several aspects: First, a protection regulation and planning system has been initially established; second, the protection management system has been gradually improved; third, the basic work of protection management has been further enhanced; fourth, the protection status has been comprehensively improved; fifth, the display and interpretation basically meet the needs; and sixth, it has played a very good role in disseminating outstanding Chinese culture and promoting international exchanges and construction.
In particular, we have created a very practical and easy-to-use World Cultural Heritage monitoring system. Through the monitoring system, data statistics, trend analysis, and information disclosure are carried out, providing objective and true data support for evaluating the heritage protection status and formulating protection decisions. Since its launch in 2014, it has played an important role in all aspects of China's World Cultural Heritage application, protection, and international cooperation, and is globally leading and highly praised by international counterparts.
Through the protection and application of heritage, we have shown the Chinese civilization to the world, enhanced cultural confidence, promoted international cultural exchanges, and promoted exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
Xiong Jun (熊军): The Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵), as China's application project for 2025, has achieved a "zero" breakthrough in Ningxia (宁夏) World Cultural Heritage. In the process of application, the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) has continuously improved the work in management mechanism, management institutions, team building, regulatory system, financial security, file management, and tourist services. It has continuously enriched the content of work in heritage monitoring, value interpretation, public participation, foreign exchanges, academic research, and cultural tourism integration, building a multi-level and multi-angle scientific protection management system, and accumulating experience.
The application not only needs to deeply explore the rich historical and cultural connotations of the heritage, but also to tell Chinese historical stories to the world, promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, elaborate the spirit of the Chinese nation, build the image of a civilized power, and fully and vividly demonstrate the brilliant achievements of Chinese civilization and its great contribution to human civilization.
Promote the transformation of World Heritage from quantity leadership to quality leadership, and from single protection to comprehensive value realization.
Reporter: How can we better promote the integration of World Heritage into society?
Liu Shuguang (刘曙光): Heritage protection is not only a technical issue, but also a social proposition. We must explore the sustainable development of Chinese World Heritage. Sustainable development includes economic and environmental sustainability, but ultimately it must reflect the core of society - the comprehensive development of people. World Heritage is also for the common interests of all mankind, for the spirit and culture of mankind, so it can be fully integrated with the goals of social sustainable development, and the essence of social sustainable development is closest to our original intention of protecting cultural and natural heritage.
Xiong Jun (熊军): In the process of application, the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) pays attention to encouraging the public to actively participate in heritage protection, voluntarily carry out cultural relic safety protection and publicity. In the process of planning and preparation, public opinions and suggestions are widely solicited through public channels. Surrounding residents simultaneously participate in the development of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) tourism industry, which promotes the employment and income increase of residents, and realizes the common development of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) and local community residents. Holding a series of colorful activities such as theme photography, calligraphy, children's painting, essay competitions, LOGO collection competitions, and hiking stargazing camping, and simultaneously promoting activities into communities, government agencies, enterprises, and schools, aims to deepen the public's understanding of the heritage value of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵) and improve the enthusiasm for participating in the protection and management of the Western Xia Mausoleums (西夏陵).
Reporter: What suggestions do you have for the application, protection, inheritance, and utilization of World Heritage?
Liu Shuguang (刘曙光): We must not forget the original intention of applying for World Heritage. We need to often ask ourselves, is our original intention of applying for World Heritage still there?
We must stand at the height of protecting precious heritage for all mankind, promote legislation and mechanism reform, explore new mechanisms to improve the management level of heritage sites and expand the authority of the state and provinces, and solve the drawbacks of territorial management; strengthen capacity building and expert think tank construction, form interdisciplinary expert committees, strengthen talent training and monitoring system integration, and improve the scientific nature of decision-making and the accuracy of protection.
We must open our minds, 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - "uphold the orthodox and innovate," maintain fundamental principles while promoting innovation), work hard, base ourselves on protecting, inheriting, and displaying Chinese civilization and history, show the world a real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China, and better promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
Zheng Jun (郑军): We must correct the ideology and political achievements of World Cultural Heritage protection. Some local governments, in order to successfully apply for the application, suspended some projects that damaged the value of World Heritage during the application process. However, after the application was successful, they restarted these projects, regardless of the negative impact on the value of World Heritage, and used the "World Heritage" gold lettered signboard as a cash cow. World Heritage is the common wealth of all mankind. The inscription of a heritage site on the "World Heritage List" means that the Chinese government and people have an additional responsibility to protect World Heritage for all mankind. Successful application is a political achievement, and protecting World Heritage is a greater political achievement.
In addition, we must use technology to empower and improve the level of World Heritage protection. With the rapid development of science and technology in China, more advanced technologies can be applied to the protection of World Heritage. China has reached the world's leading level in ancient proteomics and ancient gene analysis, grotto mural protection, soil site reinforcement technology in arid areas, World Heritage monitoring systems, and many other aspects. We should expand cooperation between industries and disciplines, and apply more advanced technologies to the protection of World Heritage.
In the face of the problems of emphasizing application and neglecting management, emphasizing utilization and neglecting protection, it is necessary to balance World Heritage protection and utilization.
Reporter: What problems still need to be solved to further strengthen and improve the work of World Heritage protection, inheritance, and utilization?
Liu Shuguang (刘曙光): There are several keywords for the high-quality development of World Heritage sites. The first is to prioritize protection and management, the second is to enhance connotation, and the third is to serve the public.
In terms of enhancing connotation, we still have a lot of work to do. Although China now has 60 World Heritage sites, our understanding of the value of those World Heritage sites that were applied for in the early years is insufficient. The Great Wall (长城) was one of the first heritages in China to be inscribed on the "World Heritage List." However, when we applied for it that year, our understanding of the Great Wall (长城) was still limited. After so many years of work, we have conducted a resource survey of the Great Wall (长城), implemented the Great Wall (长城) protection project, and built the Great Wall (长城) National Cultural Park. Our understanding of the value of the Great Wall (长城) is very different from when we applied for World Heritage. For example, the value narrative of that year emphasized the suffering symbol of the Great Wall (长城). We now realize that the spiritual charm and ultimate value of the Great Wall (长城) is cultural integration. Through "conflict," we finally see "integration." At present, many places regard their local Great Wall (长城) as World Heritage, but in fact, many sections have not been included in the heritage elements of the Great Wall (长城) World Cultural Heritage, nor have they been protected, utilized, and interpreted in accordance with World Heritage standards. These require us to further improve our work.
Zheng Jun (郑军): At present, a major problem in World Heritage protection is disaster prevention, mitigation, and climate change response. According to statistics from the World Heritage Center, as of now, 103 World Heritage sites in 62 countries have been affected by natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, floods, landslides, and biological diseases, and 97 World Heritage sites in 69 countries have been affected by climate change. The United Nations, UNESCO, and World Heritage assessment and advisory bodies have all issued corresponding policies. China has done a lot of work, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
Disaster prevention, mitigation, and climate change response for World Heritage should focus on systematicness, prevention, and capacity building. Systematicness refers to the fact that disaster prevention and mitigation is a systematic project, composed of the state, local governments, and heritage sites, as well as various departments such as meteorology, earthquake, fire protection, transportation, communication, and electricity. Heritage sites should make full use of the power of the system, rather than fighting alone. Prevention refers to the fact that heritage sites should strengthen the protection of cultural relics, enhance the disaster resistance capacity of cultural relics themselves, resist disasters outside the heritage site through the construction of preventive protection facilities; establish information sharing and linkage mechanisms with relevant departments, obtain disaster early warning information in a timely manner, and prepare in advance; formulate and implement disaster prevention and climate change response plans; and pay attention to the role of traditional wisdom.
Reporter: Some World Heritage sites have problems of emphasizing application and neglecting management, emphasizing utilization and neglecting protection after the application is successful. How to balance the relationship between World Heritage protection and utilization?
Zheng Jun (郑军): To solve this problem, we need to realize that the utilization of World Heritage is divided into three levels:
The first level is led by the state, to show Chinese culture to the outside world, enhance cultural confidence internally, and forge a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation. Chinese World Heritage carries the core values of Chinese civilization, such as the "central" and "harmony" ideas contained in the Beijing Central Axis (北京中轴线), the Confucian culture embodied in the Confucius Temple (孔庙), and the concept of respecting heaven and ancestors conveyed by the Temple of Heaven (天坛) and Mount Tai (泰山), showing the world China's history, cultural orientation, and the spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation.
The second level is the utilization of knowledge and skills. The scientific nature of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System (都江堰水利工程), the artistic nature of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes (敦煌莫高窟) murals, and the planning paradigm of the Forbidden City (故宫) can all become a source of technological innovation and artistic creation. Ancient towns, villages, and buildings can maximize the use of natural conditions to make the living environment healthier, safer, and more energy-efficient. Combining this theoretical knowledge with modern disciplines such as geography, geology, meteorology, architecture, and civil engineering to improve today's planning and design is the utilization of World Heritage at the knowledge level. Cultural and creative development can also draw cultural essence from it and promote the development of new quality productive forces.
The third level includes the utilization of tourism, residence, and commercial activities, which directly involves the heritage entity. It should be used reasonably according to the value characteristics, type characteristics, preservation status, and environmental conditions of the World Heritage, and avoid over-utilization.
Protection and utilization are not opposed, but complementary. We should strengthen the utilization of the first two levels, while strictly supervising the use of the third level to achieve the sustainable inheritance of heritage.
Liu Shuguang (刘曙光): China's World Heritage is distributed in vast areas and is also in different stages of local development. There are different challenges in terms of protection and utilization, but we have formed two consensuses: one is "application is for better protection and utilization," and the other is "developing in protection and protecting in development."
After the application is successful, protection and value interpretation are still important tasks. Protection needs to follow the principle of combining international standards with Chinese reality. For example, the Grand Canal (大运河) innovatively adopted the "series heritage" application model, coordinating nearly 3,200 kilometers of river sections in 8 provinces and establishing a nationally led monitoring system. World Heritage protection is not a closed academic project, but an open social practice. Only by integrating into people's livelihood, empowering communities, and dialoguing with the world can we find a sustainable balance between protection and utilization.
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Terraces are the crystallization of Chinese agricultural civilization's wisdom. Built along mountainsides, using earth to create fields, the layered curves surrounding the mountains create a dynamic beauty. Take the Longji Terraces in Dazhai Village (大寨村), Longsheng (龙胜), Guangxi (广西) as an example. In spring, the fields are filled with water, reflecting the sky like mirrors; in autumn, layers of gold are spread out, creating a magnificent spectacle. Coincidentally, Azheke Village (阿者科村) in Yuanyang (元阳), Yunnan (云南) is also famous for its terrace scenery and has been named "Best Tourism Village." Villagers' income has doubled thanks to the tourism industry, and their lives are thriving. The villagers happily say that they could not get enough to eat by farming in the past, but today they are "planting scenery" and embarking on the road to prosperity.
Currently, against the backdrop of comprehensive rural revitalization, rural tourism is receiving increasing attention, and various regions are highly enthusiastic about developing rural cultural and tourism resources. Data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) shows that 1,597 key rural tourism villages and towns have been launched nationwide, and over 60,000 administrative villages are engaged in rural tourism operations. Many previously unknown villages have become "internet-famous villages" by virtue of their unique cultural and tourism resources.
However, for rural tourism to transform from "internet-famous" to "evergreen," attention must be paid to creating a common prosperity-oriented cultural and tourism development model, allowing villagers to become the main body and primary beneficiaries of cultural and tourism development. In the past, some places developed rural tourism by attracting investment, contracting villages and scenic spots for overall development, while villagers were relocated to new villages. While this model can quickly improve tourism infrastructure, facilitate commercial development, and improve villagers' living conditions, it objectively changes rural production and lifestyles, cuts off rural cultural veins, and turns villages into "bonsai." While villagers benefit, their share of the benefits is smaller compared to investors. Considering that villagers are the protectors and inheritors of natural landscapes and folk cultures, this imbalanced benefit ratio is both unfair and detrimental to the long-term development of rural tourism.
In contrast, some villages consider the main position of villagers when developing cultural and tourism industries, allowing villagers to find employment locally and participate in the entire cultural and tourism industry chain. Dazhai Village (大寨村) has explored a "one field generates five golds" model: land transfer yields rent, shareholding in terraced fields yields dividends, maintenance of terraced fields yields bonuses, working in terraced fields yields wages, and tourism services earn cash. Villagers do their best, leverage their strengths, and receive tangible benefits. Villagers in Azheke Village (阿者科村) use mushroom houses, terraced fields, folk culture, and other "assets" as shares, distributing dividends proportionally. Bed and breakfast development, intangible cultural heritage performances, and farm stays are flourishing everywhere, and the steadily increasing income benefits villagers universally.
The common prosperity-oriented cultural and tourism development model brings not only economic benefits but also the restoration of cultural identity and the enhancement of cultural confidence. In the past, in the face of strong urban culture and modern culture, many villagers had a sense of 自惭形秽 (zì cán xíng huì - "ashamed of one's inferiority," feeling inferior to others) in their hearts, feeling that the countryside was "rustic," "backward," and "poor." Today, in the lenses and praises of tourists, they have rediscovered the unique value of rural culture and seen that the wisdom, lifestyles, and scenery passed down by their ancestors can make the world stop for them. The restoration of cultural identity has led to the enhancement of cultural confidence. When villagers are proud of their culture and scenery, they will cherish, protect, and inherit it from the bottom of their hearts and more proactively.
At the same time, when villagers realize that terraced fields are not only a tool for making a living but also a hope for getting rich, they will be more willing to invest time, energy, and money to protect, restore, and beautify them. Terraced fields are alive, and only through continuous cultivation can the terraced landscape be sustainable. Yuanyang (元阳) has included "ditch tenders" and "forest guardians" in public welfare positions and has continuously increased the implementation of projects such as returning farmland to forest, afforestation of barren mountains, and closing mountains for afforestation. The ecological environment around the terraced fields is getting better and better, with green mountains, clear waters, and blue skies, and the terraced landscape has been effectively protected.
Developing rural tourism, establishing the main position of villagers, and making them universally benefit will surely turn "green waters and green mountains" into "gold mountains and silver mountains," and gather inexhaustible power for comprehensive rural revitalization.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 焦思雨
"The Qingshui River meanders and bends, the sound of the waves is loud, connecting to the waves of the Yellow River. The mountain flowers are blooming and competing for beauty, the beautiful flowers are red in the Jiangnan of the border..." The reporter followed the sound and saw Zhang Jianjun (张建军), 61 years old, holding a music score in one hand and tapping the beat with the other, full of ease and contentment.
Zhang Jianjun (张建军) is a national-level representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Hua'er (花儿) (Ningxia Hui mountain folk songs). He has been associated with "mountain flowers" for many years. "In 1983, I was a soldier in Guyuan (固原). That year, at an army-civilian get-together, a fellow villager sang a song 'Mountain Flower'. To be honest, I couldn't hear the lyrics clearly, but the tune was very beautiful! The high-pitched and bright singing seemed to pull people into the vast and fresh mountains and fields, and I was immediately fascinated!"
After retiring from the army, at a singing competition, Zhang Jianjun's (张建军) performance of "Mountain Flower" won praise from two "Mountain Flower" predecessors, Ma Shenglin (马生林) and Zhang Mingxing (张明星): "Young man, your voice is very suitable for singing 'Mountain Flower'!" Since then, he began to systematically study the singing techniques and theoretical knowledge of "Mountain Flower".
"Little one, 'Mountain Flower' is not about showing off skills, but about expressing true feelings," Master Zhu Zhonglu's (朱仲禄) words are always remembered by Zhang Jianjun (张建军). He recalled the scene when he sang "Mountain Flower", "A song sung well can make people cry, and it can also make people laugh. Every time I stand on the stage, my mind is full of the stories in the lyrics. Sometimes after singing, I still stand there blankly until someone reminds me to come back to my senses."
"The inheritance of 'Mountain Flower' must **守正创新** (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - "maintain orthodoxy and innovate," to uphold tradition while embracing innovation)!" Adhering to this concept, Zhang Jianjun (张建军) creatively adapted the ancient and obscure original Ningxia (宁夏) "Mountain Flower", adding modern elements to the rhythm and melody, and incorporating techniques such as Xintianyou (信天游) and climbing tunes into the singing, realizing "old tunes sung in a new way". In addition, he skillfully used physical performances to convey the artistic conception of the lyrics. "Many people don't understand the lyrics, but with body language, the audience can better understand."
Zhang Jianjun (张建军) knows that "Mountain Flower" is rooted in the fields of the working people. For 30 years, he has visited rural villages in Qinghai (青海), Gansu (甘肃), Xinjiang (新疆), Ningxia (宁夏) and other places, interviewed folk artists, and deeply collected "Mountain Flower" relics and compiled them into books. It is this perseverance and love that makes Zhang Jianjun's (张建军) "Mountain Flower" unique. He has won many awards in national folk song competitions, won the title of "King of Flowers", and has been invited to perform in South Korea, Serbia, Greece and other countries.
In order to spread "Mountain Flower" further, in 2013, Zhang Jianjun (张建军) established the "'Ningxia Mountain Flower' Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance Classroom" in the Yanchi County (盐池县) Cultural Center, attracting "Mountain Flower" enthusiasts from all over the country. Teachers and students from professional colleges such as Northwest University (西北大学) and Ningxia University (宁夏大学) also came to exchange and learn. He also regularly goes to the grassroots level and into communities to run free "Mountain Flower" training classes, cultivating a large number of folk masters.
In order to let the seeds of "Mountain Flower" take root in the hearts of the next generation, in 2020, he founded the "'Ningxia Mountain Flower' Young Pioneers Inheritance Class". "It's not easy to teach the children. You have to compile the 'Mountain Flower' into tunes that are suitable for them to sing." So, he carefully arranged songs such as "Catching Grasshoppers" and "Snow-White Doves" and personally taught the children. He also often takes these "Mountain Flower" primary school students to campuses, nursing homes, communities, military camps and other places. In the children's innocent and lovely singing, more and more people have fallen in love with this ancient tune.
Return to TopIn recent years, the wave of digital intelligence has surged, and global animation is undergoing a profound transformation of technology and art. Young talents have become the main force in promoting this transformation, which has aroused the industry's attention and thinking on the issue of cultivating young animation talents in the new era. Today, this edition specially invites three experts and scholars from art institutions, universities and colleges, and other units to discuss the multiple paths of cultivating young animation talents in the new era from different perspectives such as education, creation, and technology application.
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Not long ago, the "China Artists Association New Era Youth Art Talent Training Program 'Animation Creation 100'" project (2024) touring exhibition was held in Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南). The 100 animated works on display included digital 2D, 3D, stop-motion, and AI (artificial intelligence)-assisted short films in various forms. From these, one can clearly feel the common goal pursued by the new generation of young animation creators: to create original masterpieces with personal style, Chinese cultural elements, and broad acceptance by audiences at home and abroad.
The hundred excellent animations selected from thousands of youth works are full of creativity and diverse styles. Some short films, although immature in production, are sincere and touching, such as "The Ground Kite (地风筝)," which tells the story of an old man's unwavering care for his paralyzed wife. The plot is romantic, and the theme complements the hand-painted form. "The Guardian of Dunhuang (敦煌守卫者)," adapted from the true story of Mr. Chang Shuhong (常书鸿), uses traditional 2D animation to express the deep affection between the protagonist and Dunhuang (敦煌), with harmonious and unified screen tones. These works contain the younger generation's reflections on life, history, and the future.
Combining Chinese ink painting style, traditional cultural elements, and digital technology, 3D animation forms, etc., has become a creative trend, reflecting the inheritance consciousness and innovative pursuit of young animators. The character design of "Wind, Snow, Mountain God Temple (风雪山神庙)" further refines and simplifies the elements of Peking Opera masks; "Kaleidoscope (万华镜)" displays the beauty of various ethnic minority costumes in a decorative painting style; the 2D ink-wash style short film "Nian Nian (念念)," made using digital technology, explores human growth through the story of a teenager; "Kucha (龟兹)" uses a watercolor style to unify modern characters with imagined traditional painting-style characters, opening a dialogue between modern street dance and millennial Kucha dance, which is an experimental work integrating traditional 2D animation and AI technology.
One original work after another shows that the nationality of animation is not static, but dynamic, contemporary, and international. The "national style" concept proposed by the "Chinese Animation School (中国动画学派)" still has very realistic significance today. While pursuing national style, contemporary creators also need to consciously integrate it into modern narrative and technical systems, and try to explore new Chinese animation aesthetic symbols beyond traditional ink painting, paper-cutting, and opera elements.
Animation short films have a strong artistic style expression. Some young authors, while maintaining their style pursuit, explore connections with mainstream commercial animation projects. The short film "Children of the Nation (国家的孩子)," which tells the story of "Three Thousand Orphans Entering Inner Mongolia (三千孤儿入内蒙)" in the 1960s, presents the beautiful scenery of the grassland with rich colors, and the animation soundtrack is full of ethnic characteristics. It is a trailer for a feature-length animation. The skillfully filmed and vividly interesting 3D short film "Fallen into the Mortal World (落凡尘)" has already completed the creation and release of a feature film of the same name in theaters. Many works demonstrate the talent and efforts of young creators, reflecting their understanding of animation art.
In the field of animation, which is full of creativity and deeply relies on technological development, young creative talents are the most valuable asset. The cultivation of young talents needs to focus on both cultural roots and technical literacy. Cultural roots require young people to have a deeper understanding of national art, aesthetics, and philosophy, rather than staying at the level of imitation and symbolization. This requires young creators to actively accumulate life experience and delve into the source of traditional culture. In an open cultural context, young creators also need to seek a balance between adhering to cultural roots and expanding their international horizons, so as to tell Chinese stories well with artistic language that reaches the world and a perspective that integrates diverse cultures. Technical literacy is the guarantee for producing high-quality works. In today's rapidly developing animation technology, young creators must master the technical means and processes that are in line with the industry, and use rhythms and forms that are more easily accepted by contemporary audiences for artistic expression.
Today's young animation creators are full of enthusiasm and creativity, and the future height of their creations depends on their understanding of Chinese culture, their mastery of technological trends, and their understanding of market logic. We must encourage them to maintain their creative passion through guidance, support, and other means. "Improving the originality of Chinese animation" is not just a slogan, but something that young animation creators accumulate step by step. We believe they have the ability to go further.
(The author is the Director of the Animation Art Committee of the China Artists Association (中国美术家协会动漫艺术委员会主任).)
Return to TopBy: 王 雷
On June 30th, *Ne Zha*’s domestic box office was finalized at 15.445 billion yuan, topping the global box office chart for animated films. As an animation creator and teacher with nearly 20 years of experience, I feel somewhat unreal: this previously inconspicuous major seems to have become a social hotspot overnight.
In fact, animation is popular all over the world. Last year, 4 out of the top 10 highest-grossing films in the United States were animated, and in Japan, the number was an astonishing 7. Recently, a survey conducted in 10 countries showed that 48% of people born after 1980 watch animation every week, and 33% have purchased animation-related products in the past year. Animation has transformed from a film and television genre mainly for children and families to an influential art form for all ages.
However, the popularity of the top animation market cannot hide the profound pain of industrial adjustment. In recent years, there have been few excellent new TV animations; most online animations are adapted from online novels; and many small and medium-sized animated films are ignored. Behind the **几家欢乐几家愁** (jǐ jiā huān lè jǐ jiā chóu - "some families are happy, some families are sad," some win, some lose; a mixed situation) is a huge change in the fundamentals of the animation industry: game esports, short videos, and social networks have overwhelmed movies, television, and long-form online videos, becoming the main forms occupying people's entertainment time, and the industry has changed; generative artificial intelligence is changing the traditional film and television animation production paradigm, and technology has also changed.
The industry is changing, and the demand for talent is naturally changing. In the past, animation talents were simply "art + film," and it was enough to be able to draw and understand audiovisual language. Contemporary animators must also be able to tell stories, understand technology, understand the market, and have enough emotional intelligence and energy to manage production teams of hundreds or thousands of people. In today's digital animation industry, which accounts for the majority of the industry, the teaching content of some professional colleges and universities still remains in the last century. It is common for animation students online to complain that their teachers' courseware "has been used for 20 years and is covered in pulp," while animation talents from cross-disciplinary backgrounds like Director Jiaozi (饺子) have long become industry leaders.
Faced with such challenges, the Communication University of China (中国传媒大学), where I teach, has delivered a good answer. In the Soft Science China University Professional Ranking, the animation major of the Communication University of China (中国传媒大学) has been ranked first for many years. In recent years, graduates of our school have been behind a large proportion of domestic animation head works. The success of the "CUCN (中国传媒大学) system" animation has several experiences worth mentioning.
Integrate animation as an interdisciplinary subject that deeply integrates science and art. As early as 20 years ago, Professor Liao Xiangzhong (廖祥忠), then Dean of the School of Animation, proposed the concept of animation talent training of "humanities as the body, technology as the use, and art as the law." The college pioneered two undergraduate majors in digital media art and game design, which are oriented to the forefront of the industry, and regards comprehensive quality as the key standard for selecting talents. Students must not only be able to draw, but also understand technology, be able to tell stories, and understand the industry and the market.
Take animation creation practice as a key part of talent training. We have a simple philosophy: "Speak with works." Since its birth, animation has been a popular form of literature and art. Creators who talk to themselves will inevitably drift away from the audience. We hold a graduation design live broadcast exhibition every year, which is watched online by tens of thousands of people, and students have gained a lot of valuable feedback from it.
Animation has long surpassed the single connotation of "animation film." In addition to animated films on movies, television, and the Internet, animation shares the same production technology with electronic games, immersive experiences, VR (virtual reality) content, and special effects films, and uses the same characters and worldview to construct IP, and the boundaries are increasingly blurred; animation is also the basic form of the human-computer interface of smart devices, shaping the way we enter the digital world. We have also been actively training animation design talents for these fields.
After the success of *Ne Zha*, many netizens discovered that the director was from a science and engineering background, and jokingly called animators from art majors "those with 300 points in the college entrance examination can't beat those with 600 points." This sentence sounds harsh, but it also reveals the requirements of the digital age for animation education to some extent: only by prioritizing comprehensive quality, taking creation as the core, and cultivating interdisciplinary animation talents with both scientific and artistic literacy can animation education better empower the rapidly rising animation industry.
(The author is the Dean of the School of Animation and Digital Arts, Communication University of China (中国传媒大学))
Return to TopBy: 盘 剑
In recent years, the application of AIGC (Generative Artificial Intelligence) has impacted the animation industry. The areas involved in AIGC include text content generation, graphic image generation, audio music generation, animation video generation, and virtual scenario generation. From an ideal perspective, the creation of an animation, comic, or game work, from initial planning to mid-term production, and then to post-production synthesis, can almost all be done with the help of AIGC. The whole process will be like an assembly line. As long as the standards are set, the procedures are set, and the goals are determined, it can be completed with one click, and finally, a product that meets the standards is obtained. This is typical industrial production, which will create an intelligent super-industrial system for animation production.
In the future, this intelligent super-industrial system of AIGC may "simplify" the traditional animation industry—it can omit links such as planning, screenwriting, storyboarding, original painting, animation, and dubbing, which were originally important components of the animation industry, supported by different but interconnected professional knowledge and skills, while forming a certain professional barrier. Under the intelligent super-industrial system, animation production may only have two main steps: setting—completion. This means that it is necessary to explore new animation talent training models that are adapted to this, and to build a new animation talent training system.
If "multi-link" can be simplified to "two steps," future animation practitioners will naturally gather in the first step, "setting." "Setting" implies the work content of all links of previous animation creation because what needs to be "set" is the entire process of the animation work from concept creation to production completion. New-generation animation creators do not need to be responsible for the specific execution of each link like traditional creators, but they need to make requests, set standards, and set goals. This requires everyone involved in "setting" to have the ability to guide AI to complete various tasks with high quality, which is mainly reflected in the following four abilities.
The power of thought to 拨云破雾 (bō yún pò wù - "disperse the clouds and see the sun," to dispel doubts and get at the truth). "Thought" is a weakness of machines, but it is a strength of humans. Using AIGC for animation creation will inevitably bring a large number of technically and entertaining works with mediocre ideas due to industrialization and typification, which requires human guidance. This is also a key opportunity and way for humans to surpass AI and play a role.
Keen and insightful aesthetic sense. To a certain extent, aesthetic sense determines the quality of AI creation. New-generation animation creators must have correct aesthetic judgment, respect public aesthetics but not be vulgar or cater to low tastes, and not reject commercial entertainment but not be solely focused on commercial entertainment. Based on this, unfolding "setting" helps to correct aesthetic deviations in AI creation.
Unfettered imagination. Animation is one of the most imaginative art categories, and the corresponding artistic expression has a certain uniqueness and also reflects cultural diversity. Creators constantly expand the boundaries of thinking and use technology to achieve creative expression, in order to better reflect the charm of animation art—this is the basic requirement of animation "setting."
Precise and appropriate expression. This refers to the creator's ability to communicate with AI. The creator accurately conveys instructions to the AI, so that the AI can implement the relevant requirements and standards in place, and ultimately create high-quality works.
At present, the wave of digitization and intelligence is sweeping the field of art, and AIGC has become a key tool for winning the initiative in global animation competition. New-generation animation creators must both embrace change and adhere to the essence of creation, using warm strokes to outline the future. Their multi-dimensional growth is directly related to the sustainable development of animation in the AI era.
(The author is the director of the Film, Animation and Game Research Center of Zhejiang University (浙江大学).)
Return to TopBy: 俞 丰
The Great Heat is approaching, and the hottest time of the year is coming.
In the early summer of the sixth year of the Zhenguan reign of the Tang Dynasty (632 AD), Chang'an (长安) was scorching hot. Emperor Taizong (太宗) led his officials to Jiucheng Palace (九成宫) to escape the summer heat. Here, high pavilions and terraces were built, "the blazing sun melted metal, without any stuffy heat; a gentle breeze stirred, bringing a refreshing coolness." The leisurely Taizong strolled among the pavilions and suddenly noticed that a patch of soil by the roadside was a bit moist. So he gently poked it with his cane, and a clear spring instantly gushed out, "as clear as a mirror, and tasted as sweet as wine." He then ordered Wei Zheng (魏征) to write an inscription and Ouyang Xun (欧阳询) to write the calligraphy, thus creating the timeless masterpiece *Inscription of the醴泉Spring at Jiucheng Palace* (《九成宫醴泉铭》). Later generations who copied the calligraphy may not know that this precise, rigorous, and vigorous regular script classic was originally a clear and cool footnote to a summer day more than a thousand years ago.
Everything in heaven and earth waxes and wanes, and "heat" is the basic tone of summer. Even the Sage of Calligraphy, Wang Xizhi (王羲之), couldn't bear the steaming humidity and roasting of the Jiangnan (江南) plum rain season. Many of Wang Xizhi's letters collected in the *Chunhua Ge Tie* (《淳化阁帖》) and other anthologies are related to high summer, and between the lines is the heat: "This is so humid, it's hard to bear," "It's extremely hot today," "The evening is also terribly hot"... When a friend wanted to visit, he declined: "It's very hot, you can come in the evening." Hearing that a friend was traveling far in the heat, he sighed: "Traveling far in the heat, I worry about you unspeakably." The repeated mention of "heat" adds a touch of humanity to his ethereal and extraordinary calligraphy.
The heat scorches people, the same in ancient and modern times. Yan Zhenqing (颜真卿) of the Tang Dynasty frankly stated in *Zhongxia Tie* (《中夏帖》) that he was "sick and lazy, and increasingly disliked what he was doing," and even waited for the autumn coolness to write inscriptions for others. Mi Fu (米芾) of the Northern Song Dynasty was even more ingenious, hiding in the mountains and "flaunting" to others with a *Taoshu Tie* (《逃暑帖》): "Fu escaped the heat (into) the mountains, fortunately, I am comfortable here." If this were today, he would probably be laughed at as "Versailles."
However, although the heat is hard to endure, friendship is even more touching. Fu Yaoyu (傅尧俞), a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote only a few words in *Zhengyu Tie* (《蒸燠帖》): "The weather is hot and humid, I hope you are well." The simple greeting is expressed in elegant regular script, and it feels like a refreshing breeze. Cai Xiang (蔡襄) complained in *Shure Tie* (《暑热帖》) that "the wind and sun are terribly annoying day and night, there is nowhere to hide," and then attached "a few pieces of fine tea" as a gift to his friend, using pure and beautiful brushstrokes to prop up a light shade of summer. Ma Yu (马愈) of the Ming Dynasty invited a friend in *Shuqi Tie* (《暑气帖》) to "respectfully prepare a cup of wine on the eleventh day, and dare to ask you to move your jade to my humble house to reminisce for a while." His brushwork is strong and unrestrained, and his friendship with his friend is as clear and long-lasting as the ink.
Speaking of elegant summer pastimes, how can we miss the delicious flavors for cooling off? The "su mi (蜜) shui" mentioned in Yang Ningshi's (杨凝式) *Xiare Tie* (《夏热帖》) of the Five Dynasties brought a touch of sweetness to the hot summer. Su mi shui may have been a summer drink made by mixing ghee and honey, but the method of making it has now been lost. Yang's calligraphy style is unrestrained and uninhibited, no wonder Mi Fu praised it, "horizontal wind and slanting rain, falling paper clouds and smoke, dripping with pleasure," this post deserves it!
"Leng Tao" is also a classic summer delicacy, and Wang Gong's (王巩) *Lengtao Tie* (《冷淘帖》) of the Northern Song Dynasty revealed some information about it. Wang Gong's calligraphy combines Su Shi's (苏轼) plumpness and Huang Tingjian's (黄庭坚) steepness, and it is rare to be handed down, but a piece of *Lengtao Tie* is charming and restrained, and the text says: "Gong has made a cup of cold tao, I hope you will keep your appointment." Leng Tao, also known as Huaiye Leng Tao or Cuilu Leng Tao, is actually a kind of cold noodles, made with locust leaf juice and flour, cooked and placed in ice water or well water to cool, and served with seasonings, which is refreshing and delicious. Du Fu (杜甫) of the Tang Dynasty once wrote *Huaiye Lengtao* (《槐叶冷淘》): "The king enjoys the cool evening, this taste is also needed from time to time." From the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, from the court to the market, this bowl of cold tao has become a summer legend spanning thousands of years.
Brush and ink drive away the summer heat, and letters contain coolness. When we spread out paper to copy the vigorous beauty of *Inscription of the醴泉Spring at Jiucheng Palace*, appreciate the pleasure of *Xiare Tie*, and savor the humanity of *Lengtao Tie*, those summer memories sealed in ink - the worries of the Sage of Calligraphy, the unrestrainedness of the celebrities, the lingering friendship, and the refreshing taste of the food - are like a gentle breeze blowing across the desk, rippling layers of ripples that have not dissipated for thousands of years in an inkstone.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Jinshi Tablet Professional Committee of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association (上海市书法家协会))
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Not long ago, the Xunpu Hairpin Flower (蟳埔簪花) in Quanzhou (泉州), Fujian (福建) Province, topped Douyin's list of most popular intangible cultural heritage experience projects. Combining beauty and auspiciousness, the Xunpu Hairpin Flower has gradually 火出圈 (huǒ chū quān - "become a hit outside the circle," to become unexpectedly popular) in recent years, igniting a craze for hairpin flower aesthetics at home and abroad.
The Chinese people have always had a deep affection for flowers, not only regarding them as beautiful but also using them to ward off evil, express emotions, and convey meaning. The very character "Hua" (华) in "Zhonghua" (中华), meaning "China," originally meant "flower." Wearing flowers in the hair expresses a pursuit of a better life. This tradition can be traced back to the Qin (秦) and Han (汉) dynasties, gradually becoming popular in the Tang Dynasty (唐代) and reaching its peak in the Song Dynasty (宋代). The flowers used have also expanded from fresh flowers to artificial flowers made of silk, pith paper, gold, and silver. The hairpin flower fashion of various dynasties has been clearly displayed in artistic works. For example, many Eastern Han (东汉) female figurines unearthed in Sichuan (四川) and other places have chrysanthemums and hollyhocks in their hair. As the earliest surviving scroll painting on the theme of hairpin flowers, Zhou Fang's (周昉) Chinese painting "Court Ladies Wearing Flowers" (《簪花仕女图》) from the Tang Dynasty vividly reproduces the fondness of Tang Dynasty women for wearing flowers with its soft and beautiful colors and delicate brushstrokes. Adorned with different flowers such as peonies, crabapples, lotus flowers, and peonies, the women are graceful, luxurious, and full of charm.
In fact, hairpin flowers are not exclusive to women but have rich cultural connotations. Pan An (潘安) and Lu Ji (陆机), handsome men of the Western Jin Dynasty (西晋), "inserted flowers with nine beams" (九梁插花), fully demonstrating the romantic spirit of the Wei (魏) and Jin (晋) dynasties. Su Ting (苏颋) of the Tang Dynasty was awarded imperial flowers to wear in his hair because of his outstanding literary talent, connecting hairpin flowers with talent and honor. By the Song Dynasty, from emperors and generals to ordinary people, men wearing flowers became very popular. "Water Margin" (《水浒传》) depicts the scene of heroes wearing flowers: Ruan Xiao Wu (阮小五) "wore a pomegranate flower on his temple," and Zhou Tong (周通) "wore a silk artificial flower next to his temple." For literati and officials, wearing flowers was also an external expression of independent personality and detached feelings. From paintings such as the anonymous Southern Song Dynasty (南宋) Chinese painting "Drunken Return of the Field Official" (《田畯醉归图》), one can glimpse the unrestrained and free spirit of literati wearing flowers.
A fragrant flower not only reflects traditional beauty but also witnesses cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. During the Ming (明) and Qing (清) dynasties, women in southern regions often favored jasmine and tuberose when wearing flowers. These two fragrant flowers were introduced from foreign countries via the Maritime Silk Road. The Xunpu Hairpin Flower is generally believed to be related to the Tamil (泰米尔人) people from South India who settled in Quanzhou during the Song and Yuan (元) dynasties. Their flower-wearing customs met with the local Chinese hairpin flower tradition, eventually forming today's iconic Xunpu "hairpin flower fence" (簪花围) – a multi-layered flower fence made of seasonal fresh flowers or silk flowers, matched with hairpins, forming a dazzling and unique "garden on the head" shape. From flowers that came from afar to flower fences full of hairpins, the flowers demonstrate the inclusive spirit of Chinese culture.
Today, traditional culture collides with modern aesthetics. The materials of hairpin flowers are constantly expanding, the craftsmanship is constantly innovating, and the styles are becoming more diverse. Some designers even incorporate hairpin flower elements into clothing design, leading the trend of new Chinese aesthetics. The widespread popularity of hairpin flowers coincides with the psychological needs of people today. In the fast-paced modern life, people yearn for time to slow down. A series of "slow" behaviors in hairpin flowers, such as threading beads, winding threads, and adjusting colors, can precisely allow people to abandon impetuosity and anxiety and obtain inner peace and satisfaction.
Even today, even when engaged in physical labor, the Xunpu women who "take the sea as their field" still insist on wearing flowers, making every day beautifully flowered. Those fragrant flowers are the colors that mark life and also embody happiness and hope.
(The author is an associate professor at the School of Fine Arts, Huaqiao University (华侨大学).)
Return to TopThe Suzhou Archaeological Museum, composed of bold, unrestrained triangular blocks, officially opened to the public in the northeastern part of the Yuecheng Ruins (越城遗址) in Suzhou (苏州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省). As the first archaeological subject museum in Jiangsu Province (江苏省), this building, designed by Academician Cheng Taining (程泰宁) of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, exudes cultural charm from the inside out.
The museum's architecture is inspired by the "stone adze" and "钺 (yuè)" unearthed from the Yuecheng Ruins (越城遗址). Through landscape-style site design, it creates a visual effect that combines the simple and vicissitudinous beauty of the wild with the formal beauty of modern composition. Inside the museum, over 90 tons of the "Great Tomb of Eastern Wu (东吴大墓)" have been moved into the exhibition hall. The spatial flow combines "疏可走马 (shū kě zǒu mǎ - "sparse enough for a horse to gallop," describes a space that is open and spacious)" with "密不透风 (mì bù tòu fēng - "so dense that wind cannot penetrate," describes a space that is tightly packed and enclosed)," avoiding the traditional U-shaped layout and incorporating a partial island-style design to lead visitors into the river of time. Outdoors, the sunken plaza features public spaces such as an educational exploration palace, a cultural relic protection and restoration display area, and a leisure area, providing a diversified experience for the public.
Provided by Suzhou Archaeological Research Institute (苏州考古研究所) (Suzhou Archaeological Museum (苏州考古博物馆)).
Return to TopWatercolor Painting "Fragrant Courtyard of Summer Flowers," by Zhou Gang (周刚).
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